The steel mill in the Qing Dynasty was about to start steel construction. This major event is actually more important than railway repair, because the steel industry is the foundation of the railway industry, and the steel industry is the most basic industry of all industries!

Before the blast furnace steelmaking on August 20, a series of auspicious signs came from the Beijing Iron Factory!

First, the ore dresser found a piece of gold with a fist-sized fist in several tons of iron ore! What's even more amazing is that the pattern naturally formed on the gold with a dog head is actually auspicious and auspicious character!

The head of the iron factory did not dare to neglect it. This auspicious sign was sent to the palace, and the court officials were filled with praise!

Immediately afterwards, in the forest area of ​​Yanshan Mountain in Shunyi to the north of Qinghe Iron Factory, the herb collector dug a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum. The umbrella cover was as big as a coffee table!

Moreover, the herb collector also said that in the sky of Ganoderma lucidum, the white birds circling and even dragons and phoenixes appeared faintly in the clouds!

It was all auspicious signs. Shanxi sent three sorghum with ears, Henan brought white deer all over her body. Even the Grand Marshal Zuo Zongtang, who had just crossed the Yellow River from Zhengzhou, gave a copy to the little emperor. All the three hundred miles of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou have become clear!

Good omen, good omen, all of them are good omen! This is also mixed with the stock price of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, which is even more of a happy event!

Zaichun's mood became very good, and the negative emotions suppressed by Fu Yin'er's appearance were diluted a lot during this period.

Not only the pure Confucian scholar Han Chen and the others flattered every day during this period, but even the Eight Banners conservatives who had previously secretly colluded with the Sixth Japanese devils began to get closer and closer to the emperor!

Prince Lao Li, Prince Zheng, Prince Rui... These iron-hat kings come to the palace to pay tribute almost every day!

It is logical that the nobles of the royal palace who have no actual responsibilities will be fine if they come to the palace two or three times a month to greet each other, but they did not expect that during this period they would come every day and would not deal with any government affairs. Anyway, they are indispensable for playing around.

Zaichun knew that he saw the stock market hit a new high, and these people finally knew that they were the emperor!

I laughed in my heart, what kind of loyalty? It all comes with a price. If you can make money, the loyalty of these dogs will come!

They looked down on me but still wanted to give face. When these nobles of the palace came, Zaichun would say a few words to them when they had time, and if they didn't have time, they would let them accompany the Queen Mother to stroll around the garden or something.

Until August 20, this day was a serious day. Zaichun put on the bright yellow dragon robe, put on the emperor's ceremonial guard and left the capital from Andingmen, and took the civil and military officials straight to the Qinghe Iron Factory!

According to Zai Chun’s plan, I just went to take a look in plain clothes. I brought more than a dozen close ministers around me, so there was no need to make it too spectacular!

But the Ministry of Rites was the first to jump out and quit, saying that they would appear for these auspicious auspicious things, and they could not mess around casually! The emperor's ceremonial guards that must be launched must be the largest!

Good guy is so big that he is almost as big as the scale of Emperor Qianlong going to Jiangnan!

Flag Luo Umbrella, Tiger Gun Camp, Shanpu Camp... The Pioneer Guard is followed by the Twelve Dragon Banner Guards!

Behind them are the guide car, the drum car, the egret car, the luan flag car, the evil-proof car, the Pixuan car, etc.

Each car is led by 4 horses, with 14 drivers and 1 craftsman.

Followed by drums, drums, big drums, chubs, chords, small drums, feather drums, etc., as well as musical instruments such as flutes, flutes, sharks, long-chinking and middle-chinking trumpets, big horizontal blows, sharks and other golden percussion instruments. The entire band consists of more than 700 people!

After the band, there are flag formations composed of various banners, banners, flags, etc.

Some accompanying officials and the emperor's 24 imperial horses were also mixed in the flag formation.

After the flag formation, there are the Qinglong Banner and the White Tiger Banner arranged on the left and right.

Behind the two flags is the accompanying team of imperial officials. In the middle of this team, cavalry and infantry armoured soldiers holding weapons are also interspersed.

After this pile of people, the emperor's carriage is the core of the entire guard of honor, so the guards are extremely strict.

