After the young eunuch finished speaking, he continued to walk forward as if nothing happened just now.
"The situation is unclear and the emperor is very angry." This sentence was obviously what the old eunuch had someone bring to him.
Han Du lowered his eyes and thought carefully.
What happened, even the old eunuch who was inseparable from Lao Zhu didn't know?
And this matter must be related to him, otherwise Lao Zhu would not summon him, and Lao Zhu's anger would most likely be directed at him.
But these days, I have been peacefully doing nothing. How could it make Lao Zhu angry?
Han Du couldn't figure it out for a moment. He carefully recalled everything he had experienced in the past few days, and indeed he couldn't find anything that would make Lao Zhu angry.
They come, the security.
If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now. Wait until you see Lao Zhu and understand what's going on, and then think of countermeasures.
Han Du looked up and saw that the young eunuch was about to walk away, so he quickly speeded up to keep up.
When Han Du came to Fengtian Hall, he saw Zhu Biao and Xue Xiang here.
When Zhu Biao saw Han Du come in, he looked at him strangely.
Han Du was a little cautious in his heart, for fear of angering Lao Zhu. When Zhu Biao looked at him like this again, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened in his heart.
What on earth is going on?
On the other hand, Xue Xiang looked at Han Du with passionate eyes. When he saw Han Du looking at him, Xue Xiang immediately greeted him with a smile, as if Han Du had given him a big red envelope.
When did you become so popular? I do not know how? Han Du cursed in his heart.
However, as soon as Han Du saw Lao Zhu, he quickly bowed down to him.
"Your Majesty, Han Du, goes to see your Majesty."
Although Lao Zhu was still angry, he was able to speak calmly when he saw Han Du.
"Handu, let me ask you, are you making iron in the banknote bureau?"
"Yes." Han Du answered truthfully. At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that his steelmaking had offended Lao Zhu?
But that's not the case. In order to make the people's lives better, Hongwu Elder Zhu was relaxed about many things that were related to the people's livelihood.
Such as burning lime and smelting iron.
The imperial court is completely out of prohibition. As long as the people mine and refine it themselves, the government will not care if you refine it as you like.
This is equivalent to using part of the national resources to benefit the people.
From this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang is worthy of being the emperor who cares most about the people.
Common people can smelt iron, so it shouldn't be a big deal if they smelt it by themselves in the banknote bureau. Why did Lao Zhu react so strongly?
Han Du knelt on the ground and thought about it, but he couldn't figure it out.
Lao Zhu glanced at Han Du intently and continued to ask: "Why are you making iron? If you need iron, why don't you go to the Ministry of Works to allocate it, but make it yourself?"
Han Du straightened up and said: "Back to the Emperor, because the transportation of coal ore is very inconvenient, I want to build a track that can be quickly transported from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. Since I need more, I went to the Ministry of Industry for allocation, and the Ministry of Industry also It doesn’t necessarily have to be given. So I thought I might just do it myself, which would be much cheaper..."
As he talked, Han Du saw that Lao Zhu looked wrong, so his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he simply closed his mouth.
When Lao Zhu saw Han Du shut up, he asked, "You said you made iron to build roads?"
"Yes."
"How much iron is needed to build the road?" Lao Zhu continued to ask.
"This shouldn't cost much." Han Du also came to his senses at this time and felt that the reason why Lao Zhu was angry with him today was probably because of his steelmaking.
So, he spoke a little more vaguely.
"It doesn't cost much?" Lao Zhu suddenly smiled, "I heard that tens of thousands of kilograms of steel are smelted in your banknote bureau. It doesn't cost much, why do you refine so much?"
"And since you know how to make steel, why don't you report it to the court? The court is so short of steel that it can't even make ordnance. Don't you know?"
Lao Zhu suddenly stood up and shouted fiercely at Han Du.
Han Du looked at Lao Zhu innocently, "I, I really don't know."
How did I know that the imperial court was short of steel? No one had told me this, and Han Du felt very aggrieved.
After hearing Han Du's words, Lao Zhu's tone suddenly froze.
Only a few people know about the changes in the residual Yuan and the court's preparation of ordnance.
According to common sense, Han Du should not know, but it would be abnormal if he knew.
But when Lao Zhu became angry, he would still try to reason with Han Du.
"you!"
Lao Zhu was furious and pointed at Han Du and said sternly: "Immediately transfer all the steel from the Banknote Bureau to the Ministry of Industry and use it to make ordnance first."
"No, Your Majesty." As soon as Han Du heard about Lao Zhu's plan to hit his rails, he seemed to see the money fly away from his pocket. He suddenly felt the pain of digging into his heart and immediately began to scream.
"Your Majesty, all that steel is not enough for the ministers to use. Where can we allocate the excess to the Ministry of Industry?"
Lao Zhu didn't care when he heard Han Du's screams. He decided whether Han Du agreed or not.
But Lao Zhu suddenly came to his senses and suddenly asked Han Du, "Wait a minute, you said it's not enough for you. How much steel do you need to build that road?"
