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Chapter 128 The Open Carriage
"...Long Live Lord is really a magical skill, even the archers in the Forbidden Army are not so accurate!" Wang An rushed out in three steps and two steps at a time, and picked up the shot down Zhizhi's body from the lake.

"Hey, let them stop, rest for two-quarters of an hour, and continue after eating the watermelon! Wang Chengen, take the fishing rod to Taisu Hall..."

Hong Tao knew very well whether the archers of the Forbidden Army were accurate or not. He looked at Wang An's sweat-soaked virtue and did not reprimand him any more.Looking at the wilted and drooped look of the young eunuchs, he sighed and walked towards the lake with his hands behind his back.

Is it hot?It's noon in midsummer, it's sunny again, and it's really hot.But I didn't feel too uncomfortable. In my previous life, whether fishing or sailing on the sea, I had been exposed to more poisonous sun, and I had long been used to it.

But they couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Although the young eunuchs had been training for three years, they still couldn't compete with the Dan family members who worked at sea all year round. They had to take their time.

"Long live my lord, the sun by the water is more poisonous. There are lotus flowers on the south side of Qionghua Island, and there are more fish..." Wang An was relieved when he heard that the emperor stopped training, but his heart sank when he heard that he was going to Taisu Palace to fish. Go down.

This emperor is getting more and more difficult to serve. He is either leading a group of young eunuchs to chase balls, boxing and wrestling all day long, or he is writing and calculating things that look like ghost drawings. Now he is deliberately basking in the sun while holding up something called a sextant.After finally resting, others took advantage of the shade and the emperor dried the fish.Although I am not yet 40 years old, I feel deeply powerless.

"You go and eat watermelon too, and take them with you. It's enough for me to have Wang Chengen by my side!"

It is true that there are many fish near the lotus bushes, but it is also true that the water is shallow. If you want to catch big fish, you must find a place with open water and deep water.It’s hot at noon, so most fish go to deep water to escape, but silver carp doesn’t. The hotter the water, the stronger their appetite.

Wang An doesn't know how to fish, and telling him this is tantamount to playing harp, so don't suffer along with him.Not only him, but also the eunuchs, maids, and guards on duty nearby should not bask in the sun together.

"Wang Cheng'en, do you have a clue about what I asked you to do?" Seeing the little eunuch skillfully kneading the bait together until it was neither soft nor hard, Hong Tao felt much better.

That’s right. Fishing is a sport that is very beneficial to physical and mental health. How can you be afraid of the sun!Not only should you not be afraid of the sun, but you should also not be afraid of the strong smell of fish bait.This is configured with its own unique secret recipe, at least in the Ming Dynasty, no one used it.

Chop fresh leeks, chop watermelon rinds, and grind rice into fine particles, put them into porcelain jars and put them on the roof to dry in the sun for 49 to [-] hours.When using it, mix the three sour and smelly raw materials together in an appropriate proportion, add a little sugar and white flour, and knead it into a ball, add it to water and slowly atomize it.

Silver carp, especially silver carp, likes the sour smell of fermentation the most.After a little white flour is soaked in water, the broken rice particles will fall off layer by layer, forming flaky clouds in the water, attracting silver carp to come and eat.

Using this method, Hong Tao caught a big fat-headed fish weighing more than 20 kilograms in Taiye Pond. He dragged it to Beixiaochang and set it up in a firewood pot, and he could eat fish-head steamed cakes in half an hour.

Why not let Supervisor Shang Shan do it?If only it could be done.The emperor's meals were cooked solely by the Shangshan Supervisor. The varieties remained unchanged for decades, and all of them were bland and tasteless.It cannot be changed casually. These rules are not only ancestral laws but also court etiquette.This has been done for thousands of years in order to ensure that the emperor would not be poisoned or get food poisoning.Otherwise, even the heads of the Imperial Chef, Shangshan Supervisor Zhangyin and Guanglu Temple Supervisor would not be enough.

"Go back to Long Live Lord, Eunuch Chen has sent a message to the prisons in Nanjing, asking them to search for bamboos with an empty belly and suitable thickness in the local and southwestern provinces. Jin Yinzuo has also seen the drawings that the slaves brought, and is rushing to make bamboos. The needlework bureau and the weaving and dyeing bureau say they can make suitable multi-strand silk thread next month, which is both thin and strong."

Compared with Wang An, Wang Chengen's mind is much worse, and he basically has no association ability.But he has an advantage that makes him very suitable for being a follower. He tries his best to complete whatever he is asked to do 100%, neither exceeding nor underpaying, without asking why.

"Well, tell them there's no need to rush the work. I'm afraid they won't be able to use it this summer. There's still a whole year left. Work slowly and carefully." Sometimes Hong Tao really worries about the cost of the palace, which is too comprehensive and too much.

There are twelve inner treasuries under the jurisdiction of the emperor alone, plus the [-]th Supervisor, the [-]th Bureau, the [-]th Division, the [-]th Gate, the [-]th Factory, the [-]th House and the [-]th Bureau of Female Officials, it is basically a small city with all the internal organs.

All the institutions, workshops and tens of thousands of people in the city serve the emperor and his family.This does not include the entire palace team in Nanjing, as well as the imperial villages, special offerings, and kilns distributed across the country.

Spending so much manpower, material and financial resources every year can equal the fiscal revenue of several small countries.Wouldn’t it be good to engage in research and development, water conservancy construction, and military expansion?What’s the point of spending all the money on food, drink, clothing, pavilions and pavilions?No matter how splendid the palace is, no matter how elaborate the gardens are, you will get tired of looking at them for a long time!
"Why are you here again? I don't need to wait for you, and you can't fish either!" Just after two strokes, the nest was not ready yet, and Wang An came over again, dripping with sweat.

"Long live my lord, Zhang Ran is back and asked to see you outside the school grounds." Wang An wanted to say that only fools would fish at noon, and only fools would take the bait at noon. Unfortunately, his neck was not as strong as a steel knife, so he could only say it silently in his stomach. .

"...How do you look?" When he heard Zhang Ran's name, the scene of the Wang Gong Factory explosion appeared in Hong Tao's mind, fearing that it would be bad news again.If there were problems with the newly built gunpowder factory, then my plan would have to be changed.

"Uh...there's nothing unusual about his face, but he's bringing a very weird carriage. It has two big wheels, two small ones, and four wheels. It's a bit like the big carriage that Long Live Lord travels on, but it's much smaller, and only has two horses to pull it. Pull." Wang An knew exactly what the emperor meant by this question and hurriedly picked out the key points to describe.

"Big carriage...hehehe, let him bring the carriage to see me!" After hearing Wang An's description of the carriage, Hong Tao's brows relaxed and a smile crept onto his face.

There were indeed four-wheeled carriages in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the distance, there was more than one in the palace.But the structure is far from that of a carriage. It is more appropriate to say that it is a room with four wheels.It was specially used for the emperor's travels. It was pulled by 24 horses and could only travel on wide, flat and hard roads, so it was not representative.

The carriage Zhang Ran brought obviously did not fall into this category. It had four metal wheels covered with cork. The front two were waist-high and the back was about as tall as a person.The two pairs of wheels are connected by a metal shaft, and the shaft is combined with the steel frame. The carriage is only half in length, sitting on four sets of stacked leaf springs, an open carriage!
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