dhibooks Chapter 285 Solar Eclipse, Prince Birth
Chapter 285 Solar Eclipse, Prince Birth
On this day, Wu Youwei sorted out his study and accounts at home. It was already June, half a year, and it was time to sum up... Finally, Mr. Shang Mingshang came.
On this day, Bai Jing was honestly recuperating at home and waiting for the wedding...
On this day, the atmosphere in the harem is very solemn, and the women are waiting
...
On this day, Wantong followed Emperor Xianzong, went to court, and listened to ministers discussing state affairs.
This time we are talking about overseas crops. This is the time when they are in short supply. Last year's grain was almost exhausted in May and June, and the common people began to eat wild vegetables, but this year they still have surplus grain to satisfy their hunger.
After planting, they found that corn has many benefits. It is highly adaptable, resistant to drought, barrenness, wind and rain, and has few pests and diseases. It can be cultivated in mountains, slopes and new lands. , it will not compete with rice and wheat for land.
It is said that if it is cooked and dried, it can be stored for several years, and it is more durable than rice.
These advantages alone are enough to stop the mouths of ministers, and the grain yield is high!
Of course, the current yield of corn is only [-] catties per mu, but compared to only [-] catties per mu of wheat, this is simply an astronomical figure!
In addition, the food in Ming Dynasty now points to the south, but there are only so many people in the south, and so many fields, and most of them cannot collect grain tax. The few places that collect grain, despite the support of Luo Lun's double-cropping rice and triple-cropping rice , can't you scrape a layer of ground a few times?
However, if corn can be grown in the cold north, the yield per mu is higher than that of wheat, and it is also durable to storage. It is simply the best choice for the frontier army to plant in the fields.
The generals are supportive, after all, it is the frontier army that benefits.
So soon, all the papers for this promotion were passed.
There were also people who were concerned about chili peppers. Emperor Xianzong laughed and said: "Chili peppers, tomatoes, beans, etc. are all promoted together, and they don't have to be the same, but chili peppers must be the same as tea and salt. When trading with foreigners, the price cannot be reduced.
This was Wu Youwei's idea.
Brewing needs food, although foreigners like spirits, but Daming doesn't have much food.
Therefore, chili, which has the same effect of repelling cold as wine, can completely replace white wine!
But what Wu Youwei didn't know was that Wantong was even more ruthless with Emperor Xianzong. Didn't the recipe he gave for brewing alcohol use wheat bran, straw, etc.?That is not food, but alcohol hurts the body!
As long as your own people don't drink it, foreigners should drink it... let them drink it!
In this way, the chili can drive away the cold, and the alcohol content is still high, which makes foreigners like it even more.
I was blinded by the alcohol poisoning I drank, and I deserve it!
Of course, when selling wine, it is said that it is medicinal wine, which is high in alcohol, spicy, and can cleanse wounds, so it is not drinkable.
If they are disobedient themselves, what does it matter to them?Hey hey hey...
While talking about the excitement, suddenly, it was dark outside!
"What's going on?" Emperor Xianzong immediately stood up.
Hearing the sound of "clang, clang, clang" outside, Wantong immediately stood in front of Emperor Xianzong's palace, His Majesty Dan, and drew out the embroidered spring knife: "Protect!"
"Tengu is eating the sun!"
All the ministers looked at each other, Bai Zhen's face was livid!
"History of Ming Dynasty" records: June Guichou Shuo, there is an eclipse every day.
And in Mo Ling Villa, Wu Youwei was having tea and snacks with Shang Ming in the study.
Eunuch Shang is here to chat, and to learn from the scriptures, because he built a nursing home, a place for the elderly.
"Nursing home?" Wu Youwei twitched the corner of his mouth: "A place specially for those husbands to retire to the end of their lives?"
"Yes." Eunuch Shang nodded: "The eunuch has someone to support, husbands, it's not enough."
Eunuchs, people who were castrated in the palace, are usually called father-in-law, and some are called eunuchs, but in fact not all eunuchs can be called eunuchs.
Because eunuch is also a kind of official position, you have to be promoted step by step to become an eunuch. The eunuchs in early China were not necessarily all eunuchs, and eunuchs were completely used as eunuchs after the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the term "Jingjun" refers to an army composed of eunuchs.
