The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 279

Throughout February, the Ministry of Rites was busy with the upcoming enthronement ceremony and the funeral of the old emperor.

Many of the courtiers who had offended King Su fled with their families.

Isn't there a small imperial court in the south? If the capital can't stay here, why don't they go to Nanjing?

King Su was so angry that he wanted to use a knife to see some blood, but was stopped by Li Zhao.

"Father, please calm down. If we want to be justified, we must not touch a knife."

"Then let them run to the south and talk nonsense?"

In the court hall, there was a censor who scolded Su Wang for his wolfish ambitions, threatened his father and brother, and tried to usurp the throne.He also said that since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the establishment of a heir and a head, the old emperor ordered to welcome the eldest prince back to Beijing.

The more King Su thought about it, the more angry he became, and he spit and scolded: "They didn't say these things before, but now they can talk more vigorously! They also forgot all the stupid things that the boss did. How did the river embankment in the south of the Yangtze River collapse? Forgot all about it! Damn it, I took all their black hats off!"

Li Zhao helped his father to sit on the Arhat bed, waved for Eunuch Wang to serve tea, and said, "Then you can show them, and see who is more qualified to sit on that dragon chair."

Su Wang finally calmed down, snorted, but was still very angry.

Eunuch Wang came in with tea, Li Zhao blew it himself, passed it to his father, and said, "When my son and Yue'er were in the northwest, Yue'er told me something, and my son thought it was very interesting."

King Su paused the hand holding the porcelain cup, and asked, "What did she say?" King Su was quite interested in what Song Qingyue said.

"She said that sages are also mortals, and mortals may make mistakes. Furthermore, there are thousands of interpretations for a sentence, and those who explain are also mortals, and may make mistakes. You can't rigidly think that everything a sage says is correct. It is correct, and we cannot follow what the sages say. Facts speak louder than words, and the only criterion for testing truth should not be what the sages say, but practice.”

King Su's eyebrows were raised high, these words were too rebellious.

If the words of the sages are not necessarily correct, so are the words of the emperor?Having said that, the emperor will naturally make mistakes, just like his father, what kind of muddled decree is that!
Li Zhao smiled, and continued: "Yue'er said, like the difference between high and low like scholars, farmers, businessmen, and the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, it was correct in the old days when the level of agricultural productivity was low, but now agricultural technology is better than that of the pre-Qin and even the Han Dynasty The period was quite advanced, and the handicraft industry was also an important pillar of treasury revenue. As for commerce, he said that when we were in Lingnan, we were engaged in maritime trade, and Lord Song encouraged merchants to invest in Lingnan. I have experience."

King Su didn't say a word for a long time after hearing this, but he actually agreed with this statement, and even felt a sense of enlightenment and enlightenment.But this earth-shattering remark came from a delicate woman, he couldn't help muttering in his heart: Is it possible that that girl is really a star?

He glanced at Li Zhao, and said with a chuckle: "I don't know, I don't know when my monkey son who is hated by everyone was treated so submissively by my wife. If you don't want to listen, you are willing to listen to everything that girl said!"

Li Zhao ignored his father's ridicule, and continued to say in a serious manner: "It doesn't matter who said it, my son discusses the matter, as long as what Yue'er says makes sense, he is willing to listen. Didn't you often tell your son that Tang Taizong killed his brother and forced his father? But the history books speak highly of him. As long as the emperor is done well, people in the world may not be able to say something fair. Isn’t that the truth. Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. We can make the people of the Great Zhou Live well and make Great Zhou prosperous, who cares how the throne was obtained. Yue'er also said..."

Li Zhao paused, as if hesitating for a moment, not knowing whether to say it or not.

"Tsk! What did she say? Tell me!"

Seeing the urgency shown on his father's face, Li Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then heaved a sigh of relief, laughing secretly at his father's stubborn mouth, obviously agreeing in his heart!
Li Zhao smiled slightly, and continued unhurriedly: "Yue'er also said that the appointment of officials by the imperial court is for the capable, but it is related to the position of the country, but it is not for the capable, but rigidly. According to the heir apparent inheritance system, it is really absurd."

King Su laughed out loud, looked at Li Zhao, and asked, "You think so too?"

Li Zhao nodded and said, "It's not entirely true, but my son thinks it makes sense."

"So, you don't have any objection if you are not appointed as the prince in the future?" King Su raised one eyebrow.

Li Zhao smiled coquettishly and said confidently: "In our Su Palace, no one is more capable than our son."

King Su laughed out loud again, not to mention how proud he was of the eldest son he had personally raised.After laughing enough, he asked again: "By the way, what about the girl?"

