In the first month of the third year of Xingqian, just after the sixth day of the first lunar month, the heavy snow fell once again in the north. This snow has clothed the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty with a layer of plain clothing. Between the undulating mountains, the wind blows the snow, and the snow wraps the wind.

Over the years, this winter has become stranger and colder, and this heavy snow has been falling for a whole winter, often from September to February, and sometimes a few snows in March.

From Changchun in the north, through the Great Wall, into the customs, from the north to Shandong, Henan and even the south of the Yangtze River, and even Lingshan, it is snowing everywhere, this winter is surprisingly cold everywhere in the whole country, and the snow is also very heavy. Even in Lingnan, it is not scattered snowflakes in Guangzhou, but large feathers scattered all over the sky. As for the north, it's even more overwhelming.

After a winter, the mountains, the rivers, the roads, the towns. It is one with the snow, and the world is covered in snow. So that whether it is in the city or in the countryside, but all the common people, one by one, in the winter, they all go to the house, the cat is on the kang, if there is nothing to do, no one will go out. And in the summer and autumn of the following year, I don't know how many more children will come.

The heavy snow can't stop people's enthusiasm, of course, it can't stop the pace of going home, even in this cold day, when the snow is falling, on the official road from Beijing to Zhongdu, there is still a large four-wheeled carriage along the frozen official road, difficult to move in the snow.

This is a kind of large four-wheeled carriage, it first appeared in Qinghe, there is a fixed carriage line in Qinghe City, the carriage and horse driving vehicles go back and forth to the fixed place several times a day, and the passengers can get on and off freely at the station. Later, it was introduced to the official road, and only a large carriage was customized, and a few strong horses were purchased as traction carriages, which could carry people and passengers.

At the beginning, this kind of public carriage was only used in the city, and later some people put it into the city and town or even between the city, at the beginning people thought that it would lose money, but to people's surprise was the bus carriage, the development was extremely rapid, and even a large number of "coachmen" who lived on it appeared. The proliferation of horse-drawn buses disrupted the market, forcing the government to introduce policies to regulate them through the issuance of licenses.

Of course, one of the consequences of the prosperity of the public carriage industry is that in the past two years, more and more heavy horses from the West have entered China, of course, the number is very limited, but in the horse farms in the northeast and Jiangbei, large-scale breeding of heavy horses has long begun, and eventually heavy horses replace these Mongolian horses, it is only a matter of time.

For the passengers on the carriage, they naturally do not know the difference between heavy horses and ordinary horses, and the reason why they choose public carriages for travel is because there are carriages that can shelter them from the wind and rain, and in this winter, they can protect people from the cold wind.

But even so, there is often a miasma of dirt in this carriage, some people are smoking in it, children crying, and so on, if they are rich, they will naturally not choose public carriages, but for ordinary people, they do not have many choices.

And the reason why Pan Renyuan didn't choose a shorter sea boat was just to see this long-lost pass, along the way, he had long been accustomed to everything in the carriage, even so, when the old man next to him was smoking a cigarette pouch, he had to endure the choking smell of smoke.

"The young master is a scholar."

The old man looked at Pan Renyuan and seemed to be unable to stand the smell of smoke, so he casually pressed the cigarette pouch and pot and asked.

"I studied in social studies for two years."

"That's also a scholar, do you think this car is comfortable?"

The old man's rhetorical question made Pan Renyuan answer puzzled.

"It's comfortable, it's quite comfortable."

"Put it aside, you can't enjoy this blessing, in the past, ordinary people went out in winter, so they could make this car."

The old man's words made Pan Renyuan not know how to answer, and then he sold his ears to listen to the old man's words.

"Look at this road, the one that was repaired was a level, when the official road from Beijing to Zhongdu was repaired, the old man and my family came out of three ding, a year of sixty days, two years that is one hundred and twenty days, day and night repair, this official road is called, called the national highway, yes, it is the national highway, three zhang wide, lime mixed with soil with 5,000 catties of stone rolled back and forth dozens of times, and then paved with two layers of stones, this road, repaired, that is a solid ......"

National!

