Hongyi decisively threw a "bombshell" at the young queen Borzigit, and saw the expected reaction as he wished, he knew that this ~ palace was finally stirred up by himself and Tong Jia's "two mothers". As for whether it will evolve into turbulent waves, it depends on how your "aunt and nephew" and the two "queens before and after" deal with it. Hongyi knew better that if these two people had not lost their minds, they would definitely not have allowed them to develop into a monstrous wave.

Sure enough, after the initial panic, the queen finally returned to reason and became more comfortable, about the adoption of Xuan Ye, Zuihou is just an excuse for reasons such as "it's a big deal", so she has to think about it.

Concubine Kang's mother and son, who achieved their goal, naturally stopped pestering and found an excuse to leave.

Before leaving Qixiang Palace, Tong Jiashi, who was already sweaty and wet, didn't have time to get into the sedan chair, so he had to come over to ask his son how his errand was doing. But Hongyi secretly looked at him, and he blocked the anxious expression of the reborn mother. So the two got into the sedan chair separately and returned the same way.

Until Xianhe left gate, Hongyi came down to send Eniang back to the palace according to the custom, and then he lay in Tong Jia's ear and whispered: "Eniang don't worry, wait for her to come to you." With just this sentence, Concubine Kang's heart was put back in her stomach, and she entered Jingren Palace with peace of mind.

And Hongyi, naturally, did not delay any longer, and hurriedly went back to the East Second Institute to study the two military books and war strategies given to him by Sister Sizhen.

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At the same time, Qixiang Palace.

After the queen sent away Concubine Kang Tong Jia and the second son of the emperor Xuan Ye as usual, she immediately transformed into ants on a hot pot. Walk around the house. is different from Concubine Kang who was in Jingren Palace just now, there is still a son behind the family who is the backbone, and at this time, she is indeed confused and clueless!

After countless circles, the queen finally didn't come up with any useful ideas. In desperation, I had to preach the message:

"Go to Yongshou Palace!"

"Master......" The accompanying eunuch looked confused, and did not immediately agree, but just bowed his head and tilted his head vigorously. Cautiously stared at the queen's expression.

"Don't ...... yet!" The queen was just about to have a seizure. suddenly understood the eunuch's distress - he was the queen, the nominal master of the harem. Although the abolished queen of Yongshou Palace is her aunt, she is just an ordinary concubine after all. The queen rashly came to visit a concubine, which was really a mistake. If it goes out. Bad for yourself. It's even more unfavorable to Concubine Jing after the abolition! Fortunately, the subordinate was clever and did not lose his mind. So, the queen changed her words and said:

"Isn't it fast yet—please come over and talk to Concubine Jing?!" But his attitude was much kinder.

"Huh!" The chief eunuch hurriedly withdrew from the outside of the temple. Hurriedly went to the Yongshou Palace to invite his master's aunt.

Time came to a standstill in Qixiang Palace, and the anxious queen was sweating! If she didn't have to take into account the queen's demeanor, she couldn't wait to show the skills she learned on the back of the Horqin horse, simply go out of the palace and climb over the high wall, and jump directly into the courtyard of the Yongshou Palace next door!

"The slave respectfully invites the queen Jin An!" Finally, I remembered my aunt's quiet voice behind me!

"Get up! Lookouts. The queen turned around suddenly, but at first glance she saw the blaming look in Concubine Jing's eyes, but she still tried to hold back and slowly raised her hand to signal.

"Empress Xie!" Concubine Jing got up elegantly and sat down.

"Go down, all of you, and do not come near without my command!" The queen ordered her subordinates to withdraw, and it was not until the eunuch who was walking in Zuihou closed the door of the temple and even the figure cast by the setting sun on the window lattice disappeared without a trace, that she took two steps forward and threw herself into her aunt's arms.

"Auntie! Something is wrong! The queen changed to Mongolian and spoke eagerly.

"Ulunzhurige ......" Concubine Jing Meng Guqing gently called her niece's nickname in Mongolian [apocryphal by the author], and looked lovingly at the little eagle in front of her, who had once soared on the Horqin grassland like herself, and now she has become haggard a little bit, exactly the same as herself back then...... The age difference between the two is only five or six years old, but they are like mother and daughter, and they rely on each other in this huge Forbidden City, or it is more appropriate to say "sympathy for the same disease".

"Auntie......"

"Ulunzhurige, my aunt has told you many times, you have to be like your name, make a beautiful colorful cloud, fly over the Forbidden City in Beijing. When you are happy, you can dance with the breeze and let the world appreciate your graceful figure; When you are sad, you can shield yourself from the scorching sun and make the mortals below fear you like clouds of awe...... What, what makes you so flustered? Meng Guqing's quiet Mongolian language was like water, and he thought of a melodious long tune, which instantly calmed the heart of Queen Ulunzhurige.

