"Xiangrui?"

Lao Zhu, who was wearing a pair of purple and gold reading glasses, sat on the dragon chair, tilted his head and looked at the autumn harvest in the southern provincial capitals, suddenly raised his head and stared at the second tiger.

"Do you see, is He Xiangrui?"

"The minister is guilty, the minister heard that His Royal Highness King Yan had a song and auspicious offerings, so he ran impatiently to tell His Majesty that the minister was negligent!"

Erhu suddenly knelt on the ground with a panicked face.

Lao Zhu glanced at the second tiger who had been with him for decades, and knew why the second tiger was in such a hurry, so he waved his hand slowly.

"Okay, the fourth child doesn't dare to deceive us, since we sent a thousand households to send Xiangrui, it is Xiangrui, you go and bring that Zhu Liang in."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The second tiger answered, and hurriedly retreated.

Lao Zhu lowered his head again and began to review the notes on the table.

After a while, there was a dull sound of footsteps outside the hall.

Erhu walked in with a veteran.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Liang has brought a thousand households in the Yanwang Mansion!"

Zhu Liang saluted with excitement on his face, "The last general Yan Wangfu tried a thousand households Zhu Liang to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty Sheng'an." ”

"Get up."

With the leadership of the veterans of Lanyu Feng Sheng, now Lao Zhu has a good impression of Zhu Liang, a very polite general.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Liang hurriedly got up.

"We heard that King Yan has a chapter and auspicious offerings, what auspicious rui do you want to give us?"

Zhu Liang hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and presented it respectfully with both hands.

"Back to Your Majesty, this letter is a recital from His Royal Highness King Yan!"

Because he had been in Zhu Liang's arms for a long time, the outside of the envelope had been stained with a puddle of sweat at some point, and there was a faint sour smell.

However, Zhu Liang couldn't hear it.

Lao Zhu said: "Submit it!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

An attendant on the side hurriedly went down to take the letter, checked it carefully, and then handed it to Lao Zhu with some hesitation.

Lao Zhu frowned slightly, since he became the emperor, no one dared to hand them such a letter.

However, he had read a lot of those blood-stained letters before, and just remembered them, so he read them directly.

Below, Zhu Liang carefully untied the cloth pocket he was carrying behind his back under the puzzled gaze of the two tigers on the side.

Then, take out five ears of rice from it, and there will be no more......

Xiangrui is the ear of rice?

Erhu's eyes widened directly, his face was still a little frightened, how dare His Royal Highness King Yan? And how dare this Zhu Qianhu?

Above, Lao Zhu said loudly: "Come on, go and summon the prince quickly!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

An attendant replied and stepped back quickly.

"Erhu, bring us the ear of rice."

Hearing this, Erhu directly shook his head, hurriedly took the ear of rice handed to him by Zhu Liang, and walked up cautiously.

At the same time, Erhu's eyes were full of surprise.

After placing the ears of rice in his hands, he immediately felt the difference between the five ears of rice.

In the past few days, there are often officials from various provincial governments who offer ears of rice to the palace.

However, it was the first time he had seen such long and heavy ears of rice.

"Okay, okay......"

"I can grow such a good ear of rice, the fourth bastard thing, and finally did a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people......"

And when Lao Zhu took over the ears of rice, he looked at them one by one, and praised them while watching.

The second tiger's heart is stable.

Suddenly, Lao Zhu said again: "Erhu, quickly go and fetch the ears of rice offered by Jiujiang Mansion and Taiping Mansion to us!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Erhu hurriedly withdrew.

Soon, Erhu walked into the main hall with a few attendants, each carrying a basket of rice ears.

Lao Zhu was carefully looking at the piece written by Zhu Di.

A moment later.

Prince Zhu Biao was sweating profusely and walked in from outside the hall panting.

Zhu Biao glanced at it with some doubts, and Zhu Liang, who was standing on the side, saluted Lao Zhu.

"Erchen has seen his father!"

"Biao'er, hurry up and be exempt!"

Lao Zhu directly picked up the letter in his hand, as well as the five ears of rice, and walked down from it.

Zhu Biao looked at the letter in Lao Zhu's hand with some blankness, which seemed to still exude a slight sour smell.

"Father, what is this?"

"The letter sent by Zhu Liang, a thousand households sent by the old four, is related to the livelihood of all the people in the world, take a look!"

Lao Zhu handed the letter to Zhu Biao as if offering a treasure, and then gently placed the five ears of rice in his hand on the table on the side of the hall.

waved his hand again, and motioned to the second tiger to take all the rice ears offered by Taiping Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion.

Then, Lao Zhu picked out the largest one and placed it with the rice ears of Beiping Mansion.

The eyes of the second tiger and several attendants on the side directly widened.

The ears of rice sent by Beiping Mansion are two inches longer than those rice ears in Taiping Mansion and Jiujiang Prefecture, and the grains are much larger.

And on the other side.

Zhu Biao took the letter and took a look at it, then he looked solemn directly, found a chair and read it seriously.

The more I looked, the more surprised I was on my face.

After looking at it for a long time, he slowly put down the letter in his hand, and at the same time his face was full of excitement, he asked Lao Zhu in disbelief.

"Father, what the fourth brother said is true?"

It's not that Zhu Biao doesn't believe Zhu Di, but that he can artificially cultivate rice grain varieties and increase rice production by two percent, which is really incredible.

Zhu Biao even seriously recalled the thousands of books he had read since he was a child, and made sure that none of the sages had mentioned this method.

"Biao'er, come and see by yourself!"

Lao Zhu didn't answer, but just beckoned and motioned for Zhu Biao to come over.

Zhu Biao hurriedly walked over.

