The disappointed Zhou Sijing once again returned to the Yamen of the Steam Bureau in the south of the capital, and shook his head bitterly at the officials who came up.

"The problem has not been solved, Your Majesty sent the Huo De Xingjun who shoveled snow to Jing Haibo's family as a servant, but I was allowed to see it, but His Majesty said that the one can't walk in the land, and the only one that can walk on the land is the first Huo De Xingjun that was put on track."

Zhou Sijing lifted the hem of the official robe like a military general and stuffed it into the belt filled with gold ornaments and jade, rolled up the two sleeves on his arms, and wrapped them with armguards that bound his hands, quickly completing the transformation from the regimental leader's robe to work clothes.

He rolled up his sleeves and asked angrily, "Hasn't the Ministry of Rites replied to the request for the reform of the official robe of the Steam Yamen?" ”

"My lord, there is a reply that they are discussing."

"It's just a little matter of form, what's there to discuss." Zhou Sijing buckled the leather buckle of the arm guard, his eyes froze, and his mouth was fragrant: "Discuss it, discuss it, talk about eggs." ”

Zhou Sijing felt that instead of going to the Ministry of Rites to make a proposal, it would be better to let the emperor send the officials of the Ministry of Rites to Beiyang to deal with the machine for two days to know what was going on.

It's dangerous to wear an official robe and deal with steam engines and machines.

Once you pull the sleeves or the hem of the official robe in, the end is terrifying.

Because of this, he submitted a request to the Ministry of Rites last year for the restructuring of the official robe of the Steam Yamen, and planned to use the Beiyang military uniform as a blueprint to change the shape of the official robe with the same fabric.

How good the little clothes in Beiyang are, the military trousers that are wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and the stand-up collar and right coat that covers the hips at the hem, even if you don't wear a cuirass and tie the carrying belt, you are more energetic, and you don't delay your work at all.

There is no way, the aesthetics of people change according to the environment, and traditional officials do not have to consider practicality in clothing, as long as they wear loose and comfortable; But these officials of the steam yamen need to work, they not only have to write, but also have to operate the steam engine, operating the machine to drive the train is their own job, where can they stand it.

In their eyes, the most beautiful costume was the one in which the peasants went to work in the fields, and it was really not allowed to be worn like that by the imperial court.

"But Your Majesty has proposed a few solutions, I have written them down, one is to install tracks in the fields, but this can only be used for agriculture, just as a solution."

Zhou Sijing had already entered the working state as he spoke, and the officials in the yamen also surrounded him, those who took banknotes took banknotes, and those who handed tools listened to him say: "First of all, we know that the greater the contact between the wheel and the ground, the less damage to the ground. ”

"If you let them do it, I suggest that you find the Guangdong Jiangwutang, where there is a lot of experience in doing experiments, but there may be data that the yamen does not need; If we do it ourselves, the cost may be larger than that of letting them do it, and the experimental materials will be ordered from Beiyang, but it will help improve the research capacity of the yamen, and the key depends on whether we can free up manpower. ”

"If you can't recruit a few people from Beiyang and set up a new research department?"

Driver Zhou said and knocked on his head with charcoal, and said to the left and right: "How much money is left in the account, and if we plan our two new assembly workshops, can we still have 100,000 taels left?" ”

Their workshop is a real workshop.

At that time, their main business was not to produce and assemble steam engines, but to study all kinds of steam engines.

But later through technological progress, design and other stages, now the yamen has changed a lot, the past daying vacant land was built into a business yamen, the main business to undertake orders from all over the world, on the one hand, to accept the business of the Xuanwu steam engine ordered by the merchant in person, but also to undertake the local government through the telegram to order the agricultural black bull steam engine.

As for the Kunpeng and Qinglong models used on land and sea, they are only ordered by Beiyang, and they are both official documents, and of course they have to pay, but the means of payment are appropriations, and they are not facing the outside world.

There are four major warehouses, eight workshops, and nine factories, all of which have independent barracks, although the total number of factory workshops is not large, but the area is almost as large as half of the Beiyang Industrial Zone, like an independent town where 37 officials, 140 stewards, more than 2,400 craftsmen and their families live.

Since the warehouse, workshop, factory, and barracks are all connected by tracks, all kinds of tracks are even more comprehensive than Beiyang.

There is a railway from the steam yamen to Tongzhou, and there are three large green dragons belonging to the steam yamen on the 110-mile railway, a coal car, a grain car, and a freight car; Behind the yamen, there are two medium-sized green dragons that connect the major factories and warehouses, which operate in a circular shape, going back and forth between the warehouse and the factory every day.

Factories and factories, factories and barracks were small monorails, and the steam yamen even advanced the iron horse manufacturing industry in Beiyang.

The first person to support the research and development of the Beiyang Iron Horse is called Xu Jue, this fat brocade governor took a fancy to the novelty of the iron horse at a glance, and spent silver ten thousand taels to buy twenty bicycles, opening the Beiyang Iron Stables to generate income.

However, the effect of other people riding is not bad, especially the Zhengjipin Fengluan who teaches the imitation division, rides to work all day long, and asks Jinyiwei to find Xu Dudu to replace the parts, and Xu Dudu is happy to change.

The second to support Wanli, because Ye Mengxiong wrote to hand over the old horseman's research report on Ma Fang's iron horse, and the emperor allocated 30,000 taels from the inner library to the iron stable.

But the real iron horse put into use in large quantities is still the steam Yamen Zhou Sijing, he ordered from the Beiyang iron stable 400 iron horses without chains, not only no chains, the wheels are also special, do not want rubber wheels to iron concave wheels, the cost is greatly reduced, sent to the steam Yamen their craftsmen transformed into a single-track tandem bicycle, all placed on the factory monorail by the workers to share the use, back and forth between the factory and the barracks.

In addition to this, there was a four-wheeled railcar drawn by donkeys and mules, with eight seats, which was also used for workers to commute to and from work - basically the open space between the steam yamen factories was only rails and telephone poles.

There are tracks on the ground, wires overhead, glass-covered electric lights connecting each factory, and the craftsmen work in three shifts without stopping, and when it gets dark, all the lights are lit up, reflecting the factory as if it were day.

If the Beiyang Industrial Zone is full of iron horses, then the factory of the steam yamen is a little quieter, there is no cannon roaring here and no flying fish rising into the air, only the incomparable effort and huge rewards under the sweat.