Father can be an enemy to the country

Although the specific route still needs to be surveyed, the general direction can be determined - two million stones of military rations will be shipped from Liujiagang, Taicang, and go north by sea to the coast of Huai'an Prefecture. Then, based on actual survey, the goods will be unloaded ashore and transported by ice. To the canal, go all the way north to Peiping.

Although the ice discharge speed was extremely fast, there was a lot of preparation work. Zhu Zhenkuang calculated that he could complete the task in one month. Thank God.

Time waited for no one, so he did not dare to delay at all. That night, he and his fourth brother stayed up all night to deliberate on the action plan.

During the twelfth lunar month of winter, transporting two million stones of grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River to Beiping was indeed a major project that required the joint efforts of the military and civilians of all provinces.

First of all, Jiangnan wanted to ship two million stones of military rations to Huai'an in time. This is actually the simplest step, because Liujiagang is the starting point for grain shipping, and there is no shortage of grain and ships. As long as Babaili urgently obtains the prince's authorization, the experienced sailors of the Maritime Administration will definitely deliver the grain as scheduled. Ship to designated location.

But this takes time. Even if the fastest flying pigeon is used to deliver the report to the capital, it will take at least three days for the prince to authorize it immediately and then pass the order to the Hai Zheng Yamen in Liujiagang.

Then it will be loaded onto a ship and set sail, and it will take five days at the earliest to transport it to Huai'an, even if all the manpower is mobilized to work day and night. Unloading the ship takes at least another two days.

Therefore, the actual time left for ice truck transportation is only twenty days. Although in theory they can make one trip in ten days, the two brothers are no longer rookies. They are very aware of the gap between theory and practice. They know that the situation will definitely arise one after another, and they will never be given the opportunity to make two trips back and forth.

"If we can only make one trip, the transportation capacity required will be overwhelming." Zhu Di held a duck bone in his mouth and said in shock: "That is two million stones of military rations. Even the largest ice truck will require more than 100,000. This is too exaggerated.”

"It's very exaggerated." Zhu Zhen crossed his arms and said to a pile of calculation papers in front of him: "But this is a necessary condition. Without it, it can't be completed."

"That's true." Zhu Di said with a frown, "But the entire city of Beiping, no, the entire Chief Secretary of Beiping cannot gather so many ice trucks and so many handlebars."

"Try your best to gather as much as you can." Zhu Zhen said solemnly: "Within three days, let them come to Tongzhou to gather. I will take away as many people as there are then."

"What should I do if it's not enough?" Zhu Di asked.

"Definitely not enough." Zhu Zhen picked up the letter and said as he picked up the pen: "I will write now to the chief of the Third Division of Shandong and Duke Yan Sheng, asking them to do a big favor - within seven days, levy 100,000 yuan Soldiers and civilians are on standby at Weishan Lake."

"Can you instigate those guys in Shandong?" Zhu Di blurted out, and then quickly added: "Normally you must be fine, but have you forgotten that today is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow is the New Year's Eve."

"I haven't forgotten. Otherwise, why would I have asked the people to leave after three days?" Zhu Zhen wrote a letter and said lightly: "Isn't it just to let them wait until the New Year is over?"

"You're quite a nice person." Zhu Di smacked his lips. Seeing that Lao Liu had already thought about it carefully, he smiled and asked, "So, you are very confident about Shandong?"

"It's not bad." Zhu Zhen nodded and smiled: "Do you know what it means to eat people with short mouths and take people with short hands? Shandong fellows are the most honest and will never let me down."

"I understand, you are going to take Peiping's handlebar style there and teach the soldiers and civilians of Shandong on the spot." Zhu Di said suddenly.

"That's right." Zhu Zhen said with a wry smile: "You can only learn now and sell now. Fortunately, it is not difficult to learn, and they can learn it in two days."

"Okay." Zhu Di nodded and asked: "What about the ice trucks? You have 100,000 people and you have to have 100,000 ice trucks."

"What else can we do? Requisition and rush to build." Zhu Zhen said solemnly: "When issuing the notice, write it down that all ice trucks with a load of more than 2,000 kilograms will be requisitioned, and all craftsmen who can build large ice trucks will be recruited."

Thinking about it, he added: "This Chinese New Year, everyone is definitely not active. So this time, whether we use cars or people, we are paid. The subsidy for people is two taels of silver, and the subsidy for cars and people is Five taels, the craftsmen will be paid by the piece..."

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this: "As expected, it's the God of Wealth. You're willing to do it with this condition. I want to pull the car."

"Actually, it doesn't cost much." Zhu Zhen said calmly: "I just did the math. Two million shi of grain was transported from Jiangnan to Beiping. Even if we don't pay the workers, the cost of eating horse chews is still 500,000 taels of silver. The above...this is still under the condition of shipping by sea.”

"That's right, if we use water transport to transport two million shi of grain, we will have to consume another 2 million shi of grain." Zhu Di nodded and said suddenly: "Even according to your conditions, if the grain can be transported to Peking within a month, , it only costs about five hundred thousand taels of silver."

"This is an extraordinary period. There is no need for us to save money for my father-in-law, right?" Zhu Zhen raised his eyebrows.

"I thought you had to pay for it out of your own pocket. If the general's office pays for it, there is no need to feel bad." Zhu Di said with a smile: "You can spend one million taels. Anyway, I have the final say now."

"Do I have to give you another 200,000 taels of kickback?" Zhu Zhen couldn't help but laugh.

"Wow, you really understand." Zhu Di said, his smile became a little unnatural and said: "I only heard about it, I have never received any kickbacks."

"That's too far." Zhu Zhen coughed and said, "No time for idle talk."

"Yes, yes." Zhu Di nodded quickly and said: "Tomorrow morning I will ask them to search again. Take out all the wood in the Beiping warehouse and make as much as you can. You can take the rest with you and make it yourself when you get to Shandong. ”

"Okay." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "I remembered that there are tens of thousands of pieces of wood in the library of Prince Lu's palace. They were taken out by the old ten strongmen who demolished private houses. It should be enough..."

"Ah? What is he doing with so much wood? Is he using it as firewood?" Zhu Di asked in confusion.

"I asked this great smart man, and he said that what he originally wanted to do was to demolish all the people's houses, and then use the demolished building materials to build a garden for himself." Zhu Zhen said speechlessly: "After the demolition was completed, all these What kind of broken bricks, tiles, and cheap wood can be used to build a garden? So the garden was not repaired, and the wood was just piled up."

"You don't need any good wood to make an ice truck. It doesn't matter pine or elm, or even paulownia." Zhu Di said with a smile.

"Then it must be no problem." Zhu Zhen finished writing all the letters as he spoke, sealed them and handed them to his fourth brother. Zhu Di immediately arranged for them to be sent out urgently within 800 miles.

After everything was arranged, Zhu Zhen calculated the time and breathed a sigh of relief: "Basically, I should be able to complete these things in a month."

"Awesome!" Zhu Di gave a thumbs up sincerely and said: "Actually, when my father-in-law begged you yesterday, I didn't have any hope. I thought that this Northern Expedition was probably going to be a failure. That is, you can save this matter again. It’s absolutely impossible to change someone else’s mind.”

"If I hadn't stayed in Shandong for half a year, I would still be in trouble." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "What a damn coincidence."