Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

After a few days, Su Mu became very interested in drawing maps.

In addition to being useful in the country's foreign military use in the future, this thing is also a must-have for traveling.You know, scholars these days have the habit of going out to study, but because there is no map to use.Most of the geography of the whole world still stays on the concepts of "Hebei is the north of the Yellow River" and "Jiangnan is the south of the Yangtze River". When traveling, most of them hire locals as guides.

It is much more convenient if you have a map in hand.Moreover, once calculated according to the scale on the map, you can plan your daily itinerary in advance so as not to miss Sutou.

Su Mu suddenly had a business idea: anyway, he is writing the manuscript of "Dream of Red Mansions", before the publishing industry is banned, he might as well ask the bookseller to engrave several editions of his atlas and sell them.

It is not so easy for ordinary people to imitate such exquisite maps. It should be no problem to sell them for ten taels of silver. If you collect a complete set of maps of the thirteen provinces, there will be surprises!

Okay, let’s do it this way, first draw the map of Shanxi, and then draw other provinces after accumulating a certain amount of experience.

Zhu Houzhao still came over every day, but Su Mu ignored him.

This kid is a monkey, and he feels bored just by looking at him.Gradually, they came later and later. In the end, they didn't come until lunch time, as if they were purely for a meal.

It is easy to draw a map of administrative districts, but a topographic map is a bit troublesome. It took Su Mu several days and several drafts before he finally came up with the simplest map of Shanxi marked with contour lines.

For added effect, he also colored the map with stone green, gamboge, cinnabar, and ochre.

Needless to say, green represents plains, and yellow from light to dark represents plateaus and mountains.

He also used ink lines on the entire map, turning it into an astonishingly large chessboard with ten miles as a grid.

As for the chess pieces, he spent two renminbi of silver to have the carpenter make about thirty pieces in one day.The appearance is like chess, the horse head represents the cavalry, the iron helmet represents the heavy infantry, the arrow is the archer, the round head is the light infantry, and the carriage is the baggage team.

A pawn represents a centurion.

In this way, it took three days, and the game was finally done.

Strange to say, Hu Shun still didn't send anyone to remind him, probably because he had full confidence in Su Mu.

At noon on this day, wait for Zhu Houzhao to arrive.

Su Mu took a photo of the map and laughed loudly: "Okay, let's see, Shanxi map!"

A huge blueprint with realistic effects appeared in front of everyone. The mountains, rivers, lakes, and cities on it were clear at a glance, as exquisite as a work of art.

After only one glance, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, and suddenly called out: "The entire land of the Three Jin Dynasties is under my eyes. It turns out that the Jiangshan Sheji of the Ming Dynasty looks like this!"

Looking at the Yellow River rushing to the east, looking at the majestic Taihang and Luliang Mountains, Zhu Houzhao seemed to have seen it himself, and was shocked by the thick and torrential momentum.

At this moment, a thought suddenly popped up in the mind of this 14-year-old child: This is the world that I will inherit in the future, so the world is like this!

In the past, to the future prince, the world was nothing more than the imperial palace or the small sky above the city of Beijing.

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The shock on Zhu Houzhao's face naturally couldn't escape Su Mu's eyes, and he was also extremely proud: Maps are easy to say, but to draw a realistic blueprint, you need the support of modern technology.You have to send a lot of people to map, and even use satellites.Although the picture I drew from memory would surely make people laugh out loud if taken out in modern society, but in the eyes of the ancients, it can only be astonishing.

Throw a large box of chess pieces over, and place a booklet full of game rules on the table.

Su Mu said: "How do you think about it, let's play after we understand the rules."

As soon as he saw the soldiers and horses, Zhu Houzhao became excited, and immediately spread out the pamphlet, and studied it with Liu Jin.

These two guys have good aptitude, and at dusk, they actually figured out a general idea, and fiddled with them on the map in a decent manner.

While they were studying war chess games, Su Mu had a quiet time, and since the map had been drawn, he had nothing to do, so he simply started writing novels again.

This time it went very smoothly, and I was out of shape. I wrote [-] words in one breath.

Su Mu was in a good mood: "Okay, okay, come here, you all go back!" Su Mu started to drive people away.

Zhu Houzhao: "Zi Qiao, can I take this picture back and study it at night."

"No, no, you can take back the chess pieces and pamphlets, but not the map." Just kidding, it took Su Mu three days to work on this picture alone. trouble.

"Forget it, I'll come back tomorrow." Zhu Houzhao was very disappointed, so he had to bring Eunuch Liu back in a huff.

Finally regained the feeling of code words, nothing to do, Su Mu also resumed the living habits of more than a month ago, and started to run in the morning.Lack of exercise in the past month, my body is hard.

It's just that, without that kid surnamed Zhu around, I always feel like something is missing when I start running?

Sweating all over, Su Mu was not in a hurry to go home, so he simply went to a tea house owned by a Guangzhou native to have breakfast.

The Ming Dynasty has rested and recuperated for decades since the First Battle of Tumubao.The sprouts of capitalism are flourishing, the country is in its most prosperous period, the south wind is gradually advancing, and the lifestyles of Lingnan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are gradually invading the capital.

The leisure and wealthy cultural class in the city gradually developed the habit of eating tea in the morning and drinking rice wine at noon.

The crab roe soup dumplings in the teahouse that Su Mu went to are especially good, but the price is a bit expensive, and the people who go there are all the scholars in the city.

Soon, it became a salon for the reading seeds in this area.

