Professional Ethics of a Concubine

Even if the Sixth Prince no longer cared about worldly affairs, he knew about Ye Qingzhi, the Crown Prince's concubine.

Because he had heard his mother and the eunuchs around her mention her more than once, and he saw her from afar at the palace banquet. His mother also asked him to remember what she looked like.

If I meet her outside in the future, I will recognize her as Concubine Ye.

His mother also warned him not to offend her.

Because she is not only the prince's favorite, but also the favorite stepdaughter of Prince Su, and she has also become a favorite of the emperor.

The eunuch beside him also said:

When it comes to the most prestigious woman in the palace, even the Crown Princess is not as good as her.

What’s outrageous is that even the Crown Princess dotes on her.

The Sixth Prince’s mind began to automatically recall some information about Ye Qingzhi.

After thinking it over, he was sure that this was someone he had to deal with just like his father, so the Sixth Prince replied honestly,

"There are many interesting phenomena. For example, some of the materials I added would change their appearance when heated, from the appearance of gold and stone to the appearance of water, and then turn back into gold and stone when cooled..."

"You could describe it as a change in state of matter, from solid to liquid."

Ye Qingzhi couldn't help but correct him.

The Sixth Prince was stunned for a moment, then his eyes brightened and he nodded repeatedly. His handsome face, which had always been calm and expressionless, finally showed some emotion. He said excitedly,

"Yes, the state of matter changes, from solid to liquid. It's very concise and vivid."

The Emperor and others,...

What are these two people talking about?

Concubine Rou began to feel hopeful. Could it be that her son was really a talent? !

If Ye Qingzhi found a suitable position for her son, he wouldn't be completely rejected by the emperor, right?

Even if I did something as heinous as refining the elixir, I would still be forgiven, right?

"...Uh, go on." Ye Qingzhi said again.

"And then there are interesting changes in their colours, and there are new things that appear, which I can't quite put my finger on, but I call them intangibles."

"The invisible things you mentioned are gases that are difficult to observe with the naked eye. Solid, liquid, and gas are the three different forms of all things."

Ye Qingzhi started teaching again. There was no other way. This common sense was too basic, so she couldn't help but explain it to the Sixth Prince who was really interested, hoping to help him.

"Gas? Solid, liquid, gaseous..." The Sixth Prince muttered, as if he had suddenly realized something. He said excitedly,

"There's a saying, I can't remember what it was, but knowing this, I won't have any regrets if I die now."

"There's a saying that goes, If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening." Prince Duan couldn't help but interrupt.

The Sixth Prince nodded, repeated it several times, and finally remembered it. He said thank you to Prince Duan.

Prince Duan could not understand what his sixth brother did, nor could he understand what he and Ye Qingzhi were talking about. However, he was shocked and sad that his sixth brother could say this.

How can a mediocre person say such words? In their literary circle, if someone says such words without any sense of style, they will be criticized to death.

Prince Duan felt that his sixth brother must have something. At least his spiritual pursuits had surpassed many people.

Ye Qingzhi looked at the Sixth Prince and asked him, "Sixth Prince, do you know how to distill?"

The Sixth Prince nodded, "Too simple, not interesting."

He once used the distillation technique to make a small bottle of floral water for his mother as a birthday present, but was scolded by his mother for not doing his job properly.

But later his mother asked him for floral dew again, but he thought it was boring and refused her.

"Can you understand the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art? Are you good at the surplus and deficiency, equations, Pythagorean theorem and other contents in it?" Ye Qingzhi continued to ask.

The Sixth Prince continued to nod, "I am good at it. I am currently using the circle-slicing method to deduce the number after the seventh decimal point of pi. It is difficult and I have not yet mastered it."

"Sixth Prince, have you ever studied the principles of mechanisms? Have you studied the movement of stars in the sky?" Ye Qingzhi asked again.

"The mechanism is too simple and boring, and the movement of the stars is too complicated to be measured. I only know the basics." said the Sixth Prince.

