Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1710 Diligent and tireless

  Manpower matters.

  Even if they are recruiting everywhere now, craftsmen are also recruited, and they start to teach skills to apprentices, but it is still... still a drop in the bucket.

  And in some places, the terrain is too complex, which is also a great challenge for technicians.

  Zhang Heling was thinking about something every day.

  Even his incompetent brother is now reading a book of engineering mechanics every day. If he doesn't understand, he will find someone to ask.

  Silver, you have lost your wealth and life on this, can you not care about it?

In the eyes of the two brothers of the Zhang family, there are no good people in this world who are only his NIANG, and all good people are dead. From the dog emperor to the most ordinary labor, they all seem to be shining green, staring at the Zhang family all day long. , wanting to tear out a piece of flesh from the Zhang family.

  The entire Zhang family is now fully activated.

  Learn everything.

   Opening the mouth is load-bearing, geology, construction cost, and labor cost. Even Zhang Heling is now turning around the iron lump, pinching his fingers, thinking blindly all day long.

   What the two brothers are thinking about is to start work as soon as possible. If they don’t start work, it means that they are wasting money. The longer the construction period is delayed, the greater the loss.

  Zhang Heling was in Changwei every day, and Chang Wei listed out one problem after another. With the problem in hand, Zhang Heling gritted his teeth and came up with an idea.

People in the family saw that Zhang Heling seemed to be in a daze. They went out to wander around during the day, and came back with a notebook in hand to write down many things. At night, they refused to sleep. , carefully tidied it up, and then started to flip through the books. In the middle of the night, I was so hungry that I ate the remaining half bowl. In this way... After only ten days, Zhang Heling became thinner and thinner.

  Of course, he dislikes other people's fat heads and big ears the most.

   Zhang Xi, the steward of the mansion, was very worried when he saw the master like this. He was being carried by the two masters of the Zhang family to learn calculations. At his age, he only knows abacus.

What's more, almost all the servants of the Zhang family are doing white labor in the Zhang family. They have not received any wages since they entered the mansion. Of course... everyone is not stupid. As a servant of the Zhang family, he walked outside, but he was majestic. Many people wanted to stick to him and sell themselves for refuge.

In the tranquility, the dawn of the morning dawned, Zhang Xi got up, first went to the study, and saw the two masters sitting upright reading a book, while the second master was holding the copybook in his hands, soundly chatting, half asleep and half awake, his tongue twitched She subconsciously licked her lips, as if in a dream, eating something.

  Zhang Xi stepped forward and said, "Master, it's dawn."

"Huh?" Zhang Heling came to his senses in astonishment, and then pulled himself together quickly, with bloodshot eyes, and moved away from the book with great reluctance. This is an engineering cost study of the School of Computing, and he was fascinated by it. Well, when I raised my eyes at this moment, I was a little confused, and I saw the dawn outside the window, which had already penetrated in.

  Zhang Heling frowned, but was angry: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Zhang Xi carefully looked at Zhang Heling's face and said: "Small man... Seeing that the master is quiet in the study, I thought you were going to sleep here, so I didn't dare to bother you. It's the fault of the villain, villain... "

  "Beast!" Zhang Heling was even more annoyed and cursed: "The sky is so bright, and the light is still on, why don't you remind me earlier?"

After he finished speaking, he puffed out his cheeks, and hurriedly blew out the oil lamp on the writing desk. He took a look at the oil in the lamp and found that there was so much less oil. look.

   Zhang Yanling who was on the side was startled awake by the roar, quickly shook his head, sat upright, immediately picked up the theory of mechanics on the copybook, wiped his eyes and continued to read.

  Zhang Xi hurriedly gave himself a crisp slap in the face: "Yes, the villain will die. It's just that my master...although you are studious and tireless, but... your body is also tight."

   "This is my business, what has it to do with you?" Zhang Heling snorted coldly.

  "If the body is broken or sick, it will cost money to treat it." Zhang Xi reminded earnestly.

   "I...I..." Zhang Heling said: "I am in good health and can endure."

  " If you keep going, a minor illness will become a serious illness." Zhang Xi continued worriedly: "Master, it is a troubled time in the mansion. If you make a mistake, what shall we do?"

  Hearing this, Zhang Heling's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he looked Zhang Xi up and down seriously.

  Zhang Xixin said, what he said from the bottom of his heart, this master must have benefited from it, and he will trust him even more in the future.

Zhang Heling smiled and said: "You bastard, you know how to play tricks, and there is only one picker on the construction site outside the customs. You like to play tricks so much, come and come, tomorrow I will pack up the things for the master, and I will leave the customs for the master. "

  This scene made Zhang Xi unexpected...

  "I can't..." Zhang Xi was stunned for a moment, his face became a bit more tragic, and he prostrated himself on the ground: "Master, the villain is loyal to you."

