When all the news was gathered to Zhu Houxi, he couldn't cry or laugh.

On the one hand, the emperor's concern about manure is beyond the old thinking of the people around the emperor.

Even Huang Jin, who was beside Zhu Houxi, also ignored the sentence "I must have some experience in fertilizer making", and only said when he told Wang Zuo, "Your Majesty wants to find a dung merchant in the capital". Passed down from level to level, the twelve major dung merchants in the capital also produced some manure, and Qi Qi was frightened to find all of them.

He is not allowed to enter the Forbidden City, waiting for His Majesty's order.

After all, they are dung merchants, do they let them enter the palace to meet the emperor? What kind of system is that?

On the other hand, out of chemical considerations, the will of the alchemy Taoist priest had just gone down, and he came up to persuade himself not to cultivate immortals, using the name of "the new law has not been completed, and the Ming Dynasty has not become rich", as if Zhu Houxi was a faithful believer in implementing the new law.

Zhu Houxi looked at Huang Jin strangely: "That day I was talking about farming, and this fertilizer is related to the vitality of the people of the Ming Dynasty." It's not that you're not around, how can you pass it on like catching a thief? ”

“…… It's a slave who is stupid. ”

Huang Jin admitted his mistake, and he couldn't say that there were too many things he had to pay attention to for the emperor now, eighteen enterprises, printing presses, and the ceremony of paying homage to the prime minister...... With so many things, which one is not more important than the emperor looking for a dung merchant?

Zhu Houxi didn't say anything about him for this trivial matter, but just waved his hand: "All walks of life have their own reasons for existence." Because they are dung merchants, it is not easy to enter the palace? I'm going to leave the palace, and it's a lot of preparations. If you are afraid that the courtiers will have an idea in their hearts, then meet them at the side of the celebrant and the celebrant in the room. ”

Discrimination is a constant occurrence.

After the old peasants arrived at the Heart Cultivation Palace, Empress Dowager Jiang heard about the situation and muttered a few words when Zhu Houxi went to greet him. Meaning: Although the important ministers know that it is a good thing for the emperor to pay attention to agriculture, it is really a little undignified, and the palace of nourishing the heart is where the major affairs of the country are discussed.

If there is another rumor that the dung merchant has entered the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Houxi still doesn't know how to be talked about.

Going to the celebrant is nothing more than walking a few more steps in the palace.

On the contrary, Zhu Houxi criticized two sentences: The advice is very good, I am a physical avenue, not a cultivator.

Chemistry is said to be physics, and that's what it is now. Anyway, there are all kinds of people in the Huangming Academy, and Zhu Houxi threw away the reason for engaging in learning, saving many explanations.

However, Taoist priests often call what kind of avenue, and after receiving the emperor's approval, the official was stunned for a moment: Could it be that His Majesty's new learning can still be accommodated in Taoist statements?

So his eyes suddenly lit up: If this matter can be solved, then Xinxue will be very powerful.

After all, Confucianism and Taoism have also been inherited for thousands of years, and now there is a method that can encompass Taoism with Confucianism?

If you have made achievements in this field of learning, will it not be famous for eternity?

The life path of a certain official in the Jiajing Dynasty deviated in this way, and since then he has spent his whole life in the cause of Confucianism, especially the new learning compatible with Taoism.

Song Hu and others were brought into the palace, and before entering the palace, they were ordered to take a good bath and change into clean clothes.

What is the need? These dung tyrants live a much better life than ordinary people and even some sesame officials.

But the psychological reasons make the people inside and outside the palace who are in charge of doing things feel that it should be like this, and the dung tyrants also dare not say a word. obediently washed it clean, and then tremblingly lined up in strings from the door where the eunuchs and palace maids entered and exited the Forbidden City every day.

What is the celebrant of ceremonies? Now that the people have been brought, it is naturally the time for them to accommodate the emperor.

was arranged to be squeezed into a small room, and the other dung tyrants didn't care about the intrigue between the usual people, but asked Song Hu in their throats: "Brother Song, do you have any news?" ”

Song Hu has a fart news.

was taken away from home and spent the whole night in the small black room of Jinyiwei, and the meal was not very good.

"I didn't go to prison...... It should be fine......

Song Hu actually didn't know the bottom in his heart, because did these people deserve to go to the edict?

But no matter what, now that he has been brought to the palace, no one can feel at ease.

In a state of anxiety, another little eunuch came over: "I will see Your Majesty later, many etiquettes must be explained to you first, and I understand them!" ”

The dung tyrants were stunned: Want to see the emperor?

