Wanli Xinming

Chapter 317 Fire
The development of things is often not premised on human will. If a small thing with a low fault tolerance rate has more controlled links, the greater the probability of its collapse.

The Miyun robbery case was gradually calm, Hu Yong was killed, and Ma Bin, who was covering it, disappeared. These two key links were removed. Even if the court knew that it must be hiding other shady secrets, the repeated turmoil in the officialdom was not liked by Zhu Yijun and the Zhengshitang. , Politicians are not obsessive-compulsive, and they all know the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish.

However, everything that happened in the West Market Court had to let the court come to a thorough and clear conclusion-if it was announced to the public, what was exposed would not be called a shady story, but a complete farce.

In this black and absurd script, Hu Yong, the leader of the underworld, who is ganging up on the law, looting minerals and bribery of power, becomes the "victim", and the gangster who fights and hurts becomes a heroic hero, the father of the queen mother, the earl of the empire He became a funny clown, and with the help of the newspapers, he also gave birth to a sky that is "viewed by the sky and viewed by the people".

Shao Boti was interviewed on the hospital bed, and vividly described the image of the emperor harvesting rice that appeared in front of him before he was determined to make a scene.

The Ministry of Personnel finally found out that the magistrate of Wanping is a cadre with lofty consciousness, good morals, and outstanding ability - it can be seen that it is not advisable to determine the future based on the results of the field.During the deep involvement of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the National Security Bureau and other powerful departments to investigate the whole process of the robbery case in detail, rumors have already spread that Shao Boti will go straight to Qingliu Huaxuan, and the appointment to be transferred to the official department is about to be issued.

Shao Boti, who became famous in the first battle, stepped into the fast lane of promotion, and others may not be so lucky.When the well-functioning state machinery started to operate, all the ghosts and ghosts gradually lost their place.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the 13th year of Wanli, the capital was covered in snow.With the development of industry, more and more workers are employed in various places. It is rare to see refugees begging for food in the capital around the Spring Festival in the past few years, and Shuntian Prefecture also lost one job because of this.

When Han Bixian, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, ended his New Year's greetings, it was almost dusk when he approached his house, and it was time for thousands of households to make fires and cook.

The entire capital was shrouded in a faint blue smoke, and Han Bixian's nose also smelled some pungent soot.When I looked closely at this fog, I couldn't see anything, it was like the past, more like his mood.

This light blue haze has only appeared in recent years, mainly because the capital has begun to use coal in large quantities.

Nowadays, except for the poor who raked grass and collect firewood by themselves in autumn, no one above the middle class in the capital burns firewood, and the woodcutter has completely lost this livelihood.At the same time, the production of lotus root coal and all kinds of coal stoves has created new jobs, and the rough hands that put down the hatchet go to forge iron and mud. food and clothing.For thousands of years, ordinary people have lived like this all their lives.

As large quantities of coal entered the market, the price gradually became cheaper than that of firewood.After all the charcoal heating objects such as smokers and hand stoves were abandoned in the palace, coal stoves and fireplaces with chimneys finally flourished.

In the palace and in the homes of dignitaries, there are hundreds of exquisite smokers of all kinds, all of which are now eating ashes in the warehouse.It's not that Zhu Yijun took the nobles to help the coal industry develop the market, but because this thing kills a lot of people every year because of its smoke-after the winter this year, the newspapers once again promoted it on a large scale.

The medical school has studied and understood the toxicity mechanism of carbon monoxide for a long time. The researcher published it in the Gewu journal, and then the newspaper also made a large-scale publicity. Li Shizhen, the vice president of the School of Medicine, pointed out in the quotation of his paper that carbon monoxide poisoning is very serious. It may be the leading cause of maternal and infant mortality in your family.

"The so-called 'red charcoal' used by nobles is warm and durable, gray and white but not bursting, but it is nothing more than incomplete combustion. Its gas can damage people, causing dizziness, coma and vomiting, which is acceptable for adults, but not for infants ? Or being poisoned by this poison will cause death repeatedly, which is good and painful."

