Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 214 The Future ([-])

The second day of the winter month.

When the sky was still full of stars, from the mansion on Xuanwu Lake to the Taiping Gate in the north of Jinling City, there were lanterns and torches everywhere.

For this demonstration, Zhu Yuan's first thought was safety.

If something happens to Lao Zhu and his party here, even if he is a clan member, he will inevitably suffer.

Therefore, I greeted Lao Zhu two days in advance, and it was confirmed that Hubenwei was in charge of today's security matters.

The establishment is still under the guard department, but Zhao Xu, who is actually the captain of Zhu Yuan's personal guard, stayed up all night. In addition to docking with the Huben Guard for security affairs, he also had to patrol everywhere to prevent the Xuanwu Lake, which has a radius of forty miles, from being infiltrated in advance. .

In the front garden of the mansion on the lake, as the main demonstration place of the plan, no matter whether it is Jin Sango who is in charge of the mini size, or Zhong He who is in charge of the standard size, since the matter was confirmed, they have brought their respective teams to stay here in the past few days.

Especially when it snowed the other day.

In order to prevent the paved track from being damaged by the wind and snow, in addition to putting up a shelter, the craftsmen and servants of the mansion kept cleaning it day and night to prevent the snow from melting and making the ground wet.

Therefore, after the sun cleared, there were inevitably traces of snow in other parts of the mansion, but it was as if it had never snowed here.

As the sky gradually brightened, looking at the layout of the garden, even if they stayed up all night, Jin Sanhu, Zhong He and other craftsmen only became more excited.

Your Excellency said that as long as you don't go on business today, you will be able to have high officials and rich salary in the future.

For craftsmen, high officials and generous salary have never had anything to do with them in the past.

Zhu Yuan also got up earlier today.

Before Chenzheng, I had already eaten today's breakfast, and I took the shoulder car to the southeast courtyard of the mansion.

Looking at the [-] to [-] feet long mini track that is set along the artificial lake and passes through the corridor in the middle of the lake to form a closed loop, just this itself, plus the subsequent train, even in the miniature state, is enough to give people a small shock.

There is another long table, and under the long table are three wooden barrels side by side.

On the table is a steam pump that has been assembled, and there is a physical 'PPT' that Zhu Yuan personally uses, all of which are covered with red silk.

Similar to the latter 'PPT' installation, there are many places in the hospital.

It was all for this demonstration, and the women in the inner house made it one by one according to Zhu Yuan's prompts.

Let's talk about the artificial lake.

There are a few small boats by the lake at the moment, and they will be rowed to a fixed point later to assist the operation of the mini steam engine boat.

This irregular artificial lake dug out of a rockery pavilion stretches from east to west, north to south, about [-] feet in size, with a size of six or seven acres. Although it cannot be compared with the Xuanwu Lake outside, it is not small in the courtyard.

More than enough for a demonstration of a miniature steamboat.

After looking at other models carefully prepared for multiple tests in one side of the warehouse, they had been rehearsed yesterday, and without further testing, Zhu Yuan walked to the north of the small lake.

Here are two large ones covered with red silk cloth.

Standard size steam engine.

Time was limited, although Zhu Yuan hoped to be more safe, but only two units were completed.

However, it is enough.

Even if the two units are all lying down, with the previous mini demo, the effect can be achieved today.What's more, the chances of both steam engines lying down are not too great.

After checking again personally, the news came that the emperor and his party had entered the island from the southwestern passage of the lake.

Zhu Yuan walked towards the gate, waiting to be greeted.

It's a good time.

At the same time, the mighty party stopped at the gate of Pingzhang's mansion.

Zhu Yuan greeted him out, and after seeing the ceremony, he realized that after Lao Zhu, only three princes came today.

There is no fourth child.

Of course not later.

He continued to look back calmly.

Li Shanchang, Prime Minister of the Left, and two Zhongshu officials, Yang Xian and Fu Yu, participated in politics. This is the Zhongshu Province.

Tao An, a Hanlin scholar, is actually in charge of the power of Shangshu Province.

Yushi Zhongcheng Zhang Yi is in charge of Yushitai and is responsible for the supervision of all officials.

Then there are two military generals in Beijing, Deng Yu and Kang Maocai.

Deng Yu's rank was from the first rank to the right censor doctor, and his rank was higher than that of Zhang Yi, but he seldom interfered in supervisory affairs in his daily life, and he kept his duty as a general.

