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- "Woooo~"
The train was running on the straight rails, and a whine of the whistle woke up Avaro from Spain.
He is the Spanish minister to the Ming Dynasty and has been in the Ming Dynasty for two years.
When he first came to the Ming Dynasty, he brought Marco Polo's travel diary with him. During the journey across the ocean, he had already read the book by heart.
In his mind, that distant Eastern Empire was synonymous with gold, porcelain and silk, richness and paradise, and power.
¡°However, after actually coming outside the Ming Dynasty and staying here for two years, he gained a new understanding of the Ming Dynasty.
??This place is indeed very rich, just like the rumors say.
This is a magical country. The people here are well-dressed and well-fed. More importantly, they are as proud as the Spaniards. There is pride and confidence in their eyes, which once made Avaro feel very uncomfortable.
Because in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, he seemed to be an uncivilized barbarian from a barbaric land, but Avaro has always been proud of being a member of the great Spanish Empire.
Avalo was deeply impressed by Ming's wealth.
"With the latest five-year railway plan issued by the Ming Dynasty, they can easily raise 500 million taels of silver to build a railway, 500 million taels of silver!"
"This huge wealth can probably be used to cover the entire Lesotho."
Avaro couldn't help but take out his notebook and wrote this on it.
The people of Ming Dynasty are really very rich.
He once went to the pier of Tianjin Port to look at the ships returning from overseas. Each ship was loaded with gold, silver and jewelry from all over the world. When boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were opened, it seemed that the whole world was filled with only Those charming colors and lights.
¡°There is gold everywhere here, and this is not an exaggeration.¡±
"In the Beijing-Tianjin area of ??the Ming Empire, a house here costs more than a thousand taels of silver. Such a huge wealth is enough to buy a nice manor in Spain."
"The rich people here can spend thousands of taels of silver just for a casual meal in a restaurant. They are more luxurious than our king."
¡°But that¡¯s not what shocked me the most.¡±
¡°What really shocked me was the wisdom of the Ming people!¡±
"They can actually build such a huge and incredible train. This kind of machine relies on steam to provide power. It can transport two thousand people or more than two hundred thousand kilograms of goods at a time, and it can travel at eighty miles per hour. moving forward at a faster pace.¡±
"Oh, God!"
"I swear, such a machine must be made by a god."
Avaro looked at the rapidly regressing scenery outside the window and kept writing in his diary.
¡°I can say with certainty that if this news reaches Europe, no one will believe what I say.¡±
"No one can imagine how I feel at this moment, or that I wrote such words on a high-speed train."
"The train is so smooth that even a glass of water won't turn over. It only takes less than two hours to travel to Tianjin, which is more than a hundred miles away."
¡°God, if I hadn¡¯t been there myself, I probably wouldn¡¯t be able to believe this.¡±
"But this is the fact. As you can see in front of you, the Ming Dynasty villages are very neat, clean and beautiful, dotted on this beautiful land."
¡°It can be clearly seen that the Ming people living here are very wealthy, carefree, cleanly dressed and rosy-cheeked.¡±
¡°In contrast, I still clearly remember that the Spanish countryside I visited was dirty, chaotic, poor, poor, backward, and ignorant.¡±
"In the Ming Empire, there are schools everywhere. According to their newspaper, they will strive to have every Ming child go to school and be literate in the future."
¡°What an incredible thing this is!¡±
¡°They are so rich that they want everyone to read and become literate, but we Spanish children are working in the fields and grazing cattle and sheep.¡±
"In fact, the literacy rate of Ming people is very high. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, newspaper sales are very good, and almost everyone loves to read newspapers."
Avaro put down the pen in his hand, looked at the Ming people in the carriage, and continued writing.
¡°When we in the Western world??steps. "
"In the past, due to geographical and transportation restrictions, even when ruling the Western Regions and the Hezhong area, the Ming Empire had to spend great efforts on large-scale immigration."
"But as long as this railway is built, everything will undergo earth-shaking changes. The natural chasm will become a thoroughfare. No matter how far away the area is, as long as there is a railway, the Ming Empire can be firmly in its hands."
¡°Our great Spain will eventually become the leader of Europe, but I think we need to learn a lot from the Ming Empire.¡±
"Not only should you learn the system of the Ming Empire, but you should also learn the advanced technology of the Ming Empire. Their emperor attached great importance to craftsmen, and craftsmen who made outstanding contributions could even obtain noble titles."
"Perhaps we should also build railways, build railways on a large scale, so that every part of the empire can be firmly connected together and become stronger!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel. com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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