[Update time]2012-05-0522:04:29[word count]7637

Compared with the frequent wars in the past, Yongxing has been much calmer in the past six years.

In the battlefield of Asan in Goryeo, due to the timely landing of the Haidong camp army from the Asan Peninsula on the flank, the Goryeo royal army was forced to retreat and relieve the siege of Qingyang, so that the Battle of Asan failed to fight after all; On other fronts, the scale of the war is even more limited, and all sides are recuperating and recuperating, wanting to breathe a sigh of relief from the war that has not stopped for many years.

The drought in western Zhejiang was also alleviated by a heavy snowfall that lasted for two days before the New Year's Festival.

Lin Jian left Haizhou before the New Year Festival and returned to Jiangning, but he did not stop after returning to Jiangning. The heavy snowfall that alleviated the drought in western Zhejiang has caused a serious snow disaster in Xuanzhou.

Lin Jian had just returned to Jiangning on the front foot, and he had to rush to Xuanzhou to inspect the disaster with Jun Xun and his eldest daughter Lin Zhengjun before the New Year's Festival, accompanied by Zhou Pu, Zhou Blind, Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and others.

Xuanzhou is only two hundred and fifty or sixty miles away from Jiangning City, and the carriage walks through the snowy galloping road, day and night.

The snowstorm in Xuanzhou collapsed thousands of houses, killing and injuring nearly 3,000 civilians.

Due to the timely handling, after the snow disaster, the garrison was promptly transferred to the disaster-stricken counties in Xuanzhou for relief, so that the casualties did not expand further. Lin Jian walked non-stop for three days in the counties of Xuanzhou Prefecture before inspecting the disaster-stricken area.

On the last day, he ran to the Xuanzhou coal yard in the hardest-hit area, Lin Lian didn't pay attention, stepped into the snow pit, fell to the ground, and got up covered with snow and gray.

Although there are many collapsed houses, there are few casualties, and at least in the early stage, it still reflects the high efficiency of government-run military management.

Lin Jian sat on the ridge where the snow was not cleared, asked Jun Xun to help dust the snow particles on his body, and said: "This is a country, I still feel hard to govern, I really can't imagine: my children and grandchildren have grown up in greenhouses, even if their intelligence is not weaker than others, but they have not experienced the suffering of the world, how can they have the ability to govern this country?" ”

"If something is good, it will be followed by the bottom", this sentence is still an absolutely valid truth at this time.

Liu Shidu's concern about overpopulation was not heeded by Lin Mengde and others at first. However, after Liu Shidu's special letter from Ding Kou added the head of "governing the country should be concerned about a hundred years of things", the people below quickly understood Lin Bin's meaning, and the rumors began to change.

Before Lin Jian returned to Jiangning, Ge Siyu wrote an article entitled "On the Flood and Drought in Guanluo" in the "Xuanzheng Post", discussing the relationship between Dingkou and cultivated land and the drought in Guanluo and the flood of the Yellow River in Guanzhong and Heluo in the past thousand years.

From the Qin Dynasty to the Chen Dynasty for more than 1,000 years, there were 11 drought years in Guanzhong, Jinzhong and Heluo regions, counting one drought in 100 years; However, by the time of the Chen Dynasty to the present, there have been about 500 years, and there have been 16 drought years, counting one drought in 30 years; The frequency has been increased by a factor of three.

In the past 400 years, the disasters of the Yellow River's overflow, flooding, and diversion have been far more frequent than before the Chen Dynasty, and since the Yuan and Yue dynasties, there have even been major disasters in 10 years and a small disaster in 35 years.

Ge Siyu pointed out in the article that this kind of incident is directly related to the overdevelopment of cultivated land and the sharp decline of forests and grasses in the Guanluo area.

There is no shortage of visionaries in the world, and the problem of ecological deterioration in the northwest is not only discovered today.

Lin Jian also knew in his heart that if he hadn't semi-openly supported Liu Shidu, the issue of Guanzhong would not have been explicitly brought up on the table.

