After offending all the princes

When the emperor went to the palace for vacation, the courtiers had to follow. It was poor to say that the palace was not big, and it couldn't accommodate too many people. There were only a few people who could live in it.

There are many places where there are small intersections, and all the adults who accompanied him were fortunate to see how His Majesty and the King of Qin get along.

Eat and live together, there is no distinction between monarchs and ministers.

The accompanying companions are all the ministers, they are very winking, but they don't talk too much when they see it.

The Xinggong is built on the mountain, which is indeed much cooler than in the palace. There is also a "water curtain cave" here.

Before Xuanhe came, he didn't know there was a surprise waiting for him.

When he was in the mansion, he would stay alone in the small courtyard all day in summer to enjoy the cool air. The buildings in the palace were neat and grand, it was absolutely impossible to build such a courtyard, and there were no restrictions in the palace.

The courtyard in the center was naturally the residence of the emperor. Xie Chunming changed the small courtyard not far away into a "water curtain cave" and built a water pavilion on the lake.

Xie Chun is not a person who indulges in pleasure, but he will not deliberately find fault. Besides, when Xuanhe is around, he always wants to be closer to him, and spends most of the day in the waterside pavilion.

As for going to bed at night, it is not here. After all, the water vapor is heavy in the water pavilion, which is good for enjoying the cool air, but it is not suitable for living.

This waterside pavilion is not big, there are only three rooms in total, one main hall, one study room and one bedroom. Xuanhe always likes to take a nap in Lili, so Xie Chun looks at the handbooks in the study room and occasionally summons courtiers.

The house is almost built on the water, and there are water wheels to send water to the roof to cool off, so it is very cool, and the summoned ministers are also happy to stay here for a while.

Elder Hong Ge left a bit late today, and he really met King Qin who came to take a lunch break.

Xuanhe got up early in the morning and went swimming. He hadn't put in so much effort for a long time. He was very tired. He took a longer nap than usual, and it was already evening when he woke up.

The dinner had already been prepared, and Xie Chun asked someone to serve it when he saw that he was awake.

Xuan He just woke up and was still a little sleepy and had no appetite. Seeing him like this, Xie Chun asked someone to remove the table and took him out for a walk.

Out of the palace, you can see the continuous fields. It is just when the sun is setting, the sunset glow covers half of the sky, and the smoke from the kitchen is billowing in the distance. On the wheat fields that have just been harvested, young children are carrying baskets and looking for them on the ground. What.

Xuanhe thought they were picking ears of wheat, but when he got closer, he realized that they were catching locusts.

Locusts are grasshoppers. Although they are big, they are still docile when they are in small numbers. When they gather to a certain extent, they are like going crazy. Not to mention their color changes, their temper becomes extremely violent. They learn to fly and move around in groups. Migrate, eat wherever you fly, and change places after eating.

If it is in the wilderness, it will be better, but if it flies to the farmland, there will probably be no harvest.

Now is the time to harvest the wheat. Originally, it would take a few more days, but because the locusts tended to swarm, the agricultural officials decided to harvest them in advance. Simply this year's weather, the sun is shining every day, and it is hard to harvest at any time. OK.

Xuanhe recruited a child to ask what he was doing to catch locusts.

The child was not unreasonable when he saw the two nobles, and with a large basket in his hand that was extremely incongruous with his figure, he answered squarely: "Feed the chickens and ducks."

Xuan He felt that the child was interesting and touched his head.He didn't bring anything to coax the child, so he took off the sachet he carried with him and sent it out.

There are many insects and ants on the mountain. This sachet is used to repel insects. Both the sachet itself and the medicinal materials inside are very valuable, even if it is taken back, it is worth a lot of money.

After returning to the Xinggong Xuanhe, he asked someone to make a few nets and send them to the farmers. Xie Chun didn't know what he was going to do, but only guessed that it was related to locusts.

Locusts like to dry up. If the disaster continues, there may be more next year. The harvest is not good. Once it becomes a plague of locusts, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This thing will naturally disappear when the weather is cold, but it is very difficult to put an end to it.

If it really becomes a large-scale raging climate, and commits crimes, it will be impossible to prevent.

Xuanhe is indeed for the locusts.

This room asked someone to send a net bag to catch insects, and the Star Picking Tower over there came to collect insects.

A few days later, there was an extra table in the Zhaixing Building, called Migratory Locust Tengda.

There are nine dishes in total, and the main ingredients are all locusts, which are basically inseparable from frying, frying and grilling, but the tastes are different, and with different presentations, nine dishes are made up.

