Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 352 Pretend to be smart

  Mother Zhang's voice was very kind. When Shen Ao heard this, tears flowed down like beads.

   Sobbing and comforting Zhang's mother, Shen Ao went to look for pig food. When he was free, he took out the book to read!

  In Xishan Academy, some classic stereotyped essays were specially printed and distributed to the students for easy reading.

  Thus, the so-called learning in the academy is actually reading and writing stereotyped essays constantly. As for the other four books and five classics, they are no longer important.

   In Shen Ao's heart, stereotyped composition has become like feeding pigs and cultivating land.

  Everything is just practice makes perfect.

  After more than two months of tempering, Shen Ao felt that there was nothing in this world that could trouble him.

  Reading... is the same. Compared with cultivating land and feeding pigs, reading is more like a kind of leisure. He loves to read stereotypes, and learning makes him happy and relaxes him.

  The pigs in the two pigpens grow completely differently.

  The uncastrated pig is very lively, likes to wander around, and has a very hot temper. Sometimes at night, it will bump its body against the fence of the pigsty, chirping and roaring in the middle of the night.

  The pigs in the other pen are completely different.

  They, like Fang Jifan, are very lazy. They never stand up if they can lie on their stomachs, and they never move if they can’t walk.

  The pig that got rid of the vulgar taste was obviously very different, and this became even more obvious after two months. The piglets have obviously grown up, and the boars who haven't escaped the vulgar taste are becoming more and more naughty. The ordinary pigsty can no longer stop them. , these dozens of pigs, a swineherd can't stand it.

  The pigherds complained that the pigs were harder to raise than the sheep.

  The sheep are at least a little more docile. If there is a flock of sheep, there will be at least one head sheep. The shepherd only needs to keep an eye on the head sheep. The other sheep will be lost, but they will be found soon.

  But pigs are different, especially pigs that have not deviated from vulgar tastes. As soon as they come out of the slaughterhouse, they go their own way. Sometimes it is found that pigs have escaped, and it takes several miles to find them. They are not afraid of people. If you whip them with a pole, they will jump very fast.

Pigs that are out of vulgar tastes are completely different. They are very docile, even if no one is watching them, they can’t run far, looking for food slowly, even if you open the pigsty, they still lie peacefully. In the pen, they love the pigsty, they are always lazy, like thinkers, and they refuse to move except waiting for someone to bring them food and drink.

  Different pigs, the growth rate is almost visible to the naked eye.

   Pigs that have not broken away from vulgar tastes have a lot of exercise. No matter how much they eat, they will not grow meat.

  The pigs that got rid of the vulgar taste, ate and slept, and then began to gain weight.

   The estrus period of pigs has obviously not yet come, and the gap has already been created at this point, and once they enter the estrus period, the difference between them will be even greater.

  Fang Jifan felt much more at ease.

  The end of the year... is approaching.

  Fang Jifan wrote a letter to his father as soon as the New Year's day came, and he was looking forward to the letter from his father.

   But obviously, this will be another Spring Festival without his father by his side. Fortunately, there are still a few students, which gives Fang Jifan some comfort.

  Academy has recently started mock exams. After the exams, you can go home after school.

   There were three consecutive exams, and the first day was about riding and archery.

They practiced riding and archery for a long time. In the beginning, Shen Ao and others were not proficient. They were used to sitting in sedan chairs. I fell off my back a few times, and slowly, I became more and more proficient!

A large number of horses have been purchased from outside, and these horses have gradually become the means of transportation for many people in Xishan. After all, Xishan covers a large area. If you walk around the foot of the mountain from the south foot to the north foot, it will take one or two hours. much faster.

  The students raise horses themselves, so they also know a lot about the habits of horses.

   But when shooting arrows, many terrible things happened. When Fang Jifan saw them shooting arrows in the shooting range, he quickly hid away.

  Only Liu Jin ran back and forth in the shooting range tremblingly, recording the number of targets. Once, a raw shot missed, and the arrow with the force of the wind pierced straight into his feet. Liu Jin... was scared to pee.

  The second test is about policy theory, which is actually very casual. It is just a summary of the four months of living here. It is all about writing the method you think you have learned how to do things. There is no proposition, and you have to express it yourself.

  The third round was Stereotype, and Liu Wenshan came up with the questions himself.

  After the exams, they went home to celebrate the New Year and come back in the spring.

Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan are finally free. Every once in a while, a batch of memorials will be sent. These are all copied and transcribed memorials. Zhu Houzhao has no power to vote, and of course it is not his turn to criticize the red. He can do it , just look.

