On the first day of the first lunar month of the first year of Chongzhen, the capital was in the Ganqing Palace. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, was resting and was going to the back hall to pay New Year's greetings to Queen Tianqi, his sister-in-law.

Zhu Youjian's heart is full of passion now. When he was the King of Xin, he was extremely disappointed with his brother Emperor Tianqi. Doesn't his brother know that if he wants to govern the country well, he must trust these ministers? Wei Zhongxian is just an eunuch, and what ability does he have to govern the country?

Now that the old eunuch Wei is finally dead, he is finally in charge of the entire world and can finally govern this country according to his own wishes. The Ming Empire will rejuvenate again in his own hands, and he can also become a great emperor like Taizu Chengzu.

Zhu Youjian was immersed in his fantasy and completely forgot what his brother said to him before his death. He should not believe the ministers outside, nor do he believe in the eunuchs around him. He believed in only himself. Only with balance can the Ming Dynasty continue.

If Zhu Youxiao is still alive, he would be very sad because the power operation system he had worked hard to wove for seven years was destroyed by his younger brother. That is, in BJ, Wei Zhongxian, eunuch party, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and other Donglin party were supplemented by external parties, and the two sides restrained each other and could not dominate.

The side had to use its own imperial power to suppress the other party. Maintaining this balance of power can make its imperial power last forever. This is also the reason why Wei Zhongxian could persecut Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou, but could not touch Sun Chengzong. The Donglin Party and the others could do Wei Zhongxian, but could not do it to death.

Although the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty was already full of holes, it could still move forward with Zhu Youxiao's careful maintenance. However, if Chongzhen was impatient, he had to run fast even though he had to run away quickly. In the end, he would become a ghost if he didn't fall apart.

It was also the first day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youjian was very happy, but Li Hongji, who was a postman from Mizhi Yinchuan Post, was not happy at all. In the airy room, Li Hongji and his nephew Li Guo ushered in the new year.

Of course, compared with those who starved to death, Mr. Li Hongji and his wife were still happy. At least they could eat steamed buns every day. Although they were not full, they still couldn't starve. A few days ago, someone from my hometown said that his uncle Gao Yingxiang was the king of the mountain, and Li Guo also advised him to join him in his uncle.

But he didn't agree. It would be better to live without a single death. He would never go back until the last step. What Li Hongji didn't expect was that he wanted to do his hard-earned job, but God would not allow him. In March this year, someone would report that the court would lay off the post station, and his Yinchuan post was the first target for the abolition. God had already set up his materials, and Chongzhen lit the last fire himself.

Outside the pass, Shengjing. In the Dazheng Hall newly built by Lao Wang Nurhaci the year before yesterday, the illuminated lights were brightly placed. The owners of the Eight Banners and Huang Taiji's brothers were celebrating the Spring Festival of the Han people. Although they didn't like the Han people, they really liked the things produced by the Han people. The Han people's silk, handicrafts, grain, jewelry, clothes, and tobacco were very popular in the circle of Shengjing's powerful people. If the powerful people had no Han opera troupe to perform, they would lose their status.

Huang Taiji looked at Dorgon who was talking in the middle. Dorgon was saying that he would enter the pass and grab more Han people for coats after the spring, grab more food to live, and grab more women to give birth to more soldiers for the Later Jin Dynasty. But Huang Taiji knew that the Han people they saw were just a drop in the tank, and all the Han people were thousands of miles away from the Great Wall were the territory of the Han people, and the Han people could not kill them at all.

It was just like cutting meat slices, cutting meat from the dying cow bit by bit. Looking at Dorgon Huang Taiji, I thought, it would be great if Dorgon had his own son, his son Haoge was just a martial artist, and he could fight wars, but it was far from being able to govern the country. Didn’t the Han people say that they could only conquer the world immediately but not the world immediately?

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji waved his hand and said: On February 14th, his brother Dorgon and his fifteenth brother Duoduo led the Zhengbai Banner to go to Chahar tribe in Mongolia.

The current and future emperors on the land of China are all striving for their own careers. In that year, Chongzhen was sixteen years old, Li Hongji was twenty-one years old, Huang Taiji was thirty-six years old, Dorgon was fifteen years old, and our protagonist Zhu Hongsan was seven years old.

