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Chapter 1641 Where are the people?

In the Taiji Hall and the Grand Court Meeting, Li Shimin felt dazed as soon as he sat on the dragon chair.

How do you feel that today's court will be a bit empty?

What about Li Ji?
Where is Cheng Yaojin?

What about Lee Hyo-gong?

Where is Changsun Wuji?
Where is Fang Xuanling?

What about Yuchi Gong?

Oh, yes, Yu Chigong is still eating sand on the plateau.

Li Shimin asked suspiciously: "Why is there so much space today? Where's Li Ji? Where's Fang Xuanling? Where's Changsun Wuji? What are you doing?"

Not to mention Li Shimin, even the ministers were very puzzled.

"Report to Your Majesty, they are all on leave."

It's not surprising to ask for leave. After all, who hasn't urgent matters, who hasn't suffered from three illnesses and five disasters?
However, how could it be such a coincidence that so many ministers took leave together?
Li Shimin asked suspiciously, "Are they all sick?"

"Your Majesty, it was Rong Guogong who built the locomotive, and they are going to test it today, and they took leave to watch it."

Li Shimin was dumbfounded when he heard this, what the hell?Test drive today?How come he, the majestic emperor, doesn't know?
Not only Li Shimin was dumbfounded, even all the ministers were dumbfounded, why did they test the car suddenly?Could it be that the railway was built to Luoyang so quickly?
Li Shimin, who came back to his senses, stood up excitedly, and asked excitedly: "What? Su Cheng wants to test run? Isn't the railway only built for more than 100 miles? Why does Su Cheng want to test run?"

"Your Majesty, it is said that Rong Guogong has manufactured two locomotives and twenty carriages. He wants to run for a few dozen miles first, to see how fast the train can run, and to see what needs to be improved. "

After hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but suddenly realized, yes, it only takes a few tens of miles to test how much cargo the train can pull and how fast it can reach, and there is no need to build it from Chang'an to Luoyang.

Wait a minute, what did Su Cheng say back then?

It is said that for the sake of experimentation, the imperial court is required to spend 200 million guan to build the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang.

Now that I think about it, he was completely cheated by Su Cheng. He only needs to build a few dozen miles of roads, and there is no need to build eight hundred miles at all!

Why didn't I think of it at the time!
Not only Li Shimin came to his senses, but also all the ministers. Yes, it only takes a few dozen miles to see whether the train is as powerful as Su Cheng said.

The problem is that Su Cheng didn't tell him about such a big matter, and Li Shimin couldn't help slandering him in his heart.

Li Shimin also finally understood why Changsun Wuji and others didn't come to the Great Court Meeting, what a fucking Great Court Meeting!

Anyway, there is no urgent matter in the DPRK and China recently, so the big DPRK meeting will be postponed for a day.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin stood up resolutely, and said in a loud voice: "There will be no grand meeting today, let's disperse. If you have no urgent political affairs to deal with, you can come with me to see Su Cheng's test drive!"

After speaking, Li Shimin immediately turned around and strode away.

Seeing Li Shimin striding into the Lizheng Hall, Empress Changsun was a little confused.

"Today's grand court will end so soon?" Empress Changsun asked suspiciously.

Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "The grand court meeting has been canceled by me, change into ordinary clothes for me, I'm going out of the palace."

The Grand Court has been cancelled?The emperor is leaving the palace?Empress Changsun became even more puzzled, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

It's okay not to mention it, but when the Queen asked, Li Shimin was almost out of breath: "It's not Su Cheng, that stinky boy! He wants to test the car today! He didn't tell me, and even wanted to test the car sneakily, I'm so pissed off! "

"As well as the auxiliary machine, Mao Gong, Zhi Jie, and Xuan Ling, they all went to watch, but they didn't report it to me!"

"Such an important matter, how can I miss it?"

The test run of the train is indeed a major event, but no one told the emperor, and it is no wonder that the emperor was a little out of breath. Empress Changsun asked suspiciously, "Hasn't the railway been built for more than 100 miles? Why did you suddenly test run?"

Although there were many doubts in her heart, Empress Changsun didn't delay at all, and followed the emperor to the apse to help the emperor change his clothes.

Speaking of this, Li Shimin almost slapped his thigh without regret: "I was cheated by this kid Su Cheng. To test how much cargo the train can pull and how far it can go, I don't have to go to Luoyang, I just need to run a few dozen miles. Just tried it out! This kid asked me for 200 million guan from the moment he opened his mouth! This kid has a dark heart!"

Empress Changsun couldn't help but suddenly realized: "That's right, you only need to run a few dozen miles to test whether the train is successful or not."

"Isn't it? Su Cheng didn't tell me about such a big event in advance. I have to hurry up, or I will miss it." Li Shimin urged.

Empress Changsun also blamed him: "That's right, it's too disgraceful that such a big matter was not mentioned in advance. Your Majesty should talk about him!"

Li Shimin couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard this. After all, the queen has always favored Su Cheng as her son-in-law. She used to protect Su Cheng like a calf. Why did she also mention Su Cheng this time?
How did he know that Empress Changsun was also very interested in the train test run. If Su Cheng had told her in advance, she could have arranged to watch it with her.

As a result, Su Cheng didn't even say anything in advance, so she couldn't even watch it with her.

Li Shimin, who had changed into normal clothes, immediately strode out. Li Junxian had already waited with his guards.

A group of guards surrounded the emperor and left the palace. Many civil servants and military generals had gathered outside the palace gate. They wanted to follow the emperor to see the train test run.

At this time, the literati were not as powerless as the literati of later generations, and they could almost ride a horse.

Yixin people left Chang'an City in a mighty manner. After leaving Chang'an City, Li Shimin no longer had to worry about it. He couldn't wait to gallop his horse and galloped towards the train station in Sujiazhuang.

Along the way, Li Shimin kept waving his whip, for fear of being late, the train had already started running.

However, what Li Shimin didn't know was that when he left Chang'an, Su Cheng had just arrived at the train station.

It was just a small experiment, Su Cheng didn't take it to heart at all.

However, when Su Cheng arrived at the train station, he found that Cheng Yaojin and Changsun Wuji had already arrived.

"Heh, everyone came so early?" Su Cheng laughed.

Not only did they arrive, they got up according to the time of the morning court, and they had already come here to drink several rounds of tea.

If Su Cheng didn't come again, they couldn't help rushing to Rongguo Duke's mansion and dragging Su Cheng here.

"You boy, why did you come here? Today is a big day, why are you not in a hurry?" Cheng Yaojin said angrily.

Su Cheng couldn't laugh or cry: "It's just a simple experiment, what kind of big day is this?"

(End of this chapter)