Chapter 553 The favor of the East King is endless, and the industrialization exam has just begun (please book, please vote)
In the first month of the sixth year of Tianli, North Korea.
On a rare and fertile land on the south bank of the Han River, five hundred corpses of the two top nobles were arranged one by one, one by one, and the corpses were piled up with dry firewood. Yang Xiuqing's python robe and jade belt stood on the platform opposite the corpse formation, stepping on the "Li Family Genealogy" under his feet. The yellowed paper pages sucked blood. The 500-year-old beautiful country of the Li Dynasty fell into pieces and fell into pieces. Once the corpses were destroyed, the rule of the two ranks of nobles who had been passed down for a longer time was also declared to be over.
When the raging fire started, Chen Chengrong, the Minister of the East Palace, waved the order flag, and the Hakka liquor poem blurted out: "The Heavenly Father waved the whip to destroy the Li Dynasty, and the two squads of the heads were used as fertilizer. The fields and thalassociated peasants laughed, and the holy fire created a new heaven!"
"Divid the land and divide the land" dozens of Korean boy soldiers in red scarves and red clothes shouted in Korean dialect, "The East King's kindness is endless!"
Three thousand barefoot tenants waved their hoes and rushed towards the boundary monument, and one hoe and one hoe smashed off the stone monument symbolizing the old owner of the land. The seventy-year-old farmer Jin Daji knelt on the ground, slashed into the black soil with his ten fingers, grabbed a handful of mud and put it on his mouth and licked it. In the blink of an eye, he burst into tears: "Long live the East King! This soil. This soil is really sweet!"
There was a commotion on the east side of the mudflat. Three North Korean women staggered towards him, pulling the head of the corpse of Gu Wushou. The head of the widow Cui Fushun held his head to the high platform where Yang Xiuqing was. The silver hairpin between her white hair was engraved with the "Gived from Chongzhen Year" - it was not given by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but by the two North Korean nobles in order to show their wealth.
"Please look at the East King!" Cui Fushun brought out a thick round of fields contracts, "Those are all land deeds of the land occupied by the Li family in Quanzhou!"
Yang Xiuqing naturally couldn't understand Korean language, but he knew what the woman was talking about, so he pointed to the burning fire: "It's all burned, it's all burned."
Handfuls of land deeds and debts were taken by carnival poor North Korean peasants, and they all fell into flames, and in a blink of an eye, they turned into ashes.
The gilded statue of Hong Xiuquan was lifted up high.
Countless tenants roared in unison: "Long live the Heavenly King! Long live the Eastern King!"
The crowd suddenly cracked the way, and eight strong men carried the gilded holy statue around the burning fire - the face of the Heavenly King statue was clearly Yang Xiuqing!
Seoul East Prince's Mansion, Yuan Changde Palace
Nanmoto Rice took off her blood-stained kimono, revealing the cross tattoo under her collarbone. The bronze mirror reflects the new pattern of worship of God on her back, and the word "God Concubine" that has not dried cinnabar is still bleeding.
"The shogunate sent Lord Katsuki Sho. "The maid held the lacquer box and hid the secret letter from Ii Naohime. The rice fingertips stroked the words "Changzhou rebellion and colluded with Hong Daquan", and suddenly brought the secret letter to the candlelight - the flame suddenly stopped half an inch from the paper. She laughed softly: "It's not time yet."
The hall gate opened with a loud bang. Yang Xiuqing walked in with great strides: "I heard that the Tokugawa family's dog wants to see me?"
Daozi rolled up his body and wore a simple white Wu suit and bowed deeply to Yang Xiuqing: "The Tokugawa family is willing to offer 50,000 taels of gold and borrow 5,000 troops from His Highness to destroy the rebels of the Changzhou vassal!"
"Didn't the Tokugawa family be a general of the Conquering Yi? Why did I send troops?" Yang Xiuqing squatted down and grabbed Daozi's hair, "Reply quickly, don't beg if you have anything to do!"
"Hay!" Daozi's hair was pulled, his body was still kneeling, but his slender neck was tilted, "There are people behind the Choshu family. The shogunate is afraid of causing interference from powerful enemies, so."
"Fifty thousand taels are not enough, and you have to surrender!" Yang Xiuqing pinched Daozi's neck and pressed it on the couch, pulling off half of her clothes, "The Tokugawa family must kneel down and hand over the table!" The jade pendant on the waist of the King of Dong was engraved with "clearing the demonic atmosphere", pressing on the tattoo that had not healed on Daozi's back, some blood beads oozed out.
Daozi gasped and took out an envelope: "This is the general's sincerity." Inside the envelope is a list of more than a hundred Japanese craftsmen, all of whom have created "iron cannons" for the Edo shogunate for generations, and several scholars who are proficient in orchid science. She suddenly turned over and hugged Dong Wang: "The general has many benefits, so why not agree first and promise to build a strong ship and cross the sea to support the general."
"Sturdy ship?" Yang Xiuqing held the rice rudely, "You have invited a few masters who can build ships in Japan this time?"
Daozi smiled and said, "I have lived up to the entrustedness of the Eastern King. I have invited the special envoys of the Rakshasa Kingdom Orlov, Tupolev, Sukhoi, and Migoyang for the Eastern King."
"Where are the people?" Yang Xiuqing asked immediately.
"I have arrived in Seoul. Will the King of Dong see them immediately?"
Yang Xiuqing tore open the rice with a handful of Subai Wufu and said grimly: "Today I want to subdue the demons and go to see the Rakshasa ghost tomorrow!"
