Yan Chengjin took Emperor Hongzhi and Han Wen and others to Liangxiang.

Liu Jian was on duty in the cabinet, and Li Dongyang and Xie Qian went with him.

Marven is getting older, and it is inconvenient to travel long distances.

Six horse-drawn carriages, Haohao went to Liangxiang in order to visit the Hedgehog River Bridge.

Emperor Hongzhi asked Yan Chengjin to ride in the same carriage with him.

The carriage is not big, and there is Li Dongyang on the side, Yan Chengjin can only shrink in the corner, and the experience is extremely poor.

"There are still so many businessmen in Liangxiang, and this year's business tax is more than in the old years, right?" Emperor Hongzhi opened the curtain of the carriage and asked happily.

"The minister estimates that it will be 200,000 taels more than the old year."

Two hundred thousand taels?

A glimmer of light flashed in Emperor Hongzhi's eyes, and ripples rippled in his heart, and he quietly counted it.

Suddenly, there was a swish on the side of the carriage, and a figure rushed by.

Startled Emperor Hongzhi, he glanced at it, pointed to the back in the distance, and stammered: "Fang Cai...... That person is the prince? ”

"The minister doesn't know ......"

Xiao Jing's voice came from outside the carriage: "Back to Your Majesty, it is Your Highness." ”

Emperor Hongzhi held back his anger.

"I didn't fight for half a month, and I came to the good country again."

Yan Chengjin muttered in his heart, Zhu Houzhao came to Liangxiang again, probably to make money and come to Taobao.

The convoy moved slowly, and if it weren't for the road built by the good township, it would have been even more bumpy.

The sun was covered by clouds, the sky was a little cool, and he was ready to go to Liangxiang, Emperor Hongzhi said: "Accompany me down for a walk." ”

The carriage stopped, and Xiao Jing helped Emperor Hongzhi get out of the carriage.

Yan Chengjin, Li Dongyang and others also got out of the car.

No matter how disguised you are, you can't hide your temperament of being either rich or expensive.

The merchants on the side glanced at them a few more times, guessing where the gentry had come to Liangxiang to procure.

"This is the stone bridge of Liangxiang?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the stone bridge in the distance in a daze.

The stone bridge is not long, about ten zhang, and can accommodate three Taiping cars in parallel.

A river passes through Liangxiang, the river surface is sparkling, and many boats come and go, just like the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Liangxiang is still so lively, I haven't been here for a long time, but I can't recognize it." Li Dongyang said with emotion.

"Your Majesty, why don't you go and see the stone bridge first?"

Several directors of the Ministry of Industry were a little excited.

In this world, the stone bridge that can glue together blue bricks without Sanhe soil is really incredible.

Emperor Hongzhi nodded.

The group walked to the Hedgehog River, Emperor Hongzhi and others were looking at the scenery, but Gu Zuo lay down.

He found that the bridge was made of large stones, and the filling between the stones was blue-white, and there were gravel sandwiched with it.

Yan Chengjin asked Mu Bin to inform Jin Yiwei and call Song Jing and Zhang Xian.

"Didn't you use glutinous rice mortar?"

Gu Zuo, the director of the Ministry of Works, looked up in shock, and saw the same shock in the eyes of several directors.

They have built many palaces and bridges, and they can recognize at a glance, it is not glutinous rice mortar, but it is extremely hard to press.

"Lord Yan, what is this?"

Song Jing bowed slightly, as the chief engineer of Liangxiang, he had to lecture to countless people every day.

In the face of Emperor Hongji and his ministers, he will not feel nervous.

On the contrary, he looked at Yan Chengjin with a little worry, afraid of being blamed for not doing well.

"It's concrete."

"Really useless glutinous rice mortar?" Zeng Jian squatted on the ground and repeatedly touched the gaps between the stones.

"Xia Guan said that science is a science that can change the world."

Yan Chengjin appropriately advertised science.

The most shocking thing was the people from the Ministry of Industry, who dealt with materials all day long, and knew how important this move was to Daming.

"Is this concrete expensive?" Zeng Jian asked a little nervously.

Emperor Hongzhi also saw that if it was too expensive, he would not be able to build the Great Wall, and the length of 2,000 li would be 2,000 li.

