In the thirty-eighth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in the twilight of spring, Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, rode out of the Forbidden City on the royal dragon chariot, and went all the way to Xuanwu Gate.

Today's Beijing city is different from the Ming Dynasty 14 years ago when it first recovered the northern capital, and the entire capital can be described as overcrowded.

The shuttle bus system had even begun to be implemented within the empire, and the horse-drawn shuttle became the first generation of public transportation in the empire.

In the center of the city, there is an additional square, on which a tower was built, and the tower has a mechanical clock, which replaces the former golden bell.

As soon as it is on time, it will automatically ring the sound of the bell, saving the trouble of manual time telling.

However, among the rows of shops, there are now many watch shops, clothing stores, large department stores, and black and white slave stores.

The empire's "Anti-Slavery Law" only targeted the citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and these captured foreign capitalists were not considered imperial citizens, so the black-hearted imperial capitalists could only start buying and selling these foreign people in order to meet their needs for slave exploitation and avoid legal sanctions.

With the change of social atmosphere, the number of female characters on the streets has also increased a lot, and many of them are even young women with gorgeous clothes.

The conservative ones are still wrapped in yarn to show people, and the open ones are beginning to show their true faces, and they can even smile heartily on the street, but at the beginning they are all popular bags like canvas pockets, and those who pursue delicacy will embroider patterns on them.

The municipal administration of the empire began to increase the number of chengguan and traffic guards, and the streets were filled with people wearing round hats and red epaulettes, serious or smiling faces to maintain order in the market.

Because of the drizzle, there were not many pedestrians on the road, but you could still see newspaper boys walking in the rain, men and women working at work, and even imperial students in school uniforms.

Zhu Youzhen peeked at it and found that a bold male student was hiding in the alley and kissing a female student's face.

"The social climate of the empire has opened up to such an extent!"

The sound of jingling bells came, it was the sound of bicycles, and now the young people of the Ming Empire had a soft spot for this kind of car, and felt that it was easier to pull the wind than riding a horse, and the girl seemed to be very willing to sit on the back seat of the bicycle and hug the boy's waist, while her eyes were skimming the luxurious private carriages coming and going on the main road.

However, the scholars also seem to like to make rickshaws, and having people pull carts always brings a sense of superiority.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Communications, the transportation construction of the empire entered the fast lane.

As the capital, Jingshi is naturally the most renovated, and all the main roads in the city have been widened.

Because of the increase in the number of horse-drawn carriages, the main road is flanked by two-way four-lane roads and sidewalks, but in addition to this, there is still a royal road in the center, which is a two-lane road, which is allowed to pass exclusively for the royal family and express and ambulance.

The development of surgery and the invention of the microscope led to great progress in bacteriological research and life science research, which made great progress in the medical career of the Ming Dynasty, and there were already many hospitals of different specifications in the empire, and even specialized hospitals for men and women, as well as children, hepatobiliary, spleen and kidneys, first aid also became a specialized medical subject, and ambulances also appeared.

In the past, the Ming Imperial Hospital and the pharmacy were not separated, but now the pharmacy will have a separate pharmacy, and the hospital has the functions of medical training, medical research, medical treatment, and pharmaceutical sales, and mainly undertakes medical tasks.

With the increase in the wealth of the Ming Dynasty and the improvement of the welfare and quality of life of the citizens of the empire, people are more concerned about their health and longevity, and medical problems have gradually become the most troublesome livelihood issues for the cabinet.

The emergence of penicillin, tetracycline, streptomycin, etc. has reduced the mortality rate of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but people are still not satisfied with the status quo, medical research and drug research have gradually become popular, if it is not proved that the simple pill made of Dansha mercury water is harmful to the human body, it is estimated that the upsurge of national alchemy can rise, but at least the upsurge of national practice is pushed up, because the current Ming science has not yet reached the point where anything can explain any scientific phenomenon, and the current Taoist priests no longer rely on alchemy to fool people, Only rely on practicing qigong to fool people.

Although not everyone finds it useful to practice qigong, as the imperial research thinking gradually became the habitual thinking of the Ming people, some medical experts began to advocate the benefits of sports, coupled with the promotion of the government, sports became a national craze, whether it was the aunt and uncle dancing in the square, the young man bowing on the court, and the girl wearing arrow-sleeved riding boots and short gown galloping in the park and green space, all became the symbol of the new era of the big city of the empire.

Unconsciously, Zhu Youzhen found that the first-class citizens of the original empire could be so idle, and even took leisure as their profession, and more and more people were engaged in spiritual consumption.

I don't know when it began, a singer with a good song was plastered all over the conspicuous place of the entire imperial capital, and her travel arrangements and quotations seemed to be more concerned than her own emperor.

Many imperial officials, especially the old and young people of the Hanlin Academy, were particularly disgusted by these phenomena.

But on the contrary, as the emperor, Zhu Youzhen is not surprised at all, people will only pay more attention to others and even take them as their idols when they have no worries about food and clothing, which is a manifestation that the society is still in a benign state.

As for the political system, Zhu Youzhen no longer knows how to change it.

The most he has is the political idea of letting the empire achieve its current dictatorship by meritocracy, and making the economy as liberal and market-oriented as possible, but he also never forgets to let the government play an intervening role, which seems to be somewhat contradictory in theory, but it is more about the extent to which the government under his leadership should intervene.

Absolute freedom and marketization are certainly not achievable, and Zhu Youzhen does not know whether the capitalists of the empire will only know how to exploit the workers and peasants in this world where the law of the jungle is the basic law, if there is no forcible intervention by the supreme ruler according to the price of blood.

Zhu Youzhen's previous life was limited in his knowledge and perhaps limited knowledge, so he can only achieve such a political situation now, at most, he still needs to consider how to make a better choice in terms of heirs, and he can only focus on the economy and science and technology now.

As for the political system, he really didn't know what to do, so he could only leave it to future generations.

Later, whether the people will improve internally or reshuffle the cards at the bottom, he can't decide, it is impossible that because of his appearance, the Zhu family will be able to maintain their power for thousands of generations.

But what Zhu Youzhen can be sure of is that because of the relative independence and increased power of the cabinet and the Generalissimo's Office, even if the reshuffle in the future will not have much impact on the royal family, at least the royal aristocratic status will still be guaranteed.

Because the royal family has little conflict with them, they need the legitimacy of the royal family to maintain their own legitimacy.

As soon as Xuanwumen arrived, Zhu Youzhen had already gotten out of the car, and at this time, the Xuanwumen was surrounded by officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, all of whom were Chongzhen 36-type submachine gun configurations, and there were Chongzhen 35-type sniper rifles at various high points, and now the military of the Ming Empire has indeed reached this point.

But Zhu Youzhen is not paying attention to the military weapons of the empire now, he is now only looking directly at the railroad track that spreads from his footline and the steam locomotive on the tracks, just as his eyes were burning when he looked directly at Qi Guiren's body.

(End of chapter)