I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 202 The honor and disgrace of the Chinese nation will never be known...

In a few months, Ying Tianfu has changed a lot.

The original dirt roads in the city were replaced with cement roads.

Walking on the flat concrete road is even more comfortable than those roads paved with bluestone strips.

At least, there aren't any bumps or bumps.

Not even any mud on a rainy day.

The carriage also drove more smoothly.

The Technical Research and Manufacturing Bureau, under the guidance of Taisun, launched a new four-wheeled carriage.

It is not the same as the original old-fashioned four-wheeled carriage.

This four-wheeled carriage is equipped with a connecting steering device, making it very flexible.

Before this.

Due to the inconvenient steering, the four-wheeled carriage was rarely used.

People preferred to use two-wheeled carriages.

After adding the steering device, the four-wheeled carriages quickly increased.

The widespread use of the RMB, coupled with the liberalization of business, has also promoted the prosperity of commerce and trade.

The population of Jinling City increased by nearly 10 in just a few months.

Moreover, more people are coming in continuously.

Daming is entering an unprecedented prosperous age.

The end of the year is approaching.

Many people flock to the streets to buy new year's goods.

Zheng Guohou Mansion.

There are also many people coming in and out.

Compared with ordinary people, the festivities at the Duke's house are even more lively.

More is needed.

There are naturally a lot of people coming in and out.

A group of unremarkable sellers walked out of the Hou Mansion in twos and threes.

Among the crowd, Chang Mao was also mixed in.

Ever since Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were executed, he discovered that there were guards in disguise monitoring the area outside his house, so he stayed behind closed doors.

From then on, even if there were no more Jin Yiwei men outside, he would always stay at home.

The door does not go out, and the second door does not step.

The source of information depends entirely on reading newspapers.

Zhu Yunxi's methods made him feel very scared, and he became less and less afraid to go out.

Stayed at home for several months.

It wasn't until the end of the new year that Chang Mao felt that it was almost safe, so he went out in disguise.

only.

He didn't know that he was patient, but Xu Miaojin was even more patient.

For several months, the people she arranged have been watching outside in turn.

Everyone entering and leaving Zheng Guohou's mansion was checked.

For several months, it never stopped.

Although Chang Mao was in disguise, he was already targeted as soon as he went out.

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Yangshan.

As soon as Lao Zhu saw Zhu Yunzhen, he hugged him happily.

"Come on, let Grandpa Huang see, they have grown a lot taller, and they are about to be unable to hold them."

He was older, so after I hugged him, he felt a little strenuous, so I had to put him down.

"It's been a few months, do you miss Grandpa Huang?"

"Think!" Zhu Yunxi looked up at Lao Zhu, and said, "My grandson thinks about Grandpa Huang every day, but he is busy with state affairs and dares to procrastinate, so he can't visit Grandpa Huang often."

"Grandfather, otherwise, you'd better go back to live in the palace."

"My grandson will renovate the palace and make it comfortable for you."

Old Zhu waved his hand upon hearing this.

"No need!"

"You are managing Daming very well now, better than us."

"Although we are recuperating in Yangshan, we have heard that there is so much money in the treasury that we can't even use it all, and the granaries are full of grain."

"As we get older, we will inevitably like to point fingers when we see something happen, which will be detrimental to your governance."

"Yangshan has beautiful scenery, with golden wind and morning dew in the morning, and colorful clouds in the evening at night. It has beautiful mountains and rivers. Let's live a happy life here."

"If we're tired of being bored, we still want to go out and look around, to see the country that our old Zhu's family has laid down, and to see how the common people are doing?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at his wrinkled face, and said: "If Grandpa Huang wants to go, he must inform his grandson first, and grandson will build a spacious concrete road for Grandpa Huang first."

"Hahahaha!" Lao Zhu laughed loudly: "We heard that you invented a thing called cement, which is used to build roads. It is as good as bluestone, and there is no mud in rainy days. Flat is better than bluestone. Now a road has been built. The road leading to Songjiang Mansion."

"Yes!" Zhu Yunzhen nodded and said, "Next, we will use it to build more roads."

Daming's transportation is actually very developed, with many roads.

The problem is that due to material limitations, most of them are dirt roads.

The biggest problem with dirt roads is that they become very muddy when it rains, making transportation difficult.

Moreover, after trampling on rainy days, small pits will be formed one by one.

If the weather is fine and the road is dry, the dirt pits will not disappear, but still exist, making the road surface uneven.

Cement roads undoubtedly have many benefits.

Especially when the weather is bad.

"Beiping is the former capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and is now an important border town. It is also the hub of the north, and it is extremely important to prevent the Northern Yuan Dynasty from going south."

"We think, your next concrete road will be the concrete road from Jinling to Beiping, how about it?"

