On the tenth day of the first lunar month, today's morning dynasty is a little special, this is the first time Zhu Biao has listened to politics after becoming the prince.

Because it is necessary to announce the appointment of the prince's subordinate officials.

His Majesty the Emperor vetoed the proposal to appoint the crown prince as the Zhongshu Order, and only let the ministers symbolically serve as the prince's subordinate officials, and everyone had no expectations, just felt that it was a formality.

Unexpectedly, there were still accidents.

is not too long a list of appointments, Li Shanchang is the young master, Xu Da is the young master, Chang Yuchun is the young guard, and so on, this batch of part-time workers are basically the first and second meritorious ministers. However, to the surprise of most of the officials who didn't get inside information, at the end of the list, there was one more 'Shao Zhan Shi' who only had four products.

You must know that before this Shao Zhan, the lowest position was also from the second-grade imperial history Taizhi imperial history.

Besides, this Shao Zhan matter, as expected, was still the Zhu Yuan who was unwittingly promoted by His Majesty the Emperor from a bachelor of Hanlin to a bachelor of Hanlin.

All right.

There have been a lot of strange things recently, and everyone has seen it no strange.

No one objected either.

The previous one who found fault has returned to his hometown in disgrace, and he has lost a hereditary replacement.

Moreover, in addition to the appointment of part-time princes, in the course of today's court meeting, His Majesty the Emperor also asked Shan Anren, the secretary of the imperial department, to send someone to find a kind of graphite mine to make new stationery charcoal, and by extension.

By now, the ministers have gradually reacted.

In connection with His Majesty the Emperor's favor for Zhu Yuan, and then thinking about the rhetoric of 'sending five hundred years of national glory', it is not difficult to imagine that many unusual things have been related to the other party recently.

The court meeting ended, and the hundred officials dispersed.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not send the prince away immediately, but took Zhu Biao to the East Pavilion of the daily office, and taught the eldest son earnestly: "Biao'er, regarding Zhu Yuan's appointment, don't care what the ministers think. You may have also heard about Zhu Yuan, and his sentence of sending us a 500-year national honor is not a big word. It's just a 'science of economics', and I've only listened to it a little bit, and I've already learned a lot. After three years, you, as well as Yu'er, will have to learn from him. He said that this economic science is enough to be on a par with etiquette, supporting our two legs in China, and I feel that the economic science is ten times more important than those moral etiquette. ”

Zhu Biao respectfully followed his father's side, his eyes were full of curiosity, and he said seriously: "Dad, the child understands." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with satisfaction: "You still need to be patient with Zhu Yuan's affairs, and other knowledge can't be pulled down, and you are still reading "Zuo Biography" recently?" ”

Zhu Biao nodded, his eyes didn't look at his father anymore, and he lowered his head slightly and said, "The child has learned a lot." ”

Before Zhu Yuanzhang had time to ask his eldest son what he had felt after reading those chapters recently, he saw someone outside the East Pavilion coming over.

One of them is Zhao Xu, who I only met yesterday.

Noticing Zhao Xu's anxious expression, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and motioned for the guards to let him over, stopped Zhao Xu from saluting, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhao continued: "Lord, the petty officials are ...... Since this morning, I suddenly had a high fever and am now unconscious. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was concerned at first, and then he glared at Zhao Xu with displeasure: "Isn't it just right, why are you sick again." Then Dai Sanchun, and you, how did you serve, just lived in Houhu and got sick twice in a few days? ”

Facing Lao Zhu's stern gaze, Zhao Xu knelt down as soon as his knees weakened, not daring to be ambiguous any longer, and carefully recounted Zhu Yuan's abnormal appearance and subsequent reaction when He Shou visited yesterday.

In the end, Zhao Xu paused, and added: "The little official had a good nap before taking a nap yesterday, and he also arranged for the little one to come over and send things to the lord. The little ones guessed...... Or, or, when the petty official was taking a nap, he was caught by something. Mr. Dai also said that it was possible, but he didn't know how to wish for it, so he could only send a small one to tell the Lord. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously wanted to reprimand Zhao Xu for shirking responsibility.

However, after recalling Zhao Xu's account just now, as well as Dai Sanchun's assertion, he was not sure. In this era, when it comes to ghosts and gods, no one dares to completely disbelieve it. For example, Zhu You, one of the thirteen departments of official Chinese medicine, specializes in dealing with strange diseases that may involve gods and ghosts.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You go to Sun Shouzhen, tell him about Zhu Yuan's illness in detail, let him pick a few imperial doctors, and he himself, go to Houhu Lake, and come back before noon to report to me." ”

Zhao Xu agreed, got up and left in a hurry.

