In the Leopard Room, Zhu Houzhao kept coughing, and Wu Jie, the chief imperial physician of the Ming Dynasty, was taking his pulse.
When the pulse check was over, the imperial concubine asked with concern: "The envoy of Wuyuan is promoted to the fifth rank, has your Majesty's condition improved?"
Wu Jie stood up and bowed: "Returning to your Majesty, your majesty has been suffering from a chronic illness since childhood. Occasionally, you will suffer from exogenous cough due to wind and cold. I apologize that my medical skills are shallow and difficult to cure. The phlegm that your majesty coughs has turned from yellow to light, and the pulse has gradually become red. All you need is
Decoction and take the medicine every day, and then apply massage methods to achieve good health."
"How long will it take?" the imperial concubine asked.
Wu Jie replied: "It can take as little as three to five days, or as long as ten and a half months. During this period, you must not go out to catch the cold. You should eat lighter, drink more hot water, and go to bed early and get up early."
"Thank you so much, Ambassador Wu." The imperial concubine asked the palace maid to bring two silver coins as a reward.
Wu Jie quickly caught it: "I don't dare!"
"Stay back...cough cough cough!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, he coughed again just after saying two or three words.
"Your Majesty." The imperial concubine hurriedly comforted Zhu Houzhao.
After Wu Jie left the room, Zhu Houzhao coughed up a mouthful of yellow phlegm, and then said with emotion: "I have been suffering from this disease for more than ten years, and I have long been used to it. It's just that the cough is a bit...ahem...uncomfortable. I can't go out and walk around, really.
I’m so anxious that I must go hunting in the Daxing District of Nanhaizi after spring begins.”
It was not long before spring began. The imperial concubine was afraid that Zhu Houzhao's illness would relapse, so she advised him: "It is better to wait until autumn. It is against etiquette to hunt in spring. When the time comes, call Wang Erlang, and I will accompany the emperor's brother."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "Then in autumn, Erlang's archery skills are amazing. You can't win hunting with him."
The imperial concubine said flatteringly: "Your Majesty is also a great shooter."
"Ahem," Zhu Houzhao cleared his throat, "Studying is really boring these days. Is there anything new outside?"
The accompanying eunuch Li Ming said: "Your Majesty, the School of Physics has invented the honeycomb stove and honeycomb charcoal. This charcoal is made of useless carbon ash and carbon scraps. It can be used for making fires and cooking, and it is cheaper than firewood and stone carbon.
, every household in the capital, from the princes and nobles to the common people, use this product. There are so many people buying it that even the workshops can’t make it, and now all the coal ash in the mines has become a treasure.”
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "The School of Physics is run by Erlang, and it is full of his students. They can always come up with such novel things."
The imperial concubine said: "This thing is of great benefit to the people. It is an extraordinary gift. Your Majesty does not know that firewood in the capital is very expensive. Even well-off families cannot afford to burn firewood, so they can only buy charcoal to light fires. Nowadays, honeycomb charcoal is more expensive than firewood."
Stone carbon is also cheap, and people can save a lot of firewood money."
Both the emperor and his concubine knew that all the coal used in the capital was mined near the emperor's ancestral tombs. But they automatically ignored this detail because they couldn't help it. The imperial court issued bans from time to time, but those coal mines continued to be mined.
Who dares to ban the Xishan Coal Mine? The people in the capital who have no food to eat will probably enter the Forbidden City hungry.
Zhu Houzhao coughed twice and asked again: "Besides that honeycomb charcoal, what else is new?"
Eunuch Li Mingdao: "This year's winter league was an upset. Dingguo's team actually won the season championship."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly laughed: "That's all his third boy can do. He spent a lot of money to buy players, right?"
Li Ming smiled all over his face: "There are rumors that it cost several thousand taels."
The line of Duke Dingguo is the descendant of Xu Da. The first generation of Duke Dingguo was Xu Zengshou. He was killed by Zhu Yunzhen because he secretly communicated with Zhu Di. During the Yongle period, he was posthumously named Duke Dingguo.
This family was not as good as the British Duke before, but it became prosperous during the Zhengde period. This is because Xu Guangzuo, the contemporary Dingguo Duke, was born as Zhu Houzhao's East Palace guard and was a member of the famous Qianlong team. Now he is in charge of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion and is responsible for
The training work of Shenji Camp.