Isn't today the day of the Prime Minister's Ceremony?

……

Today is indeed the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

Feudal marquis worships the prime minister, and the people are extremely minister-this is a very popular cognition.

Now is not the time of the ancient pre-Qin, since the first emperor, there is no grand etiquette to worship the prime minister. There are a lot of rumors, and there are only a few things such as Han Gaozu and Han Xin, and worshipping the generals.

Regarding the Ming Dynasty's appointment of the prime minister and minister of state, in the past period of time, the Ministry of Rites has actually cautiously and carefully tested the emperor to pay homage to the ceremony.

In any case, it was a sign of a special recognition for the courtiers.

According to their intentions, this matter should be respected, to inspire the world, or to handle it well.

After Zhu Houxi got the ritual note presented by the Ministry of Rites, he frowned for a long time.

This cannot be said to be Fei Hong's own thoughts, on the one hand, it is the natural desire of the courtiers as a whole: this time the specifications are likely to become the standard in the future, so it is logical that the courtiers expect it to be an extremely glorious ceremony. On the other hand, it cannot be said whether Zhang Zilin, a person who is inseparable from Yang Tinghe, is giving Fei Hong eye medicine, so that the emperor is a little more jealous of the prime minister and minister of state, and a little more dependent on the six ministries and nine secretaries.

In the center, nothing is simple.

Fortunately, Zhu Houxi is not a junior brother, so he can compromise it.

The ritual was reduced to just sending people to pay homage to the shrine, and then conferring seals and paying homage to the prime minister in the National Hall.

But Fei Hong also got a very special honor: when the court meeting in the future, when the meeting was over, if Fei Hong did not say anything to the emperor, he would have a seat.

Zhu Houxi agreed to this seemingly murderous proposal, because he believed that the prime minister really needed another majesty in order to do things easily.

As for whether this glory will threaten the imperial power in the future, Zhu Houxi is only afraid that the prime minister and the minister of state will be on pins and needles.

After this opinion was passed on to Fei Hong, Fei Hong was really busy and pushed it away with righteous words: He was trusted by the Son of Heaven, but he only died after bowing to his heart, so how could he need such grace to show his humility? From the Prime Minister and the Minister of State to the Jiupin officials, they are all His Majesty's courtiers!

The result hasn't changed, but the process is important. To have this process, the emperor showed that he wanted to hold a handful of prime ministers, and the seemingly overstepping proposal of the Ministry of Rites was not refuted by the emperor, and the prime minister was also very clear.

Today's Wangri court meeting, as usual, not only the court staff members of the ordinary court meeting, but also more honorable relatives and more low-grade officials participated.

The station method of the civil and military trains has been adjusted.

Now, everyone consciously left the front row to Fei Hong.

Leading the ministers forward, Fei Hong's side of sight only saw Xu Guangzuo.

The old man looked even older, but he had to attend today's court. Daming worships the prime minister, and as a representative of a force that the emperor wants to rely on to balance the prime minister, he can't be there.

Thinking back to the time when he welcomed the emperor back to Beijing more than four years ago, Xu Guangzuo could never have imagined that he would have to face this situation today.

The young emperor was already seated on the throne, Xu Guangzuo glanced at it from a distance, and he didn't know what this prime minister would evolve into in his heart. Zu Xun does not have a prime minister, but the current His Majesty obviously does not pay attention to many ancestral teachings.

Xu Guangzuo can't see the changes in the future, but his son Xu Yande is going to serve as the president of the Ordnance Supervisor, Xu Guangzuo knows that at least when His Majesty is still in power, the civil and military people in the court have not had much choice, and can only act in the direction he has determined.

His eyes also looked at Fei Hong, and Xu Guangzuo caught a glimpse of the solemnity between his eyebrows.

Can it not be dignified? If the man is on his back and the target of the public, he bears the weight of the country and the cliff is thin ice.

Today is the Layue Wangri Dynasty Meeting, and the next time is the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, and nothing will be discussed at this time. Today's court meeting almost has only one thing that is different from before, the emperor pays homage to the prime minister.

After the ministers visited, Zhang Zilin presided over the ceremony.

Zhu Houxi ordered Gu Shilong, the newly crowned Yasukuni Gong, to sacrifice the shrine on his behalf, and when he went out, the hall of the National Assembly fell silent for a while.

The major affairs of the country are in Rong and worship. In this sacrificial ceremony, the heavens are the most important, and the earth is secondary. Sacrifice to heaven and earth, that means being commanded by heaven. Fei Hong worships the prime minister, and no one dares to mention that he has to sacrifice to heaven and earth.

