The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 494 Tide Rises [V]

[There are still some cards, and the title is wrong after sending out...]

Jingren Palace Yuyun Garden.

Emperor Longyuan and Jia Yuanchun stood side by side at the gate of the courtyard. Behind them were a few court ladies poking their heads. In front of them was a row of trembling eunuchs. Further forward, there were two teams of armored guards holding shields, as if they were facing an enemy.

On the opposite side of this pile of human walls, there is a steam train that looks rough and wild at first glance, but in fact has all its edges and corners smoothed.

This train consists of a locomotive and three carriages. There is no roof installed on the locomotive, and under the illumination of a long string of air-dead wind lights on both sides, all the operations of the driver can be clearly seen.

There are more than [-] bags of sand piled on each of the three flatbed carriages at the back, and the weight of the carriages weighs about seven or eight tons.

Seeing that several craftsmen from the inner palace checked everything correctly, Qiu Shi'an, who was trying to calm down in front of the locomotive, immediately turned around and walked quickly to the leather guards, and reported through the human wall: "Long live, the train is ready!" .”

As he said that, he turned his eyes and looked around, secretly thinking about how he could hide behind the human wall before the guards raised their shields and joined forces if something happened later.

No wonder he was worried, Emperor Longyuan was injured by the explosion of the steam engine at the beginning, and he recovered after a full year of care - this story has been rumored in the palace for a long time, and it is said that Emperor Longyuan has a real dragon to protect his body Otherwise, Long Yu would have died long ago.

"Then let's get started!"

Emperor Longyuan rubbed his hands and was eager to try. Some people are afraid of well ropes after being bitten by a snake for ten years, and some people forget the pain when their scars heal, and he obviously belongs to the latter. The fault is that the Supreme Emperor has repeatedly ordered him not to take risks. Climbed into the car.

Qiu Shi'an immediately turned around when he heard the words, instead of stepping forward, he took the opportunity to take half a step back, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order, you wait to drive this train up!"

After shouting, he took half a step back without any trace.

The craftsmen over there received the order, and one of them climbed into the car to act as the driver, while the rest scattered in all directions.

As the driver continued to add coal to the boiler, the steam engine, which was already at a critical point, spewed out a large amount of steam in a short time. The driver grabbed the switch and pushed it hard, and the connecting rod under the car body began to drive the wheels. , and then let the whole train run on the circular railway with a total length of 500 meters.

When the rumbling steel behemoth ran at a speed close to the carriage under the night light, the shock it brought to everyone was beyond compare!
So much so that some guards even forgot that they were holding up their shields to escort them, and let the iron shields in their hands drop to the ground, stretched their necks and opened their eyes wide, almost suspecting that they were in some kind of strange dream.

"Good, good, good!"

Emperor Longyuan applauded and laughed, and asked again: "Can this train go faster?"

Because the 'bang chi bang chi' movement was too loud, and everyone was in extreme shock, no one could hear what he was saying clearly.

It wasn't until Emperor Longyuan raised his voice and repeated it again that Dai Quan in front of him hurriedly ordered someone to call the craftsman in charge to ask.

"Return, return to long live!"

The craftsman was so close to the emperor, his tongue was so excited: "If you run in a straight line on flat ground, you can, and you can go faster. It's not a problem compared to ordinary carriages, but here On a curved road, I am afraid that if I run too fast, I will rush off the railroad track."

Emperor Longyuan was well aware of this, after all Jiao Shun had already explained it clearly in the secret book before it was submitted to the inner court.

When he asks a question now, it's just because he can't help himself.

Seeing that he couldn't go any faster, he stared and observed for a while, and then gave the order to stop here.

Seeing the train gradually turn off, Emperor Longyuan and Concubine Xiande returned to Yuyun Garden.

As soon as Fang was seated, Emperor Longyuan ordered: "My concubine, bring the wine quickly, we will not sleep until we are drunk today!"

"His Majesty."

Jia Yuanchun went to pour a cup of tea by himself, and brought it to Emperor Longyuan gracefully, and softly persuaded: "You have been in better health these few days, but how can you drink too much?"

Seeing that Emperor Longyuan was a little unhappy when he heard the words, he was busy and pretended to be curious and asked: "How is this train made? I only heard that it can run before, but I never expected it to run so fast— —especially with so many things pulled.”

These words were scratching the itch of Emperor Longyuan, so he didn't care about drinking, and explained the rationale triumphantly, and said: "It's also fortunate that I have the knowledge of people, if I just let those rotten scholars control me Ministry of Industry, I'm afraid I won't see any results in this life!"

