Xiao Houye's seven-year imperial examination and five-year road to Kaifeng[75]

The treasury of this dynasty is abundant, and huge sums of money are spent on building railways every year. Routes are planned from different cities, the construction is scattered, and finally connected together. This can speed up the construction and save a lot of time.

As for those mountains encountered, many of them were directly destroyed by fire, and some were dug into a tunnel and reinforced by some means.

Today's construction speed is not comparable to those of the previous dynasties. There are many auxiliary machines just to save ordinary people more effort and time.

On Zhao Jue's side alone, there are almost 5000 people working at the same time every day, and their mobility is amazing. If one person can complete a distance of one meter, then 5000 people can complete 5000 meters. Not much difference.

What's more, more workers are still being recruited along the way, and there are still many people who are willing to join, especially those whose busy farming season is over. The captives of Zhu State, basically the people of this dynasty, can pay the bill and leave on the spot if they want to leave.

There are so many temporary workers. When there are many people, there can be 3 people at the peak. It is conceivable how terrible the state of work is.

If it wasn't getting dark so fast, they thought they were okay!

No, you can't!

Xiang Jun, the supervisor, felt that he was going to die of exhaustion. As a result, Zhao Jue was eager to return to his hometown, and proposed to pay overtime pay. Anyway, he couldn't see clearly, so he lit torches and kerosene lamps along the way.

Thirty kilometers can be built in one day, which is terrible. The supervisor also has another job, which is to check the quality of the railway, which is not sloppy at all.

However, the railway workers will still be allowed to sleep for four hours, and they will also have time to rest during the day. After half a year, those workers have not lost weight, but are much stronger than before, and because of the half a year of construction, all of them have become skilled workers. .

Everyone didn't know why the regent wanted to build these things made of iron bumps, but it didn't prevent them from happily collecting their wages, and they resigned and went home two months before the Chinese New Year.

There were also people who asked their fellow countrymen to bring money home. Seeing that it was a good profit, how could they let it go.Their wages were higher than those of the Xiang army. If it weren't for the fact that the Xiang army could not leave casually, they would all want to be workers.

The people around Zhao Jue chose to avoid those big mountains when calculating the route. After all, the cost of going to Mount Huozha was too high, and there was nothing dangerous about it.

Compared with the construction speed in the south, the speed in the north is slightly slower. After all, there are not 3 people working six hours a day.

Pang Yu disliked slowness, so his small eyes were fixed on Xiangjun and Xiangbing, but only a part of them were transferred, half and half, and no one complained about the subsidy for building the railway for a month. Compared with the days when Xiangjun , They still earn more from building railways, and they can still get two parts of the money at the same time, one is the subsidy from the railway, and the other is naturally the salary of their army.

After waiting for a month, they will switch to another group of people. The food is good, and there are two pieces of money. If you don't like it, you are a fool.

As for the 82 imperial guards, that was the foundation of the dynasty. Pang Yu wanted to move, but unfortunately with his right to speak, if he really wanted to move, he would be sprayed to death by those old officials.

Forget it, it's not worth it, those imperial troops may not be as easy to use as the Xiang army.

The main reason is that this generation is not as good as the previous generation. Pang Yu dare not even think about what the forbidden army looks like, for fear of being investigated and rotten to the root.

It is not uncommon for many forbidden soldiers to eat empty salaries, because this dynasty does not pay attention to generals, and they cannot be compared with civil servants. The extra money they receive is not ordinary money.

With Zhao Jue's warning at the beginning, things got a lot better. No one wanted to be stripped of their official uniforms and sent back to their hometown, let alone be hacked into pieces.

I received a letter from Zhu during the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and it turned out that it was almost Chinese New Year, and the princess of Zhu hadn't arrived yet. Because of the busy government affairs, both the petty officials and Pang Yu forgot about it.

It's going to be another year without Zhao Jue, and Pang Yu is not happy anymore. Could it be that when the railway is built, it will be the day when they will be reunited again?

Finally, on a snowy day in Bianjing, the princess from Zhu country finally arrived, but the little official didn't meet her immediately.

She would see her whenever she wanted, so he would lose face as an official.

The princess was placed in the mansion where the envoys from foreign courts were concentrated. The housing environment was not bad at all. After all, she was a princess of a country, and the accommodation standard was probably the treatment of the princess here.

The staff who went to receive the princess came back and described to Pang Yu that the princess was severely frozen. Probably she had never been so cold in her life, and her face turned pale from the cold.

Pang Yu thinks about it too, the country of Zhu is still quite hot, especially the location of the capital of the country of Zhu.

It's just that when you want to meet the princess, you still need to make some preparations, just in case the other party will come in a bad way, so as to avoid some unnecessary troubles.

But Pang Yu finally knew why the princess was able to walk on the road for more than seven months and came after the Chinese New Year in Bianjing. Probably the king of Zhu Kingdom wanted to show his sincerity. elephant.

The poor elephant never thought that there would be a day of freezing, even if it was wrapped in a thick blanket, it would still be cold.

After staying in the annex, I lit the coal stove, and it got a little better.

Pang Yu remembered reading a piece of news before. In a country like Tom Yum Kung, people could freeze to death at a temperature of more than ten degrees, which is unimaginable in this dynasty.

Especially now, they are cooperating with the frontiers, and how much cotton is transported every year, whether it is made into cotton cloth, cotton clothes, trousers or even quilts, not to mention that the common people have a quilt, anyway, quilts are no longer rare. Prices have also come down.

Near Bianjing City, there are also a lot of cotton planted.

