I am the king of the dead

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Talk, there's nothing you can't talk about. When you scolded me as the king of subjugation, I didn't care too much, did I?"

"Emperor Taizu Gao is very powerful, but my morality is shallow and my strength is weak. There are so many people in Ming Dynasty who are waiting for food with their mouths open. I have no good way. I can't really destroy the country passed down by Emperor Taizu Gao. "

"He Zongxian asked me two questions, which are actually one question, where is the law of the Ming ancestors?"

"Isn't there still a North Korea? North Korea is still paying tribute, and North Korea is still a country without confiscation. Isn't that what it is? The Ming Dynasty still has the law of the ancestors."

"My system probably violates some ancestral laws. I know that the courtiers have the idea of ​​correcting the situation, but they are afraid of my authority and dare not speak up. It is quite embarrassing. It is difficult for you, and it is difficult for me. Everyone, It's all hard."

The law of the ancestors was obeyed, but only a little bit. North Korea was the fig leaf, the step, the step for courtiers and emperors to step down.

"Minister, there is no doubt." He Zhang heard the emperor's answer, immediately bowed his head, retreated, joking, if he stood still, he would not be able to stand still, attacking the emperor's legal principles in the Fengtian Temple, that was only done when he was tired of work. thing.

Ming Dynasty has always been extremely conservative. Extremely conservative means more conservative than conservative. This ancestral law is an unavoidable problem. Fortunately, there is North Korea.

Zhu Qiyu wanted to turn all the lands of the Daming Navy into the four directions of the Ming Dynasty, so that he could perfectly bypass the law of the ancestors, but an empire has a geographical boundary of rule, and there is no other way than to build a vassal way.

"That's it?" Zhu Qiyu saw that He Zhang retreated, and no one spoke, so he asked.

The ministers said in unison again: "Your Majesty is wise."

Zhu Qiyu actually knew that the reason why this decision that violated the ancestors was able to be carried out was actually because of this decree. Indigenous overseas.

Meat eaters will always eat people.

The overseas governors in the Haiyi feudal state system are always not those muddy legs that have not been washed off their legs. The officials of the Antu herdsmen must be Juren from Daming, which is another way out, and when Daming established a feudal domain overseas, the maintenance is the Daming Maritime Trade, Maritime Trade Affairs, and even a spoils conference where poor families can't even look at it.

As for those fourth-class aborigines whose balls are about to be picked off, there is no aborigine in the court as Ming Gong, so of course no one speaks for them.

"If there is something to do, go to work and play early, and if there is nothing to do, roll the curtain and retreat." Xing'an flicked the dust, announcing that the court meeting moved on to the next topic.

"Your Majesty, the commander of Yule Dudu Sidu, Yule Boxia Zhiyi, who is the resolute king of the Western Regions and also Milihuo, will come to Beijing to see you." Ma Huan, the minister of Honglu Temple, stood up and bowed his head and said.

"Xuan." Zhu Qiyu knew about this. Xia Zhiyi was the Earl of the Western Regions conferred by Zhu Qiyu, and he was also the helper of the Ming Dynasty's annexation of Luntai City.

Xia Zhiyi entered the Fengtian Hall with a unicorn on his right lapel, bowed three times and kowtowed five times, and shouted respectfully: "Chen Xia Zhiyi, I greet Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!"

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Get up and talk."

"Your Majesty, I dare you." Xia Zhiyi refused to get up, and Ma Huan, the minister of Honglu Temple, changed his face drastically. What is Xia Zhiyi going to do!There was a mistake in this court meeting, and the Ministry of Rites couldn't bear it.

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment, and said calmly: "If you want to say something, just say it. I will forgive you for your innocence."

Xia Zhiyi's physique was extremely strong, and he dared to dominate the Western Regions. He didn't have the courage to even think about it. He knelt on the ground, his body trembled a few times, and his voice was a little hoarse and he said loudly: "I just want to ask, want to ask?" Ask, when will His Majesty reopen the Western Regions!"

