My Daming New Empire

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Once someone breaks the rules, they can have people sweep the streets for them, maintain law and order, and hide by themselves.

Just take care of such a thing, don't worry about hard work, you can get [-] catties of food a month, and [-] wen a month.

So now in the entire Yingtian Mansion, these old people can be seen patrolling everywhere, and the security of the capital has improved a lot.

This is the only one in Ming Dynasty, and it is still being tried out. If the effect is good, it will be implemented nationwide in the future.

Yu Qian frowned and thought for a while and said: "Although each person seems to have little money and food, but there are millions of people in Yingtian Mansion, I am afraid that more than ten thousand old people are needed to maintain the situation. This is thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of dollars every month. A catty of rice and grain! It costs so much in this area alone, and it may not be easy to implement it nationwide."

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "His Royal Highness and court officials are the ones to worry about these things, and it's our turn to worry about them. We just need to remember that after we go out, we must not cause trouble at will, and we must not bring our bad habits to the capital, or a dignified person will sweep the streets on the street. It's really gentle..."

Yu Qian smiled flatly: "Thank you for the reminder, if something like this really happened, I'm afraid I'd be too embarrassed to go out."

With the two book boys who had been warned, Yu Qian and Wang Gan went out.

After leaving Taipingfang, they came to the Imperial College not far from Taipingfang. Although maps are still important military materials, they are detailed military maps, maps of the whole country.

City maps like Yingtianfu are not kept secret.

They bought a new map with a standard scale, divided into several colors.

Anyone can go to the green area, including Guozijian, most areas in the city.

Some yamen are painted yellow, these are the areas that cannot be bumped into casually, and you are not allowed to spy at will.

There are also some red areas, no one is allowed to approach without a pass.

Yu Qian noticed that Jiajiang Industrial Zone, which he most wanted to visit, was half yellow and half red.As for Xiamaqiao Farm, the eastern part near the city wall, except for the Royal Hospital, is all red, and only the newly built Polytechnic Institute is yellow.

On the contrary, except for the imperial palace, the inner treasury is a yellow area in the city, and even most of the yamen areas are green.

Wang Gan was a little strange, and couldn't help but said: "Even the governor's office of the fifth army and the sixth department are green areas, why are those factories in the red area instead? Doesn't this mean that those factories are more important than the sixth department? Moreover, the imperial palace is also the only one. It's a yellow area, doesn't it mean that the palace is not as important as those factories!"

Yu Qian shook his head, and he didn't understand why Zhu Zhanji made such a division.

However, seeing such a division, he seemed to understand now why the people of Yingtian Mansion lost the respect they used to have for officials.

The governor's mansion of the five armies, the six ministries, and these yamen of the imperial court, the common people can watch at will without breaking the law.

But those factories and research institutes can't even get close.This shows that His Highness regards some technologies there as more important than the safety of the court officials.

"It's not easy to enter Xiamaqiao. Let's go to Jiajiang Industrial Zone first. Although you can't enter there, some major roads can still be passed. Let's go and see. In Hangzhou, there are not so many factories built in it. Together."

Wang Gan also had no objection, he had long been curious about the industrial zone that looked like a new city.

The four found a carriage carrying people, and said they were going to Jiajiang Industrial Zone to have a look.The groom obviously saw a lot of guests who came to Beijing from other places and wanted to increase their knowledge, and said with a smile: "If you just go alone, forty coppers, and back and forth seventy coppers."

Although the price is a little high, but Yingtianfu is the capital city, the cost is a little higher in the first place.

Yu Qian didn't even bargain, got into the car with a smile and said: "Old man, we are new to the capital, and you have to tell us about the strange news and wonders in the capital."

The coachman smiled and said: "It's natural, old man, I have lived in Yingtian Mansion for more than 50 years, and there is no one in Yingtian Mansion that I am not familiar with."

The four got into the carriage, and the carriage walked along the Bell Tower and Drum Tower of the Guozijian, went south to the Gongyuan, turned west, and left the city through Qingliangmen.

It is not true to say that it is out of the city, because the city defenses here at Qingliangmen have been removed, and the people can come and go freely. This place has formed a piece with the Jiajiang Industrial Zone outside the city.

The coachman is talkative, and every time he passes by a place, he will tell a few people about the historical allusions here in detail, making them feel that the seventy words are not injustice at all.

Just after leaving Qingliangmen, the streets here became 100 meters wide, the cement road was divided into various lines, and trees and flowers were even planted in the middle of the road.

