But the lives of ordinary people have not been affected in the slightest.

According to traditional Confucianism, the recklessness of the king of a country will inevitably lead to the misery of the people's lives and the misery of the people.

But today's Ming Dynasty, the war everywhere has not stopped for a year, and the life of the people is getting better and better.

In particular, the massive amount of gold and silver, with one after another sailing ships sailed into the port of Yingtianfu, like flowing water into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in the northern provinces, which have been plagued by famine and war, there has not been a single case of starvation death this year.

All of this is attributed by the people to the wise and wise Emperor Hongwu, as well as His Royal Highness King Ying, the Great Ming Xian Wang!

Zhu Han knew that his prestige among the people was getting higher and higher, and even far surpassed that of a certain virtuous king in the commentary.

But.

To be honest, all this is not what Zhu Han wants.

What he originally wanted was to eat and drink every day, travel the mountains and rivers, and then hug all kinds of beauties left and right, and be a happy and idle prince.

But I really don't have any time to spare.

I can't watch my brother make the wrong decisions on some decisions related to the future of Daming.

can only do my best to dedicate hard sweat to Daming.

"Your Highness, you're tired, eat some pastries and drink tea!"

In the British Palace, Zhu Han was immersed in the official documents on the eucalyptus, when suddenly a fragrant wind drifted in with a gentle voice.

There are only two people who can enter and leave Zhu Han's study at will in the palace, one is the side concubine Liu, and the other is Zhou Zhiruo.

As the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, Zhou Zhiruo doesn't know any martial arts.

On the contrary, he learned the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and there are also famous teachers and Confucians who teach poetry and calligraphy etiquette in private learning.

Therefore, if Zhou Zhi can help Zhu Han provide some help that cannot be ignored when dealing with government affairs, she will also have the right to enter and leave the study freely.

"Oops, it's so late!"

Zhu Han stretched when he heard this voice and looked up at the window.

In the distance, there is a tall vermilion tower.

The tower is topped by a tetrahedron, each with a huge clock.

The hands on this huge clock clearly point to noon.

Such a bell tower that transcends the times is naturally Zhu Han's masterpiece.

After signing in to obtain the current mechanical clock technology, Zhu Han immediately organized the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to set up a towering bell tower in Yingtianfu in Nanjing.

The bell tower of Yingtianfu will ring the bell every half an hour to tell the time.

Since its completion, it has become a marvelous landscape for the people of the whole city.

Almost everyone is proud of this bell tower, not only convenient, people can see the time, but also let those foreigners who live in Yingtianfu once again be impressed by the power of the Ming Dynasty.

The bell tower is a majestic and technical building, which can make people deeply shocked when they look at it, and it also engraves the powerful impression of the Ming Dynasty in everyone's minds.

Even Zhu Han is now accustomed to it, and regularly looks at the clock tower every day to see the time.

Zhu Han sat on the Taishi chair, patted his thigh with his hand, and beckoned to Zhou Zhiruo.

Zhou Zhiruo's face was slightly red.

With a wave of his hand, the maidservant behind him put down the tray of snacks and tea, and then sent her away.

After doing all this, Zhou Zhiruo was shy and timid, twisted his waist and sat on Zhu Han's lap.

"Yes, that's good!"

Zhu Han's thighs felt the warmth of Zhou Zhiruo's body, one hand wrapped around her waist, and the other hand gently stroked Zhou Zhiruo's slightly bulging lower abdomen.

"This is the bloodline of His Highness, and he will definitely do great things in the future!"

Zhou Zhiruo said wistfully while feeling Zhu Han's pampering.

She is now six or seven months pregnant, and according to the title inheritance system of the Ming Dynasty, even if Zhou Zhiruo gave birth to a boy, he was only Zhu Han's fourth son, and he was not a son-in-law, so he could not inherit much title and wealth at all.

But just last month, Zhu Han proposed a new system of succession to the Ming King to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang.

It has completely changed the situation of the primogeniture inheritance system.

According to the knighthood system proposed by Zhu Han, from the prince to the prince and the princess and baron, in addition to the eldest son can inherit the title, the rest of the sons can also inherit the same title, but these titles are not sealed in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but canonized in the Wa Kingdom, Nanyang, Dongshengzhou and other places where there are not many Ming people.

This set of systems is actually a template for learning the division of the world by King Wu of Zhou two thousand years ago.

For these encircled new territories, if the Ming Dynasty adopted the official immigration reclamation policy, then I don't know if it will be the Year of the Monkey, after all, for these remote and remote wild places, being a flowing official is really worth the loss.

