In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 300 Nandu
Baigongjian is located in the northeast corner of the imperial city, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres and with as many as [-] craftsmen of various types.

Some of these craftsmen moved from Datong, some were selected from around the capital with various skills, and there were also a large number of Taoist priests and magic sticks who knew how to make alchemy.

Lin Rui, who likes to do evil things, will accept all comers and throw them all into the Industrial Supervisor to engage in scientific creation.

There are hundreds of courtyards in the entire Baigong Supervision Bureau. Each courtyard is like a research institute, and the things developed in it are almost all of the era.

It covers glass cement, soap, perfume, concentrated sulfuric acid, more powerful gunpowder and other chemical categories, as well as screws, various lathes, drilling machines, textile looms, looms, steam engines and other mechanical categories, as well as new types of firecrackers and artillery, etc. weapon.

Almost everything that Lin Rui knew that could be developed in this era was developed by Baigong Supervisor. The main focus was to cast a wide net and try one's luck.

Although he only knows how many things are and doesn't know why, he believes that he only needs to provide a general direction and let these craftsmen explore day and night, tempting them with titles and generous rewards, as long as he is willing to let them waste it. Continuous trial and error will eventually yield results and get those things out.

Lin Rui also knew that some heavy industrial chemicals such as steam engines and cement would not be available in a short time. New ignition guns and fixed granular gunpowder were not urgent for the time being, nor were Lin Rui's profitable perfumes and soaps. Urgently, what Lin Rui really wanted to develop was a textile machine and loom that could greatly improve spinning efficiency.

Because after an investigation by the Bureau of Statistics, Lin Rui discovered that the real reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was probably a complete economic imbalance.

Almost all bulk commodities in the entire Ming Dynasty came from Jiangnan, especially cloth, which was crucial in ancient times. Cotton cloth from Jiangnan almost monopolized the entire market, completely destroying the ancient practice of men farming and women weaving, so that women in other places could not even learn how to weave. Weaving, and most of the salt was produced in Jianghuai, which caused all the wealth of the provinces to flow to the south of the Yangtze River, causing people everywhere to go bankrupt.

That's why Lin Rui wanted to improve efficient looms and spinning machines as soon as possible, and then move cotton production to the north, leaving only the silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River, in order to balance the economies of the north and the south.

After all, cotton can be said to be the only bulk industrial product in the Ming Dynasty, and it is indispensable to everyone. Whether it is spinning or weaving, they are intensive industries that require a large number of manpower and are the key to the development of the industrial revolution.

The textile industry started the industrial revolution in the UK from the beginning. Although the UK started the industrial revolution after centuries of capital accumulation, Lin Rui did not need primitive accumulation of capital. He could have the royal family take the lead in forcibly developing industry, and then The businessmen who are coerced in this era have no choice but to develop. As long as they taste the benefits, a chain reaction will naturally form.

It's a pity that Lin Rui doesn't know the specific principles of the spinning Jenny and the flying shuttle loom at all, and the development time is short. Although the efficiency of the improved loom and spinning machine has been improved, it is far from reaching the level of efficiency. He couldn't intervene in Lin Rui's request, so he could only encourage them to keep up their efforts.

However, after visiting all the research institutes, Lin Rui still gained something. That is, the lathe has been invented. It uses a hundred-refined diamond as a drill bit and drives it with a water truck. The screws and nuts that come out of the machine are barely qualified, and the springs are The required steel rods can also be manufactured in batches using the extrusion method, and the quality of bearings cast by the lost wax method is already quite good.

With screws, nuts, springs and bearings, Lin Rui's mind suddenly changed. Although the steam engine had not been invented and he could not build a train, he planned to try to build a track carriage.

That is to say, all the sleepers and tracks are made of wood, and then a layer of iron is laid on the wooden track, and horses are used to pull the carriages. A station for replacing horses is built fifty miles away. In this way, both the speed and cargo capacity are much better than ordinary trains in this era. The carriage is definitely better than the others.

Lin Rui always did what he said, so he immediately cleared a large area of ​​open space outside Beicheng to build a factory, and then built a ditch in the factory and set up a truck to link the lathes and drills in the factory to process screws and Special workshops are also built to manufacture wood, springs and bearings in large quantities.

At the same time, a group of blacksmiths and carpenters were specially assigned to develop carriages specifically designed to run on the track.He plans to build a wooden track from Beijing to Tianjin entrance first. If the effect is satisfactory and it is feasible, he can build a long-distance wooden track.

Once there are several such wooden tracks, China's rule over Mobei and the Western Regions will be greatly strengthened in the future. After all, unlike the south, the west and north of China can travel by sea, rivers and canals, but can only travel by land.

If there were two wooden tracks that could directly lead from Beijing to Lake Baikal and to the Ili Valley, communication between the two places could be shortened to ten days.

Anyway, the foundations are the same. In the future, after the steam engines and rails are made, they can be directly replaced into railway trains, so there will be no waste. In other words, the foundations of the railways will be built in advance.

In the days that followed, Lin Rui focused almost entirely on the rail carriage, traveling in person between Beijing and Tianjin to plan routes and stations along the way.

As soon as the spring plowing ended at the beginning of the new year, Lin Rui began to ask disaster relief missions from various places to recruit young men and women to build foundation stations to pay off the debt owed to the royal family last year.

Although he was focused on the construction of rail carriages, Lin Rui did not relax about the situation in the south. Seeing that although the five emperors of the south had a lively verbal spat, they still did not use troops, Lin Rui completely lost his patience.

On the first day of March in the second year of Dahua Shenwu, Lin Rui officially issued an edict to appoint Queen Namu Zhong as General Pingnan, and was awarded the title of Left Governor of the Governor's Palace. She commanded the third, fourth and fifth armies, a total of 15 troops, to go south to fight against thieves.

Yes, it is not an expedition or a conquest, but a levy that is only slightly higher than the suppression.

It's not that Lin Rui deliberately humiliated and belittled the Five Emperors of the South, but Zhang Yan publicly testified that the South was full of rebellious officials and traitors, and the regime they established was all illegal, so they could only resort to petition.

If they had not established a political power after all, the suppression would be inappropriate, and Lin Rui would have given them the lowest grade.

The difference between this word cannot be underestimated. In ancient times, there were strict rules for using troops, and they must not be used indiscriminately during conquest and suppression.

Generally, when the Han dynasty uses troops against foreigners and foreign countries, they use the highest level of conquest, followed by conquest, which is mainly used in civil war. In a war between two regimes, both sides have similar identities on the surface, and then there is the pursuit of victory. , mainly aimed at some regimes that have no righteous name, or the rebellion of frontier officials, as well as the rebellious officials and traitors who are rebellious and self-respecting mercenaries.

Suppression is the lowest level and is mainly used for some anti-thieves and bandits.

Sure enough, when China's Southern War was introduced to the south, whether it was Zhou Wang Chuang, Wang Chuang and others who were entrenched in Henan, or the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan, they were so angry that their nostrils were filled with smoke and they cursed endlessly.

(End of this chapter)