Jingming

Chapter 231 It's Nine O'Clock
He Ping'an looked at the new-style clock strangely.

If it is nine o'clock in the evening seven days later, isn't that the first hour of Haishi?Why use such a clock to determine the time?
It is not difficult to distinguish the first moment of Haishi.

Even if someone stays in a place where there is no drip, the time will be a little earlier or a little later, it will not affect the result, will it?
Of course, the new clock is nice.

When He Pingan saw it at first sight, he thought: This will be a very good item to sell.

He didn't fully understand the significance of easier-to-use timing technology for the efficiency of the entire society and scientific and technological research, but he first saw the commercial benefits from it.

Yan Song saw a little more, so he now attaches great importance to this matter.

There is really one thing that can be done in Zhejiang, but why discuss it with Sun Xiu and Liang Yao?
After getting the new list handed in by Sun Xiu, Yan Song was able to tell from it which big families in Zhejiang were still doing their duty in the past.

But he treats everyone equally.

On the day Liu Zhenyuan left Hangzhou, the post from the governor's yamen was delivered to the homes of many people in Hangzhou.

Any family with some strength in Zhejiang will have a house in Hangzhou.If the head of the family is not here, there will also be a clansman or shopkeeper or housekeeper here.

So the governor's yamen banquet basically included [-] to [-]% of the local rich families in Zhejiang.

Plus some people near Hangzhou, that's even more.

Shen Yuanqing hasn't returned to Zhejiang yet, his younger brother Shen Yuantao is here.

"You mean, everyone has received this invitation?" Shen Yuantao confirmed with the butler again.

"I've inquired about it, Second Master. All the families in Hangzhou have received it."

Shen Yuantao looked at the content of the post.

It is said that Huangmingji has a new good business. Seven days later, he invited various companies in Zhejiang to discuss cooperation at the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau.

There are many skilled craftsmen in Zhejiang. If someone in Zhejiang can do this well, it will be a business worth at least 10 taels or even a million taels a year in the future.

"It seems that Master Futai really wants to appease Zhejiang after the incident in Sichuan." Shen Yuantao laughed, "Since we are going to a banquet, we should prepare a generous gift first."

In the governor's yamen, several people were in front of Yan Song.

For the newly established Huangming Branch Office, only three people were dispatched to Hangzhou for the time being.

Of these three people, one is Wei Lin's godson, one is Ding Guogong's concubine, and the other is a certain scholar's accountant.

Now, both they and Liu Zhong listened to Yan Song's words, and Xie Changjie, the censor of Zhejiang patrol, also stared at Yan Song.

"Don't worry, Benfu has already told His Majesty closely, and this matter will definitely not go wrong." Yan Song said calmly, "Director Liu, Eunuch Liang must have informed you. After the new law, the Weaving Bureau will not remain the old one. You might as well get used to it as soon as possible. The establishment of Huangmingji, Benfu knows the process best, and now the Huangmingji’s various businesses are just the beginning. Department stores can buy silk from the weaving bureau in Zhejiang, and naturally they can also have other things.”

Liu Zhong nodded again and again: "Our family understands."

Liang Yao had already made it clear to him that no matter what arrangement she encountered this time, she would just obey.

If you don't want Zhejiang's bad debts to be turned over to them in the future, you should cooperate well.

Yan Song then said to Wei Lin's godson Wei Fu: "Your Majesty will send you the Huangming Clock and the Huangming Bell. Just listen to this name, and you don't have to worry about doing this. Your Majesty hopes that it will be spread all over the world." Daming. With the exquisiteness of this thing, if you don’t choose the ambitious people in the world to use it as a career, can you just build it slowly in Beijing? This involves future commercial taxes, the interests of gentry, and even more To the well-being of craftsmen and the common people, it also involves His Majesty's practical learning!"

Xie Changjie didn't quite understand: Is a small clock so important?

"Since Futai has a secret performance, our family will naturally let Futai make the decision first." Wei Fu did his part to ask.

Anyway, according to the current statement in Huang Ming Ji, what Yan Song is planning to do is just "bidding".

The Huangming clock and the Huangming clock, how to make it now has to be taught by skilled craftsmen from Beijing.If Yan Song did this in Zhejiang, he might still make a fuss about the new law first.