"His Majesty promised!"

"The people of the Western Regions are suffering, Your Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu stood up and said quite calmly: "Uncle Yule, I made a promise, and I haven't forgotten it."

Chapter 958 Tai'an No. [-] Steam Locomotive

Zhu Qiyu looked at Xia Zhiyi, a native of the Western Regions, who desperately hoped that the Ming Dynasty could fulfill its promise, and that the Ming Dynasty could bring Wang Hua to the Western Regions.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was well aware of the sufferings of the people in the Western Regions. The melee of the seven countries on the ground in the Western Regions led to refugees everywhere and evil thieves in the wild.

Back then, when Ye Mili Huo Zhe entered the imperial court to ask for the seal, Zhu Qiyu was planning to tour the south. At that time, he was discussing the affairs of the Western Regions. Zhu Qiyu was very impressed with the censor Deng Shun. Deng Shun put the difficulties of reopening the Western Regions on the emperor one by one. In front of him, he quoted the scriptures and analyzed well.

Over the past few years, Daming has overcome these difficulties one by one and moved forward step by step firmly.

"I have been reopening the Western Regions, and I have never broken my promise, and neither has Daming." Zhu Qiyu said it again with great conviction.

After Zhu Qiyu regained the land of Hetao, reopening the Western Regions became a foregone conclusion. The Ming Dynasty has been proceeding in an orderly manner, such as Wanghua Tatar, such as Daming's sweeping of the caves in Wala and Lin, and the transformation of the capital of Shaanxi to Gansu The third division, and another example is the establishment of the Western Regions Capital Division, etc., Daming has been doing it.

Zhu Qiyu never forgot his promise, and neither did Da Ming. It’s just that Xia Zhiyi was in the Western Regions and saw all kinds of tragedies in the Western Regions. He didn’t understand Daming, let alone reopening the Western Regions. It is enough to plow once, and it is not clear what Daming did to reopen the Western Regions. Xia Zhiyi is like the farmer who prayed for the rain in the field, eagerly longing for it.

Xia Zhiyi couldn't wait for the rain, so he ran to Fengtian Hall and asked loudly when His Majesty would reopen the Western Regions.

Zhu Qiyu didn't blame Xia Zhiyi, because the Western Regions were really bitter, and the Tang newspaper of Daming Duntai Yuanhou kept reporting all kinds of things in the Western Regions.

The bitterness of the Western Regions, in the final analysis, is a word, the suffering lies in the absence of Ming Dynasty.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xia Zhiyi took a big chance this time and questioned the emperor in the Fengtian Hall. In fact, he didn't have to do such an outrageous behavior.

As the Kokang King of the Western Regions, Xia Zhiyi controlled the Liucheng, Turpan and other khanates, and he was a well-deserved military leader. The commander of the big and small Yule Dusi was an official position bestowed by the Ming Dynasty. Yulebo was the Shibo bestowed by the Ming Dynasty. In one court meeting, Yulebo could actually follow the regulations drawn up by the Ministry of Rites, flatter him in different ways, receive a lot of rewards, return to the big and small Yuledusi, and continue to be his Kokang King.

To put it bluntly, the hardships in the Western Regions are the sufferings of the people. Xia Zhiyi, as the King of Kokang and Duke of the Ming Dynasty, Xia Zhiyi himself is not suffering at all.

"Get up and talk." Zhu Qiyu motioned for Xia Zhiyi to die, and then Xia Zhiyi reported many things about the Western Regions.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The Ministry of Industry has drawn up regulations and routes for the entry of the official road station into the Western Regions. Since Aiqing has entered Beijing, we will handle this matter together."

The official roads and post roads are the concrete manifestation of the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever the official roads and post roads go, the territory of the Ming Dynasty will go, and Wang Hua will go there.

This time, part of the official roads and post roads in the Western Regions are still under the rule of the Kang Kingdom, and the boundaries between the Ming Dynasty and the Kang Kingdom have never been established. At that time, friction will be inevitable. When the contradictions cannot be reconciled, a big war is inevitable. .

