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Chapter 616 The 23th Year of Hongzhi

The 23rd year of Hongzhi was definitely an unprecedented good year for the people of East Asia.

High-yielding crops brought back from the Americas have been crossed with future improved varieties for more than a decade to form brand-new varieties with stable yields.Even rice and wheat, which are loved by the people of East Asia, have directly doubled the yield per mu after being hybridized with future seeds!
Coupled with the fact that some land-lost farmers with pioneering spirit began to immigrate to the New World one after another, the increasingly serious conflict between people and land in East Asia came to an abrupt end.And because of the continuous construction and improvement of water conservancy facilities in Dameng in the past 20 years, Dameng has not experienced a large-scale famine for 10 consecutive years!

Even if a certain area suffers from natural and man-made disasters, the relief food will be transported to the disaster area in a very short time.As for exempting several disaster-stricken counties from taxes for two or three years, the ministers in the court finally don't need to pretend to be embarrassed.

Dameng is experiencing its own steam revolution, although the application of steam engines in the folk has not yet been popularized.However, under the promotion of Dongbao, the heavy industry field has become accustomed to the high efficiency and productivity liberation brought by the steam engine.

As mentioned earlier, Dongbao sold all sea-going ships to the officials of the Three Kingdoms, and these ships have also undergone steam power transformation.However, the cargo ships running on the sea today still use sails as the main power, and the relatively simple steam paddle steamer was first popularized in inland waterway navigation.

Moreover, Dongbao Company also delegated the manufacturing technology of reciprocating steam engines and paddle wheels to the private sector, as for the more advanced steam turbine and propeller technology.It's not that the Dongbao Chamber of Commerce doesn't want to release it, but even if it is released, no one can make it.After all, in terms of processing difficulty and precision, the two are not in the same era at all.

Now that there are reciprocating steam engines, steam trains with huge carrying capacity have naturally appeared.Although the folks regard steam locomotives as man-eating steel beasts, the ministers in the court are by no means stubborn and ignorant people. They can see the trans-epochal role of trains in transport capacity at a glance!

Ministers all understand that if a railway can be built directly from Gyeonggi to the Western Regions, and the steam locomotive is in the hands of the imperial court.Once there is any disturbance in the Western Regions, 10 troops will set off from the capital and arrive in the Western Regions to put down the rebellion within 5 days.The only thing that the Ministry of War needs to consider is how many carriages can hold [-] people.It can even greatly reduce the food consumption in the process of escorting grain and grass.

If there is another railway that can go directly to Huguang, the communication between the north and the south will definitely be hundreds of times faster than it is now!And once a set of reasonable railway transportation network is established on the land of Dameng, the power of the imperial court will definitely be greatly strengthened by the existence of the railway, so that the eternal state of the country may no longer be just a beautiful luxury.

Therefore, after a heated debate in court eight years ago, a railway with a total length of more than 8 kilometers was put on the construction schedule starting from Gyeonggi and encircling the nine sides, and finally reaching Hamiwei in the Western Region.

But don't use the construction speed of later generations of infrastructure madmen to apply to Dameng. Let Dameng build more than 8 kilometers of railways in 2600 years is simply a dream.However, after 8 years of unremitting efforts by the imperial court, the railway has now been laid to Xining.It is estimated that it will take another four or five years for the railway to go directly to Hamiwei, and by then the northern Xinjiang of Dameng will also be connected.

And Xining, which was originally remote and closed, also felt the great material wealth that came with the train after the train opened to traffic.The imperial court has finally firmly grasped the Nine Sides in its hands. This feeling of solidity is unprecedented in the more than a hundred years since the founding of Dameng.

This in turn strengthened the courtiers' belief in carrying out the railway construction to the end, and the seeds of infrastructure madness in the hearts of these people were slowly taking root and sprouting unknowingly.The only troublesome thing is not that there is no money to repair the railway, but that there are always unscrupulous people who steal the rails of the railway to go home.

