The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 50 The Birth of the Railway

Whenever he comes to Dongbeitai Village and sees his own factory, although it is not big, Zhu Gaochi always feels a little confident in his heart.

Whether facing the present or dealing with the future.

If he can be a vassal king safely, Zhu Gaochi is still willing, and he doesn't have to toss.

But he knew that the future emperor would not be the prince, but the prince's son would become the emperor.

Not to mention the swords and blood in the court in the future, their vassal kings will also face the strategy of cutting the vassal.

Moreover, it is a policy of cutting the vassal under the order of the vassal king.

Among the first few vassal kings who were cut off, one vassal king set himself on fire and died, and four vassal kings were exiled to the frontier.

This is not cutting down the feudal clan, it is forcing the feudal king to his death.

In the end it was Zhu Di's turn. Whether he accepted the cutting of the feudal clan would end in death, so he had no choice but to rebel.

If Lao Tzu fails to rebel, can the eldest son escape?
So Zhu Gaochi had to be made.

It took a few years to initially industrialize Beiping, and with the inefficient circulation rate of the Ming Dynasty's agricultural society, it would not give opponents time to learn.

It's impossible that the industry has just started on his side, and Ying Tianfu's side will follow suit.

If this learning efficiency can be achieved, Zhu Gaochi thinks that Zhu Di can directly raise the white flag, because this is no longer Ming Dynasty.

"Master."

"Little lord."

"Eldest son."

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The people he met on the road saluted him one after another, and Zhu Gaochi nodded kindly.He is a nobleman, but he is young and his seniority is low, so being polite to others is the right way.

Just like in history, when Emperor Wanli was a teenager, he not only greeted the elders in the pavilion, but also prepared hot soup for the gentlemen himself.

In middle age, the attitudes of young officials are completely different, but this is a change of age, not just a change of identity.

If Zhu Di had been stern and aloof to the generals and officials below in Beiping Mansion all day long, it would be impossible for the Beiping Mansion to rebel with him.

Because he is polite to people on weekdays and values ​​people from the bottom of his heart, he won the hearts and minds of Beiping Mansion.

When he was in trouble, people were willing to take the initiative to give their lives to help him.

In the same way, since we want to develop industrialization, we cannot do without talents of all kinds. How can we obtain the effectiveness of talents?

Love is needed besides money.

"Where is Little Nine?"

Zhu Gaochi asked after walking around without seeing Lao Jiu.

"Master Xiaojiu didn't go out for several days, and drew pictures in the house every day. He didn't eat, drink, or sleep. He was about to become a fairy."

After asking the direction clearly, someone took the initiative to take the nobleman there.

Someone led the way, and Zhu Gaochi quickly came to the room where Xiao Jiu was.

Push open the door and look into the chaos.

Zhu Gaochi walked in cautiously, there was almost no place to step down, and there was still untouched rice in the corner, which had already frozen into a lump.

"Xiao Jiu, you should also pay attention to your body." Zhu Gaochi said with admiration and distress when he saw Xiao Jiu who was covered in dirt and looked completely different from before.

Whoever has this kind of talent who forgets to eat and sleep under his hands doesn't care.

"I heard that you don't even eat food and turn upside down day and night. This is not acceptable."

"what."

Xiaojiu raised her head blankly, her face was full of displeasure. Who came to disturb her again, her dull eyes gradually became clear, and then she saw the person clearly, and she got up and saluted quickly in fright.

"I'm still not sure whether to use iron or wood." Before the nobleman could speak, Xiao Jiu took the initiative to complain.

Compared with his master's attitude, Xiao Jiu is very happy to get close to the nobleman, because the nobleman treats him very well and saves his life.

"Why don't you take a break first, and don't be in a hurry for this meeting?"

"If the matter is not resolved, I can't let it go. Instead, I keep worrying about it. It's better to calm down and draw a picture. Instead, I feel at ease."

Hearing Lao Jiu's words, Zhu Gaochi became more confident in Lao Jiu.

Lao Jiu is Wansan's most valued apprentice, his talent is proven, and this person's selfless devotion to technology proves that this person is not in vain.

Since he couldn't persuade him, Zhu Gaochi also wanted to see if he could provide some solutions to the problems Lao Jiu encountered.

At the beginning of the birth of the railway, some used wooden sleepers, and some used iron sleepers inside the mine, and the two kinds of tracks have been used until later generations.

The first railway in Shandong, China, was built by the Germans to control the colony through teaching plans.

In order to build this railway, under the oppression of the German powers, the blood and tears of countless people were buried.

In the West, wooden sleepers can be used. Even if the service life is short, it is not as long as the service life of iron sleepers, and it needs more repairs, but it can still maintain the cost performance.

However, because of China's climate, the lifespan of wooden sleepers in Shandong will be shorter, so German engineers finally adopted iron sleepers after discussion.

Shandong and Beiping have similar climates. If we learn from this idea, iron pillows should be used, but Zhu Gaochi is not familiar with the actual situation, so he dare not jump to conclusions.

Especially now that it is Daming, whether the conditions in various aspects can keep up, and whether wooden sleepers or iron sleepers are more suitable at the moment needs to be discussed by craftsmen.

Lao Jiu understood the theory of railway tracks at one point, so he became the designer of the railway.

"The cost of the rail is high, while the cost of the wooden rail is low, and it takes a long time to make the rail, but it is more reliable."

Hearing Lao Jiu's troubles, Zhu Gaochi thought for a while and put forward a new suggestion: "It's better to use both methods."

If you consider the cost, you must choose one for large-scale promotion.

But Zhu Gaochi's status is different. He has to consider not only business, but also industrial development.

It's not that the railway is to be developed immediately, but the small section of railway used internally is more suitable for craftsmen to experiment and find out more practical railway technology.

Even if Lao Jiu's talent is astonishing, Zhu Gaochi didn't dare to take big steps at the beginning, as it would be easy to mess up.

Although industrial development has a direction of progress under his promotion, it still needs to be done step by step and cannot violate the rules.

Even the coal industry has not developed, it is impossible to promote the success of other industries.

Coal is the blood of industry from the [-]th to the [-]th century. This definition is not casually mentioned in textbooks.

"Will it cause opposition from the bosses?" Lao Jiu asked worriedly.

Zhu Gaochi pondered for a moment, then decided to bleed himself.

"About the railway, let's talk to the merchants. As for the price, let's give you a special price. You don't make money, you just keep capital."

The most troublesome thing about railways is not technology.

What he wants to promote is the most elementary railway, not the kind of railway of later generations, so there is no technical content.

The birth of the railway was because the iron in the hands of the coal mine owner could not be sold, and there was no place to put it when it was piled up like a mountain, and there was no place to throw it away, and the transportation cost was high, so I thought of reburying it underground.

Who would have thought that the road with iron blocks would not only solve the problem of the coal bosses having no open space, but also enhance the transportation capacity of the road.

In order to allow each horse-drawn wagon to pull more coal, it wanted to build a longer iron block road, and in order to save costs, it thought of building two simple railways to let the wheels of the horse-drawn wagon run on the rails.

This is how the railway was born.

However, after the development of the railway, more and more scholars came to study it, and it gradually became a science.

Xiao Jiu has never seen the real thing, and needs to rely on his imagination to create it from scratch. Of course, he will face many problems. Zhu Gaochi also needs Lao Jiu to combine reality to promote a railway that meets the development of the current era.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi can only provide ideas. As for the final method, Xiao Jiu needs to find out and get the approval of the coal bosses in order to make the railway flourish.

(End of this chapter)