open sea

Chapter 1127 Toxic
These extraordinarily heavy things were not the only things in the emperor's letter.

For example, he told Chen Mu in the letter that he sent the police to Beiyang again, because the railway from Beiyang Military Mansion to Tianjinwei was repaired and steam trains were opened.

The letter attached the shape of the rails hand-painted by the emperor himself. The structure is very simple, far less complex than the railroads implemented in Muye County. There are no sleepers below, and trapezoidal wooden rails with a wide bottom and a narrow top are directly used. The wooden cabinet is covered with a layer of strong and smooth concave iron rails. hat.

The middle of the two rails is a dirt road for galloping horses, and there are rammed earth roads on both sides for carriages and pedestrians to pass through. The road is paved for 99 miles. The first Huode Xingjun that gallops on the railway is called by the emperor. Big Azure Dragon, this Big Azure Dragon is indeed worthy of this mighty name in terms of statistics.

The front of Daqinglong is composed of a Type-A Huode Xingjun with a total weight of [-] jin. It tows seven large trucks with a test load of [-] jin. Including the front, each large truck is entering the track. Every time you need to be pulled by ten tall horses through a small wooden track that is gradually raised from the flat ground.

With a speed of 320 miles per day, the big blue dragon carried the emperor, important courtiers, and 270 guards from Beiyang to Tianjinwei, and it was a great success.

Included in the book is a court painter copying the "Green Dragon on the Ground" painted by the famous painter Chen Can on the day it was opened to traffic. The emperor told Chen Mu in the book that there was not one but three of him in that painting.

The silk painting is more than four feet long and standard two feet wide. For Chen Mu, the whole painting is full of magical realism. It is impossible to see the structure of Daming's first running steam locomotive in the painting, because the entire front shell is a Big dragon head, worthy of its name.

And there is a seat between the dragon horns, and there seems to be a glass cover made into the shape of a dragon's beard in front of the seat to block the wind. The exaggerated Emperor Wanli sat there, wearing red frontier cotton armor all over his body, holding his arms with each other. A dragon horn, majestic.

Under his feet, thick white smoke spewed from the dragon's nose on both sides and dragged backwards. The large truck that was pulled after that was not a sealed carriage, but a large cart with wooden guardrails on both sides. Judging from the notes on the painting, it seems that the guardrails are still intact. It has been carved and painted, and every few steps stands a Beiyang flag soldier with a bird gun and a waist knife. The helmets on their heads, the flags behind their backs, and the dragon flags planted on both sides of the car are drawn backward one by one.

Chen Mu found familiar figures in the car. There was Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the empire, who was sitting in the middle of the car in a scarlet robe, with a serious expression, pointing his fingers into the distance, and talking to the left and right; Zhang Han, and Wang Guoguang, who was wearing jade-rimmed glasses and carefully whispering something to Zhang Han...Chen Mu did not find himself in this position.

In the second car, there were mostly six ministries and noble officials. Chen Mu searched and searched. He saw Ye Mengxiong, Shen Shixing, Zhang Siwei, and some familiar faces, but he still couldn't find himself.

Just when Chen Mu suspected that he could not even count as the second echelon in Daming for the past few years when he went to sea, he saw a dragon and tiger standing at the same height as others beside Ye Mengxiong, where a dragon flag should have been planted. The stone statue of Daojun is still wearing a crimson robe and black gauze.

The stone statues are carved so lifelike, and the artist's paintings are also vivid on the paper, it is almost impossible to find any flaws.

If you insist on looking for it, it's just that this idol doesn't look like him... The handsome man is much more handsome than this angry-eyed King Kong-like idol.

The whole thing is a Yaksha.

Chen Mu reckoned that this is what the emperor said about him being in the painting.

But the other one, what is it?

He really couldn't find it, and finally found the answer in the emperor's letter. The emperor expected that he could not find it, so he asked him to go back and take a closer look at the eyes of the big green dragon... I don't know whose idea it was, the emperor shot two generals of Zhenshuo Placed on the front of the steam locomotive, the cannon body is covered by the shell and cannot be seen, only two muzzles are exposed as eyes.

This made Chen Mu believe that the emperor must be the best student of Chen Xue, and he learned from this habit.

What kind of spirit is it to sit at the head of the dragon in the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, with people at the guns?

In the end, the emperor said that he was very righteous, and asked Chen Mu to have someone draw a picture of him when the Muhe Railway was opened to traffic, and he would be sent back to China as a national treasure, creating a kind of "I am very happy" for future generations. Freedom' illusion.

