The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 388
! !Zhu Ying doesn't have any royal ideological burden. In his opinion, the best way to maintain the dignity of Ming Dynasty is to be able to make money to establish officialdom.

Only with continuous victories in foreign wars, the majesty of the court will increase day by day.

For the establishment of this kind of merit monument, few officials would think of making money. In the words of officials, such things as merit should be offered independently, and how can the court lead the way to lure them? To measure it.

Therefore, most people scoffed at the way of engraving names on merit monuments through donations.

But Zhu Yuanzhang has no ideological burden in this area.

"Dasun's method is good, but you still have to pay attention to the method. After all, the face of the court must be taken into account."

"Some people who are against our Daming secretly, when they know the news, will definitely think of ways to splash dirty water."

Zhu Yuanzhang first agreed, and then reminded.

This matter, Zhu Yuanzhang must let the grandson preside over it.

First, Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that without the Great Sun’s Qunying Chamber of Commerce, it would be very difficult for anyone to complete this matter, not to mention completing it in one year, whether it can be completed is a problem.

He dared to open his mouth like a lion, and built this north-south official road in one year, more or less because he knew the details of his grandson.

Secondly, the seat of the emperor in the future will naturally belong to the eldest grandson. After the completion of this official road, even Zhu Yuanzhang, who does not know much about business, will understand it very well.

The convenience of military operations is one aspect, and it plays a very important role in the development of economic exchanges between the North and the South.

The current situation in Ming Dynasty is that the south is rich and the north is poor, but in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Yuanzhang has never had a good impression. He not only wants to contain and suppress, but also wants to develop the economy of the north.

However, before this, even if the taxes in the Jiangnan area were continuously increased, the economic gap could not be made up in a short time.

Even with the heavy taxation in the south and the continuous reduction of taxes in the north, the economy in the north is now in a difficult situation.

The main sources of famine all occurred in the north.

After listening to the old man's words, Zhu Ying said: "The matter of splashing dirty water is definitely unavoidable, but the grandson's mansion newspaper will soon be withdrawn, and the first article published by then will be about this The role of the North and South official roads."

"Sun'er will record the influence of the northern and southern official ways, as well as the benefits to the people of Ming Dynasty in detail, so that all people with insight can understand that this is a great move for the benefit of future generations."

"As long as the mansion newspaper is published, any rumors in the future will disappear, and all the plans of those people who are making trouble behind the scenes will be in vain."

In this regard, Zhu Ying has a strong self-confidence.

Because in Daming now, apart from the officials, even most of the officials don't have the channels to get information.

The information that most people know is passed on through word of mouth.

The thing of word of mouth is very mysterious, let alone dozens or even hundreds of people, even if it is just the same sentence, after three people pass it on, the meaning will be completely different.

If you want to do something here, don't take it too easy.

After the Di report was published, this was the only channel to obtain official information in the entire Ming Dynasty, and many important military and state affairs would be published on it.

Even the people at the bottom will have a feeling of understanding the country's trends after knowing this information.

Naturally, Zhu Ying does not have any objective records, such as some important analysis, will also be published at the same time to guide the direction of public opinion.

Zhu Yuanzhang is still very confident about the mansion newspaper. After thinking about it in his heart, he can basically leave it to his grandson to handle it. Then he said:
"How to collect the merit monuments of the North and South Official Roads, there must be a size here, too much will not work, and naturally it will not work if there are too few."

"If it gets too big, it will lose face in the end."

Zhu Ying nodded and said, "Grandpa don't worry, grandson is free to plan."

The monument of merit is one aspect. It is unrealistic to rely on the monument of merit to cover a large amount of expenses.

The most important of these, on the contrary, is the seemingly inconspicuous right to walk the official path.

Don't underestimate this power. On the contrary, he can better maintain the status division implemented by the officialdom.

Especially for businessmen, not only face, but also face.

The current post road, basically the common people will go, and only when the government personnel pass by, they will give way. Even many postmen have seen it, and they will not take it seriously unless they are obstructed.

The path of two feet to the left and right is more like avoiding.

However, once certain businessmen have this privilege, they will safeguard this right.

In the process of doing business, not only do you have the right of way, but those who dare to resist can also knock others down.

Social status has been significantly improved.

And using the official road, the goods are transported faster, and naturally there are also linings.

