The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1332

[1332. Chapter 1265: Age of the Empress]

“Really?”

Empress Zhang was thoughtful.

It turns out… there are so many more things here.

But… looking at Zhang Heling, who was frowning and covering his cheek.

Empress Zhang still couldn’t help but feel a little angry and couldn’t help but said: “You can’t think about doing something serious and just idle around all day long. I have thought about it recently. If I want to do something, I can’t sit here in this palace. Come on, you are all my brothers and my own people. I just invited you here. Tell me, what should you do?”

Zhang Heling’s face turned green when he heard this.

What he seemed to hear was how to spend the money.

Doing things requires money.

Are you asking us to pay for it?

He and Zhang Yanling looked at each other.

Zhang Yanling was still stupidly happy. Zhang Yanling said: “This is a good thing. I think that you are the Queen and it is not easy to do what you want.”

Zhang Heling glared at Zhang Yanling angrily. You are really brainless. If you jump into a trap, you will jump to it. .

But Zhang Yanling was puzzled and didn’t understand why his brother glared at him angrily.

After listening to Zhang Yanling’s words, Empress Zhang was thoughtful and said: “If you say so, why don’t I open a cotton spinning workshop, and then send out these spun cloths to those who have no food and clothing?” “

Zhang Heling is about to cry, it will kill him to waste his family so directly.

So Zhang Heling hurriedly said: “My Majesty, you can’t. Economics has its own rules. If your Majesty makes cloth and gives it to others, is that ridiculous? In the future, will anyone be willing to buy cloth? If no one buys cloth, who will produce it?” Empress Bu? This is how to drive those businessmen to death. This is not how to spend money! I do have some suggestions. Nowadays, extravagance is common in the capital. I can’t stand it. I don’t like it. To start with, I will also practice frugality and teach everyone how to recycle waste oil, how to make clothes from leftover materials, and how to make a good pot of porridge with the least amount of rice.”

Queen Zhang: “…”

“This waste oil can also be used?”

“Why not?” Zhang Heling looked very researched and vowed: “I usually eat oil like this at home. It’s so delicious.”

As he said this, he smacked his lips. It seems that because my porridge has been a bit bland recently, I have begun to miss the taste of oil and water.

Empress Zhang waved her hand and said indifferently: “What kind of thing is this? It won’t work, it won’t work…”

She waved her hand and said sternly: “None of you have a good idea, you just fail to succeed and fail. Zhang

Heling picked his nostrils: “Yes, yes, I will die.”

As long as you don’t lose their money, it’s better to be scolded a little less.

Queen Zhang felt troubled.

Thinking about it this way, what’s the difference between you and your brothers?

Isn’t it true that if you fail to succeed, you will fail?

These days, after being influenced by what she heard and saw, Empress Zhang felt that she was indeed of no use.

She turned her eyes and looked at Fang Xiaofan, only to see Fang Xiaofan sitting aside, holding a charcoal pencil and quickly solving a function formula… Her pen was filled with dense numbers, which made people’s scalp numb. .

Queen Zhang’s face turned slightly red. It seemed that she was worse than a child.

At this moment, a eunuch came in from outside and reported: “Mother, the prince and Duke of Qi are here.”

As soon as they heard the names of the prince and Duke of Qi, the Zhang brothers looked ugly… and wanted to leave.

A few times before, I bumped into the prince and Qi Guogong and said hello. Qi Guogong talked about stocks when he saw me. This guy must be thinking about our Zhang family’s money.

Isn’t it just that we want to use our family wealth to exchange for a few small pieces of paper in the securities market?

Fortunately, that guy had the nerve to say, come and play, it’s very fun.

Fun?

What fun!

This is a naked conspiracy. The poor devils are really annoying. They try different ways to move our Zhang family’s money to their house.

Bah, a bunch of shameless dogs.

Although the stock thing has gone up, Zhang Heling doesn’t believe it!

rise? Maybe it’s just relying on this to increase the price and ask you to enter the urn. When the time comes, a decisive blow will be made, and the throat will be cut instantly, and the throats of those fools who deceived people will be sealed with a sword, and they will die without knowing how.

He wouldn’t be such a fool.

Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan came in and bowed obediently.

Empress Zhang smiled: “I have been waiting for you for a long time. Come, sit down and talk. Xiaofan, why don’t you say hello to your brother?” Fang Xiaofan

still didn’t raise his head and just said: “Wait a minute, I’ll do it first. My brother won’t blame me for solving this problem.”

Fang Jifan: “…”

Hahaha… She is indeed his own sister. Fang Jifan comforted himself. People in our Fang family have relatively low emotional intelligence and are not good at dealing with others. , they all belong to the hard-working type.

Sure enough, my sister inherited my good habit of being an older brother.