After Liu Zhong, Wei Fu and others left, Xie Changjie said, "Yan Futai will choose a few houses in Zhejiang to build the imperial clock and the imperial clock, so that some gentry can enjoy the benefits of the new law first, and there will be more in the future." These low-ranking officials understand some taxation. The well-being of craftsmen and the common people, as well as practical studies, need to be consulted.”

The imperial order he received was to stare at Yan Song, but Xie Changjie had seen how powerful Yan Song was when Jiang Bin was interrogated in the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice at that time, so he sincerely asked for advice.

Yan Song didn't neglect him, and answered patiently with a smile: "How many hermit households are there in the Ming Dynasty? After clearing the land and rebuilding the yellow book, many hermit households in the past could not help but bear some extra taxes. The rich and the poor share the burden, not only by the The rich bear the burden. Although the rich will bear a little more, this amount of money is nothing to them. But the burden of the poor, even if it is only a few extra coins, is still a mountain."

Xie Changjie nodded thoughtfully.

"After the new law, the burden of tax and labor has increased and decreased. Generally speaking, the burden of the poor people has actually been reduced. It is inevitable that they can't figure it out, and they will be incited by some malicious people before the benefits of the new law are realized by them. This process is unavoidable, so all provinces have to adapt to local conditions and find ways to increase the income of those who can no longer hide from the yellow book. The magic of Huangming Ji lies in this."

Yan Song explained his arrangement to him with emotion.

First of all, many kinds of raw materials are needed in the process of making this clock, and the process of polishing and making it is time-consuming, laborious and requires skill.

According to His Majesty's letter, it is clear that there are more skilled craftsmen in the world and continuous improvement.

Especially one point: the method of making it has already been planned.

The reason why it can be so delicate and can be timed without dripping water or measuring shadows has been explained clearly.Next, how to make gears, clockwork springs, springs and many other new things more refined, and how to make the glass that shields the clock dial clearer and clearer, all need to be constantly refined.

As for how the clock, which is easier to carry and less dependent on external force, can operate more efficiently for many things and for the whole Ming Dynasty, after Yan Song nodded a little bit, Xie Changjie also understood.

With this thing, at least in the future, many people will no longer have the excuse of not knowing the time, and there will be a clearer time record for official documents.

After thinking for a while, Xie Changjie asked, "If a large number of Huangming Bells are built, the demand for copper and iron will increase."

The lack of copper and iron in Daming was a problem in the first place.

"That's because His Majesty is planning something else." Yan Song said with a smile, "In short, apart from the Huangming Bell, His Majesty must have other good things in the Wanfa Pavilion. With the current new law, business taxation will bear a heavy responsibility in the future!"

Zhejiang will take a group of people immediately.Under the emperor's determined auspices, the new law was unstoppable.Yan Song knew that he must stay in Zhejiang for a few years. For him, Zhejiang is also a land of great opportunities.

Because Zhejiang is rich, there are many gentry in Zhejiang, there are many skilled craftsmen in Zhejiang, and the business houses in Zhejiang are not small.

In this place where there are seven mountains, one water and two fields, Yan Song has already made clear his own governance ideas.

While Wang Shouren, who once thought deeply about "gewu", is still in Ding You, Yan Song will use these two months to draw a new blueprint in Zhejiang.

Yan Song once again keenly discovered the emperor's intention to send this thing.

Is it the whole purpose to let the world's skilled craftsmen continue to improve?If everything is not driven by the word Li, it will not exist for a longer period of time.

This Huangming bell is just an example.

Only when physics can create new benefits will it be gradually accepted by the gentry all over the world.

Now Yan Song is starting to plan in advance, but Liu Zhenyuan's use of this thing is nothing more than more effective and precise arrests.

Because there are many people to be arrested this time, scattered all over the place.

When it comes to major events that may ignite the powder keg and make some people take risks, since it is no longer possible to cut flesh with blunt knives, there is only the power of thunder.

All regions can really act at the same time, the biggest effect is to deter afterwards.

In the blink of an eye, the time that Liu Zhenyuan and He Ping'an had agreed upon came.

He Ping'an was sitting in Hangzhou, and in front of him was the Huangming Bell who stayed here.

There are three hands, the short and thick one is called the hour hand, the thinnest is called the second hand, and there is a minute hand.

