Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

This painting is very vivid, and a beautiful girl with a peerless appearance is vividly drawn on the paper. Even at Wang Qingshan's age, his heart can't help but beat a few times when he sees such a beautiful girl.

"How about Brother Wang, there are not many men in this world who can resist the temptation of such a peerless beauty. I believe that my daughter and your son are a match made in heaven."

Xue Zhen continued to say shamelessly.

At this time, Wang Qingshan did not object anymore. He nodded and said, "That's true. As the saying goes, parents order matchmakers. The fact that they decided to marry each other back then shows that these two children are destined. ”

The two sides hit it off immediately, and Wang Zhen was naturally very happy.

"Brother Wang, you have built such a wonderful place in this new home. The imperial court may not even think of it."

"If we station one hundred thousand troops here, while the imperial court is advancing and the troops are empty, we may be able to capture the palace in one fell swoop and capture Ning Fan alive. It is not impossible."

After the serious talk was over, Xue Zhen wanted to make some random nonsense with Wang Qingshan.

Unexpectedly, Wang Qingshan couldn't help but sneered after hearing what Xue Zhen said: "Brother, don't think of things too simply, and don't think of the imperial guards as too weak and incompetent. I can tell you Your Jinyiwei base really can’t hide any clues from their spies.”

"No way, brother, you do things in such a secretive way, and you are so thoughtful. That Jin Yiwei is not a god, how could he find out? What's more, this place is deep in the mountains, inaccessible, and there are hundreds of thousands of people hiding here. Yes, it should be easy.”

Xue Zhen said with a curious expression.

In fact, in his mind, he hopes that Wang Qingshan can succeed. If Wang Qingshan can successfully rebel and win the world, then after his daughter marries Wang Junyang in the future, she will naturally become the queen of the world.

Wang Qingshan only has one son. Even if Wang Qingshan reaches the world, he may not be destined to be emperor. The one who will become emperor in the future will naturally be his son Wang Junyang.

What's more, Xue Zhen had also heard before that Wang Junyang was completely talented, far more talented than Wang Qingshan. Such a person would definitely be able to accomplish something in the future.

"This place is indeed inaccessible. As long as the contact with the outside world is reduced, it is basically difficult to be discovered. But one thing you have to know is that if there are so many people hidden, the daily eating, drinking and diarrhea will be an astronomical figure. Do you think the imperial court is blind when transporting grain into the mountains?"

"What's more, the economic powerhouse deep here is originally a key area controlled by the imperial court. You must be careful when making any small moves in this place."

Wang Qingshan shook his head. He sneered at Xue Zhen's level. People like Xue Zhen didn't use their brains to do things. If he was really asked to do something, he would probably turn it into a puddle of mud in minutes.

After chatting casually with Xue Zhen, Wang Qingshan was no longer interested in continuing the conversation with Xue Zhen. He made an excuse, saying that he was tired and wanted to go back and rest early, so he parted ways with Xue Zhen.

Looking at Wang Qingshan's leaving figure, Xue Zhen's eyes shone with excitement. If he could really marry his daughter to Wang Junyang, then the Xue family would be in great prosperity.

Ning Fan, who was in Kyoto, naturally didn't know that behind Dakang there was a resistance alliance of four major families, targeting him.

The most important thing Ning Fan is doing these days is designing the Grand Canal. To design a Grand Canal, there are actually many problems that need to be solved. If Song Chengzhou is relied on alone, these problems may not be solved in five years, not even ten years. .

This is of course not to say that Song Chengdu is not good enough and does not work hard, but because there are many problems that are as different as Song Chengzhou's across the mountain. No matter how smart he is, he cannot understand these problems.

A grand canal runs through the entire northwest, and is connected to the Jinnan Grand Canal. This is a huge project, and it can really be called a historic project. If a canal can be dug through the northwest, then the entire northwest The area will be completely included in Dakang’s territory.

Why does Ning Fan say this? In fact, in Ning Fan's mind, the northwest area has never been included in the territory of Dakang, or it has not been truly included in the territory of Dakang.

The imperial court's ability to control the northwest has always been relatively weak. The northwest region has always been an area occupied by ethnic minorities. The chieftains in various places have their own affairs and sneer at the imperial policies.

But things are different now. If there is a grand canal that runs through the entire northwest, whether it is transporting troops or transportation, other things will become much easier, then the imperial court's management of the northwest will be put on the agenda.

For half a month, Ning Fan locked himself in the Qinzheng Hall every day, staring at the map of the northwest in a daze.

This map has no contour lines and no actual topography. Ning Fan had to rely on his own memory and some information to roughly understand the topography of the northwest.

What Ning Fan has to do is to survey a rough route, and then draw the route map and design, take it to the northwest, and let the people there design the entire canal.

As long as the canal has a design drawing, workers can start digging. In Ning Fan's original design, although the project of this grand canal was huge, Ning Fan could only give it half a year at most.

The degree of industrialization in Jiangnan is changing with each passing day, and earth-shaking changes are taking place every day. With the support of the huge amount of funds from the imperial court, the situation in Jiangnan is developing very well.

But now the seven provinces in Jiangnan have encountered a problem, that is, their development has encountered a bottleneck.

This is not to say that the stagnation of industrialization in Jiangnan is due to technical bottlenecks, but that the degree of industrialization in Jiangnan depends entirely on the speed of fuel transportation.

Coal is too precious, and all kinds of ores are also too precious, but if transportation relies entirely on oxcarts, it will take several months to go back and forth.

And these minerals are all produced in the northwest. There is not even a mine in the south of the Yangtze River. All these materials rely on the supply of the northwest, such as coal, various medicinal materials, various metal ores, etc.

These industrial raw materials must be transported to Jiangnan by manpower, and then refined into various metals and other processing materials by Jiangnan smelters.

Such transportation speed has caused a huge shortage of raw materials for various factories and mines in Jiangnan.