The emperor's letter was not the only one that made people feel extremely heavy.

For example, he told Chen Mu in the letter that he had sent the police to Beiyang again, because the railway from the Beiyang Military Government to Tianjin Wei had been repaired and the steam car had been opened.

The letter is accompanied by a hand-painted railroad track system drawn by the emperor himself, which is very simple, far less complicated than the railway implemented in Makino Prefecture, with no sleepers underneath, and a trapezoidal wooden rail that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and a layer of sturdy and smooth concave iron hats on top of the wooden cabinet.

In the middle of the two tracks is the dirt road of the galloping horses, and the rammed earth road on both sides is used for the passage of carriages and pedestrians, all the way paved for ninety-nine miles, the first Huo De Xingjun who galloped on the railway was called the big green dragon by the emperor, and this big green dragon is indeed worthy of this mighty name in the data.

The front of the big green dragon is composed of a total weight of 27,000 catties of A-type Huo De Xingjun, pulling seven large trucks, with a test load of 54,000 catties, including the front of the locomotive, each large truck needs to be pulled by ten tall horses when entering the track through a small wooden track that is gradually raised from flat ground.

Daqinglong galloped from Beiyang to Tianjin Wei at a speed of 320 miles a day with 271 emperors, important courtiers, and escort soldiers, and was a great success.

The emperor said to Chen Mu in the book that there was him on the painting, and there was more than one, but there were three.

The silk painting is more than four feet long and two feet wide, and for Chen Mu, the whole painting is full of magical realism, and there is no way to see what the structure of the first steam locomotive in the Ming Dynasty is, because the shell of the entire front of the locomotive is a big dragon head, worthy of its name.

And put a seat between the dragon horns, in front of the seat seems to be made into a dragon whisker like a glass cover to block the wind, the exaggerated technique of the Wanli Emperor is sitting there, the whole body is draped in red border army cotton armor, each hand holding a dragon horn, majestic.

At his feet, the dragon noses on both sides spewed out thick white smoke and dragged backwards, and the large trucks pulled then were not sealed compartments, but large board cars with wooden guardrails on both sides, looking at the notes on the paintings, it seemed that the guardrails had been carved, and every few steps stood a Beiyang flag army with a bird and a waist knife, and the helmets and guns above their heads, the flags behind them and the dragon flags on both sides of the car were dragged backwards one by one.

Chen Mu found a familiar figure in the car, there was Zhang Juzheng, the head of the empire who was sitting in the middle of the scarlet robe, with a serious expression, pointing to the distance and talking to the left and right; There is also the elder Zhang Han with a beard and a kind smile, and Wang Guoguang who wears jade-rimmed glasses and whispers carefully to Zhang Han...... Chen Mu did not find himself in this position, as the emperor said.

On the second car, there were mostly six ministries and nobles, Chen Mu looked for it again and again, he saw Ye Mengxiong, Shen Shixing and Zhang Siwei, as well as some familiar faces, but he still didn't find himself.

Just when Chen Mu suspected that he had not even been in the second echelon in Daming in the past few years when he went to sea, he saw a stone statue of a dragon and tiger Daojun standing next to Ye Mengxiong, where a dragon flag should have been planted, and he was wearing a scarlet robe and black yarn.

The stone statues are carved so vividly that the painter's drawings are vividly displayed on paper, making it almost impossible to find any shortcomings.

insisted on looking for it, and it was nothing more than that this idol didn't look like him...... The handsome man is much more handsome than this angry-eyed King Kong-like statue.

It's just a Nakshatra.

Chen Mu estimated that the emperor said that he should be this on the painting.

But what is the other one?

He really couldn't find it, and finally found the answer in the emperor's letter, and the emperor expected that he couldn't find it, so he asked him to go back and take a closer look at Da Qinglong's eyes...... I don't know whose idea it was, the emperor put two Zhenshuo military cannons on the front of the steam locomotive, and the cannon body was covered by the shell and could not be seen, only the two cannon muzzles were exposed as eyes.

This made Chen Mu believe that the emperor must be the best disciple of Chen Xue, and he learned this habit.

In the cold winter, the moon sits on the dragon's head, and the people are in the cannon, what kind of spirit is this.

