The lights are decorated with joy and the streets are crowded with people. Although Yingtian is already prosperous enough on weekdays, it is approaching that the Ming Dynasty is about to enter its sixteenth year with dusk, the prosperity of Yingtian at this time is probably unimaginable to future generations.

Once upon a time, people yearned for the prosperous Chang'an where all nations came to celebrate.

However, today's time, even more so.

Local vassal kings... Well, how to say it, as Zhu Di reduced his vassal states, as the centralized power continued to strengthen, with the death of Zhu Gaosui and the demotion of Zhu Gaoxu, all local vassal kings clamped their tails to be human.

Especially at the beginning, when Zhu Gaosui died in the sky, many vassal kings thought that it was a deeper relationship, and they were afraid that it was dusk that clearing the way for the ascension of the Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi after the ascension of the throne.

In this way, the other vassal kings may be eliminated.

So everyone is in danger.

Later, after a while, I found out that hey, nothing happened. It was just that the simple boy Zhu Gaosui didn't know anything about himself and just messed with someone he shouldn't have messed with.

But even so, many vassal kings still saw the reality clearly.

In this situation, don’t be scheming with Zhu Di. Be a rich and leisure king with a down-to-earth manner. Isn’t this life a good life? So there is still a month before the end of the year, and many vassal kings have arrived in Yingtian.

The vassal kings arrived, foreign envoys arrived, those who came to the Ming Dynasty to make a living, and those who had money and leisure from all over the country also came...all kinds of things.

However, so many people just threw a stone into a pool.

Just a few waves.

Yingtian City is now extremely prosperous, and the arrival of this population is not a big deal. Years of development, especially after the medical reform, the population has skyrocketed. In addition, Yingtian was originally the capital and the place where the population influxed. According to the statistics and estimates of the Ministry of Revenue's late spring of the 14th year of Yongle, the population could reach about one million in the summer of the 14th year of Yongle.

It is the end of the fifteenth year of Yongle, and the population must have exceeded one million.

In the fifteenth century, a city with a population of more than one million had no curfews, and the lights were brightly lit at night, and Beijing vigorously protected public security. What is this concept of such a prosperous city?

Countless people will come.

In this situation, Zhu Di didn't even have the idea of ​​moving the capital, so the Ministry of Transport in Shuntian is particularly awkward now. The imperial city is still under construction, but the Ministry of Revenue is not active in allocating funds...

For the Ming ministers, I always feel proud when I look at the prosperous capital of Chang'an, which is almost the best in the world, and even surpasses the prosperous Chang'an.

But tonight, Song Li, the Minister of Works, stood in front of his mansion, with a sad face.

He just returned from Sanyuan Tower.

Well, I had hot pot.

It is not considered a social engagement or a career journey. It is considered a small gathering between colleagues. Not only the Ministry of Works, but also among literati, they still like these tone. They originally planned to be more elegant, but now hot pot has become popular and everyone is following the trend.

Besides, in this weather, it’s warmer to eat hot pot.

So in the end, they were scheduled to be at the Sanyuanlou hot pot restaurant, and the participants were also quite high-end, including two ministers of the Ministry of Works, several heads of the Ministry of Works, as well as military weapon orders, and several senior executives of the Military Weapons Institute.

Song Li knew the meaning of this dinner.

So from the beginning, he was silent and tried not to speak. Everyone who could get to the Minister of Works was a talented person. Even if you met him on the road and had eaten, he would be silent for two or three seconds, and then slowly said that he had eaten or hadn't eaten.

This is a very important skill in the official career.

Because he had to think about it for those few seconds, and you asked him if he had eaten, if he wanted to invite him to dinner, if he could eat this meal, if he needed to give you this favor, or if he could get other relationships from you through this meal.

Finally, I decided to answer whether I had eaten or not.

These officials are all good at humans.

Of course, Song Li was also considered - after all, the Minister of Works, who had been fighting in the career of the Ministry of Works, and the entire Ming Dynasty, for now, is one of the six giants besides the emperor and the prince.

The cabinet is becoming more and more important now, but it has not yet powered to serve as an official position in the six ministries, so the cabinet chief is still not as good as the ministers of the six ministries. As for the Censorate, its functions are less important.

The left and right ministers of the Ministry of Works are a little older and are already over vague.

The three leaders who came to attend the dinner were relatively young, all of whom were in their thirties. There was no way. In the past few years, the pressure of talent gap was high, and a group of young Jinshi was promoted.

So now, whether it is the central or local government, the age structure of officials is very young and extremely vigorous and energetic, which is an extremely good situation.

An important position is controlled by older and older people, and the operation below is implemented by young officials, which can adapt to various new policies and changes and ensure the government's enlightenment in actions and thoughts.

Unlike the Ministry of Works, Hong Jilai of the Military Arts Academy and several senior leaders are basically from technical backgrounds and are technical, so they are not so sloppy in dealing with people.

So everyone drank a few sips of wine, and the military weapon Tongzhi... Well, Hong Jilai's deputy Zhang Mian saw that Hong Jilai had not spoken, and was a little anxious, so he simply said: "Shangshu Song, regarding Your Majesty's request for us to purchase the Taishan number from Times Military Industry, the official thinks this fact is inappropriate."

Song Li was picking a meatball from the pot. He just put it to his mouth. When he heard this, his heart trembled. This is not to ask you whether you have eaten or not. If you have thought for a moment, Song Li would not express his opinion, so he slowly put the meatballs into his mouth and chewed them slowly. When others saw this, of course they knew that our Lord Shangshu would answer after he finished eating.

Song Li ate this stutter for a long time, slowly put down his chopsticks and looked at Hong Jilai, "Hong Ling, do you think so too?"

Although Hong Jilai is a technician, he has indeed studied. Unfortunately, he has devoted himself to technology over the years and has had little contact with things in his career, so he is very straightforward. "From my personal standpoint, I think this matter is very good, nothing wrong. After all, Dusk is my Bole and the initiator of the Military Arts Academy. This matter is beneficial to his Times Group, but from the perspective of the country, I have discussed it with many colleagues of the Military Arts Academy, and this matter is indeed not appropriate."

Song Li said, "So, everyone in your Military Arts Academy thinks this is inappropriate?"

Zhang Mian, the military weapon tutor, shook his head, "Not everyone, some people think this matter is not completely inappropriate. We just need to invest manpower and financial resources to improve it. Now this Taishan is really a bit useless."

Song Li was the Minister of Works, but he was obviously inferior to the group of people in the Military Arts Academy. He heard this and asked, "Why is it useless? If it is useless, how did the dusk defeat the enemy in Yili and kill Wei Si?"

Such a powerful firearm is still useless?

Is the thinking of the people in the Military Arts Academy so terrifying?
Chapter completed!