"Let's talk about it, say it slowly, no major event can escape the arrangement of the Immortal Heaven." The queen stroked her niece's hair and said softly.

"Just now, Xuan Ye and Concubine Kang came."

"Oh? What are they coming to do? ”

"He said that he wanted me and the Queen Mother to invite Xuan Ye to be raised in my palace......"

"Hehe, they want to cling to your high branches. But now the two princes are still young, and the thin lover is still in the prime of life, and I don't know how many heirs will come out in the future. Xuan Ye came out too early, even if it was really the favor of the Immortal Heaven, didn't the Han people still have a saying? It's called 'shooting the first bird with a gun and slashing the snake on the ground [1]', I'm afraid that he will sit down early and make too many enemies, and it will be difficult to ......" Concubine Jing said this, she still hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment, and finally made up her mind, and continued:

"You just said that the queen mother has already had a decree there, and she asked Su Mala to take care of the second son of the emperor personally, in fact, even if you are the queen mother personally training and raising, you are not good at interfering!"

The nephew said the same thing, but that Xuan Ye didn't give up, and even said ......" When the words came to her mouth, the queen looked up at her aunt nervously, not daring to continue.

"Say what? What could he say? Hehe, let's talk about it......" Meng Guqing laughed dryly, and seemed to have some mood swings, although he still encouraged his niece to continue, he was no longer as calm and relaxed as he was just now.

He said. The son is proud of his mother...... And say that you also like children and treat them as if they were your own son! "Queen Ulunjurig and Pan Tuo out.

"What? The son is proud of the mother? Biological son? What does he mean? Meng Guqing grabbed Ulunzhurig's shoulder and asked viciously.

"Auntie! Aunt! Nephew guessed...... Guess he might know......"

"Impossible! How would he know! It is impossible to ......" Finally, Meng Guqing let go of the hands that were holding the queen tightly, and his body became weak, and he actually fell from the palace bench and fainted.

"Auntie! Aunt! The queen didn't care about the pain in her shoulders like a vice, so she helped Concubine Jing up and called in a low voice, but there was no reaction. Only then did he have to shout loudly outside the door:

"Come on, people. Concubine Jing fainted! ”

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The queen's Qixiang Palace was busy for a while, and the eunuchs and palace maids were in a mess, some people took face towels, and some people went to the well to draw water. There were also people clamoring to go to the Imperial Doctor.

As soon as I heard that I was going to declare the imperial doctor. The queen immediately stopped. Shouted: "Nonsense! Concubine Jing is a little unwell, so what kind of doctor will she proclaim?! Licentious! This is the Qixiang Palace of the main palace, and it is not unfortunate to announce the imperial doctor. ”

Seeing that the people were resigned, they broke off this thought. The queen was discouraged, and reached out again to pinch Concubine Jing's acupoint.

Finally, Concubine Jing slowly woke up, opened her mouth and said:

"The Son Honors His Mother...... The son is honored by his mother, ......, the queen, you will allow Concubine Kang......"

"Aunt......" The queen couldn't care anymore that there were many people beside her, and called out with tears.

"Ulunzhurig, don't cry, this is the arrangement of Changshengtian, we can't get rid of it, and we can't escape it after all."

“…… Yes, nephew listens to you. ”

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The East Second Institute could not hear the hustle and bustle of Qixiang Palace, but was more quiet than before. Because, as soon as the young master Xuanye came back, he was holding two large Chinese books and reading them carefully.

Although the "Jingwu Quanshu" discusses many profound and incisive ways of using troops, and also involves the introduction of many Western firearms, Hongyi is still more interested in "Western Law Divine Machine". According to a rough estimate, this book is about 20,000 words, divided into two volumes, the upper volume has seven sections, and the second volume has five sections, which can be described as concise and concise. But what is particularly precious is that there are as many as 44 drawings in the book, and they are all accompanied by illustrations, and the content can be described as vivid. Although it is still abstract to examine those drawings from the eyes of modern people, they can be regarded as very "image" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. [2]

After reading for an hour, Hongyi began to try to summarize the characteristics of the book, and generally came to the following conclusions:

First, the development of firearms emphasizes "rationality." The so-called "rationality" and "nature" actually refer to the structural mechanism and physicochemical characteristics of firearms. "The Divine Machine of Western Magic" believes that when manufacturing firearms and ammunition, it is necessary to promote the "wonder of physics", which is in line with the nature of things, and those who are good at reason can not only understand the characteristics of guns and ammunition, but also be able to manufacture them. The manufacture of guns requires the use of copper and iron with the most refined texture, "if the texture is coarse, there seems to be no gap, and the medicine is fierce and fierce, and it immediately falls apart." Therefore, the copper and iron materials used must be refined at the time of casting. When preparing gunpowder, it is necessary to understand the "nature of the three things" of nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, if "it is not because of its nature, it is not reasonable, and it will not be satisfactory to use it," and it will not be able to prepare gunpowder with good performance. Sun Yuanhua even clearly pointed out that the initial release of gunpowder did not make a sound because of the amount of charcoal, and the later release of the gunpowder because of the amount of nitrate and the explosion of the gunpowder, because it did not conform to the nature of gunpowder, and there was no fine grinding and mixing and water during refining, and as a result, the sergeant carried, or walked, or straddled the horse, and hit the sieve all day long, and the sulfur was heavy and would sink to the bottom, and the charcoal would be light.

