Chapter 519: I saw something I didn’t recognize again
In less than a few breaths, Zhu Yuanzhang had already finished the breakfast prepared by Liu Ji.
This is a habit left over from the time of the war.
During the war, no one knew what would happen during the meal.
After all, many sneak attacks take place while the enemy is eating.
So unknowingly, I developed the habit of eating quickly.
Lao Zhu has maintained this habit to this day.
It's okay when you're in the palace, after all, there are all kinds of rules.
Even though Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, he had to abide by many rules for the sake of the entire Ming Dynasty's rule.
After all, if even the emperor takes the lead in not obeying the rules, who in the world will obey the rules honestly?
However, after leaving the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's old habits quickly returned.
It's just that when I eat, I'm not as ferocious as before.
Empress Ma helplessly advised from the side: "Chongba, please eat slowly. The imperial doctor has told you many times that your stomach is not good. You should chew carefully when eating."
Lao Zhu put down his chopsticks with a snap and said nonchalantly: "It's not like you don't know, sister, this has been a habit for many years and you can't change it."
After saying that, he left the room impatiently and went to find Liu Ji.
Lao Zhu doesn't want to waste any more time now.
I just hope that I can see how the city of Yanjing is functioning now as soon as possible.
When he found Liu Ji, Liu Ji had just eaten a few bites.
After all, he is a traditional civil servant. No matter what he does, he will do it in an orderly manner, and he will not change his expression even if the mountain collapses in front of him.
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang push through the door and come in, Liu Ji should continue eating. Huang Mang stood up and saluted.
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand impatiently: "How is your meal? If you finish eating, let's go and order Mao immediately."
Liu Ji subconsciously looked at the almost untouched food on the table and felt like crying.
It was impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang not to see such an obvious thing. However, His Majesty the Emperor still kept urging.
Obviously, this was a small warning to him.
Although the matter has been explained clearly, it is obvious that Lao Zhu still has a lot of dissatisfaction with him.
Now that he knows what the big leader means, Liu Ji will naturally not go against the biggest leader in the entire Ming Dynasty.
He replied in a low voice very simply: "Your Majesty, I have finished eating."
"The coachman has also prepared the carriage. Please Rong Chen lead the way."
After leaving the house and getting on Liu Ji's carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be startled.
Good guy, this carriage is completely different from the carriages he made before.
Even the seats are soft and soft, giving people the urge to sit on them and never want to get up.
When the carriage started moving, Zhu Yuanzhang could feel more and more that this carriage was different from the previous carriages.
Walking on the road, I didn't feel too many bumps.
"What's going on with this carriage?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked because he could feel that the reason why the carriage was not bumpy was not because of the soft sofa.
Liu Ji quickly explained: "Back to Your Majesty, there are three main reasons why the four-wheeled carriage made by His Royal Highness is so stable."
"Say." Lao Zhu was very interested in everything Zhu Han made.
Because no matter what it produces, it will be of great benefit to the country and the people.
Liu Ji was secretly grateful. Fortunately, when the King of England brought out the four-wheeled carriage, he was also interested and asked about it in advance.
Otherwise, he would not know anything the emperor asked...
That would really affect your career.
Ahem.
Liu Ji cleared his throat and explained in a leisurely manner: "Your Majesty, the most important reason why this carriage is so stable is because His Royal Highness has installed a shock-absorbing system on the carriage."
Of course Zhu Yuanzhang knew this.
After all, there are similar things on the train.
Lao Zhu's reaction was also what Liu Ji expected. He first talked about the most important shock absorption for the carriage itself, naturally because this thing is not a rare thing.
"Second." Liu Ji held out two fingers: "According to His Royal Highness, the four-wheeled carriage with the shock absorption system can make the carriage more stable. It will not have a slightly uneven road surface like the two-wheeled carriage.
It will affect the entire carriage."
In fact, Liu Ji only half understood these things.
