I'm really not the carpenter emperor

In the open space in front of a temple, there were laughter and laughter.

A seven-year-old child in a bright yellow coat put a large red pomegranate on the stone table, attracting the salivation of all eunuchs.

The little eunuchs were respectful and did not dare to presume in the slightest, because the one in front of him, called Zhu Ciye, was a prince with good roots.

Zhu Ciye is the No. 3 prince born out of Tong Jing'er, the concubine Yu Gui. He is the twelfth son of the emperor and the youngest son of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Ciye stepped on the stone bench, pointed at the pomegranate, and proudly patrolled the crowd:

"Let's play a new one today, drop the city, have you heard of it?"

Seeing all the eunuchs shaking their heads one after another, Zhu Ciye scolded: "You are so stupid, how can you do things for the emperor in the future?"

"Then let me tell you, falling into the city is like throwing a pot..."

After listening to it, the young eunuchs realized that Losing the City was actually a small game of throwing pots that was often played by the royal children in the Ming Dynasty, and it was easy to learn.

"Understood? Let me tell you, whoever loses the most cities will be rewarded!"

As he spoke, Zhu Ciye pointed to the pomegranate beside him.

The pomegranates were bought from merchants from other places. The eunuchs were all born in poverty, so where have they seen this before?

When I heard it, it was all fun.

The well grid was drawn soon, and the young eunuchs competed with each other, but Zhu Ciye didn't play, but just stood on the stone table and watched.

It seems that watching them play is more enjoyable than playing by yourself.

Chapter 988 Dominating the World

Several six or seven-year-old children from Xungui's family also wanted to eat pomegranates, so they came to Zhu Ciye and said they wanted to go in and compete.

Zhu Ciye shook his head, motioning for those little maids to go in and play too.

"They are all slaves, they play with theirs, let's play with ours later, I have other good things."

After hearing this, several honorable disciples nodded their heads one after another, saying they only listened to him.

A dozen young eunuchs and Gong'e rolled up their sleeves and threw the pot. After three rounds of throwing, an old eunuch in charge of counting began to report everyone's points.

"Zhu Ling, the e-son of Xianfu Palace, took the lead!"

"ah!"

A little maid jumped up excitedly, and under the instigation of several sisters, she carefully came to the emperor's twelve sons, sang a promise, and said eagerly:

"Master, the servants are here to receive the reward."

Standing on the stone table, Zhu Ciye was only half a head taller than this little concubine of the Xianfu Palace called Zhu Ling.

Wen Yan was not stingy, picked up the pomegranate under her feet and threw it to her, saying: "Take it, you can share it!"

"Play with me in the future, and there will be rewards!"

Zhu Ling thanked her for her kindness, and took a few other little maids with her, happily holding the pomegranate and going back to enjoy it slowly.

"What's this called?"

"It's pomegranate!"

"I've never seen it before, it's so red, it looks so pretty."

"I heard it came from a foreign businessman. It's delicious." Zhu Ling's face was full of eagerness.

The maids were all smiling, and they didn't take a few steps, but they heard Zhu Ciye suddenly shout behind them: "You guys stay here first!"

Zhu Ling turned her head in confusion, but she heard Zhu Ciye resting her chin.

"Master, I haven't finished my sentence yet! What I said is, I reward you to peel this pomegranate for me. You are a slave, how dare you eat your master's food?"

Zhu Ling was startled for a moment before realizing that she was being swayed, and whimpered, as if she was about to cry.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Youxiao, who was standing in the distance watching the play with his hands folded, never thought that this kid would actually bully people like this.

Although he is a child of the royal family, he can't bully people like this!

Zhu Ling had no choice but to go back with a sad face, peeled pomegranates for the twelve sons one by one, and then asked to feed them one by one.

Zhu Ciye sat on the stone bench, crossed his little Erlang's legs, opened his mouth and waited for the maids to feed him.

After a while, a pomegranate was fed into his mouth, Zhu Ciye narrowed his eyes contentedly, and said, "It's so sweet, continue peeling!"

Zhu Ling was about to continue feeding with her head down, but saw a black shadow approaching.

Looking up, he found that it was Emperor Tianqi who came, and immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty! The servants are playing with the little master."

Zhu Ciye also opened his eyes suddenly, and said with a smile, "Father, come and eat the pomegranate, it's so sweet!"

Zhu Youxiao picked him up, and then pulled Zhu Ling up with one hand. For some reason, he wiped the tears on her face by mistake.

Then he turned his head and said a little sternly: "Look, you are being bullied."

"I didn't bully her, she cried herself!" Zhu Ciye pouted and gave Zhu Ling a hard look.

How dare Zhu Ling say anything wrong with the prince, and quickly knelt on the ground.

"It's not the little master who bullies the slave, it's the slave... I cried myself... The slave deserves to die..."

"Okay, I've seen it all, you get up now." Zhu Youxiao felt a little tired, put Zhu Ciye on the stone table, squatted down and said seriously:

"Ye'er, don't make any promises. Since you have made a promise, you must keep it, you know?"

Zhu Ciye looked at the very serious father and nodded slowly.

Zhu Youxiao smiled with satisfaction, and then asked him: "Then do you know what to do?"

Zhu Ciye nodded, beckoned Zhu Ling to come over, handed over the remaining pomegranate to Zhu Ling, and said, "Take it, it's all rewarded to you."

Zhu Ling quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you, master, thank you, master."

"What's the matter?" Seeing that his son seemed to have something to say, Zhu Youxiao asked.

Zhu Ciye pouted and said, "Then...these have been peeled, can I eat them, it's a waste."

Zhu Youxiao laughed, nodded and said yes, and then left with his hands behind his back.