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Of course, Zhu Hongsan didn't have to eat like the bitter young man Li Hongji. He was waiting for the meal he made for me. Before the New Year, MSG soy sauce finally succeeded. After removing the bitter and strange smell, the color became lighter. Now it showed an orange color, which was a bit of the orange ale that I drank in later generations. This is the first time I cooked this new soy sauce, and Zhu Hongsan is looking forward to it.

Zhao Goudan, who was sitting next to him, was even more looking forward to it. He has been his cousin's experimental product many times in the past six months. The umami flavor of this soy sauce is so nostalgic. As he thought about it, he seemed to have drooled.

Zhu Hongsan poked Zhao Goudan on the side: "Okay, okay, your saliva is flowing down and it is about to drip on the table. Do you still want me to have a meal?"

Zhao Goudan touched his head and smiled, "Hehe, the food my aunt cooks is so delicious, I can't help it."

When Zhu Hongsan saw his cousin, he was only nine years old this year, almost 1.7 meters tall, and he was almost two heads taller than him. This year, under my mother's breeding, his figure has even developed even more. Zhu Hongsan estimated that if he reached the age of 18, he would be at least 1.9 meters tall, he would be a giant in the Ming Dynasty, where he was generally 1.6 meters tall.

Zhu Hongsan can now think of giving this guy a plate armor in the future, just like the Saint Seiya, and then taking two mountain-opening axes, shining golden light. It is really his own good knife-blocking door panel to stop. After the Chinese New Year, you can discuss it with Tie Niu.

After a while, after I finished cooking, I still had some of Zhu Hongsan’s favorite dishes, braised pork, braised carp, a bowl of chicken soup, and a garlic sprouted fried egg. Zhu Hongsan ate a bite of braised pork, drank the chicken soup, tears flowed down, and finally got a familiar taste. Oh my God, you are so cute.

When my mother saw Zhu Hongsan crying, she asked, "Son, what's wrong with you?"

Zhu Hongsan said with tears: "I saw my mother working hard for me and cooking such delicious meals, my son was moved and shed tears."

My mother Zhao Chunhua laughed and scolded: "You little bastard, you just want to sell a donkey for a pouty mule."

Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and didn't know what it meant, so he asked, "Mom, what does it mean? How can you sell a pout mule for a donkey?"

My mother smiled and said, "The damage is on this mouth. The mule has a long face like a donkey, so she has to pay for it and sell it."

Zhu Hongsan and Zhao Goudan laughed in unison.

"Stop laughing, eat soon, the food will get cold later."

Zhao Goudan shook off the whirlwind chopsticks and noodles and opened her mouth to eat it. Zhu Hongsan did not leave behind him. Zhao Chunhua looked at her two children for dinner with a smile on her face. She said, "Goudan, after dinner, you go home and take a look. It will be the New Year. Go home and see your father and your brother."

"I saw my father on the street in the morning. He said he would ask me to celebrate the New Year at my aunt's house, because I was afraid that my mother would be unhappy when I got home."

"Hey, poor kid, your father is just a coward."

Seeing that his mother was in a bad mood, Zhu Hongsan quickly changed the topic: "Mom, this new soy sauce is good."

"It's good, the taste is much fresher than before, and it's better than the old-fashioned soy sauce. It's more productive after the spring is coming, and now we sell it in our own grocery store."

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said, "Mom, I want to sell this recipe."

Zhao Chunhua stopped eating rice and asked, "Son, what's wrong with you? Do you want to sell this money to someone else?"

"Mom, listen to me. This thing can be made by just being willing to put in time and money. In addition, soy sauce is a popular product. It takes more production to sell it for money. It is different from snow sugar. One or two can be sold for a lot of money. To increase production, you have to invest too much money to buy land and hire people. It is not cost-effective. It is better to sell it to others and let them do it. We have the energy to experiment with more good things."

Zhao Chunhua thought for a while and said, "That's right, my son is rich and powerful, how can he be the shopkeeper of the soy sauce shop? Then have you thought about whom to sell to?"

"Just the Zhuji Sauce Shop in the city is fine. Is it money? Let's go and make a reservation."

"Okay, after the 15th day, I will talk to the middle-aged man to talk to them."

In fact, Zhu Hongsan has another reason not to say, that is, he will not be able to stay in Wuchang City for fourteen years. Now, no matter how much money he invests, it is a waste, and it is not as real as cash.

In a blink of an eye, this year passed. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Chunhua went to Zhuji Sauce Shop and came back before noon. Zhu Hongsan looked at the smiling mother and knew that the deal had been completed.

