"Sister, I'll leave you here, next time I come back, it's time for me to accompany you......"

In the dim underground stone room, when Zhu Di said this sentence while holding Empress Xu Zigong with both hands, he raised his hand to wipe his tears, took a deep breath, and turned around and walked out of the stone room.

Through the long tomb road, when he walked out completely, the green Tianshou Mountain also appeared in their field of vision.

The Shinto and Ming Towers cooperate with the surrounding trees, making the entire Tianshou Mountain look much better than the Purple Mountain in Nanjing.

Although the Purple Mountain began to plant trees in the 14th year of Hongwu, and set up a filial piety guard to protect the Purple Mountain to prevent the people from cutting down the trees of the filial piety.

However, because most of the trees planted in Purple Mountain are valuable trees that grow slowly, even after 30 years, the trees of Purple Mountain are not luxuriant, and they are far inferior to those of later generations.

However, compared to Purple Mountain, Tianshou Mountain is much better.

Originally, Beizhili was sparsely populated, even if trees were needed as firewood, the number needed was not large, and the surrounding area of Tianshou Mountain was sparsely populated, and there were not many trees cut down.

In addition, from the beginning of the construction of Beijing, Zhu Gaoxu ordered people to plant trees, and banned the felling of trees in the area of Tianshou Mountain in the north, so the greening of Tianshou Mountain still maintains a fairly high level.

Buried in such a place, I believe that Queen Xu will be very happy when she knows about it.

"Your Majesty......"

Wang Yan, who had accompanied Zhu Di for many years, stood in front of the Ming Tower and spoke, Zhu Di responded with his head bowed, and then took Wang Yan and them out of Tianshou Mountain.

The next day, they rushed back to Beijing before noon, and by this time tens of thousands of troops and 100,000 people had gathered outside the Anding Gate in the north of Beijing.

Some of the people are being paid to disband, and this phenomenon is due to the rules for recruiting people and husbands formulated by Zhu Gaoxu.

Except for the border areas, the distance of recruitment of people in the interior should not exceed 1,000 miles, and many of the people in the army of the Northern Expedition were recruited in the Qufu area, and assisting the army to reach Beijing was the end of their journey.

The salary of 20 wen a day made many people who received wages smile.

They entered Andingmen with a smile on their wages, ready to splurge some of them in Beijing, and then take most of them home.

Of course, there were also many people who were unwilling to return to Qufu and spontaneously signed up to continue, and for this part, the military scribes gladly accepted.

The northward route of the northern expedition army this time is still to take Daning, but after arriving at Quanningwei, they need to face more than 500 miles of no man's land before they can reach Baichengwei.

After arriving in Baichengwei, the local government will supplement 20,000 minfu to assist the army to continue northward, and then successively replenish 40,000 minfu in Taining and Hecheng until the army arrives at Zhenyuwei.

In addition to the people of Modong, the number of auxiliary soldiers recruited by Bohai and Liaodong was as high as 120,000.

In other words, 180,000 people can be made up outside the entire Guan, while only 120,000 people need to be drawn from the Guan.

In order to recruit 120,000 people, Zhu Di was delayed in Beijing for nearly half a month.

However, judging from the lively situation outside the city, 120,000 people have probably made up enough, which makes Zhu Di, who returned to Beijing, very satisfied.

He rode and shook the reins, and entered Andingmen under the guard of thousands of cavalry.

Passing through the corridor, what appeared in front of him was a courtyard with a unified plan and construction, as well as a five-story Chinese-style high-rise building facing the street.

These high-rise buildings are not traditional wooden buildings, but imitation Chinese-style high-rise buildings made of pig iron and concrete.

In addition to the wooden structure of the cornices, helmet roofs and the extended heavy eaves bucket arches, the main structure of these high-rise buildings is still cast iron concrete.

Of course, except for the houses that can be used as commodities on the street, which are built with five floors and use cast iron concrete, the rest of the houses are basically made of concrete, bricks, and tiles.

Naturally, such a building cannot be as antique as Nanjing, but it is a trend that must be followed in the future.

If the city of Beijing were built in the Nanjing way, there would be no telling how many forests would be cut down in Yanshan in the north, which is not in line with Zhu Gaoxu's idea of planting trees to prevent sandstorms.