Liang Ruying on the side hurriedly saluted Fang Jifan: “I have met… master…”

Zhu Houzhao said dissatisfied: “Why have you met Lao Fang but not me? Your master’s master’s master is all my master.” Gong taught me how to do it!”

Liang Ruying’s pretty face turned red and she was about to salute.

Zhu Houzhao sighed: “Forget it, if you salute again after I have said this, it won’t mean much, so let’s avoid it.”

A eunuch moved to Jindun and asked Fang Jifan and Zhu Houzhao to sit down.

Fang Jifan then looked at Empress Zhang and said, “Your Majesty… I don’t know…”

Empress Zhang smiled and said, “I invite you here so that you can make up your mind. I have only read the books you sent me. After reading them, I have I’m even more confused. What should I do? “

The Queen is confused.

But if you think about it carefully, Fang Jifan is understandable.

Look at this picture, the Queen has managed His Majesty obediently for so many years.

What does this mean?

It shows that Queen Zhang is an extraordinary woman at heart.

In this era where men are superior to women and men are subordinate to fathers and sons, not to mention that the male protagonist is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how many queens in the world can make the emperor obediently obey?

If you say that Emperor Hongzhi coveted Empress Zhang She is beautiful, but now Queen Zhang is not young anymore, and her beauty has already faded. What does she rely on?

Therefore, a mother-in-law like Queen Zhang is one of those people who refuses to admit defeat.

Even if there was no precedent like Liang Ruying, she would not have thought of this, but once someone set a precedent, her thoughts would naturally become wild.

Fang Jifan looked hesitant: “This… this…”

Seeing that Fang Jifan was in trouble, Queen Zhang looked at Zhu Houzhao, but found that Zhu Houzhao didn’t look good either, so she asked: “Huzhao, why are you looking so sad?”

Zhu Houzhao said: “Mother, I bid farewell to those female workers today. Thinking of this farewell, I am afraid that we will never have a chance to see each other in the future. I am afraid that they will go to other workshops and be bullied…”

At this point, Zhu Houzhao became melancholy.

Among the new learning, the most respected thing is empathy.

In the past, Zhu Houzhao also liked to tease his daughter’s family. He was a naughty kid who didn’t care about any consequences. Now he is better. The Zhengde Emperor in history even raped women from good families.

But because I have been with these female workers for a long time, I realized that they are not only timid and delicate, but also have their own thoughts.

Zhu Houzhao coughed and said: “Many of the female workers there have very pitiful backgrounds. They are not valued by their parents for peeing, and are deliberately ignored. They do all the work at home, and they don’t do it well. They had to be beaten and starved. After hearing that there was money to be made outside, their parents sent them to work…”

Zhu Houzhao said: “I remember a female worker named Liu Ernv. She had many scars on her arms. They were beaten.”

After hearing this, Queen Zhang couldn’t help but sigh, and she felt sympathy in her heart.

Although she is now the mother of a country, she is not from a wealthy family. Her deceased parents were pretty good to her, but this is not the first time she has heard of such a thing.

Zhu Houzhao continued: “If someone bullies them in the new workshop in the future, I don’t know what they will do. They are timid and are used to being submissive…”

After hearing this, Queen Zhang suddenly looked at Liang Ruying.

Liang Ruying lowered her head, her pretty face flushed.

Empress Zhang said: “Why are you blushing?”

Liang Ruying said: “Empress, my maid…”

Empress Zhang said: “I do have some skills, but these female workers are very pitiful. In the future, if they have Why should they come to me for their grievances? I have made the decision for them. These girls are all decent people, and they work peacefully. None of them are better than others. Your Majesty, you are very relaxed about the matter of childbirth. It’s all in my heart. If they are all wronged, how can I agree?”

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao’s eyes suddenly brightened, and his mood suddenly brightened, and he was about to say something.

Fang Jifan said, “Your Majesty, I think this is very inappropriate.”

“Huh?” Empress Zhang looked at Fang Jifan: “Why, can you just watch them suffer and ignore them?”

Fang Jifan said, “My Majesty, my son I thought that the empress just said that she wanted to protect them, but it was of no use. If the empress could protect them for a while, could she protect them for the rest of their lives? How many people are there?”

Queen Zhang frowned.

She wanted to say that if she could protect one, she would be one.

But Fang Jifan said: “I believe that the most urgent task is not to rely on the strength of the empress alone, but to involve more people. The empress can encourage girls to study and learn knowledge; the empress can also advocate the formulation of new laws to protect these poor people.” women; the empress can even recruit some people and hang a sign in the capital to let those women who have been wronged come to voice their grievances. Only in this way can things be done. Otherwise, if you only rely on the grace of the empress, it will be just a drop in the bucket. That’s all.”

After hearing this, Queen Zhang’s eyes suddenly brightened.

Suddenly, she had an idea.

So, he looked at Fang Jifan: “Do you think I can do this?”

(End of Chapter)