Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 205 Return to the Homeland of Han and Tang Dynasties

Summoned by Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs did not dare to neglect, and quickly rushed to an open space outside the temporary palace.

Not long after leaving, Liu Huaiwen, who was summoned back again before returning to the yamen of the household department, couldn't help complaining secretly: I don't see you rushing to give a gift, but you are very active in causing trouble!
Zhu Jinsong directly pointed to the small bottles in front of him, and said straight to the point: "These are several kinds of oils distilled from petroleum by the Royal Academy. Each oil has different properties, and some are easy to drink. Some are flammable, some are explosive, and some are extremely difficult to ignite but are extremely resistant to burning."

After a general demonstration, Zhu Jinsong pointed to a large piece of asphalt sent by Liang Xiuxiude and said: "I just sent this to the Royal Academy to bring it. It is the residue left after petroleum distillation. It is best used to pave roads." Not too bad."

Song Yucheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, snorted, walked to the front and back of the asphalt, touched it with his hands, then stepped on it with his feet, and said: "I can't say anything about other aspects, but it is indeed more comfortable to step on than stone slabs or cement. Some."

Speaking of this, Song Yucheng turned his attention to Liu Huaiwen again: "If this thing is the residue after oil refining, then there is no question of cost or cost, and your treasury can save a lot of money."

Liu Huaiwen didn't pay much attention to asphalt at first, but after hearing Song Yucheng's words, he walked directly to the asphalt, looked at it carefully and asked Song Yucheng, "Can this thing really be used to pave roads?"

Song Yucheng said: "I'm not sure, but it can be given a try, and since His Majesty has said so, it should be all right."

Liu Huaiwen nodded, lowered his head to ponder for a while, then shook his head, and said: "If it can be used to build roads, then this thing is indeed a good thing, but unfortunately, our Daming has too little oil, and it is impossible to use this thing. Come pave the way."

Zhu Jinsong also nodded and said: "I heard that this thing is buried deep in the ground, and it will be empty if it is mined. It is a non-renewable thing."

Whether oil is a renewable resource or not is hard to say. Anyway, some people say that oil is a renewable resource, and some say that oil is a non-renewable resource. There are a lot of true and false news, and Zhu Jinsong does not know what to do. Believe who.

The point is that Zhu Jinsong doesn't need to know whether this thing is renewable or not, he just needs to know that Daming lacks this thing, and some places have a lot of it.

Besides, even if Daming does not lack oil now, Zhu Jinsong has no plan to let it go.

What are the derivatives of petroleum?
Gasoline, kerosene, diesel, heavy oil, stockings, lubricants of various brands, these messy things are all obtained by refining petroleum.

In other words, the appearance of the steam engine ushered in the beginning of the industrial revolution, while the advancement of the oil industry, especially oil refining technology, led and even promoted the progress and development of the entire industrial revolution.

Another very important point is that Daming's current refining technology is a bit rough, and more oil will be wasted.

Although Zhu Jinsong doesn't care about the waste, and Da Ming doesn't care, but since the word waste is used, it is natural that others will come first, and Da Ming's own little oil reserves should be reserved to wait for technological development. Let's talk to a certain extent.

And after hearing the news that Daming's oil reserves were insufficient and that oil was non-renewable, Zeng Cheng couldn't help but stroked his hair, which was getting thinner, and sighed: "I only sigh that although Daming has a vast land, there are so many resources. But rare, God treats me so thinly in the Central Plains~"

Zhu Jinsong just looked at Zeng Cheng like this, and secretly complained: You have short hair, does it have any inevitable relationship with God's treatment of Zhongyuantang?
Do you need some face? ?
Just when Zhu Jinsong was complaining secretly, Zeng Cheng went on to say: "I heard that there are a lot of these things in the Western Regions—I think that I will be an old scholar of the Tang and Yuan Dynasties in the Ming Dynasty!"

Geng Rui, the leader of the Right Army's Governor's Mansion, also said: "My minister, second my proposal!"

Song Yucheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry: "Minister, second!"

As one civil and military minister after another stood up to express his second opinion, Zhu Jinsong finally confirmed that Zeng Cheng was a shameless guy, and he led all the civil and military ministers in the Ming Dynasty to ruin!

Fortunately, Meng Fanzhi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, is not as shameless as Zeng Cheng.

After casting a disdainful glance at Zeng Cheng and others, Meng Fanzhi bowed and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, Jiankui has been rampant in the Central Plains for more than 50 and [-] years. There are a lot of wolf-hearted and dog-like behaviors. The perverse actions are outrageous."

"Although the slave chief Qian Deaf and the old dog were captured without a fight, the No. 15 son of Qian Deaf and the old dog, Aixinjueluo Yongyan, occupied Gurkha and other places, and trapped the Gurkha people. This is the life and death of Gurkha. The autumn also."

"Gurkha is located in the Western Regions. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and even the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, it has always been a vassal country of our Central Plains. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven of the Central Plains and the father of all the people. I ask your Majesty to obey the will of the people and raise an army to fight against the enemy. Conquer the remnants of the remnants of the Jianlu tribe, and liberate the people of Gurkha from hanging upside down."

Zhu Jinsong finally despaired - from the name of our minister of rites, we can tell that this person is the descendant of the sub-sage Mencius, and he is also born with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Unexpectedly, he is also the same guy as Zeng Cheng!

Shameless!Pooh!

Zhu Jinsong nodded respectfully in his heart, then nodded and said: "I inherited the Song and Yuan Dynasties from the Ming Dynasty, so I naturally want to take back my homeland, and I will never allow a single inch of land to be lost to the barbarians."