"If you don't let me go to work on the construction site outside the customs, do you dare to say that you are loyal? Someone, someone, carry him down. This dog has ruined so much food in the house. I can't afford to keep this dog for a long time. Take it away. Let people stare at him, and tie him to Chang Wei tomorrow, and ask Chang Wei to arrange an errand for carrying sleepers!"

  The servants were silent as a cicada, and tried to drag Zhang Xi out.

  Zhang Xi refused to leave, struggled, and cried: "Master, master, the villain has been drinking porridge with the master for so many years, no credit but hard work..."

   But this annoying sound, after a while, gradually drifted away, and finally could not be heard.

  Zhang Yanling shivered, and couldn't help but glance at his brother: "Brother, is this... over?"

"No." Zhang Heling was expressionless, with a wise look: "It's not an exaggeration at all. Have you read that Chen Gai's engineering management theory? There is a sentence in it, which can be said to win my heart. Engineering Unusual things, those who are cured are all strong men, and the gathering of such vigorous people is a hidden danger. Someone needs to convince you, let them know how powerful you are, and if you feed them, let them go down. To work with strength, one needs to gain prestige. How can one gain prestige? It is to let them know that I, Zhang Heling, have been disowned by my relatives and turned my face against others. I will do anything to build this railway. What is it called? It's called breaking the boat. Originally...Brother wanted to send you to carry the sleepers outside the pass, and you sent them all, up and down, including that lazy Chang Wei. Do you dare to delay the matter? Do you dare to say no to me? Words? Others, dare to say that there is difficulty? But after thinking about it, although you are a bit stupid, you are my brother after all. You have to have a conscience, otherwise how can you be worthy of your dead parents? Zhang Xi is just right, this dog has been in the mansion for so many years, and the treatment is getting better and better. It has long been considered worthless to keep him in the mansion, so he just sent him out as an excuse, and let people like Chang Wei take a look , our Zhang family is staring at them, they don't want to be perfunctory."

  Zhang Yanling swallowed, shrank his neck, felt his back was cold, and felt a little creepy, he dared to walk through the gate of hell.

  …

   At this moment, a group of envoys arrived in the capital.

  The enthronement of the new emperor has long been spread throughout the world, and even every vassal state needs to send envoys to the capital to celebrate.

   Zhu Houzhao attached great importance to these envoys. He personally accepted the audience of the envoys, and then put forward a 'suggestion' asking the kings and grandsons of all countries to come to Beijing.

  Although this is a suggestion, in fact, it obviously carries the meaning that it cannot be refused.

Afterwards, Fang Jifan entertained envoys from various countries in private, but he hinted to everyone that the current emperor has a hot temper and a quick temper. Under normal circumstances, if he wants to do something, if the big guy doesn't do it, His Majesty will have to ask for Long Yan outraged.

   Then, it began to hint that the Ming army might use Luzon as a springboard to attack the Portuguese in Java.

   Not only that, the local aborigines in Luzon, but all the sons of the local aboriginal chiefs, need to send their children to Beijing.

  The envoys of various countries panicked for a while, and talked endlessly for a while.

   A few days later, Fang Jifan took the envoys of various countries to Xishan to observe the drill of the First Army.

  The drill of the first army column is over, and it is time to touch the guns.

  A row of teams, all live ammunition, all of a sudden, the gunshots continued, and the cannons rumbled.

  After the practice, Fang Jifan entered the palace to meet him.

  Zhu Houzhao was in the Fengtian Hall, looking angry: "It's unreasonable, it's really unreasonable, Lao Fang, come and see, the Ottoman envoy, how dare you say such a thing to me."

   As he spoke, he angrily threw a memorial on the copybook.

  Liu Jin beside him quickly took the memorial and sent it to Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan took it, looked down, and couldn't help but said: "The Chinese language of the Ottoman envoy is pretty good. The antithesis is neat, and the quotations are from the scriptures. It is running script, and it is like flowing water. It is comfortable to look at. This imitation must be thin and golden. Not bad."

  Zhu Houzhao said with bulging eyes: "Is it time to appreciate this? Didn't you read what it said?"

  Fang Jifan only glanced briefly, but he thought it was funny. This Ottoman actually quoted the words of Confucianism, implicitly criticized the Ming emperor for his inhumanity, and called the kings and grandsons of all countries to Beijing, which is no different from the protons of previous dynasties.

  Fang Jifan coughed, and said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with this, this Ottoman envoy is just a rotten scholar."

  Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly, and said with lingering anger: "He said that I am not benevolent, that is to say, the Ottomans spread benevolence and righteousness far and wide. Is there any reason for me to be angry?"

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   There will be a meeting in these two days, so the update time will be a bit messy. If you are in arrears, you will make up for it when you go back in two days. Of course, you will try your best to update on time.

  (end of this chapter)