Before Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, finished speaking, Emperor Chongzhen immediately waved his hand to interrupt him and said to him:

Li Aiqing said slowly, Sun Aiqing of the Armed Forces Institute also reported earlier that the Taixi rifle imitated by Baiyecheng Gun Factory No. 3 has also won the first battle, and it will be finalized and mass-produced after the trial of the Shenji Battalion!

"Not long ago, I also sent someone to ask Liu Wenbing and Zhu Guoyan, and I have instructed the Shenji Battalion to give feedback on the results of the trial!

"This time, I went to Tianjin, saw the battleship built by Tianjin Dagukou Shipyard, and on the way back, I will stop by Baiye City, and go to Baiye City to see the new rifled guns of the Third Gun Factory of the Armed Forces Institute! If it is available, it will be finalized and mass-produced on the same day, and equipped with the army as soon as possible! ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen turned his head to the surprise of the people in the palace, looked at Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and said:

"What Li Aiqing was about to say just now, now I can say it!"

Li Guoyan, who has been the first assistant of the cabinet for more than three years, has already figured out the emperor's character, and now that the emperor has spoken to this extent, it means that the emperor has already made a conclusion in his heart about leaving Beijing to go to Tianjin and Baiyecheng.

At this time, wouldn't it be boring to say anything against yourself and then admonish and stop it!

Now that the emperor took the initiative to let him speak, what he wanted to say couldn't be said for a while.

However, since the emperor asked, as a courtier, he could not fail to answer, and after a while, Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, bowed down and said:

"Your Majesty has made up your mind! The minister has no objection! However, although Tianjin is close to the city, it is also outside the Beijing Division! Your Majesty still brings more guards to protect everything!

"And the spring of the fourth year of the imperial court is about to be held, and there is no more important thing in the world than this, and Your Majesty should not leave Beijing for a long time! Before the spring exam, His Majesty should return! The so-called three thoughts, that is! ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen's face warmed again, and he said to everyone: "The matter of the Spring Festival, after all, there is still a month to go, I will go to Tianjin Shipyard and Baiye City, and it will only take two decades to go back and forth, and before the Spring Festival is held, I will definitely be able to return to Beijing!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen of course attaches great importance to Chunqiu, but he is still different from the ministers of the court like Li Guoyi, and he has never regarded Chunqiu as the top priority in the world.

"Since Li Aiqing is worried about this year's Spring Festival, Li Aiqing and Xu Aiqing will stay in Beijing together to prepare for the Spring Festival!

"Ning Chengbo and Nan Aiqing took the Military Aircraft Department, the Second Ordnance Industry Department and the relevant people of the Guards Governor's Mansion to Tianjin with me!

"The Military Aircraft Department will send a message to the Ministry of Industry and the Armament Institute as soon as possible, and during my trip to Tianjin, the No. 3 Gun Factory in Baiyecheng will prepare for the test firing of sample guns!"

After talking about the affairs of Chunqiu, Emperor Chongzhen saw that Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, did not say anything against his departure from Beijing, and immediately finalized these things in a chaotic manner.

After saying these words, when Emperor Chongzhen went to see Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi and Nan Juyi again, these people were only left to bow down and receive the order.

Since the death of the British Duke Zhang Weixian, none of the ministers who are now used by Emperor Chongzhen's side dare to question or criticize the emperor's decision in public.

As for whether this point is good or not, Emperor Chongzhen can't say clearly.

But at least for now, he didn't want the kind of minister around him who always questioned him.

Now, Sun Chengzong, the Minister of Military Aircraft, has basically replaced the position of the British Duke, but Sun Chengzong was born as a Jinshi after all, although he is also highly respected, but he is a newcomer in the circle of nobles, and he is not used to examining the emperor's decision-making with the eyes of the nobles.

Moreover, as the Minister of Military Aircraft in charge of the military affairs of the imperial court, he also appreciated Emperor Chongzhen's series of actions.

Besides, Emperor Chongzhen had also personally gone to the Tongzhou Military Institute to watch the trial of muskets, artillery, thunderbolts, and fierce fire and oil bombs, and there was no chaos.

There are even more people who came to Juyongguan to sit in front of the enemy and return with a big victory, and there has been no chaos.

Emperor Chongzhen's departure from Beijing again and again before also paved the way for these people early, making them feel that the emperor's departure from Beijing was not such an earth-shattering or great event.

Not only have these ministers in the court gradually accepted Emperor Chongzhen's approach, but even Empress Zhou, who was most worried about Emperor Chongzhen's personal safety after leaving Beijing, and other harem concubines gradually became accustomed to the emperor's practices.