The menu was written by King Qin himself, so many people are willing to try it because of the word King Qin, maybe the prince will remember it?

As for eating bugs... As soon as you close your eyes, Zhaixinglou will not sell inedible vegetables.

It was a bit of a surprise to try it this time, it seemed...it was quite delicious?

Fragrant and crunchy, one bite after another, and some can't stop.

Making this locust feast is a bit costly in oil and seasonings. It is unrealistic for ordinary people to make it at home, but it is different in the Zhaxing Tower.

Xuanhe didn't hide it either. The chefs of Zhaixinglou published the recipes after studying the way to eat them. In a few days, there were more and more restaurants serving locust feasts in Beijing.

Rao Xie Chun had been prepared for a long time, but he didn't expect Xuanhe to come up with this idea.

He looked at the few dishes he brought back from the Zhaixing Building, and finally put down his chopsticks: "Ah He is really surprising."

Xuan He raised his eyebrows: "Eat this stuff while it's hot."

He saw Xie Chun's hesitation just now, so he leaned in front of him on purpose, and said with a smile, "Brother Seven, do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."

What he said was a bit of a spectacle, and he gave Xie Chun a chance to taste his craft at the price of eating bugs.

He didn't expect Xie Chun to say yes without hesitation.

Now it's Xuanhe's turn to be in trouble, he really can't.

Other things are fine, this is a bug after all, he hesitated for a moment and asked someone to set up a frying pan.

Most of the worms he knows are deep-fried, and there are also deep-fried dishes in the dishes delivered by Zhaixinglou just now, so there will be no mistakes.

The people below are considerate, and the ingredients are processed before they are delivered. The so-called processing is to wash, remove the head and wings, cut into two sections, and then marinate.

Although eating worms belongs to him, asking others to eat them is not the same as eating them himself, and eating and drinking them himself is another matter.

Xuan He closed his eyes and poured the ingredients from the small bamboo basket into the pot, stirring constantly, while a group of people around him stared at him intently, for fear that any grain of oil that didn't have long eyes would hurt this ancestor.

The fried food is often very fragrant, and after a while, the oil pan began to emit bursts of fragrance. Xuanhe looked at the golden locusts, wondering if there was a crying child next door.

Guessing that the time was almost up, the cook who was waiting by the side came forward very attentively: "Your Highness is talented and intelligent. It is the first time he cooks, and he has mastered the fire so well. The fire oil has no eyes, and I am afraid that His Highness's clothes will be stained. The villain is so bold." , willing to serve His Highness."

Xuan He glanced at him, the cook was quite particular about his speech, and he didn't make it difficult for others, so he nodded to give up his seat and watched him arrange the dishes.

Although Xuanhe only poured the ingredients and then stirred them twice, as long as he did it, let alone stirred it, he just stood aside and watched that the dish was made by himself.

The grown-ups in the palace heard that King Qin made soup for His Majesty to wash his hands, and what he made was the locust feast that has become popular in the city recently, and they couldn't help but wonder, is it really so delicious?

The emperor took the lead in eating it, and more people tried it, and many people were proud of it. For a while, the supply of locusts in the capital seemed to be in short supply.

The business of Zhaixing Building has been going until late autumn, and the locusts near the capital are almost extinct.

This year's summer is extraordinarily long. It seems that winter has entered in the blink of an eye. There are a few sporadic snowfalls, which melt within half a day.The soil was so dry and cracked that it was hard to see frost and dew in the morning.

The weather is already dry, but the charcoal fire is still indispensable in winter. Fortunately, the Hall of Mental Cultivation is paved with earth dragons, and after winter Xuanhe begins to dwell in dwellings again.

I didn't even play Bingxi, my favorite in previous years.Moreover, the water level of the moat has dropped too much, and it is impossible to play this year.

Prices have risen at the end of the year, especially food prices. This year, most places have been affected by the drought. Although there are responses, production cuts are still inevitable.

Anyway, I survived.

Although Xuanhe knows that the plot is not immutable, he is still a little dazed when he has really achieved this step. After thinking about it, he didn't do much, but some things don't seem so difficult as long as they are prepared in advance.

It's just that there is still next year, and next year is the last year, as long as we get through it, the weather will be smooth.

There are two major events at the beginning of the new year, one is spring plowing and the other is imperial examination.

The emperor led all the officials to cultivate the land himself, and Xuanhe also went down to the ground out of curiosity. Xie Chun carefully supported him to stand on the plow, but saw that the cow with the big red flower in front of him suddenly ran away, somehow stimulated. Xuanhe fell backwards without standing still.

