Early morning.

It rained last night, and the heat has subsided slightly.

Zhao Han didn't go to the office directly, he ate breakfast and walked around, and the summer in Nanjing could make him hot.

Several princes and princesses came over with a smile, and happened to bump into the emperor.

"Are you going out of the palace?" Zhao Han asked.

Zhao Furong said: "Back to my father, today's school holiday, and the weather is cool, so I went to the eastern suburbs of the racecourse to play." ”

"When you are about to get married, you will be called your father, not your father?" Zhao Han said with a smile.

Zhao Furong said: "The queen mother admonished her daughter to be more calm in the future. ”

The second princess, Zhao Hanjin, held the hem of her skirt, turned in a circle and said, "Daddy, is my skirt good-looking?" ”

Zhao Han nodded: "It's good-looking, where is the new style?" ”

Zhao Hanjin said: "Suzhou has recently fashioned pleated skirts, which are changed from Yuehua skirts, and I heard that many daughters in Nanjing wear this. ”

"Yes, it's just that some of it takes a lot of work." Zhao Han commented.

Women in the Ming Dynasty wore horse-faced skirts, which were composed of seven cloth panels. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, seven became ten, with more and denser pleats, and the wind swayed like the moonlight spreading, so it was called "Yuehua skirt".

Nowadays, pleats continue to increase, often dozens, more than hundreds, so it is called "pleated skirt".

They are all worn by rich ladies, and the poor really can't afford to wear them.

The daughters of the low-level families wear horse-faced skirts at most, which looks good and saves labor and materials.

Zhao Han casually observed a few times, looked at the clothes of the princes and princesses, and knew that today was a blind date in the suburbs. As for the blind date, they are either children of official families or students of Jinling University.

The princesses are all dressed fashionably, and the princes are naturally chic, and in order to facilitate horseback riding, they all wear trolling.

They went to the East Palace to meet the prince, and today the prince led the team to travel, and the concubine did not go to mix.

Due to the cool weather, the royal ladies did not wear Zhaojun hats and were not afraid to show their heads outside.

The academic ideas of the new dynasty were diverse, and the social atmosphere was gradually opening up, especially the establishment of primary and secondary schools, so that unmarried women no longer lived in the boudoir. Even with something like a Zhaojun hat, it simply becomes a sunhat, and the shame-covering function of hiding a woman's face and neck is weakened.

The practice of foot binding has also been completely curbed, and there is a special article in primary school textbooks describing the dangers of foot binding.

It's a pity that the chest bind can't be changed, first, because of the traditional aesthetics, literati like small breasts; The second is that the government is not easy to inspect, you can't let people take off their clothes, what if people are born with flat chests?

Baykov was ordered to come to meet the emperor, and as soon as he arrived outside the Donghua Gate, he happened to see the royal family's chariots and horses far away.

In front of him was a team of guards to open the way, the crown prince Zhao Kuanghuan rode a horse to lead the car, and Li Yan and other East Palace officials were willing to accompany him. The rest of the princes were also riding horses. The crown princess and the princess took a carriage to lift the curtain to watch the scenery.

"Prince!"

The people watching on the street suddenly shouted at the top of their throats, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.

Zhao Kuanghuan's myopia is only 300 degrees, and he usually goes out without glasses. He didn't know who was calling him, so he let go of the reins and threw his hand over there, so more and more passers-by shouted, "The prince is early", "The prince tastes my cake, it's delicious"......

Further east, there were already a few people waiting at the city gate, which were Zhao Kuanghuan's former classmates. They have already graduated from college, but they will only take the exam next year, during which they can review and consolidate by themselves, or they can travel to various places to increase their knowledge.

"These are the Chinese aristocracy." Baykov watched the convoy go away, envious of the nobility here.

He himself was a Russian nobleman and had lived in Moscow for a long time, but his quality of life was better than that of a small merchant in Nanjing.

As the capital of Russia, Moscow currently has a population of only about 100,000.

It was only about 22 years ago that the first artisanal workshop (hydroelectric ironworks) appeared in Russia. Today, there are less than 10 artisanal workshops in all of Russia, and serfs are used mainly in them, with the exception of a few managers and craftsmen.

During the Xiaoice period, all countries were equal, and no one wanted to escape.

From 1601 to 1603, the Great Famine in Russia, floods in summer, snowstorms in winter, and no harvest in many places, more than 2 million people starved to death in three years, accounting for one-third of the entire population of Russia. With the tsar also hanging, internal and external troubles, Russia entered a decade-long period of chaos.

Before the Great Famine, serfs fled for a period of five years, and if they managed to escape for five years, they could become freemen. After the Holodomor, the retrospective period was extended to 15 years.

Until now, retrospectively, even if you run away for a lifetime, you will still be a serf if you are caught!

Today, Russia's population has recovered to more than 5 million, 90% of which are serfs.

Even in the military sphere, Russia bullied Poland.

At this time, Poland was so miserable, natural and man-made disasters, the aristocracy seized power, and the Ukrainian uprising was annexed to Russia. Russia had just defeated Poland to surrender, and Sweden brought troops to kill it, so frightened that Russia hurriedly formed an alliance with Poland.

Just this year, the First Northern War began, and Sweden was about to take on the combined forces of Russia, Denmark, Poland and Austria. In the middle, Sweden was also stabbed in the back by Brandenburg, and the allied forces of various countries were still looking for teeth. If it weren't for the sudden intervention of the Netherlands, Denmark would have been almost annexed by Sweden.

Bayikov looked at everything around him, his eyes fearful and greedy.

