Since the rumors of cheating marriage, Zhu Ying has always had a small pimple in her heart. Even if Zhang Shou clearly showed her heart to her that time, she still hoped to make up for the missing marriage certificate as soon as possible. However, the emperor was helping her to speak for her just now, but Zhang Shou was still dragging her feet there, and she was naturally a little sulky.

But she didn't expect that her father would suddenly agree so easily! In an instant, she grabbed Zhu Jing's arm and said with a smile: "I know that my father is the best for me!" ”

"When did Daddy treat you badly? He forgot about me just now, which makes me a father so sad! Zhu Jing half-truthfully teased his daughter, and when Zhu Ying let go of his hand, he bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has also told what he should have told just now, can you allow the minister to retire now?" During this time, Richen was not in Beijing, and the old mother and inner son at home were really hard. ”

"Go, go, go!" The emperor looked sympathetic to the image of the courtier, and even waved his hand to Zhang Shou again, "Zhang Shou, you also send your future father-in-law back together, and by the way, let him take a good look at you, and regret it when he got the marriage certificate at home." ”

Even if he knew that his cousin, who was the Supreme, liked to play tricks since he was a child, Zhu Jing still couldn't cry or laugh. But what he didn't expect was that Zhang Shou actually opened his mouth and said: "The emperor has an order, and the minister didn't dare to resign, and he also wanted to send Zhao Guogong home in person, so that he could have a good impression of the minister." But the minister had something important to report to the emperor, and if he went out and came in, it would be too eye-catching. ”

"Oh?" The Emperor sat up straight in some astonishment, and then smiled, "Then you can come and listen to me." ”

As soon as his words fell, Zhu Jing said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the minister has just returned to Beijing now, and the minister will not listen to what Dr. Zhang said, just let Yingying accompany me home." ”

Speaking of this, he didn't wait for the emperor to agree or refuse, so he bowed his head slightly to Zhang Shou and said, "Zhang Shou, you just stay here and explain the things you want to report to the emperor clearly." Yingying, let's go home first. ”

Zhu Ying still wanted to hear what Zhang Shou had to say, and she was full of unhappiness, but this time, her wrist was tightly held by Zhu Jing, and she had to glare at Zhang Shou angrily for a while, and then she was involuntarily dragged out of the Qianqing Palace.

As soon as she went out, she complained in a low voice, "Dad, what are you doing here?" Ah Shou didn't say that he wanted us to avoid it, why are you dragging me away so fast! ”

"There should be a clear distinction between public and private in everything." Only then did Zhu Jing let go of his hand, looked at his daughter who had been pampered from childhood to adulthood with a somewhat complicated expression, and said softly, "Zhang Shou didn't say that he wanted us to avoid it, and the emperor didn't open this mouth, but there are some things that I should know." If Zhang Shou enters the palace today to report the matter is really important, I stay there, and the emperor asks me for my opinion, what should I do? ”

"Then Dad, just say it!" Zhu Ying instinctively blurted out, but then she came to her senses, "Dad, what do you mean is that if you turn around to Ah Shou, you will be regarded as a partial son-in-law, and if you don't face Ah Shou, it will be equivalent to demolishing the stage for him." But the emperor has never cared about this, otherwise he wouldn't value our family so much, and he wouldn't value Ah Shou so much......"

"To be an official is to be spoiled." Zhu Jing smiled slightly, and when he saw Zhu Ying's face full of disapproval, he smiled and said, "Actually, in the final analysis, I just want to avoid suspicion." If the husband in your picture is a mediocre person, it is fine, but he has his own furrow in his chest, and he has to think about him. Therefore, it is better for me, the future father-in-law, to be cautious. ”

When he said this, how could Zhu Jing have the fierceness and decisiveness when Chu Kuan mentioned him before, when the assassins killed people all the way?

Zhang Shou didn't expect Zhu Jing to take Zhu Ying so fast. Seeing that as soon as the people left, the emperor looked at him happily, he could only cough lightly, never mention the somewhat embarrassing scene just now, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, just before Yingying arrived at my house, in fact, Zhang Chen rushed back from Xingtai urgently. ”

The emperor, who had just been joking, immediately changed his face. And Chu Kuan was also one of the people who knew the inside story of Zhang Chen's whereabouts, and when he heard this, he sighed in his heart, and he was very glad that when he heard the news of Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou's arrival and hurried out, he withdrew all the palace people who were waiting.

