The meeting of Indian messengers is still managed by the Ministry of Rites.
Cui Xie, as the servant of the Ministry of Rites, would accompany the envoys to the banquet after the envoys arrived, and then teach the etiquette after the banquet. The envoys who came were all smart and handsome from the local area. They often interacted with Han officials. They could understand some Chinese and saluted.
After eating the feast of the given banquet, Cui Xie arranged for someone to teach them to practice the ritual for three days, wrote down the long sentences of the answer, and waited for the tribute to be entered;
Tobacco, marijuana, poppy... Anyway, such addictive things are not allowed to appear in Daming! The anti-malarial medicine like cinchona bark and the two herbs that stop bleeding and anti-inflammatory such as bellflower bark and witch hazel can be popularized.
He picked out the recipes and arranged for an audience. Three days later, he was accompanied by the translator of the Ministry of Rites, guided by the honking officer and the preface officer of Honglu Temple, and brought these New World envoys to the court.
Because the emperor did not want to see those special costumes that could not hide the body, the palace gave the envoys a new set of bright red silk and several sets of casual clothes, allowing them to wear Chinese clothes to meet with them. Those natives came back after being frozen in the northern sea for more than two months, and they were used to wearing Daming clothes, so there was no resistance.
They will also tie their hair whips in hats, wear nets and gauze hats, and dress up as if they are Chinese. It's just that the faces are not very similar, most of them are high nose, big eyes, cheekbones face, and the body is also muscular, with a fierce and wild temperament.
Seeing this, Emperor Hongzhi was also a little surprised, and blurted out, "Could it be that these are the remnants of my previous Chinese dynasty who settled overseas and have to return home now?"
Cui Xie remembered that many experts had verified that the Indians were descendants of Yin and Shang, and they also said that they had noses and eyes. Whether he is true or not, the emperor likes this statement anyway, so there is no need to pour cold water.
Recognize it now, and fight against European colonists later, America has been the territory of my Ming Dynasty "since ancient times".
Cui Xueshi did not refute because of some evil purpose, the eunuch and Jin Yiwei on the envoy would naturally not defy the emperor, and Director Nie and Liu Yushi were also somewhat suspicious... In addition, the Indians' Chinese proficiency is very meager, and they can't defend themselves. This sentence It was recorded in the daily note in a grand manner.
It has become a footnote that later generations can "since ancient times".
The messengers of each tribe answered the words of the emperor greeting their chieftain and the lord in the Chinese they recited, and bowed three times and knelt down three times, and then presented the recipes produced by each tribe.
Nothing more than gold and jade ornaments, bald eagle feathers, bison sheets, cotton and linen fabrics, alpaca wool blankets, local grain products, medicinal materials and the like. Others are nothing new, but the bark donated by the Inca messengers from the big country in the southern continent is a good medicine for malaria, which really caught the attention of the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
Malaria is like smallpox. It is a serious disease that can kill you if you touch it. If this medicine really works, then with this medicine, your trip to the New World will not be in vain!
The monarchs and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were excited, and the treatment of these envoys was also improved a lot - directly surpassing the Annan countries and reaching the level of North Korea. And those Europa missionaries who have worked diligently in Daming for many years, because the lord of the country refused to receive the title, the Pope disrespected the Son of Heaven, and they are still treated as monks.
Because Daming's next ship to the New World didn't know when to set sail, these envoys had to stay and live in the Huitong Pavilion with the monks from the Old World.
Cui Xie arranged for a few translators who had been to the New World and had a little knowledge of these Indian languages to teach them Chinese. He also invited the embassy to watch "The Fortress of Jinyiwei" and "The Fortress" for two nights. "Hero Records" big picture, so I hurriedly did research.
Of course it's rubber.
Syphilis came from Indians. There were several Indian messengers staying in Daming, so Cui Xie was not very relieved.
Although these people wore little clothes in their hometowns, and when they were bathing at sea, the people in the mission didn't seem to be sick, but the disease was so serious that if it spread, it would spread in waves. Just asking the Ministry of Rites to stare at people is not a problem. He really doesn't have the ability to make penicillin, so he can only rely on prevention.
