Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 132 The road ahead is long
The Maybach got on the highway and sped all the way to Changsha.

By noon, after a three-hour drive, they finally arrived in the provincial capital of Hunan.

This was actually not Zhu Biao’s first time riding in a car.

A motorcycle is also a car.

But this was the first time I got on a highway and watched the scenery on both sides flash by so quickly.

Just like Zhu Di's first time on the highway, looking at the exaggerated speed, as if it would hit the guardrail in the next second, Zhu Biao's heart was in his throat.

However, Zhu Biao was more determined than Zhu Di.

When Zhu Di rode in a car for the first time, he fastened his seat belt, with his feet resting under the passenger seat, one hand holding the pull ring on the passenger seat, and the other hand pressing the center console. His body was tensely stretched into a bow shape, his face was pale and distorted, and his eyes were full of fear.

Although Zhu Biao was also very scared, seeing the usual reactions of Empress Ma and Zhu Di, his originally uneasy mood gradually calmed down, and he began to stare out the window silently.

Afraid that they would be bored along the way, Zhu Yunfeng chatted with them while driving.

But it was basically Zhu Di who was talking, and he would occasionally interject.

After all, we are driving on the highway, and the speed is so fast that an accident could happen if we are not careful.

Safety first.

After getting off the ring road, Zhu Yunfeng first took them to a five-star hotel in Hexi, booked a presidential suite, and had dinner.

In the afternoon, they set out again for the sanatorium near Meixi Lake.

Empress Ma's surgery was performed here.

Ji He recharged one million here and spent tens of thousands of yuan on a series of examinations for Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and Zhu Xiongying.

Then Empress Ma had an operation that cost more than 400,000 yuan, and after a period of hospitalization and recuperation, she now has about 400,000 yuan left.

I have to say that living in such a high-end nursing home is indeed expensive.

Because Ji He had checked before, generally this kind of surgery to open the skull to remove benign tumors would cost around 5 to 8 yuan at the cheapest.

A more expensive tertiary hospital basically only costs a few hundred thousand yuan.

Depending on the condition of the disease and the difficulty of the surgery, the maximum cost will not exceed 300,000 yuan, and it will be reimbursed by medical insurance.

Empress Ma's surgery cost more than twice as much.

But being expensive also has its advantages.

First of all, there is no need for identity registration. You can just report a name and there is no need to provide an ID card for verification. This is called protecting the privacy of the guests.

Secondly, the equipment inside is the most advanced and best equipment, and the person who is called to perform the surgery is an authoritative professor in China, so it is basically worth the price.

The most important thing is the service attitude is very good.

As soon as Zhu Yunfeng drove the car in, the doctors and nurses who had been in charge of taking care of them came over to greet them and provide one-on-one service.

The nurse called Empress Ma Auntie all the time and praised her for her youth and beauty, which made everyone very happy.

The examination was done quickly in the afternoon.

Not only was the intracranial examination done, but a full body examination was also done, including blood tests, laboratory tests, various CT scans, B-ultrasounds, urine tests and other examinations. The results came out in just about two hours.

Zhu Biao's test results were normal and he did not have any disease.

The surgery for Queen Ma's intracranial tumor was also very successful, and one year later there was no sign of recurrence.

Zhu Yunfeng used the excuse that Zhu Biao and Zhu Di were Chinese returnees who were previously Singaporeans and had never been vaccinated before, so he asked them to get the vaccine right away.

The vaccines planned in our country are all given from an early age, including BCG vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, polio vaccine, etc.

These vaccines can prevent disease when given in childhood, and adults can also get them.

Because the polio vaccine actually protects against polio, which is a disease that adults can also get, so getting the vaccine is not a bad thing.

However, the interval between the two vaccines is at least 14 days, generally around 28 days, so we have to take it slow.

The hospital didn’t investigate further since the patient had already paid the fee.

In the afternoon, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di and Empress Ma all received a shot of vaccine.

Last time, Empress Ma stayed in Changsha for more than a month and got vaccinated. This time she got another shot.

In the evening, Zhu Yunfeng took them to a high-end restaurant for dinner.

Queen Ma was a little tired and went back to the hotel to rest.

The hotel has an open-air garden, a restaurant, and a swimming pool.

Zhu Yunfeng, Zhu Di and Zhu Biao ordered a bottle of red wine in the restaurant and sat by the window more than 50 floors high, nearly 200 meters above the ground, overlooking the entire Changsha night market.

The night market is bustling with traffic, neon lights are flashing, and street lights are illuminating the roads. Even after nine o'clock in the evening, there is still no end to the traffic in the city center.

This is Changsha's nightlife. Sometimes the number of people during the day is much less than that at night.

"Two presidential suites cost more than 60,000 yuan, plus food and lodging, it cost more than 100,000 yuan a night. Poverty limits my imagination."

Looking down at the bustling downtown Changsha, Zhu Yunfeng shook the red wine glass in his hand and said with emotion: "I never thought in my life that the life of rich people would be so comfortable."

