Daming: Old Zhu, we agreed not to rush!

Chapter 179 Alchemy?Su Jing's mission
Hanlin Academy.

Song Lian came back with the task Zhu Yuanzhang gave him.

"What's the matter, Mr. Song, has the matter been resolved?"

"Lord Song, is Your Majesty angry?"

"Lord Song, has His Majesty ever condemned you?"

A group of academicians from the Hanlin Academy were quite anxious, surrounding Song Lian, waiting for Song Lian's answer.

Song Lian looked at them and said, "Don't worry, everyone, Your Majesty has forgiven us, and this matter is over."

Things are over.

Hearing Song Lian's words, all the academicians of the Imperial Academy were relieved.

For them, this matter is too important!

It couldn't be better that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't commit a crime.

"Okay, let's all go."

Song Lian waved his hand, and the Hanlin Academy returned to its former calm, and everyone was working hard at their posts.

"Brother Jing Lian, what's going on?"

Wang Yi walked to Song Lian's side and asked.

Song Lian replied: "Zichong, this matter is thanks to Mr. Su."

"Ok?"

Wang Yi was taken aback for a moment, not wanting to understand how this matter was related to Su Jing.

He asked: "Brother Jing Lian, you don't understand what you said, I don't understand it!"

Song Lian looked at Wang Yi and said with a smile, "Zichong, you don't need to understand, anyway, you will have a chance to know in the future."

Song Lian wisely chose not to say much about Su Jing's scandal.

There are many reds.

Song Lian has now deeply realized this truth.

"Since Brother Jing Lian said so, I won't ask any more questions."

Wang Yi is also a smart person, so the conversation stopped here.

Song Lian quickly returned to his office. As the Imperial Academy's decree, he is the leader, so there is naturally a dedicated office.

He took out the piece of paper that Zhu Yuanzhang gave him from his bosom, that is, the piece of paper that read "Nian Nujiao · Mid-Autumn Festival Conversation with the Moon".

After a brief glance, he nodded and said, "It's really good."

Song Lian himself is a master of literature, and his attainments in poetry are also quite high.

The level of "Nian Nujiao · Mid-Autumn Festival Conversing with the Moon" made his eyes shine.

"But why did His Majesty show me this on purpose?"

Song Lian frowned, doubts rising from the bottom of his heart.

Based on his understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's cultural level, such words must not have been written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

But Zhu Yuanzhang specifically asked him to read this poem carefully, and it must have other meanings.

Song Lian looked up some poetry dictionaries again, but couldn't find any corresponding ones.

Explain that this is a new word.

He immediately began to savor it carefully, and then there were some subtle changes in his expression.

"This author."

Song Lian muttered to himself, as if he had experienced something different, but he couldn't be sure.

After all, poetry appreciation is very subjective.

Could it be Mr. Su?

In Song Lian's mind, Su Jing popped up inexplicably.

Looking at this poem again, he felt a little contradictory again.

……

Lishui County.

Su Jing was still teaching Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi seriously as usual.

Of course, in addition to teaching, Su Jing is still doing some novel things.

Like cement!

In the Ming Dynasty, the main adhesive for construction was called "mortar".

There are also many types of mortar. The most common method is to mix lime, sand, and soil. The main one is cheap and easy to get.

And the more advanced mortar has glutinous rice mortar, which is mixed with lime sand and glutinous rice slurry, which is more used in city defense fortifications.

Because it is very strong and durable, but because of the use of glutinous rice pulp, the cost is much higher.

What Su Jing wanted to do was naturally not like this.

In his memory, there was ancient cement in ancient Rome, which was mainly made of lime, volcanic ash, massive volcanic rocks and sea water, and the effect was excellent.

In his previous life, Su Jing had been to the Colosseum and some ancient ports in Italy. The main body of the building has remained quite intact after thousands of years.

This has an inseparable relationship with the "cement" of ancient Rome.

With Su Jing's financial resources, he quickly got some of these materials,
After repeatedly trying the ratio, Su Jing finally got the "cement".

In Su Jing's yard, wooden molds were untied one by one, revealing the hardened cement blocks inside.

Su Jing picked up a piece and tested its strength with various materials.

From wooden sticks to hammers, without accident, these cement blocks were directly smashed under the hammering.

Su Jing was not surprised either, this is a pure cement block after all, and its strength is generally normal.