Li Zhao replied, "My son has already sent someone to pick him up, and he should be on his way back to Beijing."

King Su nodded: "When she comes back, tell her to come over, and I want to talk to her again in person."

Li Zhao leaned over and squeezed his father's shoulders and neck flatteringly: "Then you can be more tolerant to her. If Yue'er says something that makes you uncomfortable, don't blame her."

King Su sipped his tea, snorted comfortably, shook his head and said, "Look at your worthless appearance!"

After some chatting, Su Wang saw that his mood improved a lot.

The next day, Li Zhao sent people to beat gongs and drums to announce to the world that King Su had become the heir apparent.

When the common people heard the news, they burst into smiles and spontaneously set off firecrackers in the city to celebrate His Royal Highness King Su officially becoming the crown prince!
Lord Yin Shi of Shuntian Mansion was still worrying about how to flatter the prince who is about to become the next emperor these days, and someone came to him!

The residents of Jianzi Hutong, as well as the people who received favors from His Royal Highness Su, the Crown Princess, and the Song family during the snow disaster, want to write a Wanmin Umbrella to His Royal Highness Su!
Hey!
This is a good thing!
Great thing!

Mr. Shi was overjoyed.

It is not uncommon for people to want to make Wanmin umbrellas for local parents and officials. It is not uncommon for officials to organize people to present Wanmin umbrellas to the emperor, but it is not common to write Wanmin umbrellas for a prince who is the prince!
What's more, the people took the initiative!

For the first time in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty!
It might be the first time in history!

Of course, Mr. Shi doesn't know whether there is someone guiding him behind this, and he doesn't want to find out.

At least when His Royal Highness sent someone to announce to the world that the third prince, King Su, was appointed as the heir apparent, many people in the Gyeonggi area took the initiative to set off firecrackers, but it was indeed the common people's initiative.

He immediately asked his servants to order the fine red silk and satin at the cloth shop, and even rolled up his sleeves to write the Wanmin Umbrella himself!Although Mr. Shi came from a poor background, he is a top-ranked Jinshi with a serious sense of integrity, and he has also studied calligraphy a little bit. He will certainly do his part to be in the limelight!
Suddenly, a young man in a fine cotton robe came out from the crowd, he looked like a scholar.

He did not kneel down, but bowed to Shifu Yin, and said: "Master Futai is polite! Xiaosheng is Niu Hesheng who teaches in the school built by the concubine and concubine. I have met you!"

Mr. Shi thought that this guy wanted to compete with him for the job of writing the Wanmin Umbrella because of his good relationship with the concubine, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, because Niu Hesheng still greeted him with a smile because of his close relationship with the concubine and the five sons of the Song family: " It turned out to be Mr. Niu!"

Niu Hesheng quickly bowed and bowed again: "Don't dare to be a gentleman in front of the masters of Futai!"

Shi Fu Yin said with a smile: "Why not, Mr. Niu is valued by His Royal Highness, and his future is bound to be limitless in the future! Come, show Mr. Niu some tea!"

Shi Fuyin was born in a poor family, and he was able to get into his current position, one is that he has some talent, and the other is because he is good at making money. Of course, it is also because he has no background that he was thrown into the Shuntian Mansion by the officials. Yin came up in such a position that no one wanted to sit.

Not because of anything else, just because this position is so difficult!

In the capital city, the rich and powerful walk around everywhere, and there are as many dudes as the hair of a cow without worrying about it.There are so many conflicts and discords between the masters, ladies and ladies of each family that it makes one's scalp tingle.They are all family members of important ministers in the court, and no one can afford to offend them.

The hair on Mr. Shi's head is half gray, but in fact he is only 45 years old, so it's not easy to be the governor of Shuntian Prefecture!

The yamen servant from Shuntian Mansion brought tea, and Niu Hesheng gently touched the chair with his buttocks, not daring to ostentatiously sit on it. He took a symbolic sip of the tea, praised the good tea, and said a few words of thanks before saying: "My lord , Xiaosheng thought that this silk cloth does not need to go to the cloth shop to buy high-quality materials. The people in our alley have prepared a piece of red silk, and everyone has written their names, please look at it!"

Niu Hesheng took out a piece of red silk that looked old from his sleeve, and the yamen servant took it over to Mr. Shi. Mr. Shi unfolded the fabric, and he was disgusted by the crooked and messy words on the fabric that lacked arms and legs. to the eyes.

But after thinking about it, he quickly realized and asked in surprise: "The names on this silk cloth are all written by the people themselves?"

