The battlefield of Liaodong ended in a great victory for the Ming army, Nurhachi returned to his hometown and found that Hetuala had been ransacked, one of the four sons was killed, three sons were captured, and two more sons were killed in battle, and his wife was killed, and he spat blood in his mouth.

At the beginning of April of the first year of the Apocalypse, the news of the great victory in Liaodong came, and the ministers congratulated, and Zhu Youxiao was also very happy and feasted the ministers. The situation in Liaodong is initially stable, and it will not be until next year that Zhu Youxiao and others have perfected their research on firearms, and then they will use troops in the northeast to thoroughly improve the control of the northeast, and when the northeast is properly controlled, then they will use troops in Mongolia and the northwest. However, now we must consider the development of the economy, otherwise civil strife is everywhere, nothing can be done, the basis for the rise of a country is not only a strong army, but more importantly, there must be a strong economic foundation, and now that the northeast is basically stable, it is natural to begin to consolidate the economic foundation.

First of all, Sun Chengzong was transferred back to the capital from Liaodong, the military department Shangshu was added to the cabinet, the governor of Liaodong was served by Xiong Tingbi, Xu Guangqi was appointed to the cabinet, and Song Yingxing gave Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry to preside over the firearms factory, etc., Zhu Youxiao gave what he could know about the official and the power that should be in charge.

Now that it is the season to plant spring sweet potatoes, Zhu Youxiao ordered Zhu Guozuo, the head of the household department, to dig out all the sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings from Huangzhuang, hire a large number of cars from the capital, and then cover them with black cloth to pack the sweet potatoes with soil, and tell them to spray them every day with warm water that has been basked in the sun. He also selected 100 officials under the age of 40 who were willing to endure hardships and could afford to look down on the common people from among the yamen and alternate officials in the capital, each of whom was responsible for 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes, and then asked the officials to ask Xu Guangqi to hold a training course for these people, explaining the significance and importance of popularizing sweet potato planting this time, and clearly explaining the planting technology and the soil to which they adapted. Finally, tell them that each person chooses a county, and each county will provide 100 acres of soil suitable for planting sweet potatoes, and wait until May to start supplying sweet potato seedlings to the people for free, and be responsible for teaching planting techniques, if that person dares to collect money to sell seedlings, directly cut off the head.

Zhu Youxiao calculated, for every 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes, there are about 20,000 pieces, each piece can produce about ten seedlings, and each spring seedling can produce about ten summer seedlings, so that there can be two million seedlings, and each seedling can produce at least five catties of sweet potatoes, which can increase by 10 million catties of sweet potatoes, which is less than 100 catties of distribution to everyone. In addition to raising people into Beijing, they also have to ask other provinces in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces to voluntarily, and Xiucai and Tongsheng under the age of 25 to enter Beijing, and each person will be given ten taels of silver, so that they can bring back the method of planting sweet potatoes, potatoes, and carrots, and pass it on to the people for free, telling them that this is a holy decree, and if anyone does not obey the holy decree and lose his fame, he will not have the opportunity to become an official in the future.

Talent is the eternal pursuit, Zhu Youxiao needs to have culture, knowledge, flexible talents, in order to let the people be fed, he is almost unscrupulous to tap talents, squeeze literate people in this era.

In mid-April, under the auspices of Sun Ruyou, the post-election ceremony ended, and three women were selected, not surprisingly, it was still the three people in history, Zhu Youxiao directly ordered Zhang Yan as the queen, and the other two Wang were good concubines, Duan was a pure concubine, according to the royal marriage ceremony, the emperor's wedding was held solemnly and cumbersomely, so that Zhu Youxiao also became an adult completely.

