Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1197, Beating the Whip of the Western World
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The train was running on the straight rails, and Avaro from Spain was awakened by the whistling whistle.

He is the Spanish envoy to Daming, and he has been in Daming for two full years.

When he first came to Daming, he brought Marco Polo's travel notes to Daming. During the journey across the ocean, he had already read the book by heart.

In his mind, that distant eastern empire is gold, porcelain and silk, rich and heavenly, synonymous with strength.

However, after actually coming out of Daming and staying here for two years, he gained a new understanding of Daming.

This place is just like the rumors, it is indeed very rich.

This is a magical country. The people here are well-dressed, well-fed, and more importantly, they have the same arrogance as the Spaniards. There is pride and confidence in their eyes, which once made Avaro feel very uncomfortable.

Because in the eyes of the Ming people, he seems to be an uncivilized barbarian from a wild land, but Avaro has always been proud of being a member of the great Spanish Empire.

Daming's wealth left a deep impression on Avaro.

"The Ming people's latest five-year railway plan, they can easily raise [-] million taels of silver to build a railway, [-] million taels of silver!"

"This is such a huge wealth, probably it can be used to cover the whole of Lesotho."

Avaro couldn't help but took out his own notebook and wrote in it.

Daming people are really very rich.

He once went to the wharf of Tianjin Port to watch the ships coming back from overseas. The ships were loaded with gold, silver and jewelry from all over the world. When the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were opened, it seemed that only Those mesmerizing colors and shine too.

"There's gold everywhere here, and that's not an exaggeration."

"In the Beijing-Tianjin area of ​​the Ming Empire, a random house here costs thousands of taels of silver. Such a huge wealth is enough to buy a nice manor in Spain."

"The rich people here will spend thousands of taels of silver for a casual meal in a restaurant, which is more luxurious than our king."

"But none of that shocked me the most."

"What really shocked me was the wisdom of the Ming people!"

"They can actually make such a huge and incredible train. This kind of steam-powered machine can transport two thousand people or more than [-] catties of goods at a time, and it can travel at eighty miles per hour. speed forward."

"Oh, God!"

"I swear, such a machine can only be made by a god."

Avaro watched the rapidly receding scenery outside the window, and kept writing in his diary.

"I can say for sure that if this news reaches Europe, no one will believe me."

"No one can imagine the mood at this moment, can imagine that I actually wrote such words on the high-speed train."

"The train is very stable. Even a glass of water will not be spilled. It takes less than two hours to travel to Tianjin, which is more than [-] miles away."

"God, if I hadn't been on the ride myself, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to believe this."

"But this is the fact. As you can see in front of you, the villages of Daming are very neat, clean and beautiful, dotted on this beautiful land."

"It can be clearly seen that the Daming people living here are very wealthy, carefree, cleanly dressed, and have ruddy complexions."

"In contrast, I still clearly remember the villages in Spain that I visited, dirty, messy, poor, poor, backward, and ignorant."

"In the Ming Empire, there are schools everywhere. According to their newspapers, they will strive to make every child of the Ming Dynasty go to school in the future and be able to read and write."

"What an incredible thing!"

"They are so rich that they want everyone to read and learn to read, while our Spanish children are working in the fields and herding cattle and sheep."

"In fact, the literacy rate of Ming people is very high. Here in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the sales of newspapers are very good. Almost everyone loves to read newspapers."

Avaro put down the pen in his hand, looked at the Ming people in the carriage again, and continued writing.

"When we in the western world basically relied on walking, the people of Daming had already invented the train, and as soon as the train appeared, their government organized and managed it very powerfully, and quickly proposed a five-year railway plan."

"It will take us five years to build several main railway lines on the vast land of Ming Dynasty, so as to quickly connect every territory of this huge empire."

"They are extremely rich, and they can easily raise hundreds of millions of taels of silver to build the railway."

"One of the railways that will start next year is called the Jinghe Railway. It is a railway that runs from the capital of the Ming Empire all the way west to the Hezhong area, and this is just the beginning. They originally planned to build it to the Caucasus area east of the Black Sea."

