Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 131: Zhu Di Wants More Troops! ! !
The construction of the first cement road in Daming was completed. Although there was no grand occasion, many of the people who watched the ceremony were officials in scarlet robes.

Its influence is naturally not small, and the effect of cement is so magical that many ignorant people call it a miracle. What's more, after getting the news, they directly took the incense burner and went to worship.

Especially the handprints and footprints left by Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji on the concrete road,
It has not yet become a hotspot for online celebrity check-ins as Zhu Zhanji expected, but many people who learned about it directly branded the handprints and footprints of Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Gaochi with paper, and then took them home for future use worship.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't laugh or cry when he got the news. After all, it was just a whim, and he didn't expect to be treated as a baby, but he didn't feel surprised when he thought about it.

After all, if I and my silly father become emperors in the future, these will be the handprints and footprints left by two generations of emperors, and this will be full of dragon spirit.

And in Yingtian's Daming Daily, they also didn't relax. When the concrete road from Yifengmen to the Yangtze River Wharf appeared, the reporters of the newspaper office immediately took action.

With Zhu Zhanji's proposals to Zhu Gaochi several times, and the recent expansion, the current newspaper office is no longer the grass-roots team when it was first established, but has become a veritable regular newspaper office.

There are various positions with clear division of labor, front-line reporters, and editors who are responsible for writing and revising articles. There are no less than 100 people in the head office of Yingtian's newspaper alone.

Plus more than a dozen responsible editors, several chief editors, and logistics personnel, and after the expansion, a printing factory with almost fifty printing tables,
The total number of staff in the entire newspaper office is nearly 300, and the number of newspapers printed every day alone is no less than 50.

A large number of newspapers appeared. In addition to adding the necessary newsboys, Yingtian also added hundreds of fixed newsstands at the same time.

These newsstands are guarded by special personnel, and they are specially designed to solve some people who like to spend time selling newspapers.

This matter was the solution that Zhu Zhanji thought of after Zhu Gaochi told Zhu Zhanji that some people blocked the door of the newspaper office in order to buy newspapers as soon as possible.

These newsstands are all fixed locations, and every day before the newspaper office opens, the newspapers of the day will be delivered to the newsstand in advance.

In terms of time, it will not come faster than blocking the newspaper office. At the same time, these newsstands are located in places where the crowd is relatively concentrated. Compared with going farther to block the newspaper office, these newsstands are extremely popular once they appear. Every day Almost as soon as the door opens, there will be a large number of people who come to buy newspapers for themselves or for the master behind them.

The appearance of the cement road naturally attracted many newspaper reporters in the first place.

Although these reporters belong to the newspaper, it does not mean that there is no competition. Although the things recorded by each reporter are similar, but different people sometimes record in different directions, and the readability of the newspaper is naturally different.

In addition, every time an article is selected for publication in a newspaper, the original author’s name or pen name will be noted,

In this way, even if it is the same matter, there will naturally be a large number of reporters competing with each other.

After all, since ancient times, it is not uncommon for literati to be inferior to each other, and competition and comparison will naturally not be absent. If one's own article is published for the record of the same event, it will naturally appear that one's literary talent is even better.

In fact, this is because Zhu Zhanji wanted these reporters to record the facts truthfully, so that there would be no random fabrications. After all, there were too many people who recorded them. If they were fabricated, some articles would definitely appear in some different places.

As the reporters rushed, dozens of articles about the cement road appeared in the newspaper overnight.

Some of these articles are similar, and some of them are extremely novel. After screening, and with the confirmation of the editor-in-chief Zhu Gaochi, the new day's Daming Daily has finally been officially published.

Before dawn the next day, a carriage of newspapers was transported to newsstands in Yingtian.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, Ming Daily, the first cement road in history was officially opened yesterday, with a total length of 350 seven steps, a total of more than four miles, as hard as a rock, and it only takes more than a moment for a carriage to go back and forth."

It was just dawn, and the roosters raised by some people had just crowed. In Yingtian City, a newsboy wearing a padded jacket and carrying a satchel with the special royal logo on his shoulder started his day's work.

As newspapers have been around for a long time, the people of Yingtian have gradually become familiar and accustomed to these newspaper boys who start walking around the streets early in the morning in winter.

