Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

There was a pepper feast at the Cui’s family. Li Dongyang and Fei Hong, two guests who came from the province of spicy food, were very satisfied. When they returned home, they wrote poems and essays. They praised peppers as being as delicious as peanuts. , A good product for Yifan Yijiu.

The poems spread all over Beijing poetry overnight, faster than Tang Bohu’s Cui Meiren painting method, and even the palace folks copied Li Dongyang’s new poems. The emperor Hongzhi remembered that the Italians also gave a few pots of peppers, which seemed to be kept in the flower room, so he ordered the waiter to go to Cui's house to ask about the recipe and pick some peppers to taste.

September and October is the time when the peppers bear fruit. The pots of red peppers kept in the palace are for viewing as potted plants, and they are not like Cui Xie. In order to keep the seeds, they can’t bear to eat them. Cui Xie was also not like those officials who valued private dishes. He refused to ask questions from the palace. He spoke very happily about the method of using peanuts deep-fried and dried chili instead of lime-marinated cornel oil-mixed vegetables. He also told the waiter, this The chili should be pickled and eaten.

How to pickle him is not clear, but he can boldly say, anyway, no individual traverser can come out to refute.

The envoy returned to the palace with satisfaction, and gave the secret recipe to the imperial dining room, asking them to fry chili oil and pickled chili peppers, and then said some kind words from Cui Xie before the holy.

Tianzi ate some cold dishes mixed with peanuts and deep-fried chili, and praised with satisfaction: "Yes, it is more appetizing and relieving than those seasoned with onion, garlic, and pepper. It can also make your body warm when you eat it. Food. You plant more next year and add more flavor when cooking in winter."

The prince originally remembered the appearance of the little eunuch's eyes being hurt by the chili pepper, so he didn't dare to eat it. But his father praised the chili oil so much that it should taste good, and he couldn't help taking a sip, and his eyes immediately brightened.

It tastes better than the previous ones made with green onion, ginger, pepper, scallion or cornel oil. This spicy flavor is particularly mellow, without any meat odor!

It seems that they are still not thorough enough in their grids. They just use a microscope to record how it grows, and they won’t be able to see it. They will have to taste it later.

When the heavenly family was satisfied, the waiters were all happy, and praised that the recipe that Cui Xueshi entered was a good recipe and that people were also good people.

In the previous dynasty, ministers deliberately embarrassed them. They first offered food to the emperor, and when the emperor had eaten it well, when he asked people to ask his secret recipe, they refused to say anything, and the questioner was beaten. Cui Xie is such a simple figure in the heart of the emperor, and faintly the leader of the imperial court, but he can be so polite to the servant, he is a rare good person in the past.

Mrs. Gao listened to the discussion from the next person, and shook her head slightly, laughing at these people's ignorance.

What is a recipe? I don't know how many good things Mr. Cui has dedicated to the palace these years. It was the real good thing that made him stand out from the **** and became the immortal picture of Bingbi eunuch.

It is a pity that Xueshi Cui is low-key and doesn't like to be famous. If the emperor Xian knew that he painted the two paintings at the beginning, his reputation and identity would be even better.

It is a pity for him to replace Cui Xie, and it is a pity to replace those two paintings that are still unknown. However, few people now know that he was looking for Xie Tongzhi to please the emperor. When the old people left, they could actually say that it was Master Cui's handwriting...

The **** Gao carefully planned for Cui Xie, and then went to the flower room to personally instruct the **** who was in charge of the flower room, and told him that he would not have to wait for the next year to plant the peppers. Years ago, he would use the greenhouse to grow peppers for the emperor to use during the New Year.

After all, there are so many places to celebrate this year.

Although several provinces suffered from floods and droughts this year, they did not cause locust plagues or riots. The true colors collected by the imperial court amounted to 22 million stones, and raw silk, cotton, and grass all increased much more than last year. There are more than 156,000 households in the world, an increase of nearly 200,000 households over last year.

The side walls of the fortresses built in various places on the Nine Sides have stretched a few miles away, surrounding large tracts of pastures and horse farms. Although not many good horses can be used as stallions, the frontier army has pastures for horses, cattle and sheep. The number has also increased a lot.

