Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 79: Weapons Workshop!!!

Zhu Yuanzhang is not the kind of emperor who stays in the palace all day, and he sometimes makes private visits, especially around Yingtianfu.

For the actual situation of Daming, there is a basic concept in mind, and he is also from a farmer, not a flower raised in a greenhouse, and he has always attached great importance to public feelings.

For the Daming official road, he was even clearer in his heart.

Although after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the official road was rebuilt, but it is not comparable to the asphalt road in front of you!

Most of the country’s official roads are compacted loess roads, and as long as it rains every year, it will inevitably make the roads extremely muddy and difficult to navigate.

Then, it starts to get potholed, and then, the road conditions get worse and worse.

For the imperial court, the most important role of official roads is not to let merchants drive horse-drawn carriages to carry goods, but most importantly to ensure military communications!

And the official road can indeed shorten the communication time, but due to the emptiness of the Daming national strength, Zhu Yuanzhang did not repeatedly renovate, and could only take a rough rest and make do with it.

In many places, there are rotten roads.

Close to the city, relatively close to the place, the prefects of the states and counties, will also send people to repair it, but as long as it is far away from the state and county, the official roads in the remote area are basically no one to care.

And now, Zhu Rong actually built the asphalt road from Qingzhou City to Jinan Mansion and from Jinan Mansion to Yingtianfu on his own, stunned that he didn’t ask the imperial court for a silver or two!

Cultivating the official road requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and is a very huge project, because every time the official road is rebuilt, the cost is huge, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not willing to spend too much silver on it.

However, he never expected that with his angry words on Chaotang 05, Zhu Rong would actually be ordered to build a road, all the way to Yingtianfu!

This kid, is he too stupid or too shaft!

Zhu Yuanzhang turned the horse’s head, looked back at Ying Tianfu, and couldn’t help muttering: “Old Seven, you have shared a big worry for us!” ”

Strictly speaking, official roads are very important logistical support in the military. At present, Daming still maintains a relatively high frequency of troop dispatch, and there is unrest all around.

And once these asphalt roads are built in the country, it will benefit Daming for hundreds of years!

This achievement is enough to go down in history!

In all dynasties, they have never cultivated such a beautiful official road!

After reacting to Tianfu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to call Prince Zhu Biao to the Taibai Restaurant.

When Prince Zhu Biao arrived, Zhu Yuanzhang had already eaten.

Good fellow, three tables of dishes!

Every dish in Taibai Restaurant was ordered!

Zhu Yuanzhang circled around the three tables, and greeted Prince Zhu Biao: “Come and come, let’s taste the dishes of Taibai Restaurant together!” ”

Prince Zhu Biao was not polite, picked up the chopsticks and ate together.

While eating, the two of them chatted about major events in the DPRK.

Prince Zhu Biao’s complexion is now better, and his body is not as puffy as before, and he has begun to slowly fade.

Although he did not return to his previous state, his body was indeed much tougher.

“Have you seen the asphalt road built by Old Seven?”

Prince Zhu Biao hurriedly said: “A few days ago, Erchen went to run a horse, this road, like the road of heaven, Erchen was shocked and speechless for a long time!” ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he laughed heartily, and his mood became more and more cheerful when he heard that Zhu Biao could already ride a horse.

Prince Zhu Biao said with a smile: “Father Emperor, since Lao Qi, he has not contributed less, and last year’s 500,000 disaster victims were resettled very appropriately, and the death toll was very low.

This year, seeing that the asphalt road will be built to Yingtianfu, it is another great achievement.

I pondered, vacated his original mansion, let him return to Beijing to get married, I don’t know my father and emperor, what do you think? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped chopsticks.

“This matter, we have our own calculations, you can leave it alone.”

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of wine, now, he didn’t dare to drink like the previous one, all small sips, a small sip, and a little sip, but also moisturizing, looking very intoxicated: “Painful!” ”

Zhu Yuanzhang exhaled a breath of wine, as if remembering something, and said with some doubts: “This asphalt road is really beautiful, and successive dynasties and dynasties have not been able to build such a good official road.”

Although it is a big achievement, it must cost a lot. This old seventh, where did he get so many silver taels to support such a long official road construction?! ”

If it was just to make some repairs to the original official road, Zhu Yuanzhang pondered that Zhu Rong was capable of doing it, however, Zhu Rong directly abandoned the original official road construction method and built a brand new asphalt road!

The cost in between made him feel incredible.

It has only been a long time since Zhu Rong went to the fief, and even the Qi Royal Mansion has not yet been built, and it costs money everywhere.

Where is the spare money, to build such a long, and such a good quality official road!

Prince Zhu Biao said with a smile: “Father Emperor, you forgot that last year 500,000 disaster victims gathered in Qingzhou Mansion, and the seventh brother did not let them sit idle, but used work for relief, and built city walls, and built houses for disaster victims to spend the winter, and built asphalt roads, and I heard that water conservancy was also built.” ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and there was a lot of appreciation in his expression.

