In the capital, when the cold winter is coming, there are rumors.

Because this winter, there was no snow in Beizhili. As the so-called Ruixue Mega Year, the absence of snow in winter means that there is not enough snow water to irrigate the fields in the spring of the following year, and agricultural production will be greatly affected.

Some people say that this is the emperor's wanton suppression of Donglin, which caused the weather to be abnormal. Some people say that this is a sign of great chaos in the world.

An unseen sense of panic that lingers as these rumors await. Even Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, also felt a trace of anxiety.

To say that there is no warning of chaos in the world is nonsense. In the past two years, the Ming Dynasty has been full of earthquakes and abnormal weather, which is undoubtedly the greatest impact on an agricultural civilization. When people can't eat enough because of these natural disasters, and some people take the opportunity to create man-made disasters, then chaos in the world is inevitable.

However, the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital reported good news to Zhu Youxiao that the queen had successfully become pregnant. This news made Zhu Youxiao happy for a long time, and when he came to this era, he could be regarded as starting a family, otherwise he would have to have children in the future.

In order to avoid historical tragedies, Zhu Youxiao repeatedly rectified the system and management inside and outside the Forbidden City.

The imperial dining room is obviously the top priority, of course, there are kitchens and cooks in the queen's Kunning Palace, but the queen's food during pregnancy will be fully responsible for the imperial dining room.

In the heavily guarded Forbidden City, the imperial dining room is the strictest place, and it is also the place with the best treatment. Zhu Youxiao has formulated various insurance measures to minimize the possibility of artificial poisoning.

Emperors seem to be supreme, but in fact they are all human beings. In essence, it is not above humanity, and it will naturally be killed.

Is it wrong to kill a king?

Obviously, not everyone thinks so, so you should never think that you are the emperor and feel that you can do whatever you want. And the world is invincible.

Zhu Youxiao, who came to this era, can be described as cautious step by step. However, this also made him live a very healthy life to the present, because he insisted on practicing martial arts every day, and his mood was quite peaceful, and he did not indulge in alcohol, and he was very young. Therefore, the body is very strong and the energy is also vigorous.

The queen's pregnancy is obviously not good news for those careerists above the court who want to kill Zhu Youxiao. The careerists of the Donglin Party all know that if the emperor does not die for a day, they will not turn over for a day. But if the emperor is killed, and there is a young prince, it must be the queen's say.

It doesn't matter if you were an ignorant woman. But today's queen is obviously not an ignorant woman, and many government affairs are actually handled by the queen with the two imperial concubines of the harem. In dealing with government affairs, it has become more and more familiar with the car. Most of the cabinet's government affairs are approved by the harem. Only those really big things are sent to the emperor to make decisions.

Therefore, those Donglin Party forces who want to turn over again by murdering the emperor, the queen is obviously a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

After all, they are a civilian clique and it is impossible to carry out an armed coup. In the coup d'état, then, everything must appear to be legal on the surface.

The emperor died, and once the empress gave birth to a prince, and the prince was young, then the empress would inevitably become the rightful guardian.

So once the child in Zhang Yan's belly was successfully born. The hopes of the careerists of the Donglin Party to turn around were almost shattered.

The child in Zhang Yan's womb also has the great significance of stabilizing the regime. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao strengthened the management of the palace again. In order to prevent the palace personnel from being bribed, Zhu Youxiao once again raised the treatment of eunuchs and palace maids, and at the same time strengthened supervision and punishment measures.

Blindly increasing treatment without strengthening supervision will have no effect. On the contrary, it will make those eunuchs and palace maids arrogant, and may even ride on the master's head. After all, everything is always the opposite. The treatment has been improved, and supervision and punishment should also be strengthened.

After constant personnel adjustments in various departments in the palace, everything became orderly. The distribution of resources has become more equitable, and even if the eunuchs and palace maids are in the lowest positions on weekdays, they don't have to worry about food and clothing. All kinds of benefits of birth, old age, sickness and death are all covered by the royal family.

If you are enough, you will give way, and if you are insufficient, you will fight. The abundant material living conditions made the eunuchs and maids in the palace have a lot less conflicts in their daily lives. It also makes these eunuchs and palace maids not so easy to be bought by forces outside the palace.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao's reform measures in the palace also gave the eunuchs and palace maids a great sense of security. Now the eunuchs and maids in the palace have made mistakes, and all of them are handed over to the picket team in the palace for trial. And whether there is a mistake or not, it is not up to those nobles in the palace to say.

This also avoids that the nobles in the palace cannot kill and rob the eunuchs and palace girls according to their own likes and angers, and life and death are no longer the master's words, but the rules formulated by the emperor. Of course, the concubines in the palace are nobles after all, and the eunuchs and palace maids who are arranged to serve them are also dealt with if they are not satisfied.

