I am the king of the dead

Zhu Qiyu did not appreciate the complacency after the victory of the Imperial Academy, as if the iron horse had lost, as if Zhu Qiyu had rolled off the throne, but called Shang Ren to the imperial study room of the lecture hall.

"Scholar of Commerce, do you think about changing your position? Taichang Temple's health is not good, and he has been resigning from his post recently to cultivate himself, and he is still in charge of the history of Taichang Temple." Zhu Qiyu asked Shang Ren's opinion.

Taichang Temple is mainly responsible for rituals and music of sacrifices. There is not much oil and water in this place, and it is not as noble as those who come from the Hanlin Academy of the Imperial Academy.

Shang Ren was overjoyed when he heard the words, bowed his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness."

Zhu Qiyu thought that Shang Ren would decline a few words, so he just thanked him and agreed. Seeing that he didn't look like a fake, it was the Imperial Academy, where Shang Ren really stayed enough.

Since Zhu Qiyu started the reform of official administration, the cabinet and the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty were no longer exclusive to the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy is returning to its original appearance, allowing the new Jinshi and Jinshi to observe and discuss state affairs.

"Where did Shi Xiu go?" Zhu Qiyu asked about the progress of King Jili's Record.

"Fixed the matter of discounting the salary in Prince Tan's Mansion." Shang Ren said with a frown.

The royal family's salary was ten thousand stones, and after becoming a vassal, they would then receive food from the official land. However, the previous concubine Ji Qian had no children, and the King's Mansion was unable to become a vassal for a long time. Seventy percent discounted banknotes.

This time, life in Prince Yi's Mansion became difficult.

"Is there any difficulty?" Zhu Qiyu asked as he looked at Shang Ren's frowning.

Shang Ren said helplessly: "The person who presides over the salary discount is Master Hu Min Hu."

The ancestral mansion of the Ming Dynasty was under the management of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhu Qiyu's discounted salary was a memorandum written by Hu Wei, which was approved by King Jili Zhu.

Zhu Qiyu was happy, and said with a smile: "I really don't know that Hu Min did it! From now on, I'm going to Hu Min's house to get some food and eat him poorly!"

"It's not a big deal, just record it truthfully."

Compared with the discounted salary of Prince Yi's Mansion, Zhu Qiyu's system of descending raids is even harsher.

Zhu Qiyu ate as the emperor, he was not alone, there were a lot of officials and cooks, all of them went to Hu Wei's house to eat, and in half a month, Hu Wei had to sell the books in his small attic.

"Your Majesty obeys the order." Seeing that His Majesty really didn't care, Shang Ren relaxed.

Shang Ren knew that His Majesty did not accept food and drink outside the palace, so being able to eat at Hu Wei's house was the trust of His Majesty, and it was a good story for the monarch and his ministers.

"I just want to make him poor, and then dig out all the little secrets in that little attic of him to see what's in that little box!" So curious.

Every time Hu Yan took a note out of it, it was extremely surprising.

Chapter 816 Some Problems of Jingxuan Chidao

Shang Ren looked at everything in the Imperial Study Room of the Juxian Pavilion in the Lecture Hall, and it was very novel. He seldom met alone, and the most people who came to the Juxian Pavilion were to attend the Yantie Conference, and Shang Ren had never set foot in the Imperial Study Room.

By chance, Shang Lu came to the Imperial Study Room for the first time and saw the water clock on the table, the pendulum clock in the corner, and the sandalwood boxes placed on the row of antique racks by His Majesty. pocket watch.

Today, there are only a handful of pocket watches that can be rewarded by His Majesty, and they are all His Majesty's confidantes.

Including Hu Wei who discounted [-]% of the ancestral salary of Prince Yi's mansion.

There are still a few paintings, and to Shang Lu's amazement, the painting that disappeared on the grassland after a few nights of fist bumping was right where His Majesty could see it when he looked up.

What puzzled Shang Ren was the flipped spirit tablet, what would His Majesty want to sacrifice, and put it in the imperial study?

Shang Ren thought that there was some important national matter to discuss, but he came to the imperial study and waited for a while, only to find that His Majesty played "Chi Dao Project" with Yu Qian and Shi Heng.

Originally a casual game, it was very simple at the beginning, but soon, Shangren discovered the difficulties. The planning seemed simple, but in fact it tested vision, experience and the most important planning ability.

Shi Heng was the first one to lose the battle. He was good at pushing the chessboard, playing this plan, his forehead was full of sweat, and he couldn't plan. There were a lot of props left under others. He played to the end, not only did not have any left, And not enough.

Shang Ren soon served as a foreign aid and began to help Shi Heng as a staff member, but he still lost to the speed and progress of His Majesty and Yu Qian.

