Chapter 469: Scholar in White Robe
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This word is Yan Jidao, expressing the protagonist's lovesickness and sorrow for his sweetheart. The language of the whole word is simple, fresh and gentle, the artistic conception is subtle and beautiful, the scene is blended, there is not a word "sorrow" in the whole text, but you can feel the hero's grievances between the lines, and express the protagonist's infatuation heartily.
The room is so quiet that everyone listens intently, and Fluttershy finishes singing the song, and everyone still reminisces about the plausible sadness!
After a long time, everyone came back to their senses, and Yang Zheng sighed softly: "Hearing this song today, I don't think about silk strings after many years, and the girl's singing voice makes people admire itββ? β
Everyone nodded more than once, Duan Yu and Peng Chengfeng applauded.
In a village yard on the shore of West Lake, a man in a white robe is holding scissors, bending down to trim a flower and plant, his hand is very fast, and he can hear a few clicks, and a good peony plant that grows in the wind is cut by the roots, leaving a rhizome into the soil.
The white-robed man glanced at it, then stopped looking at it, turned to prune it with another flower.
At this time, the morning sun shone obliquely, reflecting a few rays of sunlight through the towering gaze, and the sunlight fell on the face of the white-robed man, reflecting his face, with bright eyebrows, nose like a hanging gall, with a moon-white robe, indescribably handsome and chic.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the flowers, followed by a figure quickly walked in, the man arrived in front of the white-robed man, clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly, and called softly: "Little princeββ? β
The white-robed man's sword eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the scissors in his hand suddenly forced, and he heard "Click!" With a bang, the camellia that was being pruned flashed with a white light, and a green leaf fell and sprinkled all over the ground.
The white-robed man's frowning brows relaxed slightly, and he glanced at the person from the corner of his eye, followed by a slight loosening of his five fingers, and the scissors in his hand pointed downward, and with a "bang", it touched the stones on the ground and inserted them into the soil.
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The man who walked in frowned slightly, looking at the scissors that had disappeared into the dust, for some reason there was a sense of fear in his heart, and seeing the man in white robe turn around, he hurriedly lowered his head a little.
The white-robed man turned around slowly, glanced at the person standing not far away with his handsome eyes, and said lightly: "Come in and talk!" β
"Yes!" The person who came answered and cautiously followed the white-robed man inside.
The hall is not big, but the design is very ingenious, the courtyard behind, rockery, pond, flowers and plants have everything, and the front hall sets off each other, it seems very beautiful.
The two entered the hall one after the other, the white-robed man had a slight flick of his big sleeves, and he sat down on a bamboo chair on the top first, and his movements were smooth, and he deserved the four words of grace, and the person behind him glanced at it slightly, and sighed secretly in his heart: "Such a beautiful person, I don't know how the old Zhu family was born?" β
"Will you sit too?" The white-robed man glanced at the visitor and said in a low voice.
The man hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Thank you, little prince!" He sat down on the sidelines.
Tea is boiling on the tea table, using the most traditional techniques to make tea, and the way of cooking is used.
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The whole hall is very simple, except for some literati calligraphy and paintings, most of them are flowers and plants, although so, it does not seem very crowded, but makes the whole hall quite bookish feeling.
When the teapot boiled, the man in the white robe took out the tea leaves from the tea tray, the teacup, put the tea leaves, and then gently lifted the teapot with his right hand, and the wrist was slightly tilted, and the hot tea soup with a light fragrance was injected into the cup, and the tea soup was tumbling, and the fragrance was fragrant.
The white-robed man gently pushed the cup of tea soup on the left side to the side, and asked without raising his head: "Is there a harvest?" β
The person who came nodded and put the teacup back on the table, before responding: "Yes, my subordinates were ordered by the little prince to spy on him in the dark as soon as he came backββ? β
This white-robed man is none other than the little prince Zhu Zhantan, and sitting opposite is also an old friend Yang Yifeng.
Zhu Zhantan said "oh" and did not speak immediately.
Yang Yifeng glanced at the tea soup on the table, this tea soup has been brewed with boiling hot water, and the fragrance of tea has been completely released, inhaled into the nose, people can't help but take a sip, but the dignified little prince didn't move his mouth to drink tea, how dare he taste it?
Seeing that Zhu Zhantan didn't speak, Yang Yifeng didn't dare to speak, and waited patiently.
"Ready this time?" Zhu Zhantan picked up the teacup, blew the leaves on the surface elegantly, lowered his head and took a sip gently, and asked casually.
Yang Yifeng's butt lifted slightly, bowed down and said, "It's ready, Miss Fluttershy has been successfully arranged, and she is singing a little song to that guy at this time?" β
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"Fluttershy is strong in martial arts, and there is nothing wrong with her hands, but this person can be literate and martial, not careless, Xiao Wang's several preparations have been broken in the hands of this person, which shows that this person is not simple?" Zhu Zhantan drank the tea soup and said softly.