When Xing'an saw Xia Zhiyi returning to work, he shook his whisk and said loudly: "If there is something to play, we will leave the court if there is nothing to do."

"I will send you to Your Majesty."

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Before the Chinese New Year, Zhu Qiyu was very busy. According to the past practice, he would meet the people of the Farm Law, the Commander of the Farm Law, and the craftsmen of the Daming Official Factory. It was to go to Daxing Shihaizi to see the family members of the marquis Yuantai, and finally to Beitucheng and Xitucheng to meet the family members of the Ming Jingying soldiers and ask them about their difficulties.

The weather is sunny and the weather is clear. The platform of Beitu City is not desolate, and the cold-resistant street trees on both sides of the road are still slightly green.

Wearing a cloak, Zhu Qiyu patted the iron lump that Duke Zhong had tossed out, looked at the iron lump and said, "Mr. Zhong, can we go to Xitu City with this thing?"

"Your Majesty..." Shi Heng was very embarrassed, he shouldn't let His Majesty see this thing, His Majesty saw it, and ordered to try it, Shi Heng said quite sincerely: "Your Majesty, this thing is not very safe."

After two and a half years, Jingxuanchi Road has been fully connected. The reason why it has not been put into operation is not that the iron horse is holding back, but some other reasons.

"Do you sit normally?" Zhu Qiyu asked indifferently.

Shi Heng said quite confidently: "Sit!"

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Mr. Zhongguo has been raising white elephants for me since the 14th year of Zhengtong. It has been thirteen years since he took the lead. He has never made any mistakes. Since Mr. Zhongguo sits, I also sit. What alarmed the imperial mausoleum to confuse the public with gossip and gossip."

Shi Heng thought for a while, stomped his feet and shouted loudly: "Check the condition of the car, check the condition of the road!"

A rather simple platform with no extra decorations, in line with the minimalist style of the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty, the platform is more than two feet higher than the road.

After hearing what Duke Zhong said, the craftsmen began to check the condition of the iron horses in depth. The two fast horses drove along the road to check the road conditions and prevent accidents on the road.

Ti Qimen came out in a single file. They were responsible for clearing the streets and ensuring safety along the way.

Compared with the previous horse-like steam locomotive, the steam locomotive in front of him has nothing to do with the horse. The lower part of the locomotive is connected by five pairs of moving wheels connected by connecting rods. These five pairs of moving wheels made Zhu Qiyu feel very at ease.

The recumbent nose is two feet long and one foot high, and is slender overall. The big chimney in front somewhat blocks the view of the cab.

"What's the name of our thing?" Zhu Qiyu wandered around the iron lump while the craftsmen were inspecting the locomotive, looking carefully and asking.

Shi Heng bowed his head and said, "Tai'an No. [-]."

Upon hearing this, one knew that it was Shi Heng who gave it the name. The gates facing the capital in the new land opened by the Ming Dynasty were all called Tai'an Gate.

Shi Heng, in the eyes of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, is the contemporary Anlu Mountain. Tang Minghuang likes to watch Hu Xuanwu, and An Lushan pats Tang Minghuang's performance. Alright, I'll be tinkering with iron horses all day long to please the emperor.

Yang Hanying also said that Shi Heng was destined to be Anlushan, but Shi Heng was the chief military officer of the Beijing camp, so he was destined to be unable to do Anlushan. Without him, the Ming Dynasty Jingying was too close to the emperor.

"Tai'an No. [-]." Zhu Qiyu smiled and did not change his name. At present, everyone inside and outside Daming regards the steam locomotive and iron horse as a joke, and said with a smile: The emperor's toy.

A locomotive that has no horses to pull it, and a locomotive that doesn't run as fast as a horse, has a fart, and it is not as fast as a horse-drawn cart on the track, and it pulls more.

Daming didn't have any complaints about Jingxuan Chidao, but he took this iron horse as a joke.

