It is another year of Spring Festival, the thirteenth year of Chongzheng, is a memorable year, in this year the territory of the Ming Empire expanded rapidly, unconsciously has dominated the entire Far East, a super empire is slowly revealing its prototype.

Although the Ming Dynasty has not yet swept the whole world like Meng Yuan, the Ming Dynasty is already invincible in the Far East, even overseas, as long as the great powers do not join forces, they will not be able to help the Ming Dynasty.

Looking back on the achievements of the past year, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but think of the Ming soldiers who were still stationed in the frontier and even overseas, it was precisely because of their bloody sacrifices that the prosperity of the Ming Empire today, but in this kind of national celebration and family reunion, they still had to be silently stationed abroad, and he always felt that he had to do something for these soldiers.

After thinking about it, he thought of the New Year's message, although in this era there has never been a king of a country to the dawn of the people to congratulate the New Year, but in later generations of leaders of the New Year's message is a custom, why can't the Ming Dynasty set this kind of precedent?

So, the day before the Chinese New Year, the "Beijing News" issued a free special issue in the whole territory of the Ming Dynasty and all vassal states, there was nothing else in the special issue, and the whole page only had the New Year's message of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire!

The emperor congratulated everyone on the New Year, this can be said to be the first time in history, all the people of the Ming Dynasty who saw the New Year's message were moved to tears, the "Beijing News" was once again spread crazy, and even many local officials spontaneously organized officials at all levels to go to the township and village to post and read out the emperor's New Year's message, so that those who are illiterate can also hear the emperor's message and feel the vast imperial grace.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong's New Year's message was mainly to thank the soldiers stationed abroad, he just said a few words of congratulations on the New Year at the beginning, and most of the content was to thank the soldiers stationed everywhere.

As a result, the people of the Ming Dynasty all knew that there were still 400,000 Liaodong soldiers in the icy and snowy northern Xinjiang before the Ming Dynasty expanded its territory, and there were 200,000 expeditionary soldiers guarding the frontier for the Ming Dynasty in the far and far South Asian region, and there were 100,000 soldiers of the Dingliao Army guarding the Eurasian Canal in the Egyptian desert farther away, and 500,000 naval officers and soldiers wandering ...... the vast sea.

Through the New Year's message, almost all the people of the Ming Dynasty have realized that the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty is not easy to come by, and this rare peaceful and prosperous era should be cherished.

In fact, Zhu Cijiong also forgot to thank some very important people, such as the officials of the Ministry of Industry, this year, they did not rest, from the Ministry of Industry to Bi Maokang, down to ordinary researchers, are immersed in the development of precision machine tools.

They just want to develop precision machine tools as soon as possible, produce more sophisticated weapons, and make Daming more powerful!

After nearly a month of hard work, they have made a major breakthrough, no, just after the end of the year, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi have come to report the good news, tungsten and chromium can be mass-produced, the gearbox model has also been made, and more importantly, the large-scale generator has been successfully developed.

Zhu Cijiong was moved when he heard the report, these people must not have rested during the New Year.

Now, although the precision machine tool has not been successfully developed, but the electric light can be put into use, in the face of what taboos, Zhu Cijiong does not care much, but he is still nothing more than Bi Maokang and others fist and fist, in the end can only agree that they will first light up the palace, and then install it in various military factories.

So, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi began to organize people to install large generators in a remote corner of the imperial city outside the palace, and draw wires to all corners of the palace.

Soon, the large generator was installed, and the study rooms and dormitories everywhere slowly began to be installed with electric lights, but at this time, Zhu Cijiong didn't have the heart to care about this, because Queen Qin Mingyue was about to give birth!

The so-called pregnancy in October, in fact, is a rough statement, the real time should be more than eight months less than nine months, according to the imperial doctor's speculation, the queen's birth period should be in early February, and it is likely to be a little prince.

At this time, although there are no fluoroscopy methods such as B ultrasound, experienced doctors can generally accurately guess the sex of the fetus based on some pregnancy images, and they say that it is very likely to be the prince, which is absolutely, just in case, they dare not say it to death.

Thinking about the soon-to-be-born son, Zhu Cijiong couldn't sleep with excitement, just at this time Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi reported that the electric lights outside the palace had been installed, and asked him when the electricity would be turned on.

This is indeed a very important thing, because the common people do not know that there is such a thing as electric lights, and you will not cause any sensation if you use them in the study and the dormitory, because there is not much light coming through, and at most others think that there are a few more oil lamps in the palace.

It's not the same to electrify the lights outside the palace, because at this time, it's basically dark outside, and if you suddenly light up a light bulb the size of hundreds of heads, you don't know how far the light will shine through, and it will definitely cause a sensation.

When is such a sensational good thing to choose?

After the New Year's Festival, it seems that there has been no important solar term for a long time, which really stumped Zhu Cijiong, thinking about it, he suddenly thought of his soon-to-be-born son, and it might be a good idea to light it on the night he was born.

So, one night in early February, a thousand lights suddenly appeared in the direction of the palace, and the entire palace was illuminated by hundreds of large light bulbs, even more dazzling than during the day!

This was simply a miracle, and all the civilians in the entire capital were awakened by the screams one after another, and they all bowed in the direction of the Forbidden City.

Immediately after, "Ahhhh A loud baby cry came from the Kunning Palace, and the queen was finally born!

Soon, an old palace maid in charge of delivering the baby ran to the main hall of Kunning Palace, knelt at the door, and reported the good news: "Congratulations to the emperor, it is a little prince, and the mother and son are safe." “

Zhu Cijiong, who was pacing in the hall, heard the words and shouted: "Okay, look at the reward." “

Then he rushed to the door excitedly and went straight to the dormitory.

Cao Huachun at the door also showed a look of surprise, he took out a red envelope from his arms, stuffed it directly into the hands of the old palace maid, and then led a team of eunuchs, following the emperor's footsteps, running to the direction of the palace, those eunuchs were all holding plates, and the plates were also a pile of red envelopes.

The old palace maid took the red envelope and secretly opened it to see, oh my God, it was a thick pile of dragon coins, and the denomination was actually one hundred taels!

Zhu Cijiong didn't know whether the emperor should give out red envelopes when he gave birth to a son, but he was happy and sent them whenever he wanted.

Therefore, he asked Cao Huachun to prepare countless red envelopes, which were full of one hundred taels of dragon coins, and the delivery was directly ten thousand taels, and all the other palace maids and eunuchs who were busy in Kunning Palace were all one hundred taels!