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The problem of dumping the blame was very uninteresting, so a certain prince had no interest in continuing to eat and drink. He left the table after seven o'clock with the excuse that he was too drunk.
All the civil servants and generals present, as well as guests and envoys from various countries, stood up and saluted, wishing a certain prince a great victory and immediate success...
Then everyone returned to their original shape. This kind of good thing only happens once in a lifetime.
Even if the prince marries a concubine in the future, the scale and quality of the wedding banquet will not reach the same level.
The Huangji Hall has long been replaced with glass windows, and now it is illuminated by electric lights. Hundreds of electric lights shine at the same time, and with the assistance and backup of hundreds of new oil lamps, the lights are truly bright.
The heating system was upgraded from a furnace to a row of radiators. The boiler steam engine provides hot water, which can bring the temperature in the palace to about 20 degrees.
As long as the main door is not opened and people enter and exit through the side door to avoid the intrusion of large cold winds, the temperature in the hall can be maintained at a constant temperature, and everyone can wear two or three layers of light clothing without any worries.
Just renovating the Huangji Palace cost thousands of taels of silver. This was under the premise of keeping everything simple. If it were to be luxurious and replaced with sofas and other furnishings, it would definitely soar to tens of thousands of taels of silver.
A certain prince thinks that this is basically the case here, and if you have money, you have to spend it in the building over there in the new city.
The expenses for the Huangji Palace were borne by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the prince had to pay for the upgrades to the main palaces.
Empress Zhou was chatting with her two daughters-in-law in the East Palace with her two daughters Kunxing and Zhaoren, as well as Princess Le'an and the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan, as well as many close sisters.
It's enough to have a husband, an eldest son, and Concubine Tian to deal with.
She goes to court every week and is too lazy to muddle through at this time.
"Brother Xang is back!"
"Yes! Queen Mother!"
"Tonight is the wedding night, Brother Hong must be kind to the two concubines!"
"Mother, please rest assured. I will never bully my own wives and concubines!"
"It's good to know. It's been a tiring day and it's time to rest early!"
After sending away his beautiful biological mother, a certain prince could finally enjoy the long-awaited time between the three of them.
It was good in ancient times. You could marry two at a time and experience what it felt like to be hugged from one side to the other!
"Husband, please bathe and change clothes for me!"
A certain prince sent people to build another house behind the East Palace, which contained a bunch of steam engines and generators, specifically used to heat and generate electricity for his own house.
Turn on the faucet and there will be hot water, but it is too slow to fill the entire bathtub. It is more convenient to push a bucket of hot water directly from the back room.
Liu Xier and Xue Wanqing have not yet bathed or changed clothes, so they are waiting for their husbands to come back and wash together, so as to "save water"...
Xue Wanqing, the daughter of the first assistant Xue Guoguan, is already twenty this year and has just become a bride this time. It is a veritable late marriage in the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Xier had been in the palace for ten years before she came to the East Palace, and she was already in her twenties now.
Outside, even inside the building, she is still a young lady who has expired.
The ones that are really popular are those who are around twelve to fifteen years old, are pretty and can do decathlon, and the price is more than a thousand taels of silver.
However, a certain prince is just like the two in front of me, especially his figure, which I never tire of.
"Husband! When do you want to be lost in thought?"
Xue Wanqing is five years older than the prince. Regardless of her status as a wife or her age, she has the intention to take care of him.
"Greedy!"
"Are you hungry?"
"What do you think?"
"Husband~!"
Xue Wanqing immediately thought of that incident, and she let out a shy voice, lowering her head in shame and not daring to raise it.
I originally made my father worried, but I didn't expect that I would be able to rise to the top and become the crown princess.
Xue Wanqing never dreamed that marrying the prince and becoming the main wife would be a great blessing.
"Ah~sneeze!"
After struggling all day, he accidentally entered the hot water and was stimulated. A certain prince shivered for a moment and then sneezed twice in a row.
"Husband, please be careful not to catch a cold!"
Xi'er is always by his side, but she is very nervous about her man's body.
"It's okay! Just for today, I won't go out for the next half month, and I will lead the army on the Northern Expedition in the spring!"
A certain prince felt awkward at the thought of having to send a meal to Zu Dashu once every year.
If I had known this, I should have brought out all of Zu Dashou's men last time.
Jinzhou can't hold on to that shabby place at all. It's really a loss-making business.
"Husband, please be careful!"
Xue Wanqing usually reads books and newspapers in Kunning Palace, and knows something about border affairs.
Although the newspapers have introduced Wang Shi's defeat of the Donglu many times, anyone who is not a fool understands that fighting and defeating the opponent is definitely not as easy as reported in the newspapers.
"Well! Of course you have to be careful! Otherwise, if I pass away, wouldn't I let Huang Taiji live in my house, sleep with my wife, and spend my money?"
