Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 9
Then it entered the time of "talking about ancient times" deliberately created by Zhu Yuan.

From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Jin Dynasty, from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, from the 'Eight Kings Rebellion' to the 'Five Husbands', from the excavation of the Grand Canal by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to the decentralization of power by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time as linking economics, in order to reduce historical deviation, Zhu Yuan mainly followed Zhu Yuanzhang's own governance philosophy to explain.

It can be seen that because of "following what he likes", Lao Zhu was delighted to hear it.

Probably also produced a lot of the same ideas as before. For example, Zhu Yuan unknowingly led Zhu Yuanzhang to the direction of "conferring the king without tearing the soil" again.

As for the future, we will talk about it in the future.

Zhu Yuan just thought about how to get out.His 'butterfly' is too sensitive to say more.

Fortunately, when Zhu Yuan was considering whether to pretend to be exhausted, his body, which had just recovered from a serious illness, really began to exhaust itself. As the night darkened, Zhu Yuan also felt dizzy and dizzy, gradually crumbling.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was full of interest and energy, wanted to come to talk all night, but found that Zhu Yuan was in a strange state, so he had to give up and ordered his servants to arrange Zhu Yuan in the guest room in the front yard of the palace.

Back to the inner house of the palace, the time is already the first moment of the twelfth hour.

Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, Shi Ma, also didn't rest. She took two maids to help Zhu Yuanzhang change the Wu Dynasty clothes specially prepared to meet Zhu Yuan. Noticing her husband's unsatisfactory expression, Ma Shi said with a smile: "It seems that concubine wants to congratulate Your husband is virtuous again."

These days, Mrs. Ma has also known the rhetoric of "giving away 500 years of Guozuo" that attracted the attention of the government and the public. Not only that, she is also the only person other than Zhu Yuanzhang who has read Xu Da's handwriting and Zhu Yuan's secret map, so she understands that her husband What are the expectations for that worldly expert.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance at this time, and thinking about her husband's vision of getting higher and higher with the rise of his status, Mrs. Ma understood that that worldly expert was even more brilliant than she thought before.

"Great talent, great talent!" Zhu Yuanzhang had no airs in front of his wife who was in love with each other. He smiled and praised, noticed the maid beside him, put away his expression again, and waved: "You all go down."

When the maid left, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer concealed it, and said with a bit of flaunting: "Today, I listened to a class of 'Economics', and suddenly became enlightened. Do you know what Economics is?"

Mrs. Ma put the Wu Dynasty clothes that Zhu Yuanzhang took off on a hanger, took another green shirt, and shook his head with a smile: "If the husband doesn't tell me, how can I know?"

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to put on the green shirt, imitating Zhu Yuan's appearance at that time unconsciously, and said loudly: "Economy is economical, economical and economical!"

Following her husband's tone, Ma said flatteringly, "Sounds like a university question."

"Tianxue asked," Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head again with great interest, and said: "According to that little scholar, this economics is enough to stand side by side with Confucianism. In the future, we will jointly support the two legs of our China's progress. Listen Listen, is it big?"

"It's really big enough," Madam Ma said, a little more surprised and curious in his heart, and then asked: "What does Xianggong think of himself?"

"Although I only listened to a scale and a half, I also feel that I deserve to be ranked with Confucianism," Zhu Yuanzhang said here, and suddenly became dissatisfied: "It's just that the little scholar is not sharp enough, and he will make an appointment with me for three years as soon as he opens his mouth. There is a "Book from Heaven" that I want to dedicate to me, but I have to wait three years before I can read it."

Ma Shi, who was originally gentle, heard the word 'Book of Heaven', moved a little slower, narrowed his eyes slightly, and confirmed: "Book of Heaven?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "I have to wait three years to read "Book from Heaven."

Maybe it's because the husband and wife are of the same heart, but Ma's inner thoughts are consistent with Zhu Yuanzhang's initial reaction: "Could it be the method of seeking immortality and asking questions? Mr. Gong, there have been strange sayings in all dynasties, but most of them are false words. If it is true ..." At this point, Ma's eyes suddenly turned fierce: "I hope that my husband will execute the man immediately, don't be deceived by this, and harm the family and the country."

Zhu Yuanzhang felt his wife's emotional changes, and patted the back of Ma's hand subconsciously clutching his arm comfortingly: "Don't worry, my lady, it's not some kind of magic technique of seeking immortality, and I don't believe that either."

Ma Shi did not give up, and asked: "Then what is the content?"

"I don't know, that little scholar didn't want to disclose it in advance," Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, saw his wife still looking at him, thought for a while, and said, "I guess it should be some knowledge of world governance that has never been seen before. The little scholar said at that time, If I ask him to assist me now, that’s okay, but he can only use one out of ten of his talents. If I wait three years and read "Book of Heaven", he can give me a prosperous world that has never been seen in a thousand years. Prosperity, I promised him, it's only three years, I can afford to wait."

Ma Shi nodded slightly, but was still not at ease.

