In Liu Jin's small courtyard in Tianjin, Zhu Houzhao was feasting on all kinds of delicacies at Liu Jin's house. While eating, he said: "Old Liu, you still enjoy it. After eating your food, I want to eat it."
All the royal chefs in the palace were taken and chopped. Is that food for human consumption?"
Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao's gluttonous look, and then listened to his words, and also smiled.
It is true that the level of the imperial chefs in the palace may not be very good. This is because Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Zhu family, bought Lei.
Zhu Yuanzhang divided people into three, six or nine grades, and divided them into craftsmen's households, farmers' households, military households, etc. according to their occupations. The same was true for the chefs, imperial doctors, etc. in the palace.
This ancestor was the royal chef who cooked for the emperor, and his descendants are also the royal chefs.
Logically speaking, if this is passed down from generation to generation, there should be some craftsmanship and the like, and this skill will only become more and more sophisticated.
But the fact is exactly the opposite. Whether it is the imperial doctor or the imperial chef in the palace, they are basically inferior to each other, because no matter how good their skills are, their jobs will not be lost.
Emperors of the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the middle and later periods, rarely lived long. They basically died in their twenties and thirties. For example, the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao later died after falling into the water and died at the age of thirty-one.
Already.
The current Emperor Hongzhi only lived to be thirty-six years old. The following ones, Taichang and Tianqi, were as fragile as women. Except for Jiaqing and Wanli, who lived longer than Emperor Hongzhi, none of the other emperors lived past forty.
Year-old.
This is not because the medical conditions in the Ming Dynasty were relatively poor. Although the emperor was short-lived, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty had surprisingly long lifespans. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were a lot of ministers who lived to be over fifty years old.
Most of the cabinet members are over fifty years old.
The current three elders of the cabinet, Liu Jian, lived to be ninety-four years old, and Li Dongyang lived to be seventy years old. It is said that he only lived so long because of poor health. As for Xie Qian, who lived to be eighty-three years old, he is also a longevity star.
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From this, it is enough to show that the imperial doctors in the Ming Dynasty Palace are basically idle people, and not many have real talents and knowledge. In other words, the medical skills passed down by this family are becoming less and less good as they are passed on.
Practicing medicine requires years of accumulation, especially Chinese medicine. Without years of accumulation, he cannot be regarded as a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner.
The imperial doctors in the palace, because they were all imperial doctors in that era, they only treated the emperor, concubines, princes, princesses, etc. in the palace. It was difficult to accumulate any experience at all. You can imagine this level.
It is estimated that we can only apply the same method. Not only will it not cure the disease, but it may also kill people.
This may be an important reason why the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were short-lived.
Some people may say that the life span of emperors has not been long since ancient times. After all, the state is busy, overworked, and there are three thousand beauties in the harem. How can they live a long life?
But Liu Jin, who came from later generations, knew that although the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were short-lived, the Qing emperors of the following dynasty all lived a long life, and most of them were long-lived emperors.
Qianlong lived to be eighty-nine, Kangxi and Daoguang lived to be sixty-nine, Jiaqing lived to be sixty-one, and Yongzheng lived to be fifty-eight. It can be said that all of them lived longer.
From here we can know that there must be a reason for the short life of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. As for genetic issues, most of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty lived longer and had many heirs, otherwise the old Zhu family would not have arrived.
When the Ming Dynasty fell, there were nearly a million descendants of the royal family.
People in later generations who like to study history have done research in various aspects and come to the conclusion that all this was caused by Zhu Yuanzhang and the household registration system he established, which harmed future generations.
Liu Jin shook his head slightly, just seeing Zhu Houzhao having a meal, Liu Jin thought of so many things without knowing it.
"Phew~ I'm full, it's so delicious."
After a long time, Zhu Houzhao touched his round belly. He felt satisfied and had a delicious meal.
"Your Highness, after dinner, you can live up to ninety-nine by walking a hundred steps. How about we take a walk in Tianjin together?"
Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao, thought for a while and said.
Zhu Houzhao finally came over, and he still had many things to tell him.
"Live to ninety-nine? Isn't that a little too long?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he thought about it and said.
"Um...please forgive me, Your Highness."
When Liu Jin heard this, there was a slight sweat on his forehead. Zhu Houzhao was talking ironically. He was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so naturally he was a thousand years old. He said he lived to be ninety-nine. If this was serious,
He said he was going to be beheaded.
