open sea

Chapter 1112
The emperor did not completely kill the clan. After the emperor had money, many things were not difficult to deal with.

For example, the only Miao Miao who was not circled by Shen Fan, Baoding Wang Zhu Yutan, was recruited into the capital by an imperial edict.

At the same time that the county king, who had been in power for 21 years, entered Beijing tremblingly, Xu Jue, the governor of Jinyi, led a group of people into Baoding Palace to check the accounts.

Xu Jue was busy. As long as the emperor issued the imperial edict to go to India with the sramanas as agreed by Zhang Ju, the mansions of the three princes and more than a dozen county kings would be gone. Not all of these dozen prefectures are in Shanxi, and the surrounding provinces are intertwined.

The reason for checking the accounts is Wangzhuang. Because Zhuangtian and Zhuangmin are not registered with the Secretary, the number of hectares of Zhuangtian and Zhuangmin is unknown, so Xu Jue needs to check.

A laborious job.

After accomplishing this mission, Xu Jue estimated that he could lose ten catties.

The emperor also worked very hard, so Wang An sent three batches of internal officials who were different from each other and did not know each other to follow Xu Jue, in the euphemistic name of mutual supervision.

If it is only counted by people, the young Wanli wants to establish a system that Xu Jue will lead the Jinyiwei to implement, and Wang An will lead the West Factory to supervise. In the future, when the right time is right, the West Factory will be exposed to the public and the East Factory will supervise. west factory.

He had to add a West Factory in the middle, otherwise he would directly let Feng Bao's East Factory supervise Xu Jue, and he, the emperor, would not be the first to know anything.

It is true that as long as the emperor is willing to delegate power, the Dongchang fans must be the most useful people, but the information will not only be sent to the military room of the Qianqing Palace, but also to the Kunning Palace and the cabinet... If so , then this information is useless to the emperor.

What he is going to do, no matter whether it is the empress dowager or the chief assistant of the empire, no one wants to know.

At the same time, not only King Baoding came to Beijing, but also the emperor sent a telegram directly to Jinyiwei, the resident of Beiyang Military Mansion in Tianjin, ordering him to select the most skilled iron households and grain workers who made military rations to bring their families north to the capital.

When they were almost all here, the emperor sent someone to find Xu Guangqi who was tossing the steamboat in Tsinghua Garden.

Xu Guangqi didn't really do anything. He just disassembled and reassembled the two steam engines placed by the emperor in the Tsinghua Garden, and wrote a report to the steam bureau. He used the summary method prescribed by the emperor to formulate Six specifications about the size of the piston rod were published, and several discovered rules were conveyed to the Steam Bureau in the form of a private letter.

Not to mention, Xu Guangqi enjoys his current life very much. There is no supervisor in charge, Jinyi Tiqi in Tsinghua Garden doesn't like to talk to him, and he doesn't have any real power in his hands. He receives a seventh-rank salary every month, but he is happy in his heart.

It would be even better if the imperial court allocated him a decent official residence. It is no problem for him to live with Tiqi and eunuchs in this battlefield-like Tsinghua Garden, but he cannot take his wife over. How beautiful would it be to have a small official hall and a small courtyard behind the yamen to house the family members?

Xu Guangqi didn't even dare to think about it, although he didn't know much about steam engines, but he was a scholar, smart, memorized, and interested in learning about steam engines, a new thing.

As long as you are interested in learning about it, not to mention this year, the steam engine of Erya, Xu Shou from the Anqing Ordnance Institute went to the foreign military ship to watch it for a day, and he could rub one out with his hands after returning home.

Xu Guangqi's ability was not bad either. After several months of tossing around in Tsinghua Garden, he managed to kill the two Type-A Huode Xingjun that the emperor had brought into the garden.

So Xu Guangqi was very...very happy that the emperor called him into the palace at this time.

He thought, before the minister reported the good news to His Majesty, His Majesty had already thought of him.

As a result, when he entered the Qianqing Palace, he was shocked. His emperor was carrying a blunderbuss, and he was wearing a Liaodong army cotton armor. The red bubble nailed dragon-pattern armor had two fur collars hanging down his neck. Wearing fat soap boots, the whole person seems to be puffed up, bloated and mighty, like a bear.

Xu Guangqi had stayed in Beijing for more than half a year. He was familiar with the armor of the frontier army. At first glance, the armor worn by the emperor was no different from the armor of the frontier army, but there were some differences on closer inspection.

The neckline of the cotton armor throat guard has been enlarged. The neckline that used to cover only the chin now covers the mouth and nose. The pair of earmuffs on his head also looked enlarged, and the earmuffs that were originally covered with black fluff on the outside are now covered with black fur—this may be the root cause of his feeling that the emperor looks like a bear.

Moreover, the copper mask called God's face was omitted.

The emperor carried a leather backpack wrapped with white tent cloth and rolled felt on the left, with a water bottle on the left and a rocket launcher on the right. He carried a waist knife, a pistol, and a medicine cartridge on a leather belt. He also had two small red canvas bags on his waist. Two small iron rods with lead wires and vertical and horizontal grooves are exposed from the opening of the good bag, and a long bird gun is leaning on the hand.

Behind him, several eunuchs headed by Wang An stood in a row. Wang An was holding a long-handled flail, and the eunuchs behind him carried weapons such as boring handles, wolf whisks, iron melons, and imperial swords in turn.

The emperor wore this suit, and Xu Guangqi felt that it weighed sixty or seventy catties, and he was still jumping there.

Xu Guangqi was so frightened that he dared not speak.

On the way, he heard that the emperor had summoned the county king of Baoding. It would depend on the emperor's posture... What is this for?
As we got closer, Xu Guangqi just saluted and wanted to speak when the emperor found out, and saw the emperor beating the heart mirror in the middle of the cotton armor and saying: "Excuse me, it's so hot."

While talking about the heat, the emperor was still jumping, and when he stopped jumping, he walked around, moved his shoulders, twisted his waist, punched his left fist and kicked his leg right, as if he had ADHD.

Xu Guangqi wondered if it wouldn't be hot. He didn't wear what he should wear in this weather. It hasn't even snowed yet in Beijing. Not to mention the emperor put on a padded jacket, but he even wore several layers of it to push himself out. The effect of the bear is coming, and it is still moving around. Who is hot if you are not hot?

After a while, his face covered in the armor was blushing, and he finally stopped, took off the high helmet, stretched out his arms, and asked someone to remove the armor, saying: "Wang An, let someone tell the army Armor, this suit is fine, but the soap boots are not, they are thick enough, but the soles are still thin, thick soles will keep your feet from freezing."

The eunuch first untied the earmuffs attached to the iron helmet. It was fastened on the iron helmet with an iron ring wrapped in fluff, and it just stuck on the edge of the iron helmet. Huode Xingjun is the same, the backpack, iron armbands, the cotton iron armor on the waist to hold the belly, the rib armor heart mirror, the overcoat, and the skirt are untied in turn.

Only then was the sleeveless fat jacket worn by the emperor exposed, but this still made the emperor look like a bear, because there was a sleeveless cotton jacket inside the sleeveless fat jacket.

"It's winter, and I'll get you one later. In the past, we used to stuff duck down and goose down into the quilt. Chen Shuai said in Dongyang that stuffing it into clothes is warm, and it's really warm." The emperor was happy to see Xu Guangqi's sluggish look, After taking off the fat jacket, he moved his arms and shoulders comfortably in the tuanlong padded jacket, and waved his hand over the military equipment and armor carried by the eunuchs: "I will try the military uniform for Marshal Qi."

"This set is the winter clothes I will wear in Wulianghai this year to escape the winter army."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)