Chapter 522: First Time in Yanjing as a Loser!
Outside Yanjing Bay.
Three miles away.
The dark sky was covered with white light.
A new day was about to begin.
But the light in the sky was too faint. The human eye could see the gray light in the sky that looked like fog in the distance.
The surrounding sea was still dark.
The cruise ship was driven by steam power, pushing the sea surface, making a "clattering" sound, and moving forward quickly.
The carbide lamp on the deck emitted a dazzling light.
The surrounding formations and warships guarding the cruise ship relied on each other's light to ensure the distance between warships during night travel.
In the darkness of dawn.
Zhu Biao stood at the bow of the cruise ship.
Looking at the lighthouse emitting bright light in the distance.
That lighthouse should be the lighthouse that Lao Er and the others said was used by Lao Si to guide ships to locate and enter the port at night in Yanjing Bay.
Last night, I saw this light from a distance of a hundred miles away.
It was just that the distance was very far and the sound was very weak.
This was his first time going out to sea.
Before, when his father went out to sea, Xiongying was still young, and he stayed in Jinling to supervise the country.
To be honest, he only knew about the fourth brother's Yanjing from the news summarized by the Jinyiwei.
Almost everything about the fourth brother's Yanjing was imagined based on the text in the Jinyiwei's secret report.
This imagination did not give him much of a shock.
It was completely different from the strong shock described by the court officials after they went to Yanjing and came back.
Is the shock seen with your own eyes really that great?
He didn't know.
However, he would be able to see it with his own eyes soon.
'I will see the fourth brother on this trip...'
Compared with his curiosity about Yanjing, he hesitated and struggled more. When he met the fourth brother this time, how should the brothers get along?
More than 30 years passed in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, the brothers who loved each other in the past have come to such an embarrassing situation now?
Really, it was all his fault?
Was the fourth brother not wrong?
…
Just as Zhu Biao was thinking in a complicated way.
On the sea surface in the east.
Suddenly, a dazzling golden light broke through the hazy ‘white fog’ and jumped onto the sea surface.
Zhu Biao subconsciously raised his hand to block it, in order to adapt to the dazzling golden light that suddenly jumped out of the sea surface.
In an instant.
The entire sea surface seemed to come alive in an instant.
The golden light advanced forward with the momentum of sweeping thousands of troops…
Before the arrival of the golden light, the darkness was like a defeated army without any resistance, and it was quickly defeated.
A moment later, the darkness had been swept away by the golden light.
A flock of birds chirped from the forest on the land in the distance, flew over the head.
Under the sea surface.
The cruise ship and warship moved forward, startling a group of fish that had been ‘sleeping’ all night.
The fish splashed water and jumped out of the water on both sides of the warship.
…
All kinds of creatures compete for freedom in the frosty sky!
Zhu Biao looked at the scene in front of him in shock.
Tossing and turning, the depressed mood that could not fall asleep all night seemed to be relieved suddenly at this moment.
The sea breeze, waves, and everything that depends on the sea for survival are blowing in his face...
Zhu Biao looked up and looked at the distance, where the lights were on all night, dispersing the coast and pointing the direction for the wanderers on the sea.
At this moment, the distance is very close.
No more than one mile.
On the top of the giant square cement pillar, which is more than ten feet high, a huge glass lampshade with a diameter of about two meters is burning with a blazing flame.
Zhu Biao opened his mouth slightly...
Glass is no longer a rare thing.
After pulling Chen Chao and stealing the glass firing technology of the fourth brother Yanhua.
Daming has long been able to fire glass.
However, the firing technology is very crude.
Before the Fujian merchants obtained the authorization of Yanhua and taught the firing technology hand in hand.
Daming could only fire green glass with low purity.
This kind of green glass cannot be used by the common people of Ming Dynasty without Yanhua, and the rich families do not like this kind of green glass used by the common people of Yanhua.
They think that this kind of green glass is a common thing and cannot match their status.
As a result, for a long time, the glass made by Ming Dynasty merchants fell into an embarrassing situation of having no market.
The gentry under the rule of the court cursed the fourth brother Yanhua, but secretly bought the transparent glass of Yanhua with higher purity.
But even now.
With the Fujian merchants and Yanhua engineers, they have fully mastered the glass firing technology.
They can't blow such huge glassware!
The most made is glass for doors and windows.
Under the escort of the fleet, the cruise ship slowly passed the lighthouse and sailed into the quiet bay that had just awakened.
