"What?"

Hong Sheng still had a black chess piece in his hand, and he looked up in surprise when he heard that.

There were only a few chess pieces in the middle of the board, so how could he win?

Everyone looked at Yinsi in confusion, hoping that he could give a reasonable explanation. After all, in their opinion, the victory or loss was too hasty.

"What did I just call this chess game?"

Yinsi pointed at the five white chess pieces connected in a line and looked at the people around him.

Yuanbao thought for a moment and replied,

"You just said... this is Gomoku?"

"Yes, it's Gomoku."

Yuanbao thought about it, and then saw the white chess pieces connected in a line, and suddenly realized,

"Gobang means connecting five pieces in a line to win?"

"good!"

When everyone around heard Yinsi confirm Yuanbao's statement, there was an uproar.

"Ah? Can we play like this?"

"This is too hasty!"

"How naive! Isn't this an easy win?"

"That's right, the rules are too simple, far inferior to Go!"

"Eighth Uncle, you said this was taught to you by your uncle the Emperor?"

Hong Sheng stared at the chessboard with a somewhat dull look.

"Yes, when your uncle the Emperor was teaching me, your father, fourth uncle, fifth uncle, and seventh uncle were all there. I was only six years old at that time."

"Six?"

"Wow, it turns out that Eighth Uncle and the Emperor's uncle have been close since they were young."

"Third uncle and fourth uncle are also like this."

“…”

The noise in the carriage eventually attracted Kangxi, but everyone's attention was on Yinsi, and they clamored for him to tell them some embarrassing things that happened to their fathers. Yinsi picked out what he could say and revealed it to the little ones.

Every time he said something, there was laughter in the carriage.

Kangxi stood at the connection between the carriages, watched quietly for a while, then turned around and returned to his own compartment.

He remembered that when he was young, he often looked forward to seeing such a scene, where all the princes and grandchildren lived in harmony and had deep feelings for each other.

However, when he got older, he began to fear such scenes.

He was afraid that someone would covet the chair under his butt, and that the court officials would place their hopes on a certain prince and no longer be loyal to him.

Worrying about this and fearing that, he used all his tricks and schemes, but in the end he still failed to keep his most precious thing.

Kangxi couldn't remember when he asked the people serving him, "Should an emperor be a lonely man?"

He didn't get an answer at first.

But Yinreng’s current situation is the perfect answer.

The emperor does not have to be alone.

Maybe... he really did something wrong.

After a while, the conductor walked to each carriage and informed everyone that the train was ready to depart and asked everyone to return to their seats.

After a not-too-violent shake, the train slowly started moving.

"Let's go!"

"Cousin, open the window, it's a bit hot now!"

"Are you too hot, or do you want to see the scenery outside?"

"Hey, we have both!"

Hong Sheng was the only one in this carriage who had taken a train before. He gave the seat near the window to Yuanbao and sat outside Yuanbao so that he could protect him immediately if anything went wrong.

However, based on his experience of traveling by train over the past few years, the probability of an accident occurring is very low.

It’s just that occasionally there is bad weather, which causes the train to stop running or arrive late.

When the railway was opened, Yinreng took into consideration that mudslides were prone to occur in mountainous sections of the road, but some train tracks could not be bypassed, so he established a rule for the railway transportation department, asking the people in the Imperial Observatory to closely monitor weather changes and immediately stop operations if there was heavy rain.

The caution taken in recent years has paid off, and there has not been a single train transport accident.

The safety factor is much higher than that of canal transportation.

However, the Qing Dynasty's transportation capacity now mainly relies on water transport, because there is no need to lay railways, and the cost-effectiveness is very high.

In recent years, due to the growing prosperity of maritime trade, the shipbuilding industry in coastal areas has also developed a lot. Especially after the advent of steamships, the speed of canal transportation has more than doubled compared with before. The economic rise of the south is several times faster than that of the north.

The shipyards owned by the fourth and ninth brothers also made a lot of money.

However, most of the money they earned was invested by Yinreng in railways and water conservancy facilities. The Qing Dynasty was not an island country, and Yinreng considered the economic development of the inland area to be of utmost importance.

After all, in this day and age, people still live inland, and the climate change and natural disasters along the coast are simply not something that the current infrastructure can withstand.

Whenever a tsunami hits, not only will there be no early warning, there will be no way to save people.

After the initial excitement, a group of teenagers started playing chess again.

The children, having just learned the new way of playing, were all very excited to play with their friends. The older ones still played Go and chess.

A few people who didn't like playing chess even asked for some pens, ink, paper and inkstone and started painting in the carriage.

With less than twenty people, this carriage that can accommodate more than a hundred people was packed to the brim.

After having a meal in the dining car as ordered at noon, the children were tired and each found a place to lie down and rest.

Guaerjia sent someone to take Yuanbao back for a nap. Yuanbao obediently agreed, and then reluctantly said goodbye to his cousins ​​and returned to Yinreng and Guaerjia.

The train did not stop along the way and it was already evening when it arrived in Chengde.

Since they had already had dinner when the sun just set in the afternoon, everyone went straight to Chengde Palace after getting off the train.

By the time we settled in, it was already midnight.

Yinreng decided to rest in Chengde for a day to prevent the old man from being unable to withstand the stress and getting sick again.

Then they don’t have to go to Mongolia, they can just go back to Beijing directly.

The next day, Yinreng and Guwalgiya slept until noon.

In fact, Guaerjia woke up once in the morning, but Yinreng felt that she had not slept enough, so he held Guaerjia in his arms and did not let her get up. The two of them slept for another hour before waking up.

By then, Yuanbao had already had breakfast and was practicing a set of health-preserving boxing with Master Wu.

After staying in Chengde for a day, Yinreng watched the accompanying imperial physician take Kangxi's pulse, and only announced his departure after learning that he was fine.

Kangxi felt somewhat relieved, but he didn't know that Yinreng was afraid that he might have some problem and that the trip would be ruined.

I have to say, this is a beautiful misunderstanding.

The official road from Chengde to Mulan Paddock was completed two years earlier. The cement road was not completely smooth, so Yinreng replaced the wheels of the carriage with rubber wheels.

Thanks to Yinreng's promotion, rubber trees have been planted in many places in Qiongya, and rubber tapping can begin in the past two years.

Moreover, Yinzhen forced several small countries in Southeast Asia to buy rubber, so they no longer had to travel thousands of miles to another continent to purchase it in the future.

If this momentum continues, the Qing Dynasty will achieve rubber freedom within ten years.