In the Forbidden City, Wu Zong was weakly leaning on the bed. He was in the prime of his life, but he couldn't leave his mouth all day long. He looked like he was playing a blindfolded game of catch and caught the spider essence in the silk hole, and then threw it out after sucking the yang energy. , but Wu Zong was not convinced, and still wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River to listen to music when he recovered. He heard that the four major courtesans in Jiangnan's "Flowers, Snow and Moon" were in trouble one after another, and even Yue Qingyan, the leader of the four courtesans, was in trouble. He mysteriously disappeared overnight, and he wanted to find out what happened.
"Pah!" Wu Zong raised his hand and overturned the medicine handed over by the imperial concubine: "These medicines are not good after taking them for so many days. What's the use?"
The imperial concubine quickly knelt on the ground and put on a charming smile: "Your Majesty, your dragon body is precious. Don't scratch your hand. I'll ask the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital to come over and make a prescription."
"Those imperial doctors, when I ask questions, they tell me a lot of truths about medical skills and pharmacology. After prescribing these medicines, they are still the same. The medicines are too slow to work. Let them change to stronger medicines, and they will kneel down. It’s all over the place, it’s annoying to look at it, I’ve been lying here for five days and I still feel pain all over my body, even this small injury can’t be cured, in my opinion, we should pull out all the people from the Tai Hospital and chop them all.”
"Your Majesty, calm down!" Wu Zong looked up and saw Jiang Bin coming in. His love for his godson was not in vain. He recalled that when he first met Jiang Bin, he heard that a guard in uniform was shot from the left cheek to the left ear by an arrow, and he was able to kill several people in a row. The ten men, whose bravery was comparable to that of Guan Yu, summoned Jiang Bin. After seeing that Jiang Bin's bravery could even make the tigers he raised retreat three points, Wu Zong, who longed for an iron horse on the battlefield, immediately decided to accept Jiang Bin as his adopted son.
Jiang Bin was the only one who understood him best in the entire capital, and when Wu Zong saw him, three parts of his annoyance melted away.
Jiang Bin frowned on his scarred face. Emperor Wu's health was deteriorating. He also asked the imperial doctor privately about Wu Zong's physical condition. The situation was not optimistic. He held great power, and the ministers of the DPRK and China signed several After impeaching him, he not only survived by relying on the emperor's favor, but his official position rose higher and higher. The ministers in the court were very afraid of him. He knew very well that once Wu Zong died, the ministers in the court would pounce on him. He will die without a burial place.
Seeing Wu Zong Jiang Bin put on a concerned expression: "Wei Chen knew that the emperor was sick in bed and was depressed and anxious, so he brought a good thing to the emperor." Jiang Bin mysteriously took out a one-foot-long gift from the brocade box. It was a barrel-shaped metal, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. A circular lens was embedded in one end of the barrel, and there was a ring of gems on the metal. Wu Zong was also attracted by this strange and well-made object.
"Your Majesty, this little object is very magical. Although it doesn't look very good, it can see things that cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye a hundred meters away, and it will not be noticed by others. The Emperor can even see into Taihu Lake when he holds it up high. How do fish swim?"
"Isn't this the legendary clairvoyance? I didn't expect that there really is such an object in the world. Is it an artifact? My dear, please teach me how to use it?" Wu Zong pulled Jiang Bin's arm and sat down with excitement. Beside the bed, Jiang Bin was asked to teach the teacher how to use this thing. Seeing that the emperor and his favorite Jiang Bian were having a lively conversation, the imperial concubine withdrew knowingly.
"You only need to put the narrow end on your eye, close the other eye, and you will be able to see. However, this gadget cannot see through the wall. You must have no line of sight to see things in the distance clearly, so you need to It can be most effective in a place with a wide view or at a high place." Jiang Bin picked up the dark and still warm soup that night: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and after the Chinese New Year it will be spring hunting in March. Your Majesty last year Isn't it a pity that you didn't hunt the sea turtle in the sky? Next spring, if you take this little thing and your superb archery skills, you can easily hunt the sea turtle back and let those civil servants and generals have a good experience. Excuse me! Now you have to take good care of yourself."
Jiang Bin's words to Wu Zong were filled with excitement and excitement. He took the medicine bowl and drank it all in one gulp. The pungent and unpleasant medicine was no longer so bitter. Jiang Bin quickly brought a cup of tea to serve his godfather. gargle.
Wu Zong fumbled with this small object that looked a bit like a large open fire gun. He put it with one eye and looked at the small characters on the screen in the distance. As expected, it became clear a lot. This thing is really magical. Unfortunately, the Leopard Room is still too small to use it. Seeing the real role of the little thing, Wu Zong asked Jiang Bin to carry him outside the Leopard Room.