"Your Majesty and Lord Zeng will know when they look at the Song Clan's heavenly work."

Yan Chengjin ordered someone to take the Song Tiangong and said: "The concrete is mainly made of limestone and kaolin, and there are many in the capital, but coal costs some silver." ”

Calcined lime and cement, both coal.

There is a lot of coal in Shanxi, which is mined by merchants.

Liangxiang has not yet meddled in the coal business, so the coal that is fired is bought.

"When was this bridge built?" Li Dongyang asked.

Zhang Xian bowed and said: "Soon after the waterway in Liangxiang was opened to boats, Xia Guan found that merchants in the south needed ferries to cross the river, so he built this bridge. ”

The merchants of Hejian Province came, and if they did not take the ferry, they had to take a detour to Suncheonfu, and then come to Liangxiang from Suncheonfu.

"These lime and cement are available in Liangxiang?"

After reading the Song Dynasty's heavenly workmanship, Emperor Hongzhi probably understood how this concrete was obtained.

Lime He knew that Yu Qian had also written a poem.

This is the only cement that I have heard of for the first time.

"There are too many lime and cement fumes, and the ministers have ordered them to be closed, and there is no cement workshop in Liangxiang." Yan Chengjin said: "The Hetao is perennially sandy, and it is suitable to build a cement factory. ”

Li Dongyang thought so: "With this concrete, the Great Wall in Liaodong can also be repaired." ”

Yan Chengjin looked at Emperor Hongzhi: "When the minister reported the accounts, he did not report the silver of the glutinous rice mortar, so he reported two million taels of silver."

It should be enough to repair the Great Wall in the northwest. ”

Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly, looked at Han Wen and said, "What do you think?" ”

"Minister...... I also think that it should be enough. ”

Han Wen sighed in his heart, it seems that this left and right can't be avoided.

Yan Chengjin's heart moved: "Your Majesty, the minister still has something to say." ”

Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang glanced at each other and smiled knowingly.

I always feel that this kid has a plan to bring them to Liangxiang.

"To build the Great Wall, why don't you let the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce assist in building a concrete factory in Hetao?"

When engaged in infrastructure construction, reinforced concrete plants are profitable.

"The Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce sells refined salt, and now it wants to sell concrete, is this the purpose of Lord Yan to build the Great Wall?" A speaker asked with a sneer.

Who are you......

Yan Chengjin looked at the Yan official with a sneer, and saw that he was standing behind Han Wen, who seemed to be from the household department.

"From the resettlement of Jingxiang refugees, to the recommendation of Baoguo Gong to repair the Great Wall, and now the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce, Lord Yan, is it too coincidental?" Qin Hong asked.

Yan Chengjin fell into deep thought, frantically calculating Qin Hong's meaning.

Since he recommended his father, he took away the right to appoint the military department, and Qin Hong seemed to be quite dissatisfied with this.

The officials of the military department and the household department on the side seem to have a deep hatred with him.

This time, he asked for two million taels of silver from the household, and the old bottom was hollowed out, so the household department naturally had grievances.

In a short period of time, after analyzing the problem.

"The minister is for the Ming Dynasty."

"A good one for Daming."

"Lord Qin doesn't believe that this strategy can resettle the displaced people in Jingxiang?"

"This official doesn't believe that there are millions of displaced people in Jingxiang, you have been in the capital, how do you know the number of displaced people in Jingxiang?"

Merchants are always not in the stream, and Emperor Hongzhi is a dignified monarch of a country, so he naturally doesn't want to talk about business: "This matter has been decided, don't argue, let's go to Liangxiang, I will see what the prince is doing." ”

Han Wen and Qin Hong walked together and walked behind.

Yan Chengjin walked in front, and the household department and the military department were not afraid of opinions, and they would be comfortable if they wrote a letter of impeachment.

This concrete was tossed out by Liangxiang, and naturally it should be returned to the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce.

Walk into the streets of Liangxiang.

Emperor Hongzhi asked, "Where is the crown prince?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, in the library." Mu Bin said.

When the group came to the library, Emperor Hongzhi stepped into the gate and heard Zhu Houzhao's voice, surrounded by a group of scholars.

Yan Chengjin was stunned, Zhu Houzhao wants to make the rice flower business bigger and stronger?