The revelation of the mechanism of carbon monoxide toxicity has even solved the mysterious reason why most of the royal princes and daughters of the Ming Dynasty died prematurely. Not only did the palaces of the Forbidden City not have chimneys, but also smoked furnaces weighing several hundred kilograms. If you can go out and breathe, who dares to hold a baby in the ice and snow? [Note 1]
Although low concentrations of carbon monoxide may not be fatal, it has greatly harmed the bodies of the royal family and noble family members. The Ming and Qing royal families in the original time and space have never found the reason for the lack of people in the Forbidden City, and even blamed it on Feng Shui. , a pity.

Zhu Yijun understands this truth, and has always paid great attention to the ventilation in the palace in winter. Therefore, since he crossed the Forbidden City, there has been no tragedy of smoke smoked to death.After the medical school researched the production and toxicology of carbon monoxide, Zhu Yijun took the lead in abandoning the smoking cage in the Forbidden City and using a stove or fireplace with a chimney.After the birth of the emperor's eldest daughter, her room didn't even need a stove or a fireplace, instead she used a fire wall and a kang for heating.

As a high-ranking official in a four-pin red robe, Han Bixian never thought about these things.But this Spring Festival, he found that the exquisite copper gilt, cloisonné and enamel three-legged smoking cage was no longer used at home, including his daughter, who no longer used the hand stove with the charcoal cakes - they were all changed to coal stoves and soup pots.

Because the coal stove needs to be connected to the chimney, it is difficult to make it look better than the smoker. At most, some patterns are added and some copper materials are inlaid.And the lotus root coal is even worse than the red charcoal, there is no smoke when lighting the fire, and it is very dark and ugly - just like all kinds of new things that are happening in the world today, it is more than practical, but seriously lacking in style.

Lotus root coal is difficult to ignite in a heater, and lotus root coal must be used to burn it, which is also called big-eye coal, and a newspaper is needed to burn big-eye coal.The servants of the Han family used the fire sickle machine to ignite newspapers—this is a machine that has only been circulated since Rishenglong in the 12th year of Wanli. It is a square silver box with the top open. The core is extremely exquisite, the cheapest one sells for four silver dollars, and if it is embedded with jewelry or gold thread patterns, there are hundreds of dollars.

Once this thing comes out, it will replace all the exquisite fire sickles in the purses of the dignitaries of the capital.No matter how exquisite the scythe is, it takes one minute to ignite, but the scythe machine only takes one second. The expensive kerosene declares the user's financial resources and identity.

Thinking of kerosene, Han Bixian thought of his own situation.At the beginning, that greed was just a little flame on the scythe. When he took Ma Bin's bribe for the first time, he was so frightened that his face was still white when he returned home, and he didn't dare to sleep that night.

Then this idea turned into a charcoal fire, and from the pores of morality and conscience, blue flames burst out, burning the stove red.He openly regarded Miyun's bribe as a regular filial piety, and the Han family also lived a "happy" life of cooking oil and flowers.

However, with the collapse of the robbery cave and the shouting on the dharma field, it all shattered - the flames in the furnace licked up the roof, burning everything that must be peeled off, reflecting Han Bixian's face, He was as pale and bloodless as when he first accepted the bribe.

After sending his wife and daughter to visit her sister's house to pay New Year's greetings, the Han family's study burst into flames in the dark night, which soon alarmed Lifang - fire prevention in winter, especially in the first month, is the top priority. Broke down tight.

When the fire was rescued, Han Bixian was left with only a piece of black coke, curled up like a defeated dog who couldn't scream again.And the sudden fire stopped the investigation of Miyun's robbery case to the level of Shuntian Mansion.

　Note: Carbon monoxide poisoning caused the death of the prince and the princess in the Forbidden City is a family statement, but Lao Mo thinks it is very reasonable - so he adopts this statement.An important proof is: Puyi almost died of gas poisoning in the Forbidden City when he was a child.

　　
　
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