Tang Yi couldn't help but nodded and clapped his hands secretly. Although Hai Rui looked like a Southern Barbarian, he was not reasonable, but he had a pair of keen eyes and saw the problem thoroughly.

The royal family and royal family were all troubles throughout the ages. For example, after the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, all the kings lived in the capital, and the supporters worked hard to achieve fame and fortune. When encountering wars, the children of the royal family had to lead troops to fight. In the Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that the title could not be inherited. If the children of the royal family wanted to stand out, they needed to take the exam, and they would be normal officials and inspect, which was not much different from ordinary people.

When he arrived in the Ming Dynasty, things were in trouble. First of all, the title could be inherited. In addition, the King of Yan Zhu Di started his family by rebelling against foreign vassals. After he took power, he imposed strict restrictions on the children of the royal family. He could not even think about the imperial examination, and he could not even leave the city, and became a real parasite.

Although the royal family has few descendants, the vassal kings are different. They have many children and many blessings. They spend all their limited energy on giving birth to unlimited children. Take the King of Jin in Shanxi as an example. The annual branch of the 10,000 shi of rice was 10,000 shi. In the Jiajing Dynasty, the number of children of the Jin family in the Jin Mansion increased to 1,851, and they needed to withdraw 870,000 shi!

The situation in the other royal palaces is similar. Tang Yi has information summarized by various places. Together, all the royal palaces consume a million stones in a year. In the 43rd year of Jiajing, the grain transported from the south to the capital was only six million stones!

The children of the royal family reproduced like rabbits and mice. The grain reserved by the various governors and envoys every year was not enough to pay the rice for the royal palaces for half a year.

To be honest, the descendants of the Lao Zhu family are eating up and dragging down the Ming Dynasty's limited finances.

Moreover, most royal families are vulgar and unwilling, violent, oppress the people, annex the land, raise thugs, and do everything they have to do, and list them as the number one cancer of Tianzi, which is well deserved.

As for the inner court, frankly speaking, at the beginning of Jiajing, he still restrained himself for a while. Jiajing learned the lessons of righteousness and strictly controlled the eunuchs. However, as Jiajing grew older, the eunuchs' power rose again.

All regions have dispatched guards, military supervisors, mining supervisors, tax supervisors, as well as silk, porcelain, salt, tea, copper, iron, and cotton yarn... In short, eunuchs are there in places where there are interests.

Although Tang Yi and Huang Jin and others had a good relationship, Huang Jin was also considered a kind person, but when he sat in that position, many things were not decided by him. Greed was the nature of almost all eunuchs, especially after Lu Bing left, the Jinyiwei declined and the power of the inner court rose again.

According to Tang Yi's judgment, after Jiajing, the power of eunuchs would be quickly restored, and even compete with the outer court again.

Officials and gentry can actually be regarded as one. They were officials in the court and gentry in the village. They had strict party and control over the country for twenty years. The administration of the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed, and the government was achieved through bribery and officials were granted by bribes, which was impossible to pass.

Although Xu Jie was determined to cheer up after replacing Yan Song, he kept on being kind, but he was not determined and courageous. Because of his prejudice and stubbornness, he fell into party struggles and was nepotist. In the court, he was all Xu Jie's students, and he was effective from the top and the bottom, and there was no way to talk about the rectification of the government. The drawbacks left by Yan Party have not decreased at all, and they are still increasing, continuing to destroy the few healthy bodies.

Hai Rui finally mentioned the general sect, which was even more deeply rooted. After the Japanese pirates in the southeast, the original garrison system was wiped out. However, the military households on the nine sides were still there, and the nobles in the capital. They spent millions of taels of military expenses in the north every year, but they were still passively beaten. There is no talent among the general sect, but more than 90% of them were waste snacks. Raising them was just a waste of food.

