Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 79 Short-sighted
"..." Zhang Yifan was speechless for a while after hearing this, and then continued: "Lao Wu, you are following Fourth Brother, and you are mainly training troops now?"

"Well, yes!" Zhu Wu nodded after hearing this, "I guess His Highness will probably return to the Central Capital to lead troops soon after his wedding."

Zhang Yifan listened and nodded.The Emperor Yongle's ability to lead troops and fight in battles is certainly unparalleled, otherwise, it would be impossible to counterattack.Although he was only 16 years old at this time, we can see some traces of doing great things from the way he does things.Not to mention anything else, you can feel it just from dealing with him.

If that old classmate Zhu didn't marry his daughter to him, he would help Zhu Di harm him!
This classmate Lao Zhu is really short-sighted. Looking at his salary system, yes, and the cement, he was taught how to use it, but in the end he just sold it like salt and iron, and even rewarded the ministers!I have explained it so clearly, but I still don’t know how to use cement correctly?
As for the many systems he established in the early Ming Dynasty, many of them were due to his knowledge. Just considering the current situation, he thought it was such a great approach, haha!
However, it’s OK that he left this cement workshop for the village community. We can give him some pointers and let him know that there are many problems with his system design!Of course, the premise is that you can marry Jingjing.

While Zhang Yifan was eating and thinking about these things, he suddenly noticed that someone was peeping at the door, afraid to come in.

He knew that the people in the village were afraid of Zhu Wu and the others, and he happened to have almost eaten, so he walked over and found Liu Wu and a few people huddled at the door.

"Uncle Liu, what's the matter? Come in and talk!"

When Zhu Wu heard this from behind, his eyes jumped a few times, and then he pretended not to hear it.

Liu Wu still didn't dare to go in, so he said to Zhang Yifan at the door: "Today, a lot of outsiders came to the village. It's okay for those who obey the rules, but there are many who don't, making the village restless. What do you think we should do? good?"

Although he said this, his eyes were looking towards the room.The meaning is obvious. People from Prince Yan's Mansion are here. If someone makes trouble, I hope the guards from Prince Yan's Mansion can come forward.

Zhang Yifan definitely had no objection to this, so he nodded in agreement.

However, when he told Zhu Wuyi about this, a problem arose.

He heard Zhu Wu remind him: "You have offended too many people. If you can really be the consort in the future, it will be nothing. If you can't be the consort in the future, then there will be a lot of trouble. As for you in Liujia Village The people who are here to cause trouble may be some of the high-ranking civil and military officials from the DPRK and China!"

At this point, he thought for a moment and then added: "If it's just ordinary people making trouble in Liujia Village, it will definitely be useful for us to come forward. However, if it's the Korean prince, the prime minister of the current Dynasty, and other subordinates who come to make trouble, they must know something. If a situation like this can cause trouble, even if we come forward, we probably can't do anything about it. After all, we are not His Highness himself."

"..." Zhang Yifan was speechless after hearing this.He had never thought about this situation.

Sometimes, being famous is not a good thing!
After hearing this, the other guard also reminded: "Didn't His Highness send someone to say that the Korean man is petty, so you must be careful. Maybe one of his people will come to make trouble in the future!"

After Zhang Yifan heard this, he immediately started thinking.

There is no doubt that at this time, everyone is afraid of one person, and that is Emperor Hongwu!
or?The fox is pretending to be the tiger's power?
After thinking about it, I think it should be possible.So, Zhang Yifan convened a meeting with the key members of the village community.

At the same time, there was also a meeting in a certain house in the city.

To be precise, he was reporting something.

As for the man who was sitting in the main seat and listening, his face became increasingly ugly as he listened to the reports from his subordinates.

At the end, when he was the only one left in the room, he was angry and heard him mutter to himself in a hateful voice: "You're such a bastard, isn't it too rude of you to do this?"

Baishi is Li Shanchang's name. This person obviously has opinions on Li Shanchang.

This person was none other than Hu Weiyong, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. After all, ordinary people were not qualified to have an opinion against Li Shanchang.

The reason is also very simple. Li Shanchang wants to satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang and let Zhu Yuanzhang see his actions. Therefore, when the relationship with the Hu family cools down, he must do something obvious.

This was obvious, not only could Zhu Yuanzhang see it, but Hu Weiyong could also feel it. It would be strange if Hu Weiyong didn't mind this.After all, Hu Weiyong had been trying to win over Li Shanchang, the most influential figure in the founding of the Ming Dynasty, to join forces to counter the imperial power.

