1880th: Weird New World
In fact, this is not surprising at all, because the Sudan's envoy returned to Istanbul and reported to their Sudan that the Sudan was going to recruit a large army, which was not too long after a few months.
Of course, for this nearly three thousand miles of road, the Qinglong new army is about to be released now, and sending 10,000 new troops. In order to ensure supply, it should be recruited 30,000 to 40,000 civilians, that is, in the end, 50,000 people will set off.
However... this is the most inefficient method, and after consultations by the small cabinet, everyone finally chose a better method... to build the railway.
The new army does not have to rush out, and the civilians do not have to collect so many. On the contrary, we are recruiting more craftsmen and labor at any cost, mobilizing all existing resources, and ensuring that the railway line will be built to the west within the next four months as long as it can be.
Therefore, many existing branch lines can only support the main line. All the railway tracks that are ready for laying are sent to the westernmost section of the railway through steaming cars, where countless recruits are laid directly in shifts day and night.
In order to ensure efficiency, all relevant people from the Institute and the Railway Bureau took the steam train to arrive at the construction site and began to carry out segmented construction. If you have to work, it means money. In fact, efficiency is no problem. Even if there is no new technology, it is always man-made, but without money, it will never be possible. The China Merchants Group directly uses more than twice the cost. The amount can be extended to the west, regardless of all costs.
This plan was personally agreed by Ye Chunqiu.
Ye Chunqiu also believed that if more railways were built and could guarantee supplies, the military expenditure of the war would be reduced a lot, so the order had been issued.
There are still four or five months left, but he is not in a hurry, read the newspaper every day and rests leisurely.
Recently, many new things have appeared in Qinglong. Various exquisitely structured machinery have begun to be used, especially the emergence of steam engines. Many workshops have begun to focus on various steam engines to replace production, steam textile machines, steam punches, and manpower have gradually been replaced, but productivity has reached a higher level.
As a result, the original handicraft industry gradually began to collapse, and the machinery industry became increasingly in short supply. Many mechanical workshops rose to the ground. In order to recruit mature craftsmen, the salary of mechanical craftsmen was more than twice that of metallurgy and textile workers. Suddenly, the new industry suddenly attracted a small boom. Universities have opened training and learning for machinery manufacturing, and many people work during the day and go to night classes at night.
Many times, you don’t need to use a whip to beat it or use any words to intimidate it. You just need to have enough salary. In no time, a large number of people will migrate into mechanical forging.
On the other hand, because of the growth of the industry, any clear creation related to machinery can bring huge economic effects. Many merchants realize that if their production technology can be improved, the products produced can be improved a lot under manual labor. The improvement of production efficiency means hiring the least workers and earning the most money. With this huge profit, not only the research institute, but even some craftsmen in the market are trying their best to find ways to improve process and technological innovation.
Various new technologies appear in daily newspapers. Some people have developed a new thing, hoping to attract investment and get investment from merchants, and some are some of them, which are the new technology that the research institute has recently obtained.
Qinglong has become more secular. Here, everyone may get rich overnight. Maybe you just recruited a business, maybe you just had a sudden idea, maybe you just lost your luck, but no matter what, it is precisely because of this fate that can be changed overnight that everyone's eyes begin to turn red.
The old so-called moral concepts and so-called tranquility and inaction are no longer rare. In the pass, if you are a tenant, you will farm the gentry for the rest of your life and you will have to barely fill your stomach in your life. If you encounter natural disasters, you will have to borrow money. The descendants will only owe more and more money. It is a joke to change the so-called fate. As long as the gentry is not a loser, as long as he controls the land, he will not be able to complete it overnight. Therefore, there is a focus on indifference, purity, and success.
But here, even if you might be just a footwork the day before yesterday, or because you can't help but want to do a small business with others, even if it's only a small cost, but because you invest in something new, you may be rich in wealth in a blink of an eye. It's also possible that your novel idea was finally applied, so you transformed into a million yuan, you are just a broker, but you may have earned countless wealth because of a big business. At this time... no one is willing to be at peace, so the so-called purity and inaction have become jokes. This is an era of change. Every day in the world is different from yesterday. In this torrent, everyone is confused and impulsive. They don't know where the direction of pursuing wealth is, but countless vivid examples make them unable to sit in.
So even a thief in the city is much more diligent than in the pass. In this world, some sons from the gentry and officials are in high school, or the owner of the silk shop in the city has made another fortune, which is not inspiring. What is really inspiring is that the greedy and lazy guy next door is now comfortable to ride a crane cart. Such goods are now living in a different restaurant near the Lu Palace, with 5 or 6 people. Can you still tolerate this? Even if you can tolerate it, the people around you will not let you tolerate it. Your parents will scold you, what about other children, your wife will complain, and what about other husbands.
If you are lazy, you can feel your neighbors pointing and making fun of you secretly.
Therefore, Qinglong City is always noisy, and everyone is no longer used to sitting in the teahouse to eat tea slowly. Everyone is used to walking in a hurry, and few people see it. Some people hide in the shade of trees and hide in the sun. Everyone is used to walking in a hurry. Everyone is talking about money. Who can earn money, how can you earn money, and what are the benefits of earning money?
Of course, you are decent after earning money, and you can't be more decent. This place is not within the gates. If you have money, you have to hide it secretly, for fear of causing trouble. However, here, people show their wealth indifferently, fearing that others don't know.
Sometimes Ye Chunqiu began to doubt what kind of world was he created?
Chapter completed!