Zhu Qiyu thought for a moment and asked a question in his heart, "Chen Shangshu, Yu Shaobao, you tell me a heartfelt word, how much benefit does the prince's decision on the construction of Heiguang Road have from the current situation of my Ming Dynasty?" ”

According to his son's previous estimate, he said that hundreds of millions of silver would be needed.

Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

I am also glad that I listened to my son and opened the sea.

Otherwise, it will sell the Ming court, and you won't be able to come up with so much money.

I can take it now.

But it also has to ...... Well, in the words of the son, in installments.

Chen Xun looked at Yu Qian.

Yu Qian smiled, "Militarily speaking, after the Heijing Road is repaired, in the northeast region outside the Guan, no matter how the Jurchens want to toss in the future, Daming can have a good time with them, and Daming can also use the northeast as a springboard to look forward to North Korea." Of course, this matter is a two-way street, we can use this official road to firmly control the northeast and look forward to North Korea, in the same way, once our Ming Dynasty is decayed and backward, the Jurchens in the northeast can quickly go south to Gyeonggi, and North Korea can also use this official road to threaten the Ming Dynasty. ”

After a pause, "So after this official road is repaired, I can't afford to slack off." ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, "I know this, so from now on, my Ming monarch can no longer have any mediocrity, but fortunately, the Dongfeng series of firearms created by the crown prince are enough to ensure our great military superiority over the Northeast Jurchen tribe and Korea within a few decades." ”

Yu Qian bowed his head, "And my Ming Dynasty is now taking off economically, and the volume is so large that it is difficult for the Jurchens and North Korea to reach, once the official road is repaired, within a hundred years, the Jurchens and North Korea can only bow down to the vassals." ”

Zhu Qiyu said: "The prince also means this. ”

Yu Qian said: "The official road from Gyeonggi to Guangxi, naturally needless to say, in addition to strengthening the Ming Dynasty's control over the southern region, it has also increased the strategic expansion of the Ming Dynasty to Annam, Nanzhang, Lancang and other states. ”

Chen Xun wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhu Qiyu said: "Does Chen Shangshu want to say that since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has built the cement official road and is asking the East Palace Military Research Institute to develop something called a steam engine, will there be more advanced chariot and horse tools?" ”

Chen Xundao: "Weichen remembers that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seems to have said once, saying that once the steam engine is successfully developed, Daming Jinggi will go to Guangxi in the south, not to mention the morning and evening, you can set off today and arrive tomorrow, Your Majesty, think about it, when Daming has such a transportation capacity that day, how solid the control of the place will be." ”

There is almost no need to worry about rebellion anymore.

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "That's the case, but to throw so much money into it, to be honest, I actually don't have a bottom in my heart." ”

Chen Xun laughed, "Your Majesty is too worried." ”

Daming can afford to play!

He also said: "From the perspective of the household department, if the Heiguang Road is repaired, then the materials and specialties in the northeast, or the materials in the south coast, can be quickly transported, and the development of private industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty will be further strengthened, which will have all the benefits and no disadvantages for the country." ”

Zhu Qiyu was silent for a while, "The Ministry of Household allocated funds to the Road Traffic Department of the Ministry of Industry, and ordered the start of construction, this matter requires a large number of people, and the Jurchen tribe can be recruited in the northeast." ”

A lot of people will die.

Chen Xun said with a smile, "His Royal Highness has already instructed that the Jurchen tribe can be recruited in the northeast, after all, it is necessary to give the people of the Jurchen tribe a chance to make money, and this move can stimulate the economic development of the northeast, but His Royal Highness the prince also said that building roads will definitely kill many people, so let the Ministry of Industry not go to catch up with the schedule, the prince's meaning, safety first, production second." At the same time, in the dangerous construction sections such as the opening of mountains and the construction of bridges, we tried not to use the people who were in the northeast to sign signs, but to use the people who were recruited in North Korea. ”

His Royal Highness the Prince's original words: The Northeast is already the Ming Dynasty, so the Jurchen tribe is also my Ming son.

After a pause, "The Ministry of Industry will go to North Korea to recruit people, this matter has already been notified to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites will write to the Korean court, if North Korea does not agree, this matter will be notified to the Young Army and the Ministry of War." ”

The implication is that if you don't dare to take people out to build roads for the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty will send troops to persuade you.

