Father can be an enemy to the country

"Everything was delayed at that time." Zhu Di asked tentatively: "Can you let them take a risk? Can you give me more reward?"

"Definitely not." Zhu Zhen shook his head decisively and said: "Fourth brother will know it if he goes to the beach. The eyes are full of broken ice, which is constantly squeezing and colliding with each other. How many times can our wooden boats hit it? It is sinking this season. No one on the ship can survive. Although going to sea is risky, no one wants to die. "

"That's it." Zhu Di had no choice but to give up hope and asked again: "Is it possible to transport it by canal?"

"It's even worse." Zhu Zhen still shook his head and said: "Even when water transportation was the fastest in the Yuan Dynasty, it would take three or four months for grain to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River to Peking. Moreover, after the Yellow River burst its banks at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the North Canal was silted up. The situation is that the boat may not be able to arrive for half a year.”

After a pause, he smiled bitterly and said: "Besides, the sea is frozen, let alone the canal. Otherwise, why would we be riding horses if we were walking along the canal all the way?"

"That's right, pretend I didn't say it." Zhu Di smiled and asked again: "Then there is only land transportation?"

"Land transportation is not possible either. Even if we transport grain from the nearest Shandong, we can't transport it to Peiping in a month at this time. Besides, I am from Shandong. I know the situation there. There are a total of 200,000 shi of grain in the Jinan treasury. Save it for next year, so don’t take any chances with them.”

"Then it's completely hopeless?" Zhu Di said with a bitter face: "It's so easy to encounter such a favorable time and place, and his grandmother's people are actually at odds. If you miss this time, if you want to catch Naha again, you don't know. What year and month it is.”

"Let me think about it carefully." Zhu Zhen said solemnly: "There is really no way, let alone the no way."

"Can't you just say there is no other way?" Zhu Di asked.

Zhu Zhen glanced at him: "I told you that there is nothing we can do."

"Oh." Zhu Di understood somewhat. In fact, he was very aware of his sixth brother's three strengths - propaganda, counter-insurgency, and money-making abilities. Especially the third move is simply an invincible weapon.

For example, if you pay a price of ten taels of silver per stone of grain, you can start collecting grain. In an instant, the food of the entire Beiping people can be sucked in. But the consequences of that are also very serious, because it will cause an artificial shortage of food and the price of food will be extremely high. It is unknown how many human tragedies will be caused during the spring famine next year.

So even if he had to, Zhu Zhen didn't want to use it. After all, Naha ran away and there was still a chance to catch him again. The people's families are ruined, but they have no chance to come back...

~~

As a result, Zhu Zhen didn't come up with a charter that day.

The next day I continued to be bored all morning, but still couldn't find a solution.

After lunch, he and his fourth brother walked in the back garden to eat, which also refreshed their somewhat numb minds.

The two of them were chatting casually when they suddenly heard the sound of people playing in front of them.

Zhu Zhen looked up and saw that he had reached the lakeside in the garden.

At this time, the lake had already been covered with thick ice, and Lao Twelve was learning to skate with Zhu Neng. He grew up in Nanjing. The first time he went on the ice, he would inevitably be clumsy and fall on his butt.

"Hahaha! Uncle Twelve is so stupid!" Although Zhu Gaoxu is only six years old, he is already skating very well. While circling Lao Twelve in a show-off manner, he clapped his hands and laughed.

Gao Chi and Lao Shiyi are also there. They like to be quiet and don't like to move. They don't even learn, but they enjoy themselves.

I saw the two of them sitting on an ice bed, with several eunuchs wearing skates pushing behind them. They could fly on the ice without much effort. The two highnesses on the ice bed also shouted excitedly.

Seeing the two people coming, Lao Eleven quickly waved and said hello: "Fourth Brother and Sixth Brother, come and sit on the ice bed!"

"Uncle Liu, let's learn to skate!" Zhu Gaoxu also slipped up to the two of them, raised his head and said to Lao Liu on the bank, "I'll teach you."

"Haha, when Uncle Six was skating, you still..." Zhu Zhen was about to brag about himself when he suddenly froze.

"What's wrong, Lao Liu?" Zhu Di asked strangely, "Are you angry?"

Zhu Zhen pointed to the ice bed and said excitedly: "I have a fucking idea!"

"What's the idea?" Lao Si asked with his eyes widened: "Ice bed?"

"Yes, it's an ice bed!" Zhu Zhen punched Lao Si excitedly and said, "This thing is the express delivery from the north in winter!"

"Special delivery?" The fourth child hasn't heard anything new from the sixth child in many years, but he can still generally understand it: "That's it, is that okay?"

"Would you know if you try it?" Zhu Zhen raised his voice and said, "Quickly, get all the ice carts, ice beds, and ice racks in the house, and call all those who can use them as handlebars!"

"What are you doing standing still?" Zhu Di shouted quickly: "Remember, my sixth brother's words are more effective than mine!"

"Yes!" The guards and chamberlains responded hurriedly, and the general's mansion was in a state of excitement.

~~

After a meal, more than a dozen ice carts, ice beds, and ice rafts of different sizes and styles were placed on the ice. Dozens of volunteer guards and chamberlains stood beside the car wearing skates, waiting for the prince's order.

"Are there so many?" Zhu Zhen was wearing a yellow mink hat and a yellow mink. A big one stood on the ice.

"That's natural." Zhu Di was dressed the same as him, but his hat and mink were both brown. Standing side by side with Lao Liu, he looked like Xiong Da Xiong Er.

"There was this thing in Peiping in the early years. I heard that the Jin people brought it in from outside the customs."

"No, Fourth Brother," Old Eleven shook his head: "I read in the Northern Song Dynasty's "Mengxi Bi Tan" that it was recorded: 'Between Xin'an, Cang, and Jing... I made a small sitting on the bed in the winter moon, and pulled it on the ice. It is called Lingtang. The "Liquan Notes" of the same period also said: "Xiong and Ba are parked along the edge of the pond, and the pampas grass is carried in the winter months. Officials also use Lingtang." Ba refers to the Xiongxian, Bazhou, and Cangzhou areas of Beiping, so it must not have been brought by the Jin people.”

"Really? Haha, your fourth brother is uneducated." Zhu Di scratched his head without embarrassment and slapped Lao Shiyi on the shoulder, almost causing him to fall into the ice. "Eleven, well done!"

"It doesn't matter who invented it, as long as it can be used." Zhu Zhen smiled to smooth things over for his fourth brother, and then loudly said to everyone: "Did you see the pile of sacks on the east side of the lake?"

"Saw it!"

"Now I want you to load them onto the ice cart and circle them around the lake." Zhu Zhen said loudly: "If you can make a hundred circles before dark, I will reward each of you with ten taels of silver! Do you hear me clearly?!"

"Huh?!" Everyone's jaws dropped in shock, thinking that they heard wrongly.

"Ah, what, don't you know that my sixth brother is the God of Wealth? Why don't you catch this wealth?" Zhu Di laughed loudly and cursed: "Why don't you all be more agile! Let's start!"

"Yes!" Everyone came to their senses and cheered as they drove the ice bed towards the sack, loaded the truck as fast as possible, and then circled around the lake!