At the end of the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the first cement made of brick and earth was finally prepared. The one who came up with the last recipe was the chef brought from the Xie family from his hometown.
Cui Xie only remembered that there is an ingredient in the cement formula that can solidify after adding water. When he handed it to the Xie family to make it, everyone tried glue, paint, resin, clay, etc., but it was the southern cook who remembered that they ordered bean curd. The gypsum used at the time is a kind of thing that can harden slowly after adding water.
Northern cooks who make brined tofu can't think of this.
They mixed cement into the bricks and lime one by two, and finally tried a ratio: about 70% of bricks, 25% of lime, and half of gypsum. If you don't put gypsum, the cement will quickly solidify into a lump of stones when water is mixed with it, and you can't do anything. The more gypsum mixed in, the slower the setting will be. After mixing half of the gypsum, the setting speed will be moderate. It can be initially set in about two or three hours. , Do not be afraid of smashed.
Xie Ying made a mess of the good yard. The walls and floor were covered with a layer of gray and simple cement. After drying, he smashed it with iron rods and stone locks several times. This cement dries many times faster than plaster and three-layer clay, and when it sets, it is extremely hard.
He tried several times, but his face was flushed with excitement, and the corners of his eyes were slightly wet, he grabbed Cui Xie and said with a smile: "If there is any Guanzhai in Jiubian that the enemy has breached the city wall, use this soil to fall down, and then sprinkle it on Water, won't it be a good wall again overnight?"
Cui Xie was also full of joy, and nodded frequently: "This lime soil is not very expensive. In the future, if we try a recipe, we can also use clay, lime and gypsum to bake directly, saving the time of grinding bricks. When the time comes, we will be at the border gate. You can use bamboo tendons to pour cement and mortar, build countless gates, and beacon fires are connected everywhere, and no Tartars are allowed to enter the gates."
Not only can they build city walls, but they can also build embankments and fill in floodwaters. It is often shown on TV. During floods, soldiers and soldiers carry cement bags and throw them into it.
Xie Ying couldn't wait to ask someone to build a kiln on Zhuangzi to burn cement, and then put on a table, asking Cui Xie to make cement.
Cement, as the name implies, is muddy when wetted with water. The more water is added, the harder it is. It dries quickly in three days, and after drying, it is stronger than masonry.
As soon as Xie Ying wrote down the properties of cement, everyone from the emperor down to the cabinet knew what it could do and how many places it could be used. Building cities, building dams, paving roads, building houses... From the army to the locality, this cement is very useful everywhere!
The materials used are also extremely cheap and easier to obtain than French plaster.
After the emperor Hongzhi finished reading the memorial, he was shocked, and immediately summoned Cui Xie and the two to enter the palace and asked them to try out the use of cement.
Xie Ying pleaded guilty, took off her official uniform, personally took water and tried to mix the cement mortar, poured it on the hand-woven bamboo board, and poured it into a concrete board.
Cui Xie presented the cement test record and reminded the emperor: "This material needs to be mixed with coarse and fine sand and gravel to be stronger. And it can't be as strong as Sanhe soil for a long time. It can only be used for ten years, and then it will be sturdy. When it is peeled off and dumped, the old mud must be smashed in time and the new one replaced.”
In fact, in the 1960s and 1970s, the bamboo-reinforced concrete houses could stand for 20 years. However, this is the cement he made by himself. He has no experience and the quality is not so good. He will make a half-fold before the shelf life, and let’s talk about safety.
Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said, "How can there be anything that is not bad in the world, ten years... but it is much more useful than plaster. If this thing is really useful, the two Aiqings can be regarded as having made great contributions to the country, and I will have my own reward."
The two refused to dare, so the emperor ordered them to go back first, and passed an order to the cabinet, ordering the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to jointly study and try burning powdered cement.
Li Dongyang, Xu Pu, Liu Jian and Xie Qian, who was newly appointed as a university scholar in February, also looked at the concrete slab Xie Ying made before the Holy Spirit. The four patriarchs who have all served or are currently serving as bachelors in the Hanlin Academy, look at the board as hard as a rock, and then look at the thick test report held in the hands of Eunuch Gao. Harmony.
Cui Xie grew up as they watched, and he followed the path of an orthodox literati step by step.
In general, the promotion of the Hanlin is to get qualifications in the courtyard, compile books, prepare edicts, and work as examiners in the courtyard to collect actual achievements; after being promoted to a bachelor's degree, he serves as a Shaoqing, and then serves as a minister of rites or a right servant of the Ministry of Personnel. Divided into actual performance, put on a few chapters that benefit the country and the people, and then serve as a courtesy and official…
However, Cui Xie did the actual achievement of benefiting the country and the people, and he was also listed...
