Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1265 The age of the empress

"yes?"

  Queen Zhang was thoughtful.

  It turns out that there are so many ways here.

  But...Looking at Zhang Heling who was frowning and covering his cheeks.

Empress Zhang still couldn't help being a little annoyed, and couldn't help saying: "You can't think about doing something serious, you just idle around all day. I have thought about it recently. I want to do something, so I can't sit in this palace." Eat dry rice, you are all my brothers, you are my own people, this is why I invite you here, what do you want to do?"

  Zhang Heling's face turned green when he heard this.

   What he seemed to hear was how to spend the money.

   It takes money to do things.

   Wouldn't it be asking us to pay for it?

  He and Zhang Yanling looked at each other.

  Zhang Yanling was still foolishly happy, Zhang Yanling said: "It's a good thing, I think, you are the empress, what you want to do is not easy."

  Zhang Heling glared at Zhang Yanling angrily, he is really clueless, jumping whenever there is a pit.

  But Zhang Yanling was puzzled, he didn't understand why his elder brother glared at him angrily.

After hearing Zhang Yanling's words, Empress Zhang thought deeply, and said, "If you say so, why don't you open a cotton spinning workshop in this palace, and then send out the woven cloth to those who have no food or clothing?" family."

  Zhang Heling is about to cry, the prodigal is so straightforward, it will kill him.

So Zhang Heling hurriedly said: "Your Majesty can't, the way of economy has its own rules. If your Majesty makes cloth and gives it to others, is it reasonable? In the future, will anyone be willing to buy cloth? If no one buys cloth, who will produce it?" Bu? Your Majesty is going to force those merchants to their death. If you have money, you don’t spend it like this! The minister has a suggestion. Now that the capital is full of extravagance, the old minister is very disgusted. Let’s start by practicing thrift and teaching everyone how to recycle waste oil, how to make clothes from leftover materials, and how to cook a good pot of porridge with the least amount of rice.”

  Queen Zhang: "..."

   "This waste oil can also be used?"

   "Why not." Zhang Heling looked very researched, and vowed: "I usually eat this kind of oil when I'm at home, it's really delicious."

   As he spoke, he smacked his lips, as if eating porridge had been bland recently, and he began to miss the taste of oil and water.

  Empress Zhang waved her hand, and said in a disinterested manner: "What kind of thing is this, it won't work, it won't work..."

  She waved her hand, and said sharply: "None of you have a good idea, and all the successes are not enough to fail."

  Zhang Heling picked his nostrils: "Yes, yes, I will die."

  As long as you don't lose their money, it's better to be scolded a few times than to have less meat.

  Queen Zhang felt troubled.

  Thinking about it this way, what is the difference between myself and my brother?

   Isn’t it too much success to fail?

   These days, after being influenced by her ears and eyes, Queen Zhang felt that she was really useless.

  She turned her phoenix eyes and looked at Fang Xiaofan, but she saw Fang Xiaofan sitting at the side, holding a charcoal pencil, quickly solving a functional formula... Her pen is full of dense numbers, which makes people's scalp tingle.

  Empress Zhang blushed slightly. It seemed that she was not even as good as a child.

  At this moment, an **** came in to report: "Your Majesty, the crown prince and the Duke of Qi are here."

  As soon as they heard the names of the crown prince and Qi Guogong, the Zhang family brothers turned ugly... want to leave.

   A few times ago, I bumped into the crown prince and Qi Guogong and said hello. Qi Guogong talked about stocks when he saw him. This guy must be thinking about our Zhang family's money.

   Isn’t it just that we want us to take out our wealth and exchange it for a few small pieces of paper in the stock market.

  Fortunately, that guy had the nerve to say, come and play, it’s fun.

   Fun?

   Fun ass!

   This is a blatant conspiracy. The poor ghosts really hate it. They tried to move our Zhang family's money to their house.

  Bah, a bunch of shameless dogs.

  Stocks have risen, but Zhang Heling doesn't believe this!

   up? Maybe rely on this to rise, please enter the urn, when the time comes, a lore will cut the throat in an instant, and seal the throats of those fools who tricked into the arena, and then they will die without knowing how.

  He is not such a fool.

  Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan came in and saluted obediently.

  Empress Zhang smiled: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, come, sit down and talk, Xiaofan, I haven't said hello to your brother yet."

  Fang Xiaofan still didn't raise his head, just said: "Wait, I'll solve this problem first, my brother won't blame me."

  Fang Jifan: "..."

  Hahaha...It really is my own sister, Fang Jifan comforted himself, people in our Fang family have relatively low EQ and are not good at dealing with people, they are all hardworking.

   Sure enough, the girl has inherited my good habit of being a brother.

   Liang Ruying on the side hurriedly bowed to Fang Jifan: "I have seen... Master..."

