Dadu Palace, the main hall of the outside of the Ming Palace.

Most of the cities in November have entered winter, the hall is covered with yellow skin, sable is the mattress, and under each pillar, a charcoal furnace is placed. The whole hall is full of twenty-eight tripod charcoal furnaces, the furnace fire is blazing, and a hall is like spring. In addition, the most striking things in the temple are three things.

One is one foot high, seven feet high, and the lamp stand is made of pure gold, the most advanced timer of this era - Qibao Lantern Leak. This object is powered by flowing water, and its beams are decorated with dragon heads at both ends, and through the speed at which it opens its kiss and turns its eyes, you can observe the slow and urgent flow of flat water in the lamp. The middle beam is decorated with two dragons playing with beads, pitching with the beads, according to which you can observe whether the quasi-water flows evenly. The lamp leak is divided into four layers: the upper layer is surrounded by four gods; The second is the elephant of the dragon, tiger and tortoise, jumping according to the hour; Another week is divided into 100 scales, and the gods of the 12 hand sticks are listed on the hour card, and the cards are held at that time, and another puppet finger is scaled; Once again, the four puppeteers of bells, drums, cymbals, and cymbals emit different sounds at different times, which is really rare in the world.

The manufacturer of this Qibao lamp leak, which is a collection of precision instruments and precious works of art, is the famous scientist Guo Shoujing.

If the Qibao lamp leak represents Meng Yuan's determination to forge ahead with advanced technology, then another thing reveals the unwavering temperament of this nation.

In the Daming Palace, there is a huge wooden silver lacquer urn, which is also seven feet high, one zhang two wide, weighs more than 10,000 catties, and is regrettable. People who don't know, at first glance, most of them will think that this is a giant ding representing the orthodoxy of imperial power. However, its real effect is to make people squirt - this is a wine urn, which can store more than 50 stones of wine, and fill it once, enough for the Manchu Dynasty to get drunk for a day.

Although the tripod, which represents the orthodoxy of the Central Plains Dynasty, was originally used as a food utensil, used to hold meat, but when something like the tripod is placed in an occasion like the palace hall, who will put meat in it? And Meng Yuan placed a Dongdong similar to Da Ding, but it was really used to hold wine, I really don't know if they are true temperament, or they are not barbaric...... But in the thousands of years of dynastic changes, it is unique.

On the one hand, it is determined to forge ahead in science and technology, and on the other hand, it is barbaric and bloodthirsty, and the Mengyuan Dynasty is such a strange contradiction.

At this moment, in the middle of the main hall, on the mountain-shaped exquisite golden and red screen platform, on a treasure and colorful Qibao Yunlong imperial couch, the fat and big Dayuan Emperor Kublai Khan, like the dynasty he established, is also an insoluble contradiction.

As an immediate emperor, with the strength of one country, he resisted the three major khanates, and even more so the Southern Song Dynasty, and indeed had outstanding cultural and martial arts. However, such a founding emperor who could be regarded as wise and martial in the early stage, after entering the later stage, he declined sharply and became a drunkard.

Empress Chabi died, and Kublai Khan, who lost his wife in middle age, began to drink aggressively; Prince Zhenjin died, and Kublai Khan, who lost his son in his later years, began to drink heavily; Now, his left and right shoulders are dead, and Kublai Khan, who has no one to worry about, has been overwhelmed by the sorrow of the sky.

Nowadays, the number of times that hundreds of officials go to court is getting less and less, and the wine stored in the big wine urn is also getting less and less, and it is replenished once a month and a half on average...... Kublai Khan, this Xue Chan Khan, the great master of Confucianism, is about to become a "great master of wine".

However, even if this is the case, its decades of accumulated prestige are still there, and the foundation of its early hard work is still there, even if you ignore the government and politics, as long as the fat figure is still sitting on the Qibao Cloud Dragon Imperial Sofa, the entire dynasty will still run as usual. Maybe it will slowly decline over time, but at least it won't happen overnight.

"Bang!" The large silver flower inlaid gold wire bowl rolled down from the Qibao Yunlong Imperial Couch to the Dan Collapse covered with a white sable blanket.

