Zhu Su was in a good mood after settling the start-up capital. I originally wanted to go back to the village, but half of the guards were taken by Li Jinglong to help the Shen family recover the money Diao Nu had taken away. So he stayed in the prince's mansion in the city for one night.
Zhu Biao and Chang welcomed Zhu Su warmly and looked at Chang's already pregnant belly, which would give birth in a few months. By then, Ming Dynasty will have a new emperor's eldest grandson.
Looking at Chang's rosy complexion, Zhu Su felt slightly relieved. It seems that the sister-in-law has been raised well this time and there should be no physical damage.
Speaking of which, Chang is actually only 28 years old this year. I have told Zhu Biao that immature women are prone to die in childbirth, and I think Zhu Biao will not let Chang give birth continuously as in history.
It should be possible to preserve the life of this respectable and lovely woman.
The eldest brother Zhu Biao has now gradually begun to take care of things. Because Zhu Su informed him of the cause of his death, Zhu Biao did not go on inspection tours on his behalf as in history. However, in contrast, Lao Zhu asked for more familiarity with government affairs. too much. The post of Zhizheng in the newly formed cabinet was specially set up for Zhu Biao. It was also because of his status as the prince that he could control the cabinet and compete with Zhongshu Sheng, and even faintly surpassed Zhongshu Sheng and Prime Minister Hu Weiyong.
Most of the ministers in Zhongshu Province were Huaixi Xunjiu, while most of the cabinet ministers were Qingliu officials. Therefore, they were regarded as the hope of Qingliu and were highly praised by many Qingliu officials. Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve in the cabinet, Zhu Biao also became involved with Qingliu civil servants. He was gentle and courteous, and he quickly gained the support of Qingliu. In addition, when she was young, she followed Lao Zhu among the nobles in Huaixi. Her wife was the daughter of Chang Yuchun, King of Kaiping, and she was a die-hard prince who was fully supported by the nobles in Huaixi.
However, within a few months, the Qingliu and Huaixi Xungui factions, which had shown signs of tit-for-tat opposition in the DPRK, actually appeared to be in a happy mood because of Zhu Biao's appointment in the cabinet.
Zhu Su had to admire Lao Zhu's political ability. Lao Zhu, who knew the history of later generations, became more sophisticated. Zhu Su was supposed to just follow the script of the cabinet policy, but he easily added a prince to serve in the cabinet, which completely eliminated the hidden danger of party disputes between North Korea and China.
All forces except Zhongshu Province were integrated.
Under the leadership of Lao Zhu, this force will become an unparalleled blade that opens up a new era. The next step for this sharp blade is to abolish the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister!
I wonder if Hu Weiyong was trembling at this time.
After chatting with Zhu Biao about the situation in the DPRK and China for a while, Zhu Su decided to rest overnight in the Prince's Mansion after Zhu Biao tried his best to persuade him to stay. The messenger informed Li Jinglong that he would also go back to Cao Guogong's Mansion to visit his elders, and would meet up at the Prince's Mansion the next day.
The next day, Li Jinglong came to the Prince's Mansion with red eyes. Zhu Su, who was chewing a fried dough stick, couldn't help but be surprised: "Jiujiang, what's wrong? Look at your eye frames, did you cry?"
"Is it because my uncle doesn't like you turning dark?"
"I exercised in the village and got a lot stronger. There's no reason why my grandfather wouldn't like it." Li Jinglong shook his head, sniffed, sat down and picked up a fried dough stick. "It's just that my grandfather's health is getting worse and worse. These days, he has always been afraid of the cold, has been shaking, and has started to feel sleepy during the day."
"I'm really worried about him... Sigh." He said and took a big bite of the fried dough stick.
Li Jinglong's grandfather, Li Zhen, is Lao Zhu's brother-in-law and the only living relative of Lao Zhu. Old Zhu Su came to value this brother-in-law. Zhu Su's uncle himself was also an honest man. He often said to juniors like them: "Once you are rich and noble, you forget about poverty and lowliness. This is what a gentleman does not do."
Among the many relatives of Lao Zhu's family, Li Zhen is the oldest. He believes that he should set an example for his descendants. He usually only dresses to suit his body, not to be gorgeous, and the food he eats is only to taste, not to be extravagant. Lao Zhu often gave him clothes, but if he wore them out, he would have to mend them before wearing them again. He also often told his descendants earnestly about the situation when he was an ordinary farmer.