Serve people with soldiers.

Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that in the future, these major projects in the Ming Dynasty will use foreign people, now it is North Korea, and then it will be the people of Annam, Nanzhang, Lancang and other countries who will be recruited.

Even Japan.

The prince said that if the Japanese could be exhausted, it would not matter if he built a few more Abang Palaces.

Regarding this matter, all the ministers agreed.

I, the people of Daming and Shenzhou, have no one who does not hate Japan.

Zhu Qiyu said: "Since the prince has arranged it, the household department will handle it according to the will, quickly allocate funds to start the project, and strive to complete it as soon as possible according to the prince's plan!" ”

Chen Xun ordered: "Wechen will retire and go to the operation, and strive to let the colleagues of the Ministry of Industry arrange this matter properly before leaving tomorrow, so as not to delay this month for another month." ”

It takes a month for Mount Tai to seal Zen back and forth, and the important ministers of the Ministry of Industry will also go.

If the Ministry of Industry is arranged today, it will not affect the progress.

Chen Xun and Yu Qian retired.

Zhu Qiyu asked Zhang Peng to summon Zhang Peng and ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to strictly investigate the Guangxi Metropolitan Department and the Military Department Shangshu Peng Shi on the matter of "the appearance of the Dongfeng rifle in the civil strife in Annan".

There is no need to deliberately confess, Zhang Peng understands in seconds.

Would love to go.

This time Mount Tai sealed Zen, Zhang Peng can not go, but this year's second Mount Tai Feng Zen is the first major ceremony after the prince ascended the throne, Zhang Peng, as the emperor, must observe the ceremony.

Therefore, Zhang Peng must solve this pile of things in Guangxi within three months.

After Zhang Peng arrived in Guangxi, he directly invited Liu Jing, the commander of the capital of Guangxi, and Peng Shi, the commander of the military department, to the imperial history yamen of Guangxi Province.

The news quickly leaked out.

It immediately spread to Annan, saying that Liu Jing and Peng Shi, the commanders of the Guangxi Metropolitan Division, had been quarantined and examined.

Subsequently, Zhang Peng personally led people to count the Dongfeng rifles equipped with the Guangxi Metropolitan Division, but to Zhang Peng's surprise, he asked the imperial history of Guangxi Province to count, and the result was that one of the 20,000 Dongfeng rifles was not bad.

So the matter was closed.

After hearing the news, Zhu Qizhen, who was in Hue Mansion, was a little surprised, and praised it, and said to Kong Hongxu and Zhang Chenglu: "Peng Shi and Liu Jing are smart, I estimate that they have already bought the imperial history of Guangxi Province, and when they were counted, they must have been counted in batches, and when the next batch was counted, they used the rifles that had been counted in front of them as the uncounted rifles, and they used the repeated counting methods to fabricate 10,000 Dongfeng rifles!" ”

Kong Hongxu said with a smile: "After all, two million silver was really swallowed by the entire Guangxi region." ”

Liu Jing and Peng Shi must have taken care of all departments in Guangxi.

It is equivalent to the participation of the whole of Guangxi.

In this case...... No matter how shrewd Zhang Peng is, he can't find it.

Zhu Qizhen laughed.

I'm in a good mood.

The battle on the front line is a great victory, and Han is already preparing to continue the attack, if there is no mistake in the strategic arrangement, maybe at the latest, Li Sicheng should defend the eastern capital.

But can it be defended?

When Zhang Peng returned to Gyeonggi, he took the scrapped Dongfeng rifle to the Guangxi Metropolitan Division to replace it, and the Shenglong battalion had another 10,000 Dongfeng rifles, and the eastern capital of Annam was just around the corner!

And in the eastern capital of Annan, after Li Sicheng heard the news from Guangxi, he slapped his mouth and scolded, "Is he Zhang Peng a blind man, your sister, Zhu Qizhen's 10,000-liter dragon battalion is equipped with Dongfeng rifles, what a fact, things over there in Guangxi must be boring, and the result was fooled like this?" ”

Li Sicheng suddenly shuddered.

He suddenly had a bad idea - Zhang Peng was not fooled.

It's just going through the motions!