Chapter Eighty-Eight: Winning Over and Dividing the Emperor's Mind

On the afternoon of March 22, the teachers and Wang Tong were anxiously waiting for the appearance of Emperor Wanli.

When I saw the little emperor struggling to walk into the field with a big burden on his back, everyone who knew the inside story breathed a sigh of relief.

Today is different from before, outside the wall of the martial arts hall surrounded by wooden fences and mud, there are suddenly a lot of idlers watching the excitement, and the instructors look at each other, knowing in their hearts that if there is another yesterday's incident, I am afraid that these idlers will directly draw their swords and rush in.

"Tiger Head, Tiger Head, come and help me!!"

Emperor Wanli shouted at the door, squatted in front of the instrument shelf, and complained to Li Hutou, who was staring at the young people not far away:

"This little fat man has no other ability, that is, he is a lisuo who summons people!"

Wang Tong smiled and slapped the back of Li Hutou's head, and walked over with him, as soon as Emperor Wanli saw the two of them, he immediately showed a smile on his face, took off the burden on his body and handed it to Wang Tong, first took out an oiled paper bag from the burden and handed it to Li Hutou, and said with a smile:

"Try it, the osmanthus cake made at home."

Li Hutou honestly and unceremoniously opened the oil paper bag, took out a piece of delicate dim sum and put it in his mouth, and before he entered the mouth, the person was stunned, and then chewed carefully, his eyes lit up, and he ate the small cake one bite after another, and said with admiration:

"It's so delicious, it's better than what my dad bought for me for the New Year!"

Isn't this a joke, the fine dim sum made by the imperial dining room is of course much higher than that bought in the shops on the street, not to mention that Li Hutou has been poor since he was a child, and it has only been less than a few months, and he has eaten something good there.

The burden is not too heavy for Wang Tong, and when he weighs it, it seems that there are such oily paper bags inside, is this all a dim sum to eat.

Wang Tong wondered in his heart, Li Hutou didn't look at Fang Cai to complain, after eating this osmanthus cake, his favor towards Emperor Wanli rose rapidly, and the two of them walked to the device with a smile.

To be precise, Emperor Wanli has been joking, and Li Hutou has put all his energy on the bag of osmanthus cakes, and he is amazed at the deliciousness while eating.

Sitting on the pile of instruments, Wang Tong put down his burden, and Emperor Wanli still asked Wang Tong to tell those interesting things overseas with great interest.

It's good that there is no change in mood, Wang Tong is relieved, after thinking about it for a while, he told the story of Columbus, and after a few words, he found that Emperor Wanli didn't listen carefully, and his eyes kept wandering around Li Tao's group of teenagers, and he didn't know what he was pondering.

Yesterday there was a fight, Emperor Wanli and Wang Tong and Li Hutou were much closer, and the same was true for Li Tao, who were not too close to them, Jizhen and Jingshi, who were not very close to them, actually leaned over.

I don't know when, the idlers outside have already dispersed, of course Wang Tong didn't know that this was an order given by Emperor Wanli in the morning, these people who came over just wanted to see if Li Tao's group of teenagers would pick quarrels and provoke trouble today, and there was no action when they entered the door, and they dispersed according to the instructions in advance, leaving a few people to watch.

Wang Tong looked back and forth a few times, and suddenly found that not only Emperor Wanli was looking over there, but there were also many people staring at this side.

looked at the past carefully, and found that it was not the case, it seemed that many young people on Li Tao's side were staring at Li Hutou, Li Hutou was so good at fighting yesterday, and it was not uncommon to be stared at, but if you looked carefully, it was not, it seemed that they were all staring at the happy snacks that Li Hutou was eating.

"After all, they're all kids!"

Wang Tong also smiled dumbly, thinking that he was still a little nervous.

After the instructors entered the field, the students still lined up according to the rules of the past, and then ran, I don't know why, although many people have blue noses and swollen faces, and some have bruises, but the atmosphere is more harmonious than yesterday and before, it seems to be a lot more harmonious, these teenagers have no blood feuds, and the fight makes everyone close.

Everything is as usual, it is still a queue, relaxing activities and running, Emperor Wanli's physical fitness can not be improved in a day, or he can't keep up with the team, he has to arrive at the finish line late accompanied by Li Hutou, and then it is a short rest, teenagers, you sit together and chat.

Wang Tong and Li Hutou also went to the place where they were, under the exercise equipment, Li Hutou was thinking about the uneaten osmanthus cake over there, and before he could sit down, Emperor Wanli took out two more oil paper bags in his baggage, and said with a smile:

"You two rest first, I'm a little busy."

Walking towards the rest of the teenagers step by step, Wang Tong and Li Hutou looked at each other, completely confused, and then quickly stood up, just about to follow, but Emperor Wanli turned around and waved his hand, signaling them not to come.

Most of these teenagers are very strong and vigorous, and there are also a few fat ones, and Emperor Wanli walked towards those fat ones, Wang Tong and Li Hutou watched nervously there.

