Traveled through Daming, but was punished by the old Zhu Shizu

Mrs. Li scratched Wan'er's nose and said with a smile, "Okay~"

The eldest son of the head of the family, Liu Zhiji, stood with his hands behind his back, gasped as he watched the calculation, and immediately said seriously, "We can't figure this out alone. The second room, your family does the calculations here."

Several members of the Liu family responded in unison, copied down the part of the calculation that Liu Zhiji pointed at, and went to the corner to do the calculation.

"The third room, the fourth room, you count this part."

"Got it, big brother."

"Fifth Room, you do the calculations first, and wait until they get the results, and then you continue to count down."

"Yes!"

After Liu Zhiji's distribution, a formula of Nuo Da was quickly disassembled into several parts,

Dong Naihe said unconsciously, "Wow, the Liu family is quite powerful."

Dong Wen smiled: "The Liu family started their business by businessmen, but the Liu family thought that it would not be a problem if they did not enter the officialdom. They originally wanted to help him into the imperial court. Liu Zhiji would not die, which made the arithmetic The second best Liu Meng entered the court as an official."

"Moreover, it is rumored that in Shuntian Mansion, King Yan invited Liu Zhiji out of the mountain more than once to serve as his staff."

Dong Naihe asked strangely, "Then why doesn't he go?"

Dong Wen looked at Liu Zhiji who was devoting himself to the calculation and said, "He is a pure businessman."

The Liu family had already forgotten about the empty seal case, and they were completely involved in the arithmetic. After a whole night of calculation, they still could not solve the calculation formula left by Liu Xiu.

The next day, the Forbidden City

Before dawn, Zhu Yuanzhang had already woken up. Zhu Yuanzhang sat up from the bed, and the eunuch Huang Gouer's voice sounded at the door immediately,

"Your Majesty, are you awake?"

Zhu Yuanzhang hummed.

"Your Majesty, it's still early before the court meeting. Would you like to sleep for another hour?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "No need, people feel less when they are old, alas, it's not good to be old, come and help me change clothes."

"Yes."

The yellow dog pushed the door softly and entered.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked in the direction of the harem: "We want to see our wife later. How is the situation?"

Huang Gou'er replied: "Your Majesty, Empress Ma has been in a coma and seems to be in much better health, but I don't know when she will wake up."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyelids twitched twice, and he said with pain in his heart, "Oh, then let's not bother, add more people around, and tell us as soon as my wife wakes up."

Huang Gou'er combed Zhu Yuanzhang's hair very quickly, and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty."

In less than a quarter of an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang's yellow robe had already been changed. Zhu Yuanzhang sat back on the bed, waved his hands and said, "Go and call Mao Xiang."

Huang Gou'er exited the room, not long after, Mao Xiang, commander of Jin Yiwei, walked to the door softly.

"Your Majesty, you are looking for me."

"Come in."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Mao Xiang pushed the door lightly and entered.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Mao Xiang and asked, "How was that kid last night?"

Mao Xiang scratched his head and said, "Liu Xiu fell asleep when he returned home. He didn't even look at the food and clothes we prepared. He hasn't woken up yet. He must be too tired."

Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly, "Hahahaha, tired? He's so tired! He's forcing us into the palace!"

Mao Xiang was puzzled, what was the relationship between falling asleep and forcing the palace, did Lao Zhu think too much?

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mao Xiang with a smile that was not a smile: "Do you think we think too much?"

Mao Xiang hurriedly fell to his knees and said in panic, "This subordinate dare not."

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Hehe, if you don't eat your salary, don't use your property, and if we don't deal with the empty seal case, he will die. He is a man."

Mao Xiang was slightly annoyed when he heard the words: "Liu Xiu is so ignorant?! I will go and pull him up now!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped Mao Xiang and said, "Why are you in a hurry? Think about it, why did Liu Xiu do this?"

"Of course we want to overturn the Kongyin case!"

"Then why did he reverse the Kongyin case?"

Mao Xiang blurted out: "Of course it's for his family."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "This is what we admire most about him. Only a family can make a country, and you don't even love your own family members. Do you want him to be loyal to the emperor? It's a bit whimsical. The current group of officials, even their family members If you don’t love, can you still love us?”

Mao Xiang was stunned for a moment, and after following Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking, Liu Xiu's image immediately became taller. Everything he did was for his family!

For a moment, even the hard-hearted Mao Xiang couldn't help being moved.

There is no need for Zhu Yuanzhang to say anything to Mao Xiangduo,

Perhaps Jin Yiwei can scare all officials, but to Zhu Yuanzhang, it is just a domestic dog.

"Then after the Liu family settled down, what did they do last night?"

Putting Liu Meng back to join the Liu family was also a deliberate move by Lao Zhu. He just wanted to see if Liu Meng was a loyal minister.

Let's not say whether to stay or not, first we have to see if the Liu family is worth staying.

Mao Xiang replied with a strange expression: "They didn't say much."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, and said angrily, "They didn't say anything? Could it be that they slept all night?! Are they all such big-hearted people? Did they not say anything, or were you lazy last night?!"

Mao Xiang panicked for a while, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, you really didn't say anything, Liu Meng just explained the things in the palace, and then they did the math together."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little confused: "Arithmetic?"

Mao Xiang nodded again and again, "Yes, they worked together to calculate the formula that Liu Xiu came up with yesterday."

The catastrophe is imminent, instead of thinking about how to survive, you just do arithmetic all night? !

This is something Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of.

Zhu Yuanzhang heheed twice, and then laughed louder and more freely. After laughing for a long time, he covered his stomach and said, "This Liu family is really a lot of wonderful people! Get up. Hahaha, how many!" Tell me about it."

