Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 529 The New City of Ming Dynasty

Due to the exhaustion of the journey, Liu Rushi and Ning Bin Luo Ruo, accompanied by Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen, had already returned to the capital.

Except for Liu Bin, who is a martial artist, there is no one around Zhu Youxiao, and staying in Longquan Temple makes him feel more peaceful and free.

In the early morning, an old monk came out of the meditation room and began to sweep the courtyard. The rustling yellow leaves and dust fell to the foot of the mountain, covering up a wild flower that had just sprouted.

The sound of the bell came in from the window, and one after another monks wearing patchwork clothes could be heard coming to the main hall to start chanting scriptures and doing morning classes.

However, no one came to Zhu Youxiao’s Buddhist hall for morning classes, because this place only belonged to Bumbutai. At that time, Zhu Youxiao made a decree to let a former Manchu empress be sent here to be a nun as the abbot of the temple. Naturally, he didn't dare to be contemptuous, so he set up this side hall for Bumubutai to specialize in.

But now, it has become the private meeting place of Zhu Youxiao and Bumbutai.

But because there were too many movements last night, he just let go of his hand after a short reconciliation, and then Zhu Youxiao laughed and scolded: "I still don't get up, I really don't have any scruples, and I don't even look at where this is. If you defile this holy place of Buddhism, all the merits I have cultivated in this half life will be ruined by you!"

Bumbutai stood up with his mouth pouted, and looked at Zhu Youxiao full of resentment, but he still took the initiative to help Zhu Youxiao up, and changed Zhu Youxiao's clothes and hats himself.

"Your Majesty, can you take your servant back to the palace? The servant wants to accompany His Majesty every day." After changing clothes for a while, Bumbutai surrounded Zhu Youxiao again. He left the temple with resentful eyes.

Bumbutai ran out eagerly. She really wanted to ask Zhu Youxiao how long she would be allowed to become a monk in this place of Buddhism, but she couldn't open her mouth. Look at the slaves."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and told the abbot of Longquan Temple who came up to him, "Please take care of me, and there must be no mistakes."

After bidding farewell to Longquan Temple, Zhu Youxiao got up and returned to the capital. When he arrived at the capital, Lu Xiangsheng and other officials were already waiting outside the city gate to greet him, and the entire capital was under martial law.

Those with a good memory know that His Majesty is returning to the capital, but those who don't know think that His Majesty is leaving the capital.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but opened the curtains and looked at the capital city outside the car window. He had only been away for nearly a year. In his opinion, the capital city had changed its appearance again, with new shops and attics appearing .

Even department stores similar to modern supermarkets have appeared in some areas, and some clothing stores have begun to use wooden models to prop up some branded clothing for customers to choose.

The street seems to have widened a lot, some relics of demolition are still there, and the widened street is no longer as chaotic as before, and there are also special traffic lanes, the roads for horses and carriages are separated, and the roads for pedestrians and bicycles are also distinguished. Later, overpasses were built and white lines were drawn at some intersections to indicate that vehicles should allow pedestrians to pass.

Engineers from the Royal Academy of Engineering have laid railroad tracks at the experimental base near the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the steam-powered locomotive jointly developed with the Royal Industrial Company has also been placed on a platform not far from the railroad tracks.

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Daming will be able to build a railway line and realize the epoch-making significance of owning long-distance train transportation.

According to Xu Guangqi's report, Galileo of the Royal Academy of Engineering has made great progress in the manufacture of generators. As long as the engineers responsible for the development of materials and new steel materials can meet the requirements for the manufacture of several important precision instruments for generators, the first one can be manufactured by the end of the year. A thermal power generator, but the accompanying wires and circuits and other projects also need to be followed up in a timely manner.

The founding of the Capital University and various Royal Academy of Engineering and training schools under the Royal Industrial Company and Ordnance Division played a role at this time. In the past ten years, many talents with natural science talents have begun to emerge enthusiastically. For example, the first Xiao Jingsheng, who first developed gun cotton, and Liu Fangmin, who successfully discovered tungsten, etc.

