People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 400: The petty emperor, Fairy Mountain Banquet
“When children grow up, it is difficult to discipline them…

This girl Guanyinnu, even if she is not Wang Baobao's sister, is still a good girl.

It's just that she's very angry, and my kid can't control her! "

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin is very talented and brave, but Guanyin Slave is not worthy of His Highness!"

Xu Da was cautious and protected Zhu Ping.

Zhu Yuanzhang replied to him:
"You have a daughter at home who is giving you a headache, and why are you trying to bully me?
This boy has such a bad temper that he dares to disobey the emperor!
Although I complied with him, I still can't swallow my breath when I think about it! "

Xu Dahehe:

"His Highness must be following someone with his temper..."

What he said seemed to be a squeeze on the emperor, but in fact it was to open up opportunities for Zhu Ping, and instantly flattered Lao Zhu.

Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him and said nothing more.

"It's okay for him to refuse marriage, but he still has to find a home after all. Now I have a headache. Whose girl should I find for him?
If this kid refuses again, I won't be polite...

No, let's wait for that boy Zhang Yi to come to Beijing and wait for him to help! "

Zhang Yi?

Although two years have passed, Xu Da has heard the name of this child quite often, from his daughter's family letter, from the emperor's mouth, and also, in that letter...

The victory at Duoling Mountain was another turning point in this Northern Expedition.

Only the emperor and Xu Da knew Zhang Yi's role in it.

"Old Xu, if I intend to betroth your daughter to Zhang Yi, is it possible?"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said something.

Xu Da was stunned. This was not the first time that Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned this matter to him, but he had always hinted at it before, but now he made it clear that he had an opinion.

The daughter of the Duke of Guo married a Taoist priest?
If it were anyone else, even Zhang Zhongcheng's legitimate son, the future Zhang Tianshi Zhang Yuchu, Lao Xu would have turned against him.

But Zhang Yi...

Xu Da fell into deep thought.

He knew the importance of this person in the emperor's heart.

He and Zhu Yuanzhang were childhood friends, and they were also the ones who followed him to conquer the world.

Xu Da knows Zhu Yuanzhang very well and also understands the dark side of his past.

Lao Zhu is not a person who can easily trust others. Even if he trusts one person, the degree of trust varies.

Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards Zhang Yi was one of taking advantage, but it also contained deep emotions.

He could feel Zhu Yuanzhang's love, so he would not doubt Zhang Yi's future.

My girl loves to practice Taoism, and Zhang Yi happens to be a Taoist priest.

Speaking of which, it doesn't seem to be an insult to Xu Miaoyun.

"I know you are confused, I like that child Miaoyun very much!
If she hadn't been devoted to the Tao, I would have wanted to marry her!
I also understand that even if she is like this now, there are still a lot of old brothers who are staring at her and want her to be their daughter-in-law!

You don't need to give me the answer, you get in touch with that child more! "

Ok……

Xu Da's heart was beating wildly, even though the Xu family girl was very close to Zhang Yi.

But Xu Da returned to Beijing with limited restraint, but he never met Zhang Yi.

He also tried his best to avoid contact with Zhang Yi, so as not to arouse the emperor's suspicion.

Now that the emperor took the initiative to let him contact him, it was unexpected news.

"Ever since the assassination two years ago, it has not been easy for me to leave the palace again..."

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Xu Da was confused and took the initiative to explain:

"So, go and check on him for me and see if there is any change in that child after two years?
By the way, go and see your future son-in-law too! "

When Lao Zhu mentioned Zhang Yi, his expression was complicated.

Xu Da read the emperor's thoughts and respectfully replied:

"The minister knows!"

"But before that, you can help me witness something..."

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to remember something and said to the eunuch who was already walking far behind:
"Go and call the people from Zhongshu Province, as well as the ministers of the six departments, to me..."

Xu Da didn't understand. What did Zhu Yuanzhang want to witness?
Zhu Yuanzhang gave up and asked someone to serve tea, and he and Xu Da drank it.

Not long after, Li Shanchang and other court officials came one after another.

"The Duke of Wei!"

When everyone saw Xu Da, they quickly said hello.

Although Xu Da did not complete the strategy of the Northern Expedition and experienced a defeat in Lingbei, his later performance was enough to prove the gold content of the Ming Dynasty's first military god.

The big guys didn't despise him for this.

"Mr. Li!"

Xu Da had no airs. After the emperor asked the officials to get up, he greeted each other one by one.

