Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chapter 256 Building a Car in Daming?is it possible
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Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Yuanzhang all looked over at the same time.

A total of four pairs of eyes were gathered, all looking at Chu Ze rightly.

It's like watching a neuropathy.

Zhu Xi was the first to speak: "You're not kidding, are you?"

Zhu Di followed closely behind: "The current roads are all good, why suddenly build some roads."

Zhu Biao also disagreed: "This suggestion is indeed a bit sudden. There are special funds and personnel to maintain the country's roads every year. Now it is really unnecessary to suddenly propose road repairs."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Biao'er is right."

When it comes to building roads, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that it is really not necessary.

Zhu Yuanzhang can't guarantee other roads, but he can guarantee that the official road will be maintained every year, and there will never be any problems.

Suddenly allocating a sum of money will not only increase the burden on the treasury, but also increase the corvee of the people.

It is not necessary.

It's no wonder that Zhu Yuanzhang and others were all opposed.

But since Chu Ze said so, he naturally has his own plans.

He said: "In our time, there was a saying 'If you want to get rich, build roads first', because only when the transportation is convenient, can you develop faster. Now our carriages are fast enough, right?" At least faster than before , what is urgent.

"But there are faster ones."

"You mean, it must be a car, right?" Zhu Biao thought of what Chu Ze had said to him before, and immediately thought of this.

Zhu Xi and Zhu Di looked at each other, and looked at Zhu Biao in unison.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "What kind of car? Aren't they all horse-drawn carriages?" At most, some horse-drawn carriages are faster.

Are there any other cars?

Chu Ze said: "Yes, it's a car. It's not the carriage we see now, but a more advanced and mechanized car. Of course, we don't even think about the fully mechanized car like I said, because we The current level of technology can’t make it. But we can learn from it and create a faster car that meets the current social conditions. In this way, the journey that should have taken three days may only take two days, and it will be faster , it may only take a day."

Whether it is traveling or transporting things, the efficiency will be greatly accelerated.

Such a good thing, don't they want it?

The eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and others suddenly lit up.

They glanced at each other quickly, and they both saw yearning in each other's eyes.

"Can it really shorten the time so much?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait.

If it was like what Chu Ze said, he would go much faster wherever he wanted to go in the future.

Maybe I am still in Yingtian today, and I can arrive in Shanxi tomorrow.

On the day after tomorrow, you can return to Yingtian.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt very happy just thinking about it.

Chu Ze nodded: "Sure."

"But the premise is that the road must be built first. If you want the speed of the car to be fast, in addition to the car itself, the road surface must be smooth, so that the wear and tear of the vehicle can be reduced, and the speed of the car can also be increased."

After Chu Ze finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent.

He wasn't thinking about whether to agree to Chu Ze's proposal, but whether the money was enough.

Roads across the country have been repaired, which is not a small amount of money.

And now is the time to use troops.

It can be described as spending money like water.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao have to carefully consider every large expenditure now.

After careful calculation, the two of them frowned and came to a conclusion - no money.

"We are about to use troops against the Japanese, and there is a vast sea between the two places. Whether it is ships, food, or weapons, we need money to support them. Although we can support wars with wars, the initial expenditure is still irreducible, and even Set aside some money just in case you need it.”

After checking quickly in his mind, Zhu Biao continued: "Although the remaining money can be enough for daily expenses, it is definitely not enough for road construction."

The principle of building roads is similar to that of starting wars.

Once construction starts, every day is money.

Whichever day you stop, you will lose all your money.

In short, lack of money.

Chu Ze: "..."

No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang had to let him attack the Luo family before, it seemed that he was really short of money.

But this road will have to be repaired sooner or later.

Where can I get that silver?

Chu Ze started to have trouble.

Before he could think about it, Zhu Yuanzhang had already made a decision for him.

"Now the road construction can be delayed, Chu Ze, the car you just mentioned..." Zhu Yuanzhang kept hinting with gestures, "What does it look like?"

"Yes, I also want to see what the car you mentioned looks like." Zhu Xi sat up straight and looked at Chu Ze expectantly.

Facing the four pairs of eyes, Chu Ze... Chu Ze had no choice but to continue to show his soul painting skills.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others are used to it, and if they dislike it, they dislike it, but they can still understand it.

It's just that this car looks too strange.

The wheels are so big and the body is so low.

What are the four holes above for?Can this car go without a horse?
A lot of questions popped up one by one.

Chu Ze replied: "Of course I can go, because the power of this car is not horses, but oil."

"Oil?" Zhu Di turned his head and looked at the oil lamp in the corner.

Chu Ze: "It's not the oil, but a kind of oil hidden deep in the ground, which is extracted from it." It's not the animal fat or vegetable oil used to burn in the oil lamp.

Seeing the confused faces of Zhu Yuanzhang and others, Chu Ze took a sip of tea calmly.

This is something that doesn't exist now, and they naturally don't know it.

Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, and then asked a key question: "Since there is no gas, how can this car move?"

The others reacted immediately.

"That's right, Chu Ze, didn't you say that this car needs gas to move, but we don't have any gas."

"Can it be replaced by something else?"

Zhu Xi and Zhu Di put forward their opinions one after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang is more direct.

With a big wave of his hand, he was very domineering: "Chu Ze, tell me, where is the oil? Our Daming is powerful, and now we have guns. Not to mention sweeping the whole world, it will be no problem to conquer most places, right? Say, As long as you point to a place, we will fight and grab all the oil there. Wouldn’t there be oil in this way, wouldn’t the car be able to move?”

As expected of being an emperor, that is domineering.

Chu Ze wanted to give him a thumbs up.

But this, Chu Ze really dare not point out.

He knew where there was oil, firstly because of the long distance, secondly because they did not have the mining technology, and finally, even if it was extracted, it would be a great trouble to transport it back.

So Chu Ze shook his head without hesitation, and said bluntly: "I can't say, you can't get it even if you say it, if you have to do it, it will only waste manpower, material and financial resources. In short, no matter how you calculate it, it will be laborious." It's not a good thing. Instead of doing this kind of thing, let's change the way."

(End of this chapter)