I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1024
Of course, how could he have the nerve to say this in person?

He pretended to cough to hide his embarrassment.

"Don't you have several deputies? It's fine to let them do inspections.

You are a girl after all, you still have to pay attention to your body! "

Hearing Li Tian's concern, Sophia was very moved, and she stepped forward without hesitation to keep Li Tian's arm.

With a coquettish tone, he said,

"Your Majesty, you don't even know that they don't need me to do anything. Apart from patrolling around every day, I can hardly find anything.

The job of patrolling is still something I fought for myself.

People who don't know think they are the chief officers of this ship, and I'm just a decoration, a vase! "

Li Tian smiled wryly when he heard her complaint.

"Wouldn't it be nice to take it easy? Others still want to have to do things. You're lucky, you're complaining when you have nothing to do!"

Speaking of which, because it was sailing in an inland river, except for the instrumentation of the steam engine that must be observed at any time, basically no manpower was needed in other places.

One of the advantages of steam ships compared with previous sail ships is that they require less manpower to control the ships.

You must know that sailboats need to adjust the angle of the sails to adapt to the wind direction at any time, so when sailing, manpower is needed almost all the time to control the sails and rudder.

A small boat has few sails and does not need a lot of manpower. If it is a big ship with five or six masts, or even eight or nine masts, dozens of people are needed just to control the sails.

In contrast, steam ships do not need to worry about the wind direction and do not need to control the sails, which alone saves a lot of operators.

On the whole, comparing a sailboat of the same size with a steamship, a steamboat needs one-third of the manpower of a sailboat to sail smoothly.

Saving the crew means saving space on board.

You can add more firepower, or cargo delivery capabilities.

This is one of the main reasons why ships can replace sailing ships.

Talent is never enough.

Daming currently only has so many skilled sailors, and saving manpower is a very important prerequisite for achieving this great goal if they want to build a multi-faceted Armada in a short period of time.

Sophia complained that there was nothing to do, which was actually expected by Li Tian.

He said very calmly,

"Isn't it good to have nothing to do? This just shows the advanced nature of this ship. If it is still the same as before, as long as the ship starts, everyone on board and on board will be busy.

Then we worked so hard to build such a ship, what's the point. "

Although the words are simple, the truth contained in them is not simple.

Sophia blinked her big bright eyes twice, then nodded half-understanding, as if she understood something.

Then he smiled and said,

"Since that's the case, fortunately, I don't care about it. I'll let them do everything. I'm still happy."

With that said, he dragged Li Tian to the cabin.

"Your Majesty, when I passed by the cabin just now, I heard some of your concubines seem to be playing cards.

Let's go too! "

Li Tian said curiously,

"Aren't they too sleepy to go to bed? Why are they playing cards?"

Sophia did not answer this question directly, but smiled mysteriously, and walked to the cabin with Li Tian in her arms.

Another advantage of a steamship is that no matter how cold it is outside, the cabin is still warm.

After all, there is a large boiler burning non-stop. The cabin is a relatively closed space. If the windows are not opened for ventilation, the temperature inside will be very high.

There was still a long distance from the cabin, and Li Tian heard the sound of Yingying Yanyan playing and playing in the cabin.

No need to guess, Li Tian can also know that the one who laughs the loudest is Sun Ruowei, a girl with a bold personality.

Li Tian pushed open the cabin door, and what was revealed inside turned out to be a scene that almost made nosebleeds come out.

I saw Zhang Qinghuan, Sun Ruowei and a few maids serving them, all dressed very coolly, laughing and playing around together.

As a few girls jumped up and down, the small cabin was filled with dizzying spring colors.

The cold wind that gushed in when the door was opened made the girls who were playing around feel alert.

Only then did they find Li Tian who was staring blankly at the cabin door.

A scream came out of that girl's mouth.

"what……"

Zhang Qinghuan, who was dressed in plain white clothes, immediately stood up and blocked Li Tian's sight for the other girls.

She didn't care about her happiness, and complained to Li Tian,
"Your Majesty, why did you come back suddenly, why don't you turn your head away!"

If all the people here are his own people or the servants of his family, Li Tian would just go in like this, so it doesn't matter. After all, he is the emperor, and the girls are eager to have more opportunities to get in touch with him.

But there is also Sun Ruowei inside at this time, and that is his future daughter-in-law, which is not very appropriate.

Li Tian smiled awkwardly, and turned around quickly.

But Sophia next to him looked like a wretched man, staring at the beautiful scenery inside without blinking his eyes, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, his expression was like encountering some peerless delicacy, which made her linger.

It was the first time Zhang Qinghuan saw Sophia, and she was still wearing men's clothes at this time, so she misunderstood her immediately.

Her complexion changed, she hurriedly covered her upper body, and then closed the cabin door forcefully.

The beauty is gone, Sophia looked disappointed, and sighed,

"It's a pity, I only watched it for a while..."

When Li Tian heard her words, his mouth was almost out of surprise.

"What the hell is going on, this Sophia Mo is not a lesbian who eats both men and women!"

"However, this is unlikely. When I was in the palace before, I never heard such rumors!"

But after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the women with status in the palace were either his concubines or Zhu Di's widows.

No matter how bold Sophia was, she would not dare to offend them.

And those court ladies who specialize in serving her, even if they found out about her special hobbies, because of her special status, they would not dare to speak out.

It's normal for Li Tian not to let people stare at her for twelve hours. He doesn't know about her.

Now Li Tianke was a little dumbfounded.

"This is bad. My woman was actually taken advantage of by a womanizer. I made a mistake, I lost a lot."

(End of this chapter)