Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 24
In the dining room of the inner house, Mrs. Ma watched the waiter set up lunch, and ordered some medicine, and saw Zhu Yuanzhang come in angrily.

Hastily went forward.

With a worried expression: "Sir, what happened?"

Regarding titles, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Ma tried to bring his sons and daughters to change together. As a result, Lao Zhu himself was not used to hearing the words "father emperor" and "confession", and felt that the family became divided, and he reprimanded himself for being just If you become an emperor, you don't become a fairy, so what are you doing with those vain things?
So as usual.

Hearing his wife's question, Zhu Yuanzhang took out a memorial from his cuff and threw it on the ground: "Liu Ji, it's that Liu Ji, I don't even remember what happened on New Year's Eve, but he was so relentless that he gave me his resignation letter. "

When Ma Shi heard Liu Ji's name, his expression darkened.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Ji made Zhu Yuanzhang suffer from heart palpitations because of the fact that Cui Ji, the head of the household department, and others were punished the day before yesterday, and he has been taking medicine for the past few days.

Did not expect to come again.

Supporting Zhu Yuanzhang to sit down at the dining table, Ma took over the memorial picked up by the servant and flipped through it to read.

Liu Ji did not mention what happened on New Year's Eve years ago, but said that when his mother passed away and failed to return to his hometown to observe filial piety, he had always thought it a great regret all these years.

Mrs. Ma knew that her husband brought Liu Ji's resignation letter because he wanted her to give her an idea.

He obviously still wanted Liu Ji to stay.

In the past, even if Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to keep Liu Ji, Ma would persuade him, and she also knew Liu Ji was a great talent.However, thinking about her husband's irritated body, from a wife's point of view, she absolutely does not want this kind of thing to happen again.

When they came to sit next to their husbands, Ma said, "Sir, since that's the case, let Liu Ji go back to his hometown."

Zhu Yuanzhang just picked up the chopsticks, but put them down again when he heard the words, and he didn't hide his thoughts to his wife: "Now is the time for employing people, so Liu Ji...you know, he still has skills. Besides, he laid this down on me. Jiangshan also has made great achievements, I just became the emperor, and I dismissed him from office, what do the officials and people think?"

Mrs. Ma gestured to Lao Zhu for Liu Ji's memorial: "Master, now I understand that Liu Ji wanted to resign and return to his hometown to keep his mother's filial piety. How could it be that Mr. Xiang dismissed him from office? Mr. Xiang only needs to posthumously seal Liu Ji's parents. Give Liu Ji another rank of official and let him return with honor, not to mention hundreds of officials and people, history books will not be able to pick mistakes in the future."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Lady, it's not important. I mean, it's time to employ people."

Mrs. Ma took Lao Zhu's arm, and the circles of her eyes began to turn red: "Master, since you have left your heart, why bother to stay? The most important thing is that your husband is with the concubine. Your husband is the head of a country and the head of a family, so you should be your husband." For the sake of my concubine and the children, I don't want to see my husband again because Liu Ji was so angry that he broke his body."

Seeing that Mrs. Ma began to cry while talking, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, held Mrs. Ma's little hand, was silent for a moment, and finally nodded and said: "In that case, I will ask the Ministry of Rites to discuss this matter later, and let Liu Jirong go home." .”

Seeing that her husband no longer persisted, Mrs. Ma withdrew his hand, wiped his eyes, and began to help Lao Zhu serve food, while actively changing the subject: "Can the husband award the matter of "Qi Min Yao Shu" today?"

The Ma family is a well-known virtuous queen in history. There is no doubt about it. By refusing Zhu Yuanzhang to grant the descendants a good start, the Ming Dynasty has no troubles with foreign relatives. Really.

A little reading of history can feel that the Ma family is often very clear about various major court events, and has provided Zhu Yuanzhang with a lot of advice.

Even sometimes, Lao Zhu felt that his wife was a bit too much, and Madam Ma could justifiably say that she was the "mother of the world". What's wrong with a mother caring about her children?
Mrs. Ma mentioned "Qimin Yaoshu", and Lao Zhu's mood really began to improve. He took the rice handed by his wife, picked up his chopsticks again, and said, "I have awarded it, and I will let the Imperial Academy compile a book of calculations," said At this point, Old Zhu added bitterly: "If Zhu Yuan doesn't say anything and wants to live in seclusion for three years, I don't care if ten Liu Ji want to leave."

Knowing her husband's temperament well, Mrs. Ma knew that if Lao Zhu continued to speak, she would also feel resentment towards that young scholar. She didn't want her husband's mood swings to affect his body, so she smiled and offered to say good things to Zhu Yuan: "That Xiaoxiu is only twelve or thirteen years old. He is still a baby, and his health is not good. Let him study for two or three years at ease, and he will take care of his body. According to him, by then, Xianggong will have calmed down the world, so he can give full play to it."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head while eating his rice and said: "The more I think about it these days, the more I feel that his knowledge can be used now, without waiting for three years. According to his book list, I will continue to rebook the compulsory courses for scholars all over the world. He must have a faster way, as he said at the time, economics is only one of the hundred, listen, one of the hundred, but he refused to disclose it to me in advance.”

Mrs. Ma also picked up a bowl of rice, couldn't help pondering along with him, and said: "Maybe that little scholar has a problem, three years is not long, and it will pass in a blink of an eye, my husband should be more patient."

Zhu Yuanzhang hummed, but thought of it again, and said to Ma Shi: "Don't let anyone touch the cabinet in the bedroom. I will take the red sandalwood box to the new palace by myself tomorrow."

The Ministry of Rites has decided that the time for moving the old house to the new palace will be the seventh day of tomorrow, but some important things here have already begun to move out in the past two days.

Mrs. Ma nodded when she heard the words: "I know how powerful I am, so I won't make people mess around."

It is inevitable to be curious again in my heart.

Then what is the content of "Book of Heaven"?

Considering the mystery involved, and thinking about the lessons that many wise emperors such as Qin Huang and Han Wu inevitably fell into in ancient times, Mrs. Ma has long made up her mind that she must follow in the future to make sure that what the little scholar contributed is really nothing. The method of asking immortals and asking questions.

If it is true, she can say good things for the other party at this time, and she will still not be polite at that time.

The husband and wife chatted like this, and Lao Zhu quickly finished a bowl of rice, and asked Ma Shi to serve another bowl for himself, while talking about another thing: "This morning, Shanzhang also mentioned something, saying that we must follow the In the old system of the Yuan Dynasty, what kind of Zhongshu order was granted to our Biaoer? After the court meeting, I asked someone carefully and rejected it. The Zhongshu order is to make our Biaoer open a separate government to recruit officials. How is this different from a separate family? Brothers fight against the wall at every turn, and father and son fight, isn't it caused by the separation of the family? Such a broken rule, what kind of old rules can we follow? I thought about it, let the courtier concurrently serve as various officials of the prince, so that there is no separation of the family , but also allows Biaoer to see the government affairs and learn the way of governing the country."

Mrs. Ma paused her meal and listened carefully. After thinking for a moment, she nodded with a smile and said, "This is a big deal, but it's up to Mr. Xiang."

Lao Zhu then muttered again: "Those rotten Confucians always follow the old system, and even the Three Emperors and Five Emperors can be moved out for me, as if the rules of the previous dynasty are golden rules. If the rules of the previous dynasty are correct, then I can get this Jiangshan? I just thought about it. In the future, we must make a set of rules for our Zhu family, establish it as the ancestor's precepts, and set all the rules to death, lest those sour and corrupt scholars use the rules of the previous dynasty to affect our future generations. "

(End of this chapter)