The secret room next door.

Zhu Di asked in a deep voice: "Have you written down all the things you need?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I've written it down!" Guo Jin and the chai cart hurriedly said.

"Read it to me, and after confirming that it is correct, go and inform General Tong."

"Two piles of coke, two coke ovens, two porcelain cylinders, two porcelain tubes, and a number of green alum."

"Prepare ten portions of them and send them to the edict immediately!"

Chai Che bowed down and said yes, and immediately took the list to the secret room to find the commander of the loyal and righteous guard to make preparations for Tong Xin.

The required items were done, but Zhu Di's expression was not easy.

"Father?"

Zhu Gaochi asked with concern: "Is this thing inappropriate?" ”

Zhu Di waved his hand, indicating that he was not worried. He sighed and shook his head, turned his gaze to the wall, and said slowly in a slightly distant tone, "It's not inappropriate. ”

"Erchen doesn't understand."

Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly.

Zhu Di pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "I always think, is this a little sloppy?" Could it be that just by using these things, you can refine the products of the immortal recipe and increase the fertility of the farmland? ”

"Of course, what my father thinks makes sense." Zhu Gaochi first agreed, and then said, "Actually, Erchen also feels a little sloppy, but he hasn't tried it before, and what Mr. Jiang said is probably the easiest and easiest way to achieve." Since the father felt that it was sloppy, if the production was successful, the son would order someone to improve the alchemy tools. ”

Zhu Gaochi even took the opportunity to ask: "Father thinks it is better to call the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to come, or to call Zhang Tianshi?" ”

Zhu Di was slightly stunned, obviously not remembering that there was another option at all.

"Zhang Tianshi in Nanjing?"

"Yes, when Zhang Tianshi heard the news of His Majesty's accession to the throne, he rushed over from the Da Quan Monastery to congratulate him, probably because of the previous few years. Daomen was somewhat depressed. ”

This is an obscure statement, in fact, during the Jianwen Dynasty, under the flickering of Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, Buddhism and Taoism were seriously suppressed.

And the so-called Zhang Tianshi, named Zhang Yuchu, is a Zhengyi sect of heavenly masters of this generation, and he is also one of the most erudite scholars in all dynasties, and is known as a Taoist Confucian.

Song Lian, a great Confucian in the early Ming Dynasty and the author of "Sending Dongyang Horses to Life", once praised this Zhang Tianshi as 'Yingwu has literature, and is known as the Confucian of the Immortals', which can be seen in his knowledge.

Zhang Yuchu in the Ming Hongwu ten years of the heir teaching, for the forty-third generation of the heavenly master, the thirteenth year of the Ming Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang personally received the "one heir of the Taoist Tao and Wu Wei to explain the ancestor Guangfan Dazhenren", the general leader of the world Taoism.

Zhu Di never felt that there was anything wrong with recruiting the dignified Heavenly Master to alchemy, without him, Zhu Di would be difficult to serve the heavens, and the Daomen would not be able to raise his head in the Jianwen Dynasty for the rest of his life.

"Then go and summon Zhang Tianshi and ask him to bring his alchemy guy with him,"

Guo Jin was also sent out to pass the word.

Only Zhu Di's father and son were left in the secret room.

Zhu Di was silent for a while, and finally exhaled a long breath.

"Today's rebellion of the Valley King made my heart a little uncomfortable."

Zhu Gaochi stretched out his arm and used his fat palm to hold his father's rough hand: "Father, don't worry, the other vassal kings are all aware of advance and retreat." ”

"I always have a feeling."

Zhu Di spoke softly.

Zhu Gaochi listened carefully to his father's words.

"It's like, above the court, these people always think that I am a warrior and a thief who usurps the throne with a knife."

"The more I feel like this, the more I want to make some achievements, not to prove it to these civil officials, but to prove it to Qingshi, to prove it to your imperial grandfather."

"Of course I have something in my heart that I want to do."

"Cutting the domain, moving the capital, repairing the canon, going to the West, and conquering the desert north!"

"But it wasn't until I met Jiang Xinghuo that I suddenly realized that I had done one thing less, one thing that would allow me to go to see your imperial grandfather with peace of mind and confidence in a hundred years."

Zhu Gaochi listened slowly, as if he vaguely guessed the answer that his father wanted to say.

"The world is big, and farming is the biggest!"

"This is what your imperial grandfather said personally!"