The national highway from Beijing to Jiangkou is the first national highway in the Ming Dynasty, that is the national highway built for the relocation of the capital, and it is also the national highway that consumes the most labor and materials, although the labor of millions of people from the prefectures and counties along the way, and more than 300,000 troops from the southwest to build, the 2,000 miles of national highway still cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Even when he was outside the customs and read in the newspaper that this national highway, which was completely paved with stone, was completed, Pan Renyuan was surprised by the financial resources of the new dynasty.

However, he didn't know that after the completion of this road, by collecting tolls and customs duties, it could bring hundreds of thousands of taels of income to the imperial court every year, and this income was endless, and more importantly, the construction of the road prospered the economy along the route.

"Hey, it's really thanks to the emperor and his old man's blessing, in the past two years, the situation has been getting better and better, this is the reign of the Holy Son of Heaven."

The old man's words made Pan Renyuan's eyes full of doubts.

Along the way, through contact with old friends and ordinary people, Pan Renyuan found that the evaluation of the present is almost two completely different situations, on the one hand, the ridicule of the present by the old friends, and on the other hand, the ordinary people all regard the emperor as the holy son of heaven and the emperor.

Originally, for Pan Renyuan, who suffered from two years of exile, the reason why he chose to remain silent many times, and even opened his eyes for the imperial court, was more because he learned a lesson, but now, he is confused.

Is it just because of profit?

Is it because the emperor has violated the interests of some people, and at the same time let the people benefit from it?

Did the people benefit from this?

Along the way, Pan Renyuan was thinking about this problem, even when he came to the service station, he also seemed a little absent-minded, although the service station next to the national highway is not much different from the old post station, but there is absolutely no blackmail from the post man, because the service station is relatively safe, the guests who come and go from the south to the north often eat and stay here, and the coachman of the public carriage is also here to change the horse or feed the horse, at this time, the passengers on the car will also eat and stay in the service station.

Because it was late, the passengers on the car all stayed, most of the passengers lived in the kind of Chase shop for ten cents a night, while Pan Renyuan lived in a single room with one dollar and silver dollars, the price was not expensive, and a breakfast was given.

When I entered the dining room, the meal was ready. The rice is mashed potatoes, which is the most common meal in the winter of the service station, ordinary people do not often eat mashed potatoes, because the taste is average, but the farmers often fill their hunger with it in winter, because this kind of yellow potatoes are only 60 days from planting to harvesting, and before the winter snow falls, you can harvest the potatoes of the previous season. Because it is not resistant to storage, it is often eaten in winter, and when the staple food is eaten until the beginning of spring, it can save several months of grain. In the service station, this is the cheapest food, and of course there are steamed buns, corn rice and even rice, which of course vary in price.

Ordered two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian, and asked for a mashed potato, Pan Renyuan took the rice and looked for a seat, when looking for a seat, he saw that on a table in the corner, there was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man sitting precariously eating noodles, he was just eating, there were four dishes in front of him, two large and two small, fungus meat slices, cabbage tofu, scrambled eggs and pickled melons, and the bowl was a bowl of rice.

The young man looks like he should be a rich man, although the food is average, but the action of eating is very elegant, but between the eyebrows, there seems to be a little melancholy. This couldn't help but make Pan Renyuan a little curious, and when he looked at the young man, he noticed that at the table next to the young man, there were several quite strong men, who were not wearing cotton jackets and leather jackets, but gray woolen coats. In Daming, only those who have been soldiers like to wear this kind of stiff and not loose clothes. Pan Renyuan's gaze couldn't help but move to their feet.

Yellow long barrel leather boots.

They are military men!

What is the identity of this young man, and why is there a soldier around him? At this moment, the young man seemed to see Pan Renyuan, so he smiled at him, and then took the initiative to invite.

"If this son doesn't dislike it, you might as well come over and dine together,"

The young man's invitation made Pan Renyuan stunned, and the people at the next table were also stunned, and one of them was about to stand up, but was held down by the person next to him, who shook his head at him.

"That's how I thanked my son."

Because of curiosity, Pan Renyuan did not refuse, and sat opposite him. Of course, his curiosity was curiosity about the identity of this young man. To his disappointment, however, the young man, despite calling him to sit with him, did not mean to speak to him, but continued to eat slowly, even paying attention to the newspaper.

"No ...... for begging"

Seeing the words on the newspaper, Pan Renyuan said casually.

