Villager of Daming

Chapter 715: Like a clock and a watch

"It's snowing, and the sun rises in the morning, and it's actually minus six degrees. It's cold, and the skin on the back of my hands is wrinkled."

There is light snow falling in the heavy snow season. There are heaters in the houses in the imperial city, but not outside.

Zhu Yuanzhang led a group of important ministers and generals to Xiaqiu Village to pick up watches. Last year, heavy snowfall and light snowfall were the same solar terms, so there was no holiday.

There are less things to do this year, so let’s do whatever we can.

It's the same two days, so Xiu Mu moved it back to tomorrow, November [-]th, and today is November [-]th.

Officials and generals reported to the imperial city early in the morning and entered Xiaqiu Village with Zhu Yuanzhang.

The main generals who went to fight included eight people, plus 21 people from the six ministers, Chen Ning, Zeng Lu, the imperial censors, Wei Su, and Liu Bowen.

There are 29 people in the six ministers this year, but Zhu Yuanzhang is preparing to adjust, leaving only 21 people, and the remaining eight people will not be given watches.

Every watch has a number, one is written on the outside, and two same numbers are written on the inside.

If you are dismissed, you must hand in your watch. If you are 'retired emeritus', the watch will be kept and handed over when you die. Unless the other person's children are promising, then it will be passed on to his children.

Nanjing rarely experiences such cold weather. It was minus [-] degrees this morning and minus [-] degrees after the sun came out.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the back of his hand, which was obviously wrinkled by the cold.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi didn't care. They put their hands in their pockets. What's six degrees below zero?The coldest time in Helin is more than minus 40 degrees.

When you should go out, you should go out, wearing thick clothes and a dog-skin hat, your nose will be red from the cold, and there will be ice on your eyelashes.

Then after staying outside for an hour, my feet started to get cold and I had to stamp my feet constantly.

The fish just caught from the river jumped up to five feet high, and swung its tail while it was in the air. When it landed on the ground, it bounced twice and stood up.

"Your Majesty, come in quickly." The chief led the way.

Everyone felt much more comfortable after entering the glass house without lead oxide. There was heating. No matter how low the temperature was outside, it was 25 degrees above zero in the house.

Everyone sat down according to their status, and the palace maid brought tea and snacks. The person who took the table did not eat, and neither did Zhu Yuanzhang and others.

"The ministers can place their seals to prove that they are leaders, and then they can put their watches back on. If you have anything to take with you, if you feel tired and want to have lunch before leaving, you can stay."

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his arm, looked at the watch on his wrist, and nodded to the others.

The ministers have become accustomed to it. Since the fourth day of light snow, they have seen His Majesty always raising his hand to look at his watch. The watch is accurate and does not need to be adjusted.

The one I received was not the watch, but it was said that I would need to check it with the clock every day when I went to court.

"Actually, you don't have to go to the front of the clock to calibrate it. For example, the watch of our sister and the concubine is 2 minutes faster every day, and the concubine's is 2 minutes slower every day. You estimate that the time is about the same, just adjust it. Hehehehehe!"

Zhu Yuanzhang comforted a group of people. Queen Ma's watch went up by 2 minutes day and night, and Concubine Sun's watch was 2 minutes slower. They usually corrected it after getting up in the morning.

What else is right?When you wake up in the morning, you can set one watch back 2 minutes and the other watch 2 minutes forward.
Everyone nodded, yes, but it still needs to be proofread, and it will be no problem if it takes an hour and a half.

Not all updates are accurate. A slight deviation is fine, and it may be corrected later. Anyway, you only need to know the approximate time.

The officials and generals looked at each other, and none of them said they wanted to take their things and leave.

Because getting things is a benefit given by solar terms, if you leave after lunch, you will bring lunch food for your family. You can eat faster, and then take the food box home.

