Now it is about to be the New Year's Festival, and since the beginning of the lunar month, Zhu Youxiao has not been in the morning court. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

None of the ministers complained about Zhu Youxiao's absurd government, not to mention that the most affected by the case of the destruction of the Donglin Party was the imperial historian.

Therefore, the last month of the seventh year of the Great Apocalypse was surprisingly quiet.

Naturally, the people are busy celebrating the New Year and rejoicing.

The royal family living in the huge Forbidden City is still the same as usual, because it has been subsidizing the treasury with internal money, and the procurement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been reduced again and again.

Zhu Youxiao, who had just come to the Ming Dynasty, did not have the excitement of celebrating the New Year.

Only Empress Zhang Yan ordered a few new clothes for Liu Rushi and her grandmother, as well as the Hakka family and other attendants who served with her.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that his queen was also ingenious, and took Liu Ru to cut out countless window flowers and paste them on the vermilion windows, which also added a bit of New Year's flavor.

In the end, even Zhu Youxiao was invited by Zhang Yan to write a couplet and hang it on the Zhu door.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao practiced calligraphy, and after coming to the Ming Dynasty, he also did not work hard, and wrote several jars of water, so the couplets he wrote could also be seen.

What's more, he is still the emperor now, and the words he writes can be regarded as a royal pen, hundreds of years later, when people come to the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, they still say that they don't say that they are a carpenter emperor is a straw bale.

"The life and death of the country for profit have been avoided, and it will not be avoided because of misfortune and good fortune."

Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Engineering and the head of the Hanlin Academy, was called into the palace by Zhu Youxiao early in the morning because Zhu Youxiao mentioned that he was going to visit the Ministry of Engineering a few days ago.

This time, he saw this couplet, and couldn't help but groan, secretly admiring the ambition of the owner of this couplet, but as soon as he saw that the inscription below was Zhu Youxiao, the whole person was like being shocked in place.

"You are Xu Shilang, Your Majesty will let you in."

Liu Ru has become a personal maid by Zhu Youxiao's side since she entered the palace, not that Zhu Youxiao wants to use child labor, but that Liu Ru is indeed much smarter than the little yellow door who originally served in the Qianqing Palace, and her response is also quick, what Zhu Youxiao needs, she sent it before Zhu Youxiao mentioned it.

Zhu Youxiao, who fought with the queen for 300 rounds last night, had to get up early in the morning to deal with the backlog of government affairs, and when Liu Ru led Xu Guangqi in, he gave Liu Ru a stack of drawings and drawing instruments: "Take it." ”

"Your Majesty, this is?" Xu Guangqi asked with some curiosity when he saw these things.

Liu Ru didn't wait for Zhu Youxiao to answer, so he first raised the globe in his hand and said, "This is Your Majesty's compass and vernier caliper." “

"Let's go", Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly, secretly thinking that this Liu Ru had only been with him for a few days, but he also knew a lot, so he simply took her to the Ministry of Industry with him.

As one of the six parts, the Ministry of Industry is relatively at the bottom of the six, but it is also indispensable.

The current Ministry of Industry Shangshu is Huo Weihua, a royalist patriarch, but Zhu Youxiao did not let him stay in Beijing, but asked him to go to various places in Daming to inspect various water conservancy and transportation, repair various projects that have been in disrepair for a long time, and ensure that even under the severe influence of the climate of Xiaoice River, Daming's total grain output will not decrease, at least not too quickly.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also asked him to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes and potatoes everywhere, as for how to plant, Zhu Youxiao naturally told him.

If Huo Weihua can't successfully complete Zhu Youxiao's task, Zhu Youxiao doesn't mind letting him become a leader.

Today's meeting of the Ministry of Industry, Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, could not participate, and the presiding officer was naturally the new right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, Bi Maokang.

In today's Ming bureaucracy, Bi Maokang is the person who is most interested in firearms and has the strongest comprehension, Xu Guangqi can only be second, his interest is mainly in agricultural production, for Zhu Youxiao's dream of high rice yield, Xu Guangqi is never forgotten.

Bi Maokang is the same, although he is a high-ranking official in the ministry, he has not been in charge of the affairs of the ministry since he took office, and he has been staying in the Ordnance Bureau with a few craftsmen to make the iron box gun that Zhu Youxiao showed in front of Xu Guangqi.

Now because Zhu Youxiao is coming, he changed into a three-poinsettia official uniform and came to the outer lobby.

In addition to the presence of Bi Maokang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, there is also Sun Yuanhua, the right servant of the Imperial History and the Ministry of Industry, this guy also handed over all the affairs of the division to his own staff and devoted himself to studying artillery.

In addition, there is also Song Yingxing, who was born in a person, who originally failed to do so many times and had no intention of giving up the imperial examination, but he didn't expect to be found by people from Dongchang one day.

He still remembers the surprised and frightened expressions of his parents and brother when Dongchang's fan appeared at his house, and he himself thought he had committed some crime.

But what happened later, what surprised him even more, first came to arrest him, not only did the Dongchang fanzi not only not beat and scold, but also let him eat and drink well, and when Song Yingxing asked bravely, the Dongchang fanzi only deduced that he was acting on the order.

Later, as soon as he arrived in the capital, Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the governor of Dongchang, personally came to announce the decree, and the intention was that he was given a mansion in the capital by His Majesty as a member of the Ministry of Reward.

Song Yingxing didn't know how he was remembered by His Majesty as a small person, he was promoted to a knight and sent a mansion, and the people in Dongchang also directly gave him a copy of "Tiangong Kaiwu" and a lot of so-called Gewu materials, so that he could read it quickly, and when he saw His Majesty in the future, he was careful to be interrogated by His Majesty.

Hearing that it was His Majesty's personal request, Song Yingxing did not dare to be sloppy, and he was not disgusted by Zhu Youxiao's "absurd" behavior after failing the imperial examination for several years, and he had already been defeated by the arrogance of the literati.

Song Yingxing watched it carefully for several months, not only did he not get tired of it, but he worked tirelessly, and even had a feeling of discovering another world, but he had a lot of questions in his heart, he came to the Ministry of Industry today to participate in the imperial meeting and wanted to ask His Majesty's thoughts, even if he was punished by His Majesty, he had to ask.

John Tang was also captured from Xi'an by Zhu Youxiao's order from Dongchang, and this missionary who was good at calendars and artillery heard that the Ming Emperor had summoned him, not only did not have any fear, but was very excited, and he even imagined that if he could move the highest level of the empire to allow him to preach, what a great cause it would be.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

In fact, Zhu Youxiao prefers to go out of the palace in micro-clothes, in addition to not wanting to provoke the disgusting civil officials like flies, there is another reason, that is, the ceremony of leaving the palace in bright clothes is too cumbersome and troublesome.

It's just a short journey from the Forbidden City to the Ministry of Industry, but it took two hours to prepare for the departure to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

If he hadn't gone to the Ministry of Industry and met the Ordnance Bureau and the Gunpowder Bureau jointly managed by the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Government Supervisor, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to call these directly to the palace and save himself a lot of trouble.

When Xiao Huangmen ran into the yamen of the Ministry of Industry, Bi Maokang and others, who had been waiting outside the lobby of the Ministry of Industry, hurriedly stood sideways on both sides and bowed to wait.

Many people were still seeing the Holy One for the first time, and they were even a little nervous.