Emperor Chongzhen is not stupid, knowing the reason, he shook his head and sighed, what is loyal and patriotic? The mouth is high-sounding, and when it comes to the end, they all slip away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When the court employs people, how can you invite guests to dinner, come and leave as you want?

Emperor Chongzhen decided not to discuss it and directly ordered the generals. However, even the two important ministers failed to make the trip, and after a visit by the imperial doctor, they found that they were really sick, and nine times out of ten they were scared out of illness.

In Guangzhou and Fujian, there were reports of urgent wars, and Yu Zhigao, the chief military officer of Fujian, together with the guerrilla generals of Kinmen, had fought many wars with Guo Huaiyi's group, but now that the warships had lost as much as eighty percent and were no longer able to fight, they demanded that the imperial court allocate a number of warships and ask for a certain amount of silver.

The emperor was furious but helpless, Yu Zhigao and Xu Xinsu were repeatedly defeated and fought bravely, and their courage was much better than watching and fighting, and there was no way to pinch their noses and give money, food, and warships to calm their hearts.

This is the benefit of naval warfare, Xu Xinsu and Yu Zhigao did not go to war at all, but when they sent troops, they showed off their military might, and the minister of civil and military affairs saw dozens of warships go out, and less than half of them came back in a few days.

No one knew how many casualties there were in the naval battle, because not a single civilian official dared to personally go on board to participate in the naval battle. Anyway, everyone saw that the returned warship obviously left traces of shelling, and they also saw the people with wounded sailors who looked like dirt.

Xu Xin has always actually controlled Kinmen Island, and it is too small to hide dozens of warships, and it is naturally too simple to play tricks with military and Taoist civil officials, so he and Yu Zhigao have no losses at all and have mixed a lot of money and food.

Just when the emperor was helpless, he saw a leave of absence again, that is, Lord Huang Ge asked for leave in advance to go to a warm place in the south to spend the winter when autumn came.

A few months have passed since the "Liaoshen Great Victory", and Lord Huang has hardly said a word since he entered the cabinet, and he has not been judgmental about how the imperial court rewarded meritorious soldiers, often saying that he was sick and could not go to the court, and the military generals of Wenchen had gradually forgotten him.

Chongzhen looked at the music in front of him and muttered to himself: "Huang Aiqing is commendable if he does not fight for power and profit!" Is he trying to stay away from the court? ”

Looking up and seeing Wang Chengen, who was waiting carefully, Chongzhen asked: "Wang Companion, what do you think about using Huang Sheng Aiqing to fight thieves in Guangdong?" ”

Wang Chengen didn't expect the Son of Heaven to ask about such a big event, and he didn't know how to answer for a while without mental preparation, so he said perfunctorily: "The emperor is a saint, he naturally knows people, and he must have made a decision." ”

"Huang Aiqing has worked hard and made great achievements, and I originally intended to keep him in Beijing to give advice, but now it proves that he seems to be not suitable to be a cabinet minister to coordinate the affairs of the world, and it is more appropriate to let him lead troops to garrison one side."

Huang Sheng's layout of the dark chess came into play, Wang Chengen pushed the boat down the river and said: "The emperor Shengming, the slave also knows Lord Huang's ability to lead troops, presumably Lord Huang will be able to calm Guo Huaiyi's house if he goes to the south." ”

"Yes! Just as Lord Huang asked for leave to go to the south for the winter, I appointed him as the governor of Liangguang to lead the troops to suppress the Kou. ”

Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind, the north is a strong army of the Ming Dynasty, and it may not be appropriate to hand it all over to Huang Sheng.

Although the rebellion of the Apocalypse was quelled, the thief leader Chongming's father and son fled and failed to capture, and after the war, the rest of their troops continued to attack the state and county.

The war disaster in the south is protracted, and if there is a cabinet minister who is good at leading troops to fight, it will stabilize the side.

His unresolved plan was implemented, not only did he use talents, but he would not leave too many sequelae, and he was in a much better mood and decided to rest early and go to Queen Zhou.

