Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 879, I have learned a lot

"Husband, it's time to get up. You promised to take us to that zoo to see animals today."

Xu Wan'er pinched Liu Jin who was still asleep and said.

"Yeah, it looks like I can't sleep in late today."

Hearing Xu Waner's words, Liu Jin remembered that today is the opening day of the first zoo in Ming Dynasty. Zhu Houzhao told himself to take a look at it, and he also promised to bring Xu Waner, Li Zhen and his own zoo. The two children went to the zoo together to have a look.

There was no way, although he was very reluctant, but Liu Jin still got up from the gentleness.

After breakfast, Liu Jin's family also took a four-wheeled carriage to Daming No. [-] Zoo.

By the time Liu Jin arrived at Daming No. [-] Zoo, it was already Sishi (around ten o'clock), and the entrance of the zoo was already crowded with people.

There is a huge parking lot at the entrance, which is full of luxurious four-wheeled carriages. From these four-wheeled carriages, dignitaries and dignitaries, or female relatives of wealthy families, etc. I am very curious and want to come and see what this zoo is like.

"It's really very lively!"

Li Zhen looked at the scene of heavy traffic at the gate of the zoo, and said with a smile.

"Isn't it? His Royal Highness doesn't know how many free tickets have been given out. It's no wonder it's not lively."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

After speaking, Liu Jin also took out a few tickets and took his family into the zoo, ready to play in it. His two children couldn't wait, clamoring to see lions, tiger.

Liu Jin had just entered the front foot, and several two-wheeled carriages arrived at the gate of the zoo. Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao.Zhang Mao, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others also got out of the carriage in plain clothes, and looked at the gate of the zoo with great interest.

"It's very lively!"

Emperor Hongzhi thought for a while and then said to Zhu Houzhao: "There are so many people coming to watch the entrance ticket for one tael of silver. It seems that your zoo will not lose money."

"Father, I don't know if I'm losing money or not, but as long as I can do something meaningful, it doesn't matter if I spend some money."

Zhu Houzhao blushed, he didn't remember how many tickets he had given out, and he was still advertising on the Ming Morning Post, wouldn't this be exciting?
"Go in and have a look."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled undeniably, and also took the lead to walk into the zoo.

Just after entering the zoo, there is a rockery design at the gate. This rockery is designed with reference to the appearance of Huangshan Mountain. At this time, many people are already watching this rockery. There is also a text description picture next to the rockery.

"Father~ This is Huangshan Mountain. I had someone make it according to a certain proportion according to Huangshan Mountain. Then the pine tree next to it is Huangshan pine. I also asked people to dig it from Huangshan Mountain and transplant it directly."

There were many people around. In order not to let people know the identity of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao's title was also changed.

"Huangshan?"

When Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others heard this, they immediately became interested, and quickly stared at the rockery carefully.

"Is this how Huangshan is?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the appearance of the rockery in front of him, and said in disbelief that although he was the emperor and claimed to rule the world, he had actually been to very few places.

He has never been to any of Huangshan, Taishan, Lushan, Huashan, etc.

"I have been to Huangshan once, and it is indeed similar to the Huangshan in my memory, and this Huangshan pine is indeed a pine tree from Huangshan."

Xie Qian looked at the rockery carefully, nodded and said.

"It turns out that Huangshan looks like this."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and sighed, "It doesn't look like the most amazing mountain in the world."

"Father, this is just a rockery after all."

Zhu Houzhao pouted and said.

The crowd continued to visit.

"Father, this is ginseng, or a century-old ginseng!"

Everyone soon came to several large vats, and Zhu Houzhao pointed to a few ginseng plants in the vats and said.

"Is this ginseng?"

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others couldn't help but widen their eyes slightly. Everyone is familiar with ginseng. Who hasn't eaten ginseng?

But the ginseng you eat is completely different from the ginseng in front of you. The ginseng you eat is like a radish, but the ginseng in front of you is nothing like a radish.

"Haha, of course it's ginseng."

"The red fruit on it is the seed of ginseng. The ginseng we usually eat is buried in the soil. You must have never seen such ginseng before?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded with a smile and said.

"I really haven't seen it before."

Zhang Mao nodded and said.

