Wanli Xinming

Chapter 6 Touring the Palace
During the conversation between the two, the Slijian came to urge the emperor, saying that he was going to speak at the Wenhua Hall.Empress Dowager Li was happy to talk to the emperor, so she said: "Today the emperor is tired, so I told the outside world to avoid talking." This is the first time since Zhu Yijun was sensible. The common people are the same.Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "This is a lot of free time, why don't you accompany your mother to the palace today? The mother's phoenix body is Chuyu, and walking is a little more relaxed."

Empress Dowager Li happily agreed, and the two went to Empress Dowager Chen's place to ask for safety, and after eating, they went to play together in the imperial confinement.The two came out of the apse of the Qianqing Palace, and walked toward the Imperial Garden along the central axis of the Forbidden City without riding a chariot.Because the emperor was not married, all the concubines left by Emperor Longqing lived in the palace.The mother and son did not want to be disturbed too much, so they arranged a clear path in front of the people, and the place where they passed was quiet without a trace of noise.In the middle of winter, a little snow covered the towering palace. Although the flowers and trees in the palace were adjusted to zero, it was clean, sparse and handsome, with a unique flavor.The two and their entourage were all wearing big sweaters, and they felt refreshed when the cold wind blew.Talk and talk, walk at will, and enjoy the rare family time.When he was swimming to a happy place, he saw Zhang Yin, the supervisor of the li, Feng Yu, the imperial horse supervisor, and others coming from the palace together. It turned out that Feng Bao and others heard that the emperor's mother and son were visiting the palace.
Empress Dowager Li was very kind to Feng Bao and saw him coming.He said, "You, the supervisor, have a lot of things to do. Why do you come to our mother and son to join in the fun? Why don't you go and do your work!" Feng Bao paid a courtesy visit, got up and smiled and said: "The queen mother is pitiful and pitiful slave maid! It's rare for the queen mother I want to travel to the palace with the emperor, and let the slaves and servants relax for a long time." After speaking, he knelt up and held up a tray, and put two objects in it, but it was a wooden top inlaid with gold threads, and there were two small whip.Empress Dowager Li's eyes lit up, looking at the emperor, smiling without saying a word.

Zhu Yijun changed his mind and asked with a smile, "What is this?" Empress Dowager Li asked, and laughed: "Have mercy on my son, I have never played with such things before, this is called an ice gyro, whipped on ice with a whip It turns beautifully."

Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Where is the ice? There is no river in the big house? Why do you want to go to Xiyuan for this?" Feng Bao smiled and said, "Back to the emperor's words, there is a river in the palace, and it is on the side of Wuying Hall. ——” Hearing Feng Bao then say: “The weather is very cold this year, and the slaves and other servants brought water.” After speaking, he instructed the little eunuchs to find a spacious place and pour the water in the copper basin to a size of ten square meters. In the place where it took half an hour, a thin layer of ice formed.Another inner guard covered the edge of the ice with a layer of loess to prevent slipping.Feng Bao also instructed the internal supervisor to erect a bright yellow curtain, and asked the queen mother and the emperor to go in and change into non-slip boots.

Has Zhu Yijun ever played a spinning top?I was tired of playing early in my previous life as a child.I just saw that Empress Dowager Li was interested, and pretended not to know each other for fun.Although Empress Dowager Li played it when she was a child, she had long forgotten how to play it. The little eunuch who had played first turned the top, and the mother and son went up to beat.After playing for a while, Zhu Yijun saw that the top had fallen, so he picked it up and rolled it around the whip. With a flick of his wrist, the top started to turn again, but the Empress Dowager Li, Feng Bao and others were stunned.Just as Feng Bao was about to flatter him, he saw Zhu Yijun pick up the top with a smile and said, "This top won't fall when it turns, but it makes sense. Today, we must follow the teachings of the sages, and we must make a difference." After speaking, he picked up the whip and placed it on the loess. He drew a sketch, pretending to be thoughtful and silent.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Li smiled and said: "What can the emperor do?" Zhu Yijun waited for her to say, and hurriedly said with a smile: "The emperor has already gained something from investigating things these days. Today, the queen mother is not too annoying, so tell her about it." After finishing speaking, let the little inner supervisor bring some square wooden boxes, a stick, a rope, and a weight over.Empress Dowager Li entered Prince Yu's Mansion at the age of 15, and it has been 13 years so far. There has been a rare moment of relaxation. At this time, she let go of her mind and had the mentality of a child.

