Chapter 336: The First Night Scene of Ming Dynasty
In the nineteenth year of Jingtai, a major event happened that could be recorded in history.
The Torhut tribe moved into the Hetao area from outside the Pass.
Because there were not many members of the Torhut tribe, with the permission of the Ming Dynasty, they set up three guard posts in the Hetao area. The guards were filled with people from the Torhut tribe to station troops. Most of the troops were self-sufficient, and part of it was subsidized by the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
Kordai, the leader of the Torgut tribe, was named king.
From the late spring to mid-summer of the 19th year of Jingtai, Baozong's Huilong Camp and the Annan army fought several battles in Xinping Prefecture. Although the Huilong Camp suffered a loss in strength, it had money and recruited many Annan poor people to form a new army and serve as cannon fodder.
In addition, for the sake of its own interests, Champa quietly provided logistical support to the Baozong, resulting in Annan not being able to take advantage of several battles.
The two sides fell into a confrontation.
In the 19th year of Jingtai, news came back from the Ming Dynasty's detailed work in Jurchen and North Korea that Jurchen Li Manzhu completely delegated power to his son Li Gunaha. Although Li Gunaha was not canonized by the court, Li Gunaha became the commander of the Jianzhou Guard.
Li Gunaha became the Jurchen's new Manzhu.
The Jurchens entered the era of Ligunaha.
After Li Gunaha took control of the power, he gave Chen Ruyan full authority to take charge and established a new type of cavalry army in Jurchen, named "Dragon Elephant Camp", with the intention of establishing an elite battalion equipped with firearms.
For this reason, the Jurchens purchased a large amount of steel from North Korea at a high price to build Dongfeng rifles.
After the news came back to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qiyu immediately issued an imperial edict to the Jurchens. As a result, Li Gunaha pretended to be deaf and dumb. On the one hand, he wrote a perfunctory letter to Zhu Qiyu, but on the other hand, he continued to build Dongfeng rifles non-stop.
At the same time, the Jurchens expanded westward without any scruples and annexed many Mongolian tribes.
The ambition of the wolf is obvious.
Ming Dynasty had a general response to this.
Anyway, no troops were sent.
This signal made Ligunaha even more rampant.
However, North Korea, which also received the reprimanding decree of the Emperor of Heaven, was so frightened that it quickly broke up the steel trade with the Jurchens. King Li Zhu of North Korea, who had just ascended the throne a few months ago, hurried to Beijing to apologize.
When Zhu Qiyu saw that Li Zhuo had such a good attitude, he had no intention of dealing with him.
Let him go to the East Palace to meet the prince.
Let your son decide how to deal with North Korea's arbitrary opinions.
Zhu Jianji was so busy in the Wenhua Hall that he knew that Lao Zhu had turned the matter over to him, so he didn't complain. He just took the opportunity to blackmail Li Huo and make him bleed.
A night banquet was arranged for Li Huan.
Li Huan hurried to the East Palace, but the prince was not there. Only Dai Yi, a close eunuch of the East Palace, was entertaining him, saying that the prince was still in Shoukang Palace and would come back later to discuss state affairs with him.
Li Zhuo had no choice but to wait.
As a result, he found that the Ming Dynasty Prince was threatening him. He sat in the Wenhua Hall for half an hour. It was already dark, and Dai Yi had no intention of letting anyone light the lamp.
Just let him wait in the dark.
Li Zhuo felt more and more worried.
Although Li Huan was only nineteen years old, he had a high reputation among the North Korean government and the public. Privately, the North Korean government and the public thought that Li Huo was very similar to the Ming Dynasty's crown prince, His Highness Zhu Jianji.
Kill decisively.
And he has great ambitions to work hard.
So this time when he came to Ming Dynasty, Li Zhu actually wanted to learn from Zhu Jianji.
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Shoukang Palace.
