Chapter 588 The Eastern King Meets Moore
Maria's jade hand gently stroked the drawings of the Kokang-class cruiser, but her blue eyes glanced at the man leaning on the chair of the red sandalwood master: "Which set of drawings do you want to bring? The fake sand mixed by the British man, or the real one that Rinko got from the Palmer family?"
It turned out that the British had mixed fakes in the drawings of the Kokang-class cruiser transferred to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Navy!
Fortunately, Wang Yan and Rinko had been guarding against the British. In addition, Palmer Shipbuilding and Steel Co., Ltd. signed a contract with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Navy Department to open a joint venture shipyard in Shanghai a few months ago - this is a major project stipulated in the "Thirty-year Treaty" of China-UK. The total investment is planned to be 3 million silver dollars. Among them, Palmer's company uses technology and equipment to invest, accounting for 49% of the shares. The land and cash unearthed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom account for 51%.
With this project, Wang Yan and Linzi have a channel to contact Palmer's technicians, and they can dig engineers and buy copy of drawings.
Luo Yaoguo said proudly: "Rinko used the Pennsylvania oil prophecy to coax the old Palmer family into the True Jobs - this is a beautiful thing."
Maria approached Luo Yaoguo and whispered: "The old guy from the Palmer family said that using fake drawings can also build ships, but the steam pipes are prone to leak and the transmission system is prone to failure. Maybe it will turn into a pure wind sailboat on the sea."
"Isn't the East King the strong ship and cannon that loves Daying the most?" Luo Yaoguo smiled coldly and turned his head to Wang Yan and said, "Then give him the original English version and send him a Palmer engineer to accompany him - remember to arrange a Japanese girl to be Mrs. Ru for the engineer."
Wang Yan took the order and Luo Yaoguo then said to Liu Lichuan: "Biden Liu, go back and prepare, and go to North Korea with Maria. Report what happened in Java to King Yang Dong. Then ask him if he supports the Javan Kingdom?"
Seeing that Liu Lichuan was also ordered to leave, Maria came to Luo Yaoguo and asked softly: "Your Highness, are you really not worried that the King of the East will really develop North Korea and Japan into a chain that locks the kingdom of heaven?"
Luo Yaoguo sneered: "I'm not afraid. As long as North Korea and Japan were developed by the True Recruitment Sect, they can't be the dogs of you foreigners!"
Being cheated by the True Requests is different from being a dog! The former is the same system as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, while the latter is integrated into the system of foreigners.
Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo slapped Maria heavily on the buttocks. Maria frowned and looked at the "angel" with some grievances: "I am different from those people. I am yours. That Natalia is in Cao's camp and has a heart in Han!"
"Jealous?" Luo Yaoguo looked at Maria's watery blue eyes with a smile, "I'm interested in Natalia's bloodline. She may become the queen of Russia. So she belongs to Russia in the final analysis! And you only belong to me! Go and go back quickly, wait for you to come back from North Korea and accompany me to Sichuan!"
"Sichuan?" Maria was stunned again, "Your Highness is going to send troops to Sichuan?"
Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile: "This year, Jiangnan, Huainan, Huainan, Huguang and other places have good weather. The wheat in Liaoning is also ripe and finally there is food to harvest Sichuan and Yunnan. The Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Factory in Shanghai needs Coptis chinensis there. The British army and the Shiyi King who suppressed the uprising in India will definitely need Coptis chinensis. The E. coli there is stronger than the muskets of the Indian Rebel Army!"
At noon on July 1, 1857, on a ferry, the North Korean tax officer of Busan Pass, Lord Li Zairong, wiped the sweat from his forehead and pointed to the village with smoke rising from the other side: "Then is Mapori, a model village implemented by Dongwang Juntian Ling."
Following him was Wen Xian, Moore and his party.
It was on June 15 that they set out from Busan, heading north by land, and inspecting the road. It took them half a month to get to the vicinity of Seoul. Along the way, they saw many poor but happy Korean villages.
To be fair, these Korean villages are poorer than the Japanese villages they saw near Nagasaki, with a large population and a small land shared by China, Japan and North Korea. China is relatively better, and Japan and North Korea are a virtue.
Since ancient times, Japan has produced gold, silver and brass, which can be imported from China, so it looks rich. However, North Korea has not many precious metals and cannot afford "Made in China", so it seems even poorer.
However, after implementing the division of land and land, and defeating two shifts, the poor in North Korea can finally stand up. Moreover, they have lost the exploitation of land rent and usury. They have had their first full meal in five hundred years, so they are naturally "poor and happy".
Moore also wiped a lot of sweat and put on his glasses. He saw more than twenty farmers wearing sackcloth shorts stepping on the waterwheel. Their backs were tanned and shiny, and their trousers were rolled up above their knees, revealing their lean but strong calf muscles.
Further apart, the newly built water diversion canal is pouring clear water flowing down the mountain into the paddy fields. You can occasionally see several peasant women wearing straw hats in the ears of early rice.
"Three years ago, there were two private fields here." Li Zairong's Chinese language was in Liaodong accent, "After the King of Dong distributed the land to farmers, the grain output increased by 50%!"
"After 50%?" Bai Siwen was a little unbelievable, "There are so many?"
