A few days before the Autumn Society, the festive atmosphere was already in full swing.

Married women went to the streets to buy. If you don't have any money, you have to pull a two-foot red head rope and make a new dress for the child by the way.

On the day of the Autumn Society, if the child is underage, he will be taken by his mother to his grandparents' house for the holidays.

Every household is playing community cakes, and if you really don't have money to make community cakes, you have to cook some community porridge to drink, so as to fool this festival over.

Zhu Ming led the state and county officials to the outskirts of the city to worship, he led the worship of the shrine god, and Wang Laozhi served as the host of the ceremony. Still only chickens, ducks, fish and small three animals are used, and there are more types of grain sacrifices, and after the ceremony, the sacrifices are divided by the officials.

Inside and outside the city, in the countryside and towns, there are lively activities.

Generally, the big families in the neighborhood pool money to build the stage together, and the performers invited by each will also change the law to steal the limelight. Whoever has the most exciting performance means that this big family is the most powerful.

The small traders were beaming with joy and opened their throats to sell.

Even the poor people will come to the temple fair with their families after eating. It's also good to watch a show for free without paying a penny, after all, there is a lack of entertainment in normal times.

Even thieves mingle in the crowd and are happy to be good citizens on this day.

The four male sumo wrestlers married by the Zheng family, Zhu Ming also let them go on stage to compete with the local sumo wrestlers in Puzhou. There are wins and losses, and the performance is average.

Zhu Ming sat in the audience and felt the celebratory atmosphere, it seemed that the sea was clear and the world was rich.

Li Xiaozhong sat on the other side, surrounded by the Puzhou gentry.

This thing glanced at Zhu Ming from time to time, and it was difficult to hide the smug look on his face. He has already received the exact news, and Zhizhou is about to get out, and it is estimated that he will leave after celebrating the Autumn Society.

The flowing Zhizhou, the iron-clad Li family, this Puzhou is still the Li family has the final say.

In the middle of the afternoon, Zhu Ming took the officials back to the city for dinner, which was to set up a banquet to celebrate the festival, and it was also for everyone to give Zhizhou a meal.

"This glass of wine, I wish Taishou a bright future!" Tong Juan Tian Ru said with a toast.

"Congratulations to Taishou!"

The officials shouted, and their tone was cheerful, quite like sending the plague god. At least half of the officials are looking forward to Zhizhou leaving quickly, this Shangguan is too tossed.

Zhu Ming smiled and raised his glass: "Congratulations to the official family." ”

"Congratulations to the official family!" The officials responded.

Tian Ruyong personally poured wine for Zhu Ming, and sighed sincerely: "If Taishou can stay in office for another year, the atmosphere in Puzhou will definitely change greatly." ”

He is really reluctant to Zhu Ming, there are too few Zheng Dang here, if Zhu Ming leaves office, Tian Ru will have to deal with it alone, and he may be hollowed out by the officials one day.

Zhu Ming clinked glasses and said: "As long as Tian Daju straightens his waist, why is he afraid of being small?" ”

"Haha." Tian Ru laughed embarrassedly twice, he was too timid to dare to toss blindly.

Huang Guinian and others also toasted one after another.

As for Yao Guangshu, the magistrate of Juancheng, he didn't give any face at all, and directly treated Zhu Ming as air. Anyway, he would have torn his face a long time ago, and the more ruthlessly he offended Zhu Ming, the more satisfied the backers behind him became.

Drinking until the evening, Zhu Ming rode home in a carriage.

There was an archer from Leize County, who had been waiting for a long time, and personally handed over the letter to Zhu Ming.

This letter was sent by Wei Dian, the capital of Leize County. The content is very simple, thank Taishou for his promotion, and at the same time politely refuse Taishou's solicitation, unwilling to follow Taishou to Jinzhou to take office.

Zhu Ming said: "I received the letter, go back and tell Wei Dutou, let him be kind to the people." If you encounter difficulties in the future, you can always come to me for help. ”

"Yes!" The archers bowed and retreated.

