Due to the tiring journey, Liu Rushi and Ning Concubine Luoji, accompanied by Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen, had returned to Beijing first.

Except for Liu Bin, a martial artist, Zhu Youxiao did not have anyone around him, and the more he felt quiet and free when he stayed in Longquan Temple.

In the early morning, an old monk came out of the meditation room and began to sweep the courtyard, and the yellow leaves and dust fell down the mountain, covering a touch of wild flowers that had just emerged.

The sound of the bell came through the window, and one after another monks could be heard coming to the main hall wearing hundreds of robes to start chanting sutras and doing morning classes.

However, no one came to Zhu Youxiao's Buddhist hall to do morning classes, because this only belongs to Bumu Butai, when he Zhu Youxiao made a will to let a former Manchu queen fall here as a nun, as the host of the temple naturally did not dare to be disdainful, so he opened up this piece of side hall by Bumu Butai to specialize.

And now, it has become a private meeting place between Zhu Youxiao and Bumu Butai.

But because there were too many actions last night, he only made peace for a moment before throwing away his hand, and then Zhu Youxiao scolded with a smile: "I don't get up yet, I really have no scruples, and I don't look at what kind of place this is, I didn't defile this holy place of Buddhism, and all the merits I have cultivated in this half of my life have been ruined by you!" ”

Bumu Butai pouted and stood up, and glanced at Zhu Youxiao with grievances, but he still took the initiative to come over and help Zhu Youxiao, and personally changed Zhu Youxiao's clothes and crown.

"Your Majesty, can you take the slave and maid back to the palace, the slave and maid want to accompany Your Majesty every day", after changing clothes for a while, Bumu Butai surrounded Zhu Youxiao again, Zhu Youxiao only said no, and left this Buddhist hall in Bumu Butai's sad eyes.

Bu Mu Butai ran out eagerly, she wanted to ask Zhu Youxiao how long she would let her become a monk in this Buddhist land, but she couldn't open her mouth, she just called out loudly: "Your Majesty, don't forget to come and see the slave in the future." ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and instructed the abbot of Longquan Temple who greeted him: "Take care of the good students, and there can be no mistakes." ”

After bidding farewell to Longquan Temple, Zhu Youxiao got up and returned to Beijing, and when he arrived in Beijing, Lu Xiangsheng and other officials were already waiting outside the city gate to greet him, and martial law was also imposed in the entire capital.

Those who have a good memory know that this is His Majesty's return to Beijing, and those who don't know think that His Majesty is leaving Beijing.

And Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but open the curtain at this time and looked at the capital outside the car window, only left for nearly a year, in his opinion, the capital has changed its appearance again, with new shops and new attics.

In some areas, department stores resemble modern supermarkets, and in some ready-to-wear stores, wooden models have begun to be used to prop up some ready-to-wear for customers to buy.

The streets seem to have widened a lot, some of the remnants of the demolition remain, and the widened streets are no longer as chaotic as before, and there is a special traffic arrangement, the separation of horses and carriages, the separation of pedestrians and bicycles, the construction of overbridges and the marking of white lines at some intersections to indicate the meaning of vehicles to pass.

Engineers from the Royal Academy of Engineering have laid the tracks at the experimental base near the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the steam-powered locomotive, developed in collaboration with the Royal Industries Company, has been placed on a platform not far from the tracks.

Perhaps in the near future, Daming will be able to build a railway line and realize the epoch-making significance of having long-distance transportation by train.

According to Xu Guangqi's report, Galileo of the Royal Academy of Engineering has made great progress in the manufacture of generators, as long as the engineers responsible for the development of materials and new steel can meet the needs of the generator to manufacture several important precision instruments, then the first thermal power generator can be manufactured by the end of the year, but the ensuing wires and circuits and other projects also need to be followed up in a timely manner.

On the same day, the establishment of Beijing Normal University and various Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Industrial Company and the training school under the Ordnance Department played a role at this time, and in more than ten years, many talents with natural science talents began to emerge enthusiastically, such as Xiao Jingsheng, who was the first to develop cotton wool, and Liu Fangmin, who successfully discovered tungsten.