Li Shanchang asked the emperor:
"Your Majesty, I don't know if you asked me to come here, what's the matter?"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand:

"Drink tea first, don't be in a hurry, I'm still waiting for two people!"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. How long will Zhu Yuanzhang be sold?
The emperor sat down the group and waited for the last two guests.

Not long after, Mu Ying and Ping An walked in from the outside with their armor still on, covered in dust.

"It turns out we were waiting for Muying and Ping An!"

Li Shanchang had a gut feeling that something was not quite right when Mu Ying and Ping An appeared.

"Father!"

It is approaching the New Year, but it is not an unusual thing for the main and deputy generals of the Xuanwu Army to come back. It is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Mu Ying and others to come back.

"You're back, okay, okay!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang made Mu Yinghe feel safe, he also stood up:
"Now that everyone is here, I can start a public case!"

Koan?

Zhu Yuanzhang's words made everyone present look at each other, what kind of public case?
They had no answer in their hearts and could only walk in the palace under the guidance of the emperor.

This section of the road is quite long. The emperor has his own chariot, and everyone else can only walk.

Li Shanchang was weak, so Zhu Yuanzhang specially arranged for him to sit in a sedan chair.

After walking for a long time, I passed through countless courtyard walls.

Zhu Yuanzhang took them to a courtyard, which was very large and covered an area of ​​at least twenty acres.

When they came in, the first thing they saw was the rice fields that had been harvested.

"This is the queen's garden. I asked her to help me plant something!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had just explained to them that Queen Ma came from a distance:

"Concubine, I have met the emperor!"

In front of outsiders, Empress Ma showed full courtesy to the emperor.

"Sister, get up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards Queen Ma was very easy-going...

The couple has a deep love for each other, and officials are not surprised.

But when Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned planting, the civil servants had an ominous premonition, especially when Mu Ying and Ping An were around.

"Originally, I should have harvested the sweet potatoes and potatoes you brought back earlier, but you brought them back, so I will wait for you to come back!"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, everyone felt that something was wrong. He came here just because of those plants in America.

"Sister, which fields are planted with potatoes and which fields are planted with sweet potatoes?"

Queen Ma did not answer directly. She pointed at two places with her finger.

“One acre here is potatoes, one acre here is sweet potatoes!”

"Mr. Li, do you remember that last time I said that I would reward Mu Ying and the others, but you disagreed and said that you would wait until the things they brought back from America proved to be able to change the destiny of China before making a decision!
Now that a year has almost passed, some of these things are already cooked!
How about we witness it with our own eyes? "

Li Shanchang's mouth was filled with a wry smile, Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed waiting for him here.

The emperor's temperament was sometimes as willful as a child's.

He was about to answer when he saw the palace guards bringing many farm tools.

These farm tools were thrown on the ground, and Lao Zhu picked them up!
"The so-called hearing is believing, seeing is believing, my lords, come with me!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took off his outer robe, walked onto the farmland, and started hoeing.

He dropped the hoe, and Li Shanchang and others discovered that a ground egg was dug out of the ground!

Is this a sweet potato or a potato?Everyone was bewildered.

"Then, put it away, I will see how much grain can be produced by one mu of land!"

Digging?

Baiguan's head exploded with a buzz.

Some of them came from hard times, and although some of them were white-clad, they had never done farm work.

Wouldn't it kill them to let them farm the land?
It’s just that the emperor has already done it, will you do it?

Zhu Yuanzhang's revenge came so ingeniously.

Muying and Pingan looked at each other and almost laughed.

Ping'an and Zhu Yuanzhang had known each other not long ago, and they still had some respect for the emperor.

But the emperor gave himself a sigh of relief, and his loyalty gradually increased.

"Father, my servant will help you!"

Muying picked up a hoe from the ground and got down to the ground!

Be safe and learn from others!

"I haven't farmed in many years!"

Xu Da chuckled and went to work in the fields with a hoe.

A group of officials from Zhongshu Province and the Sixth Department were in disarray in the wind.

"What are you waiting for? Get the tools!"

Li Shanchang gritted his teeth and began to move. He himself trembled and picked up a hoe.

"Li Xiang!"

Hu Weiyong was about to speak, but Li Shanchang stared back.

At this time, how could these officials not know that the emperor was dealing with them?

so what?
Is it possible to escape?
So a group of civil servants imitated Zhu Yuanzhang in wielding a hoe and digging eggs in the ground.

Those who can do farm work are fine, but those who can't do it will really suffer.

After working for a while, many people had blisters on their palms.

