northernbook Chapter 878 No worries.
Chapter 878 No worries.
Wei Caiqin smiled and said, "Song Kui's parents are both dead. He has nothing to worry about. I'm sure he won't come back. Even if he does, he's probably afraid of the pressure from the court."
Song Kui's parents have been dead for two or three years.
He also had two younger brothers, who were also taken to the West Sea and South Continent.
Because of acclimatization, one of my younger brothers died in the southern mainland of Xihai.
It can be said that Song Kui also contributed a lot to the great navigation cause.
Rubber, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, and corn were all brought back from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
"Try it first."
Ye Kun nodded and said, "We have to make two preparations. You take the two princes, your eldest brother and the children of the Wei family to do the preliminary work first. The preparations will take at least a year. The personnel deployment and troop deployment must be planned and implemented before we can go to the new continent of the West Sea.
We are discussing Song Kui here, but in fact, we may be selfish. Maybe Song Kui will return immediately after receiving my transfer order. "
Wei Caiqin nodded: "I also plan to prepare for a year or two, and when I have thought through all aspects and have made preparations, I will start taking specific actions."
Ye Kun also nodded and took Wei Caiqin's hand: "Then let's...rest early."
Wei Caiqin smiled and said, "The emperor will go to Pingye County in two days, and I want to go too. But the matter of the new continent in the West Sea is a big deal, so I'd better stay in Zhuo County to arrange things."
Ye Kun smiled and said, "Well, it depends on your mood. If you want to go, we can go together. If you don't want to go, I won't force you."
In fact, Ye Kun knew that Wei Caiqin also wanted to go to Pingye County.
I just don't want to go with everyone.
If Ye Kun went to Pingye County alone, Wei Caiqin would definitely be happy to go with him and revisit the old place.
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Crown Prince Ye Feng and his uncle Jiang Youbao had already made arrangements for Ye Kun's trip to Pingye County.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Ye Kun led everyone and set off from Zhuo County.
I didn't plan to stay in Hirano County for long, so I decided to travel light this time.
This time we didn’t take the train, but directly took a boat, taking the Grand Canal route.
Take a boat to Luoyang, continue south, enter the Yangtze River waterway, and you will reach Tianmen County.
The new two-decker diesel cruise ship is luxuriously built and fully equipped, with an onboard telegraph and generator.
There are three cruise ships and four frigates in total.
Ye Kun took Jiang Yourong and others to drink tea in the glass greenhouse at the bow and look at the scenery of the Grand Canal.
Dai Xi was excited and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the emperor, I would never have thought that I could take a boat directly from Zhuo County to Pingye County."
Jiang Yourong smiled and said, "The Grand Canal was built later. Without the Grand Canal, there would be no way to take a boat."
Dai Xi nodded: "Ye Qingyang is really amazing. He dug a canal that is thousands of miles long. Of course, the emperor is even more amazing. It was the route planned by the emperor and his determination that led to the construction of this thousand-mile canal."
“It’s not easy for working people.”
Ye Kun corrected Dai Xi's statement: "Ye Qingyang is just a manager, living a life of luxury. The people who work are the hardest. And I just moved my lips and drew a line on the drawing."
Speaking of this, Ye Kun thought of the hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers who built the Grand Canal.
They are the heroes of the Grand Canal.
Of course, many Han people also participated in the construction of the Grand Canal.
But those Han people all get paid, which is considered paid labor.
The foreign laborers were completely dedicated, without any salary and only had enough to eat a full meal.
Liu Yuejuan smiled and said, "The emperor drew a line on the map. The descendants of Yan and Huang for thousands of years will remember you."
Ye Kun was no longer modest this time and nodded:
"This Grand Canal will have a huge impact on China's politics and economy. Even a thousand years from now, the Grand Canal will continue to play a role.
The Grand Canal and the railway are some of the things I leave to future generations.”
Princess Mingzhu smiled and said, "There are still many things that my father left for future generations. For example, porcelain and glass, imported goods from overseas, guns and cannons, and all kinds of technological products..."
Wen Axiu said: "The emperor left a complete scientific system to the world, which is the most valuable. With the mathematics, physics and chemistry foundation left by the emperor, it has become much easier for future generations to solve problems.
Future generations will be able to make greater progress based on this foundation."
"Come on, if you praise me again, I'll blush."
Ye Kun smiled and waved his hand: "Let's take a look at the scenery on both sides of the Grand Canal and talk about something else."
At this time, it is still winter.
Spring has not yet arrived, and there is not much scenery to see on both sides of the Grand Canal.
The green trees on both sides of the canal have long since grown into forests.
But this section is full of willow trees, which have not yet sprouted and look very bleak.
The river water is clear, but also has a chilliness.
There are many ships traveling on the river, but they all pass by in a hurry.
There are also many vehicles coming and going on the road along the river bank.
Ye Kun held up the telescope and counted them carefully. He found that only about 30% of the carriages used rubber tires.
"Our rubber tire production still cannot keep up. Only when all horse-drawn carriages, rickshaws, and flatbed carts can use rubber tires can it represent the maturity of the rubber industry." Ye Kun sighed.
Wen Axiu said: "Your Majesty, the quality of rubber tires is unstable and easy to break. Therefore, some ordinary people are unwilling to use rubber tires and only use traditional iron-hooped wooden wheels."
Princess Mingzhu smiled and said, "We can now tap the rubber trees on Izu Island, and we have rubber factories. But the tires they produce are horrible."
"It's horrible. How horrible is that?"
Ye Kun smiled bitterly: "I said that everything produced in the first thirty years of industrialization was garbage. Technology has just started, and it is inevitable that the quality of many products is not satisfactory.
However, the industrialization of our Chinese nine provinces has also reached 30 years soon. Everyone should believe that the quality of products will get better and better, and there will be more and more high-quality products. "
Jiang Yourong said: "I think there are also fine products now. Porcelain and glass, aren't they very exquisite? Red and white sugar, aren't they very delicious? Take rubber products for example. The rubber soles produced are very good, soft and waterproof.
There are also rubber washbasins, rubber buckets, and rubber pig troughs for civilian use, which are all very durable.”
Ye Kun smiled bitterly: "But, that's not how rubber is used. I didn't expect to use rubber as soles and containers."
Wen Axiu smiled and said, "The Science and Technology City and the Ministry of Industry are still researching and producing rubber barrels to hold cement. Rubber barrels are airtight and durable."
The current packaging of cement is sacks.
Since nylon bags are not available, we have to use burlap bags, or wooden barrels or iron barrels.
The sacks filled with cement were turned over and over again, but it stopped working after a few attempts.
Therefore, someone from the Ministry of Industry came up with the idea of producing large rubber barrels for cement packaging.
Because in recent years, rubber trees have grown into forests everywhere, rubber production has increased rapidly and cannot be used up.
Ye Kun smiled and said, "The Ministry of Industry still has capable people in filling rubber buckets with cement."
As we were talking, we saw a pier ahead.
Ye Kun ordered: "Slow down, stop at the dock, we will go to the dock to take a look."