Chapter 195: Hiring the Emperor
I kept trying to open my eyes to the maximum, I really couldn't believe that this child who was sitting in front of him without any scruples and gnawing on bones was Zhu Chongba, the future Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty - Zhu Yuanzhang!
Zhu Chongba looked up endlessly, and saw that he was about to be choked to death, so he asked curiously, "Immortal... What happened to you? ”
Then he came back to his senses and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just that when I hear your name, I think of an old man!" ”
Zhu Chongba was also curious: "Old man? Is it the same name as mine? ”
Bu Xiu smiled evilly: "No, no, no! There are only two words in your name, his name is Zhu Bajie! ”
Zhu Chongba said with a smile: "This name is so strange, it looks like a monk's legal name." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Laughing endlessly: "Heavy eight brothers, really smart!" Then he squatted on the ground and said, "Brother Chongba, I remember... I can hear your accent, not like a local? ”
Zhu Chongba said: "I am from Haozhou. ”
He wondered: "Then why did you come all the way to this floating beam?" ”
Zhu Chongba sighed: "Hey... It's hard to put into words! ”
So, the future founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty sat cross-legged on the ground, chewing on horse meat while concisely telling the past.
Zhu Chongba grew up in Haozhou since he was a child, with a family of seven, parents, two brothers, and sister-in-law and nephew.
In the past two years, Haozhou has experienced a series of major disasters, including drought, locust plague and plague. Zhu Chongba's parents and eldest brother died of the plague, and in order to make a living, he had to separate from his second brother and sister-in-law and nephew, and went their separate ways.
Originally, Zhu Chongba was going to Huangjue Temple to become a monk, and the monk Gaobin there had some connections with his family, so it was not a problem to eat with a mouthful of food. But halfway through, I heard that because of the catastrophe for many years, Huangjue Temple could not get alms, and the host had sent all the monks down the mountain to find their own way out. Zhu Chongba saw that going to Huangjue Temple could not solve the problem of food and clothing, so he changed his route to the south and followed the refugees all the way to Luzhou to seek a livelihood.
Outside the city of Luzhou, refugees from all over the world gathered here. The government arranged for all the refugees to open warehouses outside the city to put food, and after the news broke, the refugees flocked to the city, and the government saw that there were more and more refugees, so they stopped caring about it.
Seeing that the government no longer took care of food, these refugees were resentful, and gathered outside the city to break through the city gate and enter the city to beg for food.
Fearing unrest, the government sent troops to disperse the refugees and informed the entire territory that it was forbidden to take in the refugees.
In this way, Zhu Chongba was separated from the previous team, and continued to wander south alone.
Halfway through, he joined the current refugee team, and followed everyone begging all the way to Shidai County, Chizhou Road.
In those years, there was a heavy burden of forced labor, disasters and famines, and the people's lives were extremely difficult, and there was no surplus food to feed the refugees.
However, those wealthy officials and gentry took the opportunity to hoard and raise the price of grain in order to make huge profits.
There are constant deaths outside Shidai City, and the wealthy families in the city are indeed singing and dancing.
It's really Zhumen's wine and meat stinky and there are frozen bones on the road!
Zhu Chongba has been a little excited since he was a child, and when he saw that the granaries of rich merchants were about to burst, he was unwilling to help the poor, so he came up with a clever plan to steal beams and change pillars.
He chose two competing wealthy merchants in the city, one calling himself Li Bancheng and the other Sun Bancheng.
He first went to two houses and stole hoes and shovels, and then selected a few refugees with some physical strength, divided them into two teams, and dug tunnels from the back wall of Sun Li's two granaries until they reached the bottom of the grain stacks.
Bags of food were then taken out of the burrows and distributed to the refugees.
In order to avoid being discovered prematurely, Zhu Chongba decided to steal only one grain stack per family.
When he was done stealing, he ordered someone to throw the tools in the tunnel, and then returned to the outside of the city to wait for the play.
After that, rumors spread in the city, saying, "The rats have become fine, and the granaries are empty!" ”
Li Bancheng and Sun Bancheng's housekeepers were worried that their family's grain had been stolen by rat essence, so they hurriedly sent someone to the grain depot to inspect it.
After the two opened the granary, they found that they had each lost a stack of grain!
