Chapter 121: Queuing up to buy bread
"Okay, but it's all piled up near Flying Immortal City, Lord Jia will assign the work now, and then follow me to Flying Immortal City to have a look." β
Jia Yu, as the head of the Ministry of Industry, was quite curious about the cement that Feng Fei said, hurriedly said goodbye to Feng Fei and Li Chun, returned to the Ministry of Industry to arrange work, and returned to the imperial study in about half an hour.
The two of them left the palace and drove towards Feixian City in the same carriage.
On the carriage, Feng Fei asked Jia Yu, "Lord Jia, I don't know how many people are out of the Ministry of Industry this time?"
"About a thousand,"
Feng Fei thought about it, there are 1,000 people, and the whole road is about 10,000 meters, which is relatively a lot, "Then I don't know how long it will take to complete the correction?"
Jia Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Highness, it's not easy to estimate the lower officials, but the road from the capital to Feixian City is not far, but if it is smooth, it won't take a few days, but you need to tamp the road, and it will take some time,"
Seeing that Jia Yu was still so frightened when he replied, Feng Fei smiled and said, "Lord Jia doesn't have to be so polite, my temper must have been heard by adults, so you can speak freely in front of me, you can say whatever you want, you don't have to be so cramped,"
Jia Yu finally smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the God King really deserves his reputation, the first time I saw His Highness in the court that day, it gave people a sense of elegance and chic, and recently I heard about some of His Highness's deeds, which really made His Highness look up to him." β
Feng Fei said, "I don't know what Master Jia has heard?"
He was very curious about what people were talking about him, a different king.
"It is said that you love the people like a son, are considerate of the people, and there is no one before or since," Jia Yu replied with a smile.
"Hehe, I'm so good, it's all just a rumor from them. β
Jia Yu looked at Feng Fei seriously and said, "Your Highness, if one person says this, Xia Guan will not believe it, but now whether it is the people of Feixian City or the capital, they all say this, Xia Guan believes it, this is absolutely not fake." β
After a pause, he said, "You paid a private visit to a boss who made baked cakes, and invented the god king cake, which is a good story, but this god king cake has not been tasted by the official, and you also brought new grain seeds, it is said that the production capacity per mu is 1,000 catties, when the news was learned in the court, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were in an uproar, and no one believed it, and finally the emperor personally confirmed it, and everyone believed it,"
Feng Fei can imagine the scene at that time, which was as surprising as the world that had not even invented airplanes, and suddenly announced one day that it could carry out manned flights in outer space.
"All the things Your Highness has done are all about the people, and now he has proposed a new policy towards the peasants, which is really admired by the officials. β
When Feng Fei heard this, he said, "What does Lord Jia think of the new policy?"
Jia Yu smiled and said, "It's not a secret, Jia Yu was born poor, his ancestors have been farmers for generations, and he knows the experience of farmers very well. β
Feng Fei didn't expect Jia Yu to have such a background, he could rise all the way from a poor peasant to the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and he was only in his forties, which was a miracle.
However, just studying hard, even if he estimates that he will not be able to do this position in his lifetime, the luck he said should be the most important, but I don't know what adventures he has had.
The ancient world is not like modern times, officials must climb step by step, and it is much more convenient to be lucky in ancient times, for example, after a Pingming common man saved the Son of Heaven, he would also be added to the rank of knight, because the ancient merit was better than the rescue.
Feng Fei didn't want to inquire about other people's **, so he chatted with him about other things, and the two of them got off the carriage and came to the barren mountain where the cement was stacked.
Jia Yu was amazed when he touched the bags of cement, the texture was so delicate, and the packaging bag material was also very peculiar, and the handwriting on it was even more unclear.
Feng Fei ordered someone to bring water and sand, mix it with cement, mix it evenly, put it in a place, and ordered someone to guard it, it takes about a day for the cement to solidify, so Feng Fei took Jia Yu back to the palace and discussed some precautions for paving the road.
As soon as he entered Feixian City, Jia Yu saw Feng Fei's popular Cheng DΓΉ among the people, because the weather was hot, so the door curtains and curtains of the carriage were lifted, and the people in the city saw Feng Fei sitting in the car, and they all greeted him, and some people even chased the carriage for a distance in order to wave their hands with Feng Fei.
When passing by the commercial street in the city, Jia Yu excitedly pointed to a shop on the side of the road and said, "Your Highness, this is the shop that sells Shenwang cakes!"
Feng Fei also raised his eyes, there was a long queue in front of the store, men, women and children, some even carried baskets waiting to buy cakes, and there were two big red lanterns hanging on the left and right door beams of the store, with three big words of Shenwang cake written on them, and there was a plaque on the door, engraved with three gilt characters of Shenwang cake.
"Your Highness, I don't know if I can stop for a while, Xia Guan often hears people talk about God King cakes in the capital, but he has never eaten them, Xia Guan wants to taste them...... " Jia Yu said to Feng Fei with some embarrassment.
"Haha, okay, I happen to be a little hungry too, let's go in and eat some together, I also want to see how this shop is doing now." "Let's get out of the car first.
There were more than 20 people lined up at the door of the store, and in the modern world, Feng Fei was a good law-abiding citizen, and he had never done anything to cut the queue, so he secretly stood at the end of the line.
Jia Yu has never had this kind of encounter, with his identity, it is estimated that there will be someone to serve him when he eats and drinks Lazar, and it is impossible for him to come out to buy things by himself, and when he saw Feng Fei standing at the end of the line, he also felt very funny, and followed.
The transaction in front was very fast, because the boss recruited a lot of people, and the speed was far faster than the original stall, and after a while, there were only about a dozen people left in front of Feng Fei and the two.
An old man who turned around and was about to leave after buying the cake stared at Feng Fei and shouted in surprise, "Oh, isn't this His Highness the God King!"
With his shout, the crowd immediately turned around, especially the one in front of Feng Fei, who had long felt that there was someone behind him, but he didn't expect it to be the God King, Feng Fei smiled at him slightly, and said hello, the other party was immediately flattered, and hurriedly moved a step away and said, "The grass people don't know that His Royal Highness the God King is behind him, the grass people are guilty, Your Highness please come forward to buy it first." β
Only then did everyone react, and they all gave way to let Feng Fei go first.
Feng Fei immediately waved his hand, "You don't have to be like this, I said a long time ago, don't treat me as a prince, just be an ordinary gentleman, everyone is in a hurry to buy cakes, I can't break the rules, everyone should continue to line up,"