According to folk sayings, a man is considered a true adult only after he has married a wife. This sentence also applies to Chen Youcong.

Since the wedding, Chen Youcong's changes have been obvious, becoming more and more assertive, and his style has become tougher and tougher.

Xie Qian even felt that in his own students, he could see the shadow of his ancestor Chengzu. Of course, Xie Qian himself has never met Chengzu, but from the historical records, it can be seen that this is a man with a strong physique and a strong will.

Chen Youcong originally gave Xie Qian the feeling of being humble and elegant, but recently, Chen Youcong has shown firm faith and fearless courage when advancing his plan.

It stands to reason that seeing Chen Youcong's change, Xie Qian should be happy. Courage and determination are essential qualities for an emperor who has achieved great things. But now Xie Qian is completely occupied by worry, because what Chen Youcong wants to do is too strange and sudden.

Chen Youcong suddenly became obsessed with sailing and shipbuilding, and there was no warning beforehand. As a Taifu, Xie Qian can be regarded as having grown up watching Chen Youcong, and in his childhood and adolescence, he did not show a special interest in ships and the sea.

The transformation took place half a year ago. In the past six months, Chen Youcong has met with officials from the Ministry of Industry the most. Through the Ministry of Industry, he summoned a group of the best shipbuilders in Dayan and discussed with them in person, and it is said that sometimes the queen would also participate.

Although Chen's plan is still in the stage of planning discussion and has not yet been put into practice, if this momentum continues, it seems that it is imperative to reopen the shipyard and set sail again.

However, Chen Youcong is not only making up more than that. In addition to shipbuilders, carpenters, blacksmiths, glassmakers, cobblers and tailors, these ninth-rate craftsmen frequently haunt Xiyuan during the sixth half of the year. Chen Youcong even allocated a courtyard for these people in Xiyuan, and sent Feng Hao to personally supervise it. These craftsmen worked here all day long, but no one knew what Chen Youcong was asking them to do, not even Xie Qian.

Chen Youcong's actions aroused the restlessness of the courtiers. But the unusually stubborn emperor did not pay attention to the advice of his courtiers, but insisted on going his own way.

Fortunately, Chen Youcong did not lose his diligent style, and when he pondered these things, he did not waste his daily government affairs, which maintained the stability of the court situation.

I don't know how many people want to listen to Xie Qian's tone and ask the emperor what he wants to do. Some people also worriedly suggested to Xie Qian that it was best for Taifu to persuade the little emperor to let him not lose his mind and make Da Yan go further and further on the road of decline.

Xie Qian had a deep discussion with Chen Youcong more than once about this, and Chen Youcong replied that his actions were not just a whim, but for the sake of Dayan's future and the tens of millions of Li Shu living in Dayan. Please calm down and give him some more time, and he will let Xie Qian witness the results of his efforts.

Chen Youcong's attitude was extremely sincere when he said this, Xie Qian thought about it again and again, and finally nodded.

Xie Qian actually didn't doubt Chen Youcong's sincerity. But can sincerity get things done? Not necessarily. At that time, Chen Youcong's grandfather Chen Huaishen ascended the throne at the beginning, with 120,000 sincerity and courage, he drove the expedition to Warat, regardless of his own safety, and only wanted to keep Warat out of the country in order to protect the great Yan'an Taikangning. But what is the result? The defeat and capture of the war plunged the whole country into a crisis, and he lost the throne for a time.

However, if he tried his best to prevent Chen Youcong from planning his great cause now, it would very likely turn the master and apprentice against each other and the monarch and the ministers would lose harmony, which was also what Xie Qian did not want to see.

So he planned to give him a period of time as Chen Youcong said, to see what kind of results his attempts would bring. Anyway, now Chen Youcong has not used a large amount of treasury materials, he has not spent a lot of money to find those craftsmen, and the money to buy wood, pig iron, leather and other raw materials is also very limited.

What's more, the emperor and empress lived very frugally, and the money saved was enough for them to hire craftsmen and make things. There is only one queen in Chen Youcong's harem, and this queen doesn't like fancy clothes and food, doesn't drink banquets, doesn't watch plays, and doesn't repair gardens, so she got a painting academy and a hospital, but she didn't spend the money of the treasury, and used the private property of the emperor and the queen. Chen Youcong and the queen's expenses were less than one-tenth of Chen Jianjun and Wan's back then.

Thinking of the current queen, Xie Qian's mood is also very complicated.

The reason why Zhang Weizhao was successfully canonized as the queen back then, Xie Qian also made a lot of efforts from it. But now, Xie Qian is not sure whether he has made the right move.

In terms of prestige among the people, Zhang Weizhao can be regarded as the most beloved queen by the people since the founding of Dayan. The main reason why she is loved by the people is that before she became the queen, she had opened a Songzhu girls' school and adopted orphan girls, and after she became the queen, she regularly sent her medical women to provide free medical treatment for the poor people.

There are two main places for the medical girls under the queen: Feixian Palace and Songzhu Girls' School. The outstanding talents in these two places are now concentrated in the so-called "hospital" by Zhang Weizhao and taught by her personally.

These girls are all very young, the oldest is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but they have learned all their skills.

