There is no trace when you come and go without a trace. When you go, it is the same as when you came. Why bother to ask about floating things? They only live in dreams. Life may be just a longer dream. It’s just that we are in a dream and don’t know it.
The weather has turned cooler, and after a gust of autumn wind, yellow leaves are everywhere. Some elderly people have already put on cotton-padded clothes early and are lying on the warm kang.
The young Ming Empire is like this late autumn and early winter, with decadence and death everywhere. The huge empire is already riddled with holes and scars.
Today is the time for another regular meeting once a week. Zhu Xiluo also had to get up early, dress, eat, tidy up, and then get into the royal chariot and drive towards the Qianqing Palace.
Even in the palace, there are flowers that bloom all year round, and there are people who clean it every day, but it is still gloomy, which always puts more weight on the tired body, making the shoulders more bent and breathing more difficult.
When they arrived at the hall, the participants had been waiting early. When they saw Zhu Xiluo, they stood up and saluted. Zhu Xiluo waved his hands, and then everyone sat down. Zhu Xiluo took the top position, and the regular meeting began immediately.
A huge country is similar to a larger family. Every day is a trivial matter. There are many and complicated things. What is the income today, how much is the expenditure, how is the harvest in the field, what should I do if the food production is reduced, and conflicts with neighbors. How to solve it, etc., etc., it is the same every day, every time, and it is not completely solved.
However, two new topics emerged in this regular meeting. The first one is the issue of the White Lotus Sect. The White Lotus Sect has been around since ancient times, and everyone has long been accustomed to it. That is the business of the old Zhu family, and whoever becomes the emperor will be responsible for it. No matter who you work for, you still get paid, so this topic was discussed early, but the other topic was discussed for a long time.
According to the news from the Jin Yiwei lurking abroad, there is a big mess in the beautiful country. Although the Ming Empire has always adopted a closed-door policy and never actively bullies others, it is necessary to be on guard against others. Some necessary international news, The Ming Empire also needed to understand, so it had the establishment of foreign imperial guards.
The thing is like this. It is said that the beautiful country is now adopting a rotation policy. The two major parties take turns to be in charge of the country. It is said that last year a person named Shameless was the leader. This year it should be the turn of a person who is stepping on the pedal. Who would have thought At the end of last year, Jian Deng suddenly had an accident. I heard that he took a very happy medicine before going to bed at night. You must know that Jian Dian is over 70 years old. The kind of tiger and wolf medicine can actually be tolerated by this body. The result After a night of too much enthusiasm, he went to report to God and took his wife with him. As a result, in the past few days, several of his sons and daughters died one after another. The causes of death were all strange. Some died of diarrhea after drinking cold water. , some people fell down and died because they couldn’t stop walking on the road. The worst thing was that the daughter who was pedaling was only fifteen or sixteen years old. One night she secretly went out to drink, but she didn’t come back all night. In the morning, her body was on the street. He was found dead in a miserable condition. It was said that he was violated by dozens of homeless people during his lifetime, and that his body was also eaten by wild dogs after his death.
The matter was so strange. Naturally, the party where the pedal belonged was suspicious and began to propose to Congress to investigate the matter. However, the army rushed into the house the next day. It turned out that Shameless had already completely controlled the army, and the army no longer belonged to the country. , and became a private armed force of Te Shameless. Te Shameless also cut the knot with a sharp knife and began a bloody partisan massacre. A large number of innocent people died in the hands of the army. After a year of massacre, Te Shameless completely took control. The regime of the beautiful country will never hear voices that are different from its own. It is especially shameless to truly become the leader of the beautiful country.
Countless people are arrested and killed every day. Naturally, the people's hearts are in turmoil. Farmers are not farming, businessmen are not opening their markets, and the economy of Beautiful Country is plummeting. After all, Beautiful Country has become its own private property, and its wealth is decreasing day by day. , Te Shameless was still very anxious. To make the country strong, it was nothing more than being rich and having endless money. However, if too many bills were printed, inflation would occur. Te Shameless still understood, so he thought of another way. , was also the favorite method used by the leaders of beautiful countries in the past, to make war fortune by launching wars. In fact, war has advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantages always outweigh the benefits, but everyone is already afraid of being killed, so who dares If you raise objections, you will naturally support the particularly shameless proposition with both hands and feet.
