[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Du Ruo didn't want to do anything to the Du family, after all they have the same surname.If he was really convicted, the most troublesome person would be himself.The scriptures for impeaching him can kill himself, Du Ruoke has no interest in arguing with those speech officials again.On the contrary, Zhu Houzhao was tired after reviewing the papers, and the gain outweighed the loss.

As a result, when the yamen was about to open, Du Ruo, who was chatting with friends, suddenly appeared at the door of the government yamen.Borrowing He Ji's yamen, Du Ruo didn't overstep, obediently set up another table and chairs and sat under it.The lobby was full of members of the Du family, and the gates of the government office were closed, and the servants also fled outside, leaving only Du Ruo's confidantes and the Du family inside.All the relatives and servants brought by the Du family were also driven out.

"Everyone, I don't talk too much. Here are the complaints against various companies. They are all bound. Let's pass them around first." After Du Ruo launched the stereotype printing machine, it quickly became popular all over the country.Scholars have cheaper books to choose from, and more poor scholars can go further.With the promotion of interests, an improved stereotype printing machine appeared soon.Over the past few years, reading and printing books are no longer the privileges of wealthy families. Poor children can also buy books and publish their own works.The printing cycle has also been greatly compressed.

Du Ruo ordered someone to print this copy of the crimes of each house in the Du family after he arrived in Lanzhou, but it was delivered to him within a day.There are twenty copies in total, and basically the few people next to each other have one copy.After so many years of development in the Du family, people naturally know how to read and write.Looking closely, I couldn't help but feel terrified.

Seeing the list of things he had done one by one, he was so frightened that he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.The clean Du family looked at it and feared that the Du family had deteriorated to this point.Especially Du Yiqian, only his family has the longest number of cases, and his family has the most crimes.The upper echelon of the Du family who can talk is doing all kinds of activities such as champering lawsuits, buying and selling by force, and forcing people to seize people's wealth.Occasionally, there are incidents of usurping civilian women and beating and killing servants.

The Du family, who are not well-known, used the reputation of the Du family to do some business selling fake products.Some colluded with soldiers in the guard to steal armaments.A total of ten or so families can be compiled into a book.These are still more articulate crimes, similar to such things as filial piety and collusion with Tatars. Some of them were not written down because they were trivial, and some were too involved to remember.Even so, the contents of this book are enough to make the Du family tremble with fear.For a while, there were only the sound of flipping books and sighing, and Du Ruo was sipping a cup of tea.

"How about it? It's almost done? Now there are still people who have resentment against the Lord." Before this, there were indeed many people who were very dissatisfied with Du Ruo.Those who thought they were innocent thought that Du Ruo would use his status to seize Du Yiqian's power.Those who are not innocent, just hate Du Ruo for being so vicious and not saving any face for everyone.Now knowing that Du Ruo knows everyone's details, and that these secrets of hers have been exposed to the public, she is already terrified, so why would she want to resent Du Ruo.It's just that a few people really hate Du Ruo so much that they can't directly confront Du Ruo when they know they are wrong.

"Everyone doesn't talk, right? That means it's acquiesced that what's written on it is correct?" Du Ruo asked the servant to collect all the crimes one by one, and someone brought over a big brazier.Du Ruo brought everything, twenty volumes, heavy. "Everyone hopes that this lord can be written off?"

Under Du Ruo's half-smile expression, a younger member of the Du family finally answered in a low voice: "Yes." Who knew that Du Ruo put the book on his lap, clapped his hands, and the person who spoke immediately lowered his head in fright. He nodded, lest Du Ruo would recognize him. "What are you afraid of? I won't eat you." Du Ruo picked up another book and flipped through it, saying, "You guys are really brave enough to do anything."

As soon as he finished speaking, he threw the book in Du Ruo's hand into the fire. "How about it, it feels strange to run around without hope yesterday. Today, my lord is not talking nonsense. My lord and you both have the surname Du, and this lord admits it. It's just that you are not an onion in my heart." With a snap, Another copy was thrown into the fire. "If you are obedient and be a member of the Du clan, if you can still cause trouble like this..." On the burning firewood, the remaining eighteen books are inside.After the flame extinguished for a while, it began to struggle more rapidly, and quickly swallowed up the paper.

"There are a lot of waiters like yesterday, but then it won't be as cheap as today." Du Ruo patted the dust on his hands, stood up with a flick of his sleeves, and the person guarding the gate quickly opened it.Du Ruo was about to stride, when suddenly he heard a loud questioning: "Aren't you afraid of being despised by scholars all over the world?"

Wanton ordering the government to arrest people, disharmony with the same clan, and the reputation of being a sycophant who has become more and more popular, Du Ruo will indeed be criticized by many people.But Du Ruo didn't care about these things, he glanced at the questioner meaningfully, turned around and laughed, and went out the door.But Du Ruo's servant fell behind, raised his head and said, "When they can do so many great things like the Duke, let's talk about whether they are qualified. Without the Duke, you would still buy books." I'm sorry." After saying that, she snorted and chased after Du Ruo.Only the Du family, who were either deep in thought or unhappy, were left behind.

