Chapter 134: Patrol

Huai En immediately agreed, and after going out, he asked his disciples and grandchildren to make arrangements. In just a moment, Wynne hurried in and said, "Your Majesty, Zunhua's recital, the steam engine that Your Majesty wants has been completed. ”

For a moment, Zhu Qizhen's expression was very rich.

This is something that Zhu Qizhen has been thinking about for more than ten years, and there has never been a lot of investment.

There have been a few such recitals before.

After all, if you just model a steam engine, it's not too difficult.

However, the steam engine required by Zhu Qizhen should have two functions, one is to pump water, which is used for water conservancy, and the other is to go on the railway.

In fact, the railway in Daming is not short, and it is one or two hundred miles long.

Most of them are within the scope of Zunhua Iron Works. As a traffic route within the Zunhua Iron Works, this method was even imitated by the Foshan Iron Works.

It's just that because of all kinds of high temperatures in the factory area, horses will get sick when they work in this environment, so they are generally pushed by people.

After all, humans are more patient than animals in many cases.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Is this time real?" ”

Wynne said, "There's the Qin Heavenly Supervisor and Belin's recital. ”

Qin Tianjian Zheng Beilin's participation was also a helpless decision.

After Zhu Qizhen proposed the idea of the steam engine, several masters presided over it, but all of them failed, and there was even an explosion, and one of them died on this matter.

After Zhu Qizhen deeply reflected, he discovered one thing.

Although these master craftsmen, one by one, within the scope of their own special responsibility, can be described as highly skilled, many things, have unique opinions.

But they are craftsmen themselves, and a lot of thinking is the thinking of craftsmen.

Even if the children of these masters joined Belin to study mathematics and then became the assistants of these masters, it would not change their minds.

The way they built the steam engine was that I thought, probably, it should feel like this.

What mathematical calculations, don't think much about it at all.

In this case, even a hundred years later, a steam engine was built.

In the end, Zhu Qizhen had to let Bei Lin go up, which was also the smooth implementation of the orthodox calendar, and several celestial phenomena were very consistent, and Bei Lin had time.

Zhu Qizhen told Belin some of his scientific research ideas, such as experiments, calculations, data summarization, and so on.

Belin drove the ducks to the shelves.

When Belin arrived, he used his vast knowledge of mathematics and with the help of his disciples to redesign the entire steam engine.

As an astronomer, Belin also built some astronomical instruments, and even had the idea of restoring the water planetarium, compared to all kinds of water power

The propagation of astronomical apparatus, the primitive steam engine, was not too difficult.

The difficult thing is how to get the steam engine on the railroad and push the wagon, which is the problem.

Zhu Qizhen opened Belin's recital.

Belin's recital was opened, but she saw that there were many pictures on it, all of which were drawn by Gongbi, and Zhu Qizhen looked at them one by one. The discovery is just from the drawings.

All the problems of the steam engine have been solved.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen knows one thing too well over the years, and he will do anything in order to deceive the superiors and subordinates.

Other things are just that, and the steam engine is about the politics of the Ming Dynasty. If Zhu Qizhen doesn't see this with his own eyes, he can't rest assured.

He was about to order the steam engine to be transported to Jingshi, but when he saw the scale marked on the fold, he knew that the steam engine was quite large, and even Chidao might not be able to transport the steam engine to Jingshi.

He immediately said, "Order, I will go to Zunhua." ”

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen has an iron heart.

Facts have proved that with Zhu Qizhen's current power, he is really determined to do something, and no one can stop him.

It's just that Liu Dingzhi couldn't stop it, but he just covered up the matter of Zhu Qizhen leaving Beijing.

You know, the emperor is out of Beijing. It has always been fanfare, and it is to explain to the world.

Liu Dingzhi couldn't believe it, how could he tell the world that the emperor went out of Beijing just for an inexplicable and wonderful machine?

So Liu Dingzhi added an itinerary to Zhu Qizhen, that is, he did not go directly to Zunhua, but went to Changping first to pay tribute to the three emperors of Taizong, Renzong, and Xuanzong. And inspected, the construction of His Majesty's 10,000-year-old auspicious soil, which is where the mausoleum is located, has already begun.

