My Daming New Empire

In fact, everything is very simple. It is nothing more than using a steam engine to drive a generator and then provide power. These technologies have matured two years ago. The key is that it is too difficult to manufacture qualified light bulbs.

The light-to-heat conversion rate of bamboo charcoal filament bulbs is very low, and the melting point of bamboo charcoal filaments is relatively low. It is difficult for the life of the bulb to exceed [-] hours.

At the very beginning, Blue Smoke used the oxygen filter device to extract the oxygen from the light bulb, so as to increase the life of the light bulb to more than [-] hours.

It wasn't until Lan Yan developed a set of air extraction equipment, which can extract [-]% of the air in the bulb, and then increase the life of the bulb to about [-] hours.

However, because most of the processes require manual operations, the cost of light bulbs remains high at present, and mass production is not yet possible.

But for the royal family, the cost of everything is not a problem, as long as it can show the royal style.

Zhu Di walked in the palace until midnight, and finally stood on the wall of the Meridian Gate, looking around at the palace that lit up most of the night sky, with a relaxed smile on his face.

Zhu Zhanji fell asleep at Zishi that day, and was called up by a group of servants and maids just after Choushi.

He bathed and changed his clothes, washed his hair and tied his hair. In addition to the pure cotton underwear, he was put on a brand new bright yellow dragon robe.

The difference from the past is that today's dragon robes are embroidered with five-clawed golden dragons instead of the four-clawed golden dragons of the past.

He didn't wear a crown, which had to wait until Zhu Di personally put it on him on the Heaven and Earth Altar.

Zhu Dizi didn't go to bed until later, but no one would disturb his sleep, and he didn't get up until it was nearly Chen.

In fact, he didn't sleep well either.Thinking that from now on, he will stay away from that throne, even though he is much more indifferent now, he is still a little unwilling and lost.

However, it's just a little bit. He is thinking more about the huge South Continent in his heart now.

Take the flagship specially built for him, go to Nanzhou, and see the land that belongs to Ming Dynasty, so that he will have no regrets in this life.

When the sky was slightly bright, Zhu Zhanji stepped out of the palace gate.Outside the door, all his concubines and children were already waiting outside the door.

Seeing him going out, everyone knelt down on the ground under Sun Xian's leadership. "Congratulations, Your Highness."

"Congratulations, congratulations. My concubine rewarded the harem today, it's hard work."

"I don't suffer, I just want to be happy."

Let everyone stay flat, and the others stay in the palace. Only fourteen six-year-old children can go to the Temple of Heaven and Earth to watch the ceremony under the leadership of the servants.

Originally, there were six girls among the fourteen children, so they could not participate.

It was Zhu Zhanji who resisted all opinions and said, "All dragons, regardless of gender, should let them know etiquette and morality." As an excuse, they can watch the ceremony from a distance.

Zhu Zhanji will not mention gender equality in this era. When the productive forces have not been liberated, gender equality is just a dream.

Zhu Zhanji stepped out of Xingqing Palace. Outside the door, Mrs. Zhang waited at the door with a group of his younger brothers and sisters.Zhu Zhanji first knelt down and kowtowed three times to Mrs. Zhang. Zhu Zhanyong and the others quickly stepped aside with their concubines.

Mrs. Zhang came over to help Zhu Zhanji, with tears in her eyes, but a very bright smile. "Today is my son's big day, I hope everything goes well and my son will soar into the world."

Zhu Zhanji wiped her tears with his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Mother and concubine, don't worry, the court meeting will be held tomorrow, and she will be promoted to empress dowager."

Mrs. Zhang shook her head and said, "As long as Zhanji and you are going well, I, a half-deficient person, don't care about those false names."

After she stood up, Zhu Zhanji's younger siblings also knelt down one by one.

Before today, they were younger brothers and sisters, but after today, they were courtiers first, and then younger brothers and sisters.

After receiving their great gift, Zhu Zhanji looked at Li Liang and asked, "Is the emperor ready?"

"Your Majesty has already sat on the dragon chariot, just waiting for His Majesty... No, Your Majesty is leaving."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Let's call him Your Highness for the time being, let's go."

The interior of the imperial palace today is extremely peaceful, but outside the palace city, from the imperial city to the entire Yingtian Mansion, there are uproars everywhere.

Yesterday's firecrackers sounded intermittently throughout the night, and today's air is filled with the smell of firecrackers.

Outside the Meridian Gate, Jin Yiwei, the Guard of Honor Division, today's guard of honor is also the most neat.Everyone is bright and bright, solemn and solemn.Everyone is proud to be able to participate in today's celebration and to be able to follow His Majesty.