This was the only thing in the long letter that made Chen Mu happy.

Another thing is that the emperor didn't mention his cat this time.

Chen Mu clearly remembered that Wanli didn't simply like cats, but that he had to carry cats with him for everything. In the letters between China and the Great East, Wanli would mention his cats more than once in each letter.

Either this boy or that girl, and Chen Mu didn't find a cat in the picture of the steam locomotive sent this year, nor did he see his cat mentioned in the hundred-page letter.

It can’t be said that there is no such thing at all. I mentioned it twice, once to ask him if he took the Siamese boy on the Wanli ship to go around the New World, and the second time to say that his Asian boy is not easy to raise, but he is a newcomer. The cub can still play.

He thinks this is an external manifestation of the emperor's inner loneliness... You say that this is a good emperor, why do you force yourself to live as a marginal person in society?

As he gradually finished reading the emperor's letter, Chen Mu could only tell Jin Yiwei, who delivered the letter, that he might have to stay in Changsheng for a few days before returning to his command.

The three questions in the emperor's letter are not easy to answer.

The military reorganization can only start with the military service system of conscription. The reform of the education system is also complicated and involves a lot of things. Chen Mu can't make a decision at will, even if it is just a decision to give suggestions, he must be careful.

But at least he can think of a short-term or even long-term solution.

Only the third one, Wanli used a good metaphor, boat, where to get more boats, this is the most difficult thing for Chen Mu.

Even he has only one idea, because Wanli's question is exactly what he has been doing, but this idea that he has been practicing for a long time but is not clear, was asked by Wanli.

Throughout the dynasties, the mainland has been in a state of self-reliance.

Self-reliance, literally.

It is not the European empire to carry out the division of labor in Europe, Africa, America, and Asia, but self-reliance, and carry out the division of labor in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, and Guangdong and Guangxi. Such internal division of labor will naturally bring about the gap between the rich and the poor, and land mergers And so on a series of internal contradictions.

However, the transition from an agricultural country to an industrial country will lead to a sharp increase in resource consumption and internal output. The old contradictions cannot be resolved, and the new social contradictions will become more intense. What is more important is that this contradiction was not created by Chen Mu, but by the entire empire. Pushed by the times to this point.

All problems are dead ends. The empire needs more telegraph lines and longer railroads to maintain its rule. This can bring obvious huge benefits. this way.

But steel is not enough.

Insufficient steel requires more workers, more workers and more output requires better transport capacity, and better transport capacity requires... railways.

Chen Mu couldn't help but be fascinated by the "Green Dragon on the Ground" spread out in front of him.

He seemed to see a steam locomotive named Daming running with full firepower, but what lay across in front of him was not a railway track, but a solid wall.

According to all the precedents known to Chen Mu, the country has only two choices at this point, either turn left or turn right.

Turning to the left is a bottom-up revolution, and the prosperous Ming Dynasty has no such soil; or turning to the right is to continue advocating the heavenly kingdom, using nationalism to escort top-down reforms, and attacking all directions to expand wildly.

In Chen Mu's impression, Tsarist Russia is like this, but Tsarist Russia is still the way of feudal serfs internally, it is an enlarged chieftain, which caused the bankrupt businessmen in the country to unite and blow themselves up first. .

And Chen Mu believes that based on his knowledge, if he joins hands with the most outstanding politicians of this era, they should be able to overcome this hurdle.

But first, he had to go to the military hospital to meet Chen Shigong.

The emperor said that Mr. Zhang Ge was tormented by hemorrhoids and couldn't get out of bed when he returned from Tianjin. He found a doctor from Xu Jie's mansion to treat him, but the doctor in Beiyang said it was wrong. Finally, the emperor decided to send someone to Dadongyang. ask.

Because when he was young, the emperor thought that the best surgeon in the world was dragged to Dadongyang by Chen Dashuai, so he brought the prescription to Chen Shigong to see, and if there was no problem, let Zhang Ge treat it according to this.

Holding the prescription, Chen Mu frowned and remained silent for a long time. At this moment, what he was holding in his hand was not a prescription, but Zhang Juzheng's life.

Because this medicine is called Kuzhisan, and the formula is alum, toad venom, light powder, and arsenic.

There is no particular order of toxicity, and any one can kill a person if the dosage is too large.

(End of this chapter)