I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

In November, there are still nearly two months before the Chinese New Year, but Dahua's court has already made an annual summary and counted the development achievements of Dahua this year.

Civil servants do this, in fact, they want to increase their wages.

Although the salary of Dahua officials was not low before, but because of the relatively perfect supervision, the chance of officials to make money is greatly reduced compared with the Ming Dynasty.

So, their incomes haven't grown overall.

If it just doesn't grow, it's fine. The key is that there are more and more good things in Nanjing, consumption is getting higher and higher, and there are too many places to spend money.

They want to live a top-notch life, and relying on that little salary is far from enough.

Huaxia Land has always been the official standard, and officials are the top class.

However, the life of those businessmen and scientific researchers is more comfortable than that of their officials, which makes many officials unsatisfied.

Seeing that those generals were constantly being rewarded, they were even more unwilling.

When did the civil servants get reduced to such a level, this is simply unbearable.

So, they made a very nice report summarizing the development results over the years.

And these development achievements are naturally the credit of their civil servants.

The fifteenth, early morning.

Dahua's early morning was not completely canceled, but changed to twice a month. Occasionally there are major or urgent matters, which can be increased at any time.

The 15th is a routine morning morning, but this morning there is nothing to discuss.

This morning, the main purpose is to read the four years of Yongxing, or the development achievements of Dahua in the past four years.

"Long live, long live, my emperor."

Wu Changqing abolished many kneeling rituals. In most of the time and occasions, Dahua officials did not need to kneel.

However, it is necessary to kneel once in the morning.

This is not what Wu Changqing asked, but those officials did not agree to abolish it, which is very strange.

Wu Changqing couldn't get them out of their heads, so he didn't understand why they didn't agree.

Probably, it may just want to maintain the system of superiority and inferiority that has been handed down. If the change is too great at once, they will not adapt to it and will panic.

"Be flat, sit down."

In this regard, Wu Changqing was much more kind than the previous emperors, and he did not need them to stand up for meetings.

This morning, Dahua also invited some foreign friends to come and watch.

One is to show muscles, and the other is to show off.

Dahua has developed so well, of course, we must let foreigners know and make them jealous.

Looking at the envious eyes of foreigners, it is really cool.

The third aspect can also play a role in attracting foreign capital.

The better Dahua develops, the more attractive it will be to capital, talents, and even ordinary people.

After a few routine procedures, departments begin reporting development results.

The first to come out was the Minister of Communications, Ma Shiying.

"Since the construction of the railway started in the second year of Yongxing, we have now built three railways, namely Nanjing to Shanghai, Shanghai to Hangzhou, and Nanjing to Jiujiang, with a total mileage of 1,000 kilometers.

There are six under construction, namely Nanjing to Beijing, Beijing to Shengjing, Xuzhou to Zhengzhou, Jiujiang to Guangzhou......

Some of these railways under construction have also been opened to traffic, with a mileage of more than 500 kilometers and a mileage of 10,000 kilometers under construction.

Compared with the first year of Yongxing, the transportation capacity of our dynasty has increased by more than 100 times.

When the railway currently under construction is completed, the transportation capacity can be increased by about twenty times..."

It doesn't really matter how Ma Shiying came up with the 100-fold data.

Anyway, it's right to increase it many times.

This is only an achievement in railway, and then Ma Shiying has not stopped, and continues to report on the construction achievements of road and water transportation.

In terms of highways, Dahua has currently built three lanes with a width of more than ten meters, which are equivalent to highways, but there is no speed limit.

Of these three roads, only the one from Nanjing to Shanghai is paved with a thin layer of cement, while the other two are paved with sand or cinder.

The main issue is cost, and routes that are not particularly important don't need to be built too well.

In addition to these three galloping roads, the old official roads between other cities have also been restored.

In fact, highway transportation has also developed a lot, but it is not as shocking as the railway.

In terms of water transportation, Dahua has also achieved good results.

The former Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was often blocked and needed to be cleaned up regularly.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, even military expenses could not be collected, let alone river management.

After Dahua regained the north, they built a group of professional dredging boats. The effect of cleaning the sediment in the riverbed is very good, which is more than ten times the manpower.

After the steam engine was used to provide power, the efficiency increased several times.

Today, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has been completely dredged, and the shipping efficiency has increased two or three times compared to the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing to improve is shipping, and now Dahua has built more than a dozen large ports.

Shanghai, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Tianjin and so on.

The cargo throughput of its port is at least tens of thousands of times that of the Ming Dynasty, which is such an exaggeration.

"Yes, if you want to be rich, build roads first."

Wu Changqing almost

The slogan “Have fewer children, raise more pigs” was shouted out, but fortunately he braked in time.

"The construction of the railway still needs to be accelerated, making full use of private capital..."

Wu Changqing made a speech after Ma Shiying read about the achievements of the Ministry of Communications.

He still attaches great importance to transportation. As long as the transportation is developed, it can drive the prosperity of the economy. This is the historical experience he has seen in later generations.

Wu Changqing was satisfied, and the officials below also showed relief when they heard it.

As for the foreigners who came to audition, after listening to these data, their expressions were varied, and they had all kinds of expressions.

The representatives of Fusang are afraid. Dahua is getting stronger and stronger, and the threat to Fusang is getting bigger and bigger. They know that after Dahua has completed the internal development, there is a great possibility of expanding outward, and their Fusang must be the first to bear the brunt.

Carlos, the representative of Spain, was shocked. He knew what the 10,000-kilometer railway line meant, enough to connect all the important cities in Spain.

Carlos imagined what would happen if Spain had 10,000 kilometers of railways, and sighed.

Now Western Europe is vigorously researching steam engines, but the UK, which has made the fastest progress, has just made a five-horsepower steam engine.

Moreover, after running for an hour, the experimental machine was scrapped.

Other countries have not even built such a test machine for the time being.

Therefore, Carlos does not know when Spain will be able to build a locomotive, or what will be able to connect to the railway.