Lin Jian will not blame Ge Siyu for being suspicious of seeing the wind and steering the rudder, Ge Siyu has extremely high academic attainments, Ge Siyu can throw out a "On the Water and Drought of Guanluo", which is stronger than those moral articles that can only sing merits and praise virtues, I don't know how many times stronger, but it is also really to combine learning with people's livelihood, and he cannot be forced to have the will and courage of a politician.

However, due to population control, Lin Jian did intend to recover the north, starting first in the area west and north of Guanluo.

Before the Chen Dynasty, there were six dynasties in Guanzhong, the key is that the early water and soil conditions of the Weiping Plain were excellent, and the agricultural areas in Guanzhong could support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of people or even millions of people in the national capital.

After the Chen Dynasty, the Guanzhong Wei level began to deteriorate due to over-development and environmental deterioration, but it was not enough to maintain the consumption of the national capital, and the Chen Dynasty could only abandon the Guanzhong area, which had excellent defense conditions, and set the capital in Daliang, Henan.

Since entering the Yuan Yue, the ecology of Guanzhong has deteriorated into a bitter cold land in the northwest. In the later period, although the Cao family tried to rebuild the Zhengguo Canal on the Weiping Plain, in fact, in three or five years, it was impossible to restore the prosperity of Guanzhong in the Qin and Han dynasties.

The Yellow River is the lifeblood of the Central Plains, and in the past three or four hundred years, the Yellow River has become a hanging river due to the accumulation of sand, and the river disaster has become increasingly serious. In the middle of the Yuan Yue period, in order to control the river troubles, the court moved to the permanent minister of river affairs, and led it with the waiter of the Sanpin Ministry of Industry. In the ninth year of Chongguan, Yanhu dug up the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River and hit the Yannan Plain, and there was no way to restore the river naturally. The subsequent rebellion of 300,000 people who repaired the embankment of the Yellow River directly destroyed the foundation of Yanjing's centralized rule.

In the Northern Expedition, Yanhu was killed and the Central Plains was recovered, and the first thing the center faced was the problem of controlling the Yellow River.

Lin Jian had already asked Ge Siyu, who was the leader of the Tianshui Division, to prepare in advance, and he couldn't delay until the Northern Expedition recovered the Central Plains, and then slowly summoned people to study the floods of the Yellow River.

There is a difference between treating the symptoms and treating the root cause. In order to cure the root cause, it is necessary to control the scale of farming in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Guanluo and western Shanxi, and return it to forests, so that the water and soil ecology north and west of Guanzhong can be restored in a hundred years or even longer.

In order to control the scale of agriculture in Guanluo, Jinxi, and even the Kansai region, the most important thing is to control the population of these areas.

Lin Jian even planned to implement a strict ban on grazing in the Hetao and Yanxi areas after the success of the Northern Expedition, and drove the Yanxi Zhuhu, Qiangyi and other tribesmen who could not completely surrender to the north of the Rouranhai (Belga Lake) and the west to the west of the Yili River.

Because of Lin Tie's statement, Liu Shidu's special letter was not sent to the public council casually, but it was not given special attention, after all, the current mainstream still hopes to have more Dingkou, but it has also passed two new system adjustments:

First, the scale of men need to be crowned, and women need to be 16 before marriage. This is an ancient rite, but under the policy of encouraging birth and raising in previous dynasties, most of the women in the world are married at the age of fourteen or fifteen. The restoration of the ancient rites is to shorten the childbearing period of women. However, it is not very significant to raise from the age of fourteen or fifteen to over the age of sixteen.

A greater reduction in the mortality rate of girls under the age of 16 is of greater significance.

The data of Chongzhou and other places have been improved first, and the mortality rate of dystocia among girls under the age of 16 is as high as 10 percent, which is comparable to the battlefield casualty rate. When a 20-year-old woman gives birth for the first time, the mortality rate from dystocia plummets to 1 percent.

Although there were no accurate statistics in the past, the world still has a clear understanding of the difficulties of giving birth to young women.