Mao Xiang's back was completely drenched in cold sweat. Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to stand up, he immediately wiped his sweat with relief.

Chapter 35 Sleeping Tiger Xu Da

The Commander of Jin Yiwei, Mao Xiang, quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead. Being with a king is like a tiger, not to mention working under Zhu Yuanzhang's command, so there is no room for mistakes.

Mao Xiang detailed what happened to the Liu family last night, from Liu Meng's question, to the dissatisfaction of the Liu family, and finally to the fact that everyone was dazed and staring at the answer, but they still couldn't solve the answer... Zhu Yuanzhang smiled all over his face. , Slap straight on the thigh.

Suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, as if thinking of something, he asked, "Huh? We remember that the Liu family in Shuntian Mansion is a big merchant."

Mao Xiang nodded: "That's right, the Liu family lived on the job of a traitor at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and in the past few years it has grown bigger and bigger, transporting rice from the north to the south, and silk from the south to the north, and the family property is very large. "

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly with disdain. He despises businessmen the most, so he actually does these things. When he was poor, when he wanted to buy a bag of rice, he was often bullied by profiteers, so he hated businessmen, and he hated profiteers even more.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t mean to take another stab at the Liu family when he asked this question. Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and said, “A family of businessmen deal with abacus all day long, and even they don’t even figure it out. Liu Xiu is a bit smart. It’s arithmetic again. , it’s medical skills, and it can restrain you in terms of strength, how many surprises does this kid have for us..."

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang said that Liu Xiu held him down, Mao Xiang blushed for a while, and was about to be stubborn, but then he thought about it, His Majesty loves Liu Xiu very much, so he had better not make trouble.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Liu Xiu is really talented."

Zhu Yuanzhang hummed, took the hot porridge that Huang Gouer handed to Mao Xiang, and Mao Xiang handed it over. The white porridge contained the leftovers from last night's meal, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care, and started to drink it in big gulps.

After three or two mouthfuls, a bowl of hot porridge was swallowed. Lao Zhu stroked his stomach and said with a smile, "Bring us five more big buns."

Mao Xiang was startled, and then happily said: "Yes!"

After a while, the excited footsteps of the yellow dog came, and a drawer of steaming steamed buns was brought in. Zhu Yuanzhang opened the steamer, exactly five.

Mao Xiang said happily: "Your Majesty, your appetite has recovered?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "It seems to be true. After our wife fell ill, we have been suffering from poor appetite. Haha, we were very hungry this morning."

After Zhu Yuanzhang ate the big steamed stuffed bun, he glanced at Mao Xiang and asked casually, "What happened to the people in the household department last night?"

Mao Xiang didn't understand what he meant, but still said respectfully, "Last night, Fu Ren, Minister of the Household Department, and Guo Heng, Minister of the Household Department, were no different from those in the past. They went to bed after eating."

Snapped!

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table violently, and Mao Xiang lay down on the ground again at a very fast speed, not daring to make a sound.

Old Zhu's eyes were full of murderous intent, and he said coldly, "Even the Liu family, who is about to die, knows whether Liu Xiu's words are right or not, but his mother, as an official of the household department, has seen such a big leak in the national finances. , They can't think of a way, but they can sleep! Hehe, our good officials!"

Mao Xiang was trembling, he didn't dare to speak, Lao Zhu not only aimed at the household department, but also aimed at Ying Guogong Fu Youde, he was a giant in the court!

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that his teeth itch, the Ministry of Households pushed Liu Meng to take the blame, and Lao Zhu also accepted it. It can be said that Lao Zhu made a compromise with the Ministry of Households secretly, and he was willing to sell his old brother some face,

But if we give you face, you can't help but treat us like a dish?

Do you really think that's the end of the empty printing case? !Killing Liu Meng is enough, I can't kill you? !

Ha ha.

If we want to check, how many of these officials from the household department can be clean? !

I am afraid that Liu Meng is the only one who is an upright official.

We want to kill corrupt officials, a group of corrupt officials launched the only clean official to make up for the crime, we can only kill this clean official, how ironic it is to think of it!

The more Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, the angrier he became, but he could only suppress his anger. After so many years of ups and downs, Lao Zhu was no longer a hot-tempered character.

Just like in the case of Hu Weiyong, Lao Zhu watched Hu Weiyong pretending to be aggressive in the dark, and waited for the right time to show his fangs and shoot Hu Weiyong to death.

Now Lao Zhu is still waiting for an opportunity to kill all these corrupt officials!

Thinking of this, Lao Zhu dissipated all his hostility, sat on the bed like an old Bodhisattva, got up and said calmly, "Let's go to court."

Mao Xiang nodded quickly, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Yinshi Meridian Gate

It was only three o'clock in the middle of the night, and the sky was still pitch black, but all the officials had already put on their court clothes and stood respectfully outside the Meridian Gate.

I have to say that it was really not easy to be an official during the Hongwu period. Not only was the salary low, but also the morning meetings were almost daily. There were not many officials as energetic as Lao Zhu, so Lao Zhu always disliked this group of officials.

This is still autumn, although the weather is a bit chilly, but wearing an extra layer of felt lining under the court clothes can still withstand the cold, but if it is early in winter, it will be too much to suffer.

Not only do you have to ride a horse-drawn carriage across half of the capital city where the roads are extremely slippery, but you also have to get off the carriage outside the Forbidden City, walk to the Meridian Gate, and then stand there waiting. a stove,

Moreover, all officials must be solemn and dignified. Anyone with disheveled clothes, coughing, and looking around will be recorded and presented to Zhu Yuanzhang, who will scold him in the morning.