dhibooks Chapter 112 Midsummer June
Chapter 112 Midsummer June
After breakfast the next day, Wantong asked Wu Youwei about terms he didn't understand.
Wu Youwei tried to explain clearly so that he could understand what "organic pesticide" and "inorganic pesticide" are.
In this way, it involves chemistry again.
The more he explained, the more Wu Youwei had to get rid of the branches and tendrils, trying to look at this matter from the eyes of ancient people.
But Wantong understood that this was related to Taoism.
He restrained himself as much as possible, jotted down a lot of things on paper, had lunch at noon, took a nap, and left before Wu Youwei woke up from his nap.
When Wu Youwei got up, he still didn't know when.
He thought Wantong's departure was at least the same as last time, and he would come back every few days.
Who knew that on the second day he planned to post a post to some classmates to see the lotus, and Wantong...here again!
This time I still brought people and a carriage, but what was on the carriage was not a gift, but some Taoist alchemy supplies.
"The thing you told me last time, I'm afraid it won't match well, so you can teach me." Wantong was honest, and immediately asked Wu Youwei to teach on the spot.
"You can't do that." Wu Youwei said, "I'm missing something, I'll make a list for you, you can get it! I'll prepare the rest.
There is no chemical laboratory in this place, Wu Youwei can only make do with it, and there is not even a glass at this time!
One glass product is still on the other side of the ocean, and the other is because colored glaze was popular in ancient times. What is glass?
He listed things such as crucibles, bamboo spoons, pottery pipes, scales, etc., and asked Wantong to prepare them, while he got out the rough porcelain bowls, plates and other idle things at home, and asked Lin Butler to go to the kitchen to tell Fang Da Chef, how to get distilled water.
I want a laboratory again, but there is no place!
After thinking about it, Wu Youwei decided to put the laboratory on the other side of the warehouse, which is quiet and well ventilated, and divided the warehouse into a room dedicated to the laboratory.
It is still the east room with the best lighting.
Wantong struggled for three days before coming again.
The first thing Wu Youwei mixed with him was Bordeaux solution. As it happened, his grape vines were just in time for fruiting, and the smell of grape blossoms was very unpleasant, and it was a bit bad, so he directly mixed Bordeaux solution out. , Sprayed the grapes for a while with the flower sprinkler.
Wu Youwei saw that it was inconvenient to spread the medicine, so he drew a drawing of a folding ladder and asked Xiaoxiao to hand it to Cui Er. He is a carpenter and can make it. He is easy to use.
"This one, give me a copy too." Wantong pointed to the blueprint and said, "I'll go back and have someone make it."
"Okay, I'll give you a copy!" Wu Youwei raised his pen and drew another copy and gave it to Wantong.
After a while, Xiao Xiao came back: "Master, Brother Cui said he can do it. The first one is for the master, and he made the rest for the big guys. This is very convenient." "Whatever." Wu Youwei There was no intention of keeping it a secret.
Wantong thought to himself that he didn't care if he wrote it down, so it can be seen that he should be willing to disclose this thing to the world, and the emperor's doubts have been resolved.Wu Youwei took Wantong to the laboratory and continued to make lime sulfur mixture.
It's just that this is a little poisonous, so Xu Niang quickly made a mask, a white shirt, and a white hat.At first glance, it looks like wearing hemp and filial piety, which is quite unlucky.
Xu Niang and her daughter Xu Xiang'er sewed needles again, embroidered green bamboo leaves on the neckline of the white shirt, and embroidered a circle of peach blossoms on the cuffs, which looked much more elegant in plain sight.A ginkgo leaf is embroidered on the hat.
The lime sulfur mixture has a strong smell, and it must be used after mixing. However, there are no diseased crops in Moring Mountain Village, so Wanwan uses a clay pot to seal it and take it away.All the things left behind belonged to Wu Youwei.The laboratory is full of bottles and jars.
Wu Youwei secretly sighed, there is no beaker, no glass products, these things can't see changes, and don't know the situation, this laboratory doesn't deserve its name!
