Chapter 387 Beizhen Fusi
The outer city of the capital is in a mess under You'an Gate on the left.
The You'anmen Gate is on the left, the Left Anmen Gate is on the right, and the Yongding Gate is in the middle. The left and right here is not based on the map to see where the left is where the left is where the right is. Instead, it looks from the direction of the emperor in the Forbidden City. The left is the left, and the right is the right.
Zhou Sijing, the head of the Steam Bureau, has dealt with many similar things. Since the Huode Xingjun started to set off, their craftsmen drove the heavy and slow steam locomotives wherever they went, and where can ordinary dirt roads with such a big guy, they would sink as they walked; sometimes they would destroy crops when they drove into the fields, and they would be chased and beaten by farmers with picks.
As for crushing bridges and planting into ditches, there are countless things.
It is logical that I have seen storms, but the current situation really makes Zhou Sijing feel difficult.
On the road, he always thought that it was unreliable for Huode Star Lord to knock the city wall to collapse. How could steam cars crash the city wall? But at least this is really the case in front of him. The front of the car was not stuck into the city wall, and even the hole was not exposed, but a gap was indeed exposed on the city wall, revealing the rammed earth structure inside.
The soldiers of the five cities and the people watching the fun were on the outside of You'anmen Square. Zhou Sijing saw his little brother being mistaken for the soldiers. After searching through his body, he found less than a dozen silver and held it in his hands. He was almost frightened.
They are also the Ministry of Works, and the head of the branch department can see the problem at a glance... The city wall was repaired by Jiajing year. It has not been thirty years since the repair. A normal city wall, let alone being hit by steamers, even if you use General Zhenshuo to bombard it, it will not be able to crack the cracks inside. At most, the blue bricks outside will be smashed and the soil inside will be rammed firmly.
This situation is mostly due to poor bonding materials, so Xu Guangqi cannot be blamed entirely.
But who asked him to ride his bike to the south of Beijing? If he hit Yangou City in Liangxiang County, it would be fine even if the city wall was destroyed. If he hit Beijing City, he would have to bear all the blame. Can he still bite the Ministry of Works?
Zhou Sijing pushed the crowd away and walked in. He knew that the family situation of the scholar who was recruited into the Steam Bureau last year and was only eighteen-year-old. He was frightened.
He has been from Suzhou for generations. His ancestors have been engaged in business and have made a family. When his father was born, his family fell into the trap and re-farmed. He studied at Longhua Temple since he was a child. Last year, he passed the imperial examination for the scholar of Jinshanwei and married his wife.
I wanted to teach in my hometown to make up for the cost of continuing my studies, but I caught up with the lack of such talents from the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Works. Zhou Sijing asked several of them in a row, but when Xu Guangqi came, he felt tired and simply used him.
This is not a person with ambition. It is said that his father-in-law who came to the Beijing Steam Bureau to apply for the recruitment was his father-in-law who had passed the exam but had never been an official. He said that Songjiang Prefecture used steamers made by the Steam Bureau to weave cloth. There was no such thing as the officialdom in this place, and he could still make some real achievements for the world, mainly with subsidies. Like the research in Beiyang, although there was no real teaching, he enjoyed the seventh-rank official position. The Emperor Wanli distributed one tael of silver per month, and there were rewards for making improvements.
In Xu Guangqi's words, going to the Steam Bureau is more expensive than farming and teaching in his hometown.
In the future, I can save money to buy a boat and go to the East to see the world.
In these days, if you have great ambitions, who would become an official? You will make money, do your business in both the east and the west, and change your family to a wealth of 100 million yuan.
This mentality is understandable. This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. The inherent morality and ethics and social environment have all changed. The inflow of large amounts of silver and the ocean trade seem to have created countless wealth overnight. People's desire and envy for wealth for a long time finally found a breakthrough.
While Zhang Juzheng's reforms made the court efficient, the people were afraid of power struggles. Official military, imperial examination schools and private craftsmen's schools injected new vitality into the society. The development of the four oceans also greatly increased the experience of knowledgeable people in the court and the country. There were too many legends and stories that spread rumors, which made people full of hope for overseas Chinese.
Zhou Sijing came forward and didn't speak. The old servants around him naturally came forward to salute the Military Academy of the Bingmasi, telling the whole story, and indicating that the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Works would fully repair the damaged city wall. They had handled too many similar things. The head of the Steam Bureau only needed to bow and salute from afar.
In the Steam Bureau's account book, this expenditure is called an experimental accident.
But this accident really happened.
The fat official of the Nancheng Army soldier and Ma Si looked forward to salute again and then handed the document to Zhou Sijing's old servant, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, Master Zhou, you can't leave, the city is so happy."
The official document is a telegram, as the saying goes, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty probably has an object of anthropomorphism in his mother's womb. People only call it "bolt" and "some general"; people also know that the steam engine is saved from a pile of mechanical parts, but it still needs to be called the Fire De Star Lord; the same is true for telegrams. People can see the lined poles all day long, but people just call it Shunfeng.
It is necessary to reflect a feeling that "others worship the gods and Buddhas in the sky, but my people use the gods and Buddhas in the sky."
And just thinking of this feeling, the people can imagine the stupid child who said to the world during the Chinese New Year, "Change this me into me" and added with a smile: "The people have not used it yet, I will give you a try first."
The telegram is not signed, and the content is just one sentence: The quasi-huode Star Lord goes to the imperial road on Tianjie, leads it to the Meridian Gate, and pulls the goods.
Just as Zhou Sijing read the official document and asked Xu Guangqi if he could still ride the car. Fifty percent of the soldiers and horsemen helped Xu Guangqi to handle it. At the moment of dragging the machine, drums and music were heard from the Youanmen Gate, and the middle-aged official sang the sound of horse hooves that were avoiding and advancing together.
Two riders played the suona and beat the waist-learning eunuch, and four horizontal and four vertical scattered riders stepped out of the city gate in neat steps.
The hype stopped, and the people stopped.
Sixteen cavalry guards wore steel arms, green and blue lacquered kirin suits, and sat on the tall mixed-type gray spotted Western barbarian horse. They pulled the reins with one hand and the other with the other hand, and the Taiping gun in the world on their shoulders. They raised their chin slightly and swept over the soldiers and people gathered at You'an Gate with a look of contempt.
In the end, their eyes were fixed on the Great Huode Xingjun who was dragged into the road and dragged onto the big cart in a crooked manner, and the leader of the cavalry revealed the Qianhu tooth sign of the North Town Fushi.
Zhou Sijing looked at the tooth card, pursed his lips uneasyly, looked back at the gradually warming up Fire De Star Lord, and then looked at Xu Guangqi, who was controlling behind him with his eyes, and scolded carefully: "The court has an order to take the Meridian Gate, but it won't come down yet!"
After saying that, he was even more cautious and bowed high to Qianhu, the Qianhu, who was sitting on the horse, slowly swallowed his saliva, and said, "The Qianhu is here, Zhou of the Steam Bureau is polite... Xu Suozheng and this B-type Fire De Star Lord are still young. No, don't you issue an edict to prison, right?"
Wang Tianrui, a Qianhu who was carrying the emperor to practice the clothes racks, broke his achievements because of Zhou Sijing's words.
Chapter completed!