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Sweat mixed with rust made them look dirty, but each of them seemed to be full of energy.

Ever since the steam locomotive was built, Xiao Ming ordered the production of rails to be raised to the agenda for a number of other reasons, either to speed up the transportation of mineral resources or to improve the efficiency of the mining industry.

Because in addition to the fact that steam locomotives need rails, mines also need minecart rails to provide rails for minecarts to run.

Now that the king of Zhao has been destroyed, it is only a matter of time before the Zhao State is conquered, and the Yu Kingdom will be basically unified in a few months.

Although the king of Chu in the south actually disobeyed the yin and yang, he had no reason to use troops at this time, after all, the king of Chu pressed his sons in Qingzhou, and also called him a minister, looking obedient.

And the most helpless thing is that he is now powerless, the Northern War almost beat the capital he has accumulated in five years, and now he is facing the threat of barbarians, under the measure, he decided to maintain the status quo and plunder the wealth of the King of Chu with commercial trade.

Therefore, the most important thing for him now is to establish an industrial system, only when the industrial system is complete, can a strong industrial capacity be able to create a more powerful war machine to help him conquer cities and seize resources from the mouths of Western powers.

After all, in the past five years, the people of the six states have been ideologically incomparable to the people in other places under the propaganda of the newspapers day after day.

Moreover, these six states are under his nose, and once the six states develop, it is not too late for him to promote them to other places.

"See the emperor for the lower officials."

Seeing Xiao Ming coming, a middle-aged man in a blue robe walked over, and his blue robe was embroidered with the words "Instrument Division", which was the craftsman who came from the Equipment Division to guide the production of railroad tracks.

This craftsman Xiao Ming is also very familiar, belongs to the old qualifications in the equipment department, and later after entering the Bowen College, he and Lin Wentao specialized in mechanical production.

"No courtesy."

Xiao Ming waved his hand, now he will be protected by a large number of guards every time he travels, and it is impossible not to be noticed.

Glancing at the craftsmen who were busy, Xiao Ming asked, "Lan Li, how is the production line of this rail being built?" ”

Lan Li said; "Your Majesty, at present, the rail production line for the mine has been established, and the rail production line of this steam locomotive has been placed in the back according to the emperor's orders."

Xiao Ming nodded, although he now really wants to pave the railway to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but now the ore is still a big problem.

So in order to be able to produce steam locomotive rails in large quantities, he now had to solve the problem of the mining and metallurgical industries.

Only when the output of these two industries is increased can he not worry about raw materials.

"Let me go over and have a look."

Xiao Ming said that he had to participate in the change of the law now, otherwise it would take a lot of detours to let these guys do it themselves.

These five years of autonomy have given Lin Wentao and others a certain amount of knowledge and practical ability, and under his guidance, he believes that it is not a problem to establish an industrial system step by step.

Following Lan Li into the workshop, Lan Li directly took Xiao Ming to the next door of the original production workshop, and after expanding production, the steel workshop added a converter, and the steel produced by this converter was specially used to produce rails.

When he arrived at the rail production workshop, Xiao Ming saw the converter that was producing steel, and under the converter were the grooves of the conveyed molten steel, through which the molten steel directly entered the iron mold in the shape of "work".

In fact, the essence of rails is industrial steel, supplemented by iron mold forging technology for the production of artillery, which constitutes the current rail production line.

"Your Majesty, now we have produced six kilometers of railroad tracks, and a minecart has also produced one." Lan Li truthfully reported to Xiao Ming.

Qian Dafu used to be in charge of prospecting and establishing mines, but now even the eunuchs around Xiao Ming have not completely abandoned this mine matter.

He said excitedly; "Your Majesty, this batch of rails and mine cars can be sent to Laiwu County, this prospecting team has found a large open-pit iron mine one hundred and thirty miles southwest of Qingzhou, and if a mine is established here, Qingzhou will not lack iron ore."

Xiao Ming nodded, the prospecting team has not stopped exploring the minerals of Liuzhou, and his long-awaited Laiwu County has finally discovered iron ore.

According to the records of science and technology spars, Laiwu area has 55 kinds of minerals, mainly iron, coal, copper, gold, granite, limestone, dolomite, rare earth, diabase, basalt, building stone, natural quartz sand, mineral water and other minerals.

Among them, the proven reserves of coal are 431.136 million tons, which is an important coal base in contemporary Shandong Province, and the proven reserves of iron ore are 463.9319 million tons, ranking first in East China.

Laiwu County is a very inconspicuous place in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, sparsely populated, Qian Dafu has come to this place many times, but found nothing, and now this treasure land has finally been excavated.

For Xiao Ming, there are coal mines and iron mines in this area, and the reserves are very large, which can fully support him to build a modern mine.

The mine will have railroad tracks, minecarts to transport ore, and steam engines to pump groundwater and pull minecarts.

"I think so too, your nephew named Qian Gui is better than the blue." Xiao Ming smiled.

Qian Dafu laughed, he said; "Your Majesty, Qian Gui is bold and can endure hardships, he has never been afraid of the place where the old slave dare not go, and the old slave is also sighing to himself at this point."

For Qian Dafu, now this money is his only sustenance, after all, he only has one relative, Qian Gui.

Xiao Ming said: "This money is expensive, it is a seedling worth promoting, you let him continue to work hard, and I will give him your position in a few years." ”

Qian Dafu smiled, Xiao Ming said that it was naturally not the position of eunuch, but to let Qian Gui be in charge of the mine and prospecting.

Lan Li smiled, "If there is really so much coal and iron in this Laiwu County, it is better to build a railway in the past." ”

"Well, not only Laiwu, this railway will lead from Qingzhou to Dengzhou and Youzhou, and the mines of the six states will be connected by commerce."

In Xiao Ming's eyes, there is already a blueprint, as the so-called if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, as long as this is done, the overall surpassing of Western countries will be greatly accelerated.

After inspecting the process of railway production, Xiao Ming felt a little relieved, and the appearance of the French on the land of Dayu made him vaguely uneasy, because it meant that the West began to meddle in the affairs of Dayu, which was not good news, and it was also the reason for his increasing sense of crisis.

There were many external enemies, and his industry and commerce were just getting off to a staggering start.