My father is Jiajing

Chapter 483 Where is my nephew?
Huang Jin personally gave instructions, Emperor Jiajing personally supervised the work, and a few poor craftsmen followed the instructions and began to stop Zhu Zaigui from drawing the safety rope.

After some trouble, the safety rope was finally made.

Emperor Jiajing personally took it in his hand and weighed it left and right, then looked at Huang Jin beside him and said, "Let's find someone to try it?"

After Huang Jin heard what Emperor Jiajing said, she immediately replied, "Okay, I'll find someone right away."

Emperor Jiajing nodded, then he pointed at the craftsmen and said, "Since it was made by them, let them try it. This way, if there are any problems, they can find them in time."

As soon as Emperor Jiajing said this, the craftsmen who originally thought it had nothing to do with them were completely paralyzed.

They developed this safety rope under the supervision of Emperor Jiajing and Huang Jin, according to the sketch drawn by Zhu Zaigui. However, they did not believe that this rope with a few buckles could keep people safe when they accidentally stepped on it while working at high altitudes.

After all, if there was something wrong with the rope or the buckle and they failed to hold their bodies in time, wouldn't they fall to death on the spot?

For a moment, several craftsmen showed panic on their faces. They looked at each other, but no one dared to step forward and take the initiative to try out the safety rope.
Emperor Jiajing was immediately displeased when he saw this, "Don't you dare to try what you made?"

Several craftsmen hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please spare us. It's not that we don't dare, but we don't know how to try."

Emperor Jiajing snorted and said, "What else can I try? I will tie this rope around you, and then follow the instructions on this drawing to take safety measures. Then I will release the ladder from above and see if I can hold you back from falling."

When the craftsmen heard this, their faces turned pale.

It is true that they made this thing, but they did not invent it.

If there is really a problem, there will be no chance to regret it.

But now Emperor Jiajing and the eunuch Huang Jin are watching them from the side, and there are a group of guards around them on standby at any time. If they dare to say no, they will see what "the emperor's wrath" means in a matter of minutes!
In the end, the craftsmen had no choice but to grit their teeth and tie the safety ropes around themselves shakily. Then they began to carefully check according to the instructions on the drawings.

They only started to take action when they were sure that the problem was exactly as described in the drawings.

Emperor Jiajing was paying close attention to their actions, Huang Jin was also watching carefully, and even the guards around them all glanced over slightly, as they were also paying attention to this matter.

After a long while, the craftsman tied with a safety rope finally climbed to the top of the shelf. Emperor Jiajing also looked up expectantly, and so did Huang Jin.

They all wanted to witness a miracle and see whether this safety rope was safe or not. If this rope was really reliable and easy to use, then there would be so many scenarios in which they could try using it in the future.

You have to know that in their time and before this time, although buildings of incredible heights or large buildings such as Buddha statues had been built, it is no exaggeration to say that when these things were built, it was actually piled up with human lives.

Under every tall building and every towering statue, there are countless dead souls lying.

If this safety rope can really provide a certain degree of protection, so that workers or laborers working at heights can rely on it and avoid falling to death, then this thing can be considered a great deed.

The craftsman who was climbing high up nervously touched the safety rope tied to his body and glanced at the audience below. He knew that he had no other choice but to give it a try.

And if this safety rope is really useful, maybe he will get a special reward from His Majesty the Emperor for this gamble. After all, Emperor Jiajing has been involved in the whole process from the beginning of their making to the current testing. It is conceivable that Emperor Jiajing has high hopes for this thing.

Therefore, wealth and honor can be achieved within this one year!

The craftsman took a deep breath, his palms were full of sweat and his legs were trembling slightly. To be honest, at such a high altitude, asking him to let go of his hands and try whether the rope around his waist could save his life was really no different from gambling.

But now he really had no way to retreat, so after a tense moment, he decided to fight!
The craftsman on the high place loosened his grip on the shelf, and bounced his body off the wooden board under his feet, suddenly flying into the air!

This scene appeared in front of Emperor Jiajing, Huang Jin and others. Everyone couldn't help but stare at him nervously, with both anticipation and panic in their eyes.

It seemed as if he was worried that the experiment would fail and the craftsman would fall from the height and be smashed to pieces.