When they first started to go out for free clinics, they attracted a lot of ridicule. Even if they studied under the famous teacher Zhang Weizhao, after all, they were just a group of teenage girls, what kind of medical skills could they have? What problems have been solved? Is anyone willing to see them?

However, since the first round of free clinics, many patients have come to the door, especially female patients. First, because these medical women don't need money to see a doctor, and although they have to pay for medicine, the medicine is very cheap and of good quality, so it attracts many people who usually look down on the doctor. Second, at this time, the concept of health care was very weak, and most women had gynecological diseases of one kind or another, but they were ashamed to open up to male doctors. Having a female doctor come to treat them is really like a relief in the snow.

The most reputable of these medical women is still midwifery. In the past six months, they have delivered dozens of women during their free clinics, and there has never been a single case of infant death or sudden maternal death. Giving birth is like passing through the ghost gate, which is simply a miracle.

Zhang Weizhao is very satisfied with the performance of his students. The free clinic is actually their internship. And they lived up to Zhang Weizhao's expectations and their own efforts, and handed over a good result.

Because the reputation of the free clinic was unexpectedly good, it was gradually no longer only those poor women who were willing to find these medical women for treatment and delivery, but also the women of wealthy families began to find ways to invite these medical women to their doors.

This is exactly the result that Zhang Weizhao is looking forward to. Because only when they are accepted by the upper class will the new medical and health concepts be effectively disseminated, and moreover, they can make money. If you can make money, more people will follow this model and it can continue to develop.

For women from wealthy families, Zhang Weizhao has formulated different plans, in addition to childbirth, gynecology, and many beauty strategies, including medicine supplements, dietary therapy, care and makeup.

As soon as these strategies were introduced, many women flocked to them. Not to mention the others, the most popular items are midwifery and beauty.

Midwifery is a matter of life and death, and naturally it is the most important. Beauty is also the just need of noble ladies and ladies. In particular, the makeup techniques of these medical women can almost have the effect of turning decay into magic. If a woman is married, married, or a guest at a banquet, she invites a medical lady to put on makeup and touch-up makeup with her side, and she will definitely receive a lot of attention and praise that day.

Although there are some corrupt Confucian guardians, they are very unaccustomed to the behavior of these medical women, and think that it is very impolite for them to show their heads as unmarried. Seeing a doctor requires inquisition and inquirement, and sometimes it is necessary to wrap wounds, acupuncture, and physical contact with the patient. A woman who has been exposed to so many men's bodies is no different from advocating excellence? How could the queen instruct her trained students to do such a thing?

The women who invited these doctors to their homes were also misbehaved. These medical women are not clear, and they are invited to come to see a doctor, deliver babies, and do what they do to beautify their beauty, which tarnishes the family style.

But these rotten scolding and scolding can't stop women from pursuing these medical women. If you want to invite these medical women to come to the door, you have to make an appointment to wait for a long time in advance. Because there are only five or six of these medical women who have been released for internship, and the capital is a place where the big families gather, and the demand far exceeds the supply.

For these measures of the queen, Xie Qian simply didn't know what to say. Xie Qian received an orthodox Confucian education, and from the perspective of Confucian women's morality, many of Zhang Weizhao's actions can be called deviant. But Confucianism not only has women's virtues, benevolence and righteousness are the core part, if from this point of view, Zhang Weizhao's actions are great good deeds.

But no matter how popular Zhang Weizhao's medical women are, this is not the core of Xie Qian's concern. What Xie Qian is most worried about is Zhang Weizhao's influence on Chen Youcong.

Xie Qian has enough reason to believe that Chen Youcong's interest in navigation was provoked by Zhang Weizhao. Before Zhang Weizhao was canonized as the queen, Xie Qian tried to understand from various channels where Zhang Weizhao's strange medical skills and Taoism came from. Zhang Weizhao has said more than once that when she was a child, she studied under a monk from the Western Regions and learned a lot of magic techniques from Europa. Moreover, Zhang Weizhao has talked about Europa many times with the Empress Dowager and the Emperor.

Chen Youcong was probably confused by Zhang Weizhao's words, and was full of longing for the world outside the Great Yan, and now he wants to rebuild the fleet and sail to the Western Ocean.

However, only a hot-blooded young man like Chen Youcong would believe that the outside world is full of miracles. And a middle-aged person like Xie Qian, who has experienced all the vicissitudes of life, knows how much danger there is outside the door. Xie Qian felt that the barbarian lands outside of Middle-earth were not worth spending so much effort to explore. The land of Dayan is vast, and managing this land well is what their monarchs and ministers should work together to accomplish.

Back then, the reason why he tried his best to help Chen Youcong fulfill his wish and establish Zhang Weizhao as the queen was that he felt that although Zhang Weizhao had extraordinary skills, he was still within a controllable range on the whole. In a good direction, these skills can make Zhang Weizhao become Chen Youcong's virtuous helper; In the worst direction, at most, let her have the upper hand in the palace infighting and become a favored queen, which will not cause more problems.

But I didn't expect that Zhang Weizhao actually had such the ability to clamor Chen Youcong to start such a big project.