The sacrifice to heaven is finally over.

"Your Majesty, it's time to get back to the palace."

Wang Xijue said.

Guan Liao's position looked at the remaining smoke from the Emperor, and looked deep at his country.

The early spring season in the south of the Yangtze River is also commonly planted with winter wheat and rapeseed, so the fields and forests on both sides of the Gan River are still large green. The Gan River slowly flows north in the middle, and inland river boats dock at the dock.

Because this is the main processing base for steel products, there are still many chimneys that are spewing black smoke into the sky...

The iron smelting base in Jiangxi is in Xinyuhe Fenyi.

That is, Phoenix Mountain Iron Mine.

It was originally the main iron ore of the Ming Dynasty. The iron smelting in the Ming Dynasty was Zunhua Guanye and Foshan Minye, but Foshan was actually a processing center. The real iron ore was in the mountainous areas of western and northern Guangdong. The private small iron smelting furnaces were smelted nearby in the mountains and then transported to Foshan for processing. Then there was Fenyi, Jiangxi. The highest output accounted for one-fifth of the country, and there were even a large number of tons of blast furnaces. However, it is still mainly charcoal. There is limonite, which has high sulfur content and is inconvenient for nearby coal resources.

This is also the reason why there was quickly surpassed by Wuchang, which has the convenience of coal.

In addition, there is also private iron smelting in the Zezhou area in the north. The latter is the pillar of Shanxi iron smelting and is made of coal smelting, but it is Shanxi's unique incense coal, which is low-sulfur weathered coal.

In recent years, Jiangxi has been developing the iron ore of Xinyu and Fenyi in crazily.

But it is a mountainous area and lacks the manpower and hydraulic power required for large-scale processing. Especially when using charcoal, a large amount of charcoal is required, and the manpower is even more tight, so it is smelted and then transported to Nanchang after smelting pig iron and dry iron. Here, it uses sufficient human resources and hydraulic resources for further processing, even including steelmaking after remelting.

Or use Sugang technology.

This technology is not behind, at least before the real steelmaking furnace, this smelting technology is relatively advanced.

It is not as good as crucible steel, but the yield is much higher than that of crucible steel.

The yield of crucible steel is very low, and in fact, a furnace is only more than ten kilograms. After the birth of crucible steel, it was not used on a large scale.

Mainly making knives.

But Sugang is truly mass-produced, and the price can even be lowered to make armor.

It can be said that at this time, Nanchang had truly had the prototype of the industrial era. On the originally richest agricultural plain, there were emerging factories everywhere, and the industry and commerce, as a place of material intersection, was even more developed, with a dense population that was no less than that of the capital. In fact, Wanli had not returned in recent years. When he returned to the capital, he would know that the capital had declined long ago. In the era of hydraulic machinery, the capital could not be compared with the south. What kind of water would the river be used for five months?

Industry depends on costs after all.

This land, which is gradually entering a new era, is now displayed in front of the emperor.

This is his country.

The beautiful country left to him by his ancestors.

Speaking of which, His Majesty the Emperor has been wandering in his country for too long over the years, and his ambitions have become stronger and stronger. After all, he is really unwilling to give up such a good world in his hands!

"I want to say a few words to the people and pass the imperial edict, so that the people can all come to the stage. As for the scholars, there is no need for them. All scholars are well aware of the great righteousness and there is no need for me to say more."

His Majesty the Emperor said slowly.

"Your Majesty, the people are mixed with fish and dragons. Maybe there are traitors who hide it. To avoid accidents, I will return to the palace as soon as possible."

Geng Dingli said.

"Your Majesty, that's true."

Zhou Zhiji said in agreement.

"If I don't even believe in the people, how can I rule the world? I want to isolate me and the people?"

The emperor shouted.

Geng Dingli and Zhou Zhiji looked at each other. This problem was a bit serious. They really wanted to isolate the emperor and the people.

"Since that's the case, let the people below come up. Besides, they are not allowed to reach the top. The two floors below are enough to accommodate thousands of people. Even if there are evil people hiding, they can't get up to a 100-meter-high platform in a hurry, let alone the guards around them."

Huang Kezhang said with a smile.

Geng Dingli looked at him with a smile...

He said lightly, and of course he, a Fujianese, doesn't care. What the emperor did in Guangzhou? Do you think he doesn't know here?

The emperor did not learn much good things with Yang Feng, but learned enough of the evil thief's tricks.

This is also very easy to play with by the unruly people.

"Your Majesty, I think it's better to be cautious."

He said.

The emperor glanced at him calmly, then stretched out his hand back, and took his loudspeaker from Li Feng's hand in the shocked gaze of Geng Dingli and others...

"Listen to the people below!"

He suddenly roared.

The people under the altar were stunned and looked up at their emperor in unison.

