In 11 years, with more than 1.2 million laborers and nearly 90 million taels of wealth, the six northern provinces have established a huge and smooth transportation network, with three horizontal and six vertical, three crosses of the Yellow River as the main body, a huge transportation project connecting all the counties in the north and a dense water conservancy system touching the township level.

Such a huge transportation and water conservancy project is definitely a large project that has never been seen before, and its scale far exceeds that of Qin Zhidao. All the previous two or three thousand years of work combined are far from comparable.

The most important thing is that less than 100 laborers were killed and injured in this huge project. In the feudal era, this was simply unimaginable. You must know that hundreds of thousands of people died when a canal was dredged and connected!

More importantly, with the investment of more than 90 million taels of wealth, the industry and commerce, and even agriculture of the entire six northern provinces have been revitalized. According to Chen Quan's intelligence network statistics, the per capita annual income of more than 70 million people in the entire six northern provinces has increased from less than 3 or 4 taels 11 years ago to more than 20 taels, but prices have not fluctuated at all.

In other words, in just 11 years, the living standards of the people in the north have increased by seven or eight times. Although it is still impossible for every person to have meat, as long as they are not extremely lazy and do not encounter a catastrophic disaster, food and clothing are basically not a problem.

Such a rich life caused the northern barbarians to go crazy, and launched no less than seven large-scale southern invasions in the past eleven years, but the final result was that in the early stage, the garrisons of the Ming Dynasty were sufficiently supplied to block the north of the Great Wall, and in the later stage, they were counterattacked by the Ming army, and even surrounded and annihilated more than 300,000 people, and they were no longer able to go south.

Chen Quan can be sure that after the project is completely completed and the degree of firearms in the Ming army is getting higher and higher, the northern barbarians will no longer have the opportunity to go south, and being ruled by the Ming Dynasty, which is becoming stronger and stronger, will be their final outcome.

"After doing so much, I wonder if the people on this land during the Xiaoice River period can live a little better!"

On the Yellow River, on the day of the opening of the last bridge in Zhengzhou, Chen Quan looked at the cheering people and sighed.

"What Xiaoice period?"

Hearing Chen Quan's muttering, Dongfang Undefeated took his eyes off the bridge and the people around him, and asked strangely.

"A great drought that has lasted for more than 100 years! It's going to start in a few decades! ”

Chen Quan didn't hide it, and said it directly.

"More than 100 years of drought!"

Dongfang Undefeated stared at Chen Quan in shock, unable to imagine what kind of scene the drought had been like for such a long time.

"It won't be too bad in the beginning, but in the later stage there will be only one or two light rains a year."

Chen Quan said helplessly. The earth's climate change, this is something that no one can do, and can only find another way.

"You're doing so much just to fend off this catastrophe?"

Dongfang Undefeated stared at Chen Quan with a complicated expression.

"That's right! Still, even without this catastrophe, I would have done so. ”

Chen Quan nodded in acknowledgement.

"Then why didn't you tell the Emperor?"

Dongfang Undefeated frowned and looked at the emperor's frame on the opposite bank.

"Don't leak it!"

Chen Quan looked unfathomable.

"Do you think I'll believe it?"

Dongfang Undefeated looked at him coldly.

"Alright! It's useless to say it, the emperor won't believe it. ”

Looking at Zhu Houzhao who was riding a horse in the distance, Chen Quan spread his hands helplessly.

Following Chen Quan's gaze and looking at the eleven-year-old prince who was riding a mare across the new bridge to this side, Dongfang Undefeated sighed helplessly and admitted that Chen Quan was right.

In the past ten years, Chen Quan has made countless suggestions to Zhu Youjiao, and less than one-third of them have been accepted. But even so, Chen Quan still wants to say that this has exceeded his expectations. If there was a different emperor, Chen Quan would have been driven out of the court because of this anger, and even chased and killed by the whole world.

The emperor is a creature with too much desire for power. Anything that threatens the imperial power, they will not hesitate to refuse to accept it.

"Zhao'er meets the master!"

Rushing to Chen Quan, Zhu Houzhao jumped off the horse with great skill, and was so excited that he bent down to meet Chen Quan with a red face.

"Hehe, yes, there is the demeanor of a general! Let's go, come with the teacher to meet your father! ”

Beckoning his subordinates to lead the horses over, Chen Quan led Zhu Houzhao, Dongfang Undefeated and a group of hundreds of officials to cross the smooth Yellow River Bridge and walk towards the opposite bank.

Seeing Chen Quan and his entourage successfully pass through the bridge, the surrounding people cheered again. The successful completion of this last Yellow River bridge marks the end of a huge project that lasted for 11 years. To be able to complete such an unprecedented and huge project with quality and quantity, all those involved in it have reason and right to cheer loudly.

Zhu Youzhu is also very excited, with this project, his exploits will catch up with the most meritorious emperors in history, and become one of the emperors praised by future generations.

Although it is likely that during his tenure, there will be no large-scale external expansion, at most it will only deeply digest and absorb the northeast region under his current control and the newly controlled Nanyang region as Chen Quan suggested, but these two items will allow him to leave a strong mark in the history books in terms of martial arts.

As for the real use of force to conquer foreign countries and expand the territory, it has to be placed on the next generation who is following Chen's side and coming in high spirits. And he only needs to be his own son, Emperor Jing of Han.

"Your Majesty, the first large-scale infrastructure construction in the six northern provinces, we have finally completed it!"

After crossing the bridge, Chen Quan dismounted and walked in front of Zhu Youzhu and said happily. The tone was flat, as if he had just accomplished an ordinary thing.

"It's finally done! Brother Chen, thank you for the people of the world! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhu solemnly bent down and thanked Chen Quan. Hundreds of officials and tens of thousands of people around followed to thank Chen Quan.

"The emperor doesn't need to be like this! As a descendant of China, these are all things I should do. In addition, on this festive day, I have something to ask the emperor. ”

Helping Zhu Youzhang up, Chen Quan said solemnly to Zhu Youzhang.

"Brother Chen has something to say, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse!"

Zhu Youzhu stood up straight and sincerely assured.

"Hehe, it's not a difficult thing! I want to completely hand over the Chen's money to the imperial court for management, and all other properties I hold will be transferred to the imperial court. ”

Rumble!

The people present suddenly roared like thunder in their minds!

Chen's Qianzhuang, all of Chen Quan's industries, today, eleven years later, the amount involved has exceeded 100 million taels. Although the amount is slightly lower than the current Da next year's endowment, its impact on the Ming Dynasty is more than that.

With such a huge amount of wealth, Chen Quan gave it all to the imperial court so easily, such a thing is enough to set off a monstrous wave in anyone's heart.

"Brother Chen, the younger brother has never been ---"

Zhu Youzhu looked at Chen Quan with a complicated face, wanting to explain something, but was stopped by Chen Quan.

"I have never doubted Your Majesty. It's just that Your Majesty remembers what I said twelve years ago? I have never kept these riches in my heart, and the reason why I earn so much wealth is just to do something for Daming. At that time, I also promised His Majesty that I would not marry a wife and have children in Daming, and after more than ten years, I would leave, and now is the time. ”

Chen Quan's words reminded Zhu Youzhu of that scene twelve years ago. More than ten years have passed, and Zhu Youzhu has even forgotten about the heart-to-heart of the year. In fact, even back then, Zhu Youzhu never thought that Chen Quanhui would take this sentence seriously.

That's a fortune of hundreds of millions of taels!

"Brother Chen is leaving Daming!"

Suddenly, Zhu Youzhu grasped the key point in Chen Quan's words and suddenly became anxious.