Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Zhu Biao also saw the drawings.

Like Zhu Yuanzhang, they were all shocked by what was painted on the drawing.

It wasn't until he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's voice that he came back to his senses.

His mind reacted for a moment, then he walked over, exchanged corners of the drawing with the eunuch, and then stepped away.

Show this steam train picture to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Something beyond their knowledge made everyone freeze in place.

Everyone tried their best to stretch their necks and squint their eyes, like a group of ducks forced to bulge their eyes because they were lifted by their necks.

Some people even subconsciously took two steps forward to try to take a closer look.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it.

He motioned to Zhu Yuanzhang and the eunuchs and asked them to take down the drawings so that everyone could take a closer look.

Zhu Biao and the eunuch came down with the drawings.

Expand again.

All the civil and military ministers gathered around him and rushed forward.

I'm afraid I won't be able to see clearly if I slow down.

The minister who was the first to squeeze through couldn't help showing a proud look on his face.

Then he immediately lowered his head and admired the picture carefully.

"This is the train."

"It's so long."

This is almost as long as their house.

Can such a car run on the road?

"Didn't Chu Ze say there was fire? Where was the fire?"

Among the chattering voices, Chu Ze accurately captured this sentence and was speechless for a moment.

He looked toward the crowd.

Who is this?

So obsessed with fire.

The discussion continues.

For them, the real value of the train is not large enough to attract them.

What they are more concerned about is how the car runs and whether it can run.

After everyone had seen it almost, Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to take the drawings back.

"Chu Ze, tell me, this fire...train, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stand the name very much. It was a bad name. It was awkward to have to call it "fire". "This train is really useful." ? It’s so long, how can I run?”

In the Ming Dynasty, there are many mountains and rivers.

There were also places where even carriages couldn't pass.

Can it pass so many cars?

There is also another picture presented by Chu Ze.

He had seen it, and it was just two straight lines, with some horizontal lines in the middle.

What's the use of these things?

Zhu Yuanzhang knew nothing.

He had to let Chu Ze explain it to him.

Chu Ze had already prepared the answer.

"Yes, it can."

"If you want it to run faster, you also need railroad tracks. That's the other drawing we submitted to the emperor together with the train." Chu Ze pointed to the piece of paper in Zhu Yuanzhang's hand.

This paper is much smaller.

As Zhu Yuanzhang saw, there were just some horizontal and vertical lines on it.

It looks very abstract.

If he hadn't said it was a railroad track, Zhu Yuanzhang would have thought it was a ladder.

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the drawing and looked at it again, then handed it to the eunuch and asked him to show it to Zhu Biao.

After Zhu Biao read it, he asked the ministers to read it.

This piece of paper is far less eye-catching than the train.

Everyone looked at it, even a little speechless.

Zhu Biao was the first to ask: "Chu Ze, let me ask you, what is the purpose of these railway tracks?" Everyone listened with open ears.

"As shown in the picture, it is composed of two equal rails. There are countless sleepers in the center, which are the horizontal lines you see. Under these things, there are also gravels. These things together form Rails. Rails can make trains run faster and more smoothly. As for what the emperor just asked, how can the train run with such a long body? In fact, it is to build roads in Daming territory first, lay the rails, and then let the train run on them. Rails Wherever it can be paved, it can be reached by trains.”

Chu Ze briefly talked about the initial relationship between railroad tracks and trains.

Everyone was confused.

Zhu Yuanzhang moved his hands, his expression a little tangled.

He... seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand.

There was clearly something he wanted to say, but he didn't know where to start.

This feeling is very unpleasant.

He struggled for a while and then simply returned to the basics of the topic.

"We didn't understand what you said. But when you said about laying railways, we did understand. But according to what you said, if trains can only go where the rails reach, does that mean we have to build railways? Can the train cover the entire Ming Dynasty only if it is paved throughout the Ming Dynasty?"

Chu Ze thought for a while and shook his head.

"Actually, it doesn't have to be so troublesome. We can just set up train stations at important transportation hubs in some cities."

"Whoever wants to take a train should go to this place."

"Wherever you want to transport something, you can transport it to the train station first, and then let the carrier or consignee transport it away from the train station."

If the rails were laid all over the Ming Dynasty, not to mention how time-consuming and labor-intensive it would be, just in terms of materials, a lot would be wasted.

Besides, how can the current Ming Dynasty be so capable?

Let’s start by laying rail tracks to several cities near Yingtian.

After Chu Ze finished speaking, the leader of the household department stood up.

There was a shrewd light in his eyes.

Chu Ze even felt that this man had a calculation on his face, and his words were related to money: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being presumptuous, but I don't know how much it will cost to build these things?"

Chu Ze had never thought about this problem.

Whenever he had an idea, he just did it.

Money, he is short of.

On the outside, he looks like a handsome man, but in fact, he has a cool demeanor.

But on the other hand, he is not lacking.

As long as he asks for money, Zhu Yuanzhang will basically be satisfied no matter what he does.

Especially the manufacturing side.

As long as he wants to do something, as long as what he does is beneficial to the court, he doesn't need to think about money.

When Mr. Hube asked this question, Chu Ze was stunned.

He was startled for a moment, and then asked with eyes closed: "Aren't you the Ministry of Accounts? Isn't it your job to calculate the bank balance?"

ask him?

He doesn't know either.

Zhu Biao lowered his head, holding his lips and chuckled silently.

Hearing this, Tobe frowned suddenly.

As soon as I heard that such a big project, I knew it would cost a lot of money.

He originally asked for an accurate number so that he could be prepared.

As a result, Chu Ze told him that even Chu Ze himself didn’t know how much it would cost.

This……

"Your Majesty, Prince Jiaping's idea is good, but our treasury is not full. Should we consider this matter before discussing it?"

Hu Bu's words are correct.

In fact, today's national treasury is no longer not full, but has bottomed out.

This is evident in these two disaster relief efforts.

Even the people are almost out of food, so where is the money left to buy a train?

It's not that he said that this train is attractive at first sight... No, no, this train is not even attractive, let alone practical.

The most important thing is that it costs too much.

As the Minister of Household Affairs, he is in charge of the world's money.

He would probably die of anger if he had to spend the money and couldn't hear the splash.

Hubu looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping that he could dismiss Chu Ze's whims so that he could hold on to his inventory, which was thinner than a cicada's wings. (End of chapter)