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 given to him by someone the old eunuch said.
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 calm and did nothing. How could I 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 don't understand, 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 with a strange expression.
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 scared.
What on earth is going on?
On the other hand, Xue Xiang's eyes were full of enthusiasm when he looked at Han Du. 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 I become so popular? How could I not know? 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.
"Han Du, I 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 people's lives better, Hongwu Elder Zhu was very relaxed about many things that were related to people's livelihood.
For example, 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 do you make 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, I 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, what are you doing with 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 told me this. Han Du felt very aggrieved.
After hearing what Han Du said, Lao Zhu's tone suddenly stopped.
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 got angry, he still tried to reason with Han Du.
"you!"
Lao Zhu was furious, 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." When 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, the steel is not enough for the ministers to use. Where is the excess allocated to the Ministry of Industry?"
Lao Zhu didn't care when he heard Han Du's screams. He didn't allow Han Du to agree or disagree with what he decided.
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 that Lao Zhu was looking at him with fierce eyes and dared to speak, so he could only stretch out four trembling fingers towards Lao Zhu.
"Forty thousand pounds? You loser."
Lao Zhu was furious, and the fingers pointing at Han Du started to tremble. Suddenly he looked at the imperial case, reached out and grabbed an inkstone in his hand, and was about to smash it at Han Du.
"Father, no." It was Zhu Biao who spoke out and stopped Lao Zhu quickly.
Lao Zhu thought for a while, put down the inkstone in his hand, grabbed the memorial on the imperial case, and threw it at Han Du, without caring about the memorial or reviewing it.
"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 either. He let the memorial hit him all over his face. Fortunately, these were memorials and not inkstones. Although it hurt when hit on the face, it didn't hurt.
As for the broken appearance.
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 banknotes, he immediately exclaimed in his heart that it was bad. If Lao Zhu went, the things he had concealed just now would 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 take 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 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 are neatly placed on the ground by the craftsmen. At first glance, they look like a row of steps with a metallic luster, giving people a visual shock.
Lao Zhu leaned down and touched a handful of steel 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 violently, his eyelids twitched and he felt a little distressed. However, he did not dare to speak at this time, so he had to turn his eyes to the side, pretending that he did not see it.
Throwing away the stone in his hand, Li Wenzhong took out his sword and slashed at the rail. After that, he looked carefully towards the rail and saw only a few very superficial marks.
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 on 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 ancestor must have emitted blue 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.
"Replying to the emperor, 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 quickly trotted up to Lao Zhu from the crowd. Regardless of the dust on the ground, he knelt down on the ground.
"I am not strict with you, please punish me."
Mao Xiang was about to hate the person who reported the news to him. What was tens of thousands of jins? There was no need to count what was on the ground right now. He only needed to take a look at it to know that it was at least more than 100,000 jins.