[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

At the beginning of May, Huawang Peony and Huaxiang Shaoyao took over the class of Peach Blossom and Apricot Blossom, blooming a whole garden with great fanfare.

Due to institutional and historical reasons, the Zhongdu Imperial Palace is much smaller than the Daming Imperial Palace in Yingtianfu. There are only a few buildings that have been completed and can be occupied. However, although the place is small, there are few people living here.

Yingtianfu's palace is home to twenty or so princes, more than a dozen princesses, and a bunch of concubines. The east and west palaces are full of people, but now Fengyang palace only lives with Zhu Biao and his son, even the eunuchs who serve There are also a lot fewer guards, so it looks a bit empty instead.

However, the open space is not without its benefits. For example, Zhu Biao asked people to bring a lot of flowers to the garden where they lived. In this season, the entire East Palace is extremely lively.

That's right, although the Fengyang Palace has stopped construction, there are rules of etiquette, and it's not like you can live in whichever room you want. Even if Zhu Biao and his son arrived in Fengyang, they still chose a room east of Fengtian Palace. Living in a palace, the target here should be the prince's east palace.

In the architectural planning of the Ming Dynasty, the crown prince had his own independent palace, and his palace still belonged to the former dynasty, which was enough to make the princes of the Qing Dynasty so envious that their eyes turned red.

The happiness of being independent in the first house is unimaginable to the little princes who live separately from their brothers.

The Tai Palace is located in the east of the Fengtian Palace in the center of the Ming Dynasty. It is called the East Palace because of its location, but in fact its name is Chunhe Palace.

The Spring Harmony Palace is a cut down miniature version of the Daming Palace. It has a gate, a narrative front hall, a living hall, and even an anteroom for the little emperors and grandchildren like the East and West Five Houses. Living quarters, warehouses, etc.

Except that its glazed tiles are green, the rest of the material treatment is the same as that of the emperor. The main hall of Chunhe Palace is even equipped with a throne and a dragon bed, which shows Zhu Biaorong's prosperity.

Some people may ask, is there something missing in the configuration of Chunhe Palace, as if there is no study room?

Yes, there is no study room in the Chunhe Palace. The prince’s study room and office space are combined into one, which is the second palace in the Forbidden City, the Wenhua Palace, covered with green glazed tiles.

When Zhu Yuanzhang designed the Daming Palace, he consciously used the administrative agency where the prince was located as the second heart of Ming Dynasty.

Wenhua Hall, the prince's office, and Wuying Hall, the emperor's office, are separated on the east and west sides by the central axis. They are also adjacent to the East/Xihua Gate. It is convenient for the decree to leave the Forbidden City as quickly as possible.

And now, Da Ming's two hearts are indeed continuously transfusing blood for Da Ming according to his plan.

Cough cough, it’s getting far away. In fact, when Mu Bai was in the Nanjing Palace, he really didn’t live in Chunhe Palace according to the plan. He has been living in Kunning Palace in the harem area, but he has a feeling that when he comes back again You should be able to live back when you arrive at the Daming Palace.

After all, almost half a year has passed since his father got the news of him, no matter how complicated the things behind it are, it should be almost the same, right?Otherwise, the efficiency would be too low.

Because he "lost memory", whether it is Emperor Hongwu or Empress Ma, everyone seems to accept this. No one tried to find out whether he still has fragments of memory, nor asked him why he appeared in Yunnan. This situation obviously cannot be the normal behavior of a family who has finally recovered their eldest grandson.

Unless they already know what happened, and figure out the cause and effect, the memory of the little emperor's grandson is just icing on the cake, but not necessary.

Mu Bai had this feeling before, and it became clearer when he came to Fengyang this time.

Although the construction of Fengyang is very important, there is no need for him, an 11-year-old grandson of the emperor, and the prince of Ming Dynasty to sit in charge.

It's more like they came here to fish, but they don't know if the hook is theirs or the younger brother in Daming Palace.

Mu Bai picked up a small kettle and watered the blooming peonies one by one. The water droplets splashed on the green leaves under the sun, making it very lively.

Fengyang's climate has a disadvantage. Although this place is seriously affected by the monsoon, and the local area is mountainous, if it is not the rainy season, the precipitation here is really bad.

Fortunately, the water of the Huaihe River in this season has not been affected by the heavy rainfall in summer and has begun to flood. Farmers can use water from the Huaihe River for irrigation.Do as the Romans do, so Mu Bai went to fetch water and water the flowers by himself.