The expressions of the people around changed one after another, and they rushed forward to help His Highness King Qin, but none of them thanked Chunkuai.

Before Xuanhe could react, he was already in Xie Chun's arms.

They were surrounded by kneeling people pleading guilty, but Xie Chun only saw the person in his arms, and only when he was sure he was fine did he wake them up.

"A thorough investigation."

The emperor cultivated it himself, so the cows were naturally selected from thousands of people, how could such a mistake happen.

However, in the end, it was found that the bull called and the bee stung, Xuan He was speechless for a moment, was he unlucky?He was a little angry, he was fine when Xie Chun was around, why was he stung by a bee?

For a while, even looking at Xie Chun felt a little angry, but Xie Chun was so obedient to him that he couldn't lose his temper.

Xuanhe ate sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus root for three days.

Osmanthus fragrans and lotus root are not in season, but honey is picked from the mountains, which is also a breath of fresh air.

In addition to spring plowing, there is also Chunwei this year. Originally, Xie Chun was supposed to open Enke when he came to the throne, but there were catastrophes one after another, so this matter was slowed down again and again.

Chunwei happens once every three years, and this year should have been his turn.

Xuanhe got the letter, and many people from the book club established this year relying on his book building came to Beijing to rush for the exam.

Xuanhe didn't ask anyone to disturb him, and only hosted a banquet in the Zhaixing Building after the exam. On the day when the rankings were released, there was a running banquet, and all the people on the rankings were invited.

All of them have a bright future, if it is an ordinary banquet, they will naturally go if they want to, and refuse if they don't want to.

But the King of Qin is no one else, he is not only distinguished, but also a close minister of the emperor.I heard that many decisions in the court are related to him, this is a virtuous king.

They just got fame, and they didn't even have official positions. To them, the king of Qin was as far away as the emperor.

This invitation, they will not not come, dare not not come.

These people may become friends or political enemies in the future, and many of them naturally have a standpoint, with a smile on their face, but witty in their words.

Obviously most of the people were older than Xuan He, but he looked at him and felt full of vitality.

Probably because, although they may come from a family of officials and eunuchs, they have not really been immersed in the officialdom.

These are the first batch of Jinshi after Xie Chun ascended the throne, which is of great significance, and it is also true for Xuanhe. Since these people have received his favor, they should give him some face.

When they first entered the court, it was difficult to say that they had families and teachers. If they were weak behind them, they could easily get on the Qin King's boat.

Xuanhe is very satisfied.

Compared with last year, the scope of this year's drought has been reduced, but the disasters in the affected areas have become more serious. In addition to the drought, there are also locust plagues.

Fortunately, the common people are not helpless against locusts. When they encounter large areas, they simply burn them with fire. Although the crops are burned, the possibility of locusts harming other places is also eliminated.

The small pieces were caught in the oil pan.

Last year, the imperial court ordered the digging of deep wells in various places, and now they are all in use.

Everyone didn't know that the prediction of the drought was made by Xuan He, they only thought that there was an expert in the Qin Tianjian, but they all knew that many measures were proposed by the King of Qin, so they all respected him.

Prestige is a thing, the higher the better, he is not the emperor after all, but Xuanhe has no intention of restraining himself.

Last year, the granaries in various places were basically empty. This year, many places have already sold grain for disaster relief. Now that the supply exceeds the demand, the price has naturally risen. They don't need to maliciously drive up the price, and they just earn a lot of money by storing it for an extra year.

Even so, the rice grains on the market are still decreasing day by day, the people are panicked, and the atmosphere in the court is a little tense, but Xuanhe knows that the end of the mountain has not yet been reached.

Dayong has been rich for so many years, and the people are quite rich. The big families who built granaries don’t know how many things they still have hidden. In the original book, there have been many years of famine and turmoil. .

And these elites are all doing business.

This year is the last year, let's make it through.

Xuanhe is a businessman and knows best how to deal with businessmen.

When both the court and the central government were in a hurry to get angry about the upcoming King of Machines, the Ministry of Household Affairs began to standardize and clarify the names of commercial taxes, and wrote a letter asking the emperor to announce it to the world.

Taxation has always been messy. Although it has been revised in the past, it is the first time that it is clearly stated that no taxes other than items are allowed. This is undoubtedly to encourage business development.

Immediately following the second edict, those who donate silver and grain this year can reduce or exempt future taxes.

At the same time, the news was released that the masters of the Qin Tianjian predicted that the drought is a test from the heavens and it will end this year.

