Chapter 6: Is It Temptation?
Zhu Yu walked with the wind, as proud as in the past, ran to the Huagai Hall to wait for the holy decree, and saw Zhu Biao come out.
"Brother, where's my holy will?"
Zhu Biao held a scroll of holy decrees in his hand, but he didn't give it to him.
He instead advised: "Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother must be very happy to know that Liu Bowen was activated, you go to see her when you are free, Gao Qi has just died, and she can't see her father killing people the most." ”
Queen Ma has always taken good care of Liu Ji.
Zhu Yu looked at Zhu Biao and dealt with the affairs of the court for a day, and Zhu Biao didn't seem to have the spirit of last time.
At this moment, Zhu Yu had an illusion, as if he saw endless tiredness and envy in Zhu Biao's eyes.
Perhaps, he also wants to be an ordinary vassal king like Zhu Yu.
In order to comfort this merciful brother, Zhu Rong nodded.
Zhu Biao raised the holy decree in his hand and handed it halfway, but he did not let go immediately, but said again:
"Liu Bowen wants to stay away from the government, for this matter, he has pleaded with his father many times, and he doesn't want to stay in the court, if you want this holy decree, I'm afraid it's useless, my father should think the same way."
Recommended as an official, the courtier can be called sick and refuse the holy decree, during the Yuan Dynasty, someone recommended Liu Ji to be an official, and he resigned like this.
It's been a long time to get this decree.
Father did it on purpose, right?
Zhu Yu took the decree and decided to go to Liu Bowen's mansion in person, let Liu Jiu prepare the carriage, and the four inspectors accompanied him to announce the decree.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the etiquette of the scholars was paid attention to, and the worship post was handed over when they came to visit, which was the etiquette of the scholars.
Officials meet each other, gentry meet each other, protégés meet teachers, and local gentry visit their parents.
The content of the prayer post is very simple, the name is added with "worship", in fact, it is no different from the concierge notice.
Zhu Yu looked at Liu Jiu next to him: "What kind of bundle does the Beijing scholar send?" ”
Beginning with Confucius, students always had to bring something with them when they first came to the door, such as a pot of wine, a piece of silk, and even money, which was the case in the Yuan Dynasty, not to mention the etiquette regulations stipulated by the Ming Dynasty.
"I want the slave to say, don't give anything, Your Highness will be the vassal king in the future, and I'm afraid that Liu Bowen won't teach."
Liu Jiu snorted coldly and said.
Zhu Rong stretched out his feet.
"Your Highness, you were reluctant to kick slaves before!"
"Oh, now I can."
Eunuchs have been fighting since childhood, and growing up in this environment, even if there is some culture, it is inevitable that there will be defects.
However, as a portable eunuch, Liu Jiu is qualified.
Zhu Yan originally wanted to change Liu Jiu's auspicious name, such as Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian, Sanbao, Feng Bao, and Wang Zhi......
However, at this time, the scene of Chang'an Avenue attracted Zhu Rong's attention.
In the seventh year of Hongwu, the world had just restored peace, and the productive forces had not completely recovered, and the imperial court paid only more than 30,000 taels of taxes a year.
Zhu Yuanzhang also issued an edict to restore the clothing and crown system of the Tang Dynasty, merchants could only wear cloth and silk, where did the people have the money to buy silk to make clothes?
As a result, such a scene appeared on Chang'an Avenue, full of people wearing coarse cloth clothes.
Zhu Yu's first impression was that he was too lifeless.
As the carriage gradually marched, it broke away from Chang'an Avenue and entered Cunyi Street, and four strange objects erected appeared, humanoid.
"What's that?"
"Hehe, this slave knows that it was an official who committed corruption a while ago and was made into a straw man."
Zhu Rong's young heart was greatly impacted, even him, not to mention the officials who went to court from here every day.
Hongwu, for officials, is really a bloody dynasty.
Liu Bowen has a distant gaze, standing in the small courtyard, looking at the blue sky, stargazing can predict good and bad fortunes, and calculate agricultural time, but at this time he is not calculating agricultural time.
"What is Daddy looking at?" Liu Lian asked in a low voice.
"Calculate how long I'll live."
"Now that the world is peaceful, Your Majesty is a virtuous emperor, and he shouldn't kill people anymore."
Liu Bowen shook his head: "It won't stop, you can be sentenced to death if you are greedy for sixty taels of ink, Your Majesty's official salary is too low, and it is not enough to pay it on time, no matter how strict the law is, it can't be stopped." ”
"Why didn't Dad tell Your Majesty?"
"Hehe......"
Liu Bowen smiled and shook his head.
