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Chapter 3 The Carpenter Emperor

In the early spring, the wind was still chilly in the morning. Opening his sleeping eyes, he confirmed his place again, Zhu Youxiao completely accepted the reality that he had traveled through. He sat up from the quilt with difficulty, and the maid and eunuch waiting outside the door brought in the warm water, green salt, and clean cotton robe like running water. He was put on clothes and put on cotton boots like a puppet. Zhu Youxiao secretly complained about this feudal life in his heart. At this moment, Wang Chengen walked in, "Master, Master Wen today

I said that my master was in a good state, afraid that he would get tired after studying too much. The class would start three days later. "That happened to be right. Today I was fine. After breakfast, you prepare a frame and let's go to the palace to thank you. If there is still time, I will visit Eunuch Wei later. "Zhu Youjian picked up the towel in the basin and wrung it on his face, covered it for a moment and wiped it hard. When he walked to the yard, there was still a hint of iron green on the horizon, and the trees in the yard had already begun to show a little green on them. Fortunately, looking at the weather today, it was probably a sunny day.

Sitting in the dining room, the empty room was the only one who could get a seat, and the palace maids and eunuchs who served stood on both sides, looking even more deserted. Zhu Youjian turned around and asked, "Is this dining room so deserted on weekdays?" Wang Chengen took a step forward and replied, "Your Majesty, you live in seclusion on weekdays, and don't like dealing with princes, nobles and ministers, so there are no guests in this family. You are the only one here to eat here." Oh, Zhu Youjian knelt in front of the table. The Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that paid great attention to etiquette, mainly due to the many rules and regulations set by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to open up a foundation for the whole age. The maids followed the "Every ceremony of eating, the food was left and the food was left and the soup was right and the soup was right. Outside the popular place, the spiced sauce was left and the sauce was left and the

Inside, the right part of the scallion slices and the right part of the wine. The common people who are placed in the vulgar are left, "put all kinds of dishes on the table one by one and then retreated. Looking at the table full of food, Zhu Youxiao felt that seven or eight more people would not be able to finish it. Looking at Wang Chengen standing next to him, he asked, "Have you eaten in the morning?" "I am not hungry, I have eaten it long ago." Wang Chengen replied. However, a gurgling sound came from Wang Chengen's stomach, and Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing, "What are you afraid of? How can I finish so much food? Come on, bring these two bowls of dishes and this cage of buns to eat. After I finish eating, I will also share the food with the people below. Isn't it a pity to waste a good meal?" Then Wang Chengen took it over.

Over the years, as Wang Chengen has been promoted in the royal palace, he has become the chief executive. He has never eaten all kinds of cuisines in the capital, and even the imperial kitchen in the palace. But when he looked at the two bowls of dishes in front of him, he felt that he was finally proud. His family is a poor peasant from Hebei. If he hadn't been able to survive, who would have castrated himself as a eunuch at a young age. After endless rolling eyes and suffering countless hardships, those nobles saw that they were not even as good as a dog, and they were at risk of being killed by sticks. But today the prince treated himself like this. Mr. Wen, who taught the prince in the past, was just like this. His nose was sour and tears fell out. However, Zhu Youjian was trying to deal with a jar of chicken on the table, with delicious meat, but he didn't see this scene.

After breakfast, the mansion had already prepared a carriage and waited at the door. When he got on the carriage, he called out, and the long queue began to head towards the Forbidden City. It was inevitable that he would be bored to ride a carriage alone, so he opened the curtain of the carriage and looked out. Although the Ming Dynasty had nearly 200 million people at this time, it was still vast and sparsely populated compared to more than 400 years later. The most prosperous place on the street was just some attics on both sides to buy and sell goods. Occasionally, there were some roadsides.

The poor who could not survive were grass marks on their children, hoping to have a wealthy family that could buy their children for a way to survive. It is difficult. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were constant natural disasters, today there were snow disasters, tomorrow there were droughts, and there were constant disasters. The government also needed to continuously suppress bandits and fight against the Later Jin Dynasty in Liaodong, and the taxes were heavier every year. After the people cut off their lives, rebellion became the only way to survive. Zhu Youjian sighed secretly in the car.

Soon after, the carriage had passed the Meridian Gate. Although the vassal kings were not allowed to enter the palace without the emperor's summons. However, Zhu Youjian was not a country underage, and the two princes left by the late emperor, so he specially granted the right to enter the palace to walk. After Wang Chengen signed up with the eunuch at the palace gate, the eunuch said: "This morning, the court meeting will be charged with the Donglin rebellion. I have just left the court. Now I have just gone to the Qianqing Palace, you can go to the Qianqing Palace." The carriage wheel had walked forward for a while and stopped. Walking off the carriage and looking at the vivid Forbidden City, it was really magnificent. Unlike the Forbidden City, which had become antiques in later generations, the Forbidden City was the core of the entire empire at this time. The ministers in a hurry were spread to all the laws and decrees to the world.

When he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, a small yellow gate was waiting at the door early. When he saw Zhu Youjian, he invited An Hou and said, "Prince, it's less than a moment since the emperor entered the Qianqing Palace. But when he heard that the prince came, he asked the prince to go to the Nanshu immediately." When Wang Chengen asked him to wait at the Meridian Gate, Zhu Youjian followed these two eunuchs to meet his famous "carpenter emperor" in history.

As soon as I entered the Nan Study, what caught my eye was rows of wooden boards, chisels, and hammers. The ground was full of scattered. Several eunuchs handed tools to a young man wearing a red leather suit and a purple gold crown. This was undoubtedly his elder brother. Although he was also a prince, this kowtow bug is inevitable today. He knelt on the ground with his knees, "I have seen the emperor, long live the emperor." Emperor Tianqi was thinking about how to glue the wooden boards together, but when he heard Zhu Youxiao's voice, he turned around. "Get up, I heard you go peek at someone a few days ago

The little girl in the family was beaten up, and I and the queen were very worried." She said worried, but the smile on the corner of Emperor Tianqi could not hide it at all. "My brother was absurd for a moment and your Majesty was worried." Zhu Youjian couldn't help but blush. "Haha, this might be fine. But I wandered around this palace every day, and only this handicraft work can relieve my boredom. Next time there is such a fun thing, you must bring me with me." Zhu Youjian felt that his face was going to turn dark and bored? Do you know that the refugees are now in disaster, Liaodong has lost most of them, the eunuch party is rampant, and the people are not chaotic

Unfortunately, my own words are slight, and that human demon, Eunuch Wei, is also very eye-catching in the palace. If I say a few more words, it is hard to say whether the palace can go out. Tianqi saw Zhu Youxiao without saying anything for a while, thinking he was a little embarrassed, but he didn't know that he had thought so many things in this moment. So he laughed and walked over and said, "It's okay, come, I will take you to see my project in the past few days. A few days ago, the Ministry of Works said that it would repair the three halls, but these idiots couldn't even draw a drawing. I kept carving the molds of these three halls day and night." Zhu Youjian looked at Tianqi and saw

The three wooden palace models are lifelike, no less than the molds made by later factories. Unfortunately, such a genius was born in the imperial family. At this moment, a small eunuch came in: "Emperor, Eunuch Wei, Grand Secretary Cui has something to discuss with you. Please go to the main hall to see you." "Look, these people have something to bother me all day long. There is no need to be peace for a moment. I will go to see them first. You go to Kunning Palace to meet your emperor sister-in-law. She said she would tell you about marriage. You should quickly respond to her to avoid her nagging me." After that, Tianqi followed several eunuchs out.

(End of this chapter)
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