Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Lao Zhu listened outside the door for a while, and saw that Dasun had settled the monks and Taoist priests, so he walked away slowly.

Just before leaving, he said something to Jin Yiwei who was guarding the gate.

"Talk to that Ni Sun when the inside is over, let him go back to the palace to have dinner with us at night!"

"promise!"

After Lao Zhu left, Zhu Yunxi did not keep these monks and Taoist priests for a meal, but sent them directly back to the post house of Honglu Temple, and let them continue to eat cabbage and tofu.

Jin Yiwei, who was guarding the gate, took advantage of this gap to rush in to deliver Lao Zhu's oral instructions. Zhu Yunxie asked for a few words, and after learning that the emperor's grandfather had come, he ordered someone to prepare a carriage, planning to go back to the palace to chat with the old man.

Before Zhu Yunxi left the palace, Qin Hengbo and Gao Ming walked over with a lot of worries.

"Your Highness, you don't think they will really cooperate with the court in collecting taxes?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head when he heard the words.

"how is this possible?"

"That's real gold and silver. How can you be happy if you don't kill a few?"

Seeing what Zhu Yunxi said, the two bowed immediately.

"His Highness Shengming!"

"However, this matter has to be remembered long ago, and you must not resort to weapons!"

"Actually, what His Highness said just now is very good. As long as you control the speed, you can make them submit obediently."

"This is the note that Weichen wrote to Master Qin just now, please read it slowly on the way, Your Highness."

Zhu Yunxi took the message casually and asked.

"Is there nothing else?"

"Gone!"

"Since there is nothing else, Gu will go to the palace to accompany Grandpa Huang for dinner."

"I will send you off to Your Highness!"

"and many more……"

"You are all fine, Gu just remembered something."

"Speak to Wutai Mountain in a while and ask them to escort the gold and silver to Beijing as soon as possible."

"At the same time, we mobilized people to go to other famous Buddhist and Taoist mountains to take the money back to Gu..."

After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, he slipped away, leaving only Lao Gao and Lao Qin staring at each other.

"What are you looking at?"

"Hurry up and go back to work, or you will have to work overtime again today!"

After saying this, Lao Gao angrily turned his head and left. Lao Qin stared at Zhu Yunxi's back depressedly for a while, and went back to work helplessly.

When Zhu Yunxi returned to the palace and passed the Taiping Gate, he was suddenly attracted by the scent outside the carriage.

"Smells so good, has this been changed to Spice Street?"

Xu Liuzi shook his head and said.

"No!"

"I heard that the emperor gave the Beijing officials a salary some time ago, and distributed a lot of things like pepper and cinnamon. Now the Beijing officials are busy selling goods."

"What?"

Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi hurriedly stopped the carriage, and then came to a stall to ask.

"Sir, how do you sell this pepper?"

"Emperor grandson?"

"Sun Xing, the head of the Yunnan Qingli Department of Weichen Household Department, pays homage to the grandson of the emperor!"

When Zhu Yunxi heard that the other party was still an official in charge, his mood became even more gloomy.

"Your family doesn't even have a servant?"

"If you go back to the grandson of the emperor, there is an old servant in Weichen's family, but he fell ill recently and can't come out to set up a stall. Therefore, Weichen took off his official uniform and came out to sell goods, planning to sell some money for some medicine money..."

"Ugh……"

Zhu Yunxi sighed secretly when he heard the words, and said softly to the official.

"Get up!"

"You haven't come here to set up a stall today, and Gu has never seen you."

Sun Xing group heard the words and kowtowed to express their gratitude.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your protection!"

Zhu Yunxi boarded the carriage again, looked at the long spice market again, and couldn't lift his mood anymore.

"Xu Liuzi, go and tell the chief economic officer of the supply and marketing cooperative to send someone to collect all these spices!"

"According to the market price plus [-]%!"

"Your Highness is truly benevolent and righteous..."

