Zhu Youxiao has been coming to see Zhang Haogu every day these days.

Basically, he doesn't have to worry about court affairs. As long as it's not a big deal, he can just leave it to Eunuch Wei to handle.

There were no major events in the second year of Tianqi.

Only Xu Hongru, a native of Shandong, launched the White Lotus Sect uprising. Due to insufficient preparations for the uprising, and the Ming court sending a large army to join forces to suppress the uprising, in July, all friendly armies failed successively, and Yuncheng and Juye fell.

Despite the unfavorable situation, Xu Hongru and others still stood firm in Zouxian and Tengxian counties to compete with the official army. The Ming army mobilized a large number of official troops from Shandong, North Zhili and other places to surround Xu Hongru's army in Tengxian County. In September, Xu Hongru's army was stationed in Teng County.

Hongru ran out of food and supplies, failed to break through and was captured. Now he has been escorted to the capital.

It was almost time to behead Xu Hongru.

During the uprising, Zhu Youxiao took a look and directly ordered a joint encirclement and suppression campaign. The White Lotus Sect would never be given a chance to become bigger.

Although Zhu Youxiao is not as talented and broad-minded as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, he still has basic skills.

To say that he was illiterate is simply nonsense. During his reign, the situation of the Ming Dynasty was basically maintainable. As for Chongzhen's practical operations later, there were problems. Secondly, there was a problem with his character. With the addition of natural disasters, he could not withstand it.

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Moreover, what are the things being discussed in court now?

All are trivial things.

A group of Donglin Party members bombarded Wei Zhongxian every day.

What do you mean, natural disasters are out of season and are caused by Wei Zhongxian’s slander and evil. As long as Eunuch Wei is eradicated, the Ming Dynasty will usher in a bright future?

Zhu Youxiao naturally didn't believe these nonsense.

He is the Carpenter Emperor, not the Taojun Emperor.

Are you always talking to me about the celestial phenomena?

It is said that the emperor does not look like a human king.

In short, Zhu Youxiao, who was being criticized by all the civil and military officials, had a headache when he saw these civil and military officials, and then he began to imitate Jiajing and Wanli and stopped going to court.

I haven't seen the Donglin Party doing anything serious. They say it's to govern the country. Everyone is a moral gentleman, but the party fights are first-class.

Zhu Youxiao is not stupid. He knows very well whether the Donglin Party can work.

Use the Donglin Party to do things, and they can delay you forever.

It's not as easy as Eunuch Wei. Whatever he wants to do, Eunuch Wei can find a way to do it for himself.

It's not as interesting as what Zhang Haogu taught him.

In the past few days, Zhu Youxiao came to see Zhang Haogu every day.

"I have been looking for a lot of things to make clockwork during this period of time, but unfortunately I haven't succeeded!"

Zhu Youxiao gestured to the clockwork frog in his hand: "In the picture you drew, the frog's body and legs need to be separated to facilitate movement. I used agarwood to carve it, and many details still need to be considered."

Zhang Haogu was astonished that the clockwork frog actually used fine agarwood, and Zhu Youxiao was really willing to do it.

After a gesture, the frog's legs began to exert force, but obviously, the clockwork Zhu Youxiao made could not make the frog move.

"Your carving skills can be said to be at the pinnacle. There are probably not many people in the world who can surpass you!"

Zhang Haogu picked up the work carved by Zhu Youxiao and looked at it carefully. The craftsmanship was exquisite.

It's just that it's heavy in the hand, and it has to be driven by a manganese steel spring. There's no need to think about other things.

Zhu Youxiao chuckled. He didn't know why, but he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction after getting Zhang Haogu's comment.

He quickly calmed down: "That's why I came to see you, Brother Zhang. The core of this clockwork frog is the clockwork. I really can't make this thing. Look, the frog just can't move!!"

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"First, the wood itself is too heavy. Second, this thing needs to be made of steel!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said slowly: "If you really want to do it, you have to put a lot of effort into it and spend a lot of money!"

