After years of development, the shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty has been fully developed, and the trade with Europe is really prosperous.

Tianjin's manufacturing base has long been insufficient, so Zhu Youxiao has established a new manufacturing base on the Jiaodong Peninsula. The two manufacturing bases currently have more than 700 factories and have more than 5 million employees in various industries.

At this time, the industry and commerce of the Ming Dynasty had developed completely, and a new class had begun to gradually emerge.

That is the working class. The lowly craftsman era has become a past tense. Now ordinary people everywhere are beginning to yearn to become a worker.

Because I became a worker, I won’t say that I got a salary. I earned a lot. Working in a factory for a month can make more money than digging food in the field for a year, so a large amount of labor began to pour into industry and commerce.

Zhu Youxiao has brought out tens of thousands of backward machine tools in Haigang City over the years. With the help of these industrial machine tools, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty can achieve leapfrog development.

At this time, the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty had reached a stage that was close to the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

In the 30th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao had been in the Ming Dynasty for twenty-three years, and the original outstanding young man had entered middle age.

Zhu Youxiao, who rarely appears in front of his ministers, drank with an old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face.

"Old Xu, drink less. How old are you? You are almost ninety years old. You still want to drink. Are you tired of living?" Zhu Youxiao gave himself a glass of warm rice wine, and then sipped a small sip.

The best Shaoxing Huadiao is put in a wine pot and heated with water. After the Huadiao is heated, a refreshing aroma of wine is heard, causing the saliva from the corner of Xu Guangqi's mouth opposite to begin to remain.

He looked at the cup of tea in front of him and the wine in front of the emperor, and suddenly felt that the world was full of malice.

"Your Majesty, what does this wine taste like? Is it delicious?" Xu Guangqi swallowed and spitted. It was really greedy.

"What? This is not delicious, it smells strange and it's so bad." Zhu Youxiao shook his head and picked up the cup and grinned his teeth.

"Tsk tsk, it's not good to drink, it's not good to drink at all." Zhu Youzhao put down the cup happily and did not forget to complain.

But Xu Guangqi looked at Zhu Youxiao with anticipation, and his eyes showed his contempt for Zhu Youxiao.

Yes, yes, not delicious, not delicious at all.

Your Majesty, after so many years, I don’t know you. I’m so naughty. I know that the doctor doesn’t allow me to drink, so you will call the old minister to the palace for drinking if you have something to do.

Of course, this is not the most critical. The most critical thing is that you drink every time and the old minister is watching.

Xu Guangqi looked at Zhu Youxiao's happy look while drinking, picking up chopsticks and siping a bite of cold dishes. Then he looked at the light boiled cabbage in front of him and the raw cucumbers. He felt that life was getting more and more boring.

Xu Guangqi picked up a cucumber with chopsticks, and then silently placed it beside his mouth but did not open his mouth but put it down.

It feels boring, I have no desire to open my mouth.

"Your Majesty, the old minister wants to retire and return home. He is old and has no appetite for eating. He really can't do it anymore." Xu Guangqi shook his head with a sigh, as if he really can't do anything anymore.

Zhu Youxiao looked up and looked at Xu Guangqi, who was pulling raw cucumbers with chopsticks. How could he not know what Xu Guangqi meant?

Isn’t it just that I didn’t prepare some good food for him?

I come here every time, and every time I come here, no matter how old I am, I don’t count on my age, and threaten me with retiring and returning home every day.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you some of my side dishes. How old are you, and you're still greedy. Look at me, I don't think it's so light every day."

Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to give Xu Guangqi a glass of wine, and then he divided the four-happy meatballs in front of him, crystal elbows, fried small crispy meat, soup yellow croaker, braised Yellow River carp, and steamed Australian lobster with garlic to Xu Guangqi.

"Give it to you, you are already in the third grade and you are still thinking about eating meat. When will I be able to control my mouth when I learn to learn?" Zhu Youxiao's meaning was full of education Xu Guangqi.

"Yeah, yeah." Xu Guangqi just nodded, then picked up a piece of Australian lobster with a white garlic sauce made in the palace and put it in his mouth, feeling the taste of this Australian lobster carefully.

Well, tender, fresh and sweet, it really tastes different from my Ming Dynasty flower dragon.

Zhu Youxiao was immediately happy when he looked at Xu Guangqi, who was smiling like an old child.

Although Xu Guangqi, who is almost ninety, looks tough, he is old after all, so the people of the Xu family have always paid great attention to his diet. They really have to calculate the amount of food and even how much oil and salt they eat. So that Mr. Xu takes the initiative to ask to accompany Zhu Youxiao every time he comes to the palace.

Because this may be the only place where he can get meat and fish, and only the palace is where his family cannot interfere. After all, although the Xu family has a wide relationship in the Ming Dynasty, they still dare to interfere in the palace.

They also knew that the power of the Xu family came from the old man, and the old man also relied on His Majesty's trust.

"Old Xu, last year, my Ming Dynasty steel production exceeded 2 million tons, and we built a standard highway of more than 7,000 kilometers and a railway of 3,000 kilometers. The first steel bridge in the Ming Dynasty was built in the Yellow River. All of them were made of steel. At present, the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Industry is planning the Yangtze River Bridge, with more investment and larger scale. These all require a Dinghai Shenjian to take charge, otherwise the people in the Ministry of Industry will not be able to do their job well."

"Hey, Lao Xu, who should you give the matter of the Yangtze River Bridge and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway?" Zhu Youxiao picked up the wine glass and shook it slowly.

When Xu Guangqi heard about the matter of the Yangtze River Bridge and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, his eyes lit up. He had already begun to propose these two major projects at the Supreme People's Congress, but he had been unable to obtain approval because of the excessive manpower and material resources. Now that His Majesty raised this matter, does this mean that His Majesty decided to support him?

With His Majesty’s support, you will definitely pass the Supreme Meeting.

"But where can I get so much money? The budget for these two projects is too high. How about His Majesty's loan to the tax treasury bank?" Xu Guangqi asked tentatively.

But Zhu Youxiao smiled and pointed to the west.

Lao Xu, why are you anxious? Of course someone will give us the money to the Ming Dynasty. We will just wait for news about Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Bianjiao.

After a while, the little monkey hurried over and handed a telegram to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao saw this telegram and gave it to Xu Guangqi.
Chapter completed!