My father Yong Le Emperor, you let me keep a low profile

Chapter 96 The End of Science Is Boiling Water!
"Fourth daughter-in-law, there is a lot of evil outside the palace tonight, and the child is too young to hold on. It happens that your mother has been talking about it for several days. The child you brought tonight, talk to your mother."

"I have something to discuss with the fourth child, we will go back tomorrow morning."

After the celebration banquet, the officials dispersed.

The old man stopped, hugged Zhang Yue who was already asleep, and asked her to talk with Queen Xu.

When the other three daughters-in-law heard this, their eyes were full of envy.

Except for Zhu Zhanji who was a child, the little guy who was allowed to stay in the palace by Empress Xu did not have such treatment for other grandchildren.

This shows how much the old man and Empress Xu love, the eldest son of the fourth son.

Zhang Yue glanced at Zhu Gaoyu, and after seeing him nodding, she gave a slight salute.

"The daughter-in-law takes orders."

Empress Xu on the side cheerfully took the little guy, nodded to the other three saluting daughters-in-law, hugged the little guy and led Zhang Yue to Qianqing Palace.

"Father, what about us?"

As soon as he heard that the old man had something to do with Zhu Gaoyu, Zhu Gaoxu asked quickly.

"Drink so much wine, go back to bed early."

The three brothers grimaced, saluted and left with their daughter-in-law.

"Little brat, go back and rest too!"

The old man waved his hand again, and drove back Zhu Zhanji who was going to stay with him.

Zhu Zhanji, who didn't want to stay here for a long time, responded and quickly followed his parents.

"Come on, let's go to the study."

After everyone left, the old man took Zhu Gaoyu, who was confused, back to the study where he usually works.

"Father, is something wrong?"

When he came to the old man's study, Zhu Gaoyu drove away the little eunuch who was going to serve, and personally helped the old man take off his formal clothes.

After the old man sat down, he helped the old man take off his boots, beat his legs to relax, and asked in a low voice.

The old man who closed his eyes and enjoyed his son's filial piety gave a light "um" and said slowly: "Sambo came back today, and he came to my place. Guess what he wants from me?"

"What else can I do? Isn't it the fleet?" Zhu Gaoyu didn't lift his head, he beat his father's leg hard, and replied casually.

The old man picked up the tea beside him and took a sip, pondered for a moment before asking: "I see you don't want to give him the fleet, what is your plan?"

Zhu Gaoyu paused for a moment, and didn't hide anything, and replied directly: "My son plans to take over the matter of going to the West."

The old man was silent for a moment, then said, "Actually, he is quite suitable."

Zhu Gaoyu did not answer this question, but talked about other things.

"Xiyang is actually quite complicated. Some things cannot be handled by reporting. It is the best choice to make a decision on the spot."

"Ha ha!"

The old man chuckled, reached out and knocked on Zhu Gaoyu's forehead.

"Three Treasures are delaying your work."

"That's right, Sambo is a man who abides by the rules. Among the four of you, his heart is for your elder brother."

"Now that you hold the navy in your hands, you have already assigned the entire Western Ocean to your territory in your heart."

"Let Sanbao have nothing to do with you, or even someone who is not on your side, wandering around the West with a huge fleet, I would not want to."

Zhu Gaoyu didn't speak, and chose to acquiesce.

Although the old man is in the deep palace, in fact, he knows the affairs of the world better than anyone else.

He can also guess the plans of the four sons in their hearts, after all, he also came from this stage.

"Well, I can not let him go, and arrange him to go to another place later."

Seeing that his son was silent, the old man sighed, and decided to let Zheng He give up the voyage to the Western Seas, and hand over the entire Western Ocean area to his fourth son.

Zhu Gaoyu looked up in surprise, "Thank you dad."

The old man raised his hand, "Don't thank me in a hurry, just listen to me."

Zhu Gaoyu nodded quickly.

Raising his hand and waving, all the serving eunuchs in the room left.

The old man was silent for a while, and then said: "I can give you absolute authority in the western region, and I don't care what the navy does, but I only have one request, and it is the only request for you in this life."

Zhu Gaoyu quickly knelt on the ground, "Listen to the holy words!"

Not caring that he didn't wear shoes and socks, the old man got off the soft couch and squatted in front of Zhu Gaoyu.

"Father's only request to you is that your elder brother didn't attack you, so you can't attack the court."