You must know that during this period, Beijing had been invaded by wind and sand many times, so Zhu Gaoxu issued a fatwa banning logging in the Tianshou Mountain area.

Of course, the ban on logging is only a palliative treatment, because the people do not want to cut down trees, but houses and firewood all need wood, and cutting trees is a last resort.

If you want to solve these problems, you have to solve them.

Houses can be built with concrete, which saves not only wood but also food.

As for firewood, it can be mined in the coal mines of Shanxi and Beizhili, and the price of coal will be lower than the price of firewood, and firewood will be changed from a necessity to a replaceable product.

Most of the forests in later generations also began to grow safely after electricity, gas, and coal entered people's homes one after another.

Without electricity, gas and coal, many forests would have disappeared.

"Beijing is lively, how many people are there now?"

Riding a horse on the cement road on the streets of Beijing, Zhu Di asked Wang Yan, who was riding a war horse beside him, and Wang Yan also replied:

"The slave asked Guo Ji, the secretary of the Xingbu a few days ago, and he said that there are more than 3,076,000 people in Beizhili at present, but most of them live in the south, and there are more than 373,000 in Shuntianfukou, of which there are more than 200,000 in Beijing."

"The inner city of Beijing is enough for 500,000 people, and if the population grows in the future, the outer city can be built in the south.

The use of glutinous rice mortar is certainly strong, but after all, it is a waste of food.

In contrast, the formula of cement is constantly improving, the strength is also increasing, the cost is not as good as glutinous rice mortar, it can be stored for a longer time, and it is easier to store.

Therefore, after the large-scale production of cement, it is more convenient and cheaper to use it as a building material than glutinous rice mortar.

"Only 200,000 people are so lively, it seems that Beijing will not be worse than Nanjing in the future."

Zhu Di nodded proudly, only by moving the capital to Beijing will Jiangnan not gain the superiority of a political and economic dual center.

Moving the capital to Beijing is essentially dividing up the investment that Jiangnan has received from the political center and transferring this investment to the north.

Not only that, after the relocation of the capital, many officials in Jiangnan will also move with the imperial court, which can bring hundreds of thousands of people to Beizhili.

The only food problem was also alleviated by the development of the Northeast, and Zhu Di also heard the news that the crops from Dongzhou had arrived in Nanjing.

"Those Dongzhou crops, what did the second brother say?"

Zhu Di asked Wang Yan, and Wang Yan replied without thinking: "Your Highness said that Taixue is cultivating potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other crops. ”

"As long as we can select and cultivate good seeds, and then start to promote them from the Bohai Sea, then tens of millions of acres of arable land in the northeast can be used, and even more so in the mountainous areas of the southwest."

"However, the process of cultivating good seeds may take several years, and the promotion will take 10 years."

After Wang Yan finished speaking, Zhu Di stroked his beard with satisfaction: "There is a second child in the south, I am still more relieved." ”

"You let Ji Gang and Chen Ying continue, and if anyone dares to impeach and move the capital, give me a good life."

"In addition, inform the three armies that the army will set out to suppress the guards in half a month, and there must be no mistake."

"Slave and maid command!" Wang Yan responded, and then advanced towards the palace with Zhu Di.

After a short time, when they arrived at the palace city in Beijing, the appearance of the Forbidden City in the north was not the same as that of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, mainly in the color difference and scale of the building.

Due to Zhu Gaoxu's ban, many metal dyes were banned, and Kuaixiang could only use vegetable dyes to paint them many times.

However, plant dyes are not as heavy and cohesive as metal dyes, so many buildings in the Forbidden City in Beijing are lighter in color and not so heavy.

This made Zhu Di very happy, but when he thought that his second child had said that too much inhalation of those metal dyes would cause death, Zhu Di still gave up the idea of changing the dyes.

Of course, the Forbidden City in Beijing is not all disappointing shortcomings, but also has its own advantages, which are first and foremost in terms of scale.

Due to the use of concrete and cast iron construction, the main support of many palaces in the Forbidden City in Beijing did not rely on wooden gold columns, but on concrete-poured cast iron concrete stone columns.

