190 The eunuch supervises the whole process
After giving lectures in the East Palace and preparing to leave, Yingluo asked again: "Zong Shu, are you really going to collect the night incense tomorrow morning?"
"Yingluo, what are you talking about? His Majesty said it must be collected on time. I am a model good citizen of the Song Dynasty. When have I ever resisted an order?"
Has Zong Shu resisted imperial edicts few times?
His Majesty asked him to "ban on speaking for one month", but he continued to talk nonsense, and even plausibly said that he heard it was "ban on salt for one month".
Zong Shu said: "After collecting the night incense, I will continue to lecture."
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had everyone listening with great interest just now, and suddenly they mentioned the night fragrance, which was so inconsistent that it made people feel sick to their stomachs.
Wu Fei, the lecturer, and the other twenty record-keepers could not help but cover their mouths and noses.
What are these people pretending to be? They didn’t show any disdain when they went out to serve?
"Wouldn't it be more interesting to talk about it after collecting the night fragrance? The fragrance of books, the fragrance of ink, the fragrance of tuberose, you taste it, you taste it, you taste it carefully!"
Zong Shu laughed loudly after saying this, and then Liang Shicheng came.
With a dark face, the guy took out a thick stack of paper and handed it to Zong Shu.
When you unfold it, you can see that the thin gold body is Huizong's handiwork.
In order to give inscriptions to the thirty-two people who wanted to go to Huizong, Zong Shu asked for the list of people in advance and handed it over to Gao Qiu at that time.
Huizong came very quickly this time, and wrote each person's name on a piece of paper.
To Niu Boyuan: Warrior of the Song Dynasty.
To Li Shaoyan: Warrior of the Song Dynasty.
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Huizong took it very seriously.
Huizong had always advocated the policy of alliance between Song and Jin. Under the leadership of Zong Shu, these thirty-two warriors took the lead against the Liao army.
The eyes of General Yelu Dashi of the Liao Army were disabled, and Yelu Bucai was captured.
Rescued Zhong Shidao and Wu Jie.
These people were fighting against the Liao army, which was very consistent with the imperial court's foreign policy.
More importantly, it was Niu Gao and other twenty-nine people who risked their lives to rescue Huizong and Empress Liu from Tongzhen Palace.
Taken together, these two great achievements cannot be over-rewarded.
But Zong Shu just wanted a few words for them. There was no need for the court to reward them with money or official positions, he just gave them a false name.
Therefore, Huizong wrote it after his dynasty was over, and had Liang Shicheng send it to the East Palace after he finished it.
Liang Shicheng specially told Zong Shu that he must come on time to collect the night incense tomorrow morning.
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At dawn, Zong Shu was grabbed by Eunuch Wei. Today was the first day he went to the palace to collect night incense.
The job of collecting evening incense does not require academic qualifications or skills. What is required is punctuality.
If they are not put in place in time, all the chamber pots and chamber pots in the palace will be gathered together, wouldn't it be a stink?
Zong Shu got up and saw that Cao Zongshen, Lin Lingsu and Li Shaoyan were also waiting outside.
Do we need so many people to collect night incense?
Of course Lin Lingsu is coming, he is the key figure in "making money from shit".
Cao Zongshen is in charge of pushing the cart. He used to be a book boy, but now he is...a shit boy.
Li Shaoyan also rushed over. What does it mean? Is it really fragrant to collect night fragrance?
"Grandmaster, let's see what spell you are going to use!" Li Shaoyan said: "This time, I can't miss it again."
Li Shaoyan now admires Zong Shu very much. In the past, Zong Shu defeated Lin Lingsu, went to Mi County to find coal, etc., but he had never participated in it once.
This time Zong Shu happily accepted the task of "collecting night fragrance" in the court, and Li Shaoyan felt that things would never be that simple.
Li Shaoyan immediately thought that on the way to Xiongzhou, Zong Shu specifically asked to stop at Puzhou Village.
As a result, he discovered kerosene.
New things like MSG, Fifteen Spice, and new hot pots came out one after another, which made Zong Shu make a lot of money.
Maybe Zong Shu can really come up with something new.
Therefore, Li Shaoyan didn't care about being polite or not, he just wanted to follow Zong Shu closely to see what happened.
Under the leadership of Eunuch Wei, the three men arrived in front of the palace gate with high spirits.
