Chapter 168(2/2)
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Whatever she needs and whatever difficulties she has, you can help her.
Do you understand?"
Li Xiao felt a little sorry for Xiaoyu about what happened to Xiaoyu.
This girl is also a stubborn girl, she is still alone after so many years.
I heard that some people actually want to get involved.
Xiaoyu didn't like any of them, but there were two very positive ones who were even embarrassed by Xiaoyu in public.
Now, no one dares to take a chance on this Aunt Li.
Got on the jeep and ran all the way to the airship landing site.
Li Xiao originally wanted to take the train, but because he got up late and needed to rush, he had to change to an airship.
The airship has been inflated long ago and is waiting at the landing area.
This is the benefit of privilege. When you go out, you can take an airship if you want, or you can take a train if you want.
Of course, Li Xiao's special train also departed at the same time.
Be prepared for Li Xiao to take the train again no matter when.
Li Lin and Zhao Liangdong ran to the side to eat, and Li Xiao sat by the porthole, looking at the scenery below.
After more than ten years of construction, Beijing and Tongzhou have become two different worlds.
There are basically no buildings in the capital, and the tall and towering city walls look like winding black dragons.
Even at an altitude of a thousand meters, you can see clearly.
Inside the capital, there are densely packed small bungalows.
At noon, almost every chimney was smoking.
Thin smoke even formed a small cloud over the capital.
And in Tongzhou outside the city wall, another world has formed.
There are tall buildings everywhere, and there are all kinds of factories next to the Tonghui River.
Inside every factory, a huge chimney is erected.
Since the advent of the steam engine, chimneys have been the main symbol of industrialization.
Regardless of whether it is white smoke or black smoke, it is a representative of advancement in this era.
Environmentalism has no market in this era.
The whole world is pursuing the era of huge chimneys like the Ming Dynasty!
Because of Li Xiao's relationship, Daming has a first-mover advantage in this regard. Almost all of the world's largest industrial bases are in Daming.
Moreover, they were concentrated in the north of the Ming Dynasty.
Liaodong, Shandong and Beijing have formed three major industrial bases.
Tangshan and Anshan have built the world's largest steelmaking plants.
Daming's steel production has accounted for 80% of the world's steel production.
Sun Yuanhua once proposed building a Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant over Xishan, but Li Xiao rejected it.
The steel plant must be built by the sea, preferably somewhere with a port.
After hearing Li Xiao's suggestion, Sun Yuanhua also understood.
The quality of Daming’s iron ore is very poor, far less good than the quality of iron ore from Australia.
The Ming Dynasty captured a large number of prisoners of war and indigenous people in Australia to mine iron ore.
Ship after ship of iron ore came across the ocean and arrived in the Ming Dynasty.
Being close to the port for unloading is a huge advantage.
Li Xiao didn't speak, and others didn't dare to speak either.
No one dared to disturb the commander-in-chief's daze. If he interrupted the commander-in-chief's thoughts and affected the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, he might be thrown directly from the airship.
The same goes for Li Lin and Zhao Liangdong who came back from the restaurant. Everyone was quiet.
Inside the pod, only the faint sound of the engine could be heard.
Nowadays, the technology of gasoline engines is becoming increasingly mature, and the main sign is that the noise of airships is getting smaller and smaller.
It is now very small, almost the same as the airplanes of later generations.
Moving forward along the railway line, small towns are slowly passing on both sides of the railway.
Along the road, you can see trucks driving on the highway.
Originally, Li Xiao planned to use trucks in large quantities on the front line, but when he arrived in Russia, he discovered that after a truck runs over a dirt road like that, it is basically impossible to drive on it.
There was no way, the Ming army could only use tractors with better off-road performance, but far lower load capacity than trucks.
However, two large truck production bases have been built in Shenyang and Changchun.
Since the front line is not needed, it benefits people's livelihood.
There are more and more trucks running on Ming Dynasty highways, especially around Beijing and parts of Liaodong and Shandong, where there are asphalt roads.
There are more and more trucks, and they need to be controlled.
Last year alone, the number of people killed in car accidents exceeded one thousand.
The year before last, this number was still over 500, and the year before that it was only over 200.
Going forward, no more than a hundred people died in car accidents throughout the year.
The number of car accident deaths is doubling every year.
In this aspect, there are no traffic rules and truck drivers drive wildly.
On the other hand, ordinary people do not know much about trucks.
I don’t know, this thing can really kill people.
I always feel that the truck is still far away and I can avoid it.
But by the time the truck hit me, it was already too late!
Li Xiao had no choice but to ask Jin Yiwei to formulate traffic rules as soon as possible.
Moreover, Jinyiwei also began to have a special department to take care of highway matters.
It's a chore that few people do.
Because the roads in this era were extremely chaotic, carriages, tricycles and cars all traveled on the same road.
Disputes happen from time to time!
Jin Yiwei's solution is simple and crude, as long as someone makes trouble and affects the smooth flow of traffic.
Regardless of whether you are justified or not, pull them all to the side of the road and give them five lashes.
With this method, the congestion caused by quarrels, scratches, and road rage has been reduced a lot.
It seems that sometimes a whip is better to use.
This guy is a bitch.
After a long time, Li Xiao finally recovered.
When I looked down, I had already arrived at Shanhaiguan.
Now Shanhaiguan, uukanshu www.uukanshu.com has become a huge city with a population of one million.
It can be seen from the airship that the port of Shanhaiguan is expanding again.
In fact, Shanhaiguan is not suitable for use as a port, but due to historical issues, there is still a dock here.
Although it can only accommodate a few small boats, there are also no large internal vessels running domestic routes.
The food that disembarks here is mainly food from the south, mainly rice.
The prosperous land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River produces a large amount of food. The north has a large population, and industrialization has occupied a large number of laborers in recent years, so food is naturally insufficient.
For the past thousands of years, the Grand Canal has been responsible for transporting grain from the south to the north.
To this end, the imperial court also specially organized water transportation to alleviate the food shortage problem in the north.
Now, no boats use the canal.
Sea transportation has completely replaced river transportation, and trains transported grain to Huating.
Then it will be shipped from Huating and shipped to Shanhaiguan.
After disembarking from Shanhaiguan, they were loaded onto a train heading north or to the capital.
It is this food from the south that feeds a large number of people in the north.
Chapter completed!