Chapter 56: Pleasing the Emperor

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On the central axis of the Forbidden City, the ancient cypress in the Imperial Garden is towering and green, and two majestic golden lions stand at the door. Climb the stairs, one by one the stone steps are inlaid with gold and jade, and all kinds of famous flowers compete for beauty. In the pond, there are pavilions with red walls and green tiles, surrounded by white jade railings, if you can take a rest here, it is really comparable to the life of a fairy.

"Well, that's good. You have done a good job in this trip, and I will reward you well. Zhu Qizhen was in the imperial garden of Chengguangmen, sitting under the old cypress tree, drinking tea leisurely. He looks like he is fourteen or fifteen years old, but he has been an emperor for five years.

On one side stood the Jinyi Guard's commander Ma Shun, he stood respectfully with his head bowed, and said with a flattering face: "Being able to do things for the Long Live Lord is a blessing that I can only cultivate in eight lifetimes, how dare I ask for a reward, I am very satisfied if you can be happy." ”

"I love to hear this, if all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty can do things like you, I will have a lot of peace of mind. You tell everyone, the trade will open immediately! ”

"Yes. The minister will go down and make arrangements. After speaking, Ma Shun respectfully bent over and walked briskly, and Zhang Luo went.

Can there still be business in the Imperial Garden? It's a surprise.

It turned out that the emperor ascended the throne at the age of nine, and all state affairs were in the hands of his grandmother, Empress Dowager Zhang, who reused the old ministers since Renxuan, and discussed everything with the cabinet auxiliary minister "Sanyang". Although Zhu Qizhen has been the emperor for five years, he has no power at all, and he is often urged to study by the Empress Dowager Zhang, and Wang Zhen, the eunuch next to him, was also called over by the Empress Dowager Zhang to scold him twice in three days.

Over time, Zhu Qizhen felt that he was too boring and too hard to be an emperor, and it was better for civilians to be free, and there was nothing to do with entertainment.

Wang Zhen was the emperor's companion, and in order to please the emperor, he came up with an idea. Since the emperor wants to be a commoner, it is impossible to secretly leave the palace, and I don't know how many ministers will write a book of advice to do so. But you can order the eunuch and the palace maid to pretend to be a pawn in the palace, and the emperor can experience the life of a commoner.

This matter can't be a big deal yet, and it's good to do some small business in the Imperial Garden. It has to be realistic, you can't fool around and forget it, so that the emperor can really see the fun of folk life.

The emperor always wanted to establish immortal deeds like Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, so he proposed that Wang Zhen set up an exotic bazaar, and he wanted to see how the people of other countries usually lived.

The emperor has spoken, and the people below have to do their best. In the end, the clothes and goods were all ready, but there was only one thing missing—foreign coins!

Wang Zhen hurriedly found Ma Shun, because Jinyiwei has many eyes and ears, and the frontier is no exception, and it is not difficult to get some foreign coins.

Ma Shun arranged the matter.

It was such a coincidence, after You Fang Langzhong treated Chai Baochen, he took the silver coins of ancient Persia to the market to exchange them. As soon as he took out a silver coin, he was targeted by two brocade guards, and as a result, these two brocade guards locked the You Fang Langzhong with chains on the street, saying that he was fornicating with the enemy country and was a spy.

This Lang Zhong is full of martial arts, but he may be worried that his identity will be exposed, so he didn't show it and let Jinyiwei kidnap him. In the end, Lang Zhong obediently handed over all the silver coins, and said that he was willing to pay filial piety. Jin Yiwei didn't embarrass him, and let him go after taking the money. They gave the silver coins to Ma Shun overnight.

Ma Shunxi smiled, he didn't expect his subordinates to be so efficient. Wang Zhen saw that Ma Shun also took his words seriously, so he asked Ma Shun to show his face in front of Banzai and let him run today's market performance.

After a while, several eunuchs dressed in tatters, their faces dirty, and pretended to be beggars. They limped to the emperor, pretending to be pitiful and shouting, "This son, enjoy it, we haven't eaten for several days." ”

Look at what they look like, they really look like them. As soon as the emperor was pleased, he took out a Persian silver coin from his waist, threw it into the bowl in their hands, and said, "Take it, it will be enough for you to eat for a month." ”

A few "beggars" hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed in thanks.

The emperor was more pleased than anyone else, and he walked out of the pavilion and came to the "bazaar", where there were many people, including scholars, farmers, butchers, old men, little boys, little girls, singers, storytellers, and cookcake sellers.