After a cup of tea, the little inner supervisor brought what the emperor asked for.Zhu Yijun placed the wooden stick horizontally and ordered two people to hold the two ends of the wooden stick, first making a horizontal pole about three feet off the ground.The weight of the scale is tied with a rope and tied under the crossbar, which becomes a "T" shape, like a pendulum.After trying the height, Zhu Yijun put the square wooden box on the ice.Pulling up the scale, he said to Empress Li: "Mother, please see—" Release the scale, and the scale made a typical pendulum movement, hitting the wooden box directly, hitting the wooden box from the ice surface to the side. On the other end, he encountered Huangtu Fangzhi.Then Zhu Yijun changed the place, put the wooden box on the ice-free ground, pulled the weight to the same height, hit the wooden box, and the wooden box stopped after a short distance.

Empress Dowager Li said blankly: "This ice is very slippery, which makes the wooden box go farther, what did the emperor make?"

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Mother Mingjian: If there is a flat surface in this world that is [-] times more slippery than this ice - isn't this wooden box going to go on forever?"

Queen Mother Li said, "How about that? How can there be such ice in this world?"

Zhu Yijun swept his eyes, and saw that Feng Bao and others were all confused, and smiled: "Mother think about it again, this has come from ancient times, and people say that all things are static. If you want them to move, you have to give it an external force, or push it, or pull it, without thinking about it. This thing is meant to move all the time, but it is bound by the force of friction, and this The force of friction is related to the roughness of the surface of things, such as ice, loess, and the ground."

Empress Dowager Li continued to be stunned: "So what? What does this have to do with the spinning top?"

Zhu Yijun explained with a smile: "Mother, let's see, this top turns on the ice, but it's because the tip of the top can't stand the force of friction." Empress Li suddenly realized, but asked again: "But what is the reason for this? What's the use?"

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I figured out the truth that all things are supposed to move, and used it in governing the country, but I know that everything in this world cannot be quietly obeyed by the emperor, and the emperor must find them to move. The truth is to guide them to the right path, or to increase the force that binds him to prevent him from going on the wrong path, always make the best use of the situation, and cannot use a frame to cover it."

This heresy was known underground by Newton in later generations, and the coffin board had to collapse.However, she heard Empress Dowager Li's eyes brilliance again and again, and she sighed repeatedly, and the surrounding eunuchs also praised her.However, the emperor continued to say: "These principles are well established, regardless of whether they are used to run the country, or they are of great use to the economy and the world." After speaking, he asked the two inner supervisors to raise the bar and said to the Queen Mother Li: "Mother, let's see—" He pulled the weight up and released it, and the weight swayed under the bar, "Huang'er took his own breath and found that when the weight swings, when the swing is large, the swing is faster, the amplitude is getting smaller and the swing is slower, No matter how fast or slow it is, the time for a week is the same." Empress Dowager Li didn't believe it, Zhu Yijun did it a few times, and Empress Dowager Li personally verified that she was convinced.He smiled and said, "The emperor's mind is too subtle, but how can this be used economically?"

Zhu Yijun lowered the crossbar again, tied the rope up a lot, and loosened the weight, and the swing of the weight increased significantly.

"I checked this weight and found that the time it takes to swing one round is related to the length of the rope, and as long as the rope is the same length, the swing time remains the same - using this principle, if you design a device that can be used to time the time, it should be faster than the current The time and leakage of the time-lapse should be more accurate, this is for the economic use of the world. The mother, please see—" With a wooden stick, he drew a figure of a later generation's clock on the loess, and drew the appearance of a pendulum, and said with a smile: "Mother, I think this harem is lacking in expenses, and I can't care about the outside court to ask for it - if you find some master craftsmen, design this clock, set some jewelry and jade, and sell it all over the world, only this one, the profit will not be less than dozens Ten thousand."

Empress Dowager Li listened with a smile and said, "This is a mistake. How can the emperor's family compete with the people for profit? This is impossible."

Zhu Yijun replied solemnly: "Mother, I don't dare to compete with the people for profit. It's just that the expenses in the palace are taken from the people. I checked these days, and only tea is one item. Last year's tribute tea There are more than 8 catties—" Empress Dowager Li couldn't close her mouth wide: "How can the palace use this much?"

Feng Bao listened, sweating on his forehead, he bowed and said: "The empress dowager is exactly as the emperor said. However, it is not all used in the palace. Guanglu Temple, Hubu, Nanjing should use some, or use it for sacrifices, or use it. To reward people."

Empress Dowager Li was displeased and said, "How unreasonable is this! I remember that the previous emperor said that the amount of local tribute tea taken every year is [-] catties. I calculate the cost, including sacrifices and rewards, and also [-] catties. The limit is [-] jin, how did the [-] jin come from? How is it used? You go and find out, and play it truthfully.”

