Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2173 Flower dispute (eighty one)

  The medical officials of the Qing court attached great importance to infectious diseases, especially smallpox. People feared it no less than Europeans feared the Black Death.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, there was a plague outbreak in BJ City, which led Li Zicheng's army to easily enter the city that was said to be very strong. It was also the plague that destroyed Li Zicheng's army, but the Manchus who entered BJ City did not Not infected with plague.

  Nick tried to convince the medics to accept cowpox, but they didn't, even though they practiced medicine in Macau and could always go to a hospital where the priest was trained.

  People's fear of the plague even created the "Plague God".

Nick has already said before that "the governor's house is in the same city". During the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was not located in Guangzhou, but in Wuzhou, which was closer to Guangxi, and Guangxi had more "Yao chaos", so the governor's yamen was placed in Wuzhou .

   In the Qing Dynasty, the form of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty was no longer as chaotic as in the Ming Dynasty. The people could do business, fish, and live a peaceful life, and because of the stimulation of foreign trade, Guangzhou developed rapidly, and it was not much more prosperous than the Ming Dynasty.

  Due to the appearance of a large number of immigrants, a large number of "Hezui Temples" were also built in the city of Guangzhou. The so-called Hezuzu Temples were generally built by joint ventures of several counties or villages of dozens of counties with the same surname. Although it is in the form of an ancestral hall, it is also an office for scientific research, litigation and other activities in the provincial capital. It is not established by the concept of clan in the sense of blood. When life encounters hardships, the Chinese have a customary practice, relying on a special way to help each other to tide over the difficulties. However, because the method of worship does not conform to the ritual system, it is often banned by the government, and this kind of ancestral temple has been maintained in the form of an academy.

  The main battleships of the Qing Empire did not have preset gun positions. Instead, they were the "rice boats" that transported rice. They were equipped with artillery and had a ship building like a Spanish galleon at the stern, although there were only two floors.

   These are all installed by the rice merchants themselves. They have great confidence in this small-scale naval force. In the fifty-second year of Qianlong, they went to Taiwan to participate in the suppression of the Lin Shuangwen uprising.

  The storm brought good luck to Da Gama, but the ship Nick was on almost sank because of it, the sea and rain poured into the cabin, and he, the passenger, had to transport the water out of the cabin with the captain.

Not everyone can face changes and turmoil calmly. Unlike most men in society, Jia Baoyu has experienced a turbulent and unstable life. He has been living in the utopian life that others dream of, the only one in that world. What can give him pain is to read the Four Books and Five Classics, which must be tested in the imperial examination. Jia Zheng is very strict with him in this regard, and it is precisely because of this that after the sudden change of Jia's house, he can still obtain fame and become a scholar in the published "Dream of Red Mansions". The way his parents traveled.

"Look!"

  Some of the people who were chatting exclaimed, and everyone looked in the direction he said, and a plume of smoke rose on the hilltop of the enclave.

   On this day, there was wind but no big waves, which was suitable for fast sailing. At the same time, the entire fleet began to prepare for battle. With the sound of drums and trumpets, the soldiers took up spears, and the officers took up swords. The gunners on the rice boat were busy reloading shells, and there was a strong smell of gunpowder all around.

  The pirate ships passed through the smoke created by the gunfire, the black flags on the bows fluttered in the wind, the bows of these ships had rams, and they quickly approached the huge rice boats. The anti-smuggling ships appeared to intercept them, and the two sides began to shoot each other.

   Three Portuguese warships joined the battle at this time. They tried to land in the enclave. Unexpectedly, the pirates also had forts. A stone bullet almost hit the "Red Drifter".

Several pirates jumped into the sea, Nick had heard that these "water ghosts" would pierce the bottom of the boat, and the officers in top hats had the sailors gather on the side of the ship and aimed their guns in the water, as long as the "water ghosts" Out of the water, shoot immediately.

During the whole process, the Qing army just copied the old model as it is. This is an old-fashioned traditional method of warfare, but in any case, the fleet has achieved brilliant results, and the pirates entrenched in the enclave have been "driven away" The pirates' fast boats and rice boats couldn't catch up, while the Portuguese warships checked their bottoms for water seepage.

  The pirate ship reached the surface of the water beyond the range of the cannons of the rice boat, and they swaggered around the coast without rushing or slowing, like leisurely strollers. After a few minutes, they set sail at full speed and quickly disappeared into the sea.

  When the officers and soldiers are gone, the pirates will come back, unless the navy is stationed here, but that requires not only additional manpower, but also additional gunboats.

  The next step is to accommodate the wounded wounded soldiers, just like the pirates and the officers and soldiers acted together in a play, the admiral can leave his post more beautifully.

   They stayed at the command post on Lantau Island for two days and then returned to Guangzhou. The admiral held a celebration banquet for Cao Xi. Next, all they had to wait for was the emperor's edict.

  Everything returned to calm, just like Nick did before he intercepted the note. In fact, he didn't hand over the note and it could be regarded as nothing happened.

   As long as you don’t care about those tragic things, it’s good to be able to see the flowers while traveling in a country. Cao Xi also became friendly to Nick. He accompanied Nick to visit the exquisite craftsmanship of the craftsmen to make foreign trade orders. Got a gift for Nick.

   That is a Ruyi, it was originally a hand-shaped bamboo product, you can use it to scratch your back, and now it has become made of jade.

   There are eight treasures in Buddhism, **, Dharma conch, treasure umbrella, white cover, lotus flower, treasure jar, goldfish, and pan intestines. There is a lotus flower on this little jade Ruyi.

  In this wonderful country, every little thing has a strange purpose. In "Three Kingdoms", there is no record of Zhuge Liang sending women's clothes to Sima Yi. This plot is only found in "Three Kingdoms".

  Sima Yi can wear women's clothes, should Nick scratch his back with this jade Ruyi?

   It is also possible that this represents reconciliation. Cao Xi is expressing friendship to Nick, which is a sign of respect, so Nick accepts the gift with gratitude.

   Not long after, Nick received a letter from the Admiral, he ran out of hair oil last time, I hope Nick will make more, and bring some back to give away.

   That's five bottles of hair oil, and it's running out so quickly?

   But remembering the Admiral's long braids, Nick was relieved.

This time, the servant who delivered the letter also brought money. Nick planned to go to the previous spice shop to buy materials, but that shop already had ready-made hair oil for sale. The business was very good. The boss thanked Nick very much and sent him directly. A whole box, and he didn't take a penny, so Nick had two more silver ingots in his hand.

  Nick took two silver ingots and asked Juren, why didn't he sell that recipe earlier?

   Juren did not answer him, and even when Nick offered to "share" with Juren, he did not accept the silver ingot.

   He put on a proud look and said, "How did He Zhongtang's first embezzled money come from, do you know?"

   Then he continued to read to prepare for the next imperial examination.

   (end of this chapter)