Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Sure enough, Emperor Hongzhi saw that the prince could memorize this paragraph of text backwards only after listening to Su Mu's explanation, and his face flushed with excitement: "This... this is really what you learned... you just memorized it all..."

The future Emperor Zhengde himself is a person who likes to show off. According to later generations, "If you don't show off, you will die as a star." Hearing his father's praise, he couldn't help but cock his tail: "Of course, this is also the first time I've heard Su Mu comment. "The Doctrine of the Mean", I didn't expect this book to imply brilliant boxing principles. In the past, my son had just finished reading "Great Learning", but when it was time for this book, Su Mu went to take the provincial examination, so he let it go."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Hongzhi was so excited that he couldn't breathe after saying hello several times.

He, the father, naturally knows best what his son is.To be honest, he was really disappointed with the prince.It's just that his old Zhu's family has only such a single seedling, and Hongzhi can't live for a long time. Sooner or later, this country will be handed over to him, so he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

But he didn't want to see his son's ability to never forget today, but it made him so excited that it was hard to contain it.

It is the basic skill of a scholar to look beyond his eyes, but if he wants to practice this skill, it must be based on a deep understanding of book knowledge.Otherwise, the strong back swallowing the jujube will not be able to remember for a moment.

Hongzhi's eyes turned red, it seems that the prince is still talented, and he can still be rescued.

The so-called diarrhoea's son himself is good, the more Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao, the more he liked him, and he only felt that his son was a first-class talent in the world. Of course, Su Mu was also very talented.

Birds of a feather flock together, and talented people are naturally surrounded by talented people.

Aiwujiwu, unconsciously, Hongzhi also likes Sumu very much.

Forced to suppress the excitement in his heart, Hong Zhi showed a gentle smile on his face, and said to Su Mu: "Su Mu, do you know that beating the prince is a felony?"

Su Mu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I didn't know the identity of the crown prince before, and those who don't know are not guilty."

"Hehe, minister? If you want to be my minister, you will have to wait until you become a Jinshi. Although you beat the crown prince, but because you don't know the identity of the crown prince, besides, being able to let the crown prince study is also a credit. So, you not only have no However, it worked.”

Su Mu let out a long breath, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Su Mu can't afford to be praised, panic, panic!" He hesitated in his heart, ordinarily, a commoner like himself should kneel when seeing the emperor.But why is there some reluctance in my heart, should I kneel or not?

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not have the rule of making people kneel at every turn. Emperor Hongzhi laughed again: "Didn't you say that you came from a poor family, and you didn't eat your last meal, and you wanted to ask me to find you a way to survive? Actually, It would be best for you to be the prince's bachelor's attendant, but you have to be selected from the Imperial Academy. Forget it, I won't give you a real job, and let you take a vacant job in the East Palace. You are not popular, and you study with the prince every day That's it. In this way, there is still a monthly salary of two taels, so that I can support my family."

"Two taels of salary, cheapskate?" Su Mu couldn't help slandering in his heart: "I also have the honor of raising people, and I can be an official according to the system, so you should give me a seventh rank. It's so good now, I can't bear to give an official position!"

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were notoriously low, and a magistrate of the seventh rank could only earn 40 taels of silver a year.

However, being able to study with the prince is a great opportunity.If the price is clearly marked, I am afraid that some people will pay 2 taels and not get it.

Su Mu was also very excited in his heart, and quickly thanked him.

The wind was strong by the lake, and Emperor Hongzhi felt a little cold after sitting for a long time.Now that he had seen the prince and knew that he was making progress, the emperor had a good heart, said a few words to the prince, and drove back to the palace.

Sitting in the warm sedan chair, thinking of the prince's performance today, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but smile.

Suddenly, he couldn't catch his breath, and he coughed violently again.

He hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, finally waited for the cough to stop, opened his hand to look, but the palm of his hand was bright red, full of blood. ,

Emperor Hongzhi felt a chill in his heart: "I don't have many days to live, the prince... also sees every day less and less!"

Suddenly, hot tears came out.

Suddenly he yelled, "Stop!"

"Long live Lord!"

Hongzhi: "Stop, I won't go back to the palace. The scenery here is very beautiful. I am weak, and I am here to deal with government affairs for a while, and I will not go to court. Pass down the order and order the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies to set up value houses in Xiyuan .”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

It is precisely because the prince sees each other less often that Hongzhi decided to live in Xiyuan and never leave.After working hard all his life, when he was about to die, he naturally wanted to be with his family.

Emperors are human too.

Looking back, since I took the throne, I have worked day and night on political affairs, but I have not spent many days with my family and children. Now is the time to make up for them.

When Emperor Hongzhi left, Su Mu was still in shock.He never expected that General Zhu who had been with him for two or three months would actually be the future Emperor Zhengde.

Thinking of how many times he had fooled this kid, and even punched and kicked him, a layer of cold sweat broke out in Su Mu's vest: Isn't this a big deal?

However, after thinking about it, this kid is a bit of a dick, maybe he doesn't care about it.

Although Zhu Houzhao was a well-known absurd king in history, his character was not bad, and he was very generous to his close officials.No matter how you look at it, he is a good boss.

Su Mu felt at ease, he didn't know how to talk to Zhu Houzhao.

The kid next to him surnamed Zhu suddenly cheered: "Father is gone, Zi Qiao, let's go back, tell me about your Fudo God Fist just now. By the way, let's kill two games of war chess first. "

As he said that, he pulled Su Mu's sleeve vigorously with his hand: "Since the father said to let you walk in Xiyuan, I don't have to go out of the palace every day, it's so troublesome."

Su Mu coughed, bowed, and said solemnly: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and then flew into a rage: "What kind of prince is not a prince, it's boring, boring!"

"There are differences between monarchs and ministers, and the etiquette system is like this." Seeing the prince's angry look, which was no different from his classmates in middle school, Su Mu suddenly became less nervous, laughed, and spit into the lake: " You are so disgusting, a dignified prince actually pretends to be an ordinary person to deceive people, do you have any reason?"

In modern society, the concept of equality has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Traveling to the Ming Dynasty for such a long time, even if he gradually integrated into this society, Su Mu didn't feel that he was a head shorter than others.In his view, the so-called emperor or prince is just a profession.The entire Ming Dynasty was nothing more than a big company. The emperor and the crown prince were the chairman of the board. If they got along well, they would work for him for a few years.

Besides, Zhu Houzhao is just a kid now, and Su Mu doesn't take him seriously. ,

After a brief shock, he quickly returned to normal.

Zhu Houzhao said aggrievedly: "What did you say about the general of the royal family and the country, why did you blame me? By the way, Zi Qiao, well, although you and I are now monarchs and ministers, we still call each other the same in private. Yes Now, will you live in Xiyuan from now on, this place is quite big, you can choose a yard at will.",

Su Mu nodded: "It looks like I'm going to live here in the future. Who told me that I have no money to help you here? Besides, this is what the emperor Jinkou said. Is it possible that I still dare to resist the order?"

"That's great!" Zhu Houzhao grew up in the palace, and when people saw him, they would either tremble with fear or dare not sweat, or they would flatter him in every possible way.It is the only one like Su Mu who can speak his mind and treat himself equally.Perhaps he didn't realize that he already regarded Su Mu as a true friend in his heart.

Su Mu: "However, Wu Juren's father and daughter and Xiaodie are going to be sent out. I'll go and settle them down first."