When there are many scholars, in addition to talking about current affairs and fame, romance is naturally indispensable.

This is also a window for Su Mu to get in touch with the mainstream society, ordering a few steamed buns, ordering a pot of fragrant slices, and listening to the gossip in the streets, it is also interesting.

On this day, he heard a lively event that caused a sensation in the whole city.

Yun Qing, the leader of Wanhualou who was deprived of the title of Oiran by Yanniang a while ago, is about to make a comeback.

The time and place have been fixed.

The time is tomorrow evening, and the place is the mansion of Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning.

Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, is the younger brother of Emperor Hongzhi and the uncle of the Gold Medal Kingdom.Because he is the emperor's brother-in-law, the future emperor's uncle, this guy is domineering, and he is a person who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes.

Coupled with the extremely low quality, once someone makes him unhappy, he will think of ways to punish you, and he has done a lot of inappropriate and absurd things in his daily life.

However, Emperor Hongzhi was generous and loved his wife Queen Zhang very much, and he indulged a lot with this brother-in-law.

As a result, this Zhang Heling became more and more presumptuous. Up to now, it can be said that he is well-known in the capital and feared by everyone.

A while ago, it was probably because he saw that he was really outrageous and hated. Li Mengyang, a great celebrity, filed a letter to impeach Mr. Zhang Hou, listing such evil deeds as accepting and giving bribes, and robbing civilian women.

Emperor Hongzhi had always trusted civil servants, and this matter involved the queen's family, so he naturally attached great importance to it.For the sake of the Tian family's face, he didn't go to the three courts, but only asked Dongchang to investigate.

In order to please the emperor, Xu Can, Eunuch Xu of Dongchang, went through a scene indiscriminately, and reported back: There is no evidence in the investigation.

The emperor was surprised. He said that Li Mengyang was well-known among scholars and officials, so he certainly wouldn't talk nonsense without any basis?

This question fell right into Xu Can's arms, and he was worried that he would not find a chance to stand up for the East Factory and revive his dignity as a servant.He replied: Many civil servants nowadays are good at reading, and there is no problem with their moral character.But the mistake is to take it for granted, or follow common sense.I thought that after reading a few books of sages and sages, I had all the principles of heaven in my hands, and that everyone else was a villain, and they all had to listen to the teachings.

Zhang Hou is a foreign relative, and Wenchen has always been wary of foreign relatives.According to common sense, he would definitely do something to bully men and women and disturb Chao Gang.

But the servant went to investigate for a long time, but found that although Zhang Hou was a bit domineering and reckless, he was not an official, so where did he accept and give bribes?

The imperial court gave him so much salary every year, if he wanted a woman, he would pay ten taels of silver for one, and there are so many human teeth in the capital, why bother to grab them.If Zhang Hou is willing to buy seventeen or eighteen young and beautiful women from him every month, it's nothing!

Zhang Hou's personal virtues are flawed, but he didn't commit any crimes.

"Master Li opens his mouth to say a word, and those of us who investigate the case will lose our legs. But if we say a word, civil servants can explain everything with the words of a sage, and there is no need to investigate and understand. It's not fair!" Finally, Eunuch Xu sighed deliberately.

Eunuch Xu's words were insidious.

Emperor Hongzhi didn't care, and smiled, but he only thought that Li Mengyang made a mistake of empiricism.

Just say, forget it, Xu Can, you can deal with this matter!

He also said it casually, but he didn't want to, Xu Can was also ruthless, and directly took the emperor's order, arrested Li Mengyang and sent him to Beizhen Fusi to be imprisoned, and the imperial case was directly settled.

As the head of the Seven Sons, Li Mengyang is very well-known among the scholars. He was arrested and imprisoned this time, which caused a lot of shock.

As soon as this matter was mentioned, all the scholars in the teahouse couldn't help sighing, and cursed Yan Bandit as hateful and framed Zhongliang.

However, several days have passed since this case, and it is all old news. In comparison, Yun Qing's re-emergence is more interesting.

After cursing a few words, the scholar's topic turned to the old and new oirans again.

It turned out that the impeachment of Zhang Hou and Zhang Heling alarmed the emperor, but it didn't matter, but Zhang Heling's mother was frightened and fell ill.It wasn't until the matter was understood that it slowed down.

Although Zhang Heling is a jerk, he is filial to his mother.For three days in a row, I stayed by my mother's side, serving soup and medicine, and never even glanced at her.

After my mother recovered from her illness, and knowing that she likes to be lively, she likes singing and dancing, so she simply held a grand banquet, and all the people who were famous in the Qing Dynasty in the capital were invited.

One is to make my mother happy, and the other is to show off to the government and the public: You bastards, look at it, I, Zhang Heling, is the queen's younger brother, if you want to punish me, Li Mengyang will end up!

As a brothel purser, his main income is talking about poetry and Taoism with celebrities and scholars, but such large-scale gatherings also account for a large proportion of the total income.

It is said that every time one participates in this kind of gathering, the makeup fee for appearance alone costs thousands of taels.

Money is a secondary factor, the key is to gain fame.

The people of Qingguan rely on their fame to gain a foothold in the cultural and performing arts circles.

The accumulation of fame requires a certain exposure.

Exposure on this kind of big stage is a great opportunity that ordinary people in Qingguan can't wait for, just like the stars of later generations who go to the Spring Festival Gala, even if they don't pay a penny for their appearance, or even pay them back, most of them are eager for it .

Su Mu listened to it funny: The packaging rules for stars in the entertainment industry are the same in ancient and modern times!