Chapter 312: Sacrifice to the Imperial Temple

Zhang Anshi was in pain and hastily took a step back.

Immediately resuming his modest and prudent appearance, he said, “Ten thousand deaths for me.”

Zhu suspiciously said, “With this, it can prevent the bubonic plague?”

“No.” Zhang Anshi said bluntly, “The bubonic plague is very harmful, can’t we rely on one thing to succeed?”

Zhang Anshi paused, much more honest this time, and dutifully said, “In addition to this, I have prepared three other measures.”

Zhu Di stared at Zhang Anshi, waiting for Zhang Anshi’s next words.

However, he saw Zhang Anshi take out another fine little box, from his sleeve.

In front of Zhu Di’s face, opened the box and took out a small pill from inside, before adding, “I also ordered people, to distribute this.”

Zhu Di saw this pill in front of him, curiously said, “This pill …… is taken internally?”

Zhang Anshi quickly said, “No, no, no, your majesty, this …… this can not be eaten, this thing is also poisonous, this is called mothballs, used to dispel mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas and other things.”

Zhu Di looked at the pills carefully, and with some suspicion, he said, “What is the use of this?”

Zhang Anshi said, “This is refined from kerosene, this thing is set aside in the corner, can volatile odor, so that cockroaches and fleas things, avoid.”

After a pause, he then said, “With this smoke burned, coupled with this mothballs, it can isolate the vast majority of fleas. Your Majesty, I found that the spread of the plague, in fact, the problem is not in the body of the rats, but mainly lies in the fleas on the rats, want to solve the bubonic plague, then you need to solve the problem of the fleas.”

“After this measure of mothballs, there is another initiative that teaches people to wash their bedding and some of the furniture in their homes, on sunny days, and then dry them.”

Zhu looked surprised and said, “Drying is enough?”

“Yes.” Zhang Anshi said, “The sun nourishes everything and also makes that insects and ants have nothing to hide, and is able to kill most of the toxins in the world.”

After thinking about it, Zhang Anshi continued, “Of course, the above initiatives are only precautionary, with layers of protection, so that the number of infected people to a minimum, the number is less, the rescue will have a way.”

Zhang Anshi eloquently continued: “With fewer patients, people can also be fixed, and when the heart is fixed and we know how to extinguish the spread of it, then we can save a limited number of patients. I prescribe a prescription, this prescription is not the right medicine, but also has some effect, the patient as long as they are well cared for, and someone to clean them, provide some rich food, their chances of healing, can be greatly improved.”

Hearing this, Zhu could not help but ask, “How much of this smoke and mothballs can be supplied?”

Zhang Anshi revealed a few difficulties, said, “The supply …… of cigarettes is only not much, but the camphor pills …… are as many as you want, which are refined from kerosene.”

“What’s kerosene again?” Zhu was speechless.

Zhang Anshi: “……”

Zhang Anshi had to continue to patiently explain: “This is from the kerosene there, with the distillation method, you can be in the kerosene refined kerosene, the kerosene was originally intended to replace the candles sold, in addition to the future can be used for rubber washing, as well as the maintenance of machinery, the advantages of this material over the candles are: complete combustion, brightness, flame stability, no black smoke, no knotting of lamps, no significant odor. , no knotting of lamp flowers, no obvious odor.”

Zhu said, “……”

Said here, Zhang Anshi lowered his voice, then said: “Your Majesty must ask about, then I will simply tell a detailed story, nowadays, many workshops because of the gray, so you must light work, but the candle is not good, on the one hand, candles have smoke, and the brightness is also slightly worse, many workshops to do the work, if it is not enough brightness, it will inevitably affect the efficiency. ”

“Not only that, there are some workshops, not suitable for lighting candles, because the fire light is exposed under the flammable material, easy to cause fire. I this side of the use of kerosene, can be made into a horse lamp, go out at night, mention this horse lamp, can block the wind and rain, workshop to do the work, but also do not let the fire exposed to the outside, this kerosene workshop production is also not small, and now has been in the Wuhu County workshop began to test production.”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Di felt that he might gradually be led astray by Zhang Anshi, but in his heart he became curious, so he said, “Can this thing, which is no different from a candle, also earn silver?”

