Chapter Forty-Nine: Making a Fortune in a Silence Is the Right Way to Do!
"Brother Zheng! You see, you don't like my throne, right? Zhu Houzhao began to talk about his psychological journey.
How do you say this: "How should I answer so that you don't feel offended?" ”
"It doesn't matter, I used to think that the throne was not guaranteed, and it was really a bit unstable. Now that I've been trained by the royal sister, I've really figured it out. I actually don't want to be this broken emperor, it's too annoying! But it's passed down from your father, and you don't want to take over, so what should you do? I'm going to have to work my own...... We are brothers, brothers are in trouble now, don't you pull brothers? ”
Sun Zheng was very helpless, what stimulated this child? The progress of the imperial technique is not indefinite, this shameless strength has indeed broken through another realm!
"That's your solution to the problem? Throwing the puzzle to the brothers? ”
"It's not like there's nothing else!" Zhu Houzhao put aside the festival and completely let himself go: "Anyway, I asked the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and no one was willing to come out to carry this matter." You think, the river workers they worked so hard to recruit, your old man's house here is like a silver dollar to open the way, and it has been hollowed out again in a few days. Don't they have to be exiled again?
"But the canal can't be left alone, and even if it doesn't rely on it to transport grain, it has to be prevented from overflowing the embankment. Now several passes are Jinyi guards on duty, the military department does not dare to send people, and the household department is even more frightened and does not dare to answer.
"Come to think of it, the only one who can solve this problem now is Brother Zheng! If you really think that the national teacher is not enjoyable, it is no problem to be the emperor, you give me a general, and I will be the admiral of the water division......"
"Beauty doesn't kill you!" Sun Zheng said angrily: "Go and do the promising job of the emperor!" ”
"Then you leave me a fleet, and I will be the Admiral of the Navy! I've grown so big, I haven't seen the sea yet. ”
Sun Zheng remembered the stalk again: "Isn't Zhongnanhai also a sea?" ”
Poof! The two of them laughed at the same time, and their chests were gone. The only barrier between the two was the imperial chair, and now it was confirmed that it was not a problem at all, and all problems disappeared naturally.
Zhu Houzhao successfully threw the burden to Sun Zheng and drove back to the palace with pride.
At the first month of the seventh year of Zhengde, the first thing was to discuss the affairs of the canal.
The canal status quo is there. The officials did not dare to take this hot potato; The household department wants money but no money, and there is no one to ask for people; The Ministry of Industry said that the canal affairs had already been opened and had nothing to do with them; The military department pretended to be a grandson, pretending that the tens of thousands of soldiers who had lost had nothing to do with them; The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment have nothing to do with themselves, and they hang high.
A group of people pulled back and forth without a charter, but the smell of gunpowder between each other became stronger and stronger, and gradually went from questioning each other's motives to doubting each other's character.
Zhu Houzhao saw that the cabinet members didn't say a word, and they were too lazy to play those tricks. directly threw out his own plan, and assigned the canal and the five-mile area on both sides of the bank to the National Teacher's Office.
From now on, all the affairs of the canal will be under the responsibility of the National Division. The transportation is also completed by the National Teacher's Office, and the storage in various places only needs to transfer the grain.
Officials and other officials who have land, real estate and other things in the five miles on both sides of the river can go to the local Jinyi Wei Yamen with the title deed in exchange for money and grain compensation.
It is inevitable that many officials representing the interests of the gentry jumped out to reap the benefits, but Zhu Houzhao did not accept the invitation at all, and threw down a sentence, this matter involves the safety of the canal, if anyone misses the construction period of the national teacher because of a small loss, he will send his family to the canal to guard the embankment!
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience went out.
The officials who were able to enter the court were all through many hardships to survive. After decades of hard work, I struggled to get to today's status for the sake of happiness, not for guarding the canal and watching the embankment.
In the past, millions of river workers guarded it, drowning people every year, but now there is not a single ghost, what can a few officials do? The whole family may not be enough to fill a small hole.
The holy decree was issued, and it was quickly passed by the cabinet, and it was sent to the national teacher's mansion in the capital after the seal, and there was no need to go out to sea to spread the decree, and the effect was the same when it was sent here.
Dayuan National Teacher's Mansion, the wiki projected the live map of the canal to show that Sun Zheng was pondering how to maximize the benefits.
"Sir! According to the analysis of the actual situation of the current Ming Dynasty, it is far more cost-effective to rest the canal and use motorized ships to navigate than to repair official roads or railways! ”
Wiki soon threw out a series of water transportation networks with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as the core to connect the entire Ming Dynasty.
Sun Zheng thought for a while: "Don't expand it for the time being, take the canal first!" We can't let those officials think that we are a threat, and it is the right thing to do to make a fortune quietly! ”
"Yes, sir! According to the current hydrological situation and conservation status of the canal, we need at least 90,000 large and small machinery and related materials......"
Wiki projection made a request, Sun Zheng looked at it and pondered, since it was going to be done, there was no need to twist, anyway, the guards stationed along the river were all Jinyi guards, and they were not afraid of scaring anyone, and they would make another trip to deliver to the door.
Tracing up from the estuary of Hangzhou Bay, all the way to the sea, along the way to put a temporary warehouse, along the way to each of the more important embankments, passes, wharves.
Four artificial intelligences joined forces to go into battle, sub-contracted, multi-line operation, and started construction at the same time.
Intelligent machinery works around the clock to build docks and warehouses at miraculous speed. Of course, the main thing is to maintain the embankment along the way, dredge the river, and ensure that the canal is renovated before the spring flood comes.
