I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Wu Changqing knew that Qing was learning and imitating his own affairs.

He didn't care too much, after all, he couldn't get over to tell the other party not to learn, and they couldn't ignore him.

Of course, the most important thing is that Wu Changqing doesn't think that the imitation of the other party is of much significance.

Now that Qing's learning results, after he has pacified the North, he will be the cheapest in the end.

The core technologies that can quickly enhance the national strength are covered tightly by them, and all the details are spread out.

The core secrets like steam engines and breech guns cannot be peeped by the outside world.

Dahua has already started the laying of railways, and Daqing has not even built a steam engine for pumping water.

The technological gap between the two sides is at least fifty years.

As long as Dahua does not leak the secrets, and they research and figure it out on their own, it will take at least fifty years to build a locomotive.

Not to mention fifty years, within two years, the Qing Dynasty will surely perish.

If things go well, it could be within this year.

In early April, Dahua held a grand groundbreaking ceremony.

Construction of the Jingsong Line officially started.

In order to show the level of attention he paid, Wu Changqing personally led some officials to visit the construction site. Furthermore, he swung the shovel himself and dug the first shovel soil.

This kind of show, although not his first.

But in this day and age, such a show is still very rare.

In the cognition of ordinary people, the emperor is aloof, and he should not be able to work.

But now, Wu Changqing skillfully used a shovel in front of everyone.

This made the people who came to watch them gain insight. It turned out that the emperor would also work as a peasant.

Wu Changqing dug the first shovel mud, and the other ministers were naturally unwilling to lag behind and followed suit.

Some ministers are more casual, after all, this is just a show.

But some ministers worked very hard, sweating profusely, covering themselves with mud, and ruining their image.

Although everyone knows that Liu Dahua is also doing a show, it is not easy to show such a thorough show. He deserves to be praised by the citizens of Nanjing.

Among the people who came to watch, not only the common people, but also the spies of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and even the spies of the Daxi regime.

Zhang Xianzhong in history was killed by the Qing army at this moment.

However, due to the arrival of Wu Changqing, the Qing Dynasty could only defend step by step and did not fight Zhang Xianzhong.

So much so that Zhang Xianzhong is still alive and well in Sichuan.

These spies stayed in Nanjing for a long time to monitor the enemy's situation.

Ye Chen, a spy in Nanming, was very emotional when he saw Wu Changqing digging soil with a shovel for a show.

Although he knew that this was a show, as an emperor, it was difficult to be able to show.

At least, the emperor of the old Zhu family did not have such a tradition.

From this point, Ye Chen saw the gap between Daming and Dahua.

The spies of the other forces had more or less the same emotion.

They are all lamenting Wu Changqing's diligent administration, Dahua has such a diligent and wise emperor, why is Dahua unhappy.

Wu Changqing and others completed the show amid the sound of gongs and drums, and then the workers came on stage in person.

In order to speed up the construction of this railway, Dahua used 30,000 people, 40,000 prisoners, and other staff, a total of 80,000 people.

A project as big as this used to require farmers from all over the country to pay extra taxes to support it.

It is not an easy task to raise more than 80,000 coolies with an amazing appetite.

Now, for Dahua, this big project is only a pediatrics department.

In Dahua, there are many similar large-scale projects.

For example, the number of full-time coal mining workers in Huainan has exceeded 60,000.

The number of workers working in steel plants has also exceeded 20,000.

The number of workers in the textile factory also exceeded 10,000.

A large number of people who cultivated the fields became workers.

To a certain extent, the land problem has been alleviated.

Some people who made money in the factory have already looked down on the land a little at this time.

Of course, more than 80,000 people are not all concentrated here in Nanjing, but are distributed in several areas, and construction starts at the same time.

There are about 10,000 people here in Nanjing.

However, even if there are only 10,000 people, the picture of them starting construction at the same time is quite shocking.

Standing high and overlooking, these people are like ants.

Some people are leveling the road, some people are carrying logs, some people are pulling the rails with horses, and some people are directing and dispatching.

What people outside the field saw was only the grandeur of the scene, while the workers on the construction site felt only happiness.

Building a railway is a very fortunate and labor-intensive task.

Especially when carrying the heavy rails, every worker was shouting slogans and insisting with gritted teeth.

This is still a picture of labor when there are audiences watching. There are people watching, and those in charge of supervising the work also need to take into account the image.

When Wu Changqing and the onlookers left, the construction site ended the show and began to focus on efficiency.

Tired and want to rest?

How can there be such a cheap thing, delaying the construction period, who

can take responsibility.

As long as it's not time to rest, keep working when you're tired.

Although Yan Mo, who was in charge of this railway, was building a railway for the first time, many people would die if he built the railway.

But he knew that any major project in history would kill a lot of people.

For example, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, although there is no complete statistics, but a rough estimate, at least 100,000 people died directly. There are at least 100,000 people who die indirectly from diseases due to overwork.

Another example is the Great Wall, Emperor Qin's Mausoleum, Nanjing City Wall and so on.

Every grand project is accompanied by blood and tears.

Ruan Dacheng told Yan Fa that the casualties should be kept below 5,000.

That is to say, in the eyes of the big men in the court, as long as the railway can be completed as scheduled, it is acceptable to die for thousands of people.

Yan Fa was instructed and acted appropriately.

For the 30,000 hired employees, he adopted a more moderate approach.

As for the 40,000 captives, they would squeeze as much as they like.

Anyway, in this era, no one shouted that prisoners should enjoy human rights and have a chance to survive, which is a gift for these prisoners.

After seeing the construction of the Dahua Railway, spies from all walks of life began to write secret reports and record what they saw and heard.

After Ye Chen wrote it truthfully, he was hesitant to tear it up and rewrite it.

After all, the real situation is too scary.

It was easy to mobilize more than 80,000 people to start construction at the same time, and tens of thousands of kilograms of iron blocks were spread on the ground, and it was possible to pull a train with tens of thousands of kilograms of goods without manpower and horsepower......

Ye Chen was really worried that Zhu Yujian's little heart would be overwhelmed and desperate when he saw Dahua's national strength.