Li Jinglong is also very filial to his grandfather. This time when I saw him feeling unwell when I came home, it was normal for him to have red eyes due to the discomfort in his heart.
Zhu Su secretly recalled it, remembering that Li Zhen had just passed away in the eleventh year of Hongwu, and thought that this illness was not a big problem, so he comforted Li Jinglong and said, "It doesn't matter, my uncle is protected by the royal doctor in the palace, and he is fine now." It's light, and you will definitely recover soon."
"Bifeng Mountain has beautiful mountains and clear waters. It is a good place to retire. It would be better to build a beautiful house and bring my uncle to live with him."
Upon hearing this, Li Jinglong couldn't respond with the fried dough sticks in his mouth, but he nodded in agreement frantically. Zhuangzi is indeed a good place. You can go horse racing and wrestling and watch the sunset sinking into the mountains. It is a freedom and ease that you never experienced when you were a dandy in the city. The training is tiring, but I'm used to it. Not hearing the wake-up whistle today made me feel empty inside.
My grandfather has talked about the countryside all his life, and he would be happy if he could live out of the city.
Zhu Biao had already gone to the cabinet for duty. After bidding farewell to Crown Princess Chang, Zhu Su and Li Jinglong took the guards on their way back to the village. It was still morning when we arrived at Zhuangzi, and we saw two groups of soldiers, one long and one short, outside the village doing morning jogging. One team consists of more than ten guards who stayed in Zhuangzi, and the other team consists of Zhu Shouqian, Fang Xiaoru and Xu Yungong.
Zhu Shouqian's body and bones have also been trained. Now he walks with his head held high, and he no longer looks like the stubborn playboy. He is quite majestic when running in front of the two of them. Xu Yungong and Fang Xiaoru, who had put on short coats behind them, were panting as they ran, their tongues hanging out, without any regard for the young master's face or the so-called respectability of a scholar.
"Look at those two people, they are really embarrassed!" Li Jinglong gloated from a distance.
Zhu Su glanced at him and said, "You weren't doing well at the beginning." I looked at Fang Xiaoru and Xu Yungong again and felt that this military training system was really good. Didn't I see that the airs of those two people had been worn away?
The key is that they can't get enough sleep every day like dead dogs, and they don't have the time to bother themselves with questions. I can fish for two more days.
universal! This excellent system of military training for admission must be popularized in the colleges to be built!
To Zhu Su's surprise, the Shen family's money was delivered quickly, led by a fat man who looked quite similar to Shen Rong. When he arrived at Zhuangzi, his attitude was extremely low. He gave a three-pointed smile before saying anything, which was quite endearing: "Young Shen Wang is the brother of Shen Rong, the head of the Shen family. Yesterday, I was not lucky enough to see the prince's golden face." , I finally feel that my life is worth it when I finally see the prince today."
"You are Shen Rong's younger brother?" Zhu Su nodded in recognition of the ceremony. He glanced back and saw the silver winter melons being moved out of the car one by one, and smiled slightly: "Do you, the Shen family, have a strong family background? I just told you yesterday that you have raised enough silver this afternoon."
"The silver from the Shen family's cellar is actually enough? Tsk tsk..." He looked at Shen Wang with dangerous eyes. A businessman in the early Ming Dynasty was able to hide five million in cash in his cellar. What do these people do to make money so quickly?
"Your Highness has misunderstood! Misunderstood!" Shen Wang quickly explained with sweat on his face. "My brother was afraid of delaying for too long and missing His Highness's business, so he wrote an IOU and went to other houses to get credit first to collect enough money."
"When the cash deposit from my Shen family's hometown in Jiangsu arrives, I will knock on the door one by one and return it to everyone."
"How can the Shen family suddenly come up with such a large amount of money? We have to go back to my hometown in Jiangsu and sell some ancestral property to barely scrape it together..."
As he spoke, he winked at Zhu Su a few times. Shen Wang said pitifully, and Zhu Su already understood that this was the Shen family's expression of loyalty. You have to pay interest when borrowing money. Shen Wang didn't mention interest at all. It seemed that the Shen family wanted to sell Zhu Su's favor with a small amount of interest. As for selling off the ancestral property, your Shen family was just starting to get rich. What ancestral property can you have?
But Zhu Su felt a lot more relieved. If only a single businessman in the district could have such a large amount of cash on hand at any time, then he should really consider advising Lao Zhu to think about how to legitimately confiscate the homes of these wealthy businessmen, and completely overthrow this class and start over.
(End of chapter)
