Manufacturing machinery, steam engines, the latest warships, artillery, and muskets are on the list of people who are strictly prohibited from going to sea and are subject to strict supervision. However, a large number of skilled workers and scholars have immigrated to Nanyang, and new schools under the jurisdiction of overseas governors.

Industry and industrial strength have also begun to experience strong growth since the tenth year of Qiyuan.

In addition to the huge profits for the many forces involved, large-scale overseas trade also brought huge customs tax revenue to the central government. In the 20th year of Qiyuan, the customs revenue alone reached 26 million silver dollars.

Including taxes on the appreciation of overseas assets of merchant banks, Huaidong Bank, Nanyang Shipping Company, Heishuiyang Shipping Company and other trading groups, Qiyuan's annual overseas income in the past 20 years has contributed more than 50 million silver dollars.

It accounted for a quarter of the entire central government's annual income in the 20th year of Qiyuan.

In the 20th year of Qiyuan, the annual revenue of the central government reached 200 million silver dollars, ten times that of the last years of Yongxing. In addition to the prosperity of overseas trade, it also relied on the unusual prosperity of the domestic unified market.

Since the end of the war in the Central Plains in the second year of Qiyuan, Lin Fu launched a six-year large-scale construction plan in the country to replace war with construction, stimulate demand for new industries, and promote the development of new technologies in industry, mining, and transportation.

In the seventh year of Yongxing, Lin Jingzhong presided over the construction of the Jinchuan Iron Bridge, which cost more than 460,000 silver dollars. With the development of technology and the decline in the cost of raw materials such as steel and stone slurry, Ning Zechen, who became the governor of Hexi in the fifteenth year of Qiyuan,

Yu Qiyuan presided over the construction of the Yellow River Source Iron Bridge in Lintao, Hexi County in the 20th year. Including the high transportation costs of steel beams, stone slurry and other materials, the entire construction cost was only 600,000 silver dollars.

In the 7th year of Yongxing, Lin Jingzhong built the Jinchuan Iron Bridge, which required Lin Fu's gritted support; by the 20th year of Qiyuan, the local approval authority for building iron bridges had been delegated to the prefectural level. In the 20th year of Qiyuan, nearly half of the prefectures and counties started construction on

Iron bridges were built on the main rivers in the jurisdiction, and the number of iron bridges started at the same time reached more than 960.

This also means that by the 20th year of Qiyuan, the demand for steel for domestic iron bridge construction alone reached more than 300,000 to 400,000 tons. In addition to the construction of iron bridges, domestic road construction, canals and culverts, dam construction, steel bars

The promotion of new concrete construction methods and the extensive use of new machinery have stimulated the increase in domestic steel demand.

By the 20th year of Qiyuan, the total domestic iron and steel production exceeded 4 million tons, which was forty times the national iron and steel production (including Beiyan, Sichuan, Sichuan, etc.) in the last years of Yongxing; in addition, domestic coal production was

Up to 20 million tons.

Although early steam engines were low in efficiency and consumed a large amount of coal, the rapidly developing coal mining industry has also placed extremely high demands on steam engines.

Boring machines were used in the early days to manufacture guns and other war weapons, which required extremely confidential technology. It was not until the second year of Qiyuan that boring machine technology was approved by Lin Fute and used to manufacture steam engine cylinders and pistons, which better solved the problem of early castings of steam engines.

air tightness issues.

In the fourteenth year of Qiyuan, Chen Xiu, a teacher at Jiangning Higher Mechanical School, was admitted to the Chongxue Hall for his invention of a new linkage steam engine. Led by Chen Xiu and others, hundreds of engineering technicians spent nearly twenty years on

Continuous research on steam engines has led to continuous improvements in steam engine technology.

When better quality materials were used, the efficiency of steam engines was greatly improved. At the same time, the shape of steam engines was far less bulky and cumbersome than it was originally, and it became very popular in coal yards.

The coal mining industry has a large amount of cheap coal and sufficient profits, and the pursuit of productivity has reached the extreme. By the 20th year of Qiyuan, more than 300 new steam engines were used in major domestic coal fields and other mines.

In the 20th year of Qiyuan, the Putang Iron Works raised two million silver dollars to lay the country's first 40-mile-long railway track between the iron yard and the coal yard and the Putang River Port. Steam locomotives would be used to build the railway track between the iron yard and the coal yard.

Transport materials between mines, iron yards and docks.

Although the steam locomotives successfully tested at this time had a maximum speed of only sixteen kilometers per hour; after the first railway track was completed, the speed would be controlled below ten kilometers per hour, far less than the speed of a galloping horse.

However, after the rails were laid, the continuous operation of steam locomotives and the high efficiency brought by high loading capacity were far beyond the capabilities of horse-drawn carriages.

Putang Iron Works has become the largest iron work in the country, with an annual output of 700,000 tons of iron and steel. Its total assets have reached 40 million silver dollars. The iron site and its affiliated coal and iron mines use as many as 30 steam engines. The foundry mines

The use of steel rails has a history of nearly 20 years.

