Capital, Forbidden City.

It was already late at night, and it was snowing outside. Slices of goose feather-like snowflakes fell from the sky, and soon the entire earth was dyed white.

There were ground dragons growing in the side hall, which was as warm as spring compared to the severe cold outside the hall. Zhu Yicheng sat in front of the desk and looked a little haggard than before.

"Xiao Jiangzi!"

"The emperor, I am here..."

"Add two more candles." Zhu Yicheng still looked at the official document and said.

Xiao Jiangzi hesitated for a while before he went down. After a while, he took two candles and lit them on Zhu Yicheng's side and side.

The light of these two candles made the side hall brighter. Zhu Yicheng nodded with satisfaction at the clear text on the official document.

"Your Majesty, take a rest. Too many eyes under the candlelight may hurt the dragon's body." Xiao Jiangzi, who was begging for the courage to persuade him.

As soon as he said that, Zhu Yicheng was slightly stunned, and two sharp gazes swept towards Xiao Jiangzi, which scared Xiao Jiangzi to kneel down to the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Yicheng because of his guilt.

"Get up." Zhu Yicheng sighed. Although Zhu Yicheng was very strict with the use of eunuchs, the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty today were completely different from those in the former Ming Dynasty, and even eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty were far inferior to those in the Qing Dynasty.

In the palace, eunuchs have no rights, and they must not interfere in political affairs. Once the regulations are violated, Zhu Yicheng will never be ruthless. There are many eunuchs who have died here over the years.

In fact, Zhu Yi didn't like eunuchs very much, but as an emperor, he had to use eunuchs. In desperation, Zhu Yicheng set rules when he was in Nanjing, and this rule was also determined as the "ancestral system". In the future, eunuchs in the palace were selected and entered the palace, and the number and power of the people were clearly stated. We must not cross the line to avoid causing eunuchs to disrupt politics.

So from this point of view, Xiao Jiangzi cannot say anything. As a eunuch, he only needs to follow the emperor's request to do his own business well. Where did he come from to persuade the emperor?

This is also the reason why Zhu Yicheng frowned when he heard it, and Xiao Jiangzi instantly understood that he had said the wrong thing, and was so scared that he kowtowed and sued for guilt.

"If you don't take the example, don't blame me for the next time." Zhu Yicheng said lightly.

Xiao Jiangzi felt relieved, and kowtowed at Zhu Yicheng before he got up from the ground. When he got up, Xiao Jiangzi's back was wet with sweat. He knew that he had just turned around in front of the gate of hell. If the emperor had not seen his daily care and his words today came from the heart, perhaps his life would be gone now.

After Xiao Jiangzi carefully retreated, Zhu Yicheng continued to read the official documents in his hand. After a while, he put the official documents he had finished reading aside and raised his hand to rub his acid-repellent eyes.

In fact, although Xiao Jiangzi surpassed her, she was not wrong. Zhu Yicheng has been staying up late to work these days, and his eyesight is no longer as good as before. On the one hand, he used his eyes too much, and on the other hand, he was also because of his age and the lack of candlelight from candlelight.

But now, Zhu Yicheng is helpless. The official duties that need to be handled every day are piled up. Although he has the Military Affairs Office to handle some government affairs, there are still many important official duties that Zhu Yicheng has to handle in person. Moreover, the current situation is very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty. With the unfavorable war in the Western Regions, Myanmar in the southwest has also started fighting, and countries in the South China Sea are ready to move, and even Xinming is starting a war.

How could Zhu Yicheng dare to relax in these major events? As the leader of an empire, a negligence may bring great blows to the Ming Dynasty. This is why Zhu Yicheng can only do many things himself. In the past two months, Zhu Yicheng has almost lived and lived in the side palace, and he rarely went back to his own bedroom, let alone the palace of the queen and other concubines.

"It would be great if there were electric lights..." Zhu Yicheng couldn't help but sigh.

Although he established the Royal Academy very early to research and invent some advanced technologies, Zhu Yicheng was not a god, and the Ming Dynasty had a relatively weak foundation in these genius academic studies. It would be less than twenty years to truly develop, and it would be impossible to create many things from later generations in such a short time.

It's like electricity, it will take a long time to discover the theory of electricity and apply the Ming Dynasty scientists. Even Zhu Yicheng "guided" in some aspects.

Science is not a castle in the air, science has a foundation. Without the foundation being laid solid, the invention and discovery of some things cannot be achieved overnight.

Science must follow the steps. The achievements made by the Ming Dynasty in all aspects have far exceeded history. Zhu Yicheng believes that as long as we continue to cultivate the soil for science, everything will come naturally at a certain time.

But then again, it is indeed inconvenient to have no electricity. Not only includes lighting, if the discovery and application of electricity reaches a certain stage, telegraphs and other things will appear. When telegraphs are available, the communications of the Ming Dynasty will not need to be transmitted manually like now.

Like now, there are fighting everywhere, but the transmission of information is too slow, which makes it difficult for Zhu Yicheng to grasp the changes on the front line and respond as soon as possible.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty’s central center can only make decisions in the general direction, but cannot directly affect the foundation. This is also a relatively helpless phenomenon at present.

Among them, when the news of Xinming's war reached the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yicheng received Xinming's news that Spain took the initiative to provoke the war, and France intervened in the war but did not actually fight. Wang Dong decided to use the Pacific Fleet to solve the Spanish West Coast Fleet and occupy the port of Manzanillo to deal with the heavy blow to Spain.

But in fact, at the same time Zhu Yicheng received this news, Spain was defeated, and the Ming Pacific Fleet had wiped out the Spanish fleet and captured Manzanillo.

In addition, Louis also negotiated the meeting with Wang Dong because Manzanillo's change of hands completely broke down, France's intervention in the war also changed from the initial formal intervention to actual intervention, and the two sides began to fight.

The soonest time for these news to reach Zhu Yicheng is next month, so it is already outdated that Zhu Yicheng gets information.

Zhu Yicheng knew very well, so he could only make some inferences and judgments about the information in his hands, and could not be used as a practical basis.
Chapter completed!