I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 688, Bustling Jidu
Zhuge Liang kept counting along the way. He saw peasants working along the way, and then said to his teacher, Mr. Shui Jing and Pang Tong, "There are tens of thousands of peasants on this road, and it is said that such The construction sites are spread all over Yuzhou. Millions of people are mobilized in Yuzhou alone to build roads and canals. The wealth of Daqian is beyond imagination, and the power of Daqian is astonishing. Facing Dagan's offensive, it is still vulnerable!"

Pang Tong smiled bitterly and said, "Kong Ming, is it too late for you to investigate Dagan's strength now? Dagan has no opponents now. What's the use of knowing these things now!"

It’s no wonder that Pang Tong is discouraged. Dagan doesn’t allow them to rely on the imperial examinations to enter the officialdom of Dagan. The skills he learned before and the official knowledge passed down by his family are now useless. Now their best fate is actually the former A man of all kinds who look down upon!
On the contrary, Mr. Shui Jing, who was sitting on the carriage, said with a smile: "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. The ability you realize is your own, so how can it be useless!"

Then he looked at his students and said with a smile: "And you don't need to be too discouraged, the world is so big that there is more than one big cadre, not to mention that Lei Gong has been immigrating overseas over the years, even the original princes of the Dahan are also under the big cadre." General Liu also wants to build a great man in Tianzhu, and now many people have gathered under his command, and the world will be big in the future, enough for you to use your talents!"

Although Shui Jing said so, Pang Tong and the others did not have much confidence. Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei all established their forces in wild places outside Dagan, but those places are even more wild than Jiaozhou. If you have a choice, They don't want to go to these places!

They continued to go north in this way, and they came to Zhaiyang County, where they boarded a rail carriage. The rail horse has 8 horse-drawn carriages, and it is connected with three carriages. It can transport hundreds of people at most. Shui Jing and his students did the first two In the first carriage, the female relatives sat in the back.

Although it is said to be going to Jidu for the exam this time, it is also a family relocation. They will not go back after leaving Jingzhou, so this trip is a mobilization of the whole family.

Among them, the older ones looked sad and sad, and would never return to their hometown.The young man looked at the scenery outside the window with great interest.

Although the status of women in the Han Dynasty was not as low as that of the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was not as high as that of the Celestial Dynasty. Scholars can also travel to study and gain knowledge, and these women can only stay in their hometown. For them, Traveling away from home like this is rare.And there is a special and independent woman among them, who is assembling a machine with a bunch of parts, and many children are still looking at these things curiously.

Mrs. Huang said: "What are you doing with a bunch of parts, it's a mess here."

Huang Yueying smiled and said: "My daughter is making a machine for sewing cloth quickly. With this machine, half a day is enough for mother to sew clothes."

Mrs. Huang complained: "You are a girl who doesn't care for her husband and raise her children, but is doing something like this. People will say that the Huang family's daughter is not well-bred."

Huang Yueying said unconvinced: "My mother is talking about the old Huangli of the Han Dynasty. The ruling party said that women can hold up half the sky. In Daqian Xu Juan can be the governor of one place, and Cai Qiao can also be in charge of 10,000+ people. The director of the factory, she can earn millions of dollars every month by inventing a new type of textile machine. Now she has become the richest woman with a lot of money. She is a role model for women all over the world. This is what her daughter is learning from Cai Qiao .

And there are as many as a dozen other women who became prefects and county magistrates in Dagan. They can make a lot of achievements, why can't their daughters, this time not only Kong Ming is going to be admitted to the Mechanical University, but his daughter is also going to be admitted to the Mechanical University!Maybe in the future the royal family and the Zhuge family will rely on their daughters to continue. "

When the other female relatives heard Huang Yueying's words, they all looked adoring. Only Mrs. Huang's face was ugly. It was still difficult for him to accept the fact that the woman came out to show her face.

But just like what Huang Yueying said just now, Datian and Dahan are completely different, and their Huang family has also been reduced to ordinary people. It may not be a chance for Huang Yueying to go to the University of Mechanical Engineering.