The palace sent rubber for him to study, and without saying a word, he cut out small pieces and soaked them in water and oil, and tried everything to melt the glue. After that, I took a chopstick and put it in the kettle, dipped it in a layer, dried it and peeled it off. It was really a soft rubber cover.
good!
That's how he can do it!
Just because you are a liberal arts student, you can't look down on yourself and relax the requirements for your innovation ability!
Choi Inventor Bachelor admired himself for a while, and asked someone to get some clean plaster, and he was going to make a sculpture—well, a small 18-centimeter sculpture. This thing doesn't have much technical content, in short, it is according to his own size... Shouldn't it be longer? Don't be too thick, or it will fall off easily, right? Rubber is elastic anyway...
He fiddled with the plaster for days at a time, and ate dinner absentmindedly. A few servants in the family saw that he first boiled glue and then fiddled with artworks, thinking that he had entered the demon barrier, so they went to the old house and asked his younger brother to persuade him.
His third younger brother, Cui He and Shangshang Ke, won the top 20 in the top three and was released from the county magistrate. At this time, he and his wife were in Dong'an County, Anhui Province, and only the second brother and his wife were left at home. But how could Cui Heng dare to persuade him? I heard that my eldest brother was playing with a plaster cast to play the magic barrier. I thought that my small body could not bear his lesson, and I didn't have a younger brother or uncle to support my family. Fu! He is older, and he has been in friendship with my eldest brother for many years, so my eldest brother has to give him a little face."
The family went to Xie's house in a panic to find someone, saying that Cui Xie was fascinated by rubber from abroad, and he didn't know what to do with plaster sticks every day.
Master Xie naturally took this matter to heart and comforted Cui Heng: "It doesn't matter, I will leave this matter to me. He is working hard for state affairs now, so why don't you care? You family members should not speculate randomly, otherwise you will make some rumors. , wouldn't it ruin the reputation of my parents!"
Cui Heng dared to speculate, he repeatedly agreed, and went back to encourage his son to study.
Xie Ying also taught those unsteady servants a few words, changed into the big clothes to meet the guests, passed through the gate of his house, and officially came to visit.
They usually go to the back garden, but they haven't been a serious guest for a long time.
When Xie Ying came to the door, Cui Xie had already got a table of plaster models and plastic rubber products. He heard people hurriedly throwing them onto the bed, pulling down the curtains, and didn't bother to clean up.
The servants of the Cui family were on duty outside, and Lord Xie closed the door as he entered the room and said sternly and gently, "Why don't you take care of your body? You are responsible for the imperial court, and you should also be kind and cherish yourself, and don’t break your body for what these craftsmen can do.”
What he said was so reasonable, and the persuasion was so serious, that people had to listen to him, and the family members under the corridor were relieved.
Lord Cui bowed his head in shame and listened to the instructions, ordered the cook to boil water and make tea to entertain guests, and after taking all those people away, he hesitantly led him to the bedside and showed him his masterpiece.
High-tech with modern materials and design ideas... Aircraft Cups.
There are condoms and airplane cups, just ask the imperial court to issue a decree to restrain the envoys and forbid them to recruit prostitutes.
Xie Ying said with a complicated expression: "You made these things at home? How scary are the diseases spread by their Indians, which scare you like this?"
A disease that can fester all over the body and rot off the nose is equivalent to AIDS in the 21st century. Cui Xie explained this terrible disease very seriously, spread out his hands and said, "It may be cured in two or three hundred years, but there is really no cure right now, so we can only rely on prevention."
It is true that there are risks in interacting with Indians, but in the history of crossing without him, China was also passed on these diseases by Europeans long ago, and it was not until the advent of antibiotics that they could be controlled. Rather than letting Daming face the disease without knowing anything, it would be better for him to get vaccinated first, so that the development of syphilis will be slower and fewer people will be killed.
Xie Ying looked at the piece of experimentation on his bed, thinking about what he was using, she couldn't help feeling a little distressed, and sighed, "After all, it will be a long time ago... I heard from the children that they also wondered how foreigners grow there. Yes, I secretly watched the barbarian take a bath, and he didn't seem to be sick."
Hopefully not, long-term observation.
