New Shun 1730

In the last few days of May in 1793, an army wearing blue clothes and felt hats came to the vicinity of the only waterfall on the Mississippi River. They were a battalion of the elite children's army around the Dashun Emperor.

In the original history, there would be a city here called "Minneapolis".

Minne means "water" in the local indigenous language. Polis means "city" or "city-state" in Greek.

However, at this time, there are two different cities standing on both sides of the waterfall.

The one on the east side is a French city, which is very strange if transliterated.

The original transliterated name should be "Haha Mulan". Haha is the pronunciation of "waterfall" by the local indigenous people; Mulan means mill in French.

But for some embarrassing reasons, the French are obviously allergic to the pronunciation of "haha", so according to the local pronunciation of water, they call it "Minne Mulan", which means the mill city by the water.

The city on the west side of the river is a standard Dashun city. The name of the city is also full of Dashun characteristics, and it is directly called Xin Mengmen.

Mengmen is the upper mouth of Longmen, which is actually a huge barrier of the Yellow River and also the name of Mengjin. This stone was carved by Yu, and the river is wide and deep, and the huge stone is in danger, as if it falls and leans. Some people in ancient times said that water can enter the stone without being carved by the stone, which is true. The water flows in it, and the white air floats. Those who come and go from a distance often feel as if they are wet by fog and dew, and their souls are frightened when they see the depths. The water still collapses and waves are thousands of feet, and the hanging stream is thousands of feet. The muddy flood is the most angry, and the drum mountain is rising, and the waves are collapsed. Until the lower mouth, it is known that Shenzi went down the Longmen and floated the bamboo, not the pursuit of four horses...

Translated into simple and shallow vernacular, Xin Mengmen means a city near the waterfall.

Dashun prefers to use "Xin" to name the city, which originated from the tradition left over from the Han Dynasty. Historical records: The emperor died in the Liyang Palace. Pardon the prisoners in Liyang. The name of Liyi was changed to Xinfeng… Xinfeng was different from the old Feng of Peifengyi.

In short, whether it was Dashun or France, the names of the cities on both sides of the river were all related to waterfalls.

The first industrial revolution was unfolding all over the world at this time.

However, the steam engine is only a kind of power, and since it is a power, water power and wind power can also be used as power.

Compared with the steam engine that needs to spend money to burn coal, the abundant water potential energy and kinetic energy brought by this only waterfall on the Mississippi River are free.

So, around this waterfall, cities on both sides of the river rose from the ground.

The water-powered mills, sawmills, and shipyards with upstream advantages made this place quickly become an industrial city.

In a sense, this is already the farthest eastern border of Dashun.

It is so far away that even if a war really breaks out, the children's army directly under the emperor stationed in the capital will not appear here.

Moreover, although it is called a city, the population size is still too small after all. A battalion-sized army of soldiers is still too many for this remote border town.

Obviously, they are not here to fight.

To be precise, they are here to complete a very special mission: to be ordered by the emperor to welcome the coffin of Liu Yu, the Duke of Xingguo, to return to the country for burial.

Since he even brought the posthumous title, the court must have known that the person was dead.

Even if it is said that more than 20 years ago, when the emperor was still a prince, the Duke of Xingguo resigned and donated his property, devoted himself to the mountains and rivers, and never heard of political affairs again, or followed the story of Chisongzi's travels, and seemed to disappear from the court all of a sudden.

But after all, the emperor can always find the person he is looking for. Not only can he find it, but he also knows clearly when he died and where he went every year.

It is precisely because he can find it, or because he knows that there are people around the emperor, that he can follow the story of Chisongzi's travels. If he can't find it... there is always a crime that suits you.

Sometimes it is a good thing for a person to die.

For example, at this time, Dashun just needed to welcome back the bones of such a special dead person, and use the mouth of the deceased to say something or express some attitude.

As for how and why he died here, it is a very simple story: an old man strolled here to see the waterfall, the ground was slippery, and he accidentally fell and died. The couple, the old lady was old and could not stand the tossing, it was impossible for her to take her husband's bones back to her roots, so she lived here and buried them together until they were old.

It's that simple, there is really no conspiracy or dramatic story.

As for why the bones should be welcomed back, in addition to the fact that the dead are more useful than the living, there is also a more "feng shui" reason.

Here, a railway is to be built.

Even though many ministers in the court and the ministers who followed the coup in the past were from the practical school, they had dealt with the Duke of Xingguo and knew his quirks in the past: he liked coal smoke and the vibration of machines. Some people in Songsu area wanted to make friends with him. The story of the King of Chu liking thin waists kept playing out, making it inappropriate to deliberately build a steam water pump in the top traditional garden.

Everyone knew that the Duke had this habit when he was alive. Now that he has passed away, I am afraid that he will be buried in a high place to watch the railway and hydraulic factory, which is also what he wanted.

