[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

Shocked, the child pulled up the note, looked at the writing on the paper with almost admiring eyes, and said with bright eyes, "This was written by Zhuge Kongming, the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty. I am very happy to see it."

Xia Anran smiled slightly, his eyes were soft, seeing the child happily holding the note, he smiled without saying a word.

The phrase "Devote yourself to the end, die and die" from "The List of Teachers Later" did not actually appear in the Eastern Han Dynasty where he lived, and Xia Anran had never seen the list of teachers who passed down through the ages.

Historically, Zhuge Liang was not a pure military talent. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he learned from Xia Anran. In the end, his route was biased towards Xun Yu's politics, invention, and military. Jiji, he doesn't need to worry too much.

In fact, in the later period, because of the excellent talent training and transmission system, there was no shortage of military generals and counselors in the Han Dynasty. The big man could lose one or two generals and counselors, but he could not lose Xun Yu, Xia Anran, and Zhuge Liang who were based on logistics preparations. Any one of this golden group.

Xun Yu is good at planning and governing. He can easily balance the forces and needs of various armies.

Xia Anran is not good at both, but he has the art of increasing production and is good at people's livelihood.

And Zhuge Liang, who has been studying with them, has learned the strengths of the two, and because of this, Xia Anran can retire with peace of mind.

Emperor Kangdi, Emperor Wudi, and Emperor Wen all gave enough trust to their courtiers, so until Xia Anran closed his eyes, Zhuge Liang wandered around the court and workshop every day with high spirits, and had no intention of going out to lead the army. Naturally, I would not write these two forms.

Moreover, when Zhuge Liang in history was writing "The List of Teachers Later", he was in the predicament that the Shu Han had no one to use and no one to be reliable.

Because the Shu Han has too few talents, he has no one who can deliver the back, so he can only do everything by himself. The last article "The List of Masters Later" is much more hasty and heroic than "The List of Former Teachers".There was only one year before and after the list of teachers. What happened to Zhuge Liang in this year is written on the back list. People he knew passed away one by one. The loyal and good generals of the Shu Han all followed Liu Bei. economy is about to collapse.But even so, he still couldn't stop the Northern Expedition, because stopping would mean death.

He can only exhaust his efforts and focus on death. Even if he loses in the end, it can be called vigorous.

But in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were various characters around Zhuge Liang, civil servants, military generals and good emperors, so that his bright young man could always be happy and motivated, moving forward all the way.

This level of happiness is completely different, just like people in later generations often say that they would rather live in a developing country than a developed country.

why.

It is precisely because in developing countries you can see that all the efforts are valuable, and when you look back at the end of the year, you will find that this year, whether you are good or the society, are thinking about the progress ahead, and the distance is set before. The next goal must go further.

But in developed countries, no matter how hard the country works, it will never be a hundred-day success, and it will definitely usher in a recession after reaching the peak.

This visible but unstoppable decline, and the sadness of thinking about tomorrow, about the future of our children, weighs down like a boulder.

Even a smile is bitter.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was the former.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang has always been very happy. He is busy with armament management, busy with rebuilding new laws, busy with implementing punishments and rewards by judges, and gradually pushing the rule of man to the rule of law.

He is so busy that his eyes are often bruised, but every day when he opens his eyes is a beautiful day.

Xia Anran's eyes flickered when he saw the piece of paper picked out by Guangxiao boy, his lips moved slightly, he didn't say a word in the end, just smiled, took his fingers out of it, and picked out another sentence " The heart of a gentleman is too small, but his magnanimity covers the whole life.

The heart of a villain is too big, but the will is confined to a corner. "

The child read this sentence once, his eyes sparkled, he pursed his lips, gave another bow to Xia Anran, and said, "Mr. Lord, these two sentences are enough for light to use for a lifetime, and the others are unnecessary. .”

Xia Anran was taken aback, her eyes widened slightly, seeing him like this, the child smiled with crooked brows and eyes, and stood upright, "For the public, he should devote himself to everything, and for the private, he should have the heart of a gentleman and have an unrivaled magnanimity."