Compared with the wooden golden pillars, the concrete pillars have the advantage of being taller, so many palaces in the Forbidden City in Beijing are much taller than the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

The height has risen, the doors and windows have begun to increase, and the lighting is more abundant.

Walking in the Fengtian Palace, which is fifteen zhang high along with the pedestal, no matter how many times he walks in, Zhu Di will feel a sense of pride, especially when he sits on the golden platform and looks down on the guards in the hall, this sense of pride makes him flutter.

"It's really nice to have a good view of the mountains."

Zhu Di reluctantly withdrew his hand from the rosewood dragon chair, and finally went to the Qianqing Palace in the harem to rest.

While he happily checked into Beijing's Forbidden City, Zhu Gaoxu from the south stood in a brightly lit classroom, using a crude microscope in his hand to observe a thinly sliced corn kernel.

"According to the description of the soldiers, this corn has too many branches, and if human intervention can be used to reduce the branches and control the branches within a reasonable range, the corn produced should be slightly larger than the current corn."

Standing beside Zhu Gaoxu, Wang Bendao, the waiter of the Department of Agriculture, was talking with Zhu Gaochu about the issue of corn.

This kind of simple human intervention has been very popular in the Ming Dynasty, but there is no such technology in Dongzhou, so the local people basically stay in the period of slash-and-burn farming for agriculture.

In comparison, the agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty is much more sophisticated, after all, for thousands of years, China has domesticated many crops, that is, the rice with low yield at the beginning has been domesticated into a "high-yield" crop with a yield of two or three stones per mu.

This kind of domestication is still under the premise that there is no microscope and various research foundations, and Wang Bendao of the Department of Agriculture has a deep memory of the cultivation and interference methods of many crops in their minds, and naturally knows how to improve breeding.

"Specifically, your Department of Agriculture and the Bachelors of Agronomy are operating together, and I hope to get a good result."

Zhu Gaoxu also doesn't expect the current scientific background to come up with any hybridization methods, but he is still looking forward to cultivating good varieties to slightly improve the taste and yield of corn.

He has tried the taste of corn in this era just now, and it can't be said to be very delicious, but it is definitely not delicious, and it is even slightly bitter.

If the taste can not be improved, then corn in Daming, Xing may really only be able to be used as feed, and due to the low yield, Xing may not even be able to be used as feed, and the people will be more inclined to sweet potatoes with high yield.

After all, both sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines can be eaten, as long as you master the means of detoxification.

"Okay, you study hard and strive to pick out the good varieties within a few years."

Zhu Gaoxu took his eyes off the cells of the corn kernels on the microscope, and he also felt some pride in his heart.

The microscope that can observe cells was discovered by the British at least in the late seventeenth century during the Kangxi period, and the Ming Dynasty had mastered this technology more than 250 years in advance.

In addition, the scientific research and basic knowledge in various fields were also two to three hundred years ahead of other countries in this era.

The knowledge brought by Zhu Gaoxu has been hollowed out, so now he is mainly focusing on cultivating basic science and mathematics.

In addition to practice, there are also those who specialize in theory.

Although to outsiders, this group of theoretical researchers is squandering the money of the imperial court, they have also slowly perfected many of the topics proposed by Zhu Gaoxu and cracked them theoretically little by little.

All of this made Zhu Gaoxu very happy.

Of course, what made Zhu Gaoxu even happier was the steam engine laboratory after obtaining rubber.

"Alright, I'll go to the steam engine first, and you can study it yourself."

Zhu Gaoxu gave an order, and then walked towards the laboratory of the steam engine with Yishiha.

It took him a moment to walk into the courtyard where he studied the steam engine, and saw Wang Fu, a doctor who was incarnated as a craftsman and led the scholars to install the steam engine with their own hands.

"Your Highness!"

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu coming, Wang Fu immediately took the scholars to salute.

"Okay, I'm not here to salute you, I want to know if you, who got the rubber, have solved the transmission problem of the steam engine."

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and took a closer look at the steam engine made of brass, and Wang Fu also took off his glasses when he heard this, and introduced to Zhu Gaoxu:

"This version of the steam engine has many more functions and better performance than the previous one."