Give some sweetness first, then throw out the bait and wait for people to take the bait, and finally remind you that if you keep it, you will fall into your hands.

This undoubtedly solved the problem. Everyone in the household department admired him, and now they regard him as the god of wealth.

It's just that the courtiers know what he does, the merchants know it, but the common people don't necessarily know it, but they don't know the government but they know the grocery store.

The price of grain in Xuanhe's shop still hasn't risen sharply. Last year, there was still grain in stock. It was not profitable to release it at a low price, but it was not a loss.

Not to mention there are people who donate porridge and food. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that he is losing money.

Someone heard that it was the handwriting of King Qin, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed in front of the grocery store, saying that the prince was righteous and saved their family.

There are far more than one family who have received favors, and when there is a leader, everyone follows suit, one or two, and after a while, they kneel down in front of the grocery store, and the leader said: "My lord, I wish Enshrine the longevity card at home and pray for the prince."

There was another response from the side, and in the end someone actually said that he would build a shrine for him.

When Xuanhe heard about this from Song Qian, he also felt a little helpless. He had already accumulated a lot, and he also took money from Xie Chun's private house. It's not like talking about being rich, but last year's tax revenue was really not as good as what he earned. He could afford to lose a lot of money, but he couldn't say it so arrogantly.

It's just that if this continues, he will not be far away from being the door god of last year's painting, and he is only short of a legendary death.

He thought, if Xie Chun wants to kill him, this is a golden opportunity. After the disaster, let him die in a strange way, even if there is a ready-made excuse, the god will return to his place.

The emperor issued an imperial decree to commend him, and the people set up a shrine for him. Maybe a hundred years later, he would really become a person on the divine spectrum.

The disaster is over, he, the master of the earthquake, is dead, and the emperor can still save face.The more Xuan He thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was really good.

Huya bit the tip of his tongue lightly, he wasn't worried about Xie Chun, others would be hard to protect.

Recently, Xie Chun has started to receive orders for eye drops for Xuanhe, and there are also orders handed over directly from the locality, which is the area where the drought is very serious.

According to the booklet, the local people only know the King of Qin but not His Majesty, fearing that the King of Qin will be disobedient...

Xie Chun never mentioned it in court, let alone Xuanhe.

Xuanhe said it was Bai Xiuyuan.

He silently put away the roster, and wanted to laugh a little, which really meant partisanship and fighting against dissidents, but then he stopped smiling, presumably because he had done too many good things, making people forget his true nature.

At the Wanshou Festival banquet, he held a wine glass and toasted one by one like the adults on the roster.

He didn't say anything and just toasted, which made people extremely panicked.

He got it.

How does he know?

What does he want to do?

Xie Chun sat at the top without any reaction, showing an attitude of impartiality. Knowing that they were suffering, Xuanhe became more calm. He respected each other at a leisurely pace, and the conversation in the hall gradually stopped. Even his breathing became heavy, and for a while there was only the sound of silk and bamboo, which was a bit hollow.

A jug of wine was almost exhausted, Xuan He poured out the last glass, threw the jug to the attendant, and then raised the wine glass to the next target.

Xie Chun finally spoke: "Ahe."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the Holy One still has a bottom line.

However, Xuanhe changed direction and toasted him from a distance: "Your Majesty."

Xie Chun was speechless, and after a while, he also picked up his wine glass to signal to him.

In a silent confrontation, Xuanhe wins.

Xie Chun glanced at Eunuch Zhu, Eunuch Zhu understood, and when Xuanhe got it, it became very light fruit wine. Xuanhe raised his eyebrows and looked at Eunuch Zhu after taking a sip.

Eunuch Zhu smiled flatteringly, and said in a low voice: "Drinking alcohol hurts your health, Your Majesty loves His Highness."

Xuan He glanced at the people on the throne, but he didn't insist. He could hold a lot of alcohol, and he was already slightly drunk from the pot just now, but he was trying to teach others a lesson.

After all, Xie Chun was towards him.

Xuanhe was happy, but the one who was caught drinking by him almost cried out. After a round of respect, this ancestor didn't have the slightest intention to stop. He started to respect the officials. Sometimes it was Yushitai, and sometimes it was Six Departments. The one who got the most points He still wrote bad things about him.

Originally thought that the emperor was towards them and would tell King Qin to stop, but he didn't expect that he was actually supporting King Qin.

They drank old wines, Qin Wang drank the fruit wine loved by his daughter in his boudoir, even ten of them couldn't drink it.