Chapter 3366 3368【Oil Refinery】
Yongcong, Yonglian, Jingse and others heard Xiang Nan's words and immediately walked into the palace to see E Niang.
Seeing that Er Niang had changed into the queen's attire, she obviously knew that she was about to die soon, so she couldn't help but burst into tears.
After all, the connection between mother and son is not an empty talk.
Xiang Nan couldn't bear to see this scene, so he withdrew from the hall and let the mother and son talk. Then he heard the crying in the house gradually stopped, and there was a faint sound.
Xiang Nan couldn't bear to hear it, so he stood outside Changchun Palace.
At this time, the eldest brother Yonghuang rushed over in a dusty state.
“My son, I pay my respects to the emperor.” When he saw Xiang Nan, he immediately bowed down and said.
"Stop worshiping me, go see your mother-in-law." Xiang Nan waved her hand and said, "The one she worries about the most is you."
Yonghuang nodded with tears in his eyes and walked into the Changchun Palace.
After a while, Yonghuang, Yongcong, Yonglian, Jingse and others were heard crying loudly.
Xiang Nan couldn't help but shed tears when he heard this.
Human beings are not grass and trees, how can they be ruthless, let alone a couple who have lived together for decades. Now that she was dead, how could he remain indifferent.
“Li Yu, please inform the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Household Affairs that the queen’s funeral ceremony must be grand.” Xiang Nan then announced the decree.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” Li Yu nodded immediately.
At this time, Ruyi, Hailan, Zhuying, Wanyin and others also came over. When they heard the loud mourning in Changchun Palace, many people also had red eyes and shed tears.
Many of them are old sisters who came out of the dormitory together. Although there have been unpleasant moments between them, after so many years of getting along, it is impossible to say that they have no feelings.
Especially Gao Xiyue, Jilan, Fuling and others who were good friends with the Queen, cried with tears in their eyes and were very sad.
"You all go in and see her off for the last time." Xiang Nan said.
The concubines nodded, and then they all went in and took one last look at Lang Hua.
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Langhua's funeral was then held grandly.
Although she fell out of favor and was imprisoned in Changchun Palace during her lifetime, she reconciled with Xiang Nan before her death, so the funeral ceremony arranged by Xiang Nan for her was still very grand.
1. The emperor will stay out of court for nine days, but still follow the system of changing the day and month, and serve for twenty-seven days; 2. Concubines, princes, and princesses will wear white cloth mourning clothes, princes will have their hair braided, and princes will have their hair cut; 3. Princes and below, All Manchu and Han civil and military ministers who wear crowns will be allowed to have their heads shaved after a hundred days; 4. Marriage and entertainment will be stopped for 27 days; 5. All soldiers and civilians in the capital will have their crowns and tassels removed for men and their earrings for women.
Langhua's funeral ceremony was considered to be the most solemn among the funeral ceremonies for queens in the past dynasties. Xiang Nan personally dressed Lang Hua in mourning clothes, served as the chief priest at her funeral, and led all the concubines, elder brothers, princesses, etc. to keep watch for Lang Hua.
She also asked the cabinet to draft a posthumous title, and Xiang Nanqin finally designated her as Queen Xiaoxian.
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With the death of Queen Xiaoxian, undercurrents began to surge in the harem.
As a result, many people began to have unwanted thoughts, wanting to compete for the position of queen, and deliberately trying to behave in front of Xiang Nan. Xiang Nan was such a smart person, he could see through their thoughts at a glance, and then told Ruyi, "Queen Xiaoxian passed away, and the position of queen was vacant, which made some people unable to sit still.
Ruyi, beat them for me and don’t have these inappropriate ideas. The position of my next queen can only be yours, not anyone else's, so don't make the mistake of planning. "
“Actually, I don’t care if I can be the queen, as long as the emperor treats me well.” Ruyi waved her hand and said.
"Idiot." Upon hearing this, Xiang Nan smiled and shook his head, "You can disdain the jealousy between men and women, and stay out of it.
But the position of the queen is of vital importance, related to the country and the country. If the harem is unstable, the front dynasty will be unstable. The harem is ready to move, and there will be people in the previous dynasty who will follow the trend.
This is a struggle for power and interests, and it will be bloody. Queen Xiaoxian was so virtuous, but it was all because of Yonghuang's missteps, which shows how difficult it is to sit in this position.
Even though I have many concubines in my harem, and they all have a lot of affection for me, they are not as deep and loving as you and my childhood sweetheart. So I feel most at ease when you are by my side.
And among all the concubines, you are the smartest. If someone in the harem is restless, they can't be hidden from you. "
After hearing this, Ruyi nodded.
In the next few days, Xiang Nan changed from the previous practice of drinking a bowl of water evenly, and rested in Ruyi Palace, so that the concubines who wanted to invite favors and vie for supremacy knew who would be the next queen. A strong candidate.
Coupled with Ruyi’s subsequent silent beatings, some restless people in the harem behaved themselves again.
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Xiang Nan actually doesn’t care much about the harem.
He believed that Ruyi was clever and skillful and had enough strength to overwhelm the harem. It’s not that she doesn’t want to fight, it’s not that she can’t fight, it’s not that she doesn’t dare to fight.
He is now thinking about building the first oil refinery in the Qing Dynasty.
Oil is a good thing and can be used in military, industrial, and civilian applications.
Diesel, kerosene, and gasoline can all be used as fuel, and their thermal energy is twice that of coal. More importantly, fuel can be used as an internal combustion engine, which is more efficient, smaller and faster.
With the internal combustion engine, a series of machines such as cars, motorcycles, tractors, harvesters, etc. can be developed, and production efficiency will be greatly improved.
And military weapons such as tanks, aircraft, armored vehicles, etc. can also be developed. The bulky steam engine obviously couldn't do this.
Petroleum can also be used to refine benzene, ethylene, propylene, aromatic hydrocarbons and other chemical raw materials, which are used to produce plastics, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, drugs, paints, lubricants, etc.
In addition, petroleum can also be used to produce fertilizers. Urea, ammonium nitrate, phosphate fertilizers and potassium fertilizers can all be refined from petroleum. All in all, oil is good stuff.
Xiang Nan has studied energy engineering and knows how to refine oil. Therefore, under his leadership, the first oil refinery in Qing Dynasty was officially built.
This refinery is located in northern Beijing, and the crude oil is taken from Sanqin.
Oil has been produced there since ancient times. Shen Kuo, a scientist from the Song Dynasty, recorded in "Mengxi Bi Tan" that "there is oil in the territory of Yan and Yan. The natives used pheasant tails to scoop it up and then collected it into a can. It looked like pure lacquer and burned like hemp." , but the smoke was so thick that all the curtains it touched were black. This thing will become popular in the world, and it will be done from the beginning."
During the Yuan Dynasty, the first oil well was drilled there, but it was mainly used for heating, lighting, and treating skin diseases of livestock.
During the Guangxu period, China's first modern oil well was drilled there. To this day, this oil well is still producing oil, with a daily output of more than one ton.
Although it sounds incomparable to the large oil fields in the Middle East, it is enough for the time being.
(End of this chapter)