"The son also heard that there is a famous Confucian named Fang Xiaoru in the Beijing Division," Gao Chi said: "I was recommended to the Beijing Division three times, but the emperor's grandfather did not use it three times, I heard that he is now stranded in the Beijing Division, and has been hired as a private school teacher, and the son wants to go to see this person and discuss teaching with him." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Oh, it's this person," Zhu Di obviously also heard of Fang Xiaoru's reputation, and said, "You don't know yet, Fang Xiaoru has just been sent to Hanzhong Mansion to teach in the fief of the King of Shu, and he just set off last month. ”

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Wu Shen recommended Fang Xiaoru, saying that he had learned well, so Fang Xiaoru was summoned to Beijing, and the emperor was summoned to delight in his dignified manners, that is, he told the crown prince: "This Zhuang Shi, when the old man." "Politely returned.

Fang Xiaoru entered Beijing for the second time because he was falsely accused by the enemy and was arrested and imprisoned, and this time the emperor saw his name on the list of prisons and ordered his release and return home.

The third time was in September of the 25th year of Hongwu, Fang Xiaoru was once again recommended by local officials to Beijing, and the emperor's reply was: "This is not the time to use filial piety." So he gave him the professor of Hanzhong Fuxue and asked him to go to Shu to teach.

If it is enough to be recommended three times to be famous in the world, what makes this Fang Xiaoru even more prestigious is the emperor's attitude towards him, the emperor feels that this person is to be left for future generations, and now is not the time to use him. For such a person, not only Yan Wang Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi want to meet, but even Yao Guangxiao, the Taoist master in Qingshou Temple, also asked someone to buy his works to read.

But it's a pity that Fang Xiaoru went to Shu, Zhu Di can imagine how happy and fortunate he should be for Zhu Chun, the king of Shu who is sealed in the country of abundance, because he knows this younger brother, he has been a person who loves to read since he was a child, and he reads with books every day, and even the emperor laughs at him for being a showman, and after he was crowned the king of Shu, he has a name called "Shu Xiucai". When he was in Fengyang, the central capital, he opened the West Hall and invited many literati to discuss literature and history. After arriving at the CD, he set up a county school to fund poor scholars, and he was also a rare virtuous king. Fang Xiaoru entered Shu, and Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, naturally would not let him go.

"There are books in the Beijing Division, you can read them, and there are soldiers in the Beijing Division, you can take a look;" Zhu Di said: "But what I let you see is not only these. ”

"In previous years, the two Zhejiang taxes were transported to Beijing, and the years were huge. Zhu Di said: "Two canals, one from the Zhejiang River to Danyang, the boat landing, transfer to the toil; Therefore, since last year, the edict has been issued to dig a new canal to pass through the two Zhejiang, and a county in Lishui County, a county in Guanglishui County, has opened a new river called the Rouge River. You only see the prosperity of Beijing, but you don't know where this prosperity comes from, and now I tell you that the water flow is convenient, so that people from all over the world can gather in Beijing. When you go, you should not only go to the river to have a look, but also pay attention to see what convenience and hidden dangers there are in this new river trough, which is also one of the customs of the Beijing Division, don't just be blinded by the fat powder of the Qinhuai River. ”

Gao Xu thought that he could go to the sixteenth floor of Qin Huai's newly renovated building to have a look, and his eyebrows suddenly fluttered. Even Gao Chi's face was red and swollen, and he coughed twice. On weekdays, Princess Xu is strict, and the people who serve the two brothers are eunuchs or old grandmothers, and they can't see a few beautiful women.

Zhu Di said this to his half-eldest son, and he felt embarrassed, so he changed the topic and said: "I have the accounts of planting cotton and mulberry trees in Yandi here, you go and bring them here, and hand them over to the household department for verification, don't forget to ask the household department for tax exemption." ”

The emperor has always ordered the people to plant mulberry and jujube. Or in case of debt, it can be a help for food and clothing. In the 27th year of Hongwu, the Ministry of Industry moved to the world to supervise the people to plant mulberry dates, and gave the method of planting. It also made the benefit of planting cotton, exempting it from taxation, and the number of years was heard.

The father and son were still discussing the tax-free land, so they heard Ma He at the door and said, "Your Highness, Yuan Tingyu has arrived." ”

"Please come in. Zhu Di said.

Yuan Hui, the word Tingyu. In September of the twenty-third year of Hongwu, on the recommendation of Daoyan master Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, invited him to come to Beiping. The reason why this person got Dao Yan's blue eyes is only because he has the ability to read the appearance with one hand, and he is very fascinated.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, this person was a person who looked at his face, and his fortune telling was very accurate, and there were 100 scholars and doctors who asked him to see him, predicting their life and death, blessings and misfortunes, and the specific time of their arrival sooner or later, and there was nothing that should not be fulfilled, so his reputation was greatly enhanced. For example, the Nantai doctor Puhua Timur came from Fujian to ask him to meet him. Yuan Heng looked at it carefully and said: "You are serious and act vigorously, this is a rich and noble appearance, but the seal hall is commonplace, and the official seal will be taken away after one hundred and forty days in office." But you are honest and loyal, and you will be famous for posterity, and you are willing to encourage yourself. ”

Later, this Puhua Timur was in charge of Nantai affairs in Zhejiang, and sure enough, soon after taking office, Zhang Shicheng of the late Yuan Dynasty rebel army took away his official seal, and Puhua Timur was also killed because he did not give in.