Zhu Gaoyu suddenly raised his head and looked at the old man. He wanted to say that this would never happen, but looking at the serious eyes of the old man, he fell silent for a moment and kowtowed his head to the ground.

"My son takes orders."

"Today, I swear to the sky in front of you, father, that I will never take action against the imperial court if my elder brother has not done anything unrighteous to me."

"Get up."

The old man nodded in satisfaction.

Although this stinky boy has many eyes, what he said is still believable.

Saying that he will not fight against the court means that he will definitely not fight against the court.

And then again, the court didn't take action against Zhu Gaoyu, and Zhu Gaoyu dared to act rashly, so he couldn't stand up in name.

Back then, he attacked his eldest nephew and beat his eldest nephew to destroy the ancestral system.

Otherwise, there would be no reason for a vassal to directly rebel without absolute crushing strength, and failure would be certain.

"Since the fleet is handed over to you, I won't keep the shipyard."

"You send someone to the major shipyards to say hello later, and you can make arrangements for what kind of ship you want to build in the future."

After Zhu Gaoyu got up, the old man continued to enjoy the boy's massage, closed his eyes and handed over the shipyard to Zhu Gaoyu.

"Oh, I'll send someone later."

The old man gave himself the shipyard, and Zhu Gaoyu felt even more beautiful.

During this period of time, Wang Jin did not collect many shipbuilders, not enough to build shipyards, and he could barely repair ships for the fleet.

Zhu Gaoyu was still thinking about where to find people, but the old man generously gave him the shipyard.

Of course, this refers to the ocean shipyards, and those inland river shipyards are still not under his control.

After all, inland river boats are related to water transportation and are the lifeblood of the imperial court. It is impossible for the old man to hand them over to others.

"I've made it clear to you. It's still the same sentence. You can figure out how to build the ship and equipment yourself. In addition, the weapons and armor you borrowed must be returned to me."

"If you dare not give it back to me, then what our father and I said just now, you will treat it as a dream."

Seeing Zhu Gaoyu's appearance of eating bee dung, the old man felt tired for a while, his mind turned, and he suddenly remembered this brat who borrowed so many armors and weapons when he left, and hurriedly reminded him to return them quickly.

I'm still planning to go to the north to fight again during this period of time. With so much equipment, it's a lot of expenses.

As soon as he heard the old man mention those armors, Zhu Gaoyu felt depressed for a while, and said with his mouth curled up: "Father, I gave you the silver mountain, so you can't give me those equipments."

The old man snorted coldly, "Don't talk nonsense, what's wrong with a silver mountain, without me standing in front of you to support you, the things you did in Japan would have turned upside down long ago."

As he said that, the old man pointed to a pile of notebooks in the corner: "Look, those are the notebooks of impeaching Wu Shan and others. If I hadn't suppressed it, and what happened today, your Wu Shan, This period is definitely on the cusp.”

Zhu Gaoyu walked over curiously, picked up a book, and flipped through it.

This is an impeachment letter from the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It impeached Wu Shan for murder. In order to find the Emperor of Japan, tens of thousands of people were frozen to death, and tens of thousands of people were killed later. Up to 10,000+.

The above said that there is a nose and an eye, and even mentioning the past and discussing the present, comparing Wu Shan to the number one devil in the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the court will cancel his title and severely punish Wu Shan, so as to give an explanation to the people of Fanguo all over the world.

Zhu Gaoyu sneered after reading it, and threw it aside casually.

"Don't pretend to be indifferent to me. If you don't return the equipment to me, I will release these memorials tomorrow, and that Wu Shan under your command will be impeached to death."

The old man, who was sipping tea with his eyes squinted, said a few words.

The corner of Zhu Gaoyu's mouth twitched, "Okay, my son will be brought back to you tomorrow."

"But the soldiers of the Fifth Army Battalion who went out with me, I feel good, they also want to follow me, I want them to go to my place."

"understood."

The old man glared at Zhu Gaoyu angrily.

Not to mention the fact that this brat poached the crew of his own fleet, he has now reached out to enter the Fifth Army Battalion.

Fortunately, this kid doesn't have many places left, if there are more, I'm afraid his Fifth Army Battalion will be evacuated.

"Since you have taken over the affairs of the fleet, you must arrange for those envoys to leave as soon as possible."