Zhang Anshi seriously said: ”Your Majesty, the benefits of this thing are immeasurable. It is not necessary to say that it earns silver, but it must be known that it is a necessity, and once thousands of families have used kerosene, then they will need to have kerosene expenses every month, and if everyone in the world uses it, even if it is to earn ten cents from one person every month, it is an astronomical amount.”

“Not only that …… with this horse lamp, then our shipping company, we can develop the night business. This workshop …… is also the same.”

Zhang Anshi said this, and in his heart, he mourned for the workers.

You know, the ancient society, in addition to the shifter, there is no such thing as a night shift, sunrise and sunset, not because the gentry and merchants do not want to, really can not do.

But the advent of the kerosene lamp clearly created the conditions for this.

Many times, Zhang Anshi also do not know, certain so-called progress of the times, in the end is progress or regression, but …… it seems that the only reason for this to do is that the world is not yet the same, and the biggest role of this kind of progress is rolled up.

Zhang Anshi added: “In addition to this, if this horse lamp is delivered to the army, it will also be of great use; with this horse lamp, won’t it be more convenient for the army to move at night?”

When Zhu Di heard this, his eyes suddenly brightened a few points, and he said with great joy, “Not bad, not bad, what is said is very true.”

The two muttered for a while.

Although the voices of this monarch and minister were not high, they were not biting their ears, completely avoiding other people’s ears, and those who were present also almost heard it.

Just ……

This made Yang Rong and the others’ faces turn a little green.

How can you talk about a good bubonic plague and then turn it into a sale?

At this point, we did not dare to stop them, so we had to wait patiently.

Zhu Di came to interest at this time: “Meaning …… to sell horse lamps?”

Zhang Anshi said with certainty: “Yes, Your Majesty, after selling the horse lamp, which is a big business, the most important thing is that, after the horse lamp is sold, it needs to purchase kerosene every month.”

Zhu Di thought deeply nodded, then said: “this thing, to grasp the do, horse lamp has begun to manufacture?”

Zhang Anshi truthfully said, “has come out a few samples, I want to manufacture on a large scale, so make sure it is cheap, good value for money, before you can think of a way to completely eliminate candles.”

Zhu Di nodded, and then said, “Next time, fetch a few horse lanterns to show me.”

“Yes, sir.”

Zhang Anshi then said, “I actually have one more thing to request.”

……

Hu Guang: “……”

Hu Guang breath began to be a little unstable, he has endured and endured, but now ……

He looked a little righteous indignation, the plague is such a big thing, halfway through the talk, actually ran to talk about their business. Is this not treating national affairs like a child’s play?

This Hu Guang was closer to Yang Rong, and took advantage of the fact that Zhu Di and Zhang Anshi were concentrating on their monarchs and ministers playing a pair of songs, quietly approached Yang Rong, and mumbled in a low voice, “Yang Gong …… this is a bit uncharacteristic.”

His voice was lowered to a mosquito-like whisper.

Yang Rong glanced at Hu Guang with a sympathetic look, but still replied in the same low voice, “This is a good thing.”

“Good thing?” Hu Guang frowned and his voice became slightly high-pitched, but fortunately, Zhang Anshi’s side of the conversation attracted everyone’s attention, so no one noticed his abnormality.

Yang Rong said, “You believe, the sky is about to collapse, this time Wei Guo Gong still can talk and laugh, and full of thoughts about his business, which means that the plague, he has a full grasp of the matter. If not …… this person afraid of death, I am afraid that has long been scared and trembling.”

Hu Guang: “……”

Hu Guang chewed on Yang Rong’s words and gradually regained his composure, but he still couldn’t help but say, “But it’s still not like words.”

However, Yang Rong said, “To be able to solve the current great problem in the sky is the unprecedented achievement of living countless people! As for other minor details, why bother? If everything is to care about, will be very tired of heart. Hu Gong …… your mind is already shallow, to put this mind on the key place.”