The housekeepers also discovered the tunnel under the warehouse, and successfully found the crime tools left by the thief in the tunnel.
The tools were engraved with the marks of each family, so the two families thought that the other had stolen their own food, so they took the house slave workers to the other party to seek justice.
The two families bumped into each other in the city, and without saying a word, they fought! The scene is extremely hot and intense!
In the end, the battle started with two local tyrants and evolved into a battle between the two families of Sun and Li!
The entire Shidai County has become a pot of porridge! Zhu Chongba took advantage of the chaos and fled with the refugee team!
After that, he became the leader of this refugee team with his brilliant mind, leading them from Shidai County, through Qimen, all the way to Fuliang County.
Although he was also starving and suffering along the way, because Zhu Chongba always had a ghost idea popping up, this team could always eat a full meal in ten days and a half months, and no one starved to death!
When I arrived in Fuliang County, I didn't find a granary here, and I didn't meet the government to help me, so I couldn't eat even if I begged, and I didn't have the next meal.
Everyone had been hungry for seven or eight days, and was lingering in the ruined temple nearby, but they were seduced by a strong smell of meat.
When they saw that the people in the house were well dressed and that there were carriages, they thought they were rich merchants. Seeing that the team was actually women, old people, and children, he decided that he had no ability to resist.
Besides, it is a crime to kill horses privately, and these rich businessmen dare not sue the officials even if they are robbed, so they came up with this strategy of attacking the east and west, and taking hostages in exchange for horse meat!
Zhu Chongba regretted: "I wanted to get something to eat, but I thought that I would meet you all have immortal methods!" ”
He rubbed his head endlessly, and tried to think about the content of "The Legend of the Heroes".
It is now the sixth year of the Zhiyuan, that is, 1340. And he clearly remembered that it was written in "The Biography of Xiaoxiong" that Zhu Chongba suffered a catastrophe in the third year of Zhizheng, that is, in 1343, and then went to Huangjue Temple to become a monk, and then went to beg for food!
He secretly analyzed it: Brother Bull once said that this space was accidentally opened because of my crossing. In the space, the past has become an established fact, but the future direction is unknown! That is to say, after opening the space, there is a butterfly dancing effect, and the direction of history has been derailed~
He asked Zhu Chongba endlessly: "Then where are you going next?" ”
Zhu Chongba said: "We don't know where we're going, just take one step at a time!" I originally wanted to go back to Haozhou to find my brother and sister-in-law, but I couldn't let go of these people. With me, they can still have a bite to eat, but if they leave me, they don't know how to live! ”
A little surprised, I didn't expect this founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was known for his cold-blooded thunderbolt, to be so merciful when he was a child.
He asked, "Then why don't you find a place to settle down, and it's not a problem to beg like this?" ”
Zhu Chongba said: "We also want to find a place to settle down, reopen the village, and rely on physical strength to eat!" However, the local government was very reluctant to the victims, and they were worried that we would become a problem if we stayed in the local area, so they rushed everywhere. From Shidai to Fuliang, we were driven all the way! ”
After a while, he thought, "If I can make you settle down here, would you be willing?" ”
Zhu Chongba said: "Of course I do! This Jingdezhen is not like other places, as long as you can settle down here, relying on the strength of your two arms, the big guys can also eat well! I don't know how many times stronger than when I call Hanako! ”
He kept saying, "What Jingdezhen? You say this is Jingdezhen? ”
Zhu Chongba said: "Yes! Doesn't Big Brother Fairy know? "I heard that the other party can settle himself here, and even the endless name is close.
Keep talking and saying: Be good! This is Jingdezhen! Porcelain capital! You must buy some porcelain and keep it for future appreciation!
He looked at the dilapidated mansion again: why not buy it? It is not only an industry, but also a temporary shelter for refugees, and a porcelain procurement center in the future! As for the heavy eight, hehe, it's not bad to hire a future emperor to work for you!
Thinking of this, he made up his mind and said to Zhu Chongba: "Leave this matter to me!" Rest well, tomorrow I will be able to make you settle down here, and then you will eat according to your ability! also made a name for himself in Jingdezhen! ”
Then he answered half a sentence in his heart: "By the way, be a purchasing manager for me and earn some silver!" ”