  Zhu Houzhao said dissatisfied: "Why did I see Lao Fang but not Ben Gong? Your master's master's master was taught by Ben Gong!"

  Liang Ruying blushed pretty, and was about to salute.

  Zhu Houzhao sighed: "Forget it, if you salute after I have said it, the meaning will be bad, so let's avoid it."

  A **** moved to Jindun, and asked Fang Jifan and Zhu Houzhao to sit down.

  Fang Jifan looked at Queen Zhang and said, "Your Majesty... I don't know..."

Empress Zhang smiled and said: "I invite you to come here to make up your mind. I have only roughly read the books you sent, but after reading it, I am even more confused. You say... what should I do? "

  The empress is a little bewildered.

   But thinking about it carefully, Fang Jifan is understandable.

  Look at this picture of how the empress has subdued her majesty for so many years.

  What does this mean?

   It shows that Queen Zhang is an extraordinary woman in her heart.

  In this era where men are superior to women, and the monarch and minister are father and son, let alone the male protagonist is the emperor of Ming Dynasty, how many empresses in the world can make the emperor obey obediently?

   If you say that Emperor Hongzhi coveted Empress Zhang's beauty, but now Empress Zhang is not young, she is already old and decrepit, what is the reason?

  Therefore, a mother-in-law like Queen Zhang is naturally the one who refuses to admit defeat.

  It's fine if there is no precedent like Liang Ruying, and she would never have thought of this, but once someone sets a precedent, her mind will naturally become active.

  Fang Jifan looked hesitant: "This... this..."

  Seeing that Fang Jifan was in trouble, Empress Zhang looked at Zhu Houzhao, but found that Zhu Houzhao was not looking well, so she asked, "Huzhao, why are you so sad?"

  Zhu Houzhao said: "Mother, my son bid farewell to those female workers today. Thinking of this farewell, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to see each other in the future. I'm afraid that they will go to other workshops and be bullied..."

   Speaking of this, Zhu Houzhao became melancholy.

  Among the new learning, empathy is the most respected.

  In the past, Zhu Houzhao also liked to tease his daughter's family. He was a brat who didn't care about any consequences, but now he is good. The Zhengde Emperor in history even robbed women from good families.

  But after staying with these female workers for a long time, I realized that they are not only timid and delicate, but also have their own thoughts.

Zhu Houzhao coughed, and said again: "Many female workers there have very poor backgrounds. They are not valued by their parents when they urinate, and they are deliberately neglected. They do all the work at home. They were going to be beaten and starved, and their parents sent them to work when they heard that there was money to be earned outside..."

  Zhu Houzhao said: "I remember a female worker named Liu Ernv. She had many scars on her arms, all of which were caused by beatings."

  Hearing this, Empress Zhang couldn't help but sigh, and felt sympathy in her heart.

  Although she is the mother of a country now, she is not from a rich family. Her deceased parents treated her fairly well, but this is not the first time she has heard of such a thing.

  I saw Zhu Houzhao continued: "If someone bullies them in the new workshop in the future, I don't know what they will do. They are timid and are used to it..."

  After listening, Queen Zhang suddenly looked at Liang Ruying.

  Liang Ruying bowed her head, her pretty face flushed.

  Queen Zhang said: "Why are you blushing?"

  Liang Ruying said: "Your Majesty, my servant..."

Empress Zhang then said: "I have some clues. These female workers are very pitiful. In the future, if they have any grievances, let them come to find Bengong, and I will make decisions for them. These girls are all serious. People, how to do things peacefully, which one is better than others, Your Majesty, but he is very concerned about this matter of childbirth. If they are all wronged, how can I agree to it. "

  After Zhu Houzhao listened, his eyes lit up, his mood brightened, and he was about to say something.

  Fang Jifan said: "Your Majesty, I think this is very inappropriate."

   "Huh?" Empress Zhang looked at Fang Jifan: "Why, can you watch them being wronged and ignore them?"

Fang Jifan said: "Your Majesty, I think that your Majesty just wants to protect them by saying that she wants to protect them, but it is useless to think about it. Can your Majesty protect them for a while, or for a lifetime? In this world, people with poor backgrounds and situations are There are too many to enumerate, how many people did the empress protect?"

  Queen Zhang frowned.

  She originally wanted to say that being able to protect one is one.

But Fang Jifan said: "I believe that the most urgent task is not to rely on the strength of the empress alone, but to involve more people. The empress can encourage women to study and learn knowledge; the empress can also propose new laws to protect these poor people. The empress can even recruit some people and hang a sign in the capital to let those wronged women come to express their grievances. Only in this way can things be done, otherwise, if only relying on the empress's grace, it will be a drop in the bucket That's all."

  After hearing this, Queen Zhang's eyes brightened a little.

   Suddenly, she had an idea.

  So, looking at Fang Jifan: "Do you think this palace can do this?"

  (end of this chapter)