Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 119 I’m tired and sick ([-])

After Zhu Gaoxu visited Mo Qiaosi, he did not go back to the palace directly, but went to Jinling Changke Academy and Jinling Women's Hall.

In Jinling Academy, he summoned the members of the light microscope experimental team and held an impromptu meeting in the library.

At the meeting, Zhu Gaoxu learned about the progress of the team's experimental theory of inventing the telescope.

He told the students in the group that they must formulate a complete text on the theory of lens thickness, focusing method and so on required for making telescopes.

At that time, a dedicated person will send this theory to Mo Qiaosi, and the craftsmen in Mo Qiaosi's forbidden courtyard will conduct experiments on the invention of telescopes based on this theory.

Mo Qiaosi's telescope experimental data will be sent to the academy's light microscopy experimental team in a timely manner.

Zhu Gaoxu asked the light microscope team to work closely with Mo Qiaosi's research laboratory to strive to build the telescope by the end of the first year of Yongle.

If the team can cooperate with Mo Qiaosi and build a telescope before the year, even if the telescope can only see places ten or twenty miles away, it will be considered a success.

At that time, he will reward each group member with 500 taels and half a month of family leave for each person.

All the students were as excited as if they had been given a shot of chicken blood, and they screamed excitedly, shouting: "Students, wait and see, we will never disappoint His Highness the Crown Prince's expectations!"

After Zhu Gaoxu arranged these things, he went to the Jinling Women's Pavilion.

It is his routine to go to the Jinling Women's Hall every few days to check the presence of the deputy head.

After all, the chief curator of the Women's Pavilion is the current queen, and it is impossible for Empress Xu to leave the palace often and come to the Jinling Women's Pavilion.

The Jinling Women's Hall has not recruited many women so far, only about 200.

Most of them are local women in Yingtian Prefecture, and most of them are young girls from Yuan County and Jiangning County.

Except for the families of local officials, these women all came from the noble families of this dynasty, such as the Xu family of Wei Guogong, the Guo family of Wuding Marquis, the Li family of Cao Guogong, etc.

Since the Women's Library and the Academy are relatively close, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, Zhu Gaoxu staggered the holidays set by Jinling Changke Academy and Jinling Women's Library.

He deliberately did not let the two holidays fall within the same time period in order to prevent male and female students from having too much contact and causing some trouble.

After all, the reform of the imperial examination is still in the trial stage. Although the list of newly added pilot counties has been established, it has not yet been rolled out nationwide. Before that, the fewer adverse events at Jinling Regular College, the better.

Therefore, during holidays, students from the women's library and the academy often choose to visit the neighborhoods near the academy, which also drives the development of the surrounding economy.

By the time Zhu Gaoxu left the Jinling Women's Hall, it was already approaching noon.

He originally wanted to rush back to the palace to have lunch with Crown Princess Li Yao, but since construction of the comprehensive medical center began, he has only visited once.

It happened to be cloudy and windy today, and the weather was not too hot, so Zhu Gaoxu changed his route to the south of the city to inspect the progress of the medical center's project.

"The minister waits to welcome His Highness the Crown Prince."

Hou Xian led a group of eunuchs and high-level craftsmen from the imperial palace to kneel down on the roadside outside the medical center construction site to perform a ritual of worship.

"Everyone is flat." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand to signal everyone to get up.

More than half a month ago, Zhu Di agreed to Zhu Gaoxu's request and allowed Zhu Gaoxu to choose a site in the capital to build a comprehensive medical center called "Da Ming Huimin Medical Center", and in the name of the royal family, he recruited famous doctors from all over the world and capable doctors to sit in the hospital. Diagnosis and pharmaceuticals.

Following Zhu Di's instructions, Zhu Gaoxu selected a group of young and reliable people from the Ministry of Industry, the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the Taiyuan Hospital, and began to establish the Huimin Medical Center.