Although married, Zhu Youxiao doesn't want to turn Zhang Yan into a woman right now, Zhu Youxiao himself is an adult, Zhang Yan is only sixteen years old, according to the concept of modern people, this is still a child, at least wait until Zhang Yan is eighteen years old to have sex together, so it will be good for both himself and Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan's first child in history did not survive, and since then she has lost the ability to give birth, although it is related to the persecution of the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian, but it may not be related to her age and physical development. Zhu Youxiao is not a noble person, but he is not a beast either, he can't be like Huang Taiji, a person in his thirties, so he directly gave Dayu, who was only thirteen years old.

In order not to let Zhang Yan misunderstand, Zhu Youxiao told Zhang Yan about the complete development of the human body, not that he didn't like her. Afraid of arousing the Queen Mother's doubts, Zhu Youxiao also told the Queen Mother about it, but he said that he was too young, premature intercourse affected life expectancy, and took the short-lived emperors of previous dynasties as an example, although the Queen Mother and Zhang Yan did not understand Zhu Youxiao's theory, but when she heard it, she still believed Zhu Youxiao's statement, Zhu Youxiao was also very distressed, and she had to endure it while guarding a big beauty, which was also very uncomfortable, but for the future of the Ming Dynasty, it was also worth it.

Zhu Youxiao decided to open Enke, so he summoned Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to explain his thoughts and intentions clearly. Sun Ruyou is a good Donglin party system, but he is also an upright person, he understands Zhu Youxiao's intentions very well, although he is not willing to do this, he is afraid that the Donglin Party will decline from now on, but he also knows that if he does not do this, the emperor will immediately change the Ministry of Rites, which is not without precedent, and secondly, if Zhu Youxiao succeeds, he will be the biggest hero, and he will be famous in history, and the ancient people valued this very much.

On April 15, Zhu Youxiao's first imperial examination edict after becoming emperor was issued to all parts of the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, Enke's status is not as good as that of Changke, but this Enke selection is based on the emperor's intention, which means that this selection may be more trusted by the emperor. In fact, the literati misunderstood Zhu Youxiao's meaning this time, Zhu Youxiao's purpose was to care more about which talents and children under the age of twenty-five were born, and these people were the backbone of the Ming Dynasty's Zhongxing in the future.

Enke's affairs were arranged, and the situation in Liaodong was stabilized, Zhu Youxiao was not too flustered, and then he remembered the establishment of the factory. summoned Song Yingxing, a waiter from the Ministry of Works, and asked him about the soap factory.

Song Yingxing replied: "According to His Majesty's instructions, the soap factory has been established, and a large amount of tallow and mutton fat have been exchanged from Lin Dan Khan, and they are all castrated with salt for fear that they are broken, and the caustic soda that His Majesty said has also been found, and the first batch of soap has come out early, and the effect is very good after testing, whether it is dirty clothes, or washing the face is clean, the only drawback is that the smell is a little heavy, and we are thinking about improvement." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "In this case, you ask people to find some traditional Chinese medicine called Angelica dahurica, and put it in when boiling the grease before putting the caustic soda, so that the odor can be expelled." In addition, buy some roses, peonies, jasmine, etc., that is, the petals with a strong fragrance are boiled into water and added to the pot, so that different scents of soap will be made, which can be sold for a large price. There is also the task I gave Sun Yuanhua to find graphite, I don't know if I found it, with that kind of thing can make a pen that writes on paper, and it is very fast. There is also limestone and clay with a little gypsum to make a strong cement that can be used to build a house. And now Westerners burn paper glass, and so on, we have to make it.

"There are also sales channels, and now the big businessmen and mine owners are unwilling to pay taxes, and there are so-called Qingliu and officials in the imperial court to defend them, saying that they hide wealth from the people and do not compete with the people for profit. Well, now we will establish our own sales channels, and then sell the products of our factory, our products will be highly profitable, leading the times of products, who wants to act as an agent for sales, then good, establish a complete account book, pay taxes according to the account book every month, otherwise, no need to talk. ”

Zhu Youxiao and Song Yingxing talked about a lot of commercial operations and industrial manufacturing products, and this conversation laid the foundation for the start of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has entered a new lane of rapid development.