It is the New Year's Day now, and since the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Youxiao has not attended morning court again.

The ministers were also tactful and no one complained about Zhu Youxiao's absurd government affairs. What's more, the censor who suffered the most from the case of destroying the Donglin Party was the censor.

Therefore, the last month of the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty's Tianqi revelation was surprisingly quiet.

The people are naturally busy celebrating the New Year and are happy.

The royal family living in the huge Forbidden City is still the same as usual. Since they have been using the internal treasury to subsidize the national treasury, the procurement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been reducing again and again.

Zhu Youxiao, who had just arrived in the Ming Dynasty, was not excited to celebrate the New Year.

Only Queen Zhang Yan ordered people to put a few new clothes for Liu Rushi and her grandmother, as well as Keshi and other eunuchs and palace maids who served with her.

However, what Zhu Youxiao did not expect was that his queen was clever and clever. She took Liu Rushi to cut out countless window papers and pasted them on the vermilion window, which added a bit of the New Year atmosphere.

Finally, even Zhu Youxiao was invited by Zhang Yan to write a couplet and hung it on the red door.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao practiced calligraphy and did not pick up his pens after coming to the Ming Dynasty. He wrote several tanks of water in black, so the couplets he wrote were still visible to people.

What's more, I am still the emperor now, and the characters I wrote were considered imperial pens. Hundreds of years later, when people came to the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, they still said that they were not saying that they were the carpenter emperor.

"If it is beneficial to the country's life and death, how can it avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune."

Xu Guangqi, the left minister of the Ministry of Works and the head of the Hanlin Academy, was called into the palace early in the morning by Zhu Youxiao because Zhu Youxia mentioned that he was going to attend the Ministry of Works a few days ago.

When he saw this couplet, he couldn't help but ponder, and secretly admired the ambition of the couplet owner, but when he saw that the signature below was Zhu Youxiao, he was standing there like an electric shock.

"You are Minister Xu, your Majesty let you in."

Since entering the palace, Liu Rushi has become a personal maid next to Zhu Youxiao. It is not that Zhu Youxiao wants to use child labor, but that Liu Rushi is indeed much smarter than the little yellow gate who was originally with the Qianqing Palace and responds quickly. What Zhu Youxiao needs? Before Zhu Youxiao can recommend it, she sent it to her.

Zhu Youxiao, who had fought with the Queen for 300 rounds last night, had to get up early in the morning to deal with the backlog of government affairs. When Liu Rushi led Xu Guangqi in, he gave Liu Rushi a stack of drawings and drawing instruments: "Get it."

"Your Majesty, this is it?" Xu Guangqi asked curiously when he saw these things.

Before Zhu Youxiao could answer, Liu Rushi raised the globe in his hand and said, "This is Your Majesty's compass and vernier caliper."

"Let's go", Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly, thinking that Liu Rushi had only been with him for a few days, and he knew a lot, so he simply took her to the Ministry of Works with him.

As one of the six departments, the work department is relatively heavy-weighted at the end of the six departments, but it is also indispensable.

The current Minister of Works is the royalist lord, Huo Weihua, but Zhu Youxiao did not let him stay in Beijing, but asked him to be an imperial envoy to inspect water conservancy and transportation in various places in the Ming Dynasty, and repair projects that have been disrepaired in various places to ensure that even under the severe influence of the small glacier climate, the total grain output in the Ming Dynasty would not decrease, at least not be reduced too quickly.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also asked him to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes and potatoes everywhere. As for how to plant them, Zhu Youxiao naturally told him.

If Huo Weihua cannot complete Zhu Youxiao's task successfully, Zhu Youxiao will not mind letting him retire.

At today's Imperial Front Meeting of the Ministry of Works, the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, was not allowed to attend, and the person who presided over the meeting was naturally Bi Maokang, the new Right Minister of Works.

Among the current Ming bureaucratic class, Bi Maokang is the person who is most interested in guns and has the strongest understanding, and Xu Guangqi can only be the second. His interest is mainly in agricultural production. Xu Guangqi is obsessed with the dream of high yield of rice proposed by Zhu Youxiao.

The same is true for Bi Maokang. Although he was a senior official in the ministry, he had never been in charge of affairs in the ministry since he took office. He had been staying in the Military Weapon Bureau with several craftsmen to make the iron box gun that Zhu Youxiao showed in front of Xu Guangqi.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is coming, he has changed into a third-rank red official uniform and comes to the outer lobby.

In addition to Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, there was Sun Yuanhua, the right assistant censor and the doctor of the Ministry of Works' Management and Training Department. This guy also handed over all the affairs of the department to his official lord, focusing on studying artillery.

In addition, there is Song Yingxing, who was born in a juren. He was originally the only one who failed the imperial examination because of his failure in several exams. He did not expect that one day he would be found by people from the East Factory.

He still remembers that when the Dongchang man appeared at his house, his parents and brothers were surprised and afraid, and he himself was the same, thinking that he had committed some sin.

But what happened later surprised him even more. The Dongchang man who came to arrest him not only did not beat him up and scold him, but also asked him to eat and drink well. When Song Yingxing was brave enough to ask, the Dongchang man only said that he was acting according to the order.

Later, when he arrived in the capital, Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the Secretariat and the admiral of the East Factory, came to announce the order, and his Majesty gave him a mansion in the capital.

Song Yingxing didn't know why he was remembered by His Majesty, and he was promoted and given a mansion. In addition, the people from the East Factory gave him a copy of "The Works of Heaven" and a lot of so-called materials for studying things, so that he could read it quickly. When he saw His Majesty in the future, he would be questioned by His Majesty in case of being interrogated.

Hearing that it was His Majesty’s personal request, Song Yingxing did not dare to be careless. He had already been frustrated by the pride of the literati for several years. He was not disgusted by Zhu Youxiao’s “absurd” behavior.

Song Yingxing looked at it carefully for several months, not only did he not get tired of it, but he even felt like he was discovering another world, but he had many questions in his heart. Today, he came to the Ministry of Works to attend the imperial meeting to ask His Majesty what he thought. Even if he was punished by His Majesty, he would ask.

Zhu Youxiao ordered people from Dongchang to be arrested from Xi'an. This missionary who was good at calendar and artillery was summoned by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, not only did he not have any fear, but he was very excited. He even fantasized about how great a cause it would be if he could persuade the highest level of the empire to allow him to preach.

"Your Majesty is here!"

In fact, Zhu Youxiao prefers to leave the palace in a very small way, in addition to not wanting to provoke those disgusting civil servants like flies, there is another reason why the ceremony of leaving the palace in a very complicated and troublesome way.

It took only half an hour to get from the Forbidden City to the Ministry of Works, but it took two hours to get on the dragon chariot to prepare to leave to the office of the Ministry of Works.

If it weren't for the Ministry of Works and the Military Weapons and Gunpowder Bureau jointly managed by the Ministry of Works and the Inner Government Supervisor, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to call these directly to the palace, so as to save himself from having to worry.

When Xiaohuangmen ran into the Ministry of Works, Bi Maokang and others who had already been waiting outside the Ministry of Works lobby were hurriedly standing sideways and bent to wait.

This is the first time many people have seen the Emperor, and they are even a little nervous.
Chapter completed!