In December, the city of Beijing was dripping with water and turned into ice. The eaves were covered with thick snow. The howling north wind blew people's bones. Wu Zong ignored Jiang Bin's sincere persuasion and insisted on going outside. Jiang Bin really wanted to give it to himself. Just a mouthful, this amulet is already dying and you are trying to kill yourself, what can you do?
Jiang Bin couldn't resist Wu Zong's whim, so he had to put a thick mink fur on him and carry Wu Zong outside the leopard room. Wu Zong, who had been in the leopard with plenty of charcoal fire for a long time, was shivering from the cold as soon as he went out. , almost fell off Jiang Bin's back, and Jiang Bin was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his head. The glory and wealth in his life was almost gone. Jiang Bin quickly hugged the life-saving charm tightly, and called two young eunuchs to drag Wu Zong from behind. , guaranteed to be foolproof.
Wu Zong picked up the little thing and raised his head to the sky. He could even see clearly how the sparrows flew in the sky. He looked at the tree in the distance with joy and saw what the color of the feathers of the partridges on the tree were. With his eyes under his eyes, Wu Zong seemed to have opened the door to a new world. He held up the little gadget and looked around. In the end, he couldn't bear the biting cold wind. The eunuchs knelt on the ground before taking this ancestor back to the leopard room. .
Wu Zong huddled in the thick mink fur and baked for a long time before his body recovered. He asked Jiang Bin enthusiastically where he got such an interesting little object.
"Your Majesty, this is a gift from the Franji people. The Emperor is not interested in recovering from his illness. I thought it was interesting, so I brought it to the Emperor to play with. They also have many interesting objects. Do you want to see them, Your Majesty?"
"Is he the Franji man who followed me all the way from Jiangnan to Shuntian Prefecture like a dog-skin plaster? I heard that he has blond hair, blue eyes, and a stinky smell that cannot be washed away. If you don't see him, just bring the things over. Now." When Wu Zong mentioned Franji, he had a look of disgust on his face, for fear of dirtying his eyes.
Jiang Bin had already received a box of muskets and grenades, which were far more powerful than the Daming Firearms from the Portuguese Deputy Envoy Pillai. Even if it was Wu Zongga, he might be able to find a way out with these firearms.
Jiang Bin, who had already grasped Wu Zong's temper, followed Wu Zong's words and said: "The person from Franji who came to see him was accompanied by an interpreter. He was from the Ming Dynasty who grew up in Franji and was very familiar with the people and customs of Franji. Those strange little objects need to be explained by someone to know how to play them, and even the guessers can't figure them out. Wouldn't it spoil the emperor's interest? If the emperor doesn't want to see Franji, he can meet Sanya, the translator. "
Wu Zong became interested: "Then let's meet this fireman Sanya."
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Pilaizi, who had lived in the Jingshan Department for five days, was wrapped in three layers of quilts next to the brazier. He was as cold as chaff. He couldn't leave the door and didn't step out to hatch an egg. He made a mistake and didn't expect this place. It's so cold, my beautiful fiancée is twisting her waist in the warm Guangzhou, and I am wrapped in a mink in the cold Beijing city.
Pillaizi was overjoyed when he heard that the eunuch who announced the decree came to announce the decree. He had committed a serious crime along the way to Beijing. He begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother, and finally he could see the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Pillaizi stretched out his sleeves and wiped the cold from his quilt. With a big runny nose, my heart was trembling with excitement, my hands were trembling, I jumped out and limped, holding on to the wall, to the hall to receive the order.
Because he was so excited, the eunuch who announced the decree read the imperial edict loudly and ups and downs. Pillaizi knelt down and sobbed softly in harmony, causing the eunuch who announced the decree to peek at the strange-looking Franji man frequently.
After announcing the decree, Pilaizi watched helplessly as his translator was asked to leave. He stepped forward to identify himself with a non-complexioned voice, but no one could understand what he said. Instead, they violently turned him back. Entering the room, Pillai continued to wrap himself in the thick quilt angrily, shivering and sniffling from time to time.
He recalled that he bribed local officials like he was distributing money along the way, and then he found out that Emperor Wu Zong was traveling in the south of the Yangtze River. He went through all kinds of hardships and hurriedly walked for more than ten days before arriving in Nanjing from Guangzhou, and presented the memorial to the audience. After the trustee handed it over, he kept his feet in the post house in Nanjing for three days. When he heard that Wu Zong had returned to Nanjing, he went through ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships for more than ten days before rushing out of Nanjing. After arriving in Beijing, we shivered for five whole days in the dilapidated Fine Food Department. The translator even saw Wu Zong, but he had not yet seen his dignified Portuguese deputy envoy.
