Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 315 The Grandson

Miyun is located at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, more than 160 miles north of the capital, and is the main road leading to the Mengyuan grassland from the north of the capital.

Therefore, it has been known as "the key of the capital" since ancient times.

On this day, Taichang brought a group of officials to the place where the capital is locked and keyed.

But he didn't come to inspect the defense, he came to see the iron mine.

There are indeed many iron mines in Huairou and Miyun, and this was once the most important iron-making place near the capital. Therefore, the iron mines in these two places have almost been explored, and most of them have mining records.

Huairou is relatively close to the capital, so the amount of iron ore mining is relatively large.

But when it comes to the quantity of iron ore, there are still more in Miyun.

The amount of iron ore in Miyun is dozens of times that of Huairou!
I don't know how many open mines I have seen during this journey in Taichang. Unfortunately, there is no one in the mine at the moment.

Alas, his wonderful father really killed me!
He led a group of officials up the nearby high mountain, looked at the mines dotted all around, and couldn't help sighing: "There are so many mines here that are so deserted, the mine supervisor and tax envoy are doing a lot of harm! "

Bi Maokang also sighed and said, "Yes, the mine supervisors and tax envoys at that time were really crazy. They were so frightening that the miners were frightened by them, and the Ministry of Industry had nothing to do with them."

Taichang shook his head slightly, and then said decisively: "I won't talk about the past, and I will not send any mine supervisors and tax envoys. This Miyun is so close to the capital, and it is Shangjia's mining and smelting place. After returning You can organize people to build a few more smelters here, and immediately organize people to open mines, so there are so many mines here that can produce tens of millions of catties of pig iron a year, it will not be a problem!"

what?
Your Majesty, can you stop doing this!

Yesterday you said that the output would increase by 1000 million catties a year, but today you said that Miyun can produce tens of millions of catties of pig iron a year!

Bi Maokang was quite confused: "Your Majesty, I dare to say that to smelt pig iron, you need not only iron ore, but also coal mines. Fangshan, which is near the capital, produces coal mines. It is too far to transport it here. Otherwise, Let’s build the smelter in Huairou, which is at least closer to Fangshan.”

This one.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help being surprised and said, "Fangshan is not far from the capital, right?"

Bi Maokang quickly explained: "Yes, Fangshan is only more than 170 miles away from the capital, and Huairou is only about a hundred miles away from the capital, but one is in the south of the capital and the other is in the north of the capital, so the distance between the two places is about [-] miles. It is already far enough, because the coal we need to transport is not a little bit, but tens of millions or even tens of millions of catties, and if we transport it to Miyun again, it will be more than sixty miles more!"

What is this distance?
Without hesitation, Taichang said: "Don't we have mine carts? It's not a problem to pull tens of thousands of catties of coal with a mine cart and ten carriages. You only need to make a few such mine carts to pull it back and forth."

Ugh, minecarts!

Hearing this, Bi Maokang couldn't help but look at Song Yingxing who was at the side.

He is not familiar with this stuff, Song Yingxing seems to have done some in Nanzhili before.

Seeing this, Song Yingxing cupped his hands and reminded, "Your Majesty, the mine carts can only travel on the rails. Besides, the steam locomotive hasn't been made yet, so how can the mine carts be pulled?"

Isn't this simple?

Taichang said without hesitation: "Although the steam locomotive has not been made yet, we can use horse-drawn horses. The railroad tracks can also be laid, and the railroad tracks can be laid directly from Miyun to Huairou, then from Huairou to the capital, and then from the capital to the capital." Fangshan, isn’t this enough? At that time, the coal can be directly pulled from Fangshan, and the car that returns can also pull the refined pig iron to the capital, isn’t this killing two birds with one stone?”

Song Yingxing couldn't help being dumbfounded when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, do you mean to lay more than 200 miles of railway tracks?"

He thought the rails were laid in the mine, after all, the iron cart he made was called a mine cart.

As deep as a mine can be, it is only a few miles deep.

He originally thought that the longest railway track would only be a few miles long, but who would have thought that the emperor's opening would be more than 200 miles long!
Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, what is the railway track of more than 200 miles? In the future, we will spread the railway track to Jizhou, Zunhua, Qian'an, and Liaodong. Spread it to Shaanxi, spread it all over Daming!"

My God, how many miles is that!

More than tens of thousands of miles, right?
The rails are not light. Tens of thousands of catties of pig iron are used for a mile-long rail, and hundreds of sleepers have to be padded under the rails.

How much pig iron and sleepers are needed if it is really paved for tens of thousands of miles!
Song Yingxing couldn't even count this terrifying amount.

He couldn't help being shocked and said: "Your Majesty, is it necessary to lay the rails like this?"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Of course it is necessary. Do you think this steam locomotive can pull ore? As long as you make the carriage like a carriage, can you pull people? It can also pull goods, what?" Goods can be pulled!"

this!

Everyone's thinking couldn't keep up, and everyone stood there dumbfounded.

The emperor's thoughts are really insane, and they are always shocking and inexplicable.

What is the idea of ​​laying tens of thousands of miles of railway tracks?

Everyone dare not even think about it!
Because the amount of pig iron and sleepers that need to be used is astronomical, and it can't be counted.

As for pulling people and goods, good or bad, the problem is that building a carriage also consumes a lot of pig iron!
If it is really done according to what the emperor said, the annual production of hundreds of millions or even billions of catties will not be enough.

Where can they find so much pig iron?
What expressions do these people have?

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help crying and laughing: "I've told you all, you have to be bolder in your thinking, and bolder. What's wrong with laying the rails all over Daming? I can still let you fly into the sky, do you believe it?"

When everyone heard the words, they all looked up at the sky.

There is nothing in the sky, how can I fly up?
People don't have the strength to fly up even if they put on wings!
Song Yingxing looked up for a while, then lowered his head and asked weakly: "Your Majesty, how much pig iron would it take to lay the rails for the entire Daming?"

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "What is that pig iron? Can't Miyun produce tens of millions of catties of pig iron a year?"

Really want tens of millions of catties of pig iron to be produced here every year!
Hearing this, Bi Maokang couldn't help swallowing, and said with difficulty: "Your Majesty, what do you mean we recruit 10 people here to mine and refine mines?"

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "You don't need so many people. Didn't I tell you about the mining machines? As long as you develop the mining machines and connect all the mines with the smelter with rails, you don't need so many people for mining." You don’t need so many people to transport ore. As for smelting, you can build a bigger furnace and use a steam engine to blow air into it. In short, there are many ways. You can think about it and see how to use the steam engine to replace human labor."

Well, this is really something to think about.

Bi Maokang nodded quickly and said: "I understand, I must think about it after I go back."

All right, let's go back.

There's nothing fancy about this place either.

Taichang glanced around again, then waved and said, "Let's go back to Beijing."

He really didn't expect that the group of people had just returned to the palace, and before they had time to get off their horses, Wang Chengen came up excitedly and said excitedly, "Your Majesty, the Crown Princess gave birth to you, and the Crown Princess gave birth to a grandson for you!"

What are you talking about!

What gave birth to a grandson for me?

This guy is going crazy!

Taichang also knew that Wang Chengen had done most of the work for the prince Zhu Youxiao, so the relationship between the two was very good.

Now that the crown prince has a queen, this guy is really happy.

In fact, Taichang is also very happy.

Grandson!
I finally have a grandson.

Daming has a successor!

He immediately got off his horse, put the reins into the hands of the eunuch next to him, and ran happily to Ciqing Palace.

(End of this chapter)