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Chapter Thirteen Untitled

There is nothing we are reluctant to accept than suggestions............Joseph Edison

‘Dang! Dang!’ A small bronze man with very exquisite craftsmanship and full of facial features slid out along a copper track, mechanically raised the hammer in his hand and rang the copper bell carved with beautiful patterns in front of his body.

For a moment, a crisp sound rang in Zhu Youxiao's bedroom. Zhu Youxiao was upset. Did he be confused yesterday? How could he think of installing such a self-tone bell in his bedroom? He also made this self-tone bell ring this broken bell early in the morning. So he turned over, lifted up the quilt on his body and covered his head, and continued to sleep lazyly.

"Emperor, Your Majesty!" Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt a warm and tender little hand gently pushing his arm.

"Oh!" Zhu Youxiao didn't even want to open his eyes. He grabbed the little hand that was gently pushing on him, hugged it in his arms, and then replied lazily.

The little hand in his arms tried to pull it, but found that it could not be pulled, so he continued: "Master, the self-ringing bell has ringed just now. Today's time is up, and the emperor should practice martial arts!"

"Oh!" Zhu Youxiao ignored it, stretched out his hand outside the quilt, pressed his ear and continued to sleep.

At this time, the jade man in his arms was obviously helpless. It was really difficult for the emperor to cheat, especially when the emperor was so unconscious, if he angered the emperor, he would lose his head! He had to take out another hand and push Zhu Youxiao.

"Oh!" Zhu Youxiao grabbed the hand again this time.

"Your Majesty, get up soon. If you don't get up, it will be too late!" Dong Wan'er said helplessly. Zhu Youxiao was quite diligent when he ascended the throne. He got up early every day, but as he became the emperor, his laziness became increasingly greater. He would not get up if he didn't stay in bed for half a day. However, Zhu Youxiao was still a little rational. He forced himself to get up early every day to exercise. This time, not only did Wei Chao fiddle with a self-ringing bell to act as an alarm clock for himself, but also specifically instructed Dong Wan'er to wake him up in the morning.

"Okay, I have been woken up by the annoying bell ringing. It's not enough to sleep for a moment in the morning. Otherwise, someone would say to Zhang Yuting, I don't want to go today!" Zhu Youxiao continued to act like a scoundrel, which made Dong Wan'er feel a headache.

At this time, Dong Wan'er's hands in Zhu Youxiao's arms stretched out her arms. Zhu Youxiao jumped up and lifted the quilt and sat up, saying, "Every time, this is the trick, okay, I'll get up."

At this time, I saw Dong Wan'er's charming figure and her red face. She became very lustful. She reached out and touched Dong Wan'er's face and said, "Wan'er blushed in the morning. Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

After saying that, he tried hard on his hand and pulled Dong Wan'er into his arms. He kissed Dong Wan'er's forehead with his mouth, and then said, "It's okay, his forehead is not very hot!"

At this time, the claws of Lushan were swimming constantly on Dong Wan'er. After a while, Dong Wan'er gasped and Zhu Youxiao pressed Dong Wan'er down...

Zhu Youxiao completed the morning exercise in the morning. He wiped the sweat from his head with a towel and said to Wei Chao who was serving him, "Is there any news in Fujian?"

"Your Majesty, Sun Chengzong has already selected ships and soldiers from the newly built Pingliao Naval Division to Penghu, and brought the newly cast cannons and other firearms from the Institute. If the wind direction is probably right, it will be here in the past few days. With the cannons from the Institute, the Dutch people will have nothing to be afraid of. In a few days, the military information of Fujian Dasheng will be sent to the palace!" Wei Chao said this, but he was excited. Others don't know, but Wei Chao, who followed Zhu Youxiao every day, wouldn't know? The Institute has made a lot of good things these days, and these Dutch people feel good this time.

"What's the name of that imperial envoy? What's the Feng?" Zhu Youchao didn't know much about Feng Luoyun, or in other words, except for a few Grand Secretary, the Secretariat of the Six Ministry and those who often gave up the letter, the ministers and the ministers of the Secretariat, and the Daoist ministers who were often given up, Zhu Youchao was basically not familiar with them.

"Back to the emperor, the wind falls into the clouds!"

"Oh! I've agreed to him for the March period, right? How long will it take now?" Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered that Penghu had been surrounded for a few days.

"Go back to the emperor, it has been nearly two months since the emperor issued an order!" Wei Chao thought about it and replied.