These characters may only be lost in the long river of history in the original history, but in this era, they will be more dazzling than the current dignitaries and eunuchs, and even famous for centuries.

With the application of the steam industry becoming more and more mature, the successful development of various precision instrument processing machine tools, as well as the successful construction of various new theories of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty has been about to be achieved, from the local to the central, there are their own scientific research system, there are also all kinds of workshops that use machines to produce.

And because of this, the frequency of new technological products being developed has also begun to accelerate, and the new inventions and discoveries that have only appeared in the previous decades or even hundreds of years have not appeared in the past ten years.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao deliberately flickered a large number of scientific research enthusiasts from the West, and even many of them came to visit, and in this way, the scientific research system of Daming was more perfect.

The development of the fermentation industry has brought all kinds of fermented foods to appear on the market, Zhu Youxiao picked up his eyes, you can see that there are already shops selling yogurt, and even selling milk, before that, the person in charge of Huangzhuang introduced dairy cows from Europa through the Dutch, and raised and promoted a large number of them in Mobei and Monan, so that milk, a nutritious dairy product, was once again active on the table of the people of Daming.

Not only dairy products such as popsicles and beverages, but also because of the emergence of chemical additives and freezing technology (chemical refrigeration) and this kind of food also appeared in Daming, the most is all kinds of candy, under the control of the machine, the sucrose collected from the hands of farmers has been processed into various sugar products by large-scale reaction, and even the use of catalysts for chemical reactions and extraction and crystallization into powder into ordinary people's homes.

If a few years ago, a new thing appeared, it must have been accepted by the officials and eunuchs at a high price because of the scarcity of things, and then the price fell into the middle class and even ordinary families with the increase in production, but now because of the development of the steam industry, generally at the same time as a new product appears, there are already new machines suitable for the production of this kind of products, and it is to achieve high output from the beginning, and the price will not be high, and therefore quickly accepted by all classes of the Ming people, and realize small profits but quick turnover.

Because of this, the importance of advertising and brand is becoming more and more prominent, a few years ago, because the main customers are a minority of the entire class of dignitaries, so word of mouth can also meet the needs of promotion, but now the main customers are the people of the entire Ming Dynasty, up to trillions of customers, relying on lip service is naturally not promote, what all kinds of stores and advertisers began to appear one after another, the entire Ming shopping malls are simply mushrooms after the rain, endless, dizzying.

As the largest city in the entire Ming Dynasty, Jingshi has the largest population, and the top institutions and workshop companies and even schools in various industries in the Ming Dynasty are located here, so that the population here is almost about to reach 10 million words.

The city gate that Zhu Youxiao is still entering is the outer city that Shuntianfu expanded three years ago, but in fact, outside this outer city has been filled with hundreds of thousands of Ming people living in Beipiao, basically every time the outer city is added, the price of land, rent and even food and drink in the city will rise once, and the cost of living will also increase a little, but the public services and management will also be upgraded, but it will still drive away some newcomers from other places to live in a farther place away from the imperial city.

The various problems brought about by urbanization, such as the increase in crime rate, drainage problems, rental problems of the people at the bottom and fire problems, etc., as the emperor Zhu Youxiao naturally will not take care of it, and he has no time to take care of it, but this is undoubtedly a huge challenge for the officials who can only recite poetry before, especially in the office of Shuntianfu, as the parent official of the Ming Dynasty and even the largest city in the world, sometimes it is necessary to take precautions and do a good job of urban planning before accidents occur.

Of course, it is not good for these officials to pick on their sons, and it is not good to do badly, in the capital, whether it is a high-ranking official or a low-level common people, they can't afford to provoke it, at the foot of this son of heaven, as long as someone makes a fuss, they can reach the heavens, so if they want to govern well, they can only pay attention to ways and methods, and cannot solve problems by simple violent means.

Most of the soldiers who had no guards and the soldiers of the Beijing battalion and the regimental battalion who were dismissed at that time became public security or other tolerances, and tried their best to maintain the market order and traffic order in the capital.