Zhu Qiyu set up a total of sixteen levels. The combination of Shi Heng and Shang Ren was stuck at level No. 11 and could not pass the level. No matter how the props in his hand were placed, they were not enough. The emperor and Yu Shaobao, It has reached the fifteenth level.

The two seem to be more than enough to deal with it, and there is still time to chat.

"Yu Shaobao is amazing." Zhu Qiyu kept thinking, kept moving his hands, and talked to disturb Yu Qian's thoughts. His style is to play quickly, but Yu Qian is a wily man. After looking at the chessboard for a long time, he began to move quickly. .

Yu Qian said with a smile: "Your Majesty praises me, this is what I do. If I can't, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous? It's really not difficult."

Shi Heng and Shang Ren glanced at each other, put down the props in their hands, not to mention that they couldn't continue playing, and were humiliated by Yu Shaobao in front of them, it would be impolite to play again.

Zhu Qiyu played another prop and completed the No.15 level a little faster than Yu Qian, then picked up the No.16 level chessboard and said, "Of course this chessboard is not difficult at the moment. Chidao has only been repaired for sixty miles. In the future, Chidao The more you practice, the more difficult and miscellaneous diseases you will encounter, and at that time the level of this "Chi Dao Project" will become higher than my Juxian Pavilion."

"It turns out that this chessboard is a difficult and miscellaneous disease on the sixty-mile road. No wonder." Yu Qian also completed the No.15 level and started the No.16 level. dignified.

No.16 is closed for Qianka, and he is helpless in the face of this problem.

He looked up and saw that His Majesty was almost finished, which surprised Yu Qian.

"This is the terrain of Juyongguan. From Nankou to Qinglong Bridge, climb up to Badaling, there is a drop of nearly 180 feet. This is also the reason why Juyongguan was not captured after sending Xining to occupy Zijingguan first." Zhu Qiyu Talking about the past of the Battle of the Capital.

Also first dispatched nearly 3 people to attack Juyongguan from Nankou, intending to cut off the road for Xuanfu Yang Hongchi to help the capital.

Commander Zhao Wen and Luo Tong, the right servant of the Ministry of War, sprinkled water to freeze, so that the Wala people could not climb, and finally waited for Yang Hong's reinforcements.

This led to only five days of fighting outside Xizhimen. At that time, I also saw that I was going to be flanked from front to back, and the Khan Tuotuobuhua of the Tatars secretly passed the song with the Ming court, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty was heavily guarded. Not afraid of death, even the newly enthroned emperor went to battle to capture the flag. In the end, after many considerations, he had to flee with the Oirats in a panic and ran away.

This time, he fled directly to Samarkand.

He also thought that he could come back in the future after going there for this reason, but when it came to the Battle of Hetao, he realized clearly that it was his only chance in this life.

Zhu Qiyu completed the No.16 pass. The road of Daming will continue from Shijingchang, and it is planned to go through Fengtai to Juyongguan, enter Badaling from the south entrance, and finally reach Xuanfu.

This section is the road that will be built soon, and it is also in the preparatory stage, and it has always been unresolved.

Zhu Qiyu specializes in treating difficult and miscellaneous diseases.

"Your Majesty, I can't solve it, even the good horse from the Imperial Horse Supervisor can't pull it up." Yu Qian waited for His Majesty to finish, looked at it for a long time and finally gave up. He really couldn't figure it out, he asked curiously: "Your Majesty How did you solve it?"

Zhu Qiyu put his chessboard on the table and said: "Look, Yu Shaobao, there is a gentle slope in the middle of the 180 feet. We built the road into a sideways herringbone. When going up the slope, we pushed it with two iron horses. Two iron horses, after climbing up the gentle slope, the two iron horses that pushed were changed to pull, and the two iron horses that pulled were changed to push, and the 180-foot slope was divided into two ends to climb, so it was much easier."

After reading it, Yu Qian was convinced, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty is really eclectic, and his workmanship is ingenious."

His Majesty's thinking has always been out of the ordinary. Yu Qian does not have this kind of imaginative imagination. Yu Qian is 61 years old. He has never seen a horse that can push a cart, but an iron horse can push it.

Technological inventions that existed before the age of 0 are a natural necessity of life;

The technological inventions that appear between the ages of 20 and 40 are extraordinary creations that change the world;

Technological inventions that appear after the age of 40 are evil heresies that do not need to exist;

Yu Qian is 61 years old, but he is not limited to his past thinking, nor does he reject all kinds of new inventions and creations. On the contrary, he never tires of it. Learned something new?

It turns out that it is so difficult to build Chi Road, even on flat ground, there are all kinds of weird problems.

Zhu Qiyu put down the chessboard, hesitated and said: "The Ministry of Industry has given an approximate budget, and the repair from Shijingshan to Xuanfu will cost more than 690 million silver coins, and it will take three years to repair."

