[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

"Think twice, Your Highness." Gao Feng saw that Zhu Houzhao played beautifully, but although Liu Wei hid it deeply, Zhu Houzhao already knew that he was Jiang Cong's person next to the emperor.Jiang Cong is only loyal to the emperor. Doesn't this clearly make the emperor jealous? How can I tolerate my son wanting to touch people around me?

"Can you hide it from your father without Liu Wei? You have come back alive. I just want my father to know my attitude." Walking in the imperial garden, the sunshine in June is very dazzling, passing through the shade of willows, walking through the corridor, Zhu Hou Go straight to Ciqing Palace. "How is Master Lai doing?"

"Gao Feng has never seen such a strange thing before. The old slave saw the iron piece melt into it. After a while, the blue water turned light green, and the iron piece was actually full of copper. And the gold Put in mercury, and it melted in a while. This old servant has really seen the world." Zhu Houzhao originally wanted to make aqua regia to turn stones into gold, but he didn't talk about the production of concentrated sulfuric acid, concentrated nitric acid, and concentrated hydrochloric acid. There are not even a lot of glassware in modern laboratories, only a few porcelains, and common chemicals such as potassium permanganate and meth.Shui Wang really can't do it.Zhu Houzhao can only play tricks.

Since Zhu Youtang is superstitious about the art of golden elixir, he will show Zhu Youtang these metallurgical techniques.Although the wet method of copper smelting and the mixing of gold and mercury have existed since ancient times, it was enough to shock Zhu Youtang, who grew up in the palace since childhood and only studied the art of sages.He couldn't persuade Zhu Youtang not to believe in Buddhism and Taoism, but as long as Zhu Youtang didn't take the golden elixir of those Taoists and took care of his health, everything could be done slowly.

"Is anyone feeling unwell?" In the experiment to be demonstrated this time, mercury and other substances are harmful to the human body. He had already reminded him in advance, and I don't know if the people below have paid attention.

"Reporting to Your Highness, no one is uncomfortable. Everyone is paying attention, and no one has violated the taboo."

Zhu Houzhao looked in the direction of Huangji Hall, the glazed tiles reflected the dazzling light, "That's good, you ask people to wait. The rain is coming."

Hurrying back to Ciqing Palace, I saw Liu Jin and two serving eunuchs at the door.Hearing Zhu Houzhao's footsteps, Liu Jin knelt down to Zhu Houzhao and cried loudly, "The slave is guilty, the slave is guilty, the slave is guilty."

The two eunuchs who were holding him were in a hurry and kicked Liu Jin while about to kidnap him, but Liu Jin was so strong that he broke free, crawled in front of Zhu Houzhao and hugged his thigh, yelling, "Your servant is wrong, The slave was wrong."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't get rid of him no matter what, and he laughed angrily when he heard it: "What's wrong with you?"

Liu Jin choked with sobs, hugged Zhu Houzhao's thigh tightly with one hand, and said while wiping away tears, "I shouldn't be in collusion with that Li Guang, and I shouldn't hide it from Your Highness. But I didn't take bribes, my servant." Wronged, the slave is wronged."

"You are both wrong and not wrong. I am confused. Do you think you are wrong or not?" After more than a month of getting along, Zhu Houzhao found that Liu Jin was actually the same as most eunuchs in the palace.They are loyal to the emperor, and the emperor only trusts them.

Although the Ming Dynasty had a complete censor system and six-subject system, they all belonged to their own people to supervise their own people, and the officials themselves also had their own factions.Only Dongchang can be completely loyal to the emperor.The common people and officials are all likely to betray the emperor, and they all have their own ways of retreat.Only the group of eunuchs, they are parasitic on the imperial power, they only live in the glory given by the emperor, without the trust of the emperor, everything is illusory.

There are good people and bad people in the world. Although the group of eunuchs has suffered some special pain, it does not mean that there are no good people among them.For example, Zheng He who sailed to the West seven times, Huai En who loyally protected the lord, Feng Bao who supported the reform, Wang An who helped Tianqi, and Wang Chengen who accompanied Chongzhen to commit suicide. They are all good people among them, at least they have done a lot. good people.And those bad eunuchs, such as Liu Jin, Wang Zhen, Wei Zhongxian and his like, were just pretending to be the emperor's will and deceiving their superiors and subordinates.In the final analysis, it was made by the emperor himself.

When he came to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao also gradually understood these eunuchs, although they still had their own thoughts.But compared to those sour Confucian officials who only know "morality, benevolence and righteousness" and the so-called "civilian suffering", who don't know how to adapt, don't know the facts, and don't know how to work hard, they are actually cute without their fangs.It is also very simple to pull out their fangs, because without the preference of imperial power, all eunuch privileges are paper tigers.

"You son of a bitch, why did you come here to dirty His Highness's ears!" Gao Feng had never seen such a murderous person, so he quickly winked for the little eunuchs to pull him down.

"His Royal Highness, the villain has something important to report!" Liu Jin knew that Zhu Houzhao was inexplicably curious about him, so he was betting that Zhu Houzhao was different from the nobles he knew.The person in the palace who is most afraid of betrayal, no one will trust a person who has betrayed his master and a benevolent person.However, he had a hunch that Zhu Houzhao was different.Li Guang's old story has been copied by Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Youtang successively, but the bottom is copied. It is not certain whether the person who copied it knows what it is.

"You let him talk." Zhu Houzhao's interest was really aroused by Liu Jin, and he wanted to see what else Liu Jin could save his life when he was about to die.

