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

Of course, Zhu Fugui came here after a few days of rest after the new year, not because he was obsessed with women, but because of state affairs.

The Fengdu-Omaha Railway is really important to Daming.

Although the Spring Festival Gala has added a lot of cultural value to Zhu Fugui, in the absence of television broadcasting technology, even the spacious Fengdu Square can only accommodate a limited number of people.

Otherwise, there is no need to engage in a ticketing system.

The limited number of viewers has limited the amount of cultural value accumulated in the Spring Festival Gala.

Opening up the Southwest Railway and dumping cultural products to the Western world naturally became the top priority.

Moreover, with the further intensification of food shortages in the Atlantic region, the British have finally abandoned the southern government.

Lincoln pinched his nose and used Ulysses Simpson Granger, a veteran who once voted for the Democratic candidate in his own presidential election.

This is because of the helpless choice taken by his confidant, Robert King Jr., who seemed to be caught in an endless battle to annihilate the Black Paladins.

But it was this choice that made the pressure on the Southern Army increase sharply.

After Grant became the commander-in-chief of the federal army, he adopted the strategic principle of "divide and destroy" the Confederate Army, namely:

(1) Cut off the lines of communication of the Confederate Army so that they cannot communicate with each other;

(2) Three-light policy, destroying all resources of the enemy;

(3) Rapidly strike the enemy's grain-producing areas with superior forces, further crushing the enemy's logistics;

In addition, he also adjusted the command system of the combat troops, removed some incompetent people, and reused some wise and brave generals, such as Sherman, Halleck and so on.

As a result of Grant's strategy, the southern states in the Midwest were loosely tied to the Richmond government.

The southern strong state - Lone Star - Texas is currently showing strong separatist tendencies, not only splitting from Citigroup, but also planning to split from the Confederate government.

This made Richmond's supplies even tighter.

All in all, whether Daming can get through the lifeline to support the red neck in time is the key point for how long the Civil War can last.

From a strategic point of view, instead of exchanging soybeans and corn for money in future generations, it is far more cost-effective to ask the red necks directly for gold or women.

Chapter 227 Sangui and Zu Dashou

Facts have proved that Vanderbilt is worthy of being the former steamship king. Even though a large part of the steamship business was sold, the contacts accumulated in this industry made them transport Chinese labor much faster than Ming Dynasty.

By mid-January, the total number of Chinese workers in the railway company had reached more than 8.

Although it is far from the 20 people in the contract, this is also a rather terrifying number, and the number is still increasing.

Jiangsu alone has a population of close to 4000 million, and Anhui, the home of the Huai army, has a population of 600 million. In addition, the hungry people from Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan and other places came to the mouth of the Yangtze River. The population of this era is simply cheap. Fingers crossed.

In the original central line of the Pacific Railway, the total number of Chinese laborers was about 1, and most of them were Irish and other white laborers.

Huagong's performance is much better than theirs.

Now, [Tripartite Railway Company] is almost entirely composed of Chinese labor, and its production efficiency has soared.

In the original history, the Central Pacific Railway took about three years, but most of the time was spent in the Salt Lake Desert and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Therefore, the Xinfeng-Omaha railroad is expected to be completed by June this year.

Zhu Fugui came here in a hurry this time to personally meet the representatives of the Fuming Party among the Chinese workers.

The so-called Fuming Party is not a real political party, but a tool to mobilize the masses under the control of Jin Yiwei.

Because the use of these Chinese labors is beautiful, but there is actually a hidden danger.

That is the pretty good treatment [Tripartite Railway] gave them...

Of course, it's not a good treatment, just being able to eat enough, but just for this, they are likely to be grateful to Dade.

But the object of gratitude is likely to become an American capitalist or Li Hongzhang's Jiangsu governor's office.

This is something that Zhu Fugui cannot accept anyway.

Furthermore, because these Chinese workers are not suffering enough now, it is possible that when Daming recruits them in the future, their loyalty will not be so high.

In the past, among the Chinese laborers brought in from overseas by Daming, one counted as one, all of them had hungry faces, bitterness and deep hatred, and were very good at their jobs.

Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, especially the people at the bottom after being impacted by the long-term battlefield, to be honest, their life was not much better than that of slave labor in North America.

At best, a little freedom.

But these days...freedom is nothing!

