Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and sat down loudly.

Fang Jifan also sat down, with a little smile on his face, but he said in his heart that he was not nervous, it was fake.

Fang Jifan is really more nervous than Zhu Houzhao, but he swore to protect Zhu Houzhao in front of the emperor.

Emperor Hongzhi also showed a smile on his face, he used to look at his son, how to look at it, how it was not pleasing to the eye, but now when he looks at Zhu Houzhao, he finds that he has a different perception!

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao for a long time, and he found that his son looked a little older and more stable, his beard had grown stubble, his mouth was pursed, and his eyes were very bright, which made him feel a little reborn.

Emperor Hongzhi touched the case, silently, and said for a long time: "Why are you so thin?" ”

Zhu Hou looked at Fang Jifan.

He finally understood one thing now, it turned out that there were some things that he couldn't say himself, so he had to let others say them.

Fang Jifan: "......"

Coughing, Fang Jifan said in a heartfelt manner: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has taken the lead, leading the scholars and homeless people to cultivate the land, eating and sleeping with the homeless, and the past two months have been a little harder, so His Royal Highness has lost weight." ”

"Eat and sleep together?" Emperor Hongzhi was stunned.

He didn't believe that such a person would be his son.

His son has always been pampered and grew up in the hands of women in the deep palace, and he will eat and sleep with the homeless?

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Fang Jifan with a smile: "I didn't ask Fang Qing's family, I asked the prince to answer in person." ”

This is a clear indication of what tricks you want to play.

Zhu Houzhao had already received Fang Jifan's instructions in advance, and the two sides conducted a simulation, so they were not excited, but said: "Erchen does eat and live with the homeless, just like Mr. Wang said, if you want to know what the people need, you need to have empathy!" Empathy is easier said than done, and if you don't eat and sleep with the homeless, the so-called empathy is just a formality. ”

"So, you understand what empathy is?" Emperor Hongzhi's face was indifferent, he could almost imagine that these two guys had been prepared to deal with him before they came.

If you want to deceive me, it's not so easy!

Although I don't explain the details, it's not like you two yellow-mouthed children can fool if you want to.

He was expressionless, just looked at Zhu Houzhao and said, "Okay, I believe you." ”

Let's put it on, with a bit of ridicule.

Zhu Houzhao was still not as excited as before, and actually said very seriously: "Thank you father." ”

“……”

The smile on Emperor Hongzhi's face still remained, but the corner of his eye glanced at Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan looks innocent, and has something to do with me? Do you want me to take the blame for good things and bad things?

"Prince...... Emperor Hongzhi said suddenly: "Tell me, what is the market price of rice now?" ”

This understatement, like a sudden attack, went around Zhu Houzhao's back, and directly gave Zhu Houzhao a stick.

Didn't you say that you ate and slept with the homeless? Didn't you say you already had empathy?

Okay, see if you know the people's suffering, it's not easy, this is the simplest question, if you can't answer this, you two yellow-mouthed children will be exposed.

Hum!

You are in Xishan, self-styled Xiucai, do you think I don't know? What an eye-opener.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at his father strangely, shook his head very upright, and said, "My son doesn't know." ”

"I don't know?" Sure enough, the stuffing was revealed.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled slightly.

On his imperial case, there was a secret report from the factory guard, and the price of rice today was clear, and Emperor Hongzhi's eyes swept over the look of disappointment, which was a complete disappointment.

Sure enough, he is bullying the king here.

This is taking me for a fool.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi sneered: "You don't even know the price of rice, and you dare to say that you eat and sleep with the people?" With empathy? Do you dare to say that you know about the suffering of the people? Let me tell you, the price of rice has risen by 10% since the beginning of winter, and I am worried about it......"

"Father, Emperor ......" Zhu Houzhao suddenly interrupted Emperor Hongzhi's words, and looked at Emperor Hongzhi deeply.

Fang Jifan also looked at Emperor Hongzhi strangely, this is not that he wants to show disrespect, for the Son of Heaven, Fang Jifan has always been very respectful, because...... He's afraid of death!

Emperor Hongzhi was a little annoyed, when will it be your turn to interrupt me, frowned and said, "What? ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "My father didn't know that ninety percent of the people in the world didn't know the price of rice? Most of the rice on the market is white rice, so it can be sold at a price, but in fact, the vast majority of the people only eat in the ground, they have no money to buy rice, everything they need is grown from the ground, in addition to paying tenant rent, government taxes, the rest are broken rice, rotten grain, the family is old, they can't eat enough, not to mention, what they leave is only broken rice, yellow rice, even if they want to sell, no one is willing to buy, they don't know how to sell grain, let alone have money to buy grain, the price of grain is geometric, and the father has something to do with it, It also has something to do with the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and even with a lot of rich families, all of which have something to do with many middle-class families living in the city, but this has nothing to do with eighty percent of the people! They are self-sufficient and do not know the price of food. Therefore...... The question asked by the father and the emperor, the son really thought it was very strange, did this have anything to do with the displaced people? ”

“……”

Zhu Houzhao said such a long sentence in one breath, but Emperor Hongzhi was a little confused.