"Let the people of the world plant well, eat well, be less tormented by things other than farming, and the imperial court will provide more things that will help them farm."

"Can Jianwen do this?!"

Zhu Gaochi replied affirmatively: "Impossible, Jianwen grew up in the deep palace and was raised in the hands of women, how can you understand the hardships of the people and the sufferings of the people?" As soon as he became the emperor, he was fooled by the group of gentry-born civil officials to reduce Su Songjiahu's field endowment, and also abolished the Taizu Zuxun who could not be the head of the household department in Songjiang. ”

Zhu Gaochi said again: "This is desperately helping the gentry to squeeze the people, how can it be done?" ”

"That's it."

Zhu Di stood up with his son's hand in armor, then held his son's shoulders with both hands, bent down slightly to look at the eldest child sitting on the chair, and said seriously.

"But with Mr. Jiang's guidance, I can do it!"

"The apportionment into the mu exempts the peasants from the suffering of forced labor, and the silver treasure money exempts the people from the pain of paying taxes and being exploited, and Mr. Jiang's immortal recipe can help farmers all over the world increase production and income, and eat a full stomach!"

"After doing these three things, even if I go to the Netherworld and see the emperor's grandfather, I can stand up and tell him that I am worthy of being the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, because only when I am the emperor, the people of the world will be spared the suffering of these three mountains!"

Zhu Gaochi was in awe: "My father cares about the world, and my sons admire him very much!" ”

"So, you don't really plan to have a fever in prison, do you?"

When Zhu Gaoxu appeared in the empty courtyard with a small charcoal coke oven weighing hundreds of catties in one hand, Jiang Xinghuo naturally had some kind of suspicion.

"I asked you to write it down first, let the old Taoist priest try it, and refine the finished product to see the fertilization effect, but I didn't let you start refining on the spot! This is the edict! ”

"It's all the same." Zhu Gaoxu's face was not red, and he threw the coke oven on the edge of the tree pit, "It just so happens that there is a pit for coke." ”

"What do you mean it's all the same? We're prisoners! ”

Li Jinglong said with a smile: "What prisoners are not prisoners, and the powerful people are in prison, are they called prisoners?" That's called site-based protected recuperation. ”

Jiang Xinghuo was speechless for a while.

Originally, he was a little puzzled, but after thinking about it, if he converted the noble children of the princess and uncle to it

Forget it, don't convert.

In short, according to the news he saw in the modern world.

Even if the son of an ordinary local official, "Sun Mouguo", commits a crime, he can "invent and create" in prison, so it is reasonable for the second generation of the top nobles of the Ming Dynasty to make a fertilizer in the edict prison, right?

Yes, in fact, Jiang Xinghuo hides a little bit of selfishness, just a little.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't plan to make this kind of physical object before, but lectured every day, just because no matter how fanciful the lecture was, it was also bragging in the edict, and it didn't have much practical impact on the world.

After all, the object of his lecture is only two noble second generations, and they are not the real rulers of the Ming Empire, can they implement it if they know the 'apportionment into the mu' and 'silver treasure money'? It is estimated that there will be a glimmer of possibility when they grow into the powerful people of the Ming Empire.

As for Japan's 'Iwami Ginzan' and 'Sado Kaneyama', that was a long way away after they were released from prison.

However, the meaning of any cross-era object is not the same as that of a lecture.

For things are real and are set in front of them.

And if small-scale production of chemical fertilizers can be made, as long as these two noble second generations are handed over to the imperial court, it is estimated that they will be immediately commuted or even exempted.

The human heart is made of flesh!

The bearded Gao Yu spent a lot of money to find someone twice, just to save himself from prison; Cao Gongzi also reached out to help when he was down, and rescued him on the boat after falling into the water, but he was also imprisoned because he was hanged.

Although these things all go against Jiang Xinghuo's subjective wishes, objectively, people are helping themselves.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo is also ready to do his part to pull these two brothers along.

Time passed quickly, and it was just a meal, and under the special instructions of Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei invited Yuan Hui, who was responsible for healing people's injuries, to pull a cart of strange alchemy tools and drive into the courtyard.

Soon, all the tools were ready.

Jiang Xinghuo has become completely numb to the behavior of this privileged class who treats the edict as their home.

With power, you can really do whatever you want.

