As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

If the prince has any changes, he will come to complain.

It was the same today. Before he entered the Nuan Pavilion, he had already brewed his emotions, so the moment he saw Emperor Guangxing, he knelt down and said, "The guilty minister, Yu Pengyi, bow to Your Majesty!"

Emperor Guangxing felt a faint headache when he saw this guy, but he still asked with a pleasant face as usual: "What is Yu Qing's crime? Let's calm down first, and speak slowly."

When Yu Pengyi raised his head, his face was full of tears: "The guilty minister dare not. Your Majesty entrusted the matter of counseling His Highness the Crown Prince to the criminal minister. The criminal minister was trembling like walking on thin ice, for fear of making mistakes, but now His Highness has become like this. The criminal minister Feeling ashamed of your majesty's entrustment, please punish me!"

The words were very loyal, and the expressions and lines were also very good, but Emperor Guangxing's blood pressure continued to soar again.

Because, this guy always looks like this every time he comes to sue. It’s like the prince blew up the Meridian Gate or burned the Taimiao. The performance is in place or I feel that I am not embarrassed. The embarrassing one is someone else. It happens like this every time...

Emperor Guangxing once again suppressed the boredom in his heart: "What did the prince do?"

Yu Pengyi broke down in tears and said: "Your Majesty, the past few days His Highness has been studying in the study and has never played and played. The guilty minister thought that His Highness knew his way back and was finally willing to study the words of a sage and the way of governing the country, but today His Highness... he but……"

"How about it?" Emperor Guangxing clenched his back molars tightly, and he felt a toothache.

"Today, Your Highness, he suddenly talked nonsense, saying that he could ride a wind lantern to fly to the sky, and that there is magnetism on the ground..." Yu Pengyi wept blood: "Your Majesty, throughout the ages, I have only heard that illusory immortals can ascend, who would listen? Someone needs to fly into the sky on a wind lantern? Your Highness has gone astray!"

Only then did Emperor Guangxing recover from his toothache: "Take a wind lantern? Huh! Thanks to him for thinking it out!"

Yu Pengyi cried again: "I was so frightened that I separated from Your Highness, but His Highness said... but said that I have little knowledge, and summer insects can't say anything! Your Majesty, although I have little talent, it is still a case of Shaoxing Mansion. First of all, the top three in the imperial examination, although he dare not claim to know everything in the world, but he has read a lot of books, but he was so humiliated by His Highness..."

Emperor Guangxing couldn't help being very angry: "This scoundrel really said that?"

Yu Pengyi wept and said: "I don't dare to bully the king, and I am not exaggerating. Your Majesty, I have been in charge of Zhan Shifu for more than seven years. Because of my poor qualifications, I have been doing nothing during these seven years. Now I can't tolerate it." Your Highness the Crown Prince... Your Majesty, the ministers are fine, but His Highness's education is the most important thing. As the princes of the Great Zhao, if His Highness continues like this, I am afraid that the Great Zhao... is in danger! Zhan Shifu and Zhan Shi are very important. I dare not continue to delay Your Highness, so I beg Your Majesty to choose another wise man, and I am begging for the bones!"

As I said earlier, this begging for bones is not really begging for bones, but a rogue in disguise.

Hearing these words, he understood. Although he was talking about his poor aptitude or something, he pointed out that the crown prince is absurd, that the crown prince has gone astray, that the crown prince is not a thing. This is not asking for bones. It is clear that he wants the emperor to To teach his son a lesson, and to prove his loyalty by the way.

Moreover, Yu Pengyi's authority in Zhan Shifu will rise directly after such a mess, and secondly, if luck comes, he will be transferred to the real power department-don't forget that the current Zhan Shifu has tended to be promoted by Hanlin Channel, otherwise, what does Yu Pengyi mean when he keeps saying 'more than seven years'?

So, naturally, Emperor Guangxing took a deep breath: "Yu Qing, let's go home and rest first, don't ask for bones anymore, I will teach this rebellious son a lesson!"

(It’s a new month... It is expected that I will try my best to update more this month, as long as I have nothing to do at home, I will explode more~)

128. Zhao Ren is a Little Genius

Zhao Ren didn't know that the catastrophe was coming. He was urging several eunuchs to make a huge Kongming lantern.

The reason is that I want to understand it, but the actual operation is still very laborious. Zhao Ren, who is in the deep palace, can't think of other materials at all, and he doesn't know what fuel to use, so he first tinkered with paper ones according to the manufacturing method of Kongming lanterns. Going to experiment.