Niu Hesheng smiled and nodded: "Take our Jianzi Hutong as an example. Every household has at least one literate person. In the nearby alleys, there are quite a few people who have attended classes in our Shushu."

"This... this is a great thing!" Master Shi's eyes lit up, and he happily asked the yamen servant to bring Niu Hesheng some snacks.

The school in the south of the city was built by the concubine of Su Wang's mansion, which means it was built by Su Wang.Now that so many people know how to write, isn't it more convincing than anything else for them to write their own names on the Wanmin Umbrella?

Although the silk and satin are old, they were bought by the common people themselves. Isn't it better than anything else?
Of course, the people who write their own names will not prevent Mr. Shi from being in the limelight.

Seven days later, Shi Fuyin personally carried a huge red umbrella to the court.He opened the big red umbrella in front of all the ministers. It was made of several kinds of fabrics of different materials, and it was even signed with all kinds of crooked and different handwriting.Most of them were written by students in Chengnan Academy.

Of course, Mr. Shi himself also symbolically helped a few people who could not write to write their names.

Su Wang was so happy when he saw the umbrella, he took the umbrella and looked at the crooked words on it carefully, said three good words in a row, and laughed loudly.

Mr. Shi immediately mentioned that there were many people inside and outside the capital who set off firecrackers to celebrate the fact that His Royal Highness King Su was canonized as the crown prince. King Su was so happy that he almost danced in court. , I went to show off to the emperor's father!

Hearing that King Su was so proud, the old man of the emperor was naturally furious, and kept his face stinky, listening to Shifu Yin's eloquent description of how much the people loved the new crown prince.

But what else can the old emperor do now?

Now he has only one breath left, barely hanging on with ginseng and the acupuncture techniques of imperial physicians every day.

In the next few days, King Su officially began to supervise the country and handle government affairs as the prince.

He was not in a hurry to sit in the dragon chair every time during the court meeting, and just sat casually on the steps in front of the dragon case to discuss matters with the courtiers.

In addition, the censors of the Inspectorate were ordered to rest at home first, and there was no need to rush to the court. If there was anything to be impeached, they were asked to write a document and send it to Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment for verification, and the final document was handed over to the cabinet for processing.

No time was wasted at court meetings for courtiers to attack each other, just focus on solving things.Of course, the most important thing was that he didn't want to hear some sour old men scolding him for being disrespectful and unfilial in front of his face, so he simply refused to let them go to court and it was over.

He even brought over the big blackboard she usually used for class in Song Qingyue's yard, and asked Wang Luen to use the chalk made by Song Qingyue to write down the things that needed to be discussed face-to-face on the blackboard one by one, solve one, and draw a check mark. Tick ​​one to solve one, and circle to be determined if it cannot be solved.

He heard that Song Qingyue did this when she was handling the internal affairs of the palace in Wufangzhai.

This is really efficient!
As for those undecided issues, after the court is over, he will call his small team to discuss again.

At this time, the northern Tartars gathered cavalry troops from several grassland tribes to suppress the border, and wanted to take advantage of the instability of the Zhou Dynasty to go south to plunder and make a fortune.

Fortunately, although the old emperor was stubborn about the matter of the eldest prince, he kept the bottom line, and did not call out the frontier army when the Tatars were pressing down on the border in order to deal with King Su.

On the other side, Li Zhao arranged for people to build tall turrets around the palaces, and ordered well-trained snipers to stand on the turrets with three-foot-long sniper rifles to monitor the palaces, preventing anyone from At this time, they fished in troubled waters, and even colluded with foreign enemies to add chaos to them.

As for his big babies—the 120 four rifled guns, he dismantled half of them from the warship and pulled them to the Xijing Daying Camp in Wucheng Bingmasi, where the old artillerymen began to train the new artillerymen .In addition, the firearms battalion also needs systematic training.There are good weapons, but how to use them, how to array them, and how to move them to maximize their effectiveness are also issues that need to be studied.

Li Zhaoxin set up a post of clerk. He wanted to record the artillery training process and organize it into a system so that it would be convenient for large-scale training in the future. Unfortunately, he was worried about finding someone to take up this post.

Song Chenxu was very interested in firearms, so he immediately recommended himself to work as a clerk in the military camp.

Ever since he was ridiculed by his younger sister as a white chicken, Song Chenxu began to think about joining the army.In fact, after the chess meeting, Song Qingyue forgot to find a martial arts master for her second brother to keep fit, but Song Chenxu did not forget that he found a bodyguard master to be his martial arts master. For more than a year, he has been insisting on following The master is practicing martial arts, and now the horse stance is very stable, and his body is stronger than before.

