After a while.
A lot of fresh green vegetables were carefully placed in Fengtian Hall by a group of guards.
"Father, this..."
Zhu Biao leaned over his fat body with some difficulty, buried his head in front of the pile of vegetables and looked at them one by one for a long time, then slowly stood up, his face full of excitement.
"Father, the fourth child has actually grown vegetables in Peiping. This is really a blessing!"
Lao Zhu also had wide eyes. He took the pile of vegetables in front of him and looked through them one by one. His face was full of joy, even more excited than Zhu Biao.
"These are indeed newly grown vegetables. We thought that the fourth boy wanted to grow vegetables in winter because of the severe cold in Beiping. We didn't expect that they actually grew them."
As he spoke, Lao Zhu raised his head and looked at Erhu beside him.
"Is the person who sent Furui still there?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the general has arranged for someone to take them to rest." Erhu quickly replied.
"Very good."
Lao Zhu nodded with satisfaction, "Each person will be rewarded with another hundred taels of silver."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Erhu responded quickly and retreated.
In the main hall, Lao Zhu once again looked at the vegetables in front of him and walked around excitedly for two times. Then he took out a courgette. Regardless of the ice shards still frozen on the courgette, he wiped it with his hands and put it in his mouth. , and started eating with a click.
"Biao'er, when we were young, our family was so poor that we couldn't even feed ourselves with chaff every day. Who would have thought that now that we are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, even in winter, the fourth child of our family can actually grow such tender and sweet vegetables in winter? Vegetables?”
"Biao'er, you should also try it. The courgettes produced by the old four species are sweeter and crisper than the courgettes grown by the people in Zhejiang and Fujian..."
"Yes, Father!"
Zhu Biao also picked up a courgette, wiped it carefully a few times, then put it in his mouth, took a bite, and frowned slightly.
Ice, hard!
As for the so-called sweet and crispy ones, there is none.
However, Zhu Biao still endured and ate it.
"Father, what do you do with so many vegetables?"
Old Zhu's body trembled, and he snorted coldly and said: "Didn't each of those ministers complain to you that Lao Si is in Beiping Mansion and hires a group of people all day long to do some weird and crafty work instead of production?
Then let's use the two carts of vegetables presented by Lao Si to hold a Fu Rui banquet and let them all see for themselves. How much does Lao Si, who can grow vegetables in winter, attach great importance to farming?
Let’s see if these ministers still have the dignity to say that the fourth child is not involved in farming..."
"Father is wise!"
Hearing this, Zhu Biao's eyes lit up, thinking of the expressions of the ministers after seeing the vegetables produced by Lao Si, and his whole body was filled with relief.
Soon, as Lao Zhu's decree was passed down, all the officials and nobles in the entire Yingtian Mansion were filled with disbelief.
In a bitterly cold place like Peiping, where the land is as stiff as hard rock in winter and no grass grows, how can you still grow vegetables?
No matter how they thought about it, none of the civil servants could figure out how King Yan could grow vegetables. Could it be that King Yan dared to deceive the king?
As for the military commanders and nobles, their faces were full of joy.
Especially, when a piece of news came out from the Zhongshan Palace, the generals were even more proud.
The civil servants were stunned. Did King Yan of Beiping Mansion really grow vegetables?
Immediately, news came one after another from Beiping Mansion.
The Prince of Yan's Mansion distributed vegetables in large quantities to his ministers.
Prince Yan's Mansion sells vegetables to the people of Beiping Mansion.
A pound of vegetables is worth one tael of silver, but all the gentry and merchants in Beiping Prefecture are rushing to buy it?
At least thousands of kilograms of vegetables were sold a day...
Suddenly, some people were shocked, while others were jealous.
Even Lao Zhu angrily called him a bastard.
However, Beiping Mansion is thousands of miles away from Yingtian Mansion, so even if you have other ideas, it will be of no use.
Immediately afterwards, as the Fuli Banquet began, the ministers in the capital also stopped.
There was nothing they could do if they didn't stop. With Lao Zhu suppressing them, they didn't dare to have any real thoughts about the princes of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, King Yan can grow vegetables in winter!
And in Beiping Mansion.
After receiving Lao Zhu's order, a cold light flashed in Zhu Di's eyes, and he said hatefully: "These bastards are eating everything inside and outside."
Looking at the list handed over by Zhu Liang and others, Guo An also had a look of hatred on his face.
"Your Highness, these idiots dare to file a complaint against the courtiers in Yingtian City and frame your Highness. Their sweaters, iron stoves, glass, and vegetables are all gone this winter.
Not only is it gone this year, it’s gone next year as well. "
Zhu Di said coldly: "Huh, these gentry should be taught a lesson."
"Wei Chen understands."
Guo An nodded solemnly, and then directly gave instructions to Zhu Liang and Li Wang below in front of Zhu Di, Zhu Fu and others.
"The Lord has humiliated his ministers to death. These gentry are so disobedient to morality and justice. They turn into rain when they see the wind. They complain to His Highness to all the ministers in the capital, which leads His Majesty to warn His Highness that this revenge has to be avenged.
I order you to order that no shop in our house will sell anything to these idiots from now on. "
"Yes, Guo Changshi!"
Zhu Liang and Li Wang responded quickly.
Zhu Fu's eyelids twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.
As for Zhu Di, he walked towards the inner court with an expressionless face.
Not to mention the power of Prince Yan's Mansion itself, even with the important status of controlling all glass, vegetable, coal, iron stove, and sweater upper-level workshops in Beiping Mansion.
As soon as the ban was issued by Prince Yan's Mansion, the gentry felt uncomfortable.
