I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 200 How Many Widows!
The main building of Peach Blossom City is nearing completion, and the rest is some block planning and detailed construction.

This is another reason why Li Zicheng really believed in 'Zhu Sandi'.

With the entry of the Daming Engineering Bureau and the Daming Academy, some construction projects that seemed impossible to complete were simply trivial manual work under their hands.

For example, this so-called 'cement factory', Li Zicheng personally participated in it, and even fired a few shots.

At that time, I just felt novelty and didn't hold out any hope.

Just kidding, it is impossible to build a city wall without green bricks, boulders, giant trees, or "new technology" such as rice soup composite soil.

As for the 'cement concrete' mentioned by those young people, Li Zicheng didn't take it seriously at all, thinking it was something like 'rice soup and three-mix soil'.

Unexpectedly, after the official intervention of Daming Engineering Bureau and Daming Academy.

In less than three to five days, the first batch of cement samples were fired.

After professional testing and determination, this local limestone mine can produce 'Youjian-17 cement' with high salt resistance and corrosion resistance.

"Third brother Zhu really worked hard day and night for Daming, and even used his name on the cement label!" '

'This is really the style of an emperor through the ages. '

Li Zicheng couldn't help being moved when he followed the idiot emperor, Daming Engineering Bureau, and a group of young people from Daming Academy to do a "strength test" in an open space.

He didn't know that Zhu Youjian had issued a strict order to the Daming Engineering Bureau and Daming Academy, and all the novelty things that had never been seen before in the Ming Dynasty, once they were invented, could only be "named" by his name, Zhu Youjian.

For example, you can check the city, you can check the cement, you can check the harvester, you can check the armored battleship, you can check the rifle, you can check the artillery...

Being an emperor is not easy.

If you can't leave your name forever, what's the point?Even if you are a prodigal, you can't do it well...

……

"Your Majesty, the quality of the ore here is far superior to those on Kuwu Island. I am confident that you can produce Youjian No. 18 cement." A Ming student said seriously while testing the samples:
"According to Mr. Xu and Mr. Song's data, the strength of this cement, if combined with the newly refined steel, can already be widely used in bridge and tunnel projects.

Even piers can be poured in seawater. "

Zhu Youjian listened and nodded slightly, but he was noncommittal.

He doesn't understand this stuff.

Then let those who understand to toss it.

It's really outrageous to finally go from being a gray man and a worker to an emperor, wearing a yellow robe, and rushing to do manual labor with professionals like others.

"By the way, when will Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing finish their work, let them come over quickly, I miss them." Seeing that the strength of the cement seems to be okay, it should be applied to real estate, Zhu Youjian couldn't help thinking Toss something out.

However, without those two great scientists by his side, many of his ideas were basically impossible to realize.

"Your Majesty Qizuo, Master Xu and Mr. Song are researching a secret weapon, and they probably won't be able to make it in a while." A Ming student bowed and replied.

Zhu Youjian felt a little lost.

In fact, as the emperor, he knew the actions of those two people very well, but in front of the students of the Ming Dynasty, he still couldn't help asking.

He found that his latest prodigal plan had stagnated.

This made him anxious.

There was news from Mao Yuanyi that the plan of "stealing beams and changing posts" continued, and [-] to [-] frontline soldiers in Shanhaiguan had been quietly replaced. Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, didn't even notice it.

Here it is!

Zhu Youjian felt tired when he thought of this.

On the Nine Sides of Ming Dynasty, the front line of Shanhaiguan is the most important at present, and its defense system is like a child's play. Letting Mao Yuanyi, a "shaved guy", pass by, and without anyone knowing it, a shocking event has occurred.

If Sun Chengzong suddenly discovered one day that his soldiers, tens of thousands of them, had been replaced by Mao shaved men.

That white-faced scholar general will probably be too shocked to sleep...

……

"Your Majesty, this Youjian No. 17 cement can be mass-produced, do you want to..."

"Direct application!"

"Peach Blossom City and Heyoujian No. 4 City are built with this kind of cement concrete." Zhu Youjian made a final decision, and ordered indifferently: "From now on, all cities and fortresses on Taiwan Pengbao Island will be built with reinforced concrete.

As for the pouring method, I have already asked Song Yingxing to write an operation manual, and later asked Wang Chengen to print a batch and distribute it to every cannon fodder. "

Gray man...

Well, another new term.

After wandering around the construction site bored, Zhu Youjian went straight back to 'Youjian No. 4 City'.

There were three things that disturbed him.