If domestic steel demand wants to increase significantly, it must seek new stimulus points; this is why Putang Iron Works is willing to invest huge sums of money to build the first railway track.

Once steam locomotive technology matures, Putang Iron Works, which has mastered rail casting technology, will naturally benefit a lot from it.

In the 20th year of Qiyuan, it has been half a year since Jiangning's first 100-ton steamship was launched and sailed between Chongzhou and Jiangning. The time for sailing against the current from Chongzhou to Jiangning was reduced from the previous two to three days to two.

Fourteen hours.

Behind the rapid development of domestic industrial, mining and transportation technology is the rapid development of new learning.

In addition to Chongxueguan, by the 20th year of Qiyuan, the New Empire was in Jiangning, Jiangxia, Chongzhou, Mingzhou, Yanping, Liaoyang, Weiyang, Jeju, Luoyang, Yuzhou, Chang'an and other places to develop, teach, and research new technologies.

For the purpose of learning and new technologies, a total of 67 colleges and universities in various majors such as medicine, mechanics, astronomy and astronomy have been established, and nearly one-third of them are concentrated in Jiangning, which can output hundreds of thousands of new higher education talents every year.

Over the years of the development of new learning, the number of master-level new learning scholars who were awarded the bachelor's degree of Chongxue Guan for their outstanding achievements in new learning has increased from more than 30 in the early years to 297 in the 20th year of Qiyuan.

people.

In addition to colleges and universities, there are more than a dozen research laboratories established directly by Lin Fu in the name of the royal family. In recent years, almost every year, special funds ranging from millions to tens of millions of silver dollars have been allocated to the royal family.

used by these laboratories.

For Lin Fu, perhaps he valued the title of Bachelor of Chongxueguan more than being an emperor.

In the 30th year of Qi Yuan, there were more than 200 steam ships sailing on the Yangtze River waterway from Jingzhou to Yudong, and more than a dozen hybrid steam and sail ships were built, which were first used for offshore transportation.

By this time, the speed of steam locomotives had stabilized to between 20 and 25 kilometers per hour, and the test speed of high-speed locomotives had reached 40 kilometers per hour - even passenger transportation began to have more obvious advantages than passenger carriages.

Starting from the first line in Putang, more than 800 miles of freight rail tracks have been built in China between mines and rivers and seaports in the past ten years.

In the 31st year of Qi Yuan, the Privy Council allocated 40 million silver dollars and started construction preparations for five years. It started from Mingzhou Port, crossed the Qianjiang River via Xiaoshan, passed through Hangzhou and Huzhou and arrived at Jiangning. The total length is more than 800 miles.

The first mixed passenger and freight railway track.

The widespread use of explosive bombs has made wooden warships more and more fragile, and an iron-clad warship equivalent to the size of Lin Zhengjun's imperial warship will reach more than 4,000 tons. A taller and denser sail mast system can barely increase the speed.

, but it also brings a greater risk of overturning.

In the third year after the completion of the Mingjiang Railway and its successful operation, that is, the thirty-sixth year of Qiyuan, the military ministry allocated three million silver dollars and placed the order for the first 5,000-ton armored steam warship to Chongzhou Shipyard.

At this time, the New Empire's artillery technology had developed to the level of being able to fire conical explosive shells with breech-mounted spiral rifles, and the best quality rifles had also developed to the level of accurate shooting at 800 meters.

In the 40th year of Qi Yuan, the domestic population increased by 200 million, the total number of overseas immigrants also exceeded 30 million, and the annual income of the central government increased to one billion silver dollars. Lin Fu officially signed the Population Control Act to promote contraceptive technology with relatively mild means.

, encourage fewer and eugenics, in order to control the domestic population to about 400 million in the next hundred years.

At the same time, Lin Fu signed and agreed to build the Huaxia Railway in sections from Haizhou in the east, passing through Xuzhou, Daliang, Luoyang, Chang'an, Lintao and all the way to Shanshan.

This plan will cost hundreds of millions of silver dollars and take ten to twenty years, but it will also completely break the connection between the hinterland of the Central Plains and the northwest region, and will help effectively control the empire's territory to the Ili Valley area.

At that time, the domestic railway lines had extended to 4,000 miles.

After signing and approving the Huaxia Railway construction plan, Lin Fu issued an abdication edict. After being the emperor for forty years, he announced his retirement and was succeeded by his eldest son Lin Xin, who was already fifty-two years old. Lin Zhengjun, Lin Wu,

Lin Rui's children were all enfeoffed to Jeju, Luga, Putan and other overseas governor-general offices when they came of age...

After Lin Xin succeeded to the throne, he did not change the year name and continued the "Qiyuan" calendar. Although Lin Fu abdicated, he assisted the government as the Supreme Emperor until the forty-fourth year of Qiyuan. In the forty-fourth year of Qiyuan, Liu

Yue'er and Na He Yurong passed away one after another in the same year. Lin Fu also felt that his life was short, so he completely let go of state affairs and lived in seclusion with Lin Zhengjun, the eldest daughter of Ji...

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