Chapter 131 is all about the past

"Grab the landlord!"

It's already June when I returned to Jingshi.

This journey seems to have consumed all of Zhu Youzhen's enthusiasm for work, even though he knows that he still has a lot of affairs to deal with on his desk, but he just doesn't want to work.

It's like the bosses of big companies, and a lot of the media is promoting how hard they work and how hard they work. However, they all ignore the most important point, the greatest freedom of these bosses is the freedom to organize their own schedules.

Why are children picky eaters, but mom and dad are not picky eaters?

The reason is very simple, because adults buy their own dinners, and in the process of purchasing, they have already excluded the food they don't like, okay?

Why do big bosses love their work, because they can not work when they don't, okay!

Queen Zhou had a big belly and couldn't sit for a long time, so she had to watch the battle from the side.

Zhu Youzhen's opponents were Tian Guifei and Wang Chengen. Minglan also gave the title of a concubine when she came back this time, and she still habitually stood behind Zhu Youzhen.

"Your Majesty, why is this called Fighting the Landlord?"

Tian Guifei's voice was greasy, which made Queen Zhou next to her roll her eyes.

"The landlord makes the croppers have no food, and he doesn't fight whoever he fights." Zhu Youzhen was too lazy to speak, and also reclined to watch Wang Chengen deal cards. The current papermaking technology is not yet complete, and the mulberry paper is soft and lying on its stomach, and it cannot reach the hardness of poker in later generations.

But this matter was not difficult for the emperor at all, Zhu Youzhen just said his idea, and Wang Chengen handed over a poker made of red copper. The copper plate inlaid with various enamel colors is polished as thin as cicada wings, and the craftsmanship is very good.

Tian Guifei and Wang Chengen's faces were covered with strips of rice paper, although Zhu Youzhen didn't care, but no one dared to put stickers on his face, so they had to be pasted on Minglan behind him.

"Your Majesty, you have seen all the maidens and concubines sent this time, when will you take a look."

Empress Zhou is pregnant, and she does not cheapen Tian Guifei in vain, and is in a hurry to enrich the harem for His Majesty the Emperor. Zhu Youzhen was also tired for a while, they were all twelve or thirteen-year-old children, what were they doing when they came in. The palace, which had been cleaned up, began to become bloated again according to inertia under the manipulation of Wang Chengen and Queen Zhou.

"I didn't take back the three words Jiadingbo. In the future, just stay in the house and live a little longer, don't let people catch you again. ”

Zhu Youzhen knew what Empress Zhou cared about. In the matter of Heaven Grass last time, how his father-in-law Zhou Kui will deal with it now is still undecided. But judging from the strips handed over by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Zhou Kui was just being used.

"Old Wei!"

Playing cards was boring, Zhu Youzhen threw the poker on the table, and Wei Zhongxian appeared in front of him.

"The matter of Paradise Grass is about to be concluded. It was of great use to come to Shunzhi, and his brother was put in the prison and settled. Jiadingbo, you go to the door and reprimand him, and then ask the imperial doctor to show me if the heavenly grass has been broken. Other people should be killed, and those who should be killed, you go and tell Qian Longxi, I will take the opinion of the Criminal Department as the standard. ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was a little lazy just now, sat there and did business, but he frightened Queen Zhou. She is also in decline, her father has been locked in the prison of the Criminal Department for almost half a year, although no one has gossiped about the position of the queen, and she also arranged for Wang Chengen to greet the Criminal Department, and arranged a single cell for her father, eating and drinking. But it doesn't always feel like a problem. What's more, if you don't say this kind of thing yourself, the emperor will put it for three years. In three years, although she is pregnant, it is not a few who want to kick herself off the position of queen.

She hurriedly prepared to kneel down with the support of the palace maid, but was stopped by Zhu Youzhen.

"You followed me when you were fifteen years old, and at that time you also lived a cold life in the Xinwang Mansion, who can compare with the love in this?" Zhu Youzhen helped her and helped her to the couch next to her and sat down.

Zhu Youzhen's original memories in the Xinwang Mansion once again affected him. At that time, he got married as soon as he left the palace alone, and the two of them lived in the Xinwang Mansion. To be honest, although I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, I am also uneasy.

"If you have something, just tell me directly. Don't live in the palace for a long time, it has become a dark and dark appearance. "For Zhu Youzhen, it is important to say whether he can save the Ming Dynasty after crossing over, but it is always good to have more smiles and hope from the people around him.

"The concubine made the emperor sad."

"What kind of god do you hurt, your little thing is just a matter of one sentence here in me, don't beat around the bush in the future."