Tang Zhen described eunuchs in this way in "Qian Shu": "Looking does not resemble a human body, looking does not resemble a human face, hearing does not resemble a human voice, and observing is not human.
And where will eunuchs go when they get old?
Under normal circumstances, the emperor would not let the old eunuchs stay in the palace, let alone die in the palace.
If they see that they are unable to work, the eunuch will either retire automatically or be sent out of the palace.
Before leaving the palace, usually those who talk about humanity will issue some severance pay.
When these eunuchs left the palace gate, their eyes were really darkened, and they didn't know where to go.
This is also the path most eunuchs take.
Of course, there are many exceptions. For example, most eunuchs with money and power adopted adopted sons outside.
If the adopted son has a conscience, he will send a carriage to pick him up to keep him safe in his old age.
If there is more money and power, like Xiao Dezhang and Li Lianying in the late Qing Dynasty, they all had private houses.There are also the great eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty, who went back to their private houses to live in after work.
It's easy for them to retire, just go back to the private house to enjoy the happiness.
However, ancient society still had humanistic care.
In order for these eunuchs to spend their old age in peace, a trade guild was specially set up to arrange life for the eunuchs in their old age.
Of course, this guild needs to pay money, which is one of the reasons why the eunuchs are desperately trying to make money.What about those without money?
What should I do?
There are also shelters. The government or eunuch guilds set up eunuch retirement homes. Most of the signs are temples, temples, etc. For example, there was a Baozhong Huguo Temple in the Qing Dynasty, which was dedicated to taking in eunuchs.
Wu Youwei feels that Shang Ming has the meaning of being a philanthropist now, and if he develops well, he will become a great benevolent person.
In the past, when he was doing charity work, he had never met his husbands.
The two discussed it, and Wu Youwei gave some ideas for reference from those nursing homes in later generations. When Shang Ming was about to leave, he stopped Shang Ming.
"Father-in-law is so generous, Youwei will help you with 1000 taels." Wu Youwei gave him the 1000 taels of silver note: "Make sure you settle down with your husbands.
"Tan Hua Lang gave... the An family's money." Shang Ming was very excited: "Don't worry, our family will definitely spend it all on the husbands!"
As soon as I finished speaking, it was dark!
The two were stunned for a moment, and ran out one after another. Shang Ming, Eunuch Shang was so shocked that he didn't even take the silver ticket!
The sky, the sun was getting dark, and when Bai Xianger was giving birth, she was startled when she was outside, and it was dark outside, although there were candles in the delivery room, it was dark after all.
As soon as she was afraid, she tried her best...to give birth!
With a sound of "Wow", the baby cried, and it was all dark outside.
It turned out to be a total solar eclipse hey
When Bai Xiang'er got excited, the baby was born, and she also bled profusely.
It's a pity that everyone was busy with the solar eclipse. The midwife gave people medicine to stop the bleeding. The imperial doctor could not go in, so he could only prescribe prescriptions outside based on the midwife's description.
Fortunately, the medicine was decocted in time. Although Bai Xiang'er suffered from postpartum hemorrhage, she did not die, but it will be difficult for her to give birth in the future.
Because of the solar eclipse, there was chaos in the harem for a while, until the sun was seen again, the people in the harem did not panic, and only then did they realize that Bai Xiang'er had given birth!
Bai Xiang'er gave birth to a boy, the prince, the eldest son of the emperor!
When the Empress Dowager Zhou heard that it was a boy, she used to think and look forward to it, but now that she has a grandson, she became unhappy: "Got it, let's go down!"
Not even a reward.
When everyone thought about it, it was too... unlucky for a prince born during a solar eclipse, when it was completely dark, right?
People in the harem seek good fortune and avoid evil, what does the empress dowager mean?Everyone is watching.
The Queen Mother didn't give a reward, and the Queen Mother didn't dare to go past the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother didn't give a reward either. Nowadays, there are not many women with a reputation in the harem, and only Concubine Wan and Concubine Bai are still in the concubine position.
They are the only ones who can talk to the Queen Mother and Queen, but Concubine Wan is still sitting in Zhaode Palace to protect her pregnancy.