But soon they saw a miracle!
The safety rope suddenly rose and straightened in an instant. With a little bit of cushioning force, it pulled the craftsman who was conducting the experiment from a high altitude steadily and safely in a blink of an eye. And this was not the end. After he swung back, he grabbed the wooden stake railing on the shelf, and then fastened the next safety buckle at another position. He tested it again from the beginning, and the effect was the same.

Apparently the test of the safety rope was successful; no one fell down, and gravity did not tie the rope into an unsolvable knot.

So it can be seen that everything is going well.

Emperor Jiajing shouted "OK" from below, and then said loudly: "Continue the test!"

The craftsmen who were testing the safety rope at high altitude are now very happy and their confidence has increased greatly!
From the initial suspicion and nervousness to the excitement now.

He didn't expect that this seemingly ordinary safety rope is so useful. Not only can it save lives, but the safety buckle can also be reused and moved to different positions for continued use.

You have to know that although the craftsmen in the past would tie a life-saving rope around their bodies when working at heights, those ropes were almost without exception tied with dead knots. Once an accident happened, although it was possible to save their lives, the actual length of the rope would cause them to free fall a certain distance.

In this case, if you are lucky, you will just be bumped once. If you are unlucky, the rope may be too long, which will increase the gravitational acceleration of the free fall and you may be crippled or killed by falling on the wall or cliff.

And this is based on the assumption that the rope is not broken. If the rope suddenly breaks, the feast can begin right away without having to consider other issues.

But now, even if one steps on empty air, the position where one is finally hung is almost the same as if one stepped on empty air. There is no large drop, and one is not wandering around like a kite with a broken string.

Obviously, the effect performed by this safety rope is excellent and completely beyond expectations.

Emperor Jiajing looked up for a long time, feeling extremely happy. He said to Huang Jin, "San'er still has a lot of good ideas. It's really unacceptable that such a simple thing has never been discovered by anyone!"

Huang Jin smiled and replied, "Prince Yu is as talented as the Emperor. He can learn many things without a teacher. He is like a man of destiny who was gifted with talent by heaven."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Jiajing laughed again and said, "Not bad, not bad, that's it. I'll ask them to try someone else later. Once they're sure there are no problems, I can go up and try it myself."

Huang Jin's originally smiling face suddenly panicked when he heard that Emperor Jiajing was still unwilling to give up and wanted to try it himself. No matter how others tried, it was fine. Even if there was an accident, it was just an accident.

But if His Majesty the Emperor is enthusiastically trying to climb the height and something is not done well, such as the rope or button is not fixed properly, it will be no joke.

So when Emperor Jiajing said he wanted to try it, Huang Jin immediately said in a panic: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you absolutely cannot do that! I am willing to take the test on your behalf."

Emperor Jiajing took one look at Huang Jin's figure and felt that he was a little unreliable. If he asked him to go up, what if the rope couldn't bear the weight?
Moreover, Huang Jin is the only person he can talk to without being so defensive and worried.

If anything happened to him, wouldn't Emperor Jiajing really be left alone?

So after thinking for a while, Emperor Jiajing said, "Forget it. Call Chen Hong out later. He is thin and not heavy. He is also smart and has a lot of ideas. We should give it a try."

When Huang Jin heard that Emperor Jiajing wanted Chen Hong to take the test, he immediately felt relieved and said quickly: "The Emperor is wise, Chen Hong will definitely be happy to share the Emperor's worries."

Emperor Jiajing chuckled and said nothing more.

At this time, the remaining craftsmen also began to try climbing one by one. Finally, Emperor Jiajing pointed to two guards who were watching the fun to try it as well.

Emperor Jiajing felt relieved after confirming that these people could master the use of the safety rope after simple instruction.

Emperor Jiajing, in a good mood, was not stingy with rewards. He directly rewarded the craftsmen who went up for the first test with a small house in the special district of the capital, and the rest were rewarded with ten taels of silver worth of Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve banknotes.

After receiving the rewards from Emperor Jiajing, these craftsmen and guards happily kowtowed to thank the emperor for his grace.

