I am the king of the dead

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty obviously lacked too much heat compared to the civil servants in the matter of flattering, and because of the tight schedule and heavy tasks, the iron horses they made were somewhat unsightly, but the core of these steam horses was. Meticulous embodies the craftsmanship of Daming.

Under the careful preparation of Daming Qin Tianjian and the Ten Great Calendar Bureaus, after half an hour, the steam horse was completely ready.

The new cupronickel hemisphere has been pulled onto the stage. Under the constant rotation of the water pump by several luxuries, all the water in the cupronickel ball is evacuated, and the pull ring of the cupronickel hemisphere is fixed on the steam horse.

Zhu Qiyu leaned forward slightly and carefully observed the operation of the steam horse.

The screaming steam is quite rhythmic and a little more delicate, no longer as rough as asthma before;

The overall vibration of the steam horse is almost imperceptible, and it is no longer earth-shattering like the previous one that shattered at any time;

The rotation rate of the flywheel has become very stable, and it is no longer the same as before.

When the hinges were retracted, the sixteen steam horses tightened all the iron cables. Amid the exclamations of countless people, the roaring sounds of the sixteen steam horses resounded through the entire Xizhimen, and under the echo of the city wall, Appears majestic.

"Boom!"

With the powerful pulling force of sixteen steam horses, the cupronickel hemispheres, which were firmly locked by the atmospheric pressure, were pulled open. Go out, but hang firmly on the iron frame.

There is no doubt that the ease of operation of the machine is vividly displayed compared to the living creatures such as horses.

Even now, on August [-], Jingtai ten years, Daming's strong bow and fire guns can only be said to have their own advantages in range and accuracy, and fire guns are not completely dominant.

but…

How long does it take to develop a sharpshooter?How much energy?

How long does it take to train a gunner who will be shot in line and form intensive firepower?How much energy?

how to choose?The increasing firepower of the Daming Army, especially the Jingying, has already given the answer.

Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction, stood up on his knees, and shouted loudly: "Rewards! There are many rewards!"

The eunuchs passed down the decree layer by layer and the people were surprised what this was. Shi Heng was also on the viewing platform, looking at the steam horses seriously, his eyes burst into a terrifying light, that is A longing, a love from the bottom of my heart.

He knew that with this thing, the Western Regions, Kanguo, and even the land of Taixi would no longer be the end of the sky for Daming!
His Majesty once made a promise to Shi Heng: A golden iron horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger!

Now it seems that this iron horse is such an iron horse!
Shi Heng, Shi Biao, Fan Guang and other generals knew exactly what they were fighting.

In fact, it is logistics. If logistics are won, the balance of victory will be infinitely tilted to one's own side, and if logistics are defeated, defeat will be inevitable.

His Majesty's military talent is almost equal to zero, but all the sergeants in the world respect His Majesty very much. First, His Majesty never commands in person, and secondly, His Majesty is lenient to incoming enemies.

The appearance of the iron horse means that the good horses of the Royal Horse Supervisor can appear behind him in batches from now on, ensuring all the armament supplies for the army to advance.

His Majesty is really fulfilling the promise he once made, the iron horse of the golden iron horse turned out to be this iron horse!
The big jade chariot has been replaced with small steam horses made by the ten major bureaus, a total of four horses.

Zhu Qiyu intends to end today's large-scale social experiment by riding a large jade chariot pulled by a steam horse, and leave the excitement to the people celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Seeing that His Majesty was going to take a steam-drawn carriage, Hu Xi stood up immediately and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, a steam engine is a sacred thing, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and you should not tread lightly on dangerous places. Horses stumble, and people stumble. ."

Of course Hu Xun knew the significance of the steam engine, and also knew that there would be a systematic and systematic social change in the future. Of course, he knew why His Majesty arranged for him to go back to the palace by car. He used his reputation to endorse the steam engine and promote the steam engine. Applications.

