"One shot."

boom!

The entire shooting range was shaken once again.

"Second launch."

The air waves carried the dust flying.

The artillery battalion general waved the flag for the third time: "Three shots!"

When the first round of artillery shells hit the mountain in front, causing continuous explosive damage and destroying countless trees and rocks, the second round of artillery shells arrived immediately after.

When the second round of shells just exploded, the third round of shells had already been tightly replenished.

For a moment, the mountain in front of Zhu Biao seemed to be about to collapse.

Zhu Yunxi just smiled slightly, approached the prince's father, and said: "Not only this mortar, but all the artillery in the army need to correct the firing angle when facing the enemy.

Once the correction is completed, it is time to start the official attack.

However, they generally fire in rounds. As for the three-round rapid fire, they are only used to cause concentrated and intensive damage to the enemy. Otherwise, continuous rapid fire will only increase the ammunition consumption of our army and increase the burden on the logistics supply camp.

"

It can be said that Zhu Biao's eyes were opened today.

But he couldn't help but murmur in his heart, no wonder the old man has to leave the palace secretly from time to time.

It turns out that there are so many interesting and good things out there nowadays.

Zhu Biao looked excited and stared at his son in front of him: "My father is waiting for your good news in Yingtian."

After saying that, Zhu Biao reached out and patted Zhu Yunxi on the shoulder with encouragement.

Zhu Yunxi could only nod obediently.

He felt that after the prince's father saw the new artillery with his own eyes today and even tested it personally, if he said he was unwilling to go to the southwest, it was very likely that the prince's father would go to the battlefield with thousands of troops and these artillery.

Guilty sin.

Zhu Yunxi muttered twice silently in his heart, and looked at the prince's father quietly.

After three rounds of rapid fire, the officers and soldiers had already begun to clean the inner wall of the gun barrel. According to normal use, there is no need to clean it immediately after three rounds of rapid fire.

It's just that these mortars are now experimental products. In order to ensure further improvement, every detail needs to be fully completed.

At this time, Zhu Biao was holding his hands behind his back and wandering around the mortars being cleaned by the officers and soldiers.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Zhu Yunxi's mind.

Will the prince's father take the path of a madman?

…

No one knows whether Zhu Biao went crazy or not.

But Xie Jin really went crazy.

The plan for the Western Railway finally reached a unified opinion among the cabinet.

The opinion is to build a large western railway starting from Henan Prefecture in the east and ending at Hamiwei in the west, passing through Henan Prefecture, Xi'an Prefecture, Fengxiang Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Lintao Prefecture, Gulangsuo, Liangzhouwei, Yongchangwei, Shandanwei,

Ganzhou, Gaotai Suo, Zhenyi Suo, Suzhou Guard, Chijin Mongolian Guard, and finally directly to the Hami Guard places.

This is a long railway of nearly five thousand miles.

Based on the budgeted costs of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs, the converted comprehensive cost of this railway will be as high as 50 million taels.

Ten thousand taels of silver a mile.

And that’s not counting the later train manufacturing and construction of various stations.

The budget plan worth tens of millions of taels was quickly passed by the court after the cabinet reached a unified opinion.

Later, Xie Jin devoted himself wholeheartedly to the construction of his western railway.

People from the Ministry of Industry must be indispensable, and they must also contact the River Governor's Office through the Ministry of Industry to verify the section of the Yellow River from Henan Road to Shaanxi Road to confirm that the river channel will not interact with the railway.

Then the Ministry of Household Affairs established a Western Railway Department to be responsible for accounting and reviewing the expenditures for the Western Railway construction.

In addition, the two newly established yamen, Daming Bank and Daming Commercial House, also participated in the construction of the Western Railway.

Daming Bank, in conjunction with the Account Department, began to prepare for a brand new economic model.

That is, the Western Railway Construction Bond.

The interest rates are naturally not as high as those among the private sector, but it is the first step that Ming Dynasty began to try to integrate finance and more efficiently coordinate the world's money.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty Company participated in this project was entirely to gain exclusive control over the freight operations throughout the entire territory of the Western Railway after its completion.

to this end.

Because the end of the year is approaching, and the Ministry of Revenue is caught up in the work of year-end settlement and preparation of the court's fiscal budget for the next year, it is difficult for the Ministry of Revenue to allocate money for the construction of the western railway.

The Ming Dynasty Company invested a full one million taels of silver in the early stage, and was actually transferred from the Ming Dynasty Bank to the Western Railway Construction Project Department headed by Xie Jin.

Xie Jin was very moved.

A big wave of his hand.

Since the completion of the Western Railway, the exclusive rights to operate cargo transportation for fifteen years were given to the Ming Dynasty Company.

Everything is running towards the ideal state.

However, the recent Xie Jin went from smiling all day long to crying without tears.

Since the plan for the construction of the western railway was approved by the imperial court, the first problem was the lack of cooperation from local governments along the railway line.

The local government's reasons are very good.

You can't use the old railway in Jiege to twist and turn, right? In that case, local land must be expropriated.

Although the imperial court will compensate the people for this land.

But for the people who have lost their land, the local government still has to settle them down.

How to settle the people became a matter for the local government.

No one is happy with the unnecessary increase in political burden.

Secondly, according to Xie Jin's plan, grassland herdsmen were recruited to build the railway.

The purpose of this is to save money.

Can the wages of herdsmen be compared with those of requisitioned people from the Central Plains?

Obviously it's not possible.

In addition, Zhili Road has already begun to implement corvee employment, and Xie Jin is very clear that it will not be long before the entire world will fully implement corvee employment.

When the time comes to requisition the people, the wages alone will be a huge sum.

But the local government said it again.

You, Mr. Jie Ge, have expropriated our people's land and not let them do the work. You are trying to turn the people in the entire northwest into homeless people with nothing to do.

But the first two things are not too difficult to solve.

It's just a matter of increasing the budget.

But the first two things about living people are easy to solve, but the last thing about dead people.

What makes Jie Jin's scalp numb the most is that he still can't think of a way to solve it.

………………
Chapter completed!