Chen Mu received speculation from Ye Mengxiong, an important minister of the Beiyang Military Government, in March of the eighth year of Wanli, that the imperial court might not continue to dispatch the sixth and seventh phases of the flag army to the Great East Ocean this year.

Ye Mengxiong's letter was written in the month of last year, when the emperor mobilized Teng Xiang Erwei to arrive at the Xuanda garrison, at that time Ye Mengxiong thought that the imperial court would use troops to the north in the eighth year of Wanli, and briefly introduced to Chen Mu the rapid changes in the Beiyang Industrial Zone.

The news of Wanli's bicycle ride also comes from this letter.

The letter should have been delivered long ago, and it took less than ten days for it to reach Wangxia Prefecture by telegram from Beiyang, but the sea borrowed troops to make the ships impassable.

In the communication network of the eastern route of the Ming Empire, letters sent to the New World from Beijing, Beiyang, Nanyang, Tianjin, Songjiang, and Guangzhou to the New World of Asia were all marked with the importance and urgency of the letters.

Because of the importance of the letter, the sergeant could not choose to ride a deer across the ice of the Blackwater Islands—in fact, since the Cabinet had established this rule, there had never been a letter marked with the utmost urgency sent from the Imperial Court to the New World in the three years since the Cabinet had established this rule.

Because a letter marked with urgency meant that the guards along the way had to risk their lives and the loss of the letter to deliver the message as quickly as possible, there was no perfect way to deliver the message across the sea, and people had to choose the safest way possible, preserving the letter and the lives of the soldiers.

So this letter came along with the exact news that the cabinet did not send the Beiyang Flag Army to the Great Eastern Ocean, and Ye Mengxiong's reminder became meaningless, and at the same time that Chen Mu saw this pile of letters, Ye Mengxiong had already achieved his long-cherished wish to lead the army to the border.

The sixth phase of Beiyang and the seventh phase of training were sent to Xuanda to guard against the Tumut Department, and Qi Jiguang led the army out of Qingshankou to recover the three guards of Wuliang Ha.

There was nothing more embarrassing for Chen Mu, although the ongoing war of the empire had nothing to do with him, this war had a more important meaning to him to others.

All history will be different after the imperial court makes the decision to go to war in the north.

This is not a pioneering battle on the seas to the south, east, and west, but a necessary step to stabilize the interior.

Recovering Uliangha will put everything back on track, and controlling this line of integration of hunting and nomadism means that everything can be obtained.

However, Chen Mu believes that in addition to Qi Jiguang's northern expedition, there is one biggest problem left for him to solve on the road to the empire - the railway.

No one told him that Emperor Wanli's main tool for shuttling through the palace every day was a mount named 'Huode Xingjun changed and changed', and he didn't know that the emperor's Qinglong plan had been launched.

But he had bigger plans, and the letters arrived at the right time.

Three months earlier, the Ordnance Bureau of Makino County had no ability to cast rails; Even a month earlier, there wasn't enough iron ore for them to carry out this experiment, but now it's just right.

With the Iroquois and Hulan tribes understanding of this land, the Oriental Military Government completed the mapping of the Great Lakes last year, and the exploration of resources has also achieved initial results.

Although his brother-in-law, Yang Zhaolong, had nothing but a passion for exploration and a thirst for military affairs, he was accompanied by prospectors who had achieved great success in Xinmingzhou, and they discovered the greatest treasure buried beneath the land.

Endless iron mountains, coal fields, and unexpected gold, silver, copper, and cupronickel are scattered around the Great Lakes.

Chen Mu was going to conduct a railway experiment in Muye County, and the biggest problem was that he didn't have a steam engine, and the entire New World didn't have it, so he planned to use a horse instead.

This experiment was not only about the use of railways in the Central Plains to complete the earth-shaking progress of the transportation system, but also to facilitate the retreat of the Guannai and the ability to rule Siberia.

The Ming Dynasty has the best generals and soldiers in the world, the most advanced firearms and the best war horses, and the army has been rectifying internal affairs and accumulating wealth for several years.

They were fully prepared for the so-called 'war' not to start a war, but to celebrate victory.

Chen Mu thinks that even without his help, the war launched by the imperial court can still achieve a complete victory after paying a small price, and it is never a problem to rule the steppe for ten years, but if you want to go further and enter Siberia?

This is not something that can be solved by war alone, and it is difficult for soldiers from all the countryside of the Ming Dynasty to have the desire to live for a long time.

They are from the Ming Dynasty, which is the only weakness of the Ming army in Chen Mu's eyes.

During the Wanli period, the people of the Ming Dynasty, whether he came from the north or the south of the Yangtze River, the three sides of Shaanxi or the southwest, had the most enviable way of life in the world.

Although this way of life does not completely transcend classes, the princes of the Ming Dynasty and the officials from the first rank to the ninth rank did live much better than the kings and nobles of Europe or the Ottomans; The pawn traders of the Ming Dynasty were also much more decent than the peasants on the outskirts of Paris, the robbers in the mountains of England, and the serfs in Moscow.

A group of Cossack robbers would happily travel through Siberia for generations and live here as Ivan's gift; And for a hundred households of the Ming Dynasty who have been in office for generations, letting him lead his troops to the Siberian tundra wasteland for a long time is undoubtedly a punishment from the emperor.

Railways can change all that.

It is also about the future of the Toyo Military Office.

The Great Lakes are scattered around the Great Lakes with terrifying reserves of minerals, and the Oriental Military Government has distributed 17 hundred households along the lake to escort the mining and metallurgical companies established by the surrounding Huizhou merchants, and the Great Lake is connected by rivers to pass through ships, and finally enters the sea from the mouth of Makino County, the biggest problem is that there are too many merchants and too many merchant ships, which will be concentrated in the mouth of Lake Ontario, which will reduce the efficiency of transportation.

The word Ontario comes from the unpretentious Iroquois word meaning beautiful lake.

Therefore, along the river, the Oriental Military Government plans to build a railway track with a total length of 560 miles, originally Chen Mu wanted to repair the wooden track, but since the country will use the steam railway in the future, Makino might as well be in place at one time.

It is not difficult to cast rails, under the parameters they currently need, it is much easier than casting cannons, after all, Chen Mu did not plan to run hundreds of thousands of catties of locomotives on it.

The first two railways of Muye are called Shangjiu Miao Road and Xia Jiu Miao Road, because the designers from casting to laying wooden sleepers are Miao men under the command of Yang Zhaolong, and Shangjiu Miao Road is paved all the way from Muye Port to the county seat of Okura 12 miles; Lower Jiumiao Road from Long Beach Harbor to Muye Wei right thousand households, twenty-two miles.

The tracks were laid and put into use, and a total of fifty-five two-horse carriages ran between the four stations, and the longer route to the north was under construction, and it is not known when it would be completed.

But this short thirty-four miles of railway allowed Chen Mu to find a new discovery that was enough to change everything. /14_14088/