Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 53
When Zhu Yuan woke up, it was already dark.

Lying on the unfamiliar spacious bed, feeling the warmth of the surroundings and the faint smell of earth that seemed to have been built and baked somewhere in the house, he was stunned for a while, and confirmed that this was Dinghai County in Mingzhou.

Did not go back.

As soon as she sat up, Xieyi, who was punctuating a book with candlelight reflected by the desk beside the bed, noticed the movement, quickly hung up the curtain, and looked over with concern: "Little official, you are awake."

Speaking here, the curtain of the bedroom door was lifted, and Liu Bai, Qingqiu and Luoshui walked in one after another.

Zhu Yuan let the women dress himself, looked at the candlelight on the table and the darkness outside the window, and asked, "What time is it?"

Xieyi knew that the 'point' of the petty official was not the 'point' of this era, but divided twelve hours into 24 'hours'. She calculated it skillfully in her mind and said, "It's almost 8 o'clock."

Liu Bai knelt on the footsteps beside the bed to help his little official put on his boots, and said, "Your official is hungry, slave bring me dinner?"

Qingqiu subconsciously said: "Slave go."

As he spoke, he was about to leave, but after a pause, he continued to help his petty officials button their buttons.

Luo Shui was binding Zhu Yuan's hair, at this moment he said softly: "Lord Hua and Mr. Dai are still waiting outside, do you want to see them first?"

Liu Bai looked up and glanced over.

Small!
To add the word 'small'!

He opened his mouth, but still didn't say anything.

Zhu Yuan finds it interesting, why when he wakes up, the women of all ages around him are undercurrents, as if they are fighting for something?
I don't care for now.

Thinking about Hua Gao and Dai Sanchun still waiting for him, it must be because of the uncomfortable thing on the boat in the afternoon, and now he has recovered, but he is also very grateful for their concern, and said: "Go and see them first."

He didn't say to let the two of them in.

It's not like when I was seriously ill before, I didn't need too many scruples. The inner courtyard of the owner's house is dictated by the etiquette system, so the two of them may not be willing to come if they say so.

Putting on his clothes, Zhu Yuan looked around curiously again.

This bedroom is much more spacious than the one on Houhu Island, but the beds behind it are doubled in size.

Moreover, the ground dragon was burned...

Feeling the faint smell of dry soil in the air again, Zhu Yuan understood that it was newly built, and asked curiously: "Who prepared this place?"

According to the rules, Dinghai should prepare a residence and a government office for him, but looking at all the new and luxurious furniture and utensils around him, as well as this earth dragon, it must be done by someone with a heart.

He wrote: "Master Fu Shoufu, he came to ask the little official if he needed anything else. The little official is resting, so he said he would kowtow again tomorrow."

It's Fu Shou again.

Previously, I took over 100 aunts from the two daughters of Xieyi, seven aunts and eight aunts, but this time it was the same again, Zhu Yuan didn't know what to say.

But can understand.

With the same identity in his previous life, it's not like he hasn't done similar things in order to make his business smoother.

It's just a change of location.

To put it bluntly, in this land, for thousands of years, it was really not easy for merchants.And most people have never seen thieves eating meat, never seeing thieves being beaten.

If it was someone else, Zhu Yuan would not let Fu Shou continue in his current position after all.However, since he is under Huagao's sect, he doesn't intend to say anything more.Huagao is a smart person and should know where the boundaries are.

After leaving the bedroom, Zhu Yuan realized that this new house was even more luxurious than he had imagined.

It’s just that the main room has a wide five-bay room. On the other side of the living room in the middle is a large study room that occupies two rooms. On several rows of bookshelves, not only the books and documents brought by Zhu Yuan have been arranged, but also stuffed to the brim. various other clicks.

Moreover, Zhu Yuan also understood what the women were 'fighting for' just now.

Outside the master bedroom, there is a small bedroom connected to it.

This is obviously for maids and maidservants.

Zhu Yuan also noticed Qing Niang's eager eyes when she looked at the small bed.

