My Daming New Empire

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"Thank you for your relief, old man. I just want to make use of my strengths and make some contributions to the people in the northwest. As for personal honor, I don't think about it."

He is really a pure idealist, but his spirit is still very commendable.

Zhu Zhanji hid his identity, so he didn't say much at this time, but just nodded.

Many people in the car were listening to their conversation. Seeing that they had come to an end, an ordinary citizen in his 40s answered the conversation and said, "I was lucky enough to meet Wei Ningbo in Jiayuguan when I was transporting supplies for the Northwest the year before last. I never thought about it. Today I saw Prince Weiningbo again."

At first, Zhu Youtang couldn't follow Wang Chun's words, thinking he was too wordy.But now that the grown-ups are talking, he feels neglected again.

He looked at Wang Chun and said: "Your father is a good official, and you are also a good person. The great-grandfather of the emperor will give your father a promotion. Isn't it, the great-grandfather of the emperor?"

He turned his head to look at Zhu Zhanji, and then he realized that he had slipped up, so he quickly covered his little mouth. "Great-grandfather, I was wrong..."

Wang Chun was not a fool, he had been guessing the identity of the other party, but he never thought of the emperor anyway.

He never imagined that when he entered the emperor, he would visit him privately and take the bus just like ordinary people.

He hesitated for a while, but still couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, he knelt down and said excitedly: "Chen Wei Ningbo's son Wang Chun, I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

The people in the car immediately became agitated, the driver slammed on the brakes, the bus stopped on the side of the road, and then everyone looked over.

Jin Yiwei's people immediately surrounded him, tensing their nerves.Zhu Zhanji waved his hand, took off the veil and said, "I'm going to visit you in private today, and I'm traveling in the same car with you, so I'll be seen as an ordinary citizen."

Having said that, for these ordinary people, being so close to the emperor is their blessing accumulated over several lifetimes.

Some common people sitting inside could only cup their fists in salute, while those sitting on the side of the aisle and standing kneeled down. "Xiaomin has seen His Majesty!"

"Be flat!" Zhu Zhanji sighed, and looked at Zhu Youtang in his arms. "Look, I wanted to make a private visit on Weibo, but you ruined it!"

Zhu Youtang was also worried that today's hard-won trip to the palace would be cancelled, and he felt regretful and entangled. "Imperial great-grandfather, I didn't mean to."

Seeing the driver trembling with excitement, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help being a little worried.But just let go of the opportunity of Weifu's private visit, and I am a little unwilling.

He looked at the scenery outside before the car arrived at Changfu Street, which was more than a kilometer away from the Confucius Temple.He got up and said: "To be able to ride in the same car today is also a kind of fate. But the matter has come to this point, I can't continue to accompany you on the journey. I will get out of the car first, and you continue to move forward. Don't disturb my interest."

The conductor burst into tears with excitement, trembling all over, and it took a lot of effort to open the car door. "His Majesty……"

Zhu Zhanji smiled, and said to Li Yuan: "I haven't seen what I want to see, today's itinerary remains the same, but I have to change cars and move forward."

Li Yuan nodded, got out of the car first and called a car behind the car to come over. Zhu Zhanji put on his veiled hat, waved to everyone, got out of the car and took another car.

For everyone on this bus, it is indeed a blessing to be able to ride with His Majesty today.However, because of the exposure of the identity, the fate will end here.

The one who regrets the most is Wang Chun. If he doesn't reveal Zhu Zhanji's identity, he may be able to talk to His Majesty for a while longer.

However, knowing His Majesty's opinion of his father from His Majesty made him very excited.It turned out that everything my father did was remembered by His Majesty.

He has decided to write to his father tonight and tell his father all this.

Zhu Zhanji took Zhu Youtang into Jin Yiwei's car, and Zhu Youtang still blamed himself. "Imperial great-grandfather, grandson didn't mean it."

Zhu Zhanji didn't blame him for his thoughts. An eight-year-old child said that leaking is normal.He can learn from it, which is already very good.