That's right, now Zhao Ren completely understood how the word "experiment" came from Hua Manlou's mouth.

"The bamboo branches in the wind lamp have been glued, and they must be firmly glued!" Inside the Yin'an Hall, Zhao Ren gesticulated vigorously: "The paper pasted on it must also be glued firmly, without any gaps!"

Now the Kongming Lantern made by Zhao Ren is as big as a room, and the inside is framed by strong bamboo branches.Different from ordinary Kongming lanterns, Zhao Ren also hung a small bamboo basket under this lamp, which was used to hold some heavy objects such as paperweights. He wanted to test to see how big a Kongming lantern could support the weight of a person .

I have to say that this kid is really smart, and he knows how to calculate a rough figure based on proportion, and I have to say that his escapism has really helped him a lot. It is said that the Imperial Academy has become a nerd.

At this moment, Emperor Guangxing arrived.

Emperor Guangxing directly stopped the eunuch's announcement before he entered Yin'an, so when he saw the huge Kongming lantern, he became furious: "Nizi, you did a good job!"

This voice made the eunuchs in the Yin'an Hall kneel down, and Zhao Ren was still in a state of excitement at this time. After turning around to see Emperor Guangxing, he immediately shouted cheerfully: "Father, you came just in time, my son!" Here's a rare one for you!"

"Really? How rare?" Emperor Guangxing's voice was cold.

"It's very rare. It's the kind that never existed before...Why does the father want to take the cane? Father, please calm down...Listen to my son's explanation...ah..." Zhao Ren was drawn to the thigh, and he felt that he had been wronged again. So he ran away, shouting as he ran: "I'm really not fooling around, this thing is very useful... I'm wronged!"

Emperor Guangxing waved his cane and chased after him for two steps. He felt that it was a little disrespectful for an emperor to chase and beat the prince, so he stood still and said angrily: "Wrong? Why did I wrong you? These few days I also thought that you have learned to be good, but I never thought that you are so ridiculous that you dare to insult Yu Zhan openly, what else can't you do?"

Zhao Ren saw that he stopped chasing him, so he stood still, and when he heard the last two sentences, he said angrily, "It's him again! It's him again! Is this old man going to stop?"

Hearing him insulting Yu Pengyi so much, Emperor Guangxing trembled angrily: "You son of a bitch, kneel down to me!"

In the past, when Emperor Guangxing was so angry, Zhao Ren would immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, but today, I don't know if he consciously figured something out or was in the excitement of about to do something big, he stubbornly roared: " Father, if my son really did something wrong, I will accept punishment and accept punishment, but I really don’t think there is anything wrong with today’s incident! My father often talks and listens to me, so why would I rather listen to an outsider’s slander than listen to it now? What about your own son?"

Emperor Guangxing laughed angrily: "Okay, very good, I will listen to it and understand once, if you can't tell the reason, I will beat you to death!"

Zhao Renhong focused his eyes: "Just say it!"

He thought for a while, and decided that it would be better to follow Huamanlou's method, so he asked, "Then I dare to ask my father a question first, one tael of silver and ten taels of silver are dropped from the same height, which one will fall to the ground first?"

……

When the two ingots of silver fell to the ground at the same time, Emperor Guangxing was as puzzled as Zhao Ren was that day, and he found various things to test, and finally said in amazement: "This...why is this? "

Zhao Ren puffed up his chest and said proudly: "At the beginning, Erchen couldn't figure it out. After thinking about it for three days, and after searching all the books he could find, there was no answer. But a few days ago, Erchen suddenly saw two magnets. Suddenly, I felt enlightened, could it be that the ground under our feet has a magnetic force that attracts all things?"

Emperor Guangxing was taken aback: "Magnetic power?"

Zhao Ren said to himself: "Yes, magnetic force! Otherwise, why would everything fall to the ground instead of flying to the sky?"

This remark is absurd and earth-shattering, but it seems reasonable when you think about it carefully. Emperor Guangxing thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of other reasons: Yes, why everything can only fall to the ground?

But then Emperor Guangxing pointed at the point: "What does this have to do with you playing around?"

Zhao Ren emphasized again: "My son is not playing around! Father, think about it again, if everything falls to the ground, why can Kongming lanterns fly into the sky?"

"This..." Emperor Guangxing was taken aback again: "Why?"

Zhao Ren said helplessly, "I don't know, but it can fly."

