Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 472 An Unprecedented National Project

After the wedding, Chen Yunfu left Yang Shiqi alone.

The reason for staying behind is well known to the latter.

Excited and a little nervous.

"Once Delhi is taken, you're going to India to be king."

When Chen Yunfu said this, his tone was a little emotional and a little bit reluctant.

"You and I have known each other for 25 years since the 14th year of Hongwu."

"My minister, Meng En, has been promoted to be the king's secretary, and I will serve you. The king and my minister are also the king and teacher." Yang Shiqi bowed his head and bowed, and said with melancholy: "I still want to stay in Nanjing and continue to serve the king."

Chen Yunfu laughed silently, breathed out a mouthful of alcohol while sighing, and said.

"Go, I will go to India to see you in two years. That place is related to Zhongzhou's 500-year foundation. It is not at ease to let anyone go alone except you. You are brought out alone. Only you can replace Gu. Be optimistic about Tibet."

Yang Shiqi stood up, then bowed down and paused his head and said: "My minister, I must be the king's heart, and I hope to repay the king's kindness in case."

"Get up, get up quickly." Chen Yunfu walked over to help Yang Shiqi up, stretched the hem of his clothes for the latter, and said with a smile: "Gu Xin, the one I believe in most is you, Shi Qi, sit down."

The two sat down again, and Chen Yunfu looked at Yang Shiqi and asked, "Talk to Gu, what do you plan to do after you go to India."

The latter thought about it, and said slowly: "Qing Ding, emphasizing education, suppressing learning, expanding production, and building."

Chen Yunfu had no expression on his face, he just let out a hum from his nasal voice.

"go on."

"After I went to Tibet, the first thing I did was to investigate the population. The calculation of the population is the foundation of the country. Find out how many populations there are in India, what are their living habits and lifestyles, so that I can prescribe the right medicine for the government.

As a foreigner, if you want to stabilize your rule in India, you must follow the example of the Turks in the Delhi Sultanate, relying heavily on the local religion in India, using their religion to control their people, and achieving national stability. The king brings trouble.

The sage Wanghua and enlightenment are not suitable for India, so we must curb learning and not open any schools. As long as the local people are not allowed to start enlightenment, they will continue to be ignorant, from generation to generation, within 300 years.

The South India Company has arrived, and the minister will work with the South India Company to expand production in India in order to achieve abundant products and sufficient food and clothing.

The last is to build more wide roads, river canals, ports, cities and temples. The wide roads can allow the production to flow smoothly. The rivers and canals can be used for water conservancy to irrigate farmland and protect food. The ports are used to transport goods with Zhongzhou. The people, but the temple.

Indian people cannot live without temples, and the imperial court cannot allow India to lose their temples. "

Yang Shiqi talked eloquently and answered fluently.

He clearly knew his duty to go to India, and he knew more clearly what India's position was in Chen Yunfu's mind.

Two flowers grow on the same rhizome, and when one withers, the other grows to be extremely bright.

If they are born at the same time, they will not be able to overwhelm the crowd.

Perhaps Chen Yunfu was a little drunk or tired, and kept his eyes closed to rest his mind. After hearing Yang Shiqi's words, he didn't respond much. Instead, he talked about another matter.

"The Academy of Engineering has come up with a new thing, which is a special track for carriages."

"The wheels of the carriage run on the rails, which greatly saves the strength of the horse, and it can pull four to eight times its original load and move freely.

I went to see it alone, and the effect is good, but the cost is a bit expensive. The track made of iron needs about [-] catties of iron for every mile of land, and now a catty of iron costs fifteen yuan.

In other words, the cost of laying the track for each mile is as high as 900 taels.

The Nanjing government made a plan. The total length of the six tracks in Nanjing alone is 120 miles long, requiring 8000 taels of silver.

However, Nanjing’s goods are not produced by Nanjing itself. They are all transported into Nanjing from other provinces. Water transport or land transport, the dredging of the river for water transport, and the expansion of the Beijing road for land transport are two projects that are easier to do, but if we say The amount of money for laying one or more carriage tracks from Nanjing to the local area is too large.

The cost of materials alone is astronomically expensive, as well as workers' wages and future maintenance costs.

The laying of a carriage track across the government or even across the province means that the imperial court will set up post stations along the track in order to protect the track and prevent the track from being melted and stolen by the people.

I have never read the budget, but I did some mental calculations. Nanjing is about 100 miles away from Beijing. One mile with materials and workers is about 370 taels, [-] miles, [-] million taels, no. reality. "

Yang Shiqi had been listening silently. At first he didn't understand why Chen Yunfu said this, but he gradually understood after hearing it, but he didn't rush to speak, and just listened honestly to Chen Yunfu's continued talk.

"Rail carriages can increase the transportation capacity by four to eight times, which means that the efficiency of transportation can be increased by four to eight times. What kind of concept is this? It can control the price of salt in the northwest to ten cents per catty. The price of food in Yunnan and Guizhou can be controlled at five Wen a catty.

All poor places can be made rich, not because they have more money in their pockets, but because the price of goods has become lower, and the most basic guarantee of life, such as enough food and clothing, can be realized.

Shi Qi, do you think this matter is compared with opening up territories, which is the real meritorious service? "

Yang Shiqi blurted out without hesitation: "If that's the case, the great king's merits can hardly be compared with the three emperors and five emperors, Qin Huang, Han and Wu combined."

"I'm almost forty alone."

Chen Yunfu kept his eyes closed, but kept tapping his fingers resting on the armrest of the chair, which showed that Chen Yunfu's heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.

"Ten years ago, Gu and Yao Guangxiao said that Gu wanted to create a great world, and Gu was so young, so he would definitely be able to achieve it, but ten years have passed in a flash, thinking about Gu, Gu has not made any great achievements.

The country is still the same country, except that there is more gold and silver, but the land is much smaller than ten years ago. Gu said that Gu does not pursue the size of Zhongzhou's land area, but only cares about whether Zhongzhou is strong or not.

Now, Gu sees hope, and sees the hope of making all the people of Zhongzhou rich. Although it is difficult to realize, hope is better than no hope.

The thing is, man-made. "

Yang Shiqi looked at Chen Yunfu with piercing eyes, already fully understanding the latter's meaning in his heart.

You say that Chen Yunfu will be very happy when he gets old, and he will worry about the country and the people, but this matter, Chen Yunfu has to do it, and he has to do it!
Railroad projects covering the whole country!
This is a bigger project than rebuilding a Great Wall plus a Grand Canal.

What is the crime in the present and the benefit in the future, this matter is done, and Chen Yunfu's page is the most dazzling in the history books of the Chinese nation!
It is even possible that Chen Yunfu alone will occupy half of the entire history of China!

With Zhongzhou alone, this project cannot be realized, even in another 30 or 50 years.

Chen Yunfu was afraid that he would not see that day.

Yang Shiqi stood up, raised his robe and bowed to the ground, his forehead pressed tightly against the ground, and said in a loud and firm voice.

"What the king wants to do will definitely be done. I am willing to devote myself to the great cause of the king."

"This is not a small project with millions or tens of millions of taels, but a cost of hundreds of millions or even billions of taels. It requires tens of millions of people's labor. Can this great cause really be accomplished?"

Yang Shiqi raised his head and said in the firmest tone word by word.

"Things, in, people, for!"

(End of this chapter)