The branches of the capital are about to sprout.

In the distant east of Liaodong, between the white mountains and black waters, there is still a vast white ice and snow.

Houjin Tokyo City, the former Liaoyang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty.

Nurhachi is really old, he will turn 65 this year. At his age, in this era, he is already a long-lived person. His beard is now gray, and his former sturdy body is a little clumsy.

This winter, the sore Nurhachi was very tired. Years of fighting have left him with too many scars, summer and autumn are fine, and winter and spring are always the saddest seasons for him.

Winter and spring are also the saddest times for Nurhachi's attendants. The irascible Nurhachi would always kill people to vent his anger, and several of his attendants would often die in a single winter.

The transition between winter and spring is often the time when Nurhachi is at his most frenzied, and the attendants always hide far away, eager to disappear from Nurhachi's eyes.

The world is so strange and dangerous, but some people will risk their lives to come forward.

As the spring of the fourth year of the apocalypse slowly arrived, the irascible Nurhachi slowly regained his calm. Someone's adventure also succeeded.

In Liaoyang City, in a small house.

A young man of 23 or 4 years old was lying on the kang with his teeth bared. A middle-aged man is dressing his back.

"Second brother, why are you doing this?" The middle-aged man looked at the whip marks on the young man's back and said unbearably.

"Don't worry, big brother, little brother has his own measure." The young man comforted the middle-aged man, "The Great Khan is not confused at all, how can you see that he has killed any important minister?" It was only now that no one dared to approach him, and I was able to get to him. If it were normal, where would I have a chance. As long as he can impress me, what is the number of lashes? Since our brother has taken refuge in him, then we have to mix up our personal appearance. Big brother, we must not be half-hearted anymore. ”

The young man struggled to sit up, staring at the thick hair of his eldest brother. There is an indescribable meaning in his eyes, whether it is jealousy, envy, resentment, remorse, maybe both.

Under the light, the hairstyle of the money rat tail on the young man's head is particularly dazzling.

Since the beginning of the third year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi, the Great Khan of Liaodong Houjin, forced the Han people under his command to shave their hair and make it easy to wear. The well-dressed Han people in Liaodong who could not give up their homeland rioted one after another, and the Later Jin repeatedly suppressed them, but they could not be completely eradicated.

The internal rebellion involved a lot of energy from Houjin. Nurhachi's underestimation of the Ming army also made Houjin ignore the actions of the Ming army in Ningyuan.

Taking advantage of the fact that Houjin could not look west for a while, Sun Chengzong seized this favorable opportunity and quickly established a solid defense line in Ningyuan.

At the beginning of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi adopted the suggestion of the traitor Fan Wencheng, changed Shenyang to Shengjing, planned to move the capital to Shenyang, and first solved internal problems.

The military center of gravity of the Later Jin Dynasty completely shifted inward, and the Ming army got a rare respite. Sun Chengzong did not dare to slack off, and continued to strengthen the Ningyuan defense line while reorganizing the Ming army.

The capital, the residence of the king.

During the entire fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen was very busy. He's busy giving gifts. The industries under his name are all good.

It's the New Year, and it's time for dividends.

In order to give a gift to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen specially made careful preparations.

Among the new crops produced in Huangzhuang, golden corn and golden pumpkin are selling well and can be given directly as gifts.

Peanuts and sunflower seeds need to be fried before they can be served.

Although the amount of peanuts and sunflower seeds harvested is not too much, it is enough for people to taste it as a snack.

plus the 300,000 taels of silver tickets from the public money bank as dividends, and a boat drawing that Zhu Youzhen drew with great difficulty and exchanged from God.

It seems that this gift is quite rich.

Since the beginning of the third year of the Apocalypse, when the system was upgraded to level 3, Zhu Youzhen's speed of accumulating points has slowed down significantly.

The system is nominally a "second-class vessel", and the construction is becoming more and more complex.

When the ships with relatively simple structures were all completed, Zhu Youjian entered a bottleneck period. It often takes ten and a half days to make a model.

The models he made now are no longer simple boats nailed to wooden boards.

Today's ships have all kinds of keels, ribs, bottom compartments, decks, side sides, helm cabins, and masts, and it can be said that they have entered a complete sailing era.

Not to mention the production of these complex ships, it takes a long time to draw drawings alone.

A complete sailboat, even if only a complete drawing is drawn, this project is quite a small one. Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen is not engaged in innovation and designs new drawings.

He just needs to draw out the drawings from God in his head. In the whole process, he is equivalent to a humanoid photocopier, doing only the work of copying.

As ships get bigger and more sophisticated, so do the drawings and the time it takes to draw them.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen started drawing from a canoe. He has been going step by step, from simple to complex, step by step to the present.

After more than a year of drawing practice, his drawing level has greatly improved.

This drawing that Zhu Youzhen used as a gift is a Song Dynasty merchant ship.

This Song ship has 90 points to redeem, which is only 10 points less than the Eastern Han Dynasty fighting ship, the highest of the second-class military ships.

However, Zhu Youzhen obviously felt that if the superstructure is not counted, in terms of the hull alone, this Song ship is more refined. That's right, after all, it was a few dynasties later than the Eastern Han Dynasty fighting ship, and the time difference between the two ships was nearly a thousand years.

This Song ship is 35.5 meters long, the waterline is 31.6 meters long, the width is 10 meters, the draft is 1.5-3 meters, the stern is 4 meters high, it has 3 masts that can hang 3 sails, and the load is 180-370 tons. 20 sailors are required. The ship already had the construction of a watertight compartment and rudders that could be lifted and lowered.

The reason for choosing this Song ship was that Zhu Youzhen deliberately embarrassed his eldest brother Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao's carpentry skills are so high that he has lost interest in simple carpentry work.

The carpenter emperor's favorite thing to do now is to build a model of the palace.

The reason for liking it is simply that it takes a high level of skill to make these complex architectural models.

Zhu Youxiao likes to challenge his skills, and he feels that it is difficult to improve his skills.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know anything about architectural models, but fortunately he still had God on his side.

The building model can't be taken out, and that's okay.

After accumulating enough points, he resolutely exchanged this Song Dynasty merchant ship with a technical content that even surpassed that of a warship. He just wanted to give Zhu Youxiao a big surprise.

"Hmph, can he look down on me again this time?" Someone smirked and walked forward.

Zhu Youzhen came to Kunning Palace with gifts, where he would present gifts to Zhu Youxiao and Empress Zhang.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhu Youxiao also gave up his beloved carpenter work, and he still cherishes the feeling of being with his family. For this feeling, he would rather give up the majesty of the emperor in the Qianqing Palace, and instead seek the charm of the Kunning Palace.