Cui Xie's enthusiasm for worrying about the country and the people was over. Looking at the bed full of harmonious supplies, he felt embarrassed and wanted to put it away. Xie Ying, however, held onto his masterpiece, hooked his fingertips to his hand, and said with interest, "This thing must be commonly used by you people five hundred years from now, this is the first time I've seen this thing in my life, I don’t know how to use him, will Brother Xie teach me?”
Teach... These things are all made from the little pornographic films in the hard drive. The practicality has not been tried yet. If Xie Ying is willing to cooperate...
Cui Xie's mouth was suddenly dry, and he put his ears up to listen to the movement outside, remembering that he had arranged for someone to cook tea and rice, and sighed sadly, "I'm afraid someone will come later, I'll teach you later at night."
Well, with so many new things, if you can't teach them personally, when will you use them
Xie commanded the West Park to wait for the moon, and Cui Xueshi climbed the wall in the middle of the night. The two of them undressed and dressed, making hard work day and night for the in-depth research and development of rubber applications.
After the verification of the research and development results, he proposed this set of epidemic prevention methods at the court meeting, and asked the elders to strengthen the supervision of foreign missionaries and entourages to prevent the spread of the epidemic into China. This is still too little rubber. If we can make condoms that can afford weathering sites across the country, we should promote them nationwide.
The gentlemen of the Manchu Dynasty were too embarrassed to talk about this issue, and finally they just hurriedly said: "Strictly watch over the messengers and entourages, etc., and do not allow them to wander in the country. "
Acting is also forbidden! It is forbidden to marry a wife and take concubines in China, and it is forbidden for Longyang to cut off his sleeves!
After the court was over, Mr. Li called him home, looked at him seriously for a long time, and choked out a criticism: "In the future, you should do more things that can be published in the agricultural classics, and this kind of thing should not be mentioned in the court. "
It's just a matter of calling the Jiaofang person in private, so why say it in front of the cabinet!
Cui Xie admitted his mistake and was sincere, and immediately lowered his head and replied, "If it weren't for a serious epidemic, the disciple would not want to mention such a thing... There are too many strange and serious overseas epidemics, we can prevent them, and don't let the common people. Being ignorant and ignorant makes people hurt."
The imperial court issued a clear decree to control the entry and exit of foreigners and prevent epidemics, so Cui Xie could transfer the technology at hand and concentrate on researching things that could be used in agricultural economics.
He thought he could invent high-tech products such as steam engines, transmission wheels, and lathes. As a result, he did it, and the first to produce results was glass cans.
Since the Taixi people presented glass recipes, several small glass workshops have been built in Beijing, which can make thick glass bottles with green or brown bases, similar to the bottles of monument wine. Cui Xie ordered many bottles with threaded mouths, which were thoroughly steamed inside and out and sterilized. He soaked the oranges, peaches, and plums at home with thick sugar water and honey water, poured them into the bottles, and added Seal it with a glue pad, fasten it with a glass lid, and wrap a tin shell on the outside of the bottle to form a can.
Not only the seasonal fruits, but also the fresh fruits sent to Beijing by their Zhuangzi last summer, the meat and fish stewed by the home cook, and the fresh lotus root and seafood given by the emperor's lectures, all of which brought disaster to him.
Mr. Li, Wang Zhuangyuan, Zhang Guojiu, and his younger siblings were all about to hurt his canned food; the author who wrote for him—specifically Fei Zhuangyuan—would like to frown when he saw the canned food. The grandfather's family in Jiubian, Yang Yiqing, Wang Shengren, Jiaojie married to Sichuan, Cui He, who went to Renzhi County in another place after the pilot test two years ago... Two or three months later, I also received this gift, I also ate and delivered canned vegetables for a while.
Living in a foreign country is not as picky as people in Beijing.
Although Cui Xie's canned food is not very delicious, and the Cui family's cooking skills are only Zhongping, how can the military afford so many fresh fruits and hot stir-frying vegetables? Where can you eat the taste of your hometown in Sichuan and Northwest China
If the fish meat is cooked normally, it is also meat; the fruits marinated in sugar juice are unique to the hometown, and you can taste the nostalgia!
They wrote back one after another, boasting about the can as a flower, hoping that he could send some more as a gift next year. The people at the border want more canned meat. Sister Jiao and Brother He live in a wealthy county in the south and prefer canned hawthorn and white peaches with strong hometown flavors.
