Jinyi champion

Zhu Hao's return to Beijing was tentatively scheduled for February [-]th.

Before that, he had to finish laying the railroad tracks in the West Hills area and oversee the manufacture of steam locomotive locomotives.

Although the terrain around Xishan is ups and downs, since Zhu Hao was preparing to open mines in Xishan, he began to send people to survey the terrain and landforms to determine how to lay the railway tracks.

Of course, there is no major problem with the route. The main difficulty lies in how to ensure that the steam locomotive of the train is built in the shortest time.

In mid-February, when the huge monster was finally assembled, Zhu Hao felt that the iron shell was still very different from the locomotives of later generations.

At most it's just a big model.

Fortunately, this thing can run forward while burning coal, and the traction is not bad. It can pull three or five carriages at a time, hundreds of tons of things, and there is no problem going up an [-]% slope.

Manufacturing locomotives involves a lot of complex and sophisticated technology, in addition to matching parts and components. Just the wheels of the iron frame, as well as bearings, iron chains, etc., are all things that do not exist in this era.

This can be regarded as a large-scale scientific summary of Zhu Hao's coming to Daming for so many years.

The length of the Xishan railway track is about five kilometers.

Many of them are paved with ready-made roadbeds. The original roadbeds are used as coal transportation tracks, but wider and higher-strength rails are replaced on them.

When a behemoth, under the eyes of a group of people, climbed up from the bottom of the five-kilometer mountain to the halfway up the mountain where the mine is located, many people cheered for joy.

For them, this is a very fun thing, and it may save them a lot of effort in the future.

They don't know that they have acted as a witness to history invisibly. This is the first train invented in the world, and this steam train is obviously more sophisticated than the first-generation trains of later generations.

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The news of the successful trial operation of the train reached Zhu Si's ears that day.

Zhu Si was excited and wanted to witness it in person, but even if she could leave the palace, she would not be able to leave the capital, unless she planned to "leave the palace" like his imperial brother. If he really did, Yang Tinghe would still be alive. In the case of the imperial court, it may be possible to jointly abolish his throne with Empress Dowager Zhang.

The former Emperor Wu Zong had such a bad influence on Daming that the civil servants could not bear such a thing to appear again.

"...Your Majesty, according to the news from Mr. Zhu, in the next two years, the railway track will be laid from Xishan to the capital, and then from Xishan to Xuanfu... There will also be in Shanxi... ...and spread it to Yongping Mansion, and then the Ming Dynasty will not need ships to transport grain, but use that thing called a train..."

Zhang Zuo was still there and pretended to understand, and introduced the function of the train to Zhu Si.

Zhu Sidao: "I don't need you to tell me. When Zhu Hao taught me before, he mentioned this thing. He said that if this thing is used to transport troops and food, no matter how much food, luggage or soldiers, it can quickly service."

Only then did Zhang Zuo know that Zhu Hao had given the emperor a long time ago.

No wonder the emperor would support Zhu Hao so much. Zhu Hao had already planned everything before the emotional emperor ascended the throne. After ascending the throne, the emperor naturally wanted to fulfill the ideals of the year...

This ambition and courage are truly unmatched by ordinary people.

Zhu Si sighed: "It's a pity that Zhu Hao is not in the capital now. I miss him very much, and I am even more eager to drive away the surname Yang. It's been the second year of Jiajing. Didn't Zhu Hao say that it's just the middle of this year?"

"Your Majesty, don't be too hasty..."

Zhang Zuo tried his best to persuade him.

From Zhang Zuo's point of view, he naturally had to think about it, if he drove Yang Tinghe away, would it be a good thing or a bad thing for him?
When the time comes, Zhu Hao will deal with Zhang Zuo next, right?

If that's the case, then he, Zhang Zuo, can't beat Zhu Hao.

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Tang House.

For many days, the Tang residence was full of guests. Every day, there were dozens of officials and scribes who visited.
Tired of it.

But remember that this is an errand assigned by the emperor. Thinking about it, it might be better than being an errand in the northwest... This is just what he thought at the beginning. After receiving guests for a few days, he found that this job was even more tiring than when he was in the northwest. Immediately exhausted.I just want to go back to Suzhou to live the beautiful and comfortable life of the idyllic pastoral songs.

Fortunately, someone encouraged.

It was Lou Suzhen.

Recently, Lou Suzhen often appeared in Tang Mansion in men's clothing.

Originally, Tang Yin was worried that Lou Suzhen's appearance would be noticed by others. After all, the Tang Mansion is now the target of public criticism, and many people pay attention to the situation here.

But later he dispelled this concern.

Now that the Ning Wang Rebellion is "time has passed", no one would think that a dead woman will reappear, and Lou Suzhen is indeed not an important person, and there are very few people she knows. In the past few years, what Lou Suzhen looks like It has also changed and looks more pampered.

This is something Tang Yin can't quite understand.

A woman, when she became a princess, was a few years younger than she is now, but she is getting tired and old day by day.

But now, despite working hard at women's schools and workshops, she turns out to be more radiant than before?
Tang Yin is at ease here as his "social butterfly", and the news of the Tang residence has also faintly spread to Yang Tinghe's ears.

The person who brought this news to Yang Tinghe was Yang Shen, who had hardly appeared in the political arena in the past two months.