"Raising these idlers every day, the guys in the household department are going to scold their mothers."

"I'll leave when the monsoon comes."

Zhu Gaoyu, who was flipping through other notebooks, replied casually.

"You are going back to the fief."

Now it was the old man's turn to be surprised, it was the first time he had seen the feudal king, and he was rushing back to his fief.

For example, the second child and the third child, since the second child was granted a fiefdom, he either dislikes this or that, or he just doesn't want to go.

And the third child.

He was originally on guard in Beiping, but since he followed him to the north last time, he never left after returning.

I reminded myself many times that these two brats either said they were reluctant to part with their mother, or they pretended to be sick and refused to leave, making the old man helpless and angry.

But this fourth son, before he urged him, he directly said that he was leaving.

"Yeah, I'm definitely leaving."

"The Chamber of Commerce's stocks are almost sold out, and the items received are also almost sold out. If you don't leave, there will be no goods to sell, and the warehouse will not be able to hold the goods."

"By the way, your daughter-in-law is going to clear up the bills in the next two days. I'll let them send it directly to my mother for how much money they make back."

As soon as money was mentioned, the old man immediately became energetic.

"How much did you earn for this sum?"

Zhu Gaoyu thought for a while and replied: "The initial investment is relatively large. From the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce last year to now, after the balance of payments, there is only a little profit, which is about 100 million taels."

"You didn't sell much pepper, less than 1/3. Add up the whole thing, and you have about 200 million taels of silver. I don't know the exact amount. I'll have someone send it to you later."

"200 million taels."

The old man's eyes lit up, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Earning so much a year is already a lot.

As for the pepper not being sold out, the old man knew it well.

Now the pepper in Daming is not as valuable as it used to be. Some ordinary people can afford to buy pepper as seasoning even if they have a happy event.

In the past, a catty of pepper was more than ten taels, and there was still a price but no market.

Recently he heard that the price has dropped to 1 taels of silver per catty.

Although the price of pepper is a bit low, but after calculating the miscellaneous things, it can still be worth a lot of money, so it is not a loss.

"I just heard you say what kind of goods you want to receive. You don't plan to get goods from the official camp anymore."

After talking about his own money, the old man suddenly remembered that the warehouse Zhu Gaoyu said just now was full.

Zhu Gaoyu nodded and replied: "I don't plan to accept the goods from the official camp, but mainly focus on private and various production workshops."

Returning to the old man, he poured himself a cup of tea, and seeing that there were no stools around, Zhu Gaoyu sat down on the carpet.

"Father, if we want the common people to support us, we must let the common people earn benefits."

"When you went to the West before, you took all the goods from the government. You earned more and less. It has nothing to do with the common people and those workshops."

"After such a long period of time, the common people will not support the attitude towards the voyages to the West."

"One day in the future, those representatives of the smuggling family will go to the West to waste money and bring up Grandpa's sea ban system. The emperor behind will not be able to stand it at all, and will absolutely ban this project completely."

The old man nodded, he had already expected this.

"If these people don't object, and strongly support the imperial court to continue to open the sea, there is no way, and that is to let them make money together."

"This time going to the West, I will not only accept goods from the common people and local workshops, but also sell quotas, so that those family forces who have the ability to go to sea will go to sea together to make money."

Hearing this method, the old man widened his eyes in astonishment.

After drinking the water in the teacup in one gulp, Zhu Gaoyu said seriously to the old man: "Father, our royal family has already eaten the biggest single food of imperial power, and we have to share some soup with them, otherwise the people below will lose their hearts and the team will die." Not easy to carry."

"Did you just say that you were selling followers?"

Zhu Gaoyu looked at the old man suspiciously, "Yes, I will protect them and give them a chance to go to sea to earn money. Is there any problem in charging them some money?"

The old man nodded seriously.

"There's nothing wrong with it. We'll split the account fifty-five."

Zhu Gaoyu took a deep breath and didn't come up, "Father, I protect them, why do you still have to share my money?"

Hearing the words, the old man pinched the beard on his chin and said calmly: "Just because I am the emperor or your father, you protect them, and I protect you. Is this enough reason?"

Zhu Gaoyu stared blankly at the old man, his lips moved slightly twice.

The father and son just drank tea and ate snacks, and had a long talk all night.

