When Bai Sheng first came here, she was actually a little worried that she would not be able to get used to it. After all, this era seemed to her to be too backward, and she should have nothing to lose. She was even ready to live a hard and simple life.
But now, she found that she thought too much.
It is too simple to think of ancient nobles.
It's just the types of things they can enjoy. The technological level is not as good as that of later generations, but the rest is not that bad.
For example, although there are few types of meals and few cooking methods, the taste is not bad. Onion, ginger, pepper and other deodorizing substances have been used for many years, and many cooking utensils are just in different shapes. Too much the same, the materials are different, but the functions are almost the same.
For example, the copper cauldron and steamer combination.
It consists of a cauldron and a retort, which are connected up and down. Its working principle is similar to the steamer of the future.
For example, a copper divided tripod.
There are five partitions in the bronze tripod, which looks similar to a normal nine-square grid hot pot and is used for cooking and eating.
By the way, there are even seasoning trays. Matched with the copper dividing tripod is a copper dyeing furnace. When using it, season the meat products with sauce, salt and other seasonings. Put the seasonings into the dyeing furnace, and then put the meat products into the furnace. It can be fried in sauce and eaten. It can also be heated with charcoal fire underneath, which has its own heating function.
Another example is the bronze tripod with three bear feet.
The legs of the tripod are three cute little bears, standing in a crouching position with two round ears erect. There are four little animals on the lid of the tripod. When using it, first open the little animals on the ears, then close the lid and put the The little beast turned over and buckled it on the cover.
Then turn the lid so that the back of the lying beast is stuck under the chin of the standing beast, so that the tripod and the lid are tightly connected.
When cooking rice or vegetables, the air forms high pressure in the pot, speeding up the cooking speed, or reducing the cooking time. This is basically the principle of the pressure cooker later.
Another example is daily washing, bathing and makeup.
Also quite thorough.
You use rice water to wash your face and hair, and sometimes you also use spiced soap locust. When you take a bath, there is even a special rubbing stone. It should be something like a bath towel to exfoliate, and you can rub the dust. There are even medicated baths, where some medicinal herbs are added to the bath.
In addition, even the types of cosmetics and skin care products are quite complete, but they may not be so safe and non-toxic.
There were quite a lot of things on the original dressing table.
There are facial butters to moisturize the face, and balms to be applied on the wrists behind the ears, which are relatively high-end and different from the lead powder that is often used in the folk, rouge made from natural plants, and rouge and lipstick made from cinnabar. In addition, It's Daishi, which is specially used to draw eyebrows.
How should I put it? More than half are poisonous.
And the family is not rich, and they are not exposed to poisonous things.
For example, lead powder, ordinary people are not willing to use this. Those who have a little money can only get some rice powder to apply on the face, as well as rouge and lipstick. The price of cinnabar is much more expensive than that of natural plants, and natural plants are easy to fade. Due to time constraints, you won’t be able to get it after the season, so the cinnabar ones will naturally be more expensive.
But both of these are undoubtedly poisonous.
The original person could barely live to be seventy years old, probably because she fell out of favor after she lost her sight. She didn't need to be a woman to please her own appearance. She wore makeup less often, only on some important occasions, and she ate relatively few poisons. some.
As for costume jewelry and accommodation, they are not too bad. At most, there are not as many styles as in the future. There are fewer color types and materials, and there is not much difference in other aspects.
Thousands of years have passed, and hairpin jewelry of flowers, fruits, birds and animals, and silk fabrics are still popular!
After discovering this information that he didn't know before, Bai Sheng was not disappointed, and even a little surprised, because inventing and perfecting a technology from scratch would undoubtedly be more difficult and difficult to explain.
But it would undoubtedly be much easier to put forward some opinions or requests on the existing technology and let the corresponding craftsmen improve it, and she would not even need to draw drawings.
Just point the way.
Craftsmen can quickly develop corresponding products.
However, before giving guidance to the craftsmen and starting his own chamber of commerce plan, Bai Sheng still had one thing that he urgently needed to solve, which was to remove the chronic poisons around him and change his diet.
Yes, she is the poisonous thing in Changxin Palace.
Quite a lot indeed!
Needless to say, cosmetics containing lead powder and rouge containing cinnabar are definitely poisonous. Not to mention if they are applied on the mouth and eaten, long-term exposure will damage the body, which must be removed.
In addition, various dining utensils need to be replaced.
As the Empress Dowager, she would definitely not be able to use those inferior pottery or celadon. The quality of porcelain at this time was very poor, even worse than the quality of celadon during the Warring States Period due to the wars in the previous dynasty and the loss of skills. Therefore, the nobles mainly Use bronze.
Or use gold or jade.
The original body was more frugal and mainly used bronze wares, but at this time the bronze wares contained lead. As long as he ate some cold food, it would do little harm to the body. But when he ate hot food or food that needed to be cooked for a long time, the food would It is true that the heavy metal and lead content exceeds the standard, and it is definitely a standard chronic suicide.
In addition, all corners of Changxin Palace must also be cleaned.
Because the nobles at this time generally did not use cheap mugwort to repel insects, but would use more expensive cinnabar that seemed to be more high-end to repel insects. Therefore, the amount of cinnabar in the original Changxin Palace was not small, so it was good!
That night, Bai Sheng ordered his cronies to start clearing away the poisonous things in Changxin Palace. He did not directly point out that cinnabar and lead were poisonous. He only said that he could not see red recently, so he removed all the things with the same color as cinnabar. Clear out all the cinnabar.
Also, she wanted to be more frugal and remove all the bronze vessels and replace them with pottery and porcelain.
No one dared to question Bai Sheng's operation.
Everyone even has to praise her for being thrifty.
At the same time, Emperor Jianyuan and the Queen Mother immediately cooperated and expressed that they should also be more frugal. Although they did not change all cooking utensils and tableware into pottery and porcelain, they did replace most of the cooking utensils that could be replaced with pottery and porcelain. , changed to pottery and porcelain.
For example, a tripod is used to cook soup and meat soup.
For grilling and roasting, bronzeware is still used.
No matter what their mother and son think in their hearts, at least their outward attitude is indeed quite good.
He is both filial and thrifty, a wise and wise king.
The one who did not cooperate was Chen Ajiao. Not only did she not cooperate, she even went to Bai Sheng to complain:
"Royal Grandma, we are a royal family after all. We are much nobler than those ordinary families. They are still using all kinds of bronze wares, but you have switched to the pottery and porcelain used by ordinary people. It is unseemly."
"And those utensils are a waste if they are not used!"
"If you don't want it, why don't you give it to me. I'll just use it to exchange for some copper coins so I can buy some fertility medicine."
