My Daming New Empire

"Now make an apology to Zhan Yin, and then punish you to copy the filial piety scriptures twice, once to the mother concubine, and once to Zhan Yin, are you convinced?"

Under Zhu Zhanji's deterrence, he, an eight-year-old child, dared to refuse to accept, so he nodded quickly.

He wiped the tears off his face, then bowed to Zhu Zhanyin and made a long bow. "Fourth brother, I'm sorry."

Zhu Zhanyin is not in good health, but he is very smart, and said quickly: "I don't blame you, next time I play chess with you, I will let you go."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and touched their heads respectively. "Remember, don't fight in the future, if you want to fight, you also join forces to fight others."

They all nodded with a vague understanding, a little puzzled, who would dare to provoke them.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji walk away, the eunuchs and maids who were waiting beside him hurriedly came to comfort their master at this time. After a while, a group of little guys were having fun.

In the evening, Zhu Gaochi came back and heard about it. He nodded and said, "Ji'er did a good job. They are young. It is to let them understand the importance of human relations. Confucianism has its own truth."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "In my opinion, these are just tools. If you really have to believe it completely, that is a mistake."

Zhu Gaochi also knew that he couldn't persuade this son, not to mention that although he couldn't understand some of the things Zhu Zhanji did, he also had his reasons.So he stopped persuading and just let out a long sigh.

There is a bit of a disappointed attitude of hating iron but not steel.

(I looked back at this chapter today and said, I have to be convinced...)

Chapter 70 Artisans

Walking westward along the boulevard outside Wuying Gate, you can meet ministers holding memorials waiting for an audience outside Wuying Gate.

Zhu Zhanji hadn't participated in politics yet, and when the ministers saw Zhu Zhanji, they all bowed and saluted, but no one spoke to him.

If you strike up a conversation with your grandson for no reason, you will be regarded as harboring evil intentions, which is a serious crime.

The reason for such a regulation is, on the one hand, to prevent the princes and grandchildren from being bewitched by the ministers, and on the other hand, it is also the precaution of the old Zhu family against the heirs.

Zhu Gaochi was still in prison, because he met Xie Jin who was reporting work in private.In history, Xie Jin was killed because of this, and Zhu Gaoxu was arguing every day to abolish the prince because of this.

In the face of power struggle, there is no father-son relationship.Although Zhu Di intends to support Zhu Zhanji because he is a grandson.But these are all because Zhu Zhanji is quite different in age from him, so he deliberately supports his grandson to oppose his son and restrict power.

So whether it is Zhu Gaochi or Zhu Zhanji, if you want to gain more power, you can only follow Zhu Di's rules.

You can take what he gives, and you can't think about what he doesn't give.

Because of this, Zhu Zhanji resisted his desire to take power and refused to contact these civil servants.

As for the current civil servants, apart from Xie Jin and Hu Guang who had served as his teachers, there is only one semi-retired Yao Guangxiao, and Zhu Zhanji will contact him occasionally.

After passing the Hall of Martial Heroes, you will find the Great Imperial Kitchen, the largest imperial kitchen in the palace, with all the staff gathered, it can cook meals for more than ten thousand people.

Sometimes when Zhu Di entertained his officials, he mainly relied on the imperial chef here to cook.

The Imperial Kitchen is past the Xihua Gate, which is mainly used by eunuchs, because outside this gate is the most advanced factory and largest warehouse in Ming Dynasty.

From the Xihua Gate, it is not the palace city, but the imperial city, and a straight road leads to Xi'an Gate, the outer city gate of the imperial city.

On the north side of this road, in the area parallel to the imperial palace, are the treasuries of the inner government.The area here is about half the size of the imperial palace. Hundreds of different warehouses are filled with various special products paid as tribute from various places, private money of the royal family, various silks and cloths that the emperor wants to reward, and so on.

On the south side of this main road, this area with an area of ​​more than 50 square meters is the largest sweatshop in Daming.

In this area, there are eight internal prison bureaus, namely Bingzhang, Yinzuo, Huanyi, Towel and Hat, Needlework, Inner Weaving and Dyeing, Wine and Vinegar Noodles, and one is Siyuan Bureau. Besides, the other seven bureaus have no less than one workshop here.

In addition, there are also four divisions in the court ladies system that have their own factories and workshops here, and more than [-] eunuchs and court ladies work here in this area.

