Rested too late and overslept.

Zhu Ming quickly dressed and washed, let Bai Sheng lead the horse and wait, didn't comb his hair much, put on a hat and left.

This kind of head hat is not the scarf that Zhu Ming wore before he became an official, but a Song Dynasty official hat with extra-long wings removed.

You can also twist your wings towards the sky, and that thing is called a sky-facing head; You can also fold your wings downward, which is called a cross-legged head.

"Brother, you haven't eaten yet!" Zheng Yuanyi shouted.

Zhu Ming turned over and got on his horse: "Buy some on the way." ”

Zheng Yuanyi chased out with the maid: "The slave steamed some steamed buns." ”

"Thank you, sister." Zhu Ming took the food box, lightly clamped the horse's belly and went out.

He carried a food box in one hand, pulled the reins in the other, and a sword hanging from his waist in case of possible gangsters.

There are not many things to do at school, and Zhu Ming often goes to work alone, letting Bai Sheng do things at home by himself.

Now that he has opened a coal shop, Bai Sheng goes to the shop every day. In his spare time, Bai Sheng also led Shi Biao to wander around the city of Tokyo, helping to inquire about some market news by the way.

For example, there has been a nursery rhyme recently: "Breaking the bucket (Tong Guan) and splashing vegetables (Cai Jing) is a good world in the world." (According to the official dialect of the Song Dynasty, this sentence rhymes.) ）

is similar to a nursery rhyme, which often appears, and Cai Jing has nothing to do about it.

When Cai Jing last boycotted the prime minister, there were also nursery rhymes to celebrate: "Killed Artemisia (Tong Guan) and cut vegetables (Cai Jing), and ate lamb (Gao Yu) lotus leaves (He Zhizhong)." ”

Zhu Ming speculated that this kind of nursery rhyme should have been formed spontaneously, mostly from the hands of low-level working people.

If it was made up by a reader, it would definitely be more elegant.

Today is like driving to work, you can only slow down in traffic jams, and accelerate quickly when you are in a neutral position.

Finally arrived at the southern suburbs campus, and Zhu Ming was already an hour and a half late. He didn't bother to go to the office, so he led the horse around and inspected the classrooms as the teaching director.

In the last quarterly examination, according to the test results, Zhu Ming was within the scope of his authority and responsibility, and tried his best to ensure that several good students were promoted to higher classes.

Those good students who were suppressed by the Cai Party have long been grateful to Zhu Ming, and they admire this Zhu Xuezheng in their hearts.

It's a pity that Zhu Ming recommended Chen Dongsheng to be a superior outsider, but was rejected by his colleagues for bad conduct. Chen Dong has studied Taixue for several years, but he is still an inferior student, and he is so angry that he continues to insult Cai Jing in public.

After school at noon, Chen Dong and Zhu Song did not go to dinner, but came to Zhu Ming together.

"Please see." Chen Dong took out a book as if offering a treasure.

This book is freshly baked, and you can still smell the ink, and there are four big characters written on the cover: Zhu's Sutra.

Zhu Ming opened it and saw that it was the content of modern mathematics, and it was also engraving and printing, and Song Huizong's speed was really fast.

"From the school?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Song nodded and said, "Not only Taixue has issued this book, but also the school." Listening to Dr. Zhang, even the Ministry of Industry distributed dozens of copies. ”

Chen Dong said with a smile: "There are already many courses in Taixue, and as soon as this book is published, it will be mourned all over the country." The arithmetic teacher is still studying on his own, and asked us good students to preview this book, and some of the students who are in the mess shout that they can't understand it. ”

Zhu Song said: "What's more. Mr. Arithmetic knew that we had studied, and quietly came over to ask for advice. ”

Zhu Ming left this "Zhu's Sutra" behind, nodded and said, "You guys go to dinner." ”

The two retired and went to dinner together.

Zhu Ming opened the mathematics textbook and found that the carving was exquisite, worthy of the hands of the royal craftsman.

ran to Goulan to listen to the music last night, but it made Zhu Ming have a sense of urgency.

The emperor's favor for his father has nothing to do with Zhu Ming. He had to do some ruthless work on his own, which would not only benefit the people, but also please the emperor, and then be promoted at a faster rate.

For example, improving movable type printing.

The movable type printing technology of the Northern Song Dynasty has been developed and perfected, but there are still many technical problems that cannot be solved. The real great development was in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, and it did not mature until the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Ming had already eaten lunch in advance, and he wandered to the school library to borrow Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Righteousness".

Then, with the help of memory, I compared the book and reproduced the Song characters stroke by stroke.

It is slightly different from the modern printed Song style, but the Song style characters of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Zhu Ming has read a lot of such books. It's not that he is pretending to be retro, but in order to do video research, he can't find a modern version at all, so he can only buy a photocopy of the ancient book.

Songti characters are the most suitable for printing!

It was born in the Ming Dynasty and should be called Ming Ti character strictly speaking.