The Yulu was controlled by the Taipuqing, surrounded by 41 drivers in front and behind, and the left and right guards were protected by the generals on both sides.

Following Yulu were senior generals and eunuchs of the imperial guards.

On the periphery of these guards, there were many teams of cavalry and infantry of the imperial guards. Each team had a different number of imperial guards, but they were more than 20 people, and a general led them.

The imperial guards are equipped with bows, arrows, knives and other weapons, and are ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

Following the forbidden soldiers was a ceremonial war consisting of peacock fan, small ball fan, square fan, yellow force, Jiang force, Xuanwu Banner, etc.

Do you think this is over? It's early, there is a team of drummers behind the Emperor's frame!

The band's instruments are similar to those of the preacher band Yu Lu, but the scale is relatively small, with nearly 300 musicians.

Following the "rear propaganda" were various carriages specially used by the emperor, including square chariots, small chariots, waist chariots, gold chariots, elephant chariots, grey chariots, five chariots, root chariots, rest chariots, four-eye chariots, sheep chariots, ancestral chariots, yellow chariots, leopard tail chariots, etc.

These cars are not used, they are all empty, and they are considered a kind of ritual car. Of course, if a special situation occurs, the emperor can also choose a frame for a car to escape quickly!

It’s very convenient to replace one car after the other, and then change it after the other car is broken!

The last one to be in charge was the Eight Banners Guards. Each of the Eight Banners selected 200 warriors to form a guard with nearly 2,000 people. This is the army that holds the ground!

There is also a flag formation around and behind the Eight Banners Guards, clattering like the ocean!

Such a patrol team is too long. The cavalry of the vanguard, the vanguard, had already left Andingmen, and the last flag formation was still gathering on the Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Gate!

Today, the people in the capital have been eye-opening. I haven’t encountered such a large-scale ceremonial journey for many years. When Zaichun was married, the queen’s ceremonial ceremony was grand enough, but it was really several times the size of the emperor’s travel!

After all, Zaichun is a new emperor, and what he trusts most is his own army, so there are elite protections of the new imperial guards, Gunzima and Xishan soldiers!

The huge number of civil and military officials and eunuchs and soldiers on tour this time is far more than 7,000!

The people along the way bowed to the dust. Even the Western diplomats who came out of Dongjiaomin Lane jumped off their horses when they saw such a large-scale parade, took off their hats and stood solemnly on the street. When Zaichun's imperial chariot passed by, they still had to bow ninety degrees!

The emperor's majesty shocked all directions, even foreigners were no exception!

The team went on a patrol at 7 o'clock in the morning. This ritual was too long-winded. When he saw the dark Beijing Industrial Zone, it was almost twelve o'clock noon!

Many officials came here only half a year or even a year ago. They had no idea how spectacular the industrial area would be after it was completely built!

I saw that all the grayish-white factories were covered with cold industrial power, and there were countless chimneys standing in a row. Emperor Tongzhi specially issued a special order that the buildings in the industrial area could be exceeded at will!

The simplest example is that the chimney in your industrial area can be covered at any rate, no one cares about you if it is ten times taller than the Taihe Palace!

Since you are engaged in industry, you must respect science, rather than respect the feudal rules of the past!

Because of this, the chimneys in industrial areas are built quite tall, and many of them are ten or even thirteen or fourteen stories high!

Many officials and soldiers who had never seen the market had their necks about to break. Looking at the tall chimney with black smoke above their heads, all the blast furnaces were turned on, and the coking plants and cement plants were also starting to burn the furnace!

The whole sky was crushed by heavy black smoke. The sky that looked very blue in the capital turned into light gray here!

Xiao Letian was the most helpless industrial pollution, but in the eyes of Emperor Tongzhi, this was a symbol of industrial power!

"Ah..." Zai Chun took a deep breath of the air, filling his chest with the smell of coal tar and pig iron, which was filled with the polluted air mixed with black dust!

"That's right...it's the smell! It's the smell! The smell I smelled in the Great Industrial Zone of London and the Ruhr Industrial Zone of Germany!"

"Haha...this is the smell of iron blood!this is the smell of industry!this is the smell of the great powers!"
Chapter completed!