Therefore, Daming absorbs these immigrants who have just crawled out of hell, and the naturalization is almost twice the result with half the effort.

But now, when these Chinese workers come to the railway company, Zhu Fugui can't bear to let them fill the road pit with their bones as in the past.

But taking the benefits for nothing, but not remembering Daming's goodness, Zhu Fugui is also unwilling.

Therefore, at the beginning, Zhu Fugui asked Yin Wei to select a group of brocade guards who were good at ideological work and mix them into the road construction team.

With them as the backbone, a Fuming Party was developed.

The Fuming Party came forward and negotiated with the Vanderbilt family and the eagle dogs in the governor's yamen of Jiangsu to fight for the welfare of the workers.

Of course, another function of the Fuming Party is to drive out bad money with good money, and to drive out strange sects such as Hongmen, Tiandihui, and even God-worshiping sects.

The program of the Fu-Ming Party clearly states righteousness. The Ming Dynasty has reappeared in the world. The Son of Heaven will lead everyone to live a good life.

Because of this, a strange thing happened...

"Oh, my dear Sleepy God, long time no see, how is my poor daughter?"

In the blue board building of the railway company, Zhu Fugui saw Donald who had gained a lot of weight.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Zhu Fugui feels that the people around him always get fat inexplicably.

Donald, who was already fat, looked richer now.

I don't know how he became the general manager of this railway company...

Shouldn't it be corruption and bribery?

Zhu Fugui looked at Donald suspiciously, the Jews have a bad reputation in this regard.

Donald, who had already learned to figure out the holy meaning, said quickly: "Oh, my great Sleepy God, don't look at me like this, the accountants of the household department, and the knights of the Jinyiwei are all staring at me! I am overworked and fat. !"

Reluctantly believing Donald's words, Zhu Fugui carefully asked about the specific situation of the matter.

It turned out that, just as Zhu Fugui had guessed before, Li Hongzhang, a human spirit, would naturally not give up taking advantage of this tripartite agreement to reap the benefits of increasing his strength for himself.

Unlike Zeng Guofan, who was old and frail and wanted to be a saint, Li Hongzhang had great ambition and courage.

In the Battle of Baliqiao four years ago, Seng Gelinqin led 3 Mongolian cavalry and 3 infantry to fight the British and French allied forces. They were defeated and thousands of people were killed or injured.

The French had only 3 killed and 17 wounded, while the British had only 2 killed and 29 wounded.

With such a record ahead, while the southern Han landlords were armed with fear of foreigners like tigers, their awe of the imperial court was more or less shaken in their hearts.

Therefore, this time Li Hongzhang returned to China with a huge sum of 60 taels. Apart from deducting 12 taels as military expenses for the Huai Army and the Hunan Army as agreed, he never mentioned the 15% stock in [Sanfang Railway Company].

Li Hongzhang bypassed the imperial court and directly sent his confidant Wang Dajing as a representative to follow the second batch of Chinese road construction workers to work in the railway company.

Donald came to ask for instructions on how to connect with him.

The easiest way, of course, is to sink directly into the New Yellow River, and it will be over. It doesn't matter if the culprit is the white wanted criminal or the Indian.

However, Zhu Fugui rejected the proposal after deep thought.

"Sangui, Li Hongzhang, Dashou, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, should not belittle his emissary. We should stop his mouth with money, use beauty to grab his handle, and use him as a dark thread to connect us with Zu Dashou."

Hearing this, Donald scratched his head and said, "Sleepy Lord, we are all men except Mrs. Julie and her maid, so there is no woman to confuse him..."

"If you don't have one, go to a foreigner's town to buy it, or go to the Jiaoshifang to recruit. Do you want my good family in Daming to do this kind of thing? Remember to issue an invoice!" Zhu Fugui glared at him, and was about to kick his ass.

Donald shrank his neck and hurried away.

He was such a smart person, so he naturally knew what Wan Sleepy meant, and the reason why he asked knowingly was just for Wan Sleepy's last sentence.

Invoice!

Invoicing is good. If you don’t invoice, don’t you have to pay the money yourself?

Pingxi Wang's family has no food left...

But having said that, who is this Zu Dashou?

He and I, Sangui, who has a slightly higher status?

With such confusion, Donald ran away.

