Li Zhi looked at the room where Wang Chengen was desperately shouting, and was silent for a long time before he said, "Wang Chengen, don't worry, I'm not here to kill your master." ”

Wang Chengen looked at Li Zhi with wide eyes, gasped and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Li Zhi didn't answer this question, just looked at the hidden door lightly.

Li Laosi frowned and looked at Wang Chengen, as if he was very annoyed by Wang Chengen's stupidity. In the eyes of important ministers like Li Laosi, the magnates of the Ming Dynasty were really a group of very stupid people. These people seem to be smart and witty, but in fact they have been doing cannibalistic things. He did everything for the sake of momentary power, and it seemed that he won everything, controlled everything, but in fact he lost everything. The last group of people made their own people and brought down the centuries-old Ming Dynasty.

Li Laosi looked down on such people who didn't understand public morality from the bottom of his heart, including this Wang Chengen. In Li Laosi's eyes, Wang Chengen, like the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, belongs to people who should be abandoned by the times.

Li Laosi felt that there was really no need to keep the lives of Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen.

And now, Li Zhi wants to see Zhu Youzhen, and Wang Chengen is actually shocked to stop him. Could it be that this Wang Chengen doesn't understand? With Li Zhi's identity, he can take Zhu Youzhen's name thousands of miles away with a single sentence.

Li Laosi looked coldly at Wang Chengen on the ground and frowned.

The unhappy face of the veteran general of the hundred battles soon flashed with a murderous aura, and Wang Chengen on the ground looked up at Li Laosi, and suddenly couldn't help but shudder, and subconsciously took a step back.

He glanced at Li Laosi again, becoming more and more afraid. Gradually, he figured out the current situation. Now even if Zhu Youzhen is given a pair of wings, Zhu Youzhen can't fly out. His own screaming was just a joke.

Wang Chengen shuddered again and lowered his head in fear.

Li Laosi eased his face and went up to help Li Zhi push open the door of the main house.

A simple small room appeared in front of Li Zhi. The room was old, and the white lime on the walls had turned yellow, making it look depressing. However, the lime did not fall, so it was not particularly cold. The window shelves are old, but they have been replaced with glass.

It's a barely decent place.

The room originally appeared to be a main room, with an offering table and a few chairs. However, at this time, it has been converted into a study by the owner of the room. A bookcase was placed in the middle of the room, and writing supplies such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and dozens of copper coins were placed on the bookcase. Next to the bookcase is a small bookshelf with a chair in the front and back of the bookcase.

The deposed emperor Zhu Youzhen sat on a chair behind the bookcase.

When Zhu Youzhen saw Li Zhi's appearance, the expression on his face was very complicated, and he slowly closed his eyes.

Li Zhi looked at Zhu Youzhen quietly.

After standing outside the door for more than ten seconds, Li Zhicai raised his feet and walked into Zhu Youzhen's study. Li Laosi hurriedly walked up, pulled the chair opposite the abolished emperor back, and wiped the chair surface with his sleeve, so that Li Zhi had a place to sit down.

Li Zhi didn't sit down, but just waved his hand at Li Laosi and said, "You go out and have a look." ”

Li Laosi knew that Li Zhi meant to avoid himself, nodded and walked out.

Li Zhi walked behind Zhu Youzhen and looked through the books on the shelves.

"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Compendium of Materia Medica"? Do you want to learn some medicine? ”

Zhu Youzhen finally opened his eyes, sighed, and replied: "The common people have nothing to do, so they can only write letters to the villagers for a living. It's just that there are more and more literate people in recent years, and I'm afraid that in a few years, the business of ordinary people will not be able to continue. The common people want to learn some medical skills, and in the future, they will take medicine for the villagers to see a doctor and earn a bite to eat. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "What about your wife and children?" ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, he replied: "The sons have gone on their own, and the daughters who should be married have also been married..."

"My wife and concubine..."

"Several of my wives and concubines are all renting a house in the next town ten miles away to make a living. If the business is good, I will ask Wang Chengen to send a few hundred copper coins to buy them some cloth to make new clothes. If business is bad, I don't want to see them. ”

Li Zhi nodded and did not speak.

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Europe... Europe fought? ”

Although Zhu Youzhen is already the deposed emperor, he still cares about the situation in the world. At least he also wanted to understand what kind of dynasty the Great Qi that replaced the Ming Dynasty was.

Li Zhi said: "It's down. ”

Zhu Youzhen's face froze, and he suddenly closed his eyes again.

The evening sun shone into the house through the glass window, shining between Zhu Youzhen and Li Zhi. The dust in the house is particularly conspicuous in the sunlight, making some old houses even more vicissitudes.

Li Zhi looked up at the medical skills on the bookshelf, turned his back to Zhu Youzhen and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Zhu Youzhen did not answer this sentence.

He suddenly touched the copper coins on the bookcase, and said with some incomprehensible words: "In fact, there are several middle school students in the town who can do the business of writing letters. However, their calligraphy is not good, crooked, and uncomfortable for those who read the letters. So if the villagers have important letters, they will still find me. ”

"Fang Da, the village chief of Fanghua Village, is very good and has always introduced me to business, and he asked the villagers to write letters to me. The villagers of Wangjiaba also attached great importance to my handwriting, saying that my handwriting was particularly decent, but they all came to me to beg me for writing couplets. But I only earn 100 yuan a day, and I don't write five letters. However, the villagers were not angry with me, and if I closed the door and stopped writing, they would go back to other middle school students to write. ”

Li Zhi turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, knowing that this abolished emperor deliberately diverted the topic.

After thinking about it, Li Zhi said: "In the past two years, compulsory education has been carried out in all parts of the thirteen provinces, and primary school is free for three years, or ten years, and all young people in Daqi will be literate." At that time, the most basic craftsmen will also be able to learn complex machinery, operate machine tools, and manufacture high-end products. ”

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, his eyes widened. Obviously, Daqi's various achievements have had a great impact on Zhu Youzhen.

Li Zhi did not let him go, and continued: "In North and South America, Daqi's colonies have expanded to the Atlantic. Portugal has ceded all of Brazil, and now tens of millions of square kilometers of the New World are Han Chinese, and these lands can support billions of Han Chinese. ”

Zhu Youzhen's body shook again.

Li Zhi looked at Zhu Youzhen's face and continued: "The privileges of the gentry and civil officials throughout the country have been destroyed. Now the Han people are no longer afraid of the powerful. Choi Chang-moo has set up a monitoring system, and Han Jinxin has set up a surveillance system to closely monitor every move of unscrupulous officials. The power of the court and the power of the government are completely separated, and the people at the lowest level of Daqi not only divide the land, but also can hold their heads high in the future. “

Zhu Youzhen's face became whiter and whiter.

He closed his eyes again.