Xi Yao had already known Yun Xi's thoughts, and was not surprised, nor did she answer; Although Xiyi was a little puzzled by Yunxi's words, she adhered to the purpose of Xiyao telling her to talk less, and she didn't speak, anyway, Xiyao would tell her afterwards. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yun Xi's words were just feelings, and he couldn't even get vaccinated, after all, his sons were still too young.

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The next day, Yun Xi went to the court as usual, and after the next court, he approved the folds as usual, everything shows that this is a very ordinary day, but immediately something unusual happened.

Wang Xi, who was originally standing next to Yun Xi, seemed to have come to the door of the side hall after being summoned by someone, and then returned to Yun Xi's side with something in his hand, and said softly to Yun Xi after Yun Xi approved a recital: "Your Majesty, there is a report from Bai Xiguang, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch. ”

The recital of the inner palace yamen is not the same line as the outer court.

"Bai Xiguang?" Yun Xi took this report from Wang Xi's hand, thought about it for a while, and then remembered that he went to Pukou across the river in the second half of last year to supervise the construction of the first railroad carriage track in China.

Yun Xi opened the report and found that the content was indeed that the railroad track had been completed. It must have been built before it will be reported, otherwise do you want to tease Yunxi to play? So Yun Xi guessed what the situation was at once.

Yun Xi picked up the pen and wrote the order on the newspaper: 'Very good, Bai Xiguang will return to Beijing to resume his life, and all the craftsmen will not move for the time being, and continue to stay in place', and then said to Wang Xi: "Send it to Bai Xiguang." ”

Wang Xi went down with the report.

Yun Xi suddenly remembered the previous investigation of the corruption case in the inner palace, and then although Yun Xi ordered that there was no need to investigate the palace anymore, and all the people involved were executed, but then he sent someone to Jiangbei to check whether the imperial horse prison was corrupt and the money on the track of corruption.

However, the results of the investigation surprised Yun Xi very much, because the results showed that the Imperial Horse Supervisor was not corrupt for a penny, but the people from the Ministry of Industry embezzled public funds.

It is normal for people in the Ministry of Industry to embezzle public funds, but there is not a single corrupt person in the Imperial Horse Prison, Yun Xi's first reaction at that time was that there was a problem with the person who went to investigate, so Jinyiwei sent someone to check again, but still did not find a problem, so he believed that he was indeed not corrupt, not at all.

But Yun Hee will not reuse a person just because he is not corrupt. Yun Xi has always believed that corrupt officials are much more useful than mediocre officials who are not corrupt, and they are much more beneficial to the development of the country.

Yun Xi pondered: "The track from Pukou to Chuzhou here has been repaired, and then the track from Chuzhou to Xuzhou and passing through Fengyang will be built, this line is very important, but the key line connecting the capital and the northern region, although because the capacity cannot be compared with the railway, so it will not be as important as the Beijing-Shanghai line in later generations, but it must also be valued." ’

At this time, Wang Xi had already finished explaining the matter of the report and returned to Yunxi's side. Yun Xi asked, "Bai Xiguang can play the account of expenses?" ”

Wang Xi said: "No. The slave went to order him to go down and ask Bai Xiguang to report the accounts of the expenses. ”

Yun Xi said, "You go and command." Then Yoon-hee began to think again.

No matter how much it costs, it is an expense, and there are three vertical and one horizontal lines on the main road alone, and the money to be spent must be indispensable, that is, no matter how big the family left by the emperor's grandfather, it is best to save some money to spend. ’

But in order to save the state's money, and even to make money, it is necessary for the merchants to use it to transport goods. But it's too difficult for merchants to use this to transport goods. ’

The cost of transporting goods in a horse-drawn carriage is naturally lower than that of escorting goods with a caravan, and it is also safer.

But Yun Xi doesn't believe in the professional ethics of these aliens at the post station, they will definitely eat and take the card to ask for it, not only will they charge extra to put it in their own pockets, but it would be good if seventy percent of the goods in their corpse city could reach their destination. How many stops are there along the way! Yun Xi felt that if the goods were shipped from the capital to Beiping, it was estimated that there would be nothing left on the halfway. How could an ordinary small businessman dare to sue the government.

Even really big businessmen may not use this to transport goods, there may be more people who transport them for short distances, but it is impossible to transport them for long distances. Now there is no force in Daming that affects most of the country, and Yunxi can't allow such a force to appear, so even if you are the most influential person in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who will know who you are when you go out of Jiangsu and Zhejiang? It's weird not to take your stuff.

As for the inn to let the carriage run all the time? The goods will not reach their destination. Although the track is now iron-clad and wood, no one should steal it, but the bandit mountain king along the way is not a vegetarian. Just like in the movie "Let the Bullets Fly", if you destroy the track with an axe in advance, the carriage will naturally derail, and then you can take the things on the carriage, which is simple and easy, and there is basically no difficulty.

And not only the bandit mountain king can use this method, but also the people along the way, which village does not have a few axes?

So if something in the carriage is really stolen, and the people along the way are suspicious, will they all be arrested? Then the Ming Dynasty will not last long.

Yun Xi pondered this question before he understood why in ancient times, ordinary people were forced to do labor and transport the things of the government were a large group of people, and just a few people who transported things must not be able to reach the destination, what happened to the things of the government? Gather twenty or thirty people, and still grab it. And the person who transports the things will definitely not protect these things: they are not their own household things, in case they are beaten because of this, it is not worth it!

Therefore, it is not possible to let the empty car run, there must be someone in the car, otherwise someone will dare to intercept the carriage in broad daylight.

You can't run a car at night, even if someone drives it, it's too easy to derail the carriage, and several people can do it.

Therefore, although Yun Xi ordered the construction of the kneeling passage of the rail-mounted carriage, he thought about it carefully and felt that the use of the rail-mounted carriage was actually very limited, and the biggest use was actually to urgently transport various materials and even troops to the front line during the war, which was much more efficient than the traditional mode of transportation.

There is also a short special line to transport a large number of things from one place to a place three or five miles away.