Hu Guang felt as if he had been connoted with something again.

However, after careful consideration, he also felt that Yang Rong’s words were very reasonable.

When all is said and done, it seems like I have too much on my mind.

……

On the other side, Zhu Di, with his hands behind his back, stared at Zhang Anshi and said, “What else do you want to request?”

“This smoke ……” Zhang Anshi pointed to the extinguished smoke, said: “Your Majesty, this smoke is poisonous, but there are some uses, I was originally thinking …… that this thing …… to be solved after the bubonic plague, it will be eradicated, but …… I am also thinking, perhaps in the future, this thing is still useful, both in order to prevent the scourge of this thing in the world, your majesty may wish to issue a ban, not authorized, the provinces in Guanjiang shall not plant tobacco. That is, all over the clan soil, also shall not be introduced.”

Zhu Di gave an oh, this is just a small matter, but Zhang Anshi always felt strange when he specifically mentioned this.

He pushed down the strangeness in his mind and added, “Is there more?”

Zhang Anshi said, “If you want to harm, then harm the minister, if there is any more plague in the future, or places that use this tobacco, what can we do? How about asking Your Majesty to issue another decree that only allows Xinzhou to grow tobacco?”

Zhu said, “Xinzhou?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I have checked, tobacco this thing, indeed suitable for Xinzhou planting, only this tobacco, not allowed to enter the customs for sale.”

Zhu Di heard, but did not in this matter too much speculation, but said: “Tobacco, I do not understand, but I understand you, you honestly say, here is not what profit can be made?”

How tiring it is to rely on one’s own guesses. It’s better to just ask!

Zhang Anshi hastily opened his eyes wide and said, “What does Your Majesty take me for?”

Zhu, however, was silent and only continued to stare straight at him.

In Zhu Di’s eyes forced, Zhang Anshi finally lost, and finally obediently said: “Your Majesty, this thing is poisonous, but the toxicity is slow, if it is produced and sold in the customs, it is inevitable to poison the people and the people. But in the Guanwai and other places, this thing if the sale, really can earn so a little bit of silver, I am mainly thinking, the population of the new continent is sparse, but the land is quite a lot, if all planted grain, food is enough to eat, but the excess grain, if you take the ship out to sell, I’m afraid that the price of transportation is still a little bit high, the loss is not worth the gain, not as good as planting some cash crops, earn me a little bit of three melons and two jujubes money, I would also like to take this time to Recruit some people to reclaim the land, so that the new continent adds a little more manpower.”

Zhu Di looked as if this was really the case and couldn’t help but say, “Hmph, you still want to fool me? Sure enough, it is profitable! But …… Zhang Qing has always been meritorious in the dynasty, you both want to earn a little silver, that is allowed. I decree, the Guan and the vassal states, are not allowed to introduce the planting of this material, violators will be executed. Tobacco from Xinzhou is not allowed to enter Guanzhou? Outside the Customs and the clans?”

So Zhang Anshi said truthfully, “It is possible there, and I mainly want to do a little ocean trade.”

Zhu Di swept a glance of Yizhuha, then said, “Yizhuha, you write down, later teach Hanlin to prepare the edict.”

Yiluoha hurriedly said, “The slave girl obeys the decree.”

Zhang Anshi had just thought that Zhu was unwilling to do so, but at this time, when he heard that Zhu was so forthcoming, he was instantly relieved.

And then he realized that …… Xinzhou was finally …… going to be developed.

Daming’s foreign trade, is never have to worry about, even the poorest time, relying on porcelain and silk, there is a large amount of gold and silver inflow.

And now the new continent, also more than one trade artifact, with this, enough to ensure a steady stream of gold and silver, can flow into the new continent, with a large number of inexpensive income, there is no worry about the inflow of foreign population.

Trying to hold on to a place, whether by military conquest or cultural intrusion, has its effects, but no amount of effect is worth countless immigrants.

As for the loss of the market of Daming, Zhang Anshi does not matter, the future rely on the Western Ocean and Japan, as well as Korea, and even further in the future the world’s countries, are enough to make Xinzhou rich.