After seeing the piles of rice ears on the table in front of Lao Zhu, Zhu Biao's eyes shrank, and he stared at the top, the five rice ears that were obviously larger, and he was very excited and trembled.

The five ears of rice were placed together with several other piles of rice ears, as if he Zhu Biao was standing in the midst of the ministers, and it was extremely conspicuous.

"Father, these five ears of rice are the good rice that the fourth brother said?"

"Hmm!"

Lao Zhu nodded slowly, but his eyes still didn't leave a glance.

Zhu Biao also stared at it for a while, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly looked at Zhu Liang who was in the dust.

"You are Zhu Liang who sent ears of rice?"

"It's the last general!"

Zhu Liang hurriedly responded.

Zhu Biao asked with a solemn face: "You can see the 100 acres of good rice on the farm in Lao Sifu?" Is it really as big as the fourth child said? ”

Zhu Liang said: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the 100 acres of good rice on the farm are all so big!" ”

"Very good!"

Zhu Biao nodded slowly, "This time you have a meritorious service in escorting the rice ears, you should be rewarded!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Biao looked at Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu nodded slightly, "Zhu Liang is the general of the fourth mansion, and he can be promoted to the next level by the fourth brother, for a thousand households."

As for us, I will reward you with a hundred taels of silver! ”

Zhu Liang was overjoyed, "Thank you, Your Majesty, Thank you, His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Lao Zhu waved his hand, "Erhu, take Zhu Liang down to rest!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Erhu hurriedly answered, and then retreated with Zhu Liang.

In the main hall, Lao Zhu looked at the five ears of rice on the table again, and said slowly: "Biao'er, if the Yuan Dynasty can have a great sage to study this kind of good rice, then our father and mother, as well as the eldest brother, will not starve to death......

A trace of heaviness flashed in Zhu Biao's eyes, and he comforted slowly: "Dad, now that the fourth child has researched it, as long as this kind of good rice can be planted in my Daming, this kind of tragic situation will definitely not happen to me in Daming!" ”

"Humph!"

Hearing this, Lao Zhu's face changed again, and he said hatefully: "Biao'er, don't be deceived by those officials.

All the merchants and gentry in the world are treacherous and greedy, and every time there is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, and the people suffer from disasters and lack of food, it is the time when these merchants and gentry secretly hoard grain to make money.

Even if the grain yield per mu is now doubled, as long as there are treacherous and greedy gentry and merchants, there will definitely be people who will starve to death because they have no grain to buy! ”

Zhu Biao sighed slightly, "Dad, the world's businessmen and gentry are inexhaustible, and I also need those gentry to govern the country, and I need those businessmen to deliver goods to various state capitals, so as to drive the people of each state capital to become rich......"

Lao Zhu's face was murderous, "Biao'er, you have to remember that they are useful to my Daming, but you must kill them, otherwise these traitors will become more and more unscrupulous, and at that time, the people's lives will be even more miserable!"

Even, the Ming Dynasty will be corrupted by them......"

"Remember, child!"

Zhu Biao nodded heavily.

Then, he said: "Dad, the child wants to go to the fourth child and see those good rice with his own eyes!" ”

Lao Zhu nodded directly, "Okay!" ”

"In the past few years, the fourth child has made a big move in Beiping Mansion, and I heard that Beiping Mansion is very prosperous, so you will go to inspect it, and if there is anything wrong with the fourth child, you will reprimand it fiercely......"

"Yes, Dad!"

Zhu Biao's face was overjoyed, and he continued: "Dad, the child wants to set off tomorrow and rush to Beiping Mansion.

I want to arrive in Beiping Mansion before the fourth child harvests that piece of rice! ”

Lao Zhu pondered for a moment and said, "Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen happens to be in Beijing, and his younger brother Cao Peng is also in Beiping Mansion as a political envoy.

Let him follow Jiujiang and the two of them, with a team of Jingwei, with you!

In addition, we will send a secret decree to Zhou Xing, the commander of Beiping......

For the fourth elder Guo An, as well as those peasant sages who study good rice, you also have to reward them......"

"Thank you Dad, the boy understands."

Zhu Biao replied.

Lao Zhu instructed again for a while, and then asked Zhu Biao to prepare.

Subsequently, Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, and Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao Guo, were successively summoned into the palace by Lao Zhu.

Early the next morning, three large ships sailed out of Beijing and headed quickly towards Beiping Mansion.

At the same time, several fast riders also rushed out from Jingshi and headed towards Beiping Mansion.

……

Yanwang Mansion.

"Your Highness, where is the Son?"

Guo An walked into the hall and looked around.

Above, Zhu Di looked helpless, since Guo An became Zhu Gaochi's teacher, Guo An would come to Zhu Gaochi every day.

"Guo Qing, this is the time for Chi'er to follow the professor in Fuzhong to learn Confucian classics!"

Guo An bowed directly and asked: "Your Highness, as the prince of the Yan Palace, the prince of the world follows Master Luo to learn history books, and can learn from the successes and failures of the ancients and sages to govern the Yan Kingdom."

But to study Confucian classics with a professor in Fuchu?

Could it be that His Royal Highness wants to make the prince a talented Confucian, and he can sit with those great Confucian officials and quote scriptures and argue with each other to explain each other's concepts? ”

Zhu Di was surprised, "How can we let Chi'er become, the kind of Confucian who can only take advantage of his tongue?" ”

Guo An asked: "Then why did Your Highness let the prince study the Confucian classics for half a day?" ”

Zhu Di replied directly: "Chi'er is quiet by nature, likes to read, and delves into classics, although we are our father, it is not easy to stop it!" ”

(End of chapter)