Another adjustment is the abolition of official media matchmaking.

In the past, men did not marry in their twenties and women did not marry when they were over eighteen, and they were forcibly married by the official media. After the abolition of this old system, the woman was allowed to postpone the marriage and childbearing period relatively independently. At present, in Chongzhou, Haiyu, Jiangning and other places, the phenomenon of employing female workers is becoming more and more common, and women's work can make up for the lack of household resources, and the woman's family is naturally willing to delay the marriage period of the woman; Even more extremely, fathers and brothers often restrict women from marrying and working for profit.

Tradition is relatively strong, and the mainstream of the Privy Council does not want to put the brakes on the national population boom, and some preventive measures may take thirty or fifty years to gradually take effect.

As for the strict population restrictions in the areas west and north of Guanluo, Lin Jian had only discussed it with a limited number of people.

Strict population restrictions in the areas west and north of Guanluo have many significance, and more involve the governance strategy after the Northern Expedition to recover the north. In particular, the ban on grazing is equivalent to adding a hoop to the heads of the foreign forces of Yanxi Zhuhu and Qiangyi in the future to strictly restrict the growth of their power, which is very supported by the military.

Obviously, the military and the Privy Council were confident of a military victory, and would not stop after the recovery of the Northlands.

The plan drawn up by the military and the Privy Council was to bring all areas in the northeast that were formerly inhabited by the Donghu people, including the Ulun Mountains (Xiaoxing'an Mountains), under the direct jurisdiction of the center, so as to completely eliminate the border troubles in the northeast.

As for the Rouranhai and Yili River, the Han people have not set foot in such a distant area for six or seven hundred years, and even Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others do not expect the national border to extend so far.

Lin Jian disagreed, the steam engine should be able to be used for transportation within a hundred years, and the technology of the fire crossbow would mature first, and it was not delusional for the center to control the Rouran Sea and the Yili River.

However, the whole plan cannot be discussed on a larger scale in advance, for fear that if the grass is startled, it is likely to prompt the Yanxi Zhuhu, Qiangyi and Donghu to unite more together to resist the Northern Expedition.

Lin Jian sat on the mound, dusted off the snow particles on his body, and complained to Jun Xun about the difficulties in political affairs.

Although Zhengjun is the eldest daughter, she is only seven or eight years old and innocent.

Lin Jian took her out so that she could know the suffering of the world, but her mind was completely attracted by the pumping machine in the mining area.

Although the snow disaster collapsed a large number of houses, the casualties were not serious, and the Xuanzhou coal yard quickly resumed production. When the steam pumping machine is in operation, it will spew out water vapor and condense into a white mist in mid-air, enveloping a large area, and also shrouding the pumping tower, attracting the curiosity of the political monarch.

Xiao Zhengjun stared at her and didn't know, so he called a group of guards to circle around her, and was worried that something would go wrong with the steam pump.

Lin Lian dusted off the snow particles on his robe, walked over and grabbed Zhengjun's small hand in the palm of his hand, not letting her get too close to the pumping machine because of curiosity, just standing on the edge of the pumping tower and watching the pumping machine operate.

Streams of condensed white steam erupted from the side mouth of the working chamber, and the furnace workers were constantly sending coal into the fire chamber under the spherical boiler, and a larger range of white steam was coming out from the chimney adjacent to the boiler.

At the end of the cold winter wax moon, next to the hearth, the furnace workers who copied the coal into the chamber were shirtless and still sweating profusely - Lin Jian asked the craftsmen to perform their duties, but the general office and the chief craftsman in the coal yard were summoned to ask about the situation of the new pumping machine.

Jiang Yue's original plan was to take 20,000 silver dollars out and try to build a set of steam engines for mine drainage. Lin Jian deliberately accelerated the improvement of the steam engine, and asked the Machinery Manufacturing Department to squeeze out 200,000 silver dollars for Jiang Yue to build eight sets of steam pumping machines at a time for the drainage of government-run coal yards, that is, to make the eight coal yards relatively independent to improve the technology of steam pumping machines.