Then he took a closer look at a sign next to it, which clearly stated in black and white the origin of ginseng, how to distinguish age, medicinal properties, and how to distinguish between real and fake ginseng.

"It turns out that there are so many varieties of ginseng, such as panax notoginseng, bamboo ginseng, pearl ginseng, fake ginseng, etc. are all fake ginseng, without any medicinal properties. Only the ginseng produced in Liaodong and North Korea is real. Ginseng can be used as medicine."

After reading the above introduction, Xie Qian couldn't help but said.

"Yeah, I didn't expect that there are so many types of ginseng."

Li Dongyang also nodded and said: "It's really a long time to learn, and today is considered to be a good experience."

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but nodded slightly, he had eaten a lot of ginseng, and drank this ginseng soup almost every day, but this was the first time he had seen this ginseng, and it was also the first time he knew that there was so much knowledge in this ginseng.

As for Zhu Houzhao on the side, he grinned happily, this effect was what he wanted, and at the same time he couldn't help admiring Liu Jin in his heart.

Without Liu Jin's guidance and without writing a sign next to it, the effect would have been at least half worse.

Zhu Houzhao accompanied Emperor Hongzhi and his party to wander around the zoo very casually.

All kinds of plants and animals are also eye-opening for everyone. Many of them have only heard of them before, but they have never seen them. Now they finally have the opportunity to take a look.

"Father, look, this is a lion!"

Walking, walking, finally arrived at the animal area, the first animal is the lion, Zhu Houzhao pointed to the lion locked in the big iron cage and said.

"This is a lion!"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately became interested. He looked at the lion carefully and said, "Why do some lions have no manes?"

"Father, among these lions, only the male lion has mane, and the female lion has no mane."

Zhu Houzhao explained with a smile.

"I see, I thought lions had mane."

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized what he said.

"This lion comes from the African prairie. There are many kinds of animals on the African prairie."

"Look at the zebras, elephants, crocodiles, giraffes, antelopes, bison, hippos, etc. all come from the African savannah, and these chimpanzees, they come from the big island in the east of Africa."

Zhu Houzhao introduced Emperor Hongzhi and others like a few treasures.

"There is such a horse?"

"This black and white one is too ugly, isn't it?"

"And this elephant is really huge, it's like a big wall."

"There are bison in Africa. Don't Africans domesticate these bison and use them to cultivate land?"

Emperor Hongzhi and others laughed and discussed while looking at various animals.

At this moment, they are also immersed in such fun all at once. Seeing animals that they have never seen before can be regarded as greatly increasing their knowledge.

"@#%￥%&%"

At this moment, there was a burst of yelling and yelling from an iron house, and at the same time there was the sound of violent banging on iron.

When everyone heard this, they were also slightly startled, and then they all looked over, only to see more than a dozen dark black people imprisoned inside, and they were also looking at the Daming people visiting outside.

They kept yelling, and seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with their treatment. After all, anyone could tell that they were being held up like animals and then made available for people to visit.

"What kind of animals are these?"

Someone asked in surprise, then thought for a while and said, "They should be human, right?"

"These are African blacks. They are very black. The skin is as black as charcoal."

Zhu Houzhao smiled and pointed to these people and said: "These are the Kunlun slaves in historical records. These blacks are mainly in the south of the African desert. In addition, some blacks were found in Australia, but the number is far less than that in Africa. There are many."

"Are these black people?"

"I've heard people say that there is a kind of black people here in Africa. Their skin is extremely dark, just like charcoal. I didn't expect to see it today. It turns out that it looks like this."

When Zhang Mao heard it, he looked at it carefully and couldn't help but said with a smile.

"Actually, there's nothing unusual about it."

"There are not only black people in the world, but also white people. Many people in Europe and the Middle East are white. Their skin is as white as paper, their eyes are blue, and their hair is red or golden."

"However, we haven't caught such a person yet. When our Ming Dynasty goes to Europe in the future, we will definitely catch some of these slaves and bring them back for everyone to see."

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "These barbarians have very hideous and terrifying appearances, and they are too far away from us Ming people. Our Daming people are the prettiest."

"Of course, we Daming people must be the best looking."

When everyone heard this, they immediately nodded.

　Heck, isn't that considered discrimination?Europeans seem to have done the same in history.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)