Villager of Daming

Chapter 1281: No Public Privileges in the World

"Let's find someone to chat with. Is there anyone in Xiaqiu Village?"

Zhu Chong was talking to Gege Haji, Zhu Gang was talking to Xie Qiaoer, Zhu Di was talking to Xu Yihua, and the fifth brother Zhu Gang felt that there was someone missing by his side.

There were quite a few palace maids and eunuchs following him, but it was boring to chat with the palace maids, so he wanted to find a woman from Xiaqiu Village who was about his age.

In the end, no one responded to him. Everyone in Xiaqiu Village was busy. How could they have the time to send someone who was studying hard to chat with him?

The craftsmen were equally busy. Once they came back, they had no holidays and had to work on making parts again.

We are continuing to manufacture steam engine parts at present, and steam engines will not be replaced by diesel engines or gasoline engines for some time to come.

The reserves of diesel and gasoline are small, only more than 3,000 tons, and the oil is provided by Yanchang County and Shandong. Oil extraction in other places is too difficult and the corresponding technology is not available, so the nodding machine does not have it.

Diesel engines and gasoline engines also need to be built, and several of them need to be made. Once the rubber parts are complete, they will be assembled. One engine is as big as a thick booklet.

The booklet contains pictures and dimensional parameters, with one page representing one part. If Zhu Wentian didn't draw a picture of this thing, the craftsmen would never have been able to figure it out, even though some of the operating principles of the steam engine are similar to these two.

At lunch time, a group of princes came back. The amusement park had added a lot of new attractions. They played them one by one and it was noon.

Gegehaji was still not satisfied and said he wanted to go out and play in the afternoon. Xie Qiaoer and Xu Yihua expressed their support.

"Your Highness, is the food prepared by the Guanglu Temple delicious? Let's try it?"

Gege Haji knew that the place where food was cooked for the imperial palace was the Guanglu Temple. She had dinner in Xiaqiao Village yesterday and she was missing the food in the palace.

Zhu Chong shook his head and said: "The dishes in Guanglu Temple are not easy to eat. If you want to eat them, you need someone to test them for poison first. After the test, the taste of the dishes has changed.

It’s not that the food they cooked was not delicious. Xiaqiu Village gave them the recipe and provided them with special training.

In terms of knife skills, they are better than most people in Xiaqiu Village, and they are also good at stir-frying.

When you meet your brothers the day after tomorrow, the Guanglu Temple will provide them with food, and they won’t need to test for poison.”

Zhu Chong cleared the name of Guanglu Temple, saying that the food they cooked was good, but there were too many procedures to eat it.

If you make a bowl of cold noodles, if nothing happens after the poison test, the cold noodles will be soaked. It won't work to make roasted eggplant either. Also, dishes like soft fried pork tenderloin can't be cooked for too long.

"Sister-in-law eats every meal here now. She thinks it's too troublesome to eat at the Prince's Mansion, so she's coming here now!"

Zhu Gang then said that there was a small train coming ahead with a large group of people on it, from the Prince’s Palace.

Zhu Biao was also there, looking calm. You wouldn't have guessed that he had just been busy all morning, as he needed to work with his father, the emperor, to review papers.

In addition to the memorials, there were also telegrams received temporarily. If local officials were in a hurry, they would find the commissioned sergeants in the states and prefectures, and the sergeants would send the telegrams and then receive them.

The county officials had something to do, so they wrote a memorial while rushing to the provincial capital. By the time they arrived at the provincial capital and sent the memorial out, they had also completed the content of the telegram.

Fortunately, it is very easy to shorten sentences. We can just use classical Chinese. The purpose of classical Chinese is to use fewer words when writing or carving on bamboo slips. If there are too many words, it will be tiring to move the bamboo slips.

Zhu Xiongying naturally followed and greeted the uncles when he saw them. There was ink accidentally smeared on his little hands, and it was obvious that he had been practicing calligraphy before coming.

The Crown Princess did not eat with everyone else. She was accompanied by women from the village, mainly to breastfeed her baby.