For the time being, I didn't care about these things, so I could wash up. Zhu Yuan went out of the inner courtyard, walked through a garden that was much smaller than the Houhu Mansion, and came to a reception flower hall outside. Hua Gao and Dai Sanchun, Zhu Yuan took the initiative to bow and said: "Yuan'er thank you for your concern, I made you worry."

Occasionally, he will not be right, but Zhu Yuan also knows what is good, and understands that the two of them really care about him.

Hua Gao hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Yuan up, and while talking, pulled him to sit down on the chair, and asked Dai Sanchun to examine Zhu Yuan's pulse, and said, "I, Lao Hua, was careless, I shouldn't let you sit on the boat like that." Work hard. The lord asked me to take care of you. If the lord finds out about this, I, Lao Hua, will suffer again."

After chanting a few words, Hua Gao calmed down and looked at Dai Sanchun.

Dai Sanchun checked the pulse, felt Zhu Yuan's forehead with the back of his hand, and looked at his face and tongue coating. After a while, he finally nodded: "It's nothing serious."

Huagao immediately grinned again: "It's fine if there's nothing to do, it's fine to have nothing to do, but have a meal? Well... let's go to eat, let's rest early after dinner," after speaking, he turned to Xie Yi and Lu Blank who came over: "Dinner In the future, you are not allowed to let your master look at the stars anymore, and don’t write anything in the paperwork, so let’s rest earlier.”

The two women agreed together.

After exchanging a few simple greetings, they sent the two away, returned to the inner house, passed through the three-entry courtyard similar to the layout of the later courtyard, and entered the innermost part.

The dining room is also in the west wing, and Qingqiu and Luoshui have already prepared dinner.

Zhu Yuan sat down at the dining table, knowing that the girls around him were unwilling to sit down, so he didn't say much, picked up the chopsticks, glanced at the four girls around him, remembered the lights in the side rooms on both sides when he just passed through the inner house and outer courtyard, and said with a smile: "After getting off the boat, I suddenly felt that my surroundings were much deserted."

The four girls all looked away slightly.

Zhu Yuan was just joking, picked up a piece of badly stewed mutton, tasted it, nodded in satisfaction, took the small bowl of rice handed over by Qingniang, felt the atmosphere was interesting, and added another sentence: "You know, monopoly business is If you don’t do it for a long time, it will easily cause a rebound.”

The other girls were still insisting, Qing Niang couldn't hold back, and said weakly: "Young official... who do you want to see, slave to call?"

Liu Bai took advantage of his family's small officials not paying attention, and stared at him fiercely.

Disaster!

Is it just a joke? !

When Qing Niang asked, Zhu Yuan thought for a while, but he really didn't think of which one for a while.

In the past few days, the only thing I'm familiar with is a small sack, so I can't really call him over to perform 'Carrying a tripod with a sack', right?

Speaking of which, Zhu Yuan initially planned his new life in the order of 'self-cultivation, family harmony, state governance, and world peace'.

Self-cultivation, accumulated over a lifetime, is enough.

Qi family, I wanted to take care of it before.Including the return of the fields, in addition to setting an example, I also don't want to get involved with too many tenants. After all, the relationship between the tenants and the main family is very close in this era, and Liu Bai has mentioned more than once that the tenants should come to the house for duty.

There are also statistics on the background information of the servant girls and servants, so as to avoid being mixed with sand around them.

These things were all interrupted by Lao Zhu.

The ancestor gave full play to the super double standard of "[-] shi" to his own family and "[-] shi" to outsiders. Not only did he give him all the unregistered families on the back lake as servants, but he also rewarded a hundred men and women one after another. The servants, and then, the seven aunts and eight aunts of Ernie Zixiubai, and the seven aunts and eight aunts of Qingniang who are still on the way, all of these should be counted on him.

So many people... plus Lao Zhu kept using his 23 grandsons as donkeys, Zhu Yuan couldn't "get together" and had no time to "get together".

Fortunately, I am not too worried.

Because of Lao Zhu, Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi beside him.Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi had already gone through the people around him in detail before, quietly took away the two servants, and nothing else.

