After finally coming to Foshan, Fang Nan did not plan to go back after seeing the howitzer. Fang Nan and the senior military officials first went to the arsenal to inspect it, and finally came to the Steam Engine Research Institute.

The Steam Engine Research Institute reported to Fang Nan in the last week report that there has been great progress in the research of Type B steam engines and the prototype has been built. However, there are still many problems on the prototypes. Any problem will have serious consequences for the use of Type B steam engines. These problems must be solved so that Type B steam engines can be considered successful in research and development.

At the Steam Engine Research Institute, Fang Nan and his group saw the prototype of the Type B steam engine. A group of senior military officials were very excited about the Type B steam engine.

Army generals thought that the trains driven by the steam engine were driving on the railroad, and the machine tools driven by the steam engine made more firearms; Navy generals were thinking that there were no sails to use steam engines as powered by warships.

When the practical Type B steam engine is born, the industrial era of the People's Army will officially begin!

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It has been a month since Zhu Yaojiang came to Guangzhou City. In the past month, Zhu Yaojiang has realized that everything in Guangzhou City is real, the smiles on the faces of the people are real, their happy lives are completely different from the news they heard in the palace.

The people under the People's Army lived a good life, but Zhu Yaojiang didn't know the lives of the people under the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't have much thought. After getting familiar with the four guards who protected her, Zhu Yaojiang's nature gradually showed up. After all, he was still an 18-year-old young girl, and she had just come into contact with the outside world for a while. Zhu Yaojiang was very interested in everything outside.

In the past month, Zhu Yaojiang was walking on the street. Today, Zhu Yaojiang was going to sit in the teahouse and chose an ordinary teahouse. Zhu Yaojiang and Xiangning walked in under the protection of four guards.

The guard knew that Zhu Yaojiang was entering the teahouse for the first time, so he took the initiative to come forward and asked the waiter to find a relatively remote place. The teahouse had no special room. He then asked the waiter to have a pot of good tea and a few plates of exquisite food. The four guards sat down around a table next to him, and only had a pot of tea.

Zhu Yaojiang's idea of ​​coming to the teahouse is very simple, just to hear what everyone is talking about. People on the streets hardly can't speak, and the stalls are full of voices from buyers and sellers. It's lively and it feels boring after listening for a long time, so Zhu Yaojiang comes to the teahouse to take a look.

However, the situation in the teahouse next made Zhu Yaojiang look worse and worse.

Whether it is the teahouse in the Ming Dynasty or the People's Army ruling, they often invite a storyteller to tell interesting stories. A storyteller who can tell stories can bring many regular customers to the teahouse.

Of course, there is also a storyteller in the teahouse where Zhu Yaojiang came to, but this storyteller is not telling stories, but likes to comment on what happened between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yaojiang did not know the living scenes of the people in the Ming Dynasty ruled area, but the storyteller described it, which was simply summarized as the rich and gentry merchants and merchants, and the people at the bottom were unable to fill their stomachs.

The people at the bottom were living very miserable. Under such circumstances, the people rebelled everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, but the people's strength was very weak and easily suppressed by the Ming Dynasty. Until the People's Army appeared, the general of the People's Army was extraordinary. He led a group of mountain people out of the deep mountains and swept across Guangdong. Last year, he captured Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Huguang.

The Grand Governor distributed the land to the people. The Grand Governor climbed the high ground and shouted, and the people responded. Water could carry boats and could also overturn the boats. The foundation of the Ming Dynasty was the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty could not let the people have enough food, so the people all turned to the People's Army. With the support of the people, the People's Army became stronger and stronger, and defeated the Ming army step by step.

This storyteller is a sensible person. He knew that there were two main reasons for the People's Army to defeat the Ming army. One was the extraordinary general and the other was the poor people. He believed that the People's Army would destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was powerless to turn the world back.

He is the princess of the Ming Dynasty. When he heard others say that the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, it would be strange if Zhu Yaojiang looked good. Xiang Ning was the same. He even wanted to pull Zhu Yaojiang out of the teahouse. Xiang Ning was worried that his master would get angry. Zhu Yaojiang stopped Xiang Ning's actions and suppressed his anger and continued to listen to the storyteller's words.

Storyteller said while saying that there were many tea guests in the teahouse, and they all thought Storyteller was right.

Zhu Yaojiang frowned when he heard Mr. Storytelling describe the life scenes of the people in the Ming Dynasty ruling area and the life scenes of the people in Guangdong before. Zhu Yaojiang couldn't believe that Mr. Storytelling's words were true, but he could not find a reason to tell Mr. Storytelling's lies, and other tea lovers did not argue.

"Is the lives of ordinary people really that miserable?"

Zhu Yaojiang asked Xiangning, but Xiangning, who entered the palace at a very young age, didn't know that she had forgotten the life scenes she had when she was a child.

Mr. Storyteller continued to talk about the strength of the People's Army. Every time he fought with the Ming army, the People's Army defeated the strong with weak. Of course, this means that the People's Army has fewer troops than the Ming army. In fact, the People's Army has stronger strength and is victorious in every battle, and the Ming army is invincible.

Especially in last year's war, Li Chengliang's 500,000 army was easily defeated by less than 200,000 people's army. As long as the People's Army wants, there is no problem in occupying the south of the Yangtze River, and it can even reach the north of the Yangtze River.

Mr. Storyteller himself speculated that the People's Army's armistice between the Ming Dynasty was mainly because the number of officials in the People's Army was not large enough, and they occupied too much land and did not have many officials to manage it, so they stopped after occupying four provinces.

Not only this storyteller, but many people in the People's Army ruling have learned why the People's Army agreed to a ceasefire.

But the storyteller's words made Zhu Yaojiang feel uncomfortable. She has now nominally married the Governor of the People's Army. As the saying goes, marrying a chicken, marrying a dog, everything in the Ming Dynasty should have nothing to do with Zhu Yaojiang, but Zhu Yaojiang cannot give up. She was born and raised in the imperial city, and her relatives are all there. Here, she only has a nominal husband, and the two have never even met a few times.

If so, Zhu Yaojiang hopes that the Ming Dynasty can defeat the People's Army, rather than the People's Army destroying the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yaojiang finally couldn't stand it anymore and left the teahouse with an expressionless face. He didn't want to stay outside anymore, so he took the carriage back to the Grand Governor's Mansion.

Zhu Yaojiang only understood part of the words of the storyteller. Zhu Yaojiang had been living in the imperial city. He was still an innocent girl half a year ago. Although many changes have occurred in the past six months, he could not let Zhu Yaojiang understand everything. But the part of the words he understood today was enough to let Zhu Yaojiang know that the Ming Dynasty was in a very bad situation.

But knowing what these are useful, she is no longer able to make a slight change.
Chapter completed!