Hongwu Survival Guide

Luo Shui came in with a stack of manuscripts, saw that his lord was teasing the pair of petite Japanese girls, took off his shoes and sat down, and said: "My slave specially ordered, don't teach them how to speak, this will have a special charm, what do you think?" ?”

"But did I explain the business?"

"There are also many Japanese women. These two are too young to know much, so I can let others tell the story." Luo Shui said, waiting for his adults to drive the two little ones away, then sat sideways and motioned for the manuscript in his hand: "My lord Do you want to read it yourself, or read it and listen to it?"

Zhu Yuan patted away Wutong who was coming over from the other side: "Of course you are here to read."

As he spoke, he saw Luo Shui bend the thighs under the Ququn skirt forward, and even glanced over, smiled, and lay down with his head resting on her lap, feeling the fragrance of his daughter at close range. I also found a very suitable reason: "It's just time for a nap."

Luo Shui waited for Xieyi, who came over, to help his adults cover the mattress, and at the same time helped to cover it, and then turned to the manuscript in front of him, brewing a little, and began to read in the light of the small window in front of him.

"The origin of the story is that in ancient times, Gonggong and Zhuanxu fought for the title of emperor, and they touched the mountains of Buzhou in anger, so that the four poles were destroyed, Kyushu was torn apart, the sky would not be restored, the earth would not be contained, and the fire would never go out. The water is vast and endless. To save the people, Nu Wa took giant Ao enough to set up the four poles, and then smelted 500 pieces of five-color stones to make up for the sky. However, Emperor Na Wa only used The five-color stone cost [-] yuan, and only one piece was left unused, which was discarded on the Wuji cliff of the Great Barren Mountain..."

Zhu Yuan, who squinted and listened, couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

Luoshui led a group of girls in the inner house to write several beginnings, and Zhu Yuan chose this one on purpose.

Because, deep water terrier.

With such an opening, it can be called "Dream of Red Mansions", but it can actually be called "Journey to the West".

Luoshui felt the reaction of his adults, paused, and seeing that Zhu Yuan didn't say anything, he continued to read.

The brand new first chapter is basically the same as before, and the content is destined to be very different.

I once read "Dream of Red Mansions", but I don't remember much, but I still have some impressions of important chapters such as the opening chapter. For example, the title of the first chapter, "Zhen Shiyin has a dream and a psychic, and Jia Yucun is a beautiful girl". Remember.

And the first five musts.

And, in "Okay Song", Zhu Yuan only remembers the beginning of "Everyone knows that gods are good, but fame can't be forgotten."Where are the ancient and modern generals?A pile of grass in the barren mound is gone'.

I don't remember it later.

Because it was very important, Zhu Yuan asked Luoshui and the others to make up a new one, including the interpretation of Zhen Shiyin's "Good Song" when he had an epiphany.

Luo Shui is a very smart girl, coupled with her previous life experience, and the help of a group of women with different experiences around her, the brand new "Good Song" doesn't feel bad at all.

In general, the new Chapter 1 mainly talks about two things.

Zhen Shiyin lost her daughter's epiphany, and Lin Ruhai left her alone on her deathbed.

Two of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling directly appeared on the stage.

In terms of specific content, starting with the redundant five-color stones, together with Dashi Miaomiao and Daoist Miaomiao revealing the past of Shenying's waiter and Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass, and following a group of men and women who have gone through many calamities, they descended into the realm together, turning into monks with scarlet heads and lame roads. people.

Among them are the settings that readers of this era will definitely look amazing.

Crimson Pearl still tears!

In addition, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun's "deduction of money" is also novel at the moment, and Zhu Yuan has not changed it. Although the specific writing is definitely different from the original version, the title of the first chapter is also intended to use the original version.

Although, Jia Yucun, who has read "Dream of Red Mansions", no one will like it, but he is indeed an important character who promotes the plot throughout the novel.

Neither the original nor the new version will have a happy ending.

There used to be a saying that the original version of the original version, after the decline of the Jia family, Jia Yucun continued to rise. Not only that, Xue Baochai even became Jia Yucun's concubine.

This is too far-fetched.

Cao Xueqin also gave the ending of Jia Yucun a long time ago. It is the couplet: there is more behind me and I forget to shrink my hands, and there is no way to turn back in front of me.

The "Gourd Monk" in Jia Yucun has done so many "Gourd Deeds". For "A Dream of Red Mansions", which is very particular about cause and effect, it is impossible to have a happy ending. There is a direct relationship between the sudden collapse.

How it used to be is unknown, but this time, in terms of the overall plot, Zhu Yuan intends to follow this setting and make Jia Yucun an introduction to the decline of the Jia family.

Generally speaking, this time I will tell a story in the Grand View Garden.

Some key plots in the past, such as visiting relatives in Yuanchun, Daiyu burying flowers, Baochai fluttering butterflies, Tanchun forming associations, etc., including Grandma Liu, will not be missing.

