On the sixteenth day of the first month of the tenth year of Chongzheng, just after the New Year's Festival, most people are still at home to taste the afterglow of the Spring Festival, but Dongdaying Xingang is full of people and busy. This day was the day when the second batch of arms from the Ming Dynasty was sent to the European continent, and Zhu Cijiong had already ordered all the members of the Nanyang Naval Division to go north to come to the eastern camp to load the arms, and at the same time send the people of the European envoys back.

However, few of the European envoys actually boarded the ship, and most of them decided to stay in Daming to learn Chinese, and they were standing on the shore to see them off.

This time the regent Zhu Youzhen did not accompany him to Europe, last time it was the first time that the Ming fleet went to Europe, which has special significance, this time it is different, it is purely door-to-door delivery, so Zhu Youzhen does not have to go again, and he still has very important things to do, and he has no time to go to Europe.

On the same day, the regent Zhu Youzhen exercised his power as regent for the first time, and he did not consult the emperor's opinion at all, and directly promulgated a will, uh, it's not that his wings are hard and he wants to turn the sky upside down, he didn't consult the emperor's opinion, but this is the meaning of the two queen mothers, these two sisters-in-law are directly in charge of the emperor, he said that he was quite afraid, so as soon as the imperial sister-in-law spoke, he immediately complied, and directly passed the emperor to promulgate this will.

This will is terrible, it may scare all the people of the Ming Dynasty to hide their daughters, the will is like this, the regent Wang order: The Ming Dynasty and all vassal states, all unmarried women between the ages of fourteen and sixteen must be screened by the daughters of officials from all over the world, and those with outstanding appearance will all be sent to the capital!

Edi God, it's really a draft, and not only the Ming Dynasty, all vassal countries have to choose, the two queen mothers probably got inspired after seeing Princess Anna, such a pink doll is so cute, you have to choose a few more for the emperor!

Well, to say that there are foreigners in the Ming vassal states, but the general vassal states don't pay much attention to the Ming Dynasty, except for Dongying, Ryukyu, and Korea, the three vassal states that the Ming Dynasty has rectified, and the other vassal states will choose a yarn for you.

The two queen mothers are interested in the draft, they never interfere in political affairs does not mean that they are too lazy to take care of things, they just don't want to interfere with the emperor's freedom, but this time they can't help the emperor, they must take care of the matter of choosing a daughter-in-law!

Almost all the drafts in the past dynasties will cause panic among the people, no way, because just as the Houmen is as deep as the sea, once you enter the palace and don't get the emperor's favor, you will have to be lonely and old.

But Chongzheng Dynasty is strange, after the draft order was promulgated, there are really rich families and even official eunuchs who try their best to send their daughters to the palace, are these people idiots?

Of course they are not idiots, on the contrary, they are very smart, don't you see the treatment of the old Qin family, it is rumored that the emperor has taken a fancy to the daughter of the old Qin family, who loves the house and Wu, so he promoted and reused the old Qin family, a family of four army commanders, how illustrious!

There are many people who know that this is not actually a rumor, but a fact, the emperor is good at everything, just a bit of nepotism, as long as he knows, there is no one who is not brilliant, so they are desperately sending their daughters to the palace, they don't ask their daughters to be the queen concubine or anything, as long as they can occasionally get the emperor's favor and even have the opportunity to serve the emperor's daily life, in short, as long as their daughter can talk to the emperor, soaring, just around the corner.

Later, there was really a palace maid who served Zhu Cijiong and said to him inexplicably, my father is so-and-so, and my brother is so-and-so, what does it have to do with me who your father's brother is, Zhu Cijiong felt that his head was almost dead.

Of course, these are all later words, skip it for the time being, since the draft cannot be stopped, then it can only be left to him, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong still has a lot of things to be busy with, the most important of which is, of course, the construction of four new factories, especially the machinery factory and the cement factory, the turning dragon can be related to the harvest of hundreds of millions of acres of land in the northwest, and the cement is related to the future development of the Ming Dynasty, both of which are the focus of his attention.