Eunuch Gao saw that the four patriarchs were silent, so he took the initiative to say: "The cement presented by the two adults Cui Xie is truly a wonderful thing, and His Majesty likes it very much. If the two try it out, it can really be used in border affairs and water conservancy. , with this credit, after next year's big plan, we will give Master Cui another rank. When the four senior scholars go back, they can discuss with the Master Cheng."
Cui Xie entered the court in Chenghua's 23rd year. He first worked as an editor and then as a lecturer, but in the middle, he was always filial piety at home. He had not served three years, and he could not be promoted according to the normal process. He had to rely on the chief officer. Bachelor of Cheng pushed up.
Because Xie Ying is a Jin Yiwei, he doesn't have so many rules as a civil servant. As long as the effect of cement is tested, he can send a decree to be promoted to the commander.
The position has not changed, and he is still the chief minister of the North Town.
The time at the end of the year has passed in a hectic way, and on New Year's Day, in addition to entering the palace for pilgrimage, all the ministers also returned to their homes to rest in peace. Prince Zhu Houzhao, who had been studying hard for a year, finally got a moment of leisure.
This year should have been a lot of good things. His father and uncles suddenly stopped forcing him to study, and the two uncles even gave him a few new comic strips brought from outside the palace.
The last time Uncle Guo gave him a book to read was when he was not open. Later, the Zhang brothers suddenly changed their minds and forced him to study upward all day long. If he wanted to see such a book with pictures, he could only rely on the sensible eunuchs around him to be filial. And even after I got the book, I didn't dare to read it, I had to close the door and read it for a while when no one was there.
The crown prince let out a heavy sigh from the thin chest, looked at the color book in his hand, and smiled slightly, and placed the stack of "Daily Agricultural Classics" on the desk, from the top "Xie Qianhuqiao". "The Case of Seizing the Pig".
Um
Why is it different from what the eunuchs brought into the palace, it is actually a full-color version, and the story is not the same
The full-color comic strip was extremely delicately printed. The two black piglets in the book were black and pink, and their eyes were bright. He looked at the pictures and wished he could take the pigs out to play. The Xie Qianhu inside is also better-looking than the embroidered portrait, looking young and energetic, just the slight change in one eye between the two pages before and after, and a glance back, showing the demeanor of his wisdom pearl in his hand.
it is good! nice!
Although the little prince had read the "Daily Agricultural Classics" brought by the eunuchs from outside the palace, Xie Qianhu had even read this book more than once, and he was still shocked when he saw the color version, so he read it without any distractions. afternoon.
When he came back to his senses, the courtier Liu Jin had sent some of the books they had smuggled in from outside the palace before, and asked the prince to compare them.
There is no need to compare, Zhu Houzhao has already discovered that this book has been abridged. In the original version, some vulgar words in the market, and some places involving love between men and women and deception have been deleted; the part about raising pigs is no longer drawn in such detail, but the detective story is more detailed and the plot is arranged more densely. Appropriately, it looks like a kind of rushing pleasure.
After reading this book, the embroidered version bought in the market was like a defective product that was not arranged. He just wanted to think about it and didn't want to read it again.
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, "It's alright, alright, take all those away, and keep the set that my uncle sent me." He glanced at the black and white comic strips he once loved, gritted his teeth and said: "These are all rare good things. You have packed them up, go back and send them to Wei Wei. The uncles often give him some leisure books and gadgets regardless of his studies. They will not ask about the origin of this book. "
The second prince, Hou Wei, was born in the seventh year of Hongzhi, and is also six years old this year. Because he is not a prince, there is no responsibility on his shoulders, and Kaimeng is not as early as the prince, as long as he listens, listens, and writes in the inner study.
But Zhu Houzhao is a good elder brother, he will not be jealous of his younger brother, and he has to lend his younger brother the villain books that he does not read.
Liu Jin stepped forward to take orders, picked up an exquisite small box, packed the book, and sent it to the emperor's second womb in person. The servants who were looking for books for the prince gave each other a wink behind their backs, and one of the more impatient ones said, "The books sent by my uncle are less than those on the market. I heard from outside that there is a new book called "Little Ones". After the week, the cloth machine is teasing, the slaves have already sent people to watch, and when the print comes out, they will be brought into the palace for the young master."