Although Chunhe Palace has servants responsible for carrying water every day, Mu Bai still said that he intends to use it as exercise, carrying two large buckets every day to go back and forth to the Jinshui River under the embarrassing eyes of the servants and guards Between Chunhe Palace.

In this regard, Mu Bai said that as long as his father doesn't want him to help approve official documents, what's the point of watering some flowers?

That's right, the murderous His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually intends to ask his 11-year-old son to help read the official documents, which is simply a loss of heart.

No child likes extra winter homework, so Mu Bai escaped by taking care of the flowers and plants. After he finished watering the flowers, he was going to go for a walk. After the walk, he went to cut some pasture. The season is the season when the grass is luxuriant. The taste is tender and juicy. Not only horses love it, but people can also choose some tender heads to stir-fry.

Spring is the season to eat wild vegetables.

Anyway, no matter where you go, you can't go to the palace. His father is not in a good mood recently, so he must stay away from him.

But God obviously didn't intend to let Mu Bai spend this beautiful day in peace. Just when the young boy had just completed the task of watering the flowers and was about to take his beloved pony out for a stroll, a servant beside the prince came over. Seeing Mu Bai's appearance ready to go out after finishing his work, Chang Sui secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, we caught up.

From a distance, he saluted Mu Bai, everyone knew that the little grandson had a good temper, and cared for his servants just like His Highness the Crown Prince, and was very soft-hearted towards others.

For example, even though he wanted to run away very much at the moment, Mu Bai stopped and waited for someone to come over after Chang Sui bowed his head: "Liu Banban, father is looking for me?"

"Your Highness," Liu Yun bowed to the young boy, respectfully finished the ceremony, and finally said: "His Royal Highness asked the servants to come and tell His Highness that the workshop presented a new batch of glass ornaments, saying that it was according to His Highness's wishes." Do it, His Royal Highness said..."

Before he could finish his words, Mu Bai trotted towards the Wenhua Palace, huh?The palace can't run?Hey, isn't he shaking his hands?As long as the hands are not raised, it is not called a running duck.

The self-deceiving Mu Xiaobai ran to his father's study, poked his head in, and stared at the pair of objects on the old father's desk with bright eyes.

Zhu Biao was not at work, he piled up the documents and memorials, and was playing with a small lens in his hand. When he saw a pair of black eyes at the door, he immediately waved there, never mentioning Mu Bai. In the morning, he also expressed that he is very busy, very busy, and has no time to help: "Ying'er is here, come and introduce to Dad, what are you doing?"

"It's a magnifying glass!" Mu Bai jumped in immediately, and without hesitation, he reached out and picked up a small round glass on the table.

The appearance of this magnifying glass is quite rough. The glass has only been polished, and there is no inlaid handle. It just wraps the bottom layer that is easy to be scratched with a circle of wood. The craftsmanship of the craftsman is very good. Even with the wooden edge, this round glass looks It still looks like a big drop of water.

There is no inlaid handle because its size does not allow it. The manufacturing method of the magnifying glass is the traditional demoulding method, so it is not as light as blown glass. If the handle is installed at this weight, it will not take long for the wrist to be sore.

It's better to move it directly on the book, and click wherever you want to see, which is also very convenient.

The magnifying glass is not Mu Bai's original invention. In this era, magnifying glasses have been manufactured for a long time. His imperial grandfather had a crystal magnifying glass to save his presbyopia.

Crystals are not a rare item nowadays. There are many places in China that produce crystals, but polishing crystals is a difficult problem. Today's common tools can't break the crystal's defenses. Only the "water drop through stone" method can be used to grind it bit by bit. The production time and difficulty are naturally high.

But glass is different. Glass liquid can be reshaped. As long as the mold is made, it takes almost no extra effort. The only natural enemy is air bubbles.

Bubbles are almost inevitable. It has nothing to do with workers’ gestures. It is basically a matter of material ratio. There is no solution yet, but fortunately, it is not irreversible—glass with bubbles can be used as a mirror.

Glass can be turned into a mirror by applying a layer of silver coating, but it takes a lot of work to extract the silver layer. The best experimental effect is actually mercury, but when it is used, it is blocked by wood. Bai rejected it without hesitation.

Mercury is poisonous, and its chemical properties are not stable. Most importantly, it is easy to vaporize at high temperature, which can easily cause mercury poisoning.

Mu Bai doesn't want the things he made to become a tool for others to kill.

