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Chapter 35 Grudge turns into anger

This is what Piaohong wrote: "I have sent an order to the chief of the Franco Kingdom, and the Luzon tribe knows about it. The Luzon tribe killed more than [-] merchants from Zhang and Quan for no reason. Luzon was originally a deserted island, surrounded by evil dragons and snakes." In this area, we, the small people of our sea country, turned their domestic goods into merchants, communicated with foreign countries, and traded with barbarians. For more than ten years, we established a general meeting. We also taught the people who were in the winter the art of farming and managed their cities and buildings, so they became Ji District, Jia Zhuhai Kingdom. How can this person fail you? How can he be so enmity that he kills ten thousand people?

Overseas fighting, unknown culprit.And among the four peoples of China, merchants are the lowest.How can you start a military revolution because of untouchables?There are also merchants who abandon their homes and travel to the sea, never to return through the winter. Their fathers, brothers and relatives all despise them, so there is no regret in abandoning them. "

What does it mean?I just told the Fujian General Soldier that I knew about the incident in Luzon Island where the Folangji people participated in the killing of tens of thousands of merchants in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou of the Ming Dynasty.

Then he asked: Luzon was originally a deserted island where ghosts and beasts were rampant. Fortunately, people from the coast of my country went there to do business, and it gradually turned into a big city.The people of our country also teach you how to farm and build houses, so that you can gradually become rich.What did these overseas Chinese do to you that made them want to kill so many of them?
Finally, my opinion on how to deal with it: I don’t know who caused this fight. Anyway, businessmen are the lowest among Chinese people. Everyone hates them for abandoning their families and running around on the sea all day long.It would be no pity to abandon such untouchables. How can we mobilize people to fight for them?

Listen, there are so many inhumane answers, but they are so reasonable.However, the academicians in the cabinet, who were well-read in poetry and books and claimed to be knowledgeable about the past and present, had no objections and apparently agreed with the emperor's approach.

For the sake of their own interests, the emperor and his courtiers were able to argue with each other for several years. However, when the Chinese people were bullied outside, they didn't even say a few words, not even interested in investigating, and even gloated a little.Apart from being good at cutting leeks, this kind of court really has no merit at all. It would be a disaster to keep it!
"Wang An, find someone to send these pictures to the Tamura Glass Kiln tomorrow morning to speed up the firing. Find someone to collect the items on this list and clean up the two straight rooms in the backyard. I will be useful. "

After the banquet, Hong Tao returned to the East Palace with a straight face. The more he thought about it, the more awkward he became, and he went to bed very late.Early the next morning, on the way to the Siyi Pavilion, he suddenly took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Wang An.

Some of the papers were painted with strange patterns of utensils, and some of them had names of items such as strong wine, quicklime, saltpeter, and green vitriol written on them.It didn't say what it was used for, and Wang An didn't ask.

Over the past year, Wang An has become accustomed to the prince's many strange behaviors. Since these strange patterns are given to the glass kiln, they are naturally the patterns of fired glass.

Not only had he seen crystal clear glassware, but also exquisite chiming clocks and incredible telescopes, all made by the prince.At the moment, apart from surprise, I am only convinced, and the names of the items written on the paper should also be raw materials used to make magical artifacts.

But he guessed wrong, or shouldn't have guessed at all.What Hong Tao wants to do and what he wants to do has never appeared in the world so far, and even well-informed people cannot guess it.

What is Hong Tao going to do?It is an extremely volatile colorless and transparent liquid, diethyl ether, commonly known as anesthetic ether.This organic compound can be prepared at laboratory level using absolute alcohol and concentrated sulfuric acid. As long as the method is correct, the process is not too difficult.

Those strange patterns were not gifts for King Fu's wedding at all, but glassware used for chemical experiments. The items on the list were raw materials used to prepare absolute alcohol and concentrated sulfuric acid.With these utensils and raw materials, Hong Tao was able to prepare ether under relatively simple conditions.