Zhu Biao, who was silently watching all this, waited for Zhao Xu to walk away, retracted his gaze, and saw that his father was still standing in place, hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "Dad, why don't you go to Houhu Lake to visit Zhu Yuan in person?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses from a not very good premonition, heard his son's words, hesitated slightly, shook his head and said, "Don't go, if you ...... If he hits something, it's not good for you to go. ”

Zhu Biao's eyes flashed with disappointment, but he didn't say anything more.

The Tai Hospital sent Sun Shouzhen to Houhu with a few imperial doctors, and the news was transmitted before noon that a Tai Doctor who was good at Zhu Yu had been tricked, but it had no effect. Sun Shouzhen consulted with Dai Sanchun and others and discussed a prescription for Lao Zhu's approval.

Lao Zhu agreed to come down.

Zhu Yuan has fallen into a coma, and the decoction can only be forced, however, after these are done, it still does not get better.

The next day, the news followed.

The imperial doctors felt that they might still be in a nightmare, because in the morning, more than one person heard all kinds of strange words coming out of the comatose 'Zhu Yuan'.

Say 'I don't want to stay here anymore'.

What is 'no water, no electricity, no car, no internet, not even special toilet paper'.

And what a 'reborn yarn'.

Dai Sanchun, who was 'reborn', was quite frightened because of this, and didn't understand what he had to do with 'wool', but he still confessed, and he couldn't help but have any influence on Zhu Yuan, and took the initiative to avoid the inner house.

Zhu Yuanzhang got the report, considered that Zhu Youzhi's technique did not work, and selected several senior monks and Taoist priests to rush to Houhu to practice it.

At about the same time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also got the news.

The mentality is more or less the same.

At this young age, he is a high-ranking official, with continuous grace, and the sixty-two human heads a few days ago, if his life is not enough, where can he bear it?

See!

Crushed?

In this way, on the third day, the decoction and rice could no longer be filled, and the doctors of the Tai Hospital had already taken turns to go through Houhu, and several of them came to a relatively unified conclusion, Zhu Yuan's illness was a sudden burst of heart, which led to the already very weak body with many symptoms.

The root cause is probably the result of intense apprehension.

If you want to redeem it, you must first understand what kind of stimulation Xiao Hanlin has received.

Also, Xiao Hanlin himself...... I don't seem to want to live much.

If the patient does not have the will to survive, no matter how good they can rejuvenate, they will not be able to recover from heaven.

Everyone also pushed Sun Shouzhen into the palace to report the worst news to Zhu Yuanzhang.

According to the current situation, Xiao Hanlin may not be able to survive tomorrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has been paying close attention to Zhu Yuan's condition in the past few days, can no longer sit still, but before going to Houhu, he first asked the internal envoy to tie up He Shou, the internal envoy, and interrogated him in person in a stern tone.

Zhu Yuanzhang also reacted.

If it was really caused by that worry, looking back on the ins and outs of the whole thing, there was only one link where he sent He Shou to visit Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuanzhang wondered if He Shou had said something to Zhu Yuan behind his back, after all, he didn't have to think about it to know that the whole court must be full of jealousy towards Zhu Yuan these days. Even if He Shou himself had no intention, it was difficult to guarantee that someone did not instigate him to make a threat.

He Shou was also unjustified, he was tied up into a human stick and paralyzed on the ground, trembling and snorting and tearfully repeating almost all the conversations at noon that day, and also said that Zhao Xu was present at the time and could testify that he really didn't dare to have any disrespect to Xiao Hanlin!

Zhu Yuanzhang called Zhao Xu, who entered the palace with Sun Shouzhen, and asked him alone.

No problems found.

However, Lao Zhu still didn't believe it, so he locked up poor He Shou first, left the palace in a hurry, and rushed to Houhu with a light car.

Inside the mansion on the back lake.

Zhu Yuan's bedroom.

When Zhu Yuanzhang entered the door, the first thing he saw was two maids whose eyes were like peaches because of staying up late and crying, sitting on the edge of the bed supporting their own petty officials, holding a small bowl freely, and trying to feed Zhu Yuan something.