Zhu Di wondered, "Wasn't your family quite wealthy in the past? Have you never been to a place like this?"

"I'm not particularly rich, at most I'm considered wealthy. Besides, my family went bankrupt before I even graduated from college, so how could I have the opportunity to spend money?"

Zhu Yunfeng felt depressed when he thought of this.

He was born in 00, went to college at the age of 18, and graduated at the age of 22, but his family started to go downhill after 19 years. The situation was very bad in 20 years, and they were almost bankrupt in 21 years.

He had been living a hard life as a student before, and when he could finally enjoy the life of a rich second generation, he was no longer a rich second generation.

So infuriating.

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Now you can take this opportunity to enjoy yourself."

Zhu Yunfeng winked and said, "I heard that this hotel has a private club. How about I apply for a 50 black gold VIP card and try it out?"

"Okay, okay, okay."

Zhu Di smiled widely, his eyes shining.

Last time he came to Changsha Club with Ji He and Zhu Yunfeng.

But unfortunately, they didn't know the way at that time. Although the place they found was a club, it was not particularly high-end. The three of them only spent about ten thousand yuan in that night.

A place where one can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a night must be a top club. The quality of the girls must be very high, and there might even be third- or fourth-tier celebrities.

Just thinking about it makes me energetic.

However, Zhu Biao frowned, glanced at the two of them, and said coldly: "You are not allowed to go. If you go, I will break your legs."

"Which one?"

"All three are interrupted."

"Then I won't go."

Zhu Yunfeng quickly clamped his legs together.

In the Ming Dynasty, you can offend Zhu Yuanzhang, or even scold him, but as long as you can please Empress Ma and make her protect you to the death, that is all a small matter.

But if you offend Empress Ma and Zhu Biao, no one can save you, not even Jesus can keep you.

So Zhu Yunfeng would occasionally act disrespectful in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, but he did not dare to act wildly in front of Empress Ma and Zhu Biao.

Zhu Di licked his lips regretfully and said, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, it's not that fun."

Zhu Biao looked out the window with deep eyes and said softly: "When will the Ming Dynasty be like this? When will the Ming Dynasty be like this? When will the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the world be peaceful and sound?"

"Let's go all out to develop industry this year." Zhu Yunfeng followed up on his topic, "This year I will start to buy thermal power generation equipment. Daming has coal, and if we bring in electric arc furnaces, we will directly start the era of electric steelmaking, and then build a cement plant. Only with steel and cement can we build a city like this."

"Ah."

Zhu Biao nodded seriously and said, "I want to build Jinling like the Nanjing City of later generations. I want to see it with my own eyes. It would be even better if I could get a city plan map."

Zhu Yunfeng smiled and said, "This is easy. Maps are everywhere, and I don't think it's necessary to copy them. First build up the current city, and then slowly expand outwards. Take it step by step. You can't get fat in one bite."

"Alas, I don't know why, but when I see such a prosperous scene, I feel that time is running out. Although I am only in my twenties, I don't know if I can see such a world in Ming Dynasty in my lifetime!"

Zhu Biao sighed.

"Will do."

Zhu Yunfeng took a sip of wine, looked at the night market below and said, "Even if you only live another fifty years, fifty years is enough. It has only been thirty or forty years since we went from being poor to where we are now. Once we get on the right track, our development will be very fast, even faster than you can imagine."

Daming now has certain basic industries. Their task this year is to transport a large amount of power equipment to Daming and start the first industrial revolution of Daming.

And since the power generation equipment can be transported directly, it is possible to completely skip the steam engine era and enter the more productive electrification era.

For the Ming Dynasty, this saved it countless years of detours and was enough for an explosive growth.

of course.

Education cannot be delayed either.

In fact, we didn't need so many intellectuals to carry out the First Industrial Revolution.

Because the First Industrial Revolution was only about steelmaking, it required skilled workers, who were easy to train.

But the second and third industrial revolutions were different, involving a lot of knowledge in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.

Therefore, when the first industrial revolution was underway, the Ming Dynasty also needed to synchronize its progress with digitization as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, Zhu Biao is already doing it. He has set up a school in Nanjing and recruited a large number of literate scholars to learn basic mathematics, physics and chemistry through video materials. The future of the Ming Dynasty will get better and better.

Early the next morning, after completing the examination of Empress Ma and Zhu Biao, Zhu Yunfeng set out again.

Still depart in the morning and arrive at noon.

Queen Ma was sent back to Shangfeng Mountain, and this time Ji He drove Zhu Yunfeng, Zhu Biao and Zhu Di to the high-speed rail station.

The high-speed rail station in their county is very strange. It is not in the county, but in another town about 30 minutes away from the county.

Moreover, they are located in completely different directions from each other. One is located in the northernmost part of the county, and the other is located in the southernmost part of the county. The drive is more than 70 kilometers, and there is no direct highway.

