Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1283 Greeting the holy driver

  Any emperor, no one, would not want to go out of the palace and take a look at his own picturesque country.

  This is like a landlord who always hopes to inspect his own fields and see his crops.

  Going to Changping here is obviously the most legitimate reason.

  Emperor Hongzhi showed his tolerance and generosity.

   To his relief, even his son-in-law Fang Jifan showed an unbelievable pattern.

   Pattern is very important.

  Fang Jifan has it.

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "Since that's the case, pass the decree. Before Muxiu this year, I will patrol Changping, and all officials will go together."

  ...

  The capital shakes.

  When the decree came out, Shihlin felt like celebrating the New Year.

  Countless readers cheered for it.

  The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Imperial Academy are like a boiling pot.

  Spring is here, and everything is revived, as if it is the animals... no, it is the spring of Hanlin and Yushi.

  People are full of expectations for this trip to Changping.

   This undoubtedly means that Daming has come to a new crossroads again. With their lofty sense of mission, the Qingliu are pulling and dragging, hoping to pull His Majesty onto the correct path they want to take.

  Seven days later, the mighty army and horses surrounded by hundreds of officials and Emperor Hongzhi set off.

  Emperor Hongzhi sat in the car and left the new city. Then... what he saw were endless fields and countless villages along the way.

   It seems that...except for the capital, nothing has changed.

  Emperor Hongzhi frowned.

  He originally thought that gratifying changes would take place everywhere in the world.

  After all, the new policies have already begun, and the new policies in Baoding Prefecture and Tongzhou are very gratifying. Needless to say, the capital, whether it is the new city, the old city, or Xishan, has a new look.

  Ke Changping is in the north.

  Out of the boundary of the new city, even if it is only one step away from the capital, the changes that can be made are very limited.

  Emperor Hongzhi remained silent.

  Outside the car, the cold wind suddenly picked up, and snow flakes floated up.

  His Majesty was in a car, and many people had to walk.

  The snow flakes all over the sky, and the biting cold wind made many civil and military ministers who accompanied them frown.

  Sin, this is...

   Some of them coughed, some shrank their heads into their necks, some had numb legs and feet, and some helped them.

   It's been more than an hour since they walked out of the new city, and they began to miss the capital. Thinking of the warm heating, the warm feeling coming from the soles of their feet, all of a sudden everyone began to miss it.

   Occasionally, when the team rested, Emperor Hongzhi did not want to disturb the people, and had already issued an order that local officials were not allowed to come to pay homage, and all supplies should follow the rules of the army.

  Then... Emperor Hongzhi sat comfortably in the carriage, drinking the hot soup brought by Xiao Jing, and eating the cooked food brought by Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan pried open his can with a small knife, and called his disciples and grandchildren to come. Liu Wenshan, Jiang Chen, Shen Ao and others hid together, lit a bonfire, put the frozen meat in the tin box on the bonfire, and heated it up. , Shen Ao hooked down the food box with an iron hook, evened out the largest portion of the fragrant meat, and sent it to Fang Jifan.

   Then, the meat was divided equally and given to the uncle and brothers.

A group of people gathered around the bonfire, feasting, and Fang Jifan was full. Someone had already made tea for Fang Jifan and delivered it to Fang Jifan. Fang Jifan couldn't help feeling: "It's really disgusting. If you eat too much meat, you will get tired and unhealthy. "

   "Master, I'll dig some wild vegetables for you." A strange young Hanlin approached and volunteered.

  Fang Jifan smiled and said nothing for a long time: "Whose disciple are you? Master, don't interrupt when you are talking. There are no rules at all. Come on, open a few more cans. I want to eat beef in golden soup, spicy."

  ………

  On the other side, all the officials gathered together, eating dry food.

  The dry food in the army is almost imaginable.

   It's hard to swallow.

   Everyone huddled on the ground one by one, curled up, shivering with cold.

  Your Majesty said that you should not waste money and people, and immediately won countless praises from hundreds of officials.

   Yes, although it is a tour, but if it causes local people to chatter, it is not bad.

  It’s all right now. As soon as the imperial decree came out, the order was banned. Sure enough... there is no place to entertain along the way. Just in this snowy wilderness, there is no village in front, no shop in the back, miserable, too miserable.

   Then, they smelled a smell of meat.

  I couldn't help but saw Qi Guogong and his disciples and grandchildren eating meat, and at the same time heard Fang Jifan's popular science about the disadvantages of eating meat.

   Really fragrant.

   Chen Feng, the censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, stood up and called out to the guards in the distance: "Why do they have meat to eat, but we don't have meat? Isn't there any meat in the army?"

  This Duchayuan Youdu Yushi, from the second grade, is no small matter.

Hearing this, the officer didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, what the army brings is only dry food, and the canned meat they eat is usually only available to sailors who go to sea, or the Feiqiu battalion. , although we are the forbidden army, what we can use is the military rations formulated by the Ministry of War."

  Chen Feng: "..."

  He couldn't help scolding: "The Ministry of War is really...really..."

   Ma Wensheng was very cold.

Hiding in the corner, fortunately a young military officer added a coat to him. He felt that his eyebrows were frozen, and he sneezed again and again. Hearing that Chen Feng was about to scold the military department, he couldn't help saying: "It's no wonder the military department, At the beginning, when the Ministry of War wanted money, the Metropolitan Procuratorate often said that it was a waste of public money, and that the soldiers had already had enough to eat and drink, so how could they be so particular about it.”

