In front of Lu Daqi, several craftsmen were like playing with mud, spreading some "mud" mixed sand and gravel into the wooden mold on the ground, and using special tools to push and smooth it.

Close to the construction site, behind a newly built cement road, there are wooden boards covering it in the form of a cladding cover.

But further away, in the city, there is a whole piece of gray-white overall stone pavement.

Seeing the people entering and leaving the city, they stepped on the moist concrete floor covered with wooden boards from both sides, and then stepped on the grayish-white concrete floor. With Lu Daqi's intelligence, they immediately realized that this cement was probably as the man said.

It will become dry and hard in two days.

Cement,     Cement must have something similar to mud, so it is called that.

Just remembering the man that the cement was as hard as a stone when it was dry and hard, Lu Daqi still couldn't believe it.

He took his entourage and immediately wanted to enter the city with other people, but was stopped by the city gate guards.

Lu Daqi is puzzled.

His followers thought they were earning money, so they prepared to pay for money based on the principle of spending small money to avoid trouble.

Unexpectedly, the captain of the city gate guard said: "The State Administration stipulates that anyone who brings the middle-level army into the city must register their identity."

Then Lu Daqi suddenly realized that he said, among the other people who entered the city, they only charge commercial taxes and do not earn urban expenses, so why did they stop them?

It turned out to be because of the waist knife his followers carried.

Lu Daqi immediately stepped forward to register.

As a result, the other party wanted to check the waist card (Ming Dynasty ID card).

Although this is a normal act according to the Ming Dynasty law, in fact, the laws and regulations in various places have been abolished for a long time, and the ID card has rarely been checked during non-war periods.

Sometimes even if the upper part asks to check the waist cards, the lower part will easily be bought and let people without the waist cards enter and exit.

Lu Daqi considered himself to be of special status. Before he could figure out the reality of the Chengdu Jianguo Mansion, he did not want to expose himself, so he signaled his followers to take out a few taels of silver, and was about to spend money as usual without checking.

Unexpectedly, the captain of the city gate guard not only refused to accept it, but his eyes also became cold and he brought Lu Daqi and his party to the side to ask: "Tell me honestly, who are you? What are you trying to get into the city?"

Lv Daqi: "···"

Seeing that the guards around the city gates were all touching the knife, Lu Daqi could only sigh, take out the ivory waist card, and say, "I, Lu Daqi, this is the waist card, take it to record it."

After all, this captain was not a real silly. Seeing that Lu Daqi's waist tag was actually ivory, he immediately realized that he might be a high-ranking official.

But his duty was that he said, "I just offended me" and then asked someone to register.

Although Lu Daqi did not want to disclose his identity in advance, he was not afraid of revealing his identity.

After registering, I won’t feel relieved about this.

When I entered the city, I found that the cement road was stretching out everywhere, but there were still stone roads on both sides. Lu Daqi felt even more shocked.

Then he found a place with fewer pedestrians, pulled out his follower's waist knife, poked hard, and paddled the concrete road for the test.

As a result, although there are scratches and stamps on the cement pavement, they are very shallow, and it is very difficult to destroy it with a sword.

Lu Daqi looked at the concrete road with a knife for a while, then looked at the nearby city wall, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Ha ha ha ha···"

As he smiled, he couldn't help crying.

The followers were at a loss to see this.

When pedestrians around saw it, they all avoided it and cast a look of "looking at the madman".

A little boy dressed in neat clothes and holding a book was led by his mother. Seeing this, he couldn't help asking: "Mother, why is that Weng crying and laughing?"

The mother said, "It's probably because I'm having something happy and sad."

Lu Daqi laughed and cried for a while before stopping.

Then he sat down and stroked the cement floor and murmured: "How great would it be if this cement had been there in the Ming Dynasty in the early years.

The city will be stronger and less likely to be blown up or collapsed; the river bank will be stronger and the flood will be less flooded.

Unfortunately, now Shanhaiguan is gone and Beijing is gone. The mountains and rivers are broken, and even if this cement is used, it may not be able to be bonded."

