"Give...give me...a bite"
Guessing that Chen Qia was really in severe pain, he had to say a sentence intermittently for a long time before he could finish it.
Chen Kan picked up the wine bottle on the table, poured it down, and said with a smile: "You're too late, it's gone!"
"you!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Qia immediately glared at Chen Kan.
Chen Kan spread his hands: "Now you can either drink some porridge or go hungry. There is no wine anyway. It's your choice."
Chen Qia's face turned red, and he didn't know whether he was in pain or because Chen Kan was angry.
But after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Drink porridge."
Chen Kan suddenly smiled brightly: "It's already wrong for you to be like this. Why do you have to play tsundere with me?"
Chen Qia's beard trembled, and then he gave Chen Kan a vicious look and stopped talking.
This guy is so irritating.
Chen Kan waved to the door, and the two maids hurriedly ran into the room.
Chen Kan said: "Did you hear that? Mr. Chen wants to eat porridge."
"I heard it, I'm going to get ready now!"
The two maids looked at Chen Kan with admiration. They coaxed Mr. Chen to stop eating for a long time. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Marquis came, he managed to get Mr. Chen to ask for porridge with just a few words. Yes, it’s amazing.
Chen Kan looked at Chen Qia with a smile and said: "Okay, Old Chen, you are not an outsider. Who can show you with your stinky face? Take good care of yourself. Take good care of yourself and follow me to Liaodong. I have arranged a hard job for you. "
"snort!"
Chen Kan responded with a cold snort.
But Chen Kan knew that Chen Qia agreed.
Literary people are like this. If you follow them too much, they will rub your nose and face. If you provoke them, their true colors will be revealed immediately.
Chen Kan had long known that Chen Qia had no suicidal thoughts, otherwise he would not have waited for him to return to the capital and would have killed him when he was imprisoned.
Doing these tricks now is just to save face.
Soon, the two maids left and returned.
With the hot golden millet porridge in his mouth, Chen Qia still didn't look good on everyone, but he was finally willing to eat.
Chen Kan was watching from the side and saw that he had eaten a whole bowl of millet porridge, and then nodded with satisfaction.
After the matter was resolved, Chen Kan also planned to go back to Fang Mansion to sleep.
But before he could walk out of the room, he was stopped by Chen Qia.
Chen Kan had no choice but to turn around and ask, "Is there anything else?"
Chen Qia stared at Chen Kan and said dissatisfied: "What kind of attitude do you have? You are simply not a son of a man."
Chen Kan raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Then what's important, Mr. Chen?"
Chen Qia looked at Chen Kan helplessly, and then asked coldly: "Have you gone to see Mr. Fang?"
Chen Kan was stunned, but he didn't expect that Chen Qia was asking about this. He thought Chen Qia was going to ask him to borrow money, and he was already ready to refuse.
There is nothing to hide about this matter, so Chen Kan nodded and said, "I've seen it. I just came back from meeting the teacher and heard that you are on a hunger strike. No, I came here quickly to see if you are dead."
Hearing this, Chen Qia's face twitched, and it took him a long time to utter a sentence: "Ivory cannot come out of a dog's mouth."
Chen Kan accepted this sentence without changing his expression. The dog's mouth could not spit out ivory.
"Do you have anything else to do?"
After Chen Qia pondered for a moment, he said calmly: "Since you have gone to see Mr. Fang, you should also understand the current relationship between His Majesty and the courtiers, right?"
Chen Kan nodded and said, "I understand, but... it's none of my business!"
Hearing Chen Kan's words without quality or cultivation, Chen Qia couldn't help but feel depressed.
With this anger, I just felt pain everywhere on my body.
Noticing Chen Qia's expression, Chen Kan had to sigh reluctantly and said: "I already know that His Majesty's ambition has grown to the point where he is self-willed and cannot listen to advice at all, so what you want to do, It’s to limit His Majesty’s power, right?”
Chen Qiadao: "Yes, His Majesty needs restraint now. Aren't you going to contribute a little to help your teacher?"
"Help, how to help?"
"Should we restore the prime minister system that had been abolished by the great ancestor, or block the ships transporting silver for His Majesty, or should we directly remonstrate with him?"
Chen Kan asked three questions in a row, which immediately stunned Chen Qia on the spot.
Seeing Chen Qia stunned, Chen Kan shrugged and asked, "What does Mr. Chen think I can do?"
After Chen Kan asked all the questions, Chen Qia's face became visibly gloomy.
Chen Kan couldn't bear to say: "I know you think that the imperial power should be restricted, but His Majesty insists on putting himself on the throne of God. Is it humanly possible to stop it? Teacher, how long can he stop it?
And Mr. Chen, you paid such a high price, but what did you get in the end?
You are no longer an official of the Ming Dynasty. Even if His Majesty wants to be above all living beings and thinks that he is the reincarnation of Emperor Zhenwu, it has nothing to do with you.
With this skill, you might as well think about how to make more profits for Ming Dynasty after going to Liaodong. "
"But, isn't it good to be the emperor of the world?"
Chen Qia couldn't help but retort, but his face turned pale immediately.