"Haha, don't think you won't be able to survive if I leave!" Hu Weiyong gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, "Just wait and see!"

Even though he thought so, he was still not very happy in his heart.

After a while, he suddenly called a servant in and ordered him: "Spread the news secretly..."

If Zhu Jingjing went crazy in the harem, only the ladies present would know.When it comes to matters related to the Li family, these married women will at most just tell their masters behind closed doors when they go back. People outside are basically unaware of the situation.

Now Hu Weiyong didn't mind adding more obstacles to Li Shanchang and asked his men to spread Zhu Jingjing's angry words.

As for Hu Weiyong himself, starting from the next day, he lowered his profile and no longer refused to meet those remote local officials who had no influence, in order to show his low profile as a prime minister and win over more officials as a virtuous prime minister.

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Here in Liujiacun, the city dwellers who came here because of its reputation began to hear stories about Emperor Hongwu from time to time.

For example, Emperor Hongwu visited such and such a house, walked such and such a road, praised such and such.

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang did bring civil and military officials here. He was not a party involved, so there was no way to verify the authenticity or exaggeration of what the villagers of Liujia Village said.In short, after people from other villages listened to it, they felt that Liujia Village was full of the glory of the current emperor, which made people feel awe of the emperor and envy and respect for Liujia Village.

No matter how well-connected a person is, if he wants to act wildly in Liujia Village, he must consider his life.

For example, if you kick a fence, a villager will jump out and say that the emperor touched it. How dare you kick it?
For another example, if you dare to hit someone, he has shown his face in front of the emperor and will sue you later!
All this is the idea of ​​using a tiger's skin as a banner and pretending to be a tiger's power.

As long as they are not really mentally ill, most people will behave themselves and not dare to come to Liujia Village to become an uncle!If things get serious, they might go to the imperial court and beat the drum!This kind of thing has happened once.

As for Zhang Yifan himself, he was still learning to read and write with Zheng Jingxue, and by the way, he listened to the news from Nanjing every day.Of course, he also inquired about Jing Jing's news, but most of them had no news.

On the fifth day, Daniel came back from the city and brought him a message, saying that there had been rumors in teahouses and restaurants in the city that the eldest princess called the Korean prince a toad and wanted to eat swan meat, so he could become his father. The person actually wanted to marry her!It is said that many people sympathize with the princess!
Zhang Yifan didn't know anything about the harem before. When he heard about it now, he asked Zhu Di and finally understood the situation. He couldn't help but admire Zhu Jingjing even more.This is a model heroine who pursues freedom of marriage and opposes feudal oppression!
He asked Zhu Jingjing how he was doing, and Zhu Di told him that Zhu Jingjing no longer likes to eat delicious food, and only paints when she has nothing to do. The paintings are all about the mountains and rivers of Zhang Yifan or Liujiacun.The father was very angry and forbade the news to spread outside the palace.

Finally, Zhu Di warned Zhang Yifan that he must do his best and not let Zhu Jingjing down.Otherwise, he would really castrate Zhang Yifan.

As for Zhang Yifan himself, of course he worked very hard.

He has already learned "The Thousand-Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Three-Character Classic", and "The Analects of Confucius". He knows most of the meanings himself. There are still some things he doesn't understand. Just ask Zheng Jingxue and he will know.

But then, he ran into a problem.

Once you know how to read, the next step is to write.As a result, Zhang Yifan had no foundation in calligraphy. He held the brush and wrote some words. If he was a beginner, he was definitely good.However, Zhang Yifan only had less than a month to compete with the world's talented people. With his writing skills, he would definitely lose half of his points if he saw it.

How to do?
Zheng Jingxue was still hopeful at the beginning, thinking that Zhang Yifan was a genius, so he asked him to hurry up and practice calligraphy. Maybe he could write like literacy and be able to write in a few days.

However, Zheng Jingxue was disappointed in the end.

Zhang Yifan's progress in calligraphy is very slow.Of course he didn't know that Zhang Yifan was good at literacy because he had a foundation in later generations. As for calligraphy, he never learned it well in later generations. How could he learn it well in one go?

So Zheng Jingxue forced Zhang Yifan to practice calligraphy every day, but his disappointment was already revealed in his report to King Yan.

Zhang Yifan himself was anxious about this, but he really had no talent in calligraphy.

"Your handwriting is ugly, it's too big!"

"Look, if this is the case, look at my writing!"

