"The decay of a dynasty and a nation begins first with moral decay. When www.biquge.info kindness is not praised, but is used, it will make everyone only take care of themselves, so they will harm others and benefit themselves, and indifference and selfishness will run rampant. Little guy, can you imagine what the Ming Dynasty will become at that time? Lichen asked earnestly.

"Ahh Zhu Zaikai has grown up with a mouth, and he can't imagine how "beautiful" that society will be!

The little guy's big eyes flashing, red face, and big mouth, really cute little Zhengtai, Lichen laughed and picked up Zhu Zaikai, put it on his knees and taught: "Confucianism advocates beautiful customs, and it is not wrong to preach and educate." But the specific thing is not what others say, but how to do it. No matter what you do in the future, don't listen to what people say, but watch what they do, you know? ”

"Yes! I know! Zhu Zaikai nodded his little head, looking like a little adult who was humbly taught, but he laughed at the dust.

"Then do you know what the invitations that have been delivered to your home these days mean?" Lichen asked.

"I know, those invitations are all looking at my family's easy to cheat, and they are all here to cheat money," Zhu Zaikai replied crisply.

"That's right! Because your father-in-law couldn't bear the suffering of the victims and showed kindness, he donated a large amount of silver to the government. It's not because your teacher is stupid, but because he's doing good deeds. But this kind of kindness has been exchanged for people who think that Shigong is stupid and easy to bully. You said that you want to change someone else, do you dare to donate money to the government to help the victims? Lichen asked.

"I don't dare to donate anymore!" Zhu Zaikai replied.

"So you also saw that day, why are so many rich people unwilling to do good deeds! Because doing good deeds not only does not do good, but invites calamity! Lichen sighed.

"They talk about beauty and customs, and they are missionary. But slaughter your master like a pig, no matter how much money he has, he can't resist it! Your master is not afraid, but if you change to an ordinary family, the consequences will be worrying? Lichen asked.

"The family will be ruined!" After Zhu Zai Kai quickly replied and played, he thought about it again with his little head, and then changed his words and asked: "I don't want to donate, can't I not donate?" ”

"Huh! It's not that simple. If you didn't donate so much at the beginning, everyone would not have an opinion, but if you donated so much in the front, but you didn't donate later, you donated to the governor's yamen, but you didn't donate to other yamen, such as the inspection department, such as the political envoy, such as the prefect, the county or something, do you say they will think that you look down on them, will they have opinions? What would happen to you if the officials had a problem with you? Lichen asked with a smile.

Zhu Zaikai lowered his little head and replied in frustration: "I will be hated and will be looking for trouble!" ”

Lichen smiled, the little guy is really smart.

Just when Lichen was talking to Zhu Zaikai, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, there was a knock on the door of the study.

It's the little girl here!

The little girl has been in the house for so many days, and she is finally not very afraid of dust, but she is quite dependent on Zhu Zaikai. Lichen asked the little girl's name several times, but every time she asked, the little girl was crying. Lichen was deeply helpless about this.

Later, Zhu Zai Kai quietly told Chen that the little girl died of her father and mother when she was very young, and she grew up with her grandmother, and later her grandmother also passed away one after another, so no one named her from beginning to end. When people saw her, they just called him "Dead Star, Wild Girl". The only relative is a cousin, that is, the middle-aged man who planned to sell the little girl that day. For so many years, the little girl has survived by eating hundreds of meals, so the little girl will cry when she asks.

"The old housekeeper's grandfather said that the master was telling a story to the eldest brother, and I was not allowed to disturb him, I came secretly!" The little girl ran flushed, and her head was stained with some rain, but her eyes lit up as long as she saw Zhu Zaikai, and after saying hello to the dust, she ran to Zhu Zaikai's side and sat down obediently.

Lichen sighed secretly in his heart, the little girl may be really insecure, as long as she wakes up and can't see Zhu Zaikai, she will be scared and will look for her everywhere. If you can't find it, you'll cry uneasily.

Maybe this is a kind of psychological trauma, but Zhu Zai can give her a sense of security!

I just hope that the little girl will be better when she grows up! They are still young and grown up, but what can they do! Can the dust be relied on, can it cure heart disease?

