Wandering the Heavens

"Well, Yunluo thought it was fun, so he went there with Cheng Shifei and played there for a while." Yunluo lowered his head and said guiltily.

"Xuan County Ma Cheng is here to see me!"

Zhengde is now itching to get angry and he won't feel better unless he finds someone and gives him a few beatings.

So Cheng Shifei, who was serving his mother in the palace, was urgently summoned by the emperor. He thought it was a big deal. But as soon as he entered the palace, he was arrested by the Jinyiwei and beaten with 20 sticks.

"Your Majesty, why is this happening?"

"Cheng Shifei, our royal brother has found out that we went to play on the railway." Yunluo sat aside and explained with his head down.

"Your Majesty, it's a misunderstanding! That was really fun." When Cheng Shifei mentioned this, he seemed to have forgotten the pain in his butt.

Zhengde wondered how he could be so blind to let his sister marry such an eccentric man. Just as he was gritting his teeth, Duan Tianya finally arrived.

"Your Highness, I, Duan Tianya, pay my respects to you."

"Tianya, I have to go to Tianjin Port soon, please make arrangements. In addition, Jun Ma Cheng is a man who should share the emperor's worries, so please arrange some things for him to do."

"I obey your command!" Duan Tianya looked at Cheng Shifei who was lying on the ground and being spanked, not knowing what was going on.

"Your Majesty, I don't want to go to the Imperial Guard! I still have to serve Yunluo and my mother!" Cheng Shifei didn't like working with Duan Tianya, a blockhead. It was too boring.

"My royal family is not so poor that it cannot even afford a few servants. Do your job well, Lord!" After saying this, Zhengde asked the servant to take Yunluo to the Queen Mother.

"Someone, help the prince up." Duan Tianya saw that the emperor and the princess had gone far away, then he ordered the Jinyiwei in charge of the execution to help the man up.

"Captain Duan, how about just pretend that you didn't hear me and let me go? I don't want to work for the Imperial Uniform Guard, and I'll be away for three to five months at a time. I'm really worried about my mother and my wife!" Cheng Shifei forgot the pain as soon as he stood up and squeezed next to Duan Tianya, making faces.

"What on earth did you do to make the emperor so angry?" Duan Tianya didn't bother to care about Cheng Tianya's little thoughts.

"It's the railway that Tianjin Port built from the capital to the port. The iron lump on it that emits black smoke and moves by itself is quite interesting. Yunluo and I went on it and played for a round trip." Cheng Shifei did not hide it.

"Someone, come here, give the county master another twenty strokes of the cane." Duan Tianya seemed to be seeking revenge.

I've lost two wives in a row, and I'm still a widower now. The only ending I'm going to have is to live alone for the rest of my life. You have a wife to accompany you, but instead of living a good life, you two are actually courting death together. If I don't beat you, who else should I beat!

"Duan Tianya, I am the county lord, you are committing an insubordination, I tell you, oops..."

Cheng Shifei was beaten with another twenty sticks and was finally carried out of the Forbidden City by two Jinyi Guards.

Zhengde and Yunluo watched Cheng Shifei being beaten again from afar. Yunluo was quite worried. Zhengde felt refreshed. Who said Duan Tianya was stubborn? Now he is very capable and has won my heart.

After finishing his housework, Zhengde was ready to leave for Tianjin. He always felt that Tianjin Port was more comfortable and cozy than the Forbidden City, not because of the rules. Tianjin Port was a military port and had more rules than the Forbidden City, but he felt that place was really comfortable, while the Forbidden City was too depressing.

So when seven ocean-going ships flying the Ming army flag approached the dock, the first thing Yu Xian saw was Zhengde in armor, surrounded by a group of Jinyiwei and officers standing on a high platform for unloading.

Yu Xian took Shangguan Haitang and Gui Hai Yidao and flew away from the flagship and came to Zhengde.