Han Du saw Lao Zhu looking at him with fierce eyes and dared to speak, so he could only stretch out four fingers towards Lao Zhu tremblingly.
"Forty thousand pounds? You loser."
Lao Zhu was furious, and the fingers pointing at Han Du trembled. Suddenly he looked down at the imperial case, reached out and grabbed an inkstone in his hand, and was about to throw it at Han Du.
"Father, no." Zhu Biao was the one who spoke out and stopped Lao Zhu quickly.
Lao Zhu thought for a while and put down the inkstone in his hand. He grabbed the memorials on the imperial case and threw them at Han Du, without even bothering to review them.
"You prodigal son, I will beat you to death."
Han Du knelt on the ground and couldn't even hide. Of course, he didn't dare to hide and let the memorial hit him in the face. Fortunately, these are memorials, not inkstones. Although it hurts if hit on the face, it will not disfigure the face.
If Zhu Biao had not spoken out to stop Lao Zhu just now, he might have been full of love now.
"Get out of here."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Han Du quickly got up from the ground, without even bothering to rub his face, and stood aside.
"Here comes the driver. I'm going to the banknote bureau to have a look."
Lao Zhu's eyes fell on Han Du's face. Seeing his expression change, he looked back expressionlessly.
As soon as Han Du heard Lao Zhu's request for cash, he immediately exclaimed in his heart that it was broken. If Lao Zhu goes, the things he concealed just now will be exposed in an instant.
But Han Du had no way to stop it and could only resign himself to fate.
So Lao Zhu took Zhu Biao and Xue Xiang, and later someone sent a message to bring Tang He and Li Wenzhong with him, and the group headed towards the banknote bureau in a mighty manner.
Although Han Du desperately didn't want to go, there was nothing he could do under Lao Zhu's nose.
Lao Zhu came to the banknote bureau and waved to everyone who was saluting him.
"Where is the smelted steel?" Lao Zhu asked Huang Lao directly.
Seeing this, Han Du was about to step forward to explain to Lao Zhu, but was stopped by Lao Zhu with a wave of his hand.
"From now on, don't speak without my permission. I am asking him now."
Han Du was embarrassed and retreated with a flattering smile.
Mr. Huang didn't know why, but seeing that it was the emperor who was asking the question, he didn't think much about it and pointed directly, "It's piled over there."
Lao Zhu looked in the direction of Huang Lao's finger and walked straight over.
The closer Lao Zhu got to the rails, the more surprised he became.
The rails were neatly placed on the ground by the craftsmen. At first glance, they looked like a row of steps with a metallic luster, giving people a visual shock.
Lao Zhu leaned down and touched a handful of rails. His tentacles were cold.
Li Wenzhong was born as a warrior. He directly picked up an egg-sized stone from the ground and knocked it on the rail, making a crisp sound.
When Han Du saw Cao Guogong hitting the top of the rail with a stone so roughly, his eyelids twitched and he felt a little distressed. But he didn't dare to speak at this time, so he had to turn his eyes to one side and pretend that he didn't see it.
Throwing away the stone in his hand, Li Wenzhong took out his sword and slashed at the rail. After that, I looked carefully towards the rails and saw only a few very superficial traces.
But the sword in his hand was already full of gaps.
Li Wenzhong happily said to Lao Zhu, and couldn't help but admire: "Your Majesty, these are all top-grade steel. Even better than ordinary steel. Please see, Your Majesty, this knife I have is worth a thousand dollars." It’s a precious sword, but compared to this steel, it’s nothing.”
Li Wenzhong raised the knife across his waist and showed the gap in the knife to the emperor with both hands.
At the same time, he couldn't help scolding Han Du for wasting such a waste of natural resources, but he piled such top-quality steel on the ground like a pile of wood.
Lao Zhu took the knife from Li Wenzhong, looked at it again and again, and touched the gap with his hand.
After reading it, he casually returned the knife to Li Wenzhong.
Looking at the rails all over the ground, Lao Zhu asked Huang Lao casually, "How much does this thing weigh?"
Huang Lao was asked by Lao Zhu, and a chrysanthemum-like smile suddenly appeared on his face. He felt that his ancestors must have emitted green smoke. Otherwise, how could he have the opportunity to see the emperor's face and talk to him?
Mr. Huang was so excited that he didn't even notice Han Du winking at him.
"In reply to the emperor's words, it weighs almost five hundred kilograms."
One stick weighs five hundred pounds?
When Lao Zhu heard this, he glanced at the ground, his face suddenly darkened, and he shouted in a low voice: "Mao Xiang!"
A handsome-looking man trotted quickly to Lao Zhu from the crowd. He knelt down on the ground regardless of the dust on the ground.
"I am not strict with you, please punish me."
Mao Xiang almost hated the person who reported the news to him. What's only tens of thousands of pounds? There is no need to count what is on the ground right now. You just need to take a look and you will know that it is at least more than 100,000 kilograms.