Resettled wood Lixin, His Majesty is that wood.

But just after the miniaturization of the steam engine was completed, His Majesty used his own car to experiment, which was really too much force in Hu Yu's opinion.

Zhu Qiyu didn't care much and said, "It's okay, Shaoshi Hu has been worrying too much."

Hu Yu frowned and said again, "Your Majesty, if the ruler loses his minister, he will cherish it.

"Shang Yang reformed, Duke Xiao of Qin died, and Shang Yang died. He had to meet the ruler of Ming Dynasty, but Qin law did not die. Wang Anshi reformed, Song Shenzong died, Wang Anshi was demoted, Empress Dowager Gao started Sima Guang, and the new law was abolished."

"His Majesty."

There was helplessness in Hu Yu's tone.

Zhu Qiyu saw that Hu Xun had been stopping him, and then said in a low voice: "It's okay, it's very slow, the four drivers are watching, this small step is a big step for us, nothing will happen, don't you? Looking at their fierce names, they are not so scary."

Hu Xun looked at Yu Qian and asked Yu Qian to help, but before Yu Qian spoke, Zhu Qiyu had already walked down the city gate, walked towards the big jade chariot, and then walked slowly on the big jade chariot.

Seeing the speed of the car, Hu Yu immediately felt relieved.

The steam engine didn't do its best at all, just slowly pulling the vehicle forward steadily.

When pulling the cupronickel hemisphere, the steam horses showed their explosive power, and now the steam horses show their control.

In order to prevent the horse from stumbled, most of the steam horses pulling the cart were directly blocked in the intake pipe, and a vent hole was opened directly in the cylinder. These steam horses could only be pulled, which physically prevented runaway. possible.

Zhu Qiyu knew it was slow, but he didn't expect it to be so slow, so it was a little faster than people walking.

This is not because the performance of the steam horse is not good. In terms of the performance in the hemisphere experiment, the power of this steam horse is not inferior to that of the good horse of the Royal Horse Supervisor.

"Qin Tianjian and the Ten Great Calendar Bureaus are still too conservative." Zhu Qiyu said with a pity, sitting on the jade chariot that was moving at a fast speed, and he was swift and fast as he expected, sitting on the ground and traveling [-] miles a day, the sky would Differently.

Xing'an said with a smile: "The horse that the Imperial Horse Supervisor chose to pull the cart was also the most docile."

Zhu Qiyu thought that was really the case, but he thought about it and shook his head and said, "That big black horse runs very fast, and has a great temper."

Of course, Xing'an knew which horse His Majesty was talking about. Accompanying His Majesty's good horse charging at Deshengmen, he hurriedly said, "That black-and-white-spotted dragon horse is a war horse, and it is completely different."

Zhu Qiyu's big jade chariot drove slowly back to the lecture hall on the imperial road, and looked at the great Ming ministers behind him.

This group of Ming ministers came back.

Obviously this car is really slow, even the elderly Hu Xun can keep up.

"It's really slow, and the Qin Tianjian has a submissive heart." Hu Yan stepped forward and said loudly: "I congratulate Your Majesty, and Daming congratulations, I have obtained this artifact, Daming will bring peace to the world, and Wanfu Yongan."

The speed is not important, the important thing is that His Majesty took the steam horse-drawn cart and arrived at the destination smoothly. Although it is very close, this is the first time that the steam horse has pulled the cart. This is Ximu Lixin, which is for this The thing has been endorsed, so that everyone can use it with confidence.

"Today, the court is discussing the matter of the Western Regions. Since Master Hu is here, let's listen to it together." Zhu Qiyu walked into the Juxian Pavilion of Lecture Wutang and began to discuss the matter.