In fact, what this boy said was exaggerated, at most Du Ruo made books affordable for ordinary people.But it is undeniable that Du Ruo has indeed stood at the top of this era in terms of power, money, and fame.Even if there are some discordant voices, they are only transmitted in a small area.

The muskets convinced the soldiers, the various caravans admired the merchants, the drastic reforms made the officials lose their color, and the rapid development of farming was enough for Du Ruo to be worshiped by a large number of farmers all over the world.Even if they wanted to slander Du Ruo, they could only get Du Ruo to get closer to Zhu Houzhao, but this is what many people dream of.

Now that the Du family has fallen out, Du Ruo doesn't want to live in the Du family's ancestral house anymore.As soon as Du Ruo left, the members of the Du clan who barely stayed here also dispersed.Only Du Yiqian, in order to maintain the prestige of his patriarch, and a few Du family members who are poor and have no better choice are still living there.

But the new year is here, even if you don't want to see Du Ruo, you still have to call Du Ruo back for ancestor worship and grave sweeping.After all, Du Ruo is not only the eldest grandson of the eldest house, but also the most prominent figure in the Du family. No matter how dissatisfied he is with him, he can't express it on the spot.So Du Ruo could only spend the loneliest and boring Spring Festival among ordinary people since he came to the Ming Dynasty.He didn't even receive a letter from Zhu Houzhao, so he could only sleep with the cloak that Zhu Houzhao prepared for himself.Of course, there is also the jade pendant that Du Ruo snatched from Zhu Houzhao's body that Zhu Houzhao has brought for several years. After smelling it, it seems that there is a faint scent of jasmine on Du Ruo's body.

Du Ruo fell asleep early on New Year's Eve, and Zhu Houzhao was still watching the night with Zhang, Zhu Houwei, and Ai Cao.Thankfully, Zhu Youtang finally survived, and at the end of the twelfth lunar month, he slowly got better.On New Year's Eve, you can build building blocks with Zhu Houwei and Ai Cao, and you can eat a few mouthfuls of easy-to-digest food.

This is the happiest news I've had in months.It turned out that Zhu Houzhao didn't plan to keep vigil, but Zhu Youtang's recovery still stimulated him. He also wanted to keep vigil, praying that Zhu Youtang would be healthy and that his two children would grow up smoothly in the coming year.There is also him who is far away, hoping that the two can finally get married, and don't need to think about the same as this year, even seeing each other is a luxury.But it seems that the child is so young after all, and he can't stop nodding there by the fourth watch.Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to call his mother, and his father-in-law took the two of them back.

In the end, Mrs. Zhang was also sleepy. She took care of Zhu Youtang for the past few months, and she would get up at the slightest sign of trouble.The body couldn't take it anymore, Zhu Youtang couldn't show up tomorrow, and Zhang had to take her two children to accept the worship of the ministers and envoys from various countries, so Zhu Houzhao had to send her back too.In the end, only Zhu Houzhao was left alone. Zhu Houzhao was bored, so he sorted out the letters he and Du Ruo had written to each other in the past few years.Du Ruoren looks serious, but always writes some unserious words when writing letters. Zhu Houzhao is amused when he looks at it.By the time it was finished and packed up, it was already dawn.This day is another new year.

There is another ten-day long holiday in Beijing from the sixth day of the lunar new year. The snow disaster has basically been properly dealt with, and Zhu Youtang's health is getting better day by day.With nothing to do, Zhu Houzhao began to pick up a pen to write the plan for the reform of the imperial examination.In the past, Du Ruo was always on the sidelines when doing things by myself, and the two of them had discussions and discussions, but now it's only me alone, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but call Du Ruo loudly when he was writing, and waited for the eunuch who served him to remind him that Zhu Houzhao realized that Du Ruo was not there now The capital is not by my side.

The customs of the New Year in Northwest China are different from those in Beijing and Central China.Zhang Yue was afraid that it would be inconvenient for Du Ruo to be here, so he wanted to avoid suspicion.They simply gave Yuan Yuze a long vacation and asked Yuan Yuze to pick Du Ruo back to live in his small house together from the first night of the first day of junior high school.He thought that Du Ruo was still young, and he was afraid that Du Ruo wouldn't say anything on the face, but he would look at the empty house and miss home in his heart.No one in the capital knew that Duke Du Ruo Xiaoguo spends the New Year with the emperor's family every year.

This is just right, Yuan Yuze is not only responsible for supervising Zhang Yue, but also a small leader of Beijing's intelligence organization in the Northwest.If Du Ruo was taken home by him, the long vacation Yuan Yuze wanted would be gone instead.I can only sort out the information about Xu Jin and Northwest with Du Ruo every day.Wanting to spend a year easily, but being dragged by workaholics to deal with things together, Yuan Yuze can only reprimand things plaintively and accept Du Ruo's oppression.

Perhaps because of the Little Ice Age, winters are getting colder and longer.In the past, it usually started to melt slowly in February, but this year there has been no movement.In addition to performing a show of killing chickens, Du Ruo also invited a lot of Du's family members to talk, intimidating and luring them in turns, and made some arrangements.Xu Jin and Tatar's information is almost collected.Du Ruo really couldn't wait any longer, seeing that the weather really wouldn't have a big snowstorm, he started to rush back to the capital.