After asking this, Ye Qingzhi stopped asking because she had already determined that the Sixth Prince was a genius in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Such talents are exactly what Da Zhao urgently needs.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Sixth Prince's alchemy is indeed against the ancestral teachings, but he is not making the alchemy for immortality or to harm people, but to study the forms of all things. In fact, it is a scholarly behavior worthy of respect."

Ye Qingzhi knelt down on the ground solemnly, facing the emperor and the prince, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice,

“The Emperor Gaozu originally established the ancestral precepts prohibiting alchemy because he was kind and saw the people of the previous dynasty being slaughtered for it, so he hated those alchemists who used alchemy to harm people.

However, alchemy itself is not evil. What is evil are the bad people who use alchemy to make money and harm others.

Alchemy is just mixing some things together and heating them to fuse them. There may be dangerous explosions in the process, but this is normal.

In this process of heating and fusion, many new things will be produced that we can use to improve our lives.

Fireworks and firecrackers also came into being due to the use of alchemy.

I also ask Your Majesty and the Crown Prince to think about this. It would be great if we could further study alchemy and find a way to increase the power of firecrackers so that they can be used to blow up city walls and rocks.

In the future, when two armies are fighting and attacking a city, they can throw some of these powerful firecrackers, which can instantly destroy half of the city wall, or explode at a targeted point, blowing a big hole in the corner of the wall.

This way, attacking the wall and seizing the city becomes much easier. Our soldiers no longer need to use their flesh and blood to fill the trenches and build the steps to the wall..."

When the emperor heard this and thought about that scene, his face was moved!

What Master Ye said is so tempting. Can it really be done?

Can alchemy be so useful? Isn't it evil and harmful?

Xie Jin had heard Ye Qingzhi talk about gunpowder before, so it was okay for him to hear this. He just regretted that he had never met someone talented in this area.

Unexpectedly, my sixth brother is such a talent in this area.

It seems that we need to conduct a census of the royal children first. Perhaps we can really find a few more geniuses.

Seeing that the emperor was showing signs of softening, Ye Qingzhi gave his mental barriers another heavy punch.

“Your Majesty, Crown Prince, alchemy is just like forging, it is just a means and a tool. We cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater, just because the previous emperor abused it, and then completely banned it.

I think the real meaning of this ancestral precept left by Emperor Gaozu is to prohibit the abuse of alchemy to harm people and pursue the way to immortality, not to completely ban alchemy.

If the spirit of Emperor Gaozu knew that we misinterpreted his meaning and banned all alchemy without any discrimination, it would be very likely that he would be unhappy if it was clearly our own ignorance and complacency that led to the decline of national strength and our backwardness, and we finally put the blame on our ancestral teachings..."

emperor,……

Not only would he be unhappy, he would definitely scold them for being unfilial and letting him take the blame.

The emperor was completely convinced.

Because Ye Qingzhi's words were well-reasoned and gave him a perfect reason, so he did not violate the ancestral teachings and could continue to let people use alchemy.

Of course, the prerequisite is that alchemy can really have such a great effect, and can really make the kind of powerful firecrackers that Ye Qingzhi said.

At this time, Xie Jin also stood up and said to the emperor,

"Father, I deeply agree with what Master Ye said.

I, your son, also believe that Emperor Gaozu's ancestral precepts only prohibit those with evil intentions from using alchemy to do evil things that are harmful to the world.

If we can use alchemy to do things that benefit the country and the people, it will surely comfort the spirit of Emperor Gaozu in heaven.

The Sixth Prince is young and pure-minded. He is absorbed in various studies and has no bad intentions at all. I think everything he did is forgivable."

After hearing this, the Sixth Prince finally understood that what Concubine Ye and the Crown Prince had been talking about just now was about the ancestral precepts, and they were actually pleading for him.

The Sixth Prince kowtowed to them and thanked them. It would be great if he could avoid death.

He felt that Concubine Ye knew a lot of things, and just a few words from her were enough to enlighten him. He was looking forward to learning more from her.

Concubine Rou stopped crying and immediately knelt down and begged the emperor to show leniency and give the Sixth Prince a chance to redeem himself.

"Xiao Liu, tell me yourself, can you guarantee that you can make the powerful firecrackers that Master Ye mentioned?" the emperor asked the sixth prince.