Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 179 0174

Rested too late, overslept.

Zhu Ming quickly dressed and washed, and asked Bai Sheng to wait with his horse. He didn't comb his hair much, put on a pu cap and left.

This kind of uncut headgear is not the uncut headgear worn by Zhu Ming before he became an official, but the Song Dynasty official hat with super long wings removed.

You can also twist the wings upwards, which is called Chaotian Putou; you can also fold the wings downwards, which is called Jiaojiao Putou.

"Brother, you haven't eaten yet!" Zheng Yuanyi shouted.

Zhu Ming got on his horse: "Just buy something on the road."

Zheng Yuanyi chased out with the maid: "I steamed some steamed buns."

"Thank you, sister." Zhu Ming took the food box, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and went out.

He was holding a food box in one hand and the rein in the other, and he still had a sword hanging around his waist in case of possible gangsters.

There are not many things to do at school, and Zhu Ming often goes to work alone, leaving Bai Sheng to do things at home by himself.

Now there is still a coal shop, and Bai Sheng goes to the shop every day.In his spare time, Bai Sheng also led Shi Biao to wander around Tokyo, helping him inquire about some market news.

For example, there has been a nursery rhyme circulating recently: "Break the barrel (Tongguan) and throw vegetables (Cai Jing), and you will have a good world." (According to the official dialect of the Song Dynasty, this sentence rhymes.)
Similar to nursery rhymes, they often appear, and Cai Jing has nothing to do about it.

When Cai Jing dismissed his chancellor last time, there was also a nursery rhyme to celebrate: "Kill Haohao (Tong Guan) and cut vegetables (Cai Jing), and eat lamb (Gao Qiu) and lotus leaves (He Zhizhong)."

Ju Ming speculates that this kind of nursery rhyme should have been formed spontaneously, mostly from the hands of the working people at the bottom.

If it was fabricated by scholars, it would definitely be more elegant.

Today is the same as driving to work. You can only drive slowly when there is a traffic jam, and speed up quickly when you seize the gap.

After finally arriving at the Nanjiao campus, Ju Ming was already an hour and a half late.He didn't bother to go to the office, so he led the horse around, and as the teaching director, he inspected whether the classrooms were teaching normally.

In the last quarterly exam, according to the exam results, within the scope of power and responsibility, Zhu Ming tried his best to ensure that a few good students were promoted.

Those good students who were suppressed by the Cai party have long been grateful to Zhu Ming, and admire Zhu Xuezheng from the bottom of their hearts.

It's a pity that Zhu Ming recommended Chen Dongsheng to be superior in the foreign house, but was rejected by his colleagues because of his misconduct.Chen Dong has been studying in Taixue for several years, but he is still a low-level student in the foreign house, so angry that he continued to insult Cai Jing in public.

After school at noon, Chen Dong and Zhu Song didn't go to eat, but came to find Zhu Ming together.

"Xuezheng, please read." Chen Dong took out a book as if offering a treasure.

This book is freshly out of the oven, and you can still smell the ink. On the cover, there are four large characters: Zhu's Mathematical Classics.

Zhu Ming opened it and saw that it was the content of modern mathematics, and it was still engraved and printed. Song Huizong's speed is really fast enough.

"Sent by the school?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Song nodded and said, "Not only Taixue distributed this book, but also the school. According to Dr. Zhang, even the Ministry of Industry distributed dozens of copies."

Chen Dong said with a smile: "There are so many courses in Taixue. When this book is released, there will be a lot of mourning. The mathematics teacher is still studying by himself. Let us preview this book. Some students who are messing around shout that they can't understand it."

Zhu Song said: "It's more than that. Mr. Mathematics knows that we have learned it, and he quietly came here to ask for advice."

Zhu Ming kept the "Zhu's Calculus", nodded and said, "Go and eat."

The two resigned and went to dinner together.

Zhu Ming opened the mathematics textbook and found that the carvings were exquisite, worthy of being made by a royal craftsman.

Going to Goulan to listen to music last night made Ju Ming feel more urgent.

The emperor's favor for his father has nothing to do with Ju Ming.He has to do some hard work by himself, which can not only benefit the people, but also please the emperor's favor, and then he can be promoted at a faster speed.

For example, improving movable type printing.

The entire process of movable type printing in the Northern Song Dynasty has been developed and perfected, but there are still many technical problems that cannot be solved.The real big development was in the Southern Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it didn't mature until the middle of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Ming had already had lunch in advance, and he wandered to the school library to borrow Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Meanings".

Then, relying on memory, compared with the book, reproduce the Song typeface stroke by stroke.

It is slightly different from the Song style printed in modern times, but the Song style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Zhu Ming has read many books of this type.It's not that he pretends to be old-fashioned, but because he can't find a modern version at all for the purpose of doing video research, so he can only buy photocopied versions of ancient books.

Song typeface is the most suitable for printing!
It was born in the Ming Dynasty, and strictly speaking, it should be called Mingzi.