  Chen Feng: "..."

  The cold wind is still howling.

   Someone said: "Ah, Wang Xueshi also has meat to eat, where did he get the meat?"

  Suddenly, these Hanlin and censors, who were usually very noble, stood up righteously. Sure enough, Wang Bushi was eating meat, and he was very happy.

  He was wearing sunglasses and a big gold chain, and he was holding a porcelain plate that had already been heated by someone. Not only that, there was an umbrella for him where he was sitting.

   On the ground, there was a thick blanket.

  Wang Bushi sat cross-legged on the blanket, not afraid of the wind and snow. On the porcelain plate in his hand were fragrant soup and pieces of hot braised beef.

"The old man bought it." Wang Bushi put the meat into his mouth, while pouting in Fang Jifan's direction: "It's not expensive, at this time and this place, the beef sent so hot is only five hundred taels of silver a piece." catty."

  Five hundred taels...

   It's better to grab it.

  Wang Bushi felt full after eating only a few pieces of meat, so he put the plate aside: "Deng Jian."

   Deng Jian, holding an umbrella, said: "What orders does the master have?"

   "This meat is not tasty, you can eat it."

  Deng Jian had thrown away his umbrella, and like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep, he picked up the five hundred taels of meat and stuffed it desperately into his mouth.

  …

   Pairs of pale green eyes looked at Deng Jian who was feasting.

  Someone growled, cursed, and didn't know what they were saying.

  ...

  Emperor Hongzhi was sitting in the carriage when he heard the commotion outside the carriage.

   At this time, he had eaten and drank enough, and pulled the bell in the car.

  Xiao Jing was outside the car, when he heard the bell ring, he immediately opened the door and got into the car: "Your Majesty."

   "Why is there so much noise outside?"

   "All the officials are dissatisfied because they have no meat to eat. I also heard that Duke Qi brought a lot of meat and sold it everywhere."

  Emperor Hongzhi sullenly said, "It's outrageous."

   paused.

  It seemed that Emperor Hongzhi was quite sympathetic to the situation of the officials, and said, "Go, buy the meat and distribute it to the officials."

  Xiao Jing had a look of embarrassment.

  Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "What's wrong?"

  "Qi Guogong said that his meat is not ordinary. It is Xishan snowflake beef. Those cows have grown up listening to the Four Books and Five Classics, and they have to keep them in a happy mood every day... All in all, one catty of meat costs five hundred taels!"

  Emperor Hongzhi was silent.

  He groaned: "I'm a little tired, and I have to hurry tomorrow, wait for me to go to bed."

   "Slaves obey orders."

  This carriage is spacious, the sofa is folded, it becomes a soft bed, Xiao Jing hooked himself up and packed it up.

  …

  At the foot of Dayang Mountain, there are contiguous thatched cottages.

  Mao Ji has been giving lectures for three years since he moved here.

  In three years, from obscurity to now, peaches and plums are everywhere.

  More and more scholars have built thatched cottages nearby and come here to study.

  It was not Mao Ji's wish to hang up the crown and leave.

  What Mao Ji thinks is still Confucianism's desire to join the world.

  But he knew very well that it was hard for him to do anything.

  Rather than having the audacity to be in Hanlin, it is better to…do something.

  In his hand, he was holding a famous edict.

  This edict, which is a bit scary, is a post from His Royal Highness to invite him to a banquet in the army.

  Several disciples sat cross-legged under their heads. Mao Ji sighed: "His Royal Highness was very smart when he was young, but the older he is, the more absurd he becomes."

He showed a look of pain: "After all, I was misunderstood by the villain. It is not the way of a gentleman to use profit to seduce people. The so-called new learning keeps saying that it inherits the way of the sage, destroying the old and establishing the new. But in fact, But it’s deviant and rebellious, let’s not talk about it, Fang Xin, you go and report to the crown prince, just say that the old man is inconvenient and cannot attend the appointment, please forgive me, His Highness the crown prince.”

   "Yes, sir. But... sir, the students have heard that His Royal Highness has a bad temper."

Mao Ji smiled: "If you don't dare not go because the prince has a bad temper, then what kind of character is there? I have no desires, but I just hope to speak on behalf of the sage and pass on what I have learned in my life. If the prince is angry because of this, What's the matter?"

  The students looked at Mao Ji excitedly.

Mao Ji said again: "What's more, His Majesty is coming, bringing all the officials with him. The magistrate of Changping County has already revised the book to ventilate himself. This time, it is because His Majesty also heard about the merits of the old man's teaching and enlightenment here, so he specially led all the officials. Come here and take a look at Changping."

  Speaking of which.

  Mao Ji couldn't help beaming with joy.

   There are more and more scholars who come to seek refuge, and the atmosphere of learning is getting stronger and stronger. The Changping County Magistrate has also repeated it several times. Speaking of the huge changes in Changping, this is all due to himself.

  It seems that...everything in the world can be solved through education.

  His Majesty came here, it seems... the wind in the middle of the court has changed.

   "Wait, prepare well, get ready to pick you up, the most important thing is to pick you up."

  (end of this chapter)