Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 130 The Collapsed Navy Commander

Leaning on the shoulder pad with squinted eyes, he returned to the inner house. When the shoulder pad landed on the ground, Zhu Yuan opened his eyes and found that in the courtyard where the lantern had been hung, there were two maids kneeling on the side near the west wing, one of whom was holding a There was only a big bowl on top of his head, seeing the little master returning, he looked over pitifully and with some fear.

Next to the girl, there are two servants holding thorns, and there are some girls around who seem to be drawn to watch.

Zhu Yuan didn't get up for a while, rubbing a few samples of 'Hongwu Tongbao' just obtained in the outer courtyard in his hand, and asked the approaching ones: "What's going on?"

Xieyi doesn't speak, but looks at Liu Bai.

With anger still on Liu Bai's face, he said: "During the day, I robbed the bathroom and fought, and my slave went to teach me a few words, that..." He pointed to the one holding the bowl: "... how dare you fight?" Talk back. Little official, the family is getting more and more unruly, and the slaves can't control it anymore."

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. It was specifically stated before that everyone in the yard has to take a bath every day.

Zhu Yuan couldn't bear a bit of sloppiness.

However, after hearing what Liu Bai said, Zhu Yuan looked around and understood instantly.

With a sullen face on purpose, Zhu Yuan said in an emphatic tone: "You can't control it, do you want me to control it myself? If there are disobedient ones, just drive them out. The yard is so crowded, less people can relax!"

After finishing speaking, he waved his hands around: "It's all gone, just make trouble for me when I come back from a tiring day, and I'm annoyed when I see you."

In a blink of an eye, there were only a few people left waiting for Xie Yi.

There are also two little maids not far away who are getting more and more frightened.

Handing the copper coins he was caressing before to the sack next to him, Zhu Yuan got up and went into the house, followed by Xie Yi and Liu Bai to help his little officials change their clothes.

Zhu Yuan let them change clothes for him, while catching Liu Bai, he tapped on the tip of Nizi's nose: "I've helped you to stand up, but don't be too pretentious, you should be more lenient, you know?"

Just like that, he was distracted by his own petty official, with a pale face and slightly reddened face, but he shook his head: "I can't, you can't make a circle without rules. Besides, those... the petty officials are always too kind to them. They all thought that they had become young ladies and were going to heaven."

Zhu Yuan had no choice but to pinch the little girl's chin: "Okay, I can't say it."

Xieyi helped her little official fasten her belt, straightened up and stared at Liu Bai, then turned her gaze: "Let's eat, little official, stewed venison, it's very nourishing."

Zhu Yuan walked out and said, "It's stewing again, I want to eat roasted."

Xie Yi took half a step to follow, and persuaded: "Little official, barbecue is not easy to restrain."

"Try it once in a while," Zhu Yuan said, "It is said that it will rain tomorrow, if you can't go out, then make preparations and have a barbecue around the oven at noon."

After thinking about it, I agreed.

After dinner, according to Zhu Yuan's own timing standard, it was about eight o'clock in the evening.

As usual, when I came to the study, the first thing was today's diary.

Before he knew it, Zhu Yuan's health improved a lot. At least, he didn't need to dictate to Xieyi to write the diary.However, it is not limited to this.

It first recorded the plan to establish a ferry system among the islands off the coast of Minnesota.

With ships, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in speed, there is no need to rely on wind power from time to time, and it happens to be able to connect the main islands such as Zhoushan and Daishan in Changguo Prefecture, Waihai. This is not only convenient for the people to travel, but also better for the government The management and construction of Changguo Islands.

In fact, seeing the big from the small, in the feudal era, the central government always easily lost control of the localities. One of the key reasons was the backward transportation system, which led to all kinds of "the sky is high and the emperor is far away".

Zhu Yuan will think about the "distribution" in economics when he has a little time, and he plans to make this a very important chapter.

Then there is the copper coin that just made a sample today.

Lao Zhu sent hundreds of unemployed Baoyuan Bureau craftsmen to Mingzhou, and asked Zhu Yuan to make it himself as much copper as he needed. Zhu Yuan's first request was that no lead!
In the future, no lead material will be added to the copper coins.

poisonous!

Therefore, after several discussions, it was determined that the copper coins in Mingzhou would be made of brass.

Question comes?

In most people's subconscious mind, isn't copper yellow?

No.

Pure copper is actually purple in color.

Because of its soft texture and the scarcity of copper ore in China, it is usually not used directly, but mixed with other metals to make alloys, such as the most famous bronze, because its hardness is relatively the highest. Currently, Yinghai Division in Mingzhou and Jinling will be used as divisions. The bearings made, of which the ball part is made of bronze.

Lead is often added to traditional copper alloys.

In the past, I didn't know, so that's all. Now that I know that long-term exposure to lead is not good for the human body, and conditions permit, Zhu Yuan certainly will not let it go.