It wasn't until dawn that the old man fell asleep with a smile on his lips. Zhu Gaoyu covered him with a thin quilt, and then stretched out and left the old man's study.

He ran to Qianqing Palace to greet his old lady, and left the palace with his wife and son.

Zhu Gaoyu, who chatted with the old man all night, did not go home to rest.

After sending his wife and son home, he hurried to the artisan camp.

When arranging things yesterday, he asked Lu Fei and Gao Wu, the Mohists, to make something he needed.

After the two of them saw the structure diagram, they promised to finish it in one day.

It just so happened that Zhu Gaoyu was fine today, so he wanted to recharge his engineers.

"Your Highness, everyone is gathered!"

In a large classroom in the craftsman camp, dozens of men and women, old and young, sat below.

Lu Fei, who was in charge of the arrangement, called his name and reported to Zhu Gaoyu that all the staff had arrived.

Sitting on the chair, squinting his eyes to return to Zhu Gaoyu, stretched his waist, took a look at the list, and nodded.

Since the establishment of the Artisan Camp, Lu Fei has not stopped recruiting masters.

With Gao Wu, a disciple of the Mohist school, for more than a year, many Mohist disciples scattered in various places have gathered.

"Everyone, today I want to tell you about a cross-era item."

These Mohists have all read the materials provided by Zhu Gaoyu, and they are all shocked. They also admire Zhu Gaoyu who can write these materials.

As soon as Zhu Gaoyu stood up, everyone fell silent, quietly waiting for Zhu Gaoyu's lecture.

"Bring things in."

He motioned to Lu Fei and asked him and Gao Wu to carry out the things that he and Gao Wu had studied for a long time.

Soon, a large hearth furnace with a large copper ball on it was carried in.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't explain what it was, but took Lu Fei to light the fire below.

Although everyone was curious, they didn't ask any questions. They just watched quietly and took notes.

Under the burning of the flame, the two pipes inserted on the huge copper ball began to drip water and emit wisps of hot air.

Seeing this scene, many people were even more puzzled.

Is His Highness so busy that he actually called everyone here to watch and play with the fire?

As the flame stabilized, Zhu Gaoyu patted the dust on his hands, picked up a piece of chalk on the blackboard behind him, and wrote down a line of words.

"The end of science is boiling water."

Seeing this line of words, the expressions of these Mohist disciples became even more confused.

They understand what the word science means, which is another way of saying Gewu.

But they couldn't figure out why there was boiling water at the end of Gewu?
"I believe you don't understand this sentence."

Throwing the chalk in the box, Zhu Gaoyu looked at everyone and said seriously: "Please write down this sentence, I believe that in the future, you will understand what this sentence means."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Gaoyu noticed that steam was coming out of the place where the water vapor was sealed. Zhu Gaoyu stepped forward and pulled a closed air valve next to the stove forcefully.

With the opening of the closed air valve, the steam rises rapidly along the pipe, and then fills the entire copper ball.

And as the gas increased, the slightly curved pipe began to emit steam, and the sphere slowly rotated on the shelf.

Seeing such a miraculous scene, the Mohist disciples who were attending the class all stood up.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't explain, just waited quietly.

With more and more gas, the ball rotates faster and faster, and finally even afterimages appear.

"Everyone, please look over here."

Zhu Gaoyu clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention, and then pointed to the steam ball: "Everything needs power to run, and we want to make this ball spin, besides using hands, we can also use it." With the strength of animals."

"However, there is a limit to the strength of manpower and animals, and the speed is also limited. More importantly, due to the instability of force, the rotational speed of the ball is uneven."

"So I thought, what method can be used to replace human and animal power, so that the ball can rotate at a uniform speed."

Yeah, what should I do?
The Mohist disciples all frowned, but after thinking about it for a long time, they didn't have any clues. Finally, they noticed the spinning steam ball and patted their foreheads silently. Didn't someone already make it in front of them? Why bother to think about it? ?

When everyone looked over again, Zhu Gaoyu continued: "Once when I saw a servant boiling water, I saw the steam coming out of the mouth, and it was very even. At that time, my brain seemed to be caught by something. Hit."

Zhu Gaoyu pointed to the steam ball that was still spinning, "After many days of research, I created this steam-powered method to make the power last and rotate evenly."

"And I call this method steam power, and I firmly believe that in the Ming Dynasty in the future, the appearance of steam power will change the entire era."

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