Zhu Ming asked Zhang Bo again: "What about you?" Do you want to stay in Juancheng, or do you want to go to Golden State with me? ”

Zhang Bo was a little entangled, he felt that it was very cool to follow Taishou, and he could suppress bandits and arrest people from time to time, and his life was colorful and exciting. But I don't want to be too far away from home, after all, I still have wives and children at home.

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Bo asked, "Can I bring my wife and children with me?" ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "Of course you can." ”

"Then I'll go with Taishou." Zhang Bo is determined to go out to see the world, and it is inevitable that he will be short-sighted in Puzhou.

The autumn wind is bleak, and the morning sun is like blood.

A group of officials sent Zhu Ming to the bank of the Yellow River, and after only three months in Puzhou, he was about to wave goodbye.

There were three more retinues.

Zhang Bo, who is superb in swordsmanship, Yang Pu who is a rooster and a dog thief, and Shi Yuangong, who is delusional in rebellion.

After the autumn water crossed, the old course of the Yellow River was shallow again, and only small boats could pass through. The riverbed, which rises above the ground and extends to the embankment, is full of dry sand and silt.

Zhu Ming climbed the embankment to look at the north, stood stupidly for a long time, and finally turned around and left.

When he took office, Zhu Ming walked along the Guangji River in the south, and now he leaves along the Yellow River from the north.

Along the old road of the Yellow River, I walked sixty miles, and it took three days of grinding and grinding, and from time to time I found a passer-by to ask questions, and finally came to Kaide Mansion City.

It is also called Puyang, and it is also the state of the alliance of the Yuanyuan.

"Back then, Emperor Zhenzong was personally recruited here." Zhu Ming looked at the city from afar and sighed.

After Shi Yuangong left Puzhou, his mental state was much better, and he felt like he had flown out of the cage. He said in a mocking tone: "Forming an alliance with the Yuan, sealing Zen Mount Tai, and the great cause of the world." ”

Zhu Ming glared back: "You have a mouth, you can find a needle and thread to sew it." ”

Shi Yuangong immediately shut up, he followed Taishou for many days, and now he has not figured out the number of roads. He could vaguely sense Taishou's ambitions, but he felt that it was nonsense, how could such a person rebel? changed to himself, became a governor at a young age, and he couldn't dream of rebellion.

As a result, Shi Yuangong was left with only one guess: Taishou must have felt that the Great Song Dynasty was going to die and was seeking a way out in advance.

The princes of Gon all think that the Great Song Dynasty is full of flowers.

Only a bankrupt scholar like Shi Yuangong in Shandong can detect a hint of the loss of the country. It's a pity that in the eyes of Shandong scholars, the "Great Song Dynasty Collapse Theory" has appeared for hundreds of years, and the collapse is still continuing.

To the south of Kaide Mansion is Xingren Mansion, and Wang Jie, the prefect who went out of Beijing with Zhu Ming, is also tossing wildly in Xingren Mansion at the moment.

Wang Jie doesn't care about anything else, urging the rich to give horses every day.

All the state capitals in Shandong have horses, but you can just get some bad horses to do errands.

Wang Jie wanted to make meritorious contributions, coercion and lure, and search for good horses. Historically, more than 100 horses were sacrificed, all of which could be used as war horses, and they were commended by the imperial court, and they were also "specially transferred to an official".

This was stimulated by Li Wenzhong, 300,000 Ganoderma lucidum, in exchange for a transfer envoy.

There weren't so many Ganoderma lucidum in Xingren Mansion, so Wang Jie put the idea on the horse.

Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, and everyone wants to progress.

That night, Zhu Ming lived outside Puyang City and did not enter the city to alarm local officials.

After waiting for several days, an official boat finally departed and took a boat along the Yellow River to Tokyo.

……

In Tokyo, Dean Zhu has been studying astrology recently.

is mainly idle and boring, except for cultivating good breeds and occasionally working as a gardener for the emperor, Zhu Guoxiang doesn't know what he should do.

One night, he was left in the palace by Song Huizong, and they went to observe the starry sky together.

Zhu Guoxiang asked some questions, and the astronomical officer of the Hanlin Academy enthusiastically answered them, and also taught him the most basic astrological knowledge.

As long as someone guides you, the 28 Nakshatras will be easy to recognize, and you will remember it after observing it a few more times.

