After being summoned by Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs did not dare to neglect them, and soon rushed to a clearing field outside the temporary palace.

Not long after he left, Liu Huaiwen, who was summoned back again before he returned to the Ministry of Revenue, couldn't help but complain to himself: I'm anxious to give you a bride gift if I don't see you, but I'm very active in causing trouble!

Zhu Jinsong pointed directly at the small bottles in front of him and said straight to the point: "What is contained in it is several types of oil distilled from the oil of the Royal Academy. Each type of oil has different characteristics. Some are flammable, some are explosive, and some are extremely difficult to ignite but are particularly resistant to burning."

After a brief demonstration, Zhu Jinsong pointed to a large piece of asphalt sent by Liang Xiuxiude and said, "This is what I just asked to go to the Royal Academy. It is the residue left after oil distillation, which is the best way to pave the road."

Song Yucheng, the Minister of Works, exclaimed, walked to the asphalt, first touched it with his hands, and then stepped on it with his feet, saying, "It's not easy to talk about other aspects, but it's really more comfortable to step on than stone slabs or cement."

Speaking of this, Song Yucheng turned his attention to Liu Huaiwen again: "If this thing is the residue after oil extraction, then there is no question of whether it is cost-free. Your treasury can save a lot of money."

Liu Huaiwen originally didn't care much about asphalt, but after hearing Song Yucheng's words, he walked directly to Asphalt, and asked Song Yucheng while carefully looking at it, "Can this thing be used to pave the road?"

Song Yucheng said: "I'm not sure, but I can give someone a try, and His Majesty said so, I think it should be fine."

Liu Huaiwen nodded, lowered his head and thought about it, but shook his head again, saying, "If it can be used to build roads, then this thing is indeed a good thing. Unfortunately, our Ming Dynasty has too little oil, and it is impossible to use this thing to pave the road."

Zhu Jinsong also nodded and said, "I heard that this thing is buried deep under the ground. If it is empty, it will be empty. It is an unrenewable thing."

It is hard to say whether oil is a renewable resource. Anyway, some say that oil is a renewable resource, and some say that oil is a non-renewable resource. There is a lot of real and false news, and Zhu Jinsong doesn’t know who to believe.

The key is that Zhu Jinsong doesn’t need to know whether this thing is regenerable. He only needs to know that the Ming Dynasty lacks this thing, and there are many of this thing in some places.

Besides, even if the Ming Dynasty is not short of oil now, Zhu Jinsong has no intention of letting go of oil.

What are the derivatives of oil?

Various labels of gasoline, kerosene, diesel, heavy oil, stockings, lubricants, and these messy things are made by refining petroleum.

In other words, the emergence of the steam engine opened the beginning of the industrial revolution, while the progress of the oil industry, especially the oil refining technology, dominated and even promoted the progress and development of the entire industrial revolution.

Another very important point is that the current refining technology in the Ming Dynasty is a bit rough and more oil will be wasted.

Although Zhu Jinsong didn't care about that little waste and the Ming Dynasty didn't care, since the word was used, he naturally had to come first with someone else's own oil reserves. Let's keep the little oil reserves of Da Ming to wait until the technology develops to a certain extent.

After hearing the news that the Ming Dynasty had insufficient oil reserves and the oil could not be renewed, Zeng Cheng couldn't help but touch his hair, and sighed: "I sigh that although the land of Ming Dynasty is wide, the things are thin. God is so thin to me~"

Zhu Jinsong looked at Zeng Cheng like this and secretly complained in his heart: Is there any inevitable relationship between you having little hair and God treating Zhongyuantang as a thin person?

Do you still have some face?

Just as Zhu Jinsong complained secretly, Zeng Cheng continued: "I heard that there are many things in the Western Regions - I think that my Ming Dynasty should restore the Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty's former scholar!"

Geng Rui, the leader of the Right Army Governor's Office, also said: "I, please discuss it!"

Song Yucheng, Minister of Works, said: "Minist, please discuss it!"

As one civil and military minister after another came forward to express his support, Zhu Jinsong finally confirmed that Zeng Cheng was a shameless guy. He was the whole civil and military minister in the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, Meng Fanzhi, the Minister of Rites, was not as shameless as Zeng Cheng.

After glanced at Zeng Cheng and others with disdain, Meng Fanzhi bowed and said, "I have called your Majesty. The enemy has been rampant in the Central Plains for more than 150 years. There are many things that are wolves and dogs do, and the actions of rebellion are raging and resentful."

"Although the slave chief Qian Deaf old dog surrendered, the fifteenth son of Qian Deaf old dog Aisin Gioro Yongyan occupied Gurkha and other places, and then trapped Gurkha people in water and fire. This is indeed the autumn of Gurkha's survival."

"Gurkha is located in the Western Regions. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty to the Mongolian Yuan, it has always been a vassal state of our Central Plains. Your Majesty is the emperor of the Central Plains, the king and father of all people. I ask Your Majesty to understand the hearts of heaven and follow the people's will, and to launch a large army to conquer the remnants of the remnants of the army, and to resolve the people's remnants of Gurkha."

Zhu Jinsong finally became desperate - from the name of our Minister of Rites, we can see that this person is the descendant of the sub-saint Mencius, and he looks thick-eyed and big-eyed. He didn't expect that he was also a person like Zeng Cheng!

So shameless! Bah!

Zhu Jinsong first spitted for respect in his heart, then nodded and responded: "My Ming Dynasty inherited the Song and Yuan dynasties, and naturally he would take back his hometown, and he would never allow an inch of land to be lost to the barbarians."

Well, admitting that the Yuan Dynasty was the main center of the Central Plains is also considered a traditional skill of the Ming emperor and the Ming Dukes.

