: Railways are not roads, girls are the most poisonous (please collect, monthly tickets, recommendations, and follow-up reading)

Xianmen Pass, the residence of the Ming Dynasty Mission.

"Brother, times have changed. Our airship can fly three to four hundred miles an hour and three to four thousand miles a day. The speed is much faster than the railway. Although the transport capacity is not large, an army of ten thousand or eight thousand can still fly at any time.

Transported to the Wuji Valley! So your approach of not building railways and repairing official roads cannot stop foreign enemies, but only traps yourself. If you allow me, the Ming Dynasty, to build a railway to the Rakshasa Kingdom through Daijin, the Ming Dynasty will

Jin's special products and resources can be sold for money. With money, Dajin can run its industry well and stand among the world's great powers."

The one who was fooling Heshen was, of course, Zhuge Weidao, the 18th candidate military advisor of the Zhuge family. When he heard about this airship, it almost turned into a large transport aircraft!

Although the transportation capacity of this thing is still limited, the latest and largest models can also lift several tons of cargo, but if an army of eight thousand people, including people, equipment and supplies, does it take thousands of airships to move it? This is

Hydrogen boats! Maintenance requirements are extremely high. If the number is small, maintenance can be carried out regardless of cost. How many ground crews will be needed if there are thousands of boats? If the boats are not destroyed every day, the losses will be huge.

Although Heshen also knows the flammable characteristics of hydrogen (this is a Heshen who understands chemistry), but ten airships of that size are now parked on the grass outside Xianmen Pass! The fact is there, he cannot help but not believe it.

But "No roads should be built outside the Wuji Valley" is an ancestral family law passed down by Emperor Kangxi! How can we just change it? So He Zhongtang is in a dilemma now!

"Junior Brother Zhuge, you also know that 'no roads should be built outside Wuji Valley' is an ancestral family law passed down by Emperor Kangxi!" He Shen said, "We have been guarding Dajin for more than a hundred years, how can we just change it?

"

Is this still an ancestral family law?

Zhuge Weidao frowned, but it is not easy to criticize the ancestral family law! This ancestral family law is owned by the Jin State and the Zhuge family! The Zhuge family has been guarding "restraining mergers" and "doing a good job in compulsory education" for more than a hundred years.

”, aren’t the four red lines of “the monarch, his ministers, the dignitaries pay taxes as one body” and “the government is discussed and governed together” because of the ancestral family law passed down by King Zhuge Wuzhong? His ancestral family law is more powerful than that of Emperor Kangxi - his ancestral family law

It is written in every "heavenly book"!

The military advisors of the Zhuge family relied on the knowledge and information in the Heavenly Book to become semi-immortals and high officials. The Heavenly Book is so effective. How could the Zhuge family's military advisors dare to break the red lines drawn in the Heavenly Book?

And they have to stick to the bottom line, and other aristocratic families and nobles can only follow suit!

After all, no one wants to be enemies with a bunch of semi-immortals!

Moreover, King Zhuge Wuzhong also opened an opening for them to annex - they could annex Siam, Burma, Annan, Chenla, Nanzhang and other Ming vassal states, and they could also annex Java under the rule of Westerners.

Malacca engages in annexation.

But the red line of the Ming Dynasty cannot be touched, otherwise it will be the enemy of the Zhuge family!

As for the red line for paying taxes, it is even tighter. Tax havens do not exist in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty did not implement a tax law where high incomes pay more taxes, but paid taxes across the board, no one can escape.

Even the sons of powerful people like Zhuge Weidao had to pay taxes like ordinary people!

Even when he inherited the old man's inheritance, he still paid 1.5% of the inheritance tax - the tax was not high, but no one could escape it, unless he lived forever. Otherwise, even if he gave up his Ming nationality, he could not escape the abandonment tax.

, and pay more!

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty, an empire controlled by noble families, was able to maintain stability more than a hundred years after its founding, without losing the most basic social fairness. It must be said that this "ancestral family law" must be used in the right place.

Still pretty good.

The ancestral family law that Kangxi left to the descendants of Dai Jin actually ensured that Dai Jin and Taoism from China could gain a firm foothold in the Wuji Valley (Fergana Basin) and develop in Central Asia with it as the center.

grow.

After all, when Dajin does not build roads and only maintains limited contact with the outside world, the local forces in Central Asia are simply unable to compete with the Eight Banners of Dajin who "cultivate immortality through mathematics, physics, and chemistry."

Moreover, the presence of the "half-immortals" of the Zhuge family is enough to prove the correctness of the "immortal cultivation route". The weakness of Taoism that requires empirical evidence (most religions follow a route that cannot be falsified) is supplemented.