This time I took the high-speed rail.

Liu Dong helped them with the entry procedures, and with legal passports, they gained the identity of Chinese Singaporeans.

As soon as the documents arrived, Zhu Yunfeng quickly arranged for them to join Yunfeng Company, issued residence certificates and work certificates, and then handled relevant procedures at the local public security department, so that they could stay in the country legally and in compliance with regulations.

With a passport, you can apply for a bank card, buy high-speed rail tickets, and link WeChat and Alipay. Except for not being naturalized, your life is no different from that of ordinary people.

Normally, these procedures would take some time for ordinary foreigners to complete.

But Yunfeng Company has become a local pillar of their county, paying tens of millions of taxes each year and providing a large number of jobs. Naturally, the local government kept everything simple and handled their requests quickly.

Zhu Yunfeng has already linked their mobile phones for them, so they can buy high-speed rail tickets directly on their mobile phones and pick up the tickets at the ticket vending machine at the high-speed rail station with their passports.

Ji He drove the car into the high-speed railway station, and Zhu Yunfeng and Zhu Di got out of the car and took three suitcases from the trunk.

Zhu Biao raised his head and looked at the high-speed railway station.

The Spring Festival passenger peak has long passed, and the high-speed rail station has returned to silence. A dozen or so passengers outside the station walked into the station. On the left side is the exit, which is crowded with taxis and illegal taxi drivers soliciting passengers.

There are more drivers soliciting passengers than passengers, but it's normal for a small high-speed railway station in a county town.

After saying hello to Ji He, Zhu Yunfeng led the two of them into the station. There were not many people in the station, about thirty or forty people, each sitting on a chair inside the station.

Zhu Yunfeng arranged for them to find a chair on the edge of the room to sit on, and he went to get their passports and tickets.

After a while, the ticket was brought to him. Zhu Biao took the ticket, looked around curiously and said, "It's very different from the high-speed rail station I saw in the video before."

Zhu Yunfeng sat down, crossed his legs and smiled, "The ones you see in the video are all high-speed rail stations in big cities, with large passenger flows, and they are built like airports, so there must be a big difference. The high-speed rail station in our county has only a waiting hall."

"I see."

Zhu Biao nodded, looked at Zhu Di and said: "This development is also closely related to population. Places with a large population will have good development, and places with a small population will have poor development."

"Yes, our county town has more people during holidays. On weekdays, when we come to the high-speed rail station, sometimes only a few people get on a train, and there are few people sitting in the waiting hall. It is meaningless to build it well or big."

"It's just that this place is too remote. It's surrounded by wilderness and there's nothing outside except a few restaurants."

"Do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because this town is the hometown of printers in our county, it was the pillar industry of our county and the town with the highest GDP, so it was placed here."

Zhu Yunfeng curled his lips.

Now the first town in their county has become Lansha Town, but it was here before. In order to support the development here, the high-speed railway station was built so far away from the county seat, which caused complaints from the people in the county seat.

"This is the result of over-pursuing economic development. Of course, it cannot be said to be wrong. It is just the result of consideration. We still need to give more consideration to future development."

Whenever Zhu Biao went to a place, he had many new insights.

As we were talking, the high-speed train arrived at the station.

As the announcement sounded, passengers picked up their suitcases and began to line up.

The three of them entered the station one after another.

They bought business class tickets to Nanjing for 2000 yuan per ticket and went straight to the front seat.

Business class seats are much more spacious than second class seats, as second class seats have five seats in a row, while business class seats have only five seats in the entire carriage.

Two in the front and three in the back.

Zhu Yunfeng and his friends bought the three seats in the back, so the two seats in the front were empty.

The flight attendant helped them put their luggage away and the three of them took their seats.

After a while, the high-speed train started to depart.

It wasn't very fast at first, but as it accelerated, the scenery on both sides became faster and faster, and the speed slowly reached its peak, about 300 kilometers per hour.

It was the first time for Zhu Biao and Zhu Di to take the high-speed rail. They were quickly attracted by the scenery outside the car and looked at the fields and forests in the distance.

But the speed is so fast that you often see hundreds of acres of fields in the last second, and the next second it becomes a pond, reservoir, dense forest and rolling hills.

Zhu Biao's eyes were full of deep thought. He took out his mobile phone from his arms and began to type slowly.

He gained so much just from the journey from the town to Changsha and then back to the town by high-speed rail.

For example, we saw the differences in regional economic development, the differences in the construction directions of different regions, and the fact that there are reservoirs, lakes, and ponds everywhere in rural areas in the south to cope with droughts.

And this high-speed rail.

It's just too fast.

I wish the Ming Dynasty would have such technology and capabilities one day.

Zhu Biao was in deep thought but was not discouraged.

All beginnings are hard.

The Ming Dynasty has only been developing seriously for a year.

The road ahead is long, so just take it one step at a time.

(End of this chapter)