Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 42
Now is the New Year's Eve, and Zhu Youxiao hasn't been to the morning court since the twelfth lunar month.

The ministers also knew that none of them complained about Zhu Youxiao's absurd government, not to mention that the case of the destruction of the Donglin Party was most affected by the Yushi Yanguan.

Therefore, the last month of the seven years of the Ming Dynasty was surprisingly quiet.

The common people are naturally busy celebrating the New Year, rejoicing.

The royal family living in the huge Forbidden City is still as usual, because it has been using internal funds to supplement the national treasury, and the purchases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been reduced again and again.

Zhu Youxiao, who just came to the Ming Dynasty, was not excited about celebrating the New Year.

Only Empress Zhang Yan ordered some new clothes to be bought for Liu Rushi and her grandmother, as well as Keshi and other servants who accompanied her.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that his queen was also ingenious, and she took Liu Rushi to cut out countless window grilles and pasted them on the vermilion window of the pavilion, which added a bit of the flavor of the year.

In the end, even Zhu Youxiao was invited by Zhang Yan to write a couplet, which was hung on Zhu's gate.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao had practiced brush calligraphy, and after he came to the Ming Dynasty, he was still working hard, and he wrote several tanks of water black, so the couplets he wrote could be seen by people.

What's more, I am still the emperor now, and the characters I write can be regarded as imperial pens. Hundreds of years later, when people come to the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, see if they still say that the carpenter emperor is an idiot.

"Gou Li's country is dead, *****."

Xu Guangqi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry and also in charge of the Hanlin Academy, was called into the palace by Zhu Youxiao early in the morning because Zhu Youxiao mentioned that he would visit the Ministry of Industry a few days ago.

Now that he saw this couplet, he couldn't help but groan, secretly admiring the ambition of the owner of the couplet, but when he saw that the inscription below was Zhu Youxiao, he was stuck in place as if he had been shocked by an electric shock.

"You are Xu Shilang, Your Majesty let you in."

Liu Rushi has become Zhu Youxiao's personal maid since entering the palace. It's not that Zhu Youxiao wants to use child labor, but Liu Rushi is indeed much smarter than the little Huangmen who served in Qianqing Palace, and her reaction is also different. Agile, what Zhu Youxiao needs, she sent it before Zhu Youxiao asked.

Last night, Zhu Youxiao, who fought the queen for [-] rounds, had to get up early in the morning to deal with the backlog of government affairs. When Liu Rushi led Xu Guangqi in, he gave Liu Rushi a stack of drawings and drawing instruments: "Take it. "

"This is your Majesty?" Xu Guangqi asked curiously when he saw these things.

Without waiting for Zhu Youxiao's answer, Liu Rushi raised the globe in his hand and said, "This is His Majesty's compass and vernier caliper."

"Let's go", Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly, thinking that Liu Rushi had only been with him for a few days, but he knew a lot, so he simply took her to the Ministry of Industry with him.

Relatively speaking, the Ministry of Industry, one of the six ministries, ranks at the end of the six ministries in terms of weight, but it is also indispensable.

The current minister of the Ministry of Industry is Huo Weihua, the patriarch of the royalist party, but Zhu Youxiao did not let him stay in Beijing, but let him be an imperial envoy to inspect various water conservancy and transportation in various places in Ming Dynasty, and repair various projects that have been in disrepair for a long time. However, under the severe influence of the small glacier climate, the total grain output of Daming will not decrease, at least not too fast.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also asked him to go to various places to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes and potatoes. As for how to plant them, Zhu Youxiao naturally told him.

If Huo Weihua can't complete Zhu Youxiao's task satisfactorily, Zhu Youxiao doesn't mind letting him retire.

Huo Weihua, Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, could not participate in today's imperial meeting of the Ministry of Industry. The person presiding over the meeting was naturally Bi Maokang, the newly appointed right servant of the Ministry of Industry.

Among the bureaucratic class of Ming Dynasty today, Bi Maokang is the one who is most interested in firearms and has the strongest comprehension ability. , Xu Guangqi never forgets.

The same is true for Bi Maokang. Although he is a senior official in the ministry, he has never been in charge of the affairs of the ministry since he took office. He has been staying with several craftsmen in the military bureau to manufacture the iron box gun that Zhu Youxiao showed in front of Xu Guangqi.

Now because Zhu Youxiao was coming, he changed into the official uniform of the three-pin red robe and came to the outer lobby.

In addition to Bi Maokang, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, and Sun Yuanhua, the imperial censor of the capital of Youqin and the military secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Sun Yuanhua, this guy also handed over all the affairs of the department to his Yuanwailang, and devoted himself to studying artillery.

In addition, there is also Song Yingxing, who was born in Juren. He originally refused to take the imperial examination due to several failures, but he did not expect to be approached by people from Dongchang one day.

He still remembers the surprised and terrified expressions of his parents and elder brother when Dongchang's Fanzi appeared at his home, and he himself was the same, thinking that he had committed some crime.

But what happened later made him even more surprised. The Dongchang fan who came to arrest him first not only did not beat and scold him, but also made him eat and drink well. When Song Yingxing dared to ask, the Dongchang fan only said yes Do what you want.

Later, when he arrived in the capital, Wang Cheng'en, the chief eunuch who was also the admiral of the East Factory, came to announce the decree in person, and the decree was that he would be awarded a mansion in the capital by his majesty's rewarding work department.

Song Yingxing didn't know how he was remembered by His Majesty as a young man, he was promoted and given a mansion, and the people from Dongchang directly gave him a copy of "Tiangong Kaiwu" and a lot of so-called research materials, Let him watch it quickly, and when he sees His Majesty in the future, be careful not to be interrogated by His Majesty.

Hearing that His Majesty requested it personally, Song Yingxing did not dare to be sloppy, and he, who had already lost his literati arrogance after failing in the imperial examinations for several years, was not disgusted by Zhu Youxiao's "absurd" behavior.

Song Yingxing watched it carefully for several months, not only did he not get bored, but he was tireless. He even had the feeling of discovering another world, but he had a lot of questions in his mind. He came to the Ministry of Industry to attend the imperial meeting today and wanted to ask His Majesty what he thought. If His Majesty punished him, he would also ask.

Tang Ruowang was also captured from Xi'an by the people from the East Factory ordered by Zhu Youxiao. This missionary who is good at calendar and artillery heard that he was summoned by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Not only did he not have any fear, but he was very excited. What a great undertaking it would be for the highest level of the empire to allow him to preach.

"His Majesty is here!"

In fact, Zhu Youxiao prefers to go out of the palace in micro-clothes. Apart from not wanting to offend the disgusting civil servants like flies, another reason is that the ceremony of going out of the palace in Mingfu is too cumbersome and troublesome.

It was only half an hour's journey from the Forbidden City to the Ministry of Industry, but it took a full two hours to take the dragon chariot and prepare to leave to arrive at the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

If it weren't for going to the Ministry of Industry and seeing the Arms Bureau and Gunpowder Bureau jointly managed by the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Government Supervisor, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to call these to the palace directly to save himself a lot of trouble.

When Xiao Huangmen ran into the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, Bi Maokang and others who had already been waiting outside the lobby of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly stood on both sides, bowing and waiting.

Many people were seeing the Holy Majesty for the first time, and they were even a little nervous.

(End of this chapter)