Tianjin, the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Government.

The most important thing in the Ming Dynasty in the seventh year of Wanli is nothing else, that is, the cabinet has decided to select a second assistant and three imperial historians to tour the world every two years in the future, and the cabinet member who visited the thirteen provinces of Nanjing for the first time is Zhang Han.

Even with Zhang Juzheng's cleverness, it is difficult to be meticulous about the changes in the world, and he can only realize it later.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Wanli, when Chen Mu left half of the five-year plan for Beizhili, the governors of Huangzhuang, Wangzhuang and various prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi inevitably mentioned one thing, whether in official documents submitted to the imperial court or in private letters of greetings--the black smoke that continues to flow along the coast of Beizhili all year round.

Black smoke is not just black smoke.

In the eighth year of the advent of the steam engine, with Tianjin Beiyang Military Port as the center, it went north to Jizhen Zunhua, east to Yongping Fushanhaiguan, and south to Laizhou, Shandong.

And really make the popularity and scale of Beizhili industry surpass Guangdong, the direct cause of all this is not manpower, but natural disasters.

Tianjin is located at the foot of the Nine Rivers, and last year's ferocious flooding of the Haihe River made Tianjin a country of Ze, destroying almost all farmland, grain farms and increasingly prosperous factories, destroying the oil and textile industries that had just developed, and destroying the glass factories that had just started, and countless casualties and missing people in the early stage.

Even the recruiting officers who rushed to the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Government were also harmed by the flood, and an entire new recruitment department of 1,000 households disappeared without a trace under the flood.

Plague and famine followed, killing thousands of people.

This is already the result of the imperial court's efforts to provide disaster relief.

The Beiyang Banner Army was dispatched to 14 disaster-stricken counties to maintain law and order, the Nanyang Military Government had all the 6 million stones of rice and grain transported by the emperor to the victims, and the Beiyang Medical Academy had more than 1,700 trainees and issued a military order to form 264 medical teams to go to various places.

When the disaster ended, the banner army opened a cemetery under the Jiguo Tower, and buried 67 coffins and 440 clothed mounds.

Some of the doctors were not able to keep even their hair, and only a few items were kept in the tombs that were commonly used in military hospitals.

Grief is inevitable, livelihood still has to go on, the merchants are anxious to recruit skilled craftsmen and craftsmen in various places, but they are displaced everywhere for hundreds of miles, and where can they achieve their wishes in a short time, everyone coincidentally works in tandem.

On the one hand, he sent people to the best craftsman academy in Nanjing to hire graduates at a high price, and on the other hand, he spent a lot of money to buy the nearest steam engine, the sixth year of Wanli Huo De Xingjun Type A.

This name is sealed by the emperor himself, but it is not the little guy in the Forbidden City who is burning up and running around the courtyard outside the Qianqing Palace.

The first six years of Wanli Huo De Xingjun type A steam engine is a real big guy, the first six years of Wanli is the model, the middle of the Huo de Xingjun is the name, and the last type A means that it is the largest form among the four finalized types of this year.

More than 600 parts of the size, the whole assembly is six feet high, three zhang long, weighs 27,000 catties, starts up and roars endlessly, through the valve can be adjusted in the four preset gear forces under the force of 600 lang, in order to cope with different needs.

This big guy is supervised by the Ministry of Industry Steam Bureau, and each one must be nailed and printed by the Ministry of Industry after the buyer assembles and the first trial is completed, and it is the most proud product of the Ministry of Industry Steam Bureau.

In fact, the scope of application of Type A Huode Xingjun is not wide, due to transportation, Nanyang Ordnance Bureau and other reasons, no one in the south has come to order, and only the largest textile factory in Beizhili, Beiyang Ordnance Bureau, Qi Jiguang Jizhen Zunhua Iron Factory, and several hubs of imperial telegraph transportation can only be used in the north.

But it is the most majestic, the Ministry of Industry in the sixth year of Wanli in the beginning of the year after the finalization of a total of 46 units of the first type of Huode Xingjun, a total of 46 units of the first type of Huode Xingjun, after the steam bureau for a year, food, materials, the surplus money is enough to launch a conscription to build two 280 miles long carriage wooden rail road from the Beiyang Military Government to Tongzhou.

However, in fact, the merchants who bought the Wanli six-year type A did not boast about this thing, because it was not the slightest superior compared to the five-year type A, and the strength was as great as it even made people faintly feel a little smaller, but the weight and price rose sharply.

For no other reason, because three of the Wanli five-year model A were damaged in one year, and the most serious one exploded in the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau, and the flying hammers and parts, and the flying charcoal caused a fire, injuring more than 20 craftsmen and workers, killing one person on the spot and leaving six people disabled.

The six-year model A mainly enhances safety and is naturally more bulky.

There are more commercial models B and C circulating on the market, which can be used in mines, various factories and even workshops with more than ten people, and the price is very fair, and the production is easy not to mention the simplicity of transportation, although the maximum strength is not more than eighty langs, but it is more popular.

As for the smallest Ding type, that is, the kind of Huo De Xingjun that Emperor Wanli used as a mount in the palace, it is basically not sold on the market, and the profits harvested by the middle two models are used to make the smallest Ding type in large quantities and distribute it to the people, but it is much simpler than the emperor's mount.

In order to solve the problem of lack of manpower after the disaster, the Ministry of Industry sent more than 600 units of Ding-shaped Huode Xingjun to the sixteen counties of the two prefectures of Hejian Province in the sixth year of Wanli.

However, the interesting thing is that the flooding of various years and models of Huo De Xingjun in Beizhili not only did not impact the handicraft industry, but made the wood, iron, coal, mining and other industries and their derivative industries become unprecedentedly prosperous due to the production of supporting machinery and tools.

Subsequently, the news reached the ears of the senior officials of the DPRK and China, who knew nothing about this black smoke, and this led to Zhang Han's tour of the provinces.

Because black smoke is a problem brought about by great change.

Industrialization that was relatively confined to a 'smaller' province brought about land annexation, population movements, and the decline of agriculture, and although industrialization avoided the old problems of land annexation, it also brought new problems.

Dense courtyards serving industry formed new villages, and the major factories became closed places outside the law for the imperial court.

The lack of officials to plan the towns, the inability to transport people to keep up with the speed of dense housing, and the high incidence of diseases due to poor living conditions and little medical care all made it a challenge for the imperial court to enjoy the extremely high tariffs and tax revenues brought about by industrialization and overseas exports.

However, the Wanli Emperor in the Forbidden City did not need to worry about all this, when the first snow fell in the winter of the seventh year of Wanli, he wore the Asian tribute tiger warrior Zhangrong pajamas and installed a Franc cannon that could shoot a pound of bullets on the back of Huo Dexingjun's buttocks.

However, after installing the Huode Xingjun, who had progressed to a turtle speed, degenerated into a snail again, the emperor was not satisfied, and replaced it with a heavy Franc machine heavy gun imitated from Spain and improved by the 'Fran Machine' before patting the Huode Xingjun, who was tightly wrapped in the courtier's scarlet satin robe, and smiled with satisfaction.

After the Emperor's research, the speed of the mount decreased significantly in winter, which proved that wearing clothes is important to everyone.

Of course, in order to keep the dog, no, in order to save the emperor's order, Huo De Xingjun, who had just been awarded the title of General Sanpin Zhaoyong, changed and changed the valve on his body and was lowered by one gear.