Sun Xing's group also became very depressed after being blocked by the emperor's grandson.

Because according to the rules of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, his behavior of setting up a stall is unofficial.If the imperial envoy finds out and writes to impeach him, at least he will be reprimanded by His Majesty, and at worst he will be dismissed from office and go home.

Therefore, after watching the carriage of the emperor's grandson leave, he packed up his things and planned to go home.

However, as soon as he finished cleaning up here, he saw a few Jinyi guards leading an official in a "shark suit" patch with grinning teeth.

"Don't set up stalls!"

As soon as the official in the shark suit opened his mouth, the people in the market were scared to death.

Among them were many officials in uniform, and they had seen all of them when the Empress Dowager got off the carriage just now.

Seeing the emperor's grandson rush over so quickly, everyone's heart tightened.

Could it be that the emperor's grandson was angry and sent someone to confiscate their spices first, and then seized them in the Jinyiwei prison?
"Who don't run away, I know you, you are the head of the Qingli Department in Yunnan, what is your name Sun..."

Hearing this, Sun Xing's group hurriedly stopped and came to the big shark with a mournful face.

"This colleague, for the sake of our fellow ministers, please forgive me..."

"I don't want the things anymore, I just ask you not to report my sale to the court..."

The shark suit officer laughed on the spot when he heard this.

"Hi!"

"Brother Sun, what are you thinking, I'm not here to arrest you!"

"The grandson of the emperor is kind-hearted. He didn't want to see the elder brother Sun sweeping the floor in a gentle manner. He ordered the officials to come and collect all the spices in this street!"

"what?"

When Sun Xingzu heard this, his mouth was so big that he almost caught up with the big shark on the opponent's chest.

"Brother, are you serious?"

"Of course it's true. How dare I pretend to pass on the emperor's grandson's oral order?"

"The emperor's grandson also specially asked me to buy it according to the market price plus [-]%!"

As soon as Sun Xing's group heard this, they knelt down with a plop and kowtowed in the direction of the palace.

"His Royal Highness... my humble minister... my humble minister... woo woo woo..."

The Sun Xing group had heard about the emperor's grandson Renyi for a long time, but since he entered the court as an official, he caught up with the emperor's grandson to encourage the emperor to implement a whipping law and officials and gentry to pay food together.

The ruling and opposition parties criticized this with hatred, and even he also had a lot of resentment towards the emperor's grandson.

However, the emperor's grandson just passed by by chance and found that he, a humble official, was setting up a stall to sell goods, so he ordered people to buy all the goods in the market to preserve his dignity. How could he not be grateful?

"Your Highness benevolent!"

"Wei Chen is ashamed to His Highness, woo woo woo..."

The other petty officials hiding in the market also secretly wiped their tears when they heard the conversation between the two.

It was the first time they felt the warmth from the royal family since they entered the court as officials.

When the general manager of the supply and marketing cooperative was busy buying spices, Lao Zhu had already ordered someone to cook a large table of dishes, and was eagerly waiting for his grandson to enter the palace.

When Lao Zhu was waiting impatiently, he suddenly heard a sound of the door curtain, and the happy Lao Zhu hurriedly stood up from his chair.

However, after standing up, Lao Zhu realized that something was wrong. How could he be a grandfather to welcome his grandson?
Then, he sat down again with an angry look on his face.

Not long after, the door curtain of the side hall rang, and a small head squeezed in from the outside.

"Grandfather?"

"Is the emperor not here?"

"Grandpa Huang is not here, so the grandson can go to Grandma Guo's side!"

Zhu Yunxi retracted his head after saying this, and stomped his feet outside on purpose, pretending to be walking away.

Sure enough, when Lao Zhu heard footsteps, he yelled "Aw".

"Rebellious grandson!"

"We are so big sitting here, how dare you pretend not to see it!"

When Zhu Yunxi, who was hiding outside the door, heard this, he laughed loudly, slammed open the curtain, and quickly ran behind Lao Zhu to hug him.

