It was said that he didn't care about the food, but in the end the emperor still took care of the food.
Zhu Di was not hungry, he was full of anger. But Zhu Gaojiu came to the palace early in the morning without eating and was still hungry.
The palace's food was as light and simple as ever, with white rice porridge, pickled cucumbers, and sesame seeds that were still hot from the oven.
Zhu Gaojie was never merciful when he came to the palace to eat. He showed off six sesame seed cakes and drank two bowls of rice porridge, which made Zhu Di a little greedy.
"Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost? How can you eat so well?" Zhu Di was so angry that his tooth ached.
He usually allowed the prince, the King of Han and officials from the six cabinet ministries to eat in the palace, but whoever ate in front of the emperor was not cautious. Drinking a bowl of rice porridge was like drinking poison. No one was as ferocious as Zhu Gaojie.
This guy is really rude!
"I have to pay out of my own pocket to eat in the palace. If I eat in the palace, it is reimbursed by the government. Can it be the same..." Zhu Gaojie said in a low voice, "Mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are. If you can rub them a little bit..."
"What did you say!" Zhu Di was furious.
Damn it, every time I sit down to eat with this kid, it makes him so angry that his balls ache!
Zhu Di frowned and said: "If you have nothing else to do, go to Jiming Temple and let the old monk teach you what it means to be foresighted. Take one step to see a hundred steps."
"That would be too troublesome, the road is too long." Zhu Gaojie retorted.
Zhu Di was a little confused: "What's the trouble? Jiming Temple is in Jinling City. You can get there in just two steps. What's the trouble?"
Zhu Gaojie was stunned: "Jiming Temple is in Jinling City? Isn't it in Dongguan?"
"What a mess." Zhu Di was a little confused.
"I didn't say anything." Zhu Gaojie pretended to be confused.
Zhu Di glanced at him suspiciously, then remembered that he hadn't said anything about the business yet: "By the way, about business, you need to supervise Beizhen Fusi more."
Although what he said was anticlimactic, Zhu Gaojie still understood the meaning: "The emperor wants his ministers to investigate...the flood in Shandong?"
"The methods you proposed of concentrating water for sand flushing and diversion of the Yellow River are indeed good, and the work-for-relief method is also good, but whether the plan is good and whether it can be implemented are two different things." Zhu Di said with a hint of meaning, "Relief and relief for the people. , One pound of rice is not as good as three pounds of bran. But I want to make one pound of rice into one pound of rice. As for how to do it, you will deal with it."
Looking at the past dynasties, the court has never lacked a kind of person to be active in disaster relief.
Such people are corrupt officials who take away life-saving food from refugees.
They made a huge fortune from the country's financial difficulties. The imperial court distributed 10,000 shi of grain to the refugees. After heavy deductions, only 100 shi of grain fell into the hands of the refugees.
Originally, the grain distributed by the imperial court was enough to steam rice, but after passing through the hands of the chief envoy Si Yamen, only thick porridge was left. After the thick porridge passed through the hands of the state government yamen, it turned into porridge. After the porridge was peeled off by officials from various county yamen, only the soup made from chaff was left. However, officials in the disaster area wrote a letter of gratitude to the emperor and praised him as a flower. The emperor was also happy. He cut off his flesh to relieve the disaster, thinking that he had done a good deed and that future generations would label him a "saint". .
The uninformed refugees secretly scolded the emperor for being stingy, but they were grateful to these corrupt officials who delivered a hundred shi of grain to them.
Bran mainly refers to the discarded materials after grain processing, including chaff, wheat hulls, and stems. These are strong and resistant cellulose components. In addition, there may also be a small amount of the outer layer of rice and wheat endosperm that remains. . Among them, what can be digested and absorbed by humans as nutrients is the small amount of the outer layer of rice and wheat endosperm that may remain. The bran bran used to make rice soup may squeeze out a little bit of nutritional value. If you heat it directly like cooking and then eat it, you are more likely to die from choking, swelling, or malnutrition than to survive.