But seeing that the lights in Cining Palace were as bright as day, Chongzhen was a little displeased, what happened to the queen who has always been diligent and thrifty? Why is it that candles are so costly?

When the joyful Queen Zhou saw that the emperor was coming, she greeted the emperor with a delicate gift, and then said that there was a KitKat to present the emperor.

It was a fiery oil lamp, similar to the 19th-century oil glass lamp, with a wick of cotton rope, a head made of silver, and a lamp holder and a lampshade made of glass.

The head has multiple claws around it, and a pinion next to it that controls the rise or fall of the cotton rope is also silver. The bottom of the cotton rope stretches into the lamp holder, and the lamp head has a screw twist to match the lamp holder, so the lamp head can be twisted tightly on the lamp holder.

The lampholder is filled with kerosene, and the cotton rope sucks the kerosene onto the rope. As long as you light the end of the rope with a match and cover the lampshade, you will complete the action of lighting the lamp.

This kind of glass and silver as the main material is a luxury product, mostly used for gifts, in the Huang family to promote the use of glass and nickel cupronickel as the main material, to the middle class landlords rich peasants to sell.

Empress Zhou performed how to light a lamp in front of the surprised Emperor Chongzhen, which she had just learned to give gifts to Cai'er who came to the palace today.

I saw that she stretched out her hand to open a cardboard box one inch wide and two inches long, took out a black thin wooden stick, and gently scratched a few times on the side of the box, the thin wooden stick burned, and Queen Zhou took off the lampshade of another fierce oil lamp placed on the table, ignited the wick, and covered the lampshade.

The firelight inside was not very bright, and Queen Zhou twisted the silver knob of the lifting wick, and immediately the light became brighter and ......brighter.

The original match was invented by the Chinese during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was a new discovery in the early Taoist alchemy. Sulfur was the main medicine of the alchemists, so their invention of primordial matches has credibility.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already vendors selling matches on the streets of Hangzhou.

It was someone who cut pine wood into paper-thin pieces and covered one end with sulfur. But it is not called "match", but "candle" and "cuier", which is already an early match.

But people did not pay attention to and pay attention to it, so it did not develop, the main reason is that it is too expensive, and the people are not willing to spend more costs in order to be able to quickly get fire, so the market cannot be opened.

There are many skilled craftsmen in the Huang family, and there are many people who have arranged the topic of inventing matches, but unfortunately there is no progress in the chemical process, and the formula of modern matches cannot be made.

Craftsmen used the flintlock pistol primer formula to improve the production of match heads, the use of fine flint friction to make fire, the use of pine sticks soaked in sulfur and then dried to make match sticks, and finally succeeded.

Now it has been mass-produced, but the cost is not low, ordinary people should not mind wasting some time on fire with fire knives, flint and velvet and choose to spend money on matches, which should also be positioned in the ranks of high-end goods.

Empress Zhou saw that the emperor saw the god and smiled: "Your Majesty, you read the chapter every day and night, and the concubines are distressed when they look at it, and now with this fierce fire oil lamp dedicated to Your Majesty, the imperial study will be like day in the future, and Your Majesty will not be tired of your eyes!" ”

"The queen has a heart, but such an artifact should be worth a lot of money, right?"

"Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, Lan Shangyi is willing to honor Your Majesty, and the fierce fire oil lamps sent into the palace will be supplied with fierce fire oil every month to ensure that they are enough."

"Lan Shangyi? ……”

"It's the head of the crew, the Lan family, and the concubine of Lord Huang Sheng."

"Oh! It's rare that Lord Huang bothered. Fierce fire oil? There is no need to worry about this thing, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"Your Majesty, the fierce fire oil in the army is different from the one that makes lamp oil, it is said that it is necessary to refill the material, Your Majesty can order Shaanxi Province and Gansu Town to produce more fierce fire oil and sell it to the Huang family, those poor places will have a good livelihood, I don't know how many people will be fed and clothed!"