The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 144 Zhu Yuanzhang visited Mr. Ye, His Majesty the Emperor was beaten!
"Sister, come and take a look at this rice, how well it grows!"

"Look at this ear of rice, it's really full of grains, and the number of grains is indeed much more than that of Champa rice."

"I traveled back and forth for two months, and stayed in Yingtian for another two months, exactly four months, and it's grown."

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In the eyes of Empress Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer cared about the black road under his feet. After all, he had also contributed to the road construction in Yanmen County.

He just squatted by the ditch, stroking the ears of rice very gently that were about to bend the rice stalks.

Seeing this scene, Queen Ma was also very happy.

Although she was not a farmer, she married the most noble farmer in the world, and she was naturally happy for the people's harvest.

Empress Ma covered the glare of the sun with her hands, came to Zhu Yuanzhang and knelt down, and said with a smile, "Looking at this, the yield per mu should be more than six hundred catties."

Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded in satisfaction and said: "It looks like this, but we still need to ask a few more farmers to see if they all produce more than [-] catties per mu."

"Actually, this is already excellent, and it can be regarded as Ye Qing's contribution to creation."

"But we have to do what we say. We should pick the bones in the egg, and we have to pick some bones for him, otherwise there will be no reason to settle the score."

According to common sense, Empress Ma would not be happy if Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would not get through without revenge.

But now she is very happy, because Zhu Yuanzhang said these words with a smile, which is enough to prove that what Zhu Yuanzhang wants now is to let Ye Qing live well.

But at this very moment,

Mao Xiang suddenly came to them and whispered, "Master, madam, the spies on the city wall are after us again."

"I think Master Ye will know that we are here again soon."

Zhu Yuanzhang just nodded and said, "That's right, there is progress. I'm not afraid of being watched, but I'm afraid of not knowing that I'm being watched."

"But it's okay, he can't treat us as reformed prisoners again and throw us into prison!"

"Come on, let's go into the city!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Yuanzhang and his party passed the toll booth in the gate again and entered Yanmen County smoothly.

This time they can be said to be very smooth, because they have fully used the rules here just like those merchants who came for the second time.

It must be very smooth to let people check the road guides in a proper manner, and to hand in the tolls honestly.

After entering the city, although they were no longer shocked by the urban buildings and sidewalks in Yanmen County, they were surprised by the summer clothes of the people.

Looking at the summer clothes of passers-by, I just feel too 'cool'!

In fact, ancient Chinese summer clothes have long been available, especially in the open-minded Tang Dynasty, which is so cool that it is no different from modern times.

Not only men can wear short sleeves, women can also wear short sleeves.

It's just that Yanmen County's summer clothes, under Ye Qing's concept of combining ancient and modern, men not only wear vests and short sleeves in the shape of Hanfu, but also mostly knee-length shorts.

As for the Han women here, it is natural that there will be no scenes of long legs in the streets of modern metropolises.

The deep-rooted conservative ideas cannot be changed by him in three years.

But compared to the women in Yingtianfu, there are still some changes. While retaining the shape of Hanfu made in the Ming Dynasty, it is still relatively cool.

Plain yarn unlined garments are everywhere here.

Of course, the people living here are not only Han Chinese, there are also many Mengyuan and Semu people from the Ming Dynasty, so they don't care, they can be as cool as they want.

Especially the woman coming from the direction of Gu Loulan, that is a walking waist!
"Where are you looking?"

"Look at your prospects!"

Zhu Yuanzhang scolded these young men who were staring at them intently.

But Mao Xiang immediately turned back and said: "Master, everyone is looking at us, as if they were looking at someone else."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang finally realized that their extremely tightly wrapped clothes have become an alternative here.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his autumn clothes and realized that he was already sweating profusely.

"Go, find a place to buy a glass of ice water."

Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that as early as when May left, there were people selling iced drinks here. After all, there was the best ice factory in the entire Ming Dynasty.

When Mao Xiang and the others heard that the master invited you to drink iced drinks, they immediately became interested and sent people to both sides to ask.

But after waiting for a while, they only waited for the two who came back like wilting eggplants.

After Mao Xiang inquired about the situation, he reported: "Master, there is no ice water for sale in Yanmen County."

Standing under the eaves, Zhu Yuanzhang was so hot that he had already opened his collar. It would be great to have a glass of iced juice at this time.

While wiping off his sweat, Zhu Yuanzhang complained: "This Ye Qing, what are you talking about being greedy for the people?"

"Didn't you reveal your secrets at the critical moment?"

"It must be that he made all the ice available to himself and the officials of the county government, as well as the Concubine Sai Club and the Yanmen Gambling House."

Empress Ma felt helpless when she saw Zhu Yuanzhang directly making judgments.

I don't know if Zhu Yuanzhang and Ye Qing had feuds in the previous life, His Majesty the Emperor, who was so shrewd in the palace, seemed to be a different person when he came here.

Especially everything related to Ye Qing, it is really jumping to conclusions!

But judging from the scene in front of her, Queen Ma also felt that this was the case.