"There are both public and private interests, and the benefits are endless." After finishing speaking, he bowed again, and walked happily to his father's side, holding his father's hand. Sima Chi also bowed to Xia Anran, and then the two went out this shop.

Xia Anran was holding the box, with a dull expression on his face, when he saw Bai Jinxi coming up to take his box, he blinked, and said helplessly, "I have written a lot, why did I just see that piece of paper?" .”

"Is it not good?"

Bai Jinxi smiled, Xia Anran hesitated for a moment, then sighed, "No, it's pretty good."

Sima Guang was the leader of the conservative faction. After the failure of Wang Anshi's reform, he intensified and changed to the old system. He wrote history books and knew the various drawbacks of the reform, which is why he steadfastly refused the reform.

Sima Guang's character is rigorous and serious, different from being clever and mischievous when he was a child, his later growth process can be regarded as smooth sailing, which caused him to be thin and naive in politics.

That is, black or white.

In fact, the political atmosphere in the Shenzong period changed from that in the early Song Dynasty, and the overall atmosphere in the Renzong period was more relaxed and conniving.The overall situation is like a hundred flowers blooming. Of course, the consequences are also changing from day to day. Policies and officials flow quickly, which is not conducive to people's livelihood.

Sima Guang grew up in the Renzong Dynasty, and what he saw with his eyes was the harm brought about by such a deterioration, coupled with the political ideas caused by his political thinking and character, and finally the result of his unending death with Wang Anshi.

——Who knows, these are just speculations by later generations based on historical data.

Xia Anran turned her head to look at Bai Jinxi, the two of them already had a tacit understanding, seeing him, Bai Jinxi nodded slightly, the two of them knew each other's meaning without words.

After a few days passed peacefully, Xia An then came to write a score and had someone send it to Bao Zheng. It was regarded as a relief for Kaifeng Mansion. As for whether Bao Zheng used it or not...he didn't care too much.

On weekdays, Bai Jinxi went to work as usual, Xia Anran woke up naturally and then got up and continued to read and write the plan.

The book and newspaper industry in the Song Dynasty was extremely developed at this time. He found many books here that he had never seen before, especially now there are some anthologies and geography of celebrities in official circles. He read them very interestingly.

At this moment, the steward came to report suddenly, saying that there was someone visiting, and it was Chen Banban who was beside Zhao Zhen. With a smile on his face, he said that the officials are welcome.

The dazed Xia Anran was just carried into the palace by a carriage.

Then he took the position of a member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, and was thrown out.

He was offered a job by his cousin?

Xia Anran's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he realized in horror, wait, this, does this mean that he is going to get up and go up?

In the end, he was pleasantly surprised to find that fortunately, this job does not require going to court, but only needs to go to work, so it is said that people's satisfaction is obtained through comparison.

Compared with asking him to go to court before dawn, it is acceptable to just go to one shift, but why does his emperor cousin suddenly think of letting him go to work, and it is still the Ministry of Industry.

In fact, the Ministry of Industry was a small transparent department in the early Song Dynasty, and now all the powers of the Ministry of Industry are in the hands of the third division.It was not until the middle and late Song Dynasty that some of the rights of the three divisions were delineated, and the Ministry of Industry had the shadow of becoming the major department in charge of the world's fortifications in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now it is just a pitiful little one.

...So what does Uwairo, a member of the Ministry of Industry, do?Sounds like that kind of shelter position.

The same question flashed through Shangshu's mind.

The name of the new minister of the Ministry of Industry is Zhang Xia, who was born in Yinfeng. When he was on duty to know the state, he happened to meet the Dashui in Sizhou. Because of his good governance, he was transferred to the central government to work for the Ministry of Industry. A few years ago, God came to assign all the farming, water conservancy, and procurement of the third division to the Ministry of Industry, and also assigned the equipment manufacturing of the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Industry, and his little transparency was directly promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

But the strangest thing is that King Pingnan was directly named Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Industry, but Yuanwailang's position should belong to one of the four newly established departments of the Ministry of Industry, but the imperial order did not clarify which one it was. manage.

I went up to ask, but gave him a [self-experienced] look.

Experience, how to experience it!