It takes 20,000 silver dollars to build a group of new pumping machines, but because the preparation molds of boilers, working cavities, piston connecting rods and other components can be shared, the average cost of building eight sets of new pumping machines is 20,000 silver dollars lower, and in the end, all eight sets of new pumping machines are not used 100,000 silver dollars.

The excess funds are also specially used for the maintenance and technical improvement of the new pumping machines in major coal yards.

Around August, eight sets of new pumping machines were built and installed in coal yards in Xuanzhou, Lushui, Shouzhou, Huaiyang, Putang and other places to remove stagnant water from the mines.

At the same time, the efficiency of the eight groups of new types of relatively independent operation, the investment of seven or eight times the technical force and resources, and the discovery and improvement of problems are naturally far from being comparable to those of one group.

Of the eight sets of new pumping machines, except for one group of boilers that were stopped for renovation due to poor casting, the other seven groups of pumping machines have been running stably for four months. many problems have been exposed, but they can be transformed in time in the coal yard; The Mechanics Division also keeps track of the operation and improvement of the new pumping machines.

A new set of pumping machines, the expensive cost of ten years of operation and maintenance costs, is enough to employ nearly 200 young workers.

However, for coal yard drainage, a drainage shaft is drilled above the mine road. A drainage well can cover such a large area, even if it can employ two or three hundred young people, there is no way to send so many people to drain the water without stopping.

The new pumping machine can provide continuous, high-intensity, high-power drainage, although it is expensive, but after three or four months of use, it also shows that it is superior to human and animal power.

In the past, animal power was used to drain water, but due to the lack of driving force, the water was pumped to a depth of up to 10 or 20 meters; With the new pumping machine, although the airtightness is still very unsatisfactory, it can also pump water to a depth of 367 meters. This makes it possible to dig one or two more layers of coal and stone in the coal yards of Lishui, Putang, Xuanzhou and other places where the groundwater level is high, and the old abandoned mines can also be reused.

Coal consumption in the Jianghuai region has increased dramatically, bringing coal prices back to pre-war levels. At the same time, Lin Jian also restricted the scale of employment in the government-run coal yards, and no longer restricted the use of coal in the government-run iron yards and kilns, and no longer restricted the use of officialdom coal. However, when it comes to huge coal profits, a basket of coal in Jiangning can net a dime of silver dollars, and even if the government-run coal yard cannot increase the scale of employment, it will do everything possible to increase coal production.

The old mine shafts with stable geology and not easy to collapse can be reused, and the cost savings are enough to offset the high cost of the new pumping machine; The use of more new pumping machines, and even the use of steamer steam to lift mine carts, can reduce the use of manpower and animal power on a large scale.

In the Xuanzhou Coal Yard, in addition to the addition of two new pumping machines, craftsmen were also organized to design and manufacture the first steam engine-powered minecart hoist, which was also somewhat beyond Lin Bin's expectations.

Although the steam engine at this time, due to the imperfect design of the seal and working cavity, the efficiency is very low, and there is still a big gap with the real sense of the steam engine, but the coal yard has cheap coal, as long as it works, it is not afraid of low efficiency.

For the steam engine, Lin Jian only knows a general principle, and the specific technology is far less proficient than that of professional craftsmen.

As long as the coal yard thinks that it is cost-effective to use the new pump, Lin Jian is very satisfied.

In the end, the key to the use of a new technology is whether it can be relatively cheap. As long as the government uses new pumping machines to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of coal mining, iron and copper mines, thermal oil wells, and even commercial and private mines will adopt new technologies out of a profit-seeking drive.

In the past, when the Xuanzhou Coal Yard was privately run, there were 500 young people hired, and each person dug four baskets of coal out of the well every day, but only produced more than 600,000 baskets of coal a year. At this time, the amount of coal mined in the Xuanzhou coal yard increased eightfold to five million baskets, but the scale of employment only increased fourfold.