These days, there is a lot of news in Cangzhou, on the one hand, the prince frequently reports good news, today he says how his results are, tomorrow he says that the spinning workers are happy and thankful, and on the other hand, the magistrates are talking about their own things. Some praised the eldest prince for loving the people like a son, some accused the eldest prince of disturbing the people, and some secretly reported that the eldest prince was complicit with local wealthy families......

Therefore, for Xingtai, who didn't have much news, Chu Kuan couldn't help but be very curious about what the situation was over there. After all, the celebrant does not have so many manpower, so he can only keep an eye on the capital if he stands up to the sky.

However, when Zhang Shou said Zhang Chen's words of asking for help for Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, Chu Kuan couldn't help but feel a big chill in his heart. He peeked at the emperor, and saw that this supreme's face was sinking like water for a while, and he was obviously angry with those big families and the like.

The emperor was angry and angry, but he knew in his heart that it would be impossible for the dignified emperor to personally clean up those profiteers.

Taizu valued business, and even appointed the children of merchants to go out of office, so from the beginning of the founding of the country, there was the purpose of equality between farmers and industry and commerce, but over the years, as merchants became rich and powerful, many things have been done more and more, and now this is just one of them. What's more, whether it is Cangzhou or Xingtai, compared to Jiangnan, the so-called local clans are just township tyrants if they stand up to the sky.

However, compared with what Zhang Shou said, the magistrate of Xingtai has never made a sound, which is more worrying than the constant news in Cangzhou. The prefect of Shunde and the order of Xingtai County were in collusion with the Hao family, so they did not report it; or they are covered by people, so they don't know anything; Or maybe a message arrives, but something goes wrong on the way?

The more the emperor thought about it, the more annoyed he felt, but he didn't expect Zhang Shou to suddenly change his words: "Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu of the Ming Plank Road are not going well, but Zhang Chen, who secretly crossed Chen Cang, has done something even more daring. ”

Although Zhang Chen was not recruited as a son-in-law or niece-in-law before, the emperor had a good impression of Zhang Chen, who was careless and righteous. At this time, he couldn't help but ask with great interest, "Oh, what did that kid do?" ”

Chu Kuan was also very curious, however, when Zhang Shou said with a wry smile that Zhang Chen had the audacity to pretend to be the second prince's henchman, and he actually got the identity bronze medal engraved with the word Yanqing, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Why are Zhang Shou's students bolder than one thief? Lu Sanlang pitted the eldest prince 10,000 times, and Zhang Chen dared to go directly to the second prince's door!

Just when he was secretly sweating for Zhang Shou, sure enough, the emperor slapped the armrest heavily: "What an arrogant and bold boy!" Did he think that I had punished Erlang before, so he didn't take Erlang, the prince, in his eyes? ”

Zhang Shou expected the emperor to react like this - no matter how bad the second prince is, it is also the emperor's own son, not picked up, and he can't let outsiders tease and toss casually. The matter of the eldest prince before can be said to be an accident, after all, the second prince provoked first, and the eldest prince deceived Lu Sanlang to coerce and lure later, so the responsibility of their teachers and students is much lighter. This time was different.

Zhang Chen's guy took the initiative to pit the second prince, to put it seriously, this kind of subjective viciousness is completely different!

He sighed deeply in his heart, and then saluted: "Your Majesty, Zhang Chen is a student of the minister, he is righteous, but impulsive and reckless, he will do many things when he thinks it is right, but he will not consider the influence behind it. The minister knew that his actions were a big mistake, but he begged the emperor to forgive him for his sin for the sake of his youth and ignorance. ”

"The teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy, in the final analysis, the minister did not teach him to think twice about everything, so that he did things without consideration, the sword went sideways, and made a big mistake. Therefore, all mistakes are the fault of the minister. ”

Seeing that Zhang Shou bowed to the ground and could no longer see what the expression on his face was, and the emperor was sitting there with a gloomy face, Chu Kuan couldn't help but feel very anxious. However, even though he was the master of ceremonies and was bent on asking Zhang Shou to go to the Ancient and Modern Tongji Library to see the various Taizu manuscripts that had been accumulated for many years, he did not dare to speak easily about this kind of matter.

After all, that's the Son of Heaven's housework!

This unspeakable silence lasted for a while, and finally, the emperor said lightly: "You get up, first tell me what Zhang Chen has done when he goes down, and tell me what he is." ”

Zhang Shou did not avoid the important just now, first talked about the achievements made by Zhang Chen, and then said that he was bold and reckless, in order to have this opportunity now. Because he thinks that the emperor's temperament should not like such a little trick of gnawing sugar cane.

