The two small houses have a small courtyard. The residential area in the suburbs of Beijing has the same regulations, and the craftsmen of the Weapons and Powder Bureau live in it.

Aside from the craftsmanship, the biggest change for craftsmen is the absence of a shift system with free labor.

If you work in the Weapons and Gunpowder Bureau, as long as you are serious and do not slacken in your work, you will get wages and be enough to support your family.

Zhou Laosi and most craftsmen like this method. It is much more worry-free than before, after serving shifts and then making products for sale to maintain their lives.

Moreover, without the constraints of craftsmanship, the court has included them as municipality and allowed them and their descendants to take the imperial examination.

Craftsmen as old as Zhou Laosi would not think about studying for the imperial examination, but their children and grandchildren have this right. Who doesn’t want their descendants to have a promising future? A top scholar will glorify their ancestors.

Therefore, Zhou Laosi has been having a comfortable life these days. Especially as his wife's belly is bulging, he has more fantasies.

If you have a piece of material for reading, you will offer it; if you fail, you will learn this ancestral craft and be able to live a family life.

Zhou Laosi walked out of the residential area and came to the main road leading to the city gate.

When he saw a few scholars walking leisurely on the road, he felt cruel again.

If you give birth to a boy and don’t study hard, you will beat him hard. The Zhou family can’t have an official? Even if he is a scholar, he will be smoked from the ancestral grave!

Someone greeted him, but he was also a craftsman, so he walked with him, chatted while walking, talking about family matters, and his imagination of offering prisoners this time.

The ceremony of offering prisoners at the Meridian Gate is a grand state ceremony. During the Wanli period, the Japanese prisoners in the "anti-Japanese war against Japanese aid" held a grand ceremony of prisoners in front of the Meridian Gate.

The emperor personally held a ceremony to accept prisoners. This is the so-called "the country will conquer the country, and the prisoners will be offered triumphantly, and the emperor received the prisoners' ceremony to offer the prisoners' ceremony to the imperial gate."

During the Ming Dynasty, the emperor personally participated in the prisoner offering ceremony in the Meridian Gate. Four times were recorded in history books, all during the Wanli period. Especially the war against Japanese desperation and aid Korea was the largest.

On April 24, the 27th year of Wanli, the prisoner offering ceremony was held on the tower of Emperor Wanli.

After the minister of justice, he finally said: "Go to the city to execute the execution and ask for an order." The emperor personally said: "Take it!"

After the emperor finished speaking, the two ministers on the emperor's side shouted: "Take it!" Then the four people on the side shouted: "Take it!"

In this way, one becomes two, two increases four, four changes eight, eight increases to sixteen. Finally, the Han general and three hundred and sixty people shouted in unison: "Take it!" The sound was so loud that it was like thunder.

"Take it!" A loud shout scared Zhou Laosi and others.

A few people appeared in front of them, and they walked together. After shouting the strange Beijing Mandarin, they turned into dialect jokes.

"It's those southern barbarians." A craftsman curled his lips and expressed his contempt. "He was full of birds singing, and he wanted to get a bounty, and he didn't urinate and looked at him."

"That's right, run to our north to show off, what do you think of us?"

Zhou Laosi nodded and said that he had no good feelings for the southern Fujian craftsmen recruited by the Weapons and Powder Bureau. He was very envious of the bounty and secretly thought about the experiment to see if the secret skills he passed down from generation to generation were successful.

Regional discrimination is always present, and it is the same in later generations. It is normal.

Zhou Laosi and others passed through the crowded city gate and found that the city was already crowded with people and there were almost no clearings beside the streets.

The teahouses and restaurants along the street are almost full, and you can see many people looking around from the windows. Moreover, some people start to climb up the walls of the houses and courtyards on the street.

After finally finding a place to stand, Zhou Laosi and others stretched their necks and waited to watch the fun.

In the palace, the young emperor who was very excited when he woke up in the morning and practiced to be honest with his words. At this time, he frowned into a knot with information from the East Factory.

When the word "Smelling incense" appeared, Zhu Youxiao found some clues from his dusty memory.

If there is such a thing, it seems that it’s just a mess this year!

Zhu Youxiao didn't remember which bastard was the rebellion, but remembered that his teacher Yuan Keli had beaten the Yinxiang School in history, so he should be in Shandong.

As soon as the court was rectified, the arrangements were arranged, it was a mess. After the incident was aroused, the Wumen Gate had no intention of offering prisoners.

While Zhu Youxiao urgently announced that Teacher Sun from the Ministry of War entered the palace, he summoned the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang went to the palace to receive the order. He held the pen in his hand and quickly wrote a letter to Teacher Yuan.

The arrangement of the three parties to block the Later Jin cannot be delayed, the faster the better. The turmoil caused by the fragrance smelling sect is smaller, the better.

As for the information submitted by the Dongchang Factory, it was not very serious. However, Zhu Youxiao explained that local people's conditions, weather, harvests, prices, etc. can be reported in every detail.

We must pay enough attention and take measures immediately and not show this information to Teacher Sun. Zhu Youxiao felt that it didn't matter if he exaggerated it or even made up a lie.

Anyway, he had done this once. He used the Jinyiwei to investigate and designated Sun Degong as a rebel general, allowing Xiong Tingbi to be on guard and seize power smoothly.

Seeing that the emperor suddenly summoned him in a hurry, Wang Tiqian didn't dare to neglect him, so he immediately sent an internal official to call someone quickly.

"Meow!" Xiaobai suddenly jumped onto the table and shouted at Zhu Youxiao who was paced back and forth with his face.

"Come here quickly." Zhang Yu'er saw the emperor busying himself and frowned, for fear of disturbing him, so she hurried forward to take the cat away.

Xiaobai raised a small claw and greeted Zhu Youxiao, as if it was a lucky cat.

Zhu Youxiao blinked his eyes and thoughtfully, reached out to stop Zhang Yu'er, walked towards the table, and stared at Xiaobai carefully.

As soon as the little paws of the White Lady moved, she opened a memorial, stretched out her big head and looked at it, swept her claws to the ground, and opened another one.

This girl has a bad temper, so Zhu Youxiao tilted his head and looked at it, wanting to see what this cat is doing.

Bang, another memorial was swept off the table, and Zhang Yuer hurriedly went to pick it up.

"Meow, Meow!" Xiaobai made a cheerful cry, lifting his big head like a show of his skills, and connecting the small claws to the memorial.

Zhu Youxiao approached and saw that the little claws of Bai Niangniang were pointed at the word "Hong".

Xiaobai pointed it twice as if he emphasized, and changed his claws and pointed it on the word "Religion".

Great scholar? Great scholar?!

A light flashed through Zhu Youxiao's mind, and he remembered it, and the rebellious bastard was called "Xu Hongru".

"Don't make trouble with Mrs. White." Zhang Yu'er picked up two memorials and stood up and said, "Be careful that the emperor is angry..."
Chapter completed!