Especially some Jinyiwei will appear around these newsboys from time to time to protect them, and after some local hooligans were sent to the imperial prison and never came out.

For these thin-looking newsboys, although everyone doesn't respect them very much, they basically don't insult or bully them.

In addition, newspapers are cheap, one penny a piece, and some people who don’t have time to go to the newsstand to buy newspapers will even greet some newsboys in advance, pay an extra penny or give some other benefits, and let the newsboys sell the newspapers directly. delivered to home.

After a long time, Yingtian's newspaper boy has almost become a special landscape. In addition, every day is just dawn, and it rings on time, almost like an alarm clock, which makes people almost become a habit.

Early in the morning, as new newspapers appeared, some people habitually dressed in a hurry, and ran out to buy a newspaper without even caring about washing.

If you are more particular, you will first listen to the content of the newsboy's call, and if you are interested, you will speed up the washing process.

If you don't hear anyone you are interested in, you will appear to be in a hurry, wait until you are done washing, then go out, stop the newsboy from a distance, take out a copper coin that you have prepared a long time ago, and throw it casually, let the newsboy After catching it, he took the newspaper from the newspaper boy by himself.

After doing this, these talents stood in place and opened the newspaper, and browsed through the headlines first to see the general content.

Then close the newspaper, and those who are convenient will buy a breakfast or morning tea, and then find a quiet place, either alone or in groups of threes and twos, silently Open the newspaper again, and then find the section you care about and read it carefully.

These things seem to be contagious. With the emergence of newspapers, it seems that drinking morning tea while reading newspapers has almost become the habit of most people in Yingtian.

At first, some officials would find a teahouse to watch for a while before going to work, and then there were scholars.

In the end, there are some arty businessmen, and people who are idle and have a few coins in their pockets, or traffickers. These people may not pay much attention to newspapers, but they will also yearn for the things that these scholars like.

It was the same today. Hearing the newsboy shouting, some people started to get up and wash up, go out to buy newspapers, and then find a teahouse, buy a morning tea, and those who are richer will order some refreshments.

Or a tea shed on the street, or a small western-style building, or your own courtyard.

When they opened the newspaper, these people were immediately shocked by the bold and enlarged headlines on the front page headlines:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and the foundation of all ages comes together!"

These words are very important, whether it is thousands of miles or thousands of years, these are exhausting words.

And the content of the newspaper made a large group of people who had never heard of cement almost spit out the morning tea they drank in their mouths.

Many people even put the teacup in their hands aside. After reading it, they worried that their eyes would be dazzled, so they read it again.

There is only one headline on the front page of this issue of the newspaper, and that is the news about the cement road.

Moreover, the entire article was integrated from the articles of several reporters, and the editor re-edited the integrated manuscript.

Every reporter has a different style. Some like to record the views of bystanders, some like to write their own experiences, and some like to find some great Confucians and let them make comments.

But without exception, they all mentioned how cement turned from some gray powder into a hard boulder in just a few days.

It even recorded how the Ministry of Industry built this four-mile-long and nearly seven-foot-wide cement road in just a few days.

In particular, after the cement road is built, its hard characteristics and its overall nature like a huge boulder are described in great detail.

Some even took out the test used by the Ministry of Industry to check and accept cement roads, and conducted a comparison test with the original old roads, and the results highlighted the speed and convenience of cement roads.

Whether it is the method of using cement to condense sand into stone in the newspaper, or the construction of this four-mile-long cement road in just a few days, it is undoubtedly extremely incredible to these people.

Some people who have nothing important to do are not in a hurry to continue reading the newspapers, and they don't drink morning tea, they just get up and walk towards Yifengmen.

There were not a few of these people, and they came very early, but even so, at dawn, the cement road from Yifengmen to the Yangtze River Wharf was still crowded with people who came to ask questions.

As for Yin Guzuo of Yingtian Mansion, when he got the news, he had to send a large number of yamen servants to maintain order.

Now both the prince and the grandson attach great importance to this concrete road. Gu Zuo, as Yin Tianfu Yin, naturally dare not relax. Sun Absolutely was the first to look for him, Ying Tian Fu Yin.

