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Chapter 135 Weapons Bureau

"I wonder where your highness is going to meet with the officials?" Tang Ruowang bowed to Zhu Cixuan.

Zhu Cixuan thought for a while: "There are too many rules in the palace, so why not let's walk in the Zuixian Tower, where I will set a private room. How about meeting each other at the You hour?"

"Your Highness is so kind to love, but it is better to obey your orders than to be respectful."

This is very similar to the secret gathering of two adulterers and silver wives, one is the crown prince of the current dynasty, and the other is an official of the Imperial Heaven Supervision. The two chatted in the palace, and there were many inconveniences. It seemed like a good choice to leave the palace and go to a restaurant to have a drink to make friends.

In the first year of the Ming Dynasty and Hongwu, a huge and prosperous dynasty came into being. Zheng He went to the West, repaired Altan Khan, built the Ming Great Wall, and poured the body of this dynasty.

"Yongle Ceremony", "Compendium of Agricultural Affairs", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Natural Works to Bring Things" embodies the mind of this dynasty. And what nourishes the body, mind and soul of this dynasty is still a clear and rich glass of wine.

These large restaurants in Beijing are magnificent. The plaques with inscriptions of celebrities are hung outside the doors, mostly written in vermilion. The naughty emperor personally opened a royal tavern during the Zhengde period of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty. There were plaques on the left and right sides of the store, with the emperor writing "The No. 1 tavern in the world" and "The four seasons should be hungry". The wine flags at the door were hung high, and the emperor wrote "This store sells lotus wine in the four seasons". Although the emperor was playing with it for a while, they all came imitating the restaurant in the capital.

Zhu Cilang is a regular visitor here in Zuixianlou. However, no one here knows his identity, the shopkeeper of the restaurant, only knows that this is a wealthy young man named Zhu.

In this era, merchants have long learned a theoretical knowledge of sales. In any famous restaurant in Beijing, there must be a handsome waiter who is very polite and flattering at the door. They wear square turbans, purple shirts, silk shoes and clean socks under their feet, and cross their hands respectfully. When they see the guests pass by, they say, "Please sit!"

There are many kinds of fine wines in the restaurant, including people brewed by people from all over the country, such as the Cangzhou Yellow Rice Wine, the Cangzhou Wine in Jinan, the Qiubai Dew Wine in Shaoxing, the Wujiali Wine in Gaoyou, the Snow Wine in Yangzhou, and the Pidong Wine in Chengdu.

If the guests are elegant people, they may also drink the homemade wines made by scholars and officials near Nanjing. The brewing process is more refined and the taste is lighter, such as the Fengzhou wine of the famous literati Wang Shizhen, the Zhenyi wine of Nanjing scholars and officials Wang Xun Chuan, Xu Qidong's Fengquan wine, and Qi Boxiu's Furong Lu wine.

These are generally consumed by ordinary people such as folk scholars, scholars, scholars, and merchants. People with status such as Zhu Cixuan, and those high-ranking officials and nobles can even taste Da Nei wine in restaurants. That is, the imperial court, and business in the Ming Dynasty was actually quite prosperous. These imperial court wines were not prohibited from being circulated among the people.

Among them, Zhu Cilang’s favorite drink is a kind of fine wine called Mandianxiang. As its name suggests, you cannot tell the quality of this wine from the appearance of the jar.

But as soon as the jar seal was opened, the whole room immediately smelled of wine. Pour it into a bowl, the wine was soaked everywhere, and the room was filled with fragrance.

The fine wines in the palace, such as golden stem dew, Taixi white, lotus stamens, hibiscus liquid, golden plate dew, gentleman soup, etc., can be tasted here as long as you are willing to spend money. There is also a kind of "Daguan Nei Dharma Wine", that is, the wine brewed by Guanglu Temple according to the prescriptions of the palace, as a substitute.

