The Ming Dynasty: The most ruthless imperial grandson, Old Zhu begged me not to kill him.

Chapter 388 Cement Appears
Liu Bowen then said with a smile.

"Your Highness, what you're saying doesn't seem to have any problem!"

"However, it requires too much expense, and we don't know what that extremely magical thing you mentioned is, so even our cabinet may not be able to help you."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiong Ying immediately smiled and said...

"Knowing that none of you have ever seen anything like this before, and therefore find it hard to believe, I prepared some in advance!"

At this moment, Zhu Xiong Ying clapped his hands, and the two of them took out two boxes. One box contained a lot of powder, which was divided into several kinds and placed in different places.

The other one was a solidified stone, and Zhu Xiong Ying pointed to it and said.

"This stuff is called cement, and it's very useful. It's perfect for building houses and other structures!"

"The key is that it is easy to manufacture and solidifies very quickly. As you can see, it was originally in powder form, and it only takes a few days to solidify into its current form!"

Everyone was quite surprised to see what was on it. Some even took out a piece of solidified cement to study it. They looked at it from left to right and finally had to admit that it was indeed very useful. They couldn't believe that a pile of powder could become so solid. At this moment, an official said excitedly.

"I never imagined this thing could be used like this. Besides paving roads, it should also be useful for building city walls in the future!"

Zhu Xiong Ying smiled and nodded, not expecting that this person had discovered the key to the problem so quickly.

"Indeed, if we use this to build the city walls, it can save a lot of time!"

“You can even build houses on it!”

Everyone was extremely excited, especially the officials from the Ministry of Works. Their Ministry of Works was responsible for all kinds of projects, and the projects were very complicated. If there was a flood or drought in a certain place, they would also be responsible for rebuilding houses. So there were a lot of things to do.

Each time it takes a lot of money, but if we had this, we could definitely save a lot of money and food.

Thinking of this place, they were all extremely excited. At this moment, Liu Bowen said with a smile.

"It seems the Crown Prince is quite confident. In that case, we won't say anything more. Your Highness needs to find a way to contact those merchants. Our cabinet officials will not contact them. What do you think?"

Zhu Xiong Ying smiled and nodded after hearing this.

"That's not a problem. I'll make the contact. All we need is for the cabinet to cooperate in carrying it out!"

The officials nodded after hearing this. If it was just about cooperating, it wouldn't be a big problem for them. The key was the cement formula that Zhu Xiong Ying had, which was the most important thing.

If they could get their hands on the formula for this product, they could save a lot of money in the future. And if they calculated carefully, they wouldn't need to spend much money to get just this one thing.

After the officials left, Zhu Xiong Ying bowed to Liu Bo Wen in front of him.

"Thank you very much for your help, Grand Secretary Liu!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Bowen waved his hand and then laughed heartily.

"I should be thanking you. If it weren't for you, I'd probably still be in a daze, or even dead by now!"

“I’ve been sleeping more and more these past few days. I don’t know why. Yong feels like he doesn’t have many years left to live. Since that’s the case, then let’s use these days to do as much as we can!” “Alright, alright, this matter is over. The rest is all up to you. Those merchants and powerful families aren’t fools. They won’t be so easily persuaded. You need to think this through!”

Zhu Xiong Ying nodded after hearing this.

"Please rest assured, Grand Secretary Liu!"

"No matter which family it is, what they value most is profit. If there is enough profit in this matter, they will not remain indifferent!"

Liu Bowen smiled at Zhu Xiong Ying.

"If it's too difficult to handle, you can deal with it together with the matter of your assassination attempt!"

Zhu Xiong Ying was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, his face full of disbelief. He was about to say something when Liu Bowen interrupted him.

"Alright, I know what you're going to say. If those people really wanted to kill you, they definitely wouldn't have used those ordinary crossbows. The firearms you've been researching are pretty good, and those things have spread all over Yingtian Prefecture in recent years!"

"If they have connections in the military, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to get some. Your idea is quite good!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiong Ying nodded somewhat awkwardly. Although it had already been guessed, she simply admitted it frankly.

"It's true that I orchestrated the assassination attempt, but even if I told anyone, probably no one would believe me!"

If someone were to arrange for an assassin to kill themselves, probably no one would believe it once the news got out.

However, Liu Bowen immediately guessed the truth of the matter, which was truly remarkable.

No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang was so wary of this person before. Indeed, clever people are truly terrifying. Fortunately, this person was on his side, otherwise he would have been an extremely troublesome enemy.

After Liu Bowen left, Zhu Xiong Ying immediately had the news spread, even reaching the cabinet elders who had agreed to the matter.

When the news spread, everyone in the court was very surprised. Originally, none of them were optimistic about this matter, thinking that Zhu Xiong Ying was just being presumptuous. They thought that such a large project could be accomplished so easily by Dali. But now, all the officials in the court agreed to this matter, which made them somewhat incredulous.

If.

The idea that the people inside were trying to curry favor with Zhu Xiong Ying is hard to explain. If one official is like that, surely all officials are? It sounds unbelievable.

At this time, a number of people were gathered in a room in Yingtian Prefecture.

These people were of very ordinary status and even held considerable power in the military. However, their families were more or less connected with the Huaixi nobles who were suppressed by Zhu Xiong Ying.

Therefore, their relationship with Zhu Xiong Ying was not good.

Their faces were all very ugly, and then one of them said angrily.

"This matter has nothing to do with me. I would never be so foolish as to assassinate Zhu Xiong Ying in front of so many people. It would do me no good at all!"

(End of this chapter)