Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 166 0161 [Shipbuilding Seeking Immortals]

He Su, the number one scholar in the new department, works in the secretary province every day, working hard for the emperor.

This morning, He Su came to work in the imperial city as usual, but at the gate of the secretary's office building, he saw Song Huizong's imperial chariot.

He Su was very happy, and felt that the emperor was diligent, so he hurried forward to see him.

Before he got close, he was stopped by the eunuch.

But I heard a Taoist priest pointing to Secretary Sheng and said: "This place has excellent Fengshui, and it can be built into a bright hall."

Song Huizong smiled and nodded: "I also have this intention."

After speaking, the emperor left in the imperial chariot, boarded a nearby pavilion and overlooked the panorama.

He wants to design the Mingtang himself, including the surrounding gardens.

Song Huizong had extremely high artistic attainments. He looked down on the palaces of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, thinking that embellishing them with emerald emeralds was too rich.He likes elegance, simplicity, and simplicity, and even paints only a layer of varnish on the pillars of the palace.

He Su watched the emperor leave in a daze, repeatedly checking whether there was something wrong with his ears.

The secretary province is going to be forcibly demolished?

This is one of the highest authorities in the central government!
He Su hurried to the office to report the situation to his superior.

The boss was startled when he heard this, and then shook his head and smiled wryly, telling He Su not to talk too much.

Today's imperial city has long been turned into a large construction site.

Some time ago, the place where Zhu Ming took the imperial examination was being redecorated.The emperor felt that the Jiying Hall was too luxurious and should be more elegant and simple. After the renovation was completed, the Jiying Hall would be renamed Youwen Hall.

To the northeast of the imperial city, a large area of ​​residential buildings outside the city is being mobilized for demolition in order to build the Longevity Mountain (Gen Yue).

Within the imperial city, the Shangqing Baolu Palace had just been completed, and the construction of the Baozhen Palace and the palace for storing the Jiuding began.

And the office of the secretary province will soon be demolished.

The Mingtang was originally built by the Duke of Zhou, and it was the place where the emperor of Zhou met the princes.

Wang Mang built Ming Tang, and Wu Zetian also built Ming Tang to show that he was ordered by heaven.

Song Huizong read a lot of ancient books and thought that Wang Mang and Wu Zetian built it wrongly. He wanted to restore the ancient system of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and build the Mingtang of the Great Song Dynasty to the most ancient etiquette.

After walking around the various construction sites, Song Huizong kept raising his opinions, feeling that the level of those general officials was too low.

He couldn't help thinking of his good friend Li Jie, if Li Jie was still alive, he would have made it clear in a few words, why would he need to bother himself so much?

Li Jie is versatile. He knows everything about calligraphy, painting, rhythm, and architecture. He also wrote professional books such as "Xu Shan Hai Jing", "Horse Classic", "Gu Zhuan Shuo Wen" and so on.

Song Huizong's civil engineering knowledge was learned from Li Jie's "Building French".

Even if Song Huizong didn't become an emperor, he could still be an excellent architect.

"Officials, Master Xue is asking to see you."

"Let him go to Yanchun Pavilion and wait."

Yanchun Pavilion is in the expanded Yanfu Palace. Since the expansion of Yanfu Palace, Song Huizong has lived in it for more than half of the time.

The real palace, on the contrary, doesn't come very often.

To be precise, Yanfu Palace is a temporary palace, but it is only separated from the imperial city by an alley.

Not many houses were demolished there, mainly workshops, shops, temples and military camps.

Well, don't blame Gao Qiu and Liu Zhengfu for dismantling the barracks and building houses, the emperor himself is taking the lead in demolishing the barracks.

Yanfu Palace is divided into five building groups, which were built by five eunuchs including Tong Guan and Yang Jian.

They competed with each other, just to please the emperor.

Now it is planned to build the sixth building complex, and the land in the inner city is no longer enough, so it is planned to demolish the residential buildings in the outer city and expand it.

Xue Daoguang was followed by two Taoist boys, who held the manuscript in their hands.