Mrs. Ma is also a studious person. In the process of studying history, every time she saw some emperors indulging in seeking immortality and asking for immortality, she would inevitably sigh with emotion. She absolutely did not want her husband to follow in the footsteps of those absurd emperors in the future.

Thinking of this, Ma Shi quietly made up his mind.

If the so-called expert in the world really wants to offer some tricks to cultivate immortals, even if she risks making her husband angry or even worse, she will get rid of this disaster in advance.

After a brief distraction, Mrs. Ma quickly returned to normal. While helping her husband tie his shirt, he found another topic: "Sir, that man...is he placed in the Rixian Hall?"

Lixian Pavilion is a mansion built by Zhu Yuanzhang on the west side of the palace five years ago. It is specially used to arrange the sages and Confucian scholars collected from all over the country, and it is also convenient for him to call at any time. Liu Ji, Song Lian and others used to be in the pavilion lived.

Hearing this question, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "That little scholar is good at everything, but his body is too weak, otherwise I won't come back so soon. I just said that at the end, I look like I'm about to fall down, so I'll leave it alone." He rested in the front guest room."

Mrs. Ma helped her husband stretch out the green shirt that he had already put on. Hearing this, his mind moved slightly, and he said, "Master, since that's the case, let me go and give orders in person, so that the servants don't take good care of me?"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, nodded and said, "I asked He Shou to resettle him. He is careful. However, you can go and have a look. Oh, in terms of appearance, he is a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, taller than us. The second kid in the family is still far behind. If it weren’t for the fact that the present is different from the past, I would like to recognize another adopted son,” Zhu Yuanzhang changed his clothes, turned around, and walked to the small study on the other side of the bedroom, saying : "My lady, let's go first, I have a lot of feelings tonight, I have to write it down quickly, so as not to forget."

Hearing her husband say that he wanted to recognize his adopted son, Mrs. Ma once again felt how much he liked that young scholar, and followed her to help spread paper and ink, and then left after her husband started to write.

Leading a group of maids out of the inner house, they walked all the way through the corridors and buildings to the front yard, and soon arrived at the place where Zhu Yuan was staying.

Due to the etiquette system, there are very few foreign guests staying in the palace of King Wu. Zhu Yuan is a special case, which also makes the servants in the palace even more afraid to neglect. He Shou, the head of the internal envoy and supervisor who was just established in September, personally led several eunuchs to make arrangements carefully. Zhu Yuan, who was about to leave, saw Madam Ma appeared, hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute.

Mrs. Ma waved everyone to get up, while looking at the main room in the small courtyard, he asked He Shou, "But are you asleep?"

He Shou, the emissary and supervisor with a straight and round face, bowed forward and said in a low voice: "Go back to your mother, Xiao Sheren fell asleep as soon as she stuck to the bed. I thought something was wrong, so I quietly cut the pulse. It’s confirmed that nothing happened, it’s probably just because of the exhaustion along the way.”

Marcus nodded slightly.

He did understand that there was also the reason why he was forced by his husband to chat until the child's day, but the person next to him obviously didn't dare to say that.

Thinking of this, Ma Shi walked towards the door: "Let me see him."

He Shou knew that the senior couple were not polite people, so they didn't stop them, but took the initiative to help guide the way, and said, "I also arranged for two younger ones to look after them."

Said to have entered the house.

Seeing that it was the princess, the two young eunuchs in the outer room wanted to kneel down again, but Ma Shi waved his hand to stop them, and turned to walk towards the bedroom where He Shou opened the curtain himself.

Another eunuch came in with candles. Under the light, Ma stopped He Shou from trying to wake Zhu Yuan up. He saw a young man with a pale face under the quilt wrapped tightly on the bed. As her husband said, He looks about twelve or thirteen years old, and he looks like he is just recovering from a serious illness.

Mrs. Ma is a little unimaginable that the fantastic talks in Xu Da's handwriting, the hidden depths in the "China's Population Trends in the Past Dynasties", and the study of economics and economics mentioned by her husband just now come from such a small man .

After looking at it for a while, maybe that pale little face is too harmless to humans and animals, and this young man's talent is unquestionable. Although Ma Shi's previous vigilance has not completely disappeared, it has subconsciously faded a lot, and he can't help it. I thought, if it wasn't for... I could have adopted another adopted son.

Zhu Yuan.

You don't even have to change your last name.

After a while, seeing the little boy frowning slightly in his sleep, Ma Shi also came to his senses, waved his hand, and signaled everyone to leave.

When he came outside the house, Mrs. Ma told He Shou again: "The earth dragon in the house must be kept burning. He is weak. Don't be cold, but he can't be too hot. Let the imperial doctor come over tomorrow morning to show the child, and run all the way. , stay up all night again, don’t leave the root cause of the disease. Besides, you have to personally check the child’s three meals before he recovers, pay attention to taboos, and don’t make random nourishments.

He Shou listened carefully and agreed one by one.

The people who followed Mashi were envious, astonished, and surprised.

Even if you heard some rumors recently, you can't help but wonder, what kind of person was that young man just now, so that the two masters valued him so much that he made an exception to stay overnight and visit him in person?

(End of this chapter)