"how do I say this?"

Although Jia Yuanchun had already guessed that this matter was probably related to Jiao Shun, he still pretended to be curious and asked.

"Didn't I order the Ministry of Industry to supervise the construction of steam iron armored ships after Wuxi Kingdom's northern invasion of Jinmen? As a result..."

Three years ago, Wuxi people bombarded the Jinmen Mansion, causing an uproar among the government and the public. Emperor Longyuan, who had long intended to carry out industrial reforms, took the opportunity to adjust the Ministry of Industry and listed ordnance manufacturing as a separate department.

At that time, his first order to the Ordnance Department was to imitate the steam ironclad ship.

At that time, the Ordnance Department was newly established, and everyone was very energetic, and they felt that things that barbarians could make, how difficult would it be for us to make them in the heavenly kingdom?
I was ashamed to say that I wanted to be on the same level as the Wuxi people, so I rushed to the corner to overtake!

But who would have thought that the bullshit was too big, and they invested a full three years regardless of the cost. Up to now, the 'Great Xia Authentic Invincible Ironclad Ship' has not yet been officially launched.

Although it was not without major breakthroughs in craftsmanship during this period, what do laymen care about you?As long as you don't see Daxia's ironclad ships rampaging across the sea, it is a complete and complete failure!
Although this matter is related to national humiliation, no one dares to veto it on the surface, but are there any strange words in the dark?

Some people even swear that the ironclad ship is actually so powerful because of the Wuxi people's witchcraft, because our officials and people in Daxia are not proficient in this way, so no matter how hard they are, it will be useless.

At first, this kind of argument was only a strange talk of some people. Recently, because the emperor insisted on establishing engineering, it became popular and turned against Yingtian.

The officials even started blatantly citing these absurd arguments in their memorials.

Emperor Longyuan naturally understood that this was a counterattack from the Wenchen Group, but helplessly, the ironclad ship was unable to launch for a long time, and it was difficult to block the public's mouth without factual evidence.

Just because of this headache and anger, Jiao Shun presented the train [bei] car [tai] project.

The steam engine was dismantled from the ironclad ship - the Ordnance Department built two small boats in Shichahai for testing, and the proportion of the steam engine on them was just right.

Most of the other things are leftovers from the ironclad ship, coupled with the spare manpower and the "meticulous and bold" design of someone Jiao, it took only one month to make this prototype train.

If the Ordnance Department's investment for three consecutive years is not mentioned, this matter can be regarded as a model of small investment and quick results.

It's no wonder that Emperor Longyuan scolded corrupt Confucians for harming the country, while praising Jiao Shun for his effective work.

Jia Yuanchun didn't understand the previous science popularization, but she understood the latter part clearly.

Looking back at the time when the emperor overthrew Jiao Shun, he was actually just buying a horse bone for a thousand dollars, which makes people feel that the world is unpredictable.

This should have been a great help to the Rongguo Mansion.

but……

There seems to be some issues between the two parties recently.

Although the news that came from the family into the palace always reported good news rather than bad news, Jia Yuanchun still vaguely sensed that his father seemed to be somewhat repulsive to Jiao Shun.

For what reason, she still doesn't know for the time being, but it's also because she doesn't know what it is, so she can't help but think about it...

"Aifei?"

When Emperor Longyuan was talking, he saw that Jia Yuanchun seemed to be distracted, and immediately said with a gloomy face: "If you don't like to hear these things, then I will..."

"Your Majesty misunderstood!"

The reason why Jia Yuanchun didn't write to ask clearly was that he didn't want to expose the contradiction between Rongguo Mansion and Jiao Shun, so he quickly thought of an excuse and said perfunctoryly: "The concubine suddenly thought that although Mr. Jiao has been involved since he was a child, Duke's Mansion, but I have never seen him, and I don't know what he looks like."

"Jiao Aiqing's appearance..."

In fact, Emperor Longyuan only met Jiao Shun once, and never communicated face to face carefully, so it is not very clear now in retrospect.

"The stature is very tall, and he looks calmer and more stable than those scholars. As for the appearance..."

He was resting his chin trying to recall, when suddenly he heard Qiu Shi'an report in front of the door: "Long Live Lord, Donghua Gate just sent a messenger saying that it was Gongxue offering wine. play!"

"Ok?"

Emperor Longyuan was taken aback when he heard the words, then he clapped his palms and smiled and said, "It's really a coincidence that there's no way to make it into a book—to pass on my oral order, to announce Jiao Changqing's right to enter Jingren Palace!"

(End of this chapter)