When night fell, when the lights were in hand, in front of the dimly lit Xia Mansion, a carriage came with a clatter, and when the carriage arrived in front of the mansion, it then stopped, Xia Yuan lifted the curtain and jumped out of the car.

The doorman in the house saw that a person went in indiscriminately, and just wanted to stop it, but he saw clearly who the person was by the light, and blurted out in surprise: "The master has returned to the house!" ”

"Go, hurry up and tell the cook to cook me a few more dishes, I want to eat!"

The Xia family has now become a big family, and the people in the house have already broken through the double-digit mark, and when they saw Xia Yuan, the master, come back, everyone had a smile on their faces.

However, the smiles of these people are basically professional, and when Xia Yuan was a social animal in his previous life, he was already quite familiar with the smirk of this profession.

After eating a meal with a blank face and drinking a few large sips of tea, Xia Yuan put down his chopsticks and leaned back on the chair with a sigh of satisfaction, it feels so good to eat a full meal, so happy.

Zhao Yuerong, who was sitting next to him, was still stunned, stunned for a while, picked up the teapot to help refill the tea, and asked, "Didn't the husband go to the Enrong banquet?" ”

"Enrong, what's the matter, the Inheritance Ceremony is gone."

Xia Yuan picked up the teacup and drank it all, it can't be compared with the old men who have been in the twilight of the West Mountain, the configuration is different, those people charge for five minutes, wait for two hours, and eat as much as you like for a day, and no one feels hungry after working so long today.

And it was when I was growing my body, I ate a lot, I was hungry fast, good fellow, I was hungry all day since I went out in the morning.

I was going to wait for the Enrong Banquet to eat more, but the rumor ceremony was gone, and the Enrong Banquet was returned.

"Gone?"

"No, something is wrong, it is said that it is going to be postponed, forget it, let's not talk about this first, you can add a bowl of rice to your husband, I think it's still a little close."

At this time, Zhu Youzhu was also eating, and unlike the poor and extravagant chieftains of the Manchu Dynasty, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not have the tradition of more than 100 dishes at a meal.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor from a poor background, was only four dishes and one soup at the beginning, and even almost set the ancestral family law for this, and later generations can only use four dishes and one soup for each meal, and there must be coarse grains.

But after all, it was still a little worse, because in the late Hongwu period, as the country became more and more stable, Lao Zhu himself also fell, and he also had more than ten or twenty dishes at a meal, but the family law of coarse grains was settled.

As for the other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Taizong Zhu Di was very frugal, with a maximum of seven or eight dishes per meal, but since Renxuan, the wind of extravagance has gradually opened.

A meal is often thirty or forty dishes, and now in the Zhu Youzhu period, he began to advocate thrift again, and picked up the ancestral family law that Taizu almost set back then.

He, the emperor, only had four dishes and one soup in one meal.

Zhu Youzhu used dinner silently, still thinking about the preferential treatment of the imperial examination.

Although the matter was settled, he couldn't help but have some concerns, worried that once this edict was implemented, those scholars in Liangguang, Yunnan, Guizhou and other regions would be angry and cause some kind of chaos.

After all, this example had never been practiced, which caused him to feel a little uncertain.

Seeing Xiao Jing coming in from outside the hall, Zhu Youzhu put down his chopsticks, "Can you send Xia Qing back?" ”

"Back to the emperor, I have sent it back."

“.”

Zhu Youzhu pondered for a while and asked, "Xiao Banban, once this example is implemented, do you think it will attract opposition from local scholars?" ”

Xiao Jing thought for a while, and said honestly: "There will definitely be opposition, and there will be some obstacles, but the slave and maid feel that this edict will definitely be implemented smoothly." ”

"How so?"

"Because the slave thinks it's a conspiracy."

After that, Xiao Jing raised his head to look at Emperor Hongzhi's face, and saw that his expression was calm, so he continued: "The emperor has lived in the palace for a long time, maybe he doesn't know very well, but the slave and maid still know a little. ”

"Among the scholars in this world, slaves and maids dare not say that eighty percent or ninety percent, but at least sixty percent and seventy percent of people are hopeless in this life."

"These people have read books all their lives, and they can only be children, and they can't even be children."

"If such an edict is issued by the imperial court, those scholars in the land of Liangguang and Yungui will quickly make trouble, and they will also divide into factions."

"One faction will desperately resist the edict against the imperial court." Zhu Youzhu answered leisurely, "The other faction is happily looking forward to the implementation of such things as soon as possible. ”

"Shengming is no more than the emperor, this is what the slave wants to say." Xiao Jing complimented, and continued: "The former is a person who can be admitted to the examination, or a person who thinks that he can be admitted to the examination, and the latter is naturally a person who has no hope of showing talent in this life." ”

"If the slave maid is one of these latter, the slave and maid will definitely think, anyway, we can't get into the show, and we can't enjoy such good things as tax exemption and free food, and it's not bad to be able to make a name for yourself."

"There are also those ordinary peasant families, ordinary people, they see that this show is so easy to test, maybe they will let their children and grandchildren study for two years, and go to the test to come back, so it can be regarded as a glory to the ancestors."

Zhu Youzhu was a little puzzled and said: "Only the fame of the students is regarded as the glory of the ancestors?" ”

"The slave maid didn't dare to deceive the emperor, but it was true, when the slave maid did not enter the palace, the son of a family in the village was born, and the banquet was set up in a beautiful manner.

"Then why didn't Xiao Banban become a scholar and go to the exam to show off his talents and glory to his ancestors, but instead entered the palace?"

mentioned this, Xiao Jing did not hide it, "At first, the slave maid really thought so, and later told my father and mother about it, they said that the slave and maid were not the material for reading, and the family had no money for the slave and maid to study."

The slave and maid let this thought down, and then the village caught up with another feast, this time a father-in-law who had come out of the palace, and who had left the palace in old age and had succeeded a son from his brother.

The banquet was more grand than the last banquet, it was chickens and ducks, and it was elbows, and it was set up for three days, and the slaves and maids cried while eating, thinking that it was better to be eunuchs, and we would also be eunuchs in the future.

The slave went back and told her father about it, and this time the slave's father agreed."

Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but wonder, "I didn't think that my companion Xiao had this past before entering the palace, but I didn't know anything about it." ”

After that, he paused, "But with your words, my heart is a lot lighter, and if such an edict occurs, even if there will be some chaos, it will not cause a major incident, and it will be implemented unimpeded." ”

“.”

"At such a young age, I can come up with such a good plan for the country, and I really don't know what to do with him."

"I want to point him as the champion, but now he has not been released, and the ranking can be changed, but the champion suit has been issued to Na Kanghai."

Speaking of which, Emperor Hongzhi was a little embarrassed, and his clothes were all gone, could it be that he had to be ripped off from others?

My Ming Dynasty also staged a Longmen poem to win the brocade robe?

ps: I can be a little free in the past two days, many relatives have finished, but some of them have not left, and it is expected to go to the seventh day of the new year.

Three watches today, three watches tomorrow.

After the seventh day of the first month, the fourth watch will be resumed.

(End of chapter)