"Your Majesty, this Lord Gu has a talent for foreign affairs, it's a pity to stay in the military department, the military academy happens to lack talents in this area, so it's better to ...... You're right. Liu Hong gradually glanced at Chongzhen, who was expressionless.

It is rare to find a person who understands foreign affairs and does not stick to the idea of the Celestial Empire, Zheng Sen is one, but in the end he is too young, and he is forced to come to the capital due to family problems.

There are some officials in the Ministry of Rites who specialize in receiving foreign guests who know some things about foreign vassals, but these old men have been impregnated with Confucianism for a long time, and Liu Hongjian will not let these old men harm people even if he goes to the lecture hall himself.

"You erect! There's no shadow of the school, so I'm starting to dig a corner here. Although Chongzhen was unhappy, there was not much resistance in his heart.

After all, there is never a shortage of alternate officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the seats in the court are a radish and a pit, and I don't know how many people are worried about someone falling from the horse, so that they can climb up.

After finalizing the affairs of the engineering college and the military academy, Liu Hong gradually stopped caring about the trivial matters of the DPRK and China, and became a full-time contractor in a hurry.

The wax moon rolled by, and Liu Hongjian didn't even have time to sigh that he was a year older, and devoted himself to the vigorous large-scale production movement.

The construction team composed of more than 6,000 migrant workers was divided into three groups, one group was responsible for two camps, one group was responsible for the engineering college, and the other group was responsible for the reconstruction of Xishan.

In order to make use of the free strong labor while distributing relief grain, Chongzhen approved and the Ministry of Industry presided over the whole north began a vigorous ditching campaign.

Chongzhen's purpose is only one, if the drought continues in the coming year, it is necessary to let the canal irrigate the entire north.

This is also a super project, cement, red bricks, concrete mass production, cement workshops in Zhendingfu have been repeatedly expanded, and in just a few months, it has faintly become the primary industry of Zhendingfu.

Since all the industries of the Ordnance Institute are privately owned, at best, Chongzhen is the controlling shareholder, and all kinds of raw materials provided by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households are sold to the Ordnance Institute at a low price of one percent.

After producing cement and red bricks, they were sold to the Ministry of Industry with a profit of 10%, although it was only a profit, but due to the huge amount of shipments, the Ordnance Institute still made a lot of money.

A lot of money was spent, and it was all spent on the people, but it was a serious thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and the court did not dare to say much.

Anyway, the victims have to be saved, and there are many people who have eaten enough, and the only thing they can pay is strength.

The silver flowed back into the armory, and then Liu Hong gradually spent a lot of money on the renovation of the two schools and Xishan.

The College of Engineering covers an area of 200 acres, the first to be built is a red brick wall about two feet high, the concrete building of the Ordnance Institute is very successful, Liu Hong gradually stubbornly changed part of the building of the College of Engineering into a concrete building.

In particular, a six-storey concrete building, a landmark building in the middle of the School of Engineering, stands in the middle of the School of Engineering, overlooking the entire School of Engineering.

Although the six-story building is nothing in later generations, it is already a skyscraper in the flat Shuntian Mansion, and standing on the top of the building, the entire capital is almost in full view.

Although the appearance is a little weird, the craftsmen are proud of it, on the other hand, Gu Jia, who is in charge of the construction work of the military academy, is not very interested in concrete buildings.

Gu Jia's temperament is a bit serious, except for leaving a place for Liu Hongjian to build his own residence, all the other buildings are typical Ming-style buildings.

There was no snow all winter, and by the first month, half of the work of the two colleges had been completed.

In addition to controlling the overall progress, Liu Hongjian began to discuss the discipline issues of the School of Engineering with Song Yingxing.

Civil Engineering, Water Conservancy Engineering, Textile Engineering, Metal Materials, Firearms Engineering, Ship Engineering...... Anything that the two of them felt was important.

After finishing it, Liu Hongjian added two more items to the list - physics and chemistry, Song Yingxing had never heard of these two, but out of trust in Liu Hongji, he didn't ask more.

As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Ordnance Institute, under the initiative of Liu Hongji, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute began to sum up their experience.

Nowadays, the experience summed up by various craftsmen has been sorted by Song Yingxing to remove the dross, and it has become a natural textbook.

In addition, Liu Hong's technical support based on various basic sciences in the ring, elementary physics and chemistry were also gradually tinkered out by Liu Hong.

At the same time, the reconstruction of Xishan also began, and more than 2,000 construction workers were in full swing, and various research institutes were built on the slightly flat east side of Xishan.

The top of the West Mountain has not been spared, and Liu Hongjian has built rows of wooden pavilions, which will be Liu Hongji's new home, taking into account the feelings of the family, except for the necessary protective fence and foundation, are all wooden structures.

A smooth bluestone staircase connects the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and several garrison posts are built in various places on the mountainside, each of which houses a hundred households, responsible for the safety of the entire western mountain.

In the middle of the first month, the prime minister of the Chahar Khanate, Polochi, visited the Ming Dynasty in person, and after a short period of expansion, the Chahar Khanate finally met its opponents, the emerging Romanov dynasty and the Russian woolly bear!

The founder of the Romanov dynasty, the first Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, died of illness in July of the 18th year of Chongzhen, and was succeeded by his son Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov.

After a brief reshuffle, the second tsar regrouped and began the Romanov dynasty's 300-year-old dream of finding an outlet to the sea.

Tsar to the south and Chahar to the north, the two countries met on Lake Baikal, and despite the freezing cold of tens of degrees below zero, a protracted war was fought in the Siberian wilderness, and both sides were defeated.

Polo Chihao said that after Chongzhen's approval, he bought more than 50,000 second-hand first-generation pistols retired from the border army from the ordnance institute at a high price.

At the end of the first month, Chongzhen became seriously ill again, and had to announce that the crown prince Zhu Cihong would continue to supervise the country, but did not announce his illness to the public.

Liu Hong gradually took a great risk to perform another surgical operation for Chongzhen, cutting off the lesion on his left shoulder, but the disease had tormented Chongzhen into a thin old man.

Before, his hair was still gray, gray with gray in the middle, but now he has rare gray hair, and he is as old as sixty years old at the age of thirty-six.

After resting in the deep palace for more than half a month, when Chongzhen came to the court again, all the officials were shocked, and Chongzhen coughed no less than five times in an hour before the early dynasty, and finally had to retreat from the court in advance.

Many officials didn't know what kind of illness Chongzhen had, and several cabinet elders and the Tai Hospital who knew the inside story were silent, and many courtiers began to think about Chongzhen's death.

Since ancient times, the change of the throne has been a major event in the Celestial Empire, and all officials understand the truth of the Son of Heaven and a courtier.

The strange atmosphere permeated the court, and the whole capital became panicked.

"A bunch of bastards! I'm not dead yet! Chongzhen was furious and smashed the celadon tea bowl in his hand.