I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Historically, the Union Railway Company finally relied on the method of Chinese workers to pile up the bones to complete the construction.

The reason why this railway is called the eighth wonder of the world is because of this mountain-crossing railway.

Of course, in addition to this, there are also harsh terrains such as the Great Nevada Desert and the Great Salt Lake in Utah, which makes the construction of this center line more difficult.

By contrast, it would be much simpler to travel northwest through Wyoming, through Idaho, and into Washington State.

The reason why the Americans finally chose the difficult middle line instead of the simple northern line is naturally because "some people do the business of beheading, and no one does the business of losing money".

But things are different now with the Vanderbilts.

Unlike the original game of dancing on the tightrope in history, where they finally won a thrilling victory and became the king of the railway, this time they are likely to fall into doom.

But if the northern line can be communicated and profits can be made from it, then although the family will not earn as much as it has in history, it will also recover.

Zhu Fugui thought that old Vanderbilt might take a gamble.

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Limited by the shipping speed of seagoing ships, it will take more than half a month for Zhu Fugui's letter to reach the east coast.

If the railway is connected in the future, even if the speed is only [-] to [-] kilometers per hour, it will take less than ten days to travel from Seattle to the East Coast, which greatly shortens the commuting time and facilitates the dumping of goods and the dissemination of cultural products.

The railway is a good thing. Taking this opportunity, Zhu Fugui also planned to exercise Daming's own road construction team.

After occupying the west coast, follow the railway design of the later generations of the United States, build a longitudinal railway parallel to the coastline and the Rocky Mountains, and connect the six major cities of Fengdu, Portland, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and San Diego Connect for effective domination and development.

Of course, this railway line cannot be called the Fengsheng Line, but the Beijing-Guangzhou Line.

These cities will all have to change their names.

Portland is more than 200 kilometers away from Fengdu. In theory, it is more like Shijiazhuang. However, considering that Oregon, where Portland is located, needs to establish a separate province, Zhu Fugui finally decided to name Portland New Qingdao, Oregon The state is named Sinluh Province.

An idea of ​​Emperor Zhu will enable Portland to escape the curse of the poverty belt around Beijing, and the fortune in the world is so beautiful.

Except for Portland, the remaining four major cities are all in California.

In later generations, California is well-known to the people of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but his hard power is also amazing.

This behemoth, with a total GDP of 2019 trillion US dollars in 3.2, is much higher than the famous Lone Star State of Texas, and is equivalent to more than two Guangdong provinces.

In the world, the total economic volume of California has surpassed that of the United Kingdom in 18 and ranked fifth in the world, and the economy of its state can be compared to the sum of the two continents of Africa and Australia.

All in all, California is a pretty awesome state.

In the territory of Daming, under the feet of the emperor, such a powerful existence is not allowed.

At that time, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang wisely split the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. He changed the division plan since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, separated southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, and created a province in bulk.

It can be said that if South Jiangsu and Northern Zhejiang are put together, even if there are some regional conflicts, they are only at a normal level. A powder keg that has lasted for more than 600 years.

But this is exactly the purpose of Lao Zhu back then, and it can be said that it was successfully achieved in the end.

Of course, Zhu Fugui must emulate the advanced experience of his ancestors.

It's not that there should be an infighting province, but that California must be dismembered.

Therefore, from north to south, San Francisco is named Xinhu, and the province where it is located is Xinsu;

San Luis-Obispo is Xinhang, and its province is Xinzhe;

Los Angeles is Xinxia, ​​and the province where it is located is Xinmin;

San Diego is Xinsui, and the province where it is located is Xinyue.

Among them, Xinqing, Xinhu, and Xinxia are not the provincial capitals of their provinces, but cities under separate planning under the dual jurisdiction of the province and the central government.

Chapter 181 Daming's Hidden Worry

This is not just to satisfy Zhu Fugui's own hobby, but has an objective reason.

Los Angeles and San Francisco are both global super cities in later generations, ranking second and sixth in the United States respectively. Portland is slightly worse, but it is on the verge of Xinfeng, guarding the capital's waters with Xinjin, south and north, and its status is very high. important.

Therefore, it is extremely important to strengthen the control over these three cities. In the future, they may even be promoted to directly subordinate territories of the royal family, or even central municipalities.

All in all, this set of administrative establishment has been drafted by the Ministry of Household Affairs, approved by Zhu Fugui, and has been handed over to the cabinet for drafting (in a formality).

But if we want to really implement it, we need to lay down these places first.

And the timing of the expedition was when the Daming Ocean Shipping Team returned for the third time.