Then Lu Daqi fell silent again.

Because after he finished speaking, he felt that the Ming Dynasty was not missing a cement problem, but many problems.

Perhaps, even if there were cement a few decades earlier, the situation in the Ming Dynasty might not be much better than it is now.

With a sigh, Lu Daqi stood up and saw a lot of snow mud on his body, and said, "Let's go, let's go find an inn to settle down first."

···

Chengyun Hall.

Zhan Tianyan walked in under the guidance of an eunuch and saw a girl with a fairy-looking face and extraordinary demeanor sitting on the throne. She immediately stopped her eyes, knelt down according to etiquette, and said, "I am participating in politics in western Sichuan,

Long'an magistrate Zhan Tianyan, see the governor!"

"Flat!"

When Zhan Tianyan got up, Zhu Ma couldn't help but look at him.

I saw Zhan Tianyan, a typical southerner, has a strong figure and a sense of strength between his eyebrows, and he also has a sense of majesty.

Then Zhu Ma said, "I believe that Zhan Qing has known why he summoned Zhan Qing to Chengdu this time."

"Yes." Zhan Tianyan said, "The supervisor wants to send ministers to govern Guizhou."

Zhu Mei nodded, "In theory, you have been promoted from the prefect of Long'an to participate in politics in western Sichuan for more than two months and have not made any political achievements. You shouldn't have been transferred so quickly.

But the current lack of available people in the State Administration can only make Zhan Qing governor Guizhou and work harder."

"It is the duty of a minister to share his worries for the king, and I dare not be called tired."

Zhu Meiyu smiled slightly after hearing this and said, "Zhan Qing, let me tell you how much I know about Guizhou, what do you think?"

Zhan Tianyan said: "There are many chieftains in Guizhou, many dangerous mountains and bad waters. Now there are eight prefectures, four military and civilian governments, and the capital is in Guiyang.

Since the Hongwu year, all dynasties have been divided, educated, abolished chieftains, and changed land and returned to the current.

Over the past two hundred years, especially after the She'an Rebellion, the strength of Guizhou chieftains has been greatly weakened.

However, Guizhou is dangerous after all, and the local Yao, Miao and other ethnic groups are deeply rooted. If the court wants to make them naturalize quickly, it will be in chaos again.

I believe that only by paying equal importance to kindness and power, persistently decomposing it with water grinding, and educating the natives, can we be a safe plan."

Zhu Moe nodded slightly after hearing this.

Hao Guangming on the other side said: "There is still some truth to what Zhan Tianyan said. You must know that even after three or four hundred years in later generations, Guizhou has not become like a province in the Central Plains.

After all, those things that have been passed down for thousands of years in ethnic minorities are quite different from those of the Han family, and it is difficult to change them all at once.

Besides, there is no need to let them change. They can completely allow them to retain some of their own characteristics with an inclusive attitude.

Of course, some of the vulgarities that seriously violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty and hinder the development of the Ming Dynasty still need to be forced to change, such as the serfdom."

Hearing Hao Guangming's words, Zhu Ma nodded again.

But she felt that even if some of the vulgar rules of the Tu people in Guizhou were to be changed, it was not now—the time was wrong.

At least we have to wait until several northern provinces have been conquered and the Eastern Territory will be driven back outside the pass before we can try.

She then said to Zhan Tianyan: "What Zhan Qing said is good. If you go down later, you can write a brief summary for me to see."

"yes."

Immediately, Zhu Dashi asked someone to hang a big map on the screen of the specially-hanged map, covering the Sichuan map that was originally hung.

Zhan Tianyan looked at it and saw that the map included five provinces in Sichuan, Guizhou, Huguang, Yunnan and Guangxi.

Zhu Niu walked down from the throne, came to the map, and asked: "I want to reorganize Chongqing, Kuizhou, Luzhou, Xuzhou, Zhenxiong and Huguang Shizhou Wei into Chongqing General Secretary.
Chapter completed!