Therefore, Te Shameless launched a sudden attack on the Japanese pirates on the pretext that the girl sent by the Japanese pirates was impure. The Japanese pirates never thought about why the beautiful country they supported like their ancestors would attack them. They were completely unprepared, and soon most of the country was destroyed. After the fall, of course, the beautiful country had no interest in the Japanese pirates' land, so they negotiated peace and ceded the land. They had to pay compensation, pay the bill in gold and silver, and were not allowed to issue IOUs, and all kinds of goods, food, wine, clothes, textiles, mobile phones and cars , and even sanitary napkins and toilet paper, as long as they are owned by the Japanese pirates, Te Shameless will ask for them. Moreover, the requirements for the women who are paid tribute by the Japanese pirates every year are also raised, and those with uneven teeth will not be required. Many people speculate that Te Shameless has requirements for teeth, which is probably Te Shameless was injured when the woman served him with her mouth. Of course, Te Shameless's special requirements for teeth also stimulated the development of Japanese pirate dental technology in disguise.
The war against Japan brought huge benefits, which also gave Te Shameless a taste of the sweetness, so he bullied some small countries one after another. Until later, in the first half of this year, Te Shameless probably got carried away and overestimated his own abilities. As a result, We went to challenge the military power of Tsarist Russia, but the result was very unfortunate. Te Shameless suffered a loss. It is said that out of the tens of thousands of troops sent out, only a thousand people came back alive. Te Shameless has the kind of temper that he will offend if he can, and if he can't, he won't. , so he turned his target to the Ming Empire. A Marco Polo Travels made everyone in the world aware of the wealth of the Han nation. Unfortunately, the shameless plan has not yet been implemented. As a result, Tsarist Russia was bullied for no reason. The troops were sent to the border between Saudi Arabia and the United States. You must know that Tsarist Russia is not a vegetarian. It is especially shameless to respond in a hurry. It is just a pity that after several battles, the beautiful country is always the loser. Tsarist Russia is particularly shameless and wants peace talks. However, the news from Tsarist Russia Peace talks are possible, but it would be extremely shameful to take the blame and commit suicide, and it would also be extremely shameful to give his newborn daughter to the tsar as the 288th concubine. So I was very shameless and angry. The peace talks were useless. I will fight with you until death. At worst, 40 million people in the beautiful country will be buried with me, so the whole people became soldiers. The adult men of the Beautiful Country all went to the battlefield with weapons. Not to mention that there are advantages to having more people. This is not because Tsarist Russia is located in a cold zone and has a very low fertility rate. Naturally, there are not enough soldiers, so the Beautiful Country has the advantage. Now The two countries are at loggerheads with each other. The leaders of both countries are shameless people, and naturally they are not willing to be the first to admit defeat. Therefore, this war will not end in three to five years.
This news is undoubtedly good news for the Ming Empire. When enemies fight, they will naturally benefit. It's just a pity that few officials of the Ming Empire have the foresight to take advantage of the opportunities of wars in other countries to develop themselves. Most of them just ignore things that have nothing to do with themselves.
This is other people's business. The Ming Empire never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, but everyone just listened to it and didn't take it seriously. The more discussions there were, the more time they spent teasing.
At the end of the regular meeting, Zhu Xiluo looked at his group of important ministers and said something ambiguous, "When the emperor arrives in the capital, everyone should take care of his business." After saying this, Zhu Xiluo left.
The important ministers looked at each other and sighed.
It was also the first time that Zhu Xiluo did not take a car. He still walked on the path step by step, stopping from time to time to rest.
Ye Yiluo, who had gray hair on his temples, and the beggar back then had grown up and gotten older. He patted his calf, and Zhu Xiluo had to get in the car and sighed, "I'm getting old too!"
"Your Majesty, you are full of energy and your face is rosy," Hao Liande said from the side.
However, Zhu Xiluo interrupted him before he finished speaking, "Haha, stop saying those flattery words. They shout "Long Live Your Majesty" every day. Could it be that I can really live ten thousand years? There were many emperors in ancient times who pursued immortality. But there are still a few people who can achieve immortality and will not be a withered skeleton after a hundred years."
"Your Majesty,"
Zhu Xiluo waved his hand and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'm fine. By the way, that boy is doing well in Songjiang Mansion."
