Volume 3: Tempered into Steel Chapter 65: Iron Rooster
"How has Gongdu been harvesting these days? Chatting with the military households, I don't know if it helps you? Meng Jian asked.
Wang Hong had a shallow smile on his face, and said a little shyly for the first time: "Lord Shilang is smiling, after these days of experience, Xia Guan has changed his mind.
If I can talk to these military households more, I can better understand my own shortcomings, and I always took it for granted before.
How much truth can be told in the mouth of a person who has taken a benefit? Always a little naΓ―ve before.
The common people, especially the military households, are now actually an alternative lowly status, hey!. β
"Gongdu is cautious, this is not something you and I can discuss here." Meng Jian hurriedly stopped Wang Hong.
"What Lord Shilang said is that it's me Meng Lang." Wang Hong's expression was helpless, as if he hated himself for not closing up just now.
However, Meng Jian said disapprovingly: "Young people naturally have to look like young people, if in the past, if the sword of the court of Wang Zhen and his party in the past should be cautious in his words and deeds now, then it is the sorrow of my Ming Dynasty!" I'm afraid the emperor doesn't want to see this scene either. β
Wang Hong leaned back and waved his hand hurriedly and said, "You think too highly of me, it's just that you are full of enthusiasm and stunned."
Besides, the lower officials are all thirty-six, and if they call themselves teenagers, I'm afraid some people will say shameless, they have been established for a year, and they will not be confused for two days, and they can't be reckless all day long. β
Meng Jian smiled, and it happened that the old man brought the rest of the meal.
An old hen, three plates of green vegetables that two people can't recognize, and a bowl of white porridge, in ordinary people's homes, it is already a good meal that can only be seen during the New Year.
"Adults, why haven't you moved yet? Move the chopsticks quickly, move the chopsticks, we croppers can't get on the table, you eat yours, and there are still those left in the kitchen. The old man actually put down the dishes and was about to leave.
Wang Hong looked at Meng Jian without saying anything, Meng Jian understood in his heart that Wang Hong wanted him to speak out, and couldn't help but laugh secretly, this Wang Hong came out on a trip, and he understood a lot of people's feelings.
Maybe Meng Jian will never be able to understand the impact of the experience of rubbing his back on Wang Hong, where all the companions at the bottom have their own unfortunate lives, and they are shocked by Wang Hong.
Meng Jian stood up directly, grabbed the old man and said, "Old man, you are the elder of the two of us in terms of age.
The elders don't eat,
How dare we move chopsticks? If you're not here, we'll have to take our leave. β
The old man said in a panic: "Both of them are official masters, how can they ......?"
No matter what, the two officials and masters always insisted on eating at the same table with the old husband and wife, but the old man finally couldn't resist the two adults who were full of poetry and books, and the four of them sat at the same table and played family together.
"Can you sail a boat?" Meng Jian asked suddenly.
The old man nodded as a matter of course and said: "That's nature, we have lived on the edge of the Pearl River since we were children, who hasn't choked in this water when we were young?" Hehe. β
"If one day, the imperial court opens the sea ban, and it also gives us military households a chance to make a living, I don't know if my family is willing to go outside." Meng Jian wanted to get the answer to Zhu Qizhen's question from his father-in-law.
After the old couple glanced at each other, the old man said without concern: "Then the court will do what we want, the military household, isn't it just to contribute to the country." β
Seeing that the old couple had concerns, Meng Jian hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid, my husband is just an idea of mine."
The original intention was that in the current situation, our military households were really miserable, and we wanted to find a way out.
However, the emperor thinks that our people in the Ming Dynasty are all concerned about returning to the roots, and said that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment at home.
"The Exotic Reclamation of Vegetable Skeletons"
But I wonder if we can be more prepared, whether it is to occupy one or the other, it is better than not to occupy both.
Yes, the premise must be to transfer out of the military household, do you understand this? β
This question had been bothering Meng Jian for many days, and he knew that he shouldn't say it, but he couldn't help it anymore.
The old couple looked at each other again and shook their heads with each other's faces.
"Well, eating and eating, it's just a little bit of my idea, not really right." Meng Jian didn't understand, and he didn't force it.
Not everyone has to think about so many things, sunrise and sunset, and live a life with a clear conscience.
The old couple smiled embarrassedly, and gently pulled the soup and rice a little shyly.
Although the person Meng Jian wanted to ask didn't understand, someone understood, Wang Hong's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked about the details of what Meng Jian said.
Meng Jian is
A pure minister, not at all because Wang Hong is a person valued by Yu Qian, and Yu Qian's relationship with Hu Hu is relatively delicate now, he has reservations when he speaks, and he told Wang Hong the content of the conversation in 1510.
"Lord Shilang, do you mean that after the emperor got angry, he was telling you that he had insulted the saint?
Don't get me wrong, the lower officials want to help you analyze and see if they can help. Seeing that Meng Jian's face was not very good-looking, Wang Hong hurriedly explained.
Meng Jian's original intention also had this meaning, but Wang Hong directly broke it, and the way was still a little blunt, and it was inevitable that there would be some changes on his face.
But at this point, there was nothing to shy away from, nodded and confirmed the matter.
Wang Hong pondered for a moment and said with some confusion: "Lord Meng, you really didn't expect what the emperor wanted to say?" β
Meng Jian's brows furrowed, and he was already a little unhappy in his heart: "Lord Wang, do you think I'm joking with you?" β
"The lower officials don't dare, don't think about it, it's just that the lower officials think that what the emperor said should be very plain, adults are full of poetry and books, they shouldn't know it." Wang Hong explained.
Meng Jian's tone was still stiff: "You said yes." β
Wang Hong waited for a while, and found that Meng Jian was not joking with himself, and felt that he was thinking simply, so he made up for it: "If you think it's wrong, just say it nonsense at the moment." β
After Meng Jian nodded, Wang Hong said: "There is a sentence in "Mencius: Devoted to the Heart": The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. β
As soon as Wang Hong spoke, Meng Jian's already frowning brows increased a little more, and after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
I don't blame Meng Jian, since Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the world, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, the sentences in books such as "Mencius" that promote free thought were deleted from the mainstream books, and there are now some loyal and patriotic parts left in the book.
Lao Zhu is very good to ordinary people, but he has nothing to wash at this point, he is an iron rooster with power, he does not allow himself or his descendants, and his rights are weakened by anyone.
Meng Jian can be such a big official, and he is still very accurate about the preferences of the emperor's family, and the reason why he didn't think about it in this regard was because he felt that the ancestral genes were affected, and the emperor should not mean this, and he kept thinking about whether he didn't take care of the emperor's interests, so Zhu Qizhen didn't agree, but how could he have thought that now this emperor is no longer just a descendant of the Zhu family.