"When steam is introduced into the cylinder, the valve is closed, and then cold water is sprinkled into the cylinder, and when the steam condenses, a vacuum is created, and the air pressure on the other side of the piston pushes the piston ......"

Wang Fu said a lot, Zhu Gaoxu himself was a little confused, although these words were invented by him, but now how to assemble them together he is a little incomprehensible?

"Just tell me the efficiency, and can it be used?"

Zhu Gaoxu interrupted Wang Fu, and Wang Fu nodded hurriedly when he heard this: "The efficiency is much higher than before, because the heat resistance of rubber is stronger than that of Eucommia ulmoides rubber." ”

"If a rod is attached deep into the shaft to drive a pump, the movement of the steam engine piston is transmitted through this rod to the pump's piston to pump water out of the shaft."

"This time the power is larger than the previous one, which can save more manpower and make mining easier in many coal mining areas......"

Wang Fu didn't say what Zhu Gaoxu wanted to hear, which made Zhu Gaochu a little disappointed: "Can you drive a four-wheeled vehicle?" ”

"This ......" Wang Fu was a little embarrassed, obviously they hadn't studied it yet.

"Okay, I know, this thing doesn't need to be promoted to the mining area for the time being, I need you to continue to study it."

"Now it is 108,000 miles away from the steam engine in my heart, but your credit is still certain."

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at Yishiha and explained to him: "The bachelors who participate in the project will be rewarded with 50 yuan each, and the doctor Wang Fu will be rewarded with 200 yuan. ”

"The slave takes the command." also lost Ha Ying, Wang Fu and others also happily made a gesture: "The ministers are grateful......

"Let's go." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and left the steam engine laboratory, and then got into his carriage.

Instead of going to the other labs, he asked Yisha to send someone to inquire about the progress.

It's a pity that science is not achieved overnight, whether it is gunpowder, agriculture, industry, mathematics, chemistry and other practical and theoretical laboratories, basically no major breakthroughs have been made.

After listening to all the contents, Zhu Gaoxu leaned on the car and closed his eyes to recuperate, and motioned to send him back to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, Yishaha looked at the disappointed appearance of his Royal Highness, and in order to make him a little happier, he spoke:

"Your Highness, Chen Chang has renovated the three cities of Donghai Mansion, and also sent Brother Meng's Timur and his relatives to Nanjing, you can take a look......"

Yisha asked cautiously, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't care: "Just put to death for crimes." ”

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was not worried about any foreign invasion at all, he had the foundation of primary school, middle school and Taixue, plus the Nanyang and Xiaoxi shipping lanes that had been developed by the Ming Dynasty, he was worried about foreign invasion, and it was better to worry about whether the Han people would lose their brains in the future.

With the emergence of New Deal officials, the trend of raising military force at every turn has also begun to intensify.

The main reason for this situation is that most of the New Deal officials are between 20 and 40 years old.

Officials of this age, if they hold a certain amount of power in their hands, they will naturally become arrogant.

In addition, the quality of the officials of the New Deal itself is not high, especially the thousands of officials recommended by Zhu Gaoxu after the Jingjing, and the quality is even more worrying.

In the past 11 years, not even half of the thousands of officials who were secretly recommended by Zhu Gaoxu have been left behind, and they have either been investigated for corruption or impeached and exiled for abusing power for personal gain.

This is still the situation that Zhu Gaochu did not target them, if Zhu Gaochu also starts to check himself, then these thousands of officials will have to be reimbursed at least ninety percent.

"How many people have signed up for the imperial examination in the New Deal area this year?"

Zhu Gaoxu closed his eyes and recuperated, and at the same time opened his mouth to ask.

Yizha has worked with Zhu Gaoxu for more than ten years, so he naturally knows that he cares about these things very much, so he will get up an hour early every day to take a general look at everything in order to answer Zhu Gaoxu.

"Back to His Royal Highness, there are about 760,000 people, but the quality of them is worrying, many of them signed up for the imperial examination after graduating last year, and they have not studied the classics of history at all."

"These people probably won't even be able to pass this year's children's exam......"

The classics of scripture and history mentioned by Yizha are also part of the imperial examination, but under the new policy imperial examination, the proportion of classics and classics is decreasing year by year, but the proportion of policy is increasing year by year.

