The Zhang brothers also want to build astronomical telescopes?

You don't have to guess to know that the brothers' hooligan motive is, of course, to treat the Song Astronomical Telescope as a tourist attraction and collect admission money.

This is probably the earliest tourism industry.

Who knows what trouble these two people will cause, Yan Chengjin thought about it carefully: "Don't give it!" ”

Zhang Heling blew his beard and glared: "Add another hundred taels, it can't be more!" ”

"Ning Shouhou just adds another thousand taels, and the lower officials won't give it, unless it's ......"

Zhang Heling's eyes lit up: "Unless what?" ”

"Unless Ning Shouhou gets His Majesty's will and lets the hundred officials testify to it, otherwise, no matter how much silver is given, the lower officials will not agree."

Ask Your Majesty for advice? I just got knocked out of the palace......

Zhang Heling fell into deep thought, and the next moment he gritted his teeth: "You wait!" Our brother will enter the palace now and ask for the decree! ”

Zhang Yanling was a little afraid, and pulled his brother's sleeve, obviously there was an indescribable terrible shadow on the emperor's brother-in-law, "Brother, didn't you say that you wouldn't enter the palace within half a month?" ”

"Humph! You are so cowardly, how can you do big things, if you are not diligent, the silver in the palace will make the Zhou family greedy sooner or later! Zhang Heling reprimanded.

The brothers held on to their arms again and limped back to the palace.

After a while, the Zhang brothers came out, still with Xiao Jing, Xiao Jing said to Yan Chengjin: "Your Majesty's will is approved, let you rest assured to do it." ”

Yan Chengjin's face was strange, and he wondered if His Majesty had some shady deal with the Zhang family brothers.

Xiao Jing knew what he was thinking, and said, "Qin Tian Prison is asking for a beggar to be built for observing the celestial phenomena and deducing the seasons. ”

He understood the point.

It turned out to be to save money!

There's a deal!

Yan Chengjin secretly said to himself, in this way, Emperor Hongzhi saved more than 10,000 taels of silver, which is the benefit of power, a real word.

The Zhang brothers got one more out and used it as a scenic spot to watch it, popularize astronomical knowledge to the gentry, and be less bewitched by the white lotus, but there is no harm in it.

Zhang Heling looked at the two of them muttering for a long time, and he didn't know what he was talking about, and shouted: "I asked for the will, you are not allowed to go back!" ”

"Ning Shouhou sent the silver to the mansion of Lord Shangshu Zeng of the Ministry of Works, and Song Jingzi will supervise the construction."

This telescope belongs to his own family, and the court can't care about how much money he receives, so the Zhang brothers happily went back to their homes to raise silver, and they didn't know how much silver they could earn along the way.

Now there are 50 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are at least 100,000 gentry in Jiangnan who have silver, and each person only needs to give one tael of silver, which is 100,000 taels of silver.

And to build a Song astronomical glasses only costs 10,000 taels of silver!

Got rich......

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Yan Chengjin came to Zeng's mansion, and at this time, the craftsmen were replacing the carved stone lions.

In the Ming Dynasty, the stone lions placed at the door were exquisite.

In the home of a first-class member, the lion placed on his head has thirteen strands of circle bun on his head, implying the thirteen Taibao, and every time Pinyi lowers a pin, there will be one less strand of bun on his head.

Zeng Jian was promoted, and Pin Yi was promoted from the third rank to the second grade

Now the hair bun of the lion in Zengfu has also changed from eleven strands to twelve.

At this time, Song Jing was studying in the study, and Zeng Jian liked this student more and more, and changed from an ordinary protégé to treating him as his own.

As long as he has spare time, he will give lectures to Song Jing, and even open the study room to him, so that he can study the only books that he can't buy outside.

Yan Chengjin originally wanted to reveal the topic of the township examination in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi to him, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not necessary, because in the previous life, Song Jingben was born as a second-class jinshi.

With Zeng Jian's guidance, I am afraid that I will do better in the exam.

Seeing Yan Chengjin coming, Song Jing hurriedly saluted.

Yan Chengjin said: "With the current craftsmanship of the craftsmen, how much silver does it cost to build a Song telescope?" ”

Song Jing took out the abacus and counted it on the paper before he said, "Five thousand taels, I don't know if Lord Yan asked this ......"

