Zhu Di looked at Li Qing, who was still energetic, with envy on his face, "Speaking of which, I'm quite envious of you. You still have the mood and energy to play with women, unlike me... who's as tired as a dog all day long."
"Uh..." Li Qing laughed dryly, it was really hard for him to answer this.
"By the way, how do you maintain this?"
"Go to bed early and get up early to exercise."
"Fart." Zhu Di resolutely didn't believe it. "It's as if it's going to kill you if you go to court in the morning. Will you get up early?"
Li Qing said sarcastically, "Your Majesty, you have forgotten that I am a doctor!"
After a pause, he asked tentatively, "If your Majesty has something to hide, can I help you take a look?"
"roll--!"
"...Okay." Li Qing turned around and left.
"Wait, come back." Zhu Di stopped him and said humbly, "Well, it's good to recuperate. My body has been severely damaged by fighting and fighting in these years."
Li Qing nodded, "Your Majesty, please sit down and let me take your pulse."
"Ang." Zhu Di sat down and raised an arm.
Li Qing put his hand on his wrist and frowned habitually.
"I think my body is fine!" The doctor frowned, and everyone was afraid of it, even Zhu Di.
"The Emperor is in good health." Li Qing said with a smile, "It's just that he is older and not as energetic as he was when he was young. This is completely normal."
"Then why are you frowning?" Zhu Di said angrily, "I was shocked. Is there any way to restore me to a young boy of 18?"
"...I will give you a prescription. If the emperor takes the medicine on time, there will be significant improvement." Li Qing said, "But...the emperor still puts state affairs first, and women are hurtful..."
"Should I teach you?" Zhu Di said displeasedly, "Hurry up and make a prescription."
Li Qing took up his pen and wrote down a recipe for strengthening the foundation and cultivating the body, and then said, "Once a day, a month is enough."
"Ang." Zhu Di took the elixir into his arms and asked, "Is there any way you can make a woman's temper less intense?"
Li Qing understood as soon as he heard this and shook his head amusedly: "Your Majesty, you are the emperor, why are you afraid of her... Ahem, the empress is considerate, how can she be jealous?
Your Majesty, you are too worried. "
Poor Emperor Yongle, he had to carry his wife behind his back to eat secretly, which was really frustrating.
Zhu Di's face heated up, and he forced his respect: "That's funny! Am I afraid of her?
Sigh... I just can't bear to make her sad. "
Zhu Di sighed, "Women, as they get older, they will become inferior to themselves. I don't want to neglect her. It's not because I'm afraid."
"This is love!" Li Qing continued with a look of admiration on his face, "Your Majesty is deeply affectionate, and I admire you greatly."
The fourth child, like Lao Zhu, is afraid of his wife.
The difference is that Queen Ma is gentle, virtuous, and generous; Queen Xu is gentle, virtuous, and beautiful, but somewhat arrogant.
But if he can't stand it, he will do this. If one is willing to fight, the other will suffer. It's hard for him, a foreign minister, to say anything.
Zhu Di did not have many children, at least far behind Lao Zhu. More than half of them were born to Xu Miaoyun, which can be seen from this.
Li Qing didn't believe Xu Miaoyun was not jealous.
Zhu Di had a stern look on his face and said to his wife, "Actually, the queen is still very gentle, not what you think."
Li Qing nodded amusedly. I have to say that the fourth child truly loves his wife.
…
After chatting about health preservation for a while, Zhu Di sighed: "Li Qing, there has always been a thorn in my heart. Do you know?"
"what?"
"Jianwen!" Zhu Di said with stern eyes, "Stop pretending, I know it's you and him who are hiding."
Li Qing was speechless: "Then your Majesty, why don't you take me to Zhao Prison? Maybe I'll be severely punished and then I'll be punished."
"You..." Zhu Di's eyes were pleading, "I promise you that I will never kill him, as long as you allow us to meet him."
"I'm sorry, I really don't know." Li Qing said calmly, "Your Majesty, why do you think I hid him?"
"Because you value friendship." Zhu Di snorted coldly, "I have an intuition that Jianwen's disappearance was your fault."
"It's really not me." Li Qing said angrily, "Your Majesty, believe it or not."
Zhu Di said angrily: "Okay, if I find him by then, I will cut him into pieces."
"Your Majesty, just be happy."
"..." Zhu Di said suspiciously, "It's really not you?"
Li Qing nodded helplessly, "The Emperor is now the Emperor, and the vassal kings, ministers, and the people of the world have recognized it, so what is there to worry about?"
He didn't understand: "Your Majesty, what are you afraid of?"