Then he began to use cement to bond bricks and stones and began to test.

The effect is quite good!
Even Zhu Biao, who was watching Su Jing's test, was very surprised.

"Master Su, this product seems to be better than glutinous rice mortar."

Zhu Biao said to Su Jing.

Su Jing nodded and said: "Yes, this thing is called cement, and it works very well as a construction adhesive. It's a pity that this thing is destined to not be popularized."

Can't promote?

Zhu Biao was stunned and said: "Why? Master Su, this thing is so good, if it can be popularized, it must be beneficial to the common people."

Adhesives that can be compared to the effect of glutinous rice mortar have not yet used the precious grain of glutinous rice.

This is not a great thing to spread.

"It's very simple, the cost is too high, even higher than the cost of adding glutinous rice.

Su Jing explained: "The production of this cement requires ash and stones collected around the volcano. The cost of obtaining these things in Daming is too high."

volcano?

Zhu Biao was taken aback, and asked: "Master Su, is this volcano a mountain full of flames?"

Su Jing nodded and said: "Well, Huoyanshan is also true, there are not many volcanoes in our Daming territory, and they are distributed far away."

"I'm just doing an experiment. This thing is destined to be unusable by ordinary people."

As a businessman, Su Jing is very clear that this thing does not have the value of promotion.

Of course, this does not prevent Su Jing from doing experiments.

Zhu Biao looked at the cement block in front of him and felt very sorry.

Obviously things are so good, but they can't be used.

"Master Su, is such a good thing going to be buried right now?"

Zhu Biao asked Su Jing.

Su Jing said lightly: "It's not normal for good things to be buried. It seems that I have found a lot of ancient books these days, which are the essence of previous thinking."

"What I teach you, our ancestors have long thought about it, but before that, have you paid attention to it?"

"Will anyone want to understand and pay attention? They just lie there quietly, how many years have passed."

This is Su Jing's true feelings, not from any history books.

In order to teach Zhu Biao and Zhu Wei, Su Jing collected quite a lot of classics.

Our ancients were not sages without wisdom or scientific thinking.

It's a pity that since Confucianism became orthodox, the scene of contention among a hundred schools of thought no longer exists.

Those once incomparably advanced crystallizations of wisdom have been swept into the dust of history.

this is the truth!
Zhu Biao listened to Su Jing's description, and he could understand Su Jing's feelings.

"Master Su, but Daming still has you. The students believe that as long as you are there, those buried things will not continue to be buried."

Zhu Biao looked at Su Jing with unusually firm eyes.

Science can transform people's thinking, and today's Zhu Biao is already a firm believer in science.

"Niu Yi, you think too highly of me. As for your teacher, I'm thankful that I can teach you two well."

Su Jing smiled at Zhu Biao.

As my apprentice, I can really wear a tall hat for myself, but such a big hat is a bit too heavy.

Zhu Biao seriously shook his head and said, "No, the students believe in the teacher, and always believe."

As the prince, Zhu Biao had long recognized that Su Jing was a heavyweight in the Ming Dynasty.

As long as Su Jing is here, everything is possible!
"Haha."

Su Jing smiled, and didn't take it seriously, she just said: "Then you and Niu Su have to study hard, I alone is not enough."

"Master Su, don't worry, the students will definitely study hard."

Zhu Biao assured Su Jing.

Su Jing touched Zhu Biao's head and nodded: "Then it's up to you."

If Su Jing knew that Zhu Biao in front of him was the Prince of Ming Dynasty, perhaps his mood would not be so casual.

After studying the cement, Su Jing recorded the ratio of the recipe and put it on the shelf.

Although it is a "useless" thing, it still needs to be written down.

Thousands of years later, future generations will always discover these things.

As for whether it will be useful or not, Su Jing doesn't care anymore.

It's always good to leave something for posterity.

There are many such things in Su Jing's private books.

The cost of cement is too high, which made Su Jing realize that it is not an easy task to reproduce many things that were common in previous lives in ancient times.

When making these inventions and creations, Su Jing also followed all kinds of messy ancient books.

After the cement experiment, his eyes fell on the "alchemy".

For the ancient alchemy, Su Jing still knows a thing or two, saying that it is alchemy, but it is actually a chemical reaction.

Alchemy was born with the purpose of seeking longevity.

