Qian Song

Chapter 363 The Industrial Revolution Has Been Started (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
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There is a particularly hidden area in the southeast of the Forbidden City.

Since the beginning of the construction of the Forbidden City, it has been a forbidden area for everyone, and only a very small number of very strict people can go there to build houses and other strange buildings.

It turned out that, according to the legend, there was going to build a garden that was bigger than Genyue Wansui Mountain in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

But later the construction of the Forbidden City was completed, and even Li Cun moved the capital from Tokyo back to Nanjing, and the so-called gardens remained silent.

Later, not long after Li Cun returned to Nanjing, there were often huge and strange "woo, woo...", "kuang, kuang..." and "boom..." strange sounds from that forbidden area.

Because of this, some people spread rumors, saying that Li Cun lived in the forbidden area and raised a water dragon, and it was this water dragon that helped Li Cun kill the fire dragon that protected the Zhao and Song Dynasties, so that Li Cun could seize the country and society of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Some people even have noses and eyes and say that the water dragon was also seriously injured during the battle with the fire dragon, so it often wailed because of the pain.

It is not surprising that there are such strange legends among the people.

Because it was rumored that Li Cun often went to that forbidden area and stayed in that forbidden area for a long time. The women in the harem always said sourly that it was almost becoming the second home of the official family.

Because of this, some people spread rumors that the water dragon was a female dragon, and some even fabricated a love story between Li Cun and the female dragon, saying that because the female dragon fell in love with Li Cun, it helped Li Cun defeat and protect the Zhao Song Dynasty. For the fire dragon, now that the mother dragon was seriously injured because of helping Li Cun, Li Cun naturally had to accompany her often. What's more, she also said that the mother dragon gave birth to a prince for Li Cun.

In addition, because the forbidden area is not far from the Qinhuai River, and there are eight railroad tracks between the two, connecting the Qinhuai River and the forbidden area, some people spread rumors, saying that these eight railroad tracks are the magic weapon cast by the mage to fix the earth. Because the water dragon was seriously injured, it couldn't transform into a human form, and her body weighed 99 jin. If she didn't use spells to fix the ground, the sky would collapse wherever the water dragon passed.

However, these rumors soon became self-defeating.

Because soon Jinling City also began to lay densely packed subway tracks.

Appearing with these rails, there is also something called "train", and the sound it makes is "woo, woo...", "clang, clang...", "rumbling..."

Speaking of this, everyone should be able to guess that the so-called forbidden area is the Royal Research Institute, and that "water dragon" is actually a train—a train that is constantly being improved.

The Dagan Dynasty actually developed the first generation of trains as early as the ninth year of Hongwu.

The trains of the early Dagan Dynasty were not all made of iron, but mainly made of wood. They used the steam engine improved by Qian Shi in the seventh year of Hongwu, and coal was used as fuel.

At that time, the trains moved slowly, only slightly faster than the bullock carts, but they were superior in their amazing cargo capacity. One carriage could carry a thousand rails, and four locomotives could carry up to ten carriages.

——The locomotives at that time were not powerful enough, and the failure rate was high, so a train was usually equipped with four locomotives, two pushing and two pulling, which also saved the trouble of turning the locomotives to go back.

Although the Dagan Dynasty had developed the train as early as the ninth year of Hongwu, the train was not put into use at that time.

This is not only because the trains at that time had many problems and were not yet ready for use.

It is also because the Dagan Dynasty was unable to smelt steel in large quantities at that time, and thus could not manufacture rails in large quantities.

——At that time, under the guidance of Li Cun, the Dagan Dynasty could already use the blast furnace to smelt the steel needed for the rails, but it was not yet possible to mass-produce it.

In order to have enough steel for laying railways, Li Cun spent a lot of money to build the world's first large-scale steelmaking and steel processing plant in the middle of Aoshan, Nanshan, Gushan, Taochong, Meishan, and Fenghuangshan in Nanjing.

This is actually one of the reasons why Li Cun moved the capital from Tokyo to Nanjiu.