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In mid-April, the first batch of Chinese immigrants independently transported by the Ming Dynasty transport team arrived, and the second batch arrived at the end of May.

Coupled with Shi Dakai's 13000 soldiers, the current total population of Ming Dynasty is about 6.

With the entry of "Sincerity Signal" and "Friendship", the transportation capacity of the Daming Transport Team has increased slightly.

At present, in general, an average of 1 new population can be brought to Daming every month.

In comparison, this year's baby boom is negligible.

In total, more than 200 children were born in Fengdu, and that guy Yang Liu contributed three.

Triplets were extremely rare in ancient times, and being able to survive can be regarded as an auspicious rare thing.

This time, Xianghe's mother and daughter are safe, thanks to the blessing of Daming Royal Hospital.

Although Western medicine is always blacked out, objectively speaking, Western medicine has many advantages.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Western doctors achieved considerable success in China before the invention of antibiotics. The biggest magic weapon was delivery and cesarean section.

Of course, by the 1880s, the concept of asepsis had also been popularized in Western medicine, otherwise it would be another story.

At that time, Western medicine used the miraculous cesarean section to save many women with dystocia, and leveraged the basics of traditional Chinese medicine in the most intuitive and shocking way.

So much so that there was a trend of thought at that time. People found Hua Tuo, who had been criticized by mainstream doctors in the past, in the pile of old papers, and praised him as the originator of surgery and the father of Western medicine.

This has to be said to be a kind of sadness.

Fortunately, in this time and space, there is no distinction between Western medicine and Chinese medicine. In other words, the distinction between Western medicine and Chinese medicine is no longer measured by whether modern technology is used.

In Ming Dynasty, the main difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine is whether it is sterilized or not. Those who do not sterilize and do not pay attention to hand hygiene are the Western medicine of the Western barbarians, and vice versa, it is Chinese medicine.

It is a tradition of Chinese medicine to attach importance to disinfection, and there is no problem in logic.

In short, thanks to the superb medical skills of the deputy chief physician Dong Wei, aseptic operating room (not the high-end goods like laminar flow operating room), disinfection drugs, intravenous infusion and other artifacts, plus Xianghe's own body is just fine. , the fetus did not have complicated diseases such as amniotic fluid embolism and umbilical cord around the neck, and Yang Liu's three daughters were finally born safely.

Zhu Fugui went to see these three little guys, and gave them three elegant nicknames "Yang Dani", "Yang Erni", and "Yang Sanni", and ordered the Ministry of Households to send Xianghe a banner of "Glorious Mother" and 50 silver dollars. condolence money.

The birth of a child is always a joy, and even the sound of crying reveals joy.

It's a pity that in Daming, there are still too few children crying.

Of course, this is not because young people in Ming Dynasty are less willing to have children, but because Ming Dynasty lacks young women.

Even counting the eighteen high-quality geisha occupied by Zhu Fugui alone, the female population in Ming Dynasty is still pitifully small.

Of course, no matter how small the female population is, no one will accuse Long Live God of occupying the latrine and not shitting.

After all, one concubine and eighteen concubines, such a frugal emperor has been hard to find since ancient times.

In consideration of social stability, during the second population transportation, Zhu Fugui also instructed Zheng Baoguo to recruit some healthy women on board to ease the pressure of marriage and childbirth in the Ming Dynasty.

This is not a trivial matter. The navy has even drawn up a plan to surprise the Satsuma domain and capture and serve as soldiers' wives.

But this plan was rejected by Zhu Fugui.

Daming is a teacher of civilization and might, how could he blatantly rob his wife?

Of course it depends on cheating, ah bah, it depends on free love and free competition with those Fusang men!

Besides, where do those Japanese women need to be captured?

When there are more boats and white rice and white noodles, can't they be pulled back in one boat?

Although the navy's proposal was temporarily rejected, Zhu Fugui understood that this was indeed an unstable factor within Daming, and it had to be resolved after the war.

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Between the day-to-day mobilization and calendar, the time has reached mid-June.

The good news of the return of the fleet finally came from Xinjin Port.

11000 disgraced Chinese laborers were arranged to go ashore one after another.

This time, when the Chinese laborers saw the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they yelled "I have been caught in the long-haired trick", and the number of people who wanted to jump into the sea to escape increased significantly.

Obviously, among this group of Chinese workers, Qiu Ba of the Hunan Army accounted for a huge proportion.

This is no wonder, because at this point in history, although Tianjing City has not been breached by the Hunan Army, Hong Xiuquan is already dead.

The Hong Tianwang, who had been poor, miserable, and extravagant, died after eating weeds for many days.