My family had told me when they came out that if they didn't come back by noon, they would wait and have dinner later in the afternoon and bring back the food from Xiaqiu Village.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, no place cooks better food than Xiaqiu Village. You can buy it elsewhere with money, so Xiaqiu Village can only take chances.

The food at Fuhua House is expensive. If you pay enough, it will be delivered to your home. Who in Xiaqiu Village dares to ask them to deliver food?That has to be in the palace.

"Your Majesty, what's for lunch in Xiaqiu Village? If it's not good, I'll go back first." Zeng Lu was smarter and asked first. "It should be long." How could Zhu Yuanzhang know?he asked the chief.

"Your Majesty, to cool down, some cows died. The village bought them. There are sauce beef, toothpick beef, beef meatballs, stir-fried beef, cold beef tendons, fried beef with green onions, beef bone marrow and other dishes for the whole beef feast." The chief replied.

"Your Majesty, I'm waiting to eat." Zeng Lu was shameless at all. As soon as he heard the dish, he decided to take it home.

The other ministers nodded one after another, "All cattle feast!"Take it home and your family will be happy.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything. He was used to this group of things, as if they had never eaten before.

The things are delivered, the box is opened, and a bunch of watches are revealed inside?bell?

"It should be long. It's so big. Where can I wear it?" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up an alarm watch, or rather an alarm clock, and found that it was inconvenient to carry.

"Your Majesty, this is an alarm clock. It is prepared for watchmen. It is placed in the watch room. It will be tried out in Yingtian Mansion, Ningguo Mansion and Taiping Mansion first. I am afraid that someone will steal or rob it."

The headmaster introduced the application of things. It was hard work for the watchmen. If there was nothing to do during the day, it would be fine. Go to bed and get up at night.

Do you have anything to do during the day?What should I do if I can’t wake up at night?Under normal circumstances, I can change shifts, but it would actually be uncomfortable for anyone else.

The clock can tell time, and the alarm clock is fine, but it is louder and noisier, and it is purely mechanical.

"Steal? Rob? Use it secretly for yourself? You are always on tenterhooks. You can't ship it overseas. There are a lot of things in the room, including boxes of candles. Why doesn't anyone steal them?"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care. There were hourglasses, candles, incense sticks, and water leaks in the watch room. Which one was worthless?Who dares touch this?

In fact, there is not one person in the watchroom. The watchmen have to go out at the same time, and each person is responsible for one side. There are people staying behind, such as apprentices.

Moreover, it may not be just one person who is doing the watch. If there are people who come out with their apprentices, someone has to pick up the slack.

Who doesn’t know that walking alone at night is dangerous?It’s normal to have a companion.

"In that case, let's use it for the changing room." The mayor said it didn't matter.

Then another box came, this time a box, a beautiful wooden box with varnish on the outside. When the box was opened, it was satin, and a watch was in the groove.

When the ministers saw this, they immediately smiled, beautiful!

Zhu Yuanzhang recalled: "The watch on our wrist was given by the prince, and there is nothing!"

He picked up a normal watch and said, "Look how good this watch is. What's in our watch?"

Everyone: "..."

Other people's watches only have three hands, the hour hand, the minute hand, and the second hand. Behind them is a white background, or the base plate is white.

Zhu Yuanzhang's watch has a gear structure inside, a tourbillon!The key is the date.

"Your Majesty, since you don't like it, why don't we exchange it..." Tang He wanted to exchange the ordinary watch he didn't get for the tourbillon.

"Who are you talking to about us? When you talked about us, you made us go back and be beaten by Liu De, and you want to harm us again?" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and quarreled back.

"I know I was wrong!" Tang He apologized, but his tone was not sincere.

Zhu Wentian wanted to laugh when he was around, that is, Tang He dared to talk like this, and he had been playing with Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child.

So when he was attacking the Xia Kingdom in Sichuan, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't scold Tang He, but he scolded Tang He, which delayed the matter.

Then in history, Tang He lost the fight, but nothing happened.

(End of this chapter)