"We also want to visit the north." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

"Grandpa Huang, let's go together." Zhu Yunxuan said with a smile: "My grandson has sent officials to survey, and is preparing to build a cement highway from Jinling to Peiping."

It is different from what Lao Zhu thinks about in his heart is national defense.

Zhu Yunxi didn't take Bei Yuan's threats to heart at all.

Now the new army has expanded to 5000 people.

And all are equipped with breech-loading guns and custom-loaded ammunition.

In terms of combat effectiveness, he estimated that these 5000 people would be enough to sweep the entire North Yuan.

What's more, the Technical Research and Manufacturing Bureau is still producing more guns.

A new firearms factory is under construction, and production efficiency will be further improved.

He wanted to build a road to Peiping, mainly from an economic point of view.

The road from the capital to Peking will undoubtedly become the economic artery of the Ming Dynasty, greatly promoting exchanges between the north and the south and the prosperity of commerce.

"Hahaha!"

Lao Zhu laughed, touched his head and said: "Okay, okay, we are still thinking, will you blame this bad old man of ours for talking too much, asking you to govern the world, but you have to point east and west? Do this or that, just think of it!"

He paused, and then said: "Let's see that you have done a good job in everything during the period of governing the country."

"There's one more."

"Now that there is money and food in the treasury, we are thinking that it is time for the Great Wall to be repaired."

"Bei Yuan's threat cannot be underestimated!"

Zhu Yunzhen was slightly startled when he heard this.

In fact, I have received quite a few memorials for repairing the Great Wall in the past few months.

Even the King of Yan and the King of Jin wrote letters one after another, requesting the imperial court to allocate funds to rebuild the Great Wall.

However, he kept the memorial secret and did not make any statement.

Lao Zhu should have known these things before he warned them.

However, in Zhu Yunxuan's view, Ming Dynasty was about to enter an industrial society, and the existence of the Long March was more of a symbol.

The inviolable symbol of the Chinese nation.

The Great Wall needs to be well preserved.

But it would be unwise to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to recruit civilians to build the Great Wall at this time.

Because no more foreigners can invade China.

The Long March will also become a historical building within the country instead of a border wall.

Lao Zhu obviously hasn't seen this yet.

"Grandpa, my grandson doesn't plan to build the Great Wall anymore." Zhu Yunxi looked at Lao Zhu and said firmly.

Lao Zhu was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why is this?"

"Mencius once said: The people of a region do not rely on the boundaries of a territorial border, the country does not rely on the dangers of mountains and rivers to consolidate the country, and the power of the world does not rely on the benefits of military revolution."

"My grandson thinks that although Mencius' words are a bit too naive, they are not unreasonable."

"If there is no advantage of military revolution, it will be difficult to dominate the world."

"The danger of mountains and streams is also of great benefit to defending the frontier."

"But my grandson always believes that offense is the best defense!"

"Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Great Wall has been repaired, and the manpower, material resources, and financial resources consumed are countless."

"Countless people died during the construction of the Great Wall."

"One foot of the Great Wall is one person's blood, and the Great Wall is thousands of miles of bones."

"The price paid is too high to be counted."

"However, there are still five random chaos in China, and Beiyuan has entered the Central Plains and ruled China for decades."

"Had it not been for the imperial grandfather to lead the uprising and expel the Tartars, the Central Plains of China would still be under the rule of foreigners."

"Looking at history, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty; Li Jing defeated the Turks with three thousand cavalry in the Tang Dynasty, and Su Dingfang pacified the desert."

"This dynasty also overthrew the Northern Yuan Dynasty and attacked the grasslands from afar. Just a few years ago, Lan Yugang led his troops to defeat the Royal Court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty."

"None of this relies on the Great Wall."

"And once there is civil strife in the Central Plains, or when the country is weak, the grassland army will definitely move south. The Great Wall will still be there, but it will not be able to resist it at all."

"Therefore, there is a saying in a Tang poem: As long as the general can win a hundred victories, there is no need for the emperor to build the Great Wall."

"My grandson thinks that the Great Wall is not strong enough."

"If the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, supported by the people, and had strong soldiers and horses, why would it matter if it was only the Northern Yuan Dynasty?"

"If the national power declines, the people's hearts are unstable, and civil strife arises on its own, what's the use of the Great Wall?"

"The really useful Great Wall is not the walls of the border, but the hearts of the people! If the people's hearts are happy, the country will be born, and the border will be self-reliant. This is called the unity of the will."

"The Chinese nation, unite as one. If foreign enemies invade, they will all fight together. No one will lead the way for foreigners. Flattering and surrendering is the best Great Wall!"

After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, Old Zhu's eyes lit up immediately.

"well said!"

"The Chinese nation, united as one, is stronger than the Great Wall."

"I have decreed and recorded it in the ancestral precepts. During the Ming Dynasty, future generations will never build the Great Wall."

(End of this chapter)