My Daming New Empire

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In the entire East, Boni is the only place that can produce high-quality light oil and is easy to mine and transport.

In Sumatra, there is one of the largest oil fields in Asia, and in Siberia, there are also huge oil fields.But don't talk about those places, even in Daqing, where the oil is pumped out, how can it be transported?

Only Boni country has the best oil quality, and it is by the sea, so it is the most convenient for both production and transportation.

Zhu Zhanji has some concerns about these two countries wanting to belong to Ming Dynasty. The main reason is that they have been greened.

After the Arabs developed in the eighth century, they began to green, especially after their country was occupied by the Turks, as they fled to Southeast Asia, they began to dye Southeast Asia green.

Especially in the past 100 years, due to the shrinking of the Mongol and Yuan forces, their development has been very rapid. Zhu Zhanji has already discovered this serious situation when he went to Southeast Asia three years ago.

Therefore, when treating them, they must not be given preferential treatment like Luzon and Xingcheng, but conditional help.

On August [-]th, Zhu Zhanji negotiated with them all day in Jinshen Temple. On the surface, he was very kind to them, but behind the scenes, he asked the cabinet to formulate strict religious belief policies to deal with their attachment.

If you want to become a Daming person, you can, but you must follow my Daming customs, and I have abandoned all the rules and regulations of the Green Sect.

Otherwise, even if I, Da Ming, want to win you over, I will only be able to help you to a limited extent.

Whether it is ironware, shipbuilding, or trade, they all have to be greatly discounted.

Before this policy is formulated, Zhu Zhanji wants to let them go.

But they didn't realize the indifference behind Zhu Zhanji's intimacy, because they had been dazzled by Ying Tianfu's prosperity.

Over the years, Ying Tianfu has become Daming's window to the outside world. This rapidly developing city amazes everyone who arrives for the first time.

Even businessmen and scholars from other places will get lost in this colorful world when they come to Yingtian Mansion, let alone these barbarians who have never seen the world.

The dazzling array of goods in the street market, all kinds of novelty gadgets with unknown uses, and the miraculous industrial zone all made these people feel as if they had come to an alien planet and witnessed the prosperity of Ming Dynasty.

"The mid-autumn festival is coming soon, and then it will be autumn again. For the time being, all you loves, stay in the guest house of Honglu Temple for a few more days. At the end of the month, I will find time to meet you all. Ma Aiqing, what do you want from Honglu Temple? To entertain several lords, don't be negligent."

"According to the purpose..."

Several national leaders also know that it will take some time for Zhu Zhanji to come up with a set of policies against them, and it will take half a month to come up with it, which is already fast.

They all said goodbye happily, and they couldn't wait to go to the market to buy a lot.

After they were sent out of Jinshen Hall, Zhu Zhanji turned around and said to Xie Jin and Jian Yi: "The problem in Nanyang lies in the issue of religion. Although I, Ming, can't help religion, I can't let any religion have too much influence. Therefore, in In this regard, there must be a strict system.

Of course, in addition to a strict system, it is not enough to establish a mechanism to attract people to leave religion.For example, people who believe in the Green Sect cannot receive assistance from Ming Dynasty, and the workshops opened in Nanyang cannot recruit people who believe in the Green Sect.

For these lords, those who believe in the Green religion will receive half of the aid, and worship is strictly prohibited. "

Jian Yi had never been to Nanyang and didn't know the situation there, so he agreed with Zhu Zhanji's decision very much.But Xie Jin knew very well that almost most of the people in the Nanyang region believed in the Green Sect.

Such a decision by Zhu Zhanji will definitely be resisted by them.

Among the three kings of Sulu Kingdom, Ma Han, the most powerful Eastern King, can be said to be Zhu Zhanji's man, and the other two kings can't make a splash.

But the Sultan of the Boni Kingdom, that is, Huang Yuanli's husband, Sharif Ali, is an Arab, and he came to Nanyang as a missionary earlier.

He had always had concerns about Daming because of his belief. Such a policy was obviously unacceptable to him.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "It's okay, tell Huang Yuansun what Gu means. If the other party is obsessed with obsession, I don't mind changing Huang Yuanli's son-in-law, or simply let Huang Yuansun be the only king."