"If this section can be opened up, it will not be a problem to repair it in Xi'an, Jiayuguan, Nanya, Guangzhou, Liaodong, Yunnan, or even Shenglong in the future. Extremely opposed."

Zhu Qiyu finally saw him, he didn't play this casually.

Jing Xuan chi said, it is too expensive.

Zhu Qiyu was a little hesitant, so he took advantage of this entertainment to ask Yu Qian's opinion on this, but after the completion, Zhu Qiyu could not refuse the various values ​​brought by this section of the road.

Yu Qian thought for a while, and said with a smile: "If it is three years, the annual investment will be 230 million silver coins, so it is not unacceptable."

As soon as Yu Qian said this, Zhu Qiyu laughed first, and then the whole imperial study room was filled with joyful atmosphere.

"Yu Shaobao knows how to calculate." Zhu Qiyu shook his head with a smile and said, "Such a calculation is indeed not expensive."

After the cheerful atmosphere passed, Yu Qian said seriously: "Civils and heavens are changing. If my Daming has such a fast road, how can the Oirats win against Daming? Soldiers are precious and fast. After this fast road is repaired, they will be able to fight against the mountains." The Kyushu outside and the seven states inside the mountain are completely connected, and the inside of the mountain and the outside of the mountain are connected as one, making it difficult for foreign captives to enter."

"Emperor Taizong Wen insisted on moving the capital to Beiya. Naturally, Emperor Wen became a vassal of Beiya at the age of 20. After staying in Beiya for a long time, he couldn't stay in the south, but the threat from the northern captives was also the main reason."

"Only when this Chidao is repaired can the Yanshan defense line be truly integrated."

This road is of great military significance.

Zhu Di moved the capital back then after extremely careful consideration, and after more than ten years of disputes, he finally decided to move the capital. There were loud voices of opposition from the court, but in the end Zhu Di defied all opinions and completed the major event of moving the capital.

Many of Zhu Di's decrees followed the 24-year prosperity of Wen and Wu, and the death of the government, but this relocation of the capital was a far-reaching event.

The demise of the Northern Song Dynasty proved one thing, that is, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were in the hands of the enemy, and the capitals were Xi'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, and Nanjing, all of which were short-lived dynasties.

Behind the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun lies the Qianli Plain, and the northern captives can cavalry southward at any time to slaughter and plunder the land of the Central Plains.

When Jingkang was destroyed in the Northern Song Dynasty, after Wanyan Zongwang went south from Gubeikou to take Youzhou, he directly jumped frog tactics, skipped Zhending, Xiongzhou, and Dezhou and went directly south to the bank of the Yellow River, and then crossed the river while the Yellow River was frozen in winter. Force Kaifeng Mansion.

Song Huizong was so frightened that he let the prince Song Qinzong Zhao Huan, and Song Huizong ran directly to Shangqiu in the south.

Wanyan Zongwang did not capture Kaifeng for the first time, but returned to the north after extorting a fortune, because the King Qin army of the Song Dynasty had arrived.

The next year, after Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan joined forces to take Taiyuan, they cut off the way for the Western Army of the Song Dynasty to rush to Kaifeng, and then packed away Song Huizong and Song Qinzong.

In the battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, immediately began to go south after capturing Yang Wen in the third year of Jianwen. Cloud sixteen states, really cannot be lost.

In the land of the Central Plains, whoever controls the land of Yanyun will be able to swallow the world.

The construction of this Beijing Xuanchi Road will mark that from then on, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun will be connected as one, which will strengthen the defense line of Yanyun.

Yu Qian continued: "Your Majesty, the business road from Xuanfu to the capital is rugged, and it is not easy for things from Hetao and beyond the Great Wall to enter Beijing. I still remember that in the past, Shanxi merchants monopolized the trade with the Northern Captive Tatars, Wuliangha, and Wala. If this road is repaired and the natural moat becomes open, the Hetao will no longer be lost."

In terms of business exchanges, it is not easy for Shanxi goods to enter Beijing. If you want to enter Beijing, you have to go over mountains and mountains. Things.

"King Xiang is still presiding over the Wanghua Tatars outside the Great Wall, which is even more difficult than Yungui. Although the Tatars outside the Great Wall and the Wuliangha people belonged to them for a short time, it was entirely because of the strength of the Ming Dynasty. There will be no day to win the Central Plains." Yu Qian also talked about Wanghua Tatar.

The Tatar Guanshan Forum is the place where Yu Qian and Shi Heng reconciled. Yu Qian made it clear at the time that either Shi Heng killed Yu Qian in order to avenge his personal grievances, or the generals will reconcile in the future, stop the dispute, and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty together. do your best.

Shi Heng has the status of Marquis of Wuqing and Chief Military Officer of the Beijing Division today, and it was Yu Qian who rescued Shi Heng from prison. Although there were many grievances and grievances in the past, but now that time has passed and the emperor has changed, they naturally let go of those things. The original dirty.