Just like the bronze balls used in bearings, even if they are used, they will basically not come into contact with the human body. Zhu Yuan still prohibits the addition of lead materials, and can only be made with a ratio of copper and tin.

This time, the brass used to cast copper coins is the same.

Brass alloys, mainly copper and zinc, are recorded in some crafting classics: "Red copper is put into calamine, refined into brass, and its color is like gold."

Among them, 'calamine' is zinc ore.

The current zinc metal is called "Wo lead", which has nothing to do with Japan. The "Wo" here means changeable.Because the melting and boiling point of zinc is very low, in my memory, it will vaporize and evaporate at about 900 degrees, and the smelting temperature is not easy to control, so it is named.

Although it doesn't matter, Zhu Yuan still doesn't like this name, so he changed it directly recently. From now on, it will be called 'Zinc'.

The periodic table of elements, number 30.

At the same time, Zhu Yuan also recruited some craftsmen, and roughly explained the relevant principles, mainly to solve the evaporation problem during the fusion process of zinc ore smelting.This is also a major problem for the integration of zinc ore smelting, because of additional issuance, losses of [-] to [-]% or even higher are common.

The method given by Zhu Yuan is also very simple.

condensation.

For example, a condensing pipe is installed on the furnace, so that the zinc metal evaporated due to high temperature can quickly recondense and be collected again to avoid waste.

Besides, now that you know the principle, you can also work hard on temperature control.

To put it bluntly, many things will often become very simple as long as the truth is broken and the problem is solved.

After writing the diary, Zhu Yuan has no energy to do other things.

Let Xieyi tidy up the diary and lock it solemnly in the cabinet by the wall. Zhu Yuan turned to the side and was about to get up, but Nuan Niang subconsciously avoided his eyes when she happened to look over, so she beckoned: "Come here."

Nuan Niang paused, then got up and walked over.

Zhu Yuan was still sitting in the chair, holding the woman's waist, feeling the touch under the thin summer clothes, looking up and seeing Nuan Niang's eyes still wandering from side to side, and said with a smile: "You actually hide from me. Come on, call out , let you go."

Nuan Niang pursed her lips, turned her head away, and did not speak.

Zhu Yuan said: "Don't call, it's you tonight."

Nuan Niang trembled, her cheeks blushed quickly, she turned her head around, she seemed to open her mouth, but there seemed to be no movement, and she just moved away again quickly.

Zhu Yuan is very easy to talk to: "It's okay if you don't bark, just give me a kiss, and I'll let you go."

Nuan Niang moved her head a little, then turned away again.

Zhu Yuan began to overweight: "That's you, by the way, I'll let the mountains and rivers come over."

Hearing what Zhu Yuan said, Nuan Niang finally turned her head, her eyes were full of sorrow and resentment, seeing the little man with his face up and waiting, hesitating, hesitating, he still bowed slightly, but his lips only lightly touched Zhu Yuan's forehead. Printed lightly.

Standing up again, the woman's entire face was flushed, and her eyes were closed.

Zhu Yuan patted the woman lightly: "You even took the initiative to kiss me. It seems that you miss your little official. So, it's you tonight, and take a bath with me later."

Nuan Niang looked over with wide-eyed eyes, her expression was more sad and annoyed, and she protested in a low, almost inaudible voice: "You... how could you do this?"

"Ah……"

The laughter came from a certain sack sitting at the round table not far away.

As soon as the laughter started, it was knocked back by a chestnut left blank.

Zhu Yuan just brought the woman closer, feeling the alluring fragrance, and said with a smile: "This is a lesson for you, how can you trust a man's words?"

Nuan Niang: "..."

……

It did rain the next day.

Still big.

So I decided to take a day off.

They didn't get up until near noon, and Xieyi and the others had already prepared the barbecue stove, and after eating some roasted venison, they went to the study in the main room.

I didn't read a book.

A few days ago, I randomly ordered a small gadget, billiards, which was originally given to women for entertainment, so I just happened to try it myself.

The wooden table, which was smaller than the later standard pool table, was not covered with velvet cloth, but was carefully polished and smoothed. The billiard ball was the largest one-inch diameter bearing copper ball.

As for the rules, it adopted several later methods of play.

After playing a few shots at random, Zhu Yuan felt that this was quite suitable for him to exercise.

Just as he was having fun, he thought that the day would pass like this, when He Xuan came to look for him suddenly. It turned out that someone from the Admiralty's House next door came, saying that something happened there, and he hoped Zhu Yuan would come over.

What the visitor said was not clear, Zhu Yuan thought that something important had happened, and rushed to the next door in the rain, only to find out that the captain of the navy drank some wine, and then, remembering his own sadness, he suddenly collapsed. I kept crying and couldn't persuade.