For several days in a row, Zhu Ming was "creating" Song typeface characters.When he comes up with the fonts, he will have to make font sizes of various colors.

Font size is very useful, especially in imperial examination textbooks.The main text and annotations of the scriptures are printed in different font sizes, which are basically used in every book.

In addition, determining the font size is also unifying the printing standard.

Punctuation marks should also be developed. Printed books in the Ming Dynasty already had original punctuation marks, usually small circles or small black dots, which were used to assist sentence segmentation and facilitate reading.

Zhu Ming didn't want to make it too complicated, he just made commas, periods, question marks, commas, colons, and exclamation points.

After designing all these, we will study the ratio of lead movable type and the formula of ink materials.

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Yanfu Palace.

Song Huizong asked: "Has the elixir been refined?"

Wang Zaixi replied: "I have summoned dozens of Waidan masters and are discussing the formula of refining medicine. The ten thousand year Ganoderma lucidum is a sacred thing, I must be cautious and cautious, and do not use it indiscriminately."

Song Huizong nodded and said: "We should be cautious, but we should not be too slow."

"Remember!" Wang Zixi said.

Song Huizong waved his hand and said: "Go, if you succeed in refining medicine, I will reward you generously."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wang Zixi's real purpose was not to refine medicine at all, but to use the opportunity of refining medicine to expand his Taoist influence with the emperor's order.

As soon as this guy left, the accompanying eunuch came quickly: "Officials, the two secret performances are from the northwest."

"But there is another good news?" Song Huizong said happily, "Hurry up and bring it!"

The first closed note was sent by Tong Guan.

Song Huizong only glanced at it, and his smile turned into anger.

The content of the secret memorial is: Liu Zhongwu led an army of tens of thousands to attack Zangdihe City, causing nearly half of the casualties, and the third general of Qin Feng (the third army of Qin Feng Road) was wiped out.Tong Guan please kill Liu Zhongwu.

Song Huizong muttered: "This Liu Zhongwu really deserves to die!"

Suppressing his anger, he opened and read the second sealed performance, but it was urgently sent by Gao Lian.

Gao Qiu said in the report that Liu Zhongwu was tricked by the friendly army.Although Liu Zhongwu is the main general of the road, except for the Qinfeng Road regiments, the rest of the friendly troops are not very obedient.During the siege, the friendly army was passive and idle, and was defeated by the enemy rushing out of the city gate.The Third Army Corps on Qinfeng Road was besieged, fought bloody battles, fought to the death without retreating, and finally the entire army was wiped out.

Two closed plays, the content is completely opposite.

Song Huizong couldn't figure out which one was true. He wanted to call the privy envoy Zheng Juzhong to discuss it, but he felt that Zheng Juzhong must be helping Tong Guan to speak.

After much deliberation, Song Huizong recruited Cai Jing.

Cai Jing has not been summoned by the emperor for two or three months.

He regained his energy in an instant, carefully adjusted his appearance, and entered the palace in a carriage to ask questions.

Song Huizong said a few words of consolation, took out two sealed performances, and asked: "According to what you see, which one is true and which one is false?"

Cai Jing read it carefully, and didn't say whether it was true or false, he just said: "Liu Zhongwu is the envoy of Qin Feng, and Qin Feng's third general is one of the main forces under his command. It is quite ominous to kill the general before the battle."

Song Huizong thought carefully and soon understood.

Liu Zhongwu was defeated on the front line, and it was Liu Zhongwu's own troops who suffered the heaviest losses. The casualties of friendly troops were negligible.

I'm afraid this is really a trap!

Reminiscent of Tong Guan's secret performance, Tong Guan, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, actually asked to kill the leader of the whole army.

It is conceivable how bad the relationship between Tong Guan and Liu Zhongwu has become.

As for Gao Qiu speaking for Liu Zhongwu, it was because it was related to his own interests.

The Forbidden Army led by Gao Qiu formed a unit with Liu Zhongwu.Liu Zhongwu won the battle, and Gao Qiu had the military exploits.If Liu Zhongwu was convicted, Gao Qiu's trip would be in vain, and he could only let Tong Guan figure it out from now on.

This time in the battle against Xixia, not only the generals were at odds, but even the Forbidden Army and the Forbidden Army were fighting endlessly in private.

Song Huizong thought carefully, Tong Guan commanded all kinds of armies, and the military power was really scary.And Gao Qiu is also his confidant, so he must use Gao Qiu to restrain Tong Guan.

Liu Zhongwu must be saved, and to protect Liu Zhongwu is to protect Gao Qiu.

Song Huizong immediately decreed: "Order Liu Zhongwu to quickly reorganize Qin Feng's third general!"

Cai Jing looked calm, but his heart was full of joy.

Since Zheng Juzhong became a privy envoy, Tong Guan has been moving closer to him, and his relationship with Cai Jing has become increasingly distant.

