Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

Chapter 288 Jiangnan floods are solved! Hu Weiyong can finally resign

Chapter 288 Jiangnan floods are solved! Hu Weiyong can finally resign
When County Magistrate Li Kaixiang and Li Da worked hard for their own jurisdiction and their own future.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang and the Six Ministries were even busier at this time.

The floods in Jiangnan this time are really shocking.

It can be said that it was caught off guard.

Without any preparation, a flood with wide spread and huge impact occurred.

The result was a tragic situation where the land was full of hunger and the people were in dire straits.

Of course, the life of officials will not be so miserable.

But you have to know that there is Zhu Yuanzhang above them!

When Emperor Zhu's temper got worse, he was unreasonable!
The local embankment has burst, and it doesn’t matter whether you, the local parent official, have just arrived.

It doesn’t matter whether the dam was repaired during your term.

Anyway, if something happens to you, it's your responsibility!

Then, Emperor Zhu was very "kind" and gave the other party a chance.

If the victims are resettled properly and the post-disaster reconstruction is done well, then it is not impossible to be exempted from crime, and they may even be promoted and paid!
To put it bluntly, Lao Zhu was obviously a farmer and a beggar, but he was able to master all the methods of later generations of capitalists without any teachers.

This method of giving a sweet date to a stick does not require too much skill.

But what can all the officials do?

You don’t have to live with this!
After all, this is not like future generations, where you can change jobs or something.

Even if you plan to resign directly like Master Hu, you have to think carefully about it.

After all, not everyone can be like Mr. Hu. Even if he resigns from office, he can still live a leisurely life and still run rampant in the officialdom.

Therefore, they can only continue to do this!
He worked diligently for Emperor Zhu.

Fortunately, Mr. Hu, who came to the rescue, made a brilliant appearance.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that the concrete made by Master Hu could be of such great use.

During this time, the Ministry of Industry can say that most of the craftsmen have been deployed to produce cement.

Moreover, mines all over the country are still frantically collecting lime ore.

For a time, cement, an object that had just appeared in the world, was delivered to the areas with the most serious floods in almost the shortest time.

There are officials from the Ministry of Industry who are familiar with the business. The key is that there are also Jin Yiwei and internal servants personally selected by Zhu Yuanzhang to escort the cement to supervise.

The entire embankment reconstruction work is progressing smoothly.

The magistrate who originally wanted to mutter a few words, even if there was someone standing behind him.

But facing the emperor's close ministers like the chamberlain and Jin Yiwei, how can one be honest and obedient?

Therefore, the power of cement completely exploded under the premise that the officials of the Ministry of Industry strictly followed the instructions of Mr. Hu and the procedures of the Ministry of Industry's test results.

The first one is the convenience of processing!
Unlike the original dam, it would be troublesome to get huge stones for foundation.

Collection, transportation, carving, and placement are all time-consuming and labor-intensive processes that make people complain endlessly.

But now?

On site, just stir the cement, river sand, and water and pour them into the mold.

How big and long you want it to be is just a matter of adjusting the mold a little or two.

Then wait for it to dry and knock the mold out. It will be a "foundation stone" that can definitely withstand the knocking. That's it!

At this point, the construction of the dam, which originally took several years and required countless manpower and material resources to be completed, was actually built as quickly as an assembly line under the coordination of officials from the Ministry of Industry!

Countless local people looked at this situation as if they had seen a miracle. And cement is used not only in dam construction.

No, at the same time as the dams were being built, cement was even more prominent in the repair of city walls and houses in flood-stricken areas.

It has to be said that there is no shortage of skilled craftsmen who can think in any era.

Of course they don't understand the various processes required to produce cement, nor do they understand the various knowledge contained in cement.

But this does not prevent their experience in use from leaps and bounds.

From cement mixing to puttying, it didn't take long for each proficient mason to be trained.

These people were directly deployed to various places. As master craftsmen, they directed the local craftsmen to work on site.

And with these master craftsmen here, cities that were hit by disasters could be repaired very quickly.

Basically, the progress of the repair depends on how quickly the cement is put in place.

The faster the cement comes, the faster the repairs will be done!

There is no need to consider anything else at all.

This kind of touching feeling of watching new city walls, new buildings being built and renovated before your eyes is more convincing than any words.

Moreover, houses built with cement are far stronger than original wooden houses.

Therefore, countless people are praising this concrete as a miracle.

At the same time, for Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, and for the Ming Dynasty, what a satisfaction!

Actually, there is a small arrangement made by Master Hu here.

Originally, both the potatoes and the cement were made by Mr. Hu.

But he had agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang in advance that the credit for this matter must be given to him.

But externally, it cannot be said that he did it.

He can't have such a big reputation!

His original reputation was already big enough, if only his reputation among the people grew stronger.

What is this for?
It is indeed a little troublesome for the king to deal with people with great reputations.

But for a stubborn person like Zhu Yuanzhang, if he gets involved and has murderous intentions, he doesn't care about his reputation.

Just kill it!
It has to be the kind that makes your whole family go to the execution ground together!
Therefore, Mr. Hu conscientiously agreed early on how to calculate Hu Weiyong's credit internally.

But externally, he did not leave his name.

The reputation and popular support belong to Zhu Yuanzhang!
It is precisely because of this that cement has made its debut in flood-prone areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and people are praising it.

It was all the imperial court and Zhu Yuanzhang, not Mr. Hu who was hiding behind the scenes.

Do you think Mr. Hu has lost money?

But in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had already firmly remembered Master Hu's contribution in his heart.

Especially after seeing that disaster relief efforts in various places have achieved results, Zhu Yuanzhang finally felt relieved, changing the pattern of slow repairs and reconstruction in previous years.

To put it bluntly, nearly 80% of this is due to the cement made by Mr. Hu.

Although others don't talk about these things, Zhu Yuanzhang can't forget them all.

Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes lamented that if all the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty were like Mr. Hu, he would be so happy.

But when he thought about the Ming officials skipping work from time to time, his old face suddenly turned pale.

Apparently, it’s not that good!

(End of this chapter)