"Good." Zhu Houwei closed the recital and said with a smile: "Dozens of large iron factories have cost me 30 or 40 million taels of silver, and now it is time to recover the capital."

Ren Xing left Beijing, and now he is serving Ren Mian, one of Ren Xing's righteous sons, and being arranged by Ren Xing to serve the Son of Heaven shows that Ren Mian is very good.

A companion is like a tiger, as a eunuch, you should have the consciousness of being a eunuch, like to chew the root of your tongue, like to ask if you have nothing to do or stretch your hand too long, and if you can't withstand the temptation of the foreign court, you will definitely die ugly in the end.

Ren Mian carefully refilled the tea for the emperor, and then stood quietly aside, as long as the emperor didn't ask, he would treat himself as air.

Zhu Houwei walked around in the imperial study, and the good news came one after another recently.

Realizing the strong transportation capacity of the railway, the private businessmen still failed to resist the temptation after all, and began to collude with each other to contract the construction of a certain section of the railway.

To build a railway, rails are necessary, and there are only dozens of large iron factories under the name of the emperor in today's Ming Dynasty that have the ability to manufacture rails, so orders floated to the iron factory like snowflakes!

Of course, the rails produced by the forty large iron factories still can't meet the huge demand of the market after all, not to mention that Zhu Houwei himself has to ensure the construction of the grassland railway, but these orders are just to restore his blood, at least in a few years, he can completely recover the cost of building the iron plant.

An important reason why Zhu Houwei is so happy comes from an investigation report.

Cigarette Market Survey Report!

According to the report, tobacco has become popular in the capital, especially among the wealthy gentry and officials, and a large part of the reason for the popularity is that the emperor leads by example!

Smoking became popular among the officials and gentry, which in turn aroused the curiosity of ordinary people......

Zhu Houwei knows that this is a matter of course!

Tobacco will definitely not have a good feeling when you smoke it at the beginning, but tobacco directly stimulates the brain, and it is not as harmful as dupin, but it is still irritating, and as long as you get used to it, you will become dependent!

Officials are busy with government affairs, busy with human affairs, all kinds of troubles come one after another, and finally they get used to smoking, for example, when they are upset, they will get used to spitting clouds and spitting fog, and then become addicted to smoking.

Once you get addicted to smoking, it will be difficult to quit smoking, not to mention that in this era of not understanding the dangers of tobacco, why should you quit tobacco that can relieve your troubles?

This is a subtle process, tobacco is popular in the capital, so it will soon spread outward like a shock wave, and then become an indispensable must-have for home travel in the Ming Dynasty!

Now Zhu Houwei should consider how to expand production to meet the growing demand of the market......

All officials know that Zhu Houwei is the most profitable emperor from ancient times to the present, and the inner treasury of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty must be the most lucrative inner treasury throughout the ages, but only Zhu Houwei himself knows that he is desperately trying to make money, what is the ultimate goal!

Because there are so many places to spend money......

At this time, Feng Rui should also arrive at the Yellow River.

Feng Rui, the former prefect of Huzhou, entered Beijing to become the vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, and after entering the palace to thank him, he was sent to the Yellow River by Zhu Houwei!

He was accompanied by Zhai Luan, an assistant minister of the cabinet and minister of water resources, and students who have been studying water control for more than ten years.

Obviously, Zhai Luan was very unconvinced, he didn't think that even the Confucian ministers could not manage the Yellow River flood, and the emperor could cure it with just a few hairy boys who had not grown their hair, so he had to go in person.

However, although Zhai Luan is in charge of water conservancy, he himself also knows how many catties and taels he has, so he doesn't plan to interfere, he just wants to take a cold look at how to govern the river!

But it is obvious that Feng Rui is a tragedy, because King Yong has served three terms in the Huzhou prefect for nearly nine years because of the Taihu Lake flood......

Because of Zhai Luan's follow, if the Yellow River is effectively governed, then such credit will inevitably fall on Zhai Luan's head, and Zhai Luan will inevitably go down in history because of the governance of the Yellow River, but what about him?

How can a scholar not have a sense of fame, even if Feng Rui feels that he has been smoothed out in Huzhou, but he is also anxious and uncomfortable in the face of such an undisguised grabbing of merit.

What's more, it's not just about grabbing credit, but also about avoiding responsibility, if the Yellow River is not well governed, or even flooded during the governance period, then whose responsibility is it?

It's definitely not Zhai Luan's, it must be him, the deputy minister, isn't the deputy position used to take the blame for the leader?

Feng Rui was very angry, but he was helpless, but Zhai Luan finally couldn't help it!

"It's a ridiculous joke!" Zhai Luan spewed out a sentence, breaking his King Kong calm magic skill.

Feng Rui was discussing a drawing with several water conservancy experts with the name of an engineer, but although Feng Rui had the political achievements and experience in controlling Taihu Lake, the Yellow River ......

That's two concepts entirely!

So most of the time, Feng Rui played the role of a listener and was not angry that he was ignored.

The reason is very simple, when today's son asked him to govern Taihu Lake, and then directly from the prefect to Beijing to become the vice minister of water resources, if this is changed before the reform of the official system, then the most unfortunate is also a right servant!

This is the trust of the Son of Heaven, and he is ready to be cultivated as a famous minister for water control, how can he live up to the trust of the Son of Heaven!

He only needs to learn how to control water from these engineers, and then use the power of the Ministry of Water Resources to fully cooperate, which is what he should do.

As for the rest, it is not enough.

Engineer Shen Zhong glanced at Zhai Luan coldly, don't look at him as having no official or position, but he is a high-achieving student from the Yongwangfu School run by the Son of Heaven, and he is a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

He has a specialization in the art industry, so he naturally will not look at Zhai Luan differently because he is the minister of water conservancy, in his eyes, the so-called minister of water conservancy does not understand water conservancy itself is a joke.

Too lazy to take care of it!

"The crux of the Yellow River's incurability is that there is a lot of sand, and the cause of the sand is the severe soil erosion in the Loess Plateau.

In the past two years, Shen traveled all over the Yellow River, according to the different characteristics of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, found that the upper reaches of the Yellow River slope steep and rapid, when the reservoir should be repaired, fish farming, make full use of water resources, and vigorously develop forestry and animal husbandry, and the soil erosion in the middle reaches is particularly serious, when planting trees, planting grass to maintain water and soil, and vigorously developing forests!

According to the principle of adapting measures to local conditions, comprehensive treatment, and finally thorough treatment, the Yellow River flood will be controlled!

Minister Zhai thinks Shen's remarks are not worth mentioning?

Shen is a shallow learner, and I would like to hear Minister Zhai's high opinion! ”

As soon as Shen Zhong's words came out, Zhai Luan's face immediately turned red......

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