Emperor Guangxing was furious, but before he could get angry, Zhao Ren said slowly: "I also found that the smoke was also floating up instead of directly falling to the ground, so I thought, could it be because of the smoke? Can Kongming lanterns fly into the sky?"

"But during the experiment, my son discovered another thing. Father, let's see." Zhao Ren picked up two pieces of paper, crumpled one into a ball, raised it flat and let go of both hands at the same time, and said: " Since it is the same paper, why does the crumpled one fall to the ground first, while the uncrumpled one floats around?"

Stretching out his hand to scratch in the air, Zhao Ren said in a more confused voice: "There is nothing in the air, but why do you feel a tactile sensation when you shake your hand? Could it be the air? Could it be the air that caused the paper to fall to the ground?" Floating around? I couldn’t figure it out, but when someone brought a bowl of soup, I got a clue. Could it be that the air is like water and the smoke is like oil, that’s why it floats up?”

Emperor Guangxing felt that his brain was not enough: "These...why do you think about these things?"

What Zhao Ren said were common everyday things, but no one had time to think about them.But once this matter is raised and analyzed, the common places in daily life are full of inconceivable, even Emperor Guangxing finds it inconceivable.

Zhao Ren said honestly: "Hua Manlou said it. He said that to study these is to study physics, the principle of studying things. If you understand physics, you will understand the laws of the world's operation. If you use it, you will definitely have a lot of fun." It is a great achievement. So since I know that smoke rises like oil, I can see from this principle that I can definitely make a huge Kongming lantern for people to ride on. Throw a few Purdue bombs in the air to kill the commander or blow up the commander's flag, and the enemy will collapse."

If Hua Manlou was here, I'm afraid he would die laughing: To put it lightly, how can it be so easy?

But in reality, without any physical basis, or even taught by anyone, Zhao Ren is already considered a little genius based on what Hua Manlou guided. The things he said are really unprecedented. , and it really fits Huamanlou's principle of unity of knowledge and action...

So Emperor Guangxing was completely shocked.

129. The self-doubting Emperor Guangxing

"These...are Huamanlou teaching you?" After being shocked, Emperor Guangxing asked again uncertainly.

"That's right..." Zhao Ren curled his lips: "I feel that these things are left over from his play, and he still refuses to teach him directly, but throws two iron balls for him to think about. My son thought of something, and was reprimanded by Yu Pengyi as crooked."

"Father, my son really doesn't understand. They said that my son will be the emperor in the future, so he must study and learn how to govern the country." Having said all this, Zhao Ren simply threw out the doubts that had been suppressed in his heart. Li said: "But I have also studied and read books, but my doubts are increasing. For example, can I really govern the country if I read more sages' words?"

Emperor Guangxing stayed silent for a moment.

It is true that he could say that reading the words of the sages was to cultivate benevolence and to know propriety and righteousness, but just as civil servants did not react much after the publication of Hua Manlou's "Mocking Suan Ding", Emperor Guangxing knew better than anyone that only reading the Four Books and Five Classics was wrong. There is no way to govern the country.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhao Ren said again: "Earlier, my father was worried all night because of the danger of Great Harmony. My son also thought about how to help his father share his worries, but my son has searched through the four books and five classics, but he has never seen how to solve this matter. , on the contrary, once Huamanlou’s Purdue came out, the danger of Datong was resolved. My son asked him whether this Purdue is also the application of the principle of Gewu. He said that it is precisely because of his deep understanding of gunpowder and iron that this Only then did the weapon of killing become universal. Therefore, I wondered, whether this principle of things is more useful than the words of sages?"

If Emperor Guangxing had been a scholar, he would have beaten Zhao Ren to death if he heard what Zhao Ren said. to be silent again.

Zhao Ren continued: "There is also the firecracker that can hit as far as one mile. Isn't it Hua Manlou's use of the theory of gewu? Doesn't the firecracker also solve some of the headaches that the father has? This kind of knowledge is profound and profound, and can be applied not only to the military, but also to other places, such as... such as farming, maybe there are some ways to increase the harvest of farmers? There are also things like farming and fishing. It's about people's livelihood..."

"Father, gentlemen, you often teach your ministers to treat the people generously and implement benevolent government. So what is generous treatment and how should you implement benevolent government? But these ministers suddenly understand that if the people can be satisfied under the influence of your ministers, Isn't it a benevolent government to dress warmly? So I think that instead of sitting high in the study, it is better to delve into the principles of things. I don't want to learn, I don't want to learn, I just want to learn something useful, not Listening to the gentlemen reading books from thousands of years ago all day long, I feel drowsy..."