The carriage came here much faster, and suddenly, Yu Qian's book boy exclaimed: "What is that?"

Yu Qian followed his gaze and saw a large group of towering buildings connected into a large area, with small square openings on them.

The coachman was very proud of the astonishment of the few people, and said with a smile: "This area is a house built by the inner eunuch for the fellows, and there is a large area in front of it, which was built by the Ministry of Industry. This is the only one in Yingtian Mansion. The house has six floors. Gao, people are all living in the sky..."

Wang Gan asked: "Then how do you cook? How do you use water? How about going to the latrine?"

The coachman smiled and said, "You don't understand. Have you seen the square house above the house? It is said that it is a large pool. The water is pumped up from the ground with a steam engine, and then every household can directly receive water into the house. .Cook at home, boil water at home, go to the hut, flush the water, and it will flow directly to the underground septic tank, which is very convenient!"

Yu Qian shook his head and said: "The bookstore in my home also bought a steam engine. Using this machine to drive printing saves a lot of effort. But I didn't expect that the steam engine can be used here."

The coachman laughed and said, "It's so rare. This steam engine was used to pump water in the mine a few years ago. It was only after His Highness came back that it was changed to the machine. Now it is necessary to use the steam engine to build the train. Look, the craftsman who paved the road over there is I'm paving the way for the train, and I don't know what the train will be like."

Looking at these novel houses, several people couldn't help but want to go down and have a look.However, it has not been fully built yet, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. They can only look outside for a while and leave in dismay.

But soon, they were attracted by the more novel scenery. The sight seemed to be a big chimney soaring into the sky, which made them speechless in surprise.

These are the chimneys of the iron and steel factory, there are three in total, two are from the factory of the Ministry of Industry, and one is from the internal supervision factory.It's just that they don't know why the steelmaking plants have to be built separately.

The factory of the Ministry of Industry is for ordinary steel, and the steel factory of the internal supervisor is for special steel. Of course they are not clear about this.

Wang Gan suffers from acrophobia, and now looking up at the chimneys tens of meters high, he feels a little dizzy.It was hard for him to imagine how these chimneys were built.

Although there are young troops and navies stationed in various factories, they cannot enter.But just wandering around the factory area, looking at the buildings and large-scale equipment that are completely different from other places, several people feel that the trip is worthwhile.

On the way back, Yu Qian looked at these factories and couldn't help but said: "I think I know why this is a yellow area, and some factories are now a red area."

"why?"

"Because this is the power to change the world. These are more important than the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period and any individual. With guns and cannons, Mongolia was conquered by us, and with various warships, Dongpu was conquered by us. And there are With these changes, the whole world will be conquered by us."

Wang Gan looked at him in surprise, then at the factory area behind him, and became thoughtful.

But Yu Qian said with some yearning: "Now, I am more interested in Your Highness's Xiamaqiao Farm. It's a pity that you can't enter there..."

The coachman smiled and said, "It's okay if you just walk along the main road, but you can't see anything there. The sun is shining today, and the Qinhuai River Park in front of the farm is suitable for you to stroll around in the afternoon. Good luck." , and you can see the train running.”

Now several people are interested, they just saw the train track, but they can't imagine what the train looks like.

It would be a worthwhile trip if you could take a look.

Back in the city, it was already noon.On Gulou Street, several people got off the carriage. The street here is wide, but it is being renovated everywhere, and demolished houses can still be seen on both sides.

However, the shops that are still open still attract a large number of people. This is the place with the largest number of Western toys in the capital. People from all over the world and special things from all over the world are almost all sold.

Here, they also noticed an old lady with a red cuff on her left arm. While sweeping the garbage on the ground, she looked at the situation on the street. When she saw someone who did not obey the public order, she would step forward to stop it.

"Sure enough, it's the best place..." Yu Qian sighed, and said to Wang Gan, "Let's find a place to fill our stomachs, and then take a carriage to the Qinhuai River Park."

According to the coachman's instructions, you don't need to rent a car to go to Wudingmen Dongshuiguan.There are public carriages in the city, the carriages are bigger, and there are more people sitting on them. One person only needs two or three coppers to take a ride.

The few people were not interested in shopping, so they found a restaurant casually, filled their stomachs, and asked where they could take a public carriage.

Get on the bus from here and take a ride to Dongshuiguan. You can choose to walk or take a boat to visit the park.

This time, they were lucky. After arriving at Qinhuai River Park, they saw a large crowd gathered on the south bank, all looking north.