After the teaching was over, Eunuch Gao arranged a meal outside the West Corner Gate. Thanks to this special education, Xie Ying, a teaching assistant, also went back to talk about the feast. On the way home, he reminisced about the meal and sighed with emotion: "Actually, it is no different from the usual feasting, but with a ' When I speak the word '', I feel that the food tastes much better than Tsinghua."
Cui Xie pondered for a moment and asked, "Xu Shi usually gives you military attachés mostly meat and vegetables, but this time, most of them are healthy and light meals?"
It really does matter.
Usually, most of the feasts are stewed, fried or marinated mutton, pork, chicken and duck, fish and shrimp, and there are fewer vegetables; the meat dishes in this meal are boiled and steamed, and there are many wild vegetables. Seasonal vegetables do not use much oil, and they are naturally refreshing to eat.
Xie Ying said with a smile: "It must be that Eunuch Gao knows that you are a high-ranking scholar who can guide your health, and the dishes for you are also plain and light dishes. I ate some good dishes by borrowing your light. Divide one share and send some to each of our families, and let the family feel the grace of the Son of Heaven."
Xie Ying has more experience than Cui Xie, so he asked his family to divide the dishes and gave each family a few items.
In the good afternoon, Cui Xie asked for leave at home again, and Xie Ying didn't want to go to Zhenfusi to hang out, so he just went home and went to Cui Xie's house to listen to him talk about what heaven is in the lens. When Cui Xie fooled the prince, he drained his mind, and he didn't want to waste time on optics, so he urged him to take advantage of this time to go out and play.
The two of them haven't gone out for a long time, isn't April the season for outing
Xie Ying hesitated for a moment and asked, "You're the only one who called for impeachment. The guilt document hasn't been written yet, so it's not appropriate to go out, right? Let the officials see..."
Don't be afraid!
If someone sees it, I will write another book of argumentation. I only say that when I entered the palace this morning, I heard that the cement they made helped the frontier army to break down the pirates. I was so excited that I went to the cement kiln outside the city to see the cement burning. control progress.
Cui Xie came over with the excuse that he didn't finish writing for a long time in the morning. He put together a few hundred-word phrases, wrote two more thank you forms, and smiled at Xie Ying: "Just in time to send the memorial on the way. Go to the Attorney General, and then we'll go out to town for a night."
The offer to spend the night out of town is an attractive proposition. Xie Ying immediately threw "Tian Li" behind her head, obeyed "human desires", copied her own thank-you form, and asked the two family members to hand over this chapter to the General Secretary, and she accompanied Cui Xie out of the city.
Cui Xie's request for guilt was sparse, and without the emperor's instructions, he could openly ask for leave and not go to work.
Since going to work on the 21st of the first lunar month, he hasn't had a vacation yet, and he took a full rest when he took the opportunity. The two ran for a while on the Zhuangzi outside the city during the day, watching the burning cement powder, and asking their family to find the concave lens for the craftsman Zhu Zhishan who grinded glasses. At night, they went to the theater dressed as a scholar. happy.
Zhu Zhishan and Li Mengyang are indeed worthy of being famous talents who have left history. It took so long for the "Daily Agricultural Classic" to be written, and some people in Washili outside the city have adapted the small stories into new plays and talk books. When a few masons were sitting together listening to wine, they seemed to have very skillfully regarded Zhuge Liang as the second patriarch after Lu Ban.
Xie Ying had sharp ears and could hear clearly, chuckled a few times, and whispered to Cui Xie: "These people don't read carefully. It is clearly written in the book "Zhuge Liang Builds a Gray City in One Night" that the people who built the gray house The method was written by Wang Zhen of the former Yuan Dynasty, they don't worship Wang Zhen, they should worship you, the editor-in-chief who picked out his method and called it a collection of pictures, but this is the wrong person."