And the sacrifice of a sheji, it has the meaning of entrusting the sheji.

This altar is also closer than the Temple of Heaven and Earth, on the southwest side of the Forbidden City and west of the Chengtian Gate.

During the period when Gu Shilong went out to pay tribute to Sheji, the ministers stood solemnly at the court meeting, which was enough to express the importance of the emperor's desire to worship the prime minister.

Only when Fei Hong now feels this process in person, can he more intuitively understand that this process is quite painfully designed.

At this moment, there is only one thing in the minds of the ministers: is this the gift of the Prime Minister and the Minister of State? For this matter, at the Shuowang Dynasty Meeting, which was second only to the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, the monarchs and ministers suspended all military affairs for this reason, just to wait for the completion of the sacrifice and the return of the person who sacrificed on behalf of him.

It seems that for the sake of the country's political affairs, the Ming monarchs and ministers can afford to wait.

Now, Zhu Houxi is also sitting on the throne and watching Fei Hong.

Starting today, the relationship between the monarch and the minister of the Ming Dynasty will enter a new stage.

For Fei Hong, he will have respect and supervision—supervision from the emperor and the power he wields.

It will be a new task to make Fei Hong and other prime ministers and ministers of state in the future willing to do things, dare to do things, and dare not go beyond them.

But now, Zhu Houxi wants to give him glory first and inspire more people.

Fei Hong understands, so please return to his hometown to pay tribute to his ancestors, and there is another ceremony in the lead mountain today.

But he didn't want it, he didn't want it, like the chair at the court meeting.

There can be chairs at the national policy meeting, but the court meeting has become more and more a ceremonial occasion for the monarch and the minister to meet, which is the embodiment of the dignity of the monarch and the minister.

Nearly half an hour passed, and Gu Shilong came back to his life.

After recuperating for nearly a year, his health has improved, and his voice has the calmness and strength of a battlefield general: "Return to Your Majesty, the ministers are ordered to sacrifice Sheji, come to restore your life!" ”

Zhu Houxi nodded: "Tell the subjects." ”

Gu Shilong first saluted Zhu Houxi again, then turned to the ministers, and recited aloud: "Today, I am ordered to pay tribute to Sheji, and the sacrificial text says: Your Majesty thinks of the common people, lays the nine soils, eats all the people, divides the five colors to seal the Qi, cultivates the three farmers and cultivates the crops, guards the soil, and worships the Mingyu." When he lived in Mengdong, the Son of Heaven thought about the importance of state affairs, and the affairs of the prime minister were complicated. Wangshu pill pill pine cypress, Gong Panshi in the boundless; The wings and wings are millet seedlings, and the gods are not scarce. Feast! ”

After hearing this, Zhu Houxi stood up: "Please ask the Prime Minister and Minister of State to treasure the seal." ”

Zhang Zuo solemnly dragged a plate over, and Zhu Houxi picked up the seal box wrapped in silk cloth with both hands and walked over slowly.

"The weight of this responsibility is entrusted to both Fei Qing and the ministers."

Fei Hong bowed and bowed: "The minister is afraid, Your Majesty is gracious, and the old minister only wears his liver and guts, and does not dare to slack off." ”

"The ministers will devote themselves to their lives and live up to Your Majesty's hopes."

Inside and outside the National Hall, in addition to the honorable relatives, many yamen officials with direct management power in the State Hall knelt down together, waiting for the emperor to grant the seal to Fei Hong.

The hall is distinct.

Those who stand are the forces that directly obey the emperor's orders: the military, the ministers, the general political envoys, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, the General Department of Public Security, and the presidents of the eighteen state-owned enterprises.

Kneeling are the ministers in a narrower sense.

Because the emperor said a word and entrusted it to the ministers.

Only then did Zhu Houxi hold the seal box with both hands: "Fei Hong, today it is awarded with the treasure seal of the Prime Minister and Minister of State." The policies decided by the national policy meeting, Wangqing supervised and commanded hundreds of officials, and worked hard to implement them, so that the provinces of the Ming Dynasty could be governed, and the people lived in peace, living up to my high hopes! ”

The tone was also set, and the Prime Minister and Minister of State were not only a member of the Council of Governors, but also a member of the Council headed by the Emperor in charge of the specific work related to day-to-day government affairs under the direction of the Council.

"If you keep it in mind, you will live up to Your Majesty's high expectations."

"Printing."