In order to prevent the dignified princess of the Zhu Kingdom from freezing to death in Bianjing, Pang Yu sent more people to send some charcoal fires to the princess, as well as cotton quilts and cotton clothes, etc. It has nothing to do with him whether she wears them or not.

That's right!It's Chinese New Year, he's on vacation!

Who cares about the princess, the emperor doesn't need to go to court early, okay?

It can only be said that she came at the wrong time, and the staff who went to receive the princess explained the reason to the princess' entourage, and then went back to take a vacation. Just kidding, she was summoned temporarily.

The receptionist came from Pang Yu's school. She is a very good translator. Because she is very talented in languages, she has a little knowledge of many dialects in this dynasty. Later, she learned foreign languages, including Zhu's language. It's pretty good at learning. This time the princess of Zhu Kingdom came, and she was pulled into a strong position.

Apparently the princess is very confused, she is a princess of a country anyway, it's fine if there are no people to welcome her, and she almost freezes into a dog.

Moreover, this Bianjing city was completely different from what she had heard before. It looked clean and tidy, even the palace of the Zhu Kingdom was not as good as this, which made the princess very confused.

After Pang Yu finished dealing with those matters, he returned to the hot spring villa. Compared with returning to the palace in Bianjing, he would rather go to the hot spring villa to stay. Anyway, it is more comfortable to soak in the hot spring in the villa.

He thought so and did so. He was soaking in the soup pool alone, and the palace people were outside. Pang Yu was a little drowsy. Oops, it took too long to soak, and he struggled to get up. .

Suddenly, a pair of big hands picked him up from the hot spring pool, and Pang Yu's hairs stood up in horror. After all, the palace people were all outside, and they wouldn't come in without calling, so who would it be!

In the next second, he fell into a familiar embrace, and was wrapped in a bath towel. Pang Yu touched the other's face subconsciously, and asked with surprise, "Why are you back?"

"I missed you, so I'm back." Zhao Jue replied with a smile.

"I miss you so much." Pang Yu put his arms around Zhao Jue's neck and rubbed against it. Then he felt a stabbing pain on his face, and said aggrievedly, "Take it!"

"I haven't had time to clean up yet." Zhao Jue hugged his cub with one hand, and touched his face with the other hand. Originally, he wanted to go back to the hot spring villa to clean up, and return to Beijing tomorrow morning.

Who would have thought that as soon as he came back, he saw Pang Yu soaking in it. He told the palace servants not to disturb him, and walked in quietly, preparing to surprise his cub.

Although it can also be a scare...

Zhao Jue carried Pang Yu back to the bedroom to rest, and the palace servants withdrew silently, absolutely not disturbing their lord.

Thinking about how miserable the prince is, he has been separated for almost two years after he was newly married.

It's just that the princess may have to work harder...

A group of people left the annex, anyway, they won't hear anything tonight.

When Pang Yu was in a daze, he was thinking that he had arranged for his parents and grandparents to live far away...

When he opened his eyes early the next morning, the sun was already high, and he had personally experienced the five characters of Xiao Bie Sheng newly married.

As for Zhao Jue, he went to meet his father-in-law and his mother-in-law in a refreshed manner, and went to pay New Year's greetings.

Pang Ji and Li Zhenniang were surprised by Zhao Jue's return, but it's good that Zhao Jue came back, at least when he was there, their son was round and cute, and since Zhao Jue went to the south, Pang Yu has remained thin.

Nonsense, the person who feeds him every day is not there, and it is not easy to remember to eat when he is busy with work. How can he care about fattening.

Moreover, his daily appetite does not decrease, that is, he eats less dim sum and supper besides the three meals, so naturally he cannot gain weight.

Zhao Jue chatted with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, especially their worries, and said that he would work hard and never give his family Pang Yu a chance to lose weight.

Mainly, it is too thin, and the texture will be a little worse. I tried it last night.

When Zhao Jue came back, Pang Yu hadn't woken up yet. The lack of balance in physical strength really didn't work!

Isn't it because he didn't exercise enough in the past two years, so he picked it up later!

"I'll help you put it on." Zhao Jue said enthusiastically. Last night, he washed Pang Yu and didn't rest until he finished wiping his hair.

"Of course it's you who wears it." Pang Yu was not embarrassed at all, and let the other party help him put on his clothes with peace of mind, which was a different feeling from when he was a child.

This Pang Yu seemed to be useless, whether it was dressing or eating, he didn't need to do it himself, and he didn't even need to open his mouth when he wanted to eat. With one look, the food was in his bowl, and the next second it went into his mouth .

Comfortable!

In this world, who else can make the Regent serve him so willingly?

The two of them got bored for more than ten days before they dally remembered that the vacation seemed to be coming to an end, like Pang Yu's parents, grandparents and grandparents had already returned to Bianjing City.

It's about time for Zhao Jue to tell the little official's family that he's back. According to ordinary people, Zhao Jue's behavior can be said to be extremely arrogant.

Before dawn, the two returned to Bianjing City in a relatively low-key carriage, and entered the palace to meet the small official's family.

"Uncle Ninth, you're finally back!" The little official said cheerfully, "My little uncle and aunt almost miss you to death."

This dead boy is talking nonsense!

"I know, because I am the same." Zhao Jue smiled and held Pang Yu's hand and said, "By the way, the construction of the southern railway is going well, and it should be able to connect with the railway here soon."

"That's really great." The little official said with a look of joy, and felt that he was worthy of being his ninth uncle, who could do anything!

Compared with the progress on their side, it was much faster. Sure enough, people are more popular than people.

But their progress here is actually not too bad, mainly because they can't compare with Zhao Jue's captives.