As soon as I entered the room, I said, "It's over, I have signed the document, and you have a fancy to the people who have all."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "How much did I buy?"

My mother smiled and said, "Two thousand taels of silver."

Zhu Hongsan was shocked: "So much." You should know that I bought less than 10,000 taels of silver when I bought sugar a few years ago, and this is one-fifth.

My mother smiled and said, "Son, you don't know the whole story. The food, rice, oil and salt are not worth much money, but every family needs to use it. How many families in Daming are there? It's amazing to use a penny for a family."

I didn't expect that I still have this kind of understanding. I really admire you.

My mother continued: "There are not as much cash as two thousand taels, so I will give you five hundred taels first, and pay the remaining ones in two years."

Zhu Hongsan said: "I'll just be sure of this matter, I believe me."

My mother smiled and went to the front to look at the shop without mentioning it.

Zhu Hongsan took out the plate armor clothes he drew from the laboratory. This was drawn by himself in the past ten days. No matter how he looked, it looked like the sacred clothes of the Gemini Saint. Today he was going to show the Iron Niu whether it could be cast out.

Close the door and walk out of the alley, the snow on the street basically melted, and there were more pedestrians coming and going. The Tie Family Blacksmith Shop is in the south of the city, not far from Zhu Hongsan's family. Just turn two streets. When you walk to the door of the Blacksmith Shop, you see Lao Tie Niu thundering iron (very strange, both of their fathers are called Tie Niu, so the old one is called Lao Tie Niu and the younger one is called Xiao Tie Niu.), and Xiao Tie Niu is helping. Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and saw Lao Tie Niu playing a kitchen knife, which is almost formed. Lao Tie Niu saw Zhu Hongsan coming and said, "Sanwoo is here, I'm looking for Tie Niu to play again."

Zhu Hongsan said respectfully: "Yes, I'm here to find Brother Tie Niu."

Lao Tie Niu smiled and said, "What a polite and good boy. Tie Niu, go and come back early."

After following Zhu Hongsan, Xiao Tieniu said, "Brother, don't you laugh in the future?"

Zhu Hongsan said strangely: "Why?"

"I knew nothing good when I saw you laughing, and I felt like I was going to be unlucky."

Zhu Hongsan said, "No, who can I cheat my brothers? Come to my house, I want you to see something."

When he arrived at Zhu Hongsan's house, Zhu Hongsan showed Tie Niu the drawings he had drawn. Tie Niu was shocked when he saw it: "Oh my god, are you crazy, brother?"

Zhu Hongsan didn't understand: "What's wrong?"

Tie Niu whispered: "This is armor. You don't know that the Ming Dynasty law stipulates that ordinary people cannot hide or make armor privately. You are a royal family, let alone you cannot. If you want people to know you, you will be finished."

Zhu Hongsan said: "There is still this regulation? It's not for you to build it. Can you see if you can build this armor?"

Tie Niu looked at the design drawing for a long time and said, "There are other parts of this armor that are easy to work with, just use some effort to knock it out with a small hammer. However, the joints are not easy to work with. You have to turn flexible and maintain protection. I can't get it out. Maybe there are skilled craftsmen in the capital that can make it out, but even if it is done, no one can wear it."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Why?"

"It's too heavy. A pair of paper armor costs more than ten kilograms, and a pair of iron leaf armor weighs fifty kilograms. You have all your limbs, and you can't get enough of a hundred kilograms. No one can wear it."

Zhu Hongsan thought: "So that's how it is. I forgot that the iron is not hard enough now. It seems that I will develop steelmaking in the future."

Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Have you seen the kind of armor that is interlocking with iron circles?"

"Are you talking about Lianhuanya? That one is so good, but I haven't beaten it. My father can beat it. He worked as a craftsman in Wuchangwei when he was young."

Zhu Hongsan said: "Okay, I'll give you a task. You can go home and learn this method of creating a series of armor with your father. Do you know if you know."

Tieniu asked carefully: "Brother, what are you going to do? I won't do the beheading."

Zhu Hongsan patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, it's not a beheading, it's a great achievement, just study it. I have ten taels of silver here, this is a reward for you. You have to study hard, and there are ten taels of money after learning."

Tieniu saw Yinzi's eyes lit up: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely learn it."

"By the way, there are other things you need to learn. You can't let your father's crafts be lost."

Tie Niu thought about it and nodded vigorously. Zhu Hongsan knew that another one had boarded the pirate ship.
Chapter completed!