Only by adopting the strategy of Zhou Tianzi dividing the world back then, canonizing these newly acquired lands to large and small lords, and letting them use their strengths to develop territories, increase population, and fight against indigenous barbarians.

Only in this way can these new territories be developed in a short period of time.

Of course, these territorial titles were not given by the imperial court for nothing.

Instead, they need to pay a certain amount of money to the imperial court, so as to obtain the canonization of the imperial court.

For example, Zhu Han, as the prince of Yipin, could obtain the title of hereditary prince with hereditary replacement, and the other sons were canonized as county kings according to the etiquette law, and these county kings were originally split from the territory of the previous generation of princes according to the principle of Tui En Order.

But now with the new title system of the Ming Dynasty, as long as you can pay a certain amount of money, you can get land equal to the title of the county king in the Wa Kingdom or Dongsheng Prefecture.

Dongshengzhou, that is, the American continent where Hu Dahai's fleet drifted to.

Because a lot of gold mines have been found there, although the road is very far, it has a very high popularity in Yingtianfu, and many people have infinite reverie about going to Dongshengzhou to pan for gold and get rich.

The historical Ming Dynasty knighthood system was basically a large-scale national pig farm.

With the generations of descendants surnamed Zhu being confined to their respective feudal lands and unable to migrate at will, it was only one or two generations before they became completely wasted.

Moreover, once these people are idle, they have nothing else to do except give birth to children all day long.

Only a hundred years later, the Ming clan became a huge burden on the state finances.

The Ming Dynasty spent millions of silver, but it could only raise a bunch of incompetent rice worms.

Zhu Han's knighthood system is aimed at this situation.

Except for the eldest son who guarded the inheritance, the rest of the sons were all divided and sent out to expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty and guard the frontier.

Those wild lands, although the land is vast, but the level of production is very backward, large and small lords go to the development of overcoming obstacles, and no one can have the ability to rebel.

After all, all the weapons and equipment used by these Ming feudal colonial groups at that time were provided by the Ming Dynasty.

If anyone dares to disobey the orders of the Ming court, they only need to cut off their weapon supply, and they can easily balance them.

As soon as Zhu Han came up with this knighthood system, it immediately made the princes and nobles scramble to support it.

Who doesn't want their children and grandchildren to enjoy a lot of happiness?

Zhou Zhiruo's mother's family, as a big businessman in Suzhou, although they are rich, but according to the Ming Dynasty's military merit knighthood system, they will not be knighted if they do not have military merits.

And if Zhou Zhi can give birth to a son for Zhu Han, it will be the future king of the county, and the opening of the fief of the county king will inevitably require a bunch of officials, and then the Zhou family will be able to obtain military merit knighthoods through this channel.

After all, everyone clearly knows that now that the Ming Dynasty is militarily strong, and the indigenous barbarians in those wild places have no way to stop the military conquest of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, as long as you can set foot on that new continent, your military merits will basically be in hand.

For the sake of his son's future future, Zhou Zhiruo naturally had already negotiated the conditions with his mother's family.

Only if he gives birth to a son, then the Suzhou Zhou family will donate all the knighthood money, as long as the descendants of the Zhou family can be hereditary stewards of the county palace.

Zhu Han is also well aware of these things.

However, this can be regarded as using the Zhou family's money to pave the way for his son in disguise, and Zhu Han is also happy to see it.

Zhuhai and Zhou Zhiruo were talking and laughing while drinking tea, and suddenly Zhou Zhiruo's face turned red.

Zhou Zhiruo said softly.

"Your Highness, don't do this in broad daylight."

It turned out that Zhu Han had been busy dealing with the military and political affairs sent by the Northern Parallel Capital Division in the past few days, and he had not been to the rooms of these side concubines.

"What are you afraid of in broad daylight?"

Zhu Han said as he stretched out his claws to Zhou Zhiruo like a big bad wolf tempting a little white rabbit.

Zhou Zhiruo blushed with shame, and prepared to serve Zhu Han.

Suddenly.

There was a very loud explosion outside.

"Boom!"

The windows of the entire palace were shaken.

Zhu Han's face immediately changed drastically.

"Someone, what's going on?!"

Zhu Han was not in the mood to continue to make any colors, and immediately asked the entourage outside.

Soon, the entourage went out to find out the source of the explosion.

"Tell Your Highness, it's the South Pediatric Engineering College!"

Zhu Han immediately frowned when he heard this, "Engineering College? ”

The full name of the College of Engineering is Daming Yingtian Engineering College, which is Zhu Han, a new-style school newly established by specially transferring personnel from the original Taixue.

For example, the bell tower of Yingtianfu was built by the teachers and students of the School of Engineering.

Now that such a loud explosion is coming from the engineering college, something big must have happened.