These are all new words, and He Pingan now only focuses on their location: is it already 43:[-] in the afternoon?
The original method of timekeeping is twelve hours a day, one hundred quarters, and each quarter is divided into one quarter.According to the current new method, the smallest timing division every day is not a moment, but a second in the corresponding 2 minutes and 24 seconds.

He Pingan felt that such details were not needed, and now he only cared about what happened to Nanjing, and what happened to Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau.

At this time, there was a lot of traffic at the gate of Hangzhou Weaving Bureau.

In previous years, it was only when the Japanese mission arrived, or when there was a temporary large demand for silk in Beijing, this scene only appeared at the gate of Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau.

This scene is also very familiar to many people who came to the banquet today. During the greetings at the door, they found the feeling of the good old days.

I don't know what new good business it is, but today's Governor Yan Song, Director of the Weaving Bureau Liu Zhong, Huangming Jifenhao and others are all very high-spirited, chatting and having a banquet with everyone.

After about an hour, when he was full of food and drink, Yan Song gave the order, and two bells, one big and one small, were moved out.

The bell carried on the plate by two eunuchs passed through the seats, and many people craned their necks to look at it.

The dial is like a sundial, but the rotating iron needle is not a shadow, and I don't know why it can rotate so accurately for a while.

These first batch of clocks handcrafted by skilled craftsmen for the imperial court are exquisite and richly decorated.

Yan Song said vigorously: "This is the proof of your Majesty's practical study! The study of physics is full of wonders. Ladies and gentlemen, if you can open workshops and fully understand its principles, Zhejiang will become the master of clocks and watches in the Ming Dynasty in addition to silk and other things. Province, a large province of glassware. If there are more talents in physics, there will be all kinds of ingenious objects in the future, and Zhejiang will be able to take the lead! The benefits, the wise will know themselves. This has been written, please Your Majesty, please invite Wanfa Hall to enshrine and go to Zhejiang Teaching, regardless of the rest, how big is the purchase of clocks and watches by the officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty in the future?"

Shen Yuantao nodded again and again: Sure enough, he is using new profits to win over the gentry.

It's still the same old way, some places make the rich people bleed a little more, but they will find other ways to make up for it.

Could it be that the way of the new law to make the country rich is to let the court have more money than one?
There was no such event in Nanjing. Liu Zhenyuan saw that it was already [-]:[-] in the night, so he stood up and said, "Let's go!"

From the Nanjing Jinyiwei's government office, more than two hundred Jinyiwei dressed in flying fish suits left without saying a word, and then they were divided into twelve teams.

Liu Zhenyuan took ten people with him, heading towards Yangshi Bridge in the west.

In Meng Chun's house, he had just sent away Fang Dingchang and others.

In the past few days, the Nanjing household department has been arranging tax corrections and yellow book reconstructions for Nanzhili, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces.There is a lot of knowledge in how to write official documents.

After cleansing his face, he was going to rest in the Yingtian Mansion Yamen located to the north of Jinzhifang.

Walking to the side room to the new concubine after Ying Tianfu, when the door opened, there was a beauty as tender as water.

And Fang Dingchang's sedan chair just passed the Pigeon Bridge in the northwest direction of Yingtianfu Yamen.

It's already late at night, and there are soldiers and horses in the five cities patrolling the streets.The one who can still hang around outside at this time must be someone with ability and status.

Fang Dingchang's house is located in Yuminfang, not far away.

After entering Happy Valley Lane, you will return to the house after another block.

He was thinking about something about Zhejiang: Yan Weizhong was the governor of Zhejiang, so he should be clear about the problems that the official document would cause.

The court should also be clear.

After the incident in Sichuan, will the imperial court turn around?
The sedan chair turned a corner, and Fang Dingchang knew that he had turned into Yuminfang.

Rubbing between his eyebrows, Fang Dingchang was going to ask that concubine who was good at tricks to pinch her more when he got home.

Calculating the time, the court's decree should arrive in Nanjing tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

As long as the decree is slightly loosened, the official documents sent out can be supplemented with another explanation.

He took out the clock from his pocket and looked at the time. Han Wu, who was walking in Jinyiwei Nanzhili, walked out of the gate of a small house in the south of Yuminfang, and saw Fang Dingchang's sedan chair heading home.

"Fifth Master, that's Fang Shilang." The eyes of the people behind him lit up, and they recognized the servant of the Fang family who was holding a lantern in front of him to illuminate the way.