Cui Xie himself has been eating canned food at home for a long time, constantly trying their shelf life and adjusting the disinfection and sterilization methods.
In the end, I still wrote a long thesis and presented it to the emperor.
Emperor Hongzhi eats canned white peaches that he has tried many times with his relatives and friends, and has changed the flavors many times. I have tasted it up and down in the palace, and I think it is good. After eating it for a few days, it is still the same sweetness. It is more moist and sweet than pickled dried peaches and preserved peaches. Naturally, I have an infinite fondness for canned food.
The emperor Longyan was very happy, and seeing his sparse performance, he also felt that it was very reasonable.
In the future, the fruits and fresh fish supplied from the south do not need to be made into dry goods, nor do they need to travel thousands of miles to rush to transport them. They can only be pickled or cooked on the spot, so it is convenient to transport them into the palace
Moreover, there are many people who will burn this glass, and it is not the scary expensive thing it used to be, it is cheaper than the fine porcelain. The people have collected so many fruits and vegetables that they can’t eat them all. If they can make canned food, they don’t have to worry that they won’t be sold and will only rot in the ground. When the time comes when the youth is not in touch, the people have food saved in autumn and winter at home, or eat it with rice, or exchange it for money, and they can also support the spring.
The emperor finally saw the use of rubber other than making family planning supplies and toys, and approved his memorial with satisfaction.
In fact, the growth conditions of rubber and cinchona trees are similar, so Hu Shang pointed to Yunnan and asked the Chief Secretary of Yunnan to take charge of the matter.
Yunnan has been a place of exile for many years. In the past two years, Yumai has grown by itself, and cinchona trees and rubber trees have been planted by the emperor. It seems that it is about to turn into a treasure land for political achievements!
Year after year, I have seen the promotion of the governor of Yunnan. How can the governors of other places endure it
Fujian Zuobuzheng Hu Shao rushed to take care of the matter. Chen said that there is a large island very near overseas in Fujian. The natives are called Taiwan. The air above is hot and humid, and there are also large areas of jungle, which are suitable for planting transplants from the New World. Treasure herbs.
After the envoys of Guangdong and Guangxi were unwilling to be reconciled, they also reported that there were large islands overseas, where natives lived and could plant different trees. It's just that both Guangxi and Guangxi are adjacent to the island outside. According to the request of the island to plant trees, the emperor agreed, but the merits of the two families still have to be fought for.
Emperor Hongzhi ate canned food made by Cui Xie, and the imperial kitchen in the palace used a pressure cooker with rubber rings. Everyone in the palace was accustomed to hitting a ball for fitness, and Luan Jia was also wrapped in rubber tires...
Not only for the royal family, but more importantly, the people of the Ming Dynasty need more cinchona bark to treat severe diseases such as malaria!
The emperor called the court to discuss it several times, and finally decided: "I will let people plant plants on the island, and send ships to escort them from the coastal guards. Foreign ships are not allowed to approach the islands at will!"
However, after the rubber trees were planted, the rubber trees could not be produced in the past few years. The government and the opposition had to ask people to pay tribute to the local area.
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This was the first time Daming had sailed with the Indian continent, and since then, the two continents have never interrupted their exchanges.
Indian gold, rubber, bison beef, hides, alpaca wool, and giant sea boats made of local oak by Chinese boatmen were transported to China in an endless stream; and what the Ming Dynasty gave back was text, clothing, etiquette, and taught them to build the Ming style. of cities, houses, and time and again to protect these tribes from the guns of European colonists.
Five years after Emperor Wuzong Zhengde of Ming Dynasty, the steam engine was born. It was first used on the ship of the Daming Navy to make a steam engine ship driven by paddle wheel and propeller. The exchanges between China and the world have become more and more frequent. The Daming navy escorted the missions of various continents and countries attached to the Daming tributary system, and drove out pirates, which became the strongest voice in the era of great navigation.
Ten years later, the idea of the steam engine was first proposed, and the first assistant Cui Xie, who instructed the invention of the steam engine, and Xie Ying, the commander of Jin Yiwei, went out to sea on a steam engine boat, and then disappeared.