Zhu Fan's face suddenly turned from white to green, and then from green to purple. Remembering that I almost had to fill the "well" with water to make tea in the morning, I felt sick in my mouth.
He quickly put back the half-picked meat buns.
"Third brother, why don't you eat?"
"Uh, haha. Third brother is not hungry, not hungry." Zhu Fan smiled very reluctantly. I almost drank the water from Gong's bucket. It's strange that I still have the appetite for breakfast.
This Imperial Manor is really different. He was so majestic that he almost lost all his face...
In order to avoid being embarrassed again, after breakfast, Zhu Fan dragged Zhu Su and asked him to take him around the entire palace. Zhu Xi and Zhu Di naturally wanted to accompany them, and the four brothers walked out of the house lightly dressed.
"This is the field in the village." Zhu Su pointed to the endless fields on the farm behind the village. The fields are laid out in a regular layout like a chess game. Every few acres, there is a canal passing through for irrigation. In the distance, several small water carts are set up on the canal, and there are several children in the village playing with shrimps beside the canal.
"What a peaceful pastoral." Zhu Fan praised. Zhu Su was very proud. Since being criticized by Lao Zhu, he had been focusing on the people's livelihood in the village, but he had achieved little success.
These canal waterwheels were built by farmers during the slack period.
"Why are only those few acres of land different?" Zhu Di asked, pointing to a field in the distance. There were only a few people in the other fields, but there were many people busy in that field, and there were people with pens and papers taking notes nearby. "Oh, those fields are experimental fields." Zhu Su explained. "I have tried to come up with a fertilizer that may increase soil fertility and increase food production. First, designate an acre of land for testing."
"Fertilizer?" Zhu Fan's eyes lit up. My father attaches great importance to agriculture. If we can increase grain production, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement. "Is this fertilizer also a matter of studying things?"
"How to make?"
"It's nothing, just mix urine, cow dung and other materials with soybeans and plaster of paris. Let it stand at a certain temperature." Zhu Su explained casually. "It can also be regarded as a branch of the study of things, belonging to the 'chemistry' category."
"Uh." Zhu Fan's expression changed slightly as he always loved cleanliness. The nauseating feeling began to rise in my throat again.
Zhu Su didn't notice anything strange about Zhu Laosan. From the corner of his eye, he saw a farmer who was about to go to the fields salute him and asked: "Old man Wang, why are you going to the fields in person today?"
"Where is your son?"
"Reply to the prince." A trace of sadness appeared on Old Man Wang's face. "The Prince of Yan'an was riding a horse in the village the day before yesterday. He rode very fast and stepped directly into my land."
"My son went up to argue and was whipped unconscious by a riding crop. He is still lying on the bed!"
As he spoke, tears streamed down his eyes.
"Is this happening?" Zhu Su frowned. Riding a horse across a field?
"Gou, take twenty taels of silver and give it to Old Man Wang, and ask Tang Jingye to pay it back later."
"Ask a few people to help take care of the Wang family's crops. Old man Wang is so old, can't he do the hard work?"
The dog behind him responded, and Old Man Wang knelt on the ground and thanked him profusely. Zhu Su said to the three brothers with a gloomy face: "Let's go to the next place."
…
"What a luxurious house! The top of the head is actually covered with glass!" Zhu Ming was amazed. Glass ornaments are extremely expensive in Yingtian, and some exquisite glass ornaments can even sell for tens of thousands of taels. Who would have thought that this humble earthen house would have a glass roof?
"It's just that there are only flowers and plants inside." Zhu Di looked at the glass on the roof shining in the sun, and then looked at the flowers and plants inside, and felt that they were quite out of place.
"You don't understand this, Fourth. This is called a greenhouse." Zhu Su explained. "Although it's not too cold in the weather, green vegetables don't grow in winter."
“But in the greenhouse, it’s like spring all year round, so green vegetables can still be grown.”
"Is this also the magical function of observing objects?" Zhu Fan asked.