Zhang Anshi was happy in his heart at this time, and hurriedly said, “Your Majesty’s great kindness, I am unable to repay.”

When Zhu waved his hand, he said, “Alright, alright, what were we talking about just now?”

Zhang Anshi immediately pulled back his thoughts and said, “Bubonic plague.”

It was only then that Zhu thought about it, and he couldn’t help but feel a few moments of guilt in his heart.

In the face of such a calamity, why did he suddenly follow Zhang Anshi and talk about trading with great interest?

So he immediately strained his face to hide the embarrassment in his heart and said solemnly, “In that case, if there is a plague in the capital, it can be solved as well?”

Zhang Anshi seriously said, “With the experience of the Fujian side, I can guarantee that the problem can be solved, and the most important thing now is to make what happened in this Jianning, widely publicized!”

“In this way, we can let the people and soldiers know that the plague is not enough to be a problem, and when everyone’s mind is at peace, then we can teach the method of preventing the plague, and we can get twice the result with half the effort.”

Zhu nodded, “This matter ……”

He looked at Yang Rong and the others with sternness in his eyes and said, “Have you all heard it, Minister?”

The ministers immediately said, “I hear and understand.”

Zhu Di then commanded: “Wen Yuan Ge and the six ministries, to put out notices in all states and counties, as well as the residence newspaper, but also to report loudly. Naturally …… these are still second …… Zhang Qing side should also grasp …… find a way to come up with you those medicines.”

Zhu Di restored confidence, a sweep of the previous worried, at this time there are a few points of complacency look: “If the plague is really flat, I will personally go to the temple to sacrifice, so as to teach the great ancestor of the high emperor to know ……….”

The crowd shouted hooray.

At this point, everyone’s spirits were loosened.

Even Zhang Anshi was walking with the wind after taking his leave.

Yang Rong, however, quickly followed at the back and called out to Zhang Anshi, “Duke Wei, is it possible to draw up a charter for this solution? Wen Yuan Pavilion and the six ministries side, can also be implemented according to the charter.”

Zhang Anshi said kindly, “This is good, I will have someone send it to me early tomorrow morning.”

Yang Rong smiled, gazed at Zhang Anshi and said, “The Duke of Wei is really extraordinary ah, this …… time, if the Duke of Wei can really quell the plague, it is a great credit.”

Zhang Anshi smiled faintly, “A mere inch of work is not enough.”

Yang Rong looked around, but nodded, “His Majesty is going to the Imperial Temple to pay homage to the Great Ancestor Gao Emperor, could it be that the Duke of Wei doesn’t know what that means?”

“What do you mean?” These words really put Zhang Anshi on the spot, Zhang Anshi looked at him in confusion and said, “Isn’t it to inform Emperor Taizu Gao?”

Yang Rong laughed again and said with a different look, “You’ll understand later.”

Zhang Anshi is refused, can not be like this, said half to stay half, want to do what.

So he said, “Lord Yang, please also enlighten me; I can’t sleep when you say this for a while.”

Yang Rong, however, laughed again, “It is not that I refuse to say, it is …… such things that can not be said, and it is a taboo to speculate on the emperor s heart. Wei Guo Gong or think for yourself.”

These words made Zhang Anshi more and more suspicious in his heart, and his mind became even more curious.

So he watched for Yao Guangxiao who happened to be walking ahead and bid farewell to Yang Rong.

He caught up with Yao Guangxiao and said, “Lord Yao, I’ve thought it over, I’m going to burn a relic out of you that’s a circle bigger than you are.”

Yao Guangxiao was startled: “Wei Guo Gong, poor monks are old, people outside the square, although sometimes for the matter of life and death, there are a few points of indifference, but if you can live a long life, live a few more years, the poor monks …… also absolutely no death thoughts.”

Zhang Anshi was surprised and said, “What kind of words are these, who told you to die?”

Yao Guangxiao said, “You have set such a high price, and according to your penny-pinching nature, this must be something dangerous to entrust.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Lord Yao, Lord Yao, I regard you as my own closest elder, and you think of me this way?”