Chapter 228 Spectacle!spectacle!I want to grab the spectacle!

Three or four days had passed after wandering around the railway company. After Zhu Fugui drank the last couple of goji berry teas, he bid farewell to Julie and prepared to return to court.

Before leaving, Donald brought up an old incident again.

That is the President Hill that he misses so much.

Two years ago, Zhu Fugui casually mentioned to Donald the matter of painting the Statue of Liberty and the President's Hill. Now that Daming has his own statue of Liberty Mazu, but the President's Hill has not been done for a long time.

Donald suggested that a wave of President Hill could be built to further boost Ming's GDP.

This made Zhu Fugui immediately feel reliable.

As a spectacle party, I haven't created a spectacle for so long, and I really need to review it!

After returning to Fengdu, Zhu Fugui came to Wang Jie, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to calculate how much manpower and material resources it would take to build four mountain stone statues of about 20 meters in length.

The President Hill of the later generations of the United States is located on Mount Shmore, and is engraved with four huge stone statues of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln. The face of the stone statue is 18 meters high and the nose is 6 meters long.

Zhu Fugui felt that the noses of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty probably didn't have as long noses as the ghosts, so their heads, especially the head of the great grandfather had to be a bit bigger than the ghosts, in order to show the demeanor of the emperor on horseback.

"This……"

Wang Jie was stunned, and said weakly, "Long Live Lord, this is a waste of people and money. Now that I am a newcomer, I am afraid..."

Wang Jie wanted to imitate the great Ming people who came to speak out, but Zhu Fugui is not Wanli Chongzhen, and Wang Jie is not Donglin Zhongzheng. Zhu Fugui glared at him, and Wang Jie immediately withered, and there was no need to go to court .

"Weichen will take someone to investigate now...Long live, just wait!"

Wang Jie left in despair.

After two years of investigation, Zhu Fugui knew very well that this old worker in the Ministry of Industry only had the talent of a craftsman but not the talent of innovation.

However, Wang Jie is very serious in his work. There is no such thing as independent innovation, but as long as there is a charter, he will be the best kind of person.

This made Zhu Fugui quite satisfied. After all, the general direction of the Ministry of Industry's innovation would naturally be grasped by him, a traveler.

With the foresight of future generations for 160 years, although Zhu Fugui is not able to handle every detail, he is at the helm with ease.

For example, in the dispute between direct current and alternating current, Da Ming does not need to electrocute an elephant to mislead the public. For example, in the dispute between airplanes and airships, Da Ming will definitely bet on the plane from the very beginning.

Although there are a lot of interesting steampunk experiences missing, at least as a late-developing civilization, you can overtake on corners as soon as possible.

As for whether this is counterproductive, whether it will kill the creativity of the Chinese nation...

Pull it down!

Originally, we did not participate in any of these events in history, and the Chinese nation has been scolded by foreigners and public intellectuals for decades for lack of innovation awareness.

As a result, when the new generation of young people went abroad with admiration for foreigners who are brave in innovation and good at accepting new things, they discovered that in 2020 Tokyo’s civil servants are still using fax machines, and buses are still using tapes and video recorders. European portraits was living in the last century...

In terms of innovation, the United States, which has talents from all over the world like South African Musk, is still number one in the world, but...

As long as the United States is put to death in kindergarten now, won't our Ming Dynasty be number one in the world?

With this in mind, Zhu Fugui has no psychological pressure on overtaking in various corners.

Wang Jie took the engineering team to measure for three full days, and then came back to report to His Majesty the Emperor.

Affected by the monsoon, the granite on the south side of Tenglong Mountain is eroded by wind and rain, which is not suitable for carving materials.

The north of Tenglong Mountain is close to the industrial area. It is not impossible to carve the emperor's head here, but under the effect of the chimneys of the factory, these heads may become black...

Counting and counting, it is really facing the west of Fengdu. The rock structure is intact, which is more suitable for carving.

So Fengdu will really be like Konoha, located under Hokage Crossed Out, Tianzi Rock.

It's really a good thing for collecting cultural values.

According to Wang Jie's estimate, the entire Tianziyan project is expected to need to remove 45 tons of rocks, which can be used as materials for the construction of the second and third phases of Fengdu.

As for the construction period required to complete all this, it depends on how much labor can be mobilized.