When passing the lighthouse.
Zhu Biao looked up.
A worker in blue work clothes came under the lighthouse, pulled the rope with both hands and pulled hard.
At the top of the lighthouse, the flame in the giant spherical glass lampshade went out.
Ta-ta-ta...
Zhu Biao lowered his head and looked into the depths of the bay.
There were footsteps behind him.
He turned his head.
Zhu Yuanzhang came over with the support of Zhu Yunwen.
"Your son greets the emperor." Zhu Biao hurriedly saluted.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and looked at Zhu Biao's tired face, "Didn't you sleep all night?"
Zhu Biao couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything, walked past Zhu Biao, came to the bow, and signaled Zhu Yunwen not to support him.
Holding the guardrail with both hands, looking at the depths of the bay with an old look, he turned his head and smiled kindly at Zhu Yunwen, "How many years has it been since we last came to Yanjing?"
Zhu Yunxuan glanced at Zhu Biao, who was neither standing awkwardly nor talking.
He smiled and said: "Grandfather, the last time I came to Yanjing was in the 25th year of Hongwu, when my fourth uncle founded the country. Now it is the 30th year of Hongwu, which is a full six years after two months."
Zhu Yuanzhang gently touched the iron guardrail with his hand, "When I came here six years ago, the cruise ship my grandfather took was also a gift from your fourth uncle. It was still a hybrid cruise ship at the time, and the guardrail was also made of wood. In six years, it has changed. It is made of iron, and the power is steam power, replacing the old sail and animal power..."
…
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was filled with emotion.
As he said that, he turned his head and said with a smile: "I don't know how much Yanjing has changed in these years. Your elder brother is not here this time. Please take a good look at it and tell it to your elder brother when you get back."
"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and nodded seriously.
Zhu Biao watched Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxu interact.
He has four sons.
Two daughters.
Of four sons.
Yunwen's character is most like him.
Yunxi has a somewhat weak character, and his qualifications are relatively mediocre. He doesn't cause trouble, but he doesn't have outstanding performance.
Even, she was a little afraid of him.
Anyway, avoid him.
As for the third son Yunzhen, he is completely a die-hard supporter of Xiongying.
If he and Xiongying disagree, he will probably support Xiongying.
…
Zhu Yunxuan and Zhu Yuanzhang were talking, and Zhu Biao's thoughts emerged again.
Zhu Xi and others also walked out of the cabin one after another.
Zhu Xi stretched, raised his hand, deliberately patted Zhu Yunzhen on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Follow your brother well. In the future, when our Ming Dynasty reforms, your brother must be surrounded by someone who is hardworking and uncomplaining."
"Um."
Zhu Yunzhen smiled and nodded.
Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glared at Zhu Xi, "A dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Zhu Biao from the corner of his eye.
The second child was making insinuations and blaming Biao'er.
Zhu Fang glanced at Zhu Biao and reminded with a smile: "Father, when you scolded me, you also scolded yourself."
snort!
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily, raised his cane, and slapped the crook of Zhu Xiang's leg moderately, "Do you think I can't beat your legs anymore because I'm old?"
Woo woo woo...
A long whistle sounded suddenly from front to back, left and right.
In the forward coastal defense battery.
The whistle sounded instantly.
Zhu Biao saw soldiers wearing white navy uniforms running out of the fort while adjusting their uniforms.
Line up on the shore.
"salute!"
When the fleet passed by, the navy coast guards on both sides of the coast, under the dark and thick gun barrels of the forts, raised their hands in salute.
In the fleet, admirals and soldiers on warships and transport ships also stood on the deck and in the cabins and returned the salute to the fort.
Zhu Biao looked at this scene and remained silent.
He noticed that the commander on the side was inside.
The dignified Yanhua, the First Division, the Navy Minister, and Lu Zhen all stood in front of the glass window and saluted the soldiers on the shore.
You know, this is just an ordinary entry into Hong Kong.
A lot can be seen from some details.
At least, in the imperial army.
In addition to the generals headed by Lan Yu and Yu Tongyuan, they hope to imitate Yan Hua in carrying out reforms.
Other generals, most of them, never bothered to salute the soldiers at the bottom.
After the fleet passed by.
The officers of the coastal defense battalion on the shore put down their hands and began to jog out, and the slogans of "one, two, one, one" also sounded one after another.
Zhu Biao stared at it for a long time.
