Walking all the way west along the boulevard outside the Wuying Gate, you can meet the ministers holding the folds in their hands waiting outside the Wuying Gate.

Zhu Zhanji has not yet participated in politics, and when those ministers saw Zhu Zhanji, they all bowed and saluted, but no one spoke to him.

If you talk to your grandson for no reason, you will be considered harboring evil intentions, which is a big crime.

The reason why there is such a provision is that, on the one hand, it is to prevent the princes and grandsons from being bewitched by the ministers, and on the other hand, it is also the old Zhu family's prevention of the heirs.

Zhu Gaochi was still in prison, because he privately met with Xie Jin, who reported to work. In history, Xie Jin was killed because of this, and Zhu Gaoxu also clamored every day to abolish the prince.

In the face of the struggle for power, there is no father-son affection. Although Zhu Di is a grandson, he intends to support him. But all this is because Zhu Zhanji is quite different in age from him, so he deliberately supports his grandson to oppose his son and restrain power.

So whether it is Zhu Gaochi or Zhu Zhanji, if you want to gain more power, you can only follow Zhu Di's rules.

What he gives, you can only want, what he doesn't give, you can't think.

Because of this, Zhu Zhanji forcibly endured his desire to be in power and did not contact these ministers.

In terms of the current Wenchen, in addition to Xie Jin and Hu Guang, who have served as his teachers, there is only one semi-retired Yao Guangxiao, and Zhu Zhanji will occasionally contact him.

After passing through the Wuying Palace, it is the big imperial kitchen, the imperial kitchen here is the largest in the palace, and all the personnel are gathered together, and they can cook more than 10,000 people's food.

Sometimes Zhu Di feasted his ministers, mainly relying on the imperial kitchen here to cook.

In the past, the imperial kitchen was the Xihua Gate, which was mainly used by the eunuchs, because outside this door, there was the most advanced factory and the largest warehouse in the Ming Dynasty.

Coming out of Xihua Gate is not the palace city, but the imperial city, a straight road leads to the outer gate of the imperial city, Xi'an Gate.

On the north side of this main road, the area parallel to the Imperial Palace is the Inner Prefecture Treasury. It is about half the size of the imperial palace, and there are hundreds of different warehouses filled with all kinds of local tribute products, the private money of the royal family, all kinds of silk, cloth, etc., which the emperor wants to reward.

On the south side of this road, an area of more than 500,000 square meters, is the largest sweatshop in Daming.

In this area, there are eight bureaus of internal supervision that are soldiers, silverwork, raccoon clothes, scarves and hats, needlework, inner weaving and dyeing, wine vinegar noodles, and one is the Siyuan Bureau, in addition to the Siyuan Bureau, the other seven bureaus have no less than one workshop here.

In addition, there are four divisions of the palace maid system that have their own factories and workshops here, and there are more than 30,000 eunuchs and palace maids working here in this area.

The eunuchs here belong to the same system as the eunuchs in the palace, but the palace maids are different.

Because the palace maids here are not qualified to enter the palace, they will return to their hometown to remarry after working here for a few years.

So to some extent, they are freer than the palace maids in the palace. However, they also have to endure all kinds of exploitation, and only by working honestly can they return safely.

Zhu Zhanji did not cancel the idea of this place, because the factories and workshops here also represent the most advanced industrial technology of this era.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only the workshops of the Ministry of Industry can be more advanced than here, but in the textile industry, I am afraid that even the workshops of the Ministry of Industry are not as good as the workshops of the internal supervision.

Zhu Zhanji's presence also made the stewards and eunuchs and palace maids here extremely solemn, although there was no drum music to welcome the guests, one by one they were like later generations of leaders inspecting, sprinkling water and sweeping the floor, and cleaning up everywhere.

There are many trees in the palace, but there is not a single tree here except for the house. The exterior of each warehouse is fed with live water to form ditches to prevent fires.

Zhu Zhanji asked Wang Yan, the chief eunuch, to send the others, leaving only the eunuchs in charge of the War Bureau, and a few credible eunuchs who had access to the globe.

Entered the War Bureau, which was originally a place specially used by the internal supervisor to make weapons and honor supplies, including the military flag of the internal supervisor, which was embroidered here.

The security precautions here are already relatively strict, and a small courtyard near the root of the imperial city is even more surrounded by water.

Meng Chaolai, the eunuch in charge of the War Bureau, also boasted to himself: "Your Royal Highness, please rest assured, since the first day the globe moved in, the craftsmen inside have never come out, and no one outside can go in." Except for a few people who can be trusted, no one can collude inside and outside to leak secrets. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded indifferently and said: "The people inside are all meritorious men, you investigate whether anyone has accepted their settlement money, and return it to them before I find out." ”

The smile on his face froze, and before he could speak, he saw several eunuchs in the distance leading Ji Gang and Zhuang Jing over to them.

