The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

"Yan Aiqing, in your opinion, what they said is true?" Jiajing hesitated: "Could it be that Tianjin Kaihai is really ominous?"

"Wrong! Big mistake!" Yan Song stood up unceremoniously, first gave the prince a sharp mouth, and slapped the prince in the face in public, making the prince's mouth crooked and his eyes squinted in anger: "Yan Song, do you dare to say that this is not a bad omen? "

"Of course it's not a bad omen." Yan Song said slowly, "Not only is it not a bad omen, but it's a good omen, Your Majesty."

"What do you know?" Xu Jie said with a livid face, "This thing is called Kun..."

"Kun's fart!" Yan Song said unceremoniously: "Even this thing is wrong, and it is a bad omen. This thing is called a whale, and it is a sea beast, not some legendary ancient beast."

"Nonsense! It must be Kun!" Xu Jie jumped and cursed.

"It is clearly stated in the Shan Hai Jing that the kun is thousands of miles long and can carry a continent. Although this fish is not small, it is very different from the kun." Yan Song gave Xu Jie a disdainful look, "Are you Slag" despises infinitely...

The princelings want to attack this whale, which is a bad omen. Of course, the ulterior motives are not interested in drinking, they care about attacking the policy of opening the sea, and they try to ruin Yan Song's great cause.

But Yan Song was angry with science and culture, and was blasted into scum.

Xu Jie glanced at the blue whale twice, and wanted to quibble, but Yan Song was well prepared, and asked someone to call a few experienced fishermen to come and identify it.

Although young people do not go to sea, there are still many old people who have experience in going to sea. After a while, more than a dozen old fishermen with vicissitudes of life told Jiajing in surprise: "Your Majesty, this is really a whale. We used to fish I’ve seen it before. But it’s the first time for such a big one.”

Jiajing had already believed in Yan Song and nodded repeatedly.

Naturally, the emperor didn't want to believe that this was a bad omen, but rather believed that it was a gift from heaven, and said excitedly: "Yan Aiqing, you said that this whale is a gift from heaven, what good is this whale?"

Yan Song laughed loudly and bowed down to the emperor: "Congratulations, Your Majesty! This whale can be called the overlord in the sea. It is absolutely impossible to capture this whale without a few ships and a few lives. When it arrived in Tianjin, this thing rushed over and killed itself on the beach. This is not a gift from heaven, what is it? In ancient Zhou Wenwang passed by Chaoshui, a white fish jumped into the cabin. Jiang Ziya called it the elephant of the flying bear. Now the emperor Isn't it a good omen to get this big whale without any effort at 2.7?"

A few old fishermen were also at the side, nodding repeatedly, and the leading old fisherman said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, what Yan Ge said is true! My father just wanted to catch a whale, and was hit by a whale." Destroy people and die tragically in the raging waves. This thing has infinite power, if you want to catch one in a hurry, you will have to kill a few people! Even if the whole ship sinks, it is very possible! Today it is sent to the shore automatically, which is really rare! "

"I've been fishing all my life, and I've never seen one before!"

"Yeah. I've never seen one either."

Several well-informed old fishermen agreed with Yan Song one after another.

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Chapter 541 Handsome Li Shizhen [3]

Jiajing gave the prince a hard look, and reprimanded him: "Did you hear that? You are obviously an ignorant person, but you insist on showing off your tongue! What ancient beasts? What ominous omens? Go back and read a few more books, and then come to tell me what is going on. Get lost!" !"

"I..." The prince could only hang his head in despondency.

At this moment, among the spectators, an outstanding handsome young man, dressed like a man in the dust, was carrying a book basket specially used for excursions in the Ming Dynasty, staring at the stranded blue with great interest. Whales, with endless curiosity in their eyes.

He held a blue booklet in one hand and a pen in the other hand, and he was writing vigorously, recording the appearance and physical characteristics of this rare blue whale, and drew it down. Very expressive.

There are four big characters in this booklet.

Compendium of Materia Medica!

Yan Song approached the emperor and said loudly: "This food is full of treasures. This food is more delicious than beef, and it is one of the top delicacies in the world."

15 Jiajing nodded, his eyes shining brightly: "This whale can almost support the weight of a thousand cows, which is equivalent to the meat of a thousand cows."

In Daming, cattle are forbidden to be slaughtered.Because Ming Dynasty was an agricultural society, cattle were an important means of production.The law of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulates that those who kill cattle will be exiled for a thousand miles, eighty battles, and a fine of 20 taels.

Therefore, except for the dignitaries who can occasionally eat a little beef (such as paying tribute to the ancestors or offering sacrifices to the court), the common people's diet does not include beef at all.Similarly, ordinary people can hardly eat mutton.Therefore, eating beef and mutton was a symbol of class status in the past.

Therefore, when Su Dongpo discovered that the common people could not eat cattle and sheep, but could only eat pigs, he improved the method of pork and made Dongpo pork, which was praised by the common people.

But right now, this whale is equivalent to the meat of a thousand cows, Jiajing is certainly happy to see it.

"In addition, Your Majesty, this animal contains fat-rich animal oil, which is equivalent to tallow. The body of this 24-jin (120-ton) blue whale can obtain more than 80 catties of fat, which is equivalent to two thousand cows. , or the oil from thousands of fat pigs!" Yan Song said with a smile: "This is another big fortune."

Jiajing nodded repeatedly.

In the past, eating oil was not something ordinary people could enjoy.Lard is okay, but butter is very expensive.This whale is equivalent to two thousand cows, and the fat on thousands of pigs surprised Jiajing even more.

As an emperor, he doesn't like these things, but he just thinks it's a great prize.

Yan Song smiled and said nothing.

Of course he wouldn't tell the emperor.

Whale fat actually has even greater military uses.

For one thing, whale fat contains a large amount of a certain (harmonious) component, which is the core part of the synthesis of high explosives.

With this thing, the explosive power is tens or hundreds of times stronger than the current black powder!

The (explosive) composition of this blue whale produced enough shells to destroy two large warships.

In addition, whale blubber can also be used for steelmaking, improving the quality of steelmaking.Hu Xueyan should be very interested.

For Yan Song, what is more useful is that whales can produce ambergris, which has been an extremely precious spice since ancient times, and its value is equivalent to an equal weight of gold.Unfortunately, it is the sperm whale that can produce ambergris.There are no blue whales.Needless to say.

In addition, whale skin, whalebone, fins, bones, eggs~cao, and internal organs are all useful.Yan Song will count them one by one in the future.

Right now, seeing Jiajing's interest gradually disappearing, Yan Song smiled mysteriously, took out his trump card, and whispered in Jiajing's ear.

"Your Majesty, this thing is the greatest gift from heaven to you, and it can actually help you regain your prestige!"

"What?" Like a thunder, it rang in Jiajing's ears. Jiajing looked at Yan Song in disbelief, and said in a trembling voice: "Yan Aiqing, what you said is true? This thing is really a gift from heaven. treasure?"

He looked at the huge blue whale, a dying sea beast because of being stranded, and said in disbelief.

Yan Song nodded, and said solemnly: "That's right! The emperor was a little worried just now, and the heavens sent this thing down to relieve the emperor's worries. What is it if it's not the love of the emperor from the heavens?"