One is the poisonous snake Hakka Baba, which already has its dens along the coast of Fujian, and even in Waguo, Qiongzhoufu, Nan'an, Burma, etc.

Zheng Zhilong should also be devastated by this.

Daming's ironclad warships are very powerful.

However, under the command of Hakka Baba, those guys are like a group of prairie mice, penetrating everywhere, between the land and the sea, they can't be wiped out completely.

It's like Daming is a cow and a big fat pig, while the Black Widow's pirate fleet is a bunch of flies, mosquitoes, gadflies and other hot chickens, always buzzing and disturbing you.

'The merchant ship transporting grain has been looted three times. '

Zhu Youjian's flesh hurts just thinking about it.

That was the grain from the South Bank and Burma. He lost more than 300 boats of grain three times. Just thinking about it makes his teeth itch.

The second thing is still related to food.

That is, famine broke out again in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan.

This time, it was entirely human-caused.

He sold the batch of land belonging to the royal family and exchanged for a batch of grain, but on the way to the disaster-stricken areas in various places, more than half of it was lost.

According to reports from various residences, on the way, the bandits robbed some of them; the hungry people robbed some of them; when crossing the Yellow River, the boat capsized due to strong winds and high waves, and some of them were lost...

When it arrived at the local governor's office, there were less than [-]-[-]% of the millions of shi grains left!

According to Cao Gong's news, the so-called robbers, starving people, ship capsizing and other shit never happened.

Corruption.

It's corruption again.

Zhu Youjian feels tired when he thinks about it.

The third thing is the issue of food.

When the first crop of rice was ripe for farming on Taiwan Pengbao Island, everyone cheered and cheered, but Zhu Youjian and Zheng Zhilong began to worry even more.

On this island, there is a large area that can be reclaimed and farmed, and it can accommodate a full 300 million refugees.

However, Zheng Zhilong's fortune is not much involved.

In other words, Zheng Zhilong has no money or food in his hands.

The development of Taiwan Pengbao Island, what to do next...

……

"Long live, my minister... I want to talk to you."

On a summer afternoon, Zhu Youjian was lying on the big bed, eating bananas with Catherine, when Zheng Zhilong came to find him.

The King of Zhenhai didn't look very well. In just ten days, he had lost a lot of weight and was unshaven. It looked like he hadn't slept well recently.

"Let's talk, as long as it's not a food problem, talk about other things casually." Zhu Youjian said casually.

Zheng Zhilong: "..."

Don't let us talk about the food issue, so what a fart!

"What Weichen wants to talk about is indeed about food..." Zheng Zhilong hesitated to speak, looking quite embarrassed, "The food in Weichen's hands is about to bottom out."

"I've counted with my fingers. After this period of tossing, your food has bottomed out. I guess the gold, silver and jewels in your hand have almost defeated me, right?"

Zhu Youjian sighed, reached out and handed Zheng Zhilong a banana, and said with a wry smile: "I still have to find a way to get by, as long as I get through this year, I should be able to get better.

By the way, I appointed Li Zi as the owner of the island at the time, and I didn't get along with you. You don't have any ideas, do you? "

Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said: "This minister only wants to get food as soon as possible, and kill the poisonous snake of the black widow by the way, how can I care about such trivial matters."

"Black Widow, what's the news?" Zhu Youjian asked.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head slightly, "Long Live Lord is right, she is a poisonous snake, a prairie rat, and now she has learned how to live as a pirate, and she has become like a brother;
Weichen, I regret it at the beginning. "

Zhu Youjian said warmly: "Actually, the biggest culprit is that I didn't strike hard in time."

"Wei Zhongxian, this dog slave, his own wife has become Daming's confidant, and he didn't realize it at all?"

Thinking of Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youjian became angry for no reason.

At the beginning, Hakka Baba was just a nanny for the elder brother of the late emperor, even if he relied on letting his elder brother suck a few sips of milk from time to time, without Wei Zhongxian's help, he would not be able to dominate Fujian at all.

"Besides, I feel a little uneasy in my heart. Is there still some people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Tianjin Wei, and Qiongzhou Prefecture, who have already developed a climate like the black widow?
For example, if our boss suppresses the black widow, another flower widow will appear in Songjiang Mansion, and another green widow and red widow will appear on Qiongzhou Island?

How many widows! "

The idiot emperor simply lay flat and asked Catherine to massage his temples.

Zheng Zhilong pondered a few times, and said: "This minister has an idea..."

"speak."

"Do you want to build a large number of forts in Songjiang Mansion, Qiongzhou Island, Leizhou Mansion, and Tianjin Wei, and first guard against pirates?"