How is the service attitude, and whether it is positive. There will be a rating every month, and those with good scores will be rewarded, and those with poor scores will not be rewarded, and will be transferred to other positions to do things.

The eunuchs and palace maids of various departments in the palace are rated every month.

At the same time, the palace will also publicize those deeds of truth, goodness and beauty, and give additional rewards to encourage those who love to give. Criticism and punishment are given for actions that are detrimental to the interests of the royal family, or that are unethical.

Punishment varies depending on the severity of the case, ranging from fines to exile, although torture is rarely used. It can also be regarded as a system of light punishment, but light punishment does not mean that it has lost its deterrent effect. Exile in a cold and bitter land, etc., is not much less deterrent than torture.

At the same time, the eight-hour work system was implemented in the palace, and at the same time, new dormitories and houses for eunuchs and palace maids were built in the imperial city, and the living environment was very comfortable. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also built libraries, parks, bathhouses, teahouses, restaurants, theaters, department stores and other facilities in the imperial city.

Of course, the eunuchs and palace maids living in the imperial city are related to the safety of the Forbidden City. Therefore, these commercial places cannot be operated by private capital. These commercial establishments in the Imperial City are all opened by the Royal Foundation, and all employees must be vetted before entering the Imperial City to work, and all items entering the Imperial City must also be inspected, and contraband cannot be brought into them.

The eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial city now have relatively high incomes. Every month, the royal family issued them a minimum of eight silver dollars. At the same time, there are many high-ranking officials and nobles who also live in the imperial city, and these people are also high-income groups. Therefore, the commercial activities in the imperial city are also highly profitable, and naturally the royal consortium has arranged it. Of course, there is still competition, and there is no shortage of healthy competition within the royal consortium.

Under these management measures, the quality of life of the eunuchs and maids in the palace was greatly improved. Loyalty to the royal family has also skyrocketed, and the sense of belonging is also very strong.

Especially for the emperor, they are extremely supportive, because the emperor allows them to live a good life and can live without food and clothing for a lifetime. Sick and old, the royal family paid for them and solved their worries. They just need to do their job every day, and if they are willing to dedicate themselves to the royal love, they will have a bright future.

Once the emperor is finished, their good life is estimated to be over, and they naturally support Zhu Youxiao.

And after a person solves the stresses of life. Usually think about whether they should do something meaningful and produce a higher level of pursuit, so under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao, the Three Treasures Eunuch has become the learning goal of every aspiring eunuch.

As the so-called people are poor and short-minded, in the past, there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor among the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and the eunuchs and palace maids at the bottom were miserable, and the eunuchs at the top also climbed up from below, and they were afraid of falling. All of them cut their heads and thought about how to please their masters. How to get on top of the competition. Attention was paid to these aspects, which naturally led to the chaos of the eunuchs in the palace.

Now there are all kinds of guarantees. And now if you want to be on the throne in the palace, it is no longer enough to please the master, you also need to have the ability. Naturally, the attention does not need to be focused on intrigue, but through serious service to the royal family, and learning and creating in their respective positions to achieve more value in life.

The Forbidden City and the Imperial City were run like iron buckets by Zhu Youxiao at this time, and it was difficult for those treacherous people who wanted to murder the emperor to find opportunities. It is even more difficult to murder the prince who has not yet been born.

Of course, no one can say whether it is a prince or not, and it may also be a little princess. However, as long as Zhang Yan gave birth to a son, he would be the future heir of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the prince born to a good concubine and a pure concubine is considered a concubine, and the queen is born as a concubine. Therefore, no matter which of the three women and sons of Zhu Youxiao is the son, they are all born to the queen and are the crown princes.

The name was decided before he was born, which also avoided too much intrigue in the harem.

Despite the fact that the queen is pregnant. However, Zhu Youxiao still doesn't need to spend too much time dealing with government affairs, and the cabinet itself is used by the emperor to be lazy.

In addition, there is no military affairs at the end of the year, and Zhu Youxiao is still relatively idle. So it didn't take long for Zhu Youxiao to get busy again, setting up a fishing company and a canning factory.

Canned food was made by Zhu Youxiao, in fact, this is a very simple commodity, as long as it is sterilized and sealed, canned food can be produced.

The material is nothing more than glass, sealing the lid.

Then put the processed vegetables, fruits, and meat into the steamer to sterilize, and then tighten the lid tightly. After cooling, if the lid sags, it proves that it is well sealed and is a successful can. If the lid is protruding, the front seal is not good and outside air can enter, causing deterioration.

