After settling the old couple Geng and Dingxiang, Liang Xin asked several maids to be more careful at night and arrange their night shifts.
Geng Ruyu went back to his room first, took out two pills from a box of Rishenglong's Shen Bao worth ten taels of silver, and gave them warm water. Liang Xin brought the roommate named Xiaozhu who was waiting in the room and said with a smile: "Young Master usually doesn't think of eating it, but today he took two pills when he felt like it. This can be said to be 'sharpening a gun before the battle'."
Geng Ruyu took out a handful of her body and said, "How dare you lie, you prodigal, today I'm going to take your young lady off my horse and kill you for the same crime."
Xiaozhu deliberately sneered, but finally decided to give him face, and avoided saying: "You'd better sleep for a while to recuperate. The young lady has to coax the young master, and it's time to go back to the room."
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By the time Liang Xin returned to the room, Geng Ruyu was already at war with each other. There was no need to elaborate on the fierce battle between the couple. After burning the incense, Liang Xin lifted him up and said: "You can do this for me and still kill me under the horse? Do you want to kill Xiaozhu and get the same penalty?"
Geng Ruyu said with a shy smile: "I'll take a break as my husband, and then I'll have the courage to fight back." Liang Xin burst into laughter, and asked Xiaozhu to bring hot water for him and the two of them to wash themselves.
The more Geng Ruyu looked at his daughter-in-law, the more he fell in love with her. He couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, I just hate that I can't succeed in my career and can't earn a job for you, but my beloved wife has been wronged."
Liang Xin laughed and said: "You don't have to belittle yourself, I think it's better to have some leisure time like this. In today's world, if you are an official, you pass the exam four or five times a year, and you are exhausted and looking for work, what's the point! We two It's been five years since we got married." Geng Ruyu said, "Yes, in the fifth year of Wanli, Cheng'er is already four years old."
Liang Xin said with a smile: "You are the only one in the Geng family who still regards having a career as something that is not allowed. It's funny to say that when we first proposed marriage, my boss was not willing. My father also said that no one with a serious family would have a child twenty-four or five years old. Not getting married yet! Could it be that the old Geng family's family rule is that if you don't win the election, you won't get a wife?"
Looking at his wife who was nine years younger than him, Geng Ruyu smiled and said: "There is no such family rule. It's just that the master always wants to climb high. It's a shame that your grandpa became the governor, otherwise -" he said to the east: "I don't know what to do yet."
Liang Xin's eyes were bright, and she looked at Geng Ruyu and said: "I respect my husband here. I am a transparent person, and I am not stupid and filial. I have been unable to do anything these years, and it's thanks to your protection. My grandfather He and I are like brothers, with our eyes on the top of our heads, just looking up. If you ask me, I am better than the governor-general in our family. He has become more and more angry in the past few years."
"Let's talk about it. The governor-general of my family doesn't care about Neo-Confucianism, psychology or the study of things. He just puts the word 'Quan' on his forehead, and he doesn't care about ghosts and gods."
Geng Ruyu laughed loudly at these words, hugged Liang Xin in his arms and kissed her: "You are going to laugh me to death, you are such a 'ghost and god'!"
After laughing, Geng Ruyu sighed: "I still can't bear to see things. This Nantai meeting is unexpected, but who cares about it and doesn't know what's going on? I said earlier that Neo-Confucianism must fail completely."
"Since the reform, Li Zhi, He Xinyin and others from the two Beijing newspapers have written so many articles criticizing Neo-Confucianism! When Gewu was booming, how many licenses were granted by the Publishing House every year! My second uncle wrote a letter the previous year, asking my father to think of something in Beijing to see if it could be done. A monthly journal of science. I have been working on it for more than a year, how about it? There is no trace of it to this day - do you still need to ask about the emperor’s thoughts? "
Liang Xin nodded and said, "That's what your husband said. I am a female, so I don't read the books of saints and sages. Nowadays, all the villains in Ci'er, Qu'er, and commentaries are either fake Taoists or hypocrites. In these books, 'True villain' 'On the contrary, it's both respectable and pitiful! If you say there's nothing weird in it, I won't believe it."
Geng Ruyu scratched her nose and said, "A good wife understands this. Don't go ahead and tell me this. He usually doesn't read miscellaneous books. If he finds out, he will be furious."
Liang Xin curled her lips and said: "I have also read some history books. If you say that Neo-Confucianism can unite the family, govern the country and bring peace to the world, I don't believe a single woman. Since Zhu Xi annotated the scriptures, the Song Dynasty has been getting worse year by year, and in the end it was The Meng Yuan Dynasty seized the country. Now the emperor is working hard to suppress Neo-Confucianism, but on the contrary, all the foreigners are convinced, and people of all kinds from thousands of miles away are coming!"
Geng Ruyu saw that Liang Xin said every word in his heart, and he fell in love with this lovely person in his heart. He hugged her tightly and touched her back and said, "Oh, I am so depressed when I am forced to endorse by the master every day. Thanks to you, my husband feels that life is interesting." Liang Xin was moved by his touch, He exhaled Rulan and said, "You want to fight back with your carbine?"