"However, because there is only a small part of the land on the south bank of the Caspian Sea, which is vulnerable to the influence of the Persian Empire, it was temporarily built to the river area."

"However, I think the Ming Empire will definitely not stop its expansion. Next, it will either attack the Kazakh Khanate in the north or attack the Persian Empire in the south. It will not allow a small Caspian Sea to block its progress."

"You must know that the entire vast Pacific Ocean has now become the inland sea of ​​the Ming Empire."

Avaro dug out a map of the world, which can be purchased anywhere in the Ming Empire. Looking at the huge territory of the Ming Empire, Avaro fell into deep thought.

It is so huge that even the Pacific Ocean becomes the inland sea of ​​the Ming Empire, which is simply unbelievable.

Then he took out a pen and drew a line on the map, the route of the Jinghe Railway. Then his eyes widened slightly, and he picked up the pen to write in his notebook.

"Oh, God!"

"Once the Jinghe Railway is completed, I dare say that it will definitely become a long whip to beat the western time, just like the Mongols back then. Relying on this railway, the Ming Empire will severely hit the world!"

"Some people may think that I am alarmist."

"That's because you can't imagine the great transport capacity of the railways."

"It is tens of thousands of miles from the capital of Ming Dynasty to the Hezhong area. In the past, even riding a horse would take two months. But if the railway is built, it only takes half an hour to travel from Beijing to the Hezhong area by train. A month is enough."

"And one train can transport two thousand people at a time!"

"The Hezhong region is still a long way from Europe, but it is the bridgehead for the Ming Empire to continue to expand westward, according to the latest announcement on the Ming Empire newspaper."

"The Ming Empire reclaimed a large amount of fertile land in the Hezhong area. The grain harvest this year alone is enough to feed tens of millions of people for several years."

"There are more than one million horses grazing in the Hezhong area, which is enough for each soldier of the Ming Empire to have a war horse, and more than ten million cattle and sheep are grazing."

"With such a foundation, if the Ming Empire wants to continue to expand westward, with the powerful national power of the Ming Empire, it can easily mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to sweep westward."

"At that time, whether it is the Kazakh Khanate, the Crimean Tatars, or the Slavs, no one can stop the progress of the Ming Empire."

"Their railway can still be built all the way to the west. Wherever the railway goes, everything will belong to the Ming people!"

Thinking of this, Avaro put down the pen in his hand.

In the past few years in Daming, he has not been idle and doing nothing.

He worked hard to learn the language, characters, and history of Ming Dynasty. He can say with certainty that the Ming Empire will continue to expand abroad, although in recent years, the Ming Empire has not carried out large-scale expansion or war.

But this huge dragon, it will not stop its footsteps.

The painstaking efforts in the Western Regions and the Hezhong region are all for the purpose of securing the foundation and preparing for future expansion.

"This is an empire scarier than the Mongols!"

"Although the Mongols were terrifying back then, their population was very small after all. More importantly, the Mongols lacked cultural background and were barbarians who only knew how to burn, kill, and loot, and didn't know how to operate and manage at all."

"But the Ming people are different. They have a large population, hundreds of millions of people, and the whole world is full of them."

"They have their own long history and profound cultural heritage. Their civilization is so bright and dazzling. They can manage such a huge empire in an orderly manner and flourish."

"Once they continue to expand westward, no one will be able to stop them in any way."

"In the past, limited by geographical and transportation restrictions, even if it ruled the Western Regions and the Hezhong region, the Ming Empire had to spend a lot of effort on large-scale immigration."

"But as long as this railway is completed, everything will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the natural moat will become open. No matter how far away the area is, as long as there is a railway, the Ming Empire can be firmly controlled."

"Our great Spain will eventually become the leader of Europe, but I think we have a lot to learn from the Ming Empire."

"Not only to learn the system of the Ming Empire, but also to learn the advanced technology of the Ming Empire. Their emperors attach great importance to craftsmen, and craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions can even obtain noble titles."

"Perhaps we should also build railways, and build railways on a large scale, so that every part of the empire can be firmly connected together and become stronger!"

　I went to Europe~~ It was originally chapter 1197, but I changed it to chapter 1198. Don’t look for chapter 1197~
　　
　
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