The emperor's consideration of this sound very similar to Gao Gong's past use of Yin Zhengmao to quell the rebellion, even if he allocates one million taels of silver to Yin Zhengmao, even if half of it is embezzled, he can still get things done in the end, then the money is worth it.

If you change someone else, you may only need 300,000 taels, but Chinese New Year's Eve 10,000 taels to quell the rebellion today, and next year when people rebel, they will need 300,000 taels.

The emperor thought so too.

But Ye Mengxiong has his reasons.

Yu Shaoyu felt very unaccustomed to the emperor being like an ordinary general of the Nanyang Military Mansion, who had questioned and even complained about him, which was different from the emperor he imagined.

"This ...... Your Majesty is above, and the grass people saw Ye Shuai's railroad rails with their own eyes, which are covered with concave rail shells on wooden rails, which is said to be because the weight of the actual rails is much stronger than the needs of Huode Xingjun. ”

Yu Shaoyu's eyes were shining when he mentioned Huo De Xingjun, and his tone couldn't help but rise, Huo De Xingjun is a new gadget in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, he was not there when he was Chen Mu Luzon, and later they used these families as the mouthpiece of the army, although they would not go to the battlefield in person, but they also followed the flag army back and forth, basically traveling around the countries from Luzon to Burma.

I didn't know what it was until I came back this time and looked at the white smoke coming out of the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau from a distance, and I didn't realize this magical artifact until I was in Beiyang, and I was excited about the south in words.

"Your Majesty wants the B-type Huo De Xingjun to be the head horse, it is only 3,000 catties, and it is less than 4,000 people when it is full of water and coal, but even if the pure rail uses the A-type Huo De Xingjun as the head horse to run continuously, it will not be deformed or broken, the Beiyang Military Government first tried a 200 jin rail, and then tried several specifications, there is no problem."

Ye Shuai told the grass people that the railway with an outer iron-shelled wooden rail as the bottom can not only support Huo De Xingjun, but also reduce the risk of vibration and fracture when running away with Type A.

Yu Shaoyu was very honest, he shook his head when he said this, and said: "The grass people don't know why, it seems that the land near the canal from Beiyang to Beijing is wet and soft. ”

Emperor: You're not going to give me?

"That's not right, the track of mixed iron-wood is more expensive than the track of pure iron, and the wood is much more expensive than iron."

Just two days ago, the emperor also planned to issue an immigration order, and the people were to be sent to Wulianghai to become the owners of the garden, and one person gave a few hundred acres of land to take out part of the grain planting, and the other places planted cedar and pine used in shipbuilding, and birch and elm to be used to make guns.

Most young people will try to sum everything up in a few simple sentences, Wanli also has this problem, he always feels that he knows everything except Zhang Juzheng, and almost without investigation, he asserts that the empire in a hundred years will have no wood to use, so he has a strong sense of crisis in his heart that he must prepare something for a hundred years later.

The migration of Wulianghai is like this, and at the same time, in order to allow the empire to be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time after the recovery, so it will put forward such a tempting migration edict, but this idea will be sent to the cabinet, and it will not be fruitful for a while, and those old men who really control the country's affairs must carefully speculate on the possibility of this situation happening, and deduce what will happen next.

Don't look at the bitter cold land, a talent is divided into hundreds of acres of land, in fact, it is absolutely advantageous, and even if the imperial court adds the rule that Wulianghai land cannot be resold to this, it is still enough to make people rush to it.

That means that although there is no great wealth and wealth, it is far more than the wealth of ordinary people, and how many people can't ask for it.

Wood is more expensive than iron, especially the finished wood is much more expensive than iron, and in the emperor's opinion, Ye Mengxiong's new ideas will not save the court money, but will make them spend more.

Of course, no matter how cheap the iron is, the theft of the rails is still the biggest problem.

It is the same as the big iron bars picked up on the ground, in the inaccessible areas where it is difficult to manage the border of the various capitals and townships, hundreds of pounds of railroad tracks are quietly laid on the ground, and it is not too common for a few brothers to move home and dispose of them at night, this problem basically has nothing to do with steel production, but is related to individual living standards, education and greed.

In the 21st century, I lost my bicycle.

"Indeed, but Ye Shuai didn't plan to buy wood, the fir squares and fir strips that were transported back by the Oriental Military Government last year and the year before last are being dried on the coast of Beiyang, and they are being used to dry them, and Ye Shuai plans to use them to make railroad tracks, which doesn't cost money but doesn't make money."

"Yes, don't you say that I forgot that there are still wooden squares sent back by Chen Shuai in Beiyang, and the transportation cost of these wooden squares, no matter what the transportation cost."

In fact, if you want to calculate it, the value of the processed batch of wood transported back by Chen Mu is much higher than the cost of the rails needed to build the railway, but the emperor was blinded by the prospect of Huo De Xingjun running freely on the land for the first time after the railway was completed, and Ye Mengxiong was a serious Ming official rather than a military official like the Siyang Military Government who would calculate the value of commodities, and they were all easy to ignore this key element of interests.

Wanli waved his hand and put the transportation cost behind, and wanted to ask the big green dragon of the Beiyang experiment how many goods can be pulled, but he felt that he didn't understand anything written in front of him, so he simply turned the topic to his original purpose and asked: "I ask you, have you read the telegram I sent to the world this year?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I've seen it. The grass people were seen in Aceh in March this year. ”

"It's easy to do after seeing it, I asked a few of you to come to Beijing to send you and others to Wulianghai to follow Qi Shuai." Wanli said and folded his arms and asked, "Do you know what I want you to do?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the grass people are dull and dare to speculate." Yu Shaoyu pondered and asked, "Write a heroic chronicle for Qi Shuai?" Your Majesty, Chen Shuai set up rules for us in the early years to prevent the cult of personality in the army, and the chief officer and above are not heroic, and those that have been compiled are no longer published. ”

This is what he did, Lin Manjue and other so-called Lin Lai Naval Battle Five Tigers, Shao Tingda, Shi Qi and others were written by these people, and now they have spread in the Ming Dynasty and the South and the West, and also made the paper industry and printing industry in Canton and Manila flourish.

Basically, every famous general who went out of Nanyang had his own heroic ambition, except for Fu Yuan, whose heroic ambition was about to be compiled when he abandoned his official position and went to the Great Eastern Ocean, so the compiled book was not published in the world.

"Chen Shuai's rules ......" The emperor pursed his lips and slowly bowed his head, and then said: "It's not a career, you have lived in Nanyang for a long time, do you know the propaganda officer in the army?" I want you to go to Wulianghai to spend the winter with Qi Shuai's soldiers and horses, and record the movements of the soldiers and horses, the battles and the course of the battles for me in the coming year, and compile a monthly document and send it back to the Forbidden City by telegram from Qingshankou. ”

Speaking of this, the emperor's face showed the most wise expression of Lao Tzu in the world, raised his chin slightly, and said: "I want to send a telegram to the world every month, they are not Qi Shuai's soldiers, they are my soldiers, this is my victory, and I should inform the people." ”