At the moment, it has already jumped to the stage of 'governing the country'.

There is no time to 'get together'.

The result of lack of time is that Zhu Yuan can't recognize most of the women, even the women living in his inner house, except for a few around him.

After dinner, go back to the main room.

Zhu Yuan wanted to turn left to the study, but the two girls around him almost supported him and turned right to the bedroom.

Undressing again and coming to bed, Zhu Yuan had no choice but to say, "Going to bed right after eating is not good for your health."

Xieyi found two pillows and put them behind Zhu Yuan: "The little official sit down for a while before going to sleep."

Zhu Yuan leaned on the pillow and thought about it: "Have you sorted out the materials related to the three merchant ships in the afternoon, and brought them all to me?"

Freehand nodded, then shook his head.

Zhu Yuan spread his hands: "Then why should I sit?"

Qingniang and Luoshui also happened to come in, Zhu Yuan ignored the two girls and turned to the other two girls: "Bring all the documents related to the three ships this afternoon."

Qing Niang and Luo Shui glanced at the two of them, but did not move.

Liu Bai said softly: "Little official, let's rest, Mr. Dai has ordered you not to make you think too much."

Zhu Yuan really couldn't be free, so he started to lure: "Whoever brings the things here will sleep in the bedroom outside tonight."

When these words came out, the four women of all sizes were startled.

Qing Niang took another step, then stopped again.

She realized that even if she could sleep outside, the premise is... the people inside must be healthy first.

Zhu Yuan saw that there was still no effect, so he could only say: "Then write a work log and send it to your ancestors tomorrow. Don't shake your head anymore, or I will be really angry. I will go to bed after writing the log. Well, who is it today?"

After the four women exchanged glances, Luo Shui sat down beside the bedside desk, spread out the paper, and picked up a pen.

Qingniang went to the outside room and said that she would bring two more candlesticks.

Zhu Yuan looked at Xieyi and Liubai: "I don't want to read those materials, go and help me determine two data, the value of their goods on the departure and return trips."

The two girls thought about it, and agreed to leave the bedroom.

Zhu Yuan didn't wait for the two girls to return, seeing that Luoshui had laid out the paper, he began to dictate.

"On the tenth day of the lunar new year, Awakening of Insects."

Just smile.

It's a pity that today is not the sixth day of the junior high school, and this stalk is not neat.And I neither have sunglasses nor my surname is Wang.

Never mind.

Seeing Luo Shui looking over in doubt, Zhu Yuan put away his expression and motioned for her to cross out this paragraph, and continue in a serious manner.

"The first year of Hongwu, the tenth day of February."

"The measurement of latitude is settled, and after that comes longitude, the arc connecting the earth's north and south poles."

"If the longitude can be measured accurately, the combination of longitude and latitude, the position of any point on the earth, and the distance between any two points can be confirmed."

"But there are many problems."

"Different from the northern hemisphere latitude data that can be referred to by Polaris, there is no reference for meridians, and there is almost no difference between each meridian between the north and south poles. Therefore, we must first determine a starting meridian. In private consideration, or the central axis of the Nanjing Imperial City can be used as the longitude starting point." The starting point, that is, the zero-degree meridian, is the east longitude to the east, and the west longitude to the west, such as 10 degrees east longitude and 100 degrees west longitude, each occupying 180 degrees of the hemisphere.

"Confirmed by the zero-degree longitude, consider or use the stars in the sky as a reference for measurement."

"Draw a star map for this in the past few days, discuss it with everyone, and found that it is not possible."

"It's different from the North Star, which is in the north of the earth's axis, and its position remains unchanged. The stars in the sky follow the earth's revolution around the sun, and the seasons are different, and every day is also different."

"If there is an accurate timing tool, it may be operable. However, the accuracy of the timing tool needs to divide the twelve hours of the day into 24'hours', each 'hour' is divided into 60'minutes', and each 'minute' is divided into 60'seconds ', with 'seconds' as the unit, compared with the changes of the constellations, it can be calculated by reference."