Yao Guangxiao didn’t eat his words and said, “You’d better tell us what exactly you have in mind.”

Zhang Anshi then didn’t nag any more and said, “Just now, His Majesty said that he wanted to offer sacrifices to the Imperial Temple, what did he mean?”

Yao Guangxiao was surprised and said, “You even saw it?”

This guy isn’t usually so stupid, he can’t even see this?

Zhang Anshi said matter-of-factly, “I don’t see it, that’s why I’m asking you.”

Yao Guangxiao then smiled faintly and said, “I don’t see it, why ask? One should not trouble oneself, it’s important to think well about how to get this plague thing done.”

Zhang Anshi was even more confused after hearing this.

How does this look, everyone else gets it but him?

Seeing Zhang Anshi look like he wanted to continue to pursue the question, Yao Guangxiao took the lead and said: ”The poor monk will not tell you, not because between you and me, the relationship is not close enough to hide anything from you. Rather, there are words that can be said, and there are words that can’t be said even in death. You also don’t think too much.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but sigh, “Why is it that you guys can see it but I can’t? It’s really strange, obviously I’m better than you guys ……”

Yao Guangxiao listened and revealed a disdainful look, ”What do you mean by that? Hmph, you are still tender, although you kid usually have many sudden thoughts that are really mind-boggling, but the thing you think about is how to utilize everything to solve problems. And the poor monk exhausted his life, want is how to think about people. Don’t underestimate these doorways, the human heart can be much more complex than all things.”

Zhang Anshi was honest and said, “Taught, taught, then next time, please ask Master Yao to teach me.”

“You don’t have to learn.” Yao Guangxiao very seriously admonished Zhang Anshi, “In fact, ah, people stupid some good, stupid people have blessings. The poor monk by no means swindled you, if not, you see the poor monk, calculating all his life, but what did he get? The name of His Majesty’s humerus, but not allowed to continue in the empty door, not to mention not dare to marry a wife and children, also not dare to feudal lords and worship ministers, this …… is the price of the poor monk.”

Zhang Anshi said, “What does Master Yao mean ……”

Yao Guangxiao said: ”When everyone in the world knows that I, Yao Guangxiao, harbor the art of the emperor, then what Fang said will have nothing to do with me, Yao Guangxiao. Like you, not to guess the hearts of people, do not learn the art of slaying dragons, now is not a happy and incomparable? Both in charge of the brocade guards, but also can split the land and divide the kingdom, so ah, everything has a price, those things you want to learn from me, for you, the price is unbearable.”

Zhang Anshi at this time was vaguely guessing a little something, did not continue to pursue, then said, “I understand, I’m going to go to the disaster relief, what my sister said didn’t say, less and messy people to deal with.”

Yao Guangxiao: “……”

Why did he feel zapped?

The diaries began to report on it, and with it, a decree began to be issued.

Needless to say, this has done wonders to stabilize people.

Immediately afterward, Zhang Anshi had begun to personally supervise the matter of the plague in Taipingfu.

People were sent to start cleaning the streets of sewage, while encouraging people to take their bedding out to dry and distributing mothballs.

And there’s not a lot of tobacco, so it’s mainly burned directly in some of the most populated areas of the counties, as well as in areas that are prone to infection.

For a while, many parts of the Taiping Mansion were filled with smoke.

Zhang Anshi and find a way to add a variety of peppercorns and other things in this smoke, anyway, this blind a couple of anything to add some.

There are two benefits to this, one is that there are things that do burn up and produce smoke that has the effect of repelling insects.

The other side of the coin is that mixing these in with cigarettes greatly reduces the likelihood that burning tobacco will make a person addicted.

After all, …… the irritating smoke is enough to make people smell it once and then it’s enough to last a lifetime and feel sick to their stomachs, and no one wants to try it a second time.

Immediately after that, several mansions were vacated and thoroughly sterilized, while a group of doctors were recruited and prepared to receive patients at any time.

Even the counties put up a sum of money and food and recruited some men to make a special sweep of the places.