Traveling so fast all the way for dozens of miles, it took them only a stick of incense to come to the outskirts of Diyang County, and it took them three days to leave the range of Yingchuan County

Everyone was shocked by the efficiency of the rail carriage for the first time. This efficiency is too high!
Xu Shu couldn't help admiring: "It's no wonder that the Dagan army can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, and at most it can mobilize 80 troops, but the logistics have not been overwhelmed. This rail carriage is of great help to the logistics. If Jingzhou has The rail carriage can increase its strength several times!"

Pang Tong on the side said quietly: "We won't be able to go back to Jingzhou in the future, what's the use of talking about it!"

Zhuge Liang on the side smiled and said to the newspaper: "How can it be useless? The world of Daqian is changing with each passing day. Only by constantly increasing our knowledge, adapting to these new things, and joining in can we not stop falling behind others.

Now we see that the rail carriage is a military weapon, but everyone does not know that the government has developed a mechanism and rails called a steam train. It is said that the efficiency of the steam train is dozens of times stronger than that of the rail carriage. Qianshi's goods are also several times faster than rail carriages. Now that Dagan has started to build rails, the wooden rails we see now will be eliminated in a short time! "

At this time, Pang Tong and Xu Shu came to read the newspaper in Zhuge Liang's hand, which stated that the Dagan court would immigrate 20 households from the south of the Yangtze River to the Central Plains within three years.

Pang Tong's face is ugly, his family is among them

Xu Shu didn't care about these things. There were only two people in his family, and they made money after dividing a hundred acres of land.

The second page of the newspaper stated that Dagan was going to replace wooden rails with rails, and now the Jidu-Quanzhou County railway, the Jidu-Zhending railway, and the Jidu-Guangning railway were being built around Jidu as the center, and the total mileage of the three railways Will be more than 2000 miles!
Seeing the news, Xu Shu said in disbelief: "The price of wooden rails is already extremely high, and now Dagan has started to use rails. How much iron is needed? I'm afraid there won't be enough iron in the world!"

Zhuge Liang said: "Dagan has three major iron and steel centers, namely Mayi Iron and Steel Plant, Jinyang Iron and Steel Plant and Yuyang Iron and Steel Plant. Each of these iron and steel plants has an annual output of 10,000+ tons, which is equivalent to several hundred million catties of iron. If the iron and steel output of the country is not used to make weapons and armor, it is barely enough to build these railways! The government is turning swords into plows, and Dagan's policy changes very quickly."

Pang Tong couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Mr. Lei, this is too crazy. The first emperor didn't make such an exaggeration when he forged the Great Wall!"

What Daqin did was just linking the Great Wall built before, but what Lei Gong is doing now is to put iron on the ground. What is the difference between this and throwing money on the ground? You must know that the price of a catty of iron is also 10. money or so.

Zhuge Liang disagreed and said: "This is the farsightedness of the government. Although the investment in the railway is huge, the merits of the ages are the same as the Great Wall and Dujiangyan back then. It can benefit future generations!"

"Liang has been collecting news about the Dagan Railroad during this time, and found that all states in Dagan have railroads, and most of them are connected to wealthy counties. A huge rail network has slowly begun to take shape in Dagan. Everyone can see the huge military role, and the value of the orbit is not only the military role. Even in the current peacetime, the influence of the orbit on the economy has gradually emerged.

"Liang found that the towns around the track are particularly prosperous, because the transportation is convenient, there will naturally be more caravans, and if there are more caravans, many small counties and towns will develop. We have already entered four counties on this road, more than a dozen Small towns, I think everyone has discovered that even a small town along the way is a bit more lively than places where we don’t have a connecting track.”

"And this is the prosperity caused by the rail carriage, and the railway and the train are more than ten times better than the rail carriage. The railway will definitely make the place more prosperous, just like the railway from Jidu to Guangning. Why do you want to build this road?" The railway is because this railway connects the desert. The desert is a poor place. Over the years, the government has opened the pass, allowing the herdsmen to freely enter the pass to sell livestock. This has made these herdsmen rich, and the herdsmen who benefited It has become the most important foundation for Dagan to rule the desert!"