"Long live Your Majesty! Banzai! Hooray! ”

After receiving the seal, he first placed it respectfully in front of him, and then bowed again.

When he got up again under the guidance of etiquette, Zhu Houxi had already sat back on the throne and looked at him with a smile: "Fei Qing, accept the congratulations of the hundred officials with your new identity." ”

The emperor opened his mouth, and Wang Qiong and the others immediately solemnly bowed to Fei Hong: "See Fei Zongfu." ”

Regarding the new title of the prime minister, it is Fei Hong's own opinion.

His Majesty is still there, and the Prime Minister is still an adjudicator. This auxiliary word is the best, although I don't understand why His Majesty uses the word Li.

In the past, it was the first assistant, and now it is the general assistant, and that's it.

Fei Hong put his posture very upright, accepted everyone's courtesy, and solemnly said that he would definitely assist the emperor with his heart and ask his colleagues to cooperate.

The inauguration ceremony of the new prime minister of the Ming Dynasty is like this, and the process cannot be said to be simple, after all, the prince of the country was specially invited to pay tribute to Sheji, and the emperor personally received the seal.

But it wasn't too grand, at least the emperor didn't show much reliance on the spot.

There is His Majesty and the Council of State, and the Prime Minister and Minister of State are obviously only an executor.

Rao is like this, Fei Hong at this moment is the prime minister after all.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Fei Hong showed his kindness again, and the emperor gave him a private banquet.

Therefore, although he does not rely on Fei Hong very much, he really trusts him with state affairs, but he is favored.

Fei Hong knew that he just wanted to grind well.

This private banquet of the Son of Heaven is set up in the Heart Cultivation Palace, which is a familiar place for Fei Hong.

"On New Year's Day, I will publish a New Year's message in Ming Pao. For the Lantern Festival, the general assistant also prepared a congratulatory message. This is the first time that you have spoken to the Ming officials and people in your private name and on behalf of the government. Next year, the Qingzhang field will be rebuilt in the yellow book, why did the imperial court do this, and what changes are there in the life of the people of the Ming Dynasty in three years, the general assistant can say it. ”

Fei Hong looked at him: "...... Weigh it carefully. ”

Is this a military order to the officials and people of the entire Ming Dynasty?

If three years later, there is no good change in the lives of the people, then there are black and white words, how many people in the world want to scold him Fei Hong said that he couldn't do it?

Zhu Houxi said with a smile: "You don't have to have so many burdens in your heart. The burden is heavy, but I will not be unreasonable. Fei Qing, with your previous achievements, if you say that you are worthy of enjoying the Taimiao, I'm afraid that you are also a little unsteady in your heart, right? I agreed to your promise, and you want to live up to your name, right? ”

Fei Hong could only smile bitterly when he heard this: "The minister is really scared." ”

"You have to adapt, and I have to adapt." Zhu Houxi said truthfully, "But one thing is undoubted. In my heart, you are the most important minister who leads hundreds of officials and helps me rule the world. You are only fifty-eight, and if you have made achievements in governing in three years, I will have the mind to re-appoint the secretary to stay. Sub-charge, don't have too much baggage. ”

Fei Hong looked at him blankly: Are you kidding? Listen to these words.

is still in office, and ruthless guys like Zhang Fujing and Yan Song have to stare at their heads.

"The minister will supervise all things with his heart to relieve His Majesty's worries."

Zhu Houxi nodded, and then cordially ate lunch with him for two.

And in the small room on the other side of the celebrant and supervisor's room, Song Hu and the others were hungry all the time.

Fei Hong learned many years later that the emperor worshipped him in the morning, invited him to dinner at noon, and went to meet the dung merchant in the afternoon.

Is it disrespectful to him as a prime minister?

No, he could only admit at that time that he did meet a very different emperor in his later years.

Song Hu and the others confirmed on this day that the emperor was very different from what he imagined.

After knowing that he and the others were summoned by the emperor just to make manure, Song Hu and the others were galloping.

"So, you just soak it and dry it and then send it for sale?"

“…… Be. ”

"Haven't you seen the differences between you because of who has the better fat?"

Song Hu had the courage to climb the relationship: "The villain is the best here, and His Majesty's Huangzhuang is the fat of the villain." The villain has never been like some people, mixing soil with fertilizer and shoddy. ”

There were two people who wanted to squirt and stopped: this was in front of the emperor.

"Do you have something to say?" Zhu Houxi noticed it.