The entire palace staff and guards of Shoukang Palace and Kunning Palace all rode in the front yard of the palace. Queen Hang and Lu Huan accompanied Queen Mother Wu sitting in the bedroom, looking at the busy prince. The two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law had no idea that the prince wanted to
What to do.
A month ago, the prince asked the Royal Electric Power Company, which Lu Chunjing was responsible for, to move a large amount of things into Shoukang Palace and Kunning Palace, and set up several wooden pillars in front of each palace in the palace.
Various porcelain tubes were used to route the wires, and copper wires were installed in the porcelain tubes.
I don't know what I'm doing.
In the past few days, craftsmen were asked to install some lamps made of colored glaze and connect them to the porcelain tubes. Zhu Jianji also personally directed the craftsmen to install some switch-like things at the door and next to the couch.
Empress Dowager Wu and Empress Hang asked Zhu Jianji.
Zhu Jianji smiled and said it was his filial piety, and asked them to wait and see.
It's done this morning.
Now the prince took advantage of the sky not completely darkening and inspected all the porcelain tubes. It was not until the lanterns came on that Zhu Jianji came to Empress Hang and Empress Dowager Wu with peace of mind, and said with a smile: "Grandmother, my grandson these days
Don’t mind if people keep messing around with you in Shoukang Palace. Now that you’re done with it, please ask the Imperial Grandmother to appreciate the gift your grandson has given you!"
He glanced at Wei Nanfeng, the specially invited historian, "Wei Tietuotuo, you have to record tonight's events carefully. Then you can brag as much as you want. I can't bear your praise."
Wei Nanfeng: "..."
Your Highness, would you like to show some respect? Is there anything worthy of praise for the things you have done?
He also asked historians to record it specially.
Could it be that this is still a national event?
I am ready to continue recording.
Zhu Jianji glanced at the old eunuch in charge of the affairs of Shoukang Palace and said: "Let me kill you!"
The old eunuch immediately gave the order.
Shoukang Palace suddenly became dark.
Queen Hang and Queen Mother Wu were in a daze in the dark.
Is the prince going to set off fireworks?
But fireworks have never been allowed in the imperial city. If water breaks out, it will be terrible.
Zhu Jianji shouted to him, "Start!"
Zhao Cunxiao immediately sent the order down.
In a small room in a corner behind Shoukang Palace, a muscular eunuch in his prime heard the order, stepped forward, hugged the rotor of a roulette-like object with both hands, and began to exert force.
Immediately follow the rhythm of previous training and maintain rapid rotation without interruption.
Behind him, there were four mature eunuchs.
Five people took turns turning the rotor, and each person had to keep rotating at a constant speed for a quarter of an hour. Although the work was boring and boring, the pay was very high. His Highness made it clear that one person would earn thirty taels of silver per month!
These five people were recruited for practice a month ago.
If you look down from the air at this time, you will find that the entire city of Beijing, except for the brighter lights in the Imperial City, is in darkness, and even the entire Ming Dynasty... is plunged into darkness.
In the endless darkness, sparks suddenly appeared.
In the Shoukang Palace, a little spark shines a little, and then it becomes a whole.
Like the dawn.
In the dormitory, a little light slowly bloomed above the heads of Empress Dowager Wu, Empress Hang, and Lu Huan, and then became brighter and brighter, and finally became constant.
It emits dazzling light, driving away the coldness of the night, like a bright moon.
But that's not the bright moon.
It is a glass product with something shining inside.
Not a candle.
Nor is it a wick soaked in oil.
What is it?
Empress Dowager Wu and others did not know.
But they found that this light was brighter and more dazzling than candlelight. It made people feel inexplicably pleasant and even warm. The fear of the night in people's bones disappeared completely under this light.
There are many such "bright moons" in Shoukang Palace, covering every corner.
Bright as day.
This is the first artificial light in the world, and it is also the first ray of dawn for the feudal dynasty of Ming Dynasty to move towards a new world!
