"Drink, drink, drink. Take two sips of everything. I tell you, this is a life-saving thing. If you finish drinking it, your life will be gone." Shi Heng was furious, staring at his own soldiers and scolding him harshly. Fan.
Listening to his general's reprimand, the soldier looked confused and couldn't help but think: "Isn't this what the general taught us to drink? Otherwise, no one in their right mind would drink such a thing."
Although the soldiers were aggrieved, they did not say anything in front of the palace officials who came from the capital.
The eunuch who came from the palace was Shang Ming, the serving eunuch of the Imperial Palace. Zhu Jianshen asked him to go to Zhennanguan in order to make toilet water with a long history for the soldiers on the front line.
"Although flower dew is good, you can't drink too much." Shang Ming said softly.
"That's it, that's it. After you continue to be so ignorant of etiquette, I will discipline you more. Eunuch Shang, the army is about to leave. When will you be able to get everything you need?" Shi Heng said with a smile.
Shang Ming glanced at Shi Heng: "It will be ready within half a month."
Shi Heng nodded solemnly: "At that time, when the army returns in triumph, I, the general, will record its achievements to Eunuch Shang."
Shang Ming nodded in agreement.
In fact, toilet water has always existed, but it is expensive to make. It is a perfume used by women. There are hundreds of craftsmen in the workshop under the Imperial Palace making this thing for the use of the inner palace.
The land of Annan is full of snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants. In order to conquer Annan, in the eleventh year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen summoned many craftsmen who brewed perfume in the capital to upgrade the toilet water.
In order to make toilet water cheap and effectively prevent mosquito bites, under Zhu Jianshen's suggestion, craftsmen invented the first upgraded version of Ming Dynasty toilet water after several debuggings.
Three raw materials, alcohol, lavender oil, and peppermint.
Zhu Jianshen has also used it himself. Although it does not contain any fragrance repellent represented by science and technology, it is natural and can effectively prevent mosquito bites.
When he was the imperial eunuch in the palace, hundreds of eunuchs studied for half a year. Then, under the leadership of the eunuch Shang Ming, they came to Zhennanguan. They had their own official office. The capital bought mint and lavender from the merchants. Then it was shipped to Zhennanguan, where toilet water production workshops were also established in Guangxi, Guangdong and other places.
In fighting Annan, Zhu Jianshen was very attentive. He not only asked his Minister of War to take charge of logistics, but also sent his most proud generals and hundreds of nobles.
After the two of them finished talking, Shi Heng left with his soldiers and returned to the General Military Mansion in Zhennan Pass.
Shang Ming also entered the large room. Looking at the busy craftsmen in the room and the children who were filling the brewed toilet water into small ceramic bottles, he nodded with satisfaction.
After Shang Ming left, a child whispered to his companions: "Look at them, they are so majestic. Even the generals are afraid of them. I really want to be like them."
"They are eunuchs, people around the emperor. I heard from my mother that eunuchs cannot get married. Are you willing to be a eunuch?" A child who was sealing a small ceramic bottle replied with a clear voice. It turned out to be a girl.
"As long as you can be majestic, there is nothing to be afraid of when you are a eunuch. After we are all sinners, if you want to get ahead, you have to pay a price. Next time I have a chance, I will tell my mother-in-law that I want to go to the capital to be a eunuch. You go Don’t go, Ji Yao. "
"I won't go. I have to go home after finishing my work. Wang Zhi, you said you were going to be a eunuch, but you can't enter the palace. Since we are all sinners, we can only stay at home. , You can't go anywhere." The little girl named Ji Yao said softly, thinking that she didn't want to be a palace maid in the capital.
After hearing this, the little boy seemed a little disappointed, but looking at the eunuch supervising the work, there was hope in his eyes. He said: "There was no chance at first, but now there is a chance. We have to stay here for more than half a year. ." As he spoke, he began to fill the flower dew from the large vat, then poured it into a small ceramic bottle and handed it to Ji Yao below.
Ji Yao looked at Wang Zhi and shook her head helplessly, but she also had some thoughts in her heart. It seemed that it was better to be a palace maid than to be taken away by some official as a concubine when she grew up.
Their family background was originally very good, and they were descendants of local officials of the Yao people in Guangxi. However, because their ancestors secretly participated in the rebellion, although their parents were not directly executed, they were reduced to pariahs and could not study or take scientific examinations. , is also the focus of local officials' attention, and they must be the first to complete corvées and other tasks.
This time toilet water was produced in Zhennanguan. The adults in their family were sent here, and the children also wanted to do something within their capabilities.
A group of Yao children met here. The boy was Wang Zhi and the girl was Ji Yao. They were both just eight years old. They were divided into a small team and had to fill 800 bottles of toilet water every day. Although it was hard work, these children The dry food is also delicious, firstly because it smells good, secondly because it tastes good, and most importantly, I don’t feel much eye-rolling here.
Wang Zhi wanted to go to the imperial palace in the capital, but it was very difficult. First of all, in the fifth year of Chenghua, the imperial court issued an order prohibiting self-castration.
Originally, these sinners were very likely to go to the palace to work as maids and eunuchs. But some time ago, North Korea suddenly added thousands of people. Within decades, North Korea will become the main position for transporting talents to the palace. Guangxi, It is impossible for Yunnan and other places to recruit people into the palace.
Of course, Wang Zhi, who had been smart since he was young, still managed to reverse course. Within half a year, he used his own methods to become Shang Ming's good grandson. After the Battle of Annan, he successfully entered the palace...
Battle of Annan.
The soldiers on the front line also regarded it as a battle of revenge.
Food and military supplies were transported to Zhennanguan in batches. Guangxi soldiers and Guangdong soldiers, as long as they grew up under the mountains, all participated in this mobilization and rushed to Zhennanguan in a steady stream. In the last wave of 20,000 After the soldiers arrive, Shi Heng will begin to attack Annan.
When the Ming army dealt with Annan, they had two major enemies: one was the geographical environment, which was either water or woods, and there were a lot of poisonous insects and other things, which caused a lot of interference to the Ming army soldiers, and the march was not fast, and the other was the elephant soldiers.
To deal with this kind of thick-skinned and tall elephant soldiers, there was already work to do when the British Duke Zhang Fu attacked Annan.
Shi Heng spent more than a year preparing. Tens of thousands of soldiers participated in jungle combat training. He also formed a team of sharpshooters specifically to deal with the three hundred elephant cavalry in Hanoi. They practiced every day. When the war started, they Special bows and arrows are used to shoot the elephants' eyes, and there is also a team of fire cannons. The sound they make can also make the elephants panic. The soldiers in Yunnan are very good at dealing with elephants.
Although Shi Heng was far away in the southwest, he still knew something about the capital.
In particular, his great nephew Shi Biao led troops to pacify North Korea and granted him the title of Marquis, Marquis of Liaoping. This gave Shi Heng a great sense of crisis.
Only two years after he left Liaoping Mansion, North Korea changed its master. Will His Majesty think that Shi Biao is more capable than his uncle? After he encounters setbacks in Annan, will he change generals before the war? Shi Biao came over to pick peaches...
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