"Your servant Cao Zhengchun pays respect to His Majesty!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Eunuch Cao. Please stand up!" Zhengde said calmly, clenching his fist.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

When the ocean-going ship docked safely, the first things to get off the ship were pottery jars held by the soldiers, which contained the ashes of those who had died during the voyage. Then came the accompanying craftsmen and record-keeping clerks, then the representative crops and minerals collected along the way, finally the soldiers, and finally the various wanted criminals and Japanese pirate leaders captured in the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

Zhengde's legs were sore from standing for so long. After the soldiers were reviewed, he hurriedly took the dead eunuch back to his exclusive palace in Tianjin Port.

"Eunuch Cao has been gone for two years, I miss him so much!" Zhengde realized how much trouble it was only when he officially took over the Shenji Camp.

"Thank you very much for your concern, Your Majesty!" Yu Xian really didn't want to say these polite words.

"Tell me where you went this time. The time that the eunuch Sanbao took to travel to the West was not as long as yours!"

Zhengde knew that there was a hidden meaning behind this eunuch's collection of those unprecedented crops and minerals, but it was not convenient for him to ask in front of everyone.

"Shangguan Haitang, open the map of this voyage route."

Shangguan Haitang and Gui Hai Yidao placed an embroidery made by the spies of Huolong Villa on the floor and slowly opened it. On it were not only the outlines of unknown land in the distance, but also various blocks of color.

"Your Majesty, this is the land that my voyage passed through. The yellow ones are deserts, the green ones are forests, and the white ones are snow-capped mountains and glaciers. This is just a semi-finished product. I will ask the embroiderers to embroider animals, crops, and minerals from various places later."

"Eunuch Cao, how many Shenjiying do you think are needed to conquer so much land?" Zhengde took a breath.

"Your Majesty, no matter how much."

Yu Xian didn't want to learn foreign languages either, but it was unrealistic for Zhengde to become the captain. Besides, the current Ming Dynasty couldn't even deal with the Tatars, and the Western Regions that had been lost for a thousand years had not yet been recovered, so how could it have the energy to expand outward?

"What a pity." Zhengde could only sigh.

"Put it away for now! The Empress Dowager's birthday will be soon, so see if you can prepare anything that will make her happy. In addition, the world's number one craftsman and his master have made a railway and a bicycle head, but there are many problems with them, so you can help take a look. In addition, this railway must not only go from Tianjin Port to the capital, so draft a memorial and let me see it." Zhengde felt a little embarrassed for once.

"I obey your order!" What else could Yu Xian say? He didn't know when he could go back, so he could only work hard.

"From now on, don't call me slave, call me minister, and don't call me Cao Zhengchun anymore. I have thought of a name for you. Your surname is Zheng and your name is Yang, which means setting sail."

There is no other honor that suits him better than this name. Because of his status as a eunuch, he was given the surname Zheng, following the example of the eunuch Sanbao, and set sail.

"Your Majesty, I, Zheng Yang, thank you for your grace!"

Shangguan Haitang and Guihai Yidao were surprised that the emperor would compare this notorious dead eunuch with the Sanbao eunuch. Zhengde, who had gone through a brief navigation training course, knew very well how important the navigation data brought back by the dead eunuch was. It was countless gold, silver, treasures and minerals!

The dead eunuch who got a new identity couldn't even go to Beijing, but instead plunged into the industrial city and worked on the railway with the world's most skilled craftsmen.

When the No. 1 Village in the World was raided before, those who were obedient were recruited, and those who were useless and had the title of No. 1 in the World were basically forced to do hard labor, and those who were disobedient were directly executed.

This world's most skilled craftsman was one of the most aware of the times, and he also introduced people from his own school.

Not only was he exploited by Zhengde, Yu Xian also exploited these folk masters. In just two years, they actually developed a steam engine and built a railway. It was impossible not to accept it.

How could Yu Xian know the technical stuff? He could only read the reports on several rollovers and finally determined that the center of gravity of the carrying part was too high, and the cornering design did not take the operating speed into account in the calculation.

This is no big deal. Just give them the suggestions for the renovation and have them redesign it.

The most crucial thing is the railway planning. Zhengde has a big appetite. He really wants to build all the railways in such a big Ming Dynasty!