There were also two older women who were also standing beside them with haggard faces.

Lao Zhu just swept it at random, everyone was almost gone, and he didn't have the heart to care about these details, so he turned to Zhu Yuan on the bed again, and happened to see Freehand sending honey into Zhu Yuan's mouth, and it was spit out as it was.

After two or three times in vain, Freehand gave up in despair, and noticed Zhu Yuanzhang who was dressed in regular clothes next to her, she first guessed her identity, and wanted to get up to salute, Lao Zhu had already waved her hand, approached and looked at Zhu Yuan, whose eyes were closed tightly and even her lips were white, and then glanced at the small bowl in Freehand's hand, and asked, "Can't you eat?" ”

Freehand shook his head in silence.

Liubai also guessed something, and said boldly: "The little official said a few days ago that he wanted to drink milk, but he didn't find it." ”

Lao Zhu immediately turned his head and said to the attendant in the hall, "Come and find it." ”

One of the attendants left in a hurry.

Hearing that His Majesty the Emperor was coming, Dai Sanchun also came to salute, and knelt down directly when he entered the door, not daring to argue for himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, just snorted coldly, turned to Sun Shouzhen, the envoy of the Tai Hospital, and asked in a deep voice, "Is there any other way?" ”

Sun Shouzhen remembered that He Shou, the envoy who had been dragged away in the palace before, couldn't help but kneel down with weak knees, and said in a trembling voice: "There are indeed some prescriptions, but ...... Xiao Hanlin's body is too weak, and the minister ...... The minister was afraid that he would not be able to hold on. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Zhu Yuan on the bed again.

looked at the pale little face silently for a moment, and understood that what Sun Shouzhen said was the truth.

There is even some self-doubt.

This......

Could it be that he has done something wrong recently, so that he has provoked the displeasure of heaven, and he has just given it to a great talent, and he wants to take it away so quickly?

Retracting his gaze, Lao Zhu paced a few steps left and right, sighed, saw that there were still two people kneeling in the hall, waved his hand and said, "Get out of here, useless things."

Sun Shouzhen and Dai Sanchun hurriedly got up, and together with the others, they silently withdrew from the main room.

In order to let Zhu Yuanzhang think of a way, she remembered something, put down the small bowl in her hand, and asked with a different kind of hope in her tone: "Your Majesty, do you want to see the manuscript of the little official?" ”

Lao Zhu's anger value was still accumulating, and when he heard the words, he almost subconsciously wanted to reprimand.

When is this, and what manuscripts are you going to read?

However, the immediate reaction was ...... Probably only those manuscripts remain.

So he nodded slightly: "Where is it?" ”

Freehand got up and said, "In the Westinghouse." ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture towards Lao Zhu.

The curtain in the bedroom here has been removed, and Lao Zhu looked over the hall and saw the West House covered by thick cotton curtains.

Freehand didn't care about any etiquette details, so he walked over first, lifted the curtain and hung it, walked to the cabinet by the wall, took out the key from the purse on his waist, opened it, took out a stack of manuscripts, and didn't dare to hand it directly to Lao Zhu, but put it on the bookcase next to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang followed, picked up the manuscript in front of him and opened it.

This is exactly the manuscript of the "way of production", which is one of the fundamentals of the "study of economics" that I have been thinking about for a while, as well as some other topics discussed by the two sides that day.

It's just that...... I'm only halfway done.

And what about the 'distribution'?

What about a hundred other kinds of learning?

Sighing again, he simply flipped through it, Lao Zhu took the manuscript into his arms, looked at Zhu Yuan's desk for a moment, and walked out of the West House.

If you want to go to the East House bedroom again, you should give up on it. When he came to the outside of the courtyard, he hesitated for a moment, and Lao Zhu said to Sun Shouzhen: "You just said that method, try it tonight, whether it can be done depends on his creation." ”

Lao Zhu didn't forget what Sun Shouzhen said in the palace. If there is no other way, Zhu Yuan may not be able to survive tomorrow.

Even so, you have to give it a try.

Moreover, this matter can obviously only be decided by him personally, and the hospital can only dare to do it.

Sun Shouzhen said, "The minister must do his best." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the gradually darkening sky, sighed again, and left in silence.

Return to the Royal Palace.

At dinner, Zhu Yuanzhang's appetite was more than half less than usual, and Ma also knew about Zhu Yuan's affairs, his expression was worried, and he didn't dare to intercede for He Shou, who was diligent and capable on weekdays, at this time, but asked about Houhu.