Well, acknowledging that the Yuan court is the Zhengshuo of the Central Plains can be regarded as a traditional skill of the Ming emperor and the princes of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Chongba took over Meng Yuan, he publicly recognized Meng Yuan as the Zhengshuo of the Central Plains in the enthronement edict, and directly called Meng Yuan a pseudo-Yuan in the court, and most subsequent emperors also They are all like this bird, on the surface they all admit that Meng Yuan is Zhengshuo of the Central Plains, but in fact they are calling false Yuan one by one.

If it is said that Zhu Chongba and the emperors of the old Zhu family are not because of the legal rationality of the Mengyuan territory, I am afraid that dogs will not believe it!

For example, because Lao Zhu admitted that Meng Yuan was also regarded as the Zhengshuo of the Central Plains, the Timur Khanate, which was suppressing the Western Regions and its territory to the west, became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of envoys who came to China in the name of paying tribute was different. It was less than 78 times, and at the same time, the number of envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty to visit the Timur Dynasty was at least 20 times.

During the ten years from the first year of Hongxi to the tenth year of Xuande, the Timurid Dynasty sent missions to Daming 21 times to pay tribute. The tributes were mainly local specialties, including camels, horses, jade and so on.

According to the "Ming Taizu Records", the number of tribute horses is not less than 2821 - more than 2000 Arabian horses and even excellent war horses including sweat horses, which were given to Zhu Laosi by the Timur Khanate as a tribute. Then Zhu Laosi took it to smash Alutai's place.

So, whether to admit that Meng Yuan is Zhengshuo of the Central Plains mainly depends on whether there are any benefits to be reaped.

If there is no benefit, Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi will admit Meng Yuan?
Now Zeng Cheng and Meng Fanzhi said that Gurkha and its land further west were the old places of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and they could be regarded as the old places of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties if they were not the old places of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Can't fault it.

Even Liu Huaiwen, who always liked to clamor about the emptiness of the national treasury and the fact that the treasury was starving to death, nodded in agreement: "That's right, let the people hang in the balance, hahahaha."

Anyway, the benefits have to be taken, and the archway must be erected.

Seeing that everyone was clamoring to restore the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, Zhu Jinsong hummed, and told Geng Rui, the man in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army: "Leave this matter to your Governor's Mansion of the Right Army. The little wild boar hide drove him out of Gurkha and let him run to the oil barrel."

After Geng Rui bowed to answer, Zhu Jinsong looked at Zeng Cheng and other big brothers again, and said, "It's not difficult to kill the little wild boar skin, but how to keep our Daming's oil barrels requires big guys." Let's work together."

Zeng Cheng and other big shots looked at Zhu Jinsong in bewilderment.

Keeping the oil barrel still requires the brains and efforts of so many departments in Daming?
Did Your Majesty overestimate the barbarian over the oil barrel, or underestimate our Great Ming's Five Armies Commander's Mansion?
Geng Rui blushed even more, and shouted: "As long as there is one last person who can breathe in the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, he can hold the oil drum!"

Zhu Jinsong glared at Geng Rui: "What are you calling? It shows that you have a loud voice? No brains!"

After training Geng Rui, Zhu Jinsong turned his attention to Zeng Cheng again: "I ask you, how many Dingkou does our Daming have now?"

Zeng Cheng reacted immediately.

How many Dingkou does Daming have now?
The answer is 970.

Thirty million people might sound like a lot, but if they were to be spread over the entire Daming, there really weren't that many people—it's all hooliganism to talk about how many people there are without considering the size of the territory in advance!
Originally the entire territory of the Qing Dynasty, plus Jiaozhi, Myanmar, Siam, Laos, Bangzi, Nurgandusi, and most of the grasslands, let alone [-] million people, even if there are [-] million more people, there is no way Fill such a large site!

Seeing Zeng Cheng and other big bosses all looking thoughtful, Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "Aside from the problem of insufficient number of Dingkou, are the people of Ming Dynasty very willing to move out? If they move out, they will live again for the rest of their lives." I can’t go back to my hometown where I was born and raised, so if you replace me, would you like to?”

Yes, the reason why the people are unwilling to relocate, apart from the faster and faster development of Ming Dynasty and the improvement of the people's life every day, the most important reason is that the traffic conditions are backward. I didn't have a chance to visit my hometown.

This is almost unbearable for the people of Ming Dynasty who have a strong rural complex.

Therefore, without using coercive means to relocate the people, the traffic problem must be solved first, so that the people know that there is still a chance to go back to their hometown after the relocation.

Song Yucheng couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, the Transportation Department has already planned the railway and straight road to be built from the seventh year of the Holy Emperor to the 12th year of the Holy Emperor. The current focus is on the directions of Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiaozhi, and even the direction of Liaodong is ranked first." Later, if the Western Regions are added, I am afraid that the original plan will also be changed accordingly."

Zhu Jinsong hummed and said, "There is no rush for this matter. Since we know that there is a lot of oil in the oil barrels, we can buy some from those Europa barbarians first, and we will talk about it when we have free hands."

After being told by Zhu Jinsong, Song Yucheng calmed down, but Liu Huaiwen yelled like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "What is it? Buy it with money?"

"How empty is our Daming treasury? Even the mice don't know how much they starved to death, and they still have to spend money to find barbarians to buy oil?"

"Well, the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies went out to recruit some workers and came back. Wouldn't it be enough for your railway department to open another line?"

"I'm really not in charge of the family and I don't know how expensive Chai Mi is!"

Then Zeng Cheng and other big shots glared at Liu Huaiwen together.

Let the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies recruit a group of laborers?
This matter is easy to say, and it is not difficult to do it, but if the labor is recruited, shouldn't those sites belong to Daming?Did Ming Dynasty have to relocate people there?Should officials be dispatched to govern?

Besides, there are still so many sites that have not been digested. Are you still thinking about recruiting labor?
It's just crazy to save money!
(End of this chapter)