He plans to follow Zhu Di's original idea to initially complete the medical center before the end of the year, with a view to officially opening it to the outside world next year.However, Zhu Gaoxu held multiple positions, had limited energy, and had no skills at all times, so he had to ask Zhu Di to send internal officials for help.

As a result, Hou Xian, the young eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremonies, became the chief engineer of the first Huimin Medical Center in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

A secret agent had informed Zhu Gaoxu of the progress of the project in advance, so Zhu Gaoxu did not act coy and said bluntly: "Young Master Hou, the progress of the project is a bit slow?"

"Your Highness, please forgive me. This servant did not delay the project due to personal reasons. It has been raining frequently recently, causing excessive water accumulation on the construction site."

Although Hou Xian is tall, his face was dark when he was a boy because he was from Uzbekistan. When he heard the words, his face changed immediately, and it was not easy for others to notice.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu knew that it had rained more frequently recently, but this was not a reason to delay the progress of the project, because he also sent craftsmen from the Ministry of Engineering who were proficient in drainage operations to assist. Hou Xian's reasons were obviously untenable.

"Hou Xian, come with me." Zhu Gaoxu whispered.

After saying that, he turned around and walked to a place where there was no one around him, followed closely by Zhao Junchen and Wei Xian, one on the left and one on the right.

Hou Xian hesitated slightly and followed.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu said to Hou Xian alone: ​​"I see that you are in low spirits. It must be because you often stay up late to meet the deadline and do not get enough rest."

Hou Xian was moved and said: "Your Highness, your Majesty, I have not dared to slack off in the slightest since I was ordered to supervise the construction of Huimin Medical Center. The reason why the progress of the project has not kept up with the plan is that I really have something to hide."

"What happened to the young prisoner?" Zhu Gaoxu asked in surprise.

Hou Xian looked around and saw Zhao Junchen and Wei Xian standing not far away, so he lowered his voice and reported: "Your Highness, there are not enough manpower to build the medical center!"

Zhu Gaoxu clearly remembered that Lian Zining, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, followed his orders and traveled thousands of miles north to Shandong, recruiting more than 500 craftsmen from Shandong at one time.

On the night when all the craftsmen entered the capital, he stayed with Lian Zining to have dinner at Chunhe Hall as a reward.

The capital originally recruited tens of thousands of craftsmen, and successively built Jinling Changke Academy, Jinling Women's Hall, and Mo Qiaosi.

If a large number of craftsmen had not been sent to various counties in Yingtian Prefecture some time ago to build new bank branches or transform old dilapidated temples into bank branches, there would not be only more than 400 craftsmen left to build medical centers.

It was precisely because the progress of the medical center project could not be delayed that Zhu Gaoxu sent Lian Zining, the minister of the Ministry of Works, to Shandong to recruit craftsmen.

The more than 500 craftsmen recruited by Lian Zining have all been carefully selected, so there is no question of unskilled craftsmen.

Although the Huimin Medical Center covers an area larger than ten standard football fields put together, the first phase of the medical center only needs to build three main buildings and a large warehouse for pharmaceuticals. A wall with a circumference of nearly four miles and a height of more than one foot.

In other words, the more than 500 new craftsmen Lian Zining was ordered to recruit plus the remaining 400 craftsmen, a total of more than [-] people, are enough to ensure the progress of the project.

Zhu Gaoxu really couldn't figure out why there was not enough manpower, but he knew that Hou Xian's identity determined that he would not lie. Just when he was about to ask for the specific reason, Hou Xian told the truth.

"Your Highness, Prince Dai, Prince Ning and other princes are renovating their mansions. From time to time they send palace guards to mobilize craftsmen, but the craftsmen are never transferred back. Currently, there are only 670 eight people left working on the construction site."

After Zhu Gaoxu heard what Hou Xian said in a low voice, a ball of anger suddenly burst out of his chest and rushed straight to his forehead, making him almost have an attack on the spot.

"Why not stop it?"

Zhu Gaoxu suppressed his anger and asked with a gloomy face.

(End of this chapter)