"Stinky chess!"

Zheng Zhilong: "..."

Well, we are just a stinking chess basket, but what else can we do?
Zheng Zhilong is well aware of the danger and threat of pirates to an empire.

If he hadn't been married to Jinlan with this idiot emperor, and ascended to the sky in one step, and gave him the title of King of Zhenhai, he, Zheng Zhilong, could play with the Ming Dynasty as much as he wanted.

As for the technique of "moving the border and banning the sea" proposed by some civil servants, it is simply a waste of money and money, and a stinky chess among stinky chess.

If the fundamental problem is not resolved, moving to the forbidden sea is tantamount to digging one's own grave.

I can only watch them vigorously develop overseas, take the time to rectify their strong ships and guns, and when they want to hit you, the iron-clad warships will sail in and bombard you.

It's just a difficult situation...

"There is no need to build a fort," Zhu Youjian carefully recalled the so-called "Humen Fort", "Tianjinwei Fort" and "Lushunkou Fort" in later generations, and they were useless.

When people attack the next place, those forts will become the biggest threat to the Daming Navy.

"In the end, it's still an internal problem."

Zhu Youjian groaned sadly, wanting to drive out the king of Zhenhai quickly and learn a foreign language with Catherine for a while.

"Wei Chen has another idea," Zheng Zhilong said with a bitter face: "How about stepping up patrolling at sea, severely attacking their sea power, and driving them into the inland?"

Zhu Youjian slowly turned over and thought about it carefully.

"It can be done in the opposite way," the idiot emperor said after pondering for a while, "maybe think about it, what they want is nothing but the coast of the Ming Dynasty;

Apart from that Hakka Baba, what I am most worried about is the collusion with the wealthy Jiangnan family. This is their source of income.

And once their business is gone, guess what they'll do? "

"Grab it." Zheng Zhilong said without hesitation.

"No." Zhu Youjian stretched out two fingers and tapped Catherine's thigh lightly, "You married someone else's beloved woman, will others come to snatch her?

Obviously not, the reason why you can marry other people's wives is because you are more handsome and stronger than others, and naturally you are more powerful than others;
So, those other people will come to grab it?

Grab a fart!

You don't kill them casually?

Obviously, robbing this kind of thing is the most inferior method. Those scholars in Jiangnan are more than one thief. Would they do such a stupid thing? "

Zhu Youjian slapped Catherine's buttocks with a 'slap', and said with a smile: "So, there are only two bigger possibilities:
First, they will go far away, practice martial arts hard, try their best, and when they reckon they can kill you, they will directly seal your throat with a sword;
The second is to get up in the dark and look for another way..."

Having said this, Zheng Zhilong's eyes suddenly brightened.

"Look for another way..." Zheng Zhilong said with a chuckle, "What does Long Live mean, is that we are the other way?"

Zhu Youjian nodded.

This is his guessing. As for whether it is right or not, it has nothing to do with him.

Anyway, he is just an idiot, but from the perspective of human nature, he thinks those Jiangnan giants are worse.

The people eating dirt has nothing to do with those people's money.

The collapse of the Ming Dynasty has nothing to do with those people.

Because, people have a way out, which is the three caves of the cunning rabbit... No, it is the eighteen caves!

If you want to wipe out a litter of rabbits, the best way is not to block all the holes. If you really want to do that, those rabbits will turn into a pack of wolves, revealing a mouthful of white fangs!
And if you lay a big net in advance on the only way down the mountain, and then, in the dead of night, you only need to light dozens of torches and yell a few times, those rabbits will go mad at you. Bumping into the net...

Don't ask why the idiot emperor knows this.

Because, he did it before.

"Long live, where is the right place for us to deploy this net?" Zheng Zhilong asked seriously.

"Taiwan Pengbao Island, Japan, Qiongzhou Island, the South Coast, Myanmar, and even India..." Zhu Youjian stretched his body and moaned comfortably, "You choose the place, and I'm only responsible for minting gold coins for you."

Zheng Zhilong stood up and cupped his fists, and said seriously: "Then put it on Taiwan Pengbao Island?"

"Okay. Isn't Li Zicheng the city lord over there? Find a way to set up Youjian No. 4 city as the only port city, and provide one-stop services for eating, drinking, and entertainment, so that those rich people and pirates will be entertained to death!"

"Also, on the side of the Wa country, you can build another retreat for them!"

The two monarchs and ministers looked at each other and smiled.

(End of this chapter)