Cai Jing hinted that the emperor would save Liu Zhongwu, so he could take the opportunity to win over Gao Qiu and confront Zheng Juzhong and Tong Guan militarily.

The monarch and his ministers discussed the war again, and Cai Jing also talked about the Ministry of Household Affairs, patting his chest to ensure that the food and grass on the front line would be absolutely fine.

Song Huizong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, Cai Jing is still reliable, and Zheng Juzhong's party is too useless.

Song Huizong said: "If you encounter a setback in the Northwest War, don't spread it."

Cai Jing quickly said: "A small setback is harmless. If you wait a little longer, there will be good news coming to Beijing."

Regardless of whether the battle is won or not, a good news must be sent, which is related to the emperor's face.

Cai Jing was left out in the cold for more than half a year, and he finally met the emperor today, how could he let this opportunity go.He said to his liking: "Officials, the city of Tokyo is getting congested day by day. How can it look like Fengheng Yuda? It is necessary to build more city walls and expand the size of the outer city."

Song Huizong was really happy, and he also ordered: "When I was King Duan, I didn't like the city wall of Tokyo. It is crooked like an earthworm. How can it be beautiful at all? The new city wall must be built straight."

Cai Jing said: "At the beginning of the country, all kinds of wastes were waiting to be built, so there was not enough money, and the city walls were not very beautiful. Now that the country is rich, the city walls should be straightened."

The addition of the Tokyo city wall can not only conceal the defeat of foreign wars, but also dispel Song Huizong's worries.

The outer city wall of Tokyo City, to use the original words in the history books, was built "tortuous and vertically inclined", and people at that time were "so sick that they are not suitable for viewing beauty".

As early as Song Shenzong's time, when repairing the city wall, he wanted to straighten it, but he gave up because of various situations.

Song Huizong couldn't bear it even more. He re-planned the imperial city and built it very beautifully everywhere.However, the outer city wall is still twisted and twisted, so how can it be worthy of the image of the capital of the celestial dynasty?

"The matter of building the city wall will be handed over to Aiqing." Song Huizong said.

Cai Jing was overjoyed: "The minister will live up to the entrustment of the officials!"

He has been left out in the cold for a long time, and now he gets the job of building the city, which is tantamount to releasing a message to the outside world: Lao Tzu is back again, and the officials still favor me even more!
After leaving the palace, Cai Jing immediately called the governor of Kaifeng: "The government has an order to build an outer city, and you are responsible for demolishing the houses near the city wall."

Sheng Zhang asked, "How big is Zengzhu?"

Cai Jing said: "The place that is not straight can be straightened, and it can be expanded outward."

"Your official understands." Sheng Zhang was very clever, and immediately figured out what was going on.

The emperor is building a lot, and the frontier is still at war. Where can I find the money to build more walls?

The real goal of this fortification is to straighten the city wall.The part that bends inwards can be expanded outwards, the main body is still the original city wall, and the amount of work is neither large nor small.

Sheng Zhang quickly sent people to talk about the demolition, and the news that the imperial court wanted to build a new city wall spread throughout Tokyo in an instant, and the common people were happy and worried.

Zhu Ming complained: "The officials are awesome, and Cai Xianggong is also awesome."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Guoxiang didn't quite understand. "Tokyo City is really crowded. If the urban area can be expanded, it will be a good thing for the common people. Of course, the premise is that the demolition work should be done well."

Zhu Ming asked: "Dean Zhu, have you ever seen the appearance of the outer city wall of Tokyo?"

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said, "I see, it's crooked, and it's different from the straight city I imagined."

Zhu Ming said: "Hundreds of years later, there was a kind of bastion in Europe, which could form crossfire against the enemy without shooting dead ends in all directions. Although Tokyo City is not a bastion, the principle is similar. The outer city of Tokyo is Chai Ronghe Zhao Kuangyin personally supervised the construction, according to the river network, deliberately built it to be curved and not straight, so as to ensure that the defenders can meet the enemy in all directions. Song Huizong wants to straighten the city wall!"

"How do you know?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said: "Yue Fei's grandson made complaints about it when he was writing a book. Cai Jing's construction of the city has greatly weakened Kaifeng's defense!"

Zhu Guoxiang said, "Would you like to persuade me?"

"I'm not going to persuade you, it's just to make that stupid king angry." Zhu Ming shook his head again and again.

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Doesn't anyone in the Privy Council, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War understand these things?"

Zhu Ming said: "Maybe some people understand, but certainly no one said it. Don't overestimate these guys in the Northern Song Dynasty. They were already dead. The catapults of the army were on the city, and the Song army was defeated without any suspense. The catapults of other people's Jin soldiers were made from local materials and made temporarily outside Kaifeng City. What does this mean? Military technology is deserted !"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Perhaps it is not because of backward technology, but because of system corruption."

"Whatever," said Zhu Ming, "I'll improve the movable type printing first, then the faint king will definitely like it, so let's try to get promoted as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)