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

"囍, originally refers to two happy events at the same time. For the Chinese, this word also expresses the meaning of mutual love. It is often used in weddings, love and other occasions..."

Rubbing her eyes, Julie was sure she was right.

"My God... Could it be..."

Julie covered her mouth again.

Chapter 094 Energy Supply

Seattle was once rated as "the best place to live in the United States" by "Money" magazine and "the best city to live and work" by "Fortune" magazine. It is recognized as a city with a high quality of life in the United States.

Zhu Fugui didn't have any intuitive feeling after reading these materials before.

But after spending this summer, Zhu Fugui finally understood what kind of feng shui land the damn Yankees occupied.

Accustomed to the scorching red sun of several major furnaces in China, this summer spent in Seattle this year can be regarded as a refreshing one.

What's more, Zhu Fugui secretly installed air conditioners and freezers in his temporary palace, Fugui Palace.

Of course, these are all confidential devices and have not been promoted.

One reason is that the air conditioner is too advanced to explain.

Now there are more and more people under the rule of the Ming Empire, and they are no longer as easy to fool as before.

The second reason is that the power supply in Xinfeng City is really difficult to support such consumption.

At present, there are not many serious electrical equipment in the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Fugui purchases equipment, he tries to give priority to diesel engine equipment.

In fact, Daming has no ability to produce diesel.

However, diesel engines are easily converted to gas engines.

The gas engine is the earliest internal combustion engine, and there are ready-made products in the Prada coal mine.

As long as there are enough parts, the skilled craftsmen of Wang Jie and Geng Junhua can make it soon.

Of course, Prada's gas machines are primitive.

Air pollution and noise pollution are serious but nothing.

In this year, the billowing black smoke and roaring sound of cylinders are simply an extremely modern and beautiful landscape, and no one will feel disgusted at all.

The key point is that this kind of old-fashioned gas engine has low work efficiency, whether it is used to generate electricity or start equipment such as cranes, the effect is not ideal.

Fortunately, Daming still has Dr. Xing who devoted himself to death.

Once again, he was anxious about what the empire was anxious about, thinking about what the empire thought.

After a period of research and development, two detailed drawings were handed over to the Ministry of Industry by Beizhen Fusi.

One is a drawing of a boiler machine that was widely used in rural areas lacking oil energy in my country in the last century;

One is a reciprocating piston two-stroke gas engine invented by the British in 1880 and slightly improved.

A simple summary of the characteristics of the pot camel machine is that it is stupid and clumsy.

It's extremely picky about fuel.

Firewood, coal, heavy oil, almost all fuel boilers can be used.

The camel machine can be matched with water pumps and water wheels for irrigation and drainage; matched with generators to generate electricity and provide electricity; and can directly drive various working machinery in threshing, rice milling, oil extraction, sawing, food processing and machinery manufacturing .

It can be said that it perfectly fits the actual needs of Daming today.

However, the pot camel machine is too heavy, and it is not suitable for use on vehicles and ships.

For example, all kinds of agricultural vehicles and cement transport ships that are already in Daming territory are not suitable for using potted machines.

At present, all military vehicles and ships use original diesel engines.

As for civilian vehicles and ships, the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Industry will unload the diesel engines and put them into storage as a strategic reserve for military use.

Instead, two-stroke gas engines will be installed on civilian vehicles and ships.

This kind of gas machine is light, has high thermal efficiency (about 15%), uses less steel, is low in cost, and is easy to move.

In terms of fuel, although it is not as picky as Guotuoji, but with Tang Sangui's Shanhaiguan as its back, Daming does not lack that bit of gas.

It can be said that the only disadvantage of the gas machine compared with the boiler machine is that it is easy to break, and it is troublesome to repair.

So use only on mobile devices.

With these two sharp weapons, the current energy supply security of Xinfeng City is basically unimpeded.

However, as a Chinese from the 21st century, Zhu Fugui has always had a unique plot for hydropower.

Zhu Fugui's hometown is right next to a small reservoir. When he was a child, he secretly skipped school to swim in the reservoir naked.

Now that I think about it, it was a really good time.

In Zhu Fugui's impression, the small hydropower plant in his hometown had very limited technical content and low efficiency, and even led to the near extinction of a native migratory fish.

In the subsequent ecological management, this small dam was demolished by blasting.

But even so, in the early years, it still played a big role.

Anyway, the Daming River will be captured by the mighty Asian carp sooner or later, and Zhu Fugui feels that it doesn't matter if he, the Asian emperor, exterminates several native fishes himself.

Therefore, for a whole summer, besides training the army, Zhu Fugui's biggest focus of work was on inspecting the hydropower station project.

Of course, the site selection of hydropower stations must be done with great care.

Otherwise, if a red-necked Guan Yu floods the Seventh Army and blows up the dam, it will be over.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui had to occasionally come out of the comfortable air-conditioned room to conduct field trips with officials from the Ministry of Industry.

……

In addition to solving the energy problem, the second major event in August was that at the end of the month, the second wave of piggies finally arrived in Port Angeles.

With the sweetness of the last time, this time, three piggy boats participated in the business of smuggling Chinese laborers.

They brutally stuffed more than 2200 people into three piggy ships, and made round trips within 2 months.

Inevitably, more than 300 Chinese laborers died in the Pacific Ocean during this voyage.