Outside the courtyard, the people in the wings, including the instructors of the martial arts hall, stared there with even more nervousness, for fear that something would go wrong.

Wang Tong remembered something, looked back at the burden, and then looked at the Wanli Emperor, he probably guessed the intentions of the Wanli Emperor, he was born in a heavenly family, and there was really no simple one.

In Wang Tong's limited historical knowledge, he also vaguely remembered that Wanli had been an emperor for decades, and being able to sit for so long was quite unique in terms of balance and political skills.

"Captain Sun, the cakes that my family made for me yesterday asked me to bring them to everyone in the martial arts hall, can you taste them too?"

Emperor Wanli walked up to Captain Sun under the hostile gaze of everyone, if Emperor Wanli was a little fat man, this Captain Sun was a big fat man.

Wang Tong remembered that this Sun Xiaowei's name was Sun Xin, and he seemed to be the son of a guerrilla in Baoding.

I didn't expect that the athletic quality was very strong, and the running was very easy to complete, but I sweated too much, and people gave the nickname "Da Khan", and I didn't know who thought this was the chief of the grassland.

Yesterday was a siege, this Sun Xiaowei and a few people hid far away to watch the excitement, just now Li Hutou praised this osmanthus cake delicious, this Sun Xin has been staring at this side, but it is staring at the osmanthus cake in Li Hutou's hand.

Emperor Wanli opened an oiled paper bag and handed it over, Sun Xin waved his hand irritably, signaling him to go aside, but Emperor Wanli was not annoyed at all, and still said with a smile:

"It's delicious, just taste it?"

This Sun Xin is obviously not a person who is resistant to food, and a teenager of this age has not yet reached the age to be able to restrain himself.

Osmanthus cake is made of osmanthus halogen and honey, ghee, etc., when the oil paper package is not opened, the sweet fragrance is quite attractive, after opening the oil paper package, it is fragrant, and the workmanship of this osmanthus cake is also quite exquisite, it is the masterpiece of the imperial dining room, and also pays attention to a shape.

Each osmanthus cake is made into the shape of a flower, it looks delicate and cute, and the color and fragrance are almost complete, not to mention that Sun Xin's swinging hand stopped, even if the teenagers around Sun Xin were swallowing saliva.

Sun Xin hesitated and took a piece of osmanthus cake, took a bite, his reaction was similar to Li Hutou's, his eyes suddenly lit up, he ate a few bites, and then picked up another piece, and kept muttering while eating:

"It's delicious, it's better than the best dim sum shop in Baoding!!"

There are more than a dozen teenagers sitting in that circle, looking at the sweetness that Sun Xin eats here, they are all very greedy, and since the teenagers came to eat at the delicious restaurant, for health reasons, the braised pork for the teenagers basically does not put sugar, and the sweet things are basically insulated from them.

This osmanthus cake is sweet and fragrant, it is the right appetite for sweets among the teenagers, naturally, Emperor Wanli does not understand this truth, he only knows that he loves to eat this snack, and people outside must also like it.

When Sun Xin picked up the fourth piece, Emperor Wanli smiled and said to everyone:

"Everyone try it, it's delicious, I still have a lot of it there!"

Originally, the teenagers still felt that there was a conflict yesterday, and they couldn't get down if they went to reconcile today, but Sun Xin had already taken the lead in eating the sweetness, and everyone had no scruples.

A group of people stood up and came over to get it, but they didn't expect that Sun Xin quickly snatched the oil paper bag in the hands of Emperor Wanli first, and he had a copy of it alone, and the teenagers joked and surrounded them, and after a while, everyone was already talking and laughing.

The children did not have an overnight feud, and there was no resistance at all in front of the exquisite refreshments made in the imperial dining room, and the Wanli Emperor went to find those who were fatter and farther away when he started yesterday, and asked everyone to go to the device to listen to Wang Tong's story.

The things that Wang Tong said do make people feel fresh, and they are completely unheard of by everyone outside the Ming Dynasty, what Columbus sailed to discover the New World, what Franc machine people occupied a big country with a few hundred people, defeated an army of tens of thousands of people, strange and fantastical things.

During the rest time after practicing for an hour, there were already more than forty teenagers gathered around Wang Tong and Emperor Wanli, accounting for almost half of the number.

Even the young man beside Li Tao couldn't help but look at it and was quite moved.

While telling the story, Wang Tong sighed in his heart, no matter how old the emperor is, for the way of checks and balances of power, it is a self-taught and innately possessed skill. The little emperor is not simple, he should not rely on Chengren's thinking and experience, and treat the other party as a child too much.

Seeing such a scene, everyone's worries disappeared in the morning, and the usual training was over, everyone dispersed, and as soon as the training of the martial arts hall dispersed, Wang Tong took people to the Zhenxing Building, and he said yesterday that he had posted to the Qinglou and the gambling house in the jurisdiction to get together tonight.

However, only two guests came, and a total of thirteen posts were placed......

(To be continued)