Father can be an enemy to the country

Zhu Zhen and his party left Nanjing at the end of February and followed the original route, traveling upstream and arriving in Mayang in one and a half months.

Mayang is located at the junction of Huguang and Guizhou. It is also the end of the waterway. Next, you have to take the land route.

The chieftains of Xiangxi have been waiting here for a long time, welcoming his arrival with great anxiety.

Five years ago, Zhu Zhen reached an agreement with them, allowing them to build and maintain roads in lieu of paying taxes. Of course, it must be built according to the standards of the imperial court. It must be ten feet wide on flat ground and two feet wide on mountain roads. The road should be kept flat, without potholes, and the road base should be higher than both sides of the road to facilitate drainage...

Lest these gangsters deal with things haphazardly, he also asked the Ministry of Works to send officials to supervise the work.

Later, after the project was carried out for more than a year, officials from the Ministry of Industry reported that the road construction was completed and passed the acceptance inspection. Zhu Zhen was quite happy at the time, thinking that he still underestimated these chieftains. Aren't they quite capable?

Unexpectedly, two and a half years ago, on his way back to Beijing from Yunnan, his intestines almost came out during this walk.

The roads were full of potholes, like the surface of the moon. The road foundations had collapsed in many places and there was serious water accumulation. There were even fish inside.

Zhu Zhen was furious at that time and immediately summoned these idiots to show them what the road he built looked like.

The losers were also shocked, and they all swore to heaven that they really practiced cultivation seriously at that time. Otherwise, it will not pass the imperial court’s acceptance.

Zhu Zhen asked: "Do you usually maintain roads?"

"Ah? We still need to maintain the road..." The chieftains were dumbfounded.

Zhu Zhen wanted to hang them up and beat them, and cursed: "It would be fine if the king didn't say it, but I have given you many instructions, this road is three points for cultivation and seven points for nourishment! Do you have to inspect it regularly and repair it in time?" !”

"We thought that the road we just built doesn't need to be maintained, at least in a few years." The chieftains said timidly: "Who knew that it had just been built for a few days and it would be like this?"

"I don't know how severe the floods are in the mountainous areas of western Hunan? If a flash flood occurs, won't the roads be ruined?!" Zhu Zhen was so angry that he rewarded each of these gangsters with twenty lashes, and ordered them to get rid of them before he returned. The road has been repaired. If it is still in such a bad state when you come back, I will send you to Yunnan to dig salt from the wells!

The chieftains were all frightened. As soon as Lao Liu left, they quickly led all the tribesmen to repair the bridge and repair the road and restore the road to its original state. And like serving the emperor, he carefully maintains it. Many toasts even set up their homes directly on the roadside for easy care. I'm afraid that when that terrible prince returns, he will find fault again...

But they never expected that they had to wait year after year, two and a half years, before he came back.

When the chieftains heard the news that the prince was about to return, they all shed sad tears. They really wanted to say to Lao Liu: 'Do you know how we have spent these two and a half years? ’

We were patrolling the road with all eyes on the sky, lest something go wrong again.

If there is a heavy rain and a flash flood occurs, they may be so frightened that they cannot sleep all night long. As soon as the water receded, we quickly took people to restore the road surface. We didn't dare to delay for a day.

In the past two years or so, my legs have become thinner and I have lost weight due to fatigue. Most importantly, I am always on tenterhooks. It is simply not a human life. Why don't you just pay some taxes to save yourself the trouble?

Fortunately, their hard work was not in vain. When Zhu Zhen saw the convoy passing steadily on the wide post road, he was full of praise and said: "Very good, very good. It can still be maintained so well now. It shows that you have used it." Those who are sincere will be rewarded!”

Hong Bao, who took Ma Sanbao's place, quickly led others to bring out the cloth, silk, and salt tea that had been prepared long ago, and presented them to all the toasts.

Each chieftain received a generous reward, which made them smile from ear to ear. They put aside the idea of ​​never building roads again and decided to continue working hard.

In fact, saying "it's better to pay taxes" is just an angry talk. These chieftains set up their homes on the roadside, set up a tea stall, and opened an inn to let the passing caravans rest and sell some mountain products. Earn less. Life is much more comfortable than before.

If you want to be rich, build roads first. This saying is applicable at any time. Without this road, they would have to continue digging in the soil for food. Even if it was toast, they would have nothing and be extremely poor. So they just point to this road to eat, and of course they have to continue to maintain it.

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After entering Guizhou, not to mention, the road condition was so good that Lao Si was amazed. It is almost the same as the official system in the mainland.

If Lao Liu hadn't told him, he wouldn't have dared to imagine that such an extremely difficult mountain post road was actually the work of a group of Luo Luo people.

At this time, the two female leaders of the Luoluo people had been waiting on the border of Guizhou for a long time.

Mrs. Shexiang and Liu Shuzhu are still charming and beautiful. After not seeing each other for so many years, Zhu Zhen did miss her dearly, but he couldn't be as unscrupulous as before. One is that his sister-in-law is still following him, and he needs to lose face.

Second, her two sons have grown up, and they are really embarrassed to be too close to their mother in front of the young men.

"Why did it take so long for the prince to be gone?" Liu Shuzhu's beautiful eyes flashed with undisguised lovesickness.

"Ah, there are too many things. I never thought that I would be gone for so long." Zhu Zhen winked at her and said seriously: "How are you two ladies?"

"Everything is fine." Shexiang replied calmly and generously: "I just miss the prince day and night."

In the carriage, Xu Miaoyun wanted to get off the car to greet these two amazing women, but he bumped his head against the door frame when he heard the words, and whispered to the fourth brother beside him: "Did I hear it right?"

"No." Zhu Di coughed and whispered: "There have been rumors about this many years ago..."

"Then I'd better not get off the car, so as to save Uncle Six from embarrassment." Xu Miaoyun closed the door, thinking that it was no wonder that Uncle Six didn't let Run'er go with him. It turned out that there was this part waiting. This ability to find opportunities is really amazing.

"..."Don't mention his fourth sister-in-law, even the sixth brother himself couldn't hold it. He looked around with a guilty conscience and saw that everyone, whether Han or Yi, turned their heads away. He calmed down and said to She Xiang:

"I miss you too."

For a prince, as long as he is shameless, there is basically no taboo. She Xiang is so brave, he has nothing to say, one word, just do it!

"So you only think about your sister." Liu Suzhu pretended to be sad and said, "I even drew eyebrows for the prince."

"Hahaha, then I have to take a good look." Zhu Zhen laughed and carried the petite Liu Suzhu directly to his horse. Then he asked her, "Why have you become so bold after not seeing you for two years?"

Liu Suzhu leaned on his broad chest and smiled faintly, "Everyone in the world says that we are not clear. If we still pretend, won't we be embarrassed to death?"

"That's right. Anyway, in the eyes of others, you have long been my woman!" Zhu Zhen laughed and said, "It's me who is obsessed!"