The Ministry of Industry is newly established, Shangshu and Yuanwailang are all busy, and they also have a headache for the upcoming big boss: King Pingnan.

King Pingnan himself... was very calm.

Xia Anran knew that the little emperor suddenly arranged this task for him, and it was undoubtedly aimed at minting coins. Obviously, after various considerations, the little emperor still felt that the importance of minting coins should be advanced.

It's just that he has the courage to directly reorganize the Ministry of Industry, and put Xia Anran in the Ministry of Industry, which he did not expect.

The imperial clan in the Northern Song Dynasty was not allowed to participate in public scientific examinations, nor could they hold public positions. Simply put, they could only hold idle positions for clan officials. Such positions generally had no real power and were of very low importance. No, naturally the whole bureaucracy didn't take them seriously.

Under such an environment, the children of the clan would naturally not be good officials, and the two sides almost hated each other.

Xia Anran himself was not considered a clan, but he was given a surname, so he was naturally included in the Zhao Song clan gift package.This double-edged sword was naturally on the neck of Zhao Zhen who wanted to use Xia Anran.

So in order to insert Xia Anran, the little emperor directly created a post.

And because to some extent, the Ministry of Industry itself does not have these positions, and naturally it does not occupy other people's resources. This means that there are countermeasures under the above policies.

Didn't you tell him to pretend to believe in Taoism before?Xia Anran was a little curious why the little emperor changed his mind. Could it be that the little emperor defaulted to his refusal because of his hesitant attitude before, so he was extremely considerate and thought of another way for him?

Why was the truth of the matter revealed by Bai Jinxi that night? In fact, when Zhao Zhen announced the transfer of power to the Ministry of Industry, there was an uproar in the court that day.

As an important financial department of the country, the Third Division is in charge of the lifeline of a country.

The three departments that have now been drawn out occupy about one-third of the original work scope of the third division.

Although to some extent these departments have changed from the original three-level department to the second-level department, the status of the third department is completely different from that of the Ministry of Industry. Turning to be stronger than this tree... This kind of spiritual gap is not a little bit.

Whether it is the Third Division or the Ministry of War, they are full of anxiety about this change.

A few days ago, the emperor summoned officials to discuss the matter. When everyone thought that the emperor was going to cut power, the reaction was not great, but now that King Pingnan has been installed in the Ministry of Industry, the implication is that people can't help but be vigilant.

The official positions in the Song Dynasty are long, but the core positions are still to be robbed. If King Pingnan enters the position of real power, it is difficult to guarantee the future.

Even though Zhao Zhen explained that it was because King Pingnan was a prince and deserved special treatment, everyone reacted more violently - because Xia Anran's prince should not have been granted by Zhao Zhen.

Before, everyone thought that this was the hypocritical compensation given by the emperor in order to reduce the power of the Southern King. A false noble only gave some salary, which was acceptable to everyone. After all, the benefits in exchange for this title were large enough for them to give recognized.

But now this trend is absolutely unacceptable, so in the future, where the emperor wants to insert someone, wouldn't it be possible to insert someone with a title of king?Protest, must protest.

Zhao Zhen and his courtiers wrangled for three or four days, and finally took a step back from each other. The emperor promised that Xia Anran's official position would not be promoted.

But this incident left a knot in the emperor's heart.

For the first time, Zhao Zhen realized the irreconcilability between the clan and Qingliu, and he also realized for the first time how much the clan of the Zhao family was rejected by these officials.

He can understand the pride of the Qingliu people who came up as a formal scientific research path, and also understand their panic about the clan regent, but this does not mean that he can accept the officials' almost contemptuous attitude towards the clan, and even said in their words: these clans Dislike what can be done.

After Xiaochao dispersed, the young emperor tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, his face was hidden under the darkness, and for a while, even Chen Banban, who had always been very dignified, couldn't see through it. The mood of a king.

He was quietly accompanying him, but in his heart there were thousands of sighs, well, these courtiers who ran out with their heads held high must not have imagined that they would completely annoy the always good-tempered officials.

Xia Anran only knew about two or three of the things that happened in the palace. Later, he studied his authority and found that he was only a Yuanwailang, but his identity allowed him to move freely in the Ministry of Industry.