"Such a timing tool cannot be created in the short term."

"In addition, manpower can also be used for extensive calculations, such as sending a large number of people to all parts of the country, agreeing on measurement standards, and collecting massive amounts of data for comparison."

"This method requires peace in the world, and we can think about it after we have some leisure time."

Zhu Yuan talked about longitude-related issues in a somewhat divergent way. The two girls, Xieyi and Liubai, had already returned, so he asked, "How much are they all?"

He wrote: "Master Liu personally made the calculations. In terms of silver prices, the Shen family caravan brought goods worth about 17000 taels of silver. When they returned..."

At this point, Xieyi paused, as if she felt that it was not true, and then opened her mouth, and she took the initiative to explain: "...the goods are mainly thick copper, as well as silver pieces, alluvial gold, and other lacquerware, leather goods, etc. are only a small amount. The total price... the total price is about 15 taels of silver."

Zhu Yuan: "..."

I was aware of the huge profits of the sea trade before, and in my previous life I heard the anecdote that the shareholders of the East India Company had a heart attack when they heard the profit of the sea trade for the first time, but in the end it was just a rumor.Now, seeing the specific figures, Zhu Yuan felt that his heart was not stable.

This trip, nearly 10 times the return on investment ah.

I am unbalanced.

I'm jealous!

No wonder Shen Wansan's family can pass down unofficial records of donating a third of the Nanjing City Wall. It is such a trench that it is no problem to wrap up the city wall.

After a moment of emotion, Zhu Yuan calmed down, motioned to Luoshui, and continued to dictate.

First, he gave a general account of the encounter with the three cargo ships of the Shen family today and the figures just given by Xieyi. Zhu Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "The benefits of maritime trade can be seen from this." He was also emotionally unstable and took drastic measures. Zhu Yuan poured cold water on it realistically: "Of course, the risks of maritime trade cannot be ignored."

"According to the head of Shen's ship, this safe round-trip is really a fluke. Maritime merchants go to sea, thousands of miles of sea, high winds and rough waves, there are also pirates, plagues of epidemics, sea ships capsize at every turn, and even the fleet never returns. , everywhere."

"For the benefits of maritime trade, the government needs to set reasonable regulations and collect taxes for national use, so as to avoid the accumulation of huge wealth among the people."

"The government also has the responsibility to protect the dangers of maritime trade. The high winds and waves at sea are a natural change and it is difficult to reverse them. However, pirates, epidemics, etc. can be avoided manually. Such pirates are the responsibility of the navy."

"This so-called mutuality between 'right' and 'obligation'."

"The government and the people complement each other and form a virtuous circle. This is a long-term solution."

"also."

"I also feel something about the shipping because I met the Shen family's fleet."

"There is no one in the world who is good at sea travel than a sea merchant who seeks great profits. Therefore, I plan to use sea merchants to assist shipping. I need to gather opinions from all parties later for consideration and to formulate a perfect plan."

Having said that, thinking about nothing else, Zhu Yuan stopped.

This time I did not add the signatures of a few girls.

It is enough to add it once at the beginning. After all, the different handwritings in the past few days, Lao Zhu can definitely tell that none of them were written by him.If it is specially added every day, it is hard to say whether it will be counterproductive given Lao Zhu's unpredictable temperament.

After Luoshui finished writing, Zhu Yuan took it over to revise it, and handed it over to the four girls to transcribe. He planned to write another letter tomorrow, attaching the work diary of the last few days and some other materials, and send it to Lao Zhu together.

Zhu Yuan was not worried that too many documents and materials would upset Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu is full of energy.

Moreover, just like studying history in the previous life, a courtier wrote a 90.00-word memorial, [-]% of which were nonsense.Old Zhu got angry while watching it. He was so angry that he called for someone to beat up the writer of the memorial. After the beating, he insisted on reading again.After reading it, after [-] words, I found the advice of the courtiers, and finally took what was available and implemented it.

In comparison, the ones I plan to pick and send are all dry goods.

(End of this chapter)