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Chapter 1104 War Reporter

The consideration of the emperor's words sounded a lot like Gao Gong's use of Yin Zhengmao to quell the rebellion in the past. Even if Yin Zhengmao was given 100 million taels of silver, even if half of it was corrupted, he could still get things done in the end, then the money was worth the money.

Others may only need 30 taels, but this year 30 taels are needed to suppress the rebellion, and next year they will rebel again, and another 30 taels will be required. To create a bottomless pit, it is better to do it all at once.

The emperor thought so too.

But Ye Mengxiong has his reasons.

Yu Shaoyu was not used to the fact that the emperor was already questioning and even complaining to him like an ordinary general in the Nanyang military mansion, which was different from the emperor he imagined.

"This... Your Majesty, the grass people saw Ye Shuai's rails with their own eyes. They are covered with concave rail shells on the wooden rails. It is said that the weight of the real rails is much stronger than the needs of Huode Xingjun."

Yu Shaoyu's eyes lit up when he mentioned Lord Huodexing, and his tone couldn't help rising. Lord Huodexing is a new gadget of Ming Dynasty in recent years. He didn't have it when Chen Mu invited him to Luzon. As the mouthpiece of the army, although the novelist will not go to the battlefield in person, he also travels back and forth with the banner army, basically traveling all over the countries from Luzon to Burma.

I didn’t know what it was until I came back to see the white smoke coming out of the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau from a distance. I didn’t realize this magical artifact until Beiyang, and I was excited in the south.

"What Your Majesty wants is the B-type Huodexingjun as the winner. It only weighs three thousand catties, and it is only less than four thousand when it is filled with water and coal, and it is loaded with people. It will not be deformed or broken, the Beiyang Military Mansion first tried the rails weighing one foot and two hundred catties, and then tried several specifications, and there was no problem."

"Ye Shuai told Caomin that the railway with the outer iron shell and wooden rails as the bottom can not only support Huode Xingjun, but also reduce the risk of vibration and breakage when using the Type A to run away on it."

Yu Shaoyu was very honest, he shook his head when he said this, and said: "The grass people don't know why, it seems that the land near the canal from Beiyang to Beijing is wet and soft."

Emperor: Are you not kidding me?
"That's not right. Iron-wood mixed tracks are more expensive than pure iron tracks, and wood is much more expensive than iron."

Just two days ago, the emperor planned to issue an immigration order to relocate people to Wulianghai to be garden owners. Each person would give a few hundred acres of land to plant some grain, and other places to plant fir and pine that would be used in shipbuilding. Birch and elm are used.

Most young people try to sum up everything in a few simple sentences. Wanli also has this problem. He always feels that he knows everything except Zhang Juzheng. He asserts that the empire will be useless in a hundred years without any investigation. Therefore, I have a strong sense of crisis in my heart and think that I must prepare something for a hundred years later.

The Wulianghai migration is like this, and at the same time, it is also for the long-term peace and stability of the empire after it is recovered, so it proposes such a tempting migration edict, but this idea will not be fruitful when it is sent to the cabinet. The old men who really control the country's affairs must carefully speculate on the possibility of this happening and deduce what will happen next.

Regardless of the fact that it is a place of bitter cold, where a person can be divided into hundreds of mu of land, it is actually absolutely lucrative. Even if the imperial court adds a rule that the land in Wulianghai cannot be resold, it is still enough to make people flock to it.

That means that although there is no wealth, it is far superior to the wealth of ordinary people. How many people can't dream of it.

Wood is more expensive than iron, especially the finished wood is much more expensive than iron. In the eyes of the emperor, Ye Mengxiong's new ideas will not save the court money, but will cost them more.

Of course, no matter how cheap the iron is, the theft of the rails is still the biggest problem.

It is like the big iron bars picked up for nothing on the ground. In the inaccessible areas where it is difficult to manage at the junction of various capitals and townships, there are rail tracks weighing hundreds of catties quietly laid on the ground. It is not uncommon for brothers to move them home at night and dispose of them. , this question basically has nothing to do with steel production, but with individual living standards, education levels, and greed.

Bicycles are lost in the 21st century.

"Indeed, but Ye Shuai didn't plan to buy wood. On the coast of Beiyang, there are cedar squares and fir strips brought back by the Dongyang Army last year and the year before. It doesn't cost money, it just doesn't make money."

"Yes, if you don't tell me, I have forgotten that Beiyang still has the wooden cubes sent back by Chen Shuai. The transportation cost of these wooden cubes, no matter what the transportation cost is."

In fact, the value of the processed wooden squares brought back by Chen Mu is much higher than the cost of the rails needed to build the railway. Covering his eyes, Ye Mengxiong is a serious official of the Ming Dynasty, not a military student like a small banner official in the Siyang Military Mansion who can calculate the value of commodities, and they can easily ignore this key element that is related to their interests.

Wanli waved his hand and put the transportation cost behind him. He wanted to ask the Beiyang Experimental Da Qinglong how much cargo he could pull, but he felt that the novel writer in front of him didn't understand anything, so he simply changed the topic to his original purpose. Asked: "I ask you, have you read the telegram I sent to the world this year?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I have seen it. Caomin saw it in Aceh in March this year."

"It's easy to handle after seeing it. I asked you guys to come to Beijing to send you to Wulianghai to follow Qi Shuai." Wanli said as he folded his arms and asked, "You know that I want you do what?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the grassroots are dull and bold to speculate." Yu Shaoyu asked deliberately, "Writing a hero's will for Qi Shuai? Your Majesty, Chen Shuai set up rules for us in the early years to prevent personality worship in the army, and no one above the commander-in-chief will do it." Heroes, those that have been compiled into novels, such as the second grade of official worship, will no longer be published."

This is what he did. Lin Manjue and other so-called Lin Lai Hai Zhan Wuhu, Shao Tingda, Shi Qi and others wrote the novels written by them. Now they have been spread in Daming, Nanyang and Western Oceans, and also let Guangfu and Manila The paper industry and printing industry are booming.

Basically every well-known general from Nanyang has his own heroism, the only exception is Fu Yuan. His heroism left his official position and went to Dadongyang when it was about to be compiled. The compiled words were not published in the world.

"Chen Shuai's rule..." The emperor nodded slowly, pursing his lips, and then said: "It's not about ambition. You have lived in Nanyang for a long time, but do you know the preaching officer in the army? I want you to go to Wulianghai to spend the winter with Qi Shuai's soldiers and horses. In the coming year, I will record the movements of soldiers and horses, the battles we have experienced, and the course of the battles, and we will compile them every month and send them back to the Forbidden City by telegram from Qingshankou.”

Speaking of this, the emperor's face showed the most wise and wise expression of Lao Tzu again, slightly raised his chin, and said: "I want to send a telegram to the world every month. They are not Qi Shuai's soldiers, but my soldiers. It is the result of my battle, and I should tell the people about it."

　There is another chapter at the back, which is to make up for the missing chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)