"Jinda!" Shi Heng yelled loudly. After Jinda checked the boiler, he came to His Majesty, bowed his head respectfully and said, "Jinda, the general manager of Chen Jingshun Yongping Manufacturing Factory, see Your Majesty, Your Majesty bows." install."

"Tianjin people?" Zhu Qiyu thought of Luo Bingzhong when he heard this accent, Jinda's Tianjin accent was a little heavier.

Jingshi Shuntian Yongpingfu Manufacturing Factory is located in Tangshan in later generations. Apart from coal and iron, it is also the largest machinery manufacturing factory in Ming Dynasty except Shijing Factory. The Tai'an No. [-] in front of Zhu Qiyu is produced in Yongping Manufacturing Factory .

There are still some lawsuits involved. In order to build a steam locomotive that can actually be operated, Shijing Factory and Yongping Factory have launched two years of technical research and competition. Whoever has the best performance will pull the most. , whose car is more stable, and which factory's locomotive will be named after Tai'an.

As the official factory with the deepest background and the most master craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, Shijing Factory lost to Yongping Manufacturing Factory, Tai'an after two years of competition, and fell to Yongping.

When Chen Youde, the general manager of Shijing Factory, was still there, he was very angry about this incident, thinking it was a great shame for Shijing Factory!The entire Shijing Factory was scolded bloody from top to bottom.

Jinda, the general manager of Yongping Manufacturing Factory, a master craftsman, is less than forty years old, and is the designer of Tai'an No. [-].

"Your Majesty is well aware that the subject is indeed from Tianjin." Jin Da replied with a smile with the honesty typical of a craftsman.

Zhu Qiyu pointed to the steam locomotive that was the same as a rhinoceros and said, "Tell me about it."

Jin Da was a bit inarticulate, not dull, but simply nervous. Although he had met His Majesty as a representative of a craftsman, he was still a bit stuttering when introducing him. However, Jin Da soon became eloquent, because he found that His Majesty Really understand technology!

This dialogue quickly changed from a match between the monarch and his ministers to a discussion among craftsmen.

Zhu Qiyu patted the boiler and said: "The design of this boiler is very good. In order to accumulate steam more quickly, the horizontal design of the 36 pipes inside really solves the problem of slow startup of the locomotive. Also here, the steam is not directly discharged from the cylinder. , but through the smoke pipe, I have to say, this idea is good, so that the coal in the boiler can be fully burned."

Jin Da bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, this Tai'an No. [-] has a net weight of [-] jin, can pull five carriages, [-] jin of cargo, and has a power of [-] horsepower. If it is fully loaded, it can run forty miles per hour. "

"Okay, okay!" Zhu Qiyu couldn't help admiring when he heard that it had a power of sixteen horsepower, could pull five carriages, and could pull [-] catties for a distance of forty miles an hour.

The capital is about 880 miles away from Daming Mansion. If Taian No. 22 pulls the car, it only takes 44 hours, that is, [-] hours, less than two days.

In the Jingkang period, the Jin people went south from Youzhou to Kaifeng. Even though there was no large-scale resistance along the way, it still took four full months.

The speed of ten kilometers per hour is really not fast, but it is really enough for Jingtai Niannian!

The more frequent commercial activities in Ming Dynasty, the more horses needed to pull carts.

"Reporting to His Majesty, it's done." The master craftsman brought several craftsmen to His Majesty and reported the inspection situation.

"Let's go!" Zhu Qiyu tightened his cloak and got on the train pulled by Daming's first steam locomotive.

After he sat on it, he found that this carriage was probably not tailor-made for him by Shi Heng. Even if Shi Heng knew that the emperor would sit on it, there were leather-wrapped cushions everywhere, so even if the car overturned, it would not hit His Majesty.

This car, from the beginning to the end, implements a theme, that is, safety first.

Shi Heng also got into the car with His Majesty, and tentatively said, "Will Your Majesty wear a seat belt?"