Lao Zhu only replied to see if he could survive tonight, so he lost his appetite, got up and left the dining room, and went to the study on the side of Kunning Palace to read the stack of manuscripts.

The content is probably the topic of discussion at the beginning.

However, Zhu Yuan did add some additional cases, which made Lao Zhu sigh while sighing while reading.

I read it several times like this, and it was already the beginning of my life.

Zhu Yuanzhang's attention finally fell on a page of manuscript, which was out of place with other content, because there were only two sentences.

The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost.

The way of man is to lose more than enough.

Lao Zhu initially only thought that this was a useless sentence that Zhu Yuan wrote casually on weekdays, but after reading the previous manuscript and looking at this page again, he gradually came to his senses.

I found a copy of the Tao Te Ching in the study, and soon found the corresponding chapter.

The way of heaven is like a bow! The higher ones suppress it, the lower ones lift it, the surplus loses it, and the insufficient ones are with it. The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost. Humanity is not, the damage is insufficient, and the sacrifice is more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world? There is only one who is the Taoist!

After repeated tasting and pondering, there are only a few mentions in the manuscript such as 'redistribution of social resources' and 'opening up the upward channel of the common people'.

It is the way of heaven to make up for the deficiency of more than is lost.

So, who is 'Heaven', shouldn't it be him, the emperor?

If he follows the way of 'distribution', what he has to do is to make up for the deficiency with more than he loses, to damage those tycoons and tycoons, and to make up for those poor people.

Let's talk about the 'way of man'.

As discussed in the manuscript in front of me, one of the reasons why the Han and Tang dynasties finally switched from the government military system to the conscription system was that those insatiable tycoons continued to annex land and evade taxes, which led to the collapse of the imperial court's finances and the fact that the people had nothing to live in, so that they could not raise soldiers and refused to serve their lives. However, the tycoons in the middle relied on the 'production system' directly controlled, and they started one after another, and the result was a three-legged stand, a five-generation and ten countries.

Therefore, this 'way of man' is what he needs to avoid, suppress, and fight in the future.

From this point of view, these two short sentences are the root of the way of 'distribution'.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly sighed again at the same time.

I don't know how many times I've sighed today.

Because, Lao Zhu also knows a sentence: to govern a big country, if you cook a small fresh.

Cooking Xiaoxian requires a variety of delicate means from the heat to the seasoning, rather than the meaningless truth of 'put it in the pot and cook it'.

Therefore, it is obviously far from enough to be just two fundamental sentences without various concrete and micro measures.

Just like the way of 'production', Zhu Yuanzhang consciously understands a lot of relevant truths, but he still doesn't have much clue about how to do it, so he can only explore.

Life is too short and there are too many things to do, so do you have time to explore?

Under candlelight.

Lao Zhu didn't know how long he was silent, how long he hesitated, and finally got up again and came to the queen's bedroom.

There is a large red sandalwood cabinet here, and in the cabinet, there is also a red sandalwood box, and in the wooden box, there is a "Book of Heaven" hidden.

If you don't watch it tonight, perhaps, if bad news comes tomorrow, it will be too late to watch it again. Therefore, Lao Zhu did not feel that he had violated the promise he had made to Zhu Yuan.

Ma was sewing a robe for her husband with the two palace maids here, when she saw Lao Zhu coming straight over, opened the cabinet, and silently took away the rosewood box, thought about it, and didn't say anything.

Ma knew her husband well, and with his sometimes patient and sometimes anxious ambivalence, she knew that her man would not be able to wait for three years, just by looking at the fact that he had to come to the cabinet two or three times a day these days.

Tonight......

And for good reason.

Ma really wanted to find out with the past, think about it or give up. Anyway, as long as her husband opens it, she will be able to see it sooner or later.

The other side.

Back in the study, Zhu Yuanzhang put the rosewood box on the bookcase, and inevitably remembered Zhu Yuan's original reminder.

Closely entangled with the national fortune!

Closely entangled with the national fortune!

Perhaps, even if ...... Or should I put it back and wait patiently until three years later.

After all, this may really involve his Ming national fortunes.

The foundation laid in nine deaths and a lifetime!

Merely......

In the end, after a battle in his heart, Lao Zhu reached out and unscrewed the small brass lock without a key with a little force.