The lack of charcoal, iron stoves, sweaters, vegetables and other necessary winter items did not have a great impact on them.
However, some officials, gentry, merchants, and even some common people were subconsciously alienating them because they were worried about being affected by their cooperation with the shops under Prince Yan's palace.
Overnight, the gentry experienced the feeling of betraying their relatives and becoming enemies of the entire Beiping Prefecture.
then.
After persisting for a few days, the gentry all brushed their hands and begged for forgiveness.
However, it had been a long time since they had tried to scare the monkeys. How could Zhu Di and Guo An let go so easily?
at the same time.
With the news that King Yan planted vegetables in winter, it also spread to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places.
The King of Qin, King Jin, King Zhou, King Qi, and King Lu all sent people to Beiping Mansion. The purpose is self-evident.
Zhu Di had no choice but to give each brother two carts of glass and one cart of vegetables.
Naturally, Yingtianfu’s vegetables are also inevitable.
One hundred acres of greenhouses are still missing!
Guo An's heart ached at the sight of these Ming princes coming to rob him.
You know, even he can only send a large cart of vegetables to his hometown in Shunde Prefecture every ten days.
And this time, so much was sent directly to these princes.
But my heart aches and my heart aches, and life has to go on.
It is said that it is difficult to be an official for Lao Zhu, unless he is beheaded, or he basically has to work as a cow and horse for Lao Zhu's family throughout the year, working hard without complaint.
If someone complained to Guo An about this, Guo An might look equally miserable and empathetic on the surface, but in his heart he would have no moral sympathy.
Other officials can basically only take three days off a year, which are the Chinese New Year, the winter solstice, and Lao Zhu's birthday.
The rest is sick leave, and the review of sick leave is even more stringent.
However, when he arrived at Guo An, he was given a leave.
In Prince Yan's Mansion, Zhu Fu was responsible for most of all government affairs.
As for the food, drink and entertainment of His Highness King Yan, it is all the eunuchs or the military generals and guards who are responsible for it.
The only thing left for Guo An, the right-hand official, is to make money, or work in the Gongzheng Institute or the Iron Smelting Institute.
In these two offices, there are basically workers or managers in charge.
Therefore, Guo An was extremely relaxed.
At the same time, the money earned for Prince Yan's Mansion can also make Zhu Di grin when he sleeps.
Naturally, Zhu Di would satisfy Guo An's demands that were not excessive.
During the Chinese New Year, I can easily get twenty days off.
Although it is tight to go back to my hometown, if there is heavy snow on the road or something big happens, the leave can be postponed.
So, Guo An said goodbye to Zhu Di early and rushed back to Guojia Village, Shunde Prefecture.
I met some elders, or spent a day with the parents in Shunde Mansion.
It's New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year.
The New Year customs of the Ming Dynasty are actually similar to those of later generations.
They are all decorated with lanterns and colors, worshiping ancestors, eating dumplings, eating delicious food, visiting relatives and friends, and paying attention to a lively reunion.
When you get to Guo An, you have to add an engagement, send a letter of appointment, accept the invitation, accept the levy, and apply for a period.
During the few days after returning home, Guo An had a heavy task.
Mainly the Guo and Liu families, both of which are considered scholarly families, must have all three books and six etiquettes in place.
Guo Anyuan was working as an errand in Beiping Mansion and finally came back this time.
In addition, both parties were older, so Father Guo and Father Liu discussed it and arranged the process more compactly.
So, when the application period was over and Guo An's leave was all used up, he hurriedly took Guo Erniu and a few guards to Beiping Mansion.
The eighteenth year of Hongwu passed like this.
Guo An felt like he was in a dream. He watched hundreds of officials being killed, then became the county magistrate in a daze, and finally changed his boss and followed Zhu Di.
Then, the entire shops and workshops of Prince Yan's Mansion can be left to his discretion.
And in this rush, more than half of the tasks that he has not completed in subsequent generations have been completed in this life.
Not only did he earn tens of thousands of taels of silver, but he also got a wife who admired him.
If it were left to future generations, he would be a sure winner in life.
It's a pity that in this era when everything is available and nothing is available, the task is still very arduous.
As he was thinking about it, a figure walked in from outside the public room.
"Your Majesty, please see Guo Changshi."
Guo An stopped his thoughts, saw the person in his eyes clearly, and said with a gentle expression.
"The assistant workers are getting ready soon."
"Thank you Guo Changshi."
The person who came was exactly Gong Zhengxu Yun.
Guo An asked: "What's the matter with Mr. Xu coming to see us?"
"Back to Guo Changshi, as the weather gradually gets warmer, His Highness King Yan ordered the officials to let the young men in the glass workshops start going home."
Xu Yun quickly replied, "I wonder what other arrangements Guo Changshi has?"
"Ask those young men to clean up their respective workshops, and also note down some of the young men who have performed well. If we wait for them to have leisure time in the future, we can call them all to continue working."
Guo An said.
Xu Yun responded: "Yes, Guo Changshi."
Guo An continued: "Also, have all the wages and bonuses of these craftsmen been paid?"
Xu Yun said: "Go back to Guo Changshi and settle everything."
"Um!"
Guo An nodded slightly, "You will personally take the time to find a few young men and ask them. No management is allowed to deduct the wages and bonuses of these young men."
Xu Yun said with a look on his face, "Yes, Guo Changshi."
Guo An ordered again: "In addition, we will send people to repair the several workshops near the iron smelting institute and build them with cement according to the drawings I gave you. We will send people to research some new things. "
Xu Yun perked up and responded quickly: "Yes, Guo Changshi."
Afterwards, Guo An explained in detail, and Xu Yun resigned with a bright face.
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(End of chapter)