But according to Yang Liu's report, in this life, Hong Tianwang should live a little better.

Knowing that Yang Liu was in a hurry to go home to see his three precious daughters, Zhu Fugui granted him a leave of absence and recruited a naval aviation officer who was seconded to the Special Forces, Sergeant Jian Ziqiang, to carry out the "Father Comes" operation. Prelude answer.

Sergeant Jane, or Jian Ziqiang, the first-class soldier of the third phase, is the strongest aviation unit in the navy aviation flag.

In the first naval battle between Ming and Russia, he was the first to hit the Russian whaling ship with bombs.

You must know that in order to ensure the safety of expensive unmanned aircraft, the combat altitude of these aircraft often reaches tens of meters.

It is quite a test of technology, or intuition, to be able to control freely at such a height, calculate the wind direction and air resistance, and accurately throw the fire-extinguishing explosive bombs on the deck of the enemy ship.

Jian Ziqiang was not only the first to be hit among the 20 airmen, but also the one with the highest hit rate.

Except for the first trial shot that missed, Qiang Ziqiang hit the target accurately in the next three go-arounds with additional ammunition.

To achieve such a result, hard training is of course indispensable, but looking at Jian Ziqiang's chubby face, Zhu Fugui thinks that talent may be more important.

Jian Ziqiang was extremely nervous when meeting the saint for the first time.

Fortunately, Zhu Fugui was considerate and said with a smile: "Jane Aiqing, don't worry, the boat and the car are exhausting, you go take a bath first, and then tell me about [Heavenly Father's Advent] in detail when you come back."

Chapter 182 American Equipment, Steelmaking, Classic Debate

After taking a bath, Jian Ziqiang was in a completely new state, and described the situation of the day to His Majesty in detail.

Things will start in mid-May...

Under the cover of a few advanced white slaves, the Daming Special Forces was able to see Hong Xiuquan's big flicker from a distance on the high platform built by the Hunan Army.

Generally speaking, outsiders are absolutely not allowed to go up to this commanding height for investigating thieves in the city.

The foreign identity of the progressive white slaves played a big role.

All in all, the Hunan army, under the banner of protecting the famous religion, actually doesn't like to have direct contact with foreigners.

On the contrary, Li Hongzhang and the Huai army are completely different.

Li Hongzhang even hoped that "America" ​​could sell him some American equipment.

Yang Liu secretly poked Bai Nu's butt a few times, and the latter readily agreed.

This is because Yang Liu, as a fifth-rank senior military officer and a celebrity around His Majesty the Emperor, knew very well that with the improvement of the industrial level of the Ming Dynasty, Long Live Lord had intentionally replaced the Henry 1860 that was commonly installed before.

After all, this primitive submachine gun that uses pistol bullets is not suitable for plain battles.

In the last "Zhuchino Blocking Battle", the Henry 1860 has already shown its limitations of low accuracy, short range, and low power.

Under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, the Daming Royal Gun Factory, which is under the responsibility of Geng Gongbu's junior brother and Nie Gongbu, has successfully imitated the [Xing-237 type] rifle (that is, the [-]th cover).

It's just that the craftsmanship of the gun factory is indeed not as good as that of DR. Xing's secret research and development laboratory. There is still a big gap between this rifle and [Xing-237] in terms of various data.

But even so, this kind of firearm named [Dewu-02 type] non-automatic rifle has already begun mass production and installation.

In fact, the design drawings of [Dewu-02 Type] and [Xing-237 Type] are exactly the same. The reason why there is a difference in final performance is the gap in craftsmanship.

This does not refer to quality differences in steel.

Steel is an important industrial product. Although the cultural value penalty is much smaller than that of agricultural machinery, but the quantity is large, and it is far less cost-effective than making steel by yourself. There is a not-so-rich iron mine in Daming territory. The difficulty is very low.

Zhu Fugui built four experimental earthen kilns, one large, three small, and four experimental kilns, in accordance with the method of smelting steel in the 60s and [-]s, in a place that would not pollute Xinfeng as much as possible.

The small earthen kiln is an imitation of the "one furnace with three chambers reflective steelmaking furnace" invented by the Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce in the 50s, with a daily steelmaking capacity of three to four tons (see this paragraph for the picture).

The big one imitates the steelmaking furnace built in Yangquan, Shanxi Province in seven days, with a daily steelmaking capacity of 20 tons (see this paragraph for the picture).

Of course, the products of these iron and steel earthen kilns are mainly used for civilian use. Although they look a little low, they can add up to 30 tons of miscellaneous steel every day.

But don't underestimate this number.