The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1343

[1343. Chapter 1276 Your Majesty’s permission]

A young girl has actually entered the cabinet.

Fang Jifan looked at his sister, it was great to be young.

When my brother was at this age, of course… he was still better than her.

As an elder brother, Fang Jifan would inevitably have to give some advice: “Xiaofan, after entering the cabinet, he must study hard with Liu Gong and others and learn from their ways of dealing with people. The biggest shortcoming of the Fang family is that they are too upright. This cabinet Here, there are all veterans who are old, but you are still young, so it is time to instill some new ideas into them. Also, don’t drop your math homework. Think about it again what I taught you last time. “

Fang Xiaofan agreed simply and suddenly said: “But…brother, what if I make a mistake?”

Fang Jifan said with a smile: “It doesn’t matter if I make a mistake, you are still a child after all, as long as I don’t say that I am teaching you. That’s right.”

Fang Xiaofan thought for a while: “Then let’s say it was taught by my sister-in-law.”

Fang Jifan: “…”

In any case, her sister-in-law is a princess, so it doesn’t matter if she takes the blame.

But who is Fang Jifan? What he hates most in his life is framing people. As a person, you must have a bottom line, principles, and stay away from vulgar tastes.

Fang Jifan said: “You can say that His Highness the Crown Prince taught you. His Highness the Crown Prince is my best brother, so it doesn’t matter.”

Fang Xiaofan nodded seriously: “Oh.”

Taking Fang Xiaofan home, Zhu Houzhao ran happily When he came, he was beaming: “Lao Fang, Lao Fang.”

“What’s the matter?”

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Fang Xiaofan, and Fang Xiaofan said: “I’ll do the questions.”

Zhu Houzhao said cheerfully: “I invented it again. It’s a good thing. The paper has been written and sent to the journal. Come on, look.”

He took out a long cotton strip from his sleeve.

The smile on Fang Jifan’s face gradually disappeared.

“Why don’t you say anything? Are you awesome? When I was in the textile workshop, I already had the idea, what else can this cotton be used for? Cotton absorbs water. I slapped my forehead, oh, women are coming out to work. , every month, I have to ask for a menstrual leave, which is okay. It is difficult to arrange the production if I delay so many days in a month, but with this… I have spent a lot of time thinking about it. After months of hard work, I have just made this, and with this…”

Fang Jifan smiled and encouraged: “Your Highness is really great.”

“I think so too,” Fang Jifan said happily: “This thing, first of all. Who can use it?”

Fang Jifan laughed and said, “Your Highness, let’s put this matter aside for now.”

“What to do?”

Fang Jifan scratched his head and thought, why is Xiao Zhu so shameless?

“How about giving it to Liu Banban first?” Zhu Hou looked after Fang Jifan.

When Fang Jifan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief: “Yes, it’s him. I’ll tie up the grandson tomorrow.”

Zhu Houzhao was satisfied, sat down, took a sip of tea, raised his head, and looked at Fang Jifan with a smile: “I didn’t mean to say Serious business?”

Fang Jifan said solemnly: “Your Highness, I heard that His Highness Prince Xing has been very happy selling his houses recently. In the entire capital, the number of houses introduced by him is no less than 9,000 acres. The sales champion of the year, His Highness Prince Xing, can both make alchemy and sell houses. He can be said to be Yunwen Yunwu, which is very impressive.”

Zhu Houzhao was happy: “He is my uncle, so he should also inherit this palace. A little advantage.”

“But…” Fang Jifan said with a grimace: “This kind of person is the most dangerous. The housing prices are rising now, but the more he sells, the more worried I am. Nine times out of ten, the person who comes to cause trouble is His Highness King Xing. His Highness knows me. I am most afraid of getting into trouble with others. I have always been good to my neighbors. I am thinking, Your Highness King Xing, this is a person. “He

dares

.” Zhu Houzhao said coldly, “I wonder if he has the guts to cause trouble here.”

Fang Jifan was delighted: “His Highness is really domineering, and he is indeed worthy of the Emperor Taizu .”

Descendants.”

Zhu Houzhao stood up, clasped his hands and walked a few steps: “Don’t worry, your business is my business. But… I also have a problem.”

Fang Jifan blinked and looked at it. Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao sighed and said: “A few days ago, I was impeached again. It was said that I was not doing my job properly and did not care about Baixin’s suffering. However, this person who scolded me… ahem… I can’t afford to offend him. “

Fang Jifan said coldly, “Your Highness said who this person is, I will take people to kill him.”

Zhu Houzhao took a few steps and said, “It’s Master Mao.”

Fang Jifan immediately understood.

This Master Mao was Mao Ji, the former lecturer in the East Palace.

Mao Ji taught Zhu Houzhao how to read.

Of course, one can imagine the level of being able to teach a disciple like Zhu Houzhao.

After that, Zhu Houzhao no longer studied in the East Palace. It is said that he was in the Hanlin Academy, compiling canons.