On both sides of the coast, rows of three- and four-story buildings appeared.
And when the noise of various hawking sounds came from the shore, he looked back.
Look towards the shore.
First the beach comes into view.
Behind the beach, behind rows of coconut trees, you can vaguely see people on a wide gray cement road.
There are stalls set up on the street.
A new-style carriage passed by.
More dense bicycle traffic.
There are so many bicycles!
In five or six years, bicycles were no longer a rare thing in Daming.
You can see them everywhere in Jinling City.
But compared to the dense traffic on the road behind the coconut trees, it was completely incomparable.
It seems that in Yanhua, almost everyone has a bicycle.
Zhu Fang seemed to see Zhu Biao's surprise and introduced: "Last year, Shang Bing wrote to me. According to the year-end statistics of the Fourth and others, Yanhua's bicycle popularity rate has reached two bicycles for every five people. In the past few years, , in order not to impact the imperial court’s bicycle manufacturing, almost all of the six to seven million bicycles manufactured by Yanhua were internally digested..."
Bicycle manufacturing in Yanhua.
Thanks to the use of steam engine production lines.
and the cheapness of the origins of steel and rubber.
The cost is already very low.
If it were dumped to Ming Dynasty, my niece's bicycle factory would not be able to compete with Yanhua in terms of cost.
However, the internal potential of Laosi Yanhua has almost been tapped to its limit.
Two bikes per five people.
Almost every family in Yanhua has two bicycles.
At least there is one for adults.
A car for children going to school.
He guessed that the fourth child seized the opportunity of the elder brother to target Yanhua and destroyed the Chen Dynasty, not just to counterattack the elder brother.
I'm afraid, there is also the purpose of finding a way out for Yanhua Industrial Products.
Today, Yanhua does not dump industrial products to the Central Plains.
We can only develop sales markets westward.
As for the Chen Dynasty that blocked the Strait of Malacca, while Yanhua's internal industrial product market was becoming saturated, it could only use war to defeat the Chen Dynasty and open up Malacca.
Of course, he was able to analyze this.
Thanks to Shang Bing, he has been studying in Yanhua these years.
The great monk Yao Guangxiao analyzed the letters sent back word for word.
Zhu Biao glanced at Zhu Xi and asked: "Shang Bing and Gao Chi are the same age, I guess. They have studied in Yanhua for more than ten years. When are you going to return to our Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Xi looked at Zhu Biao and sighed.
His original intention was to remind the boss how much Yanhua had given up on his own interests for the benefit of Ming Dynasty over the years.
He didn't believe it, and the boss couldn't hear his reminder.
But the boss changed the subject.
Zhu Xi forced a smile, "Now Shang Bing doesn't want to go back to our Ming Dynasty. Over the years, every year during the Chinese New Year, he goes back to visit me and Guanyin Nu. He always says that our Ming Dynasty is too backward and boring. He also asked me to ask his uncle, When will Ming Dynasty catch up with his fourth uncle Yanhua..."
Zhu 㭎 kept tugging on Zhu Ping's sleeves quietly.
Zhu Ming turned his head angrily, "Lao San, why are you pulling my sleeves!"
The corners of Zhu's lips twitched.
He rolled his eyes angrily.
He had been unlucky for eight lifetimes to have a second brother like Zhu Laoer.
This time the eldest brother and the fourth child are having a conflict. Zhu Laoer has already been reprimanded by his eldest brother because of his radical persuasive remarks. Now he kindly reminds Zhu Laoer not to be too fierce.
Lu Dongbin was bitten by a dog? !
Zhu Rui turned his head and looked to the side.
Just treat Zhu Laoer as air.
Such a fuss.
The atmosphere on the ship suddenly became tense.
No one spoke.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying saw all this and said nothing.
Dong dong dong...
The loud hourly chime sounded, breaking the stiff atmosphere on the ship.
Zhu Biao followed the sound.
Not far ahead, there is another concrete pillar more than ten feet high.
Yanhuang Tower!
Also known as the four-sided bell tower.
He already knew about this bell tower.
However, this is the first time I’ve seen it.
He looked at the clock tower with solemn eyes.
Such a tall bell tower is enough to show the infrastructure construction capabilities of Laosi Yanhua.
The line of sight extends to the back of the bell tower.
The magnificent Century Bridge comes into view.
Representative of Yanhua’s infrastructure construction capabilities.
It’s not Yanhuang Tower.