Zhu Youzhen also knows that no matter how sincere and relaxed he is, as long as his identity is there, these things will not return to the atmosphere he wants. He didn't have to look at it to know that Tian Guifei didn't know how happy he was in his heart now. For Tian Guifei, where would His Majesty the Emperor be such a long-term person. Even if there is affection, there is no affection for spending time and again.

Zhu Youzhen also knew this, and said to Wang Chengen:

"You pass a message to the cabinet on behalf of me, I have no intention of changing the queen, if there is such a fold, the cabinet will send it directly to me."

After speaking, he also felt that this card could not be played, so he waved at Minglan .

"Come with me, I also made an appointment for a mahjong game."

Empress Zhou and Concubine Tian knelt down together to see the emperor off.

"Sister." Tian Guifei is actually a little older than Queen Zhou.

"My sister's house sent some new muslin from Jiangnan, it's great to make underwear for children, and I'll send it to my sister later."

Empress Zhou looked at her with a smile on her face,

"Then there's Sister Lao."

Zhu Youzhen took Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian and Minglan and walked towards the Wenhua Palace.

"Old Wei." Not to mention, compared with Wang Chengen, Zhu Youzhen felt more and more that the miserable Wei Zhongxian was more comfortable to use.

"When Zhou Kui returns to the mansion, the people there must settle down." To tell the truth, it is not appropriate to hand over this matter to Li Ruolian or Wang Chengen, they always do things hard and clearly.

"And ....... You go to check, who is behind Zhou Kui to talk about the abolition? Don't you want to see me have a son? Do you have to drive this mother and son to a dead end? ”

When it comes to the struggle of the emperor, there is no storm, most of them are this kind of idle chess watching this and that step. It's better to have results, and it doesn't matter if you don't. If you go to investigate it with a loud bang, it will be like a cannon hitting mosquitoes, and even if it hits the face, it will be disgraceful.

What's more, people just take advantage of everyone's own greed, control and other desires, gently pick these up, and then stand by the river and watch the scenery.

"The slave knows." The emperor didn't stop, and neither did the three of them, as if like this, these words of conspiracy were blown away by the wind in the palace.

Waiting to play mahjong with the emperor were Bi Zisu, Xiong Wencan, and Hong Chengchou.

His Majesty the Emperor who was bored also built an inn in the place where the military headquarters and the new cabinet were located, and there were no signboards, and the interior was called the Nanhai Guest House, with a strange name, but it was indeed the handiwork of His Majesty the Emperor. There were no signboards to the outside world, and the passage into the guest house was on the right side of the military headquarters, and there were only two non-commissioned officers wearing new military uniforms and holding firearms standing guard at the door.

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the Forbidden City along the Donghua Gate from the front of the Wenhua Hall to the right, and then turned north, which is the east north gate of the Nanhai Guest House.

Bi Zisu met Zhu Youzhen when he came ashore from Dagukou. At that time, he was reappointed from the border army to the right attendant of the household department, and concurrently served as the manager of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau. At that time, he repeatedly asked for his brother to be the secretary of the Ming Dynasty, who knew if His Majesty the Emperor would look at it, so it was decided.

When he returned to Beijing, he met his brother for the first time, and the Ming household department was full of self-strictness. The elder brother also felt a little inappropriate, and Mo said that this official position was promoted a little quickly, and what was even more uncomfortable was that the two brothers almost occupied the two most important positions in the household department, and everything was wrong if there was nothing to do. But whether it is Bi Ziyan or Bi Zisu's excerpts, they were left by the emperor and not sent, which also made these two helpless.

He originally thought that His Majesty the Emperor had summoned him in the teahouse of the guest house today for the purpose of the so-called new grain bureau, but he did not expect that as soon as he entered, he would run into two feudal officials from Shaanxi and Fujian.

Xiong Wencan and Hong Chengchou were also stunned when they saw him come in. For the sake of military spending, taxes, and grain and grass, these two have never been to Bi Ziyan's house. But Bi Zisu has been in Liaodong for ten years, and he has indeed never met. After introducing each other, they became acquainted with each other this time. Hong Chengchou hurriedly took Bi Zisu's hand and sat him down.

The two of them didn't think he was an outsider either, and continued their own conversation.

Among them, Xiong Wencan and Bi Ziyan are in the same year, and they are both almost sixty years old, and Hong Chengchou is the youngest, only in his early thirties.