"Did you fall for it?"

"I knew Grandpa Huang missed me so much that he couldn't eat, hahaha..."

Lao Zhu rolled his eyes in anger when he heard this, this Ni Sun is getting more and more shameless!
What's even more hateful is that we can't touch him anymore!
If we go back ten years, we can beat him eight times a day!
Seeing that Lao Zhu didn't speak, Zhu Yunxi rubbed Lao Zhu's face vigorously, and pulled Lao Zhu's face out.

"Grandpa Huang, you seem to have lost weight. Look at this little face, which is so thin that your skin is drooping..."

Lao Zhu couldn't bear it any longer, so he beat Dasun a few times with his hand, seeing that Dasun didn't take it seriously at all, he wanted to stand up and kick him a few times.

However, just as he was about to stand up, he was pushed down by Ni Sun, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't get up.

"Ni Sun, quickly let us go and see if we can kick you!"

"Grandpa Huang calm down, grandson is playing with you!"

Old Zhu was so angry that he blew his beard.

"Are you kidding me like this? You're about to tear our old face off!"

Zhu Yunxi frustrated Lao Zhu for a while, then let go of Lao Zhu immediately, and ran to his seat in a bumpy manner.

Lao Zhu glanced at Ni Sun depressedly, regretting secretly in his heart, he was also a bitch, why call him back when he has nothing to do!
Instead of being able to make himself happy, he was so angry that he became very angry.

Lao Zhu was depressed for a while, and when he saw his grandson wolfing down food, all the depression in his heart was swept away.

"Eat slowly!"

"No one is robbing you!"

"Come here, if there are any dishes that haven't been served, serve them quickly!"

"Come here, try this fried pork with bamboo shoots..."

When Zhu Yunxi heard this dish, he immediately put down the bear's paw in his hand, and looked at Lao Zhu with an unhappy face.

"Grandpa Huang, do you still want me to come back to accompany you for dinner in the future? Are you sincerely angry with me?"

Old Zhu said with a sinister smile when he heard the words.

"This is a newly dug bamboo shoot, we just want you to try something new..."

Zhu Yunxi gave Lao Zhu a supercilious look, and didn't believe the old man's nonsense at all.

"Grandpa Huang, your grandson found all the bamboo shoots on the mountain, and you always snatched them all."

"What?"

Before Lao Zhu could react, he wondered if Ni Sun had said something wrong.

Shouldn't the bamboo shoots be dug?

Besides, who is he looking for to grab the bamboo shoots?
"Ni Sun, what do you mean by that?"

Zhu Yunxi put down his bear's paw upon hearing the words, and said to Lao Zhu solemnly.

"Grandfather, our Daming does not lack the salaries of officials now, right? Why do you always give them real things? Isn't this intentional to embarrass others?"

"Uh uh..."

When Lao Zhu heard this, his old face suddenly became embarrassed.

"We... aren't we used to it..."

"Furthermore, it is also a good thing for them to let them experience the hardships of the people and know that it is not easy for small people to be sold..."

What Zhu Yuanzhang said was reasonable, but Zhu Yunxi didn't believe it at all.

He knew this old man too well, he looked down on scholars and civil servants from the bottom of his heart, and he had to make things difficult for them.

"Grandfather, some things are almost done."

"Sun'er won't argue with you about official salaries. It's just that you don't want to embarrass people with real money in the future. This kind of thing is not good for our Ming Dynasty."

"Officials have power in their hands. If they can't receive a full salary from you, they will inevitably reach out to the bottom, and eventually it will be passed on to ordinary people sooner or later."

When Lao Zhu heard this, he immediately stared with two long eyes.

"They dare!"

"Whoever dares to reach out randomly, let's see if we don't cut off whose head!"

Seeing Lao Zhu saying this, Zhu Yunxi didn't persuade him anymore, but just lowered his head and competed with the bear's paw.