"Xiao Dao'er, Xiao Dao'er." Zhu Su waved his hands, but his face was filled with unbearable pride. "Old Huangtou, where are the courgettes that grew a few days ago? Pick some quickly and give them to my brothers to try."
"Your Highness..." Old Huang, the farmer in charge of the greenhouse, had a slumped face. "When Prince Pingliang came to see the greenhouse the day before yesterday, he said he was thirsty and ate the courgettes after picking them. I couldn't stop him."
"There is only one courgette left now. How about you?" He said, pointing to somewhere in the greenhouse.
Zhu Su looked at the only deflated cucumber on the vine, with black lines all over his head.
"Forget it, don't eat it!"
"Let's go! Go to the next place!"
…
Zhu Su took Zhu Lao Er, Zhu Lao San and Zhu Lao Si around the village, and almost everywhere he received feedback from noble playboys who were causing trouble in Zhuangzi: In addition to the Prince of Pingliang and the Prince of Yan'an, there was also Yuzhang The prince Hu Wei molested the women in the village in the street; the prince Mei Yi of Runan used his strength to rob merchants of goods; the prince Zheng Xiang of Xingyang got into a verbal fight while listening to a book...
Zhu Su, who had a black line on his forehead, managed not to get angry and returned to the village, where he happened to bump into the chief steward Xiang Deng. "Your Highness! You came just in time!"
"Something bad has happened! The Shen family sent someone to report that our glass shop in Suzhou has been closed down by Suzhou officials!"
Zhu Su quickly took the letter from Xiang Deng's hand. When he opened the letter, he saw that Taihu Lake in Suzhou was now in serious trouble with bandits, and the thieves had even harassed the city several times. The shop jointly owned by the royal family and the Shen family in Suzhou City was directly blocked by Xunhe Censor in the name of protection.
"Your uncle!"
Unable to hold back his anger, Zhu Su threw the letter directly on the table. Now Zhuangzhong's investment is entirely supported by the glass shop that cooperates with the Shen family. For the time being, cement is only provided to the court at capital cost. Other industries have just started and have not yet produced output. The shop in Suzhou is blocked and cannot be shipped with money, so it will lose money. A huge portion of your income!
"My father tricked me all! He let me get involved in the fight between the government and China for no reason. Not only did I have to wipe the butts of these dudes, I was inexplicably hated by others, and I couldn't even do business!"
As soon as these words came out, the timid Xiang Deng immediately turned pale. Zhu Feng and Zhu Fan were the first to tremble in the face and quickly held back the berserk Zhu Su.
"Lao Wu, don't talk nonsense! Do you want to get beaten by the dragon belt?" When Zhu Xi mentioned Lao Zhu, he was like a mouse meeting a cat. He even looked around nervously, as if Lao Zhu would jump out of any corner at the next moment. As if coming out.
"My father has his own reasons for asking you to do this." Zhu Fan also advised. "What happened in Suzhou is probably due to those civil servants who gave you some eye drops. Just write a letter and explain it to your father, and ask him to issue a decree or your elder brother to speak. Then everything will be fine."
Among the nobles in Huaixi, Li Shanchang and Xu Da are the most respected. Hu Weiyong asked the distinguished princes of Huaixi to gather under Zhu Su's command in the name of studying, in order to give those centrists the illusion that the nobles of Huaixi were on Zhu Su's side.
Even Liu Bowen, the benchmark figure of the Qing school in eastern Zhejiang, took the initiative to enter the imperial palace. Even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the cabinet were shying away from the affairs of His Highness Zhu Su. The authority of Zhongshu Province has been on the rise again recently. Coupled with all kinds of rumors and the emperor who always favored the prince, he was strangely letting it go.
Overtly and covertly, many officials with dirty buttocks had accepted Hu Weiyong's recruitment because they had been given the opportunity, in order to continue to dominate and dominate the officials under the protection of the fifth prince Zhu Su.
(End of chapter)