After Zhu Qiyu sat down, he asked Xing'an to open the Kanyu map, and with the long pole in his hand, he pointed near the remaining veins of the Tianshan Mountains and said: "In the spring of the 19th year of Yongle, Emperor Wen set up Dayulu in the upper reaches of Haerketa Wushan and Haidu River. Dusi, in September, set up Xiaoyule Dusi at the foot of Botuo Mountain and on the banks of the Si River, set up Yacheng in the north of Huozhou and Liucheng (now Turpan), and south of Luntai City (now Urumqi), to clamp down on the ground in the Western Regions. "

"Emperor Wen, Long Yu, was a guest, and Yule, both big and small, was in vain. The people of Daming moved to Yacheng and returned to Jiayuguan."

Why did Zhu Di set up the Big and Small Yule Dus?
It was for the Northern Expedition in Yongle's 22nd year, flanking left and right to completely eliminate border troubles, but Zhu Di failed to complete his fifth Northern Expedition and died on the way to his own expedition.

In the first year of Hongxi, after Emperor Renzong ascended the throne, he gave up the big and small Yule Dusi and began to shrink in an all-round way. After 35 years, the big and small Yule Dusi knew little about the ground of the Western Regions, and Yacheng was even submerged by wind and sand.

In the ten years of Jingtai, Daming once again stationed troops in many key places in the Western Regions, and began to launch military restraints on the Western Regions.

"I'm ashamed, I don't hear about the big and small Yule Dusi and Yacheng." Jiang Yuan, the Minister of War, said quite distressed. He really didn't know such things. As the Minister of War, he didn't know that Daming was in the Western Regions. The establishment of Dusi is already considered negligence.

However, Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said, "It's not your fault. I also heard about it from Master Hu, and then I came to know about it. In the ancient and modern general collection library, I found the ancient manuscripts in the corners and corners, and it was not even recorded in Taizong's actual records."

Hu Sui is the history of Daming's life. Zhu Qiyu once chatted with Hu Sui about matters in the Western Regions, and Hu Sui only told the dusty past.

There were five Northern Expeditions during the Yongle period, and the third and fourth times achieved little results. The Daming army had just left the fortress, and the Owaratians and Tatars who received the news ran thousands of miles away. During the fifth Northern Expedition, Zhu Di completed the east and west. He was encircled, but God did not give him time for the fifth Northern Expedition.

"I am against the establishment of the Western Regions Headquarters." The minister of households, Shen Yi, sat up straight, and said quite solemnly: "The Western Regions is a remote and barren land. The operation costs a huge amount of money, but the results are very small. In the Western Regions, it is enough to use military restraints to protect the country and mountains, and retreat ten thousand steps to say that Jiayuguan is impregnable, and the ground in the Western Regions cannot be invaded.”

Shen Yi's attitude is very clear. He is against increasing investment in the Western Regions. For Daming at the moment, the Western Regions is a complete negative asset and a burden to Daming. In other words, it is not worthwhile to go through the Western Regions at this time.

Shen Yi continued: "How much manpower, material and financial resources does Daming need to stabilize the Western Regions? The ground conditions in the Western Regions are complex, and the Hus and Lulu live together.

"Ten years? 20 years? 50 years? 100 years? The Great Tang ruled the Western Regions for a hundred years, the Anshi Rebellion, the Long March athletes were far away in the Western Regions, and could not come back to help. The minister thought that the Western Regions were tasteless, tasteless to eat, and it was a pity to abandon them, so they sent elite soldiers and iron cavalry Just hold it in."

Hearing what Shen Yi said, Zhu Qiyu nodded with approval and said, "Shen Shangshu's words are reasonable."

Shen Yi was dumbfounded... His Majesty asked the Ministry of War to propose the Western Regions Headquarters, he was against it!As a result, His Majesty actually agreed with his objection? !

Zhu Qiyu said quite solemnly: "Compared to the Ryukyu of Wanguo Hailiang, the Silk Road in the Western Regions is far inferior; compared with the chicken coops with more than [-] hectares of fertile fields, there are few fertile fields in the Western Regions; compared with the dense jungles of Jiaozhi, there is no Teak is used to plant trees, and there is no rice and beam to supplement the Daming grain depot.”