The country of Boni is just a tiny country, not to mention the large western expedition army, just sending the naval fleet stationed in Xingcheng can directly level them.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival, political affairs were not dealt with on this day. Instead, envoys from all over the world were invited to hold a grand party from all over the world in Fengtian Temple to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the afternoon, various celebrations were held in the palace. Concubine Zhang Guifei, who hadn't come out for a long time, also asked several theater troupes in the harem to perform various programs for the servants, maids, and members of the royal family in the palace.

Zhu Zhanji did not participate in the celebration in the afternoon, but in the evening, he also spent a good time with his children.

At noon the next day, after lunch, he came to Xiamaqiao Farm and let the train conduct another experiment.

This time, he found another problem.

After the train was replaced with larger wheels, the stability of the train has increased a lot, and it is very stable to sit on. However, when cornering, the roll is still a bit serious due to the shock absorption.

But this is not a big problem, but when he sat in the car, he found that the design of the train was too narrow.

When designing the rails, Zhu Zhanji required a width of 1.5 meters, but one mile in the Ming Dynasty was about 560 meters. Divided by five hundred, one meter equals 1.1 meters in later generations.

That is to say, the width of the current railroad track will be 1.6m[-] in later generations, which is an absolute wide-gauge train.

There is also a reason why the design is so wide, because later generations based on the width of trains from the West, at the end of the [-]th century, it was actually unable to meet the transportation needs.

When the train was first invented, the rails were determined by the width of two horses, without any scientific basis at all.

But when the railway tracks are fully rolled out, it is too late to change.

Therefore, the width of the train tracks of future generations is always wrong.

Because the rails are designed in this way, the trains are designed in this way, including the tunnels, if you want to increase the width of the train, you need to change the entire railway line.

But train transportation cannot be stopped, so it cannot be changed at all.

Such a width can be used for a long time.However, with the development of science and technology and the development of industry, later generations have created many giant industrial equipment, which cannot be transported by train at all.

To give a simple example, the generator set of a hydropower station, the shell of a rocket, and the blades of a wind power generator cannot be transported by rail, but can only be transported by car.

Zhu Zhanji was born in the 70s in his previous life. When he was sensible, it happened to be the period of great development in the 90s.

Newspapers and television at that time often discussed the problem that the width of the train was too narrow, which made it impossible to transport large industrial components.At that time, many people suggested the construction of ultra-wide rails with a width of two meters.

The width of two meters is a bit too exaggerated, because it is a great waste of resources. After all, there are not many such large components.

He was curious at that time, and he also studied the gauge and transportation of trains.It is found that a gauge of 1.6 meters is not needed, but a gauge of [-] meters is not needed. In fact, the load width of the train can be increased by more than one meter.

Therefore, when Zhu Zhanji was designing, he asked Ma Zhicai to build the rails with a width of 1.5 meters (actually 1.6 meters five).

But because they didn't make it clear at the time, when Ma Zhicai and the others designed the carriages, they designed the carriages to be as wide as the rails...

After Zhu Zhanji sat around and the train stopped smoothly, Zhu Zhanji made two requests. "My dear friends, you have worked hard. However, after sitting alone for a while, I discovered two major problems. The first is that the carriages are too narrow, so that there will be a lot less cargo and people. The width of the carriages can be wider than the railroad tracks. More than one meter, according to Gu's estimation, even if the width of the carriage is more than three meters, it can still remain stable.

Secondly, it is too dangerous to rub the brake system with wood, so that it cannot stop in time in an emergency.Since the steam engine can supply power to drive the train, it can also supply power to lock the wheels.

Therefore, it is necessary for all of you to work together to develop a corresponding braking system. "

Ma Zhicai bowed and said, "Your Highness, if the train is designed to be too wide, it will be too heavy, and the power will be slightly insufficient!"

"Then study a new type of steam engine, a bigger steam engine, and technology will develop. In the future, it may be possible to build a train that can drive dozens of carriages, and can pull thousands of people thousands of miles away at a time. It cannot be done because of the current power. , the future will be neglected. Any design should be forward-looking.”

Ma Zhicai said hastily: "I'll arrange manpower to improve it now,...Then design the carriage to be three meters in the first place?"

Zhu Zhanji couldn't help feeling anxious about his brain, but he also knew Ma Zhicai's difficulties.He only dares to do things according to Zhu Zhanji's order, otherwise, if there is an accident, he will not be able to bear the responsibility.