Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 283 Progress of the Sky Garden (please subscribe!)

Returning to the long-lost Chengtian Mansion, Zhu Kezang immediately inspected the construction site of the Sky Garden.

"Work is the source of happiness!"

"Work sets me free!"

Looking at those hard-working Burmese and Siamese from a distance, Zhu Kezang felt that he was right to fight Nanyang first.

How comfortable it is to exploit so many cheap labor forces!
Zhu Kezang watched the laborers happy, and Lu Fan, the fanatical minister of the Ministry of Industry, was even more happy, because the progress of the sky garden project was visible to the naked eye. This is the speed of Ming Dynasty!

Lu Fan is brainwashed by Zhu Kezang every day. His greatest wish now is to hope that he can create a world-famous artwork, and the Hanging Garden undoubtedly makes Lu Fan see this possibility.

What a beautiful building!

After reading the blueprints, Lu Fan almost never sleeps, and even sleeps on the construction site at night, because for him, he already has power, and what he lacks now is a work that can prove his fame forever.

Good guy, in order to make it easier for me to make a spectacle, a Confucian scholar was trained by Zhu Kezang to become a technocrat.

The two were happy, but the old eunuch Li Zhongjie next to him was sad.

"Including the food for the coolies, a total of more than 3 Shenwu Tongbao has been spent this month alone!" After Zhu Kezang walked around the construction site, the old eunuch said with a painful face.

"It only costs [-] Shenwu Tongbao in a month, Lao Li, you can control the cost well."

Zhu Kezang said rather heartlessly.

"Don't always think about saving money, but think more about earning money."

Hearing this, the old eunuch was at a loss for words for a while. Indeed, the reason why Xin Daming could get to this point was not because of Emperor Zhu Kezang's various whimsical ideas to make money, otherwise this wrecked ship would have capsized long ago.

As they looked around, they didn't notice that it was already noon, and the sun was hanging warmly in the sky.

In the distance, driven by the tireless supervisors of the Ming Dynasty, the Burmese and Siamese are still working with enthusiasm, and slogans such as "Work hard and become a member of the Ming Dynasty!" are often heard among these coolies. .

No wonder they fought so hard, it turned out to be to get Daming's "green card".

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Kezang couldn't help sighing to Lu Fan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry beside him: "Building a wonder is really a joyful thing. Look at how happy they are."

"What the emperor said is absolutely true!"

"Alas!" Lao Li sighed silently, looking at the two monarchs and his ministers who were in a panic in front of them.

Zhu Kezang's second stop was naturally the Daming Royal Manufacturing Bureau, the most important and most heavily defended place in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The production of military equipment such as flintlock guns, trigger rifles, shotguns, various steel artillery, rockets, grenades, etc., is complete here.

So far, only factories for flintlock guns and grenades have landed in Guangzhou. The other equipment is top secret and cannot be moved there so quickly.

By the way, the craftsmen of Daming were full of energy and improved the formula of cement.

Seeing that the emperor came to inspect the work, they hurried over with two samples of cement.

Su Laocheng on the side took out a hammer, walked over, and hammered the cement on the left hard. After about five or six times of hammering, the solidified cement block cracked.

The cement on the right side was hammered again, and it took about a dozen hammerings before cracks appeared.

Zhu Kezang took a deep breath, it seems that cement is also making progress!

Su Laocheng said: "Your Majesty, the hardness of the improved cement is already very good, but the biggest problem now is the problem of raw material excavation. First, it requires a lot of manpower, and second, it needs a lot of money to support it."

"I know these things, it's okay, just go and apply for the budget according to the planned concrete road, you don't have to worry about money. People don't have to worry, take my instructions and go to the naturalization department of the Ministry of Households. Most of the natives in Nanyang are laborers, and only the General Administration of Manufacturing needs them, and they can ask for anyone."

You can't save money on road construction. If you want to get rich, you have to build roads first!

Seeing that the layout was almost the same, Zhu Kezang was about to go home to rest after get off work, but Su Laocheng said mysteriously: "Your Majesty, don't leave, there is one more thing for you to look at."

I saw the people below lifted a car up.

When Zhu Kezang saw it, his eyes lit up: bicycle!

Zhu Kezang remembered that a few months ago, he gave the sketch of the bicycle to the Daming Royal Manufacturing Bureau, and asked the craftsmen to study it by themselves, but he did not expect to actually make it.

Don't underestimate the group of people from the Royal Manufacturing Bureau of the Ming Dynasty. Influenced by Zhu Kezang, they are the strongest technological brains of this era.

Moreover, there is also Ma Hetai who tricked Da Qing into playing high-tech craftsmen.

Relying on Zhu Kezang's scribbled sketches, the craftsmen of Daming Royal Manufacturing finished the bicycle amidst discussions.

To be able to manufacture bicycles, in addition to the equipment of the steel factory, the most important thing is the batch of rubber trees exchanged by Zhu Kezang, otherwise tires would be a big problem.

Zhu Kezang rushed over quickly and sat on it.

Everyone couldn't help worrying: "The emperor..."

"It's okay."

After sitting on it, Zhu Kezang felt as if he had returned to the 21st century.

He kicked his feet on the ground a few times, and the bicycle started to move, and everyone watched with horror.

Zhu Kezang was so happy that he didn't even bother to say anything, he was riding happily in the empty factory area!

While riding, while observing the world's first bicycle, Zhu Kezang found that it still had a logo.

The car logo is a circle, with a portrait of the model on the top, "Da Ming Eternal" in the middle, and the year 1683 below!

Great Ming Eternal, Eternal Great Ming!
Ok, good, good!
Zhu Kezang stepped on it more vigorously unconsciously, whistling around the various factories!

The others waited to see his posture, they were all clever people, who didn't know the purpose of the bicycle and its importance to Daming, so they all clapped their hands so hard that their palms became red!
Some of these craftsmen have long known that the research and invention of bicycles has been done, and the bicycles that Zhu Kezang rides are already mass-produced, that is, models that can be sold on a large scale.

In fact, it was ready for production last month, but the craftsman Su Laocheng refused to let it be born, saying that he would wait until the emperor came back, this is the emperor's car, the emperor's painstaking efforts, only the emperor can make it born!

In the crowd, Su Laocheng was amazed, because the two-wheeled bicycle would fall to the ground if the pedals were not put on, and it was very unstable. Most people have never learned how to ride a bicycle, and it is difficult to find the balance, so they must practice.

It's not like Zhu Kezang stepped on it and walked away. He was flexible and free, and he didn't have to worry about falling off the ground.

It seems that he has ridden for an unknown how long.

Su Laocheng himself had to practice for two or three days before he fully mastered the riding skills. In this situation, he can only use the emperor's extraordinary talent to explain it.

Of course, he didn't know that Zhu Kezang's later generations had ridden various sports bicycles, and his soul had long been bound to bicycles.

(End of this chapter)