Soon after the third day of the Universal Exposition, Elebak had a letter written by him sent out.

After Zhang Fu received the will of the imperial court, he handed over to Mu Cheng and led his guards to Beijing City to rush back.

The day after he arrived, it happened to be Zhu Di's birthday, that is, the annual Wanshou Festival of the Ming Dynasty, with the foreign lords, civil and military officials at home and abroad kowtowed to Zhu Di, Zhang Fu was called into the palace by Zhu Di.

Zhu Gaoxian and the people from the Military Aircraft Department were there, Zhang Fu and Zhu Gaoxian met with courtesy, and first reported the situation in Annan and Zhancheng, "The rubber trees planted this year have produced very good seedlings, and the seedling rate is much higher than that of previous years. ”

Zhu Gaoxian said, "With you here, I'm not worried." By the way, what's going on with hybrid rice? ”

"Last year, with His Royal Highness's words, Zhang Ben led people everywhere to look for hybrid rice, and he really got a few wild seeds. He planted a few grains last fall, sprouted, and protected them like a baby, and then harvested another season, and this year he planted a lot of them, and now they are growing well. ”

Zhang Fu smiled shyly, "That's all the minister knows, whether it's hybrid, and the minister doesn't know." ”

Zhu Gaoxian said with a smile, "What's the hurry, don't worry, this hybrid rice can't be cultivated in a day or two, a year or two." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoxian turned his head to the dog and said, "Remember, go back and remind me to get Zhang Ben a microscope so that he can cultivate hybrid rice." ”

Zhang Fu said, "If Governor Zhang knows, he won't be so happy that he won't be able to sleep!" That's really enviable! ”

Zhu Di said, "What do you have to envy?" I'm done fighting, where do you want to farm, I'll give you a circle! ”

Zhang Fu hurriedly knelt down and thanked him, "The minister first thanks the emperor Longen!" ”

Zhu Gaoxian laughed, "You are really ...... The monkey is reincarnated, and the wit is like this? ”

Zhang Fu got up embarrassedly and rubbed his nose, "In the past two years, the minister has followed Zhang Ben to watch him arrange people to grow rubber, and he has made a few plots of land to grow rice, and it is quite interesting for the minister to look at it." ”

"However, ask the minister to plant it himself, and the minister is afraid that the planting will not be good."

Zhu Di said, "That's right, what kind of people do what kind of things, you are a general, what kind of land do you plant?" Let me go outside and expand the territory. ”

On the way back, Zhang Fu heard that people also told him about the situation here, and it was simply unreasonable that Tatar and Warat dared to carry out an explosion in Beijing City during the World Exposition, which was a terrorist attack in the popular parlance now.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the Northern Expedition will be handed over to the ministers." Zhang Fu patted his chest, "The minister promises to beat those northern dogs back to their hometown, so that they will never dare to cross the Great Wall for half a step." ”

Zhu Di shook his head, "No, your fourth highness said that if you want to go to the Golden Horde or some country to get iron ore and oil, you have to make Tatar and Warat into our territory." ”

Zhang Fu's blood suddenly boiled, as a military general, what he was afraid of was that he would not have a chance to fight, so he hurriedly gave a military salute, "Yes, the emperor, the ministers obey orders!" The minister promised to plant the golden dragon banner of my Ming Dynasty on the lands of Tatar and Warat. ”

The World Exposition lasted for a total of ten days, during these ten days, the Ming received orders totaling more than 30 million taels of silver, the order content involved all walks of life, from automobiles, energy to clothing, food, housing and transportation, all-inclusive, and the countries that placed orders in addition to the surrounding North Korea, Siam, and India and other countries of businessmen.

Some are private businessmen, but more often are government procurement.

The rise of the Ming Dynasty is related to science and technology, and this time the scientific and technological products exhibited by the Ming Dynasty naturally attracted the attention of the monarchs of the surrounding countries, in order not to be annexed by the Ming Dynasty in the future, they emptied their pockets to buy as many scientific and technological products as possible.

Even if they all know very well that Da Ming sold their technology products to a sky-high price, and a generator actually costs 200,000 taels of silver, but after the generator is bought, as long as it is started, it can provide lighting electricity for a whole house.

Of course, diesel fuel will have to be purchased in the future, because this generator needs to drink oil, and it can only run when it is full of oil.

And diesel, of course, is not cheap. 、

Xia Yuanji has been walking for the past few days, and his face is flushed with excitement every day, and there are signs of rejuvenation.

He reported the situation of the order to Zhu Di and said, "Your Majesty, this time the order was signed at the expo, according to the agreement, every time an order is reached, the merchant needs to pay a small amount of money to the imperial court, but these are small money, a total of more than 300,000 yuan, not worth mentioning!" ”

Zhu Di smiled and shook his head, more than 300,000 has become a small number that is not worth mentioning for the Ming Household Department.

He took over the order submitted by Xia Yuanji, and when he saw the number of orders of more than 36 million taels of silver in the end, he was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall, "So much?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, however, the meaning of the Fourth Highness is that many of them are huge profits, but the minister thinks that many of them are long-term purchases such as cement exports, helping to repair roads, etc., which can earn a lot of silver for me in the future."

