The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 292 Meeting an Acquaintance
When it came to the appointment and dismissal of officials in Annan Prefecture, there was no time to report to the imperial court, so Xia Jing selected the candidates in Lingnan. Li Jingfu issued an order to confer officials and let these officials take office first, and then sent a memorial to Beijing to report to the emperor. Prepare.

Although Dayu's national power was steadily increasing, large-scale infrastructure construction was being carried out in the country. For example, many places were building cement roads and railways, and setting up factories. Every day's money was spent like running water.

Especially this year, we have to open up grasslands and build the Hetao Plain area into a major city in the north, which is even more expensive.

The dividends of the war cannot be reflected immediately. For example, if Annan is occupied and Annan is to be restored to production, officials at all levels need to cooperate to manage the area. Only when taxes and minerals are handed over to the court can the results be achieved.

Nowadays, there is probably only one problem that bothers Emperor Yu and his courtiers, which can be summed up in one word: money!

Li Jingfu handed over the heavy responsibility on his shoulders to Li Chengmu. It can be said that he was relieved after relieving the heavy responsibility, but he did not forget to try his best to help the new emperor reduce the burden.

The former playboy now unknowingly knows the importance of the world.

"Hey, Empress Dowager, we have been staying in the palace for a few days, and we have recovered from the time. We have nothing to do today. Let's go to various factories in Lingnan and let me see your factory that produces a lot of gold every day. What does it look like?”

On this day, Li Jingfu, who was bored at the Lingnan Prince's Mansion, made a suggestion to Xia Jing.

Speaking of factories in Lingnan, there are not many, but there are too few. Ever since Xia Jing set up a factory in Lingnan, whether they are Lingnan merchants or foreign merchants, they are used to setting up factories to produce anything.

There are probably dozens of large and small schools in Lingnan, whether they are public or private.

At present, the army that Dayu raises is the most expensive one in the navy, and Xia Jing is currently responsible for most of the navy's military salaries. That's why Li Jingfu sincerely wanted to visit her factory when he came back from the sea this time.

After getting up early and finishing breakfast, she sat in the pavilion, feeling drowsy by the south wind. After listening to Li Jingfu's words, Xia Jing's eyes were so stimulated by the light that she could only open her eyes a little.

She glanced at him and said, "Why do you want to go to the factory today? There is nothing in the backyard of the palace that can make you happy?"

Li Jingfu shook the fan in his hand, a little embarrassed, but his words were quite sincere: "Hey! This is not a trip to sea. After seeing the strength of our Dayu Navy, thinking about the resources required to build a navy, I just want to go to your factory and see what kind of factory can support such a huge naval force."

Xia Jing was quite surprised by these words. She sat up slowly and looked at him in surprise: "Tsk, when others are separated for three days, they should look at each other with admiration. Our Supreme Emperor is a scholar who has been farewell for half a day, so he should look at him with admiration. Now, Son, are you also concerned about national policies and people’s livelihood?”

Li Jingfu looked away after being looked at, then thought about what was wrong, turned around and glared at her, with a look of embarrassment on his face, "How can you, a woman, talk? When did I not care about national policies and people's livelihood? What you said seemed like It’s as if you were sitting on the throne in the past few years!”

Seeing that he was angry, Xia Jing responded cheerfully: "Okay, then let's go out for a walk!"

With that said, he ordered Ye Fei to arrange the trip.

"No." Li Jingfu stretched out his hand to stop Ye Fei, who was turning around. He turned around and suggested to Xia Jing, "Don't bother us. Let's just visit incognito and go out for a walk."

"Weifu private visit?"

"Yes, our Queen Mother of Dayu needs to be low-key!"

The weather in Lingnan is very hot in summer, so most of the buildings on both sides of the streets in Lingnan have corridors. Except for carriages and livestock, people usually go shopping through corridors.

And these corridors also show their practicality in this hot summer.

The carriage that Prince Qian traveled on this time was unmarked and just an ordinary carriage. Li Jingfu noticed the crowds of people in the corridor and said with emotion: "Lingnan today is more prosperous than Lingnan a few years ago."

There are more smiles on people's faces, and sad faces are rarely seen.

"Which factory do you want to go to first?" Xia Jing turned around and asked him.

Li Jingfu thought for a moment and said, "Lingnan is the capital of the state where Dayu first ran trains. Why don't we go to the former iron workshop first."

Shan Blacksmith, who had been responsible for the main beams in the workshop, had been promoted to the Military War Bureau in the capital, but the iron workshop in Lingnan was not abandoned because of this.

As a result, it expanded and became a manufacturer of internal combustion engines. It can currently produce internal combustion engines for trains and agricultural internal combustion engines.

As soon as the group turned to the street of the internal combustion engine factory, they heard the roar of machinery in the distance.

