Lao Zhu said: "Everything else is fine, but the cost and size are not good." You do the math. You have to build 1,500 rooms, plus the corridors around the middle, the rooms where the invigilators rest, and you have to leave a place for future expansion, covering an area of almost 20 acres. Too big, wasteful. ”

Zhu Bai: "What then?" ”

Lao Zhu patted Zhu Bai's head: "The kid is usually quite clever, why did he suddenly get stuck." Shrink the number of rooms. Three feet long and two feet wide. You can sleep while sitting, anyway, for a few days. If you can't bear this bit of suffering, how will you serve the court in the future? ”

Zhu Bai frowned: "Be smaller, Erchen will definitely be willing, because it saves money." But the examinee is going to scold the son. I also have to arrange that Erchen is a vampire, 'Little Hades' or something. ”

Lao Zhu smiled: "If there are many lice, they don't bite." You're famous, is that even worse? Besides, the turbidity is self-purifying, and the clear is self-purifying. Even if you are Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering, then there are still people who don't worship you. ”

Zhu Bai smiled: "Yes." ”

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, you really can't be too squeamish and weak.

After all, there are still many tribulations ahead.

Lao Zhu said: "Just change the red bricks, it's more saving." ”

Zhu Bai sighed: "Master, it's not so economical to save money, the Ming Dynasty is eternal, and this room will be used for a long time." If it falls after a few years, won't it cost money to repair it? ”

Lao Zhu: "Okay, anyway, spend your money, we don't feel distressed, the stronger the better." ”

Zhu Bai couldn't cry or laugh: Lao Zhu's abacus is really good.

Zhu Bai shrunk the room and redrew it for Lao Zhu to see.

Lao Zhu nodded: "Yes, just follow this." ”

"Okay." Zhu Bai was about to pick up the drawings and leave.

Lao Zhu pressed the drawing: "Rebel, you can talk about it." You can't even write a word crookedly. How can you draw such beautiful construction drawings? We've seen the diagram of the Ministry of Industry, but it's not as clear as yours. ”

Zhu Bai sighed: "Father, as long as you have silver, you can naturally invite good craftsmen." The retainers moved their mouths, and those people drew the drawings. They will change whatever they want, and they will do it quickly and well. ”

Lao Zhu muttered: "I don't know where you found a craftsman like a rebel." When the Great Prayer Hall was built before, it would have been nice to ask your people to draw the drawings. ”

Zhu Bai twitched the corner of his mouth: Lao Zhu has always been a small farmer, and he wants to do things well, and he is reluctant to give up the money, and he can't wait to use up all the people.

This is killing chickens and eggs, and it won't last long.

Fortunately, he is the emperor, and others have to be squeezed by him in order to save their lives, otherwise they would have been unable to do it for a long time.

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At this time, Lan Yu, Deng Yu and Mu Yingbing were fighting the Mongols in two ways.

The two passers-by reported frequently, Lan Yu not only captured Xinghe, but also captured a large number of former ministers of the Yuan Dynasty, and beat the Mongols to run away when they saw him. Deng Yu and Mu Ying killed the old troops of the Yuan Dynasty east and north of Ningxia, and drove them away.

There is only one thing that cannot be completed, and that is to solve Wang Baobao.

And the three of them said that they had defeated Wang Baobao, but they couldn't find him.

This person was like a spike, stuck in Lao Zhu's throat, unable to spit it out, unable to swallow, making him very uncomfortable.

Lao Zhu wrote to ask Zhu Fan if he had seen Wang Baobao near Xi'an.

Zhu Fan replied that since he arrived in the fiefdom, no Mongol soldiers had come to intrude.

Lao Zhu felt more and more weird: Wang Qiuyue was in Xi'an, and Wang Baobao couldn't completely ignore it.

What is this Wang Baobao's idea?

Lao Zhu thought about it and called Fei Ju into the palace.

Fei Ju is also the founder of the country who followed Lao Zhu early, and he is also one of the twenty-four generals in Huaixi.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he was named the Marquis of Pingliang, and he ate 1,500 stones.

Lao Zhu also planned to reuse him, and after killing Wei Guan, he regretted it very much, so he sent Fei Ju to appease the soldiers and civilians in Suzhou.

As a result, Fei Ju was good, and he went there to visit all the Qinglou first, and did not do anything serious, so that the soldiers and civilians of Suzhou became more and more angry.

Lao Zhu could only recruit Fei Ju back and send Li Heng, who was diligent and mild-mannered, to calm down the people's anger.

Lao Zhu was so angry that he caught Fei Ju and whipped him a few times, saying that he was brave and unscrupulous, did not have long brains, and was useless, so he dismissed his official and let him go home to rest.

Thinking that he had been hanging him for several years now, Lao Zhu decided to give him another chance.

Lao Zhu asked Fei Ju, who was standing below, with a pleasant face: "Lord Fei, how are you doing these days?" ”

Fei Ju glanced at Lao Zhu with red eyes, and kowtowed aggrievedly: "If the minister can see the emperor again, it's worth it to die." ”

Old Zhu Ming knew that he was patting on the back, but he was still very comfortable listening to it.

Lao Zhu sighed: "Compared with those who were recruited by the Jianchao, we still trust the old guys who have an incident." But if we have the heart to use you, you must also be able to stand up for it. This time, let's give you another job, and you don't want to let us down again. ”

Fei Ju kowtowed: "The ministers must also do a good job of the things handed over to us by the emperor." ”

Lao Zhu said: "That Wang Baobao, he has always refused to surrender. Only a few of the generals have seen him, and you are one of them. So we want to send you to persuade him, to make sure that he submits to us, and pulls out this nail. ”

Fei Ju: "The minister will go to Xi'an immediately." If you don't persuade Wang Baobao to surrender, the minister will not come back. ”

Lao Zhu was naturally very happy to see him so energetic: "Okay, when you triumph, we will definitely reward you well." ”

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When Zhu Fan arrived in the domain, the palace was bigger than the previous Yingtian, I don't know how many times, and no one cared about him yet, so he was really happy.

At first, he occasionally consulted with the prefect and the commander of the capital on political and military affairs.

But this diligence only lasted for more than half a year, and he began to burn out.

Zhou Bin often persuaded a few words at first.

persuaded several times, but Zhu Fan didn't listen, and Zhou Bin didn't bother to persuade him.

Lao Zhu won't like him to sue, this is a thankless and dilemma.

Wang Xiaoyue was even worse, every time she didn't open her mouth, she was scolded by Zhu Fan with a cold face, so she could only sigh and shake her head.

Now there is only the monk Hongyuan who went to the domain to persuade Zhu Zhang.

On this day, the messenger of Xifan came to see Zhu Zhang, saying that he had something important to discuss with Zhu Zhang.

These envoys have always been received, negotiated, and resolved by the Cheng Xuan Political Envoy. If you can't solve it, report it to Lao Zhu.

When Zhu Fan first came to Xi'an, he also assisted the political envoy in dealing with these matters, but now he has long lost interest.

Zhu Fan was playing archery with Deng Zhiqiu at this time, and was interrupted, very impatient, and waved his hand to the porter who came in to report: "Let them go to Shaanxi Chengxuan as the political envoy." ”

The porter said, "The guest asked the villain to give this box to His Highness, and His Highness will definitely see him." ”

Zhu Fan took the half-foot-long, three-finger-wide sandalwood box.

Deng Zhiqiu snatched it over: "Ah, what is a good thing?" Let me see if it's as amazing as he says. ”