As soon as the words came out, Jian Ning was a little annoyed. The inexplicable resistance echoed in her heart, since she called the capital, she was always easy to lose control, especially Zhu Houzhao's "preference" made her feel impetuous.

It was Liu Jin who forced her into Beijing, but if Zhengde just likes to read and doesn't take care of it, after a long time, he will be able to stay away from disputes, and Liu Jin and those ministers will no longer care about themselves.

I took a deep breath and started my mental construction.

It's already involved, no matter how annoyed it is, it's useless, don't you want to hug the golden legs of the Son of Heaven? That's not going to work.

Thinking of this, he lowered his head, and just wanted to ease his breath, but he heard Zhengde say: "It's that I didn't think about it, and I'm sorry for you." ”

She wore a men's dress today, which is still cotton and linen texture, and the style is novel, thinking it is a popular style in Jiangnan.

The tooth-colored cross-collar blouse was paired with a light blue men's skirt, a two-finger-wide sky blue belt was tied casually, and a few auspicious clouds embroidered through the tulle half-arm blouse covered with it, which looked elegant and casual.

She hung her head down, her white neck was slightly exposed, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Zhengde looked at her, thinking that she was in the countryside, and she was dressed like this for life, the displeasure that surged in her heart slowly disappeared, Zhang Yong's words sounded in her mind again, a trace of pity came to her heart, and she said gently: "You are not familiar with the capital, where is there a bookstore?" ”

"When the folk girl heard that there were many bookstores in the guild hall, she wanted to go and have a look."

Seeing that Zhengde breathed a sigh of relief, Jian Ning also became gentle, "Actually, the folk girl still wants the people from the bookstore in her hometown to engrave it, after all, they have the grace of reinvention for me." ”

"What's so hard about that? Go and send a letter and deliver the manuscript to them. ”

After a pause, he said: "There are many ships going back and forth between the capital and Jiangnan every day, and the post station can also forward your manuscript, and I will have someone forward it to you when I give the edict." Otherwise, you can also let the family come to the capital to open a bookstore, now you are popular all over my Ming Dynasty, is an old hen who can lay golden eggs, if they have some brains, they should also think about taking root in this capital, otherwise there will be no store in this village. ”

Sure enough, the people of the old Zhu family are very sensitive to money, and Zhengde is quite business-minded. It's just that this is how it describes......

She said in a low voice: "The folk girl is not an old hen......"

Her voice was small, and she seemed to be a little aggrieved, and Zhengde listened softly and smiled.

"Okay, you're not an old hen, I'm all, right? Look at your little nose and small eyes, I have found out, you woman, you look cold, in fact, you are a careful eye. ”

Jian Ning raised her head, her big eyes seemed to be accused, and some angry emotions came up, "How can Your Majesty be an old hen?" Your Majesty, even if it's a chicken, it's a big rooster. ”

"Presumptuous!"

Zhang Yong hurriedly pretended to scold, "Mr. Jian can't be pampered and arrogant, how can Your Majesty be a chicken?" ”

"The rooster knows the end, the hoof knows the middle of the night, and the rooster is white in the world! Hehe, I'm a chicken, and I'm the king of chickens. ”

“……”

Jian Ning's cheek twitched a few times, and she bit her lip stubbornly, she couldn't laugh, she must not laugh, the chickens of the ancients were just chickens!

Zhengde is here, and shopping seems impossible. With such an identity, it is better for him to walk around the city less, he has already "accompanied" himself to go shopping last time, if he is allowed to go with him again, Jian Ning feels that Li Dongyang will settle accounts with him in the future.

Slightly sideways, "Your Majesty, please come into the house and sit down, the folk girl boiled sour plum soup, and waited for the folk girl to make some ice, just for Your Majesty to go to the heat." ”

"Ice-making?"

Zhengde's eyes widened, "You actually know how to make saltpeter ice?!" ”

"Sir is really knowledgeable."

Zhang Yong admired, "This saltpeter ice-making is only known to those who make ice all year round among the people, and it is a craft that has been passed down from generation to generation." ”

"I also heard from my father, so where did he see it?"

Faced with these problems, Jian Ning has become very calm, "It is not easy to make ice from saltpeter, and the big cold drink shops in the folk still use ice cellars." ”

"Hehe, I've heard of this."

Zhengde walked inside, looked around again, and saw that there were a few more people in the house, so he nodded, "This rough caretaker can invite a few more, if the money is not enough, I will buy all your books." ”

A few mothers-in-law and servants are already scared to pee!

Who is this master?! Although the people who live in this area are all nobles among the nobles, it seems that the only one who dares to call himself me in this world is the one who lives near the Xihua Gate......