Chen Kan looked at him coldly: "Being an emperor on earth must be restricted, and there will be ministers like you jumping out to cause trouble one after another. How can it be compared to the God in heaven who follows the law as he says?"
Chen Qia's eyes darkened completely, a tear fell from the corner of his eye, and then he murmured: "Ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats is an ancestral tradition."
Chen Kan continued to touch up the sword and said: "Since Wang Anshi said that destiny is not enough to be feared, ancestors are not enough to follow the law, and people's words are not enough to be compassionate, nothing can't be changed."
After saying Wang Anshi's famous words, Chen Kan suddenly felt gloating and said: "Wang Anshi is a great Confucian sage, does this count as you Confucian disciples digging their own graves?"
Chen Qia didn't speak, just lying on the bed blankly, murmuring Wang Anshi's wise sayings that have resounded throughout the Central Plains civilization for thousands of years.
Then a sad smile appeared on his face.
Yes, this is not digging your own grave. What is this?
Chen Kan looked at the changes in Chen Qia's face and had no intention of comforting him at all.
It is Confucianism who puts imperial power on the altar, and it is Confucianism who wants to limit imperial power, but it is easy to praise but difficult to limit.
Especially today when Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is very popular, except for people like Fang Xiaoru, no one dares to confront the imperial power head-on.
Like what Fang Xiaoru said to him in prison, in the final analysis, they were just seeking psychological comfort.
How could a master of learning like Fang Xiaoru blame Chen Kan alone for Zhu Di's changes?
So the purpose of what he said was not to blame, but to remind Chen Kan to take precautions, to remind Chen Kan that Zhu Di was going to become a god, otherwise Fang Xiaoru would eat too much and worry about Chen Kan not dying well.
In fact, the emergence of Chen Kan only accelerated the process at best, bringing the supremacy of imperial power that would have appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty.
However, Chen Kan is optimistic about the current changes in the Ming Dynasty.
As long as the Ming Dynasty can become stronger, the people can become rich, and the Han people can straighten their backs, there is actually nothing wrong with having a god as a leader.
Chen Kan had already experienced this kind of thing in later generations.
Under the rule of great men who were like gods, without those old literati holding back, the Han people burst out with unparalleled vitality and stood on top of the world again in just seventy years. What's wrong with that?
Anyway, he thinks it’s pretty good!
After admiring Chen Qia's change of expression, Chen Kan said no more, and after saying goodbye, he returned to Fang Mansion.
The next day, Chen Kan came to Baochao Department early in the morning.
Accompanied by Li Shi, Chen Kan met with several craftsmen from Baochao Division.
Nowadays, Baochao Division still strictly abides by the rules and regulations set by Chen Kan, and at the same time, it has also added a lot of fresh blood.
Many old craftsmen are already in a semi-retired state, such as Lao Hei and Lao Xie, who have become masters. They only need to walk around every day to give guidance to their juniors.
It is worth mentioning that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty now have a salary to receive when they work for the court. Although it is very low, they can indeed receive money.
Forbidden troops such as the Three Thousand Battalion and the Shenji Battalion in the army are also gradually beginning to implement the military pay system.
In other words, in addition to ensuring daily food and grass, you can also receive an extra amount of money.
The money did not come from the state treasury, but Zhu Di paid for it privately and sent it out in the name of the bank.
Chen Kan, Lao Hei and Lao Xie sat on the floor. After discussing the treatment of craftsmen in Ming Dynasty, they couldn't help but asked with a smile: "At your current age, it's almost time for you to retire. I don't know what will happen to you after retirement." Intend?"
Lao Hei and Lao Xie were never reserved in front of Chen Kan, and they couldn't help but shake their heads when they heard this.
The old gangster said: "I am a rough man. I will only make treasure money in this life. After I teach these younger generations, I will go home and entertain my grandchildren."
Lao Xie also smiled and said: "Speaking of which, the old man's daughter-in-law gave Lao Xie's family a little grandchild with a handle this year. I guess he can crawl now."
When Chen Kan heard this, he first congratulated Lao Xie, then smacked his lips and said, "If you two withdraw from Baochao Division, it will be Baochao Division's loss."
Lao Xie said: "Hey, there's no point in losing money. When old men get old and can't work anymore, young people will naturally take over. Now that the government doesn't force craftsmen to be recruited, the lives of the younger generations are much easier, and there are more willing ones. Someone who learns a craft.”
"That's good, that's good!"
Chen Kan sighed with emotion, and finally expressed his intention of coming today, and asked with a smile: "After you two quit the Baochao Department, how about you come to my house to work?"
That's right, Chen Kan is here to poach people today.
The craftsmen of the Baochao Department and the Ordnance Supervision Department were definitely the most skilled and creative in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Since we have to arrange an escape route, we must naturally choose the best option.
We can't let Chen Kan go to open up wasteland by himself when the time comes. Let's prepare early. When that day comes, wouldn't it be better for him to just go and enjoy the blessings?
When the two old craftsmen heard Chen Kan's obvious solicitation, they were stunned at first, and then overjoyed.
"Old man, how can an old man be so virtuous? How can he be so virtuous..."