Since he can move around freely, he can naturally come and go freely on occasions that are not confidential, which means that some of the country's secrets and future directions will be mastered by him.And the most important thing is that if he wants to, he can detect the country's secret internal mineral resources, and even get his hands on it.

This is also an important reason for the previous courtiers' opposition.

This is by no means unfounded worry, just like when the Bingzhan Bureau smelted more iron than usual, it made interested people have a judgment on Da Song's new smelting method.But all smart people have the ability to see the small things.

And the most indispensable thing in this world is smart people, and there is also no shortage of people who do mental arithmetic and careless people.

Even if Nan Wang had no intentions, it would be difficult for someone to coax him.

It can't be blamed that the officials have such speculations about Xia Anran, it is really that Xia Anran was plundered by the emperor silently and quietly, this incident left a deep impression on everyone.

——Although it is a face, it is quite silly and sweet.

——This kind of stupidity and sweetness, if the secret is revealed, it will be good. Now the capital is full of spies. Hey, the emperor is so capricious, alas.

Zhao Zhen: Hehe...

Zhao Zhen: My younger brother is smart, I'm not bragging, my younger brother can beat ten of you!

Zhao Zhen: I'm so mad.

The one who reacted the most was naturally Xia Anran's future boss. Anyone who found out that his department was going to be inserted into a huge relationship account could not be bothered and scolded would be extremely stressed.

But on the other hand, he felt a little secretly happy. After all, according to the current situation, the government still took great care of Nanwang. The department was newly established, and everything was difficult. There must be friction with other departments. They have a Buddha now, at worst, it will be very useful to invite the prince to sit aside when discussing business in the future!

That's right, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was born as a shelter, is also very capable of pulling his face in this regard.

The Ministry of Industry was listed in the chaos, and Xia Anran himself was in the capital, so the emperor gave him a metaphorical order to take office immediately, so the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister did not struggle for too long, and they saw Xia Anran who came to report on time the next day .

The pony carriage of King Ping'an, who had just stopped for a few days, began to dangle on the road again. As a subordinate official, Shangfeng naturally didn't have to come to pick him up, but Xia Anran's status was special, so the minister and minister of the Ministry of Industry considered twice and greeted him in person. .

Xia Anran's ability to click on time gave them a lot of peace of mind. His attitude was amiable, with a smile on his face, and he looked almost like the emperor. This subtle similarity made Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry walk around. After that, she stood at the accompanying seat, Xia Anran's eyes were shining brightly as she looked at one laboratory after another, and felt that her fingers were inexplicably hot.

The people in the Ministry of Industry didn't know what the prince was thinking, but felt that the prince's expression was getting more and more serious, as if he was dissatisfied, and they all trembled in their hearts, fearing that the prince would make trouble.

Who knows what to be afraid of, Xia Anran just arrived at the place, before his buttocks warmed up, he changed his clothes and said that he would apply for a workshop as a studio, and then he devoted himself to the room that was assigned to him, and then Didn't come out either.

Even the lunch was brought in by someone, and every day when he went down to his house, the door of his house was covered with iron locks and seals, with a look of secrecy.Although the people in the Ministry of Industry can't understand it, since the prince is not a monster, he can occupy a room if he occupies it.

The relocated position of the Ministry of Industry is adjacent to the guard camp of the imperial guards.

It was at this moment that everyone realized that the emperor had already made preparations.

In the building complex that was originally thought to be built for expansion, the stove and blast furnace are already available, and the craftsmen only need to move in.

And its current geographical location also shows the emperor's emphasis on this field.

The most elite troops of the Song Dynasty had to go in and out here every day. It was used as a barracks and a watchtower overlooking the guards.

Perhaps in this Bianjing city, apart from Ouchi, there is no safer place than here.

The entire Ministry of Industry is written back, and the more secretive departments are in the center, the corridors are shuttled, and the light and dark doors are intertwined. If you arrive for the first time, you will definitely get lost.

In fact, the officials of the newly moved Ministry of Industry also got lost several times.

The laboratory Xia Anran was assigned to was close to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau according to his request, because Xia Anran needed to borrow their fire.