After three full years, the Dagan Dynasty was finally able to mass-produce rails.

Li Cun did not wait for the trains that could be put into use to be developed before starting to lay the rails. Instead, he only waited for the rails to be mass-produced, and immediately ordered people to mass-produce the immature trains at that time, and began to lay the tracks. , summarize and improve the train.

It must be mentioned that the railways of the Dagan Dynasty were different from those of Li Cun's previous life.

To put it simply, the railway of the Dagan Dynasty was almost twice as wide as that of Li Cun's previous life.

It is said that the earliest railway trains in Li Cun's last life were drawn by horses, so the width of the rails at that time was equal to the width of the buttocks of two horses.

Later, many such railway tracks were repaired, and the steam train was developed.

In order to be compatible with the traditional railway, the steam train is also aligned with the horse's ass.

Conversely, the newly repaired rails must be aligned with the steam locomotive, so there is no way to change it.

China in the previous life was taken as an example. To widen the railway line, more than [-] kilometers of railway lines in the country must be unified, and it must also include lines, bridges, tunnels, and stations...

Also, it is impossible for the carriage of Li Cun's previous life to be widened, otherwise the carriage would hit the signal machine and other equipment.

Later, the diesel locomotive came out, and so did the electric car. The horsepower was getting bigger and bigger, and the volume was getting bigger and bigger...

However, Li Cun's great railway career in his previous life has been accumulated for a long time, and it is impossible to widen the rails or trains!

Although we do need a wider train.

The Dagan Dynasty is different.

The industrial revolution of the Daqian Dynasty has just begun, and some mistakes can be easily corrected, no, avoided.

Like this railroad width.

There is no need to limit it to [-] meters in the Dagan Dynasty.

Li Cun walked four steps directly (Dagen is three meters wide), asked Qian to record it, and then used this width as the width of the rail.

In addition, when laying the rails, Li Cun deliberately asked people to leave enough width between the rails, and the platform and other supporting equipment should also maintain a sufficient width from the rails.

In short, when Li Cun and the others want to expand the train for future generations, they should leave enough space.

At the beginning, in order to control the Yellow River, the Dagan Dynasty recruited more than 1000 million civilian husbands at its peak.

Later, after the Yellow River was governed to a great extent, at the request of Tang Ke, the Dagan court left only a small number of civilians to continue to govern the Yellow River.

But most of the civilian husbands who have been laid off are unwilling to leave.

The Daqian Dynasty managed the Yellow River for a fee—not only allocated good land to the peasants, but also paid wages and good treatment to the peasants.

Therefore, after these peasant husbands had governed the Yellow River for several years for the Dagan Dynasty, they found that they not only owned a hundred acres of fertile land that they had never imagined before, but also saved a considerable fortune.

Due to the agricultural reform led by Li Cun, that is, to vigorously promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, as well as to promote advanced farming techniques and continuously improve the varieties of food crops, the Dagan Dynasty no longer lacked food as early as five years ago. Not only that, in the next few years, the grain output of the Dagan Dynasty doubled and increased. The most intuitive manifestation is that in just five or six years, the population of the Dagan Dynasty more than doubled, reaching a fast 5000 million.

On the other hand, due to the great enhancement of farming technology, and because the Daqian Dynasty ordered no one to have more than one hundred acres of fertile land (if their families wanted to grow more food, they had to recruit more heads, this also caused One of the reasons for the population explosion of the Dagan Dynasty), many labor forces were liberated and idled.

In order to create a better life for their families, these laborers actively squeezed into various emerging industries.

This undoubtedly greatly promoted the development of industry.

Let's go back to the people who governed the Yellow River.

They are only busy during spring plowing and autumn planting. Usually, women and children are enough to take care of the family's crops. Even during spring plowing and autumn planting, they can spend money to hire someone to help with planting.

On the contrary, the job of harnessing the Yellow River, which pays well, is not particularly onerous, and pays well, is not to be lost in comparison.

