Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"People from the Ye family, Wang family, Zhao family and other major families have all contributed a lot to the construction of the ice-making factory."

Sun Miao spoke in a low voice and reminded Qin Ming.

"understood."

Qin Ming nodded slowly and pointed to the five carriages next to him.

"Everyone, these are for you."

"okay!"

Everyone has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

He immediately began to contact his family members and loaded the materials to be traded onto the train.

Qin Ming directed the people in various villages to load some seasonal fruits and vegetables onto trucks and transport them to the Jiangnan Special Line and the Huxi Special Line.

These two dedicated lines were built in advance by Qin Ming when he was building multiple lines, spending more effort than other lines.

The purpose is to connect Jiangnan, Huxi and Lingnan as soon as possible.

This will facilitate the faster circulation of their goods and avoid waste.

"Your Highness, can you wait a moment?"

After working for more than an hour, loading the goods.

Sun Miao walked forward and spoke with some embarrassment.

"what happened?"

Chang Baishan continued:

"It was my first time arranging it, and I wasn't very familiar with it. I was worried about not having enough strength, so I added two locomotives in the front and back, with the front pulling and the back pushing."

"Who knew they were overdoing it? These locomotives can pull over thirty carriages at a time, and now there's not enough cargo to go around..."

After hearing this, Qin Ming already understood what he meant.

He turned around with a frown on his face and saw a group of people standing in front of the carriage in a daze.

So far, only a dozen or so carriages have been loaded and the cargo has been used up.

"Don't bother with that. Just dismantle the front of the train and leave quickly. This trip will go to Jiangnan, and the next one will go to Huxi."

"okay."

Upon hearing this, Chang Baishan immediately took action.

On the other side, Song Dingsheng had already captured a group of people.

"Your Highness, these are the guys who stole the railroad tracks."

"They will be punished according to the law, and their village will be banned from using trains for three months."

Qin Ming spoke lightly, and everyone's faces turned green when they heard such a punishment.

As for the villagers who were banned, they just stood there in a daze.

There is an endless stream of abuse and accusations.

"You bastard, if I can't make any money, I'll skin you alive!"

"You bastard, because of you investing in the railroad tracks, our entire village can't make any money!"

"Remove this traitor from the family tree!"

Chen Shimao and Song Dingsheng looked at each other, both of them with some surprise on their faces.

Qin Ming’s method is indeed good. It can make them spontaneously clean up those who steal the rails.

In addition, some soldiers in the intermediate supply stations strengthened patrols.

In the short term, there should be no problems with the operation of the railway tracks.

"Is your Highness free?"

After completing the test run of the train, Chen Shimao walked up to Qin Ming and spoke.

Qin Ming nodded and said:

"What's the matter, teacher?"

"I have almost finished arranging the construction of the factories in Wadao and Nanman."

Chen Shimao's plan was to have Nanman build a sugar factory and a timber factory.

On the Japanese island, textile mills and salt factories were built.

These are arrangements that suit the resources and geographical advantages of each place.

"If that's the case, then doesn't it mean we need to build several dedicated routes to the port in Jiangnan?"

Qin Ming raised his eyebrows. His original plan was to connect the three provincial capitals first.

But now it seems that things have changed.

“It needs to be built, but we don’t have the people.”

Chen Shimao spoke slowly and raised a crucial question.

Ever since Qin Ming started fighting against Daqian, he has been continuously recruiting soldiers locally.

In addition to soldiers, there is land that needs to be cultivated by farmers and factories that need tens of thousands of people to keep running.

After deducting these items, there are not many people left who can be used.

Now large-scale construction is required. Even if Chen Shimao has squeezed almost all the local people dry, he will not be able to undertake such a construction task.

"How about... going to Nanman to get some laborers?"

At this time, Song Dingsheng spoke tentatively.

Qin Ming and Chen Shimao shook their heads at the same time.

"Impossible. Putting aside whether these people can be disciplined and how efficient they are at work, the elders and clan leaders in the tribe will not agree to take people from them."

Qin Ming and Chen Shimao both had some knowledge of the Southern Barbarians.

They are made up of tribes of various sizes.

There is actually not much labor in each tribe. In addition to cultivating a small piece of land and hunting, they are also responsible for guarding the tribe.

This makes their young and middle-aged laborers an extremely valuable asset within the tribe.

The other party will never let go easily. If it costs a huge price to get help from them, Qin Ming might as well slow down the construction progress and reduce manpower requirements.

“There are quite a few people in the farmland.”

Qin Ming turned his head and looked at the people in the distance.

There are many farmers in each village, but they don't have much land to cultivate.

Some people even have only two acres of thin land and have difficulty supporting themselves.

At this time, if all the farmland could be centralized and managed, people could be assigned to work under Qin Ming.

Maybe it can ease the population tension.

"But your highness, these people cannot be moved."

Chen Shimao immediately waved his hand.

"Farmers and farmland are the source of our military rations. If we can't even take care of them, we won't even be able to fight a war in the future."

"Teacher, you can actually move."

Qin Ming suddenly spoke, then pointed at the train and said:

"We can use steam engines to pull carriages back and forth on tracks, and then we can use steam engines to drive large-scale machinery for large-scale farming."

"That will save labor, allowing them to join the construction team and improve construction efficiency."

"hiss!"

Song Dingsheng and Chen Shimao both gasped.

This kind of analogy made them all open their eyes wide and look incredulous.

"But this will take time..."

"Within a year, we will promote this farming model and use factories and construction corps to recruit farmers who don't farm. This will free up productivity."

Qin Ming slowly built his grand blueprint with them.

The most important thing about the First Industrial Revolution was the liberation of productivity.

Song Dingsheng was finding it difficult to understand Qin Ming's idea.

In fact, this is normal. Before technology reaches a certain level, no one can imagine what the world will look like in the future.

Fortunately, Qin Ming came from modern society and knew all the development paths.

"I think it's feasible."

Chen Shimao nodded slowly, then called Qin Ming to the workshop.

Inside the workshop, Qin Ming informed everyone about the idea of ​​making water-pumping devices, tillage vehicles, and small and medium-sized simple harvesters.

After understanding what Qin Ming wanted, several craftsmen began to discuss.

"A steam engine is simply a machine that adds gears and converts it into power."

"Pumping water, mowing grass, and other things can also be driven by steam engines. Anyway, it's just a matter of finding a way to use your energy."