"Husband~! Don't say such lies!"
Xue Wanqing shyly taught this man who was much smaller than herself, saying he was a man, but in fact he was just a big boy.
Although this is the first time we have been together for a long time, we have already become acquainted with each other a lot before, and there is no such tension and anxiety as when the prince first came to Xue Mansion.
"Yeah! What my Qing'er said is that she started to discipline her husband on the wedding day. It's really incredible!"
"No way! I just hope that my husband can defeat the Donglu and revive the Ming Dynasty!"
Xue Wanqing would not admit her husband's sarcastic ridicule. If her husband could achieve this goal, she would be the Empress of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Even though she had just become the Crown Princess, under her father's guidance, Xue Wanqing still had some expectations for the position of Queen.
"Then let me borrow some good words from my beloved concubine!"
A certain prince doesn't wash his body every day, but washes it once a day. At least there won't be as much dirt on his body as the cement on the construction site. Just let your body warm up and apply soap all over it.
What are you doing during the wedding night?
Sleeping of course!
24K pure sleep, no other programs added!
What show are you looking forward to?
I'm in a bad mood because of my blame-shifting dad!
I don’t want to act in any show!
I guess I will never be able to get rid of the nickname "Ming Dynasty's Helper of Enemies"!
A certain prince's mood became even worse when he thought about having to pay his respects to his father who dumped the blame early tomorrow!
Give me a break!
Don't have any distracting thoughts!
"Brother Xang! I have discussed it with your mother and queen. In order to avoid traveling back and forth, I have decided to stay until autumn and then drive back to Nandu!"
At breakfast the next day, Chongzhen announced what he thought was great news in front of all his family members.
"Father, I just have time to travel around and see more. In the future, some projects here that are suitable for development in the south will be copied to the southern capital to boost the southern economy."
A certain prince's mood after hearing this was comparable to hearing that Huang Taiji had expanded his army to 500,000!
This guy is in no hurry to leave. For a beautiful mother, of course, it couldn't be better.
But for a certain prince, it is not as simple as having multiple mascots when he goes to court!
It would be best for those guys in the south who had previously been waning to launch a rebellion in the spring, so that the scapegoats can take off as soon as possible.
By the way, you can raid your home again and get tens of millions of taels of silver, why not?
"Brother Xang, I see that the lights of Huangji Palace are brilliant and dazzling. I wonder if these electric lights can be moved to Nandu?"
"Father, the principles of electric lights and telephones are similar. They both use electricity to function, but one is used for talking and the other is used for lighting. As long as a thermal power plant is built in Nandu, it can naturally meet the most basic needs of electricity. Yes. If it covers commercial electricity, the scale of thermal power plants must also be increased. The principle is similar to that of sowing on farmland."
Nandu does not produce coal, but there is plenty of coal in the Lianghuai coal mines, and coal can be continuously transported to Nandu through the canal, and the price will not be much higher. The coal used for smelting ore in the Maanshan Iron and Steel Plant comes from Lianghuai.
Since he had been electrocuted before, the dumpster would be more or less averse to anything that used electricity.
If the phone wasn't so convenient, it would be difficult to use it in Nandu City.
To this day, new oil lamps are still used for lighting in the palace in Nandu.
As long as there are enough oil lamps, the light beam is actually not much worse than electric lamps.
Whether it is an oil lamp or a lighted lamp, the final comparison is the brightness of the light, measured in "ten thousand candles".
"Brother Hong, when do you think millions of people in Ming Dynasty will be able to have electric lighting?"
"Father, electric lamps are not like oil lamps. One lamp is its own system. The light bulb is only the terminal luminous object of the electric lighting system. The light bulb is also connected to the wire. The line needs to be assumed from the outside world. The other end is the thermal power plant. If people use It seems that you only need to buy a light bulb, but in fact you have to wait for the yamen to set up a line before powering on. According to the target electricity cost calculation, if each household uses electric light instead of oil lamp, the monthly cost is probably more than five taels of silver, which is definitely more than Affordable for most families.”
Nandu Hydropower Station uses water from the Yangtze River to generate electricity, but the electricity generated by this thing is enough to power several telephone lines.
If you want the imperial city, or even the entire city, to have electric lights, you must build a large thermal power plant.
If you switch to a hydropower station, if you want to generate enough electricity, you have to install turbines deep into the river.
The turbine is controllable, but the river water is uncontrollable. Especially when flood peaks come, hydropower stations are in danger.
In comparison, thermal power plants are more reliable, and the cost of power generation is higher than that of hydropower plants, but the risks are basically controllable.