Zhu Yuanzhang acted as if nothing was wrong and competed with Xu Da for speed.

Before you know it, there are mountains of ground eggs beside the potato fields.

These officials didn't realize what these things represented, and they were almost killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Fortunately, it is winter now, and the weather is just a little warmer today. Otherwise, these people might suffer from heat stroke.

After digging an acre of land, Zhu Yuanzhang went to dig the sweet potato field with a hoe.

The civil servants wailed and did not dare to speak.

Li Shanchang's face was already ugly.

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But he had no choice but to drag himself and continue...

"Chongba, you do the same, but don't look at Mr. Li's age..."

Empress Ma couldn't see it, and reminded Zhu Yuanzhang from a distance. Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to realize something, and turned around and said:
"Let Mr. Li rest. If you guys are tired, you can rest yourself!"

Li Shanchang was taken down, and the others did not dare to rest.

The emperor was still working in the fields. If they really went to rest, they would have reached their current status in vain.

These old foxes secretly complained, but they could only continue to follow the emperor.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't really want to kill them. When he saw that he was almost done, he shouted to the guards in the palace:

"I'm tired, come here and continue!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After Lao Zhu stopped, he asked others to rest as well.

These veterans cried with joy when they were granted amnesty.

"Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey!

The sages do not deceive me! "

Zhu Yuanzhang was talking to himself, and when all the officials heard this, they quickly agreed:
"Your Majesty is right..."

Queen Ma had already sent tea for everyone to drink.

Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting next to Li Shanchang, but Li Shanchang's eyes were looking directly at the mountains of potatoes.

"impossible……"

Li Shanchang only repeated these words, and all the officials looked in his direction.

Everyone was dumbfounded, including Xu Da.

There seem to be a lot of eggs that they dug out themselves...

No, there are many!

These strange crops are round, the big ones are as big as a palm, and a small child can hold them in one hand.

Stacked up, anyone knows the yield is amazing.

The officials seemed to have realized what the emperor wanted to say.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was not in a hurry. The emperor asked his guards to dig out the remaining acre of land.

A red-skinned stem was also in front of them.

"Li Xiang, what do you think the output of this thing is?"

Li Shanchang's expression twitched and he said:
"amazing!"

"Weigh it, how much it weighs!"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to bring the scales up and start weighing them.

Sweet potatoes on one side, potatoes on the other.

As the eunuchs in the palace reported the number, the eunuchs on one side were counting.

The unbelievable numbers echo in the ears of all the adults.

Finally, the eunuch counted the next seeds and reported their respective numbers.

Potatoes cost 130 two pounds, and sweet potatoes cost 960 nine pounds.

These two figures directly confused the officials.

If these two strange things were food, the yield would be simply terrifying.

"Yes, if we can plant it twice a year, the output barely meets my expectations..."

"Twice a year!"

The heads of the officials suddenly exploded. That's not...

The annual output is more than 4000 kilograms?
What is that? It's not much, probably less than ten times the average rice yield.

Even officials who have no interest in farming still wonder what exactly Mu Ying and Ping An brought back from overseas fairy mountains?
This thing is so powerful.

This can suddenly solve the problem of famine in many parts of the Ming Dynasty.

"Sweet potatoes and potatoes are everywhere overseas. They don't care about the ground, they will grow wherever there is soil...

According to Zhang...According to the "Plant Encyclopedia", cultivation can be done anywhere in the north and south of China, even in the northwest where there is a little water shortage..."

Li Shanchang took a breath. If what Mu Ying said is true, these two things can definitely be called divine objects?
"Li Xiang, please tell me, can these two things be used to make Mu Ying a marquis?"

"This thing is more than enough!"

Li Shanchang understood Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts long ago and quickly admitted his mistake.

"I am ignorant and have misunderstood the Marquis of Zhenhai. Your Majesty, please..."

Others are also scrambling to admit their mistakes, not only to Zhu Yuanzhang, but also to Mu Ying and Ping An.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly, this was the effect he wanted.

"Farming is the foundation of the world. Even if we work a little bit, we will be exhausted and out of breath. You must know that what you are doing is the daily work of the common people!

Although they work hard for a year, they often don’t have enough to eat!

These two things are of great significance! "

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that everyone was listening, he let them go.

"Don't leave, you have been working with me for half a day, why don't we hold a fairy mountain banquet today and eat the food you dug yourself?"

When the emperor entertains a banquet, officials naturally dare not disobey.

(End of this chapter)