Most people in later generations knew a concept: to build roads if you want to be rich.

Although Zhu Youjian did not have much chance to travel far, he had discovered from one of the few trips that he had discovered that even in the relatively developed and gentle areas of the Gyeonggi area, the road conditions were very unoptimistic.

When he visited Daxing County in the first half of this year to watch the demonstration farmland harvest, although the official road along the way had been renovated, he still felt the bumps were quite strong when sitting in the four-wheeled carriage.

This is still during a period of drought and low rain. If the climate returns to normal, the rain will continue and under the pressure of people treadmill, the already muddy road will definitely be more rugged and difficult to travel after a sunny day.

This shows how the roads in other areas of the Ming Dynasty were in.

This is still an official road connecting the prefectures, prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention other roads.

The first task at present is to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in the North, and gradually broaden and harden the official roads in the North, so as to facilitate the rapid and effective flow of various resources in the North, and provide strong impetus for the economic development of the Ming Dynasty.

"The cabinet should as soon as possible write to the government offices of all provinces and prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction, explore local resources and build kilns nearby to produce cement, lime, sand and gravel and other materials, so as to harden the local official road after reaching full capacity to facilitate material transportation and people's travel.

During this period, it is winter slack farming, so young and strong people should be hired to widen and level the official roads. After cement, lime and other materials are in place, hardening projects should be carried out as soon as possible.

This project involves a lot, so the capital area and the Shanxi prefectures are the priority, and other local governments coordinate and arrange according to their own conditions.

The Ministry of Industry should formulate road width and flatness standards. The width is initially based on the capacity of two four-wheeled carriages on the opposite side. A gap should be reserved for pedestrians to pass on both sides of the road to avoid congestion and chaos."

With the advent of winter, the official road from Xuanda to the capital was busy.

All large and small businesses, as well as countless individual and small merchants, drove various carriages and ox carts to and from the two places, transporting coal from various prefectures and counties in Shanxi and Shaanxi to the capital and the capital area. When they returned, they brought various goods from the market in the capital, and after returning, they distributed them to local large households and people with some extra money.

After the end of the Ming and Qing War, some habits outside the pass that could improve the quality of life were quickly transmitted to the capital, and Fire Dragon and Fire Kang were one of them.

As early as after the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, wealthy families in the capital, wealthy families of officials and businessmen, and extremely wealthy civilians began to build large-scale construction. Each household renovated the relevant houses in the house according to its own economic conditions, either laying fire dragons or making fire kangs so that they and their families can spend a warm winter.

Under this situation, the demand for coal in the capital of more than one million people was in short supply. As long as the coal transported from Shanxi to the capital was sold out, it was sold out as soon as it was pulled into the market.

At the beginning of winter, a large number of servants and servants from wealthy families gathered outside several large and small city gates in the north of the capital. These people, subject to the orders of the head of the family, waited and intercepted the coal transported from Shanxi and Shaanxi. For this reason, there will be quarrels and fights in these places every day, which has also caused ordinary people in the capital to be unable to buy the coal they need.

After learning about this situation, the prefect of Shuntian, Ni Yuanlu, sent the prefect to maintain order with a large number of yamen runners to maintain order, trying to open the passage and restore normal market order. However, these yamen runners were beaten by the servants of wealthy families on the first day, and the prefect was also fled in a panic by the yamen runners in a mess.

As the saying goes, the seventh-rank official of the prime minister and the gatekeeper.

In the eyes of these servants from wealthy families, these yamen servants are all like boozes. They dare to meddle in other people's business and don't ask who their master is. Isn't this here to find a fight?

Although Ni Yuanlu is a strong point, what can he accomplish?

After seeing the death of the palace chief Siwen, Ni Yuanlu went straight to the palace to ask Zhu Youjian to complain to the emperor in person, asking the emperor to give corresponding instructions on the matter.

In a furious manner, Zhu Youjian immediately issued an order to let Li Ruolian handle the matter with full authority and immediately take measures to restore the normal market order in the capital.

Just in the afternoon of the rich servants, one hundred tall and powerful lieutenant lieutenants, holding sticks wrapped in thick cotton cloth, rushed out of Deshengmen and beat hundreds of lieutenants in green hats.

After a while, the servants who were bragging and fucking just now were beaten to the point of bruised nose, broken bones and broken tendons. Then the family supported each other and fled back to the capital. The order of the coal market in the capital returned to normal that day.

Since that day, no one dared to intercept and rush to buy coal outside the city. Shuntian Mansion and Jinyiwei arranged personnel to station in the charcoal market in the north of the city. As long as there are those who rely on their power to rush to buy, they will be arrested and imprisoned in the Shuntian Mansion Prison. Under this powerful shock, Beicheng charcoal city entered an orderly development.

Since the cold season has long been in the outside world, and it is still in a time to be renovated, several coal mines in Liaoning Province have not yet been exploited on a large scale.

Zhu Youjian has issued an order that after the beginning of spring next year, the local government will, with the cooperation of the garrison, pick out corresponding personnel from a large number of prisoners of war and start to expand and expand production of several small coal mines that have been excavated, so as to meet the increasingly vigorous coal demand in the capital.

This kind of good opportunity to make money cannot be missed. If you have labor who doesn’t spend money and only care about food, the cost of coal you get is basically negligible, and there is no need to worry about the sales of coal. Now it is a standard seller’s market, and many of them will be quickly digested, and the coal price has always been in an upward channel.

As ships of iron ore were pulled from overseas to Tianjin Port, the iron and steel-making kilns located near the port of military weapons also produced various quality steels day and night. Good quality would be used to build guns and cannons, and slightly worse quality would be used to make various agricultural tools, and the iron materials with the lowest quality would no longer need to be returned to the furnace. These iron materials now have new uses - made into small honeycomb coal stoves.

Under Zhu Youjian's instruction, this simple household tool quickly began to be mass-made. Once it was launched, it was deeply loved by civilian families, which also made charcoal merchants very happy.

It turns out that the pulverized coal that was abandoned like a piece of shabby shoes can finally be turned into a treasure.
Chapter completed!