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there has been the Chief Secretary of Jing'an in the Hetao Plain. Under the governance of Xu Youzhen's three-hundred-mile Jingtai'an Min Canal, the Hetao Plain has become a pearl of the fortress, and its grain output fully meets the needs of the three-sided garrison;

There is Ryukyu, under the general trend of opening up the sea in the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu, the sea bridge of all countries, as an extremely important turnover station, is playing its immeasurable value;
The chicken coop and Jiaozhi are also the raw material supply places for Daming's shipbuilding industry, as well as the supply of rice and beams in the two places, ensuring that Daming will not suffer from large-scale grain shortages in the process of the transformation of the small-scale peasant economy.

In comparison, the Western Regions only have constant investment, reinvestment, and there is no point of strength to recover the investment. There is no doubt that Shen Yi is right, the Western Regions are indeed a burden to the current Daming.

"The Silk Road is deeply influenced by the extreme west. Once there is turmoil in the extreme west, trade routes will be blocked, and the Silk Road will be impossible to talk about." Zhu Qiyu added another argument to support Shen Yi's argument.

"Your Majesty is wise." Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief, His Majesty said everything he didn't dare to say just now.

Shen Yi called this wise, not because His Majesty agreed with his objection, but praised His Majesty for reopening the Western Regions. It was not a whim, but a decision made after careful consideration.

For the giant ship Daming, a prudent captain is a blessing for all the crew members, and Shen Yi is grateful for this.

Zhu Qiyu said with certainty: "It may be that the business has improved for a hundred years. The most valuable thing in the Western Regions is the land."

People without far-sightedness will have immediate worries, and countries without long-term strategies will have disasters.

This vast land is the greatest wealth.

The greater the territory, the greater the depth, and the more abundant the land produces.

"I have no objection." Shen Yi pondered for a long time, and finally chose no objection, no objection is not approval, no objection is reservation, it is His Majesty's decision, he will cooperate highly.

According to Shen Yi's experience, His Majesty never made a loss-making business, and even if he didn't make a profit, he wouldn't lose too much.

Jiang Yuan, the Minister of War, also said: "I think it is impossible. It still takes [-] miles for the Great Tang Long March to reach the Western Regions, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty is in Beijing, not in Chang'an. How far is it to the Western Regions? Logistics supplies and baggage are not good."

"The celestial phenomenon has changed, the Western Regions are bitter and cold, and there are many long journeys and journeys of thousands of miles away.

Jiang Yuan didn't understand the Western Regions, but in a place where the weather, the place, the people and the people were all right, wouldn't Daming's re-opening the Western Regions be a force?
Jiang Yuan's and Shen Yi's attitudes are the same. The military restraint is that even if it is to set up a few commanders to add to His Majesty's achievements, it is not a bad idea.

However, the establishment of the Western Regions Headquarters is not a trivial matter. It requires the establishment of military camps to truly rule and govern. In other words, it is to truly incorporate the Western Regions into the Quartet, rather than as previously estimated by the courtiers. The land of six.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Jiang Yuan and said with great approval: "Jiang Shangshu's words are very true, that's why I returned to the lecture hall in the steam carriage that was as slow as a turtle's crawling."

"The steam engine is one year old now. We can't expect a baby to be like it, but after it grows up, the right time and place as Jiang Shangshu said will gradually come to pass."

"Everyone said, what your true thoughts are, let's communicate in advance today whether you have any questions or not, and don't enter the daily life, just say whatever you want." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

In the Juxian Pavilion of Lectures and Martial Arts, there are no taboos to speak. For example, Li Binyan said a few stupid things here, but at that time, Li Binyan didn't have a local governor.

"I also have some objections." Yu Shiyue, Minister of Punishment, said with a little lack of confidence.