Cui Xie covered his face with the tea cup, turned sideways and replied, "It won't be long before I worship me. Not only me, but also you - we both made cement. Master Lu Ban is the founder of the mountain. Let's worship me. After all, he can be regarded as the ancestor of ZTE.”
It is not "counting the ancestor of ZTE", but "counting the ancestor of ZTE". In the future, when those masons offer their patriarch tablets, they should offer the tablets of the two of them together.
Xie Ying thought of this in her heart, and she couldn't help but rejoice in bursts of joy - if this is the case, the two of them will be alive after death, and they can always be together.
His eyes were shining brightly, and he replied with a smile: "Then we can run to the kiln more in the future, and stare at the cement they make."
Although the Ministry of Industry is already trial-producing cement powder, the cement is the knowledge that Cui Xie took out from modern times. It is more convenient to use their own kiln to make it. What is burning now is a new cement powder that has been added with waste slag from ironmaking at the blacksmith's home, and the effect is unclear.
Xie Ying used to think that these cement powders were almost the same after being burned, and the ones that did not condense were not worth seeing. They only came to see them in ten days and twenty days.
What's more, you can come here not only to see cement, but also to see the ancestors who burned cement
The two of them lived happily for a long time outside the city. The next day, Cui Xie wanted to take another two days of vacation, so Cheng Xueshi sent someone to his home early to find him, forcing him to return to the Hanlin Academy as soon as possible.
Yesterday, he went to play outside the city. He didn't know that the emperor had passed the newspaper to the whole court to show off the achievements of him and Xie Ying. . The emperor has already said this, what are the officials impeaching, and what is he avoiding at home? Come back quickly to write a sermon, and prepare to tell the prince the way of farming!
Cheng Xueshi understood that he was still holding the title of lecturer, and he had to prepare two copies of the lecture alone, so he simply asked him to hand over the work of compiling the conference code to the new sages of kenke, and concentrate on teaching himself. Cui Xie was deeply grateful for his understanding, and distributed the items he was writing, such as "Shangzun", "Cultivation", "Study", "Classical Banquet"...etc.
The sermon prepared for the emperor was about Mencius. He had already learned it well, and it was not difficult to speak. The only thing he gave to the prince was a new lesson that he had never had before, and he didn't even think about where to start. to start.
Is it the scriptures or the history
Among the lecturers who waited on the prince to study, two lectured on the meaning of the classics and the five classics. Later, they would lecture on "The Emperor's Precepts", "Zhenguan Zhengguang" or "Tongjian Outline". No matter what you say, you are in conflict with your colleagues...
After pondering for a while, he simply started with the "cultivation" that he was cultivating when he was cultivating. The example of Taizu who practiced the ritual of farming and the ritual of farming in Xiyuan at the beginning of his practice led the prince to pay attention to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Fundamentally - farming.
Most of his sermons were written in plain vernacular, so easy to understand that even a nine-year-old prince could understand. Cheng Xueshi reviewed the manuscript, nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "When we study with the prince, it's different from reading with the emperor. Although the prince is very smart, but because he is still young, he needs to be careful and patient when he learns. Listen to your heart. What did you say when you talked about the matter in front of the imperial court? His Majesty highly praised you, saying that the prince would choose a servant who knew how to read and read and accompany him to study and arithmetic when he returned from your class, which is more important than before. Working hard."
The prince really has grown tremendously.
When Cui Xie followed his colleagues into the hall to speak directly, he saw two young and handsome eunuchs with him. The Eunuch Liu, who had been by the prince's side, had retreated and fell into the second position.
This "Emperor" is afraid that he will not be able to stand up, and these little eunuchs with knowledge will not let him rise again.
Cui Xie only glanced at him, then took his eyes back, stood in front of the lecture, did not read the lecture on the table, and calmly talked about the cultivating ceremony and the importance of agriculture.
When he compiled Xianzong's records and wrote agricultural papers, he recorded many years of grain harvests and household registration. He interspersed with data in his lectures, so that the prince could intuitively know how many households and how many people there were in Daming, and asked questions from time to time. Let him calculate the average tax and labor intensity of the people.
