Chapter 268 This water is very sweet
There are countless villages called Xiaozhangzhuang and Xiaolizhuang in Mandaming.
Emperor Chongzhen has always liked these small villages very much.
Since my hometown before traveling through time in my previous life was an ordinary small village, Emperor Chongzhen liked to find a small village to take a look every time he slipped out of the palace and went on a private visit.
Only Fang Zhenghua and Wei Zhongxian who rushed back to the capital from Shaanxi, and Wen Tiren, didn't like it very much.
For no other reason, since ancient times, those who have been with the emperor, whether they are eunuchs or civil and military ministers, do not like this kind of emperor who likes to be foolish when they are fine.
Too troublesome.
People say that the inspector of the censor left the capital and could not move the earth and the mountains would fail, and this would be fine.
The inspector of the censor left the capital and investigated along the way. If he was upright, he would not know how many officials would be unlucky and would be reported by the censor.
If you encounter something that costs both death and money, it will be unsightly. The officials along the way must not only deal with things up and down, but also wipe the shit on their butts clean.
The inspectors and censors are so majestic, so where is the emperor in vain?
The emperor is so majestic when traveling in confinement.
This is the truest portrayal.
Don’t think that the emperor’s trip will be like the Tang Monk’s trip, the four-pointed Gongcao, the five-sided Jiedi, the six-ding six-jia, the eighteen apologists, the eighteen apologists, and the like will all become little gods running errands on the road.
After all, Emperor Chongzhen was still an emperor of the mortal world, so there was no such thing when traveling.
But Emperor Chongzhen's trip was not easy.
Not to mention that there must be secretly protected by the inner factory, Jinyiwei and the East Factory. The cavalry of the Jingying and Xibe tribes alone must send large groups of troops to disperse them far away, neither too far nor too close.
If it is too close, Emperor Chongzhen's condolences will be insignificant, which will inevitably make the emperor unhappy.
If it is too far away, if the emperor wants to summon the army and cannot get through when he needs protection, then he will wait to lose his luck, especially the emperor Chongzhen, who has never had a good temper.
But no matter how unwilling he was, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to go out for a while, but no one could stop him. As for the censors who often submitted memorials to impeach Emperor Chongzhen to travel in a condom, they didn't know where the memorials were thrown into by Emperor Chongzhen.
After more than a year of training, most of the court officials of the Ming Dynasty were used to Emperor Chongzhen's nature of not playing according to routines.
The current situation is that the Censor and other ministers, such as Wen Tiren, should impeach, and Emperor Chongzhen should be rude, and no one takes this matter seriously.
So Wen Tiren, who had just impeached Emperor Chongzhen, left the capital without permission, was pulled out by Emperor Chongzhen to visit him in a private manner.
Looking at the small village with a silence and a sense of tranquility and distantness in front of me, Emperor Chongzhen said something that was very disgusting: "Look at it, this village is so peaceful, and I don't know how many villages there were in Shaanxi like the small village in front of me.
But there is a volcano under the tranquility, and I can never let go of my heart.”
Wen Tiren was speechless.
This man didn't know what, but he was as persecuted as paranoid, and he always felt nervous that the troublemaker wanted to harm me.
In addition to a few masters from the inner factory, other Jinyiwei guards and Dongchang men had long been spread out, so Emperor Chongzhen just brought Fang Zhenghua and Wen Tiren and others to this small village called Zhangjiazhuang.
Looking at the rising smoke from every household, the adults called the children to get up, and the children who had already gotten up early were chasing and fighting in the village, Emperor Chongzhen was quite satisfied for a moment.
After thinking about it, Wen Tiren said carefully: "Young Master, as long as every village in the world is like this, how can something else happen? The young man is too worried."
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, but did not answer again. He walked around the village and saw a group of children who were fighting stopped far away from him. Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered: "Wait and wait, I want to go over and chat with these children."
After Wang Chengen, who was prepared, took out a bag of candy and handed it to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen took Wen Tiren and Fang Zhenghua toward the children.