There is really no disadvantage of using silver as a coating except for the high cost, and this disadvantage was solved after a craftsman recruited by the people provided a strange raw material.

This raw material only needs to use a small amount of silver to prepare a large amount of silver liquid.

"This is actually a craft used by folks to imitate silver." The craftsman touched his nose, a little embarrassed, "It is made of saltpeter liquid, which is very cheap, but the silver liquid made from this thing tends to turn black when exposed to light. Therefore, it can only be used indoors."'

Mu Bai was a little speechless. Sure enough, the invention was created because of laziness and taking advantage of it. The aqueous solution should be silver nitrate.

Silver nitrate is extremely photosensitive, and if the purity is not enough, it is easy to turn black.

However, Mu Bai has only heard about this thing, and has never seen the real thing. He is not sure whether it is the substance. Anyway, judging from the mirror made of it, the effect is still good.

Ordinary copper mirrors have chromatic aberration, but mirrors made of silver nitrate have almost no chromatic aberration, and they are also lighter.

But the mirror is not the end point, Mu Bai picked up a small cylinder on the side, pulled it with his hand, and stretched it into a long strip.

He moved his eyes closer and looked outside the hall, and the peony flowers placed at the outer gate suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, even the petals with water were clearly visible.

This is a telescope.

Mu Bai was so excited that he took it and looked at it again and again, then put it aside and picked up what he was most looking forward to - a pair of glasses.

The story about presbyopia written by a demon that he had seen on the forum was really too much!awful!up!

This demon was short-sighted because he was reading a picture book under the quilt, and then a sad story happened.

What bumped into a pillar while walking, what was tricked into almost signing the deed of sale, what couldn't even penetrate a pinhole and had to go to the scholar next door every time but was blackmailed or something, it's just too miserable!

Although Mu Bai has always paid special attention to protecting his eyesight, but people's eyesight will naturally decline when they get older. Presbyopia is inevitable, and Mu Xiaobai is now preparing to prevent it before it happens.

He picked up the frame and put it on the bridge of his nose. Just as he was about to take a closer look, his vision suddenly blurred. He tried his best to hold on, but couldn't hold back, his feet went limp, and he sat down on the ground.

The frame of the mirror drooped on the bridge of the nose, and the eyes turned circles.

Well, so dizzy!

Zhu Biao, who had been watching silently, showed a smile. He reached out and took off the glasses on his son's nose and put them on: "It's too early for you to use this."

Zhu Biaoben was elegant and elegant, and after wearing gold-rimmed glasses, the sharpness in his eyes softened, making him look very gentle, if one ignores what he was still laughing at his son just now.

Mu Bai calmed down the dizzy world and sat up with difficulty, glanced at his father, and gave a thumbs up after a moment of silence: "Father, you look so good-looking, I suggest you wear it permanently."

However, Prince Zhu was not able to equip it permanently, because his glasses were snatched away by Emperor Hongwu.

Emperor Hongwu didn't say anything about taking it away, but threw over a bunch of memorials, all of which were to impeach Mu Xiaobai.

Some grandsons of the emperor ran to Yunnan regardless of their own safety (by the way, the prince was impeached), some grandsons of the emperor participated in the scientific examination and fought for the interests of the people (the prince was not supervised, so he must be impeached), and some of them polluted the environment in Fengyang. Of course, it is more about the prince actually going to make glass.

The prince of a country is actually in charge of fortifications, impeachment, must be impeached, digging mountains and taking rocks to affect Fengshui, or the Fengshui of his grandparents' house, and impeachment is even more important.

Generally speaking, there are the most documents to impeach the prince, even if the prince does not have a concubine, he has to impeach him. Mu Bai looked at his father in sympathy, and then at the pile in front of him, with a particularly delicate expression.

"Ying'er, why don't you tell me what to do with these impeachments?" Zhu Yuanzhang wore glasses snatched from his son on the bridge of his nose, and he was in a good mood because of his clear vision.

This kind of good mood made him see his grandson's expression [How can you let a child solve the problem] still undiminished, and he even gave him an encouraging look.

Mubai rolled his eyes and said, "Grandfather, Ying'er heard that quartz sand is not only found in Fengyang, but also in other places and even foreign countries." Mountains have opinions, so how about letting them dig foreign mountains?"

Buying raw materials for processing and then selling them is the most profitable!

The author has something to say: Mubai: How to divert the contradiction?Just shake the pot!

Mu Bai: I’m just a baby, I don’t understand anything