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It is a big deal for the imperial court to send investigation groups to local areas, and the most famous inspection groups in the world are the Taoist jury that go to various places every three years to select officials.

The Taoist jury only selected officials from the Ministry of Officials, but this time, according to the oral order of Chu Jun, the investigation team was formed, and eight officials from the three departments of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry were selected, plus 26 accompanying officials. The Taoist jury is still large in scale, and it can be said to be mighty.

Tong Ran also received the order, and as a show of respect, he sent Gu Lan to meet him.

"Gu Lan, Deputy Supervisor of the Jinhe Supervisor, I have met all your lords." Gu Lan received this investigation group from Beijing at the border of Zhuoyang Mansion.

According to Dacheng's usual practice, the highest level of the investigation team sent to various places is the head of the six departments. This time there is an exception, there is a Yuanwailang, Ruan Zheng.He was ordered to lead the team, walked in the forefront, and greeted each other with Gu Lan.

In addition to Ruan Zheng, there is also a Lingshi from the Ministry of Officials accompanying him.The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works each sent three people. The head of the Works Department was Shen Xi who had previously helped Zhuoyang Mansion build roads, and there were two others. The head of the Household Department was named Wu Huan. Everyone has a smiling face, and he also brought two Lingshi.

After receiving the people, Gu Lan took them to Jinhejian.

Because the journey is long and there are many people, it is inevitable to stop and rest frequently.

Gossip was unavoidable during the break, and the group talked about the road in Zhuoyang Mansion.

Ruan Zheng: "I remember that the roads in Zhuoyang Mansion were built by Mr. Shen, and they are very well built, not far behind those in Xiaoguo County."

Shen Xi stood out from the crowd among the officials, cupped his hands and said: "Your Excellency's praise, Shen is just assisting."

Ruan Zhengdao: "There is no such smooth road in the capital. When I go back, I should play your Majesty. The whole world should build such a road."

As a member of the household department, Wu Huan's heart trembled instinctively when he heard about projects that cost money, and said: "Road construction costs a lot, so we should proceed slowly."

Gu Lan said: "After the road is repaired, merchants will love to go here. I heard that the business tax of Zhuoyang Mansion has been charged a lot."

"Is that true?" Wu Huan's eyes lit up. Dacheng has a lot of expenses every day, and the national treasury will be emptied if there is a war accidentally. Their household department is always worried about this. If it can increase taxes, this road should be repaired. build.

Shen Xi doesn't care about the national treasury. As a member of the Ministry of Industry, he cares more about the road itself: "Commercial tax is second. This cement road is not only smooth, but also very strong. Dozens of carriages full of goods pass by without collapsing. There are roads like this all over the country, and there is a lot of manpower left over for road maintenance and renovation every year."

Wu Huan's eyes lit up again: "It's a good feeling." He ordered his staff to record it.

Ruan Zheng of the Ministry of Officials was very pleased, if all the officials of Dacheng were looking for their posts in this way, their Ministry of Officials would not be often put on face by His Majesty.

While he was talking, two bicycles clinked across the road, attracting a kind of attention from the inspection team.

"What is that?" Wu Huan asked.

Gu Lan said: "That's a bicycle, and it was also invented by Mr. Tong. There are shops selling it in Lingxi and Shanlinbei Road. Today, there are more and more in Zhuoyang Mansion."

Shen Xi: "It looks very delicate, especially the pair of wheels."

Gu Lan: "Master Shen is an expert in the Ministry of Industry. The most remarkable thing on this bicycle is its wheels."

Wu Huan and Ruan Zheng didn't understand this, and they passed another bicycle. They only thought that the wheels were indeed more delicate than those of a carriage, but they didn't know anything about the difficulties in the craftsmanship.

"How much is this thing worth?" Wu Huan was more concerned about this.

"It's not long since it came out, about one or two hundred taels." Gu Lan said.

Wu Huan sighed that it was really expensive.

Shen Xi: "If you can ride a horse, you can appreciate its subtlety."

Gu Lan: "You can ride when you arrive at Jinhe Supervisor."

"Really?" Shen Xi came to his senses, and immediately urged Gu Lan to get on the road quickly.

Shen Xi wholeheartedly wanted to arrive at Jinhe Supervisor as soon as possible, but the purpose of their trip was to learn and investigate Tong Ran's method of keeping out the cold, Xiaoguo County or Ding County, they had to go to a field investigation.

Because Xiaoguo County took the lead in implementing the method of cold resistance, the investigation team went there.

Early the next morning, Gao Zhuo received a summons and brought someone to meet him at the gate of the yamen.The highest official position in the inspection team is the fifth-rank member of the official department, Uai Lang, so the standard is not high. Compared with Su Jin, the former head of the imperial court, they are much more relaxed.

Gao Zhuo and Gu Lan were married, although they are now working together under Tong Ran, but Gao Zhuo still has little good looks towards Gu Lan.After the inspection team greeted Gao Zhuo and others, Gu Lan stepped forward to speak, but Gao Zhuo said directly to Ruan Zheng: "Master Ruan, breakfast is prepared in the yamen, everyone is tired from driving, please use some cushions first. "

Gu Lan was embarrassed, but didn't take it seriously, and invited Ruan Zheng in politely like a host.

Ruan Zheng was also polite to the two of them, and led them into the yamen.He remembered that Gao Zhuo just now was the magistrate of Xiaoguo County. He had a tough temper, but he was honest and upright. Gu Lan was the deputy supervision envoy of Jinhe Supervisor. He had never heard of any bad deeds. They don't work in the same place, so how can Gao Zhuo dislike Gu Lan so much?

In terms of rank, Gu Lan is above Gao Zhuo, but Gu Lan seems a little guilty when they get along.