The use of new technologies has an obvious impact on the efficiency of coal mining. Of course, compared with the mechanical coal mining of later generations, the efficiency may not be as good as Eleven, and Lin Jian does not have the luxury of making much progress all at once, as long as it can continue to progress, it shows that the New Deal is gradually taking root in the hearts of the people.

Lin Jian stood there, discussing the new pumping machine with the general office of the coal yard and the chief craftsman, accompanied by Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and local officials from Xuanzhou.

Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and others are nothing, most of the local officials in Xuanzhou are old bureaucrats and traditional scholars, and their understanding of Xinxue is only from the post, and they have no in-depth understanding at all......

Seeing that the local officials in Xuanzhou were also working hard, Lin Jian stopped the inspection and instructed Zhou Pu and Zhou Blind to prepare for the return trip, and had no intention of staying in Xuanzhou any longer.

Lin Jingzhong took a gap and reported to Lin Jian about the preparation for the construction of the iron bridge.

From the Jiangning area, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and if land transportation is to develop, there will be many contradictions.

The traffic efficiency of the Chi Road is too slow, but the construction of the bridge hinders river transportation; The construction of high arch bridges is also not conducive to the smooth transportation of large horse-drawn carriages; In the plains, there is no way to build suspension bridges with high spans.

Therefore, the official road in the south of Jiangning meets the river and builds more pontoon bridges, and the ships gather, and the pontoon bridges are opened at a concentrated time to release the boats to pass, and the pontoon bridges are usually used to connect the chival. It's just that the pontoon bridge is not a permanent building, and it has many shortcomings, is extremely troublesome to maintain, and the speed of opening and closing is also very slow.

Lin Jingzhong discussed with officials from the Department of Industry and Construction for several months, and he was interested in trying to build an open iron bridge in an area close to Jiangning City.

The site of the first experimental iron bridge was located at the mouth of the Jinchuan River, where Lin Jian was the first to develop.

After years of development, the Jinchuan estuary, including the prison island, has replaced the Longzangpu inland port and has become the main port of Jiangning, and Lin Zhengjun-class maritime merchant ships can also directly berth at the riverside wharf at the estuary. The original Hekou Town, with more than 100,000 residents and a large number of new workshops located there, was already unusually prosperous at this time.

The Privy Council even planned to establish a new city and county on the basis of the town of Hekou to govern it.

It's just that Hekou Town occupies both sides of the Jinchuan River, dividing the Jinchuan River into two, and the traffic is very inconvenient. The Jinchuan River is the main river channel in the east of Jiangning City, and it is impossible to build a flat bridge without calling large and medium-sized sailboats to pass; The pontoon bridge is too slow to open, which has seriously affected the efficiency of water and land routes.

To build an iron bridge, the middle section of the iron bridge is opened manually and regularly by means of the city gate crane, and the ship is released to pass during the concentrated period, which will greatly improve the efficiency. It's just that the river channel at the mouth of the Jinchuan River is 56 meters wide, and it is the first time in the world to build a 56-meter pure iron bridge, and it is estimated that it will cost more than 500,000 silver dollars.

Even if Jiang Ning can come up with this silver money and invest so many resources on an iron bridge, this is obviously not something that Jiang Ning Mansion can call the shots himself, and even the Privy Council strongly opposes it - the center is still tight; After the new tax policy, the local income of Jiangning Mansion increased a lot at once, but no matter how much silver Jiangning Mansion had left, it could not invest so much silver on a bridge.

You must know that when Chongzhou New City was built, the silver invested in the first two years was not so much. In the future, it is estimated that it will only cost six or seven hundred thousand silver dollars to build a new warship, and now it is so much to fight for an iron bridge, how can the Privy Council not be angry?

Lin Jingzhong could only learn from Liu Shidu and go back to win Lin Lian's support.

Lin Jian took out the iron bridge drawings designed by Jiangning Mansion and the Industrial Construction Division, and sighed in slight surprise: "I want to build an iron bridge!" ”

Regarding the fact that the Jinchuan Iron Bridge consumes nearly two million catties of iron, Lin Jian has no opinion. Without continuous consumption, how can the iron smelting and foundry industry develop and how can technology progress?

