Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 811

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“You heard me right.” Zhao Xu smiled.

The train ferry is the laying of rails on the deck of a ship.

When the train encounters big rivers such as Jinhe and Jiujiang, the steam locomotive can just drive directly to the ferry.

Of course, since the steam locomotive is very long, the length of the ferry is limited.

A ferry cannot carry a train.

Therefore, the front of the car will pull the carriages to the ferry in batches, and then cross the river with the last ferry.

In contemporary times, when it is impossible to build bridges on the Yellow River and Yangtze River, it is precisely through ferries that this problem is solved.

Otherwise, materials from the north cannot be transported to the south, and materials from the south cannot be transported to the north.

Thanks to the steam engine, steam-powered ferries were sufficient to carry the carriages of steam locomotives across rivers.

So steam locomotive going south is no longer a problem.

Thinking of this, he explained it to Zou Rong.

Zou Rong’s eyes widened, first in disbelief, then ecstasy.

“In this way, I feel relieved.” Zou Rong said with a smile.

Zhao Xu nodded, “The opening of the Yanjing Railway is just the beginning, and I hope that the planned railways will be opened to traffic one after another.”

“Yes, Your Highness, I will fulfill my mission.” Zou Rong was firm.

After chatting about some infrastructure issues, Zhao Xu and Yang Susu returned to the palace.

Before the chairs in the dormitory were warmed up, Feng Er suddenly notified Liang Cheng that he was coming.

Zhao Xu felt a little strange, and asked Liang Cheng to come in while heading to the study.

“Your Highness, congratulations.” When Zhao Xu arrived at the study, Liang Cheng also came over, holding the imperial decree in his hand.

Seeing the imperial decree, Zhao Xu vaguely guessed something, and shook his head lightly.

Liang Cheng chuckled twice, did not read out the imperial decree, but handed the imperial decree to Zhao Xu.

He is as fine as others, so he naturally knows that he can’t win big in front of King Yan.

Zhao Xu took the imperial decree, opened his eyes and glanced, just as he guessed, Zhao Heng officially made him the crown prince.

He was still wondering what Zhao Heng meant by “very good”.

It turned out that when he came back from Jinghai, he decided on this matter.

Since Zhao Heng arrived in Yancheng, Zhao Xu never mentioned, nor did he veiledly mentioned the matter of the prince.

After all, to him, this is just a false name.

Because of this, Zhao Heng couldn’t figure out what he was thinking, so he ignored the matter.

Now that Zhao Heng suddenly ordered him to be crown prince, he must have completely admired him from the bottom of his heart.

If he had been established as the crown prince before, he might still be just a man under the eaves and had to bow his head.

But now he is really willing to become the crown prince.

“Thank you, Manager Liang, for making this trip, Feng’er, take some money to reward the manager,” Zhao Xu said.

“No need, the emperor is still waiting for the old slave to return to his command.” Liang Kai waved his hand, trotted away with his hem in his hand.

Give him a hundred guts now, and he wouldn’t dare to take money from King Yan.

“Pfft.” Feng’er couldn’t help laughing when she saw this.

Then she thought of something, and said in a coquettish voice, “Congratulations, Your Highness, for being promoted to the East Palace.”

Zhao Xu shook his head, “I still like to be called the King of Yan.”

After that, he put away the edict and put it in the study for the time being, until the right time The time will be made public.

“Why?” Feng’er was puzzled, “In the past, the princes fought for the title of crown prince.”

Zhao Xu said: “This king just finds it troublesome, and promotion to the East Palace requires a lot of red tape. What’s the use of titles?”

Feng’er understood and nodded.

Then, Zhao Xu sent someone to chase Liang Cheng back, and told him what he wanted.

He accepted the imperial decree, but when he, the king of Yan, would transform into a prince, he chose the time himself.

Liang Cheng understood, and went back to tell Zhao Xu what he meant to Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng naturally had no objection to this.

As soon as he makes up his mind, that’s fine.

However, after all, this matter could not be covered with paper. In the next period of time, Liu Fu, Yang Feng and other ministers came to express their congratulations one after another.

Even Yang Zhen and Mi Yan who were far away in Jincheng also came back.

Naturally, Chang Wei and Ma Han were unwilling to be lonely, and they also went back to Yancheng to express their congratulations.

Since King Yan recognized Zhao Heng’s status, he recognized the court.

They still hope that Zhao Heng will formally make Zhao Xu the crown prince.

So it is justifiable.

As for when King Yan will announce to the world through newspapers, that’s up to him.

After a month of commotion, the carnival of Jiangbei officials gradually subsided.

At this time, it was the last moment to deliver 120,000 Qin-style rifles.

“Your Highness, the last batch of 30,000 Qin-style rifles will be delivered to the royal family’s troops tomorrow.” On

this day, when Zhao Xu arrived at the Military Division, Wang Ying immediately greeted him.

The Qin-style rifles were produced and delivered at the same time during this period, rather than being saved and delivered together.

Therefore, 90,000 Qin-style rifles have been delivered intermittently.

Among them, 50,000 were given to the royal army, and 40,000 were given to the Qin army.

For the last batch of 30,000 Qin-style rifles, 20,000 were given to the royal army and 10,000 to the Qin army.

“Well, the hint is finally completed.” Zhao Xu smiled.

Wang Ying sweated, “It’s all thanks to His Highness’s policy of turning the people to war. I’m ashamed to say that the Bingzhang Division only produced 40,000 Qin-style rifles this month, and the rest were produced by other workshops.”

“This is normal. How can a military commander compare with the entire workshop in Yancheng?” Zhao Xu said.

After thinking for a while, he continued: “But since the people have switched to fighting, let’s continue for a few more months and let the whole army change to Qin-style rifles.”

If it was before, he would never praise Haikou.

After all, the civil war had a great impact on the development of commerce and trade.

But after robbing Dongying, he also got the wealth of the Xie family, the Han family and the Wang family, and he suddenly became rich and powerful.

This wealth is enough to support him to build Qin-style rifles as well as steam ships and sailing warships.

There was no problem with the delivery of the Qin-style rifle, and Zhao Xu returned to the palace.

The next day the order was sent to the Western Front along with the Qin-style rifles.

Ling Changwei and Ma Han received Qin-style rifles, and after a brief training, they took down Jianguan and Zhonglingguan.

Turn a passive situation into an active one.

(end of this chapter)