In the three years since the opening of the East-West Railway, the imperial court has cut down no less than 400 rail-stealers.Three of them also caused the train to derail because of sabotaging the railway, and were finally sentenced by the three courts to copy and chop.But even so, it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the ignorant people to steal the rails!
But this still can't stop the imperial court's determination to build the railway, and now the north-south railway has begun to be planned and measured.When the North-South Railway is opened to traffic, the Grand Canal, which has been in operation for more than 800 years, will also be closed section by section.This is not to say that the Grand Canal is no longer important, but that the imperial court finally had the opportunity to dredge and widen the Grand Canal.

After the reconstruction of the new canal is completed, the north-south communication channel with parallel waterways will greatly reduce the transportation cost of the country, and the imperial court will completely grasp the lifeline of transportation that runs through the world!
But in terms of speed, Licang's North Korea is the fastest. Now the small peninsula has not only completed the layout of the railway network, but also started construction of the road around the peninsula.Even Oda Nobunaga, who has just been unified for a few years, has begun to study the feasibility of the railway around Honshu Island. It is estimated that the railway project around Honshu Island will be implemented on paper in a short time.

As for Wala...

Don't look at them as members of the East Asian League now, but they have always maintained a close relationship with Dameng.Kou Bian did not dare to Kou Kou anymore, it is impossible to Kou Kou in this life.No matter how heroic Khan was, he couldn't stand Bao'er who suddenly appeared beside him and served him with a big mouth.

You can't fight but you can't escape, you can only stand at attention honestly and get beaten, you say it's annoying or not.

Thanks to many factors, people from all over the world in the 23rd year of Hongzhi are still foolishly living their happy little days.They didn't know that a threat capable of destroying human civilization had arrived far away on the border of Nuer Gandusi, and counterattacks were constantly brewing.

In fact, not only the common people didn't know about it, but even the vast majority of middle and low-level officials didn't know about it.

But in fact, the imperial court dispatched 10 officers and soldiers who declared their eternal loyalty to their duties to the Great Wall as early as 5 years ago.Of course, more than 20 family members of the army accompanied them.This group of people is also one of the few people in Dameng Tianxia who knows the existence of heretical demons.

Before they set off, they declared that unless the threat of heretics and evil spirits was completely wiped out, they and their descendants would stay on the Great Wall forever!
Of course, more than the 5 people sent by the imperial court were stationed at the Great Wall of Desperation.The Sun Moon God Sect, which had no hope of rebellion, also moved the main altar of the Sun Moon God Sect to the vicinity of the Great Wall after Xiang Wentian took over as the leader.They established a new general altar called "Ming Town" there, and there were tens of thousands of followers attached to it.

On the Great Wall of Despair in the 23rd year of Hongzhi, you can not only meet the officers and soldiers of Dameng, the soldiers of North Korea and the warriors of Dongying, but even the major martial arts sects have established branches at the foot of the Great Wall of Desperation.You can even occasionally see immortal monks who are stepping on the fairy sword and slashing through the air.

It was these people who assembled the 10 first-line defenders on the Great Wall.The additional [-] front-line technicians will be borne by Dai Guo of Baoer.Because only skilled workers who have been trained by Dai Guo for more than ten years are able to complete the maintenance of various advanced weapons on the Great Wall of Desperation.Similarly, only the instructors sent by Dai Guo can teach the officers and soldiers of various countries how to use the various advanced weapons on the Great Wall.

Since 10 years ago, scattered heretic demons have successively escaped from the black hood and launched an attack on the Great Wall of Desperation.And with the passage of time, the frequency and number of monsters appearing gradually increased.It can be said that the monsters use their own lives to enrich the monster encyclopedia information of the Night Watchmen.

Until a few years ago, the monsters with the ability to fly no longer launched a desperate attack on the Great Wall of Impossibility, but flew towards the side of the Strait of Tartar that was not guarded by the Great Wall of Impossibility, and flew to Japan.Although this incident accelerated the unification of Japan, it also exposed the weak defense on the side of the strait.

So in order to deal with this problem, Baoer finally came up with a coping strategy in the 23rd year of Hongzhi.

(End of this chapter)