The reason why Lian Po and Lin Xiangru's reconciliation between generals and prime ministers became a good talk is because such things are rare.

The Guanshan Forum is also the place where the Tatar, Wuliangha, and Wala tribal alliances have now become the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If the construction of the Jingxuanchi Road is completed and the Tatars completely become the people of the Ming Dynasty, they will no longer be a part of the Ming Dynasty. Kind of expected.

These military, economic, political, and cultural values ​​cannot be rejected by Zhu Qiyu, nor by the Ming Dynasty.

"Then fix it." Zhu Qiyu finally made up his mind.

Repair, no matter how expensive it is, have to repair it.

Just like opening the sea, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how many difficulties there are, it must be done.

Simultaneous development of sea and land is Jingtai's grand strategy and plan, and it is the great plan of the country. No matter how difficult it is, Zhu Qiyu has to do it.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "If Shen Shangshu still refuses to pay, at worst, I will issue special national bonds and ask the common people to borrow money. After the repair is completed, I will pay it back slowly."

Of course there is money in the internal funds, but the internal funds are the emergency reserves of the national treasury. Zhu Qiyu insists on the attitude of not moving if he can. If there is still a lot of opposition from the household department, Zhu Qiyu will raise funds from the society.

It can also be regarded as a method and attempt to build a road.

Of course, the ownership of the Chidao belongs to Daming, this is unquestionable, Zhu Qiyu does not want to be smashed in the head by the princes from all walks of life walking the Chidao he built.

Zhu Qiyu's reputation is extremely firm, no matter whether he is an unswerving supporter or someone who swears and swears all day long, he has to admit that His Majesty is a person who keeps his promises.

He issued a treasury bond before, and he had to have a network to subscribe for it. The gang of elites in the capital couldn't afford it, or they were afraid that the food would be too ugly, so let His Majesty think about it and release it a little bit, so as not to make the situation too ugly.

Who in Ming Dynasty doesn't know that His Majesty is best at managing money?

"If your majesty issues national debt because of this matter, and puts your majesty in a predicament of borrowing money from the people, and it's not because the state has no money, but because of disagreements in political opinions, then Shen Shangshu will have to hang himself." Yu Qian shook his head and said: The fact that His Majesty borrowed money is even more embarrassing and resentful."

The righteousness of monarchs and ministers for thousands of years is no joke, if the national debt is really issued, Shen Yi can only hang himself.

This is not borrowing money, it is clearly killing people.

The national funds are not so poor that they cannot be solved during the orthodox years, there is no way to do that, even if you kill the Minister of the Household Department, you have no money, and the Jingtai Dynasty’s national funds are so rich, in this case, your majesty has to beg for money from the people, Shen Yi Immortality is unacceptable.

"Then it's time for Yu Shaobao to persuade Shen Shangshu. If Shen Shangshu still refuses, then I will talk to him again." Zhu Qiyu has already made up his mind, so he will naturally go ahead with this matter.

Yu Qian couldn't do it, so he went up in person, and he still didn't believe that he couldn't persuade this stubborn old man.

"I obey the order." Yu Qian bowed his head to take the order, he thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I am greedy for heaven's merits, so leave this matter to me?"

Having said all of this, Yu Qian certainly knows what His Majesty thinks, this road is so important, if it is handed over to others, His Majesty may not feel at ease.

"That's exactly what I mean." Zhu Qiyu signaled Xing'an to plan a move. He took the seal and put it in the seal, and handed over the matter of Beijing's announcement of the road to Yu Qian.

Yu Qian said that he is greedy for heaven, and it is indeed the case. His majesty has taken on the reputation problem of wasting a lot of money and not caring about people's power, and his majesty has also solved the technical problem of repairing this road. The remaining problems are the field that Yu Qian is good at.

It was the first time for Shang Ren to observe a government decision at such a close distance.

Shang Ren had always been worried that Yu Qian would become Huo Guang of the Ming Dynasty, but now it seems that he was completely overwhelmed. He didn't know that the relationship between His Majesty and Yu Shaobao was definitely not like Huo Guang and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

Chapter 817 A Heartless Monster

As for the idea of ​​Jingxuan Chidao, Zhu Qiyu is naturally not the inventor, but the creation and invention of Zhan Tianyou, a railway engineer with a long way to go, and Daming just wanted to build this Chidao, and it happened to be applicable.

If the Jingxuan Chi Road can be successfully built, then Daming's plan for the Kowloon official road of Chi Dao trunk line can continue to be implemented.

Zhu Qiyu had high hopes for this road, and even sent Yu Qian to supervise it himself, which shows that he attaches great importance to it.

Zhu Qiyu picked up another memorial, put it on the table, and said quite seriously: "Songjiang Prefecture Shipyard plans to launch thirty treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty next year, please order to go to the West."