"I am indeed afraid." Zhu Di said bitterly: "To tell you the truth, in my dreams Jianwen came to kill me and put my family on the guillotine. I also dreamed about Emperor Taizu...
Li Qing, do you know?
From the day I entered the capital, I never had a solid night's sleep and was awakened by nightmares almost every night. "
Zhu Di's brows were filled with deep tiredness and worry, "This position was snatched from me. It's not honorable. I'm afraid that it will be snatched away by others in the future. I'm also afraid that when I go underground, my father will not recognize me and ignore me... …”
"No, Emperor Taizu will not blame you." Li Qing reassured, "What Emperor Taizu values is not Jianwen, but the Ming Dynasty."
Li Qing drew a big cake and said, "As long as the emperor does a good job, when he meets Taizu in the future, he will be proud of you."
"Really?"
"Really." Li Qing nodded heavily.
To be honest, looking at Zhu Di like this, he felt a little compassion in his heart.
But he knew that once Zhu Di learned the news about Zhu Yunzhen, even if Xiao Xiao Zhu had a hundred heads, it would not be enough to chop him off.
"The quality of an emperor is judged not by his personal ethics, but by his merits." Li Qing continued to draw the cake, "The emperor has created a prosperous age. After thousands of years, all the emperors in the underground will be polite when they see you. Three points of respect, I have to call you brother."
Barabara...
The worry in Zhu Di's eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by ambition. His whole figure was like an inflated ball, full of energy.
He stood up suddenly, his chest heaving violently, and his dark face turned red: "Well said!"
After eating this big cake, Zhu Di was full of energy and full of energy.
After a while, Zhu Di calmed down from his excitement and said, "Please step aside, I have to deal with official business."
Li Qing nodded with a smile: "I take my leave."
…
Li Qing went home and enjoyed a few days of happiness, then went to Longjiang Shipyard.
The shipyard covers an area of nearly a thousand acres and has countless craftsmen. However, Li Qing walked around for a long time without seeing a single ship.
This couldn't help but surprise him. The shipyard and the weaving bureau started almost at the same time. Production was normal there, but there was no progress at all here.
After wandering around to find Sanbao, Li Qing asked him his doubts.
Sanbao smiled bitterly, "How can it be so easy to build a treasure ship? Sir, please come with me."
Arriving at the room where Sanbao worked daily, Sanbao took out the blueprint of the treasure ship and said, "Sir, look, this is the treasure ship that our Ming Dynasty will build."
Li Qing took it and unfolded it on the table. When he saw all the structure of the treasure ship, he couldn't help but be surprised.
"My dear mother, isn't this too big?"
The ship has four floors, and there are nine masts on the ship alone, which can hang twelve sails.
The anchor weighs nearly five thousand kilograms, and the size of the treasure ship is even more astonishing. It is forty-four feet long, eighteen feet wide, and the estimated draft is as high as two and a half feet.
The draft alone is as high as two floors in later generations, and the entire ship can almost hold up half an aircraft carrier.
Li Qing swallowed his saliva and said calmly: "Sambo, can such a big ship be built?"
"Theoretically, there is no problem." Sanbao nodded, "This blueprint was designed by dozens of top shipwrights and took three months to design. It can definitely be built, but the cost will be very high."
Sanbao breathed a sigh of relief, "The biggest problem in building a treasure ship is the wood. According to the shipwrights, it takes hundreds or even hundreds of years of teak, fir, and other high-quality wood that is not easy to deform;
Just finding, cutting, and transporting wood costs a lot of money and time. "
Li Qing asked: "How long will it take?"
Sanbao thought for a while and said, "According to the scale and quantity required by the emperor, we will build them all in one and a half years at the earliest and two and a half years at the earliest."
Li Qing nodded and looked at the drawing again, still shocked.
too big!
There were no trains in this era. Transportation was a big problem and the efficiency was appallingly low. How much would it cost to bring such a ship down?
"Sambo, have you calculated the specific cost?"
"I really haven't calculated this, and I can't calculate it. I won't know until it's built." Sanbao scratched his head, "But the emperor said, if you don't have money, just ask him for it. Money is not a problem, as long as you do the job well."
"By the way, sir, how is the weaving bureau over there?"
"It's on the right track and has begun large-scale production." Li Qing smiled, "But it mainly depends on you."
Sanbao smiled bitterly and said: "I also want to go faster, but the problem is that I can't go fast. If I delay the quality in order to meet the deadline, the consequences will be disastrous."
"That's right." Li Qing nodded, "Let's go, take me to visit the Longjiang Shipyard."
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