The crown prince dared to let the inner servant beside him do the calculations, but Cui Xie didn't say anything about him. As long as the answer was correct, he nodded and said yes. So the little prince became more and more daring, and every time he called the internal servant directly, and then told Cui Xie in person when he came to the conclusion, and then put on the appearance of a little adult and sighed: "I can't imagine that the people outside are so hard, and you must cherish food when you are alone. , do not waste people's energy."
Cui Xie complimented him with a smile, and left homework to ask him after class to ask someone to measure the size of an acre of land that the farmers cultivated, walk around it in person, and then ask someone to load two stone grains, and he went to see it with his own eyes. See how much farmers can harvest for a year of plowing this acre of land.
He wants to let Zhu Houzhao know how big this country is and how heavy the burden is on him. This child can't grow into the Ming Wuzong who played the dragon and the phoenix in history. This country, so many people and soldiers, can't stand the tossing of him and his favorite eunuchs and military attaches.
The prince still didn't understand the deep meaning of this, but he felt that this kind of practical work was not too difficult at all, and he was willing to do it, so he replied: "I must look at it carefully, and understand the hard work of the people hidden in it."
The prince is really a wise prince, and he will definitely be the same benevolent prince as he is today!
Several lecturers listened to his words like a little adult, and they all felt that God blesses Daming, and their efforts for many years have paid off.
It seems that the prosperous world is really coming along with the growth of their wise and precocious young prince.
From the early April of the Ganzhou side newspapers, after the capture of more than 300 captives led by the little Tatar prince, the side newspapers poured into the court like flying snow—
At the end of April, when the pirates attacked Jinzhou, the officers and soldiers threw cement ashes down the city and poured water over it in large pots. The siege robbers and the horses below were stained with cement, and the cement gradually hardened during the long-term capture of the city, which dragged the enemy and the horses into inconvenience.
In May, the Tuoyan Sanwei Tartars invaded Liaodong, and the official army of Yizhou fought in the city. With the high and thick city walls, they defended the Tartar siege. They also used slings to throw cement blocks to injure the enemy bandits, beheading one hundred and forty-nine levels. , 200 horses.
Sections of the Great Wall that had not been rebuilt for a long time between Jiliao and Liaoning began to be renovated and strengthened, and the small groups of scattered prisoners who plundered merchants and people in the border cities gradually decreased. In September Ji Town, the entire section of the Great Wall's castle piers were renovated, and the wooden gates were covered with cement ash, and a solid stone fort was built in a few days, which resisted several small groups of pirates intrusion.
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There have not been so many and such concentrated victories in the DPRK for many years. Almost every report is good news, and the heads sent are also real Tatars and Oaras, and there is no need to kill the good and take credit. When the strength of the Ming Dynasty was almost restored to the reign of Emperor Yongle, even Ma Wensheng, the minister of military affairs, secretly took out a copy of the book that had been hidden for many years, and saw it at home in the middle of the night.
Hetao.
If the Hetao can be recovered, the Tatar threat to the capital area will be completely cut off, the captives will be kept outside the country gate, and the shame of the Tumubao change will not be repeated.
The walls and fortresses of the border gates have been reinforced with cement that is cheap and easy to obtain, and can be hardened within a few days. Under the border town. Ma Shangshu's heart gradually grew in the hope of seeing the re-set in his lifetime, but he was afraid that the current national strength would not be enough to support this battle, so he did not dare to sparse it easily...
However, when the New Year is approaching this year, Li Cong, the governor of Fujian, who returned to Beijing to participate in the inspection, presented the same sweet potatoes that the merchants found from Luzon Island, and the yield per mu can reach more than 1,000 catties - brought to Beijing together. Here, there are several businessmen who smuggled this potato from Luzon back to China and helped the local county magistrate to try planting successfully.