When there are no outsiders around, the Crown Princess feeds the child herself. If there are outsiders around, she will take out the milk and put it in a bottle, heat it with boiling water, and then feed it to the little one when it reaches temperature.

"How was the fun?" Zhu Biao looked at Gege Haji, the girl his second brother liked. "To answer the Crown Prince's question, we don't have any. His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin has told us the purpose of each project. In addition to playing, there are other purposes for training.

We never thought that it is possible to let children learn while playing in that way. It is not possible for ordinary families.

There are some new educational toys that people's children can play with, but it's a pity that not all places have swimming pools and people to guard them."

Gegehaji did not say whether he had fun or not, but talked about education issues.

This amusement park itself was built to assist children in their studies. It was not just built for Zhu Xiongying alone, but in his name.

There is also a swimming pool inside, which is more than three meters deep and several dozen centimeters shallow. There are special palace maids guarding it, one-on-one or even several-on-one.

The key is that there are special postures for swimming, with pictures next to them, and the ground facilities are also complete, including freestyle, butterfly stroke, breaststroke, backstroke, dog paddle, treading water, left and right sideways, back stroke, etc.

It allows people to become familiar with the power-generating techniques and adds artificial waves. The purpose is not to compete, but to increase the possibility of survival in special circumstances.

Zhu Biao nodded, yes, he knew the point of the conversation, and motioned for everyone to enter the restaurant: "Nothing in the world is ever fair, we can only try to make some people feel fair.

Don't suffer from lack and inequality, and don't suffer from poverty and anxiety.

Just because people have enough food to eat doesn’t necessarily mean there won’t be rebellion; the key lies in the gap between the rich and the poor and the privileges of a few.

Privileges need to be maintained, and those without privileges must feel that they are justified, so that there can be long-term stability. "

"Ah?" Gege Haji was stunned. She didn't expect that the prince of the Ming Dynasty would say such a thing.

Xie Qiaoer and Xu Yihua were equally surprised. Is it so straightforward?
They each looked at their own half and saw that the other half had a calm face, and it was obvious that they had already understood.

"Look at that train. It's delivering food to the palace. Father, mother and the others won't come to eat today."

Lao Wu spoke at this time and pointed to a small train on which sat the women from Xiaqiu Village. They were going to deliver food to the palace, but no one else could.

Zhu Biao looked at his fifth brother and said with a smile: "The next train will enter the imperial city to deliver food to the officials. The other guards and the eunuchs and palace maids who are helping outside will eat the food from the Guanglu Temple. There is no need to test for poison."

"Your Highness, what dishes are available?" Gege Haji changed the subject as the previous topic was too heavy.

"There is a menu. Xiaqiu Village will give out menus according to the food. Everyone can choose what they want to eat. There are eight dishes and one soup. The dishes are four meat and four vegetarian. The soups are all vegetarian, unless you want to drink the soup alone.

The side dishes are not included. Eight side dishes are provided every day. If you don’t want to eat them, just refuse them.

You can order any staple food you want, a steamed bun with half a bowl of rice, and a small fried dough twist, anything is fine.

Xiaqiu Village usually has 30 dishes on the menu for the day. We can go in and help ourselves. If you don’t like any of them, you can tell us separately.”

Zhu Biao continued to explain that it has become a daily routine. Xiaqiu Village has flexible cooking methods. Guanglu Temple dare not change the recipes at will, and it is not possible to make some innovations.

As soon as everyone entered the restaurant, there was no one to serve the food, so they had to carry their own plates to get the food. Some people from Xiaqiu Village were also eating here.

Gegehaji looked at a wall curiously. There were photos and food on the wall with words underneath.

Zhu Chong pointed at the wall and said, "The dishes are the same as those on the wall. If you don't find what you want to eat at the pick-up area, just look for it on the wall and they will make it for you. Some dishes must be ordered at least half a day in advance, such as Buddha Jumps Over the Wall."

"Yeah!" Gegehaji nodded: "Privilege!"

(End of this chapter)