In addition to the twenty-eight nights, there are also three walls.

Migaki is easier to remember, and it is particularly vivid.

In Ziwei Palace, there are emperors, princes, concubines, and harems.

There are four auxiliary ministers, Shangshu, Dali, female history, Shangcheng, Shaocheng, Shangfu, second lieutenant, Shaobi and so on.

Further periphery, there are five emperors, princes, three dukes, nine qing, generals, eunuchs, and Zongzheng.

That is to say, the astrological center of ancient China is the constellation chart of the heavenly court. There is even a compilation of cooks (Heavenly Chef Star), otherwise who will take care of the rice?

There are also stars representing territory, such as Wuyue, Bashu, East China Sea, South China Sea and so on.

The more Zhu Guoxiang looked, the more interesting he felt, and every night, he had to get up and observe the star map.

"Zhu Xianggong, the lenses are polished, a total of twelve." Craftsmen present crystal lenses.

"There is labor." Zhu Guoxiang asked someone to get the money.

In ancient China, when lenses appeared, this is already difficult to verify.

Purely based on the real thing, the earliest lens unearthed is the "single-piece inlaid round handle magnifying glass" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The specific feature of the object is known from the name given to it by archaeologists, that is, a magnifying glass with a handle and a border.

Rimmed glasses, first unearthed in the Song Dynasty, have copper frames, horn frames, tortoiseshell frames, and even glasses cases made of snakeskin.

But these are all reading glasses, for example, Ouyang Xiu is short-sighted, and reading glasses can't help at all.

After the mirror grinder left, Zhu Guoxiang took out many cylinders.

He doesn't know the focal length of these concave lenses and convex lenses, so he can only pair and adjust them during use.

The cylinder can be retracted and disassembled, and it is also made by craftsmen.

Zhu Guoxiang continued to debug, changed several lenses, and finally made a pair of relatively satisfactory telescopes.

Telescope?

I'm sorry, Zhu Guoxiang didn't dare to get it out, for fear of angering the emperor. The old man begged the fairy all day and asked, if he saw the true face of the moon, the ghost knew what kind of thoughts he would have.

"Prepare the car!"

Zhu Guoxiang took a carriage to Fanlou and went straight to the top floor.

"Where do you want to sit?" The man came up and waited.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "No, I'll go around by myself." ”

He's not here to spend.

Standing on the flybridge connecting the two high-rise buildings, Zhu Guoxiang raised the telescope and aimed it directly at the palace, he wanted to test the telescope's farthest observation distance.

Constantly adjusting the focus, you can actually see the palace maid.

Zhu Guoxiang was full of smiles, quite a kind of voyeuristic pleasure, he was so bored, he had to have some fun by himself.

Observe the palace for a while, and then start observing the streets.

This perspective is very peculiar, and Zhu Guoxiang has been watching it for more than ten minutes. When he put down the binoculars, he found that there were several people standing beside him, all of whom were powerful and wealthy businessmen who came to Fanlou to seek pleasure.

"What is in Mr. Zhu's hand?" A middle-aged man asked.

Zhu Guoxiang felt a little familiar, and it was estimated that it was an official in the DPRK and China, so he said perfunctorily: "Take a look at the leopard in the tube, just take a look." ”

This thing has military value, and Zhu Guoxiang doesn't want to spread it, otherwise it will be bad if it falls into the hands of the Jin people.

After chatting casually, Zhu Guoxiang took the telescope and slipped away.

When I returned home, I actually saw my son.

"When did you come?" Zhu Guoxiang said in surprise.

"It's only been a few minutes since I arrived," Zhu Ming swept over the things in his father's hand, "Telescopes?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang handed it over: "Try it." ”

Zhu Ming took the court and looked around, and took it into his arms: "You won't think about offering it to the emperor, right?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "When you need it, you will make offerings, and when you don't need it, you will hide it." The emperor is not my Lao Tzu, what good things do you think about him? ”

"It's best not to give it, but if you do, it's also for Jin Bing." Zhu Ming was holding the binoculars, and he didn't have the heart to take it out again, and he confiscated this thing directly.

(End of chapter)