"My God... Lord Hu, what kind of great god have you invited to our Ministry of Works... Your Majesty, the Empress, all came one by one. Who is this Mr. Zhu?"

Fang Lian and Hu Weiyong walked out of Zhu Lang's courtyard. As soon as they walked out, Fang Lian, the Minister of Works, became a little incredible.

"Haha..." With a faint smile, Hu Weiyong looked at Fang Lian: "Mr. Fang, I told you that you are right to be respectful to Mr. Zhu. The identity of Mr. Zhu is not something you can offend.

In the future, he will be in your Ministry of Works, so you must treat him well. If something happens to him, you and I will not have enough compensation."

As soon as they finished speaking, another carriage was coming in front of them. Hu Weiyong and Fang Lian stopped. Soon, the two saw someone coming down in the carriage. They saw that they were the personal bodyguards of the Prince's East Palace.

"Zhou Qianhu..." Hu Weiyong walked forward with a smile, and Fang Lian followed behind.

Zhou Shen, the prince's personal bodyguard, also quickly bowed his hand, but he met a man from the carriage. The man was holding a soft stool in his hand, which was a palace maid. When he looked closely, he was the palace maid next to the princess.

"Yo...Isn't this Shao'er?" Hu Weiyong's greatest power is that he can remember the other person's name as long as he has met him.

Shaoer is the personal palace maid of the Crown Princess and is also the one who was married to the Crown Prince's East Palace by the Chang family. He is likely to become the Crown Prince's concubine in the future, so Hu Weiyong will remember the other party.

"Meet Lord Hu, Lord Fang..." Shaoer bowed, then smiled and said, "The Crown Princess knew that Mr. Zhu Lang came to work in the Ministry of Works today to sew this soft stool for Mr. Zhu Lang a few days in advance. I hope Mr. Zhu Lang will be promoted step by step when sitting on this soft stool in the future.

By the way... the Crown Princess also said that when the child with her belly is born, Mr. Zhu Lang will be his teacher..."

After a few words, Hu Weiyong and Fang Lian looked at each other. Although Shaoer didn't say anything, the two of them could already hear the sound outside the string.

Seeing Zhou Shen and Shaoer come in to pay homage to Zhu Lang, Fang Lian sighed again: "Young Master Zhu is definitely not an ordinary person. Your Majesty, Empress, now the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess... It's really terrible, by the way... Lord Hu, I also heard that someone wants to deal with Mr. Zhu... What should we do?"

"What should I do..." Hu Weiyong smiled: "We don't want to do anything, just stand firmly behind Mr. Zhu, because it's not our turn to do it, and Your Majesty will kill the other party."

After saying that, Hu Weiyong laughed.

Fang Lian nodded repeatedly. After that, the two looked at Zhu Lang's small office yard with deep meaning, and then showed a firm smile.

....................................

Zhu Lang became a deputy to the Ministry of Works. His daily work is also very simple. He just slept until he wanted to get up, and then asked Zhao Lu and Xia Wu to cover the carriage and then check how the cement road was repaired.

As soon as Zhu Lang went to the road construction site, a person from the Ministry of Works immediately brought a large piece of ice to Zhu Lang and then held a big umbrella for Zhu Lang. Zhu Lang sat in the shade and watched the migrant workers working not far away.

In fact, the project of paving cement roads is far more complicated than many people imagine. First of all, it is impossible to pave pure cement. Such Dubai-style waste method will lead to poor expansion of the road, and the thermal expansion and contraction will be very easy to crack. It is not suitable for some special roadbeds, especially in rural areas, many roadbeds are soil, so it is completely unrealistic to lay cement directly.

The beginning of building a highway is to simply treat the cement of the roadbed. If the roadbed is soft, you can lay some gravel mixture, including cobblestones, underneath.

Of course, this is just the first layer of treatment. Its main function is to isolate the mud and isolate the mud from the road foundation. However, if there is a mixture of gravel and pebbles, the most typical defect is that the gap inside is too large. If there is a vacuum area, it is easy to cause the road surface to break and concave.

Therefore, the second step is also very important, that is, pour sand and gravel on the basis of the first roadbed, and the gravel will continue to roll into the gap and fill it up, thereby reducing the appearance of hollow tofu projects inside the road.

The third step is that if you pave the road at the doorstep of many rural homes, you don’t need to be too particular. However, if you want to design the road yourself, you need to just put it in a little better design, that is, it needs to be made of a mold on the edges, which can be closed with wood boards and other materials. In this way, after filling the cement, the sides will be neat and the height will be similar, and the middle will not be high or low around.

Gu Ju

Zhu Lang is a simple path, so there is nothing to design, just pave it straight forward. Even if it is a little bit crooked, it doesn’t matter. The migrant workers who built the road this time were also collected from the surroundings, and they were all nearby people.