Peter Orlov, the special envoy of Russia, spread a yellowed blast furnace drawing. Tupolev, who came with him, spoke fluent Chinese, pointed to the drawings full of English and boasted: "The East King Nine Thousand Years, this is a secret drawing hidden by the University of St. Petersburg in our country, which is a gift from His Majesty the Tsar of our country!"
"Winster!" Yang Xiuqing, who was sitting on a dragon chaise with golden nanmu, didn't raise his eyelids, but just called a foreign name. Then he saw a foreign brother with yellow robe and yellow crown strolling forward. It was Winster White - he is now the Minister of Works of the East Palace, and he is actually responsible for all Yang Xiuqing's "industrialization".
"Dongwang," this is a drawing of a furnace with a yield of 5 tons of pig iron per day." Winster White certainly recognized the English on the drawings, and also caught a glimpse of the watermark of the East India Company's emblem in the corner of the drawings - this drawing was mostly leaked from a factory in Shanghai. I don't know how many drawings I have used.
However, in North Korea, this drawing is quite good, at least it is easy to use.
"5 tons? How much is that?" Yang Xiuqing asked with his eyes narrowed.
"Ten thousand pounds." Winster White replied.
"The daily output is 10,000 kilograms?" Yang Xiuqing was surprised, "Isn't the annual output more than 3 million kilograms?"
This is not a decimal! The annual pig iron production in the Qing Dynasty was about 20,000 tons in the 1850s, and a smelting furnace could produce more than 1,000 tons a year. If more than a dozen smelting furnaces were built, North Korea's iron production would immediately exceed that of the Qing Dynasty!
This is industrialization! Even backward technology is not comparable to the handicrafts of traditional small peasant society.
"With this drawing, can a blast furnace be built?" Yang Xiuqing asked.
"Yes!" Tupolev promised, "If His Highness the Eastern King is willing to believe in our Russian Empire, I will give me three months. I promise to build the first refining furnace for you every month from now on!"
Yang Xiu nodded: "Is there anything else?"
"Yes!" Another Orthodox priest who came with Peter Orlov brought out another round of shipbuilding drawings, "His Royal Highness, this is the latest wooden sail steam gunboat drawings. As long as you are willing to hire our Russian craftsmen, we can build the first steam gunboat for you within one year."
"What are the conditions?" Yang Xiu asked lightly.
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Peter Orlov smiled and brought out a draft of the "Yang Xiuqing-Mulavijov Secret Agreement" that had been drafted long ago, and said to Yang Xiuqing in Russian: "His Royal Highness Eastern King, as long as you sign this treaty and agree to the interests of ships flying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom flag to provide food, arms, and Japanese mercenaries to the west coast of North America where Governor Mullavijov is located, we will help you build blast furnaces and warships!"
Tupolev immediately translated these words.
"Hahaha!" Yang Xiuqing laughed, "What a trick of three birds has sowed the Gu and King Luo Wu, and the British, French and Taiping Heavenly Kingdoms, and helped Muravyov!" His face suddenly sank: "Give you two months, I will see the first refining furnace completed and then I will sign the contract!"
The spring of the sixth year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tianjing, and Tianli.
The morning fog on the Qinhuai River has not yet dissipated, but Tianjing City has ushered in a grand occasion that has not been seen in many years - someone is coming to the exam!
More than 10,000 students from Jiangnan rushed to Taiping University like a tide.
An old scholar from Huizhou was walking while holding a book "Selected Mathematics Examples in Middle School" - I am old and have a bad memory, so I can remember one more question! A young man from Hunan, wearing a clean long gown and a scarf, walked around - this is the most popular men's clothing today.
"Give it! Can you afford it if you miss the exam period? "The son of a big businessman in the Dongting Mountain Gang waved the wooden ruler and pushed the crowd away. The rattan box rolled down in the carriage, and all the stuffed materials fell out. The owner of the rattan box was a long-haired woman with a graceful figure. She was wearing Western cowhide boots under the Hunan embroidered robe skirt. When she leaned over to pick up things, the outline of the flintlock spear appeared on the back of her waist. This was Luo Yaoguo's second wife, Zhou Xiuying. She has worked hard for the past two years and finally caught up with this college entrance examination!
In front of the main entrance of the University Hall, one hundred and eighteen dragon pillars stood in the morning light. Under the No. 37 pillar, Guangdong student Chen Zhengguo bowed to the pillar. There were a few dry and hard steamed buns in his bag at his feet - this was dry food all the way from Guangzhou.
"Silent!" The bronze bell roared, and Bao Chao, the battalion commander of the Wu Prince's Mansion, led the foreign gun team to maintain order on the spot - who dares to cheat, the consequences are serious. Hundreds of classrooms were filled with candidates, and each of them placed four treasures of the study and three test papers in front of the case. The invigilators wearing gray cloth robes all raised their pocket watches at the same time: "Si time is right, open the book!"
Next to the dock of the University Hall, the paddlewheel steamer "Jianghai" sprayed thick smoke.
"The third brother went here to open up a market for our heavenly kingdom, recruit talents, and make great contributions. Please give me a bow." Luo Yaoguo bowed to Feng Yunshan, and he nodded against Linzi and Wang Yan, who were beside Feng Yunshan, and nodded: Please give me everything!
Maria, who was holding a fat, mixed-race boy, also gave a blessing: "The third brother is going all the way. When you arrive in Europe, if you encounter any trouble, just look for your father and Ambassador Wang."
Feng Yunshan's eyes turned to the university in the distance - in his opinion, the talents who can truly be used for China for a long time must come out from there!
Chapter completed!