Mandarin Palace.

Zhu Xiongying discussed the promotion of anthracite with his ministers.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't get involved too much, but left quietly, he knew that he was old, and it was time for some things to let go gradually.

Out of the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's steps were much lighter.

And Zhu Xiongying discussed with the ministers in the Wenhua Hall until noon.

Around noon.

Liu Bao, Zhu Yuanzhang's personal eunuch, came to the East Palace and invited Zhu Xiongying to go to the imperial dining room and have lunch with the old emperor.

Zhu Xiongying was shocked to realize that a morning had passed, and her stomach was already growling.

As Liu Bao came to the imperial dining room, Zhu Xiongying saw that a table of exquisite dishes had been prepared in the house.

And on the edge of the table sat three familiar figures.

One of them is naturally the old man, while the other two are Zhu Yunxi and Xiaobao.

After this period of time, Xiaobao has obviously adapted to the life of the palace, as lively and cute as ever, grabbing the big chicken leg that Zhu Yuanzhang gave her and gnawing.

And Zhu Yunxi is also a lot more stable than before, if he had dinner with the imperial grandfather before, he would be restless, and now although he still doesn't talk much, at least he can calm his mind, the old man asks, and he can answer a sentence.

Seeing Zhu Xiongying coming, Zhu Yunxi's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Brother, you're here!" ”

Zhu Xiongying smiled and nodded to Zhu Yunxi, then looked at the old man and saluted, "Grandson has seen the imperial grandfather!" ”

"Humph!"

The old man snorted lightly: "Stinky boy, aren't we going to invite you, you don't know how to come?" ”

Zhu Xiongying smiled dumbly and said, "Grandpa, you see what you said, your grandson just forgot who, and no one dares to forget you!" ”

"Alright, let's sit down and eat!"

Zhu Yuanzhang patted the stool beside him.

Of course, Zhu Xiongying sat down unceremoniously next to the old man, but the old man still had a straight face, but he said: "I'm tired all morning, eat quickly!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang took a big chicken leg and put it in Zhu Xiongying's bowl, and then wiped his hand on his clothes regardless of his image.

"Thank you, grandpa!"

Zhu Xiongying looked at the old man in front of him and couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.

In this way, he seemed to see his grandfather in his previous life.

And in this life, although his soul came through time, he really regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as his grandfather.

Regardless of whether the old man in front of him is the emperor who holds the power of the world or not, it doesn't matter, at this moment, Zhu Xiongying only regards the old man in front of him as his grandfather.

Seeing Zhu Xiongying eating with a large piece of chicken leg, Zhu Yuanzhang finally couldn't help grinning.

Xiaobao on the side pouted and said: "Dad, such a big person still grabs chicken legs to eat, don't be ashamed!" ”

Zhu Xiongying knocked Xiaobao's head angrily: "You know a fart, your father and I will always be a child in front of your grandfather!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this: "Yes! Our eldest grandson is right! ”

"Grandpa, you can eat too!"

Zhu Xiongying saw that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't move his chopsticks, so he sandwiched a piece of chicken breast meat in Zhu Yuanzhang's bowl.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Grandpa is old, he can't eat so much, come, you can drink two cups!" Xi'er, you are also with you! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be in a good mood, obviously pretending to be unhappy at the beginning.

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the wine glass, and Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yunxi naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly accompanied the old man to drink a small glass.

Of course, this little wine is nothing to Zhu Xiongying, but Zhu Yunxi's white face turned red.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed lightly and said, "It's just that our eldest grandson is back, otherwise our third grandfather doesn't know when he will be able to drink a cup?" ”

Saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Xiongying and said: "Eldest grandson, you did a good job today, we are really happy, not only anthracite, but also your steadiness, and not arrogant or impatient!" ”

"For the monarch, you must know what you should grasp, what to put, anthracite is good, but in the process of implementation, we must do a good job, don't let this anthracite, become something that fills some people's hands, we are doing good things for the people of the world, but we can't do it badly, let good things become bad things!"

"Grandson understands!" Zhu Xiongying nodded solemnly.

Throughout the ages, where there are huge profits, corruption is inevitable.

Nowadays, once coal is promoted, it is definitely not a trivial matter, involving the problem of heating the people all over the world, and the interests of it are even more complicated.

The original intention of the imperial court was good, it wanted to mine anthracite coal and sell it cheaply to the people, but after doing it layer by layer, maybe the price of anthracite in the hands of the people was not as simple as three dollars a catty.

The area around Jingshi is easy to control, after all, it is close to the center of imperial power.

But far away from the Emperor of the Mountain, it is not so easy to control, and corruption will breed in it.

And now it's a bit far to say this, and the old man also reminds Zhu Xiongying, after all, he has seen a lot, just like the original Guo Huan case.

Guo Huan, the head of the household department, and others connected the officials of various provinces to commit fraud, steal and sell official grain, implicated 12 political departments across the country, and tens of thousands of officials were involved, and even six Shangshu were involved, and more than 24 million stone of stolen money was converted.

And now, coal has become a necessity for people to heat their homes.

So whether it is stealing and selling official coal, setting up clever names, and making false accounts and wrong accounts...... And so on, it can happen.

These are all things that Zhu Xiongying needs to consider in the future, but now he has to consider how to transport coal to all parts of the country once it is mined, because coal is mainly concentrated in a few places and needs to be circulated.

And if you need circulation, you must have roads, whether by water or by land.

Once the roads are not smooth, coal, which is a bulk cargo, will run slowly, whether it is this year, next year, or the year after, it will still not work.

And now the official road of the Ming Dynasty is only connected to some key places, and it is not repaired all year round, and the road has long been potholes.

In a word, whether it is the coal operation this time, or the development of Daming in the future, the road is the top priority.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiongying said, "Grandpa, my grandson has an idea. ”

"Say!"

Zhu Yuanzhang has long been accustomed to Zhu Xiongying's routine, and he answered directly.

Zhu Xiongying didn't ink either, and said, "My grandson wants to build a road!" ”

"What?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Xiongying with some surprise: "Build a road? ”

Zhu Xiongying nodded and said: "Sun Er wants to repair the broken official roads, add a few new official roads, and connect several important places in our Ming Dynasty!" ”

Listening to Zhu Xiongying's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's original smiling face sank suddenly.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang came to power, what he has most opposed is the abuse of people's power, and building roads is one thing that consumes people's power very much in his cognition.

Because it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build a road, and if a road is repaired, in his opinion, it is only easier to walk, and it is not of much use.

In his eyes, even if the road is rugged and difficult, he can still walk through it, so why spend a lot of people to build the road?

And after this cold winter, it will face spring ploughing, which is the most important thing in the Ming court.

Spring ploughing requires a lot of people's power, once the spring ploughing is delayed because of road construction, it will bring unbearable consequences to the newly recovered Ming Dynasty......

(End of chapter)