Under normal circumstances, the annual court meeting is held in Zhengdan, in the Qin and Han dynasties, this court meeting has the role of local officials returning to Beijing to report on their work, after the Song Dynasty, it has evolved into a simple ceremony, by the way, there is also the reception of foreign envoys, highlighting the role of the Ming Dynasty. 【】

The process of this ceremony is complicated and time-consuming, and of course he will not like it with the surname of Zhengde, but this great court meeting in the fourth year of Zhengde was requested by him on his own initiative and given it multiple meanings.

The first is the final trial of the Shi Party, for this reason, Zhengde issued an order to recall many magistrates, ready to play a good show in front of these people.

Secondly, he will also announce the new policy, as well as the official implementation of the overseas development policy, and announce the details of the relevant policies, and will also make the progress public at the future court meeting.

These two elements have the greatest impact. The former article caused a lot of reaction in the capital, the cabinet minister Yang Tinghe and below, nearly 100 desperate suicides, the number of suicides, the high status, can be called the most in this dynasty, even in the Hongwu period, it is unique.

The situation in Tianjin has long spread throughout the capital, and the beneficiaries are relatively disadvantaged groups, so there are many people who are looking forward to the full implementation of the new policy.

With the iron-blooded means of the Great Liquidation in front, those who had originally opposed it did not dare to speak out, and the relatively shrewd among them were ready to carefully study the details of the New Deal to see if they could find a way to make a profit.

The privileged class is not all stupid, their education level, experience and knowledge are already above the ordinary people and those small businessmen, as long as they are willing to put down their shelves and calm their minds, it is not difficult to come first.

Therefore, the general atmosphere in the capital is still optimistic, and compared with the public, the poignancy of those hundreds is not very conspicuous.

Of course, if this is the case, there is no way to arouse Zhengde's interest, and it is almost the same as him personally presiding over the overseas development work and going to the South Seas with the ship, so what makes him look forward to another thing, that is, the ceremony of Na Guifei held at the same time, that is, the second wedding, referred to as the second marriage.

According to the formal etiquette, the emperor is actually monogamous, and only when he marries the queen, it is considered formal, and if he is recognized by the government and the opposition, he can enter the Forbidden City directly from Chengtianmen. The rest of the concubines belong to the concubines, whether they are concubines or beauties, no matter what name they use, they can only enter through the side door, and the ceremony or something, at most, is limited to the harem.

Throughout thousands of years, the emperors who held weddings in office have been rare, and those who have held them twice in a row can only be called those who have never been before or since, but what Zhengde has to do now is such a thing. Yijin returned to his hometown, and it was easy to talk about a free love, and Zhengde was also very enthusiastic about showing the results of his efforts to the public.

However, after all, the ceremony was held, and Zhengde followed Xie Hong's suggestion, and simply combined the court meeting and the wedding into one, adding another festive meaning to the ceremony.

By the way, this court meeting will also receive a foreign envoy. This is not a big deal, and it can be said that it is not worth mentioning compared to the previous three. However, because the identity of this messenger is relatively special, once the news was released, it also attracted the attention and curiosity of many people.

Because it is the king of the Wa kingdom who came.

…… At the beginning of the first month, he got on the boat in Jiecho, and in late January, he passed through Weihaiwei and arrived in Tianjin, and when Katsuhito and his party arrived in the capital, there were still five days before the start of the imperial meeting. However, the minds of the Japanese people were not at all in the court, and they were already dazzled by what they had seen and heard along the way.

Needless to say, the inhabitants of Wajima were born with a fear of the sea and were quite enthusiastic about sailing, but their technical level limited them could not build large ships. Accustomed to the slow and dangerous little sampan, Leng Ding got on a thousand-ton steamer, and a group of people only felt like they were dreaming, everything was so unreal.

When they arrived in Weihaiwei, this group of people was directly stunned by the prosperity of this transit port. The wharves here are wide and neat, far from being comparable to the narrow and dirty wharves of the Wa Kingdom; Not far away is a thriving town, with all kinds of shops, people coming and going, bustling, this town alone has already made them salivate, and behind the town, there is actually a city!

It was a real castle, not a castle enclosed by wooden fences in the Wa Kingdom, nor was it a so-called mountain castle built on a hill with a few feet high earth and stone walls. The city wall is more than two zhang high, which is enough to shock the Japanese people, not to mention the towers above the city wall.

At first sight, Hosokawa Sumimoto was immediately ashamed and wanted to die of shame, and he wanted to return to Kyoto immediately and demolish the castle tower of Nijo Castle. Compared with the city of the Ming Dynasty, is your city still a place where people live?

"Such a Xiongcheng should be one of the best in the Ming Dynasty, right?" After the shame, the leader did not forget to find some face to come back, so he made such a compliment.

Admiral Lu responded to the other party's words: "Well, if you count down, it may be about the same." ”

"How is that possible?" The Japanese were shocked.

