On the third day, Yunxi met with the governor of Chuzhou again, encouraged him, and took him as a guide to go to the local state school to comfort the local students. The students performed much better than the local people, although they were still very excited. The day before yesterday, the local people behaved somewhat like the people of later generations who looked at the rare wild animals in the zoo, rather than the big people.

In the afternoon, Yunxi summoned the person in charge of local road construction to carry out his second task in Chuzhou: to inspect the use of railcars and promote asphalt roads.

The railroad carriage Yunxi began to be promoted in the 31st year of Hongwu, and the line from Beijing to Xuzhou in the second year of Jianye was completely repaired and officially put into operation.

Naturally, no one dared to move when the engineering team repaired section by section, but after the whole section was repaired, people came to steal the iron sheet. But after these people stole the iron sheet back, they found that the thin iron sheet was of little use, and even the needle could not be sharpened, and only professional blacksmiths could recycle it, and the government was very strict about this, and gradually no one stole it. Fortunately, Yunxi didn't use the all-rail track back then, otherwise with the current actual situation, the rail could have been stolen overnight. With the strength of the clan in this era, as long as the tail of the person who stole the railroad track is handled well enough, the government has no way at all.

Yun Xi looked at the account book of the rail-drawn carriage, and the wood seemed to decay faster, and the iron sheet was replaced faster.

'After I go back, let the Jinyi guard come to check if there is anything greedy for ink, and the scale of greed for ink. Yun Xi put down the account book and thought to himself.

Thinking so in his heart, he said to the person in charge quietly on the surface: "How is the asphalt road paved?" ”

An asphalt road is a road that is paved with asphalt. In February last year, Yunxi remembered asphalt and heard that asphalt might exist in Lijin County, Shandong, so he sent officials from the Ministry of Industry to Lijin County to mine asphalt to pave the road.

However, the use of asphalt is not as simple as Yunxi imagined. If you want to meet the standard of asphalt road in Yunxi's mind, it must be laid at a high temperature of several hundred degrees, so it can only be used immediately after mining, otherwise it will soon solidify and cannot meet the standard of Yunxi - although Daming has high-temperature heating technology, it is used on asphalt to outweigh the losses. Of course, even the solidified asphalt paved on the road is stronger than the dirt road, but the cost of laying is greatly increased.

Yun Xi couldn't help but sigh that it made sense that human beings only began to use asphalt to pave roads in the second industrial revolution, and the progress of technology was not so easy.

Therefore, Yunxi did not promote asphalt roads in the capital, and the main roads were still paved with stones, and the small roads promoted Sanhe dirt roads. Although Yun Xi did not know how to lay the Sanhe dirt road, but professional things naturally have professional people to do, and after more than half a year of research, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and the internal official supervision have studied a kind of dirt road that will not be easily soaked by rain on rainy days. Yun Xi immediately ordered the promotion. At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity to build roads, Yun Xi ordered to improve the drainage facilities in the capital, mainly digging drainage ditches on both sides of the road and cleaning up the rivers in the city.

Outside the city, Yoonhee still implements asphalt roads, but due to the cost, they still only rebuild asphalt roads in places where the river is not passable. The section from the capital to Xuzhou naturally had to be repaired, and the Yamen, who was in charge of the road, was now in Chuzhou, so at this time he asked how the asphalt road was paved.

The director said: "Your Majesty, because the railcar has been laid before, and the line can follow the line of the railroad, so multiple sections are started at the same time. It's just that the asphalt is not easy to run, the cost is high, and the craftsmen are easy to be burned, so the progress is not fast. ”

"The scalded craftsman is generously compensated. There is no need to consider the cost of road construction, speed up the progress, and the breakthrough must be completed within this year. Yun Xi said.

The chief smiled bitterly in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Yun Xi waved his hand and let him go down.

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"Come, Yunxi try this dish, this is a dish that my aunt has newly learned since she arrived in Chuzhou." Princess Ning Guo put a plate with a dish on the table and said.

"Then my nephew will taste it." Yun Xi picked up a little bit, and after eating it, he praised: "Not bad." And the nephew didn't even eat it, how did this happen? ”

"I'll tell you, this is to ...... first, and then ......" Princess Ning Guo introduced the method of this dish.

"So complicated? My nephew can't remember. Yun Xi smiled.

"That aunt gave you a cook who can cook this dish." Princess Ning Guo said with a smile.

"It doesn't have to be. When my aunt returned to Beijing, I asked the chef of the palace to come and learn how to make this dish from my aunt's cook. Yun Xi said.

Princess Ning Guo and Mei Yin glanced at each other. "Yun Xi just said that I will return to Beijing? Could it be that he wants to transfer the horse back to Beijing? Princess Ning Guo thought. From Mei Yin's gaze, she also saw the same thought. The two of them suddenly had hope in their hearts: they did not dislike the poor living conditions in Chuzhou, but they were not in the capital for a long time, and they were uncomfortable.

Yunxi didn't disappoint them this time. After he was full of wine and food, he patted his belly and said to Mei Yin very casually: "Uncle, in the past three years in Chuzhou, it can be called a lot of hard work. ”

"Your Majesty has praised it." Mei Yin said.

"The first emperor praised his uncle's ability back then, and now it seems that my uncle has lived up to the evaluation of the first emperor."

"I plan to use my uncle as the secretary of the military department, is my uncle willing?" Yun Xi said.

"Your Majesty appointed, how dare the minister refuse?" Mei Yin got up from her chair and said to Yun Xi.

"Okay, I'll appoint my uncle as the secretary of the military department, and watch the military department for me." Yun Xi said.

Mei Yin has served as a civil official of the third or fourth rank many times, and in terms of qualifications, he is enough to serve as the secretary of the military department; At the same time, he was born in a noble family, and he was also familiar with the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, so he would not cause any trouble, so he was suitable to serve as the secretary of the military department. Jing Qing, who served as the secretary of the military department before, had many conflicts with the people of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies because of big and small things, and once he even got in front of him, which gave him a headache.

The removal of him this time can ensure the restoration of harmonious bilateral relations between the military headquarters and the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces. Of course, Yun Xi has another important appointment to Jingqing.

Mei Yin was overjoyed, and even Princess Ningguo was extremely happy. Not only can he return to the capital, but he also served as one of the six Shangshu, of course, it is worth being happy.

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the next day, Yun Xi agreed to promote the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple to Taifu Temple Secretary on the spot, and Mei Yin began to hand over the work with the original Shaoqing of Taifu Temple. Because he is also an official of this yamen, it will not take a few days to hand over. Princess Ke Ningguo couldn't wait for Mei Yin to return to Beijing together, so she returned to the capital with Yun Xi that afternoon.

Because the next day, the fifth day of the fifth month, is Zhu Yuanzhang's dead life.