"There are seat belts in the car?" Zhu Qiyu studied the five-point seat belts for a while, and then understood the usage of the five-point seat belts. The five wide belts are fixed, extremely strong, and the design is particularly reasonable, without affecting the movement of the arms.

"Let's drive!" Xing'an saw that His Majesty had fastened his seat belt, and shouted loudly.

There was a burst of white smoke from the chimney, and the siren sounded on the platform of Beitu City. The steam was injected into the cylinder through the steam drum, pushing the connecting rod and the curved rod to drive the five pairs of moving wheels, and moved forward slowly.

Zhu Qiyu looked out the window, sat still and supported him, waiting for the steam locomotive to accelerate.

"Mr. Zhong, isn't our speed quite right?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the speed of the street trees going backwards outside the window, and finally asked his own question: "Is it a technical problem?"

"No." Shi Heng and Jin Da looked at each other, shook their heads and replied.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the horses of Tiqi's horses outside the window, and said rather dissatisfied: "Tiqi's mounts are going faster than us. I feel that this train can go faster if we shake it a few times in the carriage!"

Only then did Shi Heng reply: "I am afraid that the car will overturn, so I let the craftsmen slow down."

"Speed ​​up, speed up!" Zhu Qiyu knocked on the seat and said.

Shi Heng greeted the craftsmen in the front cab to speed up through the large water tank. He did speed up, but only a little bit. The horses of the Tiqis looked at the emperor sitting in the car curiously, as if they were asking, Why don't you sit with a good big driver's seat, sit on this thing?

The giant steel beast whistled non-stop on the road, and crawled from Beitu City to Xitu City at an extremely slow speed. It took two hours.

Along the way, Zhu Qiyu saw at least a dozen steam locomotives approaching with screams, and then gradually drifted away. It wasn't because Tai'an No. [-] was not performing well, couldn't run fast, couldn't run, so he pulled a carriage, and there were five people sitting in it. personal.

Zhu Qiyu got off the train, still feeling uneasy, he moved his left hand up and down, and said very annoyed: "Mr. Zhong, what's the use of you asking me to wear a seat belt? I just jumped out of the car, nothing happened." None! Is this a train? I just walked all the way!"

"It can be faster, I am not porcelain, it will break when touched, do you usually drive this thing so slowly?"

"That's not true." Shi Heng answered the question evasively. He is him, and His Majesty is His Majesty. If His Majesty really overturned on the Tai'an No. [-] train, there is no need to develop this steam locomotive, Shi Heng , Jinda and Yongping Manufacturing Factory can all apologize.

Jinda knows it well. As the designer of Tai'an No. [-], he has witnessed many accidents with his own eyes. The steam locomotive is a new thing, and it needs blood to accumulate lessons and experience before it can operate stably.

But the lesson of blood must not be His Majesty's blood. Your Majesty knocked a little, touched a little, and the steam locomotive came to an end.

"Forget it, forget it." Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, looking enviously at the speeding steam locomotive on the road. It was the stability of the locomotive being tested by Yongping Manufactory.

"Xing'an, let's see the reward!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "President Jin has made great achievements in research and development, and I will give you a medal for extraordinary achievements."

Jin Da was taken aback for a moment, then knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

The one-horsepower double-acting piston steam engine was created by His Majesty himself in the Guangzhou Mansion. Jinda was just improving it, and he didn't expect that there would be a miracle card for the improvement.

"Good thing!" Zhu Qiyu couldn't help but said looking at Tai'an No. [-] steam locomotive. He himself likes machinery very much, especially the steam locomotive in front of him, which is full of beauty of steam and power. It's just that this thing is too big, there is no way take home.

Jin Da gestured to another craftsman, and brought up an 'auspiciousness' covered with red silk cloth and said: "Your Majesty, I have auspiciousness to offer."

Xing'an opened the red silk cloth.

Chapter 959 Gu wants to hit the headlines!

Before Xing'an opened the red cloth, Zhu Qiyu already knew what was inside.