Ruan Zheng was in the Ministry of Officials, responsible for the promotion and transfer of officials. In addition to the character and ability of each official, he also needed to know the relationship between them. Out of professional instinct, he asked one of the officials under his command to inquire.

The official was very clever, so he quickly inquired about it and reported it to Ruan Zheng: "I heard that Gu Lan came to Xiaoguo County to block people in order to invite Mr. Tong to Jinhe to supervise the road construction. Mr. Tong was not there at that time. It was Mr. Gao who dealt with it, probably because of the beams formed at that time."

Ruan Zhengqi asked, "How did he block people?"

The official said: "I moved the desks and chairs to work in front of the county government."

Ruan Zheng couldn't help but look at Gu Lan more. At that time, Gu Lan was drinking porridge, accidentally choked on it, and coughed softly.

Ruan Zheng knew about Jin Hejian's former superintendent, this case was a big one, and there was a lot of discussion in Beijing about it.In connection with this matter, he also guessed the reason why Gu Lan wanted to build the road, but he was an ambitious one.

After breakfast, after a short rest, the delegation went to the briquette workshop first.

The Jinhe supervisor workers brought by Tong Ran earlier have all left, and now the people in the coal ball workshop are all recruited locally in Xiaoguo County.In Xiaoguo County, briquettes are cheaper than charcoal, so the business in the workshop is good. There are people coming and going in the shop selling briquettes in front, and there are wholesalers from neighboring counties.

After Tong Ran's briquettes were popularized, Longyou and Lingxi, which also lacked trees, gradually began to use them.They don't have a briquette shop there, so they have to buy it from the briquette shop in Xiaoguo County or Ding County. As a result, the business of these two briquette shops is endless.

Ruan Zheng noticed that the managers of the briquette shop all had to have some sense of righteousness, and one of them was about to gather the seeds of righteousness, which was not common in ordinary workshops.He was not interested in how to make briquettes, so he chatted with those in charge.The manager of this official workshop was used to being an official, so he was neither humble nor overbearing, so he chatted with Ruan Zheng for a long time.

Shen Xi and the others from the Ministry of Industry were no longer interested in the managers. They quickly integrated into the workers and were quite interested in the process of making briquettes.

The workers were not as good as the managers in dealing with the officials. They were timid at first, but later found that these officials didn’t care about them at all, so they just stared at the black coal balls. He talked a lot about briquettes, and asked Shen Xi to make some by himself.

Wu Huan looked left and right, and asked Gao Zhuo, "How much water does this briquette workshop have every month?"

Gao Zhuo couldn't figure out what he was thinking, so he only answered a rough number with a slight discount.The people in the household department are staring at the money every day. If they know that there is a lot of competition in this briquette workshop, who knows what name they will make up to collect taxes. If all the money goes to the treasury, what will they eat in Xiaoguo County?

But even if Gao Zhuo underreported the amount, Wu Huan from the household department still opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief, "Business is so good?"

Gao Zhuo: "Generally, part of it will be spent on helping the poor, the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the county."

Wu Huan nodded, and immediately became very interested in the operation of the coal ball workshop, and began to interact with the steward and workers.

After watching the coal ball workshop, I want to see the heated kang.Gao Zhuo originally meant to ask them to look at the masonry in the county government, and Shen Xi had no objection, but Ruan Zheng and Wu Huan proposed to look at the ones in the common people's homes.

How could the people's homes receive so many people in one go, so Gao Zhuo suggested that the soldiers be divided into multiple routes, and the yamen servants would take them to the people's homes.

Now that the weather is getting hotter, few people still use the kang.In order to study the operation of the heated kang, Shen Xi bought a basket of coal balls with his own money, and set them on fire in common people's homes.

In addition, they also saw the well-known tunnels, diversion wells and compost in Xiaoguo County. The terraced fields in Fuqiu Village are still under development and have already taken shape. Wu Fuqiang, who was in charge of the site command, came to introduce them. Xi was amazed, and Wu Huan's eyes lit up.

"If all the mountains in the whole country are terraced, how much land tax will be added to the national treasury every year!" Wu Huan said, if this matter is known by the Minister of the Household Department, he will definitely use a knife to force the emperor to order to open terraces across the country.Their household department is really bald by the state treasury that goes from time to time.

It has been three days since the transfer to Xiaoguo County, Ruan Zheng and Wu Huan have gained a lot, and they are even not interested in going to Jinhe prison.Only Shen Xi was thinking about it, he was going to Jin Hejian to ride a bicycle!

In Jinhe Prison, Tong Ran had been in the smelting workshop for a whole ten-year period, and Fu Xuan was also called to help, and also stayed in the workshop for a whole ten-day period.

There are several big houses in the smelting workshop, each of which is a new blast furnace.These blast furnaces usually run day and night, but now one of the blast furnaces is stopped, and it has stopped running for two days.

Both Tong Ran and Fu Xuan were in this big room, and there were many craftsmen knocking and beating inside, and the sound of tinkling metal knocking could be heard endlessly.

The horse was taken away from the place where the horsepower wind row was originally placed, and the wind row changed its shape, and there was an extra coal-burning stove.

Fu Xuan rubbed his hands, not quite calm.

Ten days ago, he was dragged here by Tong Ran. As soon as he arrived, Tong Ran stuffed him with a blueprint.Tong Ran had stuffed many blueprints before, but those were still within the scope of Fu Xuan's understanding, but this time...

He has heard of wind turbines driven by water, and has seen wind turbines pulled by horses, but he has never heard that hot, invisible steam can actually push this huge wind turbine!

This is simply, unbelievable.

The author has something to say: Reporter Mingyue: Excuse me, Zai Zai, you are not arranged to appear in this episode, how do you feel?

Zai Zai: Whoa!

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