Although Zhu Qizhen is not too interested in repairing his own mausoleum. But Zhu Qizhen is already in his forties after all, and the construction of the tomb is also a big project, and it can't be repaired in a while.

Like Emperor Xuanzong, within a year, 100,000 people were mobilized to build it urgently, and the cost was not known how much it was raised. And I don't know that people died on the construction site.

It's better to start building early.

It only takes a few thousand people to build it slowly. With a foundation, it will be much easier to expand anything in the future.

The ministers are very persistent in this matter. Zhu Qizhen also felt that it was good for the court. Let Shaofu pay for it and start building.

Zhu Qizhen took the ministers and attendants to Changping in a mighty way to offer incense to Taizong, Renzong, and Xuanzong. Then he went to his own tomb.

Zhu Qizhen just looked at it and frowned slightly.

He knew that his mausoleum project was actually very large, but he didn't have an idea of how big it was.

Now standing on a high place, the entire construction site area is one or two miles long and more than a mile wide, of course, not all of them are crypts, also

A large part of the ground buildings are almost rebuilt as a palace.

Zhu Qizhen never blinks when he spends money on major matters, and Zhu Qizhen will not be stingy with things that should be spent, but Zhu Qizhen doesn't think that this money should be spent.

He immediately asked Liu Dingzhi: "How much does this mausoleum cost?" ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "It is estimated to be around one million taels, but it is not too much for more than ten years, and the annual expenditure is not much." ”

Zhu Qizhen heard this, and immediately said: "One million taels is too much." I don't know how many people's fat and people's ointment are here, how can it be wasted? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, since you ascended the throne, you have chased strong enemies from outside, and the new policy from within, and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty has not existed today. The mausoleum is not for His Majesty, but to declare His Majesty's merits to future generations. Your Majesty should also think about the decency of the court. ”

What money should be spent and what money should not be spent, there is actually a disagreement between Zhu Qizhen and Liu Dingzhi, and now it is one, in Zhu Qizhen's view, such a large amount of money to build a mausoleum is simply a waste of money.

But in Liu Dingzhi's view, this is not only a mausoleum, it is the dignity of the imperial court, and it is also the embodiment of the order of the upper and lower levels.

Zhu Qizhen has the remaining million taels, which will only make outsiders feel that the court is out of balance, and there will be no other benefits, and the court does not take out this money, so the inner treasury cannot be released, and Liu Dingzhi can also find a sum of money from the Taicang treasury.

As Liu Dingzhi said, it looks like a million taels, but it is divided into more than ten years, and in fact, there is not much money every year.

Zhu Qizhen also understood this, he could only compromise, and said: "I am thin, I dare not go beyond Xianling and Jingling, so I will redesign it, and it is incomparable to waiting." ”

Among the Ming Tombs, there is a saying that the Xianling Tomb is the most simple and the Jingling is the smallest.

And the dedication and Jingling are the tombs of Ming Renzong and Ming Xuanzong.

The construction of these two mausoleums was built after the death of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Xuanzong, and the time was tight and the task was heavy. This can only be done by reducing the specifications.

After all, the death of Emperor Renzong and the death of Emperor Xuanzong were very sudden.

Therefore, the construction of the two mausoleums is too different from the Changling Tomb of Ming Taizong.

Zhu Qizhen had this excuse and limited the specifications of his mausoleum. But it's also reasonable, and people can't find a problem. After all, filial piety is also the way of humanity.

Liu Dingzhi was ordered to reformulate the scale of the mausoleum, needless to say.

Just Zhu Qizhen's order became one of the ancestral teachings of the Ming Dynasty, which caused the mausoleums of most later emperors of the Ming Dynasty to be smaller than one another, and there were only a few emperors who were out of line.

Therefore, the tombs of the Ming Dynasty are a big circle smaller than those of later generations.

Zhu Qizhen had no time to pay attention to these influences, and after he had done these superficial efforts, he was anxious to take a large group of men and horses to bypass the north of Beijing and go to Zunhua.