It is impossible for the descendants of several wealthy families or military generals to gallop on the street or even knock down other people's shops on the TV in later generations, because many places in the capital have been speed limits, there are special roads, and the latest laws, no matter who disturbs the order, the most serious is to go to prison, and no matter what you have to do, the most important thing in the capital is the people who have a relationship, so everyone can only enjoy the free life given by His Majesty the Ming Emperor within the rules.

Of course, it does not mean that the life of the entire Ming people is really bound by various rules and regulations, especially for young people, with the decline of the small peasant economy and the increase of cultural popularity, the degree of control of the clan and the religion is getting smaller and smaller, and a large number of young scholars, especially those from humble backgrounds and unwilling to be mediocre, and even many of them are rich and noble children who are born rich but do not want to be bound by society, have begun to pursue individuality and independence and freedom.

On the streets, Zhu Youxiao can easily see young people swaying and dancing on the street, and even many people began to shake their heads and shout on the street to say something to bring down a certain official, and Zhu Youxiao doesn't care about this, as long as he is not too out of line, he doesn't care about these scholars who want to uphold justice and demonstrate at every turn, and he doesn't care about the officials who are criticized every day, young people have strong hormones, they are not adapted to the cruelty of real life, and they have not learned to hide and want to vent. And as an administrative official, you must also have the consciousness of pointing at thousands of people coldly, bowing your head and being willing to be a son of a cow.

What's more, it's not bad to let these civil officials experience the feeling of being groundlessly accused by a group of officials when they were emperors.

The sound of shouts, shouts, cries, the clanging of irons and the horns of public carriages, as well as the sound of whips and gongs and drums that have carried the march of emperors for thousands of years, are mixed together to form a movement where the classical meets the modern.

This is today's Daming, it can be seen that in addition to the idle nothing, the academic burden and employment pressure is not enough for young people, people are very busy now, whether it is the rich and noble people wearing silk or the bottom people in linen, they are all in a hurry, the teahouse is full of people, there are salesmen selling new products spitting and selling products, but the eyes are full of exhaustion, even if they get on the public carriage, many people are running up directly, crowded with people, crowded in a small space, His eyes wandered outside the window of the high-rise buildings.

And the successful people in the high-rise buildings and mansions are also not idle, although they are hugging beauties in their arms, holding precious fragrant tea in their hands, and wearing gorgeous clothes and beautiful medals, they still hang a smiling face that pleases others, and they are careful to accompany people from all walks of life, and some even frantically drop documents directly in their own study with bright windows, and even kick the stool and hit the wall, but many people have not seen this scene, they only look forward to replicating the successful counterattack stories that circulate in the capital or are reported in various newspapers and periodicals.

Although everyone is very tired, but also because they came to this place with hopes and dreams, and because of hope and tiredness, they will also know how to enjoy the process of struggle in life and entertainment life, so the most developed in the capital is not only industry but also entertainment industry, Liyuan is the most prosperous in this era, shadow puppetry and cross talk should not be underestimated, and the secular is becoming more and more hot with the promotion of vernacular literature.

Love songs and love poems are even more rampant, even three-year-old children can hum lyrics on the street "Do you love me" and so on, although there are countless defenders who try their best to scold these immoral phenomena, but can not stop the torrent of social development, it is rumored that there are great Confucians because of their complete disappointment with the world and hatred of the inaction of the current court and jumped into the lake to commit suicide to Mingzhi, but it can only cause a momentary lamentation, and it cannot prevent the people at the bottom from expressing their hearts with the simplest sentences, and invaded the cultural sphere, which originally belonged only to the elite.

Whether it is the Yangchun Baixue who is loved by the guardians or the Xiariba people who have begun to become popular, Zhu Youxiao is not hindered, and he is also very pleased that the Ming Dynasty under his rule is what it is now, the society must be alive and bloom with vitality, and only by blooming vitality can the whole society continue to progress, and imprisoning or even sticking to the rules will only lag behind, he is not afraid that the younger generation of people will be crazy, but he is afraid that they will be lifeless and lose the vitality they should have.