Kang Maocai's rank is still from the first-rank Dudu Tongzhi, but from now on the main authority will be the third-rank Tuntian envoy.

After that, there are various ministers.

However, at present, the imperial court still only has three ministries of officials, households, and rites, and three other three-rank generals, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Department of Dali. The corresponding chief officials are all present today.

In the end, there was one more left envoy of the imperial hospital, Sun Shouzhen.

This should be the old Zhu's special order, which is another way to show the importance he attaches to Tai Hospital.

After Zhu Yuan and his colleagues simply greeted each other, Lao Zhu affectionately took his precious 23rd grandson's hand, and took his eldest son on the other hand, walked towards the door with a smile, and said, "As you requested, today is a good day." Come here, you have to satisfy everyone."

Zhu Yuan was dragged by the old Zhu, so he had to quicken his pace, while saying: "I will definitely not disappoint my ancestors."

As they spoke, they walked through the outer courtyard lined with guards, and entered the southeast garden of the mansion from the moon gate that Lao Zhu had "slammed" open earlier. Lao Zhu, the prince and all the ministers first saw the red silk cover full of people, and the second The eye is the long miniature train track that cannot be concealed.

Lao Zhu scanned around and roughly understood what the track was, but he laughed again: "You... are still covered, it's uncomfortable."

"It's like a big meal. You have to serve it plate by plate, uncover each piece, and taste it a little bit, so that you can feel the good taste." Zhu Yuan responded skillfully, pulled out the little hand held by Lao Zhu, and pointed towards the other side. A long table lined up and signaled: "Ancestor, and everyone, let's start from here."

come near.

Lao Zhu prevented Jin Sanhu and the others from kneeling nervously and trembling when they saw His Majesty the Emperor, who had been brewing for a long time, and just said: "Hurry up, don't be morose."

Seeing this, Zhu Yuan stepped forward in person, uncovered the red silk on the long table and the 'PPT', and signaled Jin Sanhu and the others to light up the steam engine, while turning to the demonstration card that everyone's eyes were on: "All this, we must I started with the economics I told my ancestors. However, today, this is not the main thing. The ancestors have agreed to publish the "Economics" for everyone to study. You will see it in the future. Here, we will only talk about one, 'water'!"

About "Economics", most of the people present have heard of it more or less, or they are curious, or expect, or... like Zuoxiang, they instinctively resist.

Zhu Biaoben, who was following Lao Zhu, was watching Jin Sanhu and others playing with the steam model. He heard Zhu Yuan said that he would publish "Economics", thinking about it, his father finally opened it to him to read, although it was only half, But he still instinctively felt that it shouldn't be done.

Even, Zhu Biao felt in his heart that even his brothers shouldn't see those things.

Turning his eyes, he glanced at his father, then at the boy in front of the 'PPT', Zhu Biao hesitated a little, but still didn't say anything.

Zhu Yuan has already given a lecture: "The development of our Chinese civilization is closely related to the word 'water'. At that time, Qin opened the Zhengguo Canal and built the Dujiang Weir, which made Guanzhong and Shuzhong fertile fields thousands of miles away. Based on this accumulation, they unified the world in one fell swoop. It can be seen that 'water' It is important. Besides, the reason why Jiangnan is called the "Land of Fish and Rice" is also because of the water. However, from the perspective of the entire Chinese territory, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Lianghuai and other plains are actually more suitable for thousands of miles of fertile fields. , but, why the fact is just the opposite, the root cause is still the word 'water'. In the past few decades, the land of the Central Plains has experienced drought or flood, and the harvest has been repeated, which eventually led to the collapse of the world. I must pay attention to this. Then, How to restore the land of the Central Plains to fertile land thousands of miles away, the first one is to build water conservancy extensively, and the other is right in front of us.”

As Zhu Yuan said, Jin Sanhu and the others had poured hot water into the mini boiler and lit candles.

After Zhu Yuan finished speaking, the three mini steam pumps started to operate at the same time, and the water pumped from the wooden barrel on the ground gurgled out from the outlet of the pumps.

Seeing this situation, even if Zhu Yuan did not continue, most of the people present understood a lot in an instant.

The land of the Central Plains is the most suitable for farming, and there is no shortage of rivers.

However, what is most lacking is how to allocate running water resources to various fields.

The efficiency of traditional pumping equipment is too low, and when it is really needed, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Before them, everyone fantasized about enlarging the mini steam pump and placing it where it should be placed...

The heart can not help but be strongly touched.

future!

This... is really Daming's future!
(End of this chapter)