As the Weapons Bureau, they need to create and design the toughest weapons in the country. Although there is only a small batch of tentative production here for reference design, it can be said that the ordnance craftsmen gathered here are the national treasures of the Song Dynasty.

Their daily life is mainly based on creation, supplemented by building.

Minister of the Ministry of Industry did not know why Pingnan Wang asked to be here. In his opinion, it was too noisy to be close to this place. Bureau stove.

The furnace of the Ordnance Bureau is the highest in Bianjing City. This is to drain the air and generate a higher temperature. In this era, a higher furnace means a higher temperature.

At the same time, as a small team with a blast furnace, the fire prevention measures in their yard are also the most stringent.

Xia Anran asked to use the adjoining side room as a laboratory. In his opinion, he felt that this prince might have taken a fancy to the high temperature of the furnace when the Ordnance Bureau was turned on.

In winter, this temperature is indeed like a spring breeze to the neighbors next door.

However, he secretly slandered in his heart. In summer, I'm afraid that the prince will move away in a hurry.

Xia Anran didn't know what Shang Shu was thinking, if he knew, he would just laugh, whether he can do it this summer is still a question, so there is no need to worry about it.

After inquiring about the situation with Pang Yu, Xia Anran knew that Zhao Zhen must have forced him into the Ministry of Industry under some pressure.

Because Pang Yu was deprived of the right to take the imperial examination because he was included in the scope of the emperor's relatives and relatives. Of course, from Pang Yu's mouth, he felt that he would not take the exam even if it was given to him. It can only be given the position of a marquis, and he is forced to give him a non-official disaster relief task. It can be seen that the emperor is powerless to give relatives official positions.

So Xia Anran estimated that he would be impeached in a short time.

According to his understanding of Zhao Zhen's temper, he thinks that his brother can hold on for about half a year.

That being the case, it's better to save face. He doesn't bother to care about the atmosphere among his colleagues. They will never go the same way, so he might as well do business.

Get things done early and get ready to go home.

Xia Anran is different from ordinary heirs and dukes.

Even if he has no position, he still has a noble rank, and the salary distribution in the Northern Song Dynasty is completely based on his title.

And even if he doesn't go to work, he still has the right to meet Tianyan.

In addition to his own salary and the money allocated to him by the little emperor, it is enough for him to live a life of rice bugs for a lifetime.

The Marquis next to him go to work to earn living expenses on the one hand, and to accumulate contacts for their descendants on the other hand, but Xia Anran doesn't need these.

Because Zhao Zhen's order was issued suddenly, all the custom-made clay pots had not yet been completed, but fortunately, some of the smaller ones had already been fired, so Xia Anran brought them out first.

The reason why he fired small clay pots was for experimentation. He had only seen how to extract zinc, but this body's memory is really good, so he remembered it just now, but "Heavenly Creation" The record in this section may be to prevent the secrets of coinage from being known, and it is very vague.

He just had a glance at the appearance of the jar, so he probably had some ideas.

But the proportional components need to be studied.

The ancient zinc extraction technology in "Tiangong Kaiwu" is to use zinc oxide and carbon to undergo a reduction reaction at high temperature, and then condense the reduced gaseous zinc. In order to achieve this purpose, this jar was made into two parts. The bottom layer is a mixture of zinc ore and carbon powder. The upper layer has air holes to facilitate the passage of zinc vapor. When the steam encounters the cold air above or cold substances such as iron plates, it quickly turns into a liquid, drips and condenses, and falls into water or The hollow space creates an interlayer for the condensing environment.

The whole principle is similar to the pot used for cooking steam pot chicken.

Xia Anran has a little idea about this. In a gourmet episode he read in his childhood, when the hero wanted to save the heroine, he used a similar method to extract water vapor from salt water to make porridge.

But the difficulty lies in the... scale, and also, the explosion-proof.

Under normal temperature without high pressure, the temperature of water vapor is no higher than [-] degrees, with a cap of more than [-] degrees, but the boiling point of zinc is [-] degrees. of?

He remembered that in the picture, such small pottery was still piled up.

There must be a reason for the existence of this shape... After all, the official refining, aside from other things, the scene must not be small, the same size of the same utensil is fine, can't it be enlarged?