Sometimes he would call Fang Jifan. In fact, Zhu Houzhao didn't quite understand many of the memorials. will not say!"

  Fang Jifan got used to Zhu Houzhao and started to grumble when he was excited.

   After all, this guy hasn't escaped the vulgar taste yet.

Ok?

   It seems that I don’t have one either.

   Well, you can't despise him with such things.

  So Fang Jifan couldn't help it, and would look up at the docile Liu Jin beside him.

  Every time Liu Jin was watched by Fang Jifan, he felt a sense of dread, and that sense of fear was born in his heart!

   "Old Fang, come and see, what does this Yan Wei mean?"

  Fang Jifan approached, this is a report sent from North Korea, and the person who gave the report is the king of North Korea.

  Zhu Houzhao has no interest in general government affairs, but shows great interest in what happened in the north.

  North Korea, Liaodong, is across the river. It is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty and has always been obedient. This time, the letter is a little different.

  Fang Jifan took the memorial, and looking at it carefully, it was the memorial that the Korean king hoped to be bestowed by the Ming emperor. This generation of Korean king Li Long hoped that the emperor would confer his mother Yishi as the queen mother.

  Li Long's biological mother is not the queen of Joseon, but the abolished concubine Yishi. Now that he is enthroned as king, he naturally hopes that the heavenly kingdom can give him the status of his biological mother.

  Speaking of it, this is a very common memorial.

  Even Liu Jian’s proposal in the memorandum agrees with this, thinking that the king of North Korea is pure filial piety, and mothers are more expensive than children, so the court should issue a gold book.

  At this time, Zhu Houzhao said: "This North Korean king Li Long, now knows that his biological mother is a disused concubine. Lao Fang, do you think that this palace...was also born by a disused concubine, but was raised by the empress mother?"

   "..." Fang Jifan almost rolled his eyes at Zhu Houzhao!

  He had to admire Zhu Houzhao's brains, but he was too lazy to talk to him. The more this guy responded to him, the more he would delve into such irrelevant issues.

  But... the Joseon King Li Long...

  Fang Jifan narrowed his eyes, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he couldn't help saying: "The imperial court should not confer the title of Li Long's mother Yishi."

   "What?" Zhu Houzhao raised his eyes in astonishment, and looked at Fang Jifan in confusion.

Fang Jifan said indifferently: "Look, this memorial is very strange. Why Li Long's biological mother was deposed is not clear here. Now that he is enthroned as king, he suddenly wants his mother to be the queen mother." , then, isn’t there still a queen dowager in North Korea?”

"what do you mean…"

  Fang Jifan said: "You can see that in his memorials, many sentences and allusions are used wrongly. What does this mean?"

  Zhu Houzhao said mockingly: "Although North Korea is sinicized, they are after all..."

Fang Jifan shook his head and said: "Your Highness, this is wrong. As far as I know, their civil servants have learned Chinese characters and the Four Books and Five Classics since they were young. In my opinion, this should be a memorial played by the King of Korea privately, and he has not discussed it with the civil servants of the Korean country. There must have been some changes in his country. This is to suppress domestic dissatisfaction."

   "If the imperial court hastily promulgated the golden book, it may not only intensify the domestic situation, but may even involve our Ming Dynasty in unnecessary disputes."

  The reason why Fang Jifan persuaded him was because he had a foundation.

Li Long, the king of this generation, was known as Lord Yanshan in history. After learning that his biological mother was not the Queen Mother, but the abandoned concubine Yishi, his temperament began to change, and he did many violent things. Buddhism also hates Confucian scholars very much, so he first killed several of his brothers and nephews, and then brewed the famous Jiazi Disaster in history in the past two months, killing many ministers and officials, killing them All the students are also implicated.

  Finally, this Yanshan Lord Li Long provoked anger and resentment, and the ministers rebelled and deposed him. This is also the first king of the Li family to be deposed.

   That is to say, while Li Long is now writing the letter, he has already begun to sharpen his swords against his brothers and nephews in the country, as well as many officials, ministers, and scholars.

  The reason why he wrote the letter at this time, hoping to be canonized by the Ming court with tears in his eyes, is essentially to gain the recognition of Ming Dynasty while slaughtering clan brothers and scholars in the country.

  As soon as Daming had the gold book sent there, he could start killing in the name of the capital of the Heavenly Kingdom standing on his side.

  Actually, who Li Long wants to kill has nothing to do with Fang Jifan who is thousands of miles away!

  But your uncle, before you killed anyone, you planned to let Daming take the blame for you. Did you treat the Ming court as a fool?

  (end of this chapter)