Looking at the smoke outlet of the coke oven in front of him, it was blocked by the porcelain pipe that Yuan Hui removed from the mercury refining utensils, and led it into the porcelain jar where the green alum was placed.

"Tempering?" Yuan Jue asked.

"Start experimenting." Jiang Xinghuo corrected.

Yuan Heng cleared his throat.

"Okay, let's start refining now."

Soon, Yuan Heng showed Jiang Xinghuo and others all kinds of professional equipment for alchemy Taoists in this era.

What Jiang Xinghuo didn't expect was that although the alchemy Taoist priests did not know the specific chemical element properties of these substances, they had passed on a set of mature and reliable operation methods in the practice (death) of generations.

Yuan Jue first applied a thick layer of oil to his hands and face, which was used to prevent the corrosion of the surface of human skin by sulfuric acid fumes after boiling alum.

Subsequently, Yuan Hui put on an alchemy robe made of a mixture of cotton, silk, and linen, and also put on something similar to a face armor.

Zhu Gaoxu was holding a shovel and shoveling coal into the coke oven.

Li Jinglong hid from a distance and watched, for fear that some accident would kill him.

In the secret room separated by a wall, only Guo Jin and Chai Che were recording the conversation inside the wall.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi, as well as Xia Yuanji, the household secretary who was recruited, and Zhang Yuchu, the contemporary heavenly master of the Longhu Mountain Zhengyi faction, all came to another courtyard farther away.

After all, only the secret room over there was soundproof, but they couldn't coke it in the secret room, so they could only run far away, relying on the jailer disguised by the Zhongyi Guard guarding the gate of the courtyard where Jiang Xinghuo was, and after observing it with the naked eye, combined with the records in the secret room, to transmit information in real time.

"Your Majesty."

Xia Yuanji, who was sweating all over his horse, straightened his official hat and couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Jiang really said that his immortal recipe can increase soil fertility and double the yield of crops per mu?"

"That's true."

Zhu Di seemed to see through Xia Yuanji's thoughts, and said calmly: "Xia Shangshu Mo said that he didn't believe it, I listened to it, and I still don't believe it, but"

Xia Yuanji wiped his sweat and smiled: "But because it was what Master Jiang said, His Majesty also plans to give it a try?" ”

Zhu Di didn't speak, but nodded.

Although Zhu Di hid it well, Xia Yuanji, an old bureaucrat, still saw subtle clues in Zhu Di's expression.

The Emperor very much hoped that this immortal recipe was real.

Xia Yuanji couldn't help but sigh a little, Jiang Shi is really omniscient, not only has a commanding vision in the way of economic economy and helping the people, as well as the courage and wisdom of pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, but even in agriculture, he also has such an insight, and can invent immortal things that increase soil fertility.

Yes, it's immortals.

In the eyes of the people of this era, farming is the foundation of everything, wealth is the output of land, and the best way to measure a person's social status is to see how many acres of land he has.

In the eyes of the people, the emperor owns the land of the world, so the emperor has the highest status.

It is not the emperor's high status that he has the land of the world.

In this agrarian era, land can be understood almost as an equal sign with the assets of later generations.

So let's ask, as long as you get something that can double your assets, what is it that is not a fairy thing?

Not to mention that Xia Yuanji's mind kept turning, in front of the emperor and the eldest prince, Zhang Yuchu, the Heavenly Master of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, who was commanding several alchemy Taoist priests who were opening the furnace, was also muttering a little in his heart.

Zhang Tianshi was dressed in a feather robe, wearing a square scarf on his head, and a whisk on the crook of his arm, slightly distracted.

At the beginning, when Zhang Tianshi was sitting in the capital and was watching in a faction, he was very happy to hear the emperor's decree summoning him.

Because during the Jianwen Dynasty, Daomen was very hostile to the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks by Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng around Emperor Jianwen.

Zhang Yuchu was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of 38, which was the best time to do business when he was in the prime of life and rich in life experience.

As the leader of the Daomen, why didn't Zhang Yuchu want to revitalize the Daomen? However, under the suppression of the imperial court, he could only retreat to the foot of Huangzhen Peak, and he couldn't even go back to the Qing Palace of Longhu Mountain.

Fortunately, four years passed, Jianwen was driven off the dragon chair by King Yan, and Zhang Yuchu hurriedly set off for Nanjing City to show loyalty to the new emperor and strive for opportunities for the revitalization of Daomen.