Looking at the Emperor Apocalypse, who was widely rumored outside to rub the sand in his eyes, Zhu Lingpu Lingpuling's small eyes shone with a new luster.

Yu's eunuchs and maidservants also gathered together, discussing in whispers.

……

Back at Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao already felt very tired.

If it was in the past, let alone go out for a walk, you would not feel so tired after riding a horse out hunting.

People, it's really impossible to be dissatisfied.

Especially when he was the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he aged faster. Being an emperor was too tiring, he had to review memorials every day, and he had to go into battle and kill people.

Looking at the melodies in his hands, as well as the secret melodies of the factory guards, Zhu Youxiao felt that Daming was indeed thriving now.

Happy, Zhu Youxiao is now happy from the bottom of his heart.

Without the group of Donglin Party who always like to make troubles, there will basically be no troubles in the country.

Now Ming Dynasty does not rely on taxation to make money. For example, the salt industry that has been fully nationalized, the tea-horse trade between tribes in the Northwest and Mongolia, and trade with Western countries. These incomes are many times higher than taxation.

Now the era when Ming Dynasty did not collect taxes has passed, but after so many years, the cultivated land in the whole country has already begun to recover. In addition to paying taxes and saving, ordinary people can even sell food for money.

Therefore, now the granaries in various parts of Daming have basically exploded, and the price of grain has become so low that it has become the price of cabbage.

There are more and more people going to the streets to buy clothes and luxury goods, which also shows that the common people of Ming Dynasty are starting to live a better life.

This kind of good life has all aspects, and every aspect can see the current prosperity of Daming.

On the contrary, Huangzhuang made sweet potatoes and potatoes before, which was a bit unnecessary, and now Daming is not short of food at all.

But this technique is useful after all, and can be kept for a rainy day.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is larger than that of the Yuan Dynasty before, and Zhu Youxiao basically occupied all the places that could be occupied.

Of course, most of these are not fertile soils, all should be filled in on the map!

Just as he was thinking about it, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet, rushed in. As soon as he entered, he knelt on the ground with a plop, and said tremblingly:

"Your Majesty, Daming's new-style building has launched!"

The new type of building boat is what Ming called the so-called sailing battleship in the West.

Because this kind of battleship has three decks and can carry nearly a hundred heavy guns, it was considered an advanced version of the building ship.

It is like a tall building walking on the sea, so the name of the building ship is used.

In fact, this is the world's earliest sailing battleship with oriental characteristics!

Zhu Youxiao also took the case, how many years, battleship, Daming finally developed a battleship by himself!

At this moment, I feel that all the waiting and spending in the past are worth it.

"Take me to have a look!"

Zhu Youxiao immediately left the palace, together with Wen Tiren and Zhang Shize, took the pro-army and a large number of civil servants and generals to Tianjin Military Port.

The current Tianjin Military Port is three to four times larger than before.

Not far away, there is also the rather large port of Tianjin.

Numerous soldiers of the Daming Navy in new armor were busy on the deck, and red banners were hung on both sides of the battleship to celebrate.

The senile Yuan Keli was about to kneel down in front of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly supported him and said, "Aiqing, it's been so many years, thank you for your hard work."

Yuan Keli was in tears, standing by the side, staring closely at the huge ship in front of him, like a treasure.

"Your Majesty, this new-style building ship is mostly covered with copper skin and has three decks. It can carry more than 120 latest artillery pieces."

The surrounding civil servants and generals also opened their mouths wide when they saw this huge ship.

Zhang Shize laughed loudly and said, "Your Majesty, I really don't know how to lose with this thing."

Yes, if there is an entire fleet, how can you lose?

It's hard to lose!

Zhu Youxiao kept nodding, his eyes all on the sailing battleship.

This is a real national treasure. With it, Da Ming is able to dominate the seas of the world. The era of great exploration is now dominated by Da Ming!

Epilogue and new book

Source: A certain subject (excerpt)

On December 50, the 29th year of Tianqi, Emperor Zhu Youxiao died in Nanhaizi Palace at the age of 65.

On the second day and night, Empress Zhang Yan was overwhelmed with grief and collapsed in Kunning Palace.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan were buried together in Ming Shengling.

Afterwards, the eldest son of the emperor and the crown prince Zhu Ciran received congratulations from all civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty in the Huangji Hall, and succeeded him as emperor with the reign name Xingfu.

It is Ming Wenzong.

More than [-] countries, including the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Spanish Empire, sent envoys to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to express their condolences.

Zhu Youxiao, the No.15 emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo, and his biological mother, Empress Dowager Cihui Wang, ascended the throne at the age of 16 and reigned for 50 years.

The temple name is Shizu, and the posthumous title is Tianhong Yunwenwuli, the great sage, the god of benevolence, Wenyi, Wu Junde, Gongchengzhao emperor.

It is Emperor Zhao, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of his reign, due to Emperor Taichang's credulous trust in Donglin, Donglin became powerful and monopolized the court and the public, forming a situation where all the officials were in charge of the court.

In the early days of the Apocalypse Dynasty, the party struggle was fierce, and many civil servants and generals with courage and strategy left. As a result, the situation in Liaodong became increasingly severe, and bandits in the Central Plains were everywhere.

In the inner court, the Ke family was expelled, thus ensuring the safety of the palace.

In the court, Wei Zhongxian was introduced, forming a situation in which the "eunuch party" and the Donglin party were in check and balance, making politics relatively clear.

In order to completely expel the Donglin Party from the court, Emperor Tianqi connived and tacitly allowed the Eunuch Party to launch several major cases of unprecedented scale.

Until the "Suzhou Tiqi Case" and "Donglin Imperial Examination Case" broke out in a row, the Donglin Party was completely cleared from the court.