Zhu Yuan's request to Luoshui and the others is to be strange, interesting, ingenious, and "grass snake gray thread, with a long pulse".

As for the connotation that I mentioned to Lao Zhu before... step aside, anyway, as long as the book is completed and has enough influence, someone will dig out the connotation from it, a thousand Harry Potters, don’t worry about Zhu Yuan .

inside the cabin.

After Luo Shui finished reading, Zhu Yuan, who was listening with gusto, was still asleep. He opened his eyes and said, "It seems that there are too many words?"

Luo Shui nodded: "It's been simplified, but it's still nearly 8000 words. My lord, do you want me to change it again?"

"No, it's boring to modify the word count." Zhu Yuan thought that the completed "A Chinese Ghost Story" was also more than 5000 words, and planned to smash it: "A few more pages, just a few more pages."

Luo Shui responded and sorted out the scattered manuscripts.

Zhu Yuan raised his head, looked at Luo Shui's exquisite face from bottom to top, stretched out his hand to caress it, felt the woman's head tilted slightly in cooperation, and said with a smile: "Suddenly remembered, do you feel that you are a bit like the heroine in it?" Lian, that is, Xiangling?"

"It's not like that." Luo Shui didn't hesitate at all, and looked at him with bright eyes: "It's like a slave who didn't realize that the lord would be that precious jade."

"What's different?"

Luo Shui curled the corner of his mouth: "It doesn't look like anything at all."

"Well, girl, it seems that you have a lot of opinions on me. Is it because I am not compassionate enough, or because I don't like to eat your rouge?"

Luo Shui put the finished manuscript aside, lowered his head, opened his lips slightly, and breathed hot air on Zhu Yuan's hand, which was fragrant and warm: "Do you want to taste the slave's rouge, I just applied it when you came here?" , and added honey."

Zhu Yuan brushed the corner of Luo Shui's lips with his left hand, retracted it to his nose and smelled it: "Can honey be added to rouge?"

"Added for grown-ups."

"Looks like I'll have to try it."

Luo Shui, who had been silently standing by the side to write opinions, bowed his head and kissed his lord, his eyes widened with envy and emotion.

I'm really not as good as myself.

No wonder it is Xie Yu Hua.

Ok.

According to Liu Bai, this is also called... not serious.

Thinking about it this way, Luo Shui's head was quickly pushed away when he wrote an opinion, and his own adults shouted: "I've been fooled, I've been fooled, it's not sweet, I'm famous for the rest of my life..."

Freehand: "..."

Luo Shui: "Hehe..."

Then Xieyi and the others were kicked out. According to their adults, they wanted to punish a certain woman who had the audacity to deceive her.

Xieyi could only drive a group of people, big and small, out of this cabin.

When I came outside, I looked at the hot stove connected to the inner cabin by the thick porcelain pipe, and told the servant who was in charge of burning charcoal to watch carefully, not only for heating, but also for fire prevention, before returning to the cabin.

Staying in the guest room between the inner and outer cabins, Xie Yi found out the embroidery frame to embroider a handkerchief for his family, and listened attentively.

There was no sound of punishment.

After a while, I finally couldn't bear it anymore, walked over and raised the curtain to take a look, the small window has been closed, in the dim light, under the quilt, only one head of my adult was exposed, lying sideways.

Luo Shui was lying on his back, his head was covered with black hair, and there was a white shoulder that made Xie Yi's face slightly warm when he looked at it.

Luo Shui didn't fall asleep, and noticed that Xieyi poked her head in, smiled at her, stretched her jade arm, and pulled the quilt tighter on the little man wrapped around her to avoid drafts.

Xieyi didn't look much, and quickly lowered the curtain again.

Waking up again, it was another winter evening.

As soon as the boat docked and entered the door, He Xuan talked about it. Those who went to Jing County to buy paper returned in the afternoon, and they got a total of more than 1300 knives of paper, all of which had been stored in the warehouse at Jinling University.

Also sent a few knife samples over.

As Zhu Yuan strolled towards the inner courtyard, he ordered the samples to be brought over.

Jingxian paper is actually Xuan paper.

This is the printing paper selected by Zhu Yuan for Daming Monthly.

Speaking of this, in this era, there are actually a lot of good papers. Every province south of the Yangtze River has its own famous papers with various names.

Zhu Yuan made a general conclusion after some understanding before.

No matter how the craftsmanship is or how fancy the name is, according to the different papermaking materials, there are mainly two types in this era: leather paper and bamboo paper.

Vellum, as the name suggests, is made of various types of bark. The best paper in this era is basically leather.

Bamboo paper, not to mention.However, due to the relatively short development time and limited by materials and techniques, the quality of bamboo paper cannot be compared with leather paper.

As for others, hemp paper, straw paper, cotton paper and the like are not mainstream.

Besides, the rice paper selected by Zhu Yuan, to be precise, was not called rice paper in this era. Although some people started making it in the Tang Dynasty, the fame of rice paper only gradually flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At present, this kind of paper produced in the ancient Xuanzhou Prefecture, which is now Jing County under the Ningguo Prefecture, is called Qingtan paper because it is made of green sandalwood bark instead of the common tree bark.