The ice factory in Yanmen County uses saltpeter to make ice, which is not affected by the seasons. Summer is the peak profit season for the ice factory.

If it really only supplies government offices, entertainment venues, and wealthy families, then it really can't be justified.

Thinking of this, Empress Ma immediately went to find a passerby to inquire about the details.

But as soon as she left the team, Zhu Yuanzhang was surrounded by Yanmen people again before she had time to ask someone to question her.

Empress Ma looked at this familiar scene, and immediately thought of the scene after Zhu Yuanzhang smashed the spiritual cultural relic of Yanmen County with a drumstick, "Paper Wronged Drum".

It is said that history is always surprisingly similar, and Zhu Yuanzhang's experience in Yanmen County is worthy of this sentence.

"What are you?"

"Why do you speak ill of Mr. Ye?"

"That's right, have you asked the reason clearly? Just talk nonsense here!"

"Don't stop me, I'm going to teach him now what it means to bring disaster out of your mouth!"

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Zhu Yuanzhang leaned his back against the wall. If it wasn't for a dozen "heroes in coir raincoats" who surrounded him, he would really be educated.

Looking at this familiar scene, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't react for a while.

He only felt that there was something wrong with the feng shui of this place, which was seriously inconsistent with his horoscope. If it wasn't like this, how could he suffer such treatment as soon as he came here.

Outside the encirclement, Empress Ma just paid attention to everything inside the encirclement from the corner of her eye, as long as his family Zhongba was not really besieged.

What she has to do now is to quickly find someone to ask what's going on.

Finally, she fully understood the situation, and then smoothly resolved the misunderstanding with the people who surrounded her family Chonghachi.

Due to Empress Ma's own strong affinity, coupled with her polite and friendly attitude, and her impeccable eloquence, these people who heard him say bad things about Ye Qing soon let her family Chongba go.

It's just that before they left, they still didn't forget to tell their emperor viciously, be careful of misfortune coming out of their mouths.

A moment later, Zhu Yuanzhang and his party were on their way to the ice factory.

inside the carriage,

Under the explanation of Empress Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang also quickly understood the situation, and indeed he misunderstood Ye Qing.

Empress Ma continued: "Master Ye paid for it out of his own pocket, and ordered the ice factory to step up production to supply the arsenal and the mine."

"He even bought up all the ice cubes stored in the cellars of rich families, just to equip all the soldiers with new equipment before the war begins."

"Even he himself has no iced juice to drink!"

"Chongba, ask things clearly before speaking, this is Yanmen County, you must speak carefully!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also knew that he was wrong.

He didn't know what was wrong with him, as soon as he came to this place, he couldn't help but want to find Ye Qing's fault.

He just pursed his lips and said in disbelief: "We have only heard that people should be cautious when they are at the feet of the emperor, but I have never heard that the emperor should be cautious when he is in the county magistrate's territory."

Empress Ma was still not convinced when she saw Zhu Yuanzhang, and she had nothing to do with him.

Soon, they arrived at the gate of the ice factory.

Zhu Yuanzhang is actually a man of affection and righteousness, but his affection is definitely not for officials, only for ordinary people.

He still remembers now that he has a friend named Lao Liu, who is the captain of the transport vehicle in the arsenal.

In any case, he had also contributed to the Yanmen Arsenal, and he also wanted to do something for them.

In the name of 'Guo Rui', he wanted to buy as many ice cubes as possible and send them there!
Of course, he did this not only because of Lao Liu, but also because these child soldiers who were about to change their clothes to fight against foreign enemies were also his subjects of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Not long after Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma got out of the car, they saw a "quarrel" at the gate of the ice factory.

In the eyes of the two, a yamen servant was arguing with someone from the ice factory.

The master of the ice factory held a bucket of ice cubes and said, "Little brother, you can't come and pay, so just go back empty-handed!"

"Master Ye likes to drink iced juice the most, so you can send this bucket of ice to him!"

"Really, this barrel is not bad."

The yamen servant sternly refused, "Old Zhang, don't harm me."

"It's not a question of whether the bucket is short or not. Our Lord Ye is a man of one word. He said that all supplies are supplied to mines and arsenals, so he will never use ice in private."

"If I bring it back, I will lose a layer of skin if I don't die."

"If you can guarantee the supply of mines and arsenals, and at the same time supply the people in the market, Lord Ye will naturally use ice."

The ice maker shook his head, indicating that they couldn't do it.

The yamen servant continued: "That's right, you have to know that Lord Ye taught you how to make ice with saltpeter, can he not make ice himself?"

"If he really wants to use ice in private, he will make it himself, won't he?"

"But he didn't. Right now the saltpetre is tense, except for you, it is used by the arsenal to make gunpowder!"

"If you really feel sorry for Mr. Ye, then make more ice and send them to mines and arsenals!"

As soon as the words fell, the yamen servant who came to pay the money passed Zhu Yuanzhang empty-handed.

After a while,

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang look in the direction of the county government, with so-called "convinced" in his eyes.

"Walk,"

"Let's visit Lord Ye!"

at the same time,

The agent who was sent to inform Ye Qing also got off the horse at the gate of the county government office!
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