open sea

Chapter 1471
The new school building of Daming Yazhou Clan University was completed in the 12th year of Wanli. It is connected with its affiliated Yazhou University on the hill north of Mexico City. It stretches for ten miles and is brightly lit, just like a mountain city.

The mountain gate of the Imperial Clan University leads directly to the official road of Mo County. The official road is a newly built avenue in recent years that can accommodate eight carriages in parallel.

On the ground in the East, although the military government has encouraged horse breeding in recent years, the foals produced are not as many as the donkeys left here in Spain in the early years. The war horses have been put on pastures for breeding, and the market is full of A little donkey in new clothes.

The official road surface did not use the tracks in Mo County, but was directly paved with asphalt.

In China, the cost of asphalt paving was very high. In ancient China, asphalt was mainly used as a small amount of binder.

However, the oil refining industry in Majia Port in the north of Asia has become a pillar, and the local oil refining industry in Daming is developing better than that in Dazhou. As a result, the main products and by-products are not in line with the cost of shipping back, so they simply leave the by-products in Asia.

In Mo County, because of the natural asphalt lake, the local people have a high understanding of asphalt. In the Inca era, asphalt and gravel were used to pave roads and also used as medicine.

After experiments by the Asian Clan University, the carriage and trucks on the asphalt road have excellent passability, and it is difficult to be crushed by the existing load-bearing. Moreover, the cost of asphalt is not as high as it seems.

It's as if the price of local pearls has been hit after the Nanyang military government took control of Nanyang.

Therefore, the Dongyang Military Mansion opened an asphalt factory in the natural asphalt lake on the outskirts of Moxian County, and paved asphalt roads on the main road connecting Daxi Port and Changsheng Port and the surrounding places with heavy truck traffic.

It does not damage the vehicle, and it is not easy to get muddy like a dirt road in rainy days. A better road will make the land transportation from Changsheng to Daxi Port more convenient, and more merchants will choose to take this road, which means more taxes.

However, Chen Mu's wish to send a large amount of asphalt from Asia back to the mainland has come to nothing... It's embarrassing to say that the local infrastructure is much better than that of Asia, which he, a traverser, governs.

Although both the emperor and the imperial court thought that the asphalt pavement was good, no one cared about the large-scale paving.

People play too high, the telegraph network is laid on a large area in the country, and the wood-iron composite track is built and laid at a speed of thousands of miles per year, who cares about road construction.

In the recent letter sent by the imperial court to Chen Mu, he briefly introduced the local enthusiasm for building the railway, which Chen Mu could not imagine.

The country gentry was busy writing letters to the powerful officials in the DPRK and China to allow the railway to be connected to their hometowns. In some places, even the imperial court did not need to pay for the construction of the railway.

Hundreds of gentry and family members in several counties pooled together the wages and materials needed for the construction of the railway, and recruited their young children to join in their efforts to build the railway in full swing.

In some counties there will even be two or three parallel railways. Just because the railway already under construction does not reach a certain township, the people of this township will raise their own funds and materials to build another twenty or thirty. The small railway in the town, you have to connect to everything.

In the age of barbaric growth, Chen Mu, with the eyes of later generations, clearly realized that more than half of these small railways built indiscriminately would be stripped down in the future because they were not of much use and took up land.

But at least for now, the enthusiasm of the local people makes him reluctant to say those sarcastic remarks-this is the best era for the development of railways.

Horses, donkeys, oxen, carriages, donkey carts, ox carts, carts, no power can compete with locomotives, as long as a town is connected to the railway, the gentry can afford a locomotive that can haul three to five carriages. .

The rich families don't even need to plant land or open shops, but just hire a few people on the small railway for thirty or fifty miles to deliver goods to the villagers all day long, and they can make a lot of money for a ticket.

Don't even think about those messy tax avoidance methods. The court doesn't collect taxes at all. Wanli's little abacus is a ghost. of?
his.

It's all his.

Not only did he not collect taxes, but he also had to pay taxes to the court when he sold coal.

Wanli already understood that collecting taxes is a peace of mind, but how can he be comfortable with earning the part of the money after paying taxes.

The common people were also happy, and the appearance of the railway further improved the productivity level of the small peasant economy.

In the past, a farm family could weave less than ten bolts of cloth throughout the year. It was not that the hostess and the most advanced looms of this era could not weave more, but that it was useless to weave more.

To use it is enough; to sell it, I don’t know who to sell it to; to go to the county seat, first carry the cloth and walk forty miles there, and then walk forty miles back, if you hire a porter, the cloth will be woven for nothing.

Especially in this era when textile factories are squeezing the production of small weaver households, it is even more difficult to live on.

But with the railway, it’s different. Some big families don’t even use factories, and they have become big factory owners. The women in the clan weave cloth, and a few men contact the purchasers in the county or even the prefectural city, and set the specifications every month. Concentrate on the train and transport it all the way, and you can share the money when you come back.

This is true for weaving, and even more so for handicrafts.

Due to the competition of people, it may not allow everyone to change their destiny through this, but it does allow everyone to live a better life than in the past.

More importantly, even if it is a blacksmith shop in the village, a blacksmith shop with good craftsmanship, which might have switched to a tenant farmer's blacksmith shop at a time when there was no income for half a year or a year, had hope of survival.

Chen Mu, who was far away in the East, felt that this was an era of great change.

The real change is not that he made a steam engine, or that he created something that didn't exist before, that's called change.

As for Mr. Xu Ge, who passed away last year, his coffin was carried into the cemetery by Huode Xingjun, who cultivated the land in his family; the villages in the north and south of Yu were busy building railways, just like the good people in ten miles and eight townships donated dirt roads in the past.

The emperor, who was a money fan, made a lot of money by collecting coal mines all over the world by competing first and then being a referee; because the county school teachers along the canal could teach students to learn about steamboats, and the rural school teachers along the railway line could teach children about steam engines.

In the countryside connected with a series of railways, it is because of the existence of these things that everyone in this world has slightly changed their original life circumstances.

This is change, a huge change.

It was so old that even Chen Mu of the Eastern Military Mansion entered the Asian Clan University as the Minister of the Eastern Ocean.

The name is to inspect teaching ability, but in fact it is to use public office for personal gain. Lai has been in the last row of the classroom, and has been inspecting for two weeks, and he has not missed every class.

Now let him listen to the lecture with gusto. The instruction was given by Zhu Muxi, the eldest son of the clan Xinhui Wang and the general of Zhenguo. The difference between treating natives as non-humans in an expanding environment.

　Good morning, the work schedule is too normal these days, I didn't save the manuscript, so I sent it late, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)