When he saw the Chinese workers on the pier being driven off the boat like pigs, Mo Bai almost couldn't hold back and took out the saber hidden in his waist.

But he knew he couldn't do it.

The empire is not yet able to transport the population from the homeland of China by itself.

It is not yet time for these dirty slave traders to be liquidated.

With a gloomy face, he counted the number of people together with the comrades of the Third Banner in civilian clothes, and then took Huagong to Baozhitang.

A skinny young man may have been too weak, and fell to the ground within a few steps.

"Damn slacker!"

The first mate's stick was about to fall, but suddenly he felt that his wrist was tightly clamped by an iron clamp.

"This, our Man!"

Mo Bai's English was learned from Mr. Xia, and it is far from being fluent, and it can even be said to be fragmented.

However, the first mate still understood the information from the eyes of the young Chinese in front of him.

"Damn it, I know, the goods are sold, don't care about my business!"

He struggled to pull out his wrist, and subconsciously avoided Mo Bai's sight.

"FK! Brothers, forget about these yellow-skinned monkeys, let's go to Pink Mary, today I treat you!"

"Really, then I'll order Susanna, that woman is strong enough!"

"Just your little thing, can you eat that fat woman?"

"Who are you talking about!"

The sailors laughed and walked away.

However, the first mate rubbed his wrists, and the young Asian face just now lingered in his mind.

"It's really strange, I always feel like I've seen him somewhere, is it the piggy before?"

The first officer shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

……

Chapter 095 Loneliness!

Since the process was straightened out when receiving the second batch of Chinese workers, the process of integrating the third batch of Chinese workers into Daming is more orderly.

Mo Bai and others took the three-phase Chinese workers for physical examination, disinfection, and bathing.

When they took the anti-worm medicine and pulled out a bunch of worms in the poop, Mo Bai laughed and said, "Your worms are much smaller than mine, and mine is as long as I carry!"

While laughing, Mo Bai saw the shadow of the past in these newcomers, and Xinhua Gong also saw the hope of life in Mo Bai and the others.

In short, except that there are still some people who are unwilling to cut their braids (Da Ming has not forced to cut their braids for the time being, but a tax of 10 cents per month is charged for washing their braids. The reason is that washing their braids is a waste of water resources. Environmental pollution tax.), other work is very smooth.

This time, Daming did not gather the strength of the whole country to organize a welcome party.

However, the Art Troupe of the Cultural Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites further polished the excellent plays at the previous welcome party, and then performed in a simple welcome ceremony.

Of course, the performance of the upside-down hair-washing robot is not among them.

That machine has been requisitioned by the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Even if it is still there, no second performer dares to demonstrate.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Fugui did not put the art troupe under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War after repeated consideration.

It's good that the art soldiers are very valuable, but Zhu Fugui still feels that the guiding principle of "the army is the army, the police are the police, and the people are the people" is more reasonable.

When artists come to the front line to perform for officers and soldiers, the Ministry of Rites can commend them in other ways, and there is no need to create some singing generals.

This is not to say that Zhu Fugui supports the traditional notion that "actors go down to the top".

Although the traffic stars of later generations are in power, the situation that few scientific researchers are well-known to the public except Yuan, Zhong and other well-known top scientists is not comfortable.

But writers and artists do have their value.

The Ministry of Rites will be a department that Zhu Fugui will focus on for a long time.

Through the means of culture and art, it is possible to establish in the hearts of the common people the new national outlook, historical outlook, and values ​​of imperialism with Ming characteristics, united around His Majesty Zhu Fugui in the new era.

Eisenhower, the future head of Citigroup, said: "A dollar spent on publicity is equal to five dollars spent on national defense."

As the final victor of the Cold War, his words are still very valuable, and they are worth learning from the emerging Ming Empire.

……

With the addition of Chinese workers in the third phase, the total population of the Ming Empire reached 4077, and the first town of the Royal Army expanded to 1120. At the same time, 25 new Royal Navy First Fleet staff and 15 cement ships were added.

4077 people, which is almost the population of Plato's Utopia.

Plato believed that a country that is too small is unable to resist foreign enemies, and a country that is too large will lack the conditions for square politics.

The ideal country is a society of acquaintances ruled by a "philosopher king".

Every citizen knows each other and can fully participate in the political life of the country.

Not only Zhu Fugui thought it was fart, but I am afraid that every Chinese emperor would think it was fart when he saw it.

It can be said that the city-state vision of the Western world constrained Plato, and also narrowed the vision of the designers of Western systems for thousands of years.

For example, the Chinese have long played badly, and the bureaucratic system, which is even regarded as a backward and reactionary system, did not appear until very late in the West.

Players of "Civilization 5" should have a deep understanding of this point.

From our point of view, [civilian system] or [bureaucracy], a technological point that should be placed before iron smelting and cavalry, has always appeared very late, which is very annoying.

There are no professional affairs officers to do things, and the country is managed by political officials elected by the nobles. Of course, a few thousand citizens are almost enough.

The well-trained professional bureaucrats in the classical Chinese era could only achieve "imperial power not going to the countryside" and could not control the grassroots. Those European aristocrats knew how to hammer and hammer apart from collecting taxes and conscription.

Until the founding of the United States, although the bureaucratic system had already been introduced, in the final analysis, it was still the Plus version of the city-state alliance.

Of course, there are many merits of the Western political system.