Chapter 1665: Great achievements
Although Zhu Houzhao appeared stubbornly, she looked like she refused to accept Fang Jifan's praise.
But I feel extremely comfortable in my heart.
Lao Fang is still very sensible.
Zhu Houzhao frowned: "The current railway has been raised, and the construction needs to be started quickly. With the railway, many of my things can be accomplished. In addition, summoning the princes and grandchildren of various countries to Beijing cannot be delayed."
Fang Jifan said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will discuss with Mr. Liu and Mr. Li in the cabinet. Everyone will work together to get these things done so that they can live up to the holy grace."
Zhu Houzhao nodded happily: "If you say this, I feel relieved."
He paused: "I will reward you very much at that time."
Fang Jifan said: "Your Majesty, the last time I said that the money was raised, I must reward you a lot, this time..."
Zhu Houzhao: "..."
He looked embarrassed and then coughed, "I will reward you with you at that time. I am the kind of person who is untrustworthy? You don't joke."
Fang Jifan was happy and stood up to say goodbye.
After leaving Fengtian Hall, Liu Jin hurriedly chased after him and said as he walked: "Gan, Gan..."
Fang Jifan stopped and glanced at Liu Jin.
Liu Jin smiled and stroked Fang Jifan's long wrinkled sleeves: "Old man, my grandson is now in charge of the East Factory and the Sili Supervisor. It's okay for the Sili Supervisor to say that he was just helping His Majesty to criticize him. Now His Majesty is in a hurry and has experienced everything himself. He is very leisurely, but this Dong Factory..."
Fang Jifan held his hands behind his back, looking as if he was looking higher than the top.
In this world, except for the emperor, there is no better person than himself. It is not a problem to look at people with any eyes.
This is not Fang Jifan's arrogant attitude.
If a person reaches his level, he needs to be afraid to do things. If he is kind to others, these dogs will think that they have changed their temperament and are weak and can be bullied, and they will inevitably be disobedient.
What you and the emperor want to do is something unprecedented. Many things that others may not be able to understand or know the intention. Since that is the case, don’t worry about whether they understand it well. You can do whatever I say.
Fang Jifan said: "Dongchang, you can't be too idle. What the court supports you to do, isn't it to let you find out more information. This not only needs to spy on the ministers' thoughts, but you have been overseas for many years, and you can spy on some military information in foreign vassals. Xiao Liu, I am your grandfather. Although I am not a close friend, I regard you as my own. If you serve the emperor, you need to know what kind of personality our emperor has. The emperor is better, called the great ambition, and it is a bit ugly, and it is a great ambition. Of course, this is not the meaning of slandering the emperor, but it is just a thread between the great ambition and the great ambition. With the achievements of civil and military affairs, this is the former. If you are not lucky and become Emperor Yang of Sui, it is the latter."
Fang Jifan coughed and continued, "What we have to do is to assist the emperor to become the First Emperor and make immortal achievements. Therefore... Dongchang should make preparations early. This overseas... is the top priority. One day Your Majesty was thinking about the foreign vassals. At that time, your Dongchang will give you the military intelligence of the spy, which will be a great achievement. In this way, it will not be in vain for me to give birth to you and raise you... Oh, no, it will not be in vain for my efforts to accept you as my grandson."
Liu Jin's eyes were so moved that he red when he heard Grandpa Gan's heart-wrenching words. To be honest... He has been intrigued by others in the palace and overseas over the years. He, a eunuch, can never escape conspiracy. It is precisely because of this that he thinks these words are the most valuable.
He looked at Fang Jifan gratefully and said hurriedly: "My grandson understands that grandson must prepare as soon as possible."
"In addition!" Fang Jifan continued: "The most important thing at the moment is to seize the traitors. These traitors are all extremely cunning. They are under the banner of opposing the new policy and opposing our traitors, but in fact they are ambitions. They want to rebel, investigate it for me, and tell them what the consequences of offending our traitors. The East Factory should also be purged inside and outside, and they must be airtight. Once the emperor and the emperor change, you will follow the chickens and dogs to heaven. Now, if you take charge of the East Factory, you should change the East Factory."
When Liu Jin heard this, he was particularly cautious: "The grandson knew that he must be his own people and he must be completely trustworthy."
After the explanation was finished, Fang Jifan beat him up: "Okay, get back and serve the emperor! I have to hurry up and go to work. Our Fang Jifan is loyal to the country and forget to eat and sleep. He has not had a good sleep on many days, but if our Fang Jifan is idle, he will be with the people."
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After Fang Jifan and Liu Jin separated, they arrived at the cabinet not long after and met Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others.
