parentshiftbook Chapter 891: The Higher The Technology, The Faster The Loss Of People’S Hearts And Minds [Please Sub
Chapter 891: The Higher The Technology, The Faster The Loss Of People’S Hearts And Minds [Please Sub
After entering the train carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the first seat on the left column without hesitation, while Queen Ma sat in the first seat on the right column.
Zhu Biao sat behind Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhou Wang Zhu Ji sat behind Queen Ma.
As for the third position in the left column, it is left vacant for Yan Changqing.
The third position on the right column was occupied by Zhu Yunxi.
Then Zhu Youdou sat in the fourth position in the left column, and then Xin Guogong Tanghe saluted Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, and received their nods of agreement.
Tang He grinned at the other princes again, and then sat in the fourth seat on the right column with Zhu Youmu.
Although medicine in the Ming Dynasty made more progress than in the original history, Wei Guogong Xu Da and Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong eventually passed away one after another after living a few years longer than in the original history.
After the deaths of Wei Guogong Xu Da and Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong in the past few years, they became both the Duke of the state and Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood playmate.
Tang He, who also made countless contributions to the Ming Dynasty, has become the most senior and highest-status among the current princes.
This is also the reason why Tang He can sit in the fourth position on the right column.
After Tang He took his seat, the remaining ministers and princes also took their seats in order according to their respective identities and statuses.
Finally, Yan Changqing closed the train door and stood at the front of the train.
Zhu Yuanzhang put his hands on top of the fixed table in front of him, moved his buttocks on the seat about 60 centimeters wide, and couldn't help but said with disgust and distress:
"You spent 20 million yuan to develop a place the size of a tofu cube?!!"
"This is not even as big as our hut!!!"
"There are only about twenty people sitting there!!!"
As the Emperor of Taishang, let’s not talk about how big the place where Zhu Yuanzhang lived, but the bathroom area where Zhu Yuanzhang went to the toilet was indeed not small.
After all, if the bathroom area is too small, you might be exposed to the stench from when you go to the toilet.
Moreover, bathrooms in this era often also have the function of bathing and changing clothes.
After all, sometimes after using the toilet, if you feel that your wipes are not very clean, you will take a shower again.
Therefore, taking the two factors into consideration, the area of Zhu Yuanzhang's bathroom is not only hundreds of square meters, but at least hundreds of square meters.
After all, a bathroom covering an area of 100 square meters is only ten meters long and ten meters wide.
This is already considered very small compared to Zhu Yuanzhang's palaces that often span hundreds to thousands of square meters.
The train carriage in front of me is three meters wide and 26 meters long, with a total area of 78 square meters.
If you really want to compare, it doesn't even compare to Zhu Yuanzhang's bathroom.
It's just that the train carriage is a rectangular shape that is three meters wide and twenty-six meters long. There is a limit of three meters in width. No matter how long it is, it doesn't feel much bigger.
Although he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was just stingy out of habit, so he complained a few words, Yan Changqing still explained:
"This carriage is a VIP carriage, so there are relatively few seats."
"If you remove these positions and just stand, then two hundred to three hundred people can stand in one train car."
"And if it's a carriage with ordinary seats, it can seat about a hundred people."
"A steam train has about five to twenty carriages."
"In other words, if everyone is standing, then a steam train can carry about 3,000 to 6,000 people at a time.'
"If all seats are ordinary, then a steam train can carry about 1,500 to 2,000 people at a time."
"This is equivalent to the number of soldiers from half a legion to one legion."
"And the same railway track does not mean that only one steam train can run."
"As long as the departure times are well spaced to prevent rear-end collisions, and there are enough steam trains, then a steam train will depart every half an hour."
"In one day, we can make forty-eight trips."
"In other words, at least 72,000 to 96,000 people can be transported in one day."
"It can transport up to 144,000 to 288,000 people!"
"what does that mean?!!"
"This means that if necessary, almost all the 300,000 soldiers of the capital camp who defend the capital can be transported to other places by steam train within two to three days! ㄖ!"
"What this means, I think His Majesty Emperor Taishang should know better than anyone else."
After listening to Yan Changqing's words, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became serious.
