The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"Look, this is a small gift from a big family here, entrusted by a servant." He took something to Fourteen.

Fourteen recognized it at a glance: "Jianyao Rabbit Haozhan?"

Jian Kiln is one of the famous kilns in the Song Dynasty. It is located in Houjing Village, Shuiji Town, Jianyang County, Fujian Province.

Jianzhan is mainly made of black and shiny black gold glaze and unpredictable rabbit hair glaze, especially rabbit hair glaze is more famous, so it is also called "rabbit hair lamp".

It is characterized by slender rabbit hair-like lines with crystals on the inside and outside of the body, and each line is silver-colored.According to the subtle difference of the cups, they are also called "Tianmu Cup", "Golden Rabbit Hair" and "Silver Rabbit Hair".

Rabbit Haozhan is a special kind of black glazed porcelain, which is most famous for firing in Jianyao Town, Shuiji Town, Jianyang County, Fujian Province.Black-glazed porcelain was extremely popular in the Song Dynasty, which was related to the tea-drinking atmosphere at that time.

Tea leaves in the Song Dynasty were made into semi-fermented paste cakes. Before drinking, the paste cakes were ground into fine powder and put into tea bowls, then poured into boiling water, and a layer of white foam formed on the surface of the water.

In the Song Dynasty, everyone from the emperor to the literati liked to "fight tea", that is, to judge the quality of tea.

And one of the cups used for drinking tea in the Song Dynasty.

The shape is open, with a deep belly and round feet.

Due to the thick and dark color of the fetus, the bottom of some teacups are engraved with the words "for the emperor" or "tribute".

Its carcass is thick and firm, and its color is light black or purple black. The main types of utensils are bowls and cups.

Among the "rabbit hair lamps", the "silver rabbit hair" is the most precious, and the "gold rabbit hair" is the most respected.

The glaze color of the rabbit's cup is as dark as lacquer, warm and crystal clear, and the glaze is covered with dense tendon-like white-brown patterns, which are as thin as the hair on the rabbit's body and sparkle.

Make tea with rabbit hair cups, and the patterns of rabbit hairs complement each other in the tea, which makes people love it.

And Song Hui Song Zhao Ji said: "The color of the lamp is green and black, and the one with the jade hair is the best." Su Dongpo rushed to the cloud in "Send Nanping Qianshi": "The Taoist went out of Nanping Mountain to try out the tea samadhi; suddenly surprised In the afternoon, the rabbit has a hair spot, and the spring urn goose wine is made."

Yang Wanli also said that "Eagle Claw New Tea and Crab Eye Soup, Pine Wind Mingxue Rabbit Hair Cream", he made a vivid description of the rabbit hair spot Jianzhan.

Song Dynasty Cai Xiang's "Tea Records" stated: "The ones made in Jian'an are cyanotic and black, with patterns like rabbit hairs. The blanks are slightly thick, and they are hot for a long time and difficult to cool. They are the most useful. Those from other places are either thin or purple in color. It’s not as good as it.” It is also called: “If you want to order tea, you must first simmer the cup. The cup is hot, and the tea will not float when it is cold. The rabbit hair is thick and hot for a long time, so it is suitable for use.” The tea cup referred to in the literature is Jianyao Rabbit hair lamp produced.

This thing, whether it is the shape or the style of the place of origin, is something from the Northern Song Dynasty, and the current Jianzhan can no longer make rabbit hair.

Fourteen knows this thing, not his knowledge in this life. In his previous life, his boss was a tea addict. During a chat, the boss mentioned the rabbit hair. At that time, he thought it was a "local tyrant".

At that time, the boss went to Fujian on a business trip, and the gift he brought back to them was something researched by the research institute in Fujian. It restored the rabbit hair lamp from the Song Dynasty. It is said that it is not the same as the ancient one, but it is definitely the closest rabbit hair. It's up.

This thing is rare in the palace.

And in the hands of the Nanyang Han survivors thousands of miles away, there is actually a set.

A set is actually four, but these four are different, one is Tianmu cup, one is black glaze cup, one is golden rabbit hair, and the other is silver rabbit hair.

This is a priceless treasure.

After the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, the Liao people were in chaos first, and then the Mongolian and Yuan iron cavalry. Not many things can be preserved.

What's more, in the Ming Dynasty, its own system was established, and there were even fewer things in the Song Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, and there are only a few tea fighting objects from the Song Dynasty in the archives of the palace.

It is usually well collected by Huang Ama, so I don't give it to him to play with.

Now, looking at the little rabbit, he is really curious: "Where did this come from? They gave it to you?"

"Yes, I also gave the slave a small vase." Cao Yong took out a small bottle: "It's Ruci."