For several days in a row, Zhu Ming was "creating" Song characters. When he gets the font out, he has to make various font sizes.

The font size is extremely useful, especially for the imperial examination textbook. The text and annotations are printed in different font sizes, and are used in almost every book.

In addition, determining the font size is also unifying the printing standard.

Punctuation marks should also be made, and the printed books of the Ming Dynasty already had original punctuation, usually small circles or small black dots, which were used to assist in sentence breakage for easy reading.

Zhu Ming didn't want to make it too complicated, just make commas, periods, question marks, pauses, colons, and exclamation marks.

After designing all of these, we will study the ratio of lead type and the formula of ink materials.

……

Yanfu Palace.

Song Huizong asked, "Has the elixir already begun to be refined?" ”

Wang Zaixi replied: "The minister has summoned dozens of Waidan masters to discuss the formula of refining medicine. The 10,000-year-old Ganoderma lucidum is a sacred object, and the ministers must be cautious and cautious, and they must not act indiscriminately. ”

Song Huizong nodded and said, "Prudence should be, but it can't be too slow." ”

"Remember!" Wang Zixi said.

Song Huizong waved his hand and said, "Go, if you succeed in refining medicine, I will not hesitate to reward you." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wang Tsaixi's real purpose was not to refine medicine at all, but to take advantage of the opportunity of refining medicine to expand his Taoist power with the emperor's order.

As soon as this guy left, the eunuch who accompanied him came quickly: "The official family, the two secret letters, both from the northwest. ”

"But there's good news?" Song Huizong said happily, "Bring it quickly!" ”

The first secret letter was sent by Tong Guan.

Song Huizong only glanced at it, and his smile turned into anger.

The content of the secret recital is: Liu Zhongwu led tens of thousands of troops to attack Zangdihe City, with nearly half of the casualties, and the third general of Qin Feng (the third army of Qin Fenglu) was annihilated. Tong Guan, please behead Liu Zhongwu.

Song Huizong muttered: "This Liu Zhongwu is really damned!" ”

Holding back his anger, he opened the second secret letter, but it was sent urgently by Gao Yu.

Gao Yu said in the report that Liu Zhongwu was cheated by friendly forces. Although Liu Zhongwu was the main general of the road, except for a few legions on Qin Fenglu, the rest of the friendly troops were not very obedient. During the siege, the friendly forces were passive and sluggish, and were routed by the enemy troops rushing out of the city gates. The Third Army of Qin Fenglu was besieged, fought bloodily, fought to the death, and finally annihilated.

Two secret letters, the content is completely opposite.

Song Huizong couldn't figure out which one was true, he wanted to call the privy envoy Zheng Juzhong to discuss, but he felt that Zheng Juzhong must have helped Tong Guan speak.

After thinking about it, Song Huizong recruited Cai Jing.

Cai Jing had not been summoned by the emperor for two or three months.

He instantly gained energy, carefully sorted out his appearance, and entered the palace in a carriage to ask the right question.

Song Huizong appeased a few words, made two secret letters, and asked, "According to what Qing sees, which is true and which is false." ”

Cai Jing read it carefully, and he didn't say whether it was true or not, but said: "Liu Zhongwu is Qin Feng's strategic envoy, and Qin Feng's third will be one of the main forces under his command." It's quite ominous. ”

Song Huizong thought carefully and quickly understood.

Liu Zhongwu was defeated at the front, but it was Liu Zhongwu's own troops who suffered the heaviest losses, and the casualties of friendly forces were negligible.

I'm afraid this is really a trick!

Thinking of Tong Guan's secret performance, Tong Guan, as the commander of the whole army, actually asked the main general to behead all the way.

It is conceivable how bad the relationship between Tong Guan and Liu Zhongwu has become.

As for Gao Yu helping Liu Zhongwu speak, it was because it was in his own interests.

The forbidden army led by Gao Yu was organized into a road with Liu Zhongwu. Liu Zhongwu won the battle, and Gao Yu had military exploits. If Liu Zhongwu is convicted, Gao Yu will run away in vain, and he can only let Tong Guan handle it in the future.

In this war against Western Xia, not only were the generals at odds, but even between the forbidden army and the forbidden army, there was endless infighting in private.

Song Huizong thought about it carefully, Tong Guan commanded all kinds of armies, and the military power was really terrifying. And Gao Yu is also his own confidant, and he must use Gao Yu to contain Tong Guan.

Liu Zhongwu must be protected, and to protect Liu Zhongwu is to protect Gao Yu.

Song Huizong immediately ordered: "Order Liu Zhongwu to quickly reorganize Qin Feng's third general!" ”

Cai Jing's face was calm, but his heart was happy.

Since Zheng Juzhong became a privy envoy, Tong Guan has been constantly getting closer to the past, and his relationship with Cai Jing has become more and more estranged.

Cai Jing hinted that the emperor could take the opportunity to win over Gao Yu and confront Zheng Juzhong and Tong Guan militarily.