Kublai Khan's fat figure on the couch moved, as if awakened from a dream, and muttered, "Wine ...... Drinking! ”

Several palace maids by the wine urn were immediately busy, one hurriedly leaned over to pick up the silver bowl, returned to the wine urn, and the other climbed the stairs and scooped out a full spoonful of wine from the huge wine urn with a long spoon with a jade handle, just filling a bowl. The palace maid carefully presented the wine bowl to His Majesty's steps, and a eunuch took it and presented it to Kublai Khan with flattery.

Kublai Khan sat crookedly on the Qibao Yunlong imperial couch, his face was like charcoal, his body was full of wine, and when he reached out to take the silver bowl, his drunken eyes fell on one of the lines of the half-read song, "...... The edict of the Song lord ordered Wen Tianxiang to be the prefect of Lin'an and preside over the reconstruction of the ......"

"Wen Tianxiang!" Kublai Khan's cheeks puffed up, and the moment the silver bowl touched his lips, he slammed it, as if he remembered something, stared at the palace maid who was serving wine, and drank violently, "I remember you, you are the daughter of Wen Yi!" ”

The palace maid trembled with fright, and knelt on the ground: "Great Khan...... Slaves...... No, it's not! ”

Kublai Khan snorted angrily: "Well, dare you deny it? I really can't get drunk! ”

The palace maid was so frightened that she couldn't speak, and only her eyes showed a look of horror and pleading.

The eunuch on the side trembled and said: "Great Khan, there is a daughter of Wen Tianxiang in the palace envoy, but she is not here, and she is serving in the Spring Palace of Beiyuting." ”

When Kublai Khan heard this, his eyes fixed on the name on the song, raised the silver bowl and drank it down, letting the wine stains overflow, and drenching the five-clawed golden dragon robe with his thick beard.

Bang! The silver bowl was thrown down heavily, and Kublai Khan's voice sounded in the empty hall: "The daughter of Xuanwen rebels enters the palace and serves wine for me." ”

A moment later, a pale but beautiful girl in palace clothes appeared outside the palace gate, and the setting sun stretched her slender figure until it was projected under the Dan Collapse.

Wenhuan Niang.

Under the eyes full of pity or contempt or malice, Huanniang suppressed her nervousness, first gave a salute to the people on the royal couch, and then silently took the silver bowl.

At the moment when Huanniang took the silver bowl with both hands, almost all of her eyes were withdrawn, and she didn't dare to look at it again, only two fierce lights like a vicious wolf, scanning up and down unscrupulously, as if they wanted to penetrate her body.

The wine was poured into the silver bowl, and Huanniang was still stable at first, but the feeling of being like a man's back made her heart more and more panicked, her hands trembled more and more, and the wine overflowed.

A spoonful should have filled a bowl just as well, but at this time, only half of the wine in the silver bowl was left, and the rest was sprinkled on the carpet.

The palace maid holding the long spoon froze, not knowing whether to add it or not, and was at a loss for a while.

Huanniang knelt on her knees and said in a trembling voice: "Slave maid...... Sin deserves death......"

Kublai Khan's drunken voice came: "Drink it, and you will not die a thousand times." Then do it ten times, and you will be spared 'ten thousand deaths.'" ”

Huanniang froze, staring at the wine in the silver bowl, trembling even more.

Seeing that Huanniang was not moving, the corners of Kublai Khan's eyes twitched, and the eunuch who was intuitive and observant immediately shouted: "The Great Khan gives wine, and the heavens are blessed." Wenhuanniang, don't drink it quickly! ”

Huanniang was about to cry, and kept shaking her head: "Huanniang, no, you can't drink......"

Kublai Khan put the music together and said coldly: "Drink it, or, get ten whips...... Pick one. ”

Huanniang bit her lip tightly, almost biting blood, and slowly but firmly put the silver bowl on the black lacquer tray.

The eunuch was furious, and the halberd finger was cut off and shouted: "Bold! Little, dare to be disobedient! Pull it down, whip it to death......"

"Where there is a father, there must be a daughter!" Kublai Khan's eyes flashed with a strange light, as if he had discovered something interesting, cut off the eunuch's words, and said lightly, "After receiving the whipping, tomorrow, continue to serve wine." ”