Yang Shen was supposed to be promoted to minister at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, but because the emperor had a sudden convulsion, many people from the Imperial Academy were dispatched to the mine. Yang Shen was hit hard, and his promotion to minister was delayed until March .

Now Yang Shen is doing his best to make up for his previous "mistakes", and also to make his father trust and rely on him more.

Yang Tinghe said: "...the exam is over, I asked Yong Xu, he did well in the exam, maybe this year you can be ministers together."

Yang Shen went to report on Tang Yin's affairs, but he got a slap in the face first.

After the beginning of spring, the most eye-catching event in the capital was naturally the first trial of the new emperor after he ascended the throne.

Although the new emperor presided over the last palace examination before, and those batches of Jinshi were regarded as disciples of the emperor, but the real first test will have to wait until this year, and Yang Dun, as the fresh blood cultivated by Yang Tinghe in the future, the results of the examination are not yet clear. It was not announced, but the meaning revealed in his words was that Yang Dun would definitely pass the exam.

Even Yang Shen wanted to say, does this count as giving and receiving in private?
Cheating?

"Father, recently Tang Bohu was in the capital, recruiting sages. Many people rushed to visit his house after arriving in Beijing. Now, in various teahouses and restaurants, there are many talks about Tang Yin's official career, and there are many slanderous remarks about father... "

When Yang Shen said these words, he was actually telling his father.

Don't think that you are still a civil servant leader, and everyone looks up to you.

Now there is a lot of discussion among the people, all accusing you of controlling the government, saying that you are self-willed, obviously Tang Yin is a great talent, you must have been persecuted by you so that he can't even be a courtier.

Yang Tinghe's expression became gloomy upon hearing this.

When the emperor proposed Tang Yin's resignation earlier, he considered that he might face today's situation.

In the past, when Tang Yin was assigned to the imperial court, others would think that sooner or later, the lucky minister would show his timidity, and his official career would be bleak, and he would return home with a broken halberd. Now Tang Yin has become "the favored one".

The huge change made Yang Tinghe angry and helpless.

"Is my son looking for someone to impeach him and form a party for personal gain after he becomes an official?"

Yang Shen is also a leader. In the previous joint name matter, he suffered a big loss. This time, he still does not give up using his pen to trouble the new emperor's camp.

Yang Tinghe shook his head: "No need, let him go."

Is Tang Yin making friends with private parties?
People are not in court anymore, who to make friends with?

There are far more people who fawn over Yang Tinghe than Tang Yin. If Tang Yin is forming a party for personal gain, how will Yang Tinghe explain it to the outside world?

If you're not clean, you don't have the face to call others dirty.

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Capital
We've been talking about the exam lately.

Because the results of the general examination have not yet come out, it is not known who will win and who will not. There are nearly [-] scholars gathered in the capital.

These people usually have nothing to do, and they like to hold parties in private, and get together to talk about the big and small things that happened in the capital.

At this time, Zhu Hao returned to the capital with Cai Ang in a private carriage.

In the past two months in the mine, Cai Ang didn't suffer much. Instead, he ate and drank well, and he was a little reluctant to leave when he returned to Beijing.

"I don't know what's going on in the capital right now."

When Cai Ang saw the majestic city gate, his heart immediately settled down.

Literati are very afraid of encountering bandits and robbers on the road, and finally get out of the way. When they travel outside, not many people follow them. Maybe they encounter some accidents and ruin their good life.

Zhu Hao said, "They should all be talking about the test."

Cai Ang said with a smile: "Jing Dao, who do you think can win the top spot among this class of scholars?"

Zhu Hao shook his head naturally.

It's not interesting to predict who will win the champion and who will win the champion.

Cai Ang is keen on this kind of thing, after all, Cai Ang is the kind of person who likes to make friends with young scholars.

Zhu Hao chatted better with Cai Ang, probably because Cai Ang had no airs and was more like an easy-going little old man.

Probably this is also the normal state of people who have no background in the court and do not know how to form cliques.

Easy-going, a bit like Tang Yin.

"Jingdao, I haven't asked you yet, are you in Xingwang's mansion... and today... very close?" Seeing that they were all in the capital, Cai Ang remembered to ask Zhu Hao about Xingwang's mansion.

When he was in the mine, he would avoid such topics, after all, it was a taboo.

Now that they are almost separated, if you don't ask, I am afraid that there will be no chance, so he will take the risk to say it.

Zhu Hao nodded: "We have been together with His Majesty all year round, it can be said that we grew up together."

"..."

Cai Ang was speechless.

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Brother Cai, haven't you heard of it before?"

Cai Ang smiled bitterly: "I heard that you were from Anlu, but I don't know that you have such a background... It seems that you have a bright future. After entering the city, why don't we find a place to drink tea?"

Zhu Hao has many things to do.

But Cai Ang is interested in extending the invitation, he will naturally not refuse, but he will not talk about anything important.

Zhu Hao wanted to walk among the wells in the capital city to see how the situation in the capital is now, especially to see how Yang Tinghe and Xin Huangfeng commented among the scholars, so as to hear the most authentic voice as an ordinary person.

Now is the time when all the candidates are waiting for the exams to be released, go deep into the people, and maybe they will gain something.