Xia Yuanji said excitedly, "Not to mention anything else, the more than 30 million taels of silver, the total tax is more than 6 million taels." Alas, the minister can sit back and relax again this year! ”

Zhu Di handed the list back to Xia Yuanji and said, "The income of the ministry treasury is quite a lot, and I heard that since the beginning of this year, the water level of the Yellow River has risen a lot. The Ministry of Industry must pay attention to it, and I plan to spend more energy in the past two years to control the Yellow River well. ”

Xia Yuanji calmed down in an instant.

Zhu Di stood up, took two steps, and said with his hands behind his back, "One is the governance of the Yellow River, and the other is the construction of water conservancy." Daming has reached this point today, and he can no longer rely on the sky to eat. ”

Xia Yuanji had to sigh that the people of the Ming Dynasty were really born in a good era, with a good king and a good prince.

"The emperor can think about the people wholeheartedly, it is really a blessing for the people, and it is also a blessing for the ministers."

Just as Zhu Gaoxian stepped in and saluted Zhu Di, and when Xia Yuanji met him, he smiled and said, "What are you talking about?" What are your blessings? ”

"The minister is saying that he was born in this era, and it is really a blessing for the minister to have a wise monarch like the emperor!"

Zhu Di said with a smile, "I just said that this year and next year, the imperial court will put more effort into controlling the Yellow River and overhauling water conservancy. ”

"Father is wise!" Zhu Gaoxian was also busy saying, "Father's move, the people must remember their father for generations." ”

Zhu Di said, "You came just in time, do you have any good regulations, say it, I will go back and talk to the Ministry of Industry." ”

Zhu Gaoxian said, "It's nothing more than dredging the river and building a reservoir dam at a high place." Daming has now developed science and technology to this extent, and it is completely possible to use water and electricity for irrigation. The imperial court will bring water to the county, and each village will have its own canal, or let them repair it themselves when the farming is slack, and the common people should not be too accustomed to it, and the style of hard work and simplicity must still be there. ”

"Then who will build the reservoir you said?" Zhu Di asked.

"The court built it itself. Dad, get some excavators, and the excavated soil will be pulled away by a car, and it won't take much effort. It was too dangerous for people and machines to not work at the same time, so the work of digging the reservoir was done by the imperial court itself. The main thing is to dig more reservoirs, and this depends on the situation of each place. ”

When Zhu Di heard this, this matter seemed to be very simple, and he was immediately very happy, and instructed Xia Yuanji, "You first ask Song Li to draw up a charter, see how much budget you want, and submit it to me." ”

Zhu Gaoxian reminded, "Can't you let Song Li draw up a budget according to the price at the World Exposition, an excavator, I will do it myself, it's a thousand taels of silver, or a large excavator." An earthmoving truck costs only 500 taels of silver, and the labor cost is 80 yuan a day. ”

"Eighty wen a day? Your Highness, is this too high? Xia Yuanji was stunned, this has caught up with his income.

"Lao Xia, there are not many people who can drive excavators now, and there are not many people who can drive earthmoving trucks, and eighty yuan a day is given according to the wages of skilled workers."

"Your Highness, this salary is too high, and there will be no one to farm in the future, what should I do?" Xia Yuanji couldn't help but worry.

"No one farms the land, just use the machine to plant, the tractor can plow the land, you can harrow the land, as long as the people sow the seeds, it really doesn't work, in the future, use the machine to sow seeds, the machine to harvest, what are you worried about so much?"

Xia Yuanji smiled embarrassedly, "This is the minister who has no foresight, and the minister has been taught!" ”

Zhu Gaoxian stepped out of Yanning Palace, just in time to see Wonton driving a tricycle to drag his utensils and equipment back from the World Exposition.

When Zhu Gaoxian saw him, he also saw Zhu Gaoxian, parked the tricycle on the side of the road, and came down to salute Zhu Gaoxian, "Your Highness, I haven't seen Your Highness at the World Exposition in the past few days!" ”

"It's so crowded that I can't squeeze in! How about it, this time, you don't have a share of the big orders! ”

Wonton Zhang smiled, "Xiaomin just does a small business, now I don't know how much better it is than before, and Xiaomin doesn't have the ability to make a lot of money." However, I don't hide it from His Royal Highness that in the past ten days, Xiaomin has sold some snacks over there, and he has earned more than ten taels of silver in one day, and nearly two hundred taels of silver in ten days. ”

The tricycle uses a single-cylinder engine, with a small compartment towed behind, and a simple shed above the driver's head, which is a new tractor released by Daming's tricycle factory this year.

"How much did you buy it?" Zhu Gaoxian circled around the tractor, it is a convenient machine invented by the Ming Imperial Academy under his prompting, it still looks very practical, the farmers and uncles of later generations, each family bought one, it is very convenient to use, if the engine is replaced with a battery, even some capable old ladies can drive to the scene.

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