In the distance stood street prostitutes of all ages, as well as ragged drunks. There are even all sorts of unkempt artisans and exhausted laborers. All of them converged into a scene of boiling in the streets.

Zhu Qizhen walked around, looking at the dazzling goods, he also bought this and that. It's a lot of fun. Not long after, I bought a cart of things. When he was tired and sweating, he suddenly "knocked on" two gongs. The monkey show in front of me began to beat the gong to attract the audience.

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly walked over to see the excitement. There was already a group of eunuchs and palace maids around the monkey show. You must know that although these people play the audience, they are also deep in the palace all the year round, and they also feel very fresh about the world outside the palace. If it's really among the people, who cares if there is an audience around them - his title is Emperor?

But here, when the emperor squeezed over, Wang Zhen gave a look, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were already surrounded by water got out of the way, and Zhu Qizhen suddenly got into the front row.

I saw that the monkey artist turned out to be an inconspicuous little eunuch beside him, and the emperor just glanced at him and shifted his eyes to the monkey. The monkey was very large, with thick hair, and two backwards were extremely advantageous, standing upright.

The monkey eunuch shouted at the top of his voice: "Look in, look in, watch it once, and want to watch it twice!" The gong rang again. The monkeys began to show their skills, and the show was called "Laughing Dog Over the Wall". I saw that the monkey had a rope tied around its neck, it rubbed the ground and jumped up two feet high, climbed an ancient cypress tree, and when it was about to reach the top of the tree, it no longer crawled, but a somersault, directly over the branches, like "red apricot out of the wall", really like a dog jumping off the wall. Then it grabbed the rope around its neck and flipped it over again, returned to the tree tree from before, jumped and landed smoothly.

After landing, it saluted like an audience, and its two hands cheered again, making a group of people lean forward and back together. Zhu Qizhen grew up in the palace since he was a child, and this was the first time he watched a monkey show, and he jumped for joy.

Then the monkey walked around the crowd with a straw hat in both hands, demanding a reward. Unexpectedly, all the palace maids and eunuchs avoided it, but Zhu Qizhen took out all the silver coins in his belt and gave them to the monkey. The monkey took the straw hat and handed it to the little eunuch in command.

The little eunuch didn't dare to ask for it, so he wanted to give it to Wang Zhen. The emperor looked at it. Busy said: "What." I reward you, you don't want it yet. He looked around again, "I see who dares to take it!" ”

Wang Zhen nodded at the little eunuch, who knelt down and put away the silver coins.

Then the emperor came to the "Green Building" again, and the inconspicuous palace maid was dressed very enchantingly at this time, which attracted the emperor's attention. He hugged a "prostitute" and came to the pavilion to drink flower wine. These "prostitutes" serve very attentively, playing, singing, and showing off vigorously. Zhu Qizhen drank wine, listened to music, and blew the wind, feeling extremely comfortable. I just want to give a tip or two.

Unbeknownst to him, when he touched his pocket, he found that the silver coins had been spent. He called Wang Zhen and asked for Persian coins.

Wang Zhen's face wrinkled, and he said, "Your Majesty, why did you spend this money so quickly." That's what the old slave collected. Otherwise, the old slave will ask them for the money back. ”

"Nope! It's not interesting to come back. I'm just buying things, how can I not spend money? Am I the Son of Heaven, and I still have to rely on my debts! Zhu Qizhen got serious, this was the first time he spent money, how could he cheat, he couldn't get it back if he spent it.

Wang Zhen was relieved: "Your Majesty, these 'prostitutes' don't cost money, you can do whatever you want." ”

"How can that work!" Zhu Qizhen was very angry,

"Why don't the emperor take credit first. The people also don't have enough money to take credit when they don't have enough money. Wang Zhen came up with another idea.

"Okay, you still have a lot of ideas." Zhu Qizhen laughed and turned his anger into joy.

The emotional emperor has to pay for his palace maid to drink flower wine, which is really an ancient anecdote. Zhu Qizhen, who is a teenager, plays with ministers like Wang Zhen all day long, but he trusts him very much.

Seeing that the emperor was having a good time, Wang Zhen quietly retreated, he found Ma Shun, and whispered, "You have to find some more coins from the ancient Persian Kingdom." ”

"This, where to find this? The Persian state was not rich in the first place, and these silver coins were already worth a lot of money. Ma Shun complained.

"Where did you get these coins? Can't you get some more? Wang Zhen was a little unhappy.

"Got it, I'll do my best to find it." After Ma Shun finished speaking, he walked outside the palace, and he went to find the two brocade guards.

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