You should know that this ten taels of silver just-redeemed banknote can be exchanged for ten taels of real silver in any bank under the Ming Federal Reserve. Of course, now in the capital, no one is bored enough to take the ready-made just-redeemed banknotes to exchange for the equivalent physical silver and carry it with them.

After all, the people in the capital are now accustomed to using such convenient hard-to-redeem banknotes as their daily currency.

Moreover, the weight and size of ten taels of silver are not small, but the hard-redeemed banknotes of these ten taels of silver are calculated according to the maximum denomination of one hundred wen, which means there are only one hundred pieces. No one can tell if you put it in your arms, which makes it many times safer.

Moreover, based on their salaries, these ten taels of silver are almost their income for half a year, which is a very considerable sum of money. Now that they have it in their hands, who wouldn't be happy?

In addition, the popularity of hard-to-cash banknotes in recent years and its actual hard-to-cash market value have also aroused the envy of many royal families.

Some members of the royal family began to petition Emperor Jiajing to exchange the treasure notes given to them by the court for the guaranteed notes issued by the Ming Federal Reserve.

When Emperor Jiajing saw that these relatives and clansmen, whom he had never met before, were actually thinking about such a good thing, he immediately sneered.

Can the Ming Baochao, which was like toilet paper, be compared with the Ming Federal Reserve's hard-to-redee notes, which have a hard-to-redee value?

They even want to shamelessly use the guaranteed banknotes to replace the Ming treasure notes issued by the court. They are simply dreaming!

So after that, Emperor Jiajing also issued an edict to the Ministry of Revenue and local governments, requiring that the salaries of clan members should be distributed in accordance with the latest "Regulations on the Management of Clan Members", and that not a single banknote should be less, and that the rice salary should be supplemented according to actual circumstances.

Anyway, it is impossible to ask Emperor Jiajing to be nice to them.

Although Emperor Jiajing was also born into a feudal family, it was precisely because of this that he knew that these feudal lords were not short of money in their local areas. Which one of them did not have thousands of acres of fertile land? Which one of them was not rich enough to rival a country?
Giving them salaries and food would be tantamount to treating the emperor as a fool.

Moreover, if it were not for the face issue and the fact that the power of those princes was still relatively difficult to deal with, Emperor Jiajing was even considering having the princes of each fiefdom provide the salaries of the princes' relatives.

But unfortunately, this idea is just thought. Once it is really done, these vassal kings will definitely defect!

Although their rebellion could not be as unstoppable as that of Emperor Chengzu, they were outnumbered and could not withstand the gossip of the world.

After all, the rebellion of vassal kings is a bad thing no matter which emperor is in power.

No matter how the matter was finally settled, history books would vaguely record that the princes rebelled because the emperor was wrong.

The most direct example is Emperor Jiajing’s cousin, Emperor Wuzong Zhengde.

During the Zhengde reign, there were two cases of rebellion by vassal princes, one was by Prince Anhua of Gansu, and the other was by Prince Ning of Nanchang.

Although the rebellion of these two princes was quickly suppressed by the imperial court, people in the world still believed that it was wrong for the rebellious princes, but they also secretly blamed Emperor Wuzong for not doing a good job, which led to the rebellion of the royal family.

If Emperor Jiajing failed to handle the issue of the royal family properly, and if these hot-tempered and ambitious members of the royal family caused some trouble, he would be the one to be embarrassed.

Therefore, sometimes, even if he knew that these princes were bastards and vampires, Emperor Jiajing could only hold back and not get angry. Only when he really found a reason would he ruthlessly deal with the princes who made mistakes.

But if one wanted Emperor Jiajing to offend a large number of vassal kings, not only Emperor Jiajing, but even Emperor Chengzu could not do it.

The only one who managed to do it didn't even have a tomb left.

Although Emperor Chengzu buried him with the rites for an emperor at the beginning, he turned against him afterwards. Not only did he abolish his reign title and throne, he also erased the location of his tomb from history books.

This directly led to a mystery that will last forever - where did the nephew go?

Therefore, with such a precedent as a lesson, and the fact that Emperor Jiajing believed that he did not have the same great military achievements as Emperor Chengzu, he would not do anything to offend the royal family to death.

After all, if there is a real mess, it is not easy to clean it up. Besides, he is not young anymore and can't afford to cause such a big trouble.

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