However, she is a person who knows a lot and has a photographic memory.
After hearing these words from Zhu Han once, he could write them down word for word, whether he understood them or not.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand. Liu Ji can be sure that Zhu Yuanzhang definitely doesn't understand either.
Sure enough, after hearing these things, Zhu Yuanzhang's brows suddenly wrinkled.
However, Lao Zhu didn't ask too much. He never cared too much about detailed technical issues.
The most important reason why Lao Zhu was able to win the world was that he did not get into trouble.
There are some things that he doesn't understand, and there is no need to understand them. He just needs to know how to use them and what effects they can achieve.
As for other things, they are just side effects.
"What else is there?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
Liu Ji's expression gradually became serious.
Compared with those technical things, Liu Ji believed that Zhu Yuanzhang would value this more.
In fact, not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but he and even Liu Song have now understood the benefits of this.
"Road!" Liu Ji slowly spit out one word.
Although he said this, it seemed as if he had not said it, but Liu Ji believed that Zhu Yuanzhang must understand what he meant.
To please the leader is sometimes a skill.
You can't act too smart and make your boss feel stupid.
This will only make the leader hate himself even more.
At the same time, you should not act too stupid. If the leader thinks that a person is too stupid, of course he will not entrust this person with important tasks.
If you don't have achievements, how can you get promoted and move up the ladder?
Therefore, the best approach is of course to let the leader know that he is a capable person.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But at the same time, there must be some places that are just right to make the leader feel that he, a smart person, is not even as good as him in many places.
As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had been in power for so many years.
Liu Ji believed that Zhu Yuanzhang could not be ignorant of the importance of roads.
Even a short-lived dynasty like the Sui Dynasty still worked hard to build a Grand Canal.
It's just that the path Zhu Han has created now is very different from the previous path.
He slapped his thigh fiercely: "That's it, the road! It's the road."
"Such a carriage is good, but it also has very high requirements for road and land conditions."
"If you are going to run on a dirt road with many potholes, it will be useless no matter how good the shock absorption of this carriage is."
"Moreover, this kind of carriage is too wide. It may be very difficult to drive on some small roads. I'm right."
Liu Ji immediately put on a look of great surprise: "Your Majesty is so wise that he saw the key to it all at once."
"It took me and Liu Song more than ten days to see the relationship between Busan Baixin Road and the four-wheeled carriage."
"In the past, I have used His Royal Highness's cement to build roads."
"But at that time, the cultivation was basically official, and it was mainly used to allocate the world's supplies."
"Although I also think that this kind of road built with cement is very easy to use, I never thought that using this road for people's livelihood would have such excellent effects."
Hearing what Liu Jidu said, Lao Zhu felt much more relaxed: "Are you deliberately praising these new roads in front of us?"
Liu Ji quickly shook his head: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely not the case."
"For example, for a businessman, the journey that took one day in the past can only take half a day if we take the new road."
"In other words, goods that could only be shipped once a day can now be shipped twice."
Speaking of this, Liu Ji's face suddenly filled with admiration: "Your Majesty, this is just ordinary people taking this road. What if it were replaced by our imperial army transporting grain and grass?"
"Originally I didn't say anything, it was just Datong disaster relief."
"The teams that use cement roads and use food are all faster than those that use other teams."
"His Royal Highness the King of England often says that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads."
"I didn't understand it very well before, but now I understand it completely."
"If all the major cities in our Ming Dynasty are connected by this kind of... what His Royal Highness calls it, highways, our Ming Dynasty will inevitably enter a new era."
The corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth twitched involuntarily.
Why does he think Liu Ji is so powerful now?
Use that so-called highway to connect the whole country together?
It's easy to say it, just touch your upper lip to your lower lip and say it.
But didn’t this guy calculate how much money the court would have to spend if he really wanted to do this?