Now, Xie Qian has gone to the Golden State, while Fang Jifan replaced Xie Qian, entered the cabinet, joined the secretary of the army, took over the prince's young security guard, the Minister of Works and the Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion.
Of course, this Minister of Works was not a real position, and the Minister of Works was another person. Because the Grand Secretary of the Dongge was of low rank in the early Ming Dynasty, he had great power and had the power to vote and was able to be called a prime minister. However, his rank was low and he could not intimidate the ministers, so... he added a Secretary of Works.
Many of the official positions in the Ming Dynasty were continued with history, and Fang Jifan was too lazy to care about these foolish accounts, just knowing that he was very powerful.
The three Cabinet Grand Secretary each greeted and sat down.
Liu Jian stroked his beard and knew very well that the new emperor had ascended the throne, and he was now just a guard of the cabinet, named the Chief Superintendent Grand Secretary. But in a few years, when the new emperor gradually became familiar with military affairs, he should retire and return home.
The person who took over him, just before him, was the possibility that Li Dongyang was still young and had qualifications.
Fang Jifan is even more popular. Even if Li Dongyang has been temporarily over a few years, Fang Jifan will sooner or later become the Chief Secretary.
Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty plans to build a railway? Will the reign of the vassal state be too anxious?"
Fang Jifan had already prepared a speech: "If the people are in trouble, if they do not build railways, they will always be trapped in a corner and will still be poor. Your Majesty is concerned about the people. This railway is not too urgent to be built, but the people in the world are looking forward to each other day and night, which is too slow."
Liu Jian nodded and sighed, "It's not unreasonable. Your Majesty now has great ambitions. Although governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food, you must do what you should do. Yang Yiqing, the governor of Baoding, once reported that all the benefits of railways were the benefits of railways and collected many nursery rhymes from Baoding Prefecture, all of which said that the railways were open and the people would live a better life. Jifan's words were not too much. The money... were raised?"
Speaking of this final question, Fang Jifan said with great enthusiasm: "Everything has been raised."
Liu Jian was even more relieved. His face, which had been condensed into an iceberg, began to melt gradually like the beginning of snow until it was full of spring smile: "That's good, that's good. Building a railway is a big deal. It costs so much money and food. If it is not careful, it will shake the foundation of the country. But if it is done, the world's governance will not be far away. I and Binzhi have been thinking about this matter, and I have to take charge of you. If you have the credit, it will be yours."
Fang Jifan said: "Where are all the credits of everyone."
He was amused and everyone knew what it would mean when the railway was opened. It might be that ordinary people, especially outside the capital, were unfamiliar and ignorant about it, but those who were sitting here knew that this railway had a greater impact than the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. Of course, Fang Jifan would take it away for such a contribution, after all, the Fang family also paid for it.
Liu Jian and Li Dongyang did not object to this, which made Fang Jifan much easier, because once they opposed it, the court would inevitably have another controversy!
Now that I have been relieved and have received unanimous support from the cabinet, then... the next thing will be done naturally.
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With the money, there is a lot to do next. In addition to exploration and designing lines, there is also a cost budget, procurement, recruitment of countless craftsmen and labor, and preparation for construction. All workshops have started construction, forging of rails, and sleepers have also begun to be manufactured.
In fact, building a railway is actually laying iron on the ground. The simplest thing is, just like all energy utilization, whether it is electricity, nuclear energy, or steam, essentially boiling water.
But the principle is very simple, and it is extremely difficult to build it. It requires the support of hundreds of workshops, a group of excellent craftsmen, a group of engineers who understand the principles of engineering, and even more, it requires countless funds and a large amount of land. And these... in the whole world, now only the Ming Dynasty has such conditions.
Over the past twenty years, Fang Jifan has sowed seeds here, and the seeds bloom and bear fruit. Finally, the melon ripens and land, and a gourd baby pops up. Oh, no, it finally has today's fruit.
A lot of designs have begun.
Many craftsmen also began to draw, and these were the backbone of Xishan Jianye.
But at this time, outside the railway bureau, there were always two people looking through their heads.
But no one could do anything to these two uninvited guests because the other party was a royal relative.
Shouning Hou and Jianchang Bo come every day, and it can be said that they are all their money, real money, thousands of Jinyiwei moved for a day and a night!
They naturally cried with their heads in their arms, but after wiping away the tears, they felt that... no matter what, their money was about to turn into a railway and they were never robbed by the dog emperor.
This is theirs!
They are the masters of the small part of the road.
With this idea, they came to ask about the railway construction every day.
The two brothers held the project cost book, read it every day, and asked people for accounting methods. They stood behind a group of engineers, learning about technical problems with different terrain. Of course... what they care more about is manpower.
Chapter completed!