It can be said that Zhao Ren expressed all his grievances and recent thoughts.

In other words, the baby of his age is just active, but as the prince, he has to study those great principles and the words of the sage all day long, but these things are too abstract for Zhao Ren, so he has no choice but to deal with them. He is in a daze all day long with the principles of "a country with a thousand chariots, respect things and trust them, use them frugally and love others, so that the people can use the time" and so on.

His reasoning is correct, but Zhao Ren doesn't understand how to treat government affairs with respect, how to be frugal and love the people.

After hearing his words, Emperor Guangxing felt extremely complicated.

"Guanzi Herdsmen" has a saying: if the granaries are real, you know the etiquette, and if you have enough food and clothing, you know the honor and disgrace.When he read the classics and history collections in the past, he felt that this sentence was correct, because only after eating and clothing, he had other thoughts, and could he pay attention to etiquette, justice, integrity and shame.But I don’t know why, whether the attendants in the past or the courtiers today, they are all preaching in a big way, talking about etiquette and righteousness. It seems that everyone thinks that as long as the people know the etiquette and know the honor and disgrace, the world will naturally achieve great order .

Emperor Guangxing, who was still a prince back then, only felt that he was ignorant of his knowledge, and he was taught by great Confucians, so what they said was naturally correct, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart and never doubted it.

But now my son seems to have the same question, and not only raised it, but also gave the answer: Isn't it benevolent government to let the people have enough food and clothing?

But it’s easy to say enough to eat and wear warm clothes, but in this era, it is already a great achievement for ordinary people to feed the whole family. How many people work all day just to eat one more bite?

Thinking of this, Emperor Guangxing thought of the corn and potatoes that Huamanlou told him a few days ago, and he couldn't help being fascinated again, but he suppressed this matter again. After all, Huamanlou was not sure whether these things existed. does not exist.

But judging from the current situation, with the substantial improvement of ironmaking technology, the quality of iron farm tools has risen and the price has fallen. Isn't this a thing that is enough to improve the efficiency of farmers?Judging from the results, with good tools, farmers may be able to reclaim a few more acres of land and harvest more grain. In this way, wouldn't people be able to eat more food?

So the root of it is not the application of the principle of gewu?

After thinking about these things, Emperor Guangxing's world view was a bit bad.

He has been taught Confucianism by great Confucians since he was sensible, and he can be called a benevolent emperor after he ascended the throne. Nowadays, he is also called the rule of Zhongxing, but there are still a large number of people struggling below the food and clothing line. He feels that he is better than the previous emperor. At that time, Da Zhao was not much better at all.

Emperor Guangxing was an emperor who was good at self-doubt. He always felt that it was because of his poor qualifications and immature means of governing the country, but now it seems that his busy work is like those empty-talking Confucian scholars, out of touch with reality?

So he thought of Hua Manlou's words again: What did you do for Da Zhao?

What have you done?Apart from governing the country according to the rules and carefully reviewing the memorials, it seems that they have done nothing?

For a moment, Emperor Guangxing felt extremely lost.

Looking at the stubborn Zhao Ren, Emperor Guangxing was suddenly a little relieved: "My son has grown up and is willing to think about problems with his heart, very good, very good..."

Zhao Ren was overjoyed. Knowing that he had passed the test today, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered: "That's right, my minister would have thought about it a long time ago! Father, you have seen what happened today. I just want to try Trying to see if the huge Kongming lantern can fly, that old man Yu Pengyi came and reprimanded him, and he didn't even listen to Erchen's explanation! There are also some old fools in Chunfang..."

Emperor Guangxing's face froze when he heard this: "You old fool?"

Zhao Ren said affirmatively: "That's right, Kong Huaqing, the Zuochunfang University scholar, and those old fools who only know what they know, I can't wait to give each of them a shot of Purdue! Father, you don't know, my son, the first two The day was just to fly a kite and think about the principle of flying into the sky, but these old bastards jumped out and burst into tears accusing the son of playing for fun... Alas! Why did the emperor beat the son again?"

Emperor Guangxing gritted his teeth and said, "Before you learn the principles of learning things, I will teach you what it means to respect your teacher and respect the way. Kneel down!"

130. Hug money!

When Zhao Ren was being beaten, an unexpected visitor came to Huai'an uncle's mansion.