To invest more than 500,000 silver dollars, Lin Jian has no opinion.

After the tax distribution, there were more local tax sources, especially the surge in the revenue of Jiangning Prefecture. When the financial resources are sufficient, they must be used for local people's livelihood. Don't need to drop it, can you build a silver kiln and save it? In addition to benefiting people's livelihood, it can also promote the development of new industries and promote the increase of economic aggregate. The construction of silver kilns will precipitate silver dollars, which is the big drawback.

Lin Jian was just worried that the traditional stone bridge and wooden bridge would suddenly cross over to the iron bridge, and this technology would not be mature.

Iron castings are used for bridge paving, this is no problem, the iron yard can even cast the ribs and keels of super-large sea ships, and it is not a problem to cast bridges, the key is the water bridge foundation. The bridge foundation scheme designed by the Engineering Division abandons the traditional stone base, but injects stone slurry and iron reinforcement into the iron cylinder, which is completely different from the traditional new engineering technology.

It has only been five years since the Borneo ash was used to build a lighthouse, and the stone slurry was developed by Zhao Zuiguier in less than two years, and Lin Jingzhong was going to use the stone slurry on the iron bridge that cost more than 500,000 silver dollars - although many new construction methods were tested in the lighthouse, the cost of a single lighthouse was still low, and if something went wrong, the remedy was too late to cause big losses. The Jinchuan Iron Bridge has to invest more than 500,000 silver dollars, and the key is that once there is a problem, the traffic on both sides of the Jinchuan River will be seriously hindered, and the loss will be even greater.

Lin Jian frowned, looking at the design of the iron bridge laid on the long case.

The carriage was traveling in a chariot, and because the body of the carriage was specially designed, Lin Jian sat in the carriage to deal with government affairs, and was not very aware of the usual shocks when the carriage body was moving.

Lin Jingzhong looked at Lin Tie nervously, this plan could not be passed without Lin Tie's support.

He took out this plan and went to Lin Mengde, who almost pointed at his nose and scolded the loser, and said that he would propose to the public government meeting to reduce the tax share ratio of Jiangning Mansion.

"Build," Lin Tie pressed his hand on the long table and said with determination, "As long as the Jiangning Mansion thinks carefully about fundraising, don't be afraid that there will be problems in the future." The New Deal is to cross the river by feeling the stones, and you can't wait for the stones to come out of the water before crossing the river...... However, the Privy Council took out Wang Xueshan's old mansion to build a museum, and there was a winding stream and a stone bridge in the house, but the stone bridge could not show the achievements of Xinxue at all. I hope that Jiangning Mansion will first take out a sum of money to build a small iron bridge in this Quxi, and first test the technology to be used in the Jinchuan Iron Bridge in the museum, which can be regarded as adding a scene to the museum! ”

"If you don't bargain with the lord, you can't take advantage of it, and this iron bridge Jiangning Mansion can only admit it." Lin Jingzhong said with a smile.

Lin Lian smiled and said: "Now that the financial expenditure is divided, the expenses that can be used by the inner government also have quotas, and there are many things I want to do, so I have to find additional ways." In addition, being moderately extravagant financially is not necessarily harmful, the key is to grasp the degree of goodness, and our thinking must be changed. This time, I'm rooting for you. ”

At present, Lin Jian mainly uses the huge arms procurement market to support the development of new industries and technologies, and even if the Northern Expedition is successful, he has no intention of stopping his military expansion to the west and north......

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Lin Lian returned to Jiangning, stayed for half a month, and after the spring sacrifice to the heavens, he went back to Haizhou to supervise the army.

Seven years after entering Yongxing, Lin Jian still had no intention of launching a large-scale Northern Expedition, and his energy was still mainly focused on the whole army, and everything seemed to be calm. Perhaps it was Jiangning Fu's plan to invest 500,000 silver dollars to build the Jinchuan Iron Bridge, which became the most lively discussion after the year.

