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The bleak Zhengdan has passed.

The hundreds of millions of people of the Great Song Dynasty and its many vassal states finally bid farewell to the turbulent four years of Yuanfeng and ushered in the New Year of the first year of Yuanyou.

After more than half a month, even though it is still within the mourning period, Zhao Ji's death has settled down among the people. Mention it and sigh a few times, if you don't mention it, no one will worry about it, and those who should live still live their lives. Excluding the bizarre cause of death, it seems to be a story in a miscellaneous drama, and what remains is just another emperor who has died in more than ten years.

For Zong Ze, although there are still people around him who mention it from time to time, it is not something that needs special attention.

This year's Jinshi Imperial Examination will be held as usual, and the imminent examination of the Ministry of Rites has made Gongsheng like him feel even more nervous, and he has no time to think about irrelevant issues.

In addition to eating and sleeping, Zong Ze can't wait to devote all his time to studying.

"Rulin, the dog meat is stewed, do you want to eat it?"

The voice of neighbor Zhou Wenpu came from outside the door. is also a candidate, and Zhou Wenpu doesn't have time to go out, but he has a good companion who can borrow a pot to roast dog meat in the temple.

"Dog meat." Zong Ze touched the bubbles on his mouth, his heart hurt, pushed the door out, and said apologetically to Zhou Wenpu: "Thank you Brother Zonglin for your kindness." But not today. I don't know if I often eat dog meat during this time, the fire is too strong, and the bubbles are not good, so I have to eat it lightly for a few days. ”

"You don't eat it either, and Brother Bocai just said that he can't eat it. Can't you let the little brother eat alone? ”

"How many more?"

"There are dozens of experiments. I said that I was poisoned, but I refused to eat it, you see, what a waste?! ”

"It's a waste." Zong Ze agreed, he didn't care, he was born in Jiangnan, he had eaten puffer fish, was he still afraid of poisoned dog meat?

"Let's be honest. There are many mountains in the little brother's township, and there are many fierce beasts in the mountains. Wild boars are common, and there are many large insects. Those wild boars and large insects that were shot by hunters with medicinal arrows, who would not eat them when they were taken out. The medicine arrows were smeared with poison that sealed their throats with blood. What is a little smoke? Smoked meat is eaten too much. ”

Zhou Wenpu grabbed Zong Zexu and said a lot, before he said goodbye and left, eating more and talking more, which was a means for him to relax his mood before the exam.

Zong Ze is the same, so he can understand Zhou Wenpu's mood. He can adjust it himself, but sometimes it's better to have a big meal with friends. Especially recently, I ate too much dog meat with Zhou Wenpu, and almost all of them were injured.

The reason why dog meat has been in the stomach every day is thanks to "Nature" and Han Gang.

The death of the Emperor Taishang is bizarre and bizarre. According to common sense, there will be many rumors in the capital about this, and it will definitely be unfavorable to the Queen Mother, or that she assassinated the emperor, or that she was unfavorable to support the emperor, so that others assassinated the emperor, and then pushed the matter to the little emperor who was only six years old, and it may even be linked to the death of Emperor Taizu.

But Han Gang's appearance made the rumors have no soil to spread, and relieved the unnecessary pressure on the Queen Mother and Zaifu.

This is not an empty excuse, but an experiment in charcoal poisoning.

In the new issue of the journal Nature, a comparative experiment was designed to verify charcoal toxicity, and the most common dogs were used to test the samples, and three groups were done at the same time.

The same box, the same stove in the box, the same size dog. Two of the boxes are sealed, one of which allows the flue gas from the stove to pass through to the outside, one to the inside, and the other of the three boxes has the box itself unsealed and has holes to ventilate. After lighting the stove, leave the three boxes one night and open them the next morning to see the results.

As far as Zong Ze knows, many people who saw this experiment did it with great interest. Dogs are not worth much, it is convenient to go to the meat stand and buy a few. Experimental equipment such as boxes and stoves are also easy to obtain. It is related to the cause of the death of the legendary Emperor Taishang, and there are many people who are interested in it.

Through post-event communication, the results of the experiment also came out.

In boxes that are not sealed, the dogs are alive. And in the sealed box, the stove is not ventilated. And in the sealed box where the stove exhausts the outside, some of the dogs are alive and some are dead.

In addition, many people have noticed that in the completely sealed box, the experimental animals are basically silent when they die, and the movement is very small, and in the sealed box with the external exhaust of the stove, the dead dogs are all after a violent struggle before dying.

In this issue of Nature, while announcing the experiments, we also ask the world about the reasons and principles.

Although no one has been able to elucidate the principle for the time being, in any case, with the foundation of this experiment, many people do not have too many doubts about the cause of Zhao Ji's death announced by the imperial court. Even if there were still people in the court who believed that the emperor's death was murdered rather than accidental, in the market, basically no one doubts it anymore.

Experiments are always interesting. But then it was very troublesome to clean up the mess. Not many people are willing to eat poisoned dog meat, and occasionally there is a gourmand like Zhou Wenpu who is willing to accept it, but it is also rare. It's a shame to have discarded test samples.

A year-round subscription to Nature is a corresponding member of the Imperial Song Society of Nature, and to become a full member, you must have more than three papers published in the journal. Once you become a full member, you will receive a badge and a certificate, and you will not need to order the journal and will be sent directly to the society free of charge.