So Hao Liande told what happened in Songjiang Mansion, including Zhu Wuyu's worship of the king as his disciple.
"Wang Bu Die, is he the boy who left the Wang family more than ten years ago?" Zhu Xiluo asked.
Hao Liande had naturally investigated whether the king was alive. Not everyone could stay with the current prince casually. When Zhu Xiluo mentioned it, Hao Liande hurriedly replied, "The Holy One is right, it's him."
Zhu Xiluo smiled slightly, stroked his beard and said, "It's interesting, I went around and came back again."
"Your Majesty, do you want to,"
"You don't have to do anything. Duke Min is getting old. Maybe he can give me a talent from the Ming Empire before he dies."
The ginkgo tree in Min Guogong's mansion has also lost its last leaf. Before it gets dark, there is already cold moisture in the air. Shopkeepers also close their doors early, eat early, and go to bed early. Warm quilt, warm embrace. Of course, there are also some truly homeless beggars, curled up in a corner with a few straws and a few rags. One night may be their whole life.
Since Prince Shouyi of the Kingdom of Min became seriously ill, the Duke of Min's mansion seemed to be isolated from the rest of the world. There were no visitors or people going out to visit the mansion. Except for the servants doing normal shopping, no one from Duke Min's mansion was seen coming in or out every day.
It's still that small courtyard, with leaves falling everywhere, and a few withered flowers still standing proudly, even though they look really ugly now. No one will admit that they are ugly, let alone feel that they are inferior to others. Some people do not want to accept old age. When they were young, they galloped on the battlefield and killed the enemy. What a show of force and glory. But in old age, everything is just in the past.
As soon as Duke Min fell ill, everyone rarely ate together. It was still in the same hut. Duke Min barely supported his body. In front of him was a bowl of gruel and several plates of side dishes. Although they were not big fish or meat, each side dish was very delicate. After a mouthful of gruel entered his mouth, Min Guogong picked up a peanut with chopsticks with his trembling hands, put it into his mouth, and held it for a long time until the peanut became soft before chewing it and swallowing it.
"The taste is quite delicious, but it's too hard." Putting down the bowl, Wang Shouyi looked at the drunkard beside him and said with a smile, "I'm old, and my teeth are not good anymore. People, you can't accept old age."
"Hehe, sir, you are old and strong, you will have no problem living for another eight hundred years." It is obvious that the drunkard is not very professional in flattering.
"Do you think I am the emperor's master? The goblin is more than a hundred years old and still acts like a child." Wang Shouyi asked as if he thought of something. "I heard that the emperor came to Yingtian Mansion."
"Yes, I heard from the servants who went out to buy that the emperor's master arrived yesterday. The emperor went ten miles out of the city to greet him. He wanted the emperor to live in the palace for a few days. However, the emperor was unwilling to do so. He said he wanted to experience the sufferings of the people. I need food for a few days in Yingtian Mansion." Drunkards are skeptical about the authenticity of this matter. After all, no one has a good life but has to be a beggar. It's just okay, there is no need to doubt it if it happened to the Emperor Master. After all, this is something everyone in the world knows.
"Haha, that old man is still like that." Wang Shouyi laughed. "He went to Yingtian Mansion to beg for food. Isn't this old man very proud of being in Songjiang Mansion? It's not easy to beg for orders."
"Haha, what I'm talking about is that today I heard that the Holy One asked Hao Liande to pretend to be a passerby and give a hundred taels of alms to the old man." Probably thinking of something funny, the drunkard chuckled and continued, "And I heard that after the Holy Emperor held a regular meeting today, he issued a special decree requiring all officials in the capital to pass by the emperor's begging jar and must give alms, otherwise they would be bullying the emperor."
"Oh, that's right," Wang Shouyi also smiled slightly, "It seems that the emperor's harvest should be good today."
"That's not bad. You don't know, sir. Since the Holy Emperor issued this edict, many officials have taken a detour when going home. I heard that the place where the emperor begged was in front of Li Yutang, the Minister of Civil Affairs. And Mr. Li I chose the back door to go home."
We will not hesitate to sympathize with people who really need our sympathy. However, if we just regard begging as a hobby and entertainment, everyone will unceremoniously withdraw their sympathy and money. After all, we are not Wealthy people.
"Haha, there are still too few selfless people," Wang Shouyi laughed.