The canal, which is more than 2,000 miles long, was a major project that required hundreds of thousands of people to complete for several years in the agricultural era. But in the hands of the fully automatic mechanical engineering team under the control of artificial intelligence, it is not a problem at all.
The four artificial intelligences fully cooperated, they didn't need any complicated quarrels, and almost at the moment when Sun Zheng just put forward the request, they could come up with the best construction plan.
With the tools and materials provided by Sun Zheng along the way, according to wiki computing, under the condition that the tools and materials are in place, the renovation of the entire canal can be completed in a maximum of one month.
There is no phase I and phase II projects, all projects, one pass!
Sun Zheng now has a lot of numerical points in his hands, and he doesn't have to be as careful as before, and it's time for so many materials in the space pile to come in handy.
A large number of building materials and construction machinery are guaranteed to be supplied in unlimited quantities. All the way north, it took half a month just to place materials along the way.
Before Sun Zheng arrived in the capital, Wiki reported that the 700-mile embankment downstream from Hangzhou to Yangzhou had been completed, and the wharf and supporting roads, warehouses and other buildings along the way were being expanded.
Sun Zheng stayed in the capital for a few days, and another shipping fleet from the four seas entered Beijing again, sending a large number of specialties.
A variety of seaweed, salted fish, dried scallops and other seafood salted with sea salt quickly triggered a rush to buy in Beijing at extremely low prices.
The exquisite glass bottles of sugar, canned fruits, sugarcane wine and other high-end flavors also make those middle-class and wealthy families flock to it.
As for exquisite overseas knives, exquisite bags, perfumes, jewelry and other high-end luxury goods, only those wealthy families and eunuchs dare to ask the price.
Due to the comprehensive distribution of a large number of South China Sea specialties, the Western goods that are mixed in the shelves have been beaten into the middle and lower class consumer groups.
At the end of February of the seventh year of Zhengde, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was completely transformed, and the embankments on both sides of the river quietly became cement dams.
According to the surplus materials, Wiki designed the second phase of the supporting project.
In addition to the passes where rivers and rivers meet, it is necessary to expand various sluice and dam projects; Along both sides of the river respectively build a 30-meter-wide, with three notoginseng ash mainly rammed earth official road, the whole project is expected to take half a year, after completion, the whole Ming Dynasty from Beijing to Hangzhou, water and land will be barrier-free again, can greatly reduce the time required for the journey.
In this era, the cement road is not practical, not only the wheels can't bear it, but the shock absorption of the car itself, dozens of miles of hard road down, not falling apart, you have to lie down. Not to mention that the main labor is livestock, this cow and horse manure fall to the ground, Sanhe soil has a buffer, if it is a cement pavement, that kind of sour and refreshing......
According to the design of the wiki, along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for more than 2,000 miles, there are more than 200 bridges across the river, as well as greening projects on both sides of the river, service stations for people to rest along the way and other supporting projects.
Sun Zheng approved the plan, and handed over the rendered final renderings, as well as the relevant business plan, to Mu Bin.
In addition to the transportation and maintenance of the canal itself, which is in the hands of Wiki, the large official roads on both sides of the river and hundreds of service stations along the way are all taken care of by Jinyiwei. Even if it is a little welfare for your own family, family members, relatives or something, do a little bit of livelihood in the service station, and you can also earn more income.
Mu Bin is an honest man, he didn't dare to swallow it privately, so he directly brought the materials into the palace to face the saint, and reported the cause and effect to Zhu Houzhao together.
Zhu Houzhao was discussing with several cabinet elders the issue of the turnover of goods between the north and the south without Cao Yun.
Hearing that it was about the canal, Xiao Zhu didn't avoid it, and directly asked Mu Bin to hang up the rendering and explain it in detail.
Beautifully rendered renderings from the modern realistic style, a few elders who were shocked as soon as they appeared. Is this still the dirty canal?
Mu Bin relayed Sun Zheng's words to him in their original form: "...... The national teacher said that by the Mid-Autumn Festival this year at the latest, the two official roads and 630 service stations along the way could be completed. Let Wechen recruit people as soon as possible and make arrangements in advance, so as not to be in a hurry. ”
Yang Tinghe has always been vigilant against Sun Zheng, and he also feels incredible at this moment: "He didn't say anything about jurisdiction?" ”
Mu Bin looked at the emperor and got permission before he spoke: "The national teacher said that because of the maintenance needs of the canal itself, he is not at ease to hand it over to others. He doesn't care about anything else. The South China Sea will arrange an inland river fleet to be responsible for transporting passengers and goods on the canal, but it is better for Jinyiwei to be responsible for the specific administrative jurisdiction. The national teacher also said......"
Zhu Houzhao didn't care about the presence of several elders, and waved his hand: "You tell the truth!" ”
"Obey! The national teacher also said that this dumb man suffered from him, and if there was such a thing in the future, he would have to be charged! ”
Zhu Houzhao laughed: "What he thinks is beautiful!" If you don't have money, you want to die...... I'm still reluctant! ”
A few pavilion elders have black lines on their faces, listen, is this like what an emperor should say?
Zhu Houzhao smiled and asked, "When will his fleet come?" There is no shortage of food, and other goods still have to be transported. ”
Mu Bin hurriedly replied: "The national teacher said that from the tenth day of the first month of March, at least one boat will be sent every day at each wharf along the way, and merchants can buy tickets to take the boat. ”
Zhu Houzhao smiled again: "How many pavilion elders are relieved? Then it's settled, let's disperse! ”
The Grand Canal, which connects the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, completely fell into the hands of Sun Zheng.
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