Well, why are you suddenly rushing to prepare ether?Hong Tao will not say a word to anyone about this matter, not now or in the future.He is too treacherous. Once people find out, even if a little bit of news leaks out, not only will he fail to become a prince, but he will also lose his head.

He plans to kill the king!That's right, kill Emperor Wanli and replace him.And ether is a mysterious weapon used to kill the emperor silently without arousing suspicion from all parties.

This idea is not the first time I have come up with it. It can be said that I have been thinking about how to choose my future life since I traveled through time.If you don't plan to change, it will be relatively easy to operate according to the historical context.Almost in the 40th year of Wanli, he will naturally ascend the throne and become the emperor.There is at least ten years between the canonization of the crown prince and the ascension to the throne. During this period, as long as you accumulate a number of people with common interests and deal with them carefully after you ascend the throne, you will most likely not die suddenly.

At that time, we will start to rectify government affairs, economy and military affairs. Although time is a bit tight, it is not impossible to turn around.Hong Tao was even prepared to abandon the capital and move the capital, using space for time, relying on Yangtze River defense for a few years, and then launching the Northern Expedition in one go after the large-scale musketeer training was completed.

Another option is to break the original historical process, take over the power of the country from Emperor Wanli in advance, start comprehensive reforms as early as possible, and block threats from the north and Guandong outside the Great Wall.As long as the situation can be stabilized, Ming Dynasty should be thicker than the war potential.

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages.The former looks stable but is very passive. Even if he is crowned prince, he still has to hang his head and endure for more than ten years.

But as the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. If one day he fails to hold back and arouses the emperor's suspicion, all the previous preparations will be in vain, and there will be no ability to withstand risks at all.

The latter is more risky at the beginning, but as long as it succeeds, it will be more proactive in the later stage, and it will also gain more time for changes and development.Even if it is impossible to quickly transform a huge country that has accumulated a lot of trouble, it will still have to slowly quarrel with the courtiers, at least it will not accelerate the deterioration of the country's economy, diplomacy, and military.

But assassinating the emperor is a difficult technical job. Even as a prince, it is not easy to find an opportunity to get close to the emperor alone.Even if there is a chance to get close, there is still no reliable solution as to how to kill someone quickly without revealing obvious signs of homicide.

It was in view of this situation that Hong Tao decided not to take too much risk but to endure it for a while.Facts have proved that he is not a very tolerant person, or in other words, once he has the strength to fight back, even if it is not particularly sufficient, there will still be grass in his heart.

Why do you say that? Obviously, the success of the glass kiln gave him a method of assassination that could kill people without being discovered, and then he could no longer tolerate the emperor's way of thinking and thinking of giving up everything for power. Did it.

A year ago, even if he became the prince, he could only curse in his heart countless times in the face of Emperor Wanli's ridiculous actions, and would not dare to show any dissatisfaction on his face.

Since he fired the experimental vessels in the glass kiln and sent them to the East Palace, Hong Tao has reduced the number of visits to the Siyi Pavilion and freed up more time to devote to chemical experiments.

The experiment was conducted in the backyard where the Crown Princess and her two chosen servants lived. They were already proficient in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers, and were learning fractions, decimal multiplication and division, and algebraic equations.

Hong Tao doesn't want too many people to know what he is doing, but the experiment does require assistants.Just drag your wives into the laboratory with you.Didn't the ancients say that if a husband and wife are of the same mind, they can break through metal!
As for whether the Crown Princess and the selected attendants were of the same mind as him, Hong Tao didn't care at all.What ether is and what it does cannot be understood by anyone, including the test participants. It is estimated that it is very likely to be regarded as a Taoist priest's alchemy technique.

The crown prince is addicted to alchemy. If this matter is spread, will it cause big trouble?Hong Tao can say very responsibly, definitely not.There were many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who were superstitious about elixirs. Even if they did not refine them themselves, they would never object, let alone regard alchemy as a wasted time.

(End of this chapter)