——After losing, they don't know if they can find such a good job again.

After Li Cun learned of this situation, he felt that he was dozing off when he came to the pillow, so he asked Tang Ke to transfer the unused civilian husband to build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, that is, to dig the Jeju River in the territory of Jingdong East Road River, opened Huihe River between Tongzhou and Yanjing City.

——With the rapid increase of the population, the food production in the Yanyun area can no longer be consumed by the people in the Yanyun area. Therefore, the Dagan Dynasty has to transport food from the southeast to the north, especially the Yanyun area every year. The old Sui and Tang Dynasties Grand Canal with Luoyang as the center not only has a tortuous route, but sometimes the water source is insufficient, which may cause delays at critical times.

After the new route is dug through, it will run from the Tonghui River in Yanjing to Tongzhou, then through the Baihe River to Zhigu, then through the Yuhe River to Linqing, and then through Huitong River, Jeju River and the old canal, without having to enter Henan .

In this way, the three new rivers connect with the original canals in Hebei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces, forming a nearly straight-line Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In this way, the Dagan Dynasty could transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the Yanyun area along this shortest route, and it could also use the old Grand Canal to transport grain to the Central Plains and Northwest China.

Crucially, this can greatly increase the Dagan imperial court's control over the Yanyun region, the Central Plains region, and the Northwest region.

Since the Grand Canal is diverted, not rebuilt, and local governments will also organize civilians to repair the Grand Canal-this is a great thing that can increase the financial and political achievements of various places, and local governments must rush to do it .

Therefore, even though there are many civilian workers who came down from the management of the Yellow River to build the Grand Canal, there are still a large number of civilian workers who have no jobs.

In order to ensure the employment of these peasants, and more importantly, vigorously develop the railway business of the Dagan Dynasty, Li Cun ordered the construction of a large railway from Yanjing to Nanjing, and then from Nanjing to Guangzhou.

With the industrial level of this era, the difficulty of this project can be imagined.

It can even be said that the economy of the Dagan Dynasty is highly developed, and it has made great progress in agriculture. It not only solved the problem of food and clothing for the whole people, but also liberated a large number of labor forces. , and because of the guidance of Li Cun, who has a thousand-year vision beyond this era, the rapid development, otherwise, this project may not be completed in 20 years.

Now, after several years of hard work (local governments have rushed to send a large number of civilians to "help" repair the railway), the railway from Nanjing to Beijing has been laid and can be opened to traffic.

Another piece of good news is that after several years of full development, the train technology of the Dagan Dynasty has become much more mature than before.

Just yesterday, Concubine Qian came to tell Li Cun that the latest generation of trains had been researched and its speed had reached [-] miles per hour.

This speed is almost the same as the speed of trains in the period of the Republic of China in history, enough to be put into use.

With the waterway of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the railway from Nanjing to Beijing, from now on, the transportation of food, materials and even troops will no longer be a problem.

It should be explained that the reason Li Cun dared to move the capital from Tokyo to Nanjing was also because the Dagan Dynasty had these two main arteries, even if the central system was in the south, it could firmly control the territory in the north.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if Li Cun pacifies the grassland area in the future, the grassland area will never get out of control because of the close connection established by advanced railways, waterways, and sea routes.

The key point is that the Dagan Dynasty will definitely lay more and more railways.

Li Cun believes that according to the current technological development speed of the Dagan Dynasty, within 20 years, every area of ​​the Dagan Dynasty will have railways laid.

In that way, the Dagan Dynasty would be an inseparable whole.

And this is not Li Cun's ultimate dream.

Li Cun's ultimate dream is to connect the entire Eurasian continent by railway.

If Li Cun's dream can be realized, even if one day, the Dagan Dynasty becomes the overlord of land power if the path of sea power hegemony fails.

Of course, Li Cun is not the kind of person who has high vision and low power. He clearly knows that if he does not vigorously engage in train research and development at this stage, all of this will be nothing but fantasy.