A hundred years ago, there were also people from the Wa Kingdom who came to Weihaiwei, but the Wa Kou in that era were basically one-way trips, and there were very few people who could return safely. Even if you go back, with the speed of information dissemination and the level of expression of the Japanese invaders, it is difficult to convey what you have seen and heard in the Ming Dynasty clearly, so the Ming Dynasty is still quite unfamiliar to the Japanese people.

This situation will not change until the Jiajing period. At that time, with the guidance and transportation of pirates such as Wang Zhi, the Japanese were able to set foot on Middle-earth again, while the coastal guards were even more degenerate, and the city was also in disrepair and gradually dilapidated, which hooked Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition.

It is still the Zhengde period, and Weihaiwei is not the dilapidated guard house it used to be, and everything he sees will of course shock the Japanese people.

"That's true, Weihaiwei is located in the interior, and it was not a place to be enemy, but in the early days of the dynasty, some pirates attacked from time to time, which is not a big trouble, and naturally there is no need to build many majestic cities to defend."

Lin Han flicked his long beard, smiled, and calmly explained: "Now that the Ming Dynasty has rebuilt the navy and shocked the sea frontier, it is no longer the old scene, and the role of the city here is even smaller, it is probably to defend against thieves and others, so that the people in the city can feel at ease." If you really want to talk about Xiongcheng, the frontier is the place where Xiongguan stands in the forest, as for the best of the best, it is naturally the north and south of the two capitals, hehe. ”

"......" such a city is just a thief-proof? The Japanese people looked at each other, this should be placed in their own country, it is enough to be proud of the world, if there is such a city, which daimyo will no longer have to worry about defense, just consider the expansion is, except for the siege, they have no means to attack the city at all.

There are also Japanese people who secretly muttered to themselves, thinking that Lin Han and others were bragging, and specially took them to the most prosperous harbor city in the Ming Dynasty to hit their self-confidence. However, this notion was soon shaken, as the second stop on the itinerary was Tianjin.

Weihaiwei is only a transit port, some warehousing, but more service facilities, the function is very single, in terms of prosperity, even one-tenth of Tianjin's can not be compared.

Therefore, when they arrived in Tianjin, the eyes of the Japanese people almost didn't pop out.

The port is very large and busy, and the number of ships moored alone is already amazing, how can the Japanese people have seen so many ships and such a large ship? There is an endless stream of ships entering and leaving the port, and the ships spread their sails and glide on the sea, like white clouds, which is beautiful.

Stepping on the pier, the sight of them didn't know how to describe it.

Endless houses, with no edge in sight; The square warehouses are neatly arranged, like a knife cutting tofu; There is also the constant sound of metal colliding in the workshop, which makes people feel how busy it is when you hear it, and the thick or light smoke is connected, accompanied by the noise of labor, forming a strange scene.

The reason why we know that those are workshops is because there are tracks connecting the workshops, and from time to time there is a small car passing by, and on each small car, there are various products piled high. Those accessories and semi-finished products are naturally unrecognizable to the Japanese people, but they can recognize some of the finished products.

"The ...... in the car Are they all pendulum clocks? Hosokawa asked in a trance.

"Yes, these are the latest models...... There was a lot of movement when the ship arrived, Yan Song and the others were also alarmed, and when they came up, they were hearing Hosokawa's question, he glanced at it and replied casually.

"The latest? What's the difference from the past? ”

"It's nothing, the parts are made of the latest steel fittings, so the service life has been extended a lot, in addition, the spring's elastic surname has also been enhanced, and the last spring, it can be used for a longer time, and there are ......"

Yan Song's best thing is to figure out what he wants, Xie Hong is a craftsman, and Zhengde also likes these interesting tricks, so he naturally works hard to learn. In Tianjin for more than a year, he has successfully transformed into a practical official, and these technical things can be said casually, and they are also very professional.

The "......" people looked at each other in disbelief. Through the sea trade, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had already brought clocks and watches to the Wa Kingdom, and as the governor of Gyeonggi, it was also close to the Kai Town, and Hosokawa also received such a gift.

Of course, he cherished such a miraculous thing, and showed it off everywhere, and according to the giver, this pendulum clock was a rare treasure in the world, and it would cost hundreds of pieces of gold to buy it in Kaimachi.

After Katsuhito ascended the throne for five or six years, he looked forward to the donation of the Asakura family, and then there was hope to solve the enthronement ceremony, and the contribution of the Asakura family was only 500 kan, that is, the total amount of the donation was about the same as a pendulum clock, and its preciousness can also be seen.

However, as far as the eye can see, this pendulum clock is mass-produced in Tianjin, and one car after another has been pushed out, just when they landed and looked at it, he had already seen two cars of finished products, how much can be produced in this day?

One is a few hundred, then, this car is ...... On this day, it is ...... This year...... He felt a little dizzy.

(To be continued)