"His Royal Highness already knows all about the yellow rice and white rice in the account books. What the servant reported to His Highness is something else." After saying this, Liu Jin glanced at Zhu Houzhao in fear, but stopped talking.

Zhu Houzhao sneered in his heart, didn't care, waved his sleeves and walked to the door.Seeing him like this, Gao Feng kicked him and scolded him, "Say it quickly!"

Liu Jin let Gao Feng scold him, and seeing Zhu Houzhao walking straight in, he really ignored him, and he didn't care about putting on the saw-mouth gourd, so he whispered: "It's Uncle Guo."

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. His two "uncles" could no longer be described as particularly unreliable. Compared with these two "uncles", Zhu Houzhao's uncle was about to cry to death.Damn it, how could my nephew who grew up spoiled by me be raped by you?

Zhang's father Zhang Luan and his wife Jin have two sons, Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling.The Zhang family was a small family, and Zhang Luan was just a scholar. At first, his family was poor, and several children in the family died young.Later, Zhang Luan entered the Guozijian, and his family situation improved, and there were two brothers Zhang, Zhang Yanling, and Zhang Heling.It's not easy to raise a son, and the family situation has improved, so the Zhang family pampered these two sons, and raised them arrogantly and domineeringly.

It's fine for ordinary people to be like this, but Mrs. Zhang was selected into the palace as the crown prince, and later became the queen.

In the fifth year of Hongzhi, Zhang Luan was named Shouning Bo.In the same year, Zhu Houzhao was established as the crown prince and later became Marquis of Shouning.In the second year, Zhang Luan went away, and he was awarded the title of "Chang Guogong" and posthumously named Zhuang Su.After Zhang Luan's death, the eldest son Zhang Heling succeeded him as Marquis of Shouning, and the other son Zhang Yanling was named Jianchang Bo.

With power, without Lao Tzu, and a mother and sister who are blindly indulgent, the two of them are even more serious. A small matter in three days, a big event in five days.Because of the Zhang family, Zhu Youtang treated his relatives preferentially, and he was always in the middle of mediation.But Zhu Youtang is Zhu Youtang, and he, Zhu Houzhao, doesn't recognize this "uncle".

"Shou Ninghou also had contacts with Li Guang. Uncle Guo sent 10 taels of silver to Li Guang's house outside, but it was not recorded. Uncle Guo's mine collapsed and killed more than 200 miners. Li Guang is Chief Bingbi eunuch, Jin Yiwei is in charge of him, Uncle Guo asked Li Guang to hide it from the emperor. The Taoist Zhang was also found by Uncle Guo's people, Taoist Zhang also gave Uncle Guo several elixir to present to the emperor, Nadan... is also a bit nasty." Liu Jin didn't dare to look up, he had an intuition that Zhu Houzhao didn't like these two uncles, but not liking it didn't mean that he couldn't be saved, or that he didn't care about himself.

"Continue to talk" Zhu Houzhao was going to be angry with his good uncle, and one Buddha was born, and the second Buddha ascended to heaven. 200 people are so easy to hide, this elixir is so easy to offer.

"No one else knew about these things, but Li Guang asked the young ones to do them quietly. The more than 200 people were hard labor in prison, and they were taken away by the uncle Guo's family. They couldn't speak anymore. There is no serious problem at this time. As for the golden elixir, it was just obtained by the uncle Guo, and he was deceived." Liu Jin dared to say it, there must be a solution.

"You're a good guy... you'll still be on duty in the Ciqing Palace tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he left without looking back.

Liu Jin was finally relieved, and fell to the ground in a collapsed state.Seeing him like this, Gao Feng sighed, "You take care of yourself." She also left.Only Liu Jin was left lying there, sweating profusely.

"Master, it's time to rest." Today's big maid on duty at night is Lingcao, she is usually the most talkative, talking non-stop like a sparrow. "Look at you these two days, you can't sleep well, and you can't eat well. Just toss about printing, your slaves don't understand men's affairs, but the young master has lost weight, so why don't we worry about it?"

"You are the one who talks the most." Du Ruo finished writing the last word, and put away the written pages one by one. "Where is the printed book sent by the shopkeeper today?"

"Sister Suhe put it away, it's on the desk. Master, take a closer look, it's on your right, master." Ling Cao walked out with a large basin of wash water in her hand.

"The person who sent it said which edition it was printed in?"

"When shopkeeper Liu delivered it today, he said that it had been painted over two hundred times." The second-class maid on duty called Magpie answered.

Du Ruo looked at the ink-scented book in front of her and said happily, "It's done!"

In fact, movable type printing was not widely practiced in China before the late Qing Dynasty, mainly for three reasons.

One is, once a movable type plate is printed once, the characters have to be dismantled and recast; while a wooden board is printed once, it can be taken out and reprinted next time.Chinese ancient books are very fixed and there are only so many books. Every time they are printed, it is very likely that there will be one more mistake.A wooden board has been printed many times, and if it is wrong or broken, it needs to be repaired with mature technology, which is very economical for ancient bookshops.

The second is that the metal smelting technology in ancient China was backward, and the cost of making movable type was very high, so most of them were wooden movable type, but the reuse rate of wooden movable type was low, and it wasted after printing several times, which hindered the popularity of movable type printing.

The third is that Chinese moveable typesetting workers need to know at least a few thousand Chinese characters.In ancient times, intellectuals who knew thousands of Chinese characters, who would work in printing workshops, all went to the imperial examination.

What Du Ruo has to do now is to do a lot of things: typographic printing, stencil mimeograph technology... The most important thing is to improve paper and materials.Everything is difficult at the beginning, but now that stereotype printing is available, the first step has finally been taken.