Chapter 133 The world is like hemp

Xiong Wencan looked sad when he left home to see the emperor, and his old wife also sat in the house all afternoon sighing. I have been an official for so many years, although I have not experienced it in person, but I have heard of many cases of raiding homes overnight.

The older you get, the less daring you are.

If you can't come back and persuade the master, if you don't do it, you have to earn your life and spend your life. The old wife wanted to go to the Buddhist hall to recite the scriptures, but she was afraid that the old man would not be able to find her own person when he came back. For a while, he lost his square inch, and went around in circles in the hall.

"Sister-in-law Zhang, if you can't do it, send the four newly bought maids back to others first."

"What send!"

Xiong Wencan walked in with a beaming face, and said happily to his old wife while waiting for his subordinates to take off his robe.

"Sister-in-law Zhang, go to the Chinese and buy ten innocent maids. One with a problem, be careful with your skin. Looking at the woman with a smile on her face like a chrysanthemum, Xiong Wencan didn't speak, waved her hand and sent her away.

"Ice a pot of wine, let's have a drink. This has to be settled in Jingshi, and I will tell you in detail about the specific fields, children and silver in a while. ”

The old husband and wife, a pot of rice wine and a few dishes of side dishes, accompanied by the unlucky Hong Chengchou's jokes, drank until midnight.

"So, even if Chengguo Gongming is beheaded, our family will be fine?" The old wife asked while she was drinking.

Xiong Wencan completely lost the look of worry a few days ago, and said to his old wife boldly: "It's okay, it has nothing to do with our family, and Han Ying, the dog thief, doesn't make it clear." ”

"I also saw it when you and I visited the house a few days ago, and it looked like a human dog. Bah! "The old husband and wife are like this, they don't talk about any reason, they only talk about their own positions. If his father-in-law says that person is not a good person, then he must not be a good person.

"Your mother's home is in Zhoushan, so there must be a lot of people who operate sea boats. Do you have anything in your own family? ”

Xiong Wencan thought of his own affairs as he spoke, and he had a few generals of the navy in Fujian who could use it. But they are all under the rule of the Fuzhou Navy, and the commander of the Fuzhou Navy, which should be the background of Liu Shilang of the Ministry of War. If you want someone yourself, what else can you take out and exchange? Is it worth it? Thinking about it, I feel that in the navy, we should also cultivate some of our own descendants from the younger generation.

"There are fishing boats and merchant ships in my family, and there should be more than 20 master craftsmen in the family."

"Good!"

Xiong Wencan raised his glass and touched a glass with his wife.

"There are some master craftsmen and skilled sailors, and the important thing is that those who have read books and have been on the ship at the age of fifteen or sixteen, there is no limit to the number of people, and the lord is of great use here. No, I'll write tomorrow. ”

"What are you waiting for tomorrow?" How could the old wife let go of this opportunity. In the past, one or two were arranged for the wind by themselves, but now the master proposes it himself, and there are still so many people. Hurriedly cleaned up the table by himself, and personally brought the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and candlestick.

I stuffed a glass of wine in one hand and a pen in the other.

"Li Baidou has a hundred poems about wine, master, you are also a literary person, and you write while drinking. After writing the concubine's body, arrange for someone to send it back. ”

"Hahaha!" Xiong Wencan was happy to be complimented by his old wife, and he wrote with a pen in a flying dragon and snake.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen missed his days in North Korea a little.

After seeing Xiong Wencan and the others, he was also going to change his clothes and go to the street of Jingshi to be a street runner, but Wu Zhi reminded him that Lord Han Ying and Hubu Shangshu Bi Ziyan were waiting for him in the Wenhua Palace, and Wu Zhi also knew that this was just talking, but he still accompanied him to persuade carefully.

"Then you arrange for someone to get me some delicious food outside, and I will eat it in front of Han Ying later."

Wu Zhi knew the reason why Zhu Youzhen was reluctant to see Han Ying Han in the past few days, since the emperor returned from North Korea, every time he faced the saint, the first paragraph must be a chatter to Zhu Youzhen who left the palace without permission. The longest time, Lord Han didn't drink a sip of water and said for an hour, and everyone couldn't stand it.

"If you call me over again, I don't want to leave."

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen said again,

"Lord Han has arrived, let's toss him too. Isn't this not far from the cabinet, let's go directly to the cabinet now, you call a pot from all over the world and bring a chef over. I waited for them to come while eating hot pot. ”

Wang Chengen and Wu Zhi looked at Zhu Youzhen a little helplessly.

The hour was approaching evening, and the other yamen were beginning to finish their day's work. However, the cabinet and the military headquarters next to it began to change the handover work, and there were people on duty at 12 o'clock in important posts.

