Ming Dynasty: He was ordered to give lectures in prison, but Lao Zhu eavesdropped and made people nu

Chapter 424 Zhu Bai steals the blueprints

As soon as he walked out of Confucius Temple Street, a smiling old eunuch stopped in front of Zhu Gui's sedan.

The bearer stopped suddenly and was almost shaken out of the sedan.

He couldn't help but angrily opened the curtain of the sedan and asked: "What do you do for food, even..."

Before Zhu Gui finished speaking, he saw the figure of the old eunuch.

He had to change his mind and ask, "Eunuch Li stopped my sedan chair. What do you want from me?"

"His Majesty's oral instructions are to save the prince Zhu Gui from being weak and need to strengthen his body through exercise."

"I order him to go to the moat at the north gate of Yingtian Mansion every afternoon from today and dig a ditch for half an hour."

"Unless it rains heavily or you are seriously ill, you cannot use any excuse to avoid this matter!"

Eunuch Li smiled at Zhu Gui and read out Zhu Yuanzhang's oral instructions.

After saying that, I don’t care

What was Zhu Gui's reaction?

Leaving behind a set of coarse cloth clothes and a shovel that matched his height, he went to catch up with Zhu Bai's sedan chair.

"Father, why did you suddenly ask me to dig a ditch?"

Zhu Gui didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang was eavesdropping in the secret room next door, so he felt baffled by this decree.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's oral instructions were transmitted, no matter how much he was puzzled and unwilling.

He could only order the bearers to move towards the north gate of Yingtian Mansion.

However, on the way, Zhu Gui couldn't help but start to wonder if there was a machine that could dig trenches instead of people.

……

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Xiang has arrived."

After Lin Che announced that get out of class was over, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and Liu Sanwu returned to the palace early.

Zhu Bai, who had just received the order halfway, arrived at the imperial study room with Eunuch Li after two moments.

"My son, I bow to my father."

After being summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Bai carefully walked into the imperial study.

Then he kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang in a very standard manner.

"Hahaha, Bai'er, there's no need to be polite, get up quickly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with the young and intelligent Xiang King Zhu Bai.

Then he smiled and asked the eunuch to help him up.

"Thank you, Father."

Zhu Bai thanked Zhu Yuanzhang solemnly.

Then he took out a few drawings and said, "These are the plate armor drawings that Mr. Lin drew today. I would like to ask my father to take a look at them."

The previous task of 'stealing the blueprints' from Lin Che was all done by Zhu Xi.

It's just that Zhu Ping is still pacifying the people on the southeast coast and missed today's class.

So this task was handed over to Zhu Bai.

Originally, he thought this matter would be extremely difficult.

After all, these drawings, which were unheard of in the world, must contain a lot of Lin Che's hard work.

Unexpectedly, Lin Che drew the drawings and used them to finish the lecture.

It was thrown aside like a piece of waste paper.

Zhu Bai got all the drawings in his hands without any effort.

This made him admire Lin Che's unfathomable talent even more.

He believed that only those like his husband, who knew everything about the world, could be banished to immortality.

Only then can we come up with this kind of drawing that requires countless people to pool their efforts.

Useless as a rebuke.

"Bai'er, you did a good job. We can satisfy your small request."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the drawings whose wrinkles had been smoothed out in advance, and became more and more pleased with Zhu Bai.

However, these words made Zhu Bai, whose thoughts were wandering, startled and knelt down again: "It is my blessing to be able to work for my father. How dare I ask for any extravagant reward!"

The smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's face suddenly fell. He finally understood why Zhu Bai was so smart and sensible at such a young age.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, walked around the imperial court, and helped Zhu Bai up with his own hands.

He sighed and said: "How can I, a descendant of the Zhu family, turn into a soft head kowtow?"

When Zhu Bai heard these words that were almost scolding, his body shook subconsciously.

I was just about to say something more acknowledging my mistake.

I heard Zhu Yuanzhang say: "After attending classes in Confucius Temple from now on, if you have nothing to do at home, you can come here to study and practice calligraphy."

"So as not to waste time at home."

If a smart kid like Zhu Bai doesn't turn into a playboy.

Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely be of great use in the future.

In addition, the child seems to be restrained too strictly at home.

Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Zhu Bai would lose his spirituality in the long run.

After learning that he would study and practice calligraphy with his father, Zhu Bai naturally happily agreed.

Then a young eunuch came and immediately arranged a desk, chair, books, paper and pen for him.

"Father, I just went to the Ministry of Works to check. The Ministry of Works built more than 20..."

Prince Zhu Biao, who hurried from outside the palace, just entered the imperial study and began to report the status of his investigation to Zhu Yuanzhang.

But as soon as he started talking, he keenly noticed Zhu Bai who was studying in the imperial study room.

This made him stunned for a moment, and then he pretended that nothing was wrong and continued to report: "The Ministry of Industry is currently building not one, but many medium-sized hydraulic workshops."

"It's just that the connecting rods and gears in the workshop were damaged too quickly."

“So currently only three workshops are still in use and the rest are idle.”

Although I learned in the practical class why craftsmen dare not ask for wages.

Zhu Yuanzhang no longer had any expectations for the Ministry of Industry.

As long as there is no big trouble before his new work department is established.

But after hearing that Lin Che invented a machine that was extremely time-saving and labor-saving, it was actually left to eat dust by people from the Ministry of Industry.

He couldn't help but frowned and said, "Grandma, the connecting rod gear is easily damaged, so just make more accessories."

"These hydraulic workshops were built with the expense and sacrifice of the people. How can they be left unused?"

Zhu Biao deliberately covered up for the Ministry of Work.

But when he saw Zhu Bai holding a book of Analects and reading it, he suddenly thought: "Father, in my opinion, the plate armor sold to the gentry all over the world cannot be made by the Ministry of Industry."

"Otherwise, quality problems will inevitably occur, lest it affect my father's reputation among the gentry."

Although Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to implement the order proposed by Lin Che, the gentry of the world would assist in the suppression.

The purpose is to fish out the gentry who have Bei Yuan sympathies, and then deal with these remnant descendants of Bei Yuan in a reasonable and legal manner on the battlefield.

However, this cannot be done openly.

Otherwise, it will definitely attract the landowning gentry whose ancestors descended from the Northern Yuan Dynasty and are now serving the Ming Dynasty.

They suspected that the imperial court was going to take action against them, and everyone fell into a state of danger.

If not, the whole world will be in turmoil.

Therefore, the deaths of these remnant descendants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty must be due to unfortunate deaths in battle.

And you can't die at the hands of the enemy because of the quality of the armor.

On the surface, whether he died in battle or died suddenly because of poor quality armor.

There doesn't seem to be much difference.

But the former represents luck, or a problem of one's own poor martial arts.

But the latter can be interpreted as the court's malicious attempt to murder the son of a gentry.

Nowadays, the world has just been at peace, and there are still many people in the world who know how to use weapons.

If there was a large-scale problem with the armor, many people who participated in the suppression order would lose their lives.

It is difficult not to make the gentry who unexpectedly lost their children suspicious.

(End of this chapter)