Following behind the eunuch in Tsing Yi, Xu Guangqi looked strangely at the eunuch leading the way in front of him, this eunuch's body movements are very strange, one board and one eye, very clean and neat, and his body is far from the stale and feminine temperament of other eunuchs, but has a hint of masculine atmosphere.

However, Xu Guangqi, who is cautious, did not rashly open his mouth to ask, he had already seen the situation in the palace, and was evacuating and cleaning up the eunuchs, and at this moment he could stay by the emperor's side and take on the role of communication and communication, and there must be something extraordinary, and such a person should not be easily provoked.

This eunuch is the twenty eunuchs who Zhu Youxiao had trained in the military at the beginning, and now these eunuchs are still three points, Liu Ruoyu, Wei Zhongxian, and Wang Chengen each have a part, these are also the only ones that Zhu Youxiao is using, and the others have either been cleaned up, or scattered all over the Forbidden City, responsible for running some palaces and gardens.

The eunuch in Tsing Yi took Xu Guangqi all the way around and came to an open place, where a large number of eunuchs were gathering, and then they were pulled away by four-wheeled carriages.

In front of the crowd, Xu Guangqi, who had good eyes, looked at the emperor at once, but at this moment the new emperor seemed to be doing something, only to see him sitting in front of a strange machine, fiddling with two pieces of cloth in his hands.

"Holy Lord, Xu Guangqi brought it." The eunuch in Tsing Yi whispered, and then stood by and did not move.

"Hmm." After Zhu Youxiao heard it, he just looked up, and then lowered his head and continued to do his own thing. The continuous rotation of the machine puff puff soon sewed the two separate pieces of cloth together.

Xu Guangqi next to him looked at it curiously, but after a general glance, he could see that this strange artifact seemed to be stepping on it with his feet and driving the needle above the platform to sew the cloth and clothes.

"Interesting, really interesting." Xu Guangqi looked at it intently, his mouth was amazed, he studied Western culture, naturally he was no stranger to machinery, and when he saw magical things, he couldn't help but explore the principle.

"Xu Aiqing, what do you think of this thing." Zhu Youxiao stood up from the front of the machine and handed the cloth in his hand to Xu Guangqi to see. Only then did he have time to take a closer look at the other party.

Xu Guangqi is about sixty years old, with a wide forehead and a square face, plus a long beard, he looks like a famous teacher, but he is a little tired and depressed between his eyebrows, obviously he has not been happy recently, and his face is not very good, and he is a little sallow.

After taking the cloth, Xu Guangqi was suddenly shocked, the reason was not anything else, but the stitches at the interface of the cloth were really good, well-proportioned and dense, such workmanship, even if the female celebrity was a good lady, she couldn't do it. He turned it over and saw that the line on the back was different from the front, and it seemed to be a little bit more.

"This thing is very good, but I don't know how it works?" Xu Guangqi raised his head and asked with some surprise, he could only vaguely see that if he wanted to achieve this effect, it should be caused by the cooperation of the two things on the cloth.

As soon as he raised his head, he happened to meet Zhu Youxiao's eyes, and immediately he reacted, his old face turned red, and he said a little ashamedly, "The old minister is rude, please forgive your majesty." ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Youxiao smiled, disappreciated, then turned around, and touched under the sewing machine for a while, and after a crisp click, he felt a round thing, this round object was hollow, and this circle of thin thread was wound inside.

"This is a circular shuttle, the needle is threaded, and there is also a thread in the circular shuttle, and the two are driven to run together by stepping on the pedal with the foot, and then the threads are hooked to each other under the cloth......" Zhu Youxiao gestured again and again, explaining the principle of the sewing machine in detail.

As he said, food, clothing, housing and transportation, the importance of clothes is still in front of food, and this old-fashioned foot-operated sewing machine was prepared by Zhu Youcrumb, and the new job he found for the palace maid was also a big source of wealth for him to open up.

Zhu Youxiao was a prison guard in his previous life, and in prison, the content of the so-called labor reform, in their prison, is to make clothes, to be precise, processing with supplied materials, and it is the Foxconn of the garment industry, of course, they are much more powerful than Foxconn, because their labor is free.

It is precisely because he works there that he has a deep understanding of sewing machines, and he is very clear about the principle of needle and thread hooking, plus his hometown is rural, and he has also seen one of the three major sewing machines in the last century. After coming here, with his own memory, he couldn't get a machine that buckled the keyhole yard, but the sewing machine was no problem at all, there was no shortage of technology, no shortage of materials, and only ideas were missing.

"Your Majesty's whimsical idea to invent such a convenient thing is really for the benefit of the people!" After listening to the principle, Xu Guangqi admired with a face, he is not a hypocrite of the Donglin Party, nor is he a corrupt Confucian, he knows the needs of the people deeply, nothing more than to be fed and clothed, and now with this sewing machine, the speed of women in the people's families to make clothes has greatly increased, and they can earn a lot of money to subsidize the family by selling it.

"Aiqing praised it." Zhu Youxiao smiled, and suddenly changed the topic, "Aiqing knows the Heavenly Palace Workshop?" ”

"Lao Chen naturally knows that the Tiangong workshop is worthy of the word Tiangong, and the silver mirror and wine are all second things, second things." As he spoke, Xu Guangqi smashed his mouth and savored it. Obviously, he also sang about the palace wine that flowed from the Heavenly Palace's workshop.

"Your Majesty mentioned this thing, could it be ......." Xu Guangqi's eyes suddenly opened and asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, the Heavenly Palace Workshop was opened by me, and now these eunuchs are also about to be sent there, and I will also open a garment factory over there, and all the redundant palace maids in the palace will be sent there." Zhu Youxiao nodded, affirming the other party's guess.

"This ......." Xu Guangqi was really stunned, he didn't expect that the owner behind the Tiangong Workshop would be the young man opposite. He has studied the mirror, which is mainly the glass and the coating behind it, and such glass Daming is not produced, all are foreign things.

He thought it was a technology brought by a foreign missionary, but he didn't expect the final truth to be much more than he expected.

"All the craftsmen in the palace have been sent over there, and all the craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the household department will be sent there on a certain day, where they will make iron and steel, cast firearms, and build armor." Zhu Youxiao talked eloquently, looking forward to the brilliance between his eyebrows, and explained his plans and plans in an impassioned manner, "Now there are many craftsmen over there, and there are countless masters, but there is a lack of an integrated master." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youxiao looked at Xu Guangqi with burning eyes, and the meaning revealed in his eyes could be understood even by a fool.

"The old minister obeys." Xu Guangqi didn't say anything else, and accepted it neatly. At this time, in just ten minutes of contact, he saw a little bit from Zhu Youxiao, self-confidence, self-confidence, and self-confidence.

This kind of self-confidence that is so strong that it can be said to be conceited, as long as it is a little contact, you can clearly feel that it is a kind of self-confidence that looks down on the world and all beings. Xu Guangqi didn't know that this young emperor had developed this kind of self-confidence in this way, but he knew that people with this level of self-confidence generally could not tolerate disobedience from their subordinates, because in their eyes, they were always right, and even if they were wrong, it was the fault of the world.