The main theme of the Ming Dynasty is actually leisurely, and the pace of life is so slow that it is panicking.

How extravagant can the Ming people be, just take the essayist named Zhang Dai, who is not yet born, the son of the official eunuch, he took the township test once in his life, but he didn't take the test; Writing poems, painting, playing chess, and playing, he is known as one of the four great historians of eastern Zhejiang and the holy hand of sketches.

In order to find the most compatible tea and spring, he spent more than two years brewing famous tea from various places in famous springs; In order to learn to compose poetry, he and his friends founded the "Silk Society" and the "Poetry Society", which met regularly to practice the piano and chant poetry;

In order to learn the most authentic cockfighting training method, he sent people to secretly search for the descendants of Fan Xu, a famous cockfighting master in the Han Dynasty; In order to eat the richest food, he personally raised cattle to make cheese;

In order to eat the fattest crabs, he specially founded the "Crab Club" for this purpose, just to be able to meet with friends to eat crabs every October; In order to make playing cards more fun, he personally designed various solitaire cards and invented a variety of solitaire games...... In addition, kicking, watching the snow, hunting, listening to plays, swimming in the lake, collecting, appreciating, until the country is ruined.

It's very comfortable to be a middle-class in Daming, who doesn't yearn for such a life?

In order to restore a lost ancient song, it took two or three years to taste the ancient taste, collect a large number of historical materials, and rebuild an ancient style courtyard according to the content, and wait until the garden is built, and then call friends to gather, and personally perform Xiao accompaniment, after the song is dispersed, the garden is demolished, and everyone is happy.

Regardless of time, money, fame, gains and losses, Chen Mu is very envious.

It's a pity that it's just the life he yearns for, not the life he wants to pursue, no one can covet pleasure with a secret that is about to destroy the country, Chen Mu can't.

So he said goodbye to Xu Da and entered Beijing City, rested for two days, yawned and washed at the ugly hour on the third day, changed into a new official robe, hung a tooth tag issued by the court to enter and exit the palace around his waist, and took Juniper to ride a horse to the noon gate.

Juniper was dressed thickly, wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, and the whole imperial city was still asleep when he went out, and he was shivering with cold when he opened the door in the dry night, and the cold wind on the pavement made people wake up in a blink of an eye.

The weather has been abnormal in the past few years, Chen Mu returned to Beijing to calculate the time, usually at this time Beijing should have warmed up, who knew that there was another snow last night, and the ground had accumulated thicker than the soles of his shoes when he went out, and there were snowflakes floating in the sky, which was cold on his face.

According to the time of later generations, it was not yet two o'clock in the morning when Chen Mu went out.

According to You Qi, who reported back and forth, it was because the little emperor secretly drank in the palace on the eve of the palace, and was found by the Empress Dowager Li to kneel for half a night.

Of course, the courtiers and hundreds of officials still went to participate in the early court in those two days, but Xu Jue helped Chen Mu cheat, and only asked the palace people to send his tooth card last night, without the tooth card, naturally there is no need to participate in the court discussion.

Chen Mu felt that he might be the first among the court counselors, because until this time he knew that others generally had houses in the south of the city, maybe they had houses in the east of the city, west and north of the city, but most of the court counselors would buy a house in the south of the city, and with this house, they would be able to sleep for more than half an hour in this dry and dark morning.

However, looking at the official sedan chair on the road, he doesn't seem to be the earliest, and obviously he doesn't live the farthest, and even when he turned onto Chang'an Street, some people said that he was carried by the official sedan chair all the way from Andingmen.

Outside the noon gate, Chen Mu felt that the statement of the civil and military officials was very wrong, and hundreds of people gathered in Wuyang, waiting for the bell and drum to sound, this was already Zhang Juzheng's meritorious service in the examination, and he dismissed many officials in Shatai, otherwise there would be more than 1,000 Beijing officials alone.

Chen Mu didn't know what the rules were, so he found a place to stand at random, and the scarlet-robed crane on his body could scare the officials in the blue and green next to him to death, if it weren't for Xu Jue's special brocade guard waiting outside the noon gate, he would drag him away when he saw him, and he didn't know what joke to make.

"Yipin Officer, what's the matter of standing blindly outside the noon gate, this is the straight room of our Jinyi Guard, sit for a while."

Jinyi Qianhu led Chen Mu all the way to the straight room next to the city gate, Xu Jue, the commander of the brocade clothes, was eating soy milk with his legs crossed, looked up and saw Chen Mu, pointed to the table and said: "There is still an hour to leave the palace gate, come to a bowl of soy milk?" As for your groom, let's have someone bring it to you. ”

The court will be such a serious matter, seeing Xu Jue snoring soy milk here, the little expectation in Chen Mu's heart was cleared in a blink of an eye, and he waved his hand and said: "I ate at home, Juniper is outside, have you seen him, can he come in?" ”

Xu Jue waved his hand, just wiped his mouth and stepped forward to listen to him whisper a few words, what 'the blackest one leads a white horse', then he raised his head and smiled at Chen Mu: "See me, we Jinyi are all from the palace, different from the palace city that your minister saw, and you are much more comfortable, you should go home when you enter the palace - just when you come back, my brother asks you something." ”

Chen Mu didn't have much interest sitting down, picking his eyelids: "Huh? ”

"Tobacco, from the South Seas, but isn't this thing hard to buy?" Xu Jue beckoned, someone handed him the oiled pipe, lit the fire with the flint fire machine and said with a smile: "This is all your thing, last year a Guangdong petty official came to Beijing to send it, and then I sent someone to buy it, but I didn't buy it." ”

"I can't stop it." Chen Mu sighed for no reason when he saw Xu Jue like this, and then smiled: "Tobacco is out of Luzon, this thing is not good for smoking too much, so I will ban the internal flow of businessmen, you take these two things, they are all things that I want to discuss in the handbook of this court meeting." ”

The flint fire machine is still a military fund, and strictly speaking, it cannot be outflowed; Tobacco is prohibited in the southern ports, and it is also prohibited by the decree of the Nanyang Military Government; Now that they are all in Xu Jue's hands, it is obvious that these things can't be blocked.

It's okay to say that this thing itself Chen Mu is like a commercial, it's just that the flag army has not been equipped before, so there is no outflow; It's hard to say about tobacco, he plans to take it to the imperial court and let the hundred officials discuss it, the disadvantages of this thing Chen Mu are very clear, but instead of letting people risk illegal smuggling, it is better for the government to monopolize it, and it can also extract heavy taxes.

"Then I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, the court meeting is just a formality, and nothing can be done." Xu Jue took a puff of cigarette after dinner and chuckled: "Since Grandpa Jiajing's meeting, the court meeting has been useless, and the real big things are in the handbook." Instead of talking about this matter at the court meeting, you should go to the old mansion of Zhang Ge to talk about it in the next court. ”

"There are a lot of people talking about it, what can they discuss!"

Xu Jue said, put the pipe aside, waved his hand to let the brocade clothes in the house go to another room, the round body in the python robe hugged his arms like a ball, and said to Chen Mu with a smile: "You ask Nanyang to get some tobacco for my brother and tell you a secret." ”

Tobacco for secrets, Chen Mu rolled his eyes at Xu Jue, it's for your good not to let you smoke, you love to smoke, you can lose weight if you don't get it right, he nodded and said, "Wait two months, what's the secret?" ”

"Surely you haven't heard of it." Xu Jue laughed so hard that his teeth were puffed, "Your Majesty wants to knight you!" ”

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