Feng Bao secretly complained in his heart, regretting coming to join in the fun with the Queen Mother and earning a hot job.But he didn't do anything, he bowed in response.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "The queen mother doesn't need to ask her companions to check it out. There are a lot of tricks in the palace, and it's not good to turn it over." Feng Bao breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard the emperor say: "I look up the agricultural book, this collection The time for tea is at the busy time of farming, so picking tea for this is also the wrong time for farming. I reckon that the people should have been suffering from tribute tea for a long time. This bell is only a rich person who can afford it. If this bell is sold, it will be purchased from The rich people get the money, and in the future, there is no need to let the people pay tribute to the tea. The palace can buy it directly. Even if the palace uses [-] catties to make good tea, it will cost no more than [-]. It's over. In this way, the people must praise it."

Empress Dowager Li was originally the daughter of a small business family.Although she felt that Zhu Yijun was a child's talk, she was in a good mood today, so she asked, "If I find someone to do it, how much will it cost? How long?"

When Zhu Yijun was involved in tax collection and management in his previous life, he was very diligent, and the company did not miss it.He carefully recalled the memory of the clock handicraft processing factory he visited, and said with a smile: "I have recently thought of a mechanism called the escapement." He drew a few strokes on the ground and said, "To install such a mechanism, It takes ten months to make this bell. If it can be manufactured on a large scale, the eunuchs guarding all over the country will have to open imperial stores to sell this bell exclusively.”

Empress Dowager Li, the woman in the palace, didn't know much about the reasoning of this kind of thing, and she didn't know the difficulty in the design of this clock. After listening to the emperor's words, except that he was smart, there was no other feeling.Feng Bao and other eunuchs were knowledgeable. At this time, they were already dazzled. They were stunned by the emperor, and they didn't know how to flatter.Feng Bao calmed down and said abruptly: "Your Majesty, once this thing hits the market, there will be imitations, but the profits are thin."

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he raised his eyebrows on his little face, and said, "I personally designed something and engraved it with the words inside, who would dare to imitate it?" Lord, this is just right to do business for the emperor, and the squires from all over the country are too late to thank God, who would dare to copy it after eating a bear heart and a leopard?Xiaomin doesn't have the financial resources, and he can't imitate it if he wants to.

A few people were joking and talking, Feng Bao was afraid of the emperor, afraid that he would say something inappropriate to make him take a show, and found a reason to retire.Empress Dowager Li saw that the emperor's thoughts were clear and strange, and there was no trace of childishness in his actions and speeches, and she was thoughtful in her heart.After instructing the entourage to find the emperor's ingenious hand, he stopped talking.The two of them were exhausted and returned to the palace together.When they arrived at the Empress Dowager's bedroom, Empress Dowager Li said, "The Emperor comes in with me." Then she instructed everyone, "You are waiting outside."

Zhu Yijun followed Empress Dowager Li into the hall.Because the kangs in the two palaces were all set up, Empress Dowager Li sat on the kang and asked Zhu Yijun to come up as well.Zhu Yijun swept his eyes around and said with a smile, "I stand, and my mother sits behind." He was standing beside the kang.

Empress Dowager Li pondered for a while and asked: "Today the emperor said this 'checking things', it is very clever, it is not like the old gentlemen who read the Four Books can teach it. But the teachers in the dream taught it?"

Zhu Yijun replied: "I don't remember this, I just thought of it naturally." This lie requires skill. Zhu Yijun's previous lies were very well made up, and there was not much to explain, but it gave rise to countless possibilities, making Li The queen mother made up her own mind.

Empress Dowager Li pondered for a while and said: "The emperor told his mother today about the tribute tea, people's livelihood and other situations, but he wanted to be in charge of the government?"

Seeing the question, Zhu Yijun raised his head and glanced at Queen Mother Li.Seeing that Mrs. Li was expressionless and her eyes did not show any emotion, she pondered for a while and replied: "I dare not lie to my mother, I really have some thoughts and want to show it. But after all, I am young, but—" Before he could finish speaking, he stood on tiptoe, walked a few steps to a curtain in the hall, and slammed it up, pulling out a small inner prisoner!

Empress Dowager Li was taken aback and almost fell on her back.Seeing the little prisoner, the one named Zhang Dean who served him in the palace, was caught off guard by the emperor, so he fell to his knees on the ground, shaking his clothes and trembling.

Empress Dowager Li was about to ask the emperor why he did this, but she reacted suddenly, her face turning pale with anger.The pair of eyebrows looked up, and said angrily: "This palace is talking to the emperor, how dare you eavesdrop on this servant! What do you want?!"

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