Zhu Yunxi's attitude towards eunuchs is very complicated, and from a humanitarian point of view, this matter is a bit against human nature. But starting from the actual demand, the huge palace is still indispensable to this thing.

Therefore, it is only possible to reduce the resentment of this group as much as possible, or to transfer their resentment to others. After all, he and Lao Zhu will rely on this group of people to serve in their diet and daily life in the future, and if some people with ghosts enter the palace, isn't that a long life?

Li Chenggui could also guess Da Ming's thoughts, but when he thought of being this villain, he felt a little tired in his heart. But no matter how greasy he was, he had to grit his teeth and endure it.

After all, with his national strength, let alone fighting with the Ming Dynasty, even the Ming army stationed on the peninsula could destroy him.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty still kept him was just that he needed to use his fame to rule the peninsula on his behalf.

Once the Ming Dynasty gains the hearts of the people here and annexes the peninsula effortlessly, he will abandon his flag as soon as possible.

Li Chenggui knew this, so he had always been dissatisfied with Daming and secretly accumulated his strength. However, the strength he has accumulated is not for fighting against the Ming Dynasty, but for running away in the future.

He has been to Daming, has seen the long coastline of Daming, and has also seen the prosperity of Daming Kyoto.

It is precisely because I have been there that I know the gap between the two countries deeply.

On the contrary, his rebel Li Fangyuan has never been to Daming, so he can always maintain a high fighting spirit, and he is holding back his energy all day long to overturn Daming and recreate the glory of the peninsula!

When Li Chenggui was in an irritable mood, Li Fangyuan of the Northern Dynasty was conspiring a plan against the Ming Dynasty. Li Fangyuan was different from Li Chenggui, he had no resistance to the Ming Dynasty's proposal to pay tribute to 400 eunuchs.

And he not only gave the selected people a hundred taels of silver according to Da Ming's request, but also took money from his own small treasury to give them an extra one hundred taels.

After selecting a sufficient number of children, he also specially trained them, taught them some assassination tricks, cultivated their patriotic education, and so on.

In the end, they also arranged their father and brother in the army to bind them firmly to themselves.

Compared with Li Fangyuan's wolf ambitions, the king of Goryeo was much more settled, just paying for people step by step, and then sending them to the embassy.

For the Goryeo lineage, their throne was originally picked up. If it weren't for Daming, they would still be struggling to survive in the deep mountains and old forests.

The Ming embassy in Japan was built directly next to the Iwami silver mine.

First, there is a Ming army guarding here, and secondly, it is convenient to take a boat here, and you can go straight to the north and south along the coastline to the north and south of the emperor's Kyoto.

Daming did not encounter any resistance to the purchase of eunuchs in Japan, and even after the conditions were issued, because there were too many people who signed up, they needed to be screened layer by layer.

This is because there has been insufficient food in Japan, and many poor farmers cannot afford to raise their young children. Now that they have an extra chance to live, it is a good thing for them.

In Vietnam, by contrast, it is more complicated, with a lot of resistance, both official and non-governmental. But this is also difficult to help Li Jihan, who is bent on currying favor with the Ming Dynasty, he captured a lot of prisoners in the name of counterinsurgency, and also castrated the Ming Dynasty very intimately and gave it to the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ming Dynasty has always been very ambiguous about Vietnam, nominally supporting the orthodox Vietnamese family surnamed Chen, but he is not very resistant to him as a powerful minister, especially the military attache of the imperial grandson's line, who has a very good relationship with him.

not only helped him smuggle raw silk and iron tools from Daming, but also helped him sell grain to Daming, so that he could earn millions of taels of silver every year.

Of course, he also reciprocated by dividing several ports in the coastal areas of Vietnam for the use of Ming warships without charging any fees.

Therefore, after receiving the request of the Ming ambassador to Vietnam, he immediately organized an army to conquer the surrounding disobedient small countries and sent a sufficient number of eunuchs to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yunxi was very satisfied after receiving the reply from the ambassadors of the three countries, and especially rewarded them with coming to Daming to attend the birthday banquet of the old emperor.

Except for Li Fangyuan of the Northern Dynasty who did not come because he was ill, the kings and ministers of several other regions expressed their willingness to come to the Ming Dynasty for Hajj.

Zhu Yunxi had already planted a nail beside Li Fangyuan, knowing that this product had always had bad intentions, but he was too lazy to take care of this goods.

The land of projectiles can be destroyed in an instant.

As soon as he finishes cleaning up the north, it will naturally be the turn of the east.

After determining the list of pilgrimages of overseas vassal states, Zhu Yunxi began to be busy welcoming the king of the Ming domain who entered Beijing, and held the birthday banquet of Lao Zhu.

In order to celebrate the birthday of Lao Zhu, Zhu Yunxi can be regarded as having made a bloody investment, and took out 500,000 taels of silver from his treasury to decorate the palace and the main hall, and renovated the post house under the Honglu Temple.