The heavy rain outside the door was getting heavier and heavier, and the dust really told the story to the two little ones. told a story that I had seen in my previous life. It was a microcosm of an era, and a sad end to the decline of a dynasty. Lichen doesn't know that history will not repeat itself, but he might as well take this matter out and tell it to Zhu Zaikai as a story, so as to listen to the future monarch of the Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen, the future king of the Ming Dynasty who doesn't know if he will appear, can be regarded as the descendant of Zhu Zaikai's family.

It seems that at the end of every dynasty, there will be something funny and sad happening. Chongzhen has countless desperate stories, and what Lichen said is one of them.

In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen Chongzhen, the peasant army came to the city, Chongzhen lowered his noble head in order to keep the last bit of hope, and decided to raise money from the civil and military officials, as well as the princes and nobles. One by one, the ministers who were full of fat immediately staged a jaw-dropping scene for the emperor. Shoufu took the lead in donating five hundred taels, ministers, you one hundred, and my donation of one hundred, almost didn't make the emperor cry!

What's even more amazing is the queen's father, the emperor's father-in-law took the lead in crying poverty to the emperor, the queen couldn't look past it, and quietly gave the father-in-law five thousand taels of silver to let him take the lead. Unexpectedly, the best Guozhang embezzled two-fifths of the queen's five thousand taels before he "donated" the rest to the poor emperor.

The dust changed the time, changed the country name, and only said that it was something that happened in a distant country. But the process has not been changed.

When the two little ones heard this, their mouths opened in shock.

"How can there be such a thing in this world?" The little girl asked incredulously.

"This emperor is too pitiful, isn't he?" Zhu Zaikai first sympathized with the emperor. Then he asked, "And what about later?" ”

Lichen smiled bitterly and said: "The princes and ministers were unwilling to pay, so the peasant army broke through the capital, and the emperor committed suicide. The princes and nobles surrendered. ”

Zhu Zaikai meant that the story was over, sighed deeply, and his little head hung weakly, knowing that his master's words about virtue were just a story, but he didn't know why, but he could make himself extremely uncomfortable.

"Is there anything else in the back?" The little girl didn't have as many associations as Zhu Zaikai, but continued to ask with a sigh.

"Later, the peasant army thought that they were too poor, and the princes and ministers were too rich. So they began to raid the homes of the princes and ministers. He harvested tens of millions of taels of silver. In the queen's father's house alone, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were copied, as well as countless other treasures, the value of which was incalculable," replied Chen.

"Ahh That's so much money, they damn it! "The little girl just knows that tens of millions is a big amount, but she doesn't know what kind of concept tens of millions of taels of silver is.

Zhu Zaikai knew that because his father often lamented that there was too little money in the treasury, he mentioned how much income the Ming court had a year. It's just that I know, so I feel deeply about the wealth of tens of millions of taels of silver.

"Zaiqi, do you know why those princes and ministers refuse to donate money to the imperial court even though they know that their country is in danger?" Lichen asked.

Before Zhu Zai could speak, the little girl spoke first: "I know, I know, because the state makes the emperor's family, and it is not the prince's minister's."

Lichen smiled and said, "The little girl is so smart, she got half of the answer right." ”

The little girl was actually happy, and then asked with big eyes and puzzled, "What is the other half?" ”

Lichen didn't speak.

Zhu Zaikai replied leisurely after half a sound: "Because of those invitations!" ”

Lichen nodded in approval. In fact, there are too many factors in the occurrence of this story. But Zhu Zaikai can answer such an answer at a young age, which is already very good. I couldn't ask for more, even the dust.

"It's raining outside, let's go out of town! Let's see if your master's silver has worked" After finishing speaking, he raised his feet and left, and the little girl and Zhu Zaikai hurriedly followed.

"Master, there may be heavy rain today, and you still have to go out?" The old butler asked worriedly as he looked out at the gloomy sky.

"Master Ben has done something stupid, in addition to being able to dodge some, what else can he do" Lichen pretended to smile bitterly: "If someone comes to look for it, say that I went to the field to check the business, and let them come back in the future!" ”

"Master, are you going far away?" The old butler was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked.

"Yes! It could be a day, or it could be a few months, who knows? When we are not there, you take care of the house, if there is anything in the government, you immediately notify the Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch's Mansion, take the post of the old man, and he will help" Lichen explained to the housekeeper while waiting for the two little guys to pack their small luggage and prepare to go out in the carriage.

On a rainy day, there were no more pedestrians coming and going, and the carriage made a splash all the way out of the city.