Second, the manufacture of firearms emphasizes the "inference of the law", that is, the maker of the instrument is required to have a precise concept of quantity, and to treat it as the law, which cannot be deviated by the slightest. If the length, size, and thickness of the guns do not fit in harmony, the benefits of firearms will be lost. The so-called "comparison degree" and "proportion calculation" are not fixed in fact, because for different materials, the length, size, and thickness of the firecracker should also be different, so these ruler proportions are actually the accumulation of experience and the summary of practice. Sun Yuanhua believed that the power of the gun and whether it could hit far away was not only whether the manufacture of the gun barrel was reasonable and whether the preparation of gunpowder was appropriate, but also whether the manufacture of iron bullets was successful. Therefore, he demanded that the size of the bullet must be in line with the caliber of the gun, and if the bullet is large, it will be difficult to export, the gun tube is easy to explode, and the small tube of the bomb is wide, and only when the size of the bullet is consistent with the caliber of the gun, can it hit far and powerfully. These provided important practical experience for the utensils used at that time.

Third, the use of firearms emphasizes the role of shiyan. Sun Yuanhua advocated drawing regular conclusions on the basis of repeated shiyan on many problems of manufacturing utensils. For example, based on the size of the caliber, the various components of the artillery and the gun carriage, the relationship between the weight of the ammunition and the amount of charge, and the range and angle of fire were designed according to a certain proportional multiple, so that the manufacture and use of artillery at that time could be carried out under the guidance of advanced theories. For example, after the fire gun was cast, in order to shiyan its sturdiness, Sun Yuanhua "used two large woods, people and soil, and clamped the guns and solidified them", and then "the real medicine and ammunition were doubled more often, and they were placed for several decades, and they were fixed and unchanged, so that there would never be any explosion damage, and they would become useful tools." Although there was also a water leakage method at that time, Sun Yuanhua's Shiyan method had a better effect and was more reliable.

Although he has a superficial foundation in studying calculus in college, this firearms and military book written by literati in the Ming Dynasty is still as difficult to understand in some places as a book from heaven, and it can be said that it is like a mountain across the mountains for Hongyi, who studied international politics. In particular, the units of measurement are all "catties" and "li", how do you look at it, how should it be the European concept of "pounds" and "miles", otherwise how can a cannon fire a dozen catties of solid shells? A dozen pounds is reasonable......

zuihou, Hongyi suddenly remembered the "Tomma Law" that Kong Sizhen had talked about with himself! That's right, since they are Catholics who have known each other since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and they have all made achievements in the use of firearms, why don't Weishenme give this book to John Tong to make good use of? So the omissions in it, foreigners should be better able to understand than themselves. Besides, I am moderately "guided and led" on the side, and I am not afraid of foreign devils getting in the way!

Just as he was about to think about how to "apply" John Tang, Liang Gong quietly appeared behind Hongyi at some point.

"Say it." Hongyi didn't raise his head and continued to read.

"Master, Master Jing really went to Qixiang Palace......" Liang Gong said very quietly, but very resolutely.

"Got it."

"But where is she in the queen, fainted!" Xiao Gongzi even added important information.

"yes, got it." Hongyi is still silent.

Xiao Gongzi is no longer sad, but he is not discouraged. He knew that the role of his stalking this time, the master would definitely have his correct judgment. This means that the master does not deceive the slave, and the slave does not live up to the master!

When Liang Gong pushed out of the door, Hongyi couldn't hold back any longer, and finally slammed the book in his hand on the kang table, and shouted softly: "It's done!" ”

Liang Gong, who was on duty under the window outside the hall, was also overjoyed when he heard this, and muttered to himself: "Master, this is joy and anger!" Hehe......"

[1] Spoken from the Ming Dynasty's "Zengguang Xianwen".

[2] In the official history, after Sun Yuanhua, the author of "Western Law Divine Machine", was convicted, the original was hated and burned by his descendants, and now it is a copy of Sun's Zhongbiao Wang Shijiu, and then the copy was successively passed to Jin Minyu and Ge Weiquan, and it was engraved by Yang Hengfu in the 28th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1902). There are 34 illustrations of the handed down "Western Magic Machine", and Hongyi speculates that there may be differences between the copy and the original. (To be continued......)