However, when a few children who had stopped to watch saw Emperor Chongzhen coming, they immediately took a few steps back, and they were quite interested in scattering birds and beasts.
Emperor Chongzhen raised the bag in his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, come to my elder brother, there is something to eat with candy."
A six or seven-year-old child in the head bit his finger and looked at the candy bag in the hand of Emperor Chongzhen like the other children, but did not step forward, and stopped the other children who were ready to move with a vigilance.
Emperor Chongzhen, who felt helpless, smiled again before continuing: "Don't worry, the eldest brother is a good person, not a kidnapper."
After saying that, he was afraid that these children would not be afraid, so he pointed to Fang Zhenghua and others behind him, and then said, "Look, the eldest brother has these guards, and the family is very rich, so there is no need to be a kidnapper at all, right?"
Wen Tiren also continued: "Don't worry, Your Majesty has said that those who abduct children will be Lingchi."
Although the children couldn't figure out what Lingchi meant, they instinctively felt that this must be a very heavy punishment, but they slowly relaxed a little.
Seeing that the children looked much more relaxed, Emperor Chongzhen raised the candy bag in his hand and said, "Big brother came out to play today. If anyone can answer my questions, I will give you these candy, okay?"
When they heard that this was a condition of exchange, these children believed in the simple thoughts of three points. Since it was not a waste of money, then maybe it was true?
The children who were secretly relieved slowly moved closer to Emperor Chongzhen, and Emperor Chongzhen simply chose to squat down slowly, looked left and right, and then simply walked to a stone next to him and sat down, regardless of the amount of dust on the stone.
Several children slowly surrounded him, but Emperor Chongzhen asked with a smile: "Brother, ask you, can you have enough food every day now?"
After hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, the children had not answered yet, but Wen Tiren was speechless first.
Emperor Chongzhen was still young. Didn’t you know that the child was growing up at this time and couldn’t eat enough every day? Otherwise, why would there be a saying among the folk saying that half a young man is poor?
Besides, even if it’s a question, what are you asking so directly?
But after all, the few children were thinking a little simpler, and the one who took the lead said first: "If we can eat enough, we will be hungry quickly."
Emperor Chongzhen took out a few pieces of candy from the bag and handed it to the leading child who answered.
The child took the candy but did not eat it first, but gave it to some children behind him. Finally, he saw that there were two pieces left in his hand, so he simply handed the extra piece to the youngest little girl.
Wen Tiren said to Emperor Chongzhen with great satisfaction: "Young Master, you will know that if you look at these children, you will be educated properly today, and ZTE is expected."
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and ignored Wen Tiren's words.
At this time, when children’s minds are the most simple, as long as adults teach better, they will talk about education.
However, when Wen Tiren was teaching, Emperor Chongzhen remembered that he had issued an order before, demanding the restoration of social studies.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen continued to ask: "Don't you have to go to the community to study?"
The six or seven-year-old child in the lead was obviously at the age of entering the society, so Emperor Chongzhen asked this question.
The child nodded and said, "You don't need to go today. The gentleman said today is a holiday and I have to wait to review my books at home and not go to school tomorrow."
Emperor Chongzhen continued to ask: "All the children in the village go to school? Are there anyone who can't go to school?"
The child thought for a long time before biting his finger, saying, "There are so many that they didn't go to school. The gentleman said they were not old enough and could not go to school."
As he said that, he also pointed at the children behind him.
When I heard that many children were unable to go to school, Emperor Chongzhen had already started to want to kill people, but when I heard that I was not old enough, Emperor Chongzhen became a little amused.
This child who went to school was obviously older, and he looked like he was six or seven years old, but the youngest one behind him was only five years old and the younger one was only two or three years old.
Where can I learn from a three or five-year-old?
Emperor Chongzhen was helpless, so he gave the child some candy and changed his question: "How long will it take for you to eat meat?"
This time, the leading child replied: "Not necessarily. I couldn't eat it before, but I could eat it later. After the Chinese New Year, our family has eaten meat for four or five times."