Zhu Cilang took Sun Wangcai and followed the secret guard Meng Fanchao. When he arrived at the Zuixian Tower, he was already full of guests. The people outside the city were in dire straits and natural disasters were frequent. Inside the capital, there was a lot of singing and dancing, and he was drunk and dreaming of death.

The numb people continued their carnival. It seemed that the natural disasters everywhere had nothing to do with the bandits everywhere.

"When will the singing and dancing in the West Lake be done outside the mountain? The warm wind makes tourists drunk, and they make Hangzhou Bianzhou." A down-and-out scholar was drunk, drunk, and sighed in a table in a corner of the lobby.

A cultural elite is often equivalent to a social elite. Most people who come to restaurants to consume are literati and poets. Even officials or civilians in the market often have the pleasure of drinking and writing poems. The restaurants also specially prepare poems for guests to write and express their feelings. If your poetry is too popular or you are confident in calligraphy, you can also make a splendid wise move on the white walls. If you write well, you will be famous throughout the ages. Others will say: Good poetry, good poetry, fine quality, fine quality, fine master. If you don’t write well, just apply a layer of chalk.

This kind of scholar who is very popular in poetry is not surprising in the restaurant. Zhu Cilang didn't care, it doesn't matter if the customer is full. There is no private room because there is not enough money in your pocket. If the money is not good, there will always be one that can be tried and tested.

Zhu Cilang, he occupied all three things. With the rise of Xishan Glass Factory, he had endless money to spend, and he was extremely generous in his hand. As for fists, Meng Fanchao, the secret guard around him, it is no exaggeration to say that one against ten is not a problem. As for power, hehe...

Zhu Cilang didn't need to worry about this. Sun Wangcai, who was beside him, had already gone to negotiate. Soon, Wangcai walked down from the second floor and bowed to Zhu Cilang and said, "Young Master, the best room upstairs has been freed up for you."

Zhu Cilang nodded slightly, and he slowly walked up the stairs. Before leaving, he glanced at the down-and-out scholar. Unexpectedly, the scholar chanted and sang, lying on the table and cried loudly.

All this has nothing to do with Zhu Cilang. What he wants to do now is to communicate with Johnson Chan about the manufacturing of firearms and metallurgy issues. Every time traveler changed his gun and made cannons in a disagreement.

In fact, it is not that easy to operate. Unless you are a professional, you will find many difficulties when you actually operate it.

For example, in the city of Yizhou, Liaodong, the flowering bullet made by Zhu Cilang either silenced or exploded in a time-delayed manner. If it weren't for chance that Fan Wenli, who was curious to kill the cat, showed it to Huang Taiji with a shell in his arms, wouldn't have been injured by himself at that time.

Zhu Cilang also had to ask for advice from Johnson Tang for many of these mechanical knowledge principles. The Red Barbarian cannons exerted great power in the Battle of Ningyuan. According to historical records, under the attack of the Ming army's fierce artillery fire, the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners flew everywhere and piled up like mountains, which was the first defeat since Nurhaci's army. In the Battle of Ningjin, the Red Barbarian cannons exerted great power again and the Ming army won a great victory.

Shortly after Zhu Cixuan came to the private room and sat down, Tang Ruowang followed him.

When he saw the prince, Joshua Tsang wanted to salute him, Zhu Cixuan waved his hand: "I am traveling in a condom, so these common rituals will be exempted. Joshua Tsang, I am looking for you to ask you, are you willing to work in the Military Weapons Bureau?"

The Hongwu court set up military weapons bureaus to make saddles and bridles and various weapons. The Ming court ordered saddles and bridles to form independent bureaus, and the Military Weapon Bureau specialized in various firearms and cold weapons. Later, the Ming court ordered military weapons bureaus to set up military weapons bureaus to make various weapons.

Unexpectedly, Chau Wang shook his head: "When you say to the Crown Prince, the official only wants to stay in the Imperial Heavenly Prison."
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