When Wu Bozong saw Zhu Bai, he was very moved and sighed. He held the completed star chart above his head with both hands and said, "I am lucky that I have lived up to my destiny."
He was dressed in commoner clothes and a new turban. He looked like a scholar, not a bit downcast, but more like a fairy.
Zhu Bai looked solemn and took the scroll with both hands: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Wu."
He can now understand Lao Zhu's theory of "suppressing someone before reusing them".
A person who cannot withstand the test of depression and loneliness in adversity is not qualified to enjoy the prosperity and excitement in good times.
Zhu Bai told the story of asking Wu Bozong to edit "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Rescue".
Wu Bozong touched his palm and sighed softly: "Ah, His Highness Duomeng looks up to me. This is a great thing that will benefit the people of the world and will be famous for generations. I am so lucky to be able to participate in the revision."
Zhu Bai smiled: "Then I will continue to hire Mrs. Wu according to the previous monthly salary."
Wu Bozong's face felt slightly hot: "I don't need a monthly salary to do such a big thing."
In fact, Zhu Bai was just looking for an excuse to make his life easier.
How could he not know?
Uncle Wu spent a month carefully reviewing and proofreading the first draft of Zhu Bai's "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief" before he dared to hand it over to Zhu Bai.
Then Zhu Bai took Zhu Xi into the palace and reported to Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu remembered that Zhu Xi had done this at Zhu Bai's place, and was very happy. He ordered it to be printed in a book, and then distributed by the Ministry of Household Affairs to all states and county governments as essential collections.
As soon as Zhu Bai came back, the dates for the provincial examinations in various places were set, which was probably the Mid-Autumn Festival in the twelfth year of Hongwu.
Thanks to the official schools established by Zhu Bai in various places over the past few years, the number of people participating in this year's rural examination has greatly increased compared with the last time.
Zhu Di was the first to realize the importance of recommending talents to the central government compared to Zhu Fang and the prefects in various places. He established official schools without Zhu Bai's emphasis and provided various manpower and material support.
Let's do the math, even if a hundred people are recommended and only one will be left as a capital official, won't they still be their people and be able to help them speak in the court?
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Although the local government offices handed back all their profits, they were still unwilling to do so. They all secretly cursed Zhu Bai in their hearts: "You pick the weak persimmons."
Zhu Liangzu directly opened a dental shop to steal the business of the official dental bureau. Why didn't you, Zhu Bai, deal with him?
Isn't it because Zhu Liangzu is too tough and you don't dare to mess with him?
However, Zhu Bai hurriedly sent notices to various checkpoints and roads around the Chief Secretary of Guangdong: Goods that are not local goods merchants in Guangdong and have not been authenticated by the government bureau are not allowed to be shipped out of Guangdong.
Merchants want to ask the reason: the official teeth bureau has no control and cannot judge the quality of the goods, so they are not allowed to leave Guangdong.
Don’t you, Zhu Liangzu, think you can dominate Guangdong with one hand?
Then let you cover up enough and suffocate yourself to death.
As soon as the merchants saw that they dared to continue trading in the tooth shop, they all quickly transferred to the official tooth shop.
Even those who have already done business in the dental shop can only consider themselves unlucky and spend some money to go to the dental office to fill in the appraisal documents.
In fact, in total, the cost is about the same as the transaction cost directly at the Guanya Bureau, so the merchants have no complaints.
Within a few days, no more merchants came to Zhu Liangzu's dental shop to do business.
Zhu Liangzu was so angry: "You Zhu Bai!! Regarding my relationship with Lao Zhu, you still want to call me uncle!! How dare you openly go against me. Okay. You will be the first grader of junior high school, and I will be. Fifteen. I will prevent your merchants from leaving Guangdong."
He asked all the exits from the city on the border of Guangdong to follow the rules and not allow merchants who were trading in the Guanya Bureau to leave the city.
It's a pity that those merchants all followed the goods escorted by the guards of the Guanya Bureau.
No guard in Guangdong dared to stop the guards from Guanya Bureau.
Everyone in the world knows that the difference between the Jingwei and the Waiwei is the direct line and the collateral line. They seem to be on the same level, but in fact they are more than one level higher.
Who among the outer guards dares to block the path of the Jingwei?
To put it more seriously, it is treason and immorality; to put it more lightly, it is the following offenses.
Therefore, the merchants followed the Guanya Bureau fleet and enjoyed the benefits of Guanya Bureau again. They secretly sighed in their hearts: Were they deceived by eating lard before? I was greedy for that little advantage, but ended up suffering a big loss.
The Chief Envoy of Guangdong had seen Zhu Bai's methods, so he simply handed over the profits Zhu Liangzu had given them in the past three months to Zhu Bai without any need for Zhu Bai to say anything.
Zhu Liangzu's dental clinic lasted another month and was closed quietly.
Zhu Bai told Wang Litong that the little money Zhu Liangzu earned would be given to him for military expenses and there was no need to pursue it.
Anyway, he had no intention of giving Zhu Liangzu the Yanling Sword.
After this incident, Zhu Liangzu probably didn't have the face to ask Zhu Bai for the Yan Ling Dao.
Both the government and the public once again appreciated Zhu Bai's means and courage in doing things.
He clarified several chaotic things in three strokes and put them back on track, as if he had never left.
Zhu Biao and Lao Zhu watched silently.
Lao Zhu also commented to Zhu Biao: "Look. Although this traitor is young, he is really experienced and ruthless in his work. He can hit the weak point in one go. Sometimes we reflect on whether we must kill people to establish our authority."
Zhu Biao sighed: "No. I just lack the aura of my twelfth brother."
Lao Zhu shook his head: "You don't have to look down on yourself. You have your strengths. This traitor often said in front of us, 'If we want to talk about who among the brothers has the ability and moral character to command the world, the only one is the eldest brother. The eldest brother doesn't need to be like me. He's a great talent for being so clever. It shows that he knows his position very well."
Zhu Biao felt even more ashamed: "He is really broad-minded."
He went out of his way to praise me in front of my father. But I often say bad things about him.
Lao Zhu added: "But, you are too upright. People who are too upright can easily be blinded. I asked the traitor to take care of some things because I want you to see that some things cannot be handled by too upright methods." . Otherwise, it won’t be done despite all the effort.”
It was for this reason that Zhu Miaojiao got sick due to excessive heart heat.
Zhu Biao cupped his hands: "Yes."
Lao Zhu said: "Treacherous ministers must be cunning, and loyal ministers must be more cunning in order to survive and not be harmed by treacherous ministers. And those of us who are emperors must be more cunning than them, so that we will not be led by the officials. After all, loyal and traitors Just a thought. There is no one in the world who only cares about the country and the public, and does not seek personal gain or consider himself at all. At least we have not seen him yet."
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Zhu Fan wrote a letter to Zhu Bai, asking him to intercede with Empress Ma on behalf of Concubine Li Shu.
Only then did Zhu Bai find out that Concubine Li Shu was banned by Queen Ma.
Queen Ma is really an extremely wise person. Although she doesn't leave the harem, she knows everything about important things.
However, Lao Zhu doesn't care about this harem matter. It doesn't seem good for him to interfere in it.
But Third Brother wrote to him personally to ask for his help, but he just ignored him.
Zhu Bai thought for a while and went to talk to Concubine Hu Shun.
When Concubine Hu Shun paid her respects to Queen Ma in the morning, she hesitated to speak.
In fact, she didn't want to care about these things, but it seemed that except for her, no one in the harem and concubines had the position to intercede with Queen Ma for Concubine Li Shu.