"Now that you know you're wrong, do you know what to do next?"

"Grandson knows, so I won't call him great-great-grandfather anymore. Great-grandfather, let's continue to play, okay, I won't let it slip."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and nodded. "No matter what you say or do at any time, you have to think about it in your heart before you say it."

Zhu Youtang nodded heavily, but there was an unconcealable joy on his face.He was afraid that the emperor's great-grandfather would return to the palace because of this, but he never thought that he could continue to play.

"Your Majesty, shall we go now?"

"Well, first go to the Confucius Temple to find a restaurant, and then look around after filling your stomach."

"Great-grandfather, I want to eat salted duck, small wontons, and vermicelli soup."

Zhu Zhanji laughed. "I'm afraid your little stomach can't hold so many things."

With Zhu Zhanji's promise, Zhu Youtang felt relieved, leaned against the car window, and looked at the street outside.

Zhu Zhanji is also looking at the street outside, but he is different from Zhu Youtang. What Zhu Youtang looks at is where there is delicious food, fun and lively places.

What Zhu Zhanji sees is where there are still deficiencies in the development of the city. For him, it is more important to leave a beautiful Yingtian Mansion for future generations as a benchmark for future development.

Chapter 46 Teaching Grandchildren

The huge Yingtian Mansion has already exceeded the original city carrying scale. During the Yongle period, Zhu Zhanji asked to cancel the role of the city wall, and ministers objected.

But now, the city inside the city wall has already become an inner city.The outer city wall built during Zhu Yuanzhang's time has now become the city outline of Yingtianfu.

Because of the expansion of the city, it is difficult to say where the center of the city is in Yingtianfu.

The area around Confucius Temple is the shopping center of Yingtianfu, the area around Xuanwu Lake is the cultural center, the area around the Imperial Palace is the administrative center, and the area around Jiajiang is the industrial center.

Among these areas, there are also many spontaneously formed commercial centers. It is these urban clusters with different functions that make the city of Yingtianfu full of charming charm.

However, the rapid development of cities has also brought about many practical problems, such as pollution, public security, and the gap between rich and poor and social conflicts caused by urban development.

As the only super city with a population of 300 million in the world today, there are far more urban problems caused by insufficient supporting facilities, or defects in auxiliary functions, than in later generations.

However, these problems have not become the mainstream of social contradictions now, because everything is covered under the prosperity of today.

In Zhu Zhanji's view, there are many serious problems, but for the current people, they are accustomed to and even proud of.

Just like the Jinchuan River, which serves as the main sewage discharge function of the city, the pollution problem is very serious in the rapid development of the city.

But people don't pay much attention to the seriousness of this problem, and even think that the pollution of Jinchuan River is a manifestation of urban development.

The same principle is also applied to the big chimneys of the iron and steel factories in Jiajiang Industrial Zone. In Zhu Zhanji's view, the problem that needs to be prevented and treated is in people's view the pride of Ying Tianfu.

The increase in the population of the city has also brought about many corresponding problems, such as the reduction of living conditions.

However, many outsiders who work in Yingtianfu can survive by building a shack with their families, and they don't think it is suffering.

On the edge of the city in the southern part of the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, such shantytowns grew larger and larger, forming a deformed slum.

But these people would rather stay in Yingtian Mansion as poor people than leave Yingtian Mansion and go to other places to be small landlords.

The siphon effect produced by Ying Tianfu became stronger and stronger, not only the people of Ming Dynasty, but also the people from Dongying and North Korea were attracted here.

Between Mufu Mountain and Yanziji, a huge settlement of Koreans and Dongying people has been formed.

They worked as coolies in Daming, and after gaining a foothold, they took over their own family members and formed a settlement of foreigners outside the city.

Although in Daming they are servants and the bottom, but in Daming, they don't have to worry about being bullied or even losing their lives.

For them, it is better to be here now than to be precarious in their own country.