As the emperor who had been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for decades and now the Taishang Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang could The Grand Pure One know what it means to be able to transport hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the capital to other places within one or two days.
This means that Ming’s ability to mobilize troops will be terrifying to an outrageous level!!!
And with such a terrifying ability to mobilize troops, the Ming Dynasty's control over other places will also rise to a level that can be called terrifying.
If the journey from Yingtianfu to Songjiangfu really starts in the morning and arrives at noon as Yan Changqing previously advertised in [Da Ming Daily], then there will be no more rebellions tomorrow!
In other words, even if there is a local rebellion, Ming Dynasty can easily suppress it at any time.
One of the most important reasons why uprisings in previous dynasties became more and more intense was that the imperial court was unable to suppress local rebellions in time.
That's why the local rebellion took advantage of the ten days and a half, or two or three months before the imperial army invaded the territory to grow wildly.
It grew to the point where even the main force of the imperial court could no longer suppress it.
Well, this is how the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant uprising army.
And if the Ming Dynasty could lay such steam trains all over the world, then the Ming Dynasty would no longer have to worry about rebellion anywhere.
So thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but urge:
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Didn't you say that this steam train runs very fast?!!"
"Hurry up and run for us to see!!!"
Whether the Ming Dynasty can put an end to local rebellions depends on whether the steam train in front of it is as powerful as Yan Changqing blew it.
And what Zhu Yuanzhang thought of, the Emperor Zhu Biao, and the other six ministers, nine ministers and ten princes also thought of it.
Immediately, everyone present except Zhou Wang Zhu Ju looked at Yan Changqing expectantly.
Because Zhu Biao and other civil and military officials have not experienced steam trains, it does not mean that Zhou Wang Zhu Ji has not experienced it either.
Although Zhou Wang Zhu Ru is the vice president of Wanmin Medical College, he relies on his status as Zhou Wang and his friendship with Yan Changqing.
When Yan Changqing led a group of top craftsmen and students from the Wanmin Academy of Sciences to try out the steam train, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju also relied on his shamelessness and not being afraid of car accidents to ride the steam train several times.
Therefore, compared to others, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju naturally knew that what Yan Changqing said was true, and at the same time he was a little less excited.
Naturally, Yan Changqing didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang was counting on being able to rely on steam trains to completely put an end to local rebellions in the world.
If he knew, Yan Changqing would probably look at Zhu Yuanzhang with pitiful eyes.
Because even if steam trains were spread all over the world, it would not be able to prevent the decline of a country [at most, it would only delay the country's demise slightly.
Because when a court really reaches its final years, it will inevitably be the time when the administration is corrupt, the country's credibility collapses, the people no longer trust the emperor and the court, and everyone in the court is only seeking their own selfish interests and being alienated from morality.
At this time, even if the whole world is covered with steam trains, what will it do?!!
Steam trains cannot suppress local rebellions, so we still have to rely on people and soldiers to suppress local rebellions.
But at that time, maybe even the army's military salaries could not be paid out on time. How could we still expect such an army to suppress local rebellions?!!
It would be a good thing if the army without military pay did not turn into local rebellions.
And even if the army does not rebel, then where is the food and grass needed for the army to march and fight?!!
Will this be corrupted by corrupt officials in the DPRK?!!
If the army's food and grass for marching and fighting are stolen, then the army that doesn't even have food and grass will use a hammer to suppress local rebellions!!!
Maybe even because steam trains are spread all over the world, the country will perish faster than before.
After all, it might have taken local rebels several years, or even more than ten years, to reach the foot of the royal city in the past.
But now that there are steam trains, maybe a wave of raids can reach the foot of the royal city in ten days and a half.
So let alone steam trains, there are even more advanced high-speed rails, airplanes, and even other more terrifying high-tech products such as cannons and missiles.
But as long as people are still needed to use these high-tech products, as long as a large number of manpower is needed to maintain the rule below.
Then at the end of the dynasty, when people's hearts become corrupt, the country that deserves to die will still die!
Even because of these high-tech products, they may die faster than ever before!
In the final analysis, technology only facilitates human beings, but technology cannot solve the problems caused by changes in people's hearts and human nature!
However, Yan Changqing, who didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking at this time, turned his head and looked outside when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's urging words.