The piles and pieces are all worthy of the inner court's celebration of banquets and gifts for foreign ministers.

During the first month of the first month, the imperial envoys sent by the imperial court to inspect the Taixi ships and weapons, the chief of the military department, and the **** also returned to the capital, accompanied by two Thaixihai commercial Flange machine guns, as well as matching shells and gunpowder.

The three personally test fire before Jun. The shell rang like a thunderbolt when it fired, and it could hit more than a hundred feet away. Several layers of wooden cowhide targets shattered in response to the sound of gunfire, and the masonry wall can also be broken into pieces, much stronger than the original guns of Ming.

The emperor was so moved that he immediately ordered the Ministry of War to imitate it and make the Shenjiying assemble this thing. The missionaries who were trapped in the meeting hall also had serious uses, and they were all pulled out to cooperate with imitation artillery and ammunition.

Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao also formally appeared on the table, to contribute to the development of ordnance for the court——

When he was learning to ride and shoot, he heard from his husband that the arrow would fall down in the middle of shooting, so to shoot somewhere, the tip of the arrow needs to be raised slightly. The shells fired by the artillery object are heavier than his arrows, and the process of falling is also faster. I am afraid that the officers of the Shenji Camp have little training and it is difficult to aim.

When Mr. Cui first taught him the principle of lens imaging, he had not used the protractor and calculation table he had made. He saved a group of Feng Yu who were good at calculation, and he could ask them to follow the monks to calculate the angle of the muzzle, so that the shots shot out could land where they should fall.

If you can prepare such a data sheet for the sergeant to memorize, it will not only save a lot of practice, but also save gunpowder and shells. Even in future battles, if any of the artillery on the gun position is killed, others can take over with the data, so that the artillery will not fall.

But the military affairs, how can ignorant children be able to talk about it!

The emperor Hongzhi looked angry, and threw the prince's advice form to the elders of the pavilion and the ministers and ministers.

The officials passed the memorial and looked at each other silently. The emperor's false anger was just to tell them to praise the prince, what else could they do?

Then boast.

This proposal of the prince is also true in the military. The Fran cannon weighs more than two hundred kilograms and must be mounted on a cart to be used. Unlike a crossbow, it relies on the shooter's own hands and eyes to practice head alignment. If someone can recite the standard of immediate meeting, it can save a lot of gunpowder, lead, and military expenses.

Rehabilitation and north-striking tartare seem to have become unspoken thoughts.

Ma Wensheng, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, praised sincerely, and Lu Zhong, the Shangshu of the Hubu, followed closely, and the elders and hall officials each showed their literary talents and praised the prince and the emperor from head to toe.

When the emperor Hongzhi heard them praise his son, he felt ashamed. He waved his hand to stop them and continued to study the issue of armaments.

The Household Department now has money and food, and Lu Shangshu is refreshed and dare to promise anything. The Ministry of War has been successful in successive years, and Ma Shangshu is also very energetic. The Ducha Yushi Daishan almost didn't directly say that the Duchayuan was full of talents and could be sent to the Nine Fronts Admiral for military affairs.

I just hate that the sky is still too cold, and the artillery bought and made is not enough. I can only wait for a while.

After Mr. Li Ge returned home, he had a discussion with the students. Cui Xie heard that the imperial court intends to buy artillery from Spanish maritime merchants, and asked the teacher: "Why don't you send people to accompany them? Those maritime merchants are just merchants, and the ships are loaded. It must not be the strongest weapon in the country. Moreover, the merchants are highly profitable. This gun was carried by them from thousands of miles away. It must be tens or hundreds of times more profitable to remove it, and the quality is not comparable to that of the natives. It’s definitely better to go to Europa to learn about its country and to buy its military equipment than to buy this maritime merchant’s Fran cannon."

The Ming Dynasty still had a lot of scientific and cultural exchanges with the outside world, and unlike the Qing Dynasty, it did not stick to its status as a supreme country in the sky, shut the country away, and denounced foreign things as tricks. If Confucian scholars can get in touch with foreign cultures, see the current technology and weapons of foreign countries, and can introduce these to Ming Dynasty, China will not fall behind in this era of globalization.

