When the emperor goes on tour, according to normal etiquette, the princes should go thirty miles out of the city to greet him as a sign of respect. Liu Deng didn't have the guts to play any tricks this time.
He had received the news of the emperor's patrol a few months earlier, and he was quite well prepared this time. The only flaw was that the meritorious soldiers from this battle were still stranded in Shangjun.
If they didn't come back, Liu Deng would naturally omit the review of the army. After all, compared to their glorious achievements this time, without them here, how would anyone else be qualified to receive this honor!
"Your Majesty, have we prepared too extravagantly this time? With such a long road, will His Majesty say you are too extravagant..."
In order to welcome the emperor's tour, Liu Deng spent a lot of money this time. Liu Deng actually ordered people to re-cast the thirty-mile official road outside Jinyang City with cement.
Although cement is not valuable, it cannot be used by him like this. Added together, the road construction alone has cost more than 100,000 yuan!
Of course, most of these are freight and labor costs, and the real cost of cement is less than half.
"What's this? Master Tutor is too nervous. If there is no such a road, how can we go to and from the academy on a rainy day? We can't let these gentlemen who finally got it just sigh at the mud on the ground, right?"
Liu Deng was speaking plausibly anyway. This road construction is an infrastructure project after all. It will never be a loss if it is done. What's more, with this road, this most important one, the distance from the college to Jinyang has been greatly reduced. It's getting closer!
Right now, there are horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts transporting stones and building materials everywhere. The original official road has been in disrepair, and from time to time, the wheels of the carriages overturn.
In just half a month, five lives had been lost. Liu Deng slapped his head, just spent a lot of money, and started building roads with a wave of his hand.
Fortunately, the original official roads were made of fried loess and could be used as roadbed. What's more, the vehicles now are horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts.
The load capacity is only a thousand kilograms at most. With the load capacity of more than a ton and the bearing capacity of cement, as long as they make it according to the original formula, there will be almost no problems.
Liu Deng spared no expense, and this thirty-mile-long cement road was completed in just a few days.
Moreover, this time Liu Deng deliberately took a straight road. From now on, he can go directly to Jinyang City with his eyes closed after coming out of the academy. More importantly, Liu Deng knows that the current emperor is a good person!
Every time they went on tour, they almost never spent any local money. Almost all their expenses were reimbursed in full afterwards.
If you calculate it this way, Liu Deng didn't spend a penny, he lost face in front of the emperor, and in the end he earned a straight cement road for nothing!
"I was watching the mountain scenery from the city tower, and I heard a commotion outside the city, and flags fluttering and turning in the air..."
"Coming, king, coming!"
While Liu Deng was humming a tune, the mighty motorcade finally arrived!
"Your Majesty, Liu Deng, the acting king, is leading the officials from all over the country to see your majesty!"
When the carriage came near,
Liu Deng hurriedly led a group of officials from Dai State to come forward and salute.
But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement on the carriage.
Liu Deng couldn't help but raise his head out of curiosity. The officials behind him were all confused and peeked at the luxurious four-wheeled carriage with the corner of their eyes with some doubts.
After a long time, the door of the carriage suddenly opened a crack, and a jade hand stretched out from inside, waving to Liu Deng.
The moment he saw that hand, Liu Deng suddenly felt a toothache. The bracelet on his wrist looked so familiar.
Why is this aunt here too?
"You bastard, get out of here!"
Seeing that Liu Deng didn't respond, the eldest princess's voice suddenly came from the carriage.
"This, this is not in line with etiquette..."
Listening to the voice, Liu Deng knew that there was definitely nothing good going on this time. It was probably because the petty family maniac had made a mistake again.
I don’t know what these people are thinking, and they don’t lack this little money.
I just built a road. Is this what everyone is doing?
"Your Majesty has a decree. Please get on the carriage and answer the question on behalf of His Majesty the King!"
Wang Deyi suddenly took a few steps forward, listened for a while by the carriage window, and then shouted loudly.
have to……
Liu Deng had a headache for a while, and it seemed that he couldn't escape this time.
When he thought of this, he felt sad for his ears. He didn't know where the eldest princess learned this skill. Anyway, thinking about Tang Yihou's long ears, Liu Deng felt a toothache. .
The emperor's decree was given, and Liu Deng couldn't even think about it, so he could only bite the bullet and go ahead.
Seeing Liu Deng's weird look, even Zhang Tu felt happy for a while.
Ever since the salt production was completed, Liu Deng began to become extremely slick.
Even Zhang Tu, the tutor, had not taught him a lesson for a long time.
Moreover, Zhang Tu looked back and thought about it, this kid had done a lot of business to avenge himself, and he threw himself, an old man of several decades, into the salt lake for half a month.
Damn it, wasn't it obvious that he had someone treat his brain disease before taking revenge on himself?
Seeing Liu Deng's dejected look today, Zhang Tu felt indescribably relieved.
"promise--"
After taking a deep breath, Liu Deng put on a brave and heroic posture, stood up, and walked towards the carriage.
"Your Majesty, have you come in?"
Liu Deng had just stepped onto the carriage and was about to say a few polite words when the jade hand stretched out again and went straight to Liu Deng's ear.
The space on the shaft of this car is small, and one can't dodge. The jade hand has already caught Liu Deng's ear.
"Auntie, please spare my life!"
Twisting his thumb and index finger hard, Liu Deng immediately let out a miserable cry.
The courtiers in front of the carriage looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces. As an official in a vassal state, if you want to be promoted quickly, you have to look at the relationship between the vassal king who is in charge and the court.
The closer the relationship is, the faster the promotion will naturally be in the future.
Just like the King of Wu, who worked hard with the court, when the official's term expired, he could not stay in office and return to the court. Most of them were assigned a sinecure, or even no sinecure at all.
Look at the officials who came out of Liang State. After their term of office expires, they will be sent to the border counties to serve as governors. The position of Jiuqing in the court is already beckoning to you.
