"Father-in-law, it's not good!"

Wynn was not on duty today. He was closing his eyes to rest, and said slowly: "Why are you panicking?"

"A large number of students came to the Ministry of Etiquette to ask for an explanation. It was such a big fuss!"

"oh?"

Wynn opened his eyes and asked again: "What happened?"

"Just because they heard that this year's Spring Festival is not worthy of giving out fire candles, the students have asked the Ministry of Etiquette to give an explanation..."

"What did you say?"

Before Xiao Jing finished speaking, Wynn had already stood up, his face turned pale.

"I see!"

Wynn frowned and paced back and forth.

"It must be the two people in the cabinet who went to the emperor yesterday to sue our family, and now they are instigating students to cause trouble!"

"It's broken. If the emperor knows about it, he will definitely blame..."

Xiao Jing stared at Wynn and muttered to himself, unable to say anything for a long time.

"Let's do this. You go to the Ministry of Rites and tell Kuang Ye, the Minister of Rites, that the matter is of great importance. You should not be reckless and resolve it properly. We will go to see the emperor now!"

After finishing speaking, he took off his shoes and ran towards the imperial study room.

"Your Majesty, it's not good!"

Zhu Qizhen raised his head and asked, "What's the matter?"

"A large number of students..."

Wynn deliberately ran in a hurry and said breathlessly: "We are gathering at the Ministry of Rites to cause trouble, slaves, slaves... I have ordered someone to inform the Minister of Rites to resolve the matter properly. I am here to ask the emperor... to come up with an idea..."

"Students are making trouble? Why?"

"This... this slave is dead because of the fire prevention in the Gongyuan..."

Wynn knew he was wrong and quickly knelt down to apologize.

He knew very well that as long as he took the initiative to apologize and admitted his mistakes with a good attitude, the emperor would usually not blame him.

I'm just afraid that those tough-talking ducks will be caught by the emperor and die without knowing how!

"Didn't I say that the Supervisor of Ceremonies should try his best to cooperate? Have you cooperated?"

"Slave...cooperated..."

Zhu Qizhen is also helpless. Why is it so difficult for you to do something?

"How do you cooperate? Still don't prepare candles for candidates?"

"This slave is worried, worried..."

"Report to the Emperor..."

At this time, a young eunuch came in at the door. Seeing Wynn inside, he was too frightened to say anything further.

Wynn was sweating profusely and turned around to glare at him, meaning, why are you here to cause trouble?

Zhu Qizhen had already asked: "What's the matter?"

The young eunuch stayed on the spot. Wynn glared at him again and said, "The emperor is asking you something. Speak!"

"oh oh……"

The young eunuch came to his senses and hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Tong Xuan from the Electric Power Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences have asked for a meeting. They said they have made a breakthrough in their research. They are here, they are here..."

Zhu Qizhen was thinking about the imperial examination and said, "Let them wait, I have something to do here!"

"yes!"

The young eunuch went down to deliver the message, and Zhu Qizhen said again: "Where did you just talk?"

"Speaking of..."

Wynn's mind started racing and he replied: "I will go and prepare enough candles for Gongyuan right now!"

"Okay, let's go!"

"yes!"

Wynn's back was covered in cold sweat. After going out, he saw Zhu Jianshen and Tong Xuan.

"I have met His Highness!"

Zhu Jianshen asked: "Can father see us?"

Wynn hurriedly said: "The Emperor is not in a good mood. If His Highness has nothing important to do, please come back another day!"

Hearing this, Zhu Jianshen suddenly felt timid.

"Master Tong, let's come back another day!"

Tong Xuan wanted to show the results to the emperor as soon as possible, but when he saw Zhu Jianshen's appearance, he couldn't refuse.

"Okay, let's go back first."

"Master Tong comes with me back to the East Palace. We will install one in the East Palace so that we don't need candles at night."

Tong Xuan nodded and said, "According to His Highness's instructions."

The two of them came out of the Imperial Study Room and went to the East Palace. They placed the parts brought from the Xishan Laboratory on the floor, and then began to assemble them.

The newly developed simple steam stove is also used here. It can be assembled into a steam engine with only a stove and an iron pot.

Use a steam engine instead of a hand crank to keep the light shining.

However, the brightness of the carbonized bamboo filaments used by Tongxuan as the wick is still a bit poor.

Moreover, there is also a problem with the glass cover, which becomes blackened over time.

Despite this, the two were very satisfied with their invention.

It wasn't until sunset that Tong Xuan said goodbye and left, but Zhu Jianshen was still having fun.

When Zhu Qizhen came out of the Imperial Study Room, he was surrounded by darkness. He was about to turn around and leave when he noticed a light coming from the southeast.

He stopped, looked up, and asked, "The prince is back?"

The young eunuch behind him hurriedly said: "Go back to the emperor. His Royal Highness the Prince came back in the morning. He asked for an audience at the door of the Royal Study. When he learned that you were busy, he went back to the East Palace first."

"I remembered."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, then reacted and said angrily: "This little bastard started playing with fire as soon as he came back?"
Chapter completed!