He pursed his lips, and said firmly: "The disciples will have a copy tomorrow, and I invite the Holy Master to send these missionaries to Europe personally to inspect its weapons and gunpowder."

Li Dongyang frowned and said, "Daming and the European countries have no envoys, and these missionaries are not serious envoys, but we don't want to send envoys rashly..."

"You can send Confucian scholars to study or travel, not necessarily as envoys."

Cui Xie couldn’t restrain his expectations. He asked someone for a pencil and thick paper. He drew a modern world map on the table. He said without blinking, “The disciples have seen the world they drew a few times with the monk. The map, I don’t remember too much, it can only be drawn like this."

He used a pencil to follow the coastline and drew a route from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean, then north through the Strait of Malacca to Southeast Asia and then to China.

"The Europa people can travel such a long sea route to China, which shows that their ships are better than Chinese ships, and the artillery on them is more powerful than the original ones in China. The "Euclidean Original" produced by those monks Books such as “Introduction to Practical Arithmetic” and “Measurement Methodology”, although some students who have translated characters followed to learn, it is difficult to understand the algorithm theory, which shows that it is also a place of advanced civilization...

Li Dongyang smiled and shook his head: "When you talk about it, it's nothing more than admiring that place and asking the country to learn from Confucian scholars. But what those Italians teach is just arithmetic, not the right way of Confucianism, not because of his longevity. They treat everything from other countries as good, and they should learn everything regardless of whether they are good or not."

Cui Xie raised his eyes to look at him, took a deep breath, and pointed to the route and said: "The disciple doesn't just have to say this. The disciple wants to say that he is armed with a weapon, and his heart is self-defeating. The country has strong ships and guns. A detailed map can not afford to cross the world and rob the hearts of nations?

"Nowadays, this ship to China is a merchant ship. If they have more sophisticated ordnance in the future, and our country has insufficient armaments, I am afraid that this merchant ship will be transformed into a military ship at some point!"

Li Dongyang was startled, his face changed slightly, and after a while he calmed down, and sighed: "You know if this matter will come true, Lu Heng, who introduced Italians to Beijing today, asked your majesty to ask for overseas talents. , Have to be impeached?"

Cui Xie smiled bitterly: "China is so big and so rich. Whether we bring in these missionaries or not, the tigers and wolves in Europe have long been eyeing us. They have been in contact with the Mengyuan Yuan since the Yuan Dynasty, and many of them were officials under the Yuan Dynasty. After returning to China, they promoted China's prosperity. It's just that China is powerful and they have nowhere to go. Now they can still wear the skin of monks preaching, but now their ships and guns are stronger than China's..."

Li Dongyang looked at him anxiously, before asking for a long time: "Why are you so eager? My China and the Western countries have been in contact with each other thousands of years ago, and they have never attacked each other. This time, you saw the ships and artillery. There is no scholar's calmness, as if they have come to violate?"

Cui Xie's expression condensed suddenly, and he looked down and replied: "The disciple is indeed impatient. The country is indeed not in danger of being taken captive by foreign countries, but the world is so big and the road to sea has been opened up. After all, it is impossible for Daming to close the country , We should see what it looks like outside."

However, "the defensive heart is indispensable. Now that they know their ambitions, how can they pretend not to see them and let the situation worsen?"

Li Dongyang pondered for a long time, and calmly said: "You are afraid that you are tired these days, let's not mention this. Will your brother participate in the test? If you still participate, you will have a good rest for a few days, I'm afraid this year. After the trial, the imperial court is about to start affair.

No matter what kind of thoughts the overseas Thai and Western countries hold, the court must first tie the Tartar before it can get rid of it. However, what his disciple is worried about is not entirely impossible. It is better for a reliable person to look at the situation in the European countries.

If only a few students were sent out to see, it would be like the officials and students sent by the Ryukyu Kingdom to China in previous years, or looking for a few Chinese maritime merchants who have seen the Western Thai countries... or Jin Yiwei?

This thought flashed through Li Dongyang's mind, and those familiar with writing and reading rushed out and circled in front of him.