On the official road leading to the capital, on the neat and wide cement road, more than 100 four-wheeled carriages are moving rapidly, although the speed is far less than that of a person riding a horse, as fast as wind and electricity.

But because the concrete road is very smooth, the speed of this four-wheeled carriage can reach 50 kilometers per hour.

Twenty-five kilometers in an hour sounds like a slow, very slow, especially compared to the various advanced means of transportation in later generations, this speed is about the same as riding a bicycle.

But this is ancient times, this is the Ming Dynasty, pulling more than 2,000 catties of goods can still maintain a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, which is an extremely terrifying speed.

This means that it only takes half a day to get from Tianjin to Beijing, of course, the premise is that this speed can be maintained all the time, and the cement road between Beijing and Tianjin can be completely repaired.

"This cement is really an artifact of the country!"

"If all the official roads of my Ming Dynasty can be built with cement, it will be very simple and easy for me to gather the strength of the whole country."

On one of the four-wheeled carriages, Li Dongyang lifted the curtains of the carriage, looking at the rapidly retreating scenery around him, sitting in the carriage almost did not feel any bumps, very comfortable, this long-distance journey, he was so relaxed and comfortable for the first time.

This made him sigh again at the magic of cement, the cement road is so too flat, and he can't feel any bumps.

However, this kind of relaxation and comfort did not last long, when the convoy left Tianjin for more than 50 kilometers, the cement road was finished, and it had to go to the original official road again.

Li Dongyang looked at the lively construction team, and at the same time silently calculated the next distance in his heart, and then tried to determine his location with some unusual landmarks.

"It's incredible, in just a few days, almost 50 kilometers have been repaired, according to this speed, otherwise in a few days, this cement road can be repaired to the capital."

"The artifact of the country~"

After some calculations, Li Dongyang was immediately shocked by the speed of road construction, which was too fast.

"Oops~"

However, before I had time to sigh too much, the convoy driving on the old official road not only slowed down a lot, a lot, but also began to become potholes, even though there were a lot of cotton wool and quilts in the carriage, but this shaking was too powerful, and it made Li Dongyang kowtow all of a sudden.

This made me in no mood to enjoy the scenery outside the window, holding the handrails in the carriage firmly with both hands, constantly feeling the bumps of the carriage, and trying not to be knocked over again.

By the time Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing and others arrived in the capital, it was already the morning of the next day, and because it was too late, they had to rest on the road for a night.

Excluding the rest time, it took almost four hours to actually spend on the road, of which the first half of the journey took only one hour, and the second half of the road took more than three hours.

"Finally arrived in the capital, this old official road is too bumpy."

Flipping through the curtains on the car, Li Dongyang couldn't help but rub his waist, although the capacity of this four-wheeled carriage is amazing, but if you walk on the old official road, the comfort is really poor, and his old bones are about to be shaken apart.

"There are more and more victims here in the capital, and they are all hungry, if this continues, something big will definitely happen."

Soon, Li Dongyang's attention was focused on the victims who could be seen everywhere on both sides of the official road, which was different from the lively scene in Tianjin, but here it was a different scene.

The victims gathered together with each other, their eyes shining like wild beasts, as if they were about to eat people, and they were so hungry that all the trees they could see had been stripped of their bark and the young grass that had just grown in the spring had been eaten.

Many children have a big belly, not because they are full, but because they have eaten too much, too much that is difficult to digest.

"Those grain dealers all deserve to die~"

Li Dongyang couldn't help but curse in his heart, only by witnessing all this with his own eyes can he truly understand the horror of the famine, and he hated even more for those who joined hands to raise food prices and send the country away.

When the convoy entered the city, it encountered some trouble, because there were too many victims gathered in the capital, so the capital side has been under martial law, and it is strictly forbidden to enter and exit at will, so as to prevent the victims from rushing into the capital and causing trouble.

At every gate of the capital, a large number of victims gathered here, and at the same time, there was a large pot of porridge boiling, and the victims were waiting for the soup soup with large bowls one by one.

This is the big family in the capital, and the food promised and donated by many ministers in the court to Emperor Hongzhi, these grains were unified by Emperor Hongzhi, and the soup was given to the disaster relief here at the major gates of the capital, otherwise, the capital would have been in chaos a long time ago.

Li Dongyang and Zhou Jing's carriage entered the capital very smoothly, although the situation in the capital is much better than that outside the capital, after all, those who can live in the capital are also considered families with a little value, and everyone has some savings in their hands, even if the grain has risen to the sky, in this short period of time, everyone can still hold on.

But the careful Li Dongyang still found that the business of the pawn shop suddenly became extremely prosperous, and there were long queues at the door of every pawnshop, and a large number of people were lining up to pawn things in exchange for silver to buy food.

As for the grain store, a large number of people gathered at the door, everyone looked at the price of grain hanging at the door of the grain store, while cursing these black-hearted grain merchants, and on the other hand, they couldn't help but touch their shriveled pockets, and could only look at the little two and the shopkeeper in the store with a pair of angry eyes.

As for the little two and the shopkeeper in the grain store, although the business is not good, and there are not many people who buy food, they are not worried at all, but laugh lightly at the angry crowd outside.

This grain store here is like a huge powder keg, the slightest spark can explode in an instant, while talking about the hungry people, waiting for the food to get out of the pot, on the other hand, the grain merchants who sit firmly in the Diaoyutai and raise prices every day, are bound to be the same as fire and water, just one point, and it will explode at one touch.