"Is the factory testing machines?" Li Jingfu raised the car curtain.

Just by lifting the car curtain, he knew that he was wrong. The roar was not coming from the internal combustion engine factory, but from another street behind him.

Anu, who was driving the car outside, replied: "Master, it's an agricultural machine, not an internal combustion engine factory."

"Agricultural machinery?" Li Jingfu asked someone to park the carriage on the side of the road.

Not long after, a farm truck driven by a young man slowly drove over, and there were a lot of watermelons in the bucket behind his car.

Li Jingfu pointed at the agricultural vehicle that drove past. He was shocked. He turned around and asked Xia Jing, "Is this vehicle produced by Lingnan Internal Combustion Engine Factory?"

Xia Jing leaned against the wall of the car and nodded with a smile: "Yes, the one just past is a farming machine. It can plow the land during busy farming periods, and can be loaded onto the bed to transport goods or serve as a means of transportation during slack farming periods."

"Hey!" Li Jingfu looked at the agricultural vehicle that was going away but could still hear the roar, and was speechless for a moment: "."

After a long time, until the roar could no longer be heard, he lowered the curtain and asked: "Since there is such a useful agricultural vehicle, why don't you get yourself one so that I can take advantage of it and take a ride on it without the use of animals?" A car that can also run?”

Xia Jing glanced at him and gave him two words: "Too noisy!"

"Quarrel?"

Li Jingfu pricked up his ears and listened again. The agricultural vehicle had gone away, and it seemed that they could still hear the roar at the same place. It was indeed quite noisy.

Ye Fei, who was following the carriage on horseback, listened to the conversation between the two and explained: "Lingnan was the first to apply internal combustion engines to farming, and agricultural vehicles are very popular in Lingnan. In recent years, Lingnan has adopted land reforms and entered factories to work. Some people have already become rich first.

These wealthy people, maybe because they thought raising cattle and horses was too troublesome or something, actually abandoned the cattle and horse carriages and directly spent money to buy agricultural vehicles as a means of transportation. "

This time Li Jingfu was shocked when he heard what he said. He directly opened the curtain and fixed it, and asked, "Are the people in Lingnan rich enough to afford agricultural vehicles?"

Agricultural vehicles may be affordable to ordinary people in later generations who work a little harder, but in this era when the industrial revolution has just started, an agricultural vehicle is really expensive.

Even if the imperial court has lowered the price to the lowest level, it is still not affordable for ordinary people.

Ye Fei chuckled: "Those who can afford agricultural vehicles are not necessarily ordinary people. In today's Lingnan, even the rich and powerful businessmen like to buy agricultural vehicles as a scooter."

Li Jingfu: "."

He looked back at Xia Jing: "Aren't agricultural vehicles used for plowing?"

Xia Jing rolled her eyes at him: "You are overthinking. Do you know how much it costs to build an agricultural machine now? Even if it is based on the ex-factory price, it is not affordable for ordinary people without making a penny." "Then you let What is the purpose of making agricultural machines in workshops?" Since they cannot be used for farming and cannot help the people, the value of the machines is greatly reduced.

Xia Jing narrowed her eyes slightly and asked: "Do you know what the industrial revolution represents? If Dayu wanted to become a powerful country and stand on the top of the world, he had to develop industry, and industrial development did not happen overnight. It required the reforms of countless people. Slowly become mature and become stronger.”

"We can't stop producing it because its price is not close to the people. As the industry matures, the cost will naturally come down slowly, and maybe people will be able to afford it."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another roar in the distance. Without asking, he knew that another agricultural vehicle was coming.

Xia Jing knocked on the wall of the carriage, and the carriage started to move again.

In fact, the carriage is bumpy, and the agricultural vehicle is also bumpy. Speaking of which, Xia Jing is most satisfied with the cars of later generations.

And she has it in her space, and it is also a means of transportation for her future generations. It is just something that is too advanced and inappropriate to take out. It can only urge these people in this era to invent on their own.

Li Jingfu smiled coquettishly and said, "Do most of the soldiers you train the navy come from here?"

"Part of it."

When they arrived at the internal combustion engine factory, the factory director came out to greet them: "Young man, I have met the emperor and the master."

"Pingshen!" Li Jingfu raised his hand, but his eyes were looking around.

The predecessor of the Internal Combustion Engine Factory was an iron workshop. In the past two years, it manufactured bearings and assembled many pedal threshing machines.

Nowadays, the people in Lingnan farm and thresh millet. They no longer use manual threshing. Instead, they use pedal threshing machines, which are both labor-saving and fast. For ancient times with backward productivity, it is simply not perfect.

The threshing machine bearings are sold all over the country, and this performance is now another major source of income for the internal combustion engine factory.