When Han Ying returned to the cabinet, he first saw the little eunuch walking over with a group of servants carrying food boxes, courtyard by courtyard. As he walked, he shouted, "Your Majesty has added food to the cabinet." ”

When I walked to my official office, I found that my official office was about to become a restaurant. More than a dozen cooks were cutting meat and fish on the spot, and the little officials below were also holding back a smile and looking at their own big guys.

"I can't think of it." Han Ying shook his head and said to Bi Ziyan and Cheng Jiming.

"My last few admonitions probably have also made our Majesty unhappy, but what I didn't expect was." Han Ying smiled and looked at the ingredients prepared by the emperor.

"Your Majesty's counterattack is nothing more than the smell of sheep's flesh. is old, but he is a little unwilling to meet such a Ming Jun. ”

After that, he lifted his robe and walked to the door of his official office, waiting for the eunuch to sign up.

"Come on in."

Inside the room, there was still the voice of His Majesty the young man's words and round, lazy.

Walking in, a large round table and a few chairs were placed in the courtyard of Han Ying's official office, the table was already full of all kinds of ingredients, and a large cauldron in the middle was steaming. Zhu Youzhen stood under the window in the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

“…… Lao Chen...... Minister...... Wechen has seen His Majesty. ”

"It's so slow, I've added water a few times." Zhu Youzhen complained a little.

"Ome, last time I came, the Academy of Sciences sent me some transparent glass, and I arranged for someone to install it on Shousuke's window first, why do you still use this kind of screen?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, who followed up, and this matter was directly arranged by him. Wang Chengen didn't know what to say, but Han Ying arched his hand and walked up.

"Your Majesty can't blame your father-in-law for this." Zhu Youzhen watched him speak, stretched out his hand and motioned for his family to sit down and talk. Han Ying smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that the last time he stood and said something for an hour left a big shadow in the little emperor's heart.

A few people sat down, and the maids from all over the world handed over hot towels and tea. Han Ying was also used to it, watching the little emperor wipe his face with a towel, and continued by himself.

"Ruri also sent it. Later, Lu Xiangsheng came over and saw that it was the Academy of Sciences that gave them a plan for a winter greenhouse according to His Majesty's idea, and there was no shortage of anything else, but this glass was lacking. and the ministers sent them over. ”

"Winter greenhouses, winter greenhouses, are to be implemented in winter. I don't know what Lu Xiangsheng is anxious about. Zhu Youzhen put the towel on the table.

"Another day, Shoufu will take some time, let's go to Lu Xiangsheng to have a look." As soon as the topic changed, Zhu Youzhen entered the topic.

Han Ying felt even more amused in his heart, the little emperor really took great pains to make him not talk about the topic of the son of a daughter sitting in the hall. However, he also knew the truth of accepting it when he saw it, and since His Majesty the Emperor had realized this, he no longer wanted to chase and fight. But the strange thing is that he didn't say it, but the little emperor provoked the topic again.

"I also thought about what Shousuke said last time, and I think it makes sense. As soon as this year, at the slowest at the beginning of next year, depending on the situation, I will either go to Guangzhou Mansion or Xi'an Mansion. ”

"Your Majesty......"

didn't wait for Han Ying to speak, Cheng Jiming and Bi Ziyan took the lead in preparing to admonish. It's okay to go out once in a while, but you can't run outside every year. Guangzhou: Is that where you can go? It won't be two years to go.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand.

"Don't be in a hurry to admonish you yet, wait until I'm done." Zhu Youzhen was talking, but his subordinates did not stop. The most popular pot in Sihai Restaurant is his invention, and he has made countless kinds of spices with ingenuity, and put them in a small bowl for everyone to configure by themselves, and he is now making the bowl by himself.

"I've said it, is Shousuke right?" After adjusting a bowl, he handed it to Han Ying on his left. Han Ying was a little flattered, but Zhu Youzhen did it smoothly, which was very natural.

"Let's go." Zhu Youzhen drew a circle on the table with the chopsticks in his hand.

"The cabinet of the six ministries was split in half, and the military department took away all those who were in charge of the affairs of the southeast and the navy. Shousuke's words that day inspired me a lot. You said that where I am, the court is there, and I think so. Then let's go to Guangzhou, and the imperial court will be in Guangzhou. ”

His Majesty the Emperor suddenly arranged this, and the three of them had nothing to say for a while. Only Han Ying smiled bitterly here, what he originally wanted to say was that His Majesty the Emperor was the most important representative of the imperial court, and without the emperor, there would be no Ming court. It's just that I didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor to block himself by distorting the original meaning of his original words.

"My glaze factory has recently produced some transparent glazed panels, and I will let people install them here again tomorrow."