“Old Seven, this child, is still smart, and he works for relief. You say, why didn’t we think of it before? ”

Prince Zhu Biao said with a bitter smile: “The main brother is the seventh brother, found potatoes, a high-yield crop, if the people can’t eat enough, they have no strength, how can they build so many projects.” ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this, feeling that it was very reasonable.

Prince Zhu Biao continued: “There is one more thing, I have not yet told my father and emperor. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Prince Zhu Biao with some doubts.

Prince Zhu Biao directly talked about his secret contact with Zhu Rong last year: “Last year, in order to stabilize the victims of the Qingzhou disaster with the seventh brother, I sent someone to send 500,000 silver taels to the seventh brother. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang’s eyes widened, and then he suddenly realized: “No wonder this kid has such a big hand!” ”

Prince Zhu Biao continued to break the news: “Before the fourth brother went to Beiping to take up the clan, he told me that in order to allow the seventh brother to properly resettle 500,000 disaster victims a few years ago, he also quietly sent 200,000 silver taels, plus 300,000 silver taels from his father and emperor, which has reached a huge million. I think this is the reason why the seventh brother can build such a long distance of asphalt road! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang had previously sent money to Zhu Rong by Prince Zhu Biao and Zhu Di, the King of Yan, but he did not know that this belonged to the secret between their brothers.

At this moment, I was quite shocked to learn about this.

The three brothers worked together to stabilize the Daming River and Mountain, which was very rare in all dynasties, even if Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was chosen by him as the whetstone for the crown prince Zhu Biao, the relationship between the two brothers was still very deep and did not break.

Such harmony between the brothers made Zhu Yuanzhang very pleased, and he was in a good mood, and he couldn’t help but drink a few more cups, and said to Prince Zhu Biao: “When the official road is repaired to Yingtianfu, let them change all the main roads of Yingtianfu into asphalt roads!” ”

Prince Zhu Biao replied with a smile: “Sons and daughters obey the order!” ”

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang talked with Prince Zhu Biao about the surrounding situation.

Zhu Yuanzhang meant, he wanted to send troops to fight again!

Prince Zhu Biao repeatedly dissuaded, although this year King Qi, King Jin, and King Yan have all achieved a bumper harvest, the national strength has recovered a lot, and the treasury is relatively full, but this year is too special, Hu Weiyong’s case has been set off, which is really called a river of blood.

Today, thousands of officials have been killed, and in many places, they have become very empty, and the new blood of the imperial court system has not yet been replenished.

The institutions of the imperial court are on the verge of collapse!

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang deposed the prime minister, making the operation of the imperial court very sluggish, and all the major and minor matters of the state were pressed on Zhu Yuanzhang and the crown prince Zhu Biao, and the two people could not be busy at all.

Now, if you rush to send troops, it is not a good time for Daming.

Father and son could not reach an agreement, so they put it on hold.

With the construction of asphalt roads and city walls, Zhu Rong gained more and more experience points.

Last year, he focused on disaster relief, and his experience points were almost exhausted, but this year, he saved a lot.

Whether it is building asphalt roads or building city walls, it can bring continuous experience points, and when you wake up every day, you will find that the experience points have increased a lot.

In addition to exchanging some cash crops, he saved all his experience points, because he had to exchange a very important drawing.

And this drawing is exactly the drawing of the rifle!

Zhu Rong knows very well that Daming is still surrounded by strong enemies, and the Northern Yuan has not been beaten down by Daming so far.

In the next few years, Daming will continue to send troops. If the rifle can be built, it will definitely increase the combat effectiveness of the Daming army by ten steps!

In fact, at the time of the Song Dynasty, prototypes of rifles already appeared.

In the Song Dynasty, it was called a musket, using giant bamboo as the body of the gun, in which gunpowder, stones, porcelain chips, iron filings and other “bullets” were placed, and after igniting the gunpowder, it was fired to kill and injure the enemy.

The assault musket of the Song Dynasty, at first glance, looks a bit like the fireworks we set off for the New Year now, the difference is that it has “sub-lessons” that can hurt the enemy.

And in the development of the Ming Dynasty, it has been continuously iterated to the fire blunt, and the fire blunt is the predecessor of the rifle!

The principle of the fire bolt is actually very simple, the medicine is packed in a tube-shaped vessel, and then ignited to produce gas, followed by an explosion, which can shoot the projectile. The use of projectiles can cause great damage to enemies and targets, in fact, it belongs to the same principle as modern guns.

It can be said that the appearance of the fire bolt has officially opened the road to hot weapons!

Today, in the army of the Ming Dynasty, the top equipment is the fire bolt!

After Zhu Di took office, he formed a special artillery unit and named it the Shenji Battalion.

Zhu Rong decided to advance this time a little earlier, and let the power of guns and cannons be stronger!

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