Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 761 Emperor's heart is unpredictable

  Emperor Hongzhi chewed Fang Jifan's words carefully, and found that it seemed meaningless.

  He looked at Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan said conveniently: "That's why Erchen's students just proposed the unity of knowledge and action, to find a solution down-to-earth, in this world, there will always be a way to solve the current problem. If you just don't pay attention to reality, then go up To the imperial court, down to a single person, I am afraid that I will only run into walls everywhere, and the method of the minister is very simple, find the problem, find the weakness, and solve the problem."

  Emperor Hongzhi sighed: "Focus on practicality...um..."

  He also seems to have seen the problem. Too many people have spoken on behalf of the sage, and they are full of sayings about the sage and the sage. How is this possible? Pay attention to reality.

  Emperor Hongzhi frowned and looked at Liu Jian: "What do you think Liu Qing?"

   Liu Jiandao: "The study of Xishan has its own benefits, but the world has been talking about it for hundreds of years. It is very difficult for veterans to reverse this trend."

  Emperor Hongzhi suddenly remembered something: "Jifan, aren't you and the crown prince teaching the Imperial Academy? How...?"

   Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan looked at each other.

   this... this...

   I've been a little lazy lately.

   I don’t know if these Hanlin were beaten to death.

  Zhu Houzhao laughed dryly and said, "Royal father, they are doing very well."

  Emperor Hongzhi knew that Zhu Houzhao had a guilty conscience.

Emperor Hongzhi said in his heart: "Today, I am so happy. The scourge of smallpox is easily caught. Although what Fang Qing's family said is simple, I know that the word "practice" is easy to say but hard to do. This is the original intention of ordering Hanlin to study at Xishan Academy."

  Emperor Hongzhi's eyes narrowed: "I'm studying history recently. Why does the rise and fall of the world take only three hundred years? The dynasty always prospers, and then suffers from many disadvantages, gradually weakening. Can the Ming Dynasty really last three hundred years?"

Emperor Hongzhi sighed as he knocked on the case, "I don't think so. You see, since I ascended the throne, there have been so many troubles and hidden dangers everywhere. A smallpox almost caused a catastrophe. It can be seen that, Daming is strong, but also extremely weak. There are no practical people, reforms are flawed, and you can't break your arms again and again to survive. I see, this world can't get out of the cycle of rise and fall. Following the western learning of Fan, over the years, The imperial court has provided many talents. Although these talents have not eradicated Daming's serious illness, they have also brought some vitality to Da Ming. I am thinking, maybe... this is the blindly symptomatic way to make Da Ming jump out of the world's rise and fall. medicine."

  Emperor Hongzhi's eyes lit up: "I want to try."

  Emperor Hongzhi changed.

   It became increasingly difficult for Liu Jian and others to recognize each other.

  Liu Jian thought to himself, I'm afraid it won't be easy if I want to try, but... it's worth looking forward to.

  Liu Jian is the old target of reform, but it has to be said that he has a heart of sincerity towards the court, and his affection for His Majesty, the monarch and his ministers, is enough for him not to stand on the opposite side of His Majesty.

"We have to try, the talents of the Ming Dynasty are taken from the Hanlin, and they will uphold the state affairs in the future. I am thinking in my heart, what have these young Hanlin learned in Xishan? I entrusted it to you, you two, you won’t be perfunctory.”

  Zhu Houzhao felt guilty, but his head shook like a rattle: "I have been teaching them with all my heart."

  Fang Jifan looked up at Fangliang and entered the sage mode.

  Emperor Hongzhi glanced at them: "Really?"

  Zhu Houzhao said frankly: "My minister will take the head as a guarantee."

  Fang Jifan still looked at Fang Liang...

  Emperor Hongzhi seemed to see through the prince's mind at a glance, and said in his heart, sure enough, if he still lies even now, and if he makes great achievements, his tail will be raised, and if he neglects to teach, he will neglect to teach.

  Zhu Houzhao was sweating profusely, not daring to look up.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said: "I am very happy today, my ancestors are virtuous... I have already said that I want the Imperial Academy to also learn this pragmatic way. This is an urgent matter at the moment. Today... I don't even think about it The agent's memorial is missing. Why don't you just go to Xishan, go to Xishan for a walk, and see, how are my Hanlins doing?"

   "Ah." Zhu Houzhao was excited: "Father..."

  Emperor Hongzhi pressed his hand and said with a smile: "The prince need not be so happy."

   "..." Zhu Houzhao was a little confused.

  Emperor Hongzhi stretched his waist: "Since the smallpox happened, I have been imprisoned in this warm pavilion. Now, it's time to go out to get some air. Jifan, you lead the way."

  Fang Jifan laughed dryly in his heart, hehe...I don’t even know what the **** is going on with those Hanlins. At the beginning, they were purely abusing them. Why would they even think about cultivating these unrepentant guys.

It should be noted that these Hanlin have been serving as eunuchs for many years. They have been officials for a long time, and they have already had their own set of values. They are different from ordinary scholars. To change them, in Fang Jifan's heart, it is more difficult than ascending to heaven. .

