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Chapter 16 Glasses

While Fu Yuan went to get the medicine, Chen Mu chatted with doctor Cheng Hongyuan for a while. Only then did he realize that Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau had appeared as early as the Song Dynasty, but now it has been declining. Originally, Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau was all the official offices, but later the imperial court cleared and reduced redundant officials, and the officials were not reduced much, but the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau changed all the official offices to private private enterprises. In this way, the doctors in the Pharmaceutical Bureau naturally did not have a good life.

In addition to Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau, policies on social welfare were established in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the adoption of widowed orphans in the city and the cemetery of the People's Cemetery, and most of them had problems such as these and those that occurred during the Jiajing period.

These things were just complaining to doctor Cheng Hongyuan, but they were particularly harsh to Chen Mu. No one knew better than him about the outcome of the Ming Dynasty, just as no one knew better than him about the humiliation of China over three hundred years after the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, he was a rational and slander. He often scolded carpenters for stepping on crooked trees on the Internet. When he was reborn in this era, he felt even more disdainful. Look at the peasant army in the garrison, look at the firecrackers that the military households would not want to use. The soldiers hated the most not only foreign enemies but officials from the Ministry of Works. Where can I reason about this matter?

His small flag military household was taken as a confidant under Bai Yuanjie, but he was treated as a confidant, but he had to face more than twenty bandits without firearms and left their weapons to escape. Zhang Yongshou's flag military household was even more unbearable, and he even had the accident of killing his comrades with a gun. It would be understandable if there were only problems on the battlefield. The soldiers in the first battle were terrifying, and he would rely on firearms to strengthen his courage. Surviving the first-class team was entirely based on luck, but killing good people, killing troops, and buying and selling the heads?

Chen Mu no longer wants to go to the Ming Dynasty. In his eyes, the Ming Dynasty is still very bad, but he can no longer raise the feeling of ridicule and contempt. The experience that has exceeded the age of hundreds of years is not as true as seeing. In the past, he always thought that in the change of dynasties, the blame could be attributed to one or several people. It is the incompetence of the emperor, the incompetence of civil servants, and the fear of death by military officers? None of them is, all of this is more straightforward than the short four words "the energy is about to end".

At this time, there were about a hundred years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Mu was outside the prosperous Guangzhou Prefecture, the largest metropolis south of the Five Ridges. He heard the noise and clamor from the street market, but what he thought was that the military households of the Qingyuan garrison packed their farm tools from the fields and returned to the garrison to spend their lives listlessly.

On the eve of the revival of the Empire, Chen Muli looked at everything coldly in the corner of the world, but only felt the hopeless darkness and coldness. Is the so-called revival athletic or Chen Dan's long-standing illness unable to resist the revival of the tiger and wolf medicine?

Although history has long given a cold answer, Chen Mu wanted to do something while this has not happened yet. He wanted to do something more besides letting himself live well.

Cheng Hongyuan gave the medicine to the old man Zheng. He originally asked for a treatment fee of 130 yuan, but Chen Mu and others had not exchanged copper coins, so they simply cut off two cents of silver for him, which made the elderly doctor leave gratefully. Before leaving, he said that if there was any need in the future, he would send someone to Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau to find him and come on call.

Isn’t this as unlucky as the nurses’ words when they left the hospital in the future when they were welcomed to visit next time?

But just like that, Chen Mu felt that Cheng Hongyuan was right, and as military households, they were inseparable from the affairs of Jin Chuang.

When he was free, Chen Mu planned to go out for a walk, so he asked Shiqi and Fu Yuan to take care of Old Man Zheng in turn, and also to take care of their spears and muskets. He went out to wander the streets with Shao Tingda and Wei Balang to do nothing to be a big knowledge. In this regard, Shao Tingda and Wei Balang and Chen Mu were both rural bullies who had never entered the city, and they felt fresh wherever they went.

What made Chen Mu most amazing was that he actually saw a pair of glasses on his nose wearing a silk servant!

If he hadn't been concerned about his arrogant manners and his swearing entourage, he really wanted to ask where his eyes came from. Did there be glass in the Ming Dynasty? But he had never seen glass products like glasses these days, even Bai Yuanjie's Baihu Office's yamen.

This novelty made him feel like a cat was scratched, and he was eager to figure it out.

However, after a while, Chen Mu no longer was anxious about this. There was a shop in the street with white banners on the left and right fronts, with the words "Two Western and Western Wealthy Wonderful Things". In the store, a person was trying to put the black lens on the bridge of his nose in front of the sunlight. If this is not sunglasses, what is it!

When Chen Mu entered the store, the store saw that there were three down-and-out military households. Although they were not cold but not very enthusiastic, the price they asked for made Chen Mu secretly amazed. These were not glass glasses, the lenses were made of crystals, and they said they were from the Esperanto. A pair of simple copper-framed glasses cost 43 taels and 5 cents of silver, and directly persuaded Chen Mu to leave.

‘Good, a pair of glasses actually cost fourteen people…’ Chen Mu thought of this and walked out of the store and raised his hand and patted him on the back of his head to stop this hideous and terrible idea. He killed bandits in his heart and sold them to Zhang Yongshou. He felt that the weight and measure of money in his mind were becoming more and more like a barbarian, and he had to measure the price by human heads. How could this idea look like a soldier or intellectual? But this little shame was thrown away by him in a blink of an eye. He suddenly had an idea: ‘Glass… is burned from sand?’

Two lenses cost forty taels of silver, one lens is worth five, no, a single lens is worth twenty taels of silver. If he could burn out the glass, wouldn’t this money be faster than the strong wind?

Maybe soon, he no longer needs to regard the head level as a measure.

Chen Mu's mind was turning fast. He had already left it behind him to hire a chef to stir-fry two portions of vegetables and he couldn't even remember it. Mr. Chen is now thinking about making kilns, digging soil and boiling salt, making money and getting rich to the peak of his life! Then he had not taken a few steps and began to worry about gains and losses. What if his secrets caused him a life-threatening disaster? What if these secret methods leaked news?

This made Chen Mu feel worried until he lowered his head to see the mandarin duck war jacket on his body and the goose feather sword on his waist. Only at this time did he finally no longer feel that his identity as a military household was a burden. Qingyuan Guards, although he really didn't like those peasants, could not deny that the military household was his best protective color, giving him the power to blatantly carry a gun.

If the Qingyuan Guard is used well, he can be well protected before he is not strong enough, protect him and protect his "little inventors". Even if he is peeping with him, is there anyone else who dares to go to the guard to steal secret recipes?

Chen Xiaoqi didn't believe it at all. With this joy that Shao Tingda and Wei Balang could not know, he walked to the Ma City outside Guangzhou Prefecture City in one step.

Note: Glasses - Zhao Xihu, a member of the Southern Song Dynasty, mentioned in "Dongtian Qinglu" that "Wang Yan (pronounced: Love Dai), the old man did not read the detailed book, so he would be clear when he covered his eyes."
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