Therefore, Lin Zexu and Zhuge Weidao could not force the Kingdom of Jin to give up their ancestral family law, but they could reinterpret what "road" was.

"Brother and senior brother, we are not building a road, but a railway." Zhuge Weidao said seriously, "The railway is not a road, it is just two rails laid on sleepers."

"This..." He Shen was also stunned. There were no railways when Emperor Kangxi died, so the "road" he mentioned should not include two iron bars on a row of sleepers.

of.

Seeing that Heshen was silent, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "If there is an invasion by foreign enemies, all you have to do is send people to remove the rails, set them up with sleepers and set them on fire. The rails will be burned out of shape and it will be useless."

Already."

He Shen also understood this truth, but he still had to be careful about Daming and Rakshasa. So he thought about it and said: "Junior brother Zhuge, if you want to build a railway to connect Rakshasa... it is not non-negotiable, but this

The railway cannot come within a thousand miles of Wuji Valley.

Moreover, our craftsmen have to be used during the construction of this railway. You can just provide some engineers. After it is built, it cannot be managed by your Ming Dynasty or the Rakshasa Kingdom. It has to be managed by our people. You, the Ming Dynasty, will just wait for the dividends."

This Heshen is quite smart!

"Can your people manage the railway?" Zhuge Weidao asked.

"Why not?" He Shen glared, "Junior brother Zhuge doesn't think that we people in Wuji Valley are all uncivilized barbarians, right? Don't forget that we in Daijin also have a university hall, and our country's Immortal University Hall

It also has a world-class mathematics department! Even if our people have never managed the railway, we can just send them to Daming to study!"

Fortune telling... this is also an "algorithm". The "fortune tellers" of the Kingdom of Jin have studied the mathematics books handed down by King Zhuge Wuzhong for more than a hundred years, and their level is certainly not low.

In addition, King Zhuge Wuzhong explained all the methods of cultivating immortals such as yin and yang and the five elements, refining alchemy and refining gold, and refining qi to observe the sky using physics and chemistry (he does not know how to practice serious immortality!), so the Immortal University of Jin Kingdom is actually "

"Xiusian Polytechnic University", students from here want to study railways and engineering, which will not take much effort.

For the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to have a railway connecting the Rakshasa through the Kingdom of Jin. Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao turned to look at Lin Zexu. Lin Zexu stroked his beard and smiled and said: "That's it, just rent materials and replace them.

Track rights, as for the amount of leased materials and the valuation of road construction rights, leave it to professional officers like Zhuge Daozi and your Eight Banners Commander-in-Chief to negotiate.

Let's discuss next what name the Kingdom of Jin will use to send troops to India, shall we?"

"In name?" He Shen thought for a while, "How about this aid to the Mughal Dynasty?"

"Isn't this goal too big?" Lin Zexu said, twirling his beard, "Are you trying to drive the British out of India?"

He Shen nodded and asked thoughtfully: "Then what excuse can I make?"

"Yipian!" Zhuge Weidao suddenly interjected at this time, "You can claim compensation from the British and Indian authorities in the name of the British East India Company illegally smuggling and selling Yipian and poisoning the people of Dajin!"

"Okay! That's a good excuse!" Lin Zexu felt an unknown fire in his heart when he heard the word "Ya Pian". "The East India Company sells YA movies in India and Southeast Asia, causing countless harm to people. It's really hateful!"

Zhuge Youdao called Yapian before, but Lin Zexu didn't understand what it was? Because no one smokes Yapian now. In the Ming Dynasty, Yapian only existed as a raw material for controlled drugs and was not abused. But in India,

In Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, and parts of Central Asia, the abuse of Yapian is still very common, and various Yapian products (including Yapian cigarettes without smoking) are almost sold as daily necessities!

Recommend a new book by a newcomer - I am really not Prince Jing of Zhongshan!

The rule of Wenjing is so fascinating and intoxicating;

Emperor Wu's northern expedition to the Xiongnu was so magnificent and exciting that it made people's blood flow.

However, after Liu Sheng came to this world, everything has undergone some wonderful changes...

Empress Dowager Dou, who was occasionally confused but always found her way back;

The ruthless Emperor Qi who loves no one in order to thank the world;

Loving mother Mrs. Jia, eccentric brother Liu Pengzu;

There are also the poor prince Liu Rong, the unruly Su Ji, the young genius Liu She, and the scheming beauty Wang...

Liu Sheng learned a lot and lost a lot by being around these famous figures in history.

But Liu Sheng always couldn't understand: How could he replace the historical Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and become the emperor of the Han family after finally escaping from the fate of "Prince Jing of Zhongshan"...
Chapter completed!