Or parchment.

Furthermore, although the reputation has not yet been opened, the quality has been quite affirmed, which can be seen from the price.

Even if Zhu Yuan asked people to go to Jing County to purchase in large quantities, the price per knife still reached the usual level of five.In comparison, the prices of other leather papers that Zhu Yuan had seen before were as low as 400 yuan a knife.Not to mention bamboo paper, seventy or eighty yuan a knife is also very common, and the price of green sandalwood paper can be 20 times lower.

And size.

Zhu Yuan hoped to make "Da Ming Monthly" into a 16-mo version, which can only be said to be the later standard.At present, a standard sheet of rice paper, three feet wide and one foot six high, is cut into roughly the same size as later 16-carat paper, and a large sheet can only be cut into 6 small sheets.

Calculated, according to the thickness of 50 sheets and 100 pages, "Daming Monthly" is only the cost of paper, and each volume will reach 125 articles.Including engraving, ink and binding, the estimated cost of each volume is about 200 Wen.

This is not counting the copyright value of the articles in it.

Zhu Yuan plans to openly call for papers in the future and pay for the papers.

Also, future national distribution.

Postage costs are only going to be higher in this day and age.

In short, after all considerations, if this magazine wants to make commercial profits, the price cannot be lower than 500 articles.

Buy a magazine for half a penny...a yearly subscription...even if it's cheaper, 5 pennies...

Ok……

Don't even think about making money.

vulgar!
After seeing the samples of green sandalwood paper, Zhu Yuan tried it that night, and asked the women around him to copy the completed "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" for the first time. In the palace, read it to Lao Zhu first.

Also look at the paper by the way.

After sending He Xuan into the palace to deliver articles, Zhu Yuan still did not go out today, nor did he go fishing on the lake, but came to the courtyard in front of the mansion where the steam engine model was made.

As soon as he entered the door, Jin Sanhu, who was appointed by Zhu Yuan as the principal, greeted him, saluted, and got up with some credit: "My lord, I have become one again."

Jin Sanhu was originally a craftsman who made engravings for the Yuan court royal family. In this day and age, he was able to produce complex machinery similar to the engravings of "clocks and watches". For steam engine models, it will only be more handy.

Zhu Yuan is also very concerned about the clock, but after asking Jin Sanhu, he learned that the other party really has two older brothers, named Jin Dahu and Jin Erhu, and they are both engraver craftsmen.Among them, Jin Dahu's level of making leaks is better than his third brother.However, before the Battle of Dadu, in order to preserve the family blood, the two elder brothers fled Dadu with their families and went to the countryside to avoid military disasters.

Because of Zhu Yuan's attention, Jin Sanhu confessed all these things.

Obviously also want to find a backer.

Zhu Yuan then sent a letter to Dadu asking people to look for Jin Sanhu's two elder brothers, as well as other engravers, planning to set up a watch workshop after they arrived, and at the same time asked Jin Sanhu to switch to making steam engine models.

While talking here, some other craftsmen also came out of the house to greet Zhu Yuan.

Compared with the six people selected initially, under the joint recommendation of these people, there are as many as 21 craftsmen in this courtyard, and some of them have gone to the next door.There are even more craftsmen making standard-sized steam engines, reaching 39 people.

After greeting each other and sending everyone to go to work, Zhu Yuan followed Jin Sanhu to the main room in the courtyard.

The first thing you see when you enter the door is the mini railway track on the big table in the main hall. The width is one inch. There is already a small train on it. Because the model is made of wax, the style is different from the later one. The main reason is that the water tank is placed at the back and connected by pipes. Powered steam locomotive.

This thing was done a few days ago.

What the craftsmen are currently working on is a steam engine ship.

Zhu Yuan's consideration was that he would call Lao Zhu to come and see after the vehicles and boats were all completed.

What Jin Sanhu said in the courtyard just now was not a steam ship, but another one that Zhu Yuan had just casually explained before: a steam pump.

There are open workshops on both sides of the main room. Various tools and various parts related to steam machinery are placed on the large workbench. On one side, there is a pedal cutting device that Zhu Yuan asked to make when he was in Mingzhou.

And of course craftsmen.

Signaling the craftsmen to keep busy, Zhu Yuan followed Jin Sanhu to a table where a steam engine and, obviously, a miniature water pump were placed. Fill the wooden barrel with water, and the water outlet at the other end of the water pump faces a wooden basin.

In Zhu Yuan's anticipation, Jin Sanhu added hot water to the steam model to reduce the boiling time, and then lit the candles.When the water vapor came out, he gently turned the steam engine wheel, and the little thing started to spin quickly.

Immediately, the end of the water pump facing the tub on the table began to discharge water.

Zhu Yuan only stared brightly.

Because I understand that compared to steam trains and steamships, which take a long time to put into practical use, this water pump, as long as it can be made into a real machine, can achieve great uses in a short period of time.