   It’s like, you can take a lollipop to deceive a pure child like Fang Jifan.

   But you take a lollipop and try to trick an uncle, you can't kill you son of a bitch.

  The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and the Emperor Hongzhi actually had great expectations for his Hanlin.

He stood up and looked at Fang Jifan with a smile: "Just now Fang Qing's family's brief words were shocking, and what they said was really good. To be honest, I now have the same expectations for the Hanlin Zhuqing. If everyone is like this, Why worry about the injustice of the world."

  Fang Jifan wished he could slap himself so that you could pretend to be aggressive.

  Fang Jifan laughed dryly: "Your Majesty is really wise."

   Some emotion.

  Emperor Hongzhi glanced sideways at Zhu Houzhao.

He was expecting, and he began to look forward to Zhu Houzhao in his heart. Recently, the prince is close to Zhu, and the red is close to the ink, and the black is black. Since he followed Fang Jifan, although he is still not stable, he can handle things more and more. It's solid.

  Hmmm...going to check it out.

   Just leave as soon as you say.

  Liu Jian and others also showed interest and wanted to go with them.

  In fact, they are sympathetic to the Imperial Academy. It is so pitiful. I have gone to Xishan, and I don’t know what it will be like. If I don’t go and have a look, I really don’t feel relieved.

  …

  Emperor Hongzhi changed into plain clothes and left the palace with a group of plain-clothed guards.

   This Beijing is still cold.

  The scare of smallpox has not completely passed, and people still have lingering fears about it. Although many people have been vaccinated, people are not confident about the curative effect.

  Looking at the cold street, Emperor Hongzhi sat in the sedan chair, lowered the curtain of the sedan chair, and was very worried. If it wasn’t for the cowpox, how many people would have died? Pity these people.

   But when we arrived at Xishan, it was another scene. The panic about smallpox was the first to be eliminated here, so order was quickly restored.

The people of the Tuntian Institute are still in the field. Zhang Xin led the people and found a kind of insect called lacewing. The lacewing is small but very interesting. Zhang Xin and the people in the Tuntian Institute noticed it. I realized that under the magnifying glass, this thing actually chooses larvae to eat.

For example, the eggs of various pests, a lacewing eats thousands of eggs in a short life, which is an extremely terrifying number. In this era, the biggest harm to crops is insect damage. , the fruit trees and grain fields are all destroyed, and the lacewing is almost a killer that teaches pests to kill off their offspring. This thing reproduces fast, and it is looking for pest eggs all day long, which can greatly suppress the risk of pests.

  Of course, Zhang Xin’s main research is the suppression of locusts by lacewings.

For this reason, he specially raised locusts in a greenhouse to allow them to multiply, and then cultivated lacewings in the greenhouse. The purpose was to study whether lacewings would hunt locusts on a large scale. Eggs are food, and once this is the case, then... the locust plague that once overwhelmed the sky can be contained in time.

  Zhang Xin also likes to carry a magnifying glass with him now, this thing is really precious.

  With it, no matter whether it is a doctor or a person like Zhang Xin who studies agriculture for a living, he can see things that were invisible to the naked eye.

  The higher the magnifying glass, the higher the demand in Xishan. Some people even wish to magnify their vision a hundred times, a thousand times, to explore the microscopic world.

  Even the new engineering college in Xishan has a great demand for magnifying glasses.

   To the naked eye, a mechanism is obviously seamless, but take a magnifying glass, ah, it is so uneven, the mechanism looks flawless to the naked eye. Some excellent craftsmen have found a method, that is, when punching and milling some special structures and extremely important iron tools, they punch and mill in front of a magnifying glass, because only things that cannot be seen with the naked eye can be found. When there is a problem, we will try our best to find a way to find a solution.

  The academies in Xishan are almost a waste of time. After experiencing smallpox, people still perform their duties.

   And Liu Wenshan's lecture in Minglun Hall also started as usual.

  Nowadays, scholars who study literature no longer just use the general Xishan Academy to call them, because here, it has been changed to the College of Liberal Arts, so as to distinguish engineering, medicine, and agricultural colleges set up by the Tuntian Institute.

  Naturally, in this Xishan, the scholars of the Faculty of Arts, because most of them have fame, are still the favored ones among the various colleges.

  People's ideas cannot be easily reversed.

  Hanlins of the Hanlin Academy study in the Academy of Arts. Liu Wenshan is also very young, so he is naturally included in the study, but he is different. In the Hanlin Academy, he is regarded as a subordinate official by many Hanlin Academy, but here, he is a teacher.

  Liu Wenshan is teaching as usual.

  In the Minglun Hall, there are many people kneeling and sitting.

  There is Hanlin, there are original students, and the Faculty of Literature of Nuoda University is crowded.

   Here at the back door, Liu Jin with a pockmarked face was kneading fried watermelon seeds, eating melon seeds one by one, leaning against the door, bored here, watching coldly.

  His smallpox, well, he survived it, but being studied here in Xishan Academy, so boring.

Nonsence! The skin of a watermelon seed spit out from his mouth.

  (end of this chapter)