And his meeting with Yao Guangxiao is also full of legends. Before Yao Guangxiao went to Beiping to serve Zhu Di in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, he once visited Songshan Temple, where he met Yuan Hui for the first time. When Yuan Heng saw it, he immediately shouted: "What a strange monk, with triangular eyes, shaped like a sick tiger, and his sex will be murderous, Liu Bingzhong is also flowing!"

Liu Bingzhong was a famous monk of the previous generation, and was relied on by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and the official became Taibao. Yuan Hui saw Yao Guangxiao at first glance, did not predict that he would get the law in the west, but said that he would be murderous, and compared him with Liu Bingzhong, who was half a monk and half layman, and Dao Yan was overjoyed and did not think it was wrong, indicating that this was said to his heart, and the two hit it off at first sight, and then Yao Guangxiao came to Beiping and recommended him to King Yan.

Zhu Di sent someone to invite Yuan Hui, but he didn't take this person to heart and didn't meet him immediately. Yuan Hui lives in Qingshou Temple, and sets up a stall on Beiping Street on weekdays to tell fortunes. Until one day two months ago, his life took a turn for the worse.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and nine guards who looked very similar to him mixed together and went out of the city to hunt and returned, armed with bows and arrows, and drank in the shop. As soon as Yuan Heng saw Zhu Di's face, he stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Why didn't Your Highness respect yourself and come here lightly!" The nine people laughed at him for talking nonsense, but Yuan Heng said more earnestly. King Yan got up and left, and then summoned Yuan Heng into the mansion to take a closer look.

What Yuan Heng said after observing the appearance was only known to Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao. But Xu, as a pillow person, was keenly aware that Yuan Hui's words had a great impact on Zhu Di.

"Xiaomin Yuan Hui has seen His Royal Highness," the sixty-year-old Yuan Heng's face was full of red light, and he seemed to really have a little bit of fairy wind and bones: "I have seen two princes." ”

"Why didn't Master Dao Yan come?" asked Zhu Di.

"Your Highness," Ma He said, "The master is chanting, saying that since the court has a summons, can the two princes not go?"

The eunuch Ma He is a Muslim, his grandfather and father made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and he is a Muslim himself, but he also believes in Buddhism and received the bodhisattva vows from Master Daoyan, whose Dharma name is Fu Jixiang. Therefore, Master Dao Yan, who gave him the precepts, is also his master, and the two of them are commensurate with each other on weekdays.

The funny Ma He studied with Yao Guangxiao for two years, and also paid homage to the Taoist priest, and also helped Yao Guangxiao to repair two Taoist temples in Beiping City, because this Yao Guangxiao is not a pure Buddhist, his master Xi Yingzhen is a Taoist, but he is not like other Taoist priests to refine the Dan and cultivate the Tao, but to practice the study of yin and yang mathematics, magic and soldiers. During the period from the former Yuan to the Yuan and Yuan Zhen, Yao Guangxiao worshiped Xi Yingzhen as a teacher, and in the Lingying Palace, Xi Yingzhen taught Yao Guangxiao what he had learned all his life.

Therefore, Yao Guangxiao is simply a Taoist who learns from the military family, the Legalist, and the Yin and Yang family under the guise of Buddhism, and is essentially a politician.

"This old monk!" Zhu Di said with a smile: "Tingyu, I called you here to ask you to divinate the future of the two princes." ”

"Your Highness has an order, dare not obey. Yuan Heng thought for a while and lined up the hexagrams of "Zhou Yi".

After waiting with bated breath for a while, Yuan Heng said: "The divination has been completed, and I have obtained the concubine hexagram." ”

"What's the explanation?" asked King Yan.

"The concubine is the concubine, the yin and yang meet, and the monarch and the minister will celebrate. Yuan Heng twisted his beard and said slowly: "This is a marriage hexagram, one yin meets five yang, and five yang is yin one by one, so I am also concubine." If you advance, you will be strong, and women will be strong and men will be weak. ”

"What does this mean?" Zhu Di frowned and said, "Female Zhuang, which woman is it?"

Yuan Jue didn't know what he thought, so he arched his hand and said: "The one who is solved by the small people is just met Zhongzheng, and he conforms to it, the so-called heaven and earth meet, and the quality is salty; It is a very auspicious sign, and the small people are here, congratulating the eldest prince. ”

Zhu Di bowed his head and said: "It's good to be auspicious." ”

After waiting out of the gate of King Yan's Mansion, Yuan Heng sighed.

"Yi" said: "Ji, meet also, soft meet rigid." Don't use a woman, don't be with a long. Because this hexagram is the yin lord inside, it is a symbol of women's rights, and the comprehensive hexagram has a resolute and decisive meaning, indicating that the wife married by the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi in the future is really a powerful character.

Besides, he has a very big secret that has been hidden in his heart and does not dare to tell it.