The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1824

[1824.Chapter 1735 Your Majesty takes care of everything]

busy with everything. Zhang Heling’s mind is filled with data.

When will the train depart from Baoding Station, which place is most likely to cause delays, how long will the steam locomotive wait when meeting the train…

When the train departs, if there are too many delays on the way, it will be a waste.

This bunch of bitches are wasting people’s fat and money.

Zhang Heling was filled with resentment every day.

The dispatch of this vehicle is a complete mess.

There are also many places where the station platform settings are not very reasonable.

There should be more inns and carriage shops near the station. Only when there are more of these, people will be happy to travel by train.

Otherwise, a large number of people are crowded together, unable to evacuate when evacuating, and hindering each other when entering the station. This is intimidating to many people.

“Brother, are you hungry? I still have porridge in my gourd.”

Zhang Heling waved his hand: “You can eat it yourself.”

“Oh.” Zhang Yanling happily opened the gourd, faced the gourd’s mouth, and slurped the porridge.

Zhang Heling suddenly said: “By the way…can you set up a switch so that…the steam locomotives can meet each other so that they don’t have to wait for each other.”

“Switch? Isn’t this railway a single line?”

“You… You’ll have to eat the pig’s head.” Zhang Heling raised his hand to strike.

Zhang Yanling immediately shrank his neck.

Zhang Heling hated the iron and said: “With a movable switch, if the car is going this way, it will turn to this side; if it wants to go that way, it will turn to the other side. They will not interfere with each other… Let me think about it. …Let me think about it…write it down first and talk about it when we get back. There are also many aspects of this steam locomotive timetable that are not reasonable. And…the station…the platform of the station…and…”

He murmured. Speak to yourself and write them down one by one.

“I’ll be back in Beijing in a few days. My sister’s birthday is coming soon, so I’m going to find that bitch Fang Jifan and ask him to solve these things for us. This bitch only knows how to instigate the emperor to ask for our money, oh… go on… I feel angina again…”

Zhang Heling covered his heart.

Zhang Yanling finally didn’t care about eating, and quickly put down the gourd, and gently rubbed it for Zhang Heling: “Don’t think about those unhappy things, brother, the matter is over.”

Phew…

Zhang Heling let out a sigh of relief: “There’s more. …and the most important thing is that waste is extremely serious at various stations. Some station personnel even steal coal and some people join forces to carry the goods. What is this, in the words of Fang Gou, this is a mattress? Our wool, everything adds up, and a drop of water will pierce the surface. If it goes on for a long time, it will be like a rat has entered our Zhang family. These dogs are stealing our property.”

Zhang Yanling !

He said nervously: “Don’t be excited, don’t be excited, there is always a way. Brother, you can’t be angry anymore. Last time, because of your anger, you fainted and wasted dozens of money to buy medicine.”

Zhang Heling was startled, and then he felt deeply. He took a breath and put a smile on his lips: “Don’t be angry, be happy.”

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The engineering institute has begun to get busy, and almost all the engineering staff are staring at this big project.

Not only because of the huge capital investment, but also because this project is extremely challenging.

There are many problems that need to be solved urgently.

The greater the difficulty, it means that many new ideas may be proposed, and it also means that many people can take advantage of this opportunity and benefit a lot from it.

Li Tian has already formed a team.

Immediately, he made a plan and gave it to his mentor, who discussed it with academicians from other engineering academies, and each of them demonstrated the possibility of it.

If it were in the past, when everyone saw this proposed plan and structural drawings, they would have to bang the table and curse, this is such a crappy thing put forward by some idiot who doesn’t understand engineering. Fortunately… this time, these hot-tempered academicians , surprisingly showed their due qualities and restrained their emotions. All discussions were conducted in a harmonious atmosphere. Even if there were criticisms, most of them only involved the level of structural details.

After all…it was the Duke of Zhen who proposed this master plan.

Soon… the preliminary demonstration work is coming to an end, and large-scale civil engineering… is ready to begin.

All those Li Tian mobilized were elite soldiers and generals. Even ordinary craftsmen would be second to none in the engineering world.

In addition, we coordinate with various workshops and work hard to produce the steel materials required for various steel structures.

Among them, the biggest process difficulty lies in the welding technology.

How to stably connect steel structures together is the most important problem that needs to be solved.

Fortunately… the process of forge welding has long been mature at this time. After the blacksmiths first heat the joint of the steel, they then use a hammer to forge it when the steel is soft, which can achieve the welding effect.

As a result, people tried to use higher temperatures for welding, and a more practical method was for blacksmiths to do it themselves, first tightening the screws and then welding.

No matter what kind of wild approach, although this approach is a waste of manpower, Li Tian has money and does not have to worry about lack of manpower.

Mountains of materials have been transported throughout Chenjiazhuang, and the foundation has begun to be laid.

Fang Jifan seemed a little dissatisfied with their progress, but this was the first time after all, so he didn’t scold them.