Therefore, starting from the emphasis on train research and development, Li Cun brought Zhu Lian and other women to the Royal Research Institute early in the morning when he learned that the latest generation of train research and development had been successful.

As soon as the group arrived at the Royal Research Institute, they saw a large locomotive about two times wider than the locomotive of Li Cun's last life, and slightly shorter than that of Li Cun's first life, coming from a distance "clang, clang...".

What caught Li Cun's eyes was that there was a round headlight on the locomotive, which was emitting a bright yellow light at the moment.

As early as 15 years ago, when Qian's laboratory, the predecessor of the Royal Research Institute, was established, Li Cun, Qian and other researchers proposed the concept of electricity.

At that time, Li Cun briefly explained the concepts of electromagnetic field, circuit, and electricity to Qian Shi and other researchers in his busy schedule, and Li Cun used his little knowledge of magnetoelectric effect to show Qian Shi and other researchers that when wearing When the magnetic flux passing through the closed conductor coil changes, an induced current is generated in the coil.

Since there were no electric meters in this era, Li Cun could only let Qian and other researchers use their bodies to sense the existence of electric current.

but--

Although inspired by Li Cun's cheating style, the research speed of the Dagan Dynasty in the field of electricity has not been fast.

It was not until five years ago that Li Cun's genius son Li Hang (the first son of Qian's to Li Cunsheng), under the guidance of Li Cun, invented the world's first electric light.

But because the materials used to make the filament were not good at that time, the electric light only turned on once and then went out.

Li Cun knew that tungsten wire was a better material for electric lamps, but how this tungsten was extracted, Li Cun didn't know.

Li Cun could only pretend that he had a dream, and then told the research and development personnel: "I dreamed about Emperor Ziwei last night, and he told me that there are stones in Dayu, Jiangnan West Road, that can be used to make durable filaments."

Not long after, the officials of the Ministry of Industry really found the first scheelite mine of the Dagan Dynasty in Dayu Mountain on Jiangnan West Road, and the research and development personnel of the Dagan Dynasty quickly extracted tungsten wire from the ore.

This incident aroused people's fondness for talking about it, saying that Li Cun is the true son of heaven, protected by Emperor Ziwei.

Next, electric lights, including electricity, have developed rapidly.

Even at the beginning of last year, Li Cun personally ordered the construction of the first hydroelectric power station on the Qinhuai River.

If all goes well, electric lights should be installed in the Forbidden City in a month's time.

However, what Li Cun never expected was that these researchers could now install electric lights on the locomotive.

The technology involved here is much more complicated than a simple electric light.

Li Cun thought: "The industrial age has really arrived!"

On the other side, Concubine Zhu Shende, Zhu Fengying, Princess Roujia, and Zhao Kai's seven daughters had never seen a train before. They only saw a huge monster with one eye shining and rushing towards them screaming, all of them were so frightened. What's even more amusing is that Yuner Zongji, who has practiced fencing for a few days, still wants to come to escort her.

Although Yun Er Zongji's behavior was very funny, Li Cun did not laugh at Yun Er Zongji because of it. On the contrary, after this big oolong, Li Cun took a fancy to this girl, even if she was not the best among her sisters. An outstanding girl.

This kind of woman who is willing to stand in front of her predecessor at critical moments is worthy of Li Cun's return.

At the same time, Zhu Lian hurriedly said to the girls: "Don't be afraid, this is a train, not a monster, and can't eat people."

Although the women have never seen a train, they have heard of the name of the train and know that it is a means of transportation developed by the Royal Research Institute, which can transport 10,000+ shi grains to Beijing at a time.

Knowing that this monster is a train, the girls immediately put away their fear and turned into curiosity.

Soon, the locomotive came to Li Cun and his party, and then slowly slowed down.

Before the locomotive came to a complete stop, five young boys and girls from old to young excitedly waved to Li Cun, who had already called Yun Erzong Ji to his side: "Father! Father! I'll wait!" Pick you up!"

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