He straightened up at the moment, concisely and concisely deceived Zhang Chen into the bronze medal of the second prince Yanqing Beppu, and in the process of going all the way down Xingtai, he pretended to be the second prince's henchman, used a large household to borrow money to collect cotton, and then beat away the eldest prince's person 1510 Talk, and then recruited weavers again, and began to weave cloth in the local area by relying on the cotton yarn collected.

When the emperor heard that Zhang Chen had beaten away the eldest prince, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching slightly, and when he heard that the local big family had to submit to Zhang Chen because of this, he lent him money to collect and store cotton, and Zhang Chen also pretended to be against Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, he had nothing to say.

With his understanding of Zhang Chen, that kid definitely thought that pretending to be the henchman of the second prince could do things unscrupulously, conveniently and quickly, so he did it! To expect him to think of any consequences, what effects, is simply to look down on that reckless guy! Otherwise, that kid wouldn't have suddenly lifted the lid when everyone avoided the matter of the camp near the sea, because the road was uneven!

But listening to this, the emperor couldn't help but sigh lightly, and then glared at Zhang Shou and asked, "You also asked Zhang Chen to recruit a group of weavers along the way and open a weaving workshop in the local area?" Could it be that in addition to the new textile machine with greatly increased efficiency, you have even made a new loom? ”

Hua Qi didn't mention it! Ah Liu, he had summoned him before, but he hadn't said it!

Zhang Shou didn't seem to see Chu Kuan's repeated glances at him, bowed his head and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, the minister just thinks that the new textile machine has caused such a big storm before, even if the new loom is almost completed, it is better to cover it for a period of time, and then take it out when the time is ripe." ”

The emperor snorted in an unkind tone: "Oh, then you think the time is ripe now?" ”

"Now the time is not ripe, but Zhang Chen's trouble, Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu are almost cornered, and the time is not ripe, so they can only be ripe." Zhang Shou sighed as he spoke, then raised his head and said, "Please also ask the emperor to give the minister paper and pen, and the minister can draw the corresponding drawings and submit them to the imperial review now." ”

Hearing Zhang Shou's clear statement, Chu Kuan breathed a sigh of relief. However, he was about to go to Zhang Luo pen and paper, but he didn't want the emperor to suddenly raise his hand to stop him, and then said with a smile: "Zhang Qing wants to use the drawings of this new loom to offset Zhang Chen's previous crimes?" You should know that if the loom is as efficient as the new one, then I should reward you. ”

Zhang Shou asked unhurriedly, but then shook his head and said, "The emperor is serious, the minister has already said that Zhang Chen's fault is actually that the minister, who is a teacher, did not tell in advance, and it is the minister's sin." So according to what the emperor said, this drawing is also to compensate for the sins of the ministers, but he is not guilty. Moreover, the so-called extremely high returns are not accurate. ”

He knew that such a statement might not be in line with the emperor's expectations, but he continued unhurriedly.

"Whether it is spinning or weaving, no matter how efficient it is, if the output of the cotton fields at the source is limited, then a large number of spinning workers will soon find that there is no cotton to spin and the number of working days is insufficient. And weavers will soon find out about this. So, if the owner of the workshop suffered only a small loss, the spinners and weavers would soon find out that they had been deceived. ”

The Emperor, who was already in a relaxed mood, sat up straight, then nodded and said, "I remember that you said so in the document you presented to me earlier. There are only two ways to open up the source, one is to reclaim wasteland to grow cotton, and the other is to ...... Rice fields and wheat fields were converted into cotton fields. ”

"That's right!" Zhang Shou nodded heavily, "In the rich land of Jiangnan, because of the pursuit of profit, this phenomenon will become more and more serious. ”

The emperor's face suddenly sank slightly. Even if it was the mercantile Taizu, he was also a heavy farmer back then, or in other words, the heavy agriculture was better than the heavy merchant, after all, only when there was enough output in the farmland, the people of the world could eat their stomachs, and the people of the world could eat their stomachs, then they would not rebel. In addition to foreign invasions, famine caused by various floods and droughts is often the first cause of national destruction.

And Zhang Shou's words have not been finished.

"Of course, if the supply of cotton is really sufficient, and the yarn spun is also sufficient, then the final cotton cloth will be quite exaggerated. Although the price of cloth will fall in response to the abundance of cotton, the spinners and weavers may earn a little more, because the output has increased at least four or five times, and although the exact amount is uncertain, there should always be more than half. ”

"And once they have money, they will naturally try to improve their lives. The demand for all kinds of meat and eggs that you can't afford on weekdays may be even greater. ”

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