"Lord Xiong, I came to Beijing this time to wait for the guilt. In the past few years in Shaanxi, the natural disasters of the people have really not stopped. This year is another major drought, and from the beginning of spring to today, there has not been a drop of rain for four months. Seeing that there was no surplus food for the household, he wrote to the household department to open a warehouse to help the people. No, the approval hasn't come down yet, but our family has come to Beijing. ”

Hong Chengchou had a very loud voice, and his speech was like shouting. After speaking, he saw Bi Zisu again, and then arched his hand and said:

"Master Bi don't care. I know that the household has no money and no food. In the past few years, if there is no Bi Shangshu to make careful calculations, let alone Shaanxi, Liaodong may be cut off. Brother, I'm just talking about it, but I don't mean to blame Tobe. ”

Although Bi Zisu, like Hong Chengchou, has been in the border army all the year round, he still speaks very literally, looking like a scholar. Da Ming naturally knew about Da Ming, he didn't reply, just smiled and nodded.

"I've been here for two months, and the governor of Shaanxi keeps writing from me, but I don't know when I have to wait."

"Yan Yan, you also have to be a little restless."

Although Xiong Wencan's hair has turned gray, his spirit is very good, and he is full of energy.

"Isn't this your majesty summoning you? I am a few years older than you, and in the past few days, I have visited many relatives and friends in the capital, but I have found that our majesty is very different from the previous ones. ”

In fact, Xiong Wencan was even more breathless than Hong Chengchou when he first arrived in Beijing. I had just discussed with the Zheng family about various matters of surrender, but the excerpt that I handed in the request was lost in the sea, and I did not receive a reply for a long time.

didn't wait for a reply, but waited for the officials and the people of the Jinyi Guard, and urgently summoned him to Beijing.

When he entered Beijing, he found that no one had summoned him, except for Han Ying, the first assistant of the cabinet, who met him, so he let himself stay in Beijing and wait for the summons. But the good thing is that after all, his age and experience are here, and there are a lot of people in the same year, and he has turned around the Jingshi in the past two months, but he has also found some differences.

"Oh, I have a nephew who is not angry, and now he is a hundred households of Jinyiwei, and this is his military salary."

As he spoke, Xiong Wencan took out a beautifully printed paper ticket on mulberry paper from his sleeve, surrounded by a blue, red and black color pattern, and in the middle was the words "one yuan for military tickets".

"Treasure money?" Bi Zisu hadn't seen it yet, and thought it was a Ming treasure banknote. The court gave it to officials every year, and the officials treated it as waste paper.

"Yes and no. The old man understood that this was a small-scale issuance in the army, and it was only used for several named grain stores and ticket numbers, which could be directly exchanged for one tael of silver or the equivalent of grain and refined salt. ”

"Oh?" Compared with Hong Chengchou, Bi Zisu is very interested, he has met his brother a few times recently, and he has never heard him talk about it. The next time we meet, you should ask carefully.

"And."

Xiong Wencan took out a few silver dollars from his sleeve, one side was a hovering dragon, and the other side was also the word one dollar.

"This is the annuity issued by His Majesty to the ministers in Beijing during the Spring Festival this year, a total of three copies, one of which is in kind, one is silver taels, and one is a silver dollar exchanged for the same value as these silver taels."

Hong Chengchou was a little confused, Xiong Wencan was different, he was in Fujian all the year round, dealing with Franco, France and many maritime merchants. This kind of silver dollar is seen a lot. Although it is not clear at all, it is just through these discoveries that the current Emperor His Majesty is not an old-fashioned person.

He looked at the two of them, and felt that for whatever purpose, it was better to make the words more straightforward:

"Yan Yan, Master Bi, we are all people who have been in charge of one place and one thing, and we know very well that the actions of this place are inseparable from the actions of the chief officer. This military ticket and silver dollar are just a trivial matter, not to mention the military department, the army academy and the administrative academy, etc., these things that we can't figure out, it can be seen that the current majesty must be the one who removes the old and cloths the new. ”

"That silver dollar and military ticket are really not a trivial matter!"

When he said this, Zhu Youzhen happened to walk to the door of the room where the three of them were, and happened to hear such a sentence, so he said it casually. Wang Chengen pushed open the hidden door, and he walked in.

"I've seen Your Majesty."

The three of them hurriedly left their seats, bent down, and knelt down to salute.

In the impression of the three of them, before the arrival of the emperor, there would always be a little eunuch shouting the voice of Xuanjin, but they had never seen their own majesty act like this.

Zhu Youzhen has also become more like an emperor now.

If these three were placed in the past, Zhu Youzhen would definitely go up to help, at least to help them. But now he went straight in and found a place to sit down, and then he said:

"Get up. They are all my ministers, kneeling around without moving. What kind of tea to drink? I came from the palace, and it was a little hot. ”

Look at these three again,

"Don't stand still. Come, come, sit down and talk. ”