Qiming 1158

Chapter 1499 The debut of the steam drainage machine
With this policy in place, it will be much smoother for Fuxing members to go to the countryside to do their work in an all-round way.

Young but not immature revival members found interested people to persuade, and the content of persuasion was similar.

"To be honest, I think this matter of the imperial court has already been done, and everything that needs to be done has been done. Before I went there, I had three chances to regret it. After I went there, there was still a three-year adaptation period. stop.

The two journeys are long and far, but the government spends money to contract for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Don’t let us pay a penny, we will have houses and land, and everything is ready, as long as we live the present day, almost no expenses are required. what.

What did the imperial court want?It is because everyone can produce food locally, settle in the local area, and thrive, turning the Western Regions into our Anxi Province and Beiting Province.

After all, it has been separated from the Central Plains for 400 years. Without us deeply cultivating the local area, it would be really difficult to return to the Western Regions. What a pity for the people of Tang Dynasty. After controlling the Western Regions for so long, they were still lost. What is the reason?

Isn't there enough people?At that time, if there were millions of people in the Western Regions, and everyone went to one place, who could take the Western Regions away from us?you say right? "

Such a persuasion process can always have some effect, allowing some pioneering and enterprising people to offset the fear of being far from their homeland and their worries about the future, and decide to embark on a new life journey.

It was already late October in the 11th year of Hongwu when the Fuxing members went to the countryside on a large scale to persuade. It has been almost three months since the theater troupe launched a large-scale national tour in August.

The troupe toured the country, and the first play it performed was "Thirteen Soldiers Returning to Yumen", which performed the stories of the Western Regions and the Central Plains across the country, making the Western Regions fever gradually spread across the country with the advancement of the troupe.

Fuxing members have made statistics, but in areas where the theater troupe has performed "Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen", it will be easier to persuade them. The number of people who volunteered to go to the Western Regions to settle down is obviously more than the places where the theater troupe has not arrived. Take a piece.

It can be seen the importance of excellent publicity means and publicity work.

When Su Yonglin got the specific data in early December of Hongwu 11th, he took this incident as a model and held a state affairs meeting.

At the meeting, he emphasized the work of the Drama Troupe of the Women's Department of the Revival Society and the Propaganda Department of the Revival Society.

With the help of publicity work and preliminary preparations, by mid-December in the 11th year of Hongwu, the number of households willing to move their families to Anxi Province and Beiting Province had reached more than 11 according to statistics from all over the country. About 50.

In addition to the mobilization of official personnel, being able to attract another 50 people is already an unexpected success for the entire Western Region immigration policy.

At the beginning, the minimum immigrant population estimated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs was only 30, and it would take a long time for the population immigrating to the Western Regions to exceed 100 million.

But now there are more than 50 directly, which greatly reduces the time required for this goal.

Su Yonglin is very willing to believe that with the passage of time and the optimization of the living environment in the Western Regions, the population of the Western Regions will continue to increase, not decrease. At least, the Ming government really wants to treat the Western Regions as a local area rather than a restricted area for construction and governance.

The determination of the Ming Dynasty to manage Central Asia and revive the Silk Road on land is real. The war in Central Asia has come to an end, and construction and development will become the mainstream of the western part of the Ming Dynasty for a long time in the future.

The Ming Dynasty will invest a large amount of resources and attention in this direction, revive this land trade route belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and maintain this road to revitalize the Western Regions.

At the same time, the border areas in the northeast and south of the Ming Dynasty were also in flux, and they were not peaceful.

In the northeast, Daming's control of Goryeo and the land reforms launched in Goryeo entered a critical period. The resistance of Goryeo landlords became more and more fierce, and Goryeo officials at the central level became more and more uneasy.

However, their resistance actions failed one after another. Goryeo could not get rid of the control of the Goryeo administrative team under the control of Hu Wei. With the assistance of the Liaodong army, it was only a matter of time before Goryeo was completely deconstructed and reconstructed by the Ming Dynasty.

After all, Goryeo is a small country, and a small country cannot affect the actions of such a behemoth as Daming.

In the southern region, the members of the Champaign branch of the Revival Society are stepping up the training of new Champaign troops. Basically, they update their situation and Zou Yana's actions once a month to let Daming know about them. The news of the brother dynasty was simultaneously told to Daming.

Their report described how they prevaricates their superiors and trains the new army, and also informs the Ming State of how they held a grievance meeting in the new army and educated the new recruits on the process of exploitation and oppression.

The Ming Dynasty estimates that at this rate, the new army in Champaign will have the strength to overthrow Zou Yana's regime in one year at the latest. As for how to plan this process, it still needs to be properly discussed.

The changes in these two areas will take time and some impetus to carry out, but Dali is as safe as a mountain, and since assisting the Ming army in defeating the anti-Ming tribes, there has been basically no action.

They are still very respectful to Daming, there has been no change in the slightest, the country is very stable, and there is no turmoil, which makes Su Yonglin a little surprised.

But this is not important, because the action of the Dali branch of the Renaissance Society has already begun. They have begun to take root in the rural areas of Dali country, looking for the possibility of breakthrough locally, and successfully found a breakthrough point.

What Zhao Yucheng once did in Jiangxi will soon reappear in Dali, and this is also an experiment for Ming to export its ideals. Su Yonglin attaches great importance to this.

Day by day, it seems that nothing has changed, but changes are happening every day.

It's just that when science and technology are not developed, the changes are relatively small and slow, but once science and technology achieve a certain breakthrough, such changes will appear in front of people relatively quickly, bringing people a difference in comfort or horror. mood.

On December 11, Hongwu Year [-], the world's first working steam engine for pumping water was sent to Datong and installed and used in Datong Coal Mine.

An underground mine with a depth of about nine meters was seriously flooded. At that time, when the groundwater overflowed, there was almost no time for everyone to retreat. If it wasn't for luck, seven or eight miners would have drowned in it and couldn't be rescued.

The workers of Datong Coal Mine tried their best to drain the water with the top-matching means of animal power and pulley block. The effect was very limited and the cost was very high, so they basically gave up the mine.

And now, this drainage appliance that is said to be very efficient has appeared in front of everyone.

Some technicians climbed up and down the installation, connected the water pipes, and prepared to discharge the water into a small stream not far from here.

According to the technicians, this big guy is called a steam drainage machine. It is a machine that does not require human and animal power, but only needs to burn coal to pump water.

The workers were very curious. When the steam drainage machine was in operation for the first time, more than 200 workers formed several circles and stared at the big guy.

They watched the technicians burn coal, watch them operate the machine, watch the machine twitch and make strange noises.

Finally, they saw the pumping pipe at the back of the machine twisting for a while, and a large amount of accumulated water was pumped out, and then directly discharged into the small stream.

(End of this chapter)