Chapter 420: The Trail
In the end, the emperor still did not see the envoy of the Mughal kingdom waiting in Suzhou, but only wrote a letter by the head of the cabinet.
Zhang Juzheng was very busy, the war in the north had to be dispatched by him, and he was worried about the domestic baggage, and there were also big and small problems with the silver transfer method that Chen Mu suggested in the early years, not to mention the old hemorrhoids on his buttocks that made him sit still, so he didn't have time to care about the complaints of the little king on the border.
In Zhang Juzheng's eyes, the world is extremely complex and very simple, the complicated thing is that domestic things are difficult to do, and the simple thing is that as long as domestic affairs are done well, all problems encountered overseas can be easily solved.
'Invincible under the Great Tomorrow' is not valid, but if you add 'as long as you don't explode yourself' to these six words, it can be established, but the difficulty is how to make Daming not explode.
One important task after another is placed on Zhang Juzheng's desk, where is the Mughal Akbar, Zhang Juzheng even believes that he and the emperor will not have any consequences even if they don't reply to Akbar, there is a kind - you come over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng's meaning is basically the same as that of the emperor, just writing an official letter to the Mughal in a very calm manner, and the letter has not yet been sent, and the Ministry of Rites is already preparing the edicts, edicts and seals required for the crown.
In their opinion, out of nowhere, a small country farther than Samarkand, which had traveled thousands of miles to transmit its credentials, and was fortunate enough to be known to the emperor, and as soon as the Son of Heaven replied to the king, the king immediately turned to accept the canonization...... Isn't that a sure thing?
Compared with this, Zhang Juzheng wanted to find a good doctor to get rid of the hemorrhoids on his buttocks, but the best doctors in the world were all sent to Dadongyang by Chen Mu, and the imperial first assistant was embarrassed to write a letter asking Chen Mu to send the best doctor back to give him a knife on his buttocks.
The young and impatient emperor was still anxious to ask the Beiyang Yamen to set the specifications of the rails as soon as possible even after learning that the Minister of the Oriental would experiment with railways that met the specifications in Asia.
Ye Mengxiong was not as careful as Chen Mu, because he had various models of Huo De Xingjun at hand, and he only needed to pave a short section of the road and let Huo De Xingjun pull the car and run on it, and then he could start the experiment.
The results of the experiment ended with Ye Mengxiong cutting the budget required to build the railway by sixty percent.
All this was ordered by the emperor to go north to the Nanyang Military Mansion to Beijing Yu Shaoyu, with him a total of seven people, take a boat to the Beiyang Military Mansion to rest for a few days, and then turn to the Cao boat to Tongzhou to wait, until the emperor summoned him as the news of Qinghua Garden brought by the eunuchs.
The seven of them have no decent background, the most learned person is just a showman, and of course the lowest is a child, in other words, they have all participated in the imperial examination and passed the county examination and the government examination, which is nothing more than the difference between good and bad grades.
The identity that they can best show is the family raised by the Oriental marshal.
The main line of the growth of Emperor Wanli is almost to receive Chen Mu's 'inheritance', starting from moving all the treasures of Nanyangwei Chen's mansion into the Forbidden City, going farther and farther on this road, "Tao Te Ching", military training thoughts, and even the emperor thought about getting Xiao Hailong into the palace to play for two days, but Chen Hailong's age was too young, so he had to give up.
It turns out that having a little fan brother who is too domineering is not necessarily a good thing.
Now, the emperor has finally put his mind on these families.
Yu Shaoyu's mentality was quite normal all the way to Beiyang, but when they really arrived in Tongzhou, none of the seven people could calm down, and they all trembled...... If you are the title of the gold list, the palace test wins, and you are proud to see the emperor, but writing some words is just a sideshow, how can you be worthy of the emperor's summons?
No one has a bottom in their hearts, but fortunately, the emperor didn't plan to see too many people, and the seven people only summoned Yu Shaoyu to enter the Qinghua Garden, which could make the other six people feel a little more relaxed.
Along the way, the eunuch who led the way gave Yu Shaoyuer an order to teach him the etiquette of visiting the emperor, but these etiquettes were ultimately useless.
Because when he entered the Tsinghua Garden, everyone was busy looking for the emperor.
Not on board, not on shore.
In the end, people found the emperor next to the steamboat in the lake, the sky was already cold in September, their emperor fell into the water on the boat, and then swam up to hide the embarrassment, and watched the guards and eunuchs anxiously turn the Qinghua Garden upside down, until the last leg cramp could not help but shout loudly.
He saw the emperor sitting on the willow embankment with clear eyebrows, wet clothes, wrapped in a long carpet in the Oriental style.
Yu Shaoyu's focus is magical, he pays more attention to the emperor's figure.
This may be because the emperor brought him a familiar feeling - the feeling of the Nanyang Banner Army.
The emperor's posture is the same as most of the banner troops that Yu Shaoyu saw in Nanyang, with well-proportioned limbs, chest and abdomen with the same width, strong arms, and thick thighs, which is the standard infantry body that can only be exchanged for persistent military training and good food supply.
Before the Oriental Flag Army went to sea, the hair was stored in the Jiguo Tower, and the Nanyang Flag Army did not have this treatment, and a tropical epidemic broke out among the flag troops stationed in Baigu, Myanmar the year before last, and the Nanyang Flag Army had to be forced to repair and cut their hair every month, and there was a physical examination every ten days for each thousand households.
In fact, the emperor has always been a little baby fat, so that in Chen Mu's memory, Xiao Wanli has a round face, and this kind of face shape will look fat if there is a little bit of meat.
If it were according to his normal development of being in love with the sweet room since he was a child and often asking for three people in the Qianqing Palace alone, Wan Li Ye at this time should be a slightly fat, harmonious young man with a big face, double chin and round belly.
However, now the emperor who can cover his armor and travel sixty miles in a day has gradually had the appearance of a square face, in fact, Wanli's height is not too high, and he is also in the posture of a person, but he is well nourished, his body is strong, and the bones of his neck and back are straight, so he looks at Yu Shaoyu and feels like a great husband.
"It's not customary, I can't be called majestic today, you find a place to sit." Wanli raised his hand to wipe the water stains on his face, and handed it to Wang An beside him with his hair and face towel in his hair, and said: "Beiyang Ye Gong asked you to send the letter to read it, saying that he would first try to repair the railway from Dagukou to Tianjin Wei 100 miles, and cut the cost by sixty percent, why?" ”
The Emperor doesn't seem to be happy with the fact that he spends less money.
There is no way, the cost calculated by Xu Guangqi itself is not high, the iron for rail construction is taxed from the Haojing Gate, and it is uniformly manufactured in Nanyang Weigang, and the cement is also from the Nanyang Military Government and shipped to Tianjin, and the manpower is built from the Zhuwei along the canal and the local people are recruited to do it, at least from Dagukou to Tongzhou, which is not expensive for the empire.
Even if the repair is slower, for Emperor Wanli, as long as he doesn't build the money in his hand in the past few years, the impact of building this railway on the empire's finances will be the same as if he didn't repair it.
It's already like this, you Ye Mengxiong still deducted the work fee, so what did you repair?
The emperor has a very good opinion on this matter: "The Beiyang Military Government doesn't have to think about saving money, that's what the household department has to do, not him, I want him to make sure that this road can run Huo De Xingjun in the future, and he can send the baggage to Tongzhou, Qingshankou, and even Wulianghai, and forever consolidate my territory." ”
"No matter how little money you spend, you can't use the road in the end, even if it's one or two, it shouldn't be spent."