"Haha, I look like I'm scaring you. Let's go, let's go and walk around Tianjin together. It's been a while since I've been here. Tianjin looks like it's changed a lot."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Jin's fearful look and immediately laughed happily.
Soon, Liu Jin accompanied Zhu Houzhao for a leisurely walk and chatted.
"Tsk tsk, Tianjin is still full of vitality. No matter how you look at it, it feels novel. It looks different every day. What are these new houses used for? I remember it was still a wasteland at that time."
Walking on the spacious cement road, Zhu Houzhao pointed to a house near the sea and said.
This area of houses is very neatly planned. They are all two-story small Western-style buildings with yards. They are built with reinforced concrete. The bricks are blue bricks. The outside is made of lime powder and white. The windows are made of glass. At this time,
The houses of that era are so different, but they feel very bright and spacious.
"This house is in a community called Moon Bay. It is a specially built house and is prepared for sale."
Liu Jin smiled and replied.
"Selling the house?"
"How can you build so many houses at once just to sell them?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he was slightly startled and said.
"Of course, otherwise why would I build so many houses? The location of Moon Bay is very good. It is very close to Tianjin Port, Shipyard, and Tianjin Cement Plant. It is also a sea-view house. Sea-view house means close to the sea.
You can see the sea."
"In addition, the transportation here is very convenient. I have already asked people to pave the roads with cement. This house is built according to the format I designed. This house has to be sold for a few hundred taels."
Bar."
Liu Jin took it as a matter of course, and then began to introduce the geographical location, transportation conditions, etc. of the Moon Bay house like a treasure trove.
"A few hundred taels of silver per set?"
"How is it possible? Houses in the capital, even big houses with three entrances, can usually be bought with two hundred taels of silver. If you sell a house for several hundred taels of silver, who will buy your house?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately shook his head and said.
Although he doesn't like reading, he knows many things. He also knows the price of houses in the capital very clearly.
"Your Highness, you are wrong. This house is not my house, it is our house."
"When we first came to Tianjin, we bought land on a large scale. Millions of taels of silver were spent on it. The biggest landowner in Tianjin is your highness."
"The houses built here naturally belong to you, Your Highness. I don't have as many shares as you, Your Highness."
Liu Jin shook his head repeatedly and said.
"be mine?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he was slightly startled, and then his little eyes stared at the house for a while, and then he counted carefully: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety..."
"Your Highness, there is no need to count. There are a total of 880 houses in Moon Bay. I am going to sell each house for 880 taels of silver."
Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao and couldn't help laughing. When Zhu Houzhao heard that these houses were his, his eyes seemed to be full of money.
"Eight hundred and eighty sets, each set is worth eight hundred and eighty taels, which is a total of more than 700,000 taels of silver."
Zhu Houzhao was good at mathematics. He calculated silently in his heart and figured out the rough idea at once. Then he thought about it and said, "Old Liu, can this house worth 880 taels of silver be sold?
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"Of course it can be sold. If His Highness doesn't believe it, how about we make a bet?"
Liu Jin said very confidently.
"Liu Jin, come here. This house worth 880 taels of silver is still here in Tianjin. Do you want to buy it?"
Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Jin's confident look, touched his chin, thought for a while and asked Liu Jin behind his butt.
"I don't know how to buy it, only fools do. Here in the capital, there are more than 800 taels of silver, which is enough to buy a big house in the inner city."
Liu Jin thought for a while and shook his head and said, he owns a lot of houses in the capital, and he knows the housing prices in the capital very well, so he would not foolishly come to Tianjin to buy such a house.
"Haha, let me tell you, how can anyone buy such an expensive house?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately seemed more confident.
"Do you dare to make this bet with me, Your Highness?"
Liu Jin smiled slightly and still said confidently.
"Just bet, tell me, what to bet on?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately replied that he didn't believe that anyone would buy such an expensive house.
"Let's bet a thousand taels of silver. It's a small gamble to make you happy."
Liu Jin thought for a while and said.
"One thousand taels is too little. If I finally have a chance to win against a rich man like you, I would need at least 10,000 taels."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he shook his head and said.
Well, classmate Zhu Houzhao is also very wealthy now. He earns tens of thousands of gold per day from his glass factory alone. His monthly dividends make Emperor Hongzhi regret that he only asked him for one million taels of silver.
What's more, there are many industries in Tianjin. Every one of them is a hen that lays golden eggs. He knows the monthly income very well, so he also knows that the Liu Jin in front of him is also a real rich man.
very.
"Okay, it's a deal, this house will go on sale in a few days, we'll know then."
