After a while, Emperor Chongzhen shouted loudly with joy: "Okay, okay, okay!"

The advancement of technology is a trivial increase in speed for later generations, but in the eyes of today's people, it is a leap of speed. How can they not be shocked and unhappy?

Why did the territory of ancient China always remain the same and so large?

It is not because the emperors of all dynasties were only satisfied with such a large place, but because of the limitation of transportation, the rule of the dynasty could only be so great, and no matter how big it was, there was nothing we could do.

If you don’t say anything else, it means you’re going to the dynasty. At the beginning, the northeast direction, the Nuergandu Session was nominally in the Arctic Ocean. In the south, Annan and Togo were both Xuanwei Sessions of the Ming Dynasty, and even Annan was directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the distance was too far. After the heyday of the dynasty, these distant places were conveniently separated from the Ming Dynasty. It was beyond reach, which was one of the main reasons.

Now that this train is available, the control distance of the Central Plains dynasty will be greatly expanded. As a ruler, a new round of expansion of territory has become possible!

In addition to this, the central government's control over local areas will become more powerful, which is something that can be understood in a moment for these senior officials in the court.

The most basic thing is to transport grain. In the past, if the route is long, the food consumed on the road will be much higher than the food transported to the destination. However, with this train, the consumption of food on the road will be greatly reduced.

Perhaps Zhang Mingwei’s idea of ​​inventing the train was more about considering the steps of people’s livelihood. But as rulers, what they saw at first glance was definitely the angle they wanted most.

However, the same destination was achieved. In short, this train that improved the travel in ancient times was very popular.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen could no longer sit still and immediately waved his hand and said, "You guys, who will go and see together!"

"I obey the order!" In Wenhua Hall, excited voices responded in unison.

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Emperor Chongzhen led the civil and military ministers to hurried out of the palace and headed to the railway station outside the capital.

The people in the capital, because they knew that they could see a train that they had never seen before, had been waiting along the railway and outside the cordon as soon as possible.

Because there are too many people, many people ran to a place ten miles away from the capital to have a suitable location to watch the upcoming train.

They were talking about what the train that had been legendary for a long time, suddenly, someone heard a strange noise. When they heard the sound, they saw a centipede emitting thick smoke on the railway.

"That's it, is this the train?"

"It looks like a centipede, long!"

"It seems a bit faster, much faster than a carriage!"

"It seems that there are still people above, and there are so many people!"

"More than that, the back seems to be full of things. Tsk tsk, this is definitely a comparison of the carriage!"

“…”

Amid the discussion, the train approached, left again, and continued to head towards the capital.

Zhang Mingwei and others did not sit, but stood on the train to watch the scenery. Although the weather was already very cool at this time, no one was willing to continue to avoid the downturn.

The first time I took the train was fresh after all. Even Zhang Mingwei was no exception. It was the first time he took this train!

Along the way, they looked at the scenery and were pointing fingers, chatting and laughing with pride.

The people watching outside the cordon are already numb and the people in the car are no longer surprised by this. It can even be said that the more people they see, the more proud they are.

Gradually, we finally got closer and closer to the capital. The tall city walls could be seen, and the crowds watching the cordon became more and more thick.

"Ding..."

The whistle sounded like a dragon's roar, and it was heard from afar.

Before I arrived at the train station, I saw the Imperial Veteran there.

Song Yingxing then directed his son to slow down in advance, and finally slowly stopped at the train station.

Zhang Mingwei had already seen Emperor Chongzhen be so happy that he couldn't stop and stood there and smiled foolishly, without the calmness that the emperor should have.

The civil and military ministers behind him were all shocked, staring at the food-filled carriages behind him, all with incredible expressions.

Although they had known in advance what the train would pull over, as they saw with their own eyes, the pulling force of the train was still beyond their imagination!

Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Meiyu got off the train with all the steam unit to greet Emperor Chongzhen and complete the handover ceremony.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Emperor Chongzhen praised again, "It's worth spending so much money on me, haha, it's worth it!"

At this time, he couldn't tell that his heartache was heartbroken, and there was only joy on his face.

Then, Emperor Chongzhen took a red pen and got on the front of the train, pointed his eyes, and named the first train in the Ming Dynasty, Shenli No. 1.

