Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1276 Please allow your Majesty

  A young girl actually joined the cabinet.

  Fang Jifan looked at his sister, it's nice to be young.

  When my brother is at this age, of course... he is still better than her.

As the elder brother, Fang Jifan will inevitably have to ask: "Xiaofan, after entering the cabinet, he must study hard from Liu Gong and others, and learn how they behave in the world. The biggest shortcoming of the Fang family is that they are too straightforward. This cabinet Here, they are all veterans, old, and you are still young, so it is time to instill some new ideas in them. Also, don't let go of your math homework. You should think about what you taught your brother last time. "

  Fang Xiaofan readily agreed, and suddenly said: "But...brother, what if I make a mistake?"

  Fang Jifan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you make a mistake, you are still a child after all, as long as you don't say it is for my brother to teach you."

  Fang Xiaofan thought for a while: "Then say it was taught by my sister-in-law."

  Fang Jifan: "..."

  No matter how you say it, her sister-in-law is a princess, so it doesn't matter if she blames her.

   But who is Fang Jifan? What he hates the most in his life is framing. To be a human being, you must have a bottom line, principles, and get rid of vulgar tastes.

  Fang Jifan said: "You can say that His Highness the Crown Prince taught you. His Highness the Crown Prince is my brother's best brother, so it doesn't matter."

  Fang Xiaofan nodded seriously: "Oh."

  Taking Fang Xiaofan home, Zhu Houzhao ran over excitedly, his eyebrows beaming: "Old Fang, Lao Fang."

   "What's the matter?"

  Zhu Hou took a look at Fang Xiaofan, Fang Xiaofan said: "I will do the questions."

  Zhu Houzhao said cheerfully: "I have invented another good thing. The thesis has been written and sent to the search journal. Come, you see."

  He took out a long strip of tampon from his sleeve.

  The smile on Fang Jifan's face gradually disappeared.

"Why don't you talk, are you good or not? When I was in the textile workshop, I already had the idea, what else can this cotton be used for? Cotton absorbs water. I slapped my forehead, oh, women come out to work , Every month, I have to ask for a menstrual leave, which is okay. It is not easy to arrange the production if it is delayed for so many days a month, but with this... it is different. I spent several months thinking about it carefully. It took a lot of time to make this, and with this..."

  Fang Jifan smiled and encouraged: "Your Highness is really awesome."

   "I think so too." Fang Jifan said cheerfully, "Who should use this thing first?"

  Fang Jifan laughed: "Your Highness, let's put this matter aside for now."

"doing what?"

  Fang Jifan scratched his head, thinking to himself, why is Xiao Zhu so shameless?

   "Why don't you let Liu Banban use it first?" Zhu Hou took care of Fang Jifan.

  Fang Jifan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "That's right, it's him, and this grandson will be **** tomorrow."

  Zhu Houzhao was satisfied now, sat down, sipped his tea, raised his head, and looked at Fang Jifan with a smile: "Didn't you want to talk about something serious?"

Fang Jifan said solemnly: "Your Highness, I heard that His Royal Highness King Xing has been selling his house recently, and the sale is very enjoyable. The mansion introduced by him in the entire capital is no less than 9,000 mu, which has become a year-round sale. The champion, His Royal Highness King Xing, can both make alchemy and sell a house, it can be said that he is both gentle and martial, very remarkable."

  Zhu Houzhao laughed: "He is my uncle, so he should have inherited some of my advantages."

"But..." Fang Jifan said with a smug face: "Such people are the most dangerous. Now the house price is rising, but the more he sells, the more worried I am. One day, if the market is not booming, he will bring people to make trouble. Nine times out of ten, it is also His Highness King Xing, His Highness knows me, I am the person who is most afraid of disputes with others, and has always been kind to neighbors, I am thinking, His Highness King Xing, this is a powder keg."

   "He dares." Zhu Houzhao said coldly, "He dares to come here to make trouble here, let me see if he has the guts."

  Fang Jifan was happy: "Your Highness is really domineering, as expected he is the descendant of Emperor Taizu Gao."

  Zhu Houzhao stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked a few steps: "Don't worry, your business is my business. But... I also have a problem."

   "Trouble?" Fang Jifan blinked and looked at Zhu Houzhao.

  Zhu Houzhao sighed, and said: "A few days ago, I was impeached again. It was said that I didn't do my job properly and didn't care about the sufferings of the people. But this one who scolded me... cough cough... I can't provoke him."

  Fang Jifan said coldly: "Your Highness said who this person is, and I will take someone to beat him to death."

  Zhu Houzhao took a few steps: "It's Master Mao."

  Fang Jifan immediately understood.

  This master Mao is Mao Ji, a former lecturer in the Eastern Palace.

  Mao Ji has taught Zhu Houzhao to read.

  Of course, the level of being able to teach Zhu Houzhao as a disciple can be imagined.

