Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 473 Real Estate Boss

How could Chongzhen not know the drought in the north? The chief envoys of Shanxi and Shanxi sent me a memorial half a month ago to inform them of the situation there.

But fortunately, they harvested a season of potatoes and sweet potatoes. No matter how bad the situation was, they definitely wouldn't be full of hungry refugees like in previous years.

Liu Hongjian asked about the aqueduct that had been supervised for more than half a year, and Chongzhen summoned Fan Jingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

What happened to the former Chief Assistant made Fan Jingwen more cautious, and sat in a tight seat waiting for Chongzhen to ask about politics.

"Reporting to the Emperor, I was ordered to supervise the construction of water canals in the north, and now a section of Yanghe River in the west of Shuntianfu has been flooded, benefiting the towns of Shenjingbao, Shaling, Jiajiaying and so on.

The canals in Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Nanxi are still under construction. It is estimated that Shanxi and Shanxi will take two months to get water at the earliest, Shandong two and a half months, and Henan... the earliest will be ten late January. "

Fan Jingwen paused at this point, and lowered his head.

"Hmph, I want money for money, and people for money. More than half a year has passed, why do I have to wait for another three months? You make me wait for three months, what will the people do? Cough cough—cough cough—"

Chongzhen was so angry that he started coughing again.

It's no wonder that Chongzhen was angry. If it really endured another three months of severe drought, it is estimated that there will be no crops in Beijing this year.

"The emperor calm down, the minister is guilty! The minister is willing to accept the punishment!" Seeing Chongzhen's fury, Fan Jingwen knelt down and pleaded guilty.

The imperial court has its own money. In order to cope with the severe drought that is likely to continue in the north for several years, Chongzhen ordered the Ministry of Industry to build water canals more than half a year ago.

Over the past six months, under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry, more than 200 million strong people were recruited from the four regions. Even the 10,000+ captives of Zuo Liangyu's bandit army were recruited into strong men, and more than 400 million taels of silver were spent.

In the end, the water was only connected to a place on the west side of Shuntian Mansion. Even if Fan Jingwen had difficulties in his heart, he didn't have the nerve to say so.

"Your Majesty, calm down, calm down, I've told you many times, don't be angry all the time, your body can't be tossed anymore." Liu Hongjian said as he got up and patted Chongzhen's back.

A few words twitched the corners of Fan Jingwen's mouth when he said that there were tens of thousands of courtiers in the world, who would dare to criticize the emperor in front of his face?Still going to slap the emperor, don't you want to die?
That's what the King of Anguo dared to do. Alas, why don't we have such a good life?Fan Jingwen knelt on the ground and didn't dare to breathe.

"Lord Fan, it's not that this king is talking about you, you only show the result without explaining the reason, aren't you just asking for the blame?

Tell the emperor quickly, what is the reason for the slow progress of the construction of the canal? Seeing that Chongzhen no longer coughed but kept silent with a gloomy face, Liu Hongjian immediately motioned to Fan Jingwen, thinking that this fellow was really a fool.

"My Majesty, most of the water canals in the four northern provinces have entered the final stage, but...the last few steps of construction are very difficult..." Chongzhen did not speak, and Fan Jingwen did not dare to get up, just knelt on the ground and explained the reason .

It turns out that the most difficult thing to build a canal is not the canal itself. After all, the ancients had nothing else but a large number of people working. In many places, people in many places were willing to work even without wages in order to earn a living.

The biggest difficulty of the canal is the junction of the canal and the river. In ancient times, there was no reinforced concrete in later generations. The risk of building a dam is extremely high. If it is not operated properly, it may cause floods.

The Yanghe River on the west side of Shuntian Mansion is fine, the runoff is small, and it can be handled by sending more people to take care of it, but the other three places are not so easy to deal with.

The Fenhe River and Yishui River in Shanxi are both large rivers, and the runoff of Weihe River and Hanjiang River in Shaanxi is not small, and the terrain is complex and mountainous.

And Henan and Shandong are even more difficult. The Fen River and the Wei River are both sons of this river, and the Yellow River passes through the center of these two provinces!

The Yellow River at this time was not the mother-like river praised by later generations. If the people in Henan and Shandong had to name the Yellow River, it would probably be called Yanwang River and Suoming River.

The Yellow River has a lot of silt, which accumulates on the riverbed year after year. In order to prevent floods, the counties and counties around the Yellow River have to build up their dams almost every year.

The bed of the Yellow River is getting higher and higher, but the stability of the dams will be getting worse and worse. Once a heavy rainstorm occurs, a yellow dragon will swing its tail, and millions of people will be tortured.

There is a song in later generations that says:
The rolling water of the Yellow River east, the waves wash away the farmland, and after a year of work, the Yellow River is still there, and it has been wagging its tail several times.

So evident.

After listening to Fan Jingwen's explanation, Liu Hongjian roughly understood the real difficulty of the canal, the dam mouth!
As long as the construction of the dam mouth can be solved, the canal can benefit the people as soon as possible.

Liu Hongjian is not a person who just sits and waits to die. God doesn't give face, so he earns it by himself.

But how can we make the mouth of the dam stable, reinforced concrete?This thing does not.

etc?No?I can make it!

Liu Hongjian slapped his head, he was so clever that he was misunderstood by his cleverness. I didn't fight alone when I came to Daming, not alone!

Thinking of this, Liu Hongjian ignored Chongzhen and Fan Jingwen, and immediately took out a book from his waist - "Basics of Heavy Industry" as if by magic.

Under the surprised eyes of the two, they began to turn the pages of the book, No. 20, seven pages, the production process of cement!
"I found it! Your majesty, I have found a way to deal with it!" Liu Hongjian was overjoyed.

No wonder the manufacture of cement ranks so high in the book, the foundation of heavy industry, and cement is the foundation of the foundation.

Chongzhen and Fan Jingwen looked surprised, and thought that this Zhuzi must have lost his mind and went crazy, and he could find the solution to the construction of the dam mouth by just looking through a book, so why so many Hanlin?

There are tens of thousands of scholars in the world, and which of the ministers in the court has read all the books. If there is a good way to deal with it in the book, wouldn't those skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry know it?
"Your Majesty, as long as this thing is developed, the difficulty of the dam will be no problem!" Seeing the two of them in a daze, Liu Hongjian immediately vowed.

"What book is this? It's full of typos, but can you believe it?" Chongzhen took the book and looked at it, and only two of the seven characters in the cement production process were wrong. It's child's play!

"Designate it, designate it! If you don't believe me, I will show you when I go back. If I leave, I will go to engage in black technology!" Liu Hongjian is like discovering a new world, so he can't even bother to explain the great use of cement to an uncle. .

Facts speak louder than words, and everything will be clear when it is done.

It wasn't just the dam that made Liu Hongjian so excited. If this thing was developed, the steel and steel bars from the steel workshop could also solve the problem.

Doesn't that mean that I no longer need to live in a wooden house?
In the past, I always felt that the steel jungle of the later generations was depressing, but in Daming, there are all wooden houses everywhere. At first, I thought it was simple and elegant, but I felt bored after looking at it.

Due to the load-bearing problem, wooden houses cannot be built too high. The whole wood is extremely easy to cause fire, and once a fire occurs, the whole street is often burned.

The reason is very simple, the whole street is full of wood, when the wind blows, it's just like a fire dragon dancing wildly!

This king wants to build the tallest house in Daming, and he wants to be a real estate tycoon. He builds ten, oh no, a hundred real estate, and earns [-] million.

Ha ha ha ha!Liu Hongjian went out of the palace like crazy.

(End of this chapter)