He has a bad temper and often quarrels with others. Now that he no longer has the status of Imperial Master, naturally… one can imagine that he has never been promoted.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao was afraid of him was because he was extremely strict. He had been very cruel to Zhu Houzhao since he was a child.

In all likelihood, this left a lot of psychological shadow on Zhu Houzhao.

But I have to say that Mao Ji is indeed a good person.

After that, it is said that he simply stopped being an official and went to give lectures.

He and his disciples collected money together, purchased land at the foot of Dayang Mountain in Changping County, built a series of thatched huts, and recruited many disciples, saying they wanted to be free.

Come to think of it, I don’t know if it gave rise to a school of thought.

Since the emergence of new learning, traditional Neo-Confucianism has gradually declined.

After all, it is difficult for the old Neo-Confucianism to compete with the new learning.

However, many scholars were still unwilling to give up. Therefore, many great Confucians and leaders created many new ideas based on Neo-Confucianism to combat the new learning.

Nowadays, there are many kinds of theories in the world, but most of them still do not break away from the scope of Neo-Confucianism.

Mao Ji had a special status and great reputation. He also compiled the Ming Dynasty Canon and was the prince’s teacher. He had many disciples and former officials. Therefore, he was considered one of the top celebrities in the capital area.

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: “I am too lazy to argue with him, but he goes too far and criticizes me everywhere. I studied with him for several years, and he wanted to beat me several times. Now Well,

he

also claimed that he should not let scholars go astray, and went around teaching his knowledge, and said that I have fallen into the eyes of money. Have I fallen in the eyes of money? I am still so poor so far!

Smile.

In fact, in any era, there will be opponents.

There are many people who can’t stand Fang Jifan and Xinxue, especially in this era.

Could Fang Jifan be able to kill them one by one?

In this kind of thing, as long as the other party doesn’t really hinder his interests, who cares about him?

Fang Jifan said: “Your Highness, please calm down. You are just a rotten scholar. What is there to be angry about?”

Zhu Houzhao said: “You don’t understand, don’t I want my reputation?”

Fang Jifan: “…”

“You have to help me with this. That’s good.”

“This is easy.” Fang Jifan said: “Your Highness, since you have to take care of the righteousness of Professor Mao Ji’s study, let’s just say it. Do you want to kill people or punish your heart?”

Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth.

But…killing someone…he never thought about it.

Even the Zhengde Emperor in history has almost never heard of killing ministers. Most of the time, he was found out when he was fooling around, and the ministers cried for a while, and then he would be honest for a while and live a certain life. It’s just a new stock state.

Zhu Houzhao said: “Why are you so cruel?”

Fang Jifan said: “This Mao Ji, why are you scolding His Highness?”

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while: “Criticize this world for only looking at money, scold me for falling in love with money, what are you talking about, the world It shouldn’t be like this, and you also said… I followed you and learned bad things. I look worried about the country and the people all day long. There are many scholars who join in the fun. They all spread his words and spread them everywhere. I thought I don’t know about this. Even my father knows about this. There are many supporters of him in various ministries…”

Fang Jifan put his hands behind his back and said, “Then it’s heartbreaking. Didn’t he mean His Highness the Crown Prince ?”

Regardless of the people’s livelihood, thinking about it, in his mind, this new city is just for His Highness to make money. Some people see that there are so many workshops to house many refugees. What he sees is that there is still no need for such people to make money. To be reasonable, the only way is to completely dig out his roots. His roots are nothing more than those scholars who still miss the joy of pastoral life, and those ignorant people. Changping County is not far from the capital, and there are many more. The roads are rugged and inconvenient in the mountains. Well, there is a guard station stationed in Changping. Is it the Changping Guard?”

Zhu Houzhao nodded: “Yes, so what.”

“It’s easy. Recently, a lot of them have been made in the workshop. Fire blunderbuss, the power of this short blunderbuss has been witnessed when fighting the Russians, and short blunderbuss are only suitable for close combat. There are also many long blunderbuss. It is not yet certain how it will function in the future, Prince. His Highness used this excuse to use the Changping Guards to practice new firearms and test the power of the firearms. At the same time, during the experiment, he improved the fire blunderbuss. Your Majesty must attach great importance to this, and it will be unavoidable when the time comes. Let Your Highness go to Changping. When you get to Changping, His Highness is not the one who has the final say. They say that Your Highness does not care about the suffering of the people. Then, Your Highness will organize the army and show them how he cares about the suffering of the people in this world. , are the best to be bribed. The key to bribery is not to preach benevolence, justice and morality, but to give them real benefits. When the time comes… let’s see if the so-called people in their mouths want benevolence, justice and morality, or to have enough food and clothing. “Warm.”

Zhu Houzhao was stunned: “That’s okay, that’s great. I’ll tell my father that you can go with me, haha, let’s just go and have some fun.”

(End of this chapter)