After eating some light meal, Zong Ze prepared to go to the library not far away in the afternoon. There are not many books that you can bring with you when you go to Beijing, but the provincial exam is imminent, and many allusions and articles must be reviewed before the exam, so as not to be rusty when you get the exam, and going to the library to read books is the best way. In addition, you can meet a lot of scholars, learn from each other, and learn art.

After tidying up his outfits, Zong Ze was about to go out when he heard a noise outside.

Walking out of the small courtyard, I saw a group of people coming from the front hall. The presiding monk nodded in the crowd, not knowing what he was saying.

Zong Ze looked over from a distance outside the crowd, and suddenly his eyes widened in surprise, and it turned out to be Han Gang in the middle of the crowd.

Why did this person come to the temple, did he come to burn incense? But the rumor doesn't it mean that he has never had a good impression of Futu?

Questions came out of his mind, and Zong Ze forgot to go to the library for a while.

Han Gang walked slowly, talking to Wang Hou beside him, while looking at the temple inside and out.

He didn't come to burn incense, but planned to demolish it.

The fat monk who was flattering and flattering had a smile on his face, and Han Gang thought with malice, if he told the inside story to this host who smelled of dog meat, I don't know if he could still laugh?

Of course, the Great Library of the Emperor Song Dynasty should be located in the city, but in the capital, every inch of land is valuable, and every piece of land that can be used is owned by the owner. If you want to build a new building, you have to tear down another old building.

If you want to build the Great Library of the Emperor and Song Dynasty, you need at least ten acres of land, and you have to requisition a large piece of land. If it is private land, the court cannot forcibly seize it, so it has to spend money to buy it.

The library was established for the purpose of educating and popularizing literacy. The building structure, according to Hangang's idea, was changed from a wooden structure to a brick and stone building to prevent fires. The collection of books in it is even more than 100,000. It costs a lot of money, but now, the court is so poor that the coins that come out of the mint can be used the next day, and they will definitely not be able to buy land. But fortunately, there is land under the name of Kaifeng Mansion, such as this temple, which is one of the several suitable locations selected in Kaifeng Mansion.

"Yukun, what do you think?"

Wang Hou put on three pillars of incense, prayed for the blessing of his deceased father, and then asked Han Gang.

Han Gang shook his head, "It's too close to the Sealed Library. ”

He would prefer that the two libraries be a little further apart, so that more people can benefit.

"What about close?"

"Shouldn't I, the curator, worry about the good or bad of the deal? When you are more popular, you can gather talents. ”

Han Gang seemed to be a businessman's tone, but Wang Houzhi said what kind of 'talent' he wanted to gather.

"Speaking of which, the title of this curator is really not very good, why can't he have a better official name?"

"That's it. Could it still be the Imperial Song Dynasty Library? ”

"If you don't have an envoy or a bachelor, you're just a bare curator. The court is really cheeky. ”

"It would be enough if the imperial court could agree to set up a large library. Haven't you heard the words "good money is hard to give"? If you talk to Han and Cai, the two ministers, use the money to build the library to exchange the false name of the big library, you see if they are willing. ”

The day before yesterday, the imperial court had ordered the establishment of the Imperial Song Dynasty Library in the city of Tokyo, facing the general public, with Han Gang, the former envoy of the Xuanhui North Court and a scholar of the Imperial Palace, who had just stepped down, as the director. Not only Wang Hou, many people complained that the library did not have a more meaningful name, but Han Gang's attitude was that the more straightforward the better.

Walking back and forth, Han Gang didn't notice the candidates living in it, and said to Wang Hou: "Let's change places." Walk again. ”

Where would Wang Hou have opposing opinions? He came out with Han Gang, got on his horse, and hurried to another place to be checked.

"By the way, Yukun, I just wanted to ask." Wang Hou asked on horseback, "In the morning, I heard in the post house that Japan was defeated and ceded land to the Liao State as a vassal. Every year, one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold must be paid. Is this true or false? ”

"It's true that Japan lost."

During this time, the Liao State was making great progress in Japan. The cavalry tactics of coming and going freely made it difficult for the Japanese defenders, who had fought only skirmishes on the islands for hundreds of years, and it is said that both battles ended in total annihilation, and it may only be a matter of time before Heiankyo is captured.

"However, paying one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold is pure nonsense, and it doesn't cost so much to sell the current Japanese court."

Wang Hou smacked his lips, "I'll just say it, it's really nonsense." ”

"If the Liao people really seize Japan, the local gold and silver deposits can be used by them, and if they can all be dug up, maybe there will really be so much, at least there will be no shortage of silver." Han Gang added, "It's just that those mineral deposits are still buried in the ground." ”

In the previous issue of Nature, because the Liao Kingdom was invaded by Japan, there were several geographical articles related to Japan. Among them, Han Gang also wrote an article under a pseudonym, taking iron, copper, silver, and gold as examples, saying that metals are light and heavy, and the lighter the more on the surface, the heavier the surface, the less there are, and they all sink deep underground. Only volcanoes can spew magma from the ground and spew out mineral deposits underground. Japan has many volcanoes, and it is natural that gold and silver mines are the majority.

This is a clear scheme, allowing the Liao State to send as many troops as possible to Japan, which in turn forces the imperial court to increase investment in the navy. Because of this, rumors of more gold and silver in Japan have also spread.