The newly built campus of the Yazhou Royal University of the Ming Dynasty was completed in the 12th year of Wanli. It is connected to its affiliated Yazhou University on the mountain in the north of Mexico City. It extends for ten miles and is brightly lit, like a mountain city.

The mountain gate of the royal university directly leads to the official road of Mo County. The official road is a newly built avenue that can accommodate eight horse-drawn carriages in parallel in recent years.

On the ground of the East, although the military government has encouraged horse raising in recent years, the foals born are not as good as the donkeys left here in Spain in the early years. All war horses were placed on the ranch for breeding, and the market was full of donkeys wearing new clothes.

The official road surface did not use the tracks in Mo County, but was directly paved with asphalt.

In the local area, the cost of asphalt paving was very high, and in ancient China, asphalt was mainly used as a small amount of adhesive.

However, the Majiagang oil refining industry in northern Asia has become a pillar. The local refining industry in the Ming Dynasty has developed better than Yazhou, resulting in the fact that the main products and by-products are not in line with the cost when transporting back, so they simply leave the by-products in Asia.

In Mo County, because of the natural asphalt lake, the local people had a high understanding of asphalt. In the past, asphalt and gravel were used to pave roads in the Inca era, and it was also used as medicine.

After experiments at the Asian Royal University, the carriages and trucks on asphalt roads have excellent passability and are difficult to be damaged by existing load-bearing. Moreover, mastering the production areas of large quantities of mining makes the cost of asphalt not as high as it seems.

Just like after the Nanyang Military Palace took control of Nanyang, the prices of local pearls were hit.

Therefore, the Dongyang Military Mansion opened an asphalt factory in the natural asphalt lake outside Mo County, and paved asphalt pavement on the main roads connecting Daxi Port and Changsheng Port and surrounding areas with high truck flow.

It does not damage vehicles, nor does it easily fall into mud on rainy days. A better road can make land transportation from Changsheng to Daxi Port more convenient. More chambers of commerce choose to take this path, which also means more taxes.

However, Chen Mu's desire to send large amounts of asphalt from Asia back to the local area was still dashed... It sounds quite embarrassing. The local infrastructure facilities are much better than those of Asia, which he, the time traveler, is in charge.

Although the emperor and the court both believed that the asphalt pavement was good, no one cared about large-scale paving.

People are playing too high, and the local area has a large area of ​​telegram networks, and the wooden and iron composite track is built and laid at a speed of thousands of miles a year. Who can still care about the road construction?

The recent letter sent by the court to Chen Mu briefly introduced the enthusiasm of local railway construction, which Chen Mu could not imagine.

The gentry was busy writing letters to officials in the court to allow railways to be opened in their hometowns. In some places, even the imperial court did not need to pay for railway construction. As long as a document is issued, the Ministry of Works will provide specifications to send officials to supervise the construction.

The hundreds of gentry in several counties, the big families themselves raised the wages and materials needed to build the railway, and recruited their children to devote themselves to their hard work and built the railway vigorously.

Some counties even have two or three parallel railways. Because the railway that was already under construction was not connected to a certain township capital, the people in this township raised their own funds and raised their own people. Then they built a small railway of twenty or thirty miles, saying that they had to connect to them.

In the era of wild growth, Chen Mu's future vision was very clear that these small railways built randomly would probably be stripped of them because they were not very useful and occupied land in the future.

But at least now, this local enthusiasm makes him unwilling to say those sarcastic words - this is the best era for railway development.

Horses, donkeys, oxes, carriages, donkeys, ox carts, and trolleys, have no power to compete with the locomotives. As long as a village is connected to the railway, the gentry can afford a locomotive that will transport three or five carriages by themselves.

The wealthy families don’t have to plant land or open shops. They hire a few people on the small railway thirty or fifty miles to transport goods to the villagers all day long. They can make a fortune by collecting tickets.

There is no need to think about those messy tax avoidance methods. The court does not collect taxes at all. Wanli's little abacus is so chewing on the ghosts. He doesn't even look down on the road tax at all. If the steam locomotive wants to run, he has to eat coal. Whose coal belongs to?

his.

It's all his.

Not only did he not collect taxes, he also had to pay taxes to the court when selling coal.

Wanli has long understood that collecting taxes is worry-free, but how can you make the money after paying taxes feel comfortable?

The people were also happy that the emergence of railways further improved the productivity level of the small peasant economy.

In the past, a farmer's house could not weave more than ten pieces of cloth in a year. It was not that the hostess and the most advanced looms of this era could not weave more, but that it was useless to weave more.

It is enough to use it; I don’t know who to sell it to; when I go to the county town, I will walk forty miles on my back with my cloth first, and then back forty miles. If I hire a porter, the cloth will be woven white.

Especially in this era when textile factories squeeze small weavers production, it makes people unable to survive.

But it is different with railways. Some big families don’t even need factories and have become big factory owners. The female family weaving cloths, and several men contact the buyers of the county town and even the capital city. The specifications are set every month, and the weaving is concentrated on the train and transported them all the way. When they come back, they can share the money.

This is how weaving cloths are, and even more so when craftsmanship is.

Due to human competition, it may not allow everyone to change their destiny through this, but it does allow everyone to live a better life than the past.

More importantly, even if it is a blacksmith shop in the village, it has good skills. It was possible that it would have switched to a tenant farmer's blacksmith shop in a certain half year and a year without income, and there was hope of survival.

Chen Mu, who is far away in the East, feels that this is an era of great change.

The real change is not about him making steam engines, nor about him creating something that he didn't originally have, it is called change.

But it is because Xu Ge Lao, who passed away last year, was carried into the grave by the Huode Xingjun, who was acquiring land by his family. It is because the villages in the north and south of the Yangtze River are busy building railways, just like the great charity in the past ten miles and eight villages donated dirt roads to build.

It is because the wealthy emperor made a fortune by participating in the competition first and then being a referee, and he won the world's coal mines; it is because the county school teachers along the canal can lead students to know steamships, and the rural school teachers along the railway can lead children to know steam engines.

Connecting the countryside with railways is that everyone in the world has changed a little by little because of the existence of these things.

This is a change, an extremely huge change.

Even Chen Mu from the Eastern Military Palace entered the Asian Royal College as the Minister of the Eastern Military Academy.

It is called testing the teaching ability of teachers, but in fact it uses public office for personal gain. It is relying on the last row of classes in the classroom. It has been inspected for two weeks and has not missed any classes.
Chapter completed!