Is that so?

Fang Jifan lowered his head, not daring to look at Emperor Hongzhi, because he really didn't want to show the emperor the expression of '** mentally retarded', he wanted to keep his useful body and do more practical things for the people!

Right...... That's it, our successor is not afraid of death, but afraid of not being able to die for the interests of the people, making fearless sacrifices.

Emperor Hongzhi was silent for a long time, and he didn't know how to question it.

But a question arose in his heart, is this so? Why didn't the factory guard say it in the recital, and the hundred officials' recitals didn't say it?

At this time, Zhu Houzhao said suddenly: "Since my father asked about the price of grain, then my son wants to ask, does my father know why these displaced people suffered disasters?" ”

Emperor Hongzhi was stunned, why was it your turn to ask me?

"This ...... The matter of natural disasters is inconclusive. ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said: "No, the reason why these people in Miyun have become displaced people is not just because Miyun's cultivated land cannot meet the needs of these people, but because, in addition to the disasters in Miyun, many gentry have a premonition that the large planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes will cause grain prices to plummet, so they are now reluctant to continue planting wheat, preferring to leave the land barren for the time being, and want to wait and see the wind direction before making plans." ”

"......" has such a thing?

Emperor Hongzhi was completely stunned.

Zhu Houzhao then said: "Father said that the rice and noodles on the market have risen by one percent, according to the sons, this round of grain surge has nothing to do with natural disasters, since the seventh year of Hongzhi, natural disasters have become worse day by day, why did there not have such a sharp rise in the past?" The reason for this, according to Erchen's prediction, was that many gentry were watching the direction of the wind, and they preferred to leave some land that was not fertile enough to be left unused for the time being, rather than renting it to others, thinking that they would change it from wheat fields to potato fields at any time in the future. ”

Emperor Hongzhi blushed, and he subconsciously picked up the secret music on the case, trying to find some clues from it.

However, it didn't.

The duty of the factory guard is to quote, and as for the analysis of the reasons, this is beyond their ability.

Zhu Houzhao looked at his father with a smile, and then said: "My father also knows the sufferings of the people, but he knows that these homeless people have traveled hundreds of miles, and Miyun is not far from Jingshi, but how many people have fallen ill on the way along the way?" How many people died by the roadside? ”

"What? Someone actually ......" Emperor Hongzhi was moved, and his eyebrows furrowed deeply.

Immediately, Zhu Houzhao said: "On the way, twenty-one people starved to death, and thirty-seven people fell ill. ”

"......" Emperor Hongji's face darkened.

"My father must think that this is my father's negligence, and the government is duty-bound. But...... My father was wrong. ”

"Wrong...... Wrong? ”

"Yes." Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "Father is wrong, what these homeless people have in their hearts is not hatred, but gratitude, does Father know why they are grateful?" ”

"......" Faced with these problems, Emperor Hongzhi felt that he could not parry.

He saw Zhu Houzhao's appearance of his minions and claws, like a male teacher who had just grown up, and began to provoke and demonstrate to the old lion king!

"Because they survived, for them, to survive in the disaster year, it is already a gift, Hongzhi three years, Miyun drought, ten rooms and nine empty, many elderly people, they luckily survived, at that time the government also helped, but the gift of the imperial court can not help so many disaster victims, not to mention, there are officials from the hands of the hands, so that thousands of people starve to death. Now, these homeless people, no more than 100 people have been killed or wounded, and for them, it is a gift from God and the emperor. ”

Zhu Houzhao stared at Emperor Hongzhi, and in fact, he almost blurted out a curse: "MD, mentally retarded." "That's it

Emperor Hongji's face had changed from gloomy to gloomy.

He still can't imagine the scene of the three years of Hongji.

When he searched for Hongzhi for three years, it was also the report of Miyun County.

Seemingly, not too impressed.

Come to think of it, there are just a few words in it, nothing more than 'Miyun is in great drought, and the people have nothing to eat'.

But how can such words touch people's hearts?

Zhu Houzhao looked at Emperor Hongzhi with a smile and continued: "So in Xishan, countless homeless people are constantly praising the sage of their father and the benevolence of their sons, and think that Fang Jifan is a good official for the people. ”

Praise...... Shengming ......

This sentence, when I heard it in the ears of Emperor Hongzhi at this moment, was particularly harsh.

He was dumbfounded, his face had turned iron-blue, and he was speechless in shock.