Let's wait for these things for the time being, Xia Anran held the small jars he made according to his memory, silently stuffed the mixture in various proportions, and then started the process of collecting and frying.

Later, there was too much commotion here, to the extent that people next door came to ask him if he needed help, Xia Anran, as a person who would never be brave, immediately grabbed the friendly little hand next door.

In fact, even if he is a prince, but as a mere member of Wai Lang, Xia Anran of course has no assistants, and he has to operate everything by himself.

But even though there are no assistants, in order to prevent the prince from playing himself to the sky during the experiment, the minister of the Ministry of Industry finally sent two small officials to light the fire and control the temperature for him.

This is enough, there are three people in the room, two are in charge of the fire, Xia Anran is responsible for recording the data and warning everyone to prepare to escape.

It wasn't until the people in the craftsman's room next door couldn't bear him to intervene after bombing three or four times a day that they learned what he was up to.

Nan Wang actually wanted to extract white lead from calamine, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, until Xia Anran took them to see some of the results of the explosion a few days ago. Although the small clay pots always exploded for some reason, before the explosion, they usually exploded. There are also some solid zinc crystals preserved, and these zinc crystals look like solid white lead that occasionally appears in mineral deposits.

The most outstanding craftsmen of the Song Dynasty recognized them almost immediately.

It really works!

Several craftsmen exchanged colors with each other, and finally the leading craftsman surnamed Xu asked Xia Anran for instructions, and he wanted to take the white lead away.

"Huh?" Xia Anran, who was scraping zinc from the broken clay pot, looked at them in a daze, a little confused, so, seeing his cold look, the craftsman hurriedly said, "My lord, I have a brother, I like to tinker with ore, so I learned some skills from my brother."

Seeing the interested expression on Xia Anran's face, this person secretly groaned in his heart, but he really couldn't find any other excuses for a while, so he simply closed his eyes and said, "I know how to make copper, if this is really White lead can be fried together with copper to make gilded copper."

Xia Anran was stunned for a moment, he tilted his head and thought about what it was, then his eyes lit up.

Oops, it's better to come early than coincidentally.

If he remembers correctly, 鍮铜 is brass, and the word 鍮 Tongshou means stolen copper... because the amount of brass produced after the reaction between copper and zinc will increase, it looks like it was stolen from copper Yes, there is this "elegant title".

Unexpectedly, there is really a person who can refine brass next door, Xia Anran thinks that this person is not arranged here deliberately by his cousin, but it is a coincidence from heaven.

He waved his hand without hesitation, signaling for people to take the things away, and then he sat in the house, waiting for the people next door to burn before returning.

His posture was as leisurely as Jiang Taigong sitting on the bank of the Wei River. He shook the lid of the cup and looked at the craftsmen rushing in with his eyes.

Facing their excited eyes, he smiled slightly, "Misters, would you like to join my studio?"

The author has something to say: it is still to be determined whether Zhuge Liang wrote the later teacher list, because it is included in the anthology of others.

But the reason why the textbooks do not include the list of late teachers... probably because the list of late teachers gives people a sense of despair.

Although many people read heartily from it, in my opinion, it is a sense of despair.

The heart of a gentleman is too small, but his magnanimity covers the whole life; the heart of a villain is too big, but his will is confined to a corner.It comes from "Proverbs Lian Bi" written by Qing Jinying, which is a bit similar to a collection of famous sayings and aphorisms. It contains a lot of reasonable words, from all aspects of life and life.

The meaning of this sentence... various interpretations are acceptable, because it has no context to connect, but the meaning is probably not bad.

The Ministry of Industry was originally a small department, similar to an office. It was not until the third division was abolished in the mid-Song Dynasty that the Ministry of Industry was formally established.

Renzong is starting to get tough!

The 20s are a very good age. They are not afraid of anything and dare to break through anything. It is also an important period for the formation of human character. In history, Renzong also had a period of time when he was a radical who worked hard to govern, but he encountered many blows later==Then It started to be a bit lazy, which is the benevolent side of us in the later stage.

In fact, it is lazy politics, because it feels that it doesn't matter.