Even the farther ones were silent soon. They closed their mouths in surprise and looked at the figure of the twelve crowns on the altar with a bronze trumpet in their hands. Even some soldiers garrisoned turned to look at their Emperor. These were the Seventh Army of the Imperial Battalion, which was originally stationed in Nanchang. In order to show their trust in them, the emperor left the second Army of the Imperial Battalion and the Third Army of the Imperial Battalion to guard Nanchang City, but asked them to protect the altar. This made these soldiers quite fond.

This is also a trust in them.

Of course, it's just a favorable feeling, and if you want to say loyalty, you definitely don't have it.

The emperor had no money to pay them a salary, and their military salary was still paid by the local councils.

"Apart from the blue shirt, everyone else has come to the forefront!"

The emperor yelled.

"Hurry, Your Majesty has an order. Except for the blue shirt, everyone else will go to the altar!"

The soldiers below were unclear, but they still instinctively urged the people, and the latter immediately began to climb the steps.

Geng Dingli's face was solemn, and his eyes turned to those blue shirts.

Zou Yuanbiao and Shu Yuejing inside immediately understood, and then said something to the scholar beside him.

"Why don't you let the green shirt go up? Don't we wait to see Tianyan? Students, let's go up too!"

A blue shirt raised his arms and shouted.

"Yes, we must also have a glimpse of the sky!"

"Students, let's go up too!"

...

Others shouted.

Immediately afterwards they rushed to the altar, and the guards immediately stopped them. Several officials quickly stopped them. At the moment of their wits, these blue shirts rushed to the altar. Because the steps were all occupied by the people, they climbed up directly with the help of their companions. After all, they were just one meter tall. At this time, the students were not the kind of people who were in the past who were powerless. They could do it by climbing a wall, but when they climbed up, the people who were still on stage in an orderly manner also reacted.

Can climb!

Then no one lined up, and they all rushed to the audience and started climbing.

Since you have not stopped the scholars, of course it is impossible to stop the people. Those soldiers simply ignore it. If you like to climb up, just do whatever you want.

Then the entire altar became a three-layer cake that seemed to be trapped by ants.

Everyone was rushing to climb up.

At this time, the scholars were lagging behind. Although the scholars began to strengthen their bodies at this time, they were not as good as those who worked daily, especially among the people around Nanchang, there were actually a large number of steel workers. In this era, iron tools were basically made by ironwork.

The same goes for hydraulic machinery.

A blacksmith is a must.

They quickly surpassed the scholars, climbed to the first floor, then continued to move upward, and then quickly climbed to the second floor, and those who walked the steps quickly separated from the entrance to the two sides. Soon, the first and second floors were completely occupied by the crowd. Even because they could not accommodate them, there were still people riding on the railings. Anyway, it would be fine if they fell down. At most, the people below were smashed under them. Most of them were ordinary people, with only a few blue shirts, but most of them could not see the emperor.

After all, there is a wall in front of them that makes it easier to hear the emperor's voice.

And the people who filled their original positions behind them could see the emperor, and then the entire altar and surroundings quickly fell silent, and everyone was waiting for the Hadith.

The emperor looked at the ministers...

Wang Xijue was already retreating, and the cunning Wang Shoufu realized something was going to happen.

The young but also cunning Huang Kezhang was also retreating.

They didn't know the emperor's real purpose, even if it was Wang Xijue, they didn't know. In fact, what the emperor wanted to do was the imperial concubine and Li Feng. This kind of thing did not exist in secret arrangements, because any secret arrangements were leaked, and Wang Xijue would also leak the secret. His son was a bachelor of Hongguang, although he was not a grand scholar. Most of the Wang family's industries had been transferred to Huguang, and the private mercenaries who followed him back to Guangzhou were hired from Huguang.

Wanli couldn't believe him.

Apart from him, I dare not trust those left.

At this time, the emperor was really a lonely man in the standard sense. Not to mention his court, he could not find anything that could be truly trusted in the world.

Except Yang Feng.

Very ironic.

Apart from this biggest enemy, he actually had no one to trust.

Geng Dingli and others looked at him with vigilance. Although it was impossible to guess what he wanted to do, Geng Dingli and others still realized that he was going to make trouble.

His Majesty the Emperor turned his head with a smile and walked forward a while, so that the people on both sides of the steps could see him. At the same time, Zhou Zhiji, behind him, made a gesture, and the officer guarding the altar behind him took out a mirror and shook it there to reflect the sunlight. On the dock of Fuhe, the same mirror in the hand of a man on the deck of a large ship, shaking it, using the reflected sunlight to complete the contact, and then the flag was raised on the mast behind him.

On all the merchant ships mooring to Fuhe, the same flags rose one after another, even stretching towards the Gan River behind, and the flags on the ships rose one after another.

Everything is done quietly.

The people were looking up at their emperor on the altar and around them, and the soldiers were also watching the emperor, and no one paid attention to the changes behind them.

Of course, except for one person.

A man hiding behind the hall, and he was holding the same mirror in his hand, looking at it speechlessly, and then he shook it...
Chapter completed!