"The world's seventy percent of the land fell into the hands of the royal family and the gentry. They do not bear a slight tax. The remaining 90% of the people, who cultivate less than 30% of the land, have to bear a 100% tax burden. The people work all year round, but they can't even eat a full meal. Whenever natural disasters are encountered, the people are displaced and eat their children, and the white bones are full of wild bones is not empty talk." Hai Rui took a deep breath, tears flashed with tears in his eyes, and sighed: "The adults are extremely agile. They don't want to solve the major problems in front of him, but they want to expand their territory and find land overseas. I forgive the officials for saying bluntly that you are looking for fish in a tree, and you will inevitably be busy with nothing."

Hai Rui didn't want to say something about rushing the lung tube, but in the end, he still couldn't help it. Fortunately, Tang Yi wouldn't really have the same knowledge as him. Yes, Hai Rui understood the problem very clearly, but solving the problem is not his strength.

"Brother Gangfeng, which of the five major cancers you mentioned can be easily cut off? Will the clan members be affected? They have the ancestral teachings to protect themselves. Didn't Confucius also pay attention to the family, country and the world? Besides, there are so many vassal kings, how should they end if a mutiny arouses? The eunuchs are even more unable to move. Officials and gentry, just seeing their greedy side, but without them, the world will be in chaos immediately. Moreover, the power of the gentry comes from the patriarchal law, the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, and I will also implicate Confucius. Brother Gangfeng, dare to fight Confucius and Mencius?"

Hai Rui was afraid of two things in his life, one was to pull his mother who grew up, and the other was to read the teachings of Confucius and Mencius for most of his life, the Four Books and Five Classics. Hearing Tang Yi's words, he instinctively shook his head. The two saints of Confucius and Mencius, benevolent people love things, wouldn't it be wrong? It was because later generations misinterpreted the meaning of the saint.

"Master Tang!" Hai Rui said sternly: "You founded Tang Xue, and you were impatient to slander Confucius and Mencius. You, you have ulterior motives!"

"Hahaha, Brother Gangfeng, you are keen enough."

Tang Yi actually agreed, "For the past two thousand years, Confucian scholars have ruined the country. If they want to solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty and cut off the five major cancers, they will not be able to rely on Confucius, and even more so on Meng!"

"Does it depend on you, Master Tang?" Hai Rui's eyes were as bright as a copper bell, panting as if he was about to pounce on him, and he fought with Tang Yi!

"Am I? Of course I don't have that ability, but I have some things that I want to ask Brother Gangfeng to see."

Hai Rui was still in a daze, and Tang Yi had already pulled him out of the house and went all the way outside the station. At this time, thousands of civilians had already arrived at the construction site.

Half a month ago, the station started building the city, and a large number of bricks, tiles, wood, mud and sand were hoarded around it, and piled up like a hill.

Hai Rui looked far away and found that many women were weaving bamboo strips with pillars and beams, but the middle was empty. What does this mean? Isn’t this fooling people with bamboo strips? Why is Tang Yi becoming more and more abnormal? He has no ambition to save the country and the people, and has slandered the sages and has developed to the point of filling in the numbers? He really wanted to ask loudly, what was wrong with you?

Before the opportunity had arrived, the women who tied the bamboo racks left, and a group of men wrapped the tied bamboo racks with wooden boards. After checking that there were no gaps, a four-wheeled carriage brought the mixed mud and sand. What was strange was that the mud and sand were not yellow, but gray-white.

This time, someone used a shovel to pour the mud and sand into the pillars surrounded by wooden boards. After pouring some, someone took a stick and pounded it from above. It took almost a quarter of an hour to fill a column, and people continued to head towards the next column.

Hai Rui could see clearly that there was a pillar about every three meters. He didn't understand the meaning. Tang Yi came to the front of a pillar that had been poured two days ago and asked the craftsmen to take the wooden board outside away.

"Brother Gangfeng, come and take a look, is it solid?"

Hai Rui walked closer and touched it with his hand. It was cold and thick, like a stone, bounced, dull and turbid, pushed it, and it didn't move at all.

He simply picked up a hammer from the ground, aimed it at the pillar, and smashed it down. He bang bang bang bang bang, let Hai Rui use all his strength, but just a little dust fell, and the pillar didn't move at all, like a mountain of Tai!

Tang Yi was very proud. This was his secret weapon for building the city wall.

