The most arrogant in history

Ye Kun became increasingly dissatisfied with Yan Ju and Yu Guinong.

The two guys thought they had done a great job by betraying Xiao Dequan, so they amassed a lot of wealth and expanded their family power, and they pretended to obey Ye Kun's decision but secretly disobeyed it.

They have money and people, but they are afraid that Ye Kun will take advantage of their situation.

As soon as the word immigration is mentioned, they jump out to oppose it.

Seeing Ye Kun getting angry, Yu Guinong clasped his fists and said, "I will do my best to relocate some of the Jiangdong clans to Jianghuai."

Ye Kun said calmly: "If they don't want to come, I will let Ma Botao and Xue Changfeng force them to immigrate. The land in the Jianghuai area is fertile and the area is vast. The farming conditions are better than those in the Jiangdong mountainous area."

Yu Guinong nodded and said, "Your Majesty is right. I will write a letter immediately to mobilize the wealthy families in Lujiang County."

Ye Kun added: "I will order Xue Changfeng and Ma Botao's corps to allocate half of their forces to open up wasteland in the Jianghuai region and vigorously plant cotton. Lord Qin Chou, arrange for relevant technical personnel to provide technical support."

The Jianghuai region has hundreds of millions of acres of land and huge potential.

Qin Chou suggested that coastal and riverine areas should grow a variety of grains to facilitate transportation by water and sea.

In areas close to the mainland, especially those that lack water, we can grow more cotton to solve everyone's clothing problem.

Ye Kun nodded: "In another two years, sweet potatoes and corn will be cultivated and promoted throughout the country, and there will be no shortage of food everywhere."

In fact, now all regions can achieve food self-sufficiency.

After all, the population base is too small and grain production has increased greatly.

Ye Kun no longer wanted the grain in Yizhou and sent it all to the southern wilderness to support road construction.

The food in Nanjing and Jiangdong is sufficient to sustain the navy.

The grain from the Central Plains and Hebei region is more than enough to support Zhuo County and the iron ore and coal mines.

Sang Buyi and others sought opinions from local officials, planned some medium-sized flower-tying factories, cotton spinning factories, and weaving factories, and began construction.

Local officials reported that there was kaolin in some places in the Jianghuai region and asked Ye Kun if it was possible to build a porcelain kiln factory.

Ye Kun also approved it and sent experts to verify the quality of kaolin.

Ye Qingyang also planned several highways in the Jianghuai area to improve transportation.

After patrolling for more than a month, Ye Kun finally returned home and prepared to return to Zhuo County.

Before setting off, I received good news from Changan Wenqi that the second phase of the Changan New City project had been completed.

The third phase expansion project is not that urgent and can be slowed down.

Wen Qi also said another thing, that there were too many immigrants from the Western Regions and Rome, with hundreds of people entering Chang'an every day.

Most of them were young slaves brought by Roman merchants, as well as people from the Western Regions who moved with their families.

Ye Kun was overjoyed and ordered Wen Qi to form teams and send the foreign laborers who had been trained earlier to the Central Plains and the Jianghuai area to be distributed to wealthy families as slaves, or given to widows to find sons-in-law.

All new arrivals are sent to coal mines and iron mines for training.

Immigrants from the Western Regions all moved to the Central Plains, were settled in different places, and unmarried men and women were arranged to intermarry with the Han people.

Qin Chou smiled and said, "Your Majesty, aren't you worried that there will be too many foreigners and that they will disrupt the Chinese bloodline?"

"No, in this land, the Chinese will always be the masters. They will only assimilate other races, and will not be assimilated by other races."

Ye Kun was confident.

Chinese civilization has a long history and radiates to the surrounding areas.

Even in later generations, the cultural genes of the South Pacific Islands and Fusang in the east came from China.

On the way back, Ye Kun found that the situation had improved a little, and the Jianghuai and Xuzhou areas were gradually becoming more popular.

After resting in the palace for two days, Ye Kun was invited to go to the Science and Technology City to check the progress of various work.

He Tiantian and heads of various departments report their work to Ye Kun.

We already have two thousand new steel guns and seven hundred cannons.

Fifty thousand bullets and ten thousand artillery shells.

Ye Kun nodded: "With so many, we can conquer Goguryeo first. Continue production and ensure supply."

Pang Jia said, "With 50,000 bullets, each bullet kills one person. How many troops can Goguryeo have?"

"Brother, do you think fighting is like shooting at a target, where people just stand still and let you shoot at them?"

Ye Kun rolled his eyes: "On a chaotic battlefield, if ten bullets can kill one person, it's considered highly efficient. You've never been on a battlefield, so you think war is too simple."

If it were a war in the future, these 50,000 bullets would only be enough to feed three or five machine guns!

Saturation attacks on the battlefield, artillery plowing the ground, can knock down hundreds of thousands of shells against you in a day.

Pang Jia laughed and said, "That's because the gunner is not good and can't shoot accurately."

Ye Kun nodded: "You can do it, you can continue to study the optical sight of the gun, equip the gun with a telescope, and every shot will be accurate. When you have developed it, it will be called the Pangjia Sniper Rifle."

Sniper rifles with telescopes are also being researched, but there has not been much progress.

There are also lightweight pistols and double-barreled rifles that are under research.

Pang Jia was not embarrassed at all and agreed immediately: "Give me another two years, and I will make you a musket that never misses."

Ye Kun nodded and asked about wireless telegraphy and loudspeakers.

The large speakers have now been miniaturized and are lighter.

Because the principle of the speaker is a coil plus a magnet, as long as the enameled wire is fine enough, it can be miniaturized.

He Tiantian said: "The telegram has been sent to Jinling, Chengdu, Chang'an, and Luoyang, and the test results are good. The required telegraph operators have also been deployed and stationed in various places. From now on, the emperor can use the telegram to communicate with the four major secondary capitals."

Ye Kun was very happy and said with a smile: "It is far from enough to just have telegrams from the four major tutors. We also need to send telegrams to Liaodong, Dunhuang, and Jiaozhi. In this way, the east, west, south, and north can be linked together."

"Your Majesty, rest assured. Telegrams to Liaodong, Dunhuang, and Jiaozhi are all being arranged."

"very good."

Ye Kun nodded: "I plan to lead the army to Liaodong in person in the near future. Before I lead the army, you can hold a science and technology exhibition and invite the people of Zhuo County to come and see our technological progress."

He Tiantian smiled and said, "Tomorrow our steam locomotive test will officially begin. The emperor can let the people come and watch."

"Let me test the train first. If it doesn't work, I'll be laughed at by the people."

Ye Kun didn't see the train's test run, so he was a little worried.

He Tiantian smiled and took Ye Kun to see the internal railway tracks.

The internal railway track is circular, three miles long, with straight lines, turns, and ups and downs.

The train adopts a double locomotive design, so if one locomotive breaks down, there is a spare one.

The trailer is a steel chassis with a carriage made of steel frames and wooden boards.

Sun Yi also followed and said, "Brother Huang, the train can start now, do you want to try it?"

"Forget it now. Let me take a look."

Ye Kun waved his hand and looked at the train and track design first.

The general designs are all from Ye Kun's drawings, with only minor differences.

After looking around, Ye Kun asked, "What is the test speed of the train?"

"Forty miles per hour." He Tiantian said:

"Because this is an internal test, the road conditions are not good. It's not long enough and not straight enough, so the speed is slower. When we really get on the road, we should be able to run up to 50 miles."