After all, whether Emperor Chongzhen went to Tianjin or Baiyecheng, he basically traveled around Jingshi in the land of Gyeonggi, not Emperor Yingzong of that year to conquer the outside of the country, let alone Emperor Wuzong of that year to go to the south of the Yangtze River, there was no danger at all.

Even if it is a little risky, can it be more risky than the emperor's imperial conquest of Juyongguan at the beginning?

With the smooth return of that trip to Juyongguan, among the current Beijing teachers, whether it is the concubines in the palace or the ministers in the court, the emperor's departure from Beijing is not the attitude of seeking death and life in the past.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's decision on February 21, whether in the palace or in the court, did not cause any uproar.

In the early morning of February 26 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the sky was fine, after just a few days of intensive preparations, the imperial drive of Emperor Chongzhen, under the 600 elite musketeers of the front army of the Shenji Battalion loaded with live ammunition and horses to open the way, and at the same time, under the escort of 2,000 people of Tiancewei, Jinyiwei and Yulinwei riding horses and guns, three layers inside and three layers outside, they went out of the Chaoyang Gate of Beijing Division in the east, and went east along the spacious and flat cement road between Beijing and Tianjin.

In the early morning, there were few pedestrians on the roads inside and outside the city.

There is no need to send troops to close the road to martial law in advance, and there is no need to engage in any gongs and drums and red tape.

Emperor Chongzhen himself was only sitting in one of the several four-wheeled carriages driven by the Son of Heaven, while the other accompanying civil and military ministers, military attachés rode horses, and civil officials rode in cars, running in front of and behind the emperor's chariot.

And those particularly close attendants Wenwu and ministers, such as Liu Wenbing, the cousin of the Emperor of the Shenji Battalion, such as Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, such as a group of military attachés and generals of the Gongwei Division, etc., rode high-headed horses and followed the emperor's chariot.

Although the Forbidden City is good, there are too many rules and restrictions on all kinds of heavenly ancestors, and even the emperor himself does not like to stay in it all the time.

Several emperors before the Ming Dynasty were like this, and now this Chongzhen Emperor is not so pretentious, but the longer he stays in it, the more he feels that his head is gradually becoming rigid.

Every day is a patterned life, and anyone who does this for a long time will become rigid.

In short, since taking the carriage out of the Forbidden City, especially after leaving the Chaoyang Gate of the Beijing Division, Emperor Chongzhen was very relieved, and suddenly felt that the air around him was no longer so dull and depressing.

Opened the curtains inside, pushed open the closed glass window in the carriage car, and a gust of cold wind blew, which made Emperor Chongzhen's chaotic and lazy mind suddenly sober and shaken a lot.

When the road was ordered to be built, on the one hand, there was certainly the affection of Jiading Bofu, because their private cement kilns were built more and more, and the private production of civilian cement was also getting bigger and bigger, and the people did not really form the habit of using cement to repair bridges and pave roads and even build houses.

But on the other hand, there is naturally a little selfishness of Emperor Chongzhen himself.

That is, after the road is repaired, one day I can go to Tianjin.

Moreover, a large number of cement sand and gravel bridges were used to pave the road between Tianjin and Beijing, and once the effect was revealed, this thing could be gradually promoted in the Ming Dynasty.

At least in the future, on the one hand, the cement and concrete industry in Gyeonggi will continue to grow, and on the other hand, the road conditions in Gyeonggi will be greatly improved.

Now the cement road between Jingshi and Tianjin has already been completed and opened to traffic, and the tax customs between Hubu and Shuntianfu, which also participated in the investment, have also begun to gain a lot of money, and they have tasted the sweetness from it.

Therefore, both the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Governor's Office of Zhili are now under the persuasion of Jiading Bo Zhoukui to continuously approve new loan cooperation paving projects.

From Beijing to the northeast, the cement official road to Baiye City has been paved, and the cement post road to Juyongguan in the west is also about to be completed, and several others will be fully started after the spring thaw.

For example, the cement concrete official road extending north from Changping City on the official road in western Beijing to Gubeikou will start in mid-March.

The cement road that continues east from Baiye City and further extends to the direction of Shanhaiguan is also in the process of selecting a road and making preparations for exploration.

When the old official roads leading from Baiye City to Shanhaiguan and Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan City were all paved with cement concrete and widened, it was the time for him to conquer and build captives in one fell swoop!

All of this was once something that Emperor Chongzhen eagerly looked forward to in the palace, and now it is becoming a reality step by step.

Every time from the various written reports of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, Emperor Chongzhen felt sincerely happy to see these so-called "strange things" compiled by Jinyiwei and the low-level intelligence personnel of Dongchang.

He always thought about when he would be able to come out of the Forbidden City and see for himself the new changes that were taking place in the land of Gyeonggi.

Now, it's all as he wants.