He started looking for Steward Lin: "I want to build a kiln, okay?
"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Lin Guanjia said: "Apart from mountains, there are fertile fields near our house, and there is an imperial village standing there next to it. It is really not suitable for opening a kiln factory. And I have no experience. As the saying goes, every row is like a mountain. The master is a scholar. , It’s normal to have a cook at home to cook, and there are carpenters and bricklayers, well, it’s easy to build a house by yourself, but what about jade craftsmen?
The jade materials Master Mu and his son buy every day are of the highest quality, he dared not say a word about this in his dreams, except for his wife, Xiao Xiao is an ignorant person, but he does not know the value of the jade materials.Master Mu and his son don't talk to outsiders, and they know how to carve when they are bored in the house every day. "Then where is the right place to open a kiln?" Wu Youwei said, "I want to make things by myself."
"If you don't choose a place, there are kilns in many places in the suburbs of Beijing." Lin Guanjia said: "There are many brick kilns and tile factories on the east side of the moat river. Do you want to make bricks and tiles yourself?" Wu Youwei asked Leng, on the east side of the moat?Isn't there the famous Panjiayao in later generations?That place is huge, he knows it, but now... how many kilns are there?
"Not many, just two, they can only make bricks and tiles." Lin Guanjia said: "Besides, not everyone can open a kiln in the suburbs of Beijing... Wu Youwei understands.
At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the control was strict, unlike the later Qing Dynasty, a bannerman would have a natural advantage.
"Our family's bricks and tiles are also ordered there, you see?" Lin Butler actually doesn't want the master to open a kiln factory, the family has already tossed about the academy, and the carpenter's shop, the grocery store can be regarded as renting a house for him Master Wu, the mill is still free, and the two shops rented out by the family plan to take it back next year. It’s really not smooth, and you’re still tossing around?
"This, let's talk about it later." Wu Youwei also thought of this point. He couldn't think of it as a matter of fact. Although the family is not short of money, it should not be too chaotic. If there are too many things, it will be complicated.
Seeing that the master had figured it out, Butler Lin heaved a sigh of relief.
I used to think that the old man was young and mature, but now I feel that I am still a young man, and every time I think about it, I think about it.
At the beginning of June, the rare melons and fruits that Wu Youwei sent out, at the beginning of June, someone returned gifts to him, and the first one was Wu Jun.
The eldest brother sent a housekeeper to send him a cart full of watermelons.
Now that watermelons are out of the market, they can be bought everywhere on the street, and he sent him a truckload of watermelons!
This cart of watermelon can be bought for five taels of silver at most!
"Congratulations, young master, the eldest lady has already passed the re-election, and now she is learning the rules in the palace!" The housekeeper of Wu's house looked proud.
"Well, it's time for her to learn the rules." Wu Youwei didn't have a good impression of Wu Qian'er.
The housekeeper of the Wu residence choked: "Missy is very well behaved.
"Compared to the palace?" Wu Youwei sneered: "When I visit my aunt, she always sits on top of it, so I'm not afraid of shortening my life?"
The housekeeper of the Wu residence fell silent.
His mother-in-law told him about this matter, in fact, the people in the big house look down on the second and third houses of the concubines.
Even the young masters and ladies look down on them. The young ladies are okay, but the young lady is a bit superficial, but no one dares to say it. Whenever they talk about the young lady, they will clean up that person.
For this reason, the maids in the eldest lady's room suffered a lot...
"I hope that when the emperor pays respects to the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, she will know how to avoid it, then Amitabha.
Wu Youwei provoked him on purpose.
Sure enough, the butler of the Wu residence turned pale.
If Missy doesn't avoid... Hehe!
After scaring people enough, Wu Youwei didn't bother to talk to him.
It's just that since the housekeeper of Wu's house met Wu Youwei, he still proposed to redeem his youngest son and granddaughter, but Wu Youwei still didn't agree.
The second person to come was from Zhang Sheng's family. It turned out that Zhang Sheng's family brought him something, and there were a lot of dried fish made by himself.