Seeing that Ni Sun didn't speak, Lao Zhu immediately became embarrassed.

"middle!"

"Let's not issue physical goods in the future, as long as the salary is issued, the full amount will be paid to the head office?"

"Grandfather Shengming!"

Zhu Yunxi flattered him perfunctorily, then wiped his hands, and picked up the chopsticks to deal with the fried pork with bamboo shoots that Lao Zhu had just pushed over.

Lao Zhu saw that his grandson started to eat stir-fried vegetables, and he would serve him rice and soup later, so that the eunuchs who were serving beside him had no work to do.

"Dasun, try this soup..."

It was the first time for Zhu Yunxi to see Lao Zhu being so attentive, and he immediately became vigilant.

"Grandfather, are you okay?"

Old Zhu smiled and waved his hands.

"fine!"

"Isn't it because you are growing your body, so I want you to eat more?"

"Oh……"

Zhu Yunxi quickly took a few mouthfuls of rice, then put down the bowl and chopsticks.

"The grandson has finished eating!"

"Since Grandpa Huang is fine, my grandson bids farewell!"

After Zhu Yunxi said this, he raised his ass and left, but before he could take a few steps, he was stopped by Lao Zhu.

"stop!"

"Did we say let you go?"

"No big or small, don't know the rules!"

"Grandfather, what's the matter with you?"

"If you don't tell me, will my grandson really leave?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, his expression changed, and then he put on a flattering smile.

"Dasun, we just want to discuss with you, this marriage..."

Zhu Yunxi nodded without waiting for Lao Zhu to finish speaking.

"I agree!"

"What?"

Old Zhu originally thought that he would have to spend some more time talking, and then they would break up after a bad fight.Unexpectedly, Zhu Yunxi agreed so happily that he almost broke his old waist.

"Dasun, do you really agree?"

"agree!"

"It's the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, what does the grandson disagree with?"

Old Zhu had an ecstatic expression on his face when he heard this, and he couldn't help clenching his hands and shaking them in front of him.

"great!"

"Let's order the Ministry of Etiquette to draft a wedding ceremony!"

"By the way, what are your thoughts on choosing the right concubine?"

"Of course it's all up to Grandpa Huang!"

Old Zhu was even more ecstatic when he heard the words, and the eyes he looked at the grandson became countless times more benevolent.

"it is good!"

"Our eldest grandson has really grown up!"

"Dasun, that's what we think. We want that girl from Mu Ying's family to be a concubine. What do you think?"

Zhu Yunxi was stunned when he heard this.

"Grandpa Huang, do you have a portrait of that girl, my grandson has no impression of her..."

Hearing this, Lao Zhu hurriedly ordered someone to bring the portraits. In order not to run twice, Qin Deshun ran over with a bunch of portraits, and asked the eunuchs to hold one each, and open them all in front of the emperor.

"Please take a look at the emperor and His Highness!"

Zhu Yunxi looked over one by one, his eyes fell on the chest of Zhao Pan'er's portrait and did not move.

"Ni Sun, which one are you looking at!"

"What we showed you is this..."

Zhu Yunxi looked in the direction that Old Zhu pointed, with a reluctance expression on his face.

"Grandfather, this one is too small, isn't it?"

Hearing this, Qin Deshun quickly gave a few little eunuchs a wink, and then the other little eunuchs took a step back, highlighting the portraits of Zhao Pan'er and Mu Xichun.

When Lao Zhu saw the two portraits, his old face suddenly became embarrassed.

"Big grandson, don't think you are young now, after two years you have a baby, then you will naturally grow up..."

"Grandfather, what are you talking about?"

Lao Zhu pointed to Zhao Pan'er's portrait and said vaguely.

"Of course it's what..."

Zhu Yunxi laughed loudly when he heard the words "quack".

"Grandpa Huang, where are you going? The grandson said that they are too young..."