The cement road has already started to pass after the Ministry of Industry accepted it yesterday.

Early in the morning, before the time of Mao, horse-drawn carriages could already be seen quickly passing on the cement road.

Many of these carriages are carriages for unloading goods at the Yangtze River Wharf. The advantages of cement roads are extremely obvious when carrying goods.

On a hard road, as long as the carriage is driven, under the action of inertia, the horses that pull the carriage can easily drag the carriage with little effort.

Unlike other road surfaces, due to the subsidence of the ground, the effect of inertia is lost by the road surface, and it must be dragged almost all the time.

As more and more people discovered this, the carriage on the cement road became more and more cheerful.

Many people are actually very curious about the feeling of running a horse or driving a carriage on a complete boulder.

Especially those who came after reading the newspapers were constantly amazed to see such a long road like a huge stone slab in front of them.

And as the number of spectators increased and the carriages came and went, troubles followed.

It is easy to increase the speed of the cement road carriage, but it is more troublesome to slow down. Unlike other roads, when the horses almost stop pulling, the carriage will lose its inertia and stop immediately.

But the concrete road is different. Once the speed increases, it can't stop in a short time only by relying on the friction between the trailing edge and the ground.

Coupled with some confusion at the scene, it was inevitable that an ancient version of a car accident would happen.

In Qianqing Palace, Zhu Zhanji is handling today's government affairs. Of course, it is the same as in the past. San Yang handles it, and then he checks it.

Simple and easy, not a hassle.

It can be sure that there will be no problems in handling these government affairs, and the power of the cabinet will not be too great, and it will allow him to withdraw from the complicated government affairs.

What Zhu Zhanji is looking at now is a few brochures about the Northern Expedition. The preparations for the Northern Expedition have been almost a month old, and basically everything that should be prepared has been prepared.

The original preparation time for these things should be ready before the spring of next year.

The reason why it was so long in advance is largely due to the fact that the household department is exceptionally rich this year.

A lot of money was spent, and the effect was naturally immediate.

Compared with the original collection of materials before the beginning of spring, it was almost a month or two earlier.

And not only that, compared to the originally planned materials, the materials prepared by the household department this time are undoubtedly much more abundant.

This is also the richest war that General Zhengbei has fought since he ascended the throne.

However, the ensuing trouble was that General Zheng Bei Da was a little dissatisfied with the small fights now, and just sent back to Ying Tian a few days ago a decree for the Ministry of War to discuss the increase of troops.

"His Royal Highness, the matter of increasing troops, I feel that I should write a letter to postpone it. The new year is coming soon. If a large number of troops are increased at this time, it will inevitably lead to a large number of strong laborers being transferred. When the spring begins, it will definitely affect the next year's spring plowing."

Although Jin Zhong has recovered, he is now fully in charge of the formation of the young army, and Yang Shiqi is still in charge of the Ministry of War.

In fact, people with a discerning eye can already see that if there is no accident, Yang Shiqi will only be able to take the position of minister of the Ministry of War if he is only short of Zhu Di's will.

Therefore, Yang Shiqi was naturally the first to express his opinion after the order to increase troops was sent back.

"Scholar Yang, this statement is wrong!"

After Yang Shiqi's words fell, Lu Yuan, the left servant of the Ministry of War, stood up and objected:

"Firstly, the strong labor force that was dispatched are all military households. Secondly, the Northern Expedition is a matter related to our Daming country. The embers of the violent Yuan Dynasty have not been extinguished. Oala and Tatar are all the troubles of our Ming Dynasty. There is a way to eliminate evil and do everything. If this is the case If we don’t get rid of the remnants of the violent Yuan, is it possible to save them for the future and allow them to become bigger? As a result, there will be endless troubles, so how can our Ming Dynasty have a long-term peace? How can the people have a stable farming environment?”

"Although what Lu Shilang said is reasonable, if there is a large increase in troops, it will inevitably require a lot of money and food. The money is easy to talk about, but what about food? You need to know that the price of food this month has risen by [-] cents per stone compared to last month. , nearly [-]%, if we continue to increase troops, food prices will inevitably rise again, where will the food for the Northern Expedition come from?"

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