And the idea of ​​longevity comes from Taoism's immortality and immortality.

According to "Southern History · Hermit Biography · Tao Hongjing Biography": "Hongjing has obtained the secret of the magic talisman, thinking that the magic pill can be made, but there is no medicine for suffering."

Emperor Wu of Liang provided him with gold, cinnabar, Zengqing, and realgar.

"Houhe Feidan, the color is like frost and snow, and the body is light when taken. And the emperor's clothing Feidan has experience, and I respect it."

In Tao Hongjing's "Notes on Materia Medica", there is a method for determining potassium nitrate by flame test.

When Su Jing first found it, she was taken aback.

Good guy, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the ancients were already playing with chemistry, and a complete set of methods appeared.

Naturally, what Su Jing wanted to learn was not alchemy for immortality, he just wanted to prepare something.

sulfuric acid solution.

During these days, when Su Jing taught Zhu Biao and Zhu Wei to study, he spent all day studying various alchemy classics.

This surprised both Zhu Biao and Zhu Wei.

Even they know that alchemy to seek longevity is an unreliable thing.

But Su Jing is their teacher, so it's hard for them to say anything.

until this day.

"Be careful! Be careful!"

Su Jing stood outside the yard, shouting at a group of workers.

"Ha! Ha~~~~~"

A tidy sound sounded outside the yard.

Then, Zhu Biao and Zhu Wei saw a huge alchemy furnace, which was carried out of Su Jing's yard little by little with the joint efforts of more than a dozen civilians.

"Boss Su, the courtyard gate of your house is too small, I'm afraid I can't get in."

A fat boss looked at Su Jing and said.

He was the one who sold this alchemy furnace to Su Jing. Of course, he didn't make it himself, but it was passed down from his family.

Su Jing also asked someone to inquire about it, and then bought it at a suitable price.

Su Jing smiled and said: "It's okay, just put them outside the yard. I'll settle the fee immediately, and you can take them away."

Seeing Su Jing's confident appearance, the fat boss was a little puzzled.

Such a big alchemy furnace can't be placed outside the yard, right?

Now that the workers are all there, isn't the best way to remove the courtyard gate first, transport it in and then rebuild the courtyard gate?

After the workers like me have left, I'm afraid they will have to pay another shipping fee if they find someone else.

But he is not a talkative person, since Su Jing is so sure, he also said with a smile: "Okay."

Su Jing quickly settled the freight, and the fat boss and the porter left.

But there was one thing left, and that was the rope wrapped around the alchemy furnace.

"Master Su, do you really want to make alchemy?"

Zhu Biao walked outside the courtyard, looked at the huge alchemy furnace and asked Su Jing.

There was an unbelievable meaning in his look and tone.

"Why, can't you practice?"

Su Jing asked back.

Zhu Biao immediately said: "Master Su, this alchemy for longevity is nonsense."

"Since ancient times, many emperors have been obsessed with this art of alchemy in order to live longer, but their lifespans are not even comparable to those of long-lived people. The student is bold, please ask Su Shimo for alchemy."

Zhu Biao's history is very good. He also knows a lot about the records of the emperor's alchemy and longevity.

But without exception, these emperors died relatively early.

This is enough to show that alchemy is useless at all.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Biao also formed a cognitive view of the imperial examination by learning scientific knowledge from Su Jing's side.

Such things as alchemy and longevity violated the laws of natural development.

It's unrealistic!

At this time, he didn't care too much, and directly expressed his thoughts to Su Jing.

"Hahahahaha."

Su Jing laughed loudly when he heard Zhu Biao's words.

Zhu Biao was a little confused, not knowing what Su Jing's laughter meant.

Su Jing said: "Niu Yi, who told you that my alchemy is for longevity. Your teacher, I am so young, and I haven't worried that my life span is not enough."

In this life, Su Jing is only in his early 20s, no matter how many decades he should live a good life.

Zhu Biao was taken aback for a moment, but he hadn't thought of this.

But it's not right, Tang Muzong was obsessed with this cinnabar technique, and died at the age of thirty.

Seeing Zhu Biao's still worried face, Su Jing explained: "Don't worry, your teacher, I won't make fun of my body."

"Now I have a task for you. Transport this alchemy furnace to the yard for me, but don't open the door. Let's see if you can think of a way."

(End of this chapter)