These characters may only be lost in the long river of history in the original history, but in this era, they will be more dazzling than the current dignitaries, and even live forever.

With the application of the steam industry becoming more and more mature, the successful development of machine tools for various precision instruments, and the successful construction of various new theories of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty is about to be achieved. From the local to the central, they have their own scientific research systems. There are also various workshops using machines for production.

And precisely because of this, the frequency of new technological products being developed has also begun to accelerate. The new inventions and discoveries that only appeared in the past few decades or even hundreds of years are not as many as those that have appeared in the past ten years.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao deliberately tricked a large number of scientific research enthusiasts from the West, and many of them even came here for fame, and this made the scientific research system of Ming Dynasty more perfect.

The development of the fermentation industry has brought about the emergence of various fermented foods on the market. Zhu Youxiao can see that there are shops selling yogurt and even milk. The Chinese introduced dairy cows from Europa through the Dutch, and raised and promoted them in large numbers in Mobei and Monan, making milk, a nutritious dairy product, once again active on the tables of Ming people.

Not only dairy products such as popsicles and beverages, but also because of the appearance of chemical additives and freezing technology (chemical refrigeration), this kind of food also appeared in Daming. The most common ones were all kinds of candies. The sucrose collected in the hand can be processed into various sugar products on a large scale, and even use catalysts to carry out chemical reactions and extract crystals into powder to enter the homes of ordinary people.

If a new thing appeared a few years ago, it must have been accepted by high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials at a high price because it was rare and expensive, and then the price fell with the increase in production and entered the middle class and even ordinary families. Because of the development of the steam industry, generally when a new product appears, there is already a new machine suitable for the production of this type of product, which means that the output will be high at the beginning, and the price will not be high, so it will be quickly adopted by all. The common people of Ming Dynasty accepted it, and realized small profits but quick turnover.

Because of this, the importance of advertising and branding has become more and more prominent. A few years ago, because the main customers were high-ranking officials and officials who accounted for a small number of the entire class, word of mouth could meet the promotion needs, but now the main customers are the entire Ming Dynasty. Of course, there are thousands of common people and trillions of customers, so it is impossible to promote it by lip service. All kinds of specialty stores and advertisers have started to appear one after another. The shopping malls in the whole Daming are like bamboo shoots after rain, springing up one after another, dizzying.

As the largest city in the entire Ming Dynasty, the capital has the largest population. The top institutions, workshops, companies, and even schools of various industries in the Ming Dynasty are located here. As a result, the population here has almost reached tens of millions of characters. The governor of several provinces in a foreign country.

The city gate that Zhu Youxiao is still entering is the outer city that was expanded by Shuntian Mansion three years ago, but in fact, hundreds of thousands of Ming people living in the north have already lived outside this outer city. In the city, the prices of land, rent and even food in the city will rise once, and the cost of living will also increase a little, but the public services and management will also be improved, but it will still drive away some newcomers. Live farther away from the imperial city.

The various problems brought about by urbanization, such as the increase in crime rate, drainage problems, renting houses for low-level people, and fire protection problems, as the emperor Zhu Youxiao, naturally would not take care of it, and he had no time to take care of it. It is undoubtedly a huge challenge for those officials who can only recite poems and poems, especially in the position of Shuntian Prefecture. As the parent officials of Daming and even the largest city in the world, sometimes they have to plan ahead and do a good job in the city before accidents occur. planning.

Of course, it’s not okay for these officials to ignore things, and it’s not okay if they don’t do well. In the capital, no matter whether it is a high-ranking official or a low-level commoner, they can’t afford to provoke them. Listen, so if an official wants to govern well here, he can only pay attention to methods and methods, and cannot solve problems with pure violence.

