open sea

Chapter 1070
The outer city of the capital, under the You'an Gate on the left, is in a mess.

You'anmen is on the left, Zuo'anmen is on the right, and Yongdingmen is in the middle. The left and right are not determined by looking at the map, but from the direction of the emperor in the Forbidden City. The left is the left. Right is right.

Zhou Sijing, the head of the Steam Bureau, has dealt with many similar matters. Since Lord Huoderxing started to go on the road, their craftsmen drove the heavy and slow steam locomotive wherever they went. How could ordinary dirt roads withstand such a big guy? It will sink as you walk; sometimes it will drive into the field and crush the crops, and it will be beaten by farmers with pick handles.

As for things like crushing bridges and falling into ditches, there are countless more.

It stands to reason that he has seen wind and rain, but the current situation really makes Zhou Sijing feel tricky.

On the way, he always felt that it was unreliable for Mr. Huode Xing to knock down the city wall. How could the steam car knock down the city wall?But now at least this is really the case. The front of the car is not pierced into the city wall, and even the hole is not exposed, but there is indeed a gap in the city wall, revealing the rammed earth structure inside.

The soldiers of Wucheng Bingmasi and the people who watched the fun were on the third floor and the third floor outside You'anmen. Zhou Sijing saw that his little brother was confessing his mistakes to the soldiers, and he rummaged all over his body. I found less than one or two pieces of silver and held it in both hands, I was almost scared to death.

They are also the Ministry of Industry, and the head of the branch can see the problem at a glance... The city wall was repaired in the Jiajing year, and it has not been 30 years since it was repaired. The normal city wall, let alone being smashed by a steam car, even if it is bombarded by General Zhenshuo It can't blow out the cracks inside, at most the blue bricks outside are smashed and the earth barrier inside is tamped down.

Such a situation is mostly due to poor adhesive materials, and Xu Guangqi cannot be blamed entirely.

But who told him to ride his bike to the south of Beijing?If you hit Yangou City in Liangxiang County, even if you smash the city wall, you'll be fine.Hitting the city of Beijing, you can only take the responsibility for the crime, can you still bite the Ministry of Industry?

Zhou Sijing pushed through the crowd and walked in. He knew the family situation of this talented scholar who was recruited into the Steam Bureau last year, and he was terrified.

Born in Suzhou for generations, his ancestors made a fortune in business. When his father came to his family, his family fell into ruin and he returned to farming. He studied in Longhua Temple since he was a child.

Originally wanted to teach in his hometown to make up for the cost of continuing the exam, but caught up with the shortage of such talents in the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. over him.

This is not a man with high ambitions. It is said that his father-in-law, who has obtained fame but has never been an official, asked him to come to the Capital Steam Bureau to apply. He said that Songjiang Mansion uses steam machines made by the Steam Bureau to weave cloth. There is no officialdom in this place. Fly camp dogs can also make some real contributions to the world - mainly because of subsidies, like Beiyang's research. There are rewards for improvement.

In the words of Xu Guangqi, coming to the Steam Bureau pays more than farming and teaching in his hometown.

In the future, I will save money to buy a boat so that I can go to the Great East Ocean to see the world.

In this day and age, who would be an official if he didn't have great ambitions!To make money, to do business in both East and West, and to change to a wealthy family is a real man.

There is nothing wrong with this kind of mentality. This is the current situation of Ming Dynasty. The inherent morality and social environment have all changed. A large amount of silver inflow and ocean trade seem to create countless riches overnight. People's longing and envy for wealth have finally found a place. breakthrough.

Zhang Juzheng's reforms made the imperial court more efficient and at the same time made the people fearful of power struggles. The government-run military, imperial examination academies, and private craftsman schools injected new vitality into the society. The rumors and stories that have been passed on in falsehoods make people full of hope for overseas.

Zhou Sijing stepped forward and did not speak, and the old servants beside him naturally stepped forward to salute the Bingmasi Military Academy, told the ins and outs of the incident, and stated that the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Industry would have full authority to repair the damaged city wall. They have dealt with too many similar things, steam The director of the bureau just needs to bow his hands and salute from afar.

On the books of the Steam Bureau, this expenditure is called an experimental accident.

But this time the accident really happened.

The fat official of the Nancheng Army and Horse Division stepped forward to salute and then saluted, then handed the official document to Zhou Sijing's old servant, cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, Master Zhou, people can't leave, the wind in the city is good."

The official document was a telegram, and as the saying goes, the next step is effective, and the son of heaven probably has a preference for anthropomorphic utensils in his mother's womb. People only call black and thick things cannons, but they are called "bit" and "general so-and-so" People also know that the steam engine is made up of a bunch of mechanical parts, but they still want to call it Huode Xingjun; the same is true for the telegraph.

It is forced to reflect a feeling of 'others worship the gods and Buddhas all over the sky, but my people use the gods and Buddhas all over the sky'.

And just thinking of this feeling, the common people can imagine the silly boy who said to the world during the New Year's Eve, "Change this Zhen to Zhen" hehehe smiled and added: "The common people haven't used it yet, I will give you a try first." stupid.

The telegram is not signed, and the content is just one sentence: Mr. Zhun Huode Xing went to the Royal Road of Tianjie, led it to the Meridian Gate, and pulled the goods.

During the time when Zhou Sijing read the official documents and asked Xu Guangqi if he could ride the car, and Wucheng soldiers and horses were busy helping Xu Guangqi to manage and drag the machine, there was already the sound of drum music from the You'anmen, The Zhongguan sang the hoofbeats of dodging and advancing together.

Behind the eunuch Wu, who was playing suona and beating drums on his waist, the eunuchs who rode four horizontally and four vertically walked slowly out of the city gate in neat steps.

The drumming stops, and the people stop.

Sixteen knights in brocade clothes wear green and blue kirin suits with steel armbands and gold-lacquered breastplates. They sit astride a tall mixed-breed gray Xiyi horse, pulling the reins with one hand and holding the thorn in the other. With the blunderbuss on his shoulders, he raised his chin slightly and swept across the soldiers and civilians gathered under the You'an Gate in a disdainful manner.

In the end, their eyes were fixed on Da Huo De Xingjun who was dragged to the middle of the road and dragged crookedly onto the cart, leading the first rider to show the Beizhen Fusi Qianhu dental plaque.

Zhou Sijing looked at the dental card, pursed his lips uneasily, looked back at the B-type Huode Xingjun who was getting hotter, and then gouged out Xu Guangqi who was manipulating behind him with his eyes, and carefully reprimanded: "The imperial court has orders , take it to the Meridian Gate, take it, don't come down!"

After all, he bowed his hands to Qianhu in brocade clothes who was sitting on the horse more cautiously, swallowed slowly, and said: "Qianhu is on top, Mr. Zhou of the Steam Bureau is very polite...Xu Suozheng and this second machine Xinghuo De Xingjun is still young, no, it is not possible to go to prison, right?"

Wang Tianrui of Qianhu, who was holding the emperor's personal clothes hanger all the way, broke his merits because of Zhou Sijing's words.

While he could hold back his smile, he coughed lightly, the middle official in front of him knowingly blew the suona to change the tune, and the jiegu played twice, all the sixteen riders turned around and headed towards the Forbidden City.

(End of this chapter)