If the prince had heard of such a book, he would have been looking forward to reading it day and night, but now he has so many coloring books with more intense and exciting plots. Totally missed expectations.
After all, the eyesight of the servants is not good, and they are not as attentive as relatives like Uncle Guo. I only know how to get books in the palace, and I won't find someone to rearrange it and change it into a good-looking color book.
He frowned twice and said, "Don't worry, just wait and ask the uncles. If you don't come over there, you can just go in."
It's still better for the country's uncle. When he grows up, he will reuse the country's uncle, and let the country's uncles follow Xie Zhenfu to go out to sea to fight Japanese pirates, and make them a peaceful Japanese marquis!
By the way, these people who write books also need to reuse.
This Zhu Zhishan, Li Kongtong, Bian Huaquan, and Wang Meipi will all be promoted to be gentlemen when he grows up. Don't teach him a boring old gentleman like Mr. Wang! It's that Cui Xie... Cui Xie... For the sake of him helping to write some unsightly things about raising pigs and farming, I don't dislike him anymore, let him be a household official and let him manage the food.
The little prince happily read the new book, but the eunuchs who were left out were not in a good mood.
Back then, they could be favored by the prince's side because they could figure out what they liked. When the prince was angry with the uncle, they stood beside the prince and scolded the uncle, and sneaked in some books and toys that the prince loved from outside the palace to flatter them. . Now that the uncles are not forcing the prince to read, and they are looking for better books to enter, what kind of favor do these eunuchs use
Are you looking for someone to draw full-color books
Don't say that painters like that are hard to find, just found them and painted them, but they're not Uncle Shiguo's Yahui, they don't show their ability...
In addition to the eunuchs like Tan Ji and Gao Feng who devoted themselves to serving the prince's studies, several of the inner servants who relied on pampering their superiors all cast a shadow on their hearts and tried their best to invite them again.
If the prince was a few years older, they would have a way to immerse him in enjoyment, but the prince is only nine years old after the year, and a nine-year-old child, you just want him to indulge in enjoyment, what will he enjoy
The eunuchs are so anxious that the more they do, the more flaws they have. Since the publication of the second issue of "Youth Jinyiwei", the Zhang brothers, who have been conscientiously staring at the East Palace, and want to handle another major case that they can handle, finally seized the opportunity again.
Before the Lantern Festival, the Zhang brothers made another scribbling to the imperial court, claiming that there was a traitor in the East Palace as a favored favor, and actually seduced the prince to betray a dog and do something wicked in the market!
The Crown Prince is the Crown Prince of the East Palace and the foundation of the country. If he gets such a problem, the Great Ming Dynasty will be destroyed immediately! What's more, all the people living in the palace are golden branches and jade leaves. The crown prince is only nine years old, and the second prince is only six years old. Empress Zhang is bringing the little princess who is less than three years old in person. If the dog breaks away and runs out, which prince and princess will be shocked. , who can bear this responsibility!
The two national uncles were both human and dogs, and they captured the inner servant Gu Dayong who wanted to smuggle small dogs to the East Palace on the spot. At the time, they also had people use iron cages to cage two bulldogs with slender limbs and human arms from head to tail.
Emperor Hongzhi was silent after seeing this.
The courtiers also sighed slightly.
The hounds are slender, and the big ones can even grow to more than two feet and four inches long. Ordinary people will also raise a dog for their children to play with, if the waiter in the valley just shows the puppies to the prince, it is not a big crime.
Everyone felt that the uncles were eager to be kind, and some of them were overkill. But if it wasn't a serious crime, how could the two national uncles, who are noble relatives but more attentive than the censor, arrest him
Zhang Heling ordered the dog to be carried into the hall, Zhang Yanling took a magnifying glass from the servant and magnified the dog's wound through the cage: "Gu Dayong did not bring the prince and the puppies to play, but ordered the two dogs to play. Fight with each other, bring the prince to watch and have fun!"
There is a special dog garden in the palace. It is not a new thing for the prince and the princess to watch birds and animals through the cage. This kind of hunting dog is even more boring for the prince. Gu Dayong knew that two puppies alone could not arouse much interest in the prince, so he deliberately made the two dogs fight each other, and used this bloody dog fighting with a primitive and brutal aura to make the prince's temperament crooked.
How can such castrations allow them to be by the prince's side!
Because of the pain and the crowd, the small dog in the cage barked lowly and seemed a little restless. Emperor Hongzhi also seemed to have something restless in his chest, so he coldly ordered: "Take Gu Dayong down and hand it over to the East Factory for a careful trial, to see if he has any other party members, and ask him together!"