The corners of Han Wu's mouth curled up: "Coincidentally, then please ask Fang Shilang to take us home together, and see if there are any letters at home."

The sedan chair stopped, and Fang Dingchang was about to speak when he heard a cold voice not far from the sedan chair: "Jin Yiwei is doing business, Minister Fang, see you when you get out of the sedan chair."

Behind him was his own butler who was put on the neck with a knife by another Jin Yiwei.

"Let me introduce Liu Zhenyuan, who is in charge of thousands of households in Fusi's prison in North Jinyiwei Town. Meng Fu Yin, offended, by order, get dressed and come with us."

Meng Chun's face was pale.

are you crazy?A major incident has happened in Sichuan, and you want to go to war in Nanjing?
In Zhejiang, He Ping'an is even easier to do.

"Is this Yan Futai who learned from Zhang Futai from Guangdong?" He stood at the gate of Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau and bared his teeth.

No one answered his words, but He Pingan knew that Yan Song wanted to be a "good guy".

Taking out the imperial clock to check the time, He Pingan nodded: "Go in!"

It's nine o'clock, and it's all over.

Many family heads and managers are here, and many people have also arranged staff at home.

Naturally, there were not enough people in Jinyiwei, but each team was followed by the chief envoy, Si Yamen.

Now, the guards have no idea why Master Fantai sent them to listen to Jin Yiwei's orders to the doorsteps of many rich families who had close contacts with Master Fantai.

On the side of the Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau, there were all Jinyiwei, and He Pingan came to the restless crowd with Yan Song's "astonished" expression.

"Strictly Futai, offend! By order, with Sun Fantai's advice, I am here to apprehend the treasonous criminals."

Yan Song asked "in a daze": "Sun Fantai?"

He Pingan clasped his fists: "There is evidence that Sun Fantai handed it over to the general. I took advantage of Yan Futai to invite everyone to come here today, because the emperor's order is in my body and I dare not slack off. If I offend, Jin Yiwei will make up for it to Yan Futai." .”

After finishing speaking, he waved his hands with a look of disrespect to Yan Song: "Take someone!"

The peace and tranquility of the seven days was broken at this moment.

Whether it was a plan made seven days ago, or Jin Yiwei really borrowed Yan Song's arrangement to choose to do it at this time, is no longer important to the people who came to the banquet.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a total of eleven families were taken away here on the spot, and the scene was chaotic and terrifying for a while.

To conspire against the imperial court and commit crimes, wouldn't that mean ransacking the family and exterminating the family?
Yan Song said "righteously": "What's the name of this person? If His Majesty has the will to take down so many people, why doesn't Ben Fu know?"

"Jin Yiwei walked in Zhejiang to congratulate Ping An. Yan Futai, the former Sichuan inspector Gao Kewei connected with the former five military battalion admiral Zhang Wei first, and the former left chief envoy Yang Junlin in Sichuan attempted to connect with Yang Junlin, and now they have all been captured. According to the confession , there are people involved in the case in Nanzhili, Zhejiang and many provinces. In order to prevent leakage of information, Jin Yiwei arrested the accomplices first. His Majesty made a decree that they should arrive within two days. Congratulations to Yan Futai in advance. Governors of all provinces will be set up in a few days It will be called Yan Dutai."

If the amount of information exploded, He Pingan clasped his fists and waved: "Let's go!"

From the start of Jinyiwei's operation, Guo Xun handed the token to Chang Xuanzhen in Nanjing an hour later: "Let the Xiaoling guards guard the gates of Nanjing! Before the Jiang Dutai came with the imperial decree, I, the Marquis, supervised the city of Nanjing! "

"Yes!"

Nanjing was commanded by the Marquis of Wuding with the secret decree delivered in advance and the order of the Ministry of War. The Nanjing guards headed by Xiaolingwei guarded the gates of Nanjing at night, while Song Liangchen, the Marquis of Xining, supervised the five cities in Nanjing.

On the Nanjing side, the main focus is officials.

On the other side of Zhejiang, there are only a few gentry families.

The night is still long, and those who have fallen asleep have their own dreams.

It was already late at night, and many people in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces were crying in despair.

But the movement in their house can only wake up some neighbors. When they opened the door and took a peek, they only saw the shadows of some flying fish suits.

Then the door was closed tightly, trembling with fear.

(End of this chapter)