Don't make trouble, let's build infrastructure!

The layout of the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry is similar to that of the Ministry of Households, but as soon as you enter the door, there is a pile of iron utensils next to it, and a few steps forward is another batch of wood with sawdust on it.

There was no one in the yard, but there was a hum of communication, and Tong Ran followed the sound around the screen wall and walked inside.

"The last time I went to ask for hard wood, the boy from the household department took more than half a month to approve it. He is so stingy!"

"So is the mud in my place! Mud! The kid who approved the document is still shaking. I think the face of Hades in the household department was picked out by a stingy guy."

"The grandsons of the household department, when they rob people, they are very skilled in martial arts, and when they ask for money, they only use two words - no!"

Tong Ran didn't know what kind of thief's den he had entered. There were many people gathered in the main room of the Ministry of Industry, no less than those in the Ministry of Households just now.There are many rows of tables and chairs here, which looks like an office, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry are sitting on the table with their legs crossed on the chairs, and they are full of righteous indignation and speak ill of the household department next door.

Such a big hatred?

Tong Ran stood outside the threshold, not knowing whether to enter or not.

"Wow--!" The little tiger roared and solved his problem.

Someone turned his head and patted the arm of the person next to him in surprise. The person cried out in pain and jumped up to scold, but was stunned when he saw Tong Ran.

"Master Tong, why are you here?" Shen Xi was the first to react, jumped off the table, and smoothed his official robe.

Tong Ran said awkwardly: "I have something to do, it's not too important. If you are busy, I will come back another day." After speaking, he immediately turned to leave.

"Don't, don't, don't." Ren Jin rushed over to hold Tong Ran back, "Since you're here, sit down for a while, Mr. Shen, our director of the Ministry of Industry, is familiar with Mr. Tong, let him chat with you?" Ren Jin called Shen Xi, and waved wildly, Tell the others to sit down quickly and skip the tea party.

The people from the Ministry of Industry all jumped down from the table, straightened their robes, and stood upright. Finally, there was a bit of an official atmosphere in the main room.

"Master Tong, sit down." Ren Jin asked Tong Ran to sit down, and ordered tea to be served.

The Ministry of Industry was not as formal as the Ministry of Household Affairs, so Tong Ran was simply asked to sit on an official's office chair, and Ren Jin also gave him a hand to sit next to him.The rest of the people didn't sit down, but they didn't go back to their workstations, they just gathered around.

The person serving the tea looked a bit at a loss. He brought the green tea first, and then the black tea after a while. After having two cups, as if it was not enough, he brought the third cup.

Tong Ran took a sip of the green tea, smelled the black tea, and finally gave the third cup of white tea to the little tiger. The little tiger sniffed it, turned his head and refused to drink it.

The tea-making official is Qiu Le, a fifth-rank doctor. He shouldn't be doing the tea-making job, but he was the most vicious when he scolded the Ministry of Households just now. Naturally, he should try his best to curry favor with Tong Ran now and beg him. Don't spread the word.

When Qiu Le was scolding the Ministry of Accounts just now, she looked fierce, but now she is a little naive, Tong Ran couldn't help but curl her lips: "Don't worry, Mr. Qiu, Tong won't go out and talk nonsense. It's just Do you have any grudges against the household department? Why..." Tong Ran didn't have the nerve to say the following, why did they gather here to scold the household department in broad daylight?

He didn't say anything, but the people in the Ministry of Industry could hear it, and smiled foolishly. In the end, Qiu Le said: "It's not that the Ministry of Industry has admired Mr. Tong for a long time, and we have always wanted to invite Mr. Tong to sit down. Don't take it to heart, my lord, we are never like this."

After Qiu Le finished speaking, he agreed.

The people in the Ministry of Industry are different from those in the Ministry of Household Affairs. They are generally darker, thinner, taller, and more informal, with a bit less airs than high-ranking officials in the capital.The sleeves of several official uniforms were still rolled up, their faces were covered with dust, and they looked like brick movers.

