Chapter 041: Anxiety
Five days after the reorganization, the ministries moved out of the palace one after another, and only the Senate Bureau, the Craftsman Bureau, and the General Bureau were left in the front yard, and the guard was also taken over by the newly formed personal guards. Only the staff of the East Courtyard remained, most of whom were orphans and women who were unable to perform manual labor, as well as the elderly and infirm. The western courtyard was occupied by the clothes and armor of the craftsman's office, because most of them were women, and it was inconvenient to mingle with the men outside the house. As a result, the noisy courtyard has become much cleaner.
"Wang De, have the East Courtyard been settled?" There is a three-story warm pavilion in the backyard garden, which hides a lot of books, which may be a place for the original owner to read and relax, and Zhao Yu moved here after discovering it. It's not that he likes the quietness here, but because the attic is the only vantage point, and not only can he see the situation in the house, but also the sea in the distance. He asked, leaning against the window and looking around for a while.
"Your Highness, everything has been arranged according to your requirements." Wang De replied, "There are now 730 children under the age of 14 in the house, of whom more than 500 are between the ages of 10 and 14, and more than 200 are between the ages of 6 and 10. β
"What's the matter?" Zhao Yu said with some surprise.
"Your Highness doesn't know, now the matter of the reorganization of the house has spread all over the world, and I learned that we have children here, and some wandering children have rushed to join us, and even some parents have sent their children to our house." Wang De said with a wry smile.
"This is treating the palace as a welfare home, the children who have lost their relatives are gone, and those who have families are willing to abandon their children!" Zhao Yu was angry, his original intention was just to take in the orphans in the army, but they regarded themselves as wronged.
"Your Highness, now that the situation is turbulent and the war is continuous, those soldiers feel that they have a tomorrow and no tomorrow, thinking that it is better to send their children to the house after their death, at least they have no worries about food and clothing, and they can also leave incense for themselves." Wang De explained.
"This can't be done, if something happens to the children in the house, won't it be troublesome for them to find us in the future!" In the previous life, because the child had something wrong in kindergarten and school, there were too many things that made the chicken and dog restless, and now it is even more difficult to ensure that there is no accident, Zhao Hao doesn't want to get into trouble.
"Your Highness, rest assured, the little one has already thought of this layer and signed a deed with them, and the child will be a person in the house in the future when he is sent to the house, and it has nothing to do with them whether he lives or dies, so he will not get into trouble." Wang De said with a smile.
"Isn't this a sale of children, which is intolerable to the law!" Zhao Yu was even more shocked when he heard it, and the child became a person in the house after signing the contract, which is human trafficking, and as far as he knows, human trafficking was prohibited in the Song Dynasty.
"Your Royal Highness, it's not like this, although our Great Song Dynasty strictly prohibits the sale of human beings, but if you sign a contract with your family, the government will not pursue it, and now there are more people who voluntarily sell themselves as slaves, and no one in the government cares, and it is a great kindness for our house to take them in to provide food and clothing." Wang De didn't expect the prince to have such a big reaction, so he hurriedly explained.
"Alas, people in troubled times are not as good as dogs!" Zhao Yu sighed and said, but he also knew that now the etiquette law has collapsed, the law and discipline are chaotic, and he has no power to change it, so he can only be optimistic about his own one-third of an acre.
"Your Highness is merciful, and there is nothing in the house that is not praised." Wang De said.
"Not necessarily, Chen Dun's kid doesn't know how to scold me?" Zhao Yu said with a smile, he understood that the teenage child was in a rebellious period, and when he felt that he was omnipotent and lawless, if he didn't scare and scare him, he didn't know what trouble would happen.
"Hehe, His Royal Highness is still smart, Chen Dun is usually bold, but he was frightened that day, his pants were wet, and he lost face in front of everyone, and now he is hiding from everyone when he sees it, I'm afraid he will be honest for a few days." Wang De said with a smile.
"Hehe, no matter how much he can toss, he will be a child after all, and this king can't cure him?" Zhao Yu also smiled, and admonished, "You should pay more attention to him in the future, I think he has some background and something hidden in his heart." β
"Your Highness, don't worry, I will watch him, a child can't hide things, it won't take long to say it." Wang De said, but in his heart, the prince was naturally excluded, because he found that there were too many secrets in His Highness's heart, and he couldn't see through what he was always thinking after being in the palace for so many years.
"What did Master Yuan Miao say?" Zhao Hao asked again, he meant that he wanted the monks who escaped from the Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou to join his personal guard, but if he proposed it, it would be suspected of oppressing people with power, and he was worried that it would cause Yuan Miao's disgust, so he asked Wang De to persuade him.
"Back to His Royal Highness, Master Yuan Miao understood the righteousness, promised to let the monks return to the world, and promised them that they could return to the temple to practice after they beat the tartars, but ......"
"If he asks for anything, we can agree." Zhao Yu was overjoyed, and rushed to say without waiting for Wang De to finish speaking.