Relying on this alone, Zhu Ying is confident that at least half of the cost of building the North-South Official Road will be spread out.

In just two days, the houses on both sides of Zhengyang Avenue have almost been demolished.

Nail households do not exist, and you are not forced to take your house, and you will be compensated, that is already called bathing the emperor's grace, and gratitude is the current correct thinking.

When Zhengyang Avenue was emptied out.

This kind of majestic spirit is really amazing.

Such a wide avenue, although it has existed long ago in history, but standing on the side of this road, everyone is full of sighs.

This has also become the favorite place for foreign ministers to come and see.

Every day, many foreign ministers wander here to watch.

"What's going on over there? It's like digging a hole."

"Yes, but this is all arranged by the court, who knows."

"Don't talk like that. It is said that our Ming Dynasty will launch the Dibao soon. All the new things, even the major issues discussed in the court, will be published on it. Maybe we will know about it by then."

"That thing is quite expensive, we ordinary people may not be able to afford it."

"You don't know this. I heard His Royal Highness Taisun said: Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. In order to allow us common people to participate in it, the price of the mansion newspaper can be bought for only three pennies. And there is no restriction on identity, even street vagrants can buy it."

"Don't talk nonsense, there are no vagrants in our capital now. Those with a little bit of strength are forcibly conscripted into labor, with food and housing included. As long as they work hard, they are said to be paid."

"Even those children were all sent to study in the school. Good guy, this is a lucky encounter with His Royal Highness."

"Yeah, originally I wanted to send all my children there, but I heard that the school does not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, but some accounting, weaving and so on, that is, apprentices, so the older ones can only be sent to the school. private school."

"It's not good. There is a meal included in the school. If it weren't for the fact that all the students are full and the vagrants are given priority, I would have sent all those bastards away."

"That's right, forget it, let's not talk about it, let's go and see, what is the purpose of digging holes over there?"

"Go together, go together."

It is still very easy to build Zhengyang Avenue. This is the capital, and the foundation of the ground is already very good. If it is strengthened and leveled, it can be directly cemented.

At present, for Zhengyang Avenue, the requirement is that the cement pavement should be one foot high. The current length of one foot in the Ming Dynasty is 31 centimeters in later generations.

A large amount of bamboo has been shipped in.

Under the current conditions, it is obviously impossible to make a large number of steel bars, so bamboo bars can only be used instead.

And outside Wulong Square, also known as Zhengyang Square.

The construction there was exactly when Zhu Ying was preparing to raise the flag.

That's right, Zhu Ying has already promoted the flag of Ming Dynasty.

The current Ming Dynasty, or the Central Plains Dynasty, does not have the concept of a national flag. Many flags are mainly triangular flags, called banners.

"Flags" are commonly used on the battlefield, and the surnames of the generals of the army are painted on the flags, indicating that the army belongs to me.

There is also the role of playing flags and carrying out military orders to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves.

At present, it is equivalent to starting a foreign war, so the national flag, which melts the hearts of the people and symbolizes the morale of the army, has a significant effect.

While developing the internal prosperity of Ming Dynasty, the pace of external war has already begun.

This can also be a good way to transfer internal conflicts to the outside.

The design of the national flag was basically decided directly by Zhu Ying.

The rectangular flag is red in color, generally speaking, it is red.

Red is the national color of Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite color.

In the Ming Dynasty, it belonged to fire and was the virtue of fire.

Zhu is red.

Therefore, setting the red flag is beyond dispute.

Regarding the pattern, Zhu Ying really thought about it for a long time, but after thinking about it, the Chinese character for 'Ming' was finally adopted.

At the very beginning, there were stars, the moon, the sun, and I even thought about embroidering a landscape on it.

However, these always feel like something is missing.

In the end, when discussing with the old man, the old man woke up Zhu Ying with one sentence.

"Since it is the national flag of our Ming Dynasty, it is natural to use the word 'Ming', which is hard to imagine."

Immediately, Zhu Ying became enlightened.

Yes.

Why do I always think about the style of the flags of later generations? I am bewildered.

The culture of the Central Plains Dynasty was originally dominated by Chinese characters. For example, the flags of the Beijing Guards now also have yellow characters on a red background and the word Daming embroidered.