Because there is a lot of water in his hometown, Nancheng County, the dried fish is also very large. He gave Wu Youwei ten dried fish, two jars of fish paste, and one jar of shrimp paste.
They are all made from freshwater fish and shrimp.
Wu Youwei had someone steam the dried fish when he picked it up, and ate two with white steamed buns dipped in fish sauce and shrimp sauce. He sighed in front of Chang Sui, who was sent by Zhang Sheng: "It's delicious, it's still delicious! The fish paste and shrimp paste from Brother Zhao’s hometown are authentic!”
Zhang Sheng's family was not rich. Although he was a local landlord, he was not considered a wealthy family in Beijing. Wu Youwei had a family background, and he was young. Zhang Sheng was several years older than him.
Originally, the servants who came here were afraid that their master would be disgusted by Mr. Wu who was a well-born man who gave this thing, and what was going on when he gave him dried fish sauce and shrimp paste, which were rare fruits only for tributes?
But my master insisted on letting them deliver it, but my wife didn't stop me.
But now I found out that the master still knows his classmates. This master is really delicious despite his youth, and he doesn't dislike him, not at all.
Before leaving, Wu Youwei didn't give them too much money. Wu Youwei gave them back as usual.
It's only twenty copper coins per person.
Then the two instructors also sent people to give him two sets of new books.
They are the complete set of "New Explanation of Water Classics" and "Wen Xin Diao Long".
They are all books that Wu Youwei likes to read.
Wu Youwei greatly rewarded two old servants who came to deliver books to him.
Li Dongyang's things arrived later, and what he gave to Wu Youwei was the "Story of Foreign Objects" he saw in the Hanlin Academy
The whole set of "Foreign Objects"!
The title of the book "Story of Foreign Objects" is unfamiliar to most people.
It is a kind of classics from the Han to Tang Dynasties that specially record the new and exotic products of the surrounding areas and countries.
It started at the end of the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, began to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and disappeared after the Song Dynasty.
No one knows where they all went, and some people say they were destroyed by the people of the Yuan Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty was established by the Mongols, and they didn't need this thing.
Wu Youwei looked at this box of books, his hands were trembling
Specifically, "Yiwuzhi" is a special kind of classics in the Han and Tang Dynasties, which mainly records the products and customs of the surrounding areas and countries at that time, and the content involves many aspects such as natural environment, resources and products, social production, historical legends, customs and culture.
According to the archaeological evidence of later generations, from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, at least 22 kinds of works named after "Yiwuzhi" appeared.
"Story of Foreign Objects" is a general name, just like "language", every country has its own language, so there are many "Stories of Foreign Objects", but Wu Youwei has never seen any of them collected together in a general way .
It was born with the integration of ancient nations and the expansion of exchanges with other countries, and it prospered with the deepening of this process, and it also decayed and died out.
This type of writing first appeared in the late Han Dynasty, flourished in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, began to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and withdrew from the historical stage after the Song Dynasty.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to an encyclopedia.
The Encyclopedia of History.
Its emergence and demise are closely related to the internal and external integration and expansion of the Chinese civilization circle during this period, and from a perspective, it reflects the level of world understanding and ideological status of people during this period.
After the Song Dynasty, with the development of history, the improvement of people's awareness level, and the lack of attention of the rulers at that time, the people of insight used their inaction to oppose the rule of foreign races. This kind of works no longer appeared, and the original versions It also gradually disappeared.
A cultural phenomenon that lasted a long time and had considerable influence was buried under the dust of history in this way, so that later people only had some vague impressions of it, and it was only occasionally seen in the research of historical geography and novel history. its trail.
Its kind, its existence, its content, its relation to other cultural phenomena, and its full historical significance as a special cultural phenomenon have never been taken seriously.
What Wu Youwei can see in later generations is only a few limited collections of Qing people and some research results of modern people. Originally, there was none!
There are 26 copies of Li Dongyang's "Story of Foreign Objects", so it can be seen that it could not only be transcribed in one day, he must have been preparing for a long time, but he just found this opportunity today and sent it to him.