  After that, Zhu Houzhao stopped studying in the East Palace. It is said that this person was in the Hanlin Academy to compile and write the grand ceremony.

  He has a bad temper and often argues with others. Now that he has lost his status as an emperor teacher, naturally... it is conceivable that he has never been promoted.

  The reason why Zhu Houzhao is afraid of him is because he is extremely strict, and Zhu Houzhao has been fierce since he was a child.

  Nine out of ten, this left Zhu Houzhao with a lot of psychological shadow.

  But I have to say that Mao Ji is indeed a good person.

   After that, it is said that he simply quit being an official and went to give lectures.

  He and his disciples pooled money together, bought land at the foot of Dayang Mountain in Changping County, built contiguous thatched huts, and recruited many disciples, saying that they wanted to be unreasonable.

  Thinking about it, I don’t know if it is a school of thought.

  Since the new learning came out, the traditional Neo-Confucianism has gradually declined.

  After all, it is difficult for the old Neo-Confucianism to fight against the new one.

  However, many scholars are still unwilling. Therefore, many great Confucian scholars and masters have created many new ideas on the basis of Neo Confucianism to fight against new learning.

  Nowadays, there are all kinds of theories in the world, but most of them still do not break away from the scope of Neo Confucianism.

  Mao Ji has a special status and a great reputation. He also compiled the Ming Dynasty Code, and was a teacher of the prince.

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "I am too lazy to argue with him, but he is too much, and criticizes me everywhere. I studied with him for a few years, and he wanted to beat me a few times. Now Alright, let’s say, don’t let the scholar go astray, teach his knowledge everywhere, and say that I have fallen into the eyes of money, has I fallen into the eyes of money? So far, I have been so poor!”

  Fang Jifan smiled.

  In fact, in any era, there will be opponents.

   There are many people who are not used to Fang Jifan and Xinxue, especially in this era.

  Fang Jifan could cut them down one by one.

   As long as the other party does not really hinder the interests of this kind of thing, who cares?

  Fang Jifan said: "Your Highness calm down, isn't he just a rotten Confucian, what's there to be angry about?"

  Zhu Houzhao said: "You don't understand, don't I want fame?"

  Fang Jifan: "..."

   "This favor, you have to help me."

   "This is easy." Fang Jifan said: "His Royal Highness, since it is inconvenient to take care of the righteousness that Mao Ji taught the prince to study in the past, then let Your Highness say it. Is Your Highness going to kill people or punish them?"

  Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth.

  But...killing...he never thought about it.

Even the Emperor Zhengde in history had almost never heard of the killing of ministers. Most of the time, he was just being absurd and nonsense. When he was discovered, the ministers howled for a while, and he would be honest for a while, and live a few days. It's just sprouting again.

  Zhu Houzhao said: "Why are you so jealous?"

  Fang Jifan said: "This Mao Ji, what are you scolding Your Highness?"

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while: "I scolded the world for only looking at money, scolded Ben Gong for falling into the eyes of money, what did you say, the world shouldn't be like this, and said... Ben Gong followed you, learned badly, and behaved like this all day long. Concerned about the country and the people, there are quite a few scholars who join in the excitement. They all pass on his words and publicize them everywhere, thinking that this palace doesn't know. Even the emperor knows about this matter. less his fans..."

Fang Jifan folded his hands behind his back: "Then, it's a shame. Didn't he say that His Royal Highness doesn't care about people's livelihood? Come to think of it, in his heart, this new city is just for His Highness to collect money. With so many workshops, some people saw that there were many refugees. What he saw was still making money. There is no need to reason with such a person. The only way is to dig out his foundation thoroughly. His foundation is nothing more than those scholars who still miss the pastoral pleasure, and Those, ignorant people. This Changping County is not far from the capital, and there are many mountains, and the roads are rough and inconvenient. Well, there is a guard stationed in Changping, is it Changping Guard?"

  Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Yes, so what."

"This is easy. Recently, a lot of firecrackers have been made in the workshop. The power of the short cannons has been seen when fighting against the Rus, and the short cannons are only suitable for close combat. There are many others. How the long blunderbuss will function in the future is still uncertain. His Highness the Crown Prince used this excuse to practice a new firearm with the help of Changping Guards to try out how powerful this firearm is. At the same time, in the process of trying, the The improvement of the firecrackers, His Majesty must attach great importance to this, so that His Highness will not be allowed to go to Changping. When he arrives in Changping, His Highness is not the only one who has the final say. They say that His Highness does not care about the suffering of the people. Show them how His Highness cares about the sufferings of the people. The people in this world are the best to be bought. If you want to buy, you don't rely on preaching benevolence and morality, but by giving them real benefits. Then... and look at them The so-called common people in the mouth, after all, want benevolence, justice and morality, or eat enough and wear warm clothes."

  Zhu Houzhao was stunned: "It's okay, it's very good, I'll tell my father, you go too, haha, let's just go and have fun."

  (end of this chapter)