"And now that the railway connecting the desert is connected, it will be easier for herdsmen to raise cattle and sheep to enter the pass. The desert may cause a wave of immigration. Because of the relationship with the railway, the money that grazing can earn may be several times higher than before. Times, under the lure of money, many people are willing to go to even a desolate place like the desert."

What Zhuge Liang said is also Xu Wei’s idea of ​​building this railway. The population in the prosperous desert in the interior will be smaller. Such a continuously decreasing population is not conducive to Dagan guarding the desert. Therefore, how to increase the population of the desert has become Xu Wei’s heart disease. .

But after Xu Wei clicked on the technology tree of steam engine and train, he immediately thought that he could build a railway to connect the desert, so that economic interests could better guide the people to enter. Willing to endure desolation for money!And once the railway is opened, the transportation cost of cattle and sheep to the mainland can be reduced. After all, driving cattle and sheep to travel hundreds of thousands of miles will cost far more than the railway toll.

Finally, Shui Jing said: "Everything is too much. If all the things Lei Gong does do not exceed the national strength of Dagan, it is a project that benefits the country and the people, but if it is far beyond what Dagan's national strength can bear scale, it will become a project that harms the present and benefits the future like the Great Wall!"

"All of this requires you to observe with your own eyes, whether these projects are beyond the scope of ordinary people!"

On the next journey, Zhuge Liang and the others experienced the process of shattering and reorganizing their three views. They traveled thousands of miles along the way, and they saw too many wonders in Daqian. The track, the entire Dagan track network is tens of thousands of miles long.) Steel bridges of thousands of feet across the Yellow River, and a long waterwheel long queue beside the Yellow River that can't be seen at a glance.

There are also the elevated canals in Jizhou like a rail network, neat and flat, like a soldier's field, entering Youzhou to take a train that can walk by itself, and now there is no city wall in front of them, but Jidu is like a kingdom of giants.

Shui Jing couldn't believe that these places used to be the land of the big man. When he was young, he came to these places for study tours, and he couldn't find a trace of them in his memory.

It is already shocking to see such a spectacle, but they actually saw several of them along the way, each of which was not a project that the Han national strength could bear, but at this time, the Daqian made several one after another. I haven't seen its national power decline, not to mention young people like Zhuge Liang, even a well-informed Confucian like Shui Jing can't understand this great court.

But after going deep into the mainland, he now admires people like Cao Cao and Liu Bei very much. Fighting against such an extremely powerful enemy, they can still persist for more than ten years. These big Han princes can be called a generation of heroes !

With the arrival of June, thistles are starting to get hot.

Liu Bei, the last remnant of the Han Dynasty, also surrendered, Jiaozhou became the land of Daqian, and the world was officially unified under the court of Dagan.Ordinary people are relieved of the last fear of the troubled times in their hearts, and begin to enjoy the prosperous times of Daqian with peace of mind.

Now the people of Jidu are all attracted by the playground built on a square, which not only has their own fun facilities, but also a circular model railway and a model train for inspection!
And this is Xu Wei's special construction in Jidu, so that everyone has enough knowledge about trains!Now the railway has started from Jidu, slowly but firmly spreading across the land of Dagan.

But something happened that even Xu Wei didn't expect. The benefits of the train have not yet been revealed, and the disadvantages have begun to appear. Many people have never seen a train at all, and they often play around the tracks. The most serious month, It killed three people, caused three traffic accidents, and even caused a train to derail.

Under such circumstances, Xu Wei specially built this playground and made this model train in order to popularize the understanding of trains and the dangers in them to the people of Dagan. Anyone can ride for a dollar. The model train turns around, and at the same time, a special narrator introduces the common sense of the train to everyone. In this way of entertaining and entertaining, everyone knows the train and understands the danger of playing around the rails.

As a result, such an amusement park has become the favorite place for the entire Jidu people. Everyone likes to spend a penny to experience the fun of being a train.

(End of this chapter)