It's a bit like when he was aiding in Africa. Although he was an engineer, he often had to go to the construction site, and he looked so dusty when he was busy.Tong Ran looked at them and couldn't help but feel kind.

"Master Tong is here for something, right?" Ren Jin brought the conversation to the point.

Tong Ran nodded. He originally planned to come to the Ministry of Industry tomorrow, so he hadn't prepared a gift yet. Fortunately, the people in the Ministry of Industry seemed to be easy to get along with. He breathed a sigh of relief and took out the bright yellow scroll.

"I have some things I want to do, and I need help from various departments, especially the Ministry of Industry, so I asked His Majesty for an order. You can take a look." When Ren Jin pulled him to sit down just now, he saw the style of Ren Jin's official uniform and recognized it at a glance. It turned out that it was the Shangshu here, so he handed the things directly to Ren Jin at this time.

Ren Jin, like Yan Liang, spread his hands flat, took the oracle respectfully, and opened it for a closer look.

After reading it, he rolled up the imperial decree and returned it to Tong Ran, muttering: "Your Majesty, this is too stingy. Are you only going to be a fifth-rank doctor? Ren, a minister, can't do it?"

The little tiger was lying in Tong Ran's arms and closed his eyes to rest, but he glanced at Ren Jin when he heard this.

Ren Jin spoke in a low voice, only he and Tong Ran could hear him present, and Tong Ran smiled politely, this minister of the Ministry of Industry is also a strange person.

"What did Your Majesty say?" the other officials from the Ministry of Industry asked one after another.

"Your Majesty said that Mr. Tong has something to do, and he can dispatch officials below the rank of six doctors to help him." Ren Jin said listlessly.

"Doctor?" The others in the Ministry of Industry looked at each other in blank dismay.

"What's the use of just being a doctor, you have to be a secretary anyway!" said the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Tong Ran hugged the little tiger, with a smile on his face, complaining in his heart: This Ministry of Industry really has a strange brain circuit.

Just now, some people in the Ministry of Household Affairs quietly lamented that His Majesty gave too much power. When they came to the Ministry of Industry, they all disliked that the grades that His Majesty encircled were not high enough, and everyone looked dissatisfied.

"What's wrong with the doctor? The doctor's skills are very good!" Qiu Le said, "If you want me to say, Your Majesty is wise, it will be all right to reach the first level of doctor."

"Then let's compare our skills?" Ren Jin rolled up his sleeves.

Qiu Le was immediately persuaded. Ren Jin was born in a family of craftsmen and had served the palace for generations. He was a master at blacksmithing and palace repairs, but he was far behind.

Qiu Le was shocked, and the other doctors who were not as skilled as him were also persuaded, Ren Jin smiled triumphantly.

The little tiger glanced at him and was useless.

After Ren Jin was satisfied, he found that he forgot to ask what he was going to do, so he hurriedly asked.

Tong Ran said: "I want to build a train, a steam-propelled vehicle that can carry hundreds or thousands of people at a time, faster than a horse-drawn carriage, and can run for hundreds of miles without stopping."

When going to the household department, Tong Ran only explained what he wanted, because he felt that the people in the household department might not understand these things, but the workers in the engineering department were all experts, and many people present would participate in person, so he chose to tell the whole story.

Tong Ran guessed right, the people sitting here are all experts.

As soon as Tong Ran's words came out, there was silence in the main room of the Ministry of Industry.

After a while, Ren Jin opened his mouth and said, "Master Tong, what you said...really?"

Tong Ran nodded with a smile.

"God!"

"This is impossible!"

"There is nothing impossible. Mr. Tong has done many impossible things."

"How to do?"

"Don't rush to ask so many questions, what about the venue? How big does it have to be to accommodate hundreds of people? My lord, do you want the house to run on the road?"

"Are you kidding, how many wheels does it take to make the house run? And how to support the weight?"

The initial shock passed, and countless questions came one after another. Tong Ran closed her eyes, as if five hundred ducks were calling in front of her.

