Daming: In the beginning, he mistakenly regarded Emperor Yongle as his own father

"If you have money, you can't be such a prodigal."

"Never mind, it won't cost you anyway." Lu Lin slapped him.

"Cut." Xu Jingchang said disdainfully: "I don't want to manage it yet."

He said so with his mouth, but his hands were not idle. He rummaged through all kinds of food, found delicious food, and ate it directly, without treating himself as an outsider at all.

Suspected of integrity.

Hammered.

"By the way, what did you gain today?"

When it comes to the harvest, Xu Jingchang is the most enthusiastic: "The harvest is huge. I have inquired about it clearly. There are two main supply points for the timber used to build the capital. They are all harvested by the imperial court leading migrant workers into the mountains by themselves."

"One is in the Huguang area, and is in charge of a censor named Shi Kui, who was recommended by the Minister of the Household Department."

"There is another one in Sichuan, under the charge of Song Li, the servant of the Ministry of Rites. In addition to picking wood, he is also responsible for dredging the river for transporting wood from north to south, and also building ships."

From Xu Jingchang's tone, he seemed to admire Song Li very much.

"Their only costs are migrant workers' expenses, food and clothing, and no businessmen are involved."

"As for the stone, it was mined from Fangshan in the southwest of Beiping, and it was also in the charge of the court officials. The only thing that has something to do with the merchants is the gold bricks, which are imperial gold bricks fired in Suzhou."

"Suzhou's gold bricks have always been used by the queen, so there shouldn't be any problems."

In this way, everything is normal, and there is no such dirty thing as collusion between government and businessmen and enriching private pockets that they expected.

"Good thing, then we will save a lot of trouble."

Lu Lindao.

After the inspection, everything is fine, and everyone is happy.

But Zhu Zhanji didn't quite agree: "There are still big problems."

As soon as he spoke, everyone looked at him.

"You asked me to pay attention to Shi Kui last night. Today I deliberately disguised himself as a wood worker and sneaked in. I found that he was indeed as you said, cruel and disregarding human life. In order to complete the wood picking task, the migrant workers entered the mountain day and night."

"The migrant workers suffered heavy casualties. There are even rumors that 'one thousand people enter the mountain, five hundred people leave the mountain'."

Is it so exaggerated?

One thousand into the mountain, five hundred out of the mountain, half dead.

"The establishment of the capital is for the better continuation of the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. If it causes anger and resentment, and the people suffer unspeakably, it is really against the original intention."

Thinking back to when Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall and Yang Guang built the Grand Canal, they were all magnificent feats that have been accomplished for thousands of years, but in the end they made the people miserable, the corpses of the people were strewn across the fields, and rounds of uprisings broke out.

Even subjugate the country!

This kind of crime is in the present and the benefit is in the future. He absolutely can't let it happen to Daming.

Everything needs to be built, but the people also need to eat well and live well.

"Then what are you going to do?" Lu Lin asked him.

"Shi Kui is no longer available, find an excuse to transfer him away, and I will find another candidate."

Lu Lin nodded: "Okay."

Before coming here, Lu Lin was afraid that his grandson would be too aggressive or cowardly when he was young, but now watching his actions, he is very mature.

He knew that Shi Kui couldn't be used, but he didn't ask the crime immediately, but found an excuse to transfer him away, so as to avoid conflicts with Shi Kui, after all, it is difficult for a strong dragon to overwhelm a snake.

Shi Kui has been in charge of the wood mining work for so long, and it is estimated that they are all his people up and down, inside and out, and his minions have already spread all over the entire capital construction project. If he is suddenly eliminated, it may cause backlash.

At that time, let alone the whole project, it would be embarrassing even if all the logging officials on the Huguang side gave up their picks and quit.

For a while, they couldn't find so many people to take over the work instead of them. Even if they managed to find them, the outsiders were not familiar with the terrain at all, and they didn't know where to get a lot of high-quality nanmu.

This will only delay the progress of the project for no reason, and increase the difficulty and cost of wood mining.

Otherwise, more people will die.

Not worth the candle.

"The guard of honor will be here in two days, we have to prepare and go to inspect the project." Taisun ordered.

"Row."

After the discussion, everyone went back to their rooms.

As for the candidate to replace Shi Kui, Taisun naturally had to figure out his own way. Lu Lin didn't know much about court officials, so he could only rely on himself.

After the grandson returned to his room, he wrote a letter to his father, telling the truth about Shi Kui, and also telling him of his plan to replace him.

Although he is a grandson, he has no official position and does not go to the court. He just hangs out with Jin Yiwei on weekdays, so he doesn't know much about court officials.

He doesn't know who can use it, who is good at what, so he has to let his father do it.

What he can do now is to temporarily control Shi Kui and prevent him from torturing migrant workers like this.

Zhu Zhanji was worried about Shi Kui, and Lu Lin was worried about buying a horse.

He spent so much money on the street today, he should have attracted the attention of the Mongols, and when he went to fetch the horse hides tomorrow, he was making up an excuse to ask for horse hides in large quantities, and those people probably couldn't bear it anymore.

Two taels of gold buys a horse hide, and you have to wake up from your dreams with a smile, so I don't believe that they are not tempted.

The hides of war horses could not be obtained by hunting. They could either be spent on retired war horses that were old, weak, or disabled, or they could be stolen directly.

As long as the quantity is large enough and the money is enough, they will always find a way.

When they took the order, Lu Lin could see live war horses as long as he followed them.

After that, whether it is coercion or lure, or open grabbing, he will get these horses.

After summing up, Lu Lin lay down peacefully, ready to sleep comfortably, and go to fetch his horse hide tomorrow.

Sleeping in a daze, it felt like someone was opening the door of his room.

Thief? !

He woke up in an instant. He must have exposed his wealth during the day and was missed by others.

Beiping is not quite peaceful, is this a steal?How dare they.