The Fourteenth Master looked at the brightly colored little bottle, and couldn't put it down even more: "After the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are broken. This color is the future!"

This is not a poem, but two poems.That is to say, the original poem is two sentences, or it is not a poem, because it is an imperial decree.

Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty, Song Huizong once had a dream, dreaming that the rain was over and the sky was sunny.

He was very fond of the color of the sky after the rain in his dream, so he passed down a message to the porcelain craftsmen: "After the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are broken. This color will be the future."

As a result, Huizong's imperial decree stumped many craftsmen. In the end, the craftsmen in Ruzhou were more skilled and fired the color of "after the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are broken".

This poem is actually a compliment to Ru kiln porcelain.

Ru Kiln fired court porcelain from the first year of Song Zhezong Yuanyou to the fifth year of Huizong Chongning (1106), about 20 years before and after, so the number of fired wares was limited.

Due to the short firing time, it was very difficult to find Ru official kiln wares by the Southern Song Dynasty.The Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties all stipulated that Ru porcelain was not allowed to be buried, which shows how precious it is.

It is said that in Su Dongpo's will at that time, because of his love for Ru porcelain, he would be buried beside the Ru kiln site after his death.

As the saying goes, "even if you have a lot of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of porcelain"!

He remembered that on the Duobao Pavilion in the Dongnuan Pavilion of Huang Ama's Heart Cultivation Hall, there was a square bottle, which was Ru porcelain.

Same color as this one!

"Are they survivors from the Song Dynasty?" Nian Gengyao only saw the age of these things, and suspected that those people were survivors who moved south during the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty fell, and Meng Yuan went south, and many Song Dynasty survivors went south. After all, in the Song Dynasty, shipping was developed, and they had sea ships, while Meng Yuan only had iron cavalry, and no one knew how to swim!

"Yes, they were recuperating in another place, but they were attacked by pirates. Only a few people remained, and then they brought their families and things and came to settle here. Their ancestors have stayed in Japan for several generations. " Cao Yong said: "I heard that Dongying is fighting, and they have to move again."

The Fourteenth Master did some calculations. During the Qing Dynasty, Japan seemed to be in the Warring States Period.

All the big and small names are messed up.

Coupled with the fact that the Qing Dynasty banned the sea and closed the country, the two countries actually have little intersection.

But now the Qing Dynasty opened up its coastline and formed a Royal Navy fleet.

Compared with Dongying, it has been open for a hundred years more, and the Fourteenth Lord doesn't believe it, can't the country be rich and the people strong?

"So that's how it is. They were able to carry these things around and they haven't damaged them. It can be seen that they are carefully preserved treasures." Master Fourteen likes them, but at the same time, he knows that it is not easy to keep these things.

"It is because of the treasure that I dedicate it to you. They want to go back." Cao Yong said: "My Qing Dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, but the population is also large. It is not easy for them to go back."

The Qing Dynasty was not only a large place, but also had a large population, so it was not easy to manage.

The Fourteenth Master knew it. Every time his Huang Ama read the scriptures, he would frown.

There are few times when I am happy.

Later, his own brother became emperor, and he only worked for 12 years in history. He said that he was exhausted to death. He didn't want his brother to be exhausted to death.

It seems that people still have to be transferred overseas. How much output can the land produce?

The sea is much stronger than the land, and eating sea fish is better than eating vegetables.

"Don't promise them this matter for the time being, wait for the master to go back and ask Huang Ama before making a decision." The fourteenth master also has no right to promise them, this matter can only come from Kangxi.

It's very interesting for other people to pay tribute to the fourteenth master.

There are a lot of seafood, and pearls are packed in boxes. There are sea pearls, conch pearls, and coral beads.

Frankincense, myrrh, borneol, camphor, and two boxes of dragon's blood.

However, this is not what Master Fourteen wants: "Do they know that there is a kind of tree called cinchona tree?"

He wanted the cinchona tree because he knew it was the raw material of cinchona cream, and his Huang Ama, who had malaria, was cured by cinchona cream, but those missionaries didn't tell the truth, they told Kangxi was a gift from God, so Kangxi allowed them to preach in the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, none of this medicine is a product of the church. This medicine is native Indian medicine, and they just purified it.

Cinchona tree, also known as quinine tree, gauge tree, Lieshi cinchona tree, etc., is a plant of the genus Cinchona in the Rubiaceae family.

Arbor, usually ranging from three to six meters high, it is said that the highest can reach more than 25 meters; the bark is grayish brown, relatively thin, with many and shallow cracks, looking at Cinchona forest from a distance, red and green layers overlap each other, red It is young leaves, and the green ones are old leaves. Small white flowers bloom in summer, and the seeds are very small.

