My Daming New Empire

This kind of house is tall and bright, much more atmospheric than the original civil architecture.

Zhu Di laughed and said, "Now Yingtian Mansion has changed so much that I can't even recognize it."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang can look around when he has time. Ying Tianfu will become more and more tidy and beautiful."

At this time, they saw Zhu Gaoxu who was riding a horse stopped at the door of a shop with some curiosity, and carefully looked at the newly built house and its bright glass windows.

In recent years in Daming, apart from cement factories, glass factories have been the most constructed.

The manufacture of flat glass is not difficult, the difficulty is to make large pieces of flat glass.

After knowing how to burn quartz sand, borax, etc. to make glass, almost all these ore producing areas will build such a glass factory.

This is mainly because glass is difficult to transport, and local production and local sales can save a lot of cost.

As a result, the price of glass was greatly reduced, and glass mirrors replaced ordinary copper mirrors.

Zhu Zhanji is already organizing the second batch of caravans to go to Europe. The soldiers who have been stationed in Europe for more than three years should also come back after a change of defense.

In this era, there will never be such a thing that a glass mirror can be sold for a sky-high price of 15 gold francs, and it is impossible for those Venetian merchants to make a lot of profits with glass.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's figure, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji and said, "The heroes are so gracious, so don't make things difficult for your second uncle anymore."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Grandpa Huang still doesn't understand me? He is narrow-minded and doesn't seem to use me."

Zhu Di nodded and said, "I'm ready to restore his title and send 6000 people with him to conquer Xizhou."

Zhu Zhanji is very clear about what Zhu Gaoxu has done in the past few years. Zhu Zhanji will only support him if he wants to develop in Africa, and will never hold back.

Suppressing the number of black people so that they can only live forever in that small corner of Africa will be one of the main strategies in the future.

With Zhu Gaoxu, an uncle who likes fighting, doing this, Zhu Zhanji will strongly support it.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji's emotions are sincere and not fake, Zhu Di's mood is obviously better.He has always felt a little guilty about Zhu Gaoxu, his son, and he is worthy of him for letting him go to Xizhou to become king, so he doesn't need to continue to feel guilty now.

The older he gets, the more he values ​​family affection.

Thinking of Zhu Gaoxu's eldest son Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Di couldn't help sighing, and asked, "When your father passed away, did you complain?"

Even if there is, Zhu Zhanji can't say it at this time.He shook his head and said: "When the father passed away, he seemed to have thought about it and had no regrets. In the future, the grandson will send someone to send a daily living note so that the grandfather can know the situation of the day."

Zhu Di said again: "Since I'm back, I'll visit him some other day, and let him be buried in the ground as soon as possible. Has the tomb ever been built?"

Zhu Gaochi has been inactive for more than a year, and he was not buried just to wait for Zhu Di to come back.

He was only a prince when he was alive, and his funeral can only be buried according to the prince's etiquette.His tomb only used hundreds of people, and it was built in more than a month.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "In order to promote the style of thin burial, the regulations are based on the simplest, and there are no stone carvings. Sun Er plans to build the entire south foot west of Linggu Temple in Zijin Mountain into a large park in the future. The ancestral mausoleum. All the sacrificial regulations are completed at one time. From now on, the direct descendants of my Zhu family will live at the foot of the mountain and die on the mountainside. All the tombs can be planned simply."

"Park?" Zhu Di frowned and said, "No, my royal mausoleum, how can people come and go as they please!"

Zhu Zhanji didn't refute, and said with a smile: "It's my grandson who thinks simply..."

He wouldn't know that the future royal mausoleums of Lao Zhu's family will be popular attractions!

But opening up now is indeed a bit too advanced.

The grandfather and grandson chatted without a word, without any specific purpose, which also made the two of them a lot more relaxed, and talked about wherever they thought of.

Back to the palace, today we start from Chengtian Gate, Duanmen, Meridian Gate, Fengtian Gate, all the gates are wide open.

Headed by Zhu Di's concubines, the eunuchs and maids in the palace, as long as they are not on duty, all kneel on both sides of the road to greet them.

All the way back to Jinshen Hall, Zhu Di sat down on the dragon chair, showing a trace of tiredness.

"You've been tired all day, go back and rest. Tomorrow, you will go to court with me in the morning. After the court, you will tell me in detail what happened in the past few years."

Zhu Zhanji asked: "To welcome the return of Grandpa Huang, the imperial chef made a lot of delicacies today..."

Zhu Di shook his head and sighed: "I'm old, I've been busy all day today, my waist can't stand it, I'll go back to the harem later, just eat something."

Coming out of the Jinshen Palace, Zhu Zhanji looked back at the palace again. Although the eunuchs and maids came and went, he could feel the old man's stagnation inside.

The hero of a generation has now reached the age where he has to obey his old age.

For Zhu Zhanji, he prefers Zhu Di to live a few more years. With this backbone, Zhu Zhanji will not have any worries about doing things!

On the second day, Zhu Di got up on time and first went to the Hall of Martial Arts to hold the morning court.

When he was seated, he unexpectedly asked Zhu Zhanji to sit side by side with him on the dragon chair instead of sitting in front of him.

Moreover, he basically seldom speaks, leaving everything to Zhu Zhanji, only saying that he still needs to rest for a few days.

Zhu Di has just returned, and many things have not been communicated with the civil servants, and many arrangements need his approval, so today's morning court is mainly to discuss these matters.

At the end of the early dynasty, all the chief officials were left in the palace to eat, and then all the people moved to the Heaven and Earth Altar to worship the heavens.

On the 27th, worship the sky, on the 28th, worship the Sheji Altar, and on the 29th, worship the ancestral temple.

On the [-]th day, Zhu Di didn't even attend the morning court, and let Zhu Zhanji preside over it, so he slept late.

When Zhu Zhanji came down from the morning court, he took all his relatives to Linggu Temple to pay homage to Zhu Gaochi who had been dead there for more than a year.

On the way back, he was carried up the mountain to have a look at his tomb and Zhu Gaochi's tomb.

He faced the south alone, looked at Ying Tianfu at his feet and was silent for a long time, then he went down the mountain without saying a word.

On the first day of July, Shuowang Dynasty.

This was Zhu Di's first big court meeting after his return. The court meeting was full of people, but most of the officials below the fifth rank were not even qualified to enter the parliament building.

Because on this day, Zhu Di will formally meet representatives from various countries and accept the credentials submitted by them. There are many tribes who want to join Ming Dynasty.

Of course, more countries are forced to accept the rule of Ming Dynasty and become the vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di didn't care about these things, even because of the distance, like the Black Sheep Tribe in Baghdad, wanted to belong to Ming Dynasty, but Ming Dynasty didn't accept it, and only recognized them as a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Daming is indeed incapable of ruling a larger territory now, and the Nanyang region alone still lacks a large number of officials.

The first time Zhu Di entered the parliament building, he was immediately shocked by the layout inside.

The building of the parliament building is a bit like a theater for later generations, with a total of four floors.The rostrum is located on the second floor, under the stage is a large cylinder installed, and there are copper pipes leading to every corner.

No matter from the first floor, the third floor, or the fourth floor, there are stairs directly connected to the rostrum.

The first floor can accommodate about 800 people, and the second floor and above can seat 400 people on each floor, surrounding the rostrum in a ring shape.

The emperor's throne is located on the fourth floor directly above the rostrum. Not only can you see everything on the rostrum, but you can also directly see all the ministers sitting there.