Chapter 63: The old man in the nursing home, Zhu Yuanzhang's shock
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Li Jin's words, his eyes widened immediately, and he said angrily:
"What nonsense are you talking about? Can these people still be relatives of the current emperor? ”
"Not relatives."
Li Jin's face was calm, he had long been accustomed to Zhu Yuanzhang's moodiness, and continued:
"It's just that they are all veterans who have fought with the emperor."
As he spoke, Li Jin invited a veteran behind him out, but the veteran's right arm was gone.
"This veteran, who was once under the current Shengshang, experienced the Battle of Fengzhou, the Battle of Hongdu, and later the Battle of Pingyang."
"In the end, he was left with a lifelong disability, and was placed back to his hometown by the imperial court, and a few acres of land were divided."
"This veteran participated in the Battle of Poyang Lake and fought to the death with Chen Youliang's men..."
Li Jin gradually introduced the old people behind him, all of whom were physically disabled and had nothing to support.
Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that his eyes were a little moist, looking at these veterans who had fought for the Ming Dynasty for half their lives, but in the end they ended up like this.
Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that his heart was churning.
After Li Jin finished introducing all these people, Zhu Yuanzhang bowed heavily to these people, and kept muttering:
"Hard, hard work."
"Thank you, thank you so much."
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was so excited, the old man at the head patted Zhu Yuanzhang on the shoulder with a calm face and said:
"Brother, you don't have to do this."
"We people are disabled and can't support ourselves, but we have good parents."
"Master Li built this nursing home for our elderly, which is to support us who are disabled for life, or whose family members have died."
"If you want to be grateful, you should thank Lord Li, if it weren't for Lord Li, we old bones would have died a long time ago."
"Yes, you don't have to thank us, you should thank Master Li."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words of these old men, he felt very uncomfortable.
These people are all for the sake of Daming, they have become like this, it is Daming who owes them, and it is he Zhu Yuanzhang who owes these veterans.
In the end, the imperial court did not give these veterans a pension, and he Zhu Yuanzhang was sorry for them.
But these were actually done by a small county order, which made Zhu Yuanzhang slightly change his opinion of Li Jin.
"I didn't expect you to be able to do some personnel."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was full of sarcasm, his attitude was much better than before.
Li Jin smiled slightly, did not answer his question, but said:
"Let's go, as you wish, I'll take you in and have a good look."
....
Li Jin took a few people, accompanied by veterans, into the compound of the nursing home.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Zhu Yuanzhang saw all kinds of old people, and old men and old ladies could be seen everywhere.
The old ladies gathered there to the strange music, dancing like they had never seen before.
But most of the old men were gathered under the trees, and it seemed as if they were playing chess.
Zhu Yuanzhang's curiosity was suddenly hooked, and he subconsciously moved forward.
Queen Ma did not go with Zhu Yuanzhang, but walked to the old lady's side.
Zhu Biao and Li Jin are together, together with Queen Ma, for Zhu Yuanzhang, a stubborn old man, Li Jin really doesn't want to deal with him!
Zhu Yuanzhang squeezed to the front and saw four old men, in four directions, southeast, northwest, and one sitting in one direction.
The old men held strange pieces of paper in their hands, and each looked nervously at each other.
"One-on-three !!"
These old men look very old, but when they play cards, they are called fierce.
It's obviously just a pair of three, but it makes him throw out the momentum of thousands of troops.
"One-on-two!!"
The battle was very fierce, but Zhu Yuanzhang was confused and didn't know what they were doing.
Just seeing the momentum on these people, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that these people were also veterans.
Finally, a game of cards ended, and everyone noticed Zhu Yuanzhang, a stranger.
"Who are you? Judging by what you're wearing, you shouldn't be short of money, so why did you come into the nursing home? ”
An old man asked in surprise when he saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was dressed extraordinarily.
"We heard that the nursing home here provides free care for the elderly and children, so we came here."
Zhu Yuanzhang lied without blinking, and when he saw someone asking, he began to talk nonsense.
The veteran touched his head with one arm and explained:
"Not everyone gets in."
"You have to need Lord Li's consent to come in, and if you want Lord Li to agree, it's not that simple!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes lit up, is there anything hidden here?
Okay, you Li Jin, you have to eat and get a card to run a nursing home? Is this still going to ask for bribes from others?
Before the veteran could say anything, Zhu Yuanzhang had already made up all kinds of scenes in which Li Jin made things difficult for others and reached out to others to ask for money.
"What are the requirements? Is it to give a gift? ”
"Don't talk nonsense, our Lord Li is the master of Qingtian, the best official in the world, how can he accept gifts from others?"
When the veteran heard Zhu Yuanzhang insulting Li Jin, he was immediately a little angry.
"Our lord said that if you want to enter the nursing home, you must first make meritorious service to the imperial court, or you are the only one left in the family and cannot be self-reliant."
"Only in this way can you be qualified to move in, those who want to eat and drink for nothing and take advantage of the government will be severely punished if they are discovered by Lord Li."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was a little stupid, that's all?
We're going to let Mao Xiang do it, so you can tell us this?
Looking at the nodding of agreement around him, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Li Jin was doing a good job here.
At least take all the things on the minds of these veterans.
For these disabled veterans, Zhu Yuanzhang wished that Li Jin would take in a few more to reduce the pressure on the imperial court.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was bored with himself, looked at the unkind eyes of several veterans, so he had to leave here and go to other places to have a look.
When he looked back, he found that his daughter-in-law and the queen were gone.
"Mao Xiang, what about them?"
"Dancing over there!"
"Dancing?"
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, what is there to dance with.
After walking a few steps, Zhu Yuanzhang rushed to the venue where Queen Ma danced.
In such a short period of time, Queen Ma has already danced in the crowd, which is really talented.
Zhu Biao pulled Li Jinzai and didn't know what he was talking about, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that no one paid attention to him, so he had to enter the crowd and pull Queen Ma out.
"How's it going, sir, do I dance well?"
As soon as Queen Ma came out, she asked Zhu Yuanzhang with anticipation:
"What does it look like? It's like a big jumper. Let's go! ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled and directly poured a basin of cold water on Queen Ma.
"That's because you don't know how to appreciate, people say, it's good for your body to dance this more!"
Queen Ma was unrelenting and wanted to dance for a while.
Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't appreciate it, so he had to say:
"It's important to get down to business, let's negotiate the business first."
Queen Ma looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with disgust, and at first she didn't know who said that Li Jin was a corrupt official and wanted to kill people.
However, Queen Ma didn't care, just turned around and walked towards Li Jin.