It was early morning time, and many officials had to arrive in advance and queue up here one by one to wait for inspection.
Seeing Zong Shu coming with his people, the officials all gave way.
Someone discovered that in Zong Shu's incense collection team, Cao Zongshen was pushing a cart with a large jar on it.
There are several big characters written on the big jar: Copper Jar: Special for Night Incense.
Copper pot? Tong Guan?
The officials laughed.
Just yesterday, Tong Guan was originally demoted to a third rank, and he was a member of the Shushe. As a result, Zong Shu caused trouble in the court, and Chen Dong, the Grand Scholar, responded outside the palace, and Tong Guan was dismissed from all official positions.
Tong Guan stepped down, but Zong Shu still didn't want to spare him, and even made a "copper jar" to hold the night incense, which disgusted Tong Guan.
I really don’t understand how much hatred Zong Shu and Tong Guan have.
However, Zong Shu was not only like this to Tong Guan, but also to others. Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng, and Wang Fu were all criticized by Zong Shu.
Zong Shu didn't have to queue at all. When he arrived at the palace, Liang Shicheng was already waiting.
"Eunuch Liang, why don't you just collect some night incense? Do you want to accompany me?" Zong Shu asked.
"His Majesty and Mr. Wang have asked me to supervise the whole process to prevent you from making mistakes in the middle and being deceived," Liang Shicheng said.
It seems that Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng have really worked hard this time, with the goal of letting Zong Shu collect night fragrance for the palace for the rest of his life.
Entering the inner palace, there are already several donkey carts used to collect night incense.
Waiting here today is actually a work handover.
Before the handover could be made, Zong Shu opened his voice and said: "Collect the night incense, collect the night incense, bring the women over, put the men aside, and taste it for yourself if you are not a man or a woman!"
"Collect the night incense, collect the night incense, and put the thin ones in the child's throat, and the dry ones in the excrement beam."
Sheng Shiliang? Isn't this the reverse of the three words "Liang Shicheng"?
Liang Shicheng was so angry that he stamped his feet: "Zong Shu, you collect night fragrance, why are you so picky?"
After saying that, Liang Shicheng was disgusted by himself. Is there any difference between fat and thin?
"Your Majesty only asked me to collect night incense, but did not tell me how much to collect! Can you control how much I want to collect? I will collect enough for one jar today, and the rest will be given to you."
After Zong Shu finished speaking, Cao Zongshen conducted a "quality inspection" carefully, picked the thinnest ones and poured them into the "copper can".
In a short time, the "copper jar" was full.
Zong Shu waved his hand and left!
Liang Shicheng is so angry, this guy just left like this?
Wasn’t it promised that “the excrement should be raised upward”?
What should I do if there is so much feces and urine piled here?
As the eunuch in charge of internal affairs, how could Liang Shicheng ignore it and immediately ordered the Yexiang team who wanted to take over the handover to continue to perform their duties.
After the arrangements were made, Liang Shicheng immediately chased after him. He wanted to see what Zong Shu could do with the jar of urine.
Liang Shicheng followed him all the way to the "Song Academy of Sciences".
There are already dozens of people waiting at the "Great Song Academy of Sciences". These people are all disciples of the national teacher Lin Lingsu, and are now researchers and teachers at the Great Song Academy of Sciences.
Zong Shu put the "copper can" aside, walked up to the stage and said:
"There are only misplaced resources in the world, and there are no useless things. In the past, your dean Lin Lingsu successfully extracted iodine element and successfully produced iodophor."
"Then from now on, you will witness the birth of another new element!"
Zong Shu introduced the characteristics of the new element to Lin Lingsu and talked about the extraction process. In fact, this is similar to the process of iodine, that is, distillation, cooling, crystallization, extraction, storage, etc.
"By the way, disciple Lingsu, this urine finally arrived here and must be sealed and kept to prevent it from evaporating," Zong Shu said.
In fact, Lin Lingsu would do this without Zong Shu's explanation. If it is not sealed, the smell will not be good.
Lin Lingsu asked several disciples to seal the copper cans and push them to the laboratory, but Liang Shicheng refused.
Liang Shicheng insisted, so he put the copper pot here and the experiment was done here!
He was afraid that these Taoist priests would do some magic and he would lose his urine!
As a result, Liang Shicheng stayed here for three days and three nights. While everyone was sleeping, he actually made a bunk here and watched.
Chapter completed!