"Your Majesty, Lord Gu has a talent for foreign affairs, it's a pity to stay in the Ministry of War. The military academy just lacks talents in this area. It's better...you're right." Liu Hongjian glanced at Chongzhen, who had a expressionless face.

A talent who understands foreign affairs but is not bound by the ideas of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire is rare. Zheng Sen is one of them, but he is too young after all, and it is impossible for him to come to the capital due to family issues.

There are some officials from the Ministry of Rites who are full-time reception of foreign guests and know some things about foreign vassals, but these old men have been immersed in Confucianism for a long time. Even if Liu Hongjian goes to the lecture hall himself, he will not let these old men harm others.

"You guys! You don't have any shadows in the school, so you started poaching me." Although Chongzhen was unhappy, he didn't have much resistance.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has never lacked alternate officials, and the seats in the court are all the same as those in the court. I don’t know how many people are thinking about someone who is behind them so that they can climb up.

After finalizing the affairs of the Institute of Technology and Military Academy, Liu Hongjian no longer cared about trivial matters in the court and became a full-time contractor.

The twelfth lunar month passed, and Liu Hongjian didn't even have time to sigh that he had grown one year older and devoted himself to the vigorous production movement.

The construction team composed of more than 6,000 migrant workers was divided into three waves, one wave was responsible for two camps, one wave was responsible for the school of engineering, and the other wave was responsible for the reconstruction of Xishan.

In winter, many lands in the north suffered from drought. In order to use free labor while distributing disaster relief grains, Chongzhen agreed and presided over by the Ministry of Works, the entire north began a vigorous trench digging campaign.

Chongzhen had only one purpose. If the drought continued in the coming year, it would be necessary to irrigate the canals to the entire north.

This is also a super project, with large-scale production of cement, red bricks, and concrete. The cement workshop in Zhending Mansion has been repeatedly expanded, and in just a few months it has become the primary industry of Zhending Mansion.

Since all the industries of the ordnance are private, at best, Chongzhen is considered to be the controlling shareholder, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ordnance is sold at a low price with a profit of 10%.

After producing cement and red bricks, they added 10% of the profit and sold them to the Ministry of Industry. Although it was only 10% of the profit, due to the huge shipment volume, the ordnance still made a lot of money.

The huge amount of money spent on the people was spent, but they were doing important things that benefit the country and the people, and the court did not dare to say much.

Anyway, the victims need to be rescued, and there are many people who have eaten their fill. The only thing they can put in is their strength.

The money flowed back into the ordnance, and was spent heavily on the reconstruction of two schools and the Xishan Mountains by Liu Hongjian.

The Institute of Technology covers an area of ​​200 acres. The first one to be built was a red brick wall about two meters high. The concrete building of the Ordnance Center was very successful. Liu Hongjian stubbornly converted some of the buildings of the Institute of Technology into concrete buildings.

Especially the landmark building in the middle of the School of Technology - a six-story concrete building, which stands in the middle of the School of Technology, overlooking the entire School of Technology.

Although the six-story building is nothing in later generations, it is already a skyscraper in the flat Shuntian Mansion. Standing on the roof, you can almost see the entire capital.

Although the appearance is a bit weird, craftsmen are proud of it. On the other hand, Gu Jia, who is in charge of military academy construction work, is not very keen on concrete buildings.

Gu Jia is a bit serious, except for leaving Liu Hongjian with a place to build his own residence, all other buildings are typical Ming-style buildings.

‘God makes good’ It didn’t snow all winter, and by the first lunar month, the projects of the two colleges were half completed.

In addition to controlling the overall progress, Liu Hongjian had already begun to discuss subject issues at the School of Technology with Song Yingxing.

Civil engineering, water conservancy engineering, textile engineering, metal materials, firearm engineering, ship engineering... Everything that the two think is important is among them.

After that, Liu Hongjian added two items to the list - physics and chemistry. Song Yingxing had never heard of these two items, but he did not ask much for his trust in Liu Hongjian.

The former textbooks were all provided by the Ordnance Institute. As early as the beginning of the Ordnance Institute, under the initiative of Liu Hongjian, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute began to summarize their experience.

Now, the experience summarized by various craftsmen has been removed by Song Yingxing in different categories, and it has become a natural textbook.

In addition, Liu Hongjian based on the technical support of various basic sciences in the ring, primary physics and chemistry were also tinkered with by Liu Hongjian.

At the same time, Xishan also began to be renovated. More than 2,000 construction workers opened firepower and built various research institutes on the slightly flat east side of Xishan.

The top of the Xishan Mountain was not spared, and rows of wooden pavilions were built by Liu Hongjian. This place would be Liu Hongjian's new home. Considering the feelings of his family, except for the necessary protective walls and foundations, they are all made of wooden structures.

A flat bluestone staircase connects the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. Several outposts were built on the side of the mountain to garrison troops. Each outpost housed a hundred households, responsible for the safety of the entire western mountain.

In the middle of the first lunar month, the Prime Minister of the Chahar Khanate, Boluoch, visited the Ming Dynasty. After a brief expansion, the Chahar Khanate finally met its opponent, the emerging Romanov dynasty and the Russian hairy bear!

The first tsar Mikhail Feodorov Romanov, the founder of the Romanov dynasty, died of illness in July of the 18th year of Chongzhen, and his son Alexey Mikhailovic Romanov succeeded to the throne.

After a brief reshuffle, the second generation of Tsar regrouped and began the three hundred years of Romanov dynasty's long-cherished wish - looking for a sea port.

The Tsar went south and Chahar went north. The two countries met on Lake Baikal. Regardless of the coldness of tens of degrees below zero, they fought a protracted battle in the Siberian wasteland, both of which were injured.

Boluo Chi was very happy to say that he was approved by Chongzhen. He bought more than 50,000 second-hand generations who had retreated from the border army at a high price and fired guns.

At the end of the first month, Chongzhen was seriously ill again and had no choice but to announce that Prince Zhu Cixuan would continue to supervise the country, but did not announce his condition to the outside world.

Liu Hongjian took a huge risk and performed a surgical operation on Chongzhen again, cutting off the lesion on his left shoulder, but the disease had tortured Chongzhen into a thin old man.

My hair was gray and gray, but now it is rare to even gray hair. At thirty-six years old, it is as old as sixty years old.

After resting in the deep palace for more than half a month, when Chongzhen came to the court again, all officials were shocked. Chongzhen coughed no less than five times in one hour of the morning court, and finally had to retreat early.

Many officials did not know what disease Chongzhen had, and several cabinet masters and Imperial Hospital who knew the inside story remained silent, and many court officials began to consider the matter behind Chongzhen.

Since ancient times, the replacement of the throne has been a major event in the Celestial Empire. All officials understand the principles of the emperor and the ministers.

A strange atmosphere filled the court, and the entire capital became panic.
Chapter completed!