Although it is said that its origin is from the Andes Mountains in South America, and the bark and root bark are important industrial raw materials for extracting quinine and quinidine, at this time, it has already been found in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Africa and other places. to plant.

Even quinine, a drug like this, was only discovered after more than half a century, and it will take more than 100 years before it is really used on a large scale.

The fourteenth master just wanted to take the lead.

"Cinchona tree?" Nian Gengyao frowned, "Is it cinnamon tree?"

"It's the cinchona tree. The thing extracted is called cinchona cream, a good medicine for treating malaria." Fourteenth Master stroked his chin and said cunningly: "Send someone to ask."

He didn't believe that these people have been here for so many years, and they haven't suffered from malaria.

If any Westerner has been here, there must be some medicine passed on, but none of them offered him anything practical, all of them were flashy gadgets.

Is the fourteenth master short of gold and silver treasures?

Are there any shortages?

From childhood to adulthood, not to mention rich clothes and fine food, he is almost the same.

Nian Gengyao, on the other hand, was very interested in frankincense, myrrh and dragon's blood: "These are famous wound medicines."

"Tell them to sell us frankincense, myrrh, and dragon's blood, oh, and that borneol, as much as you want, buy them back and send them to Jingzhong Tai Hospital, let the imperial doctors make good wound medicines, and distribute them Give it to the soldiers." Fourteenth Master said: "There are good wound medicines, sometimes they can save lives!"

He had never experienced the battlefield himself, but he knew that there were not many people who died directly on the battlefield. Most of them were wounded and left the battlefield. Without good medicine and nursing care, most died of bleeding or pain.

Being able to have good wound medicine is also his best effort, at least to ensure that some people can survive.

"Okay." Fourteenth Master's order was in line with Nian Gengyao's wishes.

Cao Yong doesn't care about the matter, he just needs to pay the money.

Then the fourteenth master looked at the things sent by the village chiefs, and the things sent by the village chiefs were more realistic.

All kinds of dried sea fish products, and some bird's nest, although rough, but definitely the best blood bird's nest!

There are some shark fins, some beautiful shells, wind chimes made of them, and some dried seaweed.

Several of the villages sent seafood, such as deep-sea eels with thick thighs, and only a dozen of them were sent.

Such a large deep-sea eel is rare.

There are also some fresh big oysters. I have inquired about them, and I know that the Fourteenth Master likes to eat them, so I specially picked huge big oysters.

These seafoods have one characteristic, that is, they are big.

From king crabs to deep-sea eels to huge oysters, they are all good things. They probably wouldn't be able to eat such good things at ordinary times.

The Fourteenth Lord didn’t pick anything, and accepted everything, especially the deep-sea eel, which was nearly three meters long and had such thick thighs, that the Fourteenth Master’s saliva drooled when he saw it: “I’ll cook and eat it tonight.”

The old village chief A-Gump and several women and children were picked up the next day. Lan Jizhong brought people to pick them up, but Lan Jizhong sent them back to Pearl Island, but he himself Without leaving, he begged to see Fourteenth Master again.

"My lord, I want to buy some from you, the weapons left by pirates, natives, and Spanish galleons." Lan Jizhong finally revealed his purpose.

He wanted to speak yesterday, but Lord Fourteen didn't give him a chance.

Today he couldn't help it anymore. After all, no matter whether the other party is friendly or humble, whether they are here to squeeze or exploit, he always feels that the power should be held in his own hands.

Relying on the mountains and falling, relying on the flow of water, relying on others is not as good as relying on yourself.

He wanted to seek some help with weapons. He dared not and would not be able to ask the Fourteenth Master for the firearms of the Qing Dynasty. Obviously, the firearms of the Qing Dynasty were much more advanced than the pirates, or even the foreigners in the West, otherwise it would be impossible. Will not wipe out the opponent's entire army.

He didn't dare to ask for such a sharp firearm.

But what they can't use should be grammed, right?He came here with full sincerity. He brought 5000 taels of gold, [-] catties of frankincense, [-] catties of myrrh, [-] catties of dried dragon's blood and [-] catties of borneol.

This is the greatest sincerity he can show.

"This is fine." Master Fourteen didn't even hesitate: "But not now."

Lan Jizhong was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Understood, understood!"

They just got to know each other now, and they still don't know the details of each other. Prince Xun will not sell him weapons that are dangerous to them, but he estimates that when Prince Xun and the others leave, they will sell them.

"Then these are the deposits." He did not take the gold and things back: "We will trade after you have prepared the goods here."

He wanted to confirm the matter. He could see that Master Fourteen was a man who kept his word.

As long as they will come here in the future, then Prince Xun will definitely abide by the agreement.