Zhu Zhanyi briefly explained the book "The Principle of the Movement of All Things" to the craftsmen. The craftsmen felt like they had found a treasure and started discussing it one after another. Zhu Zhanyi took advantage of this time to take a rest.
I sat next to Li Xiaozhu and looked at her paintings. I was amazed. This little girl is so good at painting at such a young age. This is a typical example of how God rewards her.
Just imagine how long it took Lee Hyo-joo, who was just over ten years old, to learn to paint. She was completely gifted and her paintings were lifelike.
"How is my painting?" Li Xiaozhu asked knowingly.
Zhu Zhanzhen touched his chin and pretended to be solemn: "It probably depicts one-third of my handsomeness."
"I will thicken His Highness's face to make it more real."
Zhu Zhanzhen was speechless, and while it was still early, he excused himself to pee and went to the small courtyard where Li Xianyu was.
Zheng He understood and said: "Fifth Young Master, I will take you there."
Naturally, it was not easy for Lee Hyo-joo to go with him. After all, he was going to the toilet.
Zheng He sent Zhu Zhanzhen to the entrance of the small courtyard and left first.
This is a secluded courtyard. Zheng He assigned Li Xianyu a maid, and others would not go near this courtyard.
Open the door and walk in. The courtyard is very small, with only two rooms, but the scenery inside the courtyard is elegant, clean and refreshing.
Li Xianyu, who had been waiting in front of the room door for a long time, was happy at first and then a little angry when he saw Zhu Zhanyi, and turned back to the room. Zhu Zhanyi quickly followed in.
Zhu Zhanzhen was not the kind of person who was very good at coaxing girls. Seeing the angry Li Xianyu, he didn't know what to say, so he sat by Li Xianyu's bed and patted her on the shoulder.
Li Xianyu shook his shoulders to prevent him from touching her.
Zhu Zhanzhen couldn't stay too long and said, "Then I'll go."
"Wait a minute." After all, it was Li Xianyu himself who spoke, and said angrily, "Don't you even know how to coax me?"
"Not really."
"Your Highness is eloquent and smart, how could he not be able to coax a girl like me?"
"I want to see you, but things in the palace are cumbersome. It's hard to get out, but my mother and concubine have arranged for me to drag you out and it's hard to shirk."
Li Xianyu finally laughed. Zhu Zhanzhen was not trying to deal with her or deliberately concealing it. It could be seen that he was sincere.
"Okay, just teasing you."
"But who is that woman?"
The question still came. Zhu Zhanzhen finally decided to conceal the identity of Princess Li Xiaozhu of Joseon and just said: "My eldest brother chose a concubine, and she and her sister were sent to the palace. Her sister was pointed out to my second brother, and she
Pointed to me."
Li Xianyu asked in a low voice: "Is she a noble girl from a certain family?"
Seeing Zhu Zhanyi's nod, Li Xianyu still smiled. She was mentally prepared. She knew her identity and had been a servant. She was not worthy of Zhu Zhanyi. As long as she knew Zhu Zhanyi
It's good to have her in my heart.
Li Xianyu said softly: "Your Highness can tell me the truth, I can't thank you enough."
"Looking at the progress of the steam engine, I should come to your house often in the future. We will have many opportunities to meet each other, so we are not in a hurry. You wrote very well last time I saw you."
"I usually like to write." Li Xianyu took out his usual handwriting, and the writing was very elegant.
Zhu Zhanzhen nodded with satisfaction while holding the words: "I'll tell you an errand."
"Your Highness, please speak." Li Xianyu was very happy.
"Today I brought a book "The Gift of the Movement of All Things". You can excerpt it for me and then I will ask Mr. Zheng He to send it for printing. The craftsmen will all learn. There will definitely be problems in the learning process. You will answer these questions when the time comes.
Copy them all and give them to me. Each craftsman's calligraphy has its own merits. If they were all given to me at the same time, it would probably take me a lot of time just to learn the calligraphy."
Li Xianyu frowned: "Your Highness, in this case I don't have to meet the craftsmen."
"Just let Mr. Zheng He be separated by a screen."
Li Xianyu was actually a little reluctant in her heart. After all, she had to contact the craftsmen, but this was the job assigned by Zhu Zhanchen. Even if she was reluctant, she had to do it and do it well.
"I'm leaving first."
"Is Your Highness leaving now?"
"Can't stay long."
Li Xianyu had no choice but to watch Zhu Zhanchen leave.
When Li Xiaozhu saw Zhu Zhanzhen coming back, he asked, "Why have you been gone so long?"
"Master Zheng He's house is very spacious."
After making an excuse at random, Li Xiaozhu seemed to notice something: "Aren't you looking for Mr. Zheng He's niece?"
"Little girl, what are you thinking about?" Zhu Zhanzhen broke into cold sweat. A woman's intuition is really terrifying. A girl at such a young age can tell who is her enemy.
"I'm a few months older than you."
"By the way, are you jealous?" Zhu Zhanzhen took the opportunity to tease Li Xiaozhu.
Li Xiaozhu was different from those girls who blushed when teased. She didn't care when faced with Zhu Zhanzhen's teasing: "Princess Jiaxing said that her fifth brother was not in good shape. It seems that she was right."
"Are you planning to go back and file a complaint?"
Li Xiaozhu remained silent, and Zhu Zhanzhen stopped teasing her and continued to discuss steam engines with Zheng He and others.
He glanced at Li Xiaozhu from time to time. If the two of them really followed him in the future, he would have to mediate the internal conflicts on the peninsula by himself.
Can't have your cake and eat it too? Impossible, I have to have both.
Putting aside the matter of mediating the internal conflicts on the peninsula, Zheng He was explaining to him the structural diagram of the new treasure ship.
The treasure ship was a large ship used by Zheng He to sail to the Western Ocean. It was much larger than the inland ships and the structure was also complex. Due to the emergence of steam engines, the treasure ship had to be redesigned and planned. Of course, it was only designed on drawings now and was far from being produced.
stage.
Zheng He just wanted to get more advice from Zhu Zhanzhen.
"Your Highness, please see if there is anything that can be improved on this treasure ship."
"There are too many wooden structures, so some of them can be replaced with iron structures." Zhu Zhanzhen said the most intuitive feeling.
"But Your Highness, the iron weight is too heavy."
"Now that we have steam engines, we can sail even if they are heavy. Lord Zheng, don't worry. There are a row of Shenji Battalion's artillery mounted on each side of the treasure ship. Such a treasure ship is like a sea fortress."
Zheng He imagined a treasure ship with copper skin and iron armor. Such a treasure ship had no rivals on the sea.
"Your Highness, I will let the craftsmen plan it." Zheng He was extremely excited. Give him twenty treasure ships like this. He can scare the troops in Jiaozhi and make the Japanese pirates never dare to approach our coast again.
Zhu Zhanzhen had a different idea. In this era, there were such ships that sailed across the sea to Japan, bringing with them fully armed Ming soldiers, which were enough to turn the island country upside down.
Horse rides on Tokyo.
Zhu Zhanzhen was not a warlike person, and he was very unwilling to colonize and fight. The only difference there was that the Japanese pirates, ghosts and barbarians who had massacred us wanted to invade us all the time.
"Your Highness, Master." The voices of people from Zheng He's house woke Zhu Zhanchen out of his imagination.
"What's up?"
"Your Highness, Prince Han is here, and he just barged in."