The earth-turning dragon doesn't need him to worry much, Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing are both mechanical expert-level figures, if you want to make mechanical equipment, Zhu Cijiong can't catch up with them, the reason why he didn't make the earth-turning dragon before, is mainly limited to the problem of knowledge, they don't have Zhu Cijiong's knowledge in later generations.

Zhu Cijiong drew a sketch of the crawler chassis, there is basically no problem with this turner, Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing did not rest during the New Year, and followed the people of the Ministry of Industry to work overtime, not only built the machinery factory almost, but also made the prototype of the turner!

No, before the first lunar month, Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing ran over happily and asked the emperor to see the prototype of the earth-turning dragon. Zhu Cijiong was happier than them, he didn't expect the Earth Turning Dragon to be made so quickly, it was an unexpected surprise, this steam-powered locomotive was directly off the track and ran on the ground, he really hadn't seen it, so he naturally had to go and see it.

When he came to Xicheng District, even he was shocked by the scene in front of him, and in the distance was the city wall that could not be seen at a glance, towering between heaven and earth, majestic and majestic; Nearby, the dense Ming army and prisoners are stepping up construction, and the scene is magnificent; Buildings are rising from the ground, roads are leading to the sky, and 500,000 people are working together, what a spectacular scene, even he is used to seeing hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops fighting.

For the first time, he realized that the large number of people is also an advantage, the population of the Ming Dynasty is more than all the powers combined, in this era, this is an absolute advantage, how to give full play to this advantage?

Just as Zhu Cijiong lowered his head and pondered, the place where the earth turning dragon was parked finally arrived, to his surprise, this was not in the machinery factory, because the machinery factory should be in the southeast corner of Xicheng District, and this is obviously the location near the center of Xicheng District.

This strange machine in front of him, how to say it, Zhu Cijiong has never planted the land, he has only occasionally seen some agricultural machinery on TV, this ploughing dragon is a bit like a large harvester in later generations, but the harvester is a harvesting device sticking out of the front, and this ploughing dragon is a row of sharp blades hanging behind the plough.

Zhu Cijiong went out of the palace this time, in order not to cause a commotion, he just brought hundreds of masters of brocade clothes and guards, and sat in an ordinary sedan chair carried by four people, Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing beat horses and slowly followed beside them, it was convenient to talk, this will be the place, Song Yingxing immediately proposed: "Your Majesty, why don't you go and let them open it?" “

Zhu Cijiong had long wanted to know what the effect of this thing would be, and when he heard this, he nodded hurriedly and said, "Well, let me see it." “

Song Yingxing got the will and immediately couldn't wait to beat his horse and run to the side of the earth-turning dragon, and said a few words, only to see a burst of white smoke coming out of the top of the earth-turning dragon, and a sound of gear turning sounded, and the sharp blades of the row of ploughing fields slowly pierced into the soil! Immediately followed by the sound of the piston clicking, the earth turning dragon really moved, the speed is not very fast, just like the speed of human walking, but the place where it drove is about ten meters wide on the ground, all the soil has been turned up, and turning the ground has become so simple!

Even Zhu Cijiong, who came over, couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised: "Well, very good, with this earth-turning dragon artifact, it will be much easier for ordinary people to farm in the future." “

Wang Zheng on the side said as if offering a treasure: "Your Majesty, there are unexpected surprises, not only is it easy to farm, but it is also easy to open the road." “

Zhu Cijiong didn't understand what was going on, and immediately a team of prisoners came over with shovels on their backs and shoveled the loose soil aside, and then another team of prisoners carried the processed thick stone slabs to the ground, and a team of captives followed behind the earth ploughing dragon to shovel soil and pave stone slabs, and soon a ten-meter-wide small road stretched out hundreds of meters away, it turned out that they were building roads here!