"Furthermore, if you want to popularize electric lights, you need to lay thousands of miles of lines. The copper wire used is a huge expense, which will inevitably cause the price of copper to soar, affecting the price of silver and even commodity prices. The mines in Monan have not yet been mined on a large scale. Previously, I thought it would be more economical for ordinary people to use oil lamps for lighting."
A certain prince used the excess copper to cast cannons, so how could he still have the ability to lay wires everywhere?
Besides, using oil from northern Shaanxi is considered a work-for-relief program, and oil lamps are a very important consumption channel for oil.
The oil field is also the number one source of income for the Chief Secretary of Shaanxi Province. It is no exaggeration to say that it supports the officials of the entire Shaanxi Province.
If this is a Daxing electric light project, thereby reducing the amount of oil purchased, this will be equivalent to the consequences of the abolition of the inn...
"Brother Xang, how is the situation in Shaanxi? Are the new oil lamps beneficial to oil field mining?"
Chongzhen only knew the general situation in Shaanxi from newspapers and private messages, and now that he has the opportunity, he would like to learn more about it in detail.
If Shaanxi can be stabilized, everything in the north except Henan will be worry-free.
"Father, since the development of oil fields, coal mines, and gold mines in Shaanxi, and the governor Zuo Maodi vigorously rectifying the officialdom, severely punishing borers, and appeasing various places, Minsheng has been greatly improved compared to before. Because the new oil lamps provide brighter lighting, as the sales of oil lamps As prices rise, the amount of oil purchased from oil fields is also increasing. It is expected that the number of purchases this year will be about 300,000 to 400,000 barrels. Since the Yanchang Oilfield and Yulin Coal Mine were exploited in northern Shaanxi, local young men have joined the army and have also made money. Naturally, no one wants to rebel against the imperial court because they have to support their families. After Li Zicheng and Chai Shihua left for the Western Regions, the entire territory of Shaanxi has been basically pacified."
"Since the pacification has been completed, why do you say it is rough?"
"Father, the instability in Shaanxi is not only due to internal troubles, but also external troubles. The Tumut tribe had colluded with Chai Shihua before and repeatedly sent a large number of cavalry to rob various places. After Sun Chuanting led his troops to defeat Chai Shihua, the Tumut tribe restrained its ambitions. It has not been destroyed. Relying on the existing garrison in Shaanxi, in addition to guarding against the counterattacks of the Li and Chai rebels, we also need to defend against the multiple attacks of the Tumote cavalry. This can only guarantee a general stability, but it cannot be said to be absolutely worry-free."
"Why not let Sun Chuanting send troops directly into the enemy's hinterland?"
"Father, the Tumut tribe lives on a plateau, which is a place with higher terrain. How high is it? For example, the terrain of Shaanxi is equivalent to the foot of Mount Tai, and the Tumut people live on the top of Mount Tai. The air at the top of the mountain is thin. You can get used to it after living all year round. If you climb to the top of the mountain rashly, you will feel difficulty breathing. If Sun Chuanting's troops attack, their combat effectiveness will drop sharply before a battle. During the Li and Tang Dynasties, the Tubo cavalry also relied on this advantage, and many of them He defeated the Tang army for the first time and even occupied the Hexi Corridor."
"Is it possible to let the Tumut thieves do whatever they want?"
"Father, the main enemy of the King's Division at this stage is the Donglu. Secondly, there are tens of thousands of rogue bandits in the Dabie Mountains who are fighting with the official army. It is difficult for the imperial court to have enough military and financial resources to start a war with the Tumote tribe."
Do you really think you are invincible?
Do you think about hitting this and that every day?
Besides, do you have money?
If you don’t have money, why not talk about sesame seeds!
"If according to your previous plan, it will take five to ten years to defeat the Donglu and recover Liaodong, and it will take several more years to defeat the Tumote thieves. When can I wait until the day when the world is at peace?"
Chongzhen is very annoyed now. To the east are the bandit chiefs Taiji, to the west are the traitors Li Ni, Chai Ni, and Tumote. To the south are Zhang Ni and Gezuo Wuni. There are rebels in all directions!
"Father, there are always thieves in the world, and there will naturally be no peace in the world. The northern vassal kingdom has already fought with the Rakshasa people several times. After being defeated, the Rakshasa people will definitely choose to go south. After they defeat Kaksha, After Erkha Menggu, he will become another scourge for our Ming Dynasty. The only way my father wants to revive the Ming Dynasty is to feed war with war, and the more we fight, the stronger we become."
"Did you know that Bao Qin, Bao Sui, and Bao Yuan were all destroyed in this way?"
"Father, these three dynasties collapsed after the world was at peace and there were no wars. When Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Sui destroyed Chen, and Yuan destroyed Song, their national power continued to rise. Grandpa Taizu once said that the Ming Dynasty suffered this Only in times of calamity can we realize our shame and be brave again. If we are not destroyed, we will surely revive!"