However, the emperor today is implementing a new policy and using the ancient system to reform the system to gain great justice.

Since it is using the ancient system, it is better to follow the ancient traditions for such a big event as treating death as life, and more or less pay attention to Feng Shui to show the meaning of reforming the ancients.

Compared with the seemingly "weird" thing of moving the tomb to prevent the vibration of the train.

The emperor's reform in the name of ancient times also brought some problems.

For example, at present, the railway that goes directly to Maple Bay has begun to be built by cutting wood and preparing sleepers using the waterfall of the Mississippi River.

Because of the ancient times, the track of Dashun is based on the ancient meaning, and the six-foot track with the same track for all cars is used all over the world.

From Fusang, to Japan, to Korea, to Southeast Asia, to India, all use this standard.

The same track of the first emperor is six feet.

And this ruler is the ancient Xia ruler. According to textual research, the Xia ruler should be 24.69 millimeters, which is 1481 millimeters based on the Dashun standard track and the six-foot track.

Millimeters is not a foreign word. This is a real Dashun led "Metrics and Measures Conference to Facilitate International Trade" after World War I, and discussed with the victorious and defeated countries.

It is not good to use Dashun's ruler, nor is it good to use French ruler, and it is even worse to use British ruler. Dashun was not capable of being a true emperor of the world at that time.

So the final discussion was to use the earth.

Take one forty millionth of the length of the meridian as one meter.

After the meter was determined, the meter was used as the unit and water as the standard, and the weight and other world-common units of measurement were determined.

In order to facilitate a series of businesses such as communication, trade, transactions, gold and silver exchange, and currency exchange rates among countries around the world.

However, at this time, on the other side of the river, on the French territory, the French were also building railways, but they refused to use Dashun's six-foot track.

The nominal reason was that Dashun, as one of the leading and initiating countries of the national metric system, did not use the metric system itself, but adopted a retro policy and used a six-foot track.

So, France refused to use the six-foot track because it involved France's honor, national dignity, and historical heritage, as well as cultural invasion from the East, etc.

So, France used a very strange "metric track".

That is, a 1000 mm narrow track.

Of course, on the surface, the reason was that Dashun used the ancient ruler unit of its own history. If France used it, it would mean that France was invaded by Dashun culturally. If the metric unit that everyone agreed on and determined by the length of the "neutral" earth's meridian was used, then it would not be considered a cultural invasion.

In fact, it was the extremely terrifying immigration speed of Dashun in Fusang in recent years that made France know very well: repairing the six-foot standard gauge of Xia would open the door for Dashun to seize land in the future; but it had to be repaired, otherwise there would be fewer people and it would be even harder to defend.

So, under the banner of resisting Dashun's cultural invasion, France chose to use the meter gauge to avoid the future Dashun's trains carrying troops, without even changing the front carriages, and driving all the way to Montreal and Quebec.

Both sides had a lot of verbal battles and used a lot of diplomatic channels for this matter, and in the end it was just like that.

This matter is certain to be settled. Capital from Europe and Dashun will flock to this city that has risen because of the potential energy and kinetic energy of the waterfall and start to invest heavily.

Even a fool knows that this city that needs to change tracks, store and unload will develop. In the future, I am afraid that every inch of land will be worth a lot of money.

When there are more people, the land will be occupied and hoarded.

This is also a reason to move the coffin: with the upcoming development of the city, the tomb can't be leveled, right?

If it is leveled, people will inevitably murmur, what happened in the past? Why did the Duke of Xingguo leave? When did the current emperor decide to do something big?

If it is not leveled, it will be even worse. It's not that the court can't afford the money to build a big tomb according to the specifications of the Taimiao. But after it is built, there will be more murmurs: What happened? Why is the tomb of the Duke of Xingguo here? Why didn't the emperor move it back? Did something happen at the beginning?

Another thing is that in recent years, Fusang's sense of self-reliance has become more and more obvious.

Dashun still adopted a strict state-owned land sales system to ensure convenient immigration and not allow private individuals to occupy land at will, which made the first generation of immigrants and the gradually growing local tyrants on the Fusang side very dissatisfied with the court's control.

Since they want to be independent, they will inevitably need to summon heroes. At that time, if the tyrants here say that Liu Yu is the first person to open Fusang, and use this as a name to directly do some messy things, it will be really disgusting.

Therefore, under the superposition of many factors, this matter must be done.

However, because the railway has not been built yet, the route back is not to go west, cross the mountains on the west coast, and take a boat back from the Pacific Ocean.

Instead, go east, through the Great Lakes, go to the Fur Bay, stop in Europe, pass the Cape of Good Hope, pass India, and go through the South China Sea, taking this classic sea route.