Yue Lengqiu returned to Jiangning in early February to report on his work.

Although the Military Staff Department has officially taken over the military and political affairs of the whole country, Yue Lengqiu, as the military envoy of Henan Zhuzhen, must first be responsible to the Military Staff Department, but as an envoy at the level of governor, he still has to enter the palace to report Henan military affairs to the Liang family, Emperor Yongxing, and the ministers of the political hall.

"Don't think about the Northern Expedition, a broken bridge in Jiangning will cost 500,000 taels of silver, does Chongguo Gong want to put the people's fat and people's ointment into his own pocket?" After Liang and Emperor Yongxing, who was full of sickness, sat side by side on the Xitai High Case, their complexion was slightly better, and in front of Cheng Yuqian, Shen Rong, Zhang Yan and others, they complained to Yue Lengqiu about the construction of the Jinchuan Iron Bridge in Jiangning Mansion.

At present, except for a few complaints, the palace and the political hall are almost completely unable to interfere in military and political affairs.

The Mint minted silver dollars, using pure silver, and the value of a silver dollar was slightly higher than one tael of silver, and 500,000 silver dollars was 500,000 taels of silver.

Yue Lengqiu was also surprised that Jiangning Mansion had invested 500,000 silver dollars to build an iron bridge, and the 120,000 generals in the towns of Henan Province had a total military capital of 2.5 million silver dollars this year, but Jiangning Mansion wanted to invest 500,000 silver dollars in an iron bridge 15 or 6 zhang wide, and the silver that could be expanded by 50,000 soldiers was invested in a bridge, which was simply extravagant to the extreme.

However, it is also obvious that there is no need for Lin Jian to put the silver into his own bag by this means,

The Empress Dowager Liang's anger is also obvious:

In fact, many people here, including Emperor Yongxing, hoped that Lin Jian would organize the Northern Expedition. It's not that everyone expects Lin Lian to win another big victory in the Northern Expedition, in fact, for Emperor Yongxing, the Liang family and the imperial party, they can all know in their hearts: if Lin Lian wins another great victory in the Northern Expedition, his prestige will rise to a higher level and change the dynasty; However, everyone hoped that Lin Lian's hasty organization of the Northern Expedition would fail, and only in this way could the imperial party have the slightest chance of recovering its disadvantage.

Lin Jian obviously understands this truth, and is not in a hurry to organize the Northern Expedition, but to take the lead in the new policy, not only the authority of the imperial family and the political hall is empty, but most of the officials of the six ministries are absorbed by the supervisors of the Privy Council, and now there are only a few empty skins left, and if it is delayed for another year or two, the foundation of the government's governance will be laid, and the Yuan imperial family will become dispensable and no one cares about it.

This is probably the most resentful and dissatisfied place for the Liang family to use a large amount of silver to build bridges instead of rushing to the Northern Expedition, right?

Yue Lengqiu thought secretly, he really didn't know how to comfort the Liang family, and the old minister said some things, and when he was about to retire, Yu Yuqian stood up, took out a letter hidden in his sleeve, held it on his forehead, and said respectfully: "The old minister is very old, and he was occasionally infected with the wind and cold a few days ago, and he still feels that he is like a candle in the wind, and he can't bear the ravages of the years. In addition to being haggard, I want to retire to the grass hall to wait for the old, and now I implore the queen mother and the emperor to remember that the old minister is loyal to the court, although he is dull, but he is diligent and diligent to the country, and Xu Lao Chen will return to his hometown......"

Yue Lengqiu was stunned.

"Cheng Qing, do you want to abandon the Yuan clan too?" Liang asked in a panic.

"The old minister doesn't dare, forgive the old minister for being stupid and old, staying in the court is really useless to the country." Cheng Yuqian walked to the front of the hall and knelt down and kowtowed, begging to go.

Zhang Yan and Shen Rong looked at each other, sad in their hearts, and secretly thought: Cheng Yuqian, the old fox, is also going to retreat to save his body!