Li Zhao was naturally happy when Song Chenxu wanted to be the clerk of the Firearms Battalion, and King Su was not against it.These firearms were designed by Song Qingyue, so Song Erlang is naturally trustworthy.The Firearms Camp is the trump card of Li Zhao and his father. They don't want to have too much contact with people who are not close friends.

All the ministers in the court heard that the second son of the Song family was ignorant of his bright future. He gave up his job as a sixth-rank official and went to the military camp to be a clerk. It is said that the new official position has not even been determined yet!How capricious!
But who called him the son of the Song family?With a powerful father, a favored younger sister, and an elder brother who is not bad at being able to bear the responsibility of the family, Song Erlang still has the capital to be so self-willed.

Except for Song Erlang who formally joined the army, General Tian was dismissed from his post, and Mu Lei temporarily replaced him as the commander-in-chief of the five cities.

Feng Kun submitted the report to retire, and the commander of Jinyiwei was temporarily replaced by Ning Yuan.

Although Ning Yuan was given the position of Commander of Jinyiwei, His Royal Highness Su Wang handed over the department of Jinyiwei's interrogation department, Beizhenfu, to his other confidant, Yu Weiliang.

In other words, Ning Yuan can only investigate and arrest, but has no right to interrogate and convict, which greatly weakens the power of Ning Yuan, the commander of Jin Yiwei.

King Su already knew that Ning Yuan had deliberately delayed the evacuation of Song Qingyue, and he was extremely dissatisfied with his actions!
Today's King Su not only regards Song Qingyue as his daughter-in-law, but also puts her in the same position as the civil and military officials of the whole dynasty.

In King Su's heart, Song Qingyue's importance has even surpassed that of her father Song Jianming, and she has become the No. 1 subordinate in King Su's heart.

As for the Ning family, Su Wang has long been dissatisfied with the Ning family's arrogance, but Zhenbei Hou Ning Hansong is very cautious, and has always kept his posture very low in front of Su Wang. His Highness Su Wang still respects himself as an uncle. Yes, and I am willing to give him more face.

But if Ning Hansong's children dare to think carefully in front of him, King Su will not want to give face.

As for the history of the Imperial Forest Army Commander, Ou Shaofeng temporarily took over.

Since Li Zhao entered the city, Song Jianming has miraculously recovered from his illness, and now he is leading the household department to work overtime to stabilize the situation and raise military expenses.

As for the Ministry of War, it should have been very busy, but King Su didn't like the group of old officials with hunched backs and gray beards. A group of old guys sitting in the capital talking about military affairs on paper, living for so many years is a waste of court food.

He hoped that they would understand the intentions of the future new king as soon as possible, and consciously beg their bones to retire and go home, so as to save everyone from losing face.

His eldest son Li Zhao is the best logistics supervisor, and he has a very useful team to discuss military affairs. King Su doesn't need the old guys from the Ministry of War to offer advice.

He's the one with the new weapon in his hand now!The style of play needs to be changed. Li Zhao took King Su to the suburbs of Beijing to watch the shooting training of rifled guns and rifled guns. The father and father blushed with excitement and their eyes sparkled.

Song Jianming then had another task: preparing for the construction of a new military factory.

Song Jianming was too busy, so he asked the eldest, second child and Shen Xin to take charge of this matter.

As for the original crew of the Ministry of Industry, King Su didn't really want to use them.One is that they don't trust them, and the other is that they dislike their poor efficiency.

Due to Song Jianming's poor performance last year, and his eldest grandson Li Sheng's nonsense, the newly filled treasury of the household department bottomed out in only one year.

The new military factory must be costly. King Su intends to use his own private bank to build it, so he can skip the courtiers directly and don't have to worry about the outflow of technology.

The new weapons made by the eldest daughter-in-law were so exciting that Su Wang was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night, and once he even got up in the middle of the night to clean his guns, and played with birds in the yard in the middle of the night.

Such a magical weapon must not be allowed to be mastered by others. His Royal Highness King Su is determined to firmly hold the new military factory in his own hands.

When the capital settled down, Huang Huaide, a well-known dandy in the capital, thought that he could finally find two friends to have fun together again. However, Li Zhao and Ning Yuan were not free, only a silly Meng Xiaoqi, who was still idle every day like him, and could accompany him to continue cockfighting The dog sleeps the girl.

There are only two people playing, so it's less interesting.

What Huang Huaide couldn't figure out was that it's okay for Li Zhao to be busy. When he was in the palace school, he studied well and was a real talent. How come that guy Ning Yuan also has an errand?