This is not to build one or two roads, but to connect all major cities in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Even in today's Ming Dynasty, there are Shi Jian Yin Mountains over there in Japan, and countless amounts of silver are dug out every day. I'm afraid it's not enough, right?
Compare it with Liu Ji's plan to build roads across the country.
The Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty was nothing more than a child's play house.
Liu Ji used to be quite calm, but why did he turn into such a spendthrift minister after only a few days under Zhu Han?
Just by looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's face, Liu Ji had already guessed what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, you are not saying that you will do the same as the Sui Dynasty and devote all the country's efforts to start doing this."
"It's true that this highway is very important to our country, but we don't need to build all the roads at once."
"First of all, let's connect the major cities and build a new Ming Dynasty official road."
"Then we will use these official channels as the core and slowly radiate to the surrounding cities."
"Furthermore, His Royal Highness the King has built many roads of this kind before. We can just use those roads as a basis and expand outwards."
When I met Liu Ji, I didn't just talk nonsense, but carefully analyzed the pros and cons.
Zhu Yuanzhang's frown relaxed.
It was not because the questions raised by Liu Ji made Zhu Yuanzhang unhappy.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly glad that Liu Ji was not directly deposed by Zhu Han.
"I have to think about this issue."
Liu Ji nodded quickly: "Your Majesty, although this matter is important, it is a long-term plan."
"I feel that as long as we can achieve the first step within fifty years, it will be quite good."
Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless. Just now he thought that Liu Ji, a calm and courageous person, could be of great use.
As a result, I now find that this kid seems to be a little too cautious.
Outside the carriage window, the streets on both sides were retreating rapidly.
Along the way, Zhu Yuanzhang actually saw a lot of carriages.
Those carriages were big and small, but none of them could compare to Liu Ji's.
In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang would have scolded Liu Ji at all levels.
As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, he was so extravagant and wasteful.
But now, Lao Zhu also knows the reason why Liu Ji and others did this.
Suddenly, a huge carriage flashed before Lao Zhu's eyes.
This carriage was actually bigger than the one Liu Ji was riding in.
It is almost twice as long as Liu Ji's carriage.
It's just that the carriage looks very simple, and the clearly visible wood grain on the wooden boards of the carriage can be seen from far inside.
In front of the carriage are four horses pulling the carriage.
Even though they are roosters, they are all tall, majestic, and have lustrous coats. You can tell at a glance that their daily meals are definitely good.
The speed of that carriage was much slower than Liu Ji's carriage, and it was quickly overtaken.
When overtaking, Zhu Yuanzhang could see through the car window that there were densely packed people inside.
There were so many people that many people had to stand.
When they had completely overtaken the carriage, the carriage was pressed against the roadside and stopped under a blue iron sign.
Zhu Yuanzhang vaguely heard the driver shouting something to the back, and soon many people got out of the car.
But at the same time, there were many people under the iron sign who were squeezing toward the car.
Zhu Yuanzhang could still faintly hear cursing.
"You bastard, stop squeezing, don't you know, first go down and then go up?"
"Damn it, are you rushing to reincarnate?"
"Asshole, who stepped on my foot!"
Liu Ji's carriage continued to move forward, getting farther and farther away from the huge carriage, and finally no sound could be heard.
"What is that?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and asked Liu Jidao.
"Back to Your Majesty, Your Majesty calls that thing a public carriage."
"Did it come from Qiwu again? Public carriage, does that mean anyone can ride on it?"
Liu Ji immediately said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to His Royal Highness the King's original intention, anyone can indeed ride on this public carriage."
"But now, the number of public carriages in Yanjing is still relatively small, and there are only a few routes that can run, so most people can't take them."
"But as the number of carriages increases in the future, more and more people will ride on them."
"Line?" Zhu Yuanzhang was confused.
"Yes, Your Majesty, these public carriages can only run in fixed places."
"The blue sign your Majesty saw just now is called Station."
"Those who take the bus must wait here for the public carriage to arrive, and those who get off can only get off here."