Chapter 99 The Use of Glycerin
After the Ming Dynasty examination, the time for releasing the results was not a rigidly specified time, but it also followed an unspoken rule, that is, on the fifteenth day after the examination ended The results must be released within the day.
The reason why the results are stuck in fifteen days is also due to the time of the palace examination during the Ming Dynasty.
When the Ming Dynasty was first built, all customization was still in the exploratory stage, so the time changes were relatively random.
For example, the first palace examination held in the Ming Dynasty was held on February 29th in the fourth year of Hongwu.
However, in the later development of the system, the time of the palace examination has also been roughly customized. The palace examination is usually held two or three days after the results of the general examination are released, usually around the first day of March.
However, in the eighth year of Chenghua, the date of the palace examination was changed to March 15th, and the emperor personally presided over it.
From then on, the palace examination time of the Ming Dynasty was determined to be March 15th.
This March is not only a time for hundreds of flowers to bloom, but also a time full of vitality and hope.
One day at the beginning of the month, after more than ten days of deliberation, the Ministry of Rites finally released the list of 320 "tribute scholars" admitted for the Gengxu Annual Examination.
For a time, whether it was the candidates for the Beijing Middle School Examination or other people in the capital, their eyes were involuntarily attracted by the list of "tribute scholars" released by the Ministry of Rites.
Because they all know that this "Gongshi" list is the list for the palace examination on March 15th.
As long as he can be on the list, or at worst he can be in the top three and have a Jinshi background, he will be able to rise to great heights.
On this day, Hai Rui also came to the list release place of the Ministry of Rites with excitement. He squeezed through the crowd and looked up at the huge list, expecting his name to appear on it.
Hai Rui looked at the names one by one starting from the beginning. Every time he saw a strange name, he couldn't help but feel a little more anxious.
At the same time, there will be people around him constantly screaming in surprise and shouting excitedly: "I won!"
Listening to these excited voices, for those who are already on the list For those who find their own name, it is a beautiful fairy sound.
But for those who have not yet found their name on the list, it is a torture of anxiety.
Hai Rui held his breath, suppressed his excitement, and continued searching down the list.
After Hai Rui looked at the names of nearly three hundred lucky people, he finally saw his own name in the corner of the "Gong Shi" list.
No. 297 Hai Rui
When Hai Rui saw his name, his emotions instantly became excited. His accelerated heartbeat made his face turn red, and the corners of his mouth turned red. After shaking for a few times, I wanted to shout out that incomparably beautiful fairy sound, "I'm hit."
But when this sentence came to his lips, he couldn't shout it out. In the end, all his strength was used to restrain his excited emotions and trembling body.
Although Hai Rui is also looking forward to winning the ranking, he is also very aware of how cruel the competition is.
So even though he had great longing and hope, he still felt extremely uneasy before he saw the name on the "Gongshi" list. Now when he saw his name appearing in the 297th position, the person he was most grateful for was the noble young man he met in the Liulichang alley.
If it weren’t for that noble gentleman’s enthusiasm and kindness. Hai Rui was absolutely sure that with his previous writing style and accumulation of skills in eight-part essays, he would never be on the list.
Because more than a month before the examination, Hai Rui had already seen many past Jinshi answer sheets through Gao Gong. When he saw these Jinshi articles, Hai Rui already knew very well that he and How big is the gap between Jinshi.
So during Gao Gong's nearly month-long assault training, Hai Rui also deeply felt the weight of that noble young master.
Had it not been for the noble prince’s special regard, Gao Gong would never have spent so much time and effort on him to improve his eight-part essay so that he could succeed in this imperial examination. He stood out and continued to participate in the palace examination on March 15th as one of the 297 "tribute scholars".
Just when Hai Rui was excited that he had passed the general examination and was qualified to enter the palace examination, Zhu Zaijing was also busy working on something new.
In the past few months, Zhu Zaijing also saved a lot of glycerin due to the production of soap.
In the past, these glycerols might have been common industrial raw materials, and they were the kind of industrial raw materials that had not been developed for use.
So in order to make these glycerin also have effects, Zhu Zaijing is now also trying to make people study the effects of glycerin.
The one with the most fruitful research is Li Shizhen.
Zhu Zaijing gave Li Shizhen some glycerol and asked him to study the pharmacology of glycerol.
After several months of research, Li Shizhen really lived up to Zhu Zaijing's expectations and discovered some medicinal values of glycerol.
Li Shizhen discovered that these glycerins have an amazing effect on the treatment of wounds and burns. General wounds and burns treated with glycerin scab much faster than ordinary drugs, and it also miraculously reduces "inflammation" "happened.
So after discovering this characteristic, Li Shizhen immediately fed back the result to Zhu Zaijing.
Although Zhu Zaijing did not understand pharmacology, when he heard Li Shizhen say that glycerin can treat general wounds and burns and reduce inflammation, Zhu Zaijing also suddenly thought that these glycerin should have antibacterial and antiviral properties.
After learning about this magical effect, Zhu Zaijing couldn't help but sigh. He originally thought that glycerin was a raw material for making bombs, but he didn't expect that it actually had medicinal effects.
However, from this discovery of Li Shizhen, Zhu Zaijing can also guess that these discoveries of Li Shizhen are also based on general observations.
If Li Shizhen could be given a more powerful microscope, allowing him to observe the reaction between glycerin and other drugs or minerals more deeply, he might be able to discover more magical uses.
So during this period, Zhu Zaijing is also recruiting craftsmen who polish crystal lenses. He hopes that these craftsmen can polish and manufacture transparent lenses with better precision based on the existing ones, and then combine them with Taixi's Some research progress in natural science and natural technology to see if a simple microscope can be developed.
After all, things like "clairvoyance" are now gradually becoming popular at sea and in the military. This shows that both scientists from the Ming Dynasty and Western countries have initially mastered basic optical applications.
If coupled with Zhu Zaijing's guidance from a high position, he can give them some new ideas and let them continue to experiment in the right direction, maybe they can actually complete some basic optical equipment inventions in a very short period of time. .
(End of this chapter)