As soon as he returned home, he was scolded by Princess Pingyang: "Ning Xiaosi has errands, and he is busy with Ah Zhao. Why don't you know how to ask for an errand? I asked you to follow me at the beginning." Su Wang’s son is playing, you really only learn how to eat, drink and have fun, but you haven’t learned the same skills! Are you going to just eat and die like this for the rest of your life?”

"Mother! Mother! Mother! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Take it easy, take it easy, my son also wants to ask Ah Zhao for an errand, but it's a pity that he can't see anyone else at all!" Huang Huaide felt wronged!
"Have you really looked for it?" Princess Pingyang looked at him suspiciously.

Huang Huaide nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Princess Pingyang snorted, and said: "You are still a little bit self-motivated. You can prepare tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I will take you into the palace to meet the concubine Shu, and beg her old lady. The old lady can always say to Azhao. It's worth talking about."

Princess Pingyang gave birth to four daughters, the youngest son Huang Huaide.

Now that King Su came to power, the whole family is counting on the future of this son who plays well with His Royal Highness, but he is a guy who does not make progress. Princess Pingyang is almost pissed off by him!
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At the end of February, the family members of King Su's Mansion who had gone out to seek refuge were finally sent back safely.

Li Zhao, who was busy with his busy schedule, took leave of absence from his father and king, and was going to pick up Song Qingyue at Tianjin Port Wharf.

Before the meeting, he tidied up and dressed himself up, fearing that she would dislike him for being dark and ugly again, not as handsome as before.

At this time, Ning Yueyao was standing on the deck of the bow, she couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart!
Shizi's people came to take them back to Tianjin!

Big cousin, he really didn't die!
My uncle has successfully become the crown prince!
His Royal Highness King Su is about to become the emperor!
And the eldest son, Li Zhao, will become the crown prince!

The identities of these women's relatives will also rise with the tide.

Yunying fell down in the cabin with a disheveled face and couldn't get up at all. The sea was already rough in winter, and she felt that she was going to be turned yellow by the boat.She got very sick due to seasickness when she set off, and now she collapsed again on the way back.I vomited, vomited and vomited again, and I had no appetite at all. From the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to the present, in just one and a half months, the whole person lost a lot of weight.

However, it is said that the port terminal can already be seen, and victory is finally in sight!

congratulations!

Li Zhao waited on the pier with his people, and when the boat approached, he stretched his neck to look.

Seeing Ning Yueyao, seeing Yun Ying who had lost a lot of weight, seeing Yan Shi, Shen Shi, and his younger siblings, but they didn't see Song Qingyue's shadow!
"Where's the crown prince?" His face darkened instantly.

The chief guards Qiu Shi and Feng Qi knelt down to the prince as soon as they got off the boat.

They were also devastated. They came to Shandong first according to the arrangement, and then went to sea from Dengzhou, but Shi Zifei didn't come here as agreed.

"We, when we set off, Fourth Young Master Ning said that we couldn't find the concubine." Qiu Shi buried his head down, blaming himself and feeling depressed.

Feng Qi took out a box of books that Song Qingyue had entrusted her to keep, lowered her head and said, "Concubine Shizi, ask Feng Jiu and me to take good care of this box of books. I only say that this box of books is the most important, and I need my subordinates to take care of it." I will protect it, and the rest...don't say anything."

Li Zhao opened the wooden box and rummaged through it, and found that she was talking about it on weekdays, and the books about "science" were all written by her own hands.The coolness rose from the soles of the feet, the muscles of the whole body froze, and the palms of the hands broke out in cold sweat. Li Zhao's face blushed instantly. He grabbed Qiu Shi by the collar and lifted him up, staring at his eyes, lips All trembling.

"What did you say?"

"The concubine Shizi was forced by His Majesty to enter the Baoen Temple to shave and practice. She has been living alone in the Baoen Temple. Zeng Maozhi and the others are responsible for protecting her. The subordinates only received orders to protect Mo Yun and the others, as well as the group of children adopted by the concubine Shizi. The beggar went out of Beijing to take refuge, and the subordinates don't know where the concubine Shi Zi went..."

Qiu Shi finally finished speaking, Li Zhao let go of him, his mind went blank.

where did she goWhy did you leave early?
Did she just disappear with that box of books behind?
She... she really... left?
Li Zhao let go of Qiu Shi's collar, ignored all the expectant, longing, and attached eyes staring at him on the boat, turned around and got on his horse, and roared, "Tell Ning Si to get out of here and see me!"

Then he whipped his horse and galloped towards the capital.

(End of this chapter)