The setting sun cast its last gentle touch on the palace wall, the lights were first turned on, and hundreds of officials walked out of the Fengtian Palace, all of them full of energy and interest.
Xie Jin walked towards Xu Huizu and greeted him with a smile: "Wei Guogong, you can't escape today no matter what. Wangchun Tower, you can only rest after getting drunk."
Xu Huizu's face turned red, he patted his chest and sighed: "It's rare to be able to wait until the end of the pavilion to invite you to drink. I have to go. Governor Song, how about we come together?"
Song Sheng looked at Xie Jin and joked: "If the elder doesn't invite you, how can I dare to go..."
Jie Jin shook his sleeves, a little heavy, and said: "Today, anyone who wants to come can do it. I, Jie Jin, are here to treat you! The three major kingdoms have been decided. All the people of our Ming Dynasty will sing the national anthem and worship the national flag together. I will be successful and famous in the future." You can wear the national emblem! For such an important event for the country, wouldn’t it be a pity if we didn’t get drunk?”
Song Sheng thanked him and said, "Since Mr. Ge said so, don't regret it."
Xie Jin doesn't care, regrets it?
I have prepared hundreds of taels of silver, but how much wine can these few people drink?
An hour later, Xie Jin was stunned and in a trance.
I just invited a few people to have a meal, why did it become a reserved place?
It's just a reservation. What did I say that everyone's debt will be settled on Jie Fu?
Mr. Xu Huizu, why are the generals from the three major battalions here?
And those big-headed soldiers...
And the girl...
"Lao Ge is Lao Ge, and he is unparalleled in magnanimity. Thank you, Mr. Xie Ge."
Xu Huizu was drunk.
"The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, fame and fortune follow the dust and earth..."
Song Sheng also drank too much and shouted loudly.
In the good restaurant, bursts of angry shouts came from the restaurant.
During the Imperial College Daqing, Yang Shiqi personally entertained the Imperial College. Even Xu Miaojin, who had been busy at the Capital Junior College and could not get away, was invited to the Imperial College by Yang Shiqi.
"My Iceberg Beauty Wife"
A key figure in the Imperial Academy's ability to participate in national affairs was Xu Miaojin. This contribution cannot be denied by anyone.
Li Zhigang raised his wine glass high to celebrate the victory of the Imperial College and the birth of the national flag, national anthem and national emblem.
Ma Enhui ordered the scarf and hat bureau, needlework bureau, and internal weaving and dyeing bureau to all stop work and switch to making the national flag.
In the capital, after hearing the news, countless dyeing and weaving factories took action spontaneously, asked about the style of the national flag, and devoted themselves to weaving and dyeing the national flag overnight...
The War Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, and Imperial Supervisors were responsible for the production of the national emblem. The text of the national anthem was engraved and printed by bookshops and circulated inside and outside the capital...
Kunning Palace.
Zhu Yunwen tiredly took two mouthfuls of rice and lost his appetite. He was busy from morning to night. After dealing with the affairs of the Three Kingdoms, he also needed to correct the accumulated memorials. He did not return to the harem until midnight.
Ma Enhui did not rest, but embroidered a national flag with needle and thread. When she saw Zhu Yunwen coming, she arranged for someone to prepare hot water and advised: "The emperor should rest early and don't stay like this."
Zhu Yunwen sat down, picked up the national flag that Ma Enhui had not yet embroidered, and asked, "What does the Queen think of this national flag?"
"Excellent, I am going to embroider a national flag myself and place it in the Wuying Hall."
Ma Enhui said with a smile.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the size, shook his head slightly, and said, "I have an idea."
Ma Enhui smiled and said, "The emperor's idea must be excellent."
Zhu Yunwen opened his arms, gestured, and said: "The queen should get a big national flag, nine feet long and five feet wide. When the time comes, I will set up a flag pole outside Fengtian Palace and hang the flag on the top so that everyone can see it. You can see where the flag is.”
"The emperor's idea is wonderful! I will go to Concubine Xian and Concubine Ning to discuss it and try to bring out the big national flag as soon as possible."
Ma Enhui said and wanted to walk out, but was pulled back by Zhu Yunwen.
"It's already dark, so don't disturb them. Let's talk tomorrow morning. I'm tired, so stay with me."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Ma Enhui deeply.