During this process, Zhang Mingwei accompanied her throughout the process. Zhu Meiyu went to her mother's side, watched all this, and whispered to her mother's question in a curious way.

Everyone onlookers, including the people in the capital and civil and military ministers, did not say much about it while shocking.

Most people are very excited and happy.

However, a small part of them were very unhappy when they saw the train scene. However, the emperors were so happy that their thoughts were not important at all and they could not object, so they could only look worried.

This Divine Power No. 1 will be maintained next, then try it out a few more times, and then go back to officially put it into use.

In addition, in this era, it was not easy to build railways, similar to later generations, building bridges and passing through mountains and caves. Therefore, in the imperial court's plan, there would not be a railway running through the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, it was only built on the plains where a large amount of transportation capacity was needed. When the technology of building railways progressed in the future, it would be connected.

In short, with the launch of Shenli No. 1, people's understanding of new learning has greatly increased. Those voices that attacked new learning and bragging were not refuted by Zhang Mingwei, and were strongly counterattacked by facts.

It’s just boiling water in a kettle. What has been there for thousands of years is because of the emergence of new learning, but it has created such unimaginable things from it. Who dares to say that new learning is useless?

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On the Great Wall defense line north of Yongping Prefecture, there is a pass called Qingshui Mingyue Pass. At the end of the second year of Chongzhen, Jianlu broke through the pass and left the pass from here. In the future, the name will be changed to Lengkou.

However, at this time, under the leadership of the governor of Shanyong Zuo Yingxuan, this pass had already been built. The Great Wall defense line had long restored everything that should have.

Outside the Great Wall, there are piers as outposts, and when the enemy is discovered, the beacon will be ignited.

On the Great Wall, there were patrolling soldiers, patrolling back and forth.

And at the Great Wall level, there are garrisons of a certain scale who guard the Great Wall.

Not far behind the Great Wall, there will be a garrison's main force, which is the main force of the Great Wall's defense line. When you are training at the garrison and have a beacon signal, you can immediately arrive on the Great Wall to defend.

With such a defense system, it is absolutely impossible for the enemy to quietly invade the pass. However, if you want to smuggle a few people, you still cannot be guarded against.

As night falls, the moonlight is dim, and all kinds of wild beasts begin to come out to find prey. However, humans, as the overlord of the earth, have rested.

On a mountain Great Wall five miles east of Qingshui Mingyue Pass, a group of Ming army soldiers began to patrol along the city wall after a while.

This kind of thing is done every day, but nothing has happened for several years.

In this case, the Ming army soldiers patrolling were basically just walking around routinely.

However, this time they didn't know that just outside the Great Wall, there was a group of about six people who were lying in the bushes, looking at them with wide eyes.

When the Ming army soldiers patrol and calm on the city walls returned to peace, they saw the crowds of people moving quietly.

The person in charge, after reaching the bottom of the city wall, began to wave a flying claw wrapped in cotton.

Just by looking at his movements, you will know that this person is very skilled in it.

Sure enough, he saw him swing his feet up and his flying claws were thrown onto the top of the city, making a slight movement.

After listening, the man found that there was no movement, so he slowly retracted the rope until the flying claws stuck to the top of the city.

After pulling it down hard, the flying claws were very strong, the man nodded at the others and then climbed up first, like an agile ape.

The man gently climbed to the top of the city, looked at the left and right sides like a thief, and then pulled the hanging rope.

Then, the few people under the city wall all went up to the top of the city.

One of the leaders whispered: "Move fast, there will be patrolers coming soon!"

So these people immediately went to the other side of the city wall and fixed the flying claws to get out of the crowd.

At this time, a group of Ming soldiers were patrolling again in the distance of the city wall with torches.

After getting closer, a Ming army soldier suddenly shuddered and immediately shouted: "There is something!"

Suddenly, the group of Ming soldiers immediately became nervous. Under the illumination of torches, they saw a flying claw hanging on the city wall.

"Who? Come out quickly and see you?"

The voices of Ming soldiers shouted loudly at the city wall, waving torches, and trying hard to shine underneath.

But there was no echo, and no abnormalities were found.

If there are flying claws, there must be someone. I just don’t know if this person wants to sneak out or if he has sneaked into the pass.

The next day, the situation was reported to the guard general, and then to the desk of Governor Shanyong Zuo Yingxuan.
Chapter completed!