For example, after Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chongba, he publicly admitted in his edict to ascend the throne that the Mongolian Yuan was the main story of the Central Plains, and in the court he directly called the Mongolian Yuan a pseudo-yuan. Most of the emperors of all dynasties were like this. On the surface, they all admitted that the Mongolian Yuan was the main story of the Central Plains, but in fact they called each pseudo-yuan one by one.

If you want to say that Zhu Chongba and the emperors of the Zhu family are not because of the legal rationality of the Mongolian Yuan territory, they are afraid that they will not believe it!

For example, because Lao Zhu admitted that the Mongol Yuan was also considered the true story of the Central Plains, the Timur Khanate, which was suppressing the Western Regions and its western territory, became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The envoys who came to China in the name of tribute were no less than 78 times. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to visit the Timur Dynasty at least 20 times.

From the first year of Hongxi to the tenth year of Xuande, during these ten years, the Timur Dynasty sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute twenty-one. The tributes were mainly local specialties, including camels, horses, jade, etc.

According to the "Records of the Ming Taizu", the number of tribute horses is no less than 2,821 - more than 2,000 Arab horses may even have excellent war horses, including sweat and blood horses, were given to Zhu Laosi by the Timur Khanate as tribute, and then Zhu Laosi used them to smash the Alutai venue.

So, whether to admit that the Mongol Yuan is the true lunar month of the Central Plains depends on whether there are any benefits to gain.

If there is no benefit, would they admit the Mongol Yuan with those like Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi?

Now Zeng Cheng and Meng Fanzhi said that Gurkha and its westward areas are the Han and Tang dynasties, and they can be regarded as the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty wants to reclaim these territories, which is completely in line with the law, and no one can find any fault.

Even Liu Huaiwen, who has always liked to clamor for the emptiness of the treasury and the treasury starved to death, nodded and echoed: "That's right, let's help all the people hang upside down, hahahaha."

Anyway, you have to get the benefits, and the archway must be established.

Seeing everyone shouting that they would restore the Han and Tang dynasties, Zhu Jinsong nodded and ordered Geng Rui, the leader of the Right Army Governor's Office, and said, "Leave this matter to your Right Army Governor's Office to handle it. First drive the little boar skin out of Gurkha and let him run to the oil barrel."

After Geng Rui bowed to respond, Zhu Jinsong looked at Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs and said, "It's not difficult to kill the little wild boar skin, but how to protect our Ming Dynasty oil barrels still requires everyone to work together."

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs looked at Zhu Jinsong with a confused look on their faces.

To protect the oil barrel, so many departments of the Ming Dynasty need to work together?

Did Your Majesty look at the barbarians on the oil drum too highly, or did you look at the Governor's Office of the Five Army of the Ming Dynasty?

Geng Rui even blushed and shouted: "If there is still the last one who can breathe in the Right Army Governor's Office, you can defend the oil barrel!"

Zhu Jinsong glared at Geng Rui: "What are you calling? It shows that you have a loud voice? You have no brains!"

After Geng Rui's training, Zhu Jinsong turned his attention to Zeng Cheng again: "I ask you, how many Dings do we have in the Ming Dynasty now?"

Zeng Cheng immediately reacted.

How many Dingkous do there in the Ming Dynasty now?

The answer is 3009.7 million.

Thirty million people sound like a lot, but if they really want to share the entire Ming Dynasty, there are really not many people. If you don’t take the size of your territory as the beginning, you will say how many things Dingkou is, you will be a hooligan!

Originally, the entire Qing Dynasty territory, plus Jiaozhi, Myanmar, Siam, Laos, Bangzi, Nurkandus, and most of the grassland, let alone 30 million people, even if there are 30 million more people, it will not be able to fill such a large territory!

Seeing that Zeng Cheng and other big bosses were thinking, Zhu Jinsong continued, "Apart from the problem of insufficient number of Dingkou, are the people of the Ming Dynasty very willing to move out? If they move out, they will never return to their native hometown in their entire lives. If you are, would you?"

Yes, the most important reason why the people are unwilling to move is that in addition to the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty and the rapid development of the people and their lives are getting better and better day by day, is that the backward transportation conditions make them leave their hometown, and once they leave their hometown, they may never have the chance to visit their hometown again.

This is almost unbearable for the people of the Ming Dynasty who had a strong local complex.

Therefore, without using coercive means to migrate the people, the transportation problem must be solved first, so that the people know that there is still a chance to go back to their hometown to see after the migration.

Song Yucheng couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty, the Transportation Department has long planned the railway and straight road to be built from the seventh year of the Holy Emperor to the twelfth year of the Holy Emperor. The current focus is on the direction of Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiaozhi, and even Liaodong. If the Western Regions part is added, I am afraid that the original plan will also change."

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said, "No rush for this matter. Since we know that there is a lot of oil in the oil barrel, we can first find the Europa barbarians to buy some, and then we will talk about it when we can free up our hands."

After Zhu Jinsong said this, Song Yucheng became stable, but Liu Huaiwen shouted like a cat with his tail stepped on, "What's the matter? Spend money to buy it?"

"What is the empty treasury of our Ming Dynasty? Even the mice didn't know how many of them starved to death. They even had to pay for the barbarians to buy oil?"

"Well, the Governor's Office of the Five Army went out to recruit some workers and came back. Isn't it enough for your Railway Department to open another route?"

"I really don't know how expensive it is if I don't take charge of the family!"

Then Zeng Cheng and the big bosses glared at Liu Huaiwen together.

Let the Governor's Office of the Five Army recruit a group of laborers?

This matter is simple and not difficult to handle. However, after recruiting labor, should those territories be owned by the Ming Dynasty? Should the Ming Dynasty move the people over? Should officials be sent to govern?

Besides, there are so many territories that have not been digested completely. Are you still thinking about recruiting labor again?
Chapter completed!