He also specially ordered his navy to bring elephants, lions, rhinoceros, giraffes and other "wild beasts" from Vietnam, Africa and other places to offer Rui.

Although he and Lao Zhu are not uncommon to this thing, the people of Daming like to watch it. Under Zhu Yunxi's intensive arrangement, a number of vassal kings entered Beijing one after another.

Zhu Di attaches great importance to this entry into Beijing, although he is far away from the capital, and he turned to Kaifeng halfway through, and took the king of Zhou to enter Beijing, but he is still the first of many princes to enter Beijing.

After entering the capital, Zhu Di was shocked by the earth-shaking changes in the capital.

Although he inquired about the customs of the capital when he was fiefdom, reading the reports of his subordinates and conducting field surveys were two different things.

In the report, what he saw was that "the imperial grandson renovated the capital, built a tower to divert water, built a tall building into the clouds, and smoothed the road like a mirror......

This kind of abbreviated text can only be seen in general terms, and it is even easy to be misleading.

However, when he really drove on the newly built road in the capital without feeling the slightest bump, the shock in his heart was simply incomprehensible.

"How did Zhu Yunxi build such a smooth road in less than a year?"

"This kind of road is really smooth as a mirror, without the slightest pothole!"

Zhu Di turned a few more corners in disbelief, but no matter which street the carriage entered, all he saw was the same blue-gray pavement......

What surprised him even more was that all the nullahs that had been everywhere had disappeared, and were replaced by shallow pits every ten zhang, covered with iron nets.

Zhu Di ordered someone to call his servants in the capital and ask him about the purpose of his iron net.

"Back to Your Highness, this is the sewer."

"Ordinary people have it at their doorstep, and they can dump dirty water."

"The iron fence on the road here is used to block dead leaves, branches, etc., and prevent them from clogging the sewers."

Zhu Di nodded when he heard this, and he understood the function of the sewer.

"What is this road for?"

"Back to Your Highness, this thing is called cement, and it is a divine object developed by the imperial grandson a few years ago!"

"This thing is used with clay and river sand, which is used to build cities that are invulnerable, and can be used to build roads in an instant, which is the most convenient."

Zhu Di was very disappreciative when he heard "invulnerable", he had never seen any invulnerable city walls, even if it was Tongwan City outside the fortress, it was not as mysterious as it was said in the history books.

He dismounted from the carriage without believing evil, slashed and stabbed the ground with his sword, and was utterly desperate when he saw that the sparks were shining everywhere and could not destroy the road in the slightest.

"Is this the work of cement?"

"This thing is so powerful, if it is used to build a city, it is really an iron wall!"

Zhu Di withdrew his sword in despair and looked at the tower in the distance.

"If Lone's prediction is correct, that tower is the water tower mentioned in the newspaper, right?"

"Yes!"

"Now, as long as the residents of the city pay a certain monthly water bill, they can bring the sweet water to their homes and use it at will, which is very convenient and fast."

"And the money is not much, each household is only a few dozen copper plates, which is much cheaper than buying water in buckets before, and there is no limit to ......."

"Our palace is also connected to running water, and the installation fee is funded by His Majesty, and the monthly water bill is one hundred taels of silver......

When Zhu Di heard this, he was not happy on the spot.

"Why do we have to pay a hundred taels a month?"

"Back to Your Highness, this is

The regulations of the imperial grandson. Not only do we charge more, but the King of Jin, the King of Qin, the King of Zhou, and so on are all at such prices!"

"If you don't accept so much, you can't show the dignity of our royal family......

The first time Zhu Di heard that "honorable" was explained in this way, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot.

"However, it is not only the royal family that has to pay more, but also the wealthy families such as nobles, officials, and businessmen in Beijing."

"It is said that it is calculated according to the size of the mansion, and the smaller the household, the less it will pay."

When Zhu Di heard this, he was a little more balanced in his heart, and he was not alone in the end.

But he soon thought of a slot, a possibility.

"The whole city gets its water from this tower?"

"Yes, even the palace draws water from here."

Zhu Di looked at the water tower and muttered to himself when he heard this.

"If someone had bad intentions and poisoned the water tower, wouldn't it be easy to kill the whole city?"

The old servant didn't know that this was Zhu Di's heart, and thought that Zhu Di was really discussing safety issues with him.

"Back to Your Highness, there are people guarding the water tower, not only the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, but even the people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang are stationed, and the precautions are very strict, and idlers can't get in!"

"Oh......"

Zhu Di subconsciously frowned, thus extinguishing the idea of poisoning from the water tower, and set his eyes on the houses on both sides of the road.

"Are these houses newly built?"

"Returning to His Royal Highness, yes, it was all ordered by the imperial grandson to push the original house to the back and rebuild it."

"Tut-tut......

Zhu Di looked at these three-storey houses and was amazed, these houses are much more regular than the original, with unified pink walls and tiles, unified door decoration, and the beauty is just like a painting......

