Road?

Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Zhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang looked over together.

A total of four pairs of eyes were gathered, and they looked at Chu Ze with a good mistake.

It's like looking at a neuropathy.

Zhu Fan was the first to speak: "You're not kidding, are you?" ”

Zhu Di followed: "The roads are all good now, what roads are suddenly built." ”

Zhu Biao also disagreed: "This suggestion is indeed a bit sudden, the country's roads, every year there will be special funds and personnel to maintain, and now suddenly proposed to build roads, it is really unnecessary." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Biao'er is right. ”

When it comes to building roads, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that it is indeed not very necessary.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare to guarantee other roads, but he could guarantee that the official road would definitely be maintained every year, and there would never be any problems.

The sudden allocation of a sum of money will not only increase the burden on the treasury, but also increase the servitude of the people.

It's not necessary.

It's no wonder that Zhu Yuanzhang and others are opposed.

But since Chu Ze said so, he naturally had his own plans.

He said: "In our time, there was a saying that 'if you want to get rich, build roads first', because only when the transportation is convenient, the development will be faster." Now our carriage is fast enough, right? "At least faster than before, what else is there to hurry.

"But there's a faster one."

"You mean, it's not a car, right?" Zhu Biao thought of what Chu Ze had said to him before, and thought of this for the first time.

Zhu Fan and Zhu Di glanced at each other and looked at Zhu Biao in unison.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "What car?" Aren't they all carriages? "At most, some carriages are faster.

Are there any other cars that don't work?

Chu Ze said: "Yes, it's the car." Not the kind of carriage we see now, but a more advanced, more mechanized one. Of course, we don't think about a fully mechanized car like I said, because we can't build it at the current level of technology. But we can learn from it and build faster cars that meet the current social conditions. As a result, what should have been a three-day journey may take only two days, and a little faster, it may only take one day. ”

Whether it's traveling, or delivering things, the efficiency will be greatly accelerated.

Don't they want such a good thing?

The eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and the others suddenly lit up.

They quickly glanced at each other, and they both saw yearning in each other's eyes.

"Can you really reduce the time so much?" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little impatient.

If it is like what Chu Ze said, then wherever he wants to go in the future, he will be much faster.

Maybe I'm still in Yingtian today, and I'll be able to arrive in Shanxi tomorrow.

The day after tomorrow, you can return to Yingtian.

Zhu Yuanzhang just thought about it, and he felt very happy.

Chu Ze nodded: "Definitely can." ”

"But the premise is that the road has to be built first. If you want the car to be fast, in addition to the car itself, you must also have a smooth road surface, which can reduce the wear and tear of the car and increase the speed of the car. ”

After Chu Ze finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent.

He wasn't thinking about whether to agree to Chu Ze's proposal, but he was thinking about whether the silver was enough.

Roads have been built all over the country, and this is not a small amount.

And now is the time to use the army.

It's really like spending money.

Now every big expenditure, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao have to carefully consider it again and again.

After carefully calculating, the two frowned and came to a conclusion - there was no money.

"We are about to use troops against the Japanese, and the two places are separated by the vast sea, whether it is ships, food or weapons, they all need silver to support. Although we can feed the war with war, the initial expenditure is still irreducible, and we even have to set aside a sum of money in case of emergency. ”

After a quick check in his heart, Zhu Biao continued: "Although the remaining money can be enough for daily expenses, it is absolutely not enough to build roads. ”

And the principle of building roads is similar to that of going to war.

Once the construction starts, every day is money.

When it stops, all that is lost is the silver of the white flowers.

In short, lack of money.

Chu Ze: "......"

No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang had to let him attack the Luo family before, it seems that he is really short of money.

But this road will have to be built sooner or later.

Where did you get the money?

Chu Ze began to make trouble.

Without waiting for him to think about it, Zhu Yuanzhang had already made a decision for him.

"Now you can put the road back, Chu Ze, the car you just said ......" Zhu Yuanzhang kept hinting with gestures, "What does it look like?" ”

"Yes, I also want to see what the car you are talking about is like for a thousand miles a day." Zhu Fan sat up straight and looked at Chu Ze expectantly.

Facing four pairs of eyes, Chu Ze ...... Chu Ze had to continue to show his soul painting skills.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang and they are all used to it, and they dislike it, but they can still understand it.

It's just that this car doesn't look too strange.

The wheels are so big, and the body is so low.

What are the above four holes for? If there is no horse-pulled, can this car go?

A whole bunch of questions popped up one by one.

Chu Zeyi replied: "Of course you can go, because the power of this car is not a horse, but oil." ”

"Oil?" Zhu Di turned his head and looked at the oil lamp in the corner.

Chu Ze: "It's not that oil, but something hidden deep in the ground, called oil, which is refined from it." "It's not the animal fat or vegetable oil that the oil lamp is used to burn.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang and the others with confused faces, Chu Ze took a sip of tea very calmly.

It's something that doesn't exist now, and naturally they don't recognize it.

Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, and then asked the key question: "Since there is no oil, how can this car move?" ”

The others reacted immediately.

"That's right, Chu Ze, didn't you say that this car has to have gas to move, but we don't have gas."

"Can you replace it with something else?"

Zhu Fan and Zhu Di put forward their opinions one after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang is much more direct.

He waved his hand, extremely domineering: "Chu Ze, you say, where is the oil?" Our Ming Dynasty is strong, and now we have guns, not to mention sweeping the whole world, but it's no problem to subdue most places, right? You say, as long as you point to a place, we will fight and grab all the oil there. Wouldn't there be gas and the car would be able to move? ”

is worthy of being an emperor, that is, domineering.

Chu Ze wanted to give him a thumbs up.

But this, Chu Ze really didn't dare to point out.

He knows where the oil is, the first is the distance, the second is that they don't have the mining technology, and the last is that even if it is mined, it will be a great trouble to transport it back.

So Chu Ze shook his head without hesitation, and said bluntly: "I can't say it, you can't get it if you say it, if you have to get it, you will only waste manpower, material and financial resources in vain, in short, no matter how you calculate it, it is a thankless task." Instead of doing this kind of thing, let's take a different approach. ”

(End of chapter)