A word of thunder from the sky stirred up the fire on the earth, and Geng Ruyu became excited again. When he was about to turn the saddle and accept the pedal, he suddenly said: "You said, you and Xiaozhu are going to kill half of my life. The emperor is making so much trouble, can he be busy enough to come over?"
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Geng Ruyu just eats carrots and doesn't worry about it. The emperor - of course he is too busy. In the ninth year of Wanli, after a small-scale draft was held in the harem, a large number of palace ladies were released, giving women who were not favored by the emperor more hope in the harem.
In this draft, a familiar name was noticed by Zhu Yijun: Zheng Mengjing. That is, Concubine Zheng who caused the national case and the attack case in the original time and space.
She is indeed good-looking and has a gentle temperament. While Zhu Yijun secretly lamented that history still has inertia, he also became more wary of her. After all, although the attack case will be a mystery in later generations, as the saying goes, "there is no smoke without fire", it would be too stupid for the time traveler to copy the answer and step into the same puddle.
Therefore, although Zheng Mengjing is as beautiful as Zhuang Jingjia, she is not as favored as the queen. After the emperor came to her, she was named a beauty, but she was far away from the rank of noble concubine.
While there is inertia in history, there are also some interesting changes. Nowadays, Miss Zheng only gets favored once every two to three months, leaving a lot of time to spare.
Because of her docile temperament, the princesses all liked to get close to her. Princess Leping took her through several experiments, and Zheng Meiren actually fell in love with Gewu. As for asking for favors, she really likes her, so of course there is no need to ask, but she does the experiment in a decent manner.
While normal couples in the world are chatting and making love at night, Zheng Meiren conducts various experiments day and night. By April of the 10th year of Wanli, her residence in the back hall of Chuxiu Palace was already occupied by various experimental equipment. There were also long wooden boxes outside the hall with peas planted in them.
Zhu Yijun asked her to grow this pea. Seeing that she liked to check things, Zhu Yijun once said: "These bottles and jars can be easily broken and hurt people. I designed an experiment for you to do." Mendel experimented with peas. Tell her about the design.
Although Zheng Meiren obeyed the order and planted peas, she did not listen to the advice and stopped playing with other things. On the night of April 29th, the 10th year of Wanli Period, Zheng Meiren was writing her first paper in her single dormitory under the bright light of oil lamp.
Zheng Meiren's experimental design was very simple. She learned about electricity from "General Knowledge" - the book said: "Silk can generate electricity by rubbing glass rods; electricity can also be generated by fur rubbing amber; charged objects can produce electricity. Attraction, repulsion can be generated between charged bodies of the same sex, and attraction can be generated between charged bodies of the opposite sex.”
But this sentence in the general knowledge book does not describe other properties of electricity. Zheng Meiren flipped through every issue of the Gewu journal and found no one continuing to study it, so she started working on it on her own. She seized the few opportunities to meet the emperor and ask for advice on issues related to electricity.
She once asked the emperor. The emperor said that metal can conduct electricity, but no one in the Gewu Institute is studying how to store it. After all, although there are many topics in the Gewu Institute, the ones that can be approved are all production-related issues. If she is interested, she can study it. this.
In order to facilitate her research, Zhu Yijun recalled the content of the junior high school curriculum and had someone make an electrifying device for her: a glass plate with a diameter of one foot, a friction pad made of silk, and two small copper balls connected to each other with wires. , the discharge phenomenon can be observed in the dark.
The emperor is very busy and the tutoring ends here. Zheng Mengjing used the electrifying device given to her by the emperor and became famous in the harem. In the first month or so, concubines and maids went to her room every day to see the magical electric snake. Zheng Meiren uses the attraction properties of electricity. After putting electricity on a feather, she uses charged balls to push and suck it. It's like magic, often attracting cries of surprise.
Later, she got tired of playing with generators and began to study electricity storage. After several clueless gropings, she finally tried to put electricity into a glass bottle. So she led one pole of the generator into a glass bottle with a small silver chain, and then wrapped a layer of silver foil around the bottle and connected it to the other pole - this device could discharge even after being disconnected from the generator.
Later, Zheng Meiren further improved the device she invented and put silver foil inside the glass bottle. It was found that the bottle stored more electricity.
At noon on April 29th, while serving the emperor, Zheng Meiren gave him a demonstration. Zhu Yijun was greatly surprised and encouraged her to write it into a paper. Of course, what Zhu Yijun didn't know was that what Zheng Mengjing invented was the "Leyden bottle", the first capacitor in human history.
The "Dream Bottle" invented by Zheng Mengjing was more than a hundred years earlier than the invention of the Leyden Bottle. The emergence of capacitors also reminded Zhu Yijun that it was necessary for the Institute of Geosciences to further study the various properties of electricity. After all, for time travellers, still following the path of technological progress in the original time and space, it would be a bit hard to find a sword.
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