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Chapter 38 The Demon Book Case

During this time, Hong Tao was secretly making a novel item. It was a heavy white copper bracket over a foot high, with a telescopic red copper tube about half a foot long standing on the top of the bracket.

There are two ground convex lenses on the top of the tube, and one convex lens on the lower end.Under the lens is a transparent glass platform, and under the platform is a small polished bronze mirror.

No one in the East Palace could guess what this strange thing was, including the craftsmen responsible for manufacturing the parts.But people of later generations who often come into contact with laboratories can give the answer with just a glance at the appearance: a microscope!
That's right, it's a microscope, a relatively primitive optical microscope.It has two eyepieces with similar focal lengths and an objective lens with different focal lengths. It provides illumination through the reflection of the copper mirror. The magnification is about 400. Bacteria can be observed, but not very clearly.

It's not that Hong Tao doesn't want to increase the magnification, but the actual conditions don't allow it.This is already the highest level of hand-ground glass lenses at present. It took hundreds of lenses and more than two months to put together two eyepieces with roughly the same parameters.If we continue to pursue high standards, the craftsmen will be exhausted.

Suddenly got a microscope. Could it be that Hong Tao wanted to engage in bioengineering or medical research in the Ming Dynasty?The answer must be no. He can't even reach the level of an amateur in these two subjects, so there is no way to study them.

It took nearly three months and hundreds of precious glass lenses to create such a thing. It was not for research, but to harm people.

If you want to get close to the emperor, you must have a good reason, and if you want to get close to the emperor alone, you must have a very good excuse.After much deliberation, Hong Tao couldn't come up with a suitable reason or excuse, so he could only take stupid measures!

Emperor Wanli was very curious and vigilant.For this kind of person, the more you try to get close to him, the more suspicious you will be, and you may even become suspicious.

So Hong Tao asked a volunteer to take the bait and use a microscope to observe the impurities and bacterial colonies in the drinking water, and then revealed it to Chen Ju as a shocking secret, telling the eunuch that someone was secretly plotting to murder the Prince of the East Palace!
If you don’t believe me, please take a look. Bad guys secretly put bugs into the water. Look, look, they are still moving!There is no need to discuss what kind of bugs they are. According to the cognitive level of the ancients, as long as they see something moving in the water, they will definitely think the worst.

Since someone secretly harmed the prince, would it also be detrimental to the emperor?According to common logical reasoning, the water given to the emperor must also be secretly tested, and then... there will definitely be bugs!
When a guy like Hong Tao, who is a bad guy to the core, operates a microscope, he must be able to see bugs in anyone's water sample, and he must not be able to see bugs in anyone's water if he doesn't want them to be.

Someone in the palace wanted to harm the emperor and the prince. This was a shocking case in ancient times!Hong Tao was confident that he could persuade Chen Ju to keep quiet for the time being, lest the bad guys get the news in advance and jump into panic.It doesn't matter if he dies. His Majesty the Emperor's dragon body is precious and cannot tolerate any mistakes.

In this case, Chen Ju would 100% report it secretly to the emperor, and Emperor Wanli would most likely summon the prince to confirm it with his own eyes, but it would have to be extremely secret.Then, both Chen Ju and the emperor were fooled.

Hong Tao is confident that he can use ether to kill the emperor without alerting outsiders. If Chen Ju or Tian Yi are also present, then add another innocent soul.If both of them are present, the plan can only be suspended. It is obviously not logical for three people to die together and only the prince to survive.

There is no way. As long as word spreads about the prince's regicide, it will be a huge personality flaw that cannot be washed away in his life.Apart from myself, no other person must know about it. As long as I haven't seen it with my own eyes or heard it with my own ears, then it means nothing!
As for what to do if he fails, Hong Tao can only spread his hands, and he will be benevolent if he fails.When the time comes, pour the entire bottle of ether into your mouth. Don’t wait for beheading or execution. End this failed time travel in advance and prepare for the next challenge!

At the end of the 31st year of Wanli, after nearly three months of hard work, Hong Tao actually built an optical microscope with a magnification of more than 400 times.When he lay on the desk, adjusted the angle of the bronze mirror, and used the sunlight outside the window to observe that there was indeed microbial activity in the well water, a treacherous and vicious smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Well, it's interesting..." Now that everything is ready, all he needs is Dongfeng. He plans to ask Chen Ju to come over and perform on the spot early tomorrow morning.In order to reduce mistakes, you need to practice a few more times, and be sure to reach the point where you can see when you want to see it, and cannot see when you want to not see it!

"Master Chitose..." Just as he was concentrating on playing with the microscope, searching for active microorganisms and bacteria in the water samples again and again, a low voice came from outside the door.

"Didn't I say I won't have lunch!" He raised his eyelids and looked at the chiming clock on the table. It was almost 12 noon, and Hong Tao was a little impatient.

"Master Chitose, something big happened in the court!" Wang An did not leave, lowering his voice and continuing to call outside.

"...Come in and tell me!" Hong Tao's eyes still didn't leave the eyepiece. There were big events in the court every day. Either he was involved in this or he was impeached, and the charges were more severe than the last.But most of them are just based on rumors. You don't need the emperor to see the fake ones at a glance, but the courtiers still enjoy it.

There is only one reason, the struggle for power!The less Emperor Wanli went to court, the more intense the competition in the court became.In the past, the cabinet bachelors and the chief eunuchs of the ceremonial department worked together to suppress and mediate. However, after Shen Guanyin became the chief minister of the cabinet, the voices of the officials of the Zhongzhe Party in North Korea gradually grew stronger.

This bachelor of Shen University is himself a veteran and backbone of the Zhejiang Party. Seeing that there are many missing officials in the DPRK and China and a vacuum of power, he plans to take the opportunity to expand his power and compete for more say.

As the prince, Hong Tao didn't want to say a word about the competition among the courtiers, let alone take sides.At the same time, he also firmly believed that Emperor Wanli must know about it, and maybe he was secretly enjoying himself while also staring at him.As long as there is an attempt to form a party for personal gain, the third brother King Fu will be able to survive.

"This morning, Academician Zhu found an announcement at his door. It was copied from the inner study. Eunuch Chen specially sent someone to bring it to Master Qiantose to have a look at it!" Wang An seemed to be really in a hurry. He didn't even salute sloppily after entering. Quite a few, he hurriedly took something out of his arms and put it on the desk.

"Continuing to discuss the matter...Does Your Majesty know about it?" Hong Tao only glanced at it and immediately left the microscope, picked it up and read it carefully.After reading it over and over again, I stood in front of the window with my hands behind my back and thought for a long time before asking softly.

The name "Wei Wei Hong Yi" was familiar to him. It was also very famous in the history of the Ming Dynasty and was called the Demon Book Case.In the 26th year of Wanli, that is, five years ago, this unveiling made Emperor Wanli furious. He went to Jingyang Palace and stared at himself and Concubine Wang Gong for several minutes before leaving.

At that time, Hong Tao really felt a sense of oppression, as if his breathing was sluggish, and he could even feel a faint murderous aura.If he hadn't stayed in the harem all the time and had nothing to do with foreign ministers, the emperor's anger would 100% be directed at himself.

(End of this chapter)