Chapter 715: Like a clock, like a watch, watch the house
"It's snowing, the sun rises in the morning, it's six degrees below zero, it's cold, the skin on the back of the hands is wrinkled."
Light snow is falling in the heavy snow season. There are heaters in the houses in the imperial city, but not outside.
Zhu Yuanzhang led a group of important ministers and generals to Xiaqiu Village to pick up watches. Last year, heavy snowfall and light snowfall had the same solar terms, so there was no holiday.
There are few things to do this year, so let’s do whatever we can.
The same two days, Xiu Mu moved back to tomorrow, November 15th, today is November 14th.
Officials and generals reported to the imperial city early in the morning and entered Xiaqiu Village with Zhu Yuanzhang.
The main generals who went to fight were eight people, plus 21 ministers from the six departments and the imperial censors Chen Ning, Zeng Lu, Wei Su and Liu Bowen.
There are twenty-nine people in the six ministers this year, but Zhu Yuanzhang is ready to adjust, leaving only twenty-one people, and the remaining eight people will not be given watches.
Each watch has a number, one on the outside and two identical numbers on the inside.
If you are dismissed, you must hand in the watch. If you retire honourably, the watch will be kept and handed over when you die. Unless the other person's children are promising, then it will be passed on to his children.
It is rarely so cold in Nanjing. It was minus 11 degrees this morning and minus 6 degrees after the sun came out.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the back of his hand, which was obviously wrinkled by the cold.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi didn't care. They put their hands in their pockets. Six degrees below zero was even worse than the coldest time in Lin's area, which was more than forty degrees below zero.
You have to go out when you need to, wearing thick clothes and a dog-skin hat, your nose is red from the cold, and there is ice on your eyelashes.
After staying outside for an hour, my feet started to freeze and I had to stamp my feet non-stop.
The fish that was just caught from the river jumped up to five feet high. It was still swinging its tail while it was in the air. It bounced twice when it landed on the ground and stood up.
"Your Majesty, come into the house quickly." The chief led the way.
We felt much more comfortable when we entered the glass house without lead oxide. There was heating. No matter how low the temperature was outside, it was 25 degrees above zero in the house.
Everyone sat down according to their status. The palace maid brought tea and snacks. The person who took the table did not eat, and neither did Zhu Yuanzhang and others.
"After all the ministers place a seal to prove their leadership, they can put their watches back on. If they have anything to take with them, if they feel tired and want to have lunch before leaving, they can stay."
p>Zhu Yuanzhang raised his arm, looked at the watch on his wrist, and nodded to the others.
The ministers have become accustomed to it. Since the fourth day of light snow, they have seen His Majesty always raising his hand to look at his watch. The watch is accurate and does not need to be adjusted.
The watch I received was not that watch. It was said that I would need to check it with the clock every day when I went to court.
“In fact, you don’t have to go to the front of the clock to calibrate it. For example, the watch of our girl and the concubine’s watch is two minutes faster every day, and the concubine’s watch is two minutes slower. You can estimate the time by yourself.If there is too much, just adjust it. Hey hey hey hey"
Zhu Yuanzhang comforted a group of people. Queen Ma's watch was two minutes faster day and night, and Sun Guifei's was two minutes slower. They usually corrected it after getting up in the morning.
Then why is it right? When you wake up in the morning, don't you just set one watch two minutes back and the other two minutes forward?
Everyone nodded, yes, but it still needs to be calibrated, and it's no problem if it's a quarter and a half off. .
Not all of them are accurate. There is no problem if there is a slight deviation, and it may be corrected later. Anyway, just know the approximate time.
Officials and generals will look at each other. , no one said anything about getting something and leaving.
Because taking things is a benefit given by solar terms. If you leave after lunch, you will bring lunch food for your family, so you can eat faster. Then I took the food box and went home.
My family had already told me when I came out that if I didn’t come back at noon, I would have dinner later in the afternoon and bring back the food from Xiaqiu Village.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is no place that cooks better food than Xiaqiu Village. You can buy it elsewhere with money. You can only take advantage of it.
The food in Fuhua House is expensive, so if you give it enough money. , it’s no problem to have it delivered to your home. Whoever dares to ask them to deliver food to Xiaqiu Village should go to the palace.
“Your Majesty, if you don’t want to eat anything for lunch in Xiaqiu Village, I will go back first. "Zeng Lu is smarter and asks first.
"It should be long. "How did Zhu Yuanzhang know? He asked the head of the village.
"Your Majesty, to cool down, some cows died. The village bought them. There are sauce beef, toothpick beef, beef meatballs, stir-fried beef, cold beef tendon, and green onions. Stir-fried beef, beef bone marrow and other whole beef dishes. "The chief replied.
"Your Majesty, I am waiting to eat. "Zeng Lu was shameless at all. As soon as he heard the dish, he decided to take it home.
The other ministers nodded and took it home for a whole cattle feast. The family is guaranteed to be happy.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not Any expression, accustomed to these things, as if they have never eaten before.
The things were brought up, and the box was opened, revealing a pile of watches and clocks
"Yi Chang. , so big, where should I wear it?" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up an alarm watch, or alarm clock, and found that it was inconvenient to carry.
"Your Majesty, this is an alarm clock, prepared for the person who calls the clock. Houses will be tried out in Yingtian Mansion, Ningguo Mansion and Taiping Mansion first. I am afraid that someone will steal or rob me. ”
The director introduced the application of things. It’s hard to do the watch. If you don’t have anything to do during the day, it’s okay. Go to bed and get up at night.
If you have something to do during the day, you can’t wake up at night. What should I do? Normally I can change my shift, but it would be uncomfortable for anyone else.
The clock can tell the time, but the alarm is noisy and noisy.
"Stealing and stealing, I have to worry about it all day long. I can't ship it overseas. There are a lot of things in the house, including boxes of candles. Why don't people steal them?"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care, he kept the house. There are hourglasses, candles, incense sticks, and water leaks. Who dares to touch these if they are worthless?
In fact, there is not one person in the watchroom. The watchmen have to go out at the same time, and each person is responsible for one side. There are people staying behind, such as apprentices.
And it may not be just one person who does the watch. If someone comes out with his apprentice, someone has to pick up the slack.
Who doesn’t know that walking alone at night is dangerous and it’s normal to have a companion.
"In that case, let's use it for the guard." The director didn't care.
Then another box was brought over, this time it was a box, a beautiful wooden box with varnish on the outside. When the box was opened, it was satin, and a watch was in the groove.
When the ministers saw this, they immediately smiled, beautiful
Zhu Yuanzhang recalled, "The watch on our wrist was given by the prince, and there is nothing else."
He picked up a normal watch and said, "Look how good this watch is, what's inside our watch"
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Other people's The watch has three hands, the hour hand, the minute hand, and the second hand. Behind it is a white background, or the bottom plate.
Zhu Yuanzhang's watch has a gear structure inside, and the tourbillon has a date.
"Your Majesty, since you don't like it, why don't we exchange it?" Tang He wanted to exchange the ordinary watch he didn't get for the tourbillon.
"Who are you talking to? We are the two of us? When you talked about us, it caused us to go back and be beaten by Liu De, and you wanted to harm us again." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and quarreled back.
"I know I was wrong" Tang He apologized, but his tone was not sincere.
Zhu Wentian wanted to laugh when he was around, that is, Tang He dared to talk like this, and he had played with Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child.
So when he attacked the Xia Kingdom in Sichuan, Zhu Yuanzhang scolded Tang He instead of scolding others, which delayed the matter.
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