The Chunwei Special Examination was successfully held. Hong Shourong, the judge of Li Cao, served as the examiner. In order to give Li Yu some face, Li Shujiu, a clan member, served as the deputy examiner for this special examination.

As for the co-examiners, Jin Zaichang, who was close to Hong Jinglai, as well as Shen Xiping, Jin Yichun and others who had surrendered to Hong Jinglai earlier, basically ensured that no one else could hinder Hong Jinglai from taking the exam for this Enke special examination.

Hong Jinglai’s younger brother Jin Pingchun served as the inspector and personally came to invigilate the exam. He was born into a child of evildoers and had no prejudice against the admission of good people and middle-aged people. He was very supportive. And everyone also knows that Jin Pingchun was the first to The reason for getting close to Hong Jinglai is that Hong Jinglai was born in Tanhua.

He himself did not receive a good traditional Confucian education, but he respected the bachelors and Confucian scholars who were proficient in arts and sciences and familiar with the classics. He was extremely happy to be able to serve as the inspector of the imperial examination, and he closed the hospital early in the morning. Lock the hall and get ready to participate in the inspection tour of this year's special examination.

In this way, except for Li Shujiu's one variable, Hong Jinglai's arrangement is complete!

About 4,000 people, far exceeding the number of previous imperial examinations, entered Changgyeonggung Palace and took roll call outside Myeongjeong Gate. The entire square outside Myeongjeong Palace was packed with people, all of whom were scholars from the Eighth Route Army of Korea who came to take the exam. Because there were too many people, Unprecedentedly, even the corridors on both sides and the main entrance passage of Mingzheng Gate were full of people.

As this was the first imperial examination after he succeeded to the throne, Li? was obviously very interested. He not only attended the examination in person, but also chatted with the examiners. He even shook hands with Jin Pingchun who was patrolling the examination room and "confidence" .Who is it that Kim Pyong-soon controls the remaining training camp troops and is a person who strongly supports the monarchy?

Candidates who are paying attention to the exam, Hong Jinglai has already left Hanyang and arrived at the original steam engine workshop outside the south gate of Hanyang. After more than three months of trying to assemble and build, Ding Ruoyong has his first movie that can be called " "Locomotive" test object.

When he first received the news, Hong Jinglai was so excited that he jumped three feet high. If the power of steam engines can enter the transportation industry, then the inherent pattern of the entire transportation industry for thousands of years will be replaced by the "train". Emerging things are crushed. There is no doubt that this will be an invention that changes the way of life of countless people.

But after arriving at the scene, Hong Jinglai's hot heart basically calmed down, and his temperature cooled down for a while. Although it was not to the point of being poured a basin of cold water on it, it was probably not much different.

There is absolutely no comparison between this weird locomotive in front of me and any of the huge objects in Hong Jinglai's memory that embody the "violent beauty" of the Industrial Revolution. If there is anything that is similar, it is probably the locomotive. The front one has a large chimney at least two and a half meters high.

This iconic chimney seems to be located at the head of the entire vehicle body no matter how the steam locomotive is improved. There is probably some kind of doorway inside, but Hong Jinglai doesn't understand it.

As for the boiler, the most important component of the steam engine, according to Ding Ruoyong's description, it seems to have become some kind of horizontal boiler. By increasing its heat transfer area and increasing the speed at which it generates steam, the power of the entire steam engine is further enhanced. There are hundreds of copper tubes in the boiler to conduct heat, and the pot body is spliced ​​together with the fire box. As for the cylinder, it is divided into left and right sides and is installed diagonally on the rear side of the boiler at an angle of 35° to the horizontal line. Finally, it is dragged behind the engine body. It carries a small coal car as an accessory vehicle to the locomotive to provide fuel for the boiler. (Using the description of the "Rocket" locomotive)

"So have you tried driving it?" Hong Jinglai pointed at the big iron lump.

"The track laid here is only more than one mile, and it often needs to stop soon after it starts running. In actual situations, longer tracks are needed for testing." Ding Ruoyong pointed to the railway tracks built according to Hong Jinglai's instructions. The 700-meter track really won’t last long.

"Then have you towed a loaded truck with him and tried driving it together?" Hong Jinglai continued to ask.

Previously, Li Heizhu was ordered to start building the road from Jemulpo to the south bank of the Han River, which is now the official road in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea. According to the plan, it should be rammed and solid, with ditches on both sides, and the bends should be straightened. Consider the needs such as passing through counties and towns, and build in the simplest and most convenient way.

Due to Hong Jinglai's advance arrangements, the road construction project for laying the railway tracks has actually begun. Once the roadbed is completed, it only needs to be spread with gravel and add sleepers.

As for the issue of rails, although North Korea is small, it is still possible to get rails for only eighty miles. If you can't get them for a while, you can buy them on the other side of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty.

In the halcyon years of the Tuoyingzheng era, the mining industry in North Korea has made great progress. Because North Korea previously relied on the import of Japanese silver and Japanese copper to increase domestic currency. Japan's large exports of precious metals made its cost far higher. It is lower than North Korea's own domestic mining, so North Korea's domestic mining industry has been stagnant for a long time.

Now Japan has banned bulk exports of precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper. However, North Korea still needs to use silver and copper coins. This will start to force the development of domestic mining. Mining requires a large number of iron tools. You can't use a wooden shovel to mine, so the mining of precious metal deposits also led to the development of iron ore.

Although North Korea still lacks iron, it is no longer the era of poverty and nothingness. Even the iron ore in Chelsan alone is enough to meet the construction cost of the Jemulpo Railway.

"At first, only two trucks loaded with gravel were towed, but it was found that more trucks could be added, and finally the number was increased to six trucks. Not only was it fully towed, it could also make the steam locomotive move forward about forty to fifty miles per hour."

"Forty to fifty miles per hour?" Hong Jinglai thought for a moment and realized that the speed was about twenty kilometers per hour. This was already considered a remarkable speed.

Perhaps with continued improvements in the future, we can reach a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, or even 80 kilometers per hour. But the current speed of 20 kilometers per hour is fully operable for practical use. Jemulpo is only 80 miles away from Hanyang, two miles apart. It can be traveled in an hour, which is faster than the previous steam ships.

Moreover, this thing is almost not affected by weather, terrain, hydrology, etc., and can make two or three round trips a day. This carrying capacity is really feasible!
Chapter completed!