Seeing the throngs of children coming up, Fang Jifan turned around and was about to run away.

Zhu Houzhao pulled him away: "Where to go?"

Fang Jifan said: "I'll go home and find an abacus."

Zhu Houzhao was happy: "There are seventeen in total. These are those who can leave, but four inability to leave. Haha... Don't think about leaving, don't be too long-winded. If you see your niece, you won't give money."

"..." Fang Jifan was desperate inside.

Seeing that the children had come to him, they boldly pulled their gold belt: "Is this gold?"

The timid and timid hiding in the crowd, looking at Fang Jifan.

The toddler just learned to walk and cried: "I want a wet nurse, I want a wet nurse."

I stood quietly under the eaves and looked out from afar.

Those who were polite would salute Zhu Houzhao: "Dad, uncle."

Zhu Houzhao crossed his hands and laughed: "Come one by one, don't scare your uncle, he is timid!"

Fang Jifan said with bitter face: "Hey, hey, don't touch my gold belt. If it breaks, you will have to pay for it. This is gold, it's very expensive."

He took out the silver notes from his sleeves, looking a little unhappy, but he obediently stuffed them into the children's hands: "Call uncle, and give it to me if you call him uncle."

After finally rushing out of the pile of girls, Fang Jifan gasped...

Zhu Houzhao asked the wet nurses to carry all the children, but she was still proud: "It's strange. Since Zhu Zaimo gave birth to him, he has always been a girl. But it doesn't matter. I like it. There is a little beast that can pass on the family line. No matter how many, it is annoying. Lao Fang, come, sit, drink tea, how to build our railway."

"The steel workshop needs to be built quickly. It is easy. If the output is low, then build more stoves and recruit more people. Anyway, there are some money, sleepers and roadbeds. You need to start preparing now. This new city and the old city are only dozens of miles away. However, at present, this steamed car must be kept confidential for the time being. Otherwise, if you know, how can you buy land secretly? To the outside world, I like to lay steel on the road. This is just right for His Royal Highness to come out."

"Why is this palace?" Zhu Houzhao was a little confused.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "I may speak a little straightforwardly. Your Highness should not take it to my heart. Everyone in the world knows that the Crown Prince lacks a string in his mind. Your Highness is so willful, no one will find it strange, and they will not think deeply about it. They just think that Your Highness is making trouble."

"Why isn't you? Everyone says you're a brainless person!" Zhu Houzhao grinned.

Fang Jifan waved his hand: "No, Your Highness is more suitable."

"You are the right one!"

The two argued endlessly, but eventually came up with a compromise plan, letting Zhu Houzhao be this fool. Fang Jifan... was responsible for looking at the wind.

Hiding in the hall and discussing for a long time, Fang Jifan said goodbye and laying the railway tracks. To put it bluntly, it is not a technical problem, but the problem lies in silver. Even steel output is not a problem. If a kiln has a low output, then it will be a few hundred kilns. If the per capita iron smelting volume and productivity are low, then recruit thousands or tens of thousands of blacksmiths. In the final analysis, it is still a problem of silver.

Fang Jifan was not short of money. In the words of later generations, he had completed the accumulation of original capital. After quickly completing the accumulation of capital, he now has everything, and only the east wind is missing.

All persons involved in steam locomotives will sign a confidentiality agreement and must not be made public.

Wang Ao also had to keep his mouth shut. In fact...even if he didn't keep his mouth shut, it didn't matter. This guy who only looked at the big monster and finally derailed after walking was just a hehehe...

Everything... returned to peace again, as if nothing had happened.

However... in the scholars, there was another bad deed of His Royal Highness and Fang Jifan.

Wang Bushi was in the Hanlin Academy, and the four words "scum in the world" have gradually been forgotten.

After all... the scumbag in the world has been on the sea for several years, but there has been no news yet.

People are always forgetful.

However, the several houses that Wang Bushi bought with a loan have inadvertently doubled. Now, the mansion near the imperial city has reached 40,000 acres.

Wang Bushi is very satisfied with the present.

He is still in the Museum of Literature and History, and seems to be very worried about his career.

What if he doesn’t matter, now I, Wang, have a net worth of hundreds of thousands of taels...

only……

Several leisurely Hanlins sat aside, whispering something.

"The housing prices in the old city plummeted again. It's so miserable. It is said that the former high-gate residences are now all wild cats... no one cares about them."

"I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince wrote a letter to the hope of removing 50% of the military personnel from the old city. After all, there is no way to keep so many people. Not only that, even Taiping Warehouse will be moved to the new city."

"Seriously? No wonder these days..."

After hearing this, Wang Bushi wanted to laugh, so he put down his pen and looked up: "I have also heard of something."