At this time, Liu Bowen's second son, Liu Wangjing, ran in in a panic, and before he could speak, Liu Bowen already understood, and he brushed off the hem of the clothes in front of him: "Liu Ji, take the order." ”
Zhu Rong strode into the courtyard, the holy decree was like a stick, constantly beating on the palm of his hand, "This king hasn't said anything, how does Lord Liu know that it is a holy decree?" ”
Is this Liu Bowen really like a god?
Liu Bowen knocked his head on the ground and said indifferently: "The grass people have been summoned a lot, and there is an omen in my heart, I don't know what the King of Qi is going to do when he comes to my small courtyard?" ”
Liu Bowen knew that the clay stove rope bed at home was avoided by others, and only Zhu Yuanzhang's people would come to visit.
"Lord Liu presented the "Eighteen Strategies of Current Affairs" to his father in the past, helping his father to lay down the country, His Royal Highness the Queen Mother and the mother concubine always praised Lord Liu when they talked about it, and the king heard that Lord Liu was a great sage, and wanted to ask Lord Liu to be my teacher."
In the twentieth year of Zheng, when Liu Bowen first saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he offered eighteen strategies for current affairs, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hide the joy on his face after reading it, and said to Liu Bowen, Mr. Berwyn, you are really my son!
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately fought the world, and the horse ruled the world, all of which had the shadow of these eighteen strategies.
Zhu Yu wanted to see it, but it was a secret of the founding of the country, and Zhu Yuanzhang never showed it.
"Song Lian is the first scribe today, what the grass people are good at is power schemes, why did the king of Qi want me to be Mr.?"
Liu Bowen was blunt.
"The art of power and conspiracy, this king is not interested, Lord Liu only needs to teach me the truth of being a vassal king, Master Song is the prince's master, even if I am very bold, I dare not delay the prince to learn the way of social discipline."
Although Liu Bowen was stripped of his official position, Zhu Yuanzhang often summoned him to the palace, or met him privately, and sometimes exchanged letters.
Zhu Yu knocked on his palm a few times before handing it over: "This is what my father meant." ”
Liu Bowen took a deep look at the Jade Axis Holy Decree, and did not rush to accept it, King Qi's request was not important, he was wondering, did Zhu Yuanzhang sincerely want him to be King Qi's teacher?
Is it a temptation?
Liu Bowen fell into deep thought, he is good at scheming, and he is not reused because it is a peaceful and prosperous world, there is no need to rebel, he knows that Zhu Yuanzhang is too jealous of him.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Ji is unable to make a choice.
If it is Zhu Yuanzhang's temptation, what awaits him is a disaster of death.
"Lord Liu is the king's teacher, and when I finish my studies, I will beg my father to allow the teacher to be raised, and I will not bother in the future."
After saying this, Zhu Yu stretched out his hand towards Liu Jiu, Liu Jiu took out a cloth bag from his arms with a painful face, and said in a crying voice: "Your Highness, you promised to return it to the slave." ”
Zhu Rong took your posture with a look of it, snatched the cloth bag, and handed it to Liu Bowen:
"Sir, this is a gift of restraint."
Liu Bowen opened the bag and could see seven taels of silver lying inside, thought about it, looked at the back of Zhu Rong who had turned away, and said loudly: "Liu Ji, lead the order!" ”
In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang held a yellowed and heavy book to study, this is the "Book of Han" sorted out by the historian, he likes to read the history of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, because Liu Bang, like him, started from recklessness.
The eunuchs in the palace knew that His Majesty loved to study, and they didn't dare to move, but they couldn't bear to disturb Zhu Yuanzhang.
Mao Xiang walked in, and the saber hit his waist with a slight sound.
"Your Majesty, Liu Bowen has taken the order."
"Oh, what did you say?"
Liu Bowen asked King Qi to find Master Song, and King Qi said that Song Lian was the prince's master, and he did not dare to hinder His Royal Highness the Prince's way of learning...... Only teach scriptures and classics, and when he is a teacher, he pleads with His Majesty for Lord Liu to allow him to go into seclusion and never bother. ”
"Where's Liu Ji?"
"Lord Liu didn't say much, he just received the holy decree."
Zhu Yuanzhang finally put down the book, his face was calm, "Han Gaozu compared the person who chases the cunning rabbit to a military minister, and the person who gives the following instructions to a civil minister, we think that this Jiangshan Sheji is like building a house, cutting and cutting, it is necessary to use military attachés, algae painting whitewash, and civil officials, civil and military resources to govern the world, so that it will not be a bad thing, Sanwu, do you think Liu Bowen is a military attache or a civil official?" ”
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