In addition, the Royal Iron and Steel Company also smelted tinplate in the third year of the Apocalypse, and tinplate can also be used to make cans.

The technology was explored very quickly, and the mature technology was developed in a few months, so a large canning factory was established under the attention of Zhu Youxiao.

Canneries are naturally very marketable, and there are no out-of-season vegetables and fruits in these years, and it is not convenient to store meat for long-distance trafficking, so it can only be pickled and dried. Therefore, canned food is still relatively marketable in all provinces of the country, but the main consumer is also those who are relatively wealthy.

Just like the people of later generations, ordinary people are not actually very interested in canned food. One is that canned food is more expensive than fresh similar produce, so why buy canned food if there is a similar fresh produce to choose from?

Therefore, the main group of consumers of canned food is still the middle class. In the case that the common people are generally not rich, it is obvious that no one will consume canned food on a large scale.

In fact, civilian consumption is not too important, the important thing is that canned food can be a good preservation of food and can provide convenient military rations for the army. At the same time, it can also provide logistics support for ocean-going navigation, so that the crew will not suffer from sepsis because they cannot eat vegetables because of their long-term life at sea.

Sepsis is actually not a problem for Chinese navigation, because ancient China was not plagued by sepsis, because China had bean sprouts. Moreover, Chinese medicine is not a stubborn disease in the face of Chinese medicine.

However, it is inconvenient to eat bean sprouts after all, and the recipe is single. Canned food is a good thing to spice up the taste, of course, eating too much will be greasy, but it is better than not having to eat at all.

Soldiers and sailors naturally eat fresh vegetables and meat when they can eat them in normal times, and soldiers only eat canned food when they go to war or carry out missions.

In addition, canned food also makes it easier for Daming to obtain a large number of fish products from overseas. If you want to go fishing in Hokkaido and Alaska, you can't bring back a bunch of salted fish and dried fish! Although there is a market for these things, they cannot be sold at a price if they are too much.

The Hokkaido Fishing Ground is the largest in the world, and there are a large number of fish that can be caught. Alaska also has a large number of salmon, which can also be caught from Hokkaido fisheries, which are found in Hokkaido fisheries and the Alaska region.

In Alaska, more than 100,000 tonnes of salmon can be caught a year just by fishing. 100,000 tons is equivalent to the weight of 1 million stone of grain, and the protein in fish is much higher than that of cereals. A workforce who does not consume meat is very scary about the amount of grains they eat, because they need to convert the grains into proteins. If meat and oil are consumed, the consumption of grains is greatly reduced, and the amount of meals can be basically cut in half.

Moreover, the salmon meat quality is good, and it can be made into canned food with high value and shipped back to Daming for sale.

In Hokkaido fisheries, there are a large number of whales, dolphins, cod, herring, saury, and sardines, which can be salted and shipped back to Daming for sale.

The Industrial Revolution in the West relied on the abundance of cheap cod from the Finnish fishing grounds, which was salted into dried salted fish and provided the British with a large number of energetic laborers, who were taken out of the land and into the Industrial Revolution.

Hokkaido's fishing grounds have not yet been developed, and it is not a big problem to catch one million tons of fish a year. As long as there are enough fishing boats and fishermen.

Not only fish meat can be obtained from the fish, but also fish oil and fishmeal, which can be used as concentrate feed and even fish bones as fertilizer.

These resource-rich fishing grounds are mainly labor-efficient, and one fisherman's annual catch creates food to feed hundreds of people.

People are obviously not a problem, what is not lacking in the Ming Dynasty is population. Immigration has become very simple under the leadership of the state apparatus, and even if no one wants to go, it is a big deal to forcibly emigrate a group of people who do not have enough to eat to Hokkaido. The problem is still boats, there are still enough fishing boats.

Those small fishing boats were very simple to make, but the level of technology in these days was generally to have a 'factory boat' to carry a group of small fishing boats out, and the small fishing boats went out to sea to catch fish, and when they were full, they immediately returned to the big boats to be salted on the big boats.

The big boats are full and then return to land, and this is repeated when the fish flood comes. During the fishing moratorium, these large boats can transport the pickled dried fish back to Daming.

It can be said that the ship is food!

Why was the Second Industrial Revolution preceded by the age of sea power? Because before the Second Industrial Revolution, productivity was still relatively limited, and ships were the most important mode of transportation of resources. As for trains, it is true that they can also be transported, and they are also more efficient, but the cost of trains is higher than that of shipping.

Boats can be built very large, which is not comparable to trains.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao obviously wanted larger and faster ships, as well as a larger-scale shipbuilding industry. (To be continued......)