In a few days, it will be the birthday of Queen Mother Zhang.

Such matters must be left to Zhu Xiurong’s attention, and the Fang family must prepare generous gifts.

However, Zhu Houzhao called Liu Jin anxiously, which probably meant that Queen Mother Zhang had been in a depressed mood. As his son, Zhu Houzhao wanted to go on stage in person to sing a play for Queen Mother Zhang and asked Fang Jifan if there was any new play here.

“Singing opera again.” Fang Jifan looked speechless.

The entertainment these days is so monotonous that Fang Jifan can’t even put in the effort.

Liu Jin said: “This is your majesty’s filial piety. The queen mother is not interested in anything else, but she loves to listen to operas. Isn’t this to please the queen mother? We have invited the theater troupe, and they are all the best in Beijing, but your majesty I hope to be on stage in person, sir, take a look, are there any…”

Fang Jifan touched his forehead in annoyance: “This… there are so many dramas in the world, why are you looking for me? “

You have a mission today ?

When Liu Jin came, he was very patient and said with a smile: “Your Majesty is a person who seeks novelty, and he dislikes old things the most. He doesn’t like any of those dramas.”

Fang Jifan couldn’t help but said silently in his heart: This Zhu Houzhao , can be regarded as a god. The ancients were old-fashioned and conservative, but he, as an emperor, prefers to be as fresh as possible. Fortunately, he is not an artist. Otherwise, when others still insist on classicism, he has pursued romanticism. Well, such a guy now… will be burned on the stake.

But Fang Jifan didn’t know how to compose any opera. At first, he probably just thought of stories like the guillotine case and asked others to write them.

Now in the rush, I can’t think of anything, but Zhu Houzhao pressed hard. It seemed that Fang Jifan was the most trustworthy, and it was really impossible to do without Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan was helpless, and finally said with a wry smile: “This…this…can it be a little more exciting?”

Liu Jin was stunned: “What?”

“Exciting.”

Liu Jin was stunned for a long time, and then hesitantly said: “No. It’s the kind of taking off… taking off clothes…”

Liu Jin was not bold enough to ask this, but he knew that the godfather could do anything.

Fang Jifan was unhappy and said with a straight face: “You dirty bitch, you only think about random things. What I’m talking about is… it’s quite different compared to ordinary operas.”

Liu Jin finally smiled. He rolled his eyes and said cheerfully: “Yes, yes, your Majesty said, you want this, you want this…”

Fang Jifan said: “Then I can teach you, don’t blame me then.”

Liu Jin He said with a flattering look on his face: “I don’t dare, I don’t dare, everything I do is right.”

Fang Jifan was not polite, but he also taught Liu Jin attentively for a long time, but Liu Jin was dizzy and couldn’t get over it. Come, finally put away the lyrics written by Fang Jifan, with hesitation on his face: “This… this…”

“What is this?” Fang Jifan glared: “If you have anything to say, just say it, I am a reasonable person.”

“No, no. No, it’s nothing, it’s nothing.” Liu Jin said quickly with a desire to survive: “My god, please have a good rest. My grandson will return to the palace soon. I heard from the palace that these days, my god is a little angry, so he usually eats more. Be calm, sir, my grandson is gone.”

Looking at Liu Jin’s back as he hurriedly left, Fang Jifan touched his nose. He suddenly regretted doing this, uh… will His Majesty come to him? Settle accounts?

A few days later…

Fang Jifan and Zhu Xiurong put on court clothes and entered the palace together.

Today is the birthday of the Queen Mother. As a descendant, it is natural that she must go to pay her respects.

Go straight into the palace garden and to Kunning Palace.

Early in the morning, Queen Mother Zhang went to pay homage to the Queen Mother, and then she and the Queen Mother moved to Kunning Palace together.

The ladies of destiny have already arrived, all in beautiful bloom.

Fang Jifan and Zhu Xiurong went to pay homage, but Zhu Houzhao was nowhere to be seen.

Empress Dowager Zhang said: “Your Majesty has always been mysterious and invisible these days. He has not been to Kunning Palace for many days. The same is true today. It is really outrageous.”

Fang Jifan laughed dryly and said: “Your Majesty is busy with everything. At this time, I think, he You should be handling national affairs, my dear, being an emperor is not easy…”

Empress Dowager Zhang said: “But I have heard someone come to complain, saying that it is your Majesty, and you have not been in court for I don’t know how many days. Sir, don’t you know this?”

“This…” Fang Jifan shrugged: “My lord, my lord…” Empress

Dowager Zhang waved her hand and said, “The emperor is at fault, how can I blame you? , there is a mistake, it is also my fault, I gave birth to him, don’t be afraid, it is not your fault.”

Just as he was talking, a eunuch came in a hurry: “Your Majesty, your Majesty is outside. We have set up a stage, please go and listen to the show. “

…

Could you please give me a monthly ticket?”

(End of chapter)