It is also a rectangle, but it is formed into vertical bars, and there are some scattered bars below.

Finally, when Zhu Ying considered the aesthetic effect, she planned to replace the 'Ming' with the embroidery of the sun and the moon.

After hesitating again and again, I finally settled on 'Ming'.

The overall typesetting is similar to the red flags of later generations, with the characters in the upper left corner on the front, implying that the sun and the moon shine all over the world.

The current Ming Dynasty is number one in the world, whether it is comprehensive national strength or border personnel, and is orthodox in the world.

Those foreign Fanyi naturally want to learn from Daming.

The pattern of the sun and the moon is for easier identification, but the national flag with Chinese characters is to tell the world.

If you don’t understand, then come and learn.

Central Plains Chinese characters have been passed down through the ages, and this is the strongest and best representative of culture.

On Zhengyang Square, there was a lot of excitement and crowds, even if it was a boring construction site, it was still enjoyable to watch.

Many rich people living in the capital do not need to work on weekdays, and it coincides with the first month, and they followed the construction team to this square before dawn.

"It's been dug half a foot deep. I haven't stopped yet. I don't know how deep to dig."

"What is the purpose of digging such a big hole?"

"Who knows, it should be clear when it is built, but I feel that it probably has a lot to do with Zhengyang Avenue."

The digging of the flag-raising platform is to bury the flagpole.

This flagpole took a lot of effort.

It is fine steel calcined in a blast furnace, and a lot of extraterrestrial iron is added, so it will not rot, and the whole body is polished to an incomparable brightness.

The flagpole is divided into two layers, the lower layer is one foot long, which is three meters, and the width is one foot.

The upper layer, that is, the visible flagpole, has a total length of nine feet five, implying the statue of ninety-five, and a width of seven inches.

When this ten-foot-long stainless steel flagpole appeared in Zhengyang Square.

Everyone who saw it, even the officials, couldn't help but exclaim.

It was carried by more than 20 soldiers from the outskirts of the city to Zhengyang Square.

Then insert the flag hole.

It took nearly an hour just to erect it upright. After the school team was speechless, it was piled up with bluestone, filled with compound soil, and covered with cement, which could last for hundreds of years.

"It seems that there is still a rope hanging on it, what is this for?"

"Don't ask me, how do I know."

"Didn't you say that you know a lot of news, why don't you know?"

"Don't say it's me, even the ministers in the court probably don't know about it. It's probably the work of His Royal Highness the Grandson."

"Such a big stick is really powerful."

Currently, the biggest bustle in Zhengyang Square is the flag raising platform.

There are a lot of people guessing, especially the rope, which has aroused many associations.

In fact, there are some smart people who think that they are going up with a flag, but they are not recognized.

After the flagpole is fixed, it is the flag raising platform.

The entire flag raising platform is made of white marble.

For the four directions, there are three steps, composed of twelve jade pillars.

It is engraved with Nine Dragons, Twelve Coats of Arms, and Splendid Rivers and Mountains.

At a glance, it is luxurious and elegant.

Nearly half a month after its completion, there are 12 Jinyiwei guards standing guard every day. It is strictly forbidden to approach, and they can only look at each other from a distance.

After the flag raising platform is built, the leveling of Zhengyang Avenue is almost complete.

Zhengyang Avenue is about 580 feet wide and [-] miles long, or about [-] feet. It runs from Zhengyang Gate to Zhengyang Square, and at the end is the flag-raising platform.

The current Zhengyang Avenue is blocked with wooden boards, one foot high, left, right, front, and rear.

In the middle, every ten feet, there are long bamboo partitions, and at a glance, it is densely packed.

Today, it is the second day of February, and the dragon raises its head.

In Zhengyang Square, incense is burned for sacrifices. .
Shen Mo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, asked, "What time is it now?"

The servant of the Ministry of Industry replied: "Master, it is exactly three quarters in the afternoon."

Shen Min nodded, and then said loudly: "The auspicious time has come, let's start construction!"

As Shen Min spoke, the officials from the Ministry of Industry who had been waiting for a long time shouted.

"The auspicious time has come, start construction!!!"

"The auspicious time has come, start construction!!!"

"The auspicious time has come, start construction!!!"

It was transmitted in one sound, from Zhengyang Square to the Zhengyang Gate.

(End of this chapter)