But this big iron bridge.
Huh!
Zhu Jun exclaimed, "The Century Bridge is different from last time. There is an extra layer underneath. It should be a train track, right?"
His eldest son is also studying in Laosi Yanhua.
There was frequent correspondence between father and son.
So he knows something.
Ta-ta-ta...
Woo woo woo...
At this moment, the whistle and the rhythmic crashing sound suddenly came from the direction of the North Bank City.
When everyone followed the sound and looked.
In the billowing steam, a strange, square steel 'behemoth', like an ink dragon, rushed out of the white mist.
You can also see someone inside the glass window.
Molong towed more than a dozen carriages, the first three of which were enclosed carriages with glass windows.
The next few sections are just a board mounted on wheels, with sacks neatly piled on top.
With everyone watching, he made a roar and rushed across the iron bridge.
Disappeared from everyone's sight.
Everyone watched in shock as Molong disappeared among the many factories on the south bank.
Before he could recover, he was attracted by chimneys with billowing black smoke coming into view.
"This is the train, right?" Old Thirteen Zhu Gui whispered, the shock in his trembling voice clearly evident.
Zhu Fang came back to his senses and put his arm around Zhu Gui's shoulders. "Thirteenth, how much money have you saved over the years? The second brother has decided. Regardless of whether father and fourth brother can negotiate, the Grand Cross Railway Cooperation Plan, the second brother has decided." Brother is going to build a railway in the fiefdom. When the time comes, will you invest some money in it? "
Zhu Gui rolled his eyes and pushed Zhu Ming's arm away.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand angrily, pointed at Zhu Xi with trembling fingers, and scolded angrily and funnyly: "Why did we give birth to such a shameless person like you?"
"Old Thirteen is rich, but if I can't build a railway in my own fiefdom, why should I invest money in you!"
In an instant, Zhu Laoer was denounced by a group of brothers.
The atmosphere has become much more harmonious.
Zhu Biao looked at his brothers and denounced Zhu Ming, but kept a distance from himself, and couldn't help but feel bitter.
Ever since the relationship between him and Lao Si became worse and worse.
The brothers gradually became alienated from him.
Was he really wrong?
Why can't the relatives around him understand him?
…
The brothers were laughing and quarreling.
The fleet slowly sailed towards the naval port.
The laughter gradually disappeared.
The atmosphere was somewhat solemn.
Everyone knows that soon, he will meet the fourth child.
This time, there was no grand welcome, which was enough to feel Yanhua's indifference.
It is simply incomparable to the grand occasion when my father came to Yanjing during his last tour to the south.
Zhu 㭎 stared at the industrial area and sighed in a low voice: "This time, there are too many chimneys in the industrial area. There are almost chimneys everywhere. I can't wait to see them. I want to see them after the steamification transformation. Yanjing Industrial Zone.”
When Zhu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but look towards the industrial area again.
In fact, he seemed calm on the surface.
In fact, only he himself knows the impact on his heart.
It turns out that the Yanjing depicted in Jin Yiwei's Secret Memorial did not truly reflect even one ten thousandth of the shocking impact.
No wonder everyone says Yanjing is good.
No wonder the fourth brother dared to fight back strongly.
Just seeing an appearance gave him a strong shock and impact.
In fact, he couldn't wait to go in, go deep into it, and take a good look.
Of course, he couldn't say these thoughts.
Bang bang bang...
The sound of cannons rang out.
Zhu Biao's thoughts were pulled back, and he noticed that he had entered the naval port.
The gun platform, the cement-hardened dock, the gantry crane...
This was the first time he had seen such a complete naval port.
In comparison, the Songjiangkou Navy Camp seemed like a makeshift team.
On the dock, a group of people were waiting.
The leader, surrounded by the middle, hadn't seen for several years, the familiar yet unfamiliar tall figure, majestic.
The once familiar immaturity disappeared.
Only the mature and steady power of the superior was left.
The fourth brother!
Zhu Biao's fingers hidden in his sleeves curled slightly.
For a moment, he was confused.
Now, the fourth brother is the winner, and he is a loser with the Yanhua Navy aiming at Jinling City!
The conversation between Zhu Chong and Zhu Yu gradually died down.
Everyone's eyes were on Zhu Di, who was surrounded in the middle of the dock, and Zhu Biao beside him.
No one knew that at this moment, Zhu Biao was obsessed with the loser and the winner.
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