Zhu Youzhen is now playing fast, jumping back and forth on several topics.

"The minister still thinks that it is good to be frugal, and not to spend money in these places." Cheng Jiming rarely met with the emperor in private, and when he saw that the emperor was back to the window problem, he hurriedly admonished him.

"Is this your attitude towards wealth, or the cabinet's attitude towards frugality?" Zhu Youzhen asked with interest.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is like this, because of the low degree of productivity, the eyes of officials are still focused on agriculture, but for this kind of dispensable, they always feel that they are wasting money.

"Sihai invented this way to eat hot pot. The biggest source of profit is not the food in the restaurant. "Zhu Youzhen needs to break up the things that future generations of primary school students are familiar with little by little.

"The biggest source of profit is to buy this pot and charcoal. In the past month alone, some merchants in Shu have directly taken away 300 pots with the marks of the four seas. There are also counterfeiters, and I heard that recently the mule and horse market has been crowded with shops and stoves that make pots and stoves. Zhu Youzhen paused, and then continued.

"It's the same with this glass. The courtyard of the core of the cabinet is either rich or expensive every day. But if you think about it, is this also a convenient push out of the Academy of Sciences and the Liuli Factory? How many people will follow this kind of window in their own home? This is not a net income of my Ming Dynasty. ”

Han Ying is satisfied with the current emperor everywhere, the only thing that I want to say is that I am not satisfied, the first thing is that His Majesty the Emperor is too interested in business activities, and he has the taste of copper coins.

"Alright, let's talk while eating." The soup in the pot was boiling, and Zhu Youzhen said that he had ordered a few chopsticks of mutton.

"Shousuke should also arrange special personnel to focus on the Academy of Sciences. Whether it is a glazed window or a glazed vessel, the raw material is just a handful of yellow sand. But everyone is willing to spend a lot of money to buy Dongying and Fulong machine. As long as there is a little more of this kind of business out of nothing, not to mention the matter of reducing agricultural taxes as you mentioned above, it is not impossible to reduce agricultural taxes, is it? ”

There is no tax on agriculture!

Han Ying's eyes lit up all of a sudden. Not to mention the complete tax exemption, as long as the farmland tax can be reduced every year, he and his cabinet will definitely leave their names in the history books.

"Command!"

After a meal, even eating and talking about things, it was already midnight when Zhu Youzhen came out of the cabinet. He did not return to the palace, but rode a horse towards Jinyiwei. Talk about things on the table during the day, and really talk about a little conspiracy in the middle of the night.

"What is the attitude of King Fu?"

Li Ruolian stood in front of Zhu Youzhen in a proper manner, and next to him was Wei Zhongxian, who was even more decent.

"King Fu heard that His Majesty intended to recall himself like King Qin to Jingshi, and he had already begun to send people to Jingshi to lobby. Recently, lobbyists have frequently visited some people from the Ministry of Rites and Guanglu Temple, and the specific list is later. ”

"I don't look at it."

Lobbying doesn't explain anything, at most it is a crime of befriending a vassal king, but if you make too many friends, it will always end up being a law that does not blame the public. In addition, it is now to send some silver, antiques, etc., and it is difficult to grasp some specific figures.

"That's not enough. The pressure on King Fu is still too small. Lao Wei, you can also give some advice on the next things. Within three months, I wanted to see King Fu raise his banner and rebel. ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to communicate with the military department in advance about this matter? As soon as King Fu raised his flag, our family will give him back to Your Majesty. "In this matter, entering Wei Zhongxian's good ball zone, Wei Zhongxian also looked excited.

"Don't, I don't seem to have said it very clearly. After King Fu rebelled, he could walk south into Wuchang from Henan, or he could go west into Shaanxi, and he must be let go. What other officials in Henan can be of great use? Give me the list. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen decided to meet Lu Xiangsheng as soon as possible.

Looking at Wei Zhongxian, who looked puzzled, Zhu Youzhen didn't explain:

"Do it when it's clear, and do it if it's not clear. The principle is that you can only chase, not fight. ”

"What about the second thing?"

Li Ruolian hurriedly said: "It has been implemented, and the target is Father Aston." He has recently been very active in several important areas of the Jingshi. ”

"Hmm."

Zhu Youzhen knew very well that with his disguised encouragement, John Tang brought a bunch of scientists, translators, craftsmen, and a bunch of missionary priests to the Ming Dynasty. After a few months, the activity of these people has affected the conduct of scientific research.

"Tell me when you do this, and I will take Xu Guangqi and them away."

"As soon as Zhou Yanru came back from Shandong, he asked him to come to see me. The DPRK must maintain the closest ties. You should also be good at discovering people and employing them. My hand will grow longer and longer, and you will have to keep up with it. ”