Who would have thought that the emperor summoned him to the imperial prison to let him smelt coal and burn alum?

Zhang Tianshi never expected it.

As for what the emperor said, Zhang Tianshi didn't believe a word.

Our Longhu Mountain is a faction of alchemy, since the Five Buckets of Rice Sect, it has been passed down for more than a thousand years, what Dan we Longhu Mountain can't refine?

As for what can double the yield of grain per acre?

I'm sorry, I've never heard of it, and Lu Zu doesn't have this ability.

Even if you are the emperor, and you tell me Zhang Tianshi that a prisoner in the edict prison today has this immortal prescription, and he has to practice on the spot, then I can only say to you in my heart, "Your Majesty" on the surface.

"Zhang Tianshi, is it okay?" Zhu Di glanced at Zhang Yuchu and said, "No problem, you can start refining, it's already started over there." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhang Yuchu didn't think that this so-called "immortal formula" could succeed at all, and he just came here to refine it head-on, in order to complete the emperor's task.

Soon, the ignition was turned on.

But this time, Zhang Tianshi was not refining Dan, but coke

In order to behave in front of the emperor, Zhang Yuchu personally held a shovel and shoveled a few shovels of coke into it, and then it was choked with smoke.

"Ahem!"

Zhang Yuchu hurriedly covered his mouth with his feather robe, took out the remaining coke in the shovel and threw it aside, rinsed his mouth with a kettle, and coughed dryly twice, which made him feel more comfortable.

Choked this Heavenly Master!

Zhang Yuchu took a deep breath again, feeling that the smell of coal burning in his chest was all suffocating.

The Celestial Master gave up the idea of going out to work in person to behave in front of the emperor, and began to command the alchemy Taoist.

The coke oven spewed out black-gray smoke, spraying into the freshly boiled green alum porcelain jar, the golden green alum liquid was smoked and became cloudy, and a trace of grease-like things bubbled out along the glaze, exuding a corrosive gas.

The Taoist robes specially used for alchemy were burned out of small holes, making a sound of "Zizi~", and some places were even scorched.

But this does not prevent everyone from concentrating and dedicating themselves to the work at hand.

"Three flavors are really hot, up!"

The old Taoist priest standing at the front suddenly raised his hand to seal it.

Then the three young Taoist priests put the porcelain jar under the accelerant, I don't know what kind of accelerant.

Under the porcelain jar, the furnace bears the mark of Longhu Mountain, and the red and white flames rise from it, and then become more and more vigorous.

The entire porcelain jar was suddenly reflected in a red glow, and the heat wave was rolling.

The Taoist priests gathered around the stove, chanting mantras in their mouths and pinching the tricks in their hands.

- Full of feudal superstition of ritual.

It's as if you really have the power to pour it all into

This set of rituals to burn a fire and talk about the gods made Zhu Di frown.

Zhu Di stood beside him with a slight frown, as if he was thinking about something, and did not urge Zhang Yuchu to refine, as if he was nervously waiting for the result.

Half an hour later.

"Poof—"

After a muffled sound, the water in the green alum tank absorbed a large amount of soot, and finally boiled completely, gurgling upward, and countless bubbles and white foam bubbles appeared, and at the same time, the rich and pungent residue was mixed in with it, wafting out......

This lasted for about half an hour, until all the water was almost completely evaporated.

The Taoist priests evacuated from the porcelain jar one after another, sat cross-legged and rested for a while, waiting for the green alum to dry and cool down completely.

Finally, the alchemy Taoist priest used a silver spoon to dig out the reddish-gray solids filled with the smell of coal, and then pressed it with a pill mold.

Zhang Yuchu personally held the brocade box and presented it, looking down at the "elixir" in the brocade box with zero points in appearance and zero points in smell.

Do you call this a recipe for increasing production?

Zhang Yuchu sighed, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the minister's refining has failed, this immortal recipe for refining coke gas is too mysterious, and the minister can't evolve it into an elixir, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Di looked at the product of this "immortal formula" steadily, and hesitated for a while.

This. Is it an elixir that can increase soil fertility and double the yield per mu?

Just when Zhu Di felt a little disappointed, suddenly Guo Jin ran over like crazy.

"It's done! And they said it was! ”

Today, there are two chapters of 5,000 words, a total of 10,000 words, and it will not be divided into three chapters.

(End of chapter)