Yang Yifeng's face was a little ugly, since Yang Zheng joined the Peng family, all the means of the Peng family targeted by the Yang family did not seem to work, that is, the Chamber of Commerce that had been prepared for more than a year was finally taken away by the Peng family, and the Yang family did not get half of the benefits, in the past few months, the Peng family has relied on the rights of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Li family has secretly helped to squeeze the Yang family everywhere, and now the strength of the Yang family has been greatly weakened, which makes the little prince angry, if it were not for his Yang family still has some ways of doing business, I am afraid that this little prince who has a very good way of doing things will not allow the Yang family for a long time.
Zhu Zhantan glanced at Yang Yifeng, saw that his face was a little ugly, smiled lightly, and said: "The matter of the Chamber of Commerce has passed, and now your Yang family has lost the convenience of those shops, and the current business is also good. Scattered the bow flags, ordered Zhending Zhuwei, seized all the livestock and horses in the counties, and prepared to take the opportunity to set up the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, in order to command Wang Bin to lead the front army, Wei Da to lead the left army, Qianhu Shengjian to lead the right army, Zhizhou Zhu Xuan to lead the rear army, Xiao Wang personally led a team, and so on The noble man in the court died, and the father took the opportunity to occupy Shandong, Jinan, open the door to Beijing, and follow the means of the emperor's grandfather back then, and it is not impossible to recapture the country that belongs to the father. β
Yang Yifeng was overjoyed, and hurriedly stood up and thanked him. The Yang family has been doing business for generations, although there are countless gold, silver and jewelry, helplessly, since Emperor Hongwu ascended the throne, the world's household registration is divided into people, military, craftsmen, stoves, etc., when the household of each occupation is basically under it, and in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the heavy capital is suppressed, and the family of farmers is allowed to wear yarn and silk cloth, and the family of merchants is only allowed to wear cloth. In the peasant house, if there is a merchant who is a merchant, he is not allowed to wear veil. In other words, it was a crime for a merchant to wear silk clothes (only cloth clothes could be worn). It can be seen that its status is low, in the entire Hongwu Dynasty, merchants and prostitutes have generally become low-class subordinates, unable to get on the stage, money can not be spent, clothes can not be worn, this is undoubtedly the most unbearable for Yang Yifeng, he often thinks about the Ming Dynasty The richest man in Jiangnan Shen Wansan, "huge capital, land all over the world" The first rich man in Jiangnan is so courageous, although he was eventually exiled by Emperor Hongwu, but that is because he Shen Wansan is too ignorant of what to do, and the emperor shows off his wealth, if he Yang family has such an opportunity, They will definitely not be bold enough to compare wealth with the emperor, they will definitely rely on businessmen to ask the emperor for an identity, to be a courtier, and it is much more interesting to have money and power than a businessman.
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It is with this idea that he learned that Zhu Zhantan is the descendant of the King of Han, and he took refuge under his command without hesitation, how the King of Han was a hero, how he was pleased by the Yongle Emperor's deeds, although the Yang family was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, but he also heard a lot, if it were not for the Han King was too impatient, he did too many illegal things in Beijing, which made the Yongle Emperor unhappy and fell to the end of being degraded to Le'anzhou, although so, but he relied on his business acumen, he believed that the Han King would never stop there.
Note: In ancient times, although many merchants were large families, they did not have a high social status, for example, in the early Ming Dynasty, the rulers suppressed the status of merchants very strictly. The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration. Volume 4 says that in the fourteenth year of Hongwu: "The intention is to emphasize the original and suppress the end, and it is ordered that the peasant family is allowed to wear yarn and silk cloth, and the merchant family is only allowed to wear cloth." In the peasant house, if there is a merchant who is a merchant, he is not allowed to wear veil. In other words, it was a crime for a merchant to wear silk clothes (only cloth clothes could be worn). It can be seen that its status is low.
A large part of the reason for the low status of businessmen is due to the long-term backwardness of people's economic thinking. The ancients only saw that merchants were selling high and buying low in the circulation field, earning the difference in the middle price, and they thought that they were treacherous and cunning, and they did not produce but shared their profits in vain! It is believed that commerce itself does not create value and harms agriculture, so it is known as the saying that agriculture is heavy and business is suppressed. This also contributed to the low social status of merchants. Otherwise, how could there be a class classification such as "Shinong, Industry and Commerce"! Among the so-called "three religions and nine streams", the status of businessmen is only ranked last in the nine streams......
Before the Ming Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, let alone serve as officials. It was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that the imperial court set up the "merchant register", which enabled the children of merchants not only to have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination, but also to reserve places, making it easier for them to be recruited than ordinary civilians. In addition to examinations, another way for merchants to obtain official positions was through "donations", that is, merchants could become prisoners by paying money to the government. During the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to enrich the financial needs of the border defense, the example of Nama, Nasu, and Nayin being imprisoned was opened, so that merchants had the opportunity to get officials because of the prisoners, because the prisoners of the Ming Dynasty could fill the low-level official positions. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, seven out of ten people were imprisoned by donations, and businessmen were imprisoned, which became a common practice, and it was further developed in the Qing Dynasty. (These words are outside of this chapter, just for you!) οΌ