Daming: Refining zombies at the beginning, Lao Zhu was shocked

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he glanced at Zhu Biao in surprise, and then chuckled.

He naturally understood what Zhu Biao meant. In fact, building cement roads is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Not only the cement road from Hanzhong to Yingtianfu needs to be built, but the cement road to Beipingfu also needs to be built!

To be precise, all roads in Daming will be gradually replaced by cement roads in the future!

At least all official roads must be paved with cement!

First, cement roads can improve the efficiency of cargo transportation, promote the circulation of goods, and make commerce more prosperous!

Secondly, it also greatly shortens the travel distance, which is also more conducive to military needs. Whether it is transporting grain and grass supplies or the imperial army, the efficiency will be at least two or three times higher than before!

For example, it will take at least more than a month to escort grain and grass from Yingtian Mansion to Beiping!

But with cement roads and rubber tires, this time can even be shortened to about ten days!

If it was just a quick march of light cavalry, it would take even a few days to get from Yingtian to Peking, which was at least twice as early as the original time of at least ten days!

Even if ordinary infantry march on two legs, compared with the smooth cement road and the bumpy dirt road, the efficiency improvement is not even a little bit!

There is also a third benefit, which is more conducive to the imperial court's control over the entire Ming Dynasty!

The efficiency of travel has improved, and the government's decrees will be conveyed to local governments more quickly, which will also be more conducive to the court's local rule. The efficiency of information transmission has improved, and news is no longer as blocked as before!

Zhu Biao has already realized these benefits, but Zhu Yuanzhang understands them more clearly than he does!

"You are right, this is indeed a good thing. No matter what the fourth child thinks, the cement road will always be built!"

"You directly reply to the fourth child and say that the cement road can be repaired, but we have to wait until all the cement roads from Hanzhong to Yingtianfu are repaired, and we have to do it slowly one by one, otherwise no matter how much money the Ministry of Revenue has, it will not be able to afford the Ming Dynasty. Money for building roads in various places at the same time!”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and then gave instructions directly to Zhu Biao.

Although he knew that the fourth child, Zhu Di, was not innocent, Zhu Yuanzhang did not take it seriously. As a father, he had to be relatively fair at least on the surface!

He believed that Lao Jiu could finally deal with Lao Si, so naturally this evil man did not need Zhu Yuanzhang to do it!

The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang knows that with Lao Jiu's methods, he can't really do anything to these vassal brothers, and no fratricide will really happen!

In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang simply ran away from the problem and just played the role of a father!

"Okay, let's reply to the fourth child later!"

Zhu Biao glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang in surprise, obviously not expecting that the old man would relent on this matter so easily!

Originally, he was worried that the old man would take this opportunity and beat the fourth child again!

As a result, it will inevitably affect the father-son relationship between the old man and the fourth child, but now it seems that he may be overthinking it!

"It seems that you have full confidence in Lao Jiu, dad?"

Soon, Zhu Biao figured out the key.

The reason why the old man relented was probably because he was sure that Lao Jiu would be able to control Lao Si. Otherwise, according to his character, he decided to give the throne to Lao Jiu and would never give Lao Si any undue thoughts!

"That boy deserves it!"

"Today's Lao Jiu, even me, who is my father, can't see through it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly and nodded.

To be precise, in terms of ability, Lao Jiu directly compares to his father!

This is no longer a matter of confidence, but Lao Jiu has that absolute strength!

He is already invincible just by relying on his inheritance of eight miracles. Not to mention his sons and grandsons, even if he plays on his own, he is not enough to beat Laojiu!

This is very annoying, but I have to accept it!

When Zhu Biao heard this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Indeed, one has to be convinced by Lao Jiu’s ability!

At least he, the eldest brother, is convinced!

"Drink tea. Let me personally pour a cup of tea for you, the prince. I have learned some arty things these days. How about you trying the tea we brewed?"

Zhu Yuanzhang directly handed a cup of tea to Zhu Biao at this time, using the set of cups that Zhu Yue had given him before!

"Better than Erchen's!"

After Zhu Biao drank the tea brewed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, he gave the old man a rainbow fart!

If you want to say what is good about it, it would be too false to boast about it. Anyway, it is just better than your own son!

"That's natural. You will always be your father!"

"But you still have to use this tea set made by Lao Jiu to get the feeling of brewing!"

"This thing is really good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly.

"Not to mention, Er Chen has always used the tea set given by Lao Jiu last time to make tea in the East Palace. It tastes better than other tea sets!"

Zhu Biao nodded with approval and smiled.

"Did you know that tea sets like this have recently fetched a sky-high price in Hanzhong?"

"We originally thought that with Laojiu having such good technology, he would mass-produce to make money, but we didn't expect that Hanzhong would only produce five sets every month, and the one with the highest price would get it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned at this time that Zhu Yue auctioned these tea sets in Hanzhong!

"It is true that Lao Jiu is better at this aspect. As the eldest brother, we are ashamed of ourselves!"

When Zhu Biao heard this, he nodded with deep understanding.

Zhu Biao naturally has a clear mind. Isn't it the principle that rare things are valuable?

No matter how good something is, once it becomes trashy, its value will quickly decrease!

Especially when everyone can buy one set, it will definitely be a bargain!

Moreover, ordinary people only use tea sets to drink water, and they don’t need such fancy high-end gadgets!

Such a product was originally intended for use by the rich and powerful, so the price would naturally not be low, and the quantity would become even rarer!

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Have the marriage arrangements for the two children been arranged?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a change of subject.

"Well, the date has been set. It's the 13th day of the first lunar month. It's an auspicious day for getting married!"

Zhu Biao smiled and nodded.

This time, he wanted to marry the two brothers Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi at the same time. It would be done all at once, so they would not come one by one!

"Okay, after these two children get married, we should prepare for the Western Tour!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction and said.

To be precise, he was going to the northwest after Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi became vassal!

Inland vassal kings want to join the vassal, especially in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River. There is no need to make any preparations. After the vassal king gets married, he can just go directly to join the vassal!

It's not like those places in important frontier towns, where you also have to consider the ability of the feudal lord and whether he can defend it and so on!