The family happily ate a belated Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Sister Chen was a little sleepy, so she was carried to the room by Wang Zhoushi to sleep.

After Brother Run finished the salute, he also returned to his east wing to play with the four treasures of the Yumozhai study room he had just obtained.

Wang Zhou sat in front of the lamp, looked carefully at the two fine Songjiang cotton cloths, gestured with his hands, and pondered how to make new clothes for the whole family.

Wang Yiren, on the other hand, lit a candle and flipped through the "Illustrated Chronicles of the World" that he had just borrowed from his colleagues.

The nightlife of the people in the Ming Dynasty was not rich, and the scholars and doctors read books at home in addition to eating flowers and wine.

Wang Zhou put down the cloth and raised his eyes to look at her husband, who was concentrating on reading.

"I didn't read books when I was a sergeant before, why do I still read when I am an official, and I am not afraid of losing my eyes."

"I can't read books, I work in the Hanlin Academy, one of my responsibilities is to prepare for the emperor's inquiry, if the emperor asks, then sit on wax, when today's son is terrible, I know more than the books of the Ministry of Rites, I heard that I also wrote my own books to the old scholars of the pavilion, but I have never seen it."

Wang Yiren took his eyes off the book, glanced at the Hun family, and said on his lips, but said in his heart, I am afraid that I am not afraid that I will see bad eyes, but I am reluctant to use this candle.

"This emperor is really good, not only knowledgeable, but also generous."

Wang Zhou took out the silver again, counted out more than one or two pieces of silver from it, and handed it to Wang Yiren.

"Save some flowers!"

Wang Yiren took the silver with a smile, and sang exaggeratedly in an opera tone, "Thank you,,,, lady,,,, ah。。。。。。 ”

When Wang Zhou heard this, he was also amused by Wang Yiren, and gave him a blank look, as if he was saying to Wang Yiren more like saying to himself, "Alas, this day is really good." ”

Then the candle was blown out.

After falling asleep in the capital, Zhu Youzhen had just woken up.

I didn't sleep until the early hours of the morning last night, and I got up early this morning, so after the end of the court, Zhu Youzhen fell asleep until night, and was awakened by hunger.

After washing his face, Zhu Youzhen ate some yokan, but he couldn't sleep, so he picked up the fold on the imperial case and looked at it.

The highest stack of folds is the New Year's greeting table of the officials, Zhu Youzhen read two copies, and then asked Wang Chengen to move away.

Then he picked up the few remaining folds on the imperial case and flipped through them.

Although the yamen in various places have basically been sealed and retired, major events still have to be reported in a timely manner, and the cabinet and the general administration department have not all been retired, and the basic operation of the imperial court must be maintained.

Zhu Youzhen has tried it one by one, except for the retribution of the whole territory of Guizhou, there is basically no major event.

"Who's on duty tonight?"

"Back to the emperor, it's Han Yi Han Ge Lao."

Wang Chengen replied cautiously, but he was playing the drum in his heart, and there was nothing bad in the recital.

"Oh."

Zhu Youzhen responded when he heard this, and then didn't say anything more.

Wang Chengen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it's best if it's okay, but who expected that the next sentence of the Son of Heaven almost made him drop the dust in his hand to the ground.

"Wang Chengen, you said that if I invite Han Ge Lao into the palace to talk to me now, wouldn't it be a little inappropriate?"

Wang Chengen calmed the frightened little heart, and said with some embarrassment.

"Emperor, the palace door is locked, there is no urgency to open the palace door, there is no such rule, and if the news of Han Ge Lao entering the palace late at night spreads, I don't know what people outside will say."

Zhu Youzhen listened and was immediately impressed by Wang Chengen, this kid has been following him for more than a year, and it seems that he has learned some skills.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen and didn't say anything, but he was secretly sighing in his heart that the nightlife of the Ming Dynasty was really lacking, whether he wanted to open a night market or something like the Song Dynasty.

Wang Chengen also saw that the Son of Heaven was a little bored, he slept too much during the day, and now he probably can't sleep.

Wang Chengen hollowed out his mind and began to think about what could be entertained by the emperor, and after thinking about it, he only wanted to come up with a bed.

But the emperor has always been more restrained in this matter, and he has only favored the queen so far, do you want to go to the queen?

Wang Chengen just wanted to make a suggestion, but was interrupted by Zhu Youzhen.

"Alright, you all go down, don't come in."

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youzhen suspiciously, but Zhu Youzhen waved at him and motioned for them to go out quickly.

Wang Chengen was also a little puzzled by the Son of Heaven's habit of being alone, but the Son of Heaven was not something he could ask about, and then asked the attendants in the palace to retreat, and then closed the door and went out.

Zhu Youzhen saw that everyone was gone, and he was happy, and saw that there was no movement outside, and then disappeared.

Holding my watch, I played a single-player game in the ship's computer room for three hours, but I was really sleepy, so I went back to sleep.

Recently, there was nothing to do in the court, and there was nothing in the palace, so Zhu Youzhen was really bored, so he went to Xishan.

The workshops in Xishan were also on holiday, but Bi Maosheng and Song Yingxing did not leave, Lu Xiangsheng was far away in Guizhou, and they were the only ones in Xishan to celebrate the New Year with the new army sergeants in Xishan.

A few years ago, Zhu Youzhen's rewards for the new army and workshop workers in Xishan were all handed down, and there was no shortage of silver, wine and food, and Xishan was the foundation of Zhu Youzhen, and no one would treat the new army and workshop workers in Xishan harshly.

Moreover, the Generalissimo Mansion of Xishan has been in place for more than a year, and it has already created a lot of wealth for Zhu Youzhen.

In the morning, Zhu Youzhen cordially visited and expressed his condolences to the training and living conditions of the New Army, went to the New Army's canteen to check the daily food, and went to the dormitory to check whether the quilts were warm.

At noon, Zhu Youzhen held a conference meal with the soldiers in the New Army canteen.

In the afternoon, Zhu Youzhen went to the residential area of Xishan, where the residents were mainly refugees from Liaodong and displaced people from the vicinity of the capital.

Over the past year or so, the number of inhabitants has reached as many as fifty or sixty thousand, and a town has been formed at the foot of the western mountain, and it is larger than the size of an ordinary county town.

Most of these people worked in various workshops in Xishan, some digging coal, some making soap, some spinning wool, some burning bricks and making billets, some building houses, some working in iron and steel smelting, and some in ordnance factories.

However, despite this, the current industrial scale of Xishan can only accommodate a part of the people, and if all these people are fully employed, the industrial scale must continue to expand.

And Zhu Youzhen went to Xishan this time to start a new business.

showed the drawings to Bi Maosheng, Bi Maosheng felt that it was not difficult, and quickly arranged for the people below to do it.

Zhu Youzhen transferred many highly skilled craftsmen to Bi Maosheng from various workshops in the Ministry of Industry.

After more than a year of focused training, some of them can already stand alone, many of them can understand the drawings, and Bi Maosheng now does not have to do everything.

。