Enhui opened her mouth, nodded slightly, and said softly: "Then I will serve the emperor and go to bed."
There was no court meeting on the second day, so Zhu Yunwen rarely got up late. When he was having breakfast, Concubine Shu's letter arrived. After Ma Enhui read it, she said to Zhu Yunwen: "Concubine Shu has already communicated with Jurong Guo, Luo, Liu, Wang and other families. After the negotiation was completed, they are willing to expand the scale of the lime cellar, price it at four cents per stone, provide a large amount of lime, and undertake the transportation at the same time."
Zhu Yunwen took the letter, read it over, and said: "The price is still very reasonable. As for transportation, it does not require too much manpower. You can go directly to the capital by taking the Qinhuai River. The queen will reply to Concubine Shu on my behalf." Well, just tell the capital to deliver the money, and the money will arrive when the goods arrive."
"The Emperor will not return in person?"
There was some inexplicable meaning in Ma Enhui's eyes.
Zhu Yunwen had breakfast, stood up and said, "No, I need to leave the palace today and go to Liulichang outside the city."
"Liulichang? Why is the emperor going there? There is a lot of colored glaze in the palace."
Ma Enhui asked doubtfully.
Zhu Yunwen smiled and said: "When I was in Mafu that day, Dai Yuanshi had a very difficult time reading the prescriptions. It seems that his eyesight has declined. I plan to go to Liulichang to try and see if I can find a mirror to strengthen it. Lower your eyesight.”
Ma Enhui turned her head and looked in the direction of the dowry, and said, "I have two fine bronze mirrors here, but they don't seem to be used to enhance your eyesight."
Zhu Yunwen knew that the dragon and phoenix bronze mirror was clearly visible, but the clarity here was still a few notches higher than the mirrors of later generations.
"When I come back, I'll see if I can make a mirror and give it to the Queen."
Zhu Yunwen left Kunning Palace with a smile.
Although there were very few transparent glass in ancient times, there was still colored glaze, which was extremely exquisite and could be called a treasure.
The development of colored glaze in the Ming Dynasty was closely related to royal construction projects.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Liulichang was mainly distributed in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi and other places. However, with the construction of Nanjing as the capital and Fengyang as the central capital, Liulichang began to gather in Nanjing, Fengyang and other places.
Near Jubaoshan in Nanjing, the Seventy-Two Glazed Kilns appeared and flourished for a while. Later, Zhu Di built the Great Baoen Temple, and the colorful components of the nine-layer glazed pagoda were fired at Jubao Mountain.
Zhu Yunwen didn't need to go to Jubaoshan. There was also a medium-sized glazed official cellar outside Tongjimen City.
With only Shuangxi and Gu Sanshen, Zhu Yunwen dressed in casual clothes and blended into the fireworks.
Fangutai outside Dongshui Pass has become a small town. The imperial court has allocated one month's income to the victims in advance, so they have some silver in their hands. In addition, some victims still have some money left in their hands, so they no longer receive the imperial relief food and go to porridge. There are gradually fewer and fewer people living in sheds.
Zhuojing of the Ministry of Household Affairs proposed that the imperial court provide the victims with one month's rations, and one month later allow them to purchase "disaster food" at low prices in order to eliminate all porridge shacks.
Zhu Yunwen agreed with Zhuo Jing's opinion, but asked to retain two porridge sheds to take care of the orphans, widows, old and young.
Walking past the fan bone platform, on the other side of Qingshui Pond is an official colored glaze kiln, which is mainly responsible for firing colored glaze, celadon, pottery, etc. for the palace. The pottery is made of green, yellow, brown, black and other colored glazes. host.
Zhu Yunwen entered it, and factory official Wang Yang and the steward saluted. After visiting the kiln and firing colored glaze, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but sigh: "The flowing clouds are colorful and beautiful."
Glaze is a work of art, valuable, and the production process is complicated. It often requires dozens of processes to complete the same exquisite glaze. Sometimes it takes half a month or even longer. If you are not careful, all your efforts will be wasted.
Zhu Yunwen knew that although colored glaze and glass were somewhat different in terms of materials, in terms of production methods, glass was much simpler and easier.
They have even made such difficult glass into works of art. There is no reason why they can't burn glass.
Wang Yang heard that the emperor wanted to bake something, so he quickly arranged three cellars. According to Zhu Yunwen's instructions, the chief arranged for craftsmen to prepare quartz sand, limestone, feldspar, soda ash, borax, salt, saltpeter and other materials.