The uninvited guest's surname was Liu and his name was Fan. He was Huamanlou's immediate boss when he had just been the general banner for a few days. He is now an official of the Xishan Qianhu Office, in charge of mining matters.

Although it is located in a deep mountain, staying in the mine can be regarded as comfortable, and according to the current unspoken rules, even if Liu Fan does not reach out casually, his income is much higher than that of the Baihu on the East Street, so although he is considered a transfer at the same level , but Liu Fan's life is much better than before, and he doesn't have to be angry everywhere, which makes him very grateful to Huamanlou.

But the guy in charge of mining didn't stay in the mountains, and it was unusual for him to come to Beijing suddenly, so when Hua Manlou saw him, he couldn't help being surprised: "Something happened in the mine?"

Liu Fan was also shocked when he heard this: "Something went wrong... Oh, Mr. Qian misunderstood, today the bidder came to Beijing specially to report something, that's what, Dayu discovered a new mine."

Hua Manlou was not surprised by this. After all, there are really a lot of minerals in the Xishan area, so he said, "I need you to go for this matter? There are new mines organized to see how to excavate them. You come to find them." What am I going to do?"

Liu Fan smiled wryly and said, "No, Mr. Qian, the main reason is that we... have no money."

Hua Manlou scratched his head: "No money... Didn't the palace send 3000 taels of silver a few days ago?"

Now Liu Fan is simply a steward of Xishan. After all, he is the only one who has income at the moment. Although the current coal mines do not produce much, and people are not used to using coal, they can still sell a lot of coal, so the building is full of flowers. Let him handle the finances first.

only……

It’s okay not to mention money, but when Liu Fan mentioned money, he looked depressed: "Mr. Qian, I didn’t say that, that fellow Peng Guang spent too much money! I just paid 2000 taels from the account a few days ago, and paid it again yesterday. 2000 taels, the bidder said to let him save some money, but he retorted that this is the first priority of Xishan, and the bidder does not understand, but even if the bidder does not understand the business of craftsmen, it is rare If the money is paid, who should dig the coal for Peng Guang’s iron smelting? Those coal diggers don’t go down the well if they don’t see the money!”

Peng Guang used to be a small flag under Liu Fan's banner, but now with the rise of Huamanlou, it has become a hundred households, and Liu Fan can see that the core of Xishan is on the side of the artisan household, so it is not easy to argue with him, but in his heart After all, there was still some sour water, and it poured out as soon as he opened his mouth.

Of course, it is out of the question to have conflicts with each other, after all, they are all doing things with Huamanlou, but the naughty Liu Fan still wants to go further, so these words also have the meaning of showing loyalty to Huamanlou.

Hua Manlou was too lazy to care about their messy things, he only focused on money: "Well... Speaking of which, just now His Majesty gave me a group of stupid scholars to go to Xishan to make farm tools and plow the fields , I thought the palace might be in a hurry too, no one can bear it if you can't get in or out... Forget it, it's time to settle this matter."

Emperor Guangxing's order to punish those scholars has already been handed over to Huamanlou. It was the eunuch who hinted last time that Huamanlou didn't care whether he was promoted or not. Money is gone, Your Majesty is short of money, and you, Xishan, should almost be self-reliant—otherwise, why did Your Majesty stipulate that this group of scholars make sickles and hoes?

In fact, Hua Manlou is not helpless, but a few days ago, he used long guns and short guns, which really delayed some things. Now these things are brought together, and they just happen to be resolved together.

Glancing at Liu Fan, Hua Manlou said: "It just so happens that you're here, this one, you're familiar with the East Street area, go find a shop, the one that's a little bigger, it's fine for rent, it's fine, within seven days Clear it out for me, I want to use it. And... Well, find a place with more farmers in the Nancheng area, and set up a shop."

Liu Fan was taken aback for a moment, and then he was overjoyed: "Yes, I'll do it now!"

Although Liu Fan doesn't know what Huamanlou wants the two shops to do, but Huamanlou's move means that there will be a big move, and he, Liu Fan, will assist, once it is done, it will be a credit!

Well, this is the purpose of Liu Fan, the chicken thief, coming to find Huamanlou. Although coal digging is good, but the credit is too little!

……

So what does Huamanlou want to do?

Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with Qin'er.

Now it is the Little Ice Age, and the capital in November is as cold as Siberia, and it is unbearable to put a charcoal brazier in the house.