Another Spring Festival is here. The thirteenth year of Chongzheng is a year worth commemorating. During this year, the territory of the Ming Empire has expanded rapidly and has unknowingly dominated the entire Far East. A super empire is slowly revealing its prototype.

Although the Ming Dynasty has not yet swept the entire world like the Mongol Yuan, it is already invincible in the Far East. Even if it is overseas, as long as the great powers do not join forces, they will not be able to do anything to the Ming Dynasty.

Looking back on the achievements over the past year, Zhu Cijing couldn't help but think of the Ming soldiers who were still stationed on the frontier and even overseas. It was because of their bloody sacrifice that the Ming Empire was prosperous today. However, in this day when the whole country celebrated and the family gathered, they still had to stay abroad silently. He always felt that he wanted to do something for these soldiers.

After thinking about it, he thought of New Year's greetings. Although there has never been a case of a king from a country congratulating the people of Dawn in this era, it was a practice to send New Year's greetings to leaders of various countries in later generations. Why couldn't the Ming Dynasty set such a precedent?

So, the day before the New Year, the Beijing News issued a free special issue across the Ming Dynasty and all vassal states. There was no other content in the special issue, and the entire page was only the New Year's greetings of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire!

The emperor congratulates everyone on the New Year's Eve. This can be said to be the first time in history. All the people of the Ming Dynasty who saw the New Year's greetings were moved and tears filled their eyes. The Beijing News was once again circulated and many local officials spontaneously organized officials at all levels to go to the villages of the countryside to post and read the emperor's New Year's greetings, so that those who are ignorant can also hear the emperor's greetings and feel the vast emperor's grace.

Of course, Zhu Cijiu's New Year's greetings was mainly to thank the soldiers stationed outside. He just said a few words to congratulate New Year at the beginning, and most of the content of the whole article was to thank the soldiers stationed everywhere.

So, the people of the Ming Dynasty knew that there were still 400,000 Liaodong soldiers in the northern border of ice and snow before the Ming Dynasty expanded their territory. There were 200,000 expeditionary soldiers guarding the border for the Ming Dynasty in the extremely far South Asia region. There were 100,000 Dingliao soldiers guarding the Eurasian Canal in the farthest Egyptian desert. There were 500,000 naval soldiers wandering on the vast sea...

Through New Year's greetings, almost all the people of the Ming Dynasty realized that the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was hard-won, and this rare peaceful era should be cherished.

In fact, Zhu Cijing forgot to thank some very important people, such as officials from the Ministry of Works. They did not have a rest during this New Year holiday. From the Minister of Works Bi Maokang to ordinary researchers, they were all working hard to develop precision machine tools.

They just want to develop precision machine tools as soon as possible, produce more sophisticated weapons, and make the Ming Dynasty stronger!

After nearly a month of hard work, they made another major breakthrough. As soon as the New Year was over, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi came to report the good news one after another. Tungsten and chromium were energy-generating, and the gearbox model was also made. More importantly, the large generator was successfully developed.

Zhu Cijing was moved when he heard the report. These people must have not had a rest during the Chinese New Year.

Now, although the precision machine tool has not been developed successfully, the electric light can be put into use. Zhu Cijiu didn't care much about the taboos, but he was still the only one who was so sincere about Bi Maokang and others. In the end, he could only agree to them first light up the palace and then install it for military factories.

So, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi began to organize people to install large generators in a remote corner of the imperial city outside the palace, and lead the wires to every corner of the palace.

Soon, the large generator was installed, and the study rooms and bedrooms were gradually installed. However, at this time, Zhu Cijing was not attentive to care about these things because the queen Qin Mingyue was about to give birth!

The so-called ten months of pregnancy is actually a general statement. The real time should be more than eight months or less than nine months. According to the imperial physician's speculation, the queen's childbirth period should be in early February, and it is very likely that she was a young prince.

Although there are no B-ultrasound and other perspective methods at this time, experienced doctors can generally accurately infer the gender of the fetus based on some pregnancy images. They say that it is very likely that it is the prince, which is definitely just to prevent them from saying anything to death.

Thinking of his soon-to-be-born son, Zhu Cijing was so excited that he couldn't sleep. At this moment, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi reported that the lights outside the palace had been installed and asked him to ask when the electricity would be turned on.

This is indeed a very important thing, because ordinary people don’t know that there is an electric lamp, so you won’t cause any sensation when using it in your study and bedroom, because not much light is revealed, and at most others think that there are only a few more oil lamps in the palace.

It would be different to turn on the electric lights outside the palace, because at this night, it was basically pitch black outside. If you suddenly light up hundreds of light bulbs with a size of a head, you don’t know how far the light will go, and that will definitely cause a sensation.

When should I choose such a great thing with a sensational effect?

After the New Year, it seemed that there was no important solar term for a long time. This really made Zhu Cijiu stump. As he thought about it, he suddenly thought of his upcoming son. It might be a good idea to light it up on the night he was born.

So, one night in early February, a thousand feet of light suddenly appeared in the direction of the palace, and the entire palace was shining with hundreds of large light bulbs, even more dazzling than during the day!

This was simply a miracle. All the civilians in the entire capital were awakened by screams one after another, and they all bowed to the Forbidden City.

Immediately afterwards, "Ah Dan." A loud baby cry came from Kunning Palace, and the queen was finally born!

Soon, an old palace maid in charge of delivering her baby ran to the main hall of Kunning Palace, knelt at the door, and reported the good news: "Congratulations to the emperor, he is a little prince, and the mother and son are safe."

Zhu Cijiong, who was walking in the hall, heard this and shouted: "Okay, look for the reward."

Then he rushed to the door excitedly and headed straight for the bedroom.

Cao Huachun at the door also showed a look of surprise. He took out a red envelope from his arms and stuffed it directly into the old palace maid. Then he led a team of eunuchs and followed the emperor's footsteps and rushed towards the direction of the bedroom. The eunuchs were holding plates, and there were stacks of red envelopes in the plates.

The old palace maid took the red envelope and opened it secretly. Oh my God, it was a thick stack of dragon coins, and the denomination was actually one hundred taels!

Zhu Cijing didn't know whether the emperor should send red envelopes when he gave birth to a son, but he was happy and sent it as soon as he wanted.
Chapter completed!