The eunuch respected him quite a lot, and while waiting for the emperor, he took the opportunity to ask Xue Daoguang for advice on Taoism.

Xue Daoguang didn't hide it, and asked those eunuchs to come over and teach them the serious Taoist breathing technique.

After preaching for a while, a eunuch suddenly came over and said, "Really please move."

It was Song Huizong who changed his mind temporarily and wanted to eat while swimming in the lake.

The lake was also excavated manually, and the water source is more than a dozen springs.

Xue Daoguang walked quickly to the lake, the emperor was already sitting in the pavilion, he bowed and said: "Saint Congratulations!"

Song Huizong said with a smile: "The real man will go on a boat with me and have a feast."

The imperial boat is quite big, with two decks, and the craftsmen can build it directly by the lake and launch it into the water.

Dozens of eunuchs and maids of honor rushed to bring food and wine to the ship with food boxes.

Liu Wanrong, who was just out of confinement, was also called to accompany her.

Wanrong belongs to the title, although she is not considered a concubine, she is currently Song Huizong's favorite beauty.

To what extent is this beauty favored?
They were all still alive, so they were conferred the title of Concubine Jiuhua Yuzhen An by Song Huizong, and the statue was placed next to Emperor Shenxiao Jiuchen.

After she died of illness, she made an exception and became a queen.At that time, all concubines had to cry. Because Concubine Cui did not cry, Song Huizong suspected that she used witchcraft to harm people, so he directly demoted Concubine Cui to a commoner.

"Holy blessings!"

Liu Wanrong saluted the emperor first, then bowed and said, "Master Xue is blessed."

Xue Daoguang returned the gift calmly.

Song Huizong stood on the deck, looking at the scenery in the lake, but he was conceiving music in his mind.

The Mingtang to be built has great political significance.

He planned to match Mingtang with twelve pieces of elegant music, which were specially used for banquets and sacrifices, and these pieces of music had to be composed by himself.

"Officials, eat at the bar first." Liu Wanrong said.

Song Huizong said with a smile, "Okay, let's have some wine."

The three sat down to have a banquet, and Liu Wanrong personally played the piano to add to the fun.

After drinking a few cups, Song Huizong asked: "The real man is not practicing Taoism in Nanyuan, how can he have time to see me today?"

Xue Daoguang told the truth: "Tanhualang asked Pindao to contribute the manuscript."

Song Huizong looked forward to it: "Is it another novel like Journey to the West?"

Xue Daoguang beckoned, and two Taoist boys came over with the manuscript: "It's not a novel, but it's quite novel."

Song Huizong put down his chopsticks, opened the manuscript and read it.

This Hunjun looked quite seriously, sometimes nodding and sometimes frowning.Gradually losing patience, he glanced quickly and kept flipping through the pages.

"Why is there still agriculture?" Song Huizong asked.

Xue Daoguang said: "Agronomy was written by Zhu Guoxiang."

Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was not interested in this, so he continued to turn to the back until he reached the method of artificial pollination and grafting, and finally stopped to read carefully.

Song Huizong also knew about grafting, which was mainly used for planting flowers.

Zhu Guoxiang introduced various precautions for grafting in detail, which undoubtedly aroused Song Huizong's interest.

As for artificial pollination, the description of the male and female flowers made Song Huizong feel extremely novel.

Song Huizong took out those few manuscripts, and he planned to study them well and use them to cultivate plants in the royal garden.

After agriculture, comes mathematics.

Those strange characters, at first glance, Song Huizong thought they were Taoist talismans.Look at the comment comparison next to it, and then you know that it is a number and an operation symbol.

I was fascinated just looking at it. This stupid gentleman is studying civil engineering and the secret art of Taoist scriptures. How could it be possible that his mathematics attainments are not high?

Not long ago, Song Huizong issued an imperial decree to promote medical schools and arithmetic schools to all state capitals in the country.He wanted to establish a medical and mathematics education system, and set up a quota of tributes, so that outstanding local medical students and mathematics students could select a group of them to study in the capital every year.