In Liulichang, the basic material base
There will be no shortage of them in this book.
There are plenty of natural soda ash in the palace, as well as saltpeter. Lime and borax are traditional Chinese medicinal materials and can be found in any drug store...
Zhu Yunwen arranged for craftsmen to crush quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar, limestone, etc., then found magnetic blocks to initially remove iron, then mixed them according to a certain proportion and placed them in a crucible kiln for heating.
Coking coal was available in the Ming Dynasty. The number of lime cellars that could be opened was indispensable for the raw material coking coal.
Glass firing requires high temperatures. Without coking coal and fire-blowing processes, the material cannot be melted into a liquid state. If you want to obtain pure glass, don't even think about it.
As the bellows continued to blow fire, the temperature became higher and higher until dusk, when molten glass was melted.
The glass liquid is often green, mainly due to the divalent iron element. After adding saltpeter, it will turn into ferric iron, and the glass liquid tends to be transparent.
Zhu Yunwen had no way to explain the price to them. Looking at the fired glass liquid, there were still many bubbles even though the craftsmen were stirring it, so he stopped the stirring craftsmen and ordered: "Add borax and salt." Go inside.”
Borax and table salt are used as clarifiers in this case.
After adding the clarifier, more large bubbles will rise in the glass liquid. The generation of large bubbles will take away many small bubbles. Only the large bubbles need to be broken, and the number of bubbles in the entire glass liquid will be very few.
Craftsmen had already made the molds, and there were quite a lot of them, although they didn't know why Zhu Yunwen wanted to create an oblate mold with concave sides.
The molten glass is stirred up a little, cools down through the annealing channel, flows into the mold, and is compacted into shape.
Zhu Yunwen poured ten convex lens molds at once, and then arranged for people to use iron plates to pour the remaining glass liquid into other round, square and other molds. The cooling and solidification time of the liquid glass was very short, and it did not take long to form solid transparent glass. .
The craftsmen looked at the transparent glass in front of them and marveled.
Zhu Yunwen carefully inspected the glass plate and nodded slightly. It was not bad. Although the bubbles were still there, five of the ten glass plates were perfect. He asked people to open the abrasive tools of the magnifying glass. Zhu Yunwen was not satisfied with any of the ones he selected. , there are air bubbles in the middle, which affects the use too much.
Out of ten, there was only one suitable magnifying glass.
Zhu Yunwen used a magnifying glass to carefully examine the problems with other glass plates. Some tiny bubbles appeared so clear under the magnifying glass.
"Polish this well and attach a handle to the outside."
Zhu Yunwen was very satisfied.
As for the mirror, Zhu Yunwen did not have the conditions to make aluminum metal, nor did he have the conditions for silver plating. Besides, silver is so precious. If he used it for the mirror himself, Ma Enhui would be angry...
In desperation, he had no choice but to arrange for craftsmen to find tin and mercury, heat them into tin-mercury paint, and paint it on one side of the mirror. When the work was done, he ordered the craftsmen to make more convex lenses and mirrors. After specifying the standards, Zhu Yunwen returned to the palace. .
Ma Enhui supported her chin with one hand, feeling drowsy. When she heard the noise, she raised her head and glanced up. She was startled, punched out with a fist, and shouted: "Here, there's a monster with big eyes..."
It's over, beaten.
Zhu Yunwen covered his eyes and groaned in depression. Ma Enhui was beating his shoulders and rubbing his back, speaking softly. At the end, he said helplessly: "I am wronged too. I have never seen such big eyes..."
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PS:
At first, because of the epidemic, I didn’t plan to go back to my hometown in Shandong to celebrate the New Year. I thought about finishing the month with a lot of updates.
Now that the epidemic situation in Henan (my hometown is next to Henan) is getting better, I want to go home to be with my parents at the end of the year, so Jingxue now needs to adjust the three updates to two updates, save some manuscripts, and try to maintain two updates as much as possible during the Chinese New Year without interruption. More situation.
It’s not easy to go home, but I also want to spend more time with my family.
It is not easy to update. Everyone is preparing for the New Year, but there has been no holiday when writing...
Again, thank you all for your company and support. Jingxue worked hard to keep up with the progress and wrote it carefully. Thank you again.