Seeing these two killing gods, Meng Chaolai hurriedly said: "I will investigate this matter immediately, if there is such a matter, I will not be spared." ”

These craftsmen are equivalent to being imprisoned in this courtyard, and they have come into contact with such a secret, I am afraid that they have long thought that they are going to be wiped out.

Although Zhu Zhanji took out a lot of rewards, they may think that this is a settling-in fee. It is difficult to survive through bribery, but if you want to bribe the eunuchs who supervise and pass a word to the family, I am afraid that many eunuchs will be willing to do it.

This kind of thing can't be avoided, and Zhu Zhanji doesn't want to dig into it. If you really check it, I'm afraid that no one is clean.

The reason why he didn't explain to these bows and arrows was that he wanted to use these ten months to put psychological pressure on them to let them know the importance of this secret.

And then release them, they will not dare to reveal these secrets casually, and they will be grateful to themselves.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head with a smile, glanced at Meng Chaolai, but did not answer his words, and looked at Ji Gang who came over.

Maybe it's because he's in a relaxed mood, Ji Gang looks more energetic than when he was in the New Year, and his mustache is also straightened out.

There were still two or three meters away from Zhu Zhanji, so he stood still and saluted. "Weichen see His Royal Highness Taisun."

There were outsiders present, Zhu Zhanji naturally wanted to lift him down, and said with a smile: "Commander Ji is not more polite, I saw him in a hurry yesterday, and I didn't have time to speak, I don't know how it is recently?" ”

"His Royal Highness Lao is concerned, Weichen can still eat three bowls of rice and pull three stones with a hard bow."

Zhu Zhanji smiled: "Okay, I'm going to hunt in the soup pond next month, and we'll have a competition at that time." ”

Ji Gang responded with a smile, and then greeted Wang Yan and Meng Chao again. Although his notoriety is far and wide, he can't control it on the side of the internal prison. On the contrary, a chief eunuch like Wang Yan is still the object of his stammering, and he does not dare to neglect it.

After greeting each other, Meng Chaolai took Zhu Zhanji and them into the small courtyard again.

This small courtyard is built on the imperial city, with workshop rooms on all sides and a courtyard in the middle.

In addition to the three craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, there are also ten craftsmen from the internal supervision. Seeing Zhu Zhanji coming in, especially with the big villain Ji Gang behind them, they seemed to have accepted their fate, and their hearts were like ashes.

However, they did not dare to slack off in etiquette, because now they may only die alone, and the family can still get a large amount of settling-in money.

If you offend Zhu Zhanji, I'm afraid the whole family won't be able to live.

After they knelt down, Zhu Zhanji spoke: "Ten months of being locked up in this small courtyard, you have worked hard and suffered crimes. However, you have made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and I will ask the emperor's grandfather for a decree and reward you later. ”

One of them, a man in his early thirties, hesitated, knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, we know that we know this secret and will never survive, I only hope that Your Highness can remember some credit for us and treat us and other family members with mercy." ”

Zhu Zhanji looked around and laughed. "Heads up, when did I say I was going to put you to death?"

The three of them all looked at Zhu Zhanji in surprise, but Zhu Zhanji didn't explain anymore and said, "Take me to see your results first......

The three of them glanced at each other suspiciously, a little at a loss. It was Meng Chao who said: "Let's come, I'm more familiar with them here!" ”

Zhu Zhanji asked, "Do you know better than them how to carve these globes?" There is a specialization in the art industry, and you can answer professional questions for them? ”

Meng Chaolai was ashamed, and he didn't dare to perform in front of Zhu Zhanji again, so he gave up his position. There are many such people in the later life, and their subordinates drive out a little achievement, and they will take the credit and put it on themselves.

Although Zhu Zhanji believes that when the water is clear, there are no fish, if he wants to do things, he not only needs people who can do practical things, but also people who can do things, and people who are good at coordination.

However, whoever should do the work should be done, and it is unacceptable to replace the insider with the outsider.

Only then did the three of them react, quickly got up, and took Zhu Zhanji into the warehouse dedicated to placing the globe.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Zhanji was shocked by the globes in the room, not to mention more than 30, there were 100. Although there are only about 30 large ones, there are more small globes, but it is clear that the workmanship is much worse.

The big one should have been carved by these three craftsmen, and the small one was carved by the craftsmen of the inner prison.

The largest globe is more than a meter in diameter, and the smallest is only about 20 centimeters in diameter, about the size of a soccer ball.

Hundreds of globes are placed on the blue brick ground, and the base is installed underneath, and the workmanship of each one is much better than that carved by Zhu Zhanji.

Moreover, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, a simple map was also engraved. Although the proportions are a little out of balance, the general terrain is not wrong.

When Zhu Zhanji was carving a map of the Americas, he accidentally cut a piece on the Rocky Mountains, leaving a gap, and they also carved it, which made people laugh and cry.

Then a small globe with fine workmanship attracted Zhu Zhanji's attention, this small globe is more delicate than other globes at a glance, although it is small, but the surface topography is not the slightest mistake.

He looked up and asked, "Who carved this globe?" ”