Anyway, because of Yunxi's decree, Xu Miaojin had a good impression of Yunxi. Not only her, but most of the women in the capital supported Yunxi's decree. Although their support seems to have little effect now.
Yunxi returned to the palace and told Xiyao not to let women with bound feet enter the palace. However, this was easy to do and it was not an embarrassing thing. People with bound feet were mainly in the north.
Yunxi also ordered the literati Luo Guanzhong to compile a drama about footbinding, in order to make people not to bind their feet.
Most of the civil servants were indifferent to Yunxi's strict investigation of footbinding, but they were very happy when Yunxi ordered the censor to patrol the world. Patrolling the world to check whether officials had done anything illegal was of course a matter for civil servants and could not be left to military generals. Although the main investigation was
They are definitely civil servants, but this is also a self-examination within the civil service system; and the inspection of generals is the civil inspection and military inspection.
Yunxi naturally knew that this was a civil and military investigation, but he had nothing to do. The military generals would definitely break laws and disciplines, and there was no way to send military officers alone to check whether the generals violated laws and disciplines. Yunxi could only make a supplement.
Order: For military generals who violate discipline, because civilians cannot replace military generals, low-level military generals can be temporarily removed, but the temporary replacements will still be appointed by their original superiors.
In the long run, Yunxi wants to turn the Metropolitan Procuratorate into a yamen that is not a civil service, but a yamen between civil and military officials. Only in this way can the problem be fundamentally solved. However, this is difficult, and Yunxi can only try slowly.
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After that, the Metropolitan Procuratorate strictly investigated the officials in Beijing. Yunxi took this opportunity to launch a wave of severe crackdowns on officials. Countless officials were dismissed or demoted due to various problems. For a time, they could be seen in the court every day.
There are new faces, and some old faces have disappeared.
At this time, many officials realized that Yunxi was not investigating foot binding. He was clearly using this as an excuse to punish officials. 'This is really cunning,' countless people thought.
At the same time, Bai Xiguang, who was in charge of the construction of the track, came to Beijing. Yunxi gave him some instructions and immediately asked him to go to Chuzhou to preside over the construction of the track.
After meeting Bai Xiguang, Yunxi remembered something again, and sent someone to find the eunuch from the inner palace prison, and said to him: "You are arranging manpower and summoning craftsmen, and I also want to study something."
The eunuch in the inner palace said: "What does your Majesty want to study?"
Yunxi said: "Hot air balloon."
The hot air balloon probably originated from Zhuge Liangming during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhuge Liang was besieged by Sima Yi in Yangping and could not send troops to ask for help. So Zhuge Liang calculated the wind direction and created a floating paper lantern, and successfully rescued the reinforcements. This is a record in the world
The earliest hot air balloon. Later it was often used to transmit military signals.
Of course, what Yunxi wants to study is not such a simple thing. What he wants to study is a hot air balloon that can carry people. The principle of a hot air balloon is simple, but in fact it is not very easy to manufacture, especially the burner and fuel. Now
But there is no suitable fuel.
However, Yunxi, who is aware of these difficulties, will not be too strict, but he must be able to carry at least one person floating in the air for a period of time. In any case, it must reach the level of the earliest manned hot air balloon in history.
The eunuch and eunuch listened to Yunxi's explanation for a while before he understood what a hot air balloon was and said, "Your Majesty, it is what the people call the Kongming Lantern."
Yunxi said: "It's the Kongming Lantern. Let's call it Kongming Lantern from now on. But compared with the Kongming Lantern, it must be able to carry people up."
The eunuch and eunuch carefully asked Yunxi about his specific requirements for the Kongming Lantern, recorded them in detail, and then went down to arrange for manpower to summon craftsmen to study.
If a manned Kongming lantern is really developed, it will be of great use, especially on the battlefield. If the observers hold telescopes and sit on the Kongming lantern to observe the local military situation, they will have a clear view! Not to mention a lot of things.
The first time a person sees a device that can carry people flying, they will probably be so frightened that they drop their weapons and surrender without a fight.
In fact, there is a very simple way to make the sky lanterns fly, which is to use hydrogen. The mass of hydrogen is one-tenth of that of air, so it can easily float. But apart from the high danger of hydrogen, Yunxi has not yet
Suitable methods to produce hydrogen.
Yunxi knows that electrolyzing water can produce hydrogen, but the problem is that he currently has no way to produce a large amount of electricity, so the method is almost the same as nothing.
Yunxi could only hope that the craftsmen summoned by the internal officials and supervisors would be strong enough.
After a few days, Yunxi took the time to go to Pukou in Jiangbei to inspect the construction of the tram track on site.
The results of the on-site inspection were still satisfactory to Yunxi. The quality was good and the carriage ran on site for a while without any problems.
Yunxi then went to the iron factory in Meishan. Yunxi had not been to the iron factory for a long time, so he just took the opportunity to go out of the city to inspect it together.
Yunxi put on ordinary clothes, poured water on himself in advance, and walked into the ironmaking workshop for inspection. Yunxi looked at the molten iron over there from a distance, looked at the blast furnace, and then looked at the still hot iron around him.
I feel very satisfied.
He said to the eunuch and several craftsmen in charge of the iron factory: "Yes, you have built such a blast furnace and smelted iron of such quality in just over half a year. Yes, you have done a good job."
The eunuch in charge of the ironworks had never entered the ironmaking workshop before. This was the first time he entered the ironmaking workshop. He felt it was too hot. He was very surprised to see Yunxi, as the emperor, coming to such a place in person. Hearing Yunxi's words
, immediately said: "This is all due to His Majesty's guidance."
The craftsmen usually have to enter the workshop, but Yunxi was even more surprised than the eunuch in charge of the iron factory to enter the workshop in person. Especially since it is so hot here, it is incredible that the emperor who has lived in fine clothes since he was a child can endure it.
Therefore, they did not react to Yun Xi's praise at the first time. They were stunned for a moment before they reacted and declined.
Yunxi smiled and said: "You don't have to refuse. I have always rewarded you for your merits and punished you for your mistakes. You have done well, and I will certainly reward you."
"Each of you major craftsmen will be rewarded with half a bolt of silk and satin. The remaining craftsmen will each be rewarded with twenty pieces of treasure money."
The craftsmen who accompanied Yunxi were all happy. The silk used in one piece was about twenty or thirty taels of silver, and half a piece of silk was only a dozen or so taels of silver or cash. It was not much, but it represented honor. There were no craftsmen before.
I was rewarded with silk and satin, so all the craftsmen were very happy and knelt down to thank me.
Of course, Yunxi would not forget the eunuch in charge of the iron factory, and also rewarded him. Of course, the eunuch in charge of the iron factory also knelt down to thank him. For him, it didn't matter what the reward was, what was important was that there was a reward.
Yunxi immediately took the people out. He also felt very hot! It was not easy to endure this period of time.
