In the heart of the Ming Empire, there are a group of the world's top skilled craftsmen. They can get unimaginable gifts from ordinary craftsmen, and they can also be accidentally driven into the abyss, so everyone is extremely serious and responsible in their work. Coupled with the three or five supervisions above their heads, everyone's eyes widened, and no one dared to be sloppy.

Chongzhen got up on the fifth watch as always, and the four palace maids immediately entered the purple gold basin that had been preparing haode to serve and wash.

Each of the four golden basins has its own usefulness. A two-foot diameter gold basin is used for the first hand, and a one-foot diameter is used to rinse the mouth. I wash my face in a large golden basin with a diameter of four feet. Zuihou washed his hands again, using a diameter of one foot and five inches. After washing, it's time to brush your hair.

When the emperor finishes his hair, he must dress properly and worship the heavens, and then he can change into civilian clothes and prepare breakfast.

After Chongzhen changed into civilian clothes, the palace maids handed over tea and snacks. Because the queen is also going to come over for dinner today, and it takes time to pass the meal, Emperor Bixia's stomach is likely to be hungry, so he must use dim sum to satisfy his stomach first.

Chongzhen used some refreshments, and the palace people on duty had almost set up breakfast, and when the music played, the emperor went to the middle hall to prepare for breakfast. Although Chongzhen withdrew the music for weekday meals in order to save money, the ritual music is also a kind of order in the palace, and even if he wants to eliminate everything, he can't do it.

The queen is also coming over today, so there are two tables in the nave.

Chongzhen walked to his imperial case, and before he landed, he saw the prince's new book on the imperial case. This is also the prerogative of the crown prince, and other texts must wait for the emperor to finish his meal, and they can only be presented in the Wuying Hall or Wenhua Hall.

The emperor sat down in his clothes, flipped through the two pages casually, and the expression on his face immediately froze.

"What about the prince?" Chongzhen asked aloud.

"Back to the emperor," the celebrant and eunuch who was accompanying him hurriedly stepped forward and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just went to Renshou Hall to greet Mrs. Zhang, and was detained for dinner." ”

"Call him." Chongzhen brought the book closer, and the smell of fresh ink tickled his nose.

As the prince's new work, the book "On Epidemic Prevention" does not have many illustrations, and it is not as obscure as the previous "Physics" and "Chemistry". However, the book explains the source of this epidemic in a conclusive way, and also lists how to prevent and control it one by one, which is unconvincing.

What really worries Chongzhen is that in the opening introduction, the prince says that the epidemic had caused a three-year epidemic in Europa 300 years earlier, with 25 million people dying from the disease, or almost one in every three people in Europa's population at that time.

The Ming Dynasty has been flooded and drought since the apocalypse, and various disasters have continued, if such a major epidemic occurs again...... Chongzhen was almost in despair.

Zhu Cihong did not take the initiative to submit the letter to Chongzhen, because Chongzhen had not yet ordered him to go out to raise the army. However, he was not surprised that Chongzhen could see the sample book so quickly, this is also the rule in the palace, and the celebrant will never print the sample book in large quantities without even handing it over to the emperor for review.

After saying goodbye to his aunt, Zhu Cihong stepped out of the Renshou Palace, looked at the gloomy sky, and said to the little eunuch who came to pass on the message: "You go and inform Tang Ruowang of Qin Tianjian and let him wait for the message." ”

The little eunuch did not dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly bowed and retreated.

Zhu Cihong took his East Palace guards and accompanying eunuchs and walked to the middle hall of the Qianqing Palace. Although the prince had the right to ride on foot, he preferred to walk, so that he could walk faster. When he walked to the gate of the Qianqing Palace, he happened to meet the queen's Luan, so he naturally had to come forward to salute and go in with his mother.

The inner palace supervisor quickly prepared the prince's table and meals, and everything seemed to have been arranged a long time ago.

Zhu Cihong saw it in his eyes, and secretly said in his heart: If the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty can be as efficient and rigorous as the Inner Palace, where may there be opportunities for Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others to come forward.

"Did Father Bixia sleep peacefully last night?" Zhu Cihong asked for peace.

"Ann." Chongzhen pointed to the food table: "Sit down." ”

Zhu Cihong sat at the bottom of his parents' table, and a table of all kinds of breakfast was piled up in front of him. He had long wanted to change this buffet-style breakfast to a pre-order dish, so that he could at least save the general cost of meals. Although these foods will be given to other palace people, which is not a waste, but the bread eaten by the heavenly family and the cake eaten by ordinary palace people are several times different in cost!

Because he had already asked his mother for good morning, Zhu Cihong didn't need to ask Zhou Hou'an again. He looked at the "Theory of Epidemic Prevention" in Chongzhen's hand, and knew that he had guessed correctly as a matter of course.

"Prince, the Black Death you are talking about here is the current Jingshi epidemic?" Chongzhen asked.

"Father, the pimple plague that is prevalent in Beijing today is actually this Black Death, that is, the plague." Zhu Cihong had already typed the abdominal draft on the way here, and asked one answer ten: "Fleas carried by rats are transmitted to humans, and the patient will have pimples in the groin, armpits, and side of the neck, and will be sick for two to eight days, and once the disease occurs, he will die within four hours, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms. ”

After listening to it Zhou Hou, the chopsticks that had just been raised were as heavy as a thousand pounds, and they slapped on the table, faintly disgusting.

- This son knows everything, and he doesn't know anything! Can't we wait until breakfast is finished?

Zhou Hou breathed a sigh of relief.

Chongzhen no longer had the slightest appetite, and he didn't see sin, and asked, "The same is true of the Black Death that happened in Europa?" ”

"Because so many of the dead were covered in black, the Europa people called it the Black Death." Zhu Cihong said: "As for the dead population, my father can consult John Tang from Germany. ”

"Go and spread the word to John." Chongzhen has always been resolute.

While waiting for witnesses, Chongzhen asked about the transmission mode of the plague and the observation of germs.

"Because of the microscope," Zhu Cihong said simply, "so Erchen can know that in this world, there is certainly the size of Mount Tai, and there are also tiny bacteria that are even smaller than the dust." ”

Chongzhen nodded. He knew about this little invention of the prince, and he himself had seen the veins of plant leaves with that rudimentary microscope. At that time, the prince was still a very modest person, and said that it was made according to the "Theory of the Long Mirror" presented by Tang Ruowang in the second year of Chongzhen.

In fact, even John Tong didn't expect that a six-year-old child would be able to build a microscope.

Although this thing was invented by the Dutch forty years ago.

- No wonder the prince is so confident to go out for disaster relief, it turns out that he already knows himself and his opponent.

Chongzhen said secretly in his heart.

He didn't know that Zhu Cihong would never really go to find a specimen of Yersinia pestis.

In this era when there are no antibiotics, being infected with the plague is basically a dead end. He was not willing to risk bringing this virulent contagion to himself for the benefit of all mankind. And his microscope, although very impressive, was not enough to observe such a tiny creature as bacteria.

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