In the end, Zuo Shilang, who was the oldest in the Ministry of Industry, coughed twice to suppress the clamor in the room.

"Master Tong," said the aged Zuo Shilang, "the car you mentioned is too bizarre, and everyone is very curious. I wonder if my lord can explain it to us in detail?"

This is not impossible, Tong Ran asked for a piece of paper, and someone brought a pen and ink.

Tong Ran was still not used to using a brush, so he took out a quill from his pocket and dipped it in ink.

When the pen was written, the main room of the Ministry of Industry was filled with admiration.

"That thing is a pen?"

"There is also one on your majesty's table. I saw it when I went to the Xuanshi Hall for an audience."

"How could His Majesty have it?"

"Naturally, Master Tong dedicated it to His Majesty."

It's really not.

Tong Ran slandered that he was indeed the one who made the pen, but it was Fan Heng who borrowed flowers to present to His Majesty after taking it from him.

When he entered the palace two years ago, His Majesty didn't know how to use it, but now he has practiced a smooth calligraphy with hard pens, from the structure of the frame to the strength of the strokes, everything is superior to him.I don't know where His Majesty got so much time, but he still has time to practice hard-tipped calligraphy.

The little tiger rested on its stomach next to Tong Ran's drawing paper. Tong Ran's handwriting was not bad when he wrote with a quill pen, but it happened to see his writing with a brush twice by chance, so it was a bit horrible.

At this time, he used a quill pen, writing quickly, and his painting techniques tended to be realistic, with concise strokes, and he often outlined outlines in a few strokes.

The little tiger poked its head out again. It learned painting since childhood. Although it can't be said to have much attainment, it can still speak a little bit. Tong Ran's painting skills are realistic at best, and completely unartistic at all.He only cares about whether the drawing is accurate or not, as for things related to beauty such as posture and angle, everything is out of consideration.

Tong Ran was painting seriously, completely unaware that the tiger cub next to him was disgusting him again.

His drawing skills are practiced by drawing design drawings. Accuracy and speed are what he pursues. Now when he draws in public, his speed is very fast and his wrist is very steady. After a while, he outlined a locomotive on paper, and a Cut the rails, and finally outline a few carriages with simple strokes, and a painting is completed.

As for lighting, background and so on, he doesn't take it into consideration, as long as the perspective and proportion are right.

After Tong Ran finished the painting, the officials from the Ministry of Industry had already seen some of it, and they were all amazed.

As soon as he picked up the pen, the painting was taken away. Ren Jin, Qiu Le, and Shen Xi seemed to have forgotten that there was someone here, and they all went to the painting, and chattered again after a while.

"Wonderful, wonderful! It does not develop horizontally, but expands vertically, wonderful!"

"What is the axle between these wheels?"

"The connecting bearings must be made of steel, right? I'm afraid wood can't bear it."

"How many cars can this connect?"

"I don't know, maybe five or six festivals are okay?"

"Guess what, ask Master Tong!"

The officials of the Ministry of Industry all looked at Tong Ran again, and Ren Jin said, "May I ask Mr. Tong, how many carriages can this train have?"

These people finally remembered themselves again, wiped the nib of the quill pen, put it away, and then said: "I can't explain it clearly, I will try it when I have time."

"We have to experiment, there must be a place." An official from the Ministry of Industry muttered.

"We don't have such a big land." Officials from the Ministry of Industry discussed again.

"Go outside?" The man meant to go outside the capital.

"It's too far away," another person shook his head. "This train is not easy to make. I'm afraid we all have to participate. It's unrealistic to put it outside Beijing."

Everyone in the Ministry of Industry got stuck on the first question, and there was a moment of silence in the main room before Tong Ran finally found a chance to speak.

He said: "There is a place, His Majesty has allocated a piece of land in the suburbs of Beijing to me."

"Have land?"

"The suburbs of Beijing?"

"His Majesty's?"

The people from the Ministry of Industry all looked at Tong Ran again.

Tong Ran nodded.

People from the Ministry of Industry: "Then what are you waiting for? Master Tong, please lead the way!"

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