In the end, the emperor said that he was very righteous, and asked Chen Mu to have someone paint a picture when the Muhe Railway was opened, paint him, and send the painting back to China as a national treasure, creating an illusion of 'I am very free' for future generations.

This is the only thing in the long letter that makes Chen Mu happy.

Another thing is that the emperor did not mention his cat this time.

Chen Mu clearly remembered that Wanli was not as simple as liking cats, but that he had to take cats with him for everything, and in the past in the letters between the local and the Great East every year, Wanli would mention his cat more than once in each letter.

It's either this little guy or that girl, and the steam locomotive sent this year painted Chen Mu didn't find the shadow of a cat, nor did he see his cat mentioned in the hundred-page letter.

It can't be said that there is no at all, and it is mentioned twice, once to ask him if the Siamese guy who is sitting on the Wanli ship has turned around the New World, and the second time is to say that his Asian guy is not easy to raise, but the new cub can still play.

He saw this as an outward manifestation of the emperor's inner loneliness...... You say that this is a good emperor, why do you insist on living on the margins of society?

As he gradually finished reading the emperor's letter, Chen Mu could only tell the Jinyi guard who sent the letter that he was afraid that he would have to stay in Changsheng for a few days before he could go back to his life.

None of the three questions in the emperor's letter were easy to answer.

The reorganization of the army can only start from the military service system of conscription and recruitment, and the reform of the education system is also a complex and extensive matter, and Chen Mu cannot make a decision at will, even if it is just a decision to give suggestions, he must be cautious.

But at least he can come up with a short-term or even long-term solution.

Only the third one, Wanli used a good analogy, boats, where to get a few more boats, this is the most difficult thing in Chen Mu's opinion.

Even he only had one idea, because Wanli's problem was exactly what he had been doing, but for a long time, this idea that he had been practicing but was not clear was asked by Wanli.

In successive dynasties, the local area has been in a state of self-reliance.

Self-reliance, literally.

It is not the European empire that carries out the division of labor in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia, but self-reliance, and carries out the division of labor in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Guangxi.

The transformation of an agricultural country into an industrial country will lead to a sharp increase in resource consumption and internal output, the old contradictions have not been resolved, and the new social contradictions have become more intense.

All the problems are dead, the empire needs more telegraph lines, longer railroads, which can bring obviously huge benefits, and the emperors, the bureaucrats, who rule the country, everyone wants to do this and has to do it.

But there is not enough steel.

If there is not enough steel, more workers are needed, more workers and more output need better capacity, and better capacity needs ...... Railway.

Chen Mu couldn't help but look at the "Green Dragon Picture on the Ground" spread out in front of him.

He seemed to see a steam locomotive named Daming running all the way with full firepower, but instead of railroad tracks, there was a strong wall in front of him.

In all the precedents that Chen Mu knows, at this time, the country has only two choices, either to turn left or right.

The left turn is a revolution from the bottom up, and there is no such soil in the Ming Dynasty; Either turn right, or continue to advocate the heavenly kingdom, use nationalism to escort top-down reforms, and attack frantically in all directions.

In Chen Mu's impression, Tsarist Russia is like this, but Tsarist Russia is still a feudal serf internally, which is an enlarged toast, which led to the bankrupt merchants in World War I China uniting and blowing themselves up first.

And Chen Mu believes that with his knowledge, if he joins hands with the most outstanding politicians of this era, they should be able to cross this hurdle.

But first, he had to go to the military hospital to meet Chen Shigong.

The emperor said that Zhang Ge was tossed by hemorrhoids and couldn't get out of bed when he returned from Tianjin, so he found a doctor from Xu Jie's mansion to treat him, but the doctor in Beiyang said that it was not appropriate, and finally the emperor decided to send someone to Dadongyang to ask.

Because when he was young, the emperor thought that the best surgeon in the world was pulled to Dadongyang by Chen Dashuai, and brought the prescription over to Chen Shigong to see, if there was no problem, let Zhang Ge Lao treat it according to this.

Chen Mu frowned at the prescription and was silent for a long time, at this moment, what he was holding in his hand was not a prescription, it was Zhang Juzheng's life.

Because this flavor is called the medicine of withered hemorrhoids, the formula is alum, toad crisp, light powder, and arsenic.

The toxicity is in no particular order, and any one of them can be used in large quantities to kill people.