Bamboo reinforced concrete!

Cement is undoubtedly the best building material. With cement, there are tall buildings and wide roads. Tang Yi had long been determined to make it, but he was a very good person and had a low eye. He had only a few knowledges and had no ability to learn hands-on skills.

Helplessly, he could only turn things over to others. Wei Liangfu and Qian Dehong founded the three university halls, and the amount of money spent just hundreds of thousands of taels of taels each year.

There was no reason to let them eat free meals. Tang Yi wrote a letter to Lao Wei, saying that from the mouth of Western priests, he heard that there was a kind of thing called cement in the West, which was cheap and suitable for building city houses, so he asked them to make it out.

Tang Yi opened his mouth, but in the end, countless people broke their legs. It took more than five years to finally produce the finished product. Note that it is the finished product!

There are a lot of cement problems that are burnt out at first, and they will crack after drying. The strength is not enough, and it is not as strong as the yellow mud... Hard work pays off. After repeated experiments and explorations, the need is finally met.

Building a city at a small station is a great opportunity for cement to become famous all over the world!

Tang Yi said proudly: "Brother Gangfeng, if you see that, tie the shelf with bamboo, then pour the mixture of cement, sand and gravel. After it is dry, it is extremely hard and no less than stones. Every three meters, a concrete column is built, and the gap in the middle is filled with bricks and stones. Every meter high, a cement beam is added. The city wall built in this way can be 70% cheaper than the previous city building, and the speed is more than five times faster. Brother Gangfeng thinks?"

What else can it be? It's just a magical skill!

You should know that building a city has always been a huge project. The blue bricks must be specially made, and there is no mistake. You need to mix glutinous rice juice with egg white and adhesive. The bricks that are built cannot be inserted with a knife.

Such meticulous work is so expensive that it is astronomical. The outer city of the capital alone has spent more than three million taels of silver in front and behind, which is not counted as the cost of levying civilians.

With cement and concrete, up to one million taels can solve the problem of the outer city.

Tang Yi smiled again, "Brother Gangfeng, look at these pillars. As long as you make the mold in advance, place a bamboo rack inside, and then pour the concrete into it. The shape you want will be, the size will be as big as you want. It will be as strong and durable as you want, and you are not afraid of fire. Tell me, what is the easiest thing to do?"

Hai Rui rolled his eyes. I am not a fool, of course I am building a palace.

"Haha, Your Majesty spent more than tens of millions of years on building two palaces and two temples, three halls, Nanyuan and Xiyuan. The biggest consumption is the giant wooden pillar, a golden nanmu. The shipping fee alone is no less than ten thousand taels of taels of shipment from Nanyang to the capital. If bamboo reinforced concrete is used instead, a pillar will cost up to fifty taels of silver. Wow, it is a 200-fold difference!"

Tang Yi laughed loudly, "With wood alone, you can save millions of dollars a year. Brother Gangfeng asked me how to solve the bad and bad government cancer, and this is my answer."

Hai Rui circled the cement column a few times and it was indeed a good thing, but he still couldn't figure out what it had to do with solving those disadvantages.

"Brother Gangfeng, if cement is invented, the cost of the imperial court will be reduced, and the people who are requisitioned will be reduced, which will save people's strength. As for the cement, roads and bridges can be repaired and specially, and transportation is convenient, so what kind of production the people can be transported out more easily. When they were in the southeast, Gangfeng also supervised the road construction matters, so they won't forget it, right?"

Of course I will not forget that under Tang Yi, it was the most comfortable time for Hai Rui to do things in his life. He had a lot of money and spread it all over the sky. Not only did the economy in the southeast take off, but it also played a role in cutting off the firewood from the cauldron. No refugees went to participate in the Japanese pirates again. In the end, Xu Hai and Wang Zhi surrendered were inseparable from Tang Yi's merits.

A few years ago, Tang Yi could make such a big fuss. Now that there is cement, it will definitely make even bigger fuss, and more people will benefit... Tang Yi patted Hai Rui who was trapped in thinking.
Chapter completed!