"Enlightenment...... Your Majesty, the grass people are not mixed with soil, and the grass people's fertilizer is also the best. The things that the grass people mixed with have a history. Caomin consulted a Xiucai brother and said that "Qi Min Wants Technique" was also written. ”

Song Hu was also infected by the atmosphere that the emperor was really interested in fertilizer, and knew that his life was worry-free, so he worked hard: "If you want to mix it with powder dregs, bean shavings, river mud, pond mud, you mix snail ash, oyster ash, gypsum lime and pig bones and cow bones, what is the reason?" ”

"But we have Jin family fertilizer, and we all say it's good!"

Zhu Houxi's eyes lit up.

He didn't understand why he mixed these, but he knew that many bones contained phosphorus, so there was some ghost fire. And what screw shell gypsum lime, probably because of some inorganic elements in it?

"Your surname is Kim?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the grass people's name is Jin Ke."

Zhu Houxi was shocked: "...... Can you tell me more about why your Jin family fat is mixed with those things, and what is the point? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, since the grass people are doing this business, what things the people use to make fertilizer, the grass people naturally have to keep it in mind. From generation to generation, there are always 153 kinds of things that can be used as fertilizer in the grass people's homes. The grass people thought that since they were all piled up in the soil to have fertility, there was no harm in mixing them together, so they gave it a try. The grass people's father was in charge of thirteen dung roads in the capital back then, and when they were passed to the grass people, the grass people offended people and only saved five, which was also a way to come up with no way. ”

Zhu Houxi didn't care about the struggle in their dung world, but he was quite excited by what he said about the eleven categories and one hundred and fifty-three such fertilizer sources with accurate numbers, and asked again and again.

As a result, this Jin Ke actually became the protagonist, gushing about the eleven sources of manure, cake fertilizer, slag fertilizer, bone fertilizer, soil fertilizer, mud fertilizer, ash fertilizer, green manure, straw fertilizer, stone fertilizer, and miscellaneous fertilizer.

There is no doubt that he is a real expert in the world of fertilizer, a man who produces fertilizer, not a porter of the excrement of the residents of Greater Beijing.

"That's you!" Zhu Houxi was like a treasure, "I finally gained something today." You're very good, do a line of study. I'll get a good name for you. ”

Jin Ke was ecstatic.

The emperor gave the name, this is a major event to go back and worship the ancestors!

Song Hu and the others were envious.

"It's called Jin Kela! You have a relationship with the earth, and if you can contribute to this thing I have planned, you will be famous! ”

Zhu Houxi felt that he didn't seem to be embarrassed not to complete his name, although it may be his mother's surname Ke, now he seems to be the garbage of the surname Jin and the surname Ke.

But to make fertilizer, it is originally to turn waste into treasure.

Zhu Houxi forcibly said something from the name he chose.

Jin Kela was still very excited: "The grass people thank Your Majesty for the name, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ”

"Huang Jin, first let the Agricultural College arrange someone to go to Jinkela to have a look, and let some of the fields in Huangzhuang use old fertilizer and part of his fertilizer, and compare the growth and harvest."

"Slave and maid command."

Song Hu was dumbfounded.

Is there such a business grabber? Grab the world's biggest customer in front of yourself?

But Party A is the emperor, and Song Hu doesn't dare to fart.

"I've given you one more mission."

"Your Majesty, please give an order!"

What the emperor told him to do, what is it that is not the will? Kim didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Zhu Houxi said: "You only know that some people use those things to make fertilizer, but why those things can be made of fertilizer, you have to try to find out as much as possible." ”

The principle is that it is naturally impossible for Jin Ke Lai to find out what ingredients in those things are useful for crops.

But Zhu Houxi needed him to take this matter as a matter, and try to say some specious one, two, three, four because of the emperor's request first.

In short, from Jin Kela, Zhu Houxi has one more question that can ask many people at that time.

What is it in the soil that makes crops thrive? Why can things that grow in water grow strangely if they don't have roots in the soil?

Starting from these questions, break the sand pot and ask in the end, can some people really analyze the reliable one, two, three, four?

At the same time, if the fertility of Jin Kela's fertilizer is really good, then he is probably producing the original compound fertilizer.

Not to mention the ingredient content, if some things have low cost and large output, they may not be able to scale up and supply them first.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as there is a beginning.

When they left the palace, everyone was dizzy: half hungry, half because the experience was so bizarre.

"Jin Daozun, if it's developed, don't forget your little brother."

So Jin Kela was even more dizzy, and Song Hu was even more dizzy: Isn't Daozun a master?

(End of chapter)