Today is different from the past. On such an important occasion, if something goes wrong, it is a crime worthy of death.

When the dragon chariot came out of the Meridian Gate, the sound of drums and music sounded. On both sides of the imperial road from Meridian Gate to Chengtian Gate, the guards stood next to each other, staring at the transparent dragon chariot.

On the dragon chariot, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji sat side by side, their faces were calm, and they whispered something from time to time.

The sound of drum music is to inform the people and officials outside the imperial city that the two emperors have come out.When Long Nian came out of the Chengtian Gate, thousands of ministers knelt down outside the Chengtian Gate. "Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Highness."

Zhu Di stood up, waved to the common people in the distance, and then said loudly, "Pingshen."

All the ministers stood up, and Zhu Di asked again: "Minister of the Ministry of Officials Jian Yi, Secretary of the Ministry of Rites Lu Zhen, where is the eunuch Wang Yan?"

The three immediately came out, bowed and said: "The minister is here."

Zhu Di showed a hint of a smile and said: "Today's grand ceremony, I and my grandson will listen to your arrangements, let's start!"

Jian Yi is today's commander-in-chief, Lu Zhen is in charge of etiquette for the inheritance of the country, and Wang Yan is in charge of coordinating logistics.

Tens of thousands of people participated in the celebration today, and it was a very troublesome thing just to eat and drink for so many people.Not to mention that there are so many people, everyone must be careful about where they are present, and going back and forth is a test of the organizer's experience.

Long Nian went south along the royal road outside Chengtian Gate, exited Hongwu Gate, passed Zhengyang Gate, and left Yingtian Mansion.

On both sides of the road along the way, ordinary people are crowded everywhere.After they knew about the arrangements for the abdication ceremony, countless people began to take up positions here a day or two in advance.

Of course, each of them has gone through security checks, and it is impossible to carry muskets and gunpowder on their bodies.

After leaving Zhengyangmen, it is the southern suburb of Yingtian Mansion. There are even more common people here. When they saw Long Nian coming out, they all knelt down spontaneously and kowtowed to Long Nian.

Although there were a lot of people, almost the whole army was mobilized to maintain order in Wucheng Bingmasi, Yingtianfu, including the major capitals, so there was no trouble.

In the founding of the Ming Dynasty, apart from building the imperial palace and city walls, the most important buildings were various altars.

Zhu Yuanzhang built the Circular Mound Altar in the southern suburbs of Nanjing to worship Haotian God; the Fangze Altar in the northern suburbs to worship the Emperor Dizhi; the Chaori Altar and Xiyue Altar in the eastern and western suburbs to worship the God of Ming and Ye Mingshen.

In addition, he also built the Sheji Altar and Taimiao on the south side of the palace, and built the Xiannong Altar on the west side of the Huanqiu Altar.

In the tenth year of Hongwu, Nanjing encountered an "extreme weather", with continuous cloudy and rainy days.Zhu Yuanzhang believed that this was a separate sacrifice of the heaven symbolizing the father and the earth symbolizing the mother, so he hurriedly ordered the Fangze altar in the northern suburb and the Circular Mound altar in the southern suburbs to be sacrificed together, and a new large hall was specially built for the joint sacrifice ceremony—— - Great Sacrifice Hall.

This place where gods from all walks of life gathered was named "Tianditan" by Zhu Yuanzhang.

There are four important building complexes in the Temple of Heaven and Earth. One is the official worship place of the Great Sacrifice Hall, and the second is the Divine Kitchen, Divine Treasury, and Sacrifice Pavilion in the northwest. There are 72 corridors in the middle of the courtyard of the Great Sacrifice Hall. Used to deliver sacrifices.

The third is the fasting palace on the southwest side of the Great Sacrifice Hall, which is the sleeping palace for the emperor to fast during the sacrifice period.For the sake of safety, this palace has two walls, and there is a ditch outside each wall.

There is a beamless hall in the palace. This hall was used by the emperor to fast and receive officials before the Qianlong Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.

Finally, outside the wall of the Tiandi Altar, there is also a Kagura Department.Its original name is God Optimism, and it is the place where Taoist priests who play music during the sacrificial ceremony usually live and practice.

The joint sacrifice ceremony stipulated in the Hongwu period is roughly divided into nine links, namely: welcoming the gods, laying the jade and silk, entering the zu, first offering, second offering, final offering, withdrawing food, sending the gods away, and watching the fire.