Even knelt on the ground, unable to speak, just kowtowed.

"Get up."

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand casually, and just walked past these servants and walked in the direction of the flower hall.

"You remember."

Zhang Yong took a few steps behind, and said to a few new mothers-in-law and servants: "If you know the identity of this master, you have to serve carefully, your mouth and mouth are closed to the miscellaneous family, take care of your master's family, and you can't miss a word that shouldn't be said, otherwise, hehe......"

He sneered a few times, and then chased after Zhengde.

Where do a few mothers-in-law dare to say anything? As soon as everyone entered the flower hall, they collapsed to the ground, only to feel like they were soaked by the rain.

The origin of the Lord's house is so big! Is it the life of a mother who wants to enter the palace?!

Emperor Zhengde's robbery of the people's daughters in the capital was rumored, and these gangsters were all from the old capital, and naturally they had also heard the history of the emperor. Seeing the emperor coming here at this time, it is inevitable that he will have to guess a little more, so he has an extra layer of fear for Jian Ning in his heart.

Zhengde entered the flower hall and looked around again. Although he asked Liu Jin to find this house and give it to Jian Ning, there were also some furniture made in the inner court at that time. It's just that he hasn't looked at this house carefully, and when he came before, he caught up with her illness, and the atmosphere was just right at this time, and he had the leisure to take a look.

This look was a little dissatisfied, he frowned and said: "These styles are outdated, why are they all sent to Mr. for use?" ”

"The furniture is made of excellent materials."

Jian Ning rushed in front of Zhang Yong and glanced at Zhang Yong slightly, "I think Gonggong Liu is also attentive." ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yong scolded his mother in his heart.

Straight sissy thief!

No wonder Liu Jin likes to read books, this group of readers is really bad! The last eye medicine is so profound, much stronger than him.

"Intentions?!"

She must have lived too poorly, such an ordinary material is just wood for the general eunuchs and female officials in the palace, and she actually said that it was good, how much suffering did she suffer before?

Looking at her again, Qianqian's weak body, her skin was so white that it was almost transparent, as if she was about to hit when the wind blew, and she felt even more uncomfortable.

Worried and sad, she tried her best to cover everything, isn't it because she was bullied too much? How can the body be well with such worries?

Thinking about it, I felt that Liu Jin couldn't do anything. How pitiful is the little girl? Why just deal with it? Is this perfunctory?

"The furniture is so good that you can't see it from the outside. Besides, even if it is a pile of rotten wood, as long as it is given by the king, it is the most precious treasure in the world. ”

Jian Ning's voice was flat and gentle, but Zhang Yong's heart was tense when he heard it. What does it mean to kill without a knife? Every word is heart-wrenching!

It seems that these words are useless now, just a sycophant of the Son of Heaven. But Zhang Yong, who has served in the palace all his life, knows that sometimes seemingly useless words, as long as the Son of Heaven remembers it one day, he may die.

"Your Majesty, please sit down and have some sour plum soup."

Jian Ning ordered to the end, and after letting Zhengde sit down, she asked Zhang's mother to take the tools that had been prepared a long time ago, and began to perform saltpeter ice making for Zhengde.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened, although he had heard that saltpeter could be used to make ice, but it was the first time he had seen it. Seeing that it didn't take long for a thin layer to form in the small bowl, he immediately became excited, "Magical, magical, amazing!" It's better to see than to hear, but why is this frozen? ”

"The folk girl thinks that this saltpeter should be able to absorb heat, just like alum can purify water."

"Everything in the world is truly magical."

Zhengde nodded, "Those old masters are so boring, if you want me to say how good it is for them to study this?" The summer in this capital is the most unbearable, it has been a little cooler in the past two years, but it is still hot compared to other places. After a few days, it will be really hot. This royal magnate has an ice cellar, and those with a decent family can also go to the city to get ice tickets to buy some ice to use. But what about the poor? Drinking a glass of chilled sour plum soup is a luxury. If they bought some saltpeter ice for the poor, it would be much better than writing a few bullshit moral articles. ”

Jian Ning was a little surprised, this bastard still thinks about the people?

"This saltpeter is not easy to mine, but in fact, the cost is higher than that of an ice cellar."

Jian Ning shook his head, "Your Majesty wants to make the people cool in summer, and you should open up the source of benevolence." ”

"Open source?"

Zhengde sneered, "I want to too." When I became the crown prince, I saw that my father was worried about the treasury every day, and I had doubts. Obviously, as long as the government decree is issued, the treasury can be filled immediately, but there are always people who use the words of the saints to make articles. It's ridiculous, if Confucius was alive, he would have to be angry to death by this group of people. ”

"When the emperor ascended the throne, he wanted to collect commercial taxes, but the ministers opposed ......"

