At a time when everyone in the Qin Dynasty was still looking forward to watching or cheering for the two major events of the Medical Department and the Royal Medical Center, without most people noticing, dozens of branches of Wanli Traveling Vehicles opened on the 10th of the Second World War.
On February 15th of this year, at the same time, the city of the fifty-six counties of Daqin Dynasty quietly opened for business.
There was no fanfare of congratulations, no deliberate publicity, everything happened in silence.
When the people of various counties woke up after the night of the National Day, they found that there were already many horse-drawn boxcars in the city with the words "Wanli Traveling" and the logo branded on them.
In just one night, Wanli Driving Shop could appear in the fifty-six counties and cities of Daqin at the same time and open for business on the same day. Except for Hu Hai, the second emperor of Daqin and the Holy Emperor, obviously no one in the world can do such a huge feat.
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Hu Hai's Daqin transportation system, which had been laid out for several years, began to take shape as thousands of miles of traffic and roads transformed all the counties and cities in Daqin.
The steam locomotive at Handan Iron Yard was successfully tested last year. Although it only sprayed majestic white steam and ran less than fifty meters, it stalled and stopped moving.
The frightened Tian Dan and more than a hundred Mohist craftsmen were so frightened when they saw this scene that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. After receiving the news, the Holy Emperor rushed all the way from Xianyang to Handan, but the chain fell off at the critical moment.
, how can we not make Tian Dan and others panic?
This is the crime of deceiving the emperor!
Killing the Nine Tribes may only be a minor one.
In Hu Hai's opinion, it would be enough to start the steam engine and run ten meters, but he did not expect that the steel monster, which seemed to be ready to fall apart at any time, would spit out white steam and run for more than fifty meters.
Tian Dan and others were unclear, but Hu Hai knew very well what this short period of fifty meters and one hundred steps meant to today's Great Qin, to the world, and to the entire human race.
It is not clear whether it is true or not that the Emperor of China landed on the moon in later generations, but Hu Hai thought that the words spoken by the astronaut who landed on the moon were very suitable for today's Daqin.
Although fifty meters may only be considered a small step, this steam locomotive is a big step that even Hu Hai has not thought of for mankind as a whole, especially for Da Qin.
In his opinion, in ten or twenty years, even if he, an unreliable layman, could provide some guidance in certain directions, it would not be able to fundamentally change the overall immature nature of science and technology in this era. The steam engine
It can only be my own imagination.
However, Tian Dan or the Mohist craftsmen gave Hu Hai too many surprises.
Because at the Handan iron yard, Hu Hai immediately saw the main tool for making this simple and ugly steam engine head, the machine tool base.
Hu Hai didn't know how these Mo family craftsmen made the mother machine made of wood that he gave them out of steel. But you don't need to ask Hu Hai to know how much effort Tian Dan and others put into this mother machine.
Compared with the surprise of the steam locomotive, this half-steel, half-wood machine tool machine brought Hu Hai far more surprises than the unfinished steam locomotive.
Only with this mother machine can it be possible to manufacture some large mechanical equipment such as lathes, milling machines, planers and grinders. Once these equipment appear, Daqin's heavy industry can take off. Only steel-cast artillery and even muskets can appear.
possible.
But the giant mother machine told Hu Hai that today's extremely crude so-called mother machine in Da Qin is still too primitive. Of course, everything starts with the first step.
With this primitive mother machine as a starting point, after more precise weights and measures are established and universally used, the mother machine will definitely evolve, becoming more advanced and more precise.
There is a long way to go.
The rails used to test the stability of steel were collectively deformed after a heavy snowfall in winter. Since they were deformed, it means that the quality of the steel produced at the Handan Iron Works is still not up to standard.
Fortunately, Hu Hai is not short of time. Unless he dies suddenly, he can live for at least forty or fifty years. Although forty or fifty years is not a long time, in Hu Hai's opinion, it is enough for him to squander.
The Wanli Journey is just the first step in Daqin’s transportation system.
It will take time for the steam engine head to be truly put into use and for the steel refined at the Handan Iron Works to be able to withstand the test of time.
Thousands of miles of travel spread across the Qin Dynasty. Hu Hai immediately announced the reform of the Ministry of Industry at the court meeting.
When Zheng Guo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was old, the Holy Emperor Hu Hai specially granted Zheng Guo an official position and joined the cabinet to participate in politics. When Zheng Guo retired, the original right minister of the Ministry of Industry, Tian Ren, was immediately promoted to the new minister of the Ministry of Industry.
At the same time, the Ministry of Household Affairs once again established the Commercial Department on the basis of the original four departments. It was in charge of merchants and commercial circulation throughout Daqin; the Household Registration Department was in charge of the household registration and naturalization of Daqin people.
After all, the targets of the Royal Medical Center and the future introduction of various Daqin government decrees will mainly be Qin people with Daqin household registration certificates, and not everyone can enjoy it. At this time, there is not much concept of national borders.
, there are not so many monitoring methods, and the only proof that can be used is the household registration certificate issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
It can be expected that a large number of people will flow into Daqin in the next few decades. With Daqin's current population base, Hu Haigan does not have to worry about Daqin's population not being large enough. It will only take less than fifty years for Daqin's population to be
It will increase at least three times or even four times. In this way, the foreign population must be controlled to ensure that the rights and benefits enjoyed by the people of Qin are not encroached upon by outsiders.
The Household Registration Department was set up specifically for this purpose. Not only that, soon all the borders of Da Qin, especially the northwest frontier, would have to strictly verify and control the foreigners entering Da Qin and the Qin people leaving Da Qin.
Tian Ren's promotion really caused quite a stir in the Qin Dynasty. As expected by the courtiers, the emperor promoted important ministers to the cabinet in order to maintain the balance of the cabinet office.
Although this method of entering the cabinet is different from what the courtiers had previously imagined, it must be said that it is also the most appropriate.
Tian Ren was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and it was a foregone conclusion that he would join the cabinet. If you include Bianyu, the Minister of Medicine, who had already entered the cabinet before Tian Ren and aspired to the position of Minister, it would have been like a lost dog. Hundreds of schools of thought and factions were already insignificant.
He occupied two pivotal positions in the Cabinet Office, the highest authority in the Qin Dynasty.
The Mohist family is not the largest family among the hundreds of scholars, and the medical school was even more insignificant before. Even these two people have joined the cabinet, so the current Zuo Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is actually the Confucian leader Kong, Zuo Cheng, who is in charge of everything in the Imperial Academy of Qin.