The two monarchs and ministers discussed the war again, and Cai Jing also talked about the matter of the household department, patting his chest to ensure that there was absolutely no problem with the grain and grass on the front line.

Song Huizong couldn't help but sigh, Cai Jing is still reliable, Zheng Juzhong's party is too useless.

Song Huizong said: "The war in the northwest has been frustrated, and it cannot be spread out. ”

Cai Jing hurriedly said: "A little setback, it doesn't hurt, wait a little longer, and there will definitely be good news in Beijing." ”

Regardless of whether you win the battle or not, you must send good news, which is related to the emperor's face.

Cai Jing has been neglected for more than half a year, and today he finally saw the emperor, how could he let go of this opportunity. He said to his liking: "Official, Tokyo is becoming more and more congested, how can there be Fengheng Yuda?" It is necessary to build more walls and enlarge the outer city. ”

Song Huizong was really happy, and also instructed: "When I was the king of Duan, I didn't like the Tokyo city wall, it was crooked and twisted like an earthworm, how could it be beautiful?" When you build a new wall, make sure it is built straight. ”

Cai Jing said: "At the beginning of the country, there was a lot of waste waiting to be rebuilt, so there was not enough money, and the city wall was not very beautiful. Now that the sea is rich, the city walls should be built straight. ”

The construction of the Tokyo city wall can not only cover up the defeat in foreign wars, but also dispel the worries of Song Huizong.

The outer walls of Tokyo Castle, in the words of the history books, were built "tortuous and longitudinal", and the people of the time were "sick and unsuitable for beauty".

As early as the time of Song Shenzong, when repairing the city wall, he wanted to straighten it, but he gave up because of various circumstances.

Song Huizong couldn't bear it even more, he replanned the imperial city, and built it extremely beautifully. But the outer city wall is still bent around, how can it be worthy of the image of the capital of the Heavenly Empire?

"The matter of building the city wall will be handed over to Aiqing." Song Huizong said.

Cai Jing was overjoyed: "The minister will live up to the trust of the officials!" ”

He has been neglected for a long time, and now he has been given an errand to build a city, which is equivalent to releasing a message to the outside world: Lao Tzu is back again, and the official family still favors me more!

Leaving the palace, Cai Jing immediately called Kaifeng Mansion Yin: "The official family has an order to build an outer city, and you are responsible for demolishing the houses near the city wall." ”

Sheng Zhang asked, "How big is the increase?" ”

Cai Jing said: "Where it is not straight, it can be straightened and expanded." ”

"Xia Guan understands." Sheng Zhang was very smart and immediately figured out what the situation was.

The emperor is building a lot of buildings, and the frontier is still at war, where is the money to build more walls?

The real goal of this construction is to straighten the city walls. The part that bends inward can be expanded outward, and the main body is still the original city wall, and the amount of work is not large or small.

Sheng Zhang soon sent people to talk about the demolition, and the news that the imperial court was going to build more walls spread throughout Tokyo in an instant, and the common people were happy and worried.

Zhu Ming complained: "The official family is awesome, and Cai Xianggong is also awesome." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhu Guoxiang didn't quite understand, "Tokyo City is really crowded, and if the urban area can be expanded, it will also be a good thing for the people." Of course, the premise is to do a good job of demolition and relocation. ”

Zhu Ming asked, "Dean Zhu, have you seen the appearance of the outer city wall of Tokyo?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said: "I saw it, it is crooked, and it is different from the straight city in the imagination." ”

Zhu Ming said: "A few hundred years later, there was a kind of bastion in Europe that could form crossfire on the enemy, and there were no blind spots in all directions. Tokyo Castle is not a fortress, but the principle is similar. The outer city of Tokyo, which was personally supervised by Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin, was deliberately built according to the river network to ensure that the defenders could meet the enemy in all directions. Song Huizong, want to straighten the city wall! ”

"How do you know?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said: "Yue Fei's grandson complained when he was writing a book. Cai Jing's construction of the city this time greatly weakened Kaifeng's defense! ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Why don't you go and advise?" ”

"I didn't persuade it, and I made that faint gentleman angry." Zhu Ming shook his head again and again.

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "The Privy Council, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, no one understands this?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "Maybe someone understands, but certainly no one says." Don't overestimate these guys in the Northern Song Dynasty, they have long been rotten. During the Jingkang period, the Jin soldiers and the Song army bombarded each other with catapults. The catapult of the Jin soldiers was under the city, and the catapult of the Song army was on the city, fighting high and low, and the Song army was defeated without any suspense. The catapults of other people's Jin soldiers were still made temporarily outside Kaifeng City by local materials. What does this mean? Military technology is wasted! ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Maybe it's not the backwardness of science and technology, but the corruption of the system. ”

"Whatever," Zhu Ming said, "I'll improve the movable type printing technique first, then the faint king will definitely like it, and strive to be promoted as soon as possible." ”

(End of chapter)