Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 288 Suspicion?

Zhu Houzhao felt that those broken rules were too old-fashioned and unreasonable.

All rules are made for people, and people can change them naturally.

Moreover, it was for their sake that he exempted the ministers from kneeling, so they should naturally agree to thank them.

Yesterday he made the rules by himself, he could do it reluctantly for the sake of so-called filial piety, but today he was thinking of these people, he wanted to see what they had to say.

"emperor!"

Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, and Jiang Mian came to Zhu Houzhao.

"Three lovers, it's freezing cold today, and the square is full of water. So many people are kneeling and watching, and their clothes are all wet. If this goes on, it will definitely be cold! The Empress Dowager knows that you are filial, but the rules are death. Yes, people are alive, so I don’t need to kneel today, just bow instead?”

Zhu Houzhao said as tactfully as possible.

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about! This is the funeral of the Empress Dowager, you say so..."

Liang Chu stepped forward and said directly.

The inconceivable look in his eyes seemed like Zhu Houzhao had done something rebellious.

Yang Tinghe and Jiang Mian also looked at Zhu Houzhao with the same expression, as if he was really ignorant and rebellious.

Zhu Houzhao's face turned red.

These people all watched him grow up, especially Yang Tinghe was his teacher, he was well-versed in poetry and books, and he was the most respected person besides his father.

He always acted like he was teaching himself.

Ever since he sat in this position, Zhu Houzhao was suffocating in his heart, wanting to do something, let them see that he is still okay, leave them, and don't have to follow the route they planned for him!
But to this day, even exempting the courtiers from bowing down for their own good, he can't decide such a trivial matter, and a kind of nameless fire surged in his heart in an instant.

"Whether you are filial or not, the Empress Dowager knows it well. When she was alive, I saw that none of the ministers in the court thought of how to respect her. Now that she is gone, they all behave like filial sons and grandsons. Who will they show?"

"Now that the weather is cold, do they all want to move and get sick, show off and ask the court to take care of them?"

Zhu Houzhao's words were cold and piercing, and the three of them were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a while.

"Pass me an order to perform a big salute today, no kneeling is allowed, just bow to show!"

Zhu Houzhao ordered sharply.

Jiang Mian wanted to say something, but Yang Tinghe stopped him immediately.

"Yes!"

He took the lead in answering, and the other two echoed after a while.

"The emperor is getting more and more..."

After Zhu Houzhao left, Liang Chu was so angry that his beard trembled.

"Just do what he says! He wants to use these methods to win over those people, but he made a mistake in his wishful thinking! Just wait!"

Jiang Mian snorted and said.

……

Zhu Houzhao looked at the courtier kneeling on the ground with a livid face.

These people are so fucking clueless!
Obviously I don't want them to suffer and kneel in cold water, but these people actually say that it's against the rules and insist on kneeling!

That seems to mean blaming yourself for being wrong.

The kid who almost fainted in the cold water before shouted that he didn't understand filial piety, saying that he knelt for the filial piety to the empress dowager, and he was the first one who insisted on kneeling and couldn't get up.

Zhu Houzhao remembered that the man was Shu Fen, who was also the number one scholar he named earlier, and he thought he would work for him, but he didn't want to but bowed to Yang Tinghe's sect.

Now he is directly taking the lead against himself!
"Pass me an order, today you are not allowed to kneel and worship, whoever kneels and bows will be expelled immediately, and you are not allowed to participate in the salute!"

Zhu Houzhao ordered again.

"emperor?"

Jiang Bin was very worried. If the emperor had a stubborn temper, it would be useless to persuade him. He was not good at words and did not know other methods of persuasion, so he was very anxious.

Even though he didn't read much, but lacked in strategy, he could tell that those people deliberately angered the emperor with their tepid attitude.

The emperor has a stubborn temper. Once he is provoked, he will definitely do something out of the ordinary, so that he will be caught by those people.

He wanted to persuade, but seeing Zhu Houzhao's livid face, he could only copy it.

There was a lot of commotion outside, obviously expressing dissatisfaction with the emperor's tough approach, many people were crying loudly, facing those Jin Yiwei, many people even wanted to find the emperor.

If they rushed into the place where the emperor was, they would definitely anger the emperor further, which Jiang Bin could not see.

The two sides confronted each other for a while, and finally Yang Tinghe offered to give in, and those people bowed reluctantly.

When it came to the part of crying, many people even wailed loudly, as if mourning a concubine!

It seemed that it was not Zhu Houzhao's family that died, but their parents.

Some people even cried about their sadness at the death of the Empress Dowager, and some even cried about the former emperor, which meant that they accused the emperor of being inconsiderate and rebellious.

The Empress Dowager Zhang came to Zhu Houzhao at someone who was an agitator, accusing her son of not being ignorant of the rules, which made Zhu Houzhao almost flip the table.

The noisy salute finally came to an end.

The next day, there were more and more papers accusing Zhu Houzhao of violating filial piety.

Jiang Bin was very nervous, but Zhu Houzhao was in a much better mood at the moment.

He ignored those people's letters at all, and went to Changping the next day with the empress dowager's coffin.

……

Qin Shao is a bit busy these days.

After those officials were busy with the funeral worship of the Empress Dowager, the first batch of large-scale production of pickles in Hongfu's place has begun to go on the market.

He will determine the prices of pickles from various places based on the market conditions they surveyed.

In addition, Hong Fu has already brought a group of people to Fujian and Zhejiang to build ships and train the team, and he has to keep up with the follow-up funding arrangements.

He planned to hand over these tasks to Li Shupei and the others in the later stage, but he had to teach them the various planning issues in the early stage.

In this era, Arabic numerals are not yet used for calculation. These people still do calculations in a very traditional way, which is very slow.

Qin Shao had a headache, thinking about writing a booklet on Arabic numeral calculations by himself in a while, and finding someone to teach these people.

Han Jinrong and Shunzi would, but they were too busy in the store.

Li Shupei has been educated, he is also smart, and he learns quickly.

Qin Shao felt that in addition to being a shopkeeper, it would be good for him to be a training instructor in the future.

In the future, there will be more and more shops and more and more business. At that time, it is best to train some lecturers to facilitate the training of the people below, which can save a lot of manpower and financial resources.

"My lord, there have been some suspicious people hanging around your original house during this time."

When returning home at night, Zhu Chen came to report.

"Do you know who it is?"

Qin Shao has actually felt it, and has been very cautious these days.

He always tried to wear a hat when he went out.

Although this Anlu state is basically their own territory now, basically under their control, but his identity should avoid being too ostentatious.

Fortunately, in this day and age, the status of the eldest son and vassal king is not ordinary, and it is not something that ordinary people can see whenever they want. His status is still mysterious.

As for the small yard, he kept saying that he went outside to deal with business.

"Looks like someone from Jinyiwei!"

Zhu Chen said in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)