Everyone looked at Wang Bushi.

Wang Bushi said lightly: "A few days ago, the real person from Longquan Temple went to steer the old city and said that the feng shui of the old city was not good. It is no wonder that there was a Tumu Fort change at the beginning. After that, the Tatars surrounded the capital. The real person from Longquan Temple was a living god. He couldn't say it well, but it was impossible, and it was really possible."

As for people, it’s all right. If you don’t say it, many people talked: “No wonder, no wonder, no wonder, no wonder when I lived in the old city, I always felt a little unsatisfied. Who knew that when I moved to the new city, I became much better.”

"A few years ago, my concubines were sick one after another, so why did they do this?"

"The heavy snowstorm caused disasters in the past few years, and there were natural phenomena. Do you still remember it?"

Many people nodded, which made sense.

Someone slapped his forehead: "So, isn't this old city worthless? I still have an old house that has not been sold."

Everyone advised: "Sell it quickly, that place is unlucky."

Someone also said: "From my husband's eyes, as soon as this news came out, the houses and land in the old city were even more unwilling."

Some people are silent, obviously, some are reluctant to leave the old city land and think that the current price is too low.

It is like Wang Bushi. Anyway, the land in the old city has been sold cleanly and the industry has been moved to the new city. I hope the new city will flourish. Wang Bushi cheered up: "It seems that you don't understand the market economy, the wealth of the country, have you read it recently? To be honest, this book is too rebellious. Although it is full of nonsense, there are some words, but it is fair. The value of this land will follow people in the future. The more people, the more prosperous it will become..."

When many people heard about the wealth of the country, they looked bad.

Wang Bushi felt a silence and mentioned this theory of wealth. In the Hanlin Academy, he was indeed a little taboo, so he stammered: "I heard that recently, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has troubled a monster who can leave."

All the Hanlin people burst into laughter.

Wang Bushi couldn't help but smile, and he smiled: "Haha..."

"I think this monster from the West Mountain is Wei Duwei."

Everyone laughed again.

Wang Bushi burst out and couldn't help laughing.

There are some cautious people who can't help but say, "Be careful, be careful, don't let the monster listen, he has a bad temper."

Everyone was tense, as if after some mockery, they were comforted in their hearts, so they all went to work.

But Wang Bushi was sitting still, thinking in his mind that in the theory of wealth of the country... no... the old city is still valuable in theory, because according to what is written in the theory of wealth of the country, the industry will have a clustering effect. Although the new city will become more and more prosperous, the old city is not far from the new city, and there will be a transmission effect. The current trend, although the land price of the old city will be flat, the plunge is really a bit incredible. Why do you look like it is artificial? Who... are you deliberately shorting here?

Wang Bushi narrowed his eyes, and a light flashed through his eyes.

Something is wrong, something is wrong.

If something goes wrong, it is a monster.

Could it be... Someone wants to take the opportunity to hoard land...

His eyes suddenly shone: "How about trying it out in the old city with few pieces of land."

Of course, you must not be exposed to this matter. On the one hand, all this is just speculation. On the other hand, once the news is exposed, you may be expensive to buy land in the old city. Now you are not worth it...

He had an idea in his mind, but he didn't show any expression, and was at the desk and deliberately read a book.

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Fang Jifan took his men to the old city to survey the terrain early in the morning.

The capital area is actually a good place to build roads and railway tracks. It is a plain, which is completely different from the southern waterways and hilly terrain.

The power of this steam locomotive is really terrible. To put it bluntly, with the trains in later generations, they are completely in the sky and underground. As for building bridges and digging tunnels, they are not only expensive, but also... the engineering difficulties that need to be overcome are no less difficult than creating a steam locomotive.

Therefore... Jiangnan cannot lay the railway tracks for the time being, and even road construction is a difficult problem.

Along the way, I took the students from the new city to the old city for a walk. A group of students quickly began to survey and map geography. Generally speaking, there seemed to be nothing too difficult.

After a few days of busyness, Fang Jifan was already exhausted and panting.

But at this moment, Wang Jinyuan came in a hurry in sweat: "Young master, young master, you are crazy, you are crazy..."

Fang Jifan looked at Wang Jinyuan, who looked crazy and said to himself, "Isn't it right? Will brain diseases still be contagious?"

Wang Jinyuan sweated: "In the trading market, the price of pig iron soared. It has more than doubled in one day. These people who are so careless are taking advantage of the situation."

"Now, as long as there is pig iron coming out, buy it all right away. Not only that, but also wood, and... the trading market is crazy, looking for sources of goods everywhere, I'm afraid that it will continue to rise tomorrow."

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Chapter completed!