"..."

Zheng Jingxue had the urge to write for Zhang Yifan, which made Zhang Yifan a little ashamed.There is no way, Zheng Jingxue's calligraphy is very small but beautiful; however, his own handwriting is not small at all, even the thickness of each line is different.

"There is really no way, this brush is too soft!" Zhang Yifan looked at the brush in his hand and sighed in his heart, "This brush is too unfriendly to beginners!"

But there is no other way. Living in this era, one can only adapt to this era. At least Zhang Yifan cannot adapt to this era yet.

So, I could only practice calligraphy day and night.

He didn't know that his calligraphy manuscript had been sent to Prince Yan's Mansion, and even to the East Palace and Zhu Yuanzhang's desk. Even other people who paid attention to him had seen his authentic handwriting.

For example, in the South Korean government, Li Shanchang heard Ding Bin's report and suspected that Zhang Yifan was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. After a lot of effort, he also obtained Zhang Yifan's authentic work.No, Li Qi, the prince of South Korea, laughed in relief: "He alone dares to compete with me in talent?"

King Zhu Di of Yan, Crown Prince Zhu Biao and Princess Concubine shook their heads in disappointment when they met.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang looked contemptuous when he saw it.

Although his background was worse than Zhang Yifan's, and he was always on the battlefield, dealing with many things every day, he still found time to study. Not only did he write many times better than Zhang Yifan, but he could also recite poems and compose poems.

In short, as long as someone sees Zhang Yifan's writing, he has basically been rejected.

Only Zhang Yifan himself is still working hard to practice calligraphy.In the meantime, something big or small happened in the court.

Ye Boju, who had previously written a letter that caused Zhu Yuanzhang's rage, was escorted to the capital. However, when he was escorted to the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang happened to be in a good mood, so he was put in prison. Zhu Yuanzhang was not so angry that he shot him personally.

Zhang Yifan didn't know about this matter, and the present court was still far away from him.He was just concentrating on practicing calligraphy.

On this day, he was a little tired from writing. He shook his wrist to rest while looking at the books on his desk.

Of course, these books were left by Zheng Jingxue, because now they are just practicing calligraphy, so Zheng Jingxue will come here once every two days instead.

Suddenly, Zhang Yifan put down his brush, flipped through the book, and said to himself in surprise: "I told you, it turns out there is no "Disciple Rules"."

These days, he has been vaguely feeling that something is missing.Now he finally remembered that among the ancient enlightenment books, there is another very famous book called "Disciple Regulations", but among the books left to him by Zheng Jingxue, there is no such book.

"How about writing silently?" Zhang Yifan suddenly had an idea in his mind.

Practicing calligraphy is really boring and boring.And he felt that after these days of studying, his memory seemed to be improving.Later generations have read many books and can recall them.And this disciple rule, he had memorized it when he was a child.

With this thought in his mind, Zhang Yifan just went ahead and started practicing calligraphy boringly again.

After a while, he put down the brush and said happily: "Sure enough, I guessed right. If you use your brain diligently, your memory will be better! It should be right, basically I wrote it silently."

But soon, Zhang Yifan's face drooped again.This word is still ugly!
Of course, this ugliness is relative to Zheng Jingxue's handwriting.

In desperation, Zhang Yifan had no choice but to put aside these written words and continue to practice calligraphy.

But this time, after he had just written for a while, he suddenly put down the brush, patted his forehead with his hand and said, "I'm an idiot, a big idiot!"

Obviously there is a shortcut that can be taken, but you have been wasting time, what a fool!
With this thought in mind, he put down his brush and hurried downstairs.

Zhu Wu and another guard were lying downstairs bored. When they saw him coming down, they immediately became energetic and said, "What, are you going out?"

Zhang Yifan couldn't stay in the house every day, so when they went out, it was also time for them to have some fun.

"Well, I'm going to find something!" Zhang Yifan said excitedly.

In the end, Zhu Wu punched and defeated the guard, and went out with Zhang Yifan.

Not long after he left, Zheng Jingxue arrived at Liujiacun as usual. When he knew that Zhang Yifan had gone out, he didn't care and went upstairs to check Zhang Yifan's homework.

Looking at the written papers on the table, Zheng Jingxue couldn't help but shake his head.Although there is some progress, the word is still ugly!
He shook his head while tidying up, thinking about picking a few better-written ones and taking them back to King Yan to look at, which might make King Yan happy.

As a result, he was stunned when he turned over.

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