Zhang Yong whispered: "My Ming Dynasty commercial tax is already very low, but in recent years, officialdom has become popular not to collect commercial tax, and there are even local officials who have put up signs, and paying commercial taxes is ......."

"Humph!"

Zhu Houzhao slapped the table and said angrily: "They have a good reputation, but this treasury is empty!" How much money can you make in the fields?! There is so much land, and there is a fixed amount of production in a year, that is, how much oil and water can be fried in an oil pan a few times? Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and the peasants are having a hard time, so they naturally want to rebel! The eight lambs of the king, the feelings of the world are not theirs, so let's do it! ”

Jian Ning was shocked by Zhengde's resentment. She didn't expect Zhengde to be so thoughtful and very correct, and it was really the royal elite education she received, no matter how mixed she was, the foundation was there, and her vision was different.

The sour plum soup was served, Jian Ning scooped up the thin ice and put it in the sour plum soup, gently pounded it and said, "Your Majesty, don't be angry, you should hurt your body, let's eat some sour plum soup to get rid of the anger." ”

"How can I be angry?"

Zhu Houzhao took the sour plum soup, "Mr. Left and Right is not a person from the court, I don't want to be the son of heaven today, I just pour bitter water with you, I am so difficult to be a son of heaven!" As soon as I opened my mouth, they said that I was young and not thoughtful, hehe, they were thoughtful, so they came out with a way to let the people live a good life! ”

He took a sip of sour plum soup and continued: "I have let people find some things to see, and there are some records within the royal family, I heard that these three treasure eunuchs can bring a lot of good things back to the West, and the sea trade was developed in the Song Dynasty, and the annual treasury can earn seventy or eighty million guan, and it is more than ten thousand guan for a long time, that is, half of the country is lost, and there are also ten thousand guan times." Where did the money come from? Isn't it just about commercial taxes, sea trade? ”

Jian Ning admired Zhu Houzhao a little. She is a later person, not limited by this era, and she can naturally see clearly what is wrong. But it is difficult for a current person to see these problems clearly, after all, there is a mainstream view of an era in an era, people are blindly followed, and there are few people who can really stand out of the framework after all, so there is always a blind time to look at problems.

And Zhu Houzhao, as an indigenous emperor in the sixteenth century, was able to find the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty from the history books, which really made her admire.

"As soon as I mentioned this, the court exploded. Hehe, what to say about competing with the people for profit, what to say about the ancestral legal system! I'll it! They are the ones who are the most powerful in competing with the people! Also, at this time and that time, the rules established by Taizu were good at that time, but now? If I don't say anything else, let's talk about my big family and relatives......"

Zhu Houzhao frowned, his face turned into a bitter melon, "If you don't do anything, you don't allow them to leave the fiefdom, you can't take the imperial examination, you can't do business, so what do you let them do?" Isn't it possible to get drunk and dream of death? Then get a bunch of little cubs out and continue to let the court keep them. I heard that there are still many people who encircle the common people and run rampant in the local area, if this person has nothing to do, he will naturally do bad things, just like me, he is idle, how can he live if he doesn't have some fun? ”

Jian Ning's cheeks twitched again, you also know that you are a bastard? Also, if I can be so honest about my own badness, should I admire you or admire you?

This person who is full of market slang is not like a son of heaven, but Jian Ning feels that Zhu Houzhao can be kissed like this, at least he further determined that this is not an easy-to-kill monarch, and his big legs are still worth hugging.

"The people don't understand the affairs of the court, but the people think that the things in this world are nothing more than interests."

"Interests?"

"The king's interests in the affairs of the kingdom are in the world; The courtiers seek their careers and their interests are ambitions; The people seek money and their profits are in their livelihoods...... Merchants seek profit, scribes seek fame, and the world is bustling, all for profit, and as long as Your Majesty understands this, he will not be angry with the opposition of the courtiers, and he will have his own way to deal with them. ”

Zhengde opened his mouth wide and said, "Jian Yunshu, why do you have so many eyes?" There are still loyal ministers in the court, how can I plot against them? ”

"If Your Majesty feels that the people's daughter is insidious and cunning, let the people's daughter go back to her hometown as soon as possible."

Jian Ning couldn't help but pout, "Besides, the people's girl didn't mean that, I didn't let you plan anyone, I just said that people have good intentions, and if you want to achieve your ambitions, you have to compromise one or two, so you have to always." ”