After seeing all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty sitting in the steam train carriage, Yan Changqing immediately shook a bell in front of the carriage.
Looking at the confused looks in everyone's eyes, Yan Changqing explained:
"This bell is used to notify the boiler master in front to prepare to burn coal and start the train...
"As long as you ring this bell, the corresponding bell in the boiler room will also ring."
"When the boiler master sees the bell ringing, he will add coal to the boiler, and then the steam train will slowly start.
As Yan Changqing finished speaking, after a while, everyone present heard loud whistles.
Then, everyone present clearly felt that the steam train under their seats was slowly starting and moving forward.
Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Youdou, who were sitting on the left and right sides, pointed at the scenery slowly retreating and said excitedly:
"It's moving! It's moving!"
"It's really moving!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma, Zhu Biao, and the other six ministers, nine ministers and ten princes could not help but turn their heads and look out the window.
With the start of the steam train, the speed of the train is getting faster and faster.
At first, everyone could still carefully see the scenery gradually receding from the left and right sides, but soon the scenery on both sides was so fast that it passed by their eyes.
Seeing this, Yan Changqing also pulled back the transparent glass window on the left compartment door and stretched his hand out of the window and said:
"Generally, when the train is in motion, we prohibit any part of the body from sticking out.
outside the window.
"Because even though we are sitting still in the carriage, the steam train we are riding is moving at a high speed of 50 to 60 kilometers per hour.
"If something flies over in front and hits us, or if there is an obstacle in front of us, our stretched out limbs will hit us."
"Due to the interaction of forces, we are just like being hit hard by something traveling at 50 or 60 kilometers per hour."
"It can range from broken limbs to broken limbs in severe cases."
"But we were sitting in the first passenger car, and there were no other passengers in front of us. Plus, the road ahead was empty and flat on both sides in October."
"So you can open the glass windows on your seats, briefly raise your head, or stretch out your hands to feel the current speed of the steam train."
If it is a high-speed train in Yan Changqing's previous life, or a train that has reached a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, then naturally it is not possible to open the windows outwards.
As a result, passengers with open windows may be attacked by flying objects from outside, causing personal injury.
Secondly, when the train is traveling at high speed, the car body and the air will form a dynamic balance.
If the windows are opened at this time, the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the car will be extremely high when the vehicle speed is fast and the wind speed is strong.
Not only will it leave a bunch of air near the car body, but in serious cases it may even cause damage to the car body, adversely affecting driving safety.
Thirdly, trains will produce noise and vibration while driving.
If the windows are opened, these noises and vibrations will have a great impact on the comfort of passengers, and will also cause noise pollution to the surrounding environment, etc. 0.9.
However, the steam trains currently developed by Yan Changqing are only early steam trains with a speed of about 60 to 80 kilometers per hour.
Even with the windows open, the air pressure inside and outside the car is not very high.
And like in Yan Changqing's previous life, when the early steam trains did not have air conditioning, they were allowed to open windows for ventilation, but they were not allowed to stick their limbs out of the window.
In addition, Yan Changqing only asked them to briefly stick their limbs out of the window to feel it, so in general it would not cause any big problems.
After hearing Yan Changqing's words, all the people below except Queen Ma and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru.
Everyone else present opened the transparent glass windows on their seats one after another, and then all leaned out their upper bodies.
Suddenly, the oncoming strong wind blew their hair back, making them all unable to help but narrow their eyes.
But even so, a look of joy appeared on the faces of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and the other six ministers, nine ministers and ten princes.
It can be said that it is the nature of every man to pursue the speed and feeling of lightning.
This is why so many men from ancient times to the present want to buy horses or cars when they get rich.
Essentially, they want to chase the lightning speed and the carefree feeling it brings them.
It's just that except for Zhu Biao and several other second-generation Dukes who inherited the title of father Lan, they are still relatively young.
Whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang, the other six ministers and nine ministers, or a generation of princes, they are all very old.
It's not a big problem to get on a horse and ride again on weekdays, but it's impossible to charge as fast as you did when you were young.
But the strong wind that was coming towards them made them experience the joyful feeling brought by the lightning and wind when they were young and charging rapidly on war horses. .