"Haha, in fact, I have known for a long time that these Dutch people will definitely be difficult to deal with. Unfortunately, the ministers in the court did not think so. March was just enough according to the previous situation. However, if there were cannons from the institute, there would probably be no problem!" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Is there any situation in Liaodong?" Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered that it had been a long time since Liaodong had no news. This was somewhat inconsistent with the policies of the Later Jin Dynasty. There must be something strange about the Later Jin Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, those Tartars have stopped harassing our Ming Dynasty since the defeat in the last Battle of Chenyang. However, they are afraid of the military information sent by Xiong Tingbi saying that the Tartars are busy fighting with the Mongolian Tartars!" The Wei Dynasty still did not understand these national affairs, and even brought such important information gently when encountering such important information.

"War with Mongolia! This is an opportunity to balance. What have Xiong Tingbi been doing these days?" Zhu Youxiao wanted to see Xiong Tingbi's performance.

Wei Chao said that it was the main force who drafted Zhu You's school tickets. Zhu Youxiao had never seen many memorials. In addition, Zhu Youxiao was a lazy master. In fact, many memorials were reviewed by the cabinet. Of course, these memorials were reviewed by the Silijian before, but Zhu Youxiao understood the lesson of eunuchs' misleading the country. After taking office, he continued to reduce the responsibilities of the Silijian. After the palace ban was reformed, the status of the Silijian plummeted and truly became a "Silijian".

Wei Chao naturally understood what Zhu Youxiao wanted to know and quickly replied: "Your Majesty, Xiong Tingbi is busy training troops now. At the same time, he expanded the city in Liaodong, and then reclaimed a large number of wasteland in Liaodong, absorbing a lot of refugees to go to Liaodong to stock up on land! However, Liaodong is a place that consumes money now, and the memorials urging money are constantly being repeated every day. It is said that the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War are already full of memorials by Xiong Tingbi!"

"It's silver again. Every time I talk about Liaodong, it's silver. I'm fighting with those Jurchens. I'm using money to smash the Jurchens. I'm paying Liaodong every day, but I haven't paid a penny to me. If I continue to spend this, I can raise Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Youxiao sarcastically. Although he doesn't agree with Xiong Tingbi's way of spending money like water, now he's satisfied with being able to defend Liaodong. Besides, he can't come up with any good ideas, so he has to think more ways to squeeze out some silver there.

Wei Chao was speechless after hearing what Zhu Youxiao said. Guan Jiuzhen here is a machine for swallowing money. The huge and low-combat force of the Ming Dynasty gave Zhu Youxiao a headache for a long time. Unfortunately, the new army selected and trained has not yet undergone actual combat tests, so naturally it is impossible to reform the Ming army on a large scale. Without reform, the military pay will not be reduced, which is a vicious cycle.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "What did I tell you about this? You have entered the palace since you were a child, and you understand many things."

Wei Chao secretly laughed in his heart, saying that I have never seen the world since I was a child, but you don’t think about who is the real world.

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A few listless seabirds were flying in the sky in the blue sky, as if they were about to fall into the sea after taking a nap. Below the sky was a busy and somewhat chaotic military port. Wooden ships of all sizes stopped slowly, and many wooden ships were in and out.

A tall lucky boat was parked on the dock, 'Bang, bang!' Two long wooden boards were mounted on the dock from the boat. Liu Blacksmith ran on the board from the boat and jumped on the board exaggeratedly for a few times. He felt that the board was not moving, so he shouted to the boat: "Ergouzi, you fucking ran there again, come here quickly."

After a while, a young man in high-end clothes ran out of the boat and replied to Liu Blacksmith: "Liu Baihu, why are you looking for a young man?"

"Damn, what did you do just now? Come here, jump a few times and try if the wooden board is solid or not!" Since Liu Blacksmith became famous in Chenyang, he followed Sun Yuanhua to the Pingliao Naval Division, got on the ship and became a gunner, and even got into a hundred families. Of course, Ergouzi also ascended to heaven and followed Liu Blacksmith to the Pingliao Naval Division.

"Brother Liu, didn't you just tell me to add oil to those artillery?" Ergouzi said with a wronged expression on his face.

But Liu Blacksmith ignored Ergouzi at all and continued, "If you want to call him Lord Liu or Liu Baihu, now is Brother Liu in the army? Is it like a singular word? There are rules in the army, and you are also a veteran, so why don't you understand these things."

"Yes, Liu Baihu, this wooden board is very solid. There is no problem with transporting those cannons from here. I will gather people to transport the cannons ashore now!" Ergouzi knew Liu's temper. He had just become such an official these days, but he was so arrogant that he showed off everywhere. But he dared to ask others to defend the rules of the army, and did not look at who was swearing on his words every day.
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