Li Jingfu had never seen the production process of an internal combustion engine. In short, what he saw was shocking to him even though he couldn't understand it.

They didn't stay long at the internal combustion engine factory before moving to the textile factory. Li Jingfu was even more shocked here. Countless textile machines were working in all the workshops, and the people operating them were all women, girls, wives, and old ladies. As long as they were healthy, Anyone who knows how to weave can come here to work and earn money to supplement their family income.

There were many men in his group, but when these female workers saw them coming, they just glanced at them and then turned back to seriously spin and weave.

There was no shy look on their faces.

Li Jingfu was worthy of being a nine-five-year-old man. Although he was shocked in his heart, he didn't show it on his face. No one else asked, so he kept it in his heart and didn't ask. He followed behind and visited with a normal expression.

Looking at Xia Jing who was asking questions about the factory management, he seemed to understand why these women were not surprised by them.

Textile factories are the factories with the most women. Afterwards, we will visit sugar factories, porcelain factories, garment factories, handicraft factories, furniture factories, etc. There are too many.

The cement factory is outside the city. This time they did not go outside the city again. Some of the factories they visited were under Xia Jing's name, and most of them were renovated and expanded factories from Lingnan merchants' own family workshops.

Until the sunset, a group of people drove the carriage slowly through the streets of Fucheng.

"How about we arrange the cement factory, shipyard and salt field for tomorrow?" Li Jingfu seemed to be vowing to visit all the large and small factories in Lingnan.

Xia Jing slapped her waist and shook her head: "One day's shopping is enough. We have been back for so many days and everything has been sorted out. It's time to go back to Xia's Mansion tomorrow to see her parents and family."

Li Jingfu was stunned for a moment, and a look of guilt flashed in his eyes. He had been back for a few days, and he almost forgot that the Xia family was still in Lingnan.

The Xia family came into public view after Xia Jing was named queen. Xia's father, Xia Dunhou, was named Mingyue Marquis. From then on, the Xia family became a prominent family of Dayu.

It can be seen from the title that the Xia family has no ambition to gain power by leveraging Xia Jing's influence.

Today's Mingyue Hou Mansion is naturally not the same as when the Xia family entered the palace three times. After the original decree came down, Xia Jing persuaded them to go to the capital to develop. However, the Xia family had no plans to leave Lingnan for the time being, so Xia Jing paid for the Xia family to build a palace. Mansion.

Li Jingfu paid attention to Xia Jing's face, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no look of worry on her face.

He asked: "It's time to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law. I asked Anu to prepare gifts. Apart from some common gifts, do you have anything special to tell me?"

Xia Jing was surprised after hearing what he said, and looked at him specifically: "I will write a gift list tonight, and let Anu prepare according to the gift list tomorrow."

Zhen Gourmet Restaurant opened today. It was almost dinner time in the evening and there were already many guests in front of the restaurant.

The first floor of Zhenhui Building is the lobby, the second, third and fourth floors are private rooms, while the fifth floor is not open to the public.

At this time, there was a handsome young man in brocade clothes standing in front of the window on the fifth floor. He stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking down at the guests at the door of the restaurant. They entered the restaurant in groups, and there was no smile on his face. fall.

Looking further into the distance, there were many carriages coming this way, but when his eyes swept over a man on horseback, his smile froze, and a look of shock appeared on his face, but it soon turned into surprise.

Lian Gui, the servant next to him, noticed his master's expression and asked, "Master, what's wrong? Who is downstairs?"

Lian Gui walked over quickly, ready to crane his neck to look downstairs, but before he could stretch his neck, the master beside him had already rushed into the room like a whirlwind.

"Oh, Lord, Master."

Before he could finish his words, the master was no longer at the door. Lian Gui stamped his feet helplessly and followed him.

"I've met General Ye, long time no see!"

The black shadow rushed up just now, and Ye Fei almost stabbed him instinctively without drawing his sword. Now he saw the person clearly and said with a dark face: "I used to look like a very steady person, why is he so reckless now?"

If he hadn't stopped in time, the person in front of him would have been skewered by him!
"I was so reckless that I frightened General Ye!"

After hearing this, Ye Fei's face turned darker. Why was he frightened?He seemed to be a weak and inexperienced woman.

"Is that the queen in the carriage?"

Ye Fei turned his face to the other side with a dark face, but did not answer his question.

Tong Song: "."

He was just too excited and couldn't control his speed for a moment. How could a grown man be so stingy?
Just when the two were in a stalemate, the curtain of the carriage was opened. Xia Jing looked at Tong Song who was blocking the carriage. The man was still as pleasing to the eye as before, but the sweat on his forehead proved that he had run well just now. How urgent.

"The eldest son of the Tong family."

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