After chatting about the football league for a while, Zhu Houzhao asked again. The eunuch Li Mingdao said: "There is a scholar in the School of Physics who made a big kite some time ago. That big kite is countless times bigger than an ordinary kite. People can hang on it and jump down from the mountain."
He actually flew two miles. This man had given himself wings before, but was laughed at after his leg was broken. Unexpectedly, he could really fly this time."
"Haha, interesting...cough cough cough!" Zhu Houzhao laughed and coughed, and the imperial concubine hurriedly relieved herself.
Eunuch Li Ming suddenly hesitated: "And... and..."
"What else?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
Eunuch Li Ming suddenly knelt down and took out a silver dollar from his arms: "Your Majesty, please take a look."
Zhu Houzhao took it and frowned and said: "The quality of this silver coin is a bit poor. It is not as delicate and moist as the one cast by Erlang."
Li Ming reminded: "Your Majesty, break it off and take a look."
Zhu Houzhao was very strong. He took it with both hands and broke it hard. It broke directly from the middle. The emperor's surrender on the back of the silver dollar also broke into two halves.
"Bastard...cough cough cough!"
Zhu Houzhao was furious. Sometimes he was very thick-skinned, and sometimes he was extremely concerned about face. This was his profile picture, his "Ingot of Zhengde", how could someone dare to fake it like this?
Zhu Houzhao pushed away the imperial concubine who was helping him, and shouted: "Send the order to Li Ying and ask him to lead the Jin Yiwei to investigate the matter thoroughly!"
Li Ming muttered: "Your Majesty, this money was made by the Ministry of Industry."
"Okay, okay," Zhu Houzhao became even more angry, "arrest Li Hao, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and jail all the officials of the Baoyuan Bureau!"
When Qian Ning fell, a bunch of eunuchs were also investigated, and a major blood change took place in the palace.
Both Zhang Yong and Jiang Bin took advantage of this opportunity and frantically placed people in key positions. Jiang Bin got involved in the appointment and dismissal of eunuchs, which was handled through the eunuch Wei Bin. The two even secretly became in-laws - Wei Bin's grandniece, who married Jiang Bin.
Bin's concubine gave birth to a younger son.
During Zhengde's southern tour, Wei Bin was killed by Zhang Yong. Jiang Bin and Wei Bin's trusted eunuchs were also replaced by Zhang Yong.
Nowadays, except for the imperial eunuch, all the other eunuchs are Zhang Yong's people, including the accompanying eunuch Li Ming in front of him!
After receiving the emperor's order, Li Ying immediately sealed up the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and invited Li Hao, the Minister of Industry, to Jinyiwei Prison for tea. This guy still had some thoughts. After all, arresting a Minister of the Ministry of Industry was a big deal, so he quietly
Send someone to deliver the message to Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan only replied with four words: "Be merciful."
These four words are enough. Li Hao is already over seventy years old and cannot withstand Jin Yiwei's methods.
Wang Yuan immediately took a few low-quality silver coins and went straight into the leopard room angrily while holding on to his belt. He ran to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, if I find that there are counterfeit coins, please immediately order a thorough investigation into the matter!"
Zhu Houzhao was already angry, and actually smiled and said: "Don't worry, Erlang, I already know, the Jin Yiwei is investigating. That Li Hao is so brave, there is my face on the silver coin, he actually dares to pass it off as a good one."
Wang Yuan looked like he was thinking: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with Li Shangshu."
"How could he not know about the bad money made by the Ministry of Industry?" Zhu Houzhao didn't believe it.
Wang Yuan analyzed: "Your Majesty, Li Shangshu has been an official for three dynasties and is now in his seventies. He has handled countless projects, where can he not make money? Why do he risk deceiving the emperor and make such low-quality silver coins?
?”
Zhu Houzhao thought deeply and said: "This statement makes sense... Ahem, I will ask Li Sanlang to investigate carefully again, and I will not let that cunning person slip through the net!"
Who are the cunning people?
Of course it’s Liu Yong, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry!
This man had been promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Industry for several years, and had been impeached for corruption many times. With Wang Yuan's greetings, the Jin Yiwei could easily find out countless dirty materials in a casual trial, and it was easy for him to take the blame.