Zhu Yuanzhang and the people of the transport team escorted dozens of truckloads of iron ore with extremely high iron content to the arsenal.

In fact, it is tiring when loading and unloading goods manually, and it is not particularly tiring during real transportation, after all, it is the pack horse that pulls the cart and not the person.

People only need to ensure that the iron ore in the horse-drawn cart is firmly tied at any time, and the other is to push it behind when going uphill, and help control the speed when going downhill.

Looking at the unique black flat official road in Yanmen County, Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded with satisfaction again and said: "If you pull such a heavy iron ore and walk on the dirt road, it will not be so easy!" ”

"If all the official roads of the Ming Dynasty can be built into this kind of black avenue, the deployment of troops and grain and grass will be much faster."

Hearing this, Mao Xiang, who was always on the side, also nodded and said, "The master is right." ”

But at this moment, Lao Liu, the captain of the team who had just chatted well, immediately shook his head with a smile: "This is impossible." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang just glanced at this old Liu who poured cold water and said, "Why is it impossible?" ”

"Isn't it the black tar you call asphalt, and I don't have it in Yanmen in the Ming Dynasty."

"If all the roads in so many cities were built like this, it would definitely not be possible, and this natural asphalt would not be enough."

"But we believe that it is enough to build all the north-south arteries into such roads."

Lao Liu still shook his head and sneered: "Innocent! ”

was ridiculed by Lifu twice in a row, and Zhu Yuanzhang's face was somewhat unbearable.

Although he came from a humble background and was willing to mingle with the little people during his private visit to Weifu, he still couldn't tolerate being ridiculed by the little people after many years after all.

Of course, it wasn't that he wanted to get angry, but he was going to start taking it seriously.

"Lao Liu, come, tell us about it, why are we naïve?"

Lao Liu also lost his temper all of a sudden, just talk about it, he had to teach this criminal official in the capital who was assigned a lesson.

Not bad

As early as when Zhu Yuanzhang was close to Lao Liu Tao, he made a reasonable explanation for his southern accent.

He said that he was a criminal official who had offended the emperor and was sent by the emperor to suffer.

Although Lao Liu is not a prisoner of labor reform, he is just a most ordinary ordinary person, how can he see through Zhu Yuanzhang's lies.

Besides, what Zhu Yuanzhang said along the way is indeed like a good official who angered the emperor and was assigned to the border, but he was also worried about the country and the people.

Because of this, Lao Liu is convinced of his identity as a criminal official!

Lao Liu walked forward with a horse-drawn cart, and said in the tone of a teacher's lecture: "Master Guo, do you think that the black avenue under our feet can be built with asphalt?" ”

"Among the core engineering technologies, except for us Lord Ye, no one in this world knows it!"

"I've heard the overseer of the road say that the filling material below alone is not a simple matter, but it can't be repaired by laying asphalt on this layer of stones."

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he just said a few perfunctory sentences, and he didn't think much of what Lao Liu said.

He only built the road yesterday, and from what he saw and participated in, it was just to roll the stones and lay them with asphalt.

It's such a simple thing, how much more technology does it take?

Also core engineering technology?

He didn't believe it, a road that could be built in Qipinzhi County, and he couldn't build it as an emperor?

At this moment, he directly made up his mind, and after responding to the sky, he would take a path to start!

He has figured out which way to build first!

The road to the south gate of the inner city of the Heavenly City, Tongji Gate, until the upper gate of the outer Guo City, that is, the Qinhuai River road that now connects the inner city and the outer Guo City, is built into such a black avenue.

It can be said to be a pilot, or it can be said to borrow Ye Qing's craftsmanship to support his scene.

You must know that business travelers and officials in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places all take that road to Beijing.

Of course, supporting the scene is only one aspect, the most important thing is to prove that he Ye Qing can do it when he repairs this kind of black avenue, and he Zhu Yuanzhang can also do it.

Besides, he also has a professional food department under him!

No matter from which point of view, there is absolutely no reason that he Ye Qing can do it, and he Zhu Yuanzhang can't do it!

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind, the convoy drove to a section of the road with the mountains and the sun in the background.

Lao Liu immediately asked everyone to rest in place, that is, it was time for people to eat dry food and horses to graze.

After a brief lunch and a short rest, they continued on their way, and in less than half an hour, they had a condescending view of the entire Yanmen Arsenal.

At this moment, they only need to walk less than a mile downhill to reach the gate of the [Yanmen Arsenal].

But at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Xiang and more than a dozen guards all came to the cliff.

It's just because when they walked the previous downhill road, for a moment, they saw the tip of the iceberg of the arsenal!

It is precisely because of the 'tip of the iceberg' that they hurriedly came to this excellent viewing position where they can take in the entire Yanmen Arsenal.

Under the sun,

In a wide basin surrounded by mountains, a river that is not too wide, but definitely not too wide, runs from north to south.

And on the edge of this river, there are twelve buildings as wide as a large hall!

This large building built along the river in a '26' layout is called a 'workshop' in Zhu Yuanzhang's cognition!

But each building was much longer, much wider, and much taller than the workshop he had known!

If you add exquisite decoration, you can really use it as a main hall!

The walls on three sides are as high as one zhang, and the river directly encloses these twelve workshop-style buildings.

Of course, there are not only these twelve workshop-style buildings, but also several small five-story buildings.

Zhu Yuanzhang knows that these five-story buildings are where the craftsmen live and stay!

Just by looking at these five-story buildings, Zhu Yuanzhang can estimate that there are no less than 1,000 craftsmen who take the factory as their home here.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes started from the gate again, and once again took in the Yanmen Arsenal, which was much larger than the Ordnance Workshop under the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry!

Seeing this, Rao is Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew that he should be moody outside, also had a hint of shock in his eyes.

"It's a dog's heart!"

"How dare you build such a huge arsenal in this top-secret place surrounded by mountains!"

"It's good that we found it early!"

"If he is allowed to be re-elected for another term, and let this arsenal produce for another three years, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

“.......”

Thinking of this,

A trace of shock in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes immediately turned into a trace of imperceptible fear! ......