However, even if it is a comparison of strategies, students from Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places are not bad, and they can still stabilize the New Deal students.

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's "North, South, Central" separate papers, Zhu Gaochu would not have dared to think about what the New Politics students would be squeezed into.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu glanced out of the car window, and saw many students who had just come home from school.

They walked on both sides of the official road in the outer city, eleven or twelve years old, talking and laughing and walking home, carrying a crossbody bag containing books on their shoulders.

As time passed, when the carriage entered the inner city, Zhu Gaoxu also heard the crackling sound of firecrackers, and couldn't help asking: "What day is today, can firecrackers be set off in the city?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, today is the day of the children's exam, once you pass the exam, you will be a student (Xiucai)."

"Although under the new policy, many of the benefits of students in the past have been abolished, but if you want to take the imperial examination, you must first obtain the status of a student."

Yizha explained, and at the same time thought of his previous words: "Of the 760,000 New Deal students who applied for the children's examination in the New Deal this year, I am afraid that even one percent of them can obtain the status of students." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head and did not think that he would treat the New Politics students so harshly, after all, the officials elected by the imperial examination were officials, and officials needed to have sufficient ability.

If the ability of the imperial examination is insufficient, then apply for the examination of officials, after all, the current officials are constantly updating their quality, and there is never a shortage of drama of survival of the fittest.

"I hope that next year there will be a group of talented New Deal officials, which will make it more convenient for the imperial court to govern Guangxi."

sighed, and Zhu Gaoxu saw the carriage stop at the gate of Donghua Gate.

He got out of the car and took a foot into Miyagi, and returned to the Spring and Hall after a short time.

It's just that when he came to the Chunhe Palace, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the ministry, waited at the gate of the palace for a long time.

"Your Highness, Your ......"

"Go in and say."

Xia Yuanji was about to make a move from afar, but Zhu Gaoxu interrupted him and motioned for him to enter the hall.

The three of them walked into the hall, and it was not until Zhu Gaoxu took a seat and gave Xia Yuanji a seat that he signaled Xia Yuanji to speak.

Xia Yuanji is now forty-five, but his physical fitness is still very good, but at this moment, his face shows a little sadness.

"Your Highness, Guangxi Right Senator Xie Jin has not yet arrived at the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division......"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, and then recalled the time when Xie Jin was ordered to go to Guangxi to take office, and then frowned:

"I remember that the imperial court asked him to leave before the tenth day of the ninth month, and now it is February 17, more than five months have passed, what is he going to do?"

"This ...... He ......, "Xia Yuanji is not very easy to say, so he can only hand over a note."

Yisha took the song and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu without thinking.

Zhu Gaoxu opened it, and the content of it was the impeachment of Xie Jin by the inspectors of the New Politics faction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In the past five months, Xie Jin has traveled by boat from Nanjing to Chongqing and then overland to Guiyang, leaving behind a large number of poems and essays on landscape travel along the way, and often interacting with officials and scholars in the places he passed.

Today's Xie Jin can only enter the boundaries of Guangxi, and I am afraid that he will not be able to reach the Yamen of Guangxi's political envoy in less than March.

"Decree that he must arrive at the Yamen of the Chief Secretary before February 25 to report on his work!"

Zhu Gaoxu also admired Xie Jin's broad-heartedness, and at the same time silently praised his death-making behavior.

"Your Highness, won't you be punished?" Xia Yuanji was a little speechless, he thought that Zhu Gaoxu would severely punish Xie Jin.

"I have always governed the country with leniency, and although Xie Jin is at fault, I am still willing to forgive him."

Zhu Gaoxu was very generous, but this was not his intention.

Of course, he could punish Xie Jin now, but this crime was not enough to kill Xie Jin.

But it doesn't matter, just Xie Jin's current performance, he will definitely poke out a bigger basket in the future, and when the time comes, he doesn't have to open his mouth, the old man will find a way to solve this guy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache, and couldn't help but wonder what bigger hole Xie Jin would make in the follow-up.

Of course, he was more curious about what Zhu Di, who loved talents, would behave after knowing what Xie Jin had done, and he was even faintly worried.

"Old man, don't be discouraged by this guy......"

(End of chapter)