A medical student can help him practice alchemy and Taoism.

Counting as a student can help him make a fortune.

These two kinds of students can also change careers to become Taoist priests and study in Taoist schools in Tokyo.

At the same time, Song Huizong also felt from the bottom of his heart that both medicine and arithmetic were of great use to the country.

After reading those mathematics content, Song Huizong forgot to eat, Liu Wanrong picked up a piece of meat: "Officials, eat something."

"En." Song Huizong bit his mouth, and then continued to read the mathematics manuscript.

Seeing until half the afternoon, Song Huizong slammed the table: "This is really a master!"

Song Huizong felt that this kind of mathematics was so convenient that it could be used in civil engineering, and it was also powerful in studying yin and yang, five elements and eight trigrams, and Qimen Dunjia.

Looking back at the author of the mathematics chapter, there are two names clearly written: Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming.

Song Huizong said: "The Zhu family's father and son also claimed that they have not met overseas immortals. If the immortals did not teach them, how could they have obtained this technique? Didn't the envoys bring Zhu Guoxiang to Bianliang?"

Xue Daoguang sat cross-legged on the stool without saying a word.

There are too many mathematical contents, and Song Huizong couldn't read them all in a while.

He pulled out the relevant manuscripts and continued to look at the physical content behind.

Completely forgetting the time and seeing the darkness in one breath.

Song Huizong stood up suddenly, and said to the eunuch accompanying him: "Send someone to Yangzhou to urge Zhu Guoxiang to Bianliang quickly. When Zhu Guoxiang arrives in Beijing, let his father and son come to the palace together for an audience!"

After thinking for a while, Song Huizong said again: "Copy these mathematics again and give them to the professors and instructions of the school. Let them all study hard. After three months, I will personally test the teachers. Those who are outstanding in the assessment will have Jinshi." If you are born, you will be promoted, and those who have no family background will be awarded Jinshi. All counting schools in the local and state capitals must pass on this book!"

Zhu Ming never expected that Song Huizong would order the promotion of new mathematics throughout the country.

Xue Daoguang got up to leave, and because it was getting late, the emperor stayed in Yanfu Palace for the night.

And the eunuch accompanying the Royal Medicine Academy copied a copy of agriculture, mathematics, and physics overnight.Among them, the mathematics content was sent to the arithmetic school in Tokyo.

Song Huizong's biological clock is very similar to that of Taoist Jiajing.

They are all typical night owls. They often meditate in the middle of the night, have fun or work, and sleep until the sun is up.

When he woke up the next day, Song Huizong put together the manuscripts of "Journey to the West", agronomy, mathematics, and physics.

Look here, look there.

It was all so miraculous that Song Huizong always guessed that the Zhu family and his son must have seen immortals.

This kind of thinking became more and more certain, Song Huizong wished to see Zhu Guoxiang immediately.

Don't ask anything else, just ask about the location of Xiandao.

He wants to build a fleet and dispatch the most trusted eunuchs and Taoist priests to search for overseas true immortals that Zhu Guoxiang met.

The immortal must be at sea. Qin Shihuang was too tyrannical back then, so the immortal chose to avoid it.I am benevolent and love the people, I am responsible for the destiny, and I am dedicated to the Tao, so I will definitely be able to move the immortals to show up.

And the Zhu family father and son were actually sent by the immortals to form a bond, but the Zhu family father and son did not know the inside story.

If you meet a true immortal, you will live forever, just around the corner!

Don't just wait around, get ready first.

Song Huizong summoned Yang Jian urgently and ordered: "I ordered you to go to Hangzhou to build [-] sea-going ships as the envoy of the Southeast Economic Strategy. Those sea-going ships should be built tall and strong to withstand the huge waves. The sooner they are built, the better!"

Yang Jian was a little confused, and asked, "Why do the officials build ships?"

Song Huizong was a little impatient: "Don't ask so much, just do it!"

(End of this chapter)