The eunuchs here belong to the same system as the eunuchs in the palace, but the palace ladies are different.

Because the maids here are not qualified to enter the palace, if they work here for a few years, they will return to their hometown to remarry.

So to some extent, they are freer than the maids in the palace.However, they also had to endure all kinds of exploitation. Only by working honestly could they return safely.

Zhu Zhanji did not cancel the idea here, because the factories and workshops here also represent the most advanced industrial technology of this era.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only the workshop of the Ministry of Industry can be more advanced than here, but in the textile industry, even the workshop of the Ministry of Industry may not be as good as the workshop of the internal supervisor.

The presence of Zhu Zhanji also made the eunuchs and maids in charge here extremely solemn. Although there were no drums and music to welcome the guests, each one of them was like a leader inspecting later generations, sprinkling water and sweeping the floor, and cleaning everywhere.

There are many trees in the palace, but there is no tree here except the house.The outside of each warehouse has been brought in running water to form ditches to prevent fires.

Zhu Zhanji asked Wang Yan, the chief eunuch, to dismiss the others, leaving only the eunuch in charge of the military bureau, and a few trusted eunuchs who were allowed to touch the globe.

Entering the Military Battle Bureau, this place was originally used by the inner prison to make weapons and ceremonial supplies, including the military flags of the inner prison, which were all embroidered here.

The security precautions here are relatively strict, and a small courtyard near the root of the imperial city is even more surrounded.

Meng Chaolai, the eunuch in charge of the Bingzhan Bureau, also boasted: "Your Highness, please rest assured, since the first day the globe was moved in, the craftsmen inside have never come out, and people outside are not allowed to enter. Except for a few A trustworthy person, there is no one who can collude with others and leak secrets."

Zhu Zhanji nodded indifferently and said: "The people inside are all meritorious officials. Please investigate to see if anyone has taken their money from An's family. Before I find out, return it to them."

The smile on his face stagnated, and before he could speak, he saw a few eunuchs leading Ji Gang and Zhuang Jing over in the distance.

Seeing these two killing gods, Meng Chaolai said hastily, "I'll investigate this matter immediately. If there is such a thing, I will definitely not take it lightly."

These craftsmen are equivalent to being imprisoned in this yard, and they have been exposed to such secrets. I am afraid that they have long thought that they are going to be silenced.

Although Zhu Zhanji offered a lot of rewards, they might even think that it was a settling fee.It is difficult to survive through bribery, but if you want to bribe the supervising eunuchs and pass a message to the family, I am afraid many eunuchs will be willing to do it.

This kind of thing can't be avoided, and Zhu Zhanji doesn't want to delve into it.If it is really checked, I am afraid that no one is clean.

The reason why he didn't explain to these bows and arrows was because he wanted to use these ten months to put psychological pressure on them and let them know the importance of this secret.

After releasing them, they would not dare to reveal these secrets casually, and would be grateful to themselves.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head with a smile, glanced at Meng Chao, but didn't answer his words, and looked at Ji Gang who was walking over.

Maybe it's because he's in a relaxed mood, Ji Gang looks more refreshed than when he was in the New Year, and his mustache is also straightened out.

Two or three meters away from Zhu Zhanji, he stood still and saluted. "My minister sees His Royal Highness Taisun."

With the presence of outsiders, Zhu Zhanji naturally wanted to give him a look, and said with a smile: "Commander Ji is not very polite. I met you in a hurry yesterday and didn't have time to talk. I don't know what's going on?"

"His Royal Highness misses you, I can still eat three bowls of rice and hold three stones."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Okay, next month I will go hunting in Tangchi, and we will have a competition then."

Ji Gang responded with a smile, and then greeted Wang Yan and Meng Chao again.Although his notoriety spread far and wide, he couldn't control the inner prison.On the contrary, the chief eunuch like Wang Yan, the chief eunuch, is still the object of his fawning, and he dare not treat him lightly.

After greeting each other, Meng Chaolai led Zhu Zhanji and the others into the courtyard again.

This small courtyard was built on the back of the imperial city, with workshop rooms on all sides and a courtyard in the middle.

In addition to the three craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, there are also ten craftsmen from the inner prison.Seeing Zhu Zhanji coming in, especially with the villain Ji Gang behind him, they seemed to have accepted their fate, and their hearts were ashamed.