The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Coming out of the sales office, Uncle Chen looked at the contract in his hand and said with emotion: "Today's era is developing too fast, but you young people are still brave."

Speaking of this, he remembered the Gao family who was reluctant to take the train and insisted on using their feet to measure the distance to Yuzhou.

"Sometimes life can only come with sacrifices. The Gao family was reluctant to spend some money to take the train to Yuzhou. However, when they arrived in Yuzhou, they found that most of the shops and properties in Yuzhou had been selected by the government officials and merchants. They went to Yuzhou Even if you pick up the leaks, you won’t be able to pick up a good industry.”

Chen Sihai also felt sorry for the Gao family in his heart, "Shopping malls are like battlefields, this is not just a saying. The train to Yuzhou is an opportunity for merchants to seize business opportunities. But the Gao family feels sorry for a small profit, but The gain outweighs the loss and it’s really not worth it.”

Business opportunities are limited, and if you fail to catch up, you may be one step behind others.

Just like the last time in Yuzhou, most people know that they can take the train to Yuzhou to buy property.

However, the Gao family was a big step behind everyone because of their savings. By the time they arrived in Yuzhou, everyone had already picked up good properties, and they could only pick up what others left behind.

This group of merchants who had arrived in Yuzhou early had purchased property in Yuzhou and then rushed back to the capital from Yuzhou.It happened that the remaining building in the resettlement community outside the city was being sold.

No matter whether they can buy these houses or not, at least they have caught up with this opportunity. At the moment, the Gao family is still running around in Yuzhou to buy properties, but they have not found a satisfactory shop or farm.

When the Gao family came back, nothing would be left.

Nowadays, the resettlement community outside the city is something that people around the capital are talking about recently.

In the palace, Xia Jing was also troubled by the sudden increase in coal consumption in the capital. In the past, the coal dug out could only be used for war, but now coal is used for trains, heating boilers, and the capital. People in resettlement communities outside the city use coal at home, which in turn encourages people in the city to also buy coal for burning.

The amount of coal used is suddenly increased, and the mining volume of coal mines can increase, but transportation becomes a problem.

In the past, horses and carts were used to pull, but now the use has increased, and the traditional horse-drawn carts are in short supply.

Xia Jing thought of the small trains in coal mines, which are very practical for transporting coal. In mountainous coal mines, no power is needed. With a slightly steep slope, it is easy to transport coal to the foot of the mountain in a small train car.

The small train is controlled by a cableway to move up and down the mountain. Coupled with the use of gears, even if it is manually shaken, it does not take much effort.

When the coal reaches the foot of the mountain, a mining area railway is built to transport the coal out.

Steam trains can be said to be a living fossil in the history of industrial development. Steam trains did not appear until the early th century.

As for the current era, Xia Jing made a comparison, which is probably the period of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in later generations.

The West is in the early stages of industrialization, while the East has fallen far behind the West precisely because of the change of dynasties and later the isolation of the country.

If she wanted to surpass the West, she took out the mature steam train drawings in advance, which means that the East had far surpassed the West during this period. As long as the Yu Dynasty did not let go, the basic framework had been established and it developed steadily. The East was already standing On top of the world!

Therefore, the cultivation of talents is really important. It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. If a person wants to become a talent from birth, he has to go a long way, let alone to build a dynasty with a declining country and poor people's livelihood to build up national strength again. How difficult is it to be on top of the world?

The wisdom of the ancients should never be underestimated. Sometimes they only need someone to enlighten them and give them an idea, and they can do well.

Otherwise, in the absence of external power, the ancients could design a water pump that could pump water from below to the canal above when the drop is three meters?

Can the steam engine be invented based on the principle of boiling water, and then applied to transportation and production?
And the matchlock guns and Folang machine guns that the Folang robots had already produced in this era?It's freezing and snowy outside. It's impossible to build a mine railway this season, but it's still possible to maintain the capital's coal consumption before the snow melts.

Xia Jing drove all the prisoners from Beidi to the mines last time, so that they could not work outside in the winter and could work underground. This solved the problem of the prisoners having free food in winter.

In winter, not only the grasslands, but also the areas north of the Central Plains, people stay at home for the winter.

But the south is different, especially Nanyang further south.

After Li Dingguo returned to Luzon from Dayu, he had been paying more attention to the merchant ships from various countries going north and south, especially the plants and seeds they brought, as well as all kinds of strange things.

"General, we haven't found anything at the docked merchant ships these past few times. I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete the mission entrusted to us by the queen."

Vice Admiral Ming Shui said with a frustrated look on his face that this was the fifth fleet they had come back to receive at the port in the past few days, and they still hadn't found any.

Li Dingguo stood in front of the map, pointed at a continent and said: "If we don't find it again, we can only organize a fleet to go to this continent to search for it according to the Queen's request."

Ming Shui looked over curiously and asked: "General, is this the navigation map that the empress drew for you? The world is actually so big and there are so many lands?"

Li Dingguo suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "Before this, I didn't know that the world was so vast. I would like to thank you for letting me see how big the world is."

Ming Shui's eyes scanned the world map inch by inch. After a long time, he pointed to the continent Li Dingguo pointed to just now, "Is there anything here that the empress is looking for?"

Li Dingguo followed his pointer with his eyes and shook his head: "I don't know. According to what the empress said, this continent is very large, with a small number of primitive residents, and the vegetation is even denser. Of course, it is different from the vegetation here. And rubber trees grow on a continent.”

Ming Shui didn't know why, scratched his head and stared at the world map and asked: "This rubber tree is very important? What is its use?"

Rubber trees first grew in South America. From the perspective of Nanyang, this world is in a different time and space from the previous life, but history has changed.

"I heard from the empress that rubber has a wide range of uses and can be used in basically every aspect of our lives. It is even more important to us than gold at the moment."

Li Dingguo doesn't know exactly what it is used for, but it is important to know that it is important.

Ming Shui: "."

He was so shocked that he couldn't recover. This rubber was so important that it was beyond his understanding.

And
"How does the Queen know things that are thousands of miles away? She also clearly knows the map of the world and what kind of trees there are thousands of miles away?"

No matter how you think about this, it seems weird.

Upon hearing this, Li Dingguo looked at Mingshui seriously and warned: "As a qualified minister, the most important thing is not to speculate on the master's thoughts and to explore her bottom line. If she accidentally touches her bottom line, it is It’s time for you to die!”

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My neck is stiff today and my head hurts so much. I will make up for it tomorrow when I have time.