Zhu Han secretly screamed in his heart!

Recently, the chief science and technology master of the Ming Dynasty, Wanhu Tao Guangyi, is trying to make a steam engine in the College of Engineering.

The steam engine is very dangerous under high temperature and high pressure.

If you are not careful, the boiler of a steam engine can turn into a terrifying hot water bomb.

"Prepare the horse, go to the engineering college!"

Zhu Han immediately ran out of the palace with a few entourages and headed towards the engineering college in the south of the city.

When he entered the gate of the College of Engineering, he saw that the square inside the gate was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.

"Your Highness, give way!"

Chen Baodao, the commander of the palace guards, squeezed out a path for Zhu Han in front.

Zhu Han came to the front of the crowd and saw large water stains scattered all over the square.

There are also pieces of broken copper and iron.

"It's done! It's done! A man in a Ming official uniform was clapping his hands and laughing in the square, and he kept shouting.

This person is Wanhu Tao Guangyi, as the most powerful science and technology doer under Zhu Han, since he was instructed by Zhu Han to invent a hot air balloon to realize the dream of flying, Tao Guangyi has been intoxicated with all kinds of scientific and technological experiments and cannot extricate himself.

Every time Zhu Han saw Wanhu Tao Guangyi indulging in scientific and technological experiments, he couldn't help but sigh, worthy of being a brave man who dared to fly on a rocket in history.

"Wanhu, His Royal Highness has come down!"

Chen Baodao, the commander of the palace's personal guards, shouted and pulled Wanhu Tao Guangyi back from his madness.

"Your Highness, Your Highness! It's done! It's done! ”

When Wanhu Tao Guangyi saw Zhu Han, he was still so happy that he couldn't help himself, and he didn't even bother to salute.

"The steam engine is finished?" Zhu Han hurriedly asked.

"Yes, Your Highness, I made the steam engine you are talking about!" Wanhu Tao Guangyi pointed to the fragments of a place and said.

Zhu Han looked at the broken copper and iron all over the ground, and couldn't help but look at Wanhu Tao Guangyi with suspicion.

He even wondered if this guy was under too much pressure, and he was really a little mentally unstable.

This is obviously a terrible boiler explosion accident, what kind of door is it?

"No, you obviously exploded, didn't the boiler explosion hurt anyone?" Zhu Han then asked.

"It's become Your Highness, this steam engine has already become, but the well water pumped out when it was used to pump water just now was too cold, and it sputtered on the boiler, causing an explosion!" Wanhu Tao Guangyi hurriedly explained.

Then he told Zhu Han the detailed experience.

It turned out that the original material of the steam engine provided by Zhu Han to Tao Guangyi was actually a large kettle and a reciprocating system, the conversion of energy efficiency was actually very low, and the whole set of guys was very bulky, and the only practical use was to pump water.

So Tao Guangyi used this steam engine to test pumping water in the Institute of Engineering.

Who knows, because the experiment was too successful!

The water pumped out of the well was very fast, and it didn't take long for the water tower above to be filled, and the overflowing well water exploded in thermal expansion and contraction on the steam engine boiler.

After listening to Wanhu Tao's description, he read the detailed production and operation manual in his hand.

Zhu Han couldn't help but be dumbfounded!

There are too many capable people in the Ming Dynasty!

He just simply provided an idea, plus a sketch that was so simple that it couldn't be simpler, and he didn't say anything about sealing materials, Wanhu Tao Guangyi actually relied on these simple premises to make a steam engine that could pump water.

This made Zhu Han have to sigh, there is really no shortage of geniuses in this world.

"The steam engine has come out, and the future Da Ming is really the king of the world!"

Zhu Han is not only full of expectations for the future.

Although the steam pumping machine is very inefficient, it cannot be used as an effective transportation power, which means that the current rudimentary version of the steam engine cannot make any steam trains or ships.

But.

This is just the beginning and provides a good start for future developments.

According to Wanhu Tao Guangyi's almost crazy energy, Zhu Han felt that the Ming Dynasty was really just around the corner to enter the steam age.

"Chen Baodao, immediately send someone to block the College of Engineering! Anyone who sees this steam engine is not allowed to come and go as they please! Zhuhai's face suddenly changed, and he ordered loudly.

This kind of steam engine can change the fortunes of a dynasty.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhu Han to let any hostile forces obtain any news about the steam engine.

Blocking the entire engineering college is only the first step, according to Zhu Han's idea, it is necessary to check all the ancestors of all the people on the scene for three generations to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

But.

Regarding Zhu Han's actions, Wanhu Tao Guangyi didn't care about it.

"Your Highness, there is no need for this!" Tao Guangyi said.

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