Chapter 322: Why is Your Majesty acting so abnormal today?

Emperor Xuanwu, who had always been diligent in his work, suddenly said that he felt a little tired of dealing with these boring government affairs.

Moreover, he was halfway through the morning court session when he asked the court officials to accompany him for a walk in the imperial garden?

Your Majesty, what happened?

The court officials who had never encountered such a situation were confused for a moment.
But they didn't dare to ask directly, "Your Majesty, are you crazy?"

They could only look at each other in confusion and agree.

A group of people dressed in court robes followed Emperor Xuanwu and walked towards the Imperial Garden in a mighty procession.
General Weiyuan was used to being straightforward. Seeing Yun Shu with his hands in his pockets, looking calm and unsurprised, he could not help but walk a few steps faster, rubbing against Yun Shu, and asked in a low voice:

"Your Highness, do you know why His Majesty is so abnormal today?"

"Abnormal?"

Yun Shu glanced at him slowly:
"What's abnormal?"

General Weiyuan: “?”

The pair of bull eyes instantly widened like copper bells, and General Weiyuan became a little anxious:

“What’s not abnormal?

Your Highness, please don't play dumb! When has His Majesty ever taken people out to stroll around the Imperial Garden during the morning court session?
This is not like your Majesty's usual style at all!"

"Yes, this is indeed unlike my father's usual style."

Yun Shu nodded and agreed:

"Then do you think that the Emperor's unusual behavior of not saying anything is so that I can secretly destroy him and tell you what he wants to do?"

General Weiyuan: “…”

The ministers who were eavesdropping nearby: "..."

Your Highness, what you said makes sense.
But does this mean that their guess was correct? His Majesty did not simply take them to the Imperial Garden to relax.
But is there any other purpose?
A group of people nervously followed Emperor Xuanwu as he slowly walked to the Imperial Garden, wondering in their hearts what His Majesty was going to do.
Suddenly, a puff of white smoke rose in front, followed by a humming sound mixed with clanging noises, which came towards this side from far away.

"What the hell is that?!"

General Weiyuan was startled and took two steps forward reflexively, thinking that he would be able to protect the emperor immediately if anything happened.

As a result, this step made him see the strange-looking thing in front of him clearly—

It is somewhat similar to the steam car that Her Royal Highness had tinkered with before, but not that similar.

And the person sitting in that simple half-box with two or four wheels at the back seems to be His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince?
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...

The simple wooden train emerged from the flowers at a relatively slow speed and stopped steadily less than ten feet away from Emperor Xuanwu.

Ye Qingan, who was sitting in the front and driving the train himself, calmly stepped down from the driver's seat:
"Your humble servant greets His Majesty and Your Highness the Crown Princess."

"father……"

Yun Chuhuan, who was sitting in the back, also saw Emperor Xuanwu and his group at this time, and was afraid that if he was a little slow, tens of thousands of taels would be gone again.

He hurried down to salute:

"Your son pays respects to the Emperor!"

"Get up."

Emperor Xuanwu hummed calmly.
Although he had heard about this "little train" a few months ago, this was also the first time he actually saw it. Emperor Xuanwu turned his eyes curiously and looked at the little train a few more times:

"Is this the gift that the princess gave to Lao Liu before?"

"Replying to Your Majesty, this is indeed a gift from your fifth sister to me!"

Yun Chuhuan deliberately emphasized the words "given to my son" because he was afraid that his father's fine to him was not enough and now he had set his eyes on his little train.

Looking at Emperor Xuanwu, his eyes were filled with vigilance, and he kept emphasizing:

"Fifth sister said that this little train was specially built for me, including the small carriage at the back. Only someone my age can sit in it!"

"I see it."

Not caring about Yun Chuhuan's little thoughts at all, Emperor Xuanwu nodded perfunctorily and then turned to look at Ye Qing'an:
"I heard that this thing was made by Ye Aiqing?"

"Your Majesty, this little train was indeed made by me and my men, but the drawings were all made by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess."

As Ye Qing'an spoke, he took out the memorial he had prepared long ago from his sleeve pocket and presented it to Emperor Xuanwu with both hands:

"Your Majesty, while I was making this small train, I discovered that it could be made even bigger and longer. It could even be able to move an army from the south of Tiansheng to the north of Tiansheng within three days!"

"What? This thing can transport troops?!"

General Weiyuan, who had been looking at the little train with some curiosity, suddenly became excited when he heard this.

If it weren't for the difference between the emperor and his subjects, he would have snatched the memorial from Emperor Xuanwu's hand and read it himself first!
Unfortunately, it is impossible to rob it.

Fortunately, there was another Ye Qingan beside him who confirmed his question:

“Not only can it transport troops, but it can also transport military supplies and various other goods.

I have calculated before that if there is no war, I can charge train tickets to let the people or merchants of Tiansheng pay to ride the train.
The fees are calculated based on different levels of fees such as ordinary seats, luxury seats and even luxury boxes.

In a year, the net income of a single train can reach nearly one million taels of silver."

"A train can earn millions of taels of silver a year? Is that true?"

At this moment, Minister Yan's radar also started to move.

He could not wait to push aside the two officials blocking his way and approached excitedly:

"If we build a few more trains, wouldn't it be possible to easily earn tens of millions of taels a year?"

"good."

Ye Qingan nodded slightly:
"If the speed of this train can be further improved in the future, perhaps its benefits will be even higher."

Higher is better!

Although the annual revenue of 10 million taels is not much compared to the commercial taxes,

But how could he, the Minister of Revenue, complain about having too much money?
Moreover, you should know that before the emergence of commercial taxes, the annual revenue of the national treasury was only more than 50 million taels.

This represents one-fifth of the national treasury’s income!

How can one not be moved by this!
Minister Yan's mouth cracked, and he was about to smile like a chrysanthemum.

Emperor Xuanwu, who had just finished reading the memorial, suddenly raised his eyebrows:
"Your memorial says that laying five tracks and building five trains in Tiansheng will cost at least 70 million taels of silver?"