Can bran be eaten? Yes, when you are hungry to a certain extent, bran is better than eating rice bran, but it can only satisfy hunger and prolong life, and cannot provide people with nutrients to survive. At most, it is used as a filling to slow down the self-digestion process of the stomach.
Therefore, sensible ministers will replace the rice distributed by the court with bran during disaster relief after a natural disaster occurs. Because one pound of rice can be exchanged for three pounds of bran.
Three hundred stones of bran and chaff are better than one hundred stones of rice.
It is better to say it is a man-made disaster than a natural disaster.
Anyone else might have acquiesced, but Emperor Yongle refused.
Zhu Di came during the chaotic era of the late Yuan Dynasty, and he knew very well why his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, rebelled.
In the third year of Zhengzheng, a drought occurred in Haozhou. Severe locust plagues and plagues occurred in the spring of the following year. The imperial court allocated food for disaster relief, but it was all divided up by corrupt officials. On April 6th, Zhu Yuanzhang's biological father starved to death. On April 9th, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest brother starved to death. On April 12th, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest nephew died of starvation. On April 22nd, Zhu Yuanzhang's biological mother starved to death.
There is no coffin or coffin for the funeral, and the body is covered with dirty clothes. It is three feet high.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What is the use of such a court?"
In the first month of the first year of Hongwu, the emperor was located in Yingtian Mansion. The country was named Daming and the reign was named Hongwu. In the autumn of the same year, he captured Dadu and ended the Yuan Empire's rule in the Central Plains. Later, the southwest, northwest, Liaodong and other places were pacified, finally completing the destiny of great unification.
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Zhu Di has always been domineering in his work. The imperial court issued 10,000 shi of rice, so the 10,000 shi of rice must be implemented.
Anyone who dares to reach out and touch the food provided by the imperial court for disaster relief will be killed.
If you embezzle a stone of food, one of your corrupt officials will be killed!
If you embezzle ten shi of food, your whole family will be killed!
For embezzling a hundred shi of food, I will kill all the nine corrupt officials in your family and kill them all!
"My dear, I understand." Zhu Gaojiao responded with his hands raised.
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After leaving the imperial study, Zhu Gaojie went to the East Palace.
The day after Zhang Yingzhen and Zhu Gaojie's wedding, according to the rules, they had to visit the queen first. However, when Empress Xu died of illness and Zhu Di did not re-establish a queen, the harem naturally considered the crown princess as the head of the female family, so he should visit the crown princess.
The Crown Princess's surname is Zhang. Although she has the same surname as Zhang Yingzhen, the power behind her is far less than that of the British Crown Prince. They are just ordinary people. This was actually Zhu Di's balancing act. Among his four sons, the second, third, and fourth married princesses who were all daughters of wealthy families, but the princess was just the daughter of a commander.
You must know that even the crown prince's concubine Guo is the daughter of Yingguo Gong Guo Ying, while the prince's principal concubine is only a third-rank daughter.
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After entering the East Palace, they saw Zhang Yingzhen and the Crown Princess sitting in a pavilion chatting and laughing happily.
"Sister-in-law." Zhu Gaojiao bowed his hands.
The Crown Princess had a delicate face and was gentle and elegant in every move of her hands and feet. She replied: "Prince Qi is here at the right time. Your Princess is such a good girl. She is kind, virtuous and kind. You must treat her well after you go back." To others.”
"That's natural." Zhu Gaojie said with a smile.
"Hey, Fourth Brother, you are really good. You stayed at the old man's place to have a meal." At this time, someone came over. It was the prince who was being supported by the "good saint grandson" Zhu Zhanji. He wiped his forehead He was sweating profusely and said, "I called the three of us over early this morning to scold me, but I was scared to death."
Then, the prince pointed at Zhu Gaojie and smiled at everyone: "You don't know how majestic the fourth child is in the imperial study today. He has thousands of strategies and strategies and shows off his magical powers. The second child and I were dumbfounded. Even the emperor They were all shocked. After so many years, Lao Si is the second person I have seen who has the ability to turn off the old man."
Zhu Gaojie is the second person the prince has ever seen who is capable of turning Zhu Di off.
The first one is the late Queen Renxiao Xu.
Prince, this is already a very high praise.