How good it would be if such a rich place could be captured, the aristocrats of Tsarist Russia could grab the goods that they could not spend in several lifetimes, and they could turn all the peasants in the countryside into serfs! But China is so terrible, there are rich and people, and it is impossible for Tsarist Russia to win.

Baykov was brought into the Forbidden City, and he couldn't help but compare it to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin, the perimeter of the walls is 2235 meters.

The Forbidden City of Nanjing has a circumference of 10.23 kilometers for the imperial city and 3.45 kilometers for the palace city.

The more he walked in the Forbidden City, the more Baykov's greed was suppressed, and fear grew like weeds. He waited in a side hall, without tea or food, and waited from morning to afternoon.

No food or drink, tired and hungry.

This is different from the treatment of envoys from other countries, and Baykov has communicated with envoys from various countries in the Zhongshan Temple. They praised the majesty of the Forbidden City, the greatness of the Chinese emperor, and the tea and pastries in the palace.

All the messengers have tea and pastries, why don't they have one?

The more Baykov thought about it, the more panicked he became, feeling that the rhetoric he had prepared might not work in front of the wise Chinese emperor.

……

Calling people over and waiting from morning to afternoon was, of course, Zhao Han did it on purpose.

Lin Zhi, Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, is reporting the situation at the moment: "The Ministry of Industry and colleagues from the Qintianyuan were ordered to go to Sichuan to investigate. Fushun and Rongxian two places, craftsmen use bamboo and wood for the dodder (gas pipeline), over the mountains and mountains, across the river and across the river, stretching for hundreds of miles, and the local gas (natural gas) can be instantly reached to the salt fields everywhere. ”

"How do you cross the river?" Zhao Han asked.

Lin Zhi replied: "Bury the pipe at the bottom of the river." ”

Okay, Zhao Han is convinced.

It was only in the middle of the 17th century that Sichuan not only used natural gas to boil salt, but even built hundreds of miles of pipelines, and buried natural gas pipes at the bottom of the river.

In fact, as early as 100 years ago, the natural gas pipelines in Fushun and Rong counties were two or three hundred miles long.

In another time and space, the Ming army, the Qing army, the rogues, and the thieves ravaged one after another, completely destroying this advanced production technology.

According to Li Juehui's "Chenghuang Temple Records", when he returned to his hometown in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, that is, last year in this time and space, he saw such a situation: In Fushun County, there are only thirteen residents left. The area from the north gate to Shuijing Street has become a tiger's den, and the tigers live directly in the city.

At that time, salt merchants and salt workers died or fled, and more than ninety percent of the salt wells were abandoned until the Qing Dynasty sent Zhixian to govern them, and Fushun and Rong counties combined only 99 frying (salt) pots remained.

"Can you write down the drilling method?" Zhao Han asked.

Lin Zhi said: "All the steps have been recorded, and they are full of pictures and texts. ”

Zhao Han nodded approvingly: "Very good, it can be promoted in other places where there is well salt." ”

The Dun drilling method on the Fushun side drilled a deep well of nearly 200 meters in the Song Dynasty. Later, during the Daoguang period, the world's first thousand-meter-deep well was drilled.

At present, the deepest salt well in Fushun is about 500 meters.

"Haven't you found the oil yet?" Zhao Han asked again.

Lin Zhi said: "According to historical data, we have searched all over the country, but we have not found it yet. However, there is a ready-made oil well in Jiading (Leshan), Sichuan, which has been opened for 134 years without exhaustion. ”

The oil well in Leshan was purely an accident, and it was going to dig a salt well, but it turned out to be hundreds of meters deep, but it came out with black oil.

Then use it to boil salt and lighting, and it's already been beaten out anyway.

According to the records of the Yuan Dynasty, there were two oil wells in Yanchang County, Shaanxi Province in the Yuan Dynasty, but the oil wells were much shallower than those in Leshan, and were mainly used to treat ringworm for livestock. And the name "oil" is in Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings", and there is a workshop for making fierce fire oil in Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty.

An earlier record is the Northern Wei Dynasty's "Water Jing Note", when oil was used to make lubricating oil for water conservancy rice machines.

Zhao Han said: "Don't be in a hurry to find oil first, the Ministry of Industry and Qintianyuan will send a few people to Jiading (Leshan) to study whether it can be refined from oil to make lighter and better oil." Try to distill like liquor, beware of fire, and keep it all to safety. ”

To put it bluntly, Zhao Han wants kerosene.

This thing is very easy to refine, and gasoline can be made together. But with the current level of technology, gasoline is not very useful, but kerosene can be used for lighting, and asphalt can also be used in the construction field.

Moreover, only the original distillation method is used, and the utilization rate of crude oil is not high.

"Yes!" Lin Zhi didn't know what the emperor wanted to do, so he just did what he was ordered to do anyway.

As there were more and more scientists in the Qintian Academy, Zhao Han asked these people to connect with various departments. For example, the mint, various mines, water conservancy departments, mapping departments and so on under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. There are also shipyards, gun factories and so on.

The official establishment of scientists is still in the Qintian Academy, and at the same time, they are seconded out, and they can get two salaries.

If you do a good job, you can choose to leave Qintianyuan and go to other relevant yamen to be promoted as officials.

Lin Zhi bowed and retreated, but Zhao Han looked at the ceiling.

Once kerosene is produced on a large scale, it will be equivalent to a lighting revolution, and people across the country will switch to kerosene lamps. Of course, the rich people don't, the smoke of kerosene in the early days was too big, and the choking was very uncomfortable.

Worker...... You can also go to work at night with the lights on.

Zhao Han retracted his distant thoughts and ordered, "Bring that Rakshasa ghost in!" ”

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