"As long as it can be done!" Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up.

Zhang Haogu nodded, and then began to write and draw on the scratch paper.

This thing definitely cannot be done with a brush. What is needed is a charcoal pencil. Zhang Haogu thought about it and found that the craftsmanship of pencils is not very difficult, so he can do it.

Zhu Youxiao, however, became interested.

I couldn't help but ask: "These things?"

"almost!"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "I've seen it before, but to really do it well, you still need some thought, and you have to bear several failures. How can you make something without failure?"

Zhu Youxiao also smiled: "Brother Zhang is absolutely right!"

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Boom, boom, boom!

At this moment, there was a sound of banging on the door.

"who?"

Zhang Haogu didn't know that the two examiners outside the door couldn't wait.

This tweet and Wang Zhijian can be said to have waited from morning to noon in one breath.

Zhang Haogu, on the other hand, didn't even show his face.

Zhang Haogu didn't go. He wasn't overbearing. First, he really didn't understand. Second, he had been pestered by Zhu Youxiao in the past few days.

How can serving these two so-called teachers be as comfortable as serving the emperor?

What's more, Zhu Youxiao is now a completely curious baby.

Zhang Haogu was also happy to give some pointers.

In the past few days, Zhang Haogu has already begun to explain to Zhu Youxiao what friction is, what lever force is, and what a pulley is.

Along with it, I also gave Zhu Youxiao a few math questions from junior high school.

Zhu Youxiao was so excited to hear this.

It feels like Zhang Haogu has opened the door to a whole new world for himself.

Why haven't I heard anything so interesting before?

In addition to explaining to Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Haogu also made several pulley sets for Zhu Youxiao to experience personally.

He also had another teacher, Sun Chengzong, who appointed himself as the superintendent a month ago. He also asked Ji, Liao and other former generals to supervise various places, so that he could act according to the situation without being restricted by others.

Sun Chengzong appointed Yan Mingtai as governor of Liaodong, Lu Shanji, and Wang Zegu as the governor, and requested to take away 800,000 yuan from the treasury. After Zhu Youxiao agreed, he personally sent Sun Chengzong out of the palace and gave Sun Chengzong Shangfang Sword.

, sitting on a python and so on, the cabinet ministers sent Sun Chengzong directly to Chongwen Gate.

However, Zhang Haogu and Sun Chengzong were different. One taught him the art of emperor's mind, and now, Zhang Haogu can learn from Zhu Youxiao and opened the door to science.

Later, when he went back, Zhang Haogu could still give Zhu Youxiao a few math problems and a few physics problems.

Well, this is beyond the realm of carpenters.

However, it seemed that he could be related to the carpenter, and Zhu Youxiao was very interested.

As for the examiner, are you more capable than the emperor?

Zhang Haogu refused to go.

The two examiners studied again

Wang Zhijian said: "Brother Nian, this Zhang Haogu is not very human. Although he came from Eunuch Wei, we took care of him like this. Firstly, we didn't ask him to write any questions. Secondly, we didn't ask him to write any essays. Here you go."

You won a Huiyuan, how come you don’t know how to save face? Why don’t you come to do the apprenticeship ceremony! Why don’t you come to see us? This is such a big deal!”

Zhang Ruitu, however, couldn't help but snarled and then thought about it: "Hey, don't worry, think about it, aren't we going for Eunuch Wei? Besides, this is a close relative who is nine thousand years old.

In the future, when he becomes a high official, we have to let him take care of us! Won't he not come to see us? Come on, let's go and see him."

As soon as the two examiners gathered together, they came to visit Zhang Haogu.

However, no matter how he said it, there was still a lot of anger in his heart.

It was the first time in the Ming Dynasty that a teacher worshiped a student.

If Zhu Yuanzhang comes back from the dead, there will probably be a large-scale purge.

Banging on the door.
Chapter completed!