The people of the Ming Dynasty needed to perform corvee service. What was corvee service? It was the unpaid labor that rulers forced civilians to engage in in ancient times, including labor service, man-made service, military service, etc. In ancient times, all labor activities that ruled recruited people of all classes of people free of charge were called corvee service, including labor service and military service.

During the Ming Dynasty, especially in the early days, the people's corvee service was very heavy. Why? Because there were many things to build in the early Ming Dynasty, no one could do it, so the people's corve service was very heavy in the early Ming Dynasty.

This is a historical necessity. Although Zhu Lang felt sorry for him, it was difficult to modify it. After all, there were only so many people. If you messed up the rules, then Zhu Yuanzhang would ignore it, so Zhu Lang could not stop the corvee service.

However, Zhu Lang was unable to organize corvee labor, but it could make the people who were performing corvee labor more comfortable. You should know that corvee labor in ancient times was not something that people did. Basically, a middle-aged man could die in corvee labor.

Therefore, in ancient times, people were still afraid of labor service, but the people who came to Zhu Lang were much happier. Zhu Lang usually arrived at the road construction site at 9 o'clock in the morning. As soon as Zhu Lang arrived, ice would be sent over, and a large umbrella would be supported, so Zhu Lang hid in the shade.

However, after Zhu Lang hid, he would start to let all the people who were in labor service rest for a quarter of an hour. Following Zhu Lang, he would let his family, Zhao Lu, Xia Wu, Dagou, Ergou... Zhu Erbao and others each took a wooden barrel with ice and water in it and sent it to all the people who were resting. Each person could drink a full scoop. To be honest, these people did not know how much labor service they had been in, and such good people were really rare.

Corvée and corvée are just to let you take your life, but Zhu Lang is completely different. He allows people to rest in the morning and at noon. Not only does he allow people to rest well, but he also gives ice water to all the people serving. Sometimes there are fruits and other thirst-quenching things.

More importantly, when it comes to lunch and dinner, Zhu Lang will eat the best food for the serving people, a bowl of corn, pork, fish, chicken and duck meat, and one day Zhu Lang will eat mutton for the serving people.

And each person has a bowl of meat. Although there is only one bowl of meat, corn rice is eaten casually.

More importantly, Zhu Lang was also having dinner at the construction site. Zhao Lu would make a bowl of rice for Zhu Lang, and then the serving people would see Zhu Lang sitting in the shade and eating in big mouthfuls, eating the same food as those serving people. These actions made Zhu Lang feel good about the serving people around them. They all felt that Zhu Lang was really good.

Sometimes, when Zhu Lang was in a good mood, he would give these serving people a storytelling story, talking about Journey to the West, and no one of those people was listening to it with relish.

However, although Zhu Lang's behavior was loved by the people, it seriously damaged the internal order of the Ministry of Works. You must know that the Ministry of Works is the last position of the Six Ministry. People in the Ministry of Works want to eat some money, where do you think they can eat?

There are two ways to eat it, one is eating the ingredients. However, the risk factor for eating this ingredients is quite high. A senior from the Ministry of Works was directly chopped off by Zhu Yuanzhang because of the money for the ingredients. Now his head is still buried under the dragon path.

The second type is the money for labor service. The money for labor service is the simplest. As long as you deduct it a little, the people who are performing labor service dare not resist and the money will be successfully obtained. However, Zhu Lang, now, not only did he not deduct it, but he also put his pocket on his own to feed and drink the people who are serving. In the future, will these people go to other labor service, and will they do something due to the gap?

Zhu Lang's actions have threatened some officials of the Ministry of Works, so in less than ten days, there have been more than 20 memorials impeaching Zhu Lang. Fang Lian was also in tears. Those officials of the Ministry of Works who impeached Zhu Lang did not know Zhu Lang's identity.

Most importantly, the impeachment of these people cannot stand scrutiny at all. Some impeachment of Zhu Lang only knows how to be lazy at the construction site and sleep in the shade. Some complain that Zhu Lang’s cement road is slow.

Some people even impeached Zhu Lang and collected money from serving the people, so they protected those corvee people in this way.

To be honest, Fang Lian felt that these impeachments were untenable. If he stabbed them up and was seen by Zhu Yuanzhang, he would not know whether Zhu Lang would overturn Fang Lian, but these officials who impeached Zhu Lang would almost be wiped out.

At first, Fang Lian thought of suppressing these memorials, but what Fang Lian did not expect was that a memorial that was originally suppressed by himself appeared at the court meeting the next day. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and took out the memorial to impeach Zhu Lang on the spot, throwing it directly in front of Fang Lian to ask what Fang Lian meant.

This memorial was to impeach Zhu Lang for taking money from serving the people and was suspected of accepting bribes.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Fang Lian to provide evidence directly. If he could not produce evidence, he would sit back directly. You should know that the Ming Dynasty accepted bribes of 60 taels and was beheaded, which means that as long as he was beheaded, the person who submitted the memorial would be chopped directly.

All of the officials in Fengtian Palace collectively lost their voices, and for some reason they always felt something was wrong.
Chapter completed!