"Your Highness, what Master Yuan Miao means is that the monks return to the laity is all voluntary, he does not force it, and he does not make a non-point request, but just ......"
"Just what, tell me? Are they refusing? Zhao Yu listened anxiously and asked.
"It's just that Master Yuan Miao insisted on refusing to return to the world, and he also said that he would return to Quanzhou to rebuild the temple after only staying in the house for three years." Wang De finished speaking in one breath.
"Alas, three years is three years!" Zhao Yu sighed and said, it will only be three years before the Battle of Yashan, if he breaks through this hurdle, he may be safe, "What do other people say?" He asked again.
"Thirty people, including Zhike Fakong, Wunong Faben, Wuqiao Fahua, and Zhaohua Fazheng, are willing to return to the secular army, determined to avenge the monks who were slaughtered by the Tartars, and there are still twelve people who still want to follow Master Yuan Miao to practice." Wang De didn't wait for the prince to urge again, and sped up his speech to say the result.
"Promise them, they will be put into the guard camp, three years later, the king will rebuild the treasure temple, and then shape the golden body of the Buddha." Zhao Yu said that the situation was much better than he expected, and he initially estimated that it would be good to have ten or eight.
"Yes, I'll go and talk." His Royal Highness didn't blame, and Wang De also breathed a sigh of relief, but after thinking about it, there was something that he still had to remind His Highness, "Your Highness, there is still something small that I don't know whether to say or not?" β
"If you have something to say, don't talk about it." With the help of the monks, Zhao Yu was in a good mood and said angrily.
"Your Highness, the grain stock in the house is about to run out, but Director Zheng's grain ship has not come back yet, has His Highness made some preparations earlier." Wang De cautiously admonished.
"How many days has the owner been at sea?" Zhao Hao's brain buzzed when he heard this, and he was still happily recruiting troops everywhere, how could he forget such a big thing. He knew that the structure he had built in the house was like papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and if he ran out of food, he was afraid that it would disappear immediately and fall into his stomach.
"Your Highness, today is the eighth day, but there is still no news from the head of the village, will it be ......?" Wang De replied.
"Now the Yuan Dynasty naval army is still in the sea of Fujian, and it has not gone south on a large scale, so the possibility of encountering it is too small. And the weather has not changed much recently, there will be no strong winds and waves, and now the ten-day period has not yet arrived, he should already be on his way home, and everything will be fine in two days. Zhao Yu thought for a while and said.
"Your Highness, is it small that he will run away with the money?" Wang De said mysteriously.
"Run?!"
"Yes, Your Highness, you want to be a businessman, your heart is the blackest, and its ship full of goods was requisitioned by the imperial court, you must be dissatisfied, and now you have the opportunity to not run!" Wang De said, "If his home is Quanzhou, but it was occupied by the Tartars, he took the boat around the sea and turned around and returned to Quanzhou, unaware." When we knew that we couldn't chase after him, he took back his boat, and abducted His Highness's money, and continued to be a rich man. β
"No, although the owner of the village loves money, I don't see it as a person who betrays the lord and seeks glory, he will definitely come back." Zhao Yu shook his head and said.
"Your Highness, it is indispensable to guard against people, especially this kind of people who have just taken refuge, don't look at them now busy showing their loyalty one by one, that is, they have nowhere to go, maybe one day they will go to climb the high branches......"
"Okay, I'm going to study, are you going to see if the East Courtyard is cleaned up?" Wang De chattered for a long time, nothing more than to elevate himself, hit others, and show loyalty to him, Zhao Yu was tired of listening to it, waved his hand and said.
"Your Highness...... Okay, let's go! "I finally seized the opportunity, and I was talking about it, but I was suddenly interrupted by His Royal Highness and found that the prince's face was not very good, so I stopped my mouth and quietly retreated......
Zhao Yu sat in the attic for a whole day, although he expressed his absolute trust in Zhuang Shilin in front of Wang De, but he also became uneasy when he thought of the consequences of cutting off food, and his mind was full of food things, but he didn't come up with any good solutions, so he could only hope for Zhuang Shilin, hoping that he could live up to his trust and come back.
"Alas, now it's a black eye!" Zhao Yu stood up and sighed, now this matter can't be brought to the table, otherwise the people's hearts that have just stabilized will be chaotic again, so the matter can only be carried by themselves. In addition to anxiety, he also found that he actually lived in a closed space, completely ignorant of the changes in the outside world, and only relied on his little understanding of history to guess the situation. Now I don't know what the court thinks of what he has done, what attitude the queen mother and the emperor have towards him, and even what the internal reaction to his actions is.
"We must build an intelligence team." Zhao Yu turned around twice and muttered, if he had eyes and ears, at least he would be able to know what was going on in Zhuang Shilin, who bought grain, and there was no need to guess people's hearts here, gamble on his character, and let himself have a time adjustment plan for early warning.
"Call Zheng Hu to see you!" Xiao Huangmen, who was guarding the door, was suddenly startled by the king's shout, and promised to hurry up and find someone......