Hua Gao's official wife is in Jinling, and no one can persuade him.

So I can only call Zhu Yuan.

Arriving at a flower hall in the inner house of the Dudu Mansion, Zhu Yuan heard Hua Gao's howling as soon as he entered the door.

What a 'howl'.

Going in, he came to Hua Gao who was sitting alone at the table holding a cup in his hand and crying like a child. Before Zhu Yuan could speak, Hua Gao who saw him appeared took the Throwing the flagon on the ground, he stretched out his hand to grab Zhu Yuan's little hand, and continued to howl without hesitation: "Hanlin, Hanlin... I just want a baby... I just want a baby ...I'm 55 now, I don't even have a baby, how can I see my parents and ancestors when I go down...Wow...baby...baby..."

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Suddenly I wanted to cry too.

People who drank alcohol were not serious at all, not to mention emotionally agitated, Zhu Yuan only felt that one of his hands was about to be broken like this today?

I still want to persuade.

Can't persuade.

Zhu Yuan had no choice but to say: "Don't cry, I'll help you find a way."

These words are finally useful.

Hua Gao stopped crying and looked over expectantly.

Zhu Yuan thought about it for a while, and called the servants at the door to come over, first to clean up the viewing here, and then took the pen and paper.

In the process of tidying up, I finally saw the concubine that Hua Gao had taken before.

There is nothing else to say, Zhu Yuan only has one feeling, small.

It's strange to be able to give birth to a child at such a young age.

When there were only himself and Hua Gao left here, Zhu Yuan picked up the pen and said to Hua Gao: "Let's analyze this matter from a scientific point of view."

Huagao: "What is science?"

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Hua Gao immediately raised his hand: "I don't ask, you just say."

Zhu Yuan then continued, while writing a few words on a piece of paper, he said: "First of all, you...Mr. Dai checked it. Although it is a little less, it is there."

Hua Gao nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes."

"There is hope here," Zhu Yuan wrote down a few more strokes on the paper: "However, the problem is also obvious, so we still have to try to cure it. Let's make an agreement first, and stop using your messy folk remedies. Seriously. Find some serious prescriptions in medical books, I will discuss this matter with Mr. Dai personally, and then contact Jinling."

Hua Gao nodded again.

Zhu Yuan said: "Again, I remember telling you, maybe I told you, we human beings... especially women, the best childbearing age is 20 to 30 years old, just now... so younger... ...Forget it, let's not talk about this, in short, according to the age of 25, you marry... two or three come back."

Hua Gao subconsciously said: "25 years old, which family can have a girl who is so old and has not yet left the cabinet?"

Zhu Yuan was annoyed: "Do you want a young girl who has not left the court, or a son?"

Hua Gao nodded immediately: "Son," and then understood: "I know."

Zhu Yuan said: "Let's be more straightforward, my lord, if you marry a few who have given birth to children, the chances are even greater. At least it has been proved that they can have children, right?"

Hua Gao hesitated a little, but nodded quickly: "I listen to you."

"Moreover..." Zhu Yuan thought for a while, wrote down the word 'date' on the paper, and said: "Time, this is also very particular, um, the first seven and the last eight... No, this seems to be It's a safe period, wait, I'll take a look..."

After thinking about it again for a while, he finally figured out the matter, and asked Hua Gao to slap his thigh, while complaining why Zhu Yuan didn't say it earlier.

Zhu Yuan was also helpless.

I thought that after studying for so long, Huagao could at least know something.

Thinking about it again, maybe it is because I live in the era of information explosion that I understand similar knowledge, Huagao... This guy has gone astray, and his mind is all on folk remedies.

So he continued: "Next, alcohol, we must quit."

Hua Gao was puzzled.

Zhu Yuan said, "Do you know Tao Yuanming?"

Hua Gao nodded, and read a few words: "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and seeing Nanshan leisurely."

Zhu Yuan said: "Drinking too much alcohol will definitely affect fertility. Let's say Tao Yuanming is also a good wine. As a result, he gave birth to a group of sons, all of whom are demented."

I don't quite remember whether Tao Yuanming's son's dementia was caused by drinking or close relatives, but it is definitely right to quit drinking.

Hua Gao obviously heard this kind of thing for the first time, but he didn't doubt it, he slapped the table and said, "I quit, I quit."

Zhu Yuan didn't say much, he believed that this guy could do anything and give up anything to give birth to a son.

Then search again.

After a lot of tossing, Zhu Yuan searched out all the fertility-related things he could think of, and even added the matter of eating more shellfish to supplement zinc, until it was completely dark, and Hua Gaoqiang dragged him to eat After dinner, we continued to chat for a few quarters of an hour before finally being able to escape.

I didn't react until I got home.

It was planned to be a leisurely day, but it was gone.

(End of this chapter)