If the rainy day only brought inconvenience to the people in Jinling City, it was an out-and-out disaster for the victims gathered outside the city.

There was no tile on the head, no cone on the feet, and the hastily erected straw hut was crowded with people of all sizes. The wind and rain are raging outside, and there is a shortage of medical treatment inside. In this rainy season, if the victims gather like this, there will be no plague before there will be ghosts!

Lichen deliberately asked the coachman to slow down the carriage and walked through the grass hut area where the victims gathered.

Zhu Zaikai, who has never been deep into the disaster area, was simply stunned!

If the government is saying that for the sake of face, the grass hut outside the disaster area is still a little planned and built quite passable, but the grass shed inside the disaster area is simply miserable. Three or two branches, some rags, grass and leaves are considered a family of disaster victims.

Even more terrible are the dead!

Zhu Zai saw with his own eyes that the dead body that died on the road was dragged away, and after being put on the board car, he didn't know where it was towed.

Zhu Zaikai's face turned white in an instant, and he quickly closed the car window, and he didn't dare to look out again!

The carriage passed slowly, and it looked like it was about to leave the grass hut area. A few small children suddenly rushed up and stopped their carriage.

When the coachman raised his whip and was about to pull it down, Lichen quickly grabbed it.

"Master, kind master, save my mother! Save my mother! The children ran to the carriage and knelt down in the muddy water, soaking wet and cold, and pleading.

Rushed to the doctor, and the children only knew that the one who could ride in such a beautiful carriage must be a rich man, and they might be kind enough to help their mother find a doctor to see.

It's just that they don't know that if they meet a well-wisher, it's okay, but if they meet a hard-hearted person, what will happen to them?

The carriage followed the children to a tattered straw shed, in front of which stood two sturdy middle-aged women looking at something at the door of the straw shed, and saw that the children had indeed brought people back, and their faces could not help but show joy.

Such a gorgeous carriage is not something that ordinary people can afford to sit on, and a few children have really brought back a rich man!

Lichen frowned, and walked into the grass shed with Zhu Zaikai and the little girl, which was so small that it was almost impossible to turn around.

There is no shelter from the rain or wind in the dilapidated straw hut, and there is no dry ground at all.

There was a comatose woman lying on a few broken wooden boards, covered with a few torn clothes, this woman should be the mother of those children!

Lichen grabbed a child casually and asked, "How long has your mother been sick?" ”

Who knew that the child shook his head violently and said, "That's not my mother, that's Orchid and Huzi's mother!" ”

Lichen smiled and patted the little guy's head lightly and said, "Then you still call people to save your mother?" ”

The little one stuck out his tongue and shyly threw himself into the arms of the woman next to him, writhing non-stop.

Seeing this, Lichen knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he had to walk to the unconscious woman, look at the woman's face, and after her eyes, he began to check the woman's pulse.

The more Lichen cut his pulse, the more unsightly his face became, and just when the room was full of people waiting for the results with fear, Lichen suddenly stood up and asked the two women standing in the corner of the straw hut: "How long has she been sick, have there been many people here recently, with high fever, unconscious, and some even vomiting blood?" ”

The two women suddenly became nervous, and asked expectantly: "This, this master, you, you are the big, doctor?" “

Lichen nodded.

"Xinghua is sick, I've been sick for a day, and all of a sudden I have a high fever, I'm unconscious, I'm about to scare people to death, there aren't many sick people here recently, everyone thinks it's just a cold!" The woman standing opposite the dust was forced to ask by the dust, and immediately retreated, but the woman standing behind her was more understanding and answered very smoothly.

Lichen nodded, and after a long sigh, he shouted at the coachman outside the straw hut: "Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, you immediately rush to the Madao Road Pharmacy to buy raw gypsum, Zhimu, Xuanshen (eight coins) raw yam, wild ginseng, licorice, buy as much as you want, if there is a doctor, it is best to bring the doctor with you." There is also a notification to the housekeeper, telling him to go to the town to guard the eunuch's mansion, then my post goes, saying that I am waiting for him in the grass hut of the victims, go quickly! ”

"Okay, sir, I'll go right away." The coachman was frightened by Chen's face, and without saying a word, he whipped his horse a few times, and hurried towards the city.

"Master, is there something wrong?" Zhu Zai walked up to Chen's side worriedly and asked. (To be continued.) )