"How much does it cost?"

"Returning to His Royal Highness, it is said that it cost 20 million taels of silver, and some of the squares in the capital are still being turned over one after another, and the cost will continue to increase......

"This ......"

Zhu Di was completely speechless, he scraped three feet of ground in the fiefdom, and forced the outside of the Saiwai to pay tribute, and it was only 1.8 million taels of silver a year.

The imperial grandson spent 20 million taels of silver on the flip just for the sake of the good looks of the capital. Compared with the two, I am not even worthy of carrying shoes for my nephew as an uncle!

"It's really a national power......

Zhu Di didn't want to take the carriage anymore while he was shocked, but just led the old servants of the royal palace in Beijing to wander on the cement road, pointing to places he didn't understand from time to time to ask.

"This is not a city gate, and it is not close to the city wall, why dig a few feet deep, is it necessary to build a cave to hide soldiers?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are many opinions here, and there has been no exact explanation."

"However, the old slave went to the palace for His Royal Highness to give gifts to the harem concubine, but I heard from the eunuchs in the palace, saying that the imperial grandson wants to build an underground road, and in the future, both carriages and pedestrians can pass underground......

Zhu Di secretly kept this matter in mind, thinking that in the future, when he entered the capital, he must send someone to guard against the soldiers who suddenly killed in the tunnel.

But that's all for later, provided that God gives him this opportunity!

Zhu Di walked a few more streets and saw that the familiar bell tower and drum tower were gone, replaced by a taller building, and a huge chiming bell on it.

"This thing is used to tell the time, right?"

"Lone seems to have seen something similar in his father's palace before."

"Your Highness is wise!"

"This thing is called a chiming bell, and every day a special person is responsible for winding it, and every half hour, the bell will make a bell-bell sound, and you can hear it clearly within a radius of ten miles."

"Now many people follow the bell, and even the officials of the DPRK and China are on duty at the sound of the bell."

Zhu Di nodded approvingly when he heard this, and thought silently in his heart, he had to find a way to ask his father for one of these things, and put it in the most central position of Beiping City, so that it would be much more convenient for him to train the army or do other things.

"By the way, I heard that the imperial grandson built a new palace, but why didn't I see it along the way?"

"Your Highness, the new palace of the imperial grandson is in the suburbs, not in the capital."

"The suburbs?"

Zhu Di looked at the new capital and couldn't help but sigh.

"The capital is so prosperous and rich, the new palace of the imperial grandson must be even more magnificent, right?"

The old servant smiled slightly when he heard this.

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Your Highness, there is nothing surprising about the Emperor's grandson's North Palace, and it's not even as magnificent as the Hope Academy on the side of the bell tower!"

Zhu Di was puzzled when he heard this.

"Impossible, right?"

"The imperial grandson used 20 million to renovate the capital, and he was reluctant to build a luxurious palace for himself?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is said that many people have given enough advice to the imperial grandson, but they have all been rejected by the imperial grandson because he has no money."

"However, the old servant heard that the reason why the imperial grandson refused was because the north palace was only for temporary office purposes, and a new palace would be built in the future."

"I see, since it is a temporary office space, it is really not suitable to build it on a large scale."

"If Your Highness has some leisure, you can go to the nearby Hope Academy, which is the essence of the capital."

"Now many outsiders will go there to visit and appreciate the atmosphere of learning in our Daming capital!"

"School of Hope?"

"Take Gu over and have a look!"

"No!"

Not long after, Zhu Di came to the Hope School under the leadership of the old servant, and when he saw the rows of high-rise buildings in the school, as well as the tree-lined roads and gardens, his heart was shocked again.

He had been here a few years ago, when it was just a patchwork of houses. I didn't expect it to take only two years to build this place so magnificently.

If it weren't for the old servant's emphasis that this was a school, he would even think that this was Zhu Yunxi's newly built palace.

"With such a big school, I'm afraid it can fit 10,000 people, right?"

The old servant said proudly.

"But that's not all!"

"Now not only the children of the people in the capital flock to it, but even children from other places come from thousands of miles to study here."

"There are more than 10,000 people in the primary school and more than 5,000 in the secondary school alone......

"This is not counting the Royal Academy, there are still many noble children in the Royal Academy, as well as the princes in the palace, and the princes of the vassal family."

"The sons of the Jin family are studying here!"

"The old servant also heard that the imperial grandson once proposed to His Majesty that the younger brother of the prince of the domain should be allowed to study in Beijing if he was over eight years old, but he was somehow rejected by His Majesty......

Zhu Di listened to the old servant's tone full of regret, and wanted to kick him away.

This dog thing shouldn't think it's a good thing to go to Beijing to study, isn't this a hostage?

If Zhu Yunxi really made such a request to himself, would he, who was an uncle, agree or not! Zhu Di pondered for a long time, but he didn't break out foul language, but just said vaguely.

"Father, Emperor Shengming!"