"There is no point in arguing about this matter, the holy will has been decided, even if they oppose it, what can they do? Although Imakami said that he did not use the imperial staff, he never had the slightest scruples about exiling the opponents overseas, and if there was a stalemate, Imajo could naturally use the exiles to deal with the opposing ministers, and when the opponents were exiled, it would naturally be passed. ”

"Oh?"

The young man raised his head, looked at Pan Renyuan and asked.

"Why is Childe so sure that His Majesty will definitely pass this proposal? And will he not hesitate to exile his ministers? ”

As he spoke, the young man had already put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked at Pan Renyuan puzzled.

"Because the overseas colonies need people."

Pan Renyuan replied with a smile.

"When the "Da Ming Law" was rebuilt, why did Jin Shang suggest that exiles should be used instead of punishment, and how vast is the northeast? The population is only a few hundred thousand, and how vast is the overseas, from Taiwan to Pingnan, the official and civilian army is only a few tens of thousands, the northeast is bitterly cold, and overseas is a foreign country, unless it is exile, who wants to go there? In order to enrich the population there, military merits were awarded, Tuntian was captured, and prisoners were exiled, the prisons of the Ming Dynasty have long been empty in recent years, even if there are occasional offenders, there are only a few thousand people every year, which is not enough for the northeast, not to mention the nineteen overseas cities? ”

The so-called "nineteen cities" refer to the nineteen ports along the Nanyang line from Zhancheng to Dingnan, the scale of those ports is not large, at most only 2,000 people, and the small cities are only a few hundred Han people.

Now, there aren't so many people who can go to those places to fill in.

"Well, that's true, in Your Majesty's opinion, Nanyang is really the land of fish and rice, if Emperor Lie could immigrate to Nanyang for millions back then, although it was affected by miasma and disease, but it could also live millions of people, and my Ming Dynasty would not die in exile, and let the people of the world suffer from the Qing Dynasty and enter the catastrophe, so that the people of the world will not survive one out of ten."

The young man's sigh made Pan Renyuan nod and say.

"Therefore, Your Majesty will do everything possible to move the people there, this beggar...... It's also people. ”

A beggar is also a human being, let the young man be silent for a moment, then picked up the chopsticks, first ate two bites, and then put down the chopsticks and said.

"But is it too hasty to ban begging so hastily? How many beggars and homeless people are there in the world? If there is no certificate of nationality, you can be arrested in the government and exiled overseas, will this not force the people to rebel? ”

Pan Renyuan didn't even look at it again, and replied casually.

"The Emperor died at the hands of the Liukou, the Liukou has been changed by the Liukou, the Liukou is a Liukou today, he is a Liukou, when he is in trouble, it is not enough to take advantage of his weakness, exile him to a foreign land, and force him to cultivate, so that the world can naturally be peaceful, as for the rebellion...... The world is in chaos, how can the people let go of the peaceful days and open their eyes for a few beggars? ”

"This ...... Maybe. ”

The young man, who knew that what the man in front of him said was very reasonable, finally had to nod and say.

"So it seems that this proposal must be passed?"

"The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee will not last long, this proposal can be said to be the heart of Your Majesty, Your Majesty will naturally go all out to pass this matter, as for the officials who put forward this proposal, they will definitely be reused by Your Majesty."

"Zhao Guobin used to be a Manchu coat, and later he was Li Hui's confidant. He originally surrendered with Wuchang and other places, and he has not been important in the DPRK and China for several years, so this time it should be ...... It should be reused by His Majesty. ”

"It's ridiculous, but it's really ridiculous, a dignified second-class member, he actually takes begging as the way to advancement, is there anything more absurd in the world?"

Pan Renyuan smiled and shook his head, but the young man was silent, he didn't express any opinions or feelings, even before, he was just talking about things, not people.

"Listening to Childe's accent, he is from Nanzhili, and he has not come out this year, so he travels alone, I don't know where Childe is going?"

Seeing that the young man didn't speak, Pan Renyuan knew that he might be a little inconvenient, so he asked rhetorically.

"Zhongdu."

"Oh?"

Looking at this young man, Pan Renyuan turned his gaze to the side again, looking at the entourage that looked like soldiers. Perhaps because he saw his gaze, the young man said casually.

"My surname is Zhu, and my name is Cixuan."

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