As Yan Chengjin guessed, after getting familiar with the craft, even the cost and time of building it were reduced.

"Build three more planes, and in a while, Ning Shouhou will send silver."

Zhang Heling estimated that he would send 20,000 taels, just to make one for himself, and Yan Chengjin was not too satisfied with the one last time, which just made Song Jing think of a way to improve it.

When he was about to leave, Song Jing begged for something: "Early this morning, Your Majesty sent a gift of 200 taels of silver, and the students don't need it, and ask the adults to send it home." ”

Song Jing is haunted by his wife these days, and he can't share the farming chores at home for his wife, so he can only send some silver back, so that he can feel more at ease.

Yan Chengjin looked at this guy.

A good man in the Ming Dynasty, Song Jingye!

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Before the noon gate,

On today's next duty, Yan Chengjin waited for the sedan chair in front of the dismounted monument as usual.

During this time, there were many people who gathered in front of the noon gate to watch the moon.

Just like Shang Ying's standing wood to get letters, when a common man looked at the moon with a Song telescope and did not accept money, more and more people believed it.

"This scholar has been reading for half an hour!"

"Report to the police!"

"Yes, His Majesty the Emperor said that as long as we ordinary people line up, we can see the moon in the sky, but this person occupies and doesn't let us see it."

"A few officials, how many hours have this scholar occupied, you don't care?"

Yan Chengjin found that the person who occupied the Song telescope was not Wang Shouren?

This thing won't be in the moon, right?

A few brocade guards wanted to go up and drag Wang Shouren away, but found that his feet were rooted, and several people couldn't drag him, Wang Shouren was like a stake, lying in front of the mirror, motionless.

Yan Chengjin reminded: "Don't do it, he is the head of the Criminal Department, Wang Shouren." ”

Wang Shouren is now the head of the Criminal Department.

The director of the Criminal Department asked for a vacancy, and Wang Shouren talked about the eight things of frontier defense and the envoy to Siam to make meritorious contributions, and someone recommended him.

Presumably it is Wang Hua's relationship in Beijing.

Otherwise, Wang Shouren is busy with things all day long, and he is afraid that he will have a chance to be promoted.

"When you are an official, can you do whatever you want?!" I don't know which angry young man shouted, and the people followed suit.

If you don't leave, I'm afraid I'll be beaten, so Yan Chengjin had to push him: "Bo'an, why don't you come back another day?" ”

Wang Shouren turned his face and said excitedly: "Brother Gao, I figured it out!" If you can't understand things, the teachings of the saints are suspicious! ”

Hiss!

Immediately after, there was an uproar.

There were a lot of scholars present, but someone dared to question Zhu Shengren?

The scholars blushed and glared at Wang Shouren angrily, but Wang Shouren was the head of the Criminal Department, so they didn't dare to scold him, and looked at him nervously.

"Why did Lord Wang say this!" A reader asked.

"Fang Cai, I watched this Song telescope for an hour, but I didn't get the answer I wanted, isn't this suspicious or what?" Wang Shouren shook his head.

"Dare to ask...... Lord Wang said that the science of learning, who to learn from! ”

Science was passed down to the Ming Dynasty and was divided into three factions, each of which had essential differences, one was represented by Zhu Cheng, the other was represented by Lu Jiuyuan, and the third was represented by Zhang Zai.

Among them, Zhu Cheng is the most widely circulated.

"This official is under Lou Liang."

Lou Liang was a famous Confucian in the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as this name came out, those scholars were even more angry: "You want to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors? ”

"I'm just telling the truth, if Brother Tai thinks that Gewu can be known, he will come to Geyi this telescope, and then tell the official that it can observe the moon, otherwise, Gewu just can't know."

Yan Chengjin's heart chuckled.

Wang Shouren finally wanted to overthrow the confinement of science and begin his own mental study.

Yan Chengjin was about to run away, Wang Shouren had occupied the telescope for a long time, and now he questioned the saint again, and he couldn't say anything about him, rolled up his sleeves, and was ready to come up and beat people.

He retreated to the palace with his legs, and speechlessly, Wang Shouren ran faster than him...... This guy also knew he was going to be beaten.

Turning back and running into the palace, Yan Chengjin stopped to take a breath.

Before Yan Chengjin could answer, a roar came from behind him: "Son! You get on your knees! ”

I saw Wang Hua running in angrily following them.