As soon as this sentence came out, the children behind them all sucked their saliva together, and the sound of swallowing sounded.
Emperor Chongzhen felt very sad after listening to it.
The son of my later generations had to choose those with crisp bones when eating meat, and those without crisp bones should not eat fat meat. He had to choose chicken wings and chicken legs when eating chicken. He didn't like eating anything else. He had to coax and spoil each time he had to eat.
Even after I traveled through time, since I started with the emperor, my life was not much worse. No matter how simple the dishes were, carefully prepared by the imperial chef in the palace, the taste was quite worse than some of the set meals I had eaten in my previous life.
But the children in front of you have a good life after eating meat four or five times a year. It seems that more children envy such a life.
For a moment, Emperor Chongzhen felt a little sighing.
He simply dispersed all the remaining candy in his hand to these children and let them play on their own, Emperor Chongzhen sat alone on the stone in a daze.
At this time, Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian and others had already come over.
Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was independent and divine, Wei Zhongxian plucked up his courage and said, "Young Master, this has been much better. It was not the case that it was four or five times a year, but even if it was eaten once a year, these families would have a hard time. Even if it was a landlord's family, the family would not eat too many times."
Emperor Chongzhen was awakened by Wei Zhongxian's words and thought to himself that he was really thinking too much.
In the past, various taxes and land rents were pressed on these people, and with all kinds of extra taxes, eating meat was simply unimaginable.
Even if you raise a few old hens at home, they have to be used to lay eggs and sell them for money. Only when these old hens can they be killed and opened, can they be killed and opened.
Emperor Chongzhen cheered up his spirits, stood up from the stone, and simply ordered: "Let's go to the village and find a meal at the fellow villager's house."
When Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian and Wen Tiren said this, his faces were even more bitter.
It’s not enough to go out and wander. You, a few of us, will find a farmer to have a free meal, so you won’t be able to make others poor!
However, Emperor Chongzhen had already taken the lead in stepping forward with the creaking snow on the ground, and the few had to follow him helplessly.
He casually chose a house that looked dull, and Emperor Chongzhen pushed the door and walked in.
In fact, in the countryside, there are really not so many rules, such as knocking on the door. Most of the neighbors of Xiangshu will push the door directly into the door, and then ask who is at home when they arrive in the yard.
Since it was still early, the woman in the yard was cooking fires. At first glance, the man in charge was also chopping firewood in the yard.
As soon as he saw Emperor Chongzhen and others wearing luxurious clothes entering the yard, the man who was chopping firewood put down the axe in his hand and asked nervously: "I wonder what the guests are doing?"
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Brother, don't be nervous. Xiaoke Zhu Xiaosong is a distant relative of the Duke of England's Mansion. He is bored in the city today, so he ran out to play.
But it was about to be time for dinner, so I came to my elder brother's house for a meal."
Seeing the man's eyes showing a look of embarrassment, Emperor Chongzhen continued to smile and said, "Don't worry, brother, I still have some money in my family, so I can't eat my brother for nothing."
The man said in embarrassment: "The good teacher learned that it is not that the villain is reluctant to leave this meal, but the food in the farm is simple, so it is difficult to get into the mouth of the nobles."
Emperor Chongzhen laughed again and said, "It's okay. I'm not afraid of laughing at my elder brother when I say it. It's because I'm tired of eating the good food that I think about coming to taste the food at this farmhouse."
Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was so easy to talk, the man had to respond: "Young Master, please sit in the house first, just wait for the meal."
After entering the house, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "I'm rude and haven't you asked my elder brother's name yet?"
The man smiled honestly and said restrainedly: "If you say goodbye, the villain is named Zhao Da."
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Brother Zhao is a kind person. I can help me get this meal, so I feel very kind."
Zhao Dadao: "But I can't afford to be a young master's statement, it's just a meal."
After saying that, he found a few more bowls to pour hot water for Emperor Chongzhen and others to drink.
Chapter completed!