Most of the unguarded soldiers, Beijing camp and regiment camp soldiers who were dismissed back then have become public security or other officials, and they are doing their best to maintain the market order and traffic order in the capital.

It is impossible for later generations to see on TV that a few rich and powerful family dudes or domineering military generals galloped across the street and even knocked down other people's shops, because many places in the capital have speed limits and special roads, With the latest law, no matter who disturbs the order, the most serious thing is to go to jail, and no matter what relationship you have, the most important thing in the capital is a related person, so everyone can only be within the scope of the rules To enjoy the free life given by His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

Of course, it does not mean that the lives of the people of Ming Dynasty are really bound by various rules and regulations, especially for young people. As the age grew smaller, a large number of young scholars, especially those born in humble backgrounds who were unwilling to be mediocre, and even many rich children who were born rich but did not want to be bound by society, began to pursue individuality and independence.

On the street, Zhu Youxiao can easily see young people dancing and dancing on the street with their hair disheveled, and even many people started shaking their heads on the street and shouting to bring down a certain official, but Zhu Youxiao didn't care about it Yes, as long as he is not out of line, he doesn't care about these scholars who want to uphold justice and demonstrate at every turn, and officials who are criticized every day. It is normal for young people to have strong hormones and not adapt to the cruelty of real life. They have not learned to endure and want to vent However, as an administrative official, he must have the consciousness of being cold-hearted and bowing his head to be a willing ox.

What's more, it would be good for these civil servants to experience how they felt when they were emperors, being accused for no reason by a group of speech officials.

Shouts, yells, cries, clinking irons and horns of public carriages, as well as the sound of whips and shouts mixed with the sound of gongs and drums when the emperor marched for thousands of years Together, they form a movement where the classical and the modern meet.

This is today's Daming. It can be seen that apart from the young people who are free and have nothing to do, and the pressure of schoolwork and employment is not high enough, people nowadays are very busy. It was in a hurry, the teahouses and restaurants were full of people, and there were salesmen who were selling new products, spitting and selling products, but their eyes were full of exhaustion, even if they got on the public carriage, many people ran straight up , crowded with people, one by one crowded in a small space, but their eyes are lingering at the high-rise buildings outside the window.

And the successful people among the Zhuge Qi households with high-rise buildings and mansions are also not idle. Although they embrace beauties in their arms, hold expensive fragrant tea in their hands, and wear beautiful clothes and badges, they still hang a picture to please others. Smiling face, be careful with people from all walks of life, some even crazily threw documents directly in their bright and clean study room, even kicked a stool and hit the wall, but many people didn't see this scene, they only dreamed of being able to copy it in the capital. The counterattack success stories that have been circulated or reported in various newspapers and periodicals.

Although everyone is tired, they all come to this place with hopes and dreams, and because they are tired, they also know how to enjoy the process of struggle and entertainment in life. Therefore, the most developed city in the capital Not only the industry but also the entertainment industry, Liyuan is the most prosperous in this era, shadow puppets and cross talk can not be underestimated, and secular novels are becoming more and more popular with the promotion of vernacular.

Love songs and poems are even more rampant, and even three-year-old children can hum the lyrics of "Do you love me or not" on the street. To stop the torrent of social development, there are rumors that some great Confucianists committed suicide by jumping into the lake because they were completely disappointed with the world and hated the inaction of the current imperial court. Sentences to express their hearts, and invaded the cultural field originally only belonged to the elite.

Whether it is Yangchun Baixue, who is loved by the Taoist priests, or the Xialiba people who have begun to become popular, Zhu Youxiao will not stop him, and he is also very happy that the Ming Dynasty under his rule is what it is today. The society must come alive and bloom with vitality. The society continues to progress, but if it is imprisoned or even sticks to the rules, it will only lag behind. He is not afraid of the madness of the younger generation, but he is afraid that they will become lifeless and lose the vitality they should have.

(End of this chapter)