Under the Queen, she and Concubine Bai are the ones, and now the Queen doesn't reward her, and Concubine Wan...there is no movement in Zhaode Palace, everyone is quiet...
The previous dynasty was in chaos because of the solar eclipse. Soon, Emperor Xianzong summoned the people from Qin Tianjian.
From the supervisor to the subordinate officials, Lingtai Lang of the five senses was also summoned.
In the end, they couldn't say a word about Ziwu Maoyou, so Emperor Xianzong had to worry about letting them retreat.
At this time, Eunuch Wynn came over: "My lord, Concubine Bai has given birth to a prince!"
Bai Zhen was on duty next to her. After hearing this, she grinned, and then...the smile froze on her face.
Because Emperor Xianzong just waved his hand: "Got it."
There is neither a reward nor a happy smile, just a straight face, as if hearing a gust of wind, what does this mean?
Seeing Emperor Xianzong's attitude, Eunuch Huai'en didn't dare to say anything, so he obediently stood aside and acted as his close servant.
Wantong looked at Emperor Xianzong and at Eunuch Wynn.
Because of the solar eclipse today, everyone has been busy at court for a long time, and even dinner is vegetarian.
Wu Youwei and Shang Ming looked at each other in Mo Ling Villa: "Is this a solar eclipse?"
Every time there was a solar eclipse, there was turmoil in the court, either the emperor blamed himself or the ministers blamed themselves, which really made Wu Youwei unable to understand.
The two of them were not in the mood to chat anymore, Shang Ming went back to the house and took the bank note to say goodbye, and he had to go back to Huangzhuang to sit in town.
Sure enough, not long after, there were results.
Xinyou, because of the solar eclipse and the astronomical warning, Emperor Xianzong had to order that the prisoners be taken.
Prison recording was actually created in the Han Dynasty. It refers to the system in which the emperor, the governor, and the county guard tried and recorded prisoners in custody, and checked whether the arrests and trial actions of lower-level agencies were legal and whether there were errors, so as to promptly redress unjust cases and judge cases in a timely manner.
Prison recording is the supervision of lower-level judicial behavior by higher-level judicial supervision organs.
The astronomical phenomena warn that there may be unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, so under normal circumstances, they must be imprisoned.
Sometimes, the emperor was even asked to record the prisoner himself to show that he valued it.
A prince is born, he is still the eldest son of the emperor, the only son of the emperor, but how can I say that the emperor has a son, so instead of celebrating with everyone in the world, he will be imprisoned instead?
Bo Xiang'er hugged the eldest son of the emperor, crying so much that she couldn't help herself.
What's the matter!
Why does God not wait to see her so much!
On the other hand, the old mother was very conscientious: "Your Majesty, during confinement, you can't cry, so as not to get sick.
Bai Xiang'er was originally dissatisfied with the old nanny, she cared about this and that, but now that the eldest son of the emperor was in her hands, she was not afraid of the old nanny at all: "Get lost!"
The old nanny was taken aback for a moment, and then she just turned around and left.
Bai Xiang'er wanted to hold her son and cry even more, but she suddenly remembered what her mother said, as long as it is a son, isn't it a son now?
When Wu Youwei saw Wantong again, he was very angry. Although his face was expressionless, Wu Youwei knew that he was angry.
"What's the matter?" Wu Youwei quickly untied his belt, and changed him into a loose robe, which he always wore as home clothes.
He was so angry, giving him a break would make her more comfortable.
"Concubine Bai has given birth." Wantong breathed a sigh of relief, he was indeed uncomfortable with the belt being strangled, and he didn't know why, but he was uncomfortable at home, and he had to see Wu Youwei to feel comfortable.
"Oh?" Wu Youwei smiled and said, "Boy."
"How do you know?" Wantong was taken aback, "Shang Ming Shang Gonggong?"
"He didn't say, maybe he doesn't know yet." Wu Youwei said, "I guess, if you are so angry, Empress Bai must be happy with a son.
"Isn't it!" Wantong told Wu Youwei in a low voice: "But the timing of the birth is very bad, the solar eclipse, when it is completely dark, the birth, the queen mother, the emperor, the queen, there is no reward..."