Li Zairong nodded: "Yes! The King of Dong not only distributed the fields to everyone, but also gave everyone iron farm tools, and organized everyone to build a water diversion channel." As he said that, his tears came down, "The King of Dong is really unresolved."
This is not the first time this North Korean official has cried. Moore and Friedrich both looked at Bai Swen, as if asking: "All you East Asian men are so crying?"
Bai Siwen shrugged and said in English: "The poor in China are born to be rebellious, and they are so bad that they are not as good as they are to miss their master!"
Li Zairong could also understand some English and wiped his tears and said, "That's why you are not as wise as the King of the East!"
As he was speaking, the ferry was on the dock. When the boatman in straw sandals took the copper coins, Friedrich noticed that a cross was hanging on his chest and a book "The True Deal of the East Palace" in his arms - this is the "True Deal" published by Dongwang Yang Xiuqing in North Korea, with his own avatar printed on the cover!
Under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, Jin Wanfu, a seventy-year-old villager, was distributing malt sugar to the child. Seeing the foreigner coming, the old man trembled and took out a copper cross from his arms and said in stiff Chinese words: "Bless by Heavenly Father!"
"You can speak Chinese?" Bai Siwen looked at the short loop of the old man's patches and patches with great interest.
"Thank you to the grace of King Dong, the night school was opened in the village, and I also learned some." Old Man Jin pointed to the direction of the ancestral hall, and there was a vague sound of reciting, "My grandson recited the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" in the school, which is much better than my old bones."
In fact, Korean dialect is the dialect of Chinese. At this time, the Korean language is exactly the same as Chinese dialect. Many North Korean scholars can learn Chinese dialect. Koreans who have a little better brain can quickly learn Chinese dialect.
Friedrich pointed to the rice that was about to be harvested in the distance with a rattan pole: "How much tax does this food have to be paid?"
"Thirty percent of the time to return to the Holy Library, the rest are ours." Old Man Jin wiped his tears and said, "The East King's kindness is really endless!"
Bai Siwen suddenly sneered: "Luo Yaoguo can only receive 10% in China!"
Old Man Jin glared at him: "That is the blessing of the people of the Supreme Kingdom of the Heavenly Kingdom. If we have the East King, we will be satisfied that the East King is the most benevolent king of the North Korea country since Jizi!" As he said that, he wiped his tears again: "The East King's kindness is deeper than the sea and higher than the sky."
In the early morning of the next day, the pungent smell of coking coal burning announced the existence of the Seoul Railway ten miles in advance. When the morning sun climbed Mount Guanyue, everyone finally saw the chimneys standing by the river. The green smoke from the ten furnaces blew into the morning mist, dyeing the sky iron gray.
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"It can make three hundred kilograms of ripe iron every hour." Russian general Tupolev introduced at the top of his voice. His greasy work clothes were covered with the python robe awarded by the King of the East. "The reflector produces forty tons of steel every month, and can cast twelve twenty-four-pound cannons!"
In the cast iron workshop, two hundred craftsmen wearing thick sackcloth work clothes were so hot that they were "water" were operating the crucible. The master of Saga's family, Torama Tsurum, suddenly shouted, and twenty Japanese apprentices raised their iron pliers together - the burning red gun barrel embryo was sent into the forging hammer, and the splashing sparks burned black spots on the mashi.
"How much does these Japanese workers cost per month?" Bai Siwen suddenly asked.
Tupolev's beard shook: "For food and accommodation, the moon gives North Korea a half-dollar amount - it's worth three stone brown rice in their hometown, and the master's wages are ten times higher!"
Bai Siwen smiled and said, "How much is the monthly money of the foreign craftsman?"
Tupolev smiled and said, "Of course, there are several times more than Japanese masters!"
Bai Siwen asked again: "Where does the coal and iron ore from the Seoul Railway Factory come from? Can the local iron ore in North Korea be supplied?"
Tupolev shook his head: "It's not possible yet. North Korea's mines are all in the mountains and require a lot of money to develop! So now the coal and iron ore of the Seoul Railway Factory are transported from China."
Bai Siwen burst out laughing: "It's all shipped from China and used high-priced craftsmen. It should be difficult for your Seoul Railway Factory to make money, right?"
Tupolev didn't hide it from him, nodded and said, "I really don't make much money."
Bai Siwen asked with a smile: "If I remember correctly, there are still 100,000 Taiping Army soldiers under the command of the Dongwang, and 200,000 families, how much does it cost to spend a year? Can more than 10 million farmers in North Korea afford it?"
"This" Tupolev couldn't answer.
Moore and Friedrich cast "doubt everything" eyes at him.
The bell suddenly rang out of the cannon casting workshop. Twenty North Korean workers pushed out of the workshop with a chariot used to transport cannons, and the latest cast smoothbore cannon was still steaming. Yang Xiuqing didn't know when he appeared on the second floor of the workshop. His eyes swept over the foreigners who were visiting, and his eyes finally fell on the short bearded foreigners beside Bai Siwen. Aside him were rice and blonde Maria.
Maria pointed at Moore: "The King of the East, that person... I have seen it in the mirror of the sky! His name is Carl..."
Chapter completed!