[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Gao Feng is naturally at ease in doing things for Zhu Youtang. After Zhu Houzhao moved out of Kunning Palace, Gao Feng has been following him. If something happens to Zhu Houzhao, Gao Feng is the most at ease to take care of Zhu Youtang.As for Liu Jin who followed Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Youtang didn't have a good impression of him.He still remembered that Liu Jin was Li Guang's godson, and Zhu Youtang and Zhu Houzhao were also clear about what Liu Jin had done in the palace these years.

The reason why Liu Jin can still gain Zhu Houzhao's trust is because he is still alone in the palace.No matter how much he wins people's hearts, in front of Zhu Youtang, Jiang Cong, Li Guang and everyone in the Supervisor of Rites, there is no one he can compare with.In front of Zhu Houzhao, Gao Feng was the older one, and Liu Wei was the younger one, and he couldn't be ranked.

Because of this, except for a few small soldiers, he has no foundation in the palace at all.It was in this way that Zhu Houzhao took Liu Jin with him at ease.Otherwise, maybe I haven't figured out what I did in Hangzhou, and most people in the capital probably know it.

Here, Zhu Youtang and Mrs. Zhang packed up a lot of things and sent them to Zhu Houzhao.By the way, there were about fifty Jin Yiwei and Gao Feng who were packed together.In this way, Mrs. Zhang still felt that it was not enough, so she asked the fleet to Hangzhou to bring Xue Ji, who was familiar with Zhu Hou's pulse case.As for Du Ruo, Mrs. Zhang did not forget him, and asked the Duke's Mansion to pack up a lot of things and bring them to him.

When Zhu Houzhao came to Hangzhou, he came at the speed of leisure, but Gao Feng and the others did not have such treatment. They dared to go day or night, so they had to get to Hangzhou as soon as possible.

The people here left, and after a few days, the news of Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo's injuries came back to the capital.It's just that Zhu Houzhao made the two of them worry, and it was more or less beautified.Even so, Zhu Youtang became very angry.He Dinghe Eunuch, who was originally in full swing, also went to guard the imperial tomb.The fathers-in-law in the Forbidden City kept their tails between their legs for a while, for fear that something would happen, and the nobles who didn't know why would be angry, and their little lives would be lost.

Zhu Houzhao only said that he had a small injury, but the place of the injury was embarrassing, on the back, but it was inconvenient to return to Beijing immediately, and it was better to take care of it.Mrs. Zhang packed up the big woolen clothes the two of them were wearing, and all the winter things, and sent them to Zhu Houzhao and the others.I also brought a letter saying that if it is really inconvenient, it will be okay to come back next spring.

Zhu Houzhao was very happy to get this sentence, and immediately discussed with Du Ruo about going to Quanzhou, but these are all funerals.Now Zhu Houzhao is facing Gao Feng with a serious face, and his heart is full of resentment towards Zhu Youtang.

Zhu Youtang knew that his son was both precocious and capable, but he was a little too courageous.It happened that Gao Feng was trustworthy, so he asked Gao Feng to be optimistic about Zhu Houzhao, and don't let him have any more accidents. In order to let Zhu Houzhao speak, he wrote a big forbidden word himself, and asked Gao Feng to bring it to Zhu Houzhao.

The two father-in-laws, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao are not afraid of him at all, but Gao Feng is not.One is because Zhu Houzhao dared not disobey Gao Feng's orders with Zhu Youtang.In addition, after all these years, Zhu Houzhao really regarded Gao Feng as an elder.Gao Feng arrived on the first day and changed Zhu Houzhao's dressing. Zhu Houzhao watched him wipe his tears silently, feeling extremely embarrassed.Want to comfort him, but don't know how to speak.

The relationship between the two is actually a bit embarrassing, and there is something that cannot be said.It's hard for Gao Feng, a eunuch, to say that he really treats Zhu Houzhao as his own child. No matter how well he serves, he is just a father-in-law.As for Zhu Houzhao, he has always disliked the position of the eunuch, and it is not easy for him to show how much trust he has in Gao Feng.Besides, I was too close to Gao Feng, Zhu Youtang and Zhang probably couldn't tolerate it.

In fact, this is also understandable. After all, Zhu Houzhao was not a native of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, it is impossible to really treat the eunuchs who take care of him as slaves.Gao Feng treats himself with sincerity, and Zhu Houzhao naturally has the sincerity to reciprocate.From being suspicious of each other to getting along well, to being like relatives now, ten years of hard work are not in vain.

With Gao Feng controlling himself like this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't do the same thing, so he was naturally uncomfortable.You can't eat this way, you can't touch that way, and you are afraid of touching the wound if you want to go out to play.But he was kind, and he just looked at him like this, so he naturally felt embarrassed.

When Liu Jin was alone, Du Ruo was so happy to eat tofu, but he didn't dare when Gao Feng came.Indeed, this person knew about it, and if he wanted to tell Zhu Youtang, he would definitely tell.Du Ruo didn't have the confidence to compete with the king of a country.

Here Zhu Houzhao's life has come to an impasse, but the conversion of rice to mulberry in Zhejiang is going smoothly.The matter of changing rice to mulberry has always been extremely controversial in history. The controversy over changing rice to mulberry is as hot as silk is sold in China.Even if Zhejiang was going to do such a thing, Zhu Youtang did not let him use the banner of the imperial court.After all, the officials and businessmen will benefit first from changing rice to mulberry. Once the imperial court issues an order, it will not only be a matter of Zhejiang.

Those with vested interests who want to benefit from it will naturally jump out from everywhere, clamoring to change rice into mulberry.People like them don't care about the life and death of ordinary people.Although such people are always a minority, they are disgusting people after all.Zhu Youtang just acquiesced in Zhejiang's doing so. If there is any problem, Zhu Houzhao can solve it nearby in Hangzhou.

Zhejiang has been a place rich in silk since ancient times, but it has been suppressed by Jiangsu all the time, and it has long been angry.In the eyes of Zhejiang people, Zhejiang still has a place like Huzhou that is dedicated to the emperor's dragon robe. What does Suzhou have?In the past few years, the sea ban has been lifted, and the mulberry growers and weavers in Jiangsu are not making a lot of money, and those who have some knowledge in everything have long been tempted.Now that the government is advocating to do this, it is natural to do it vigorously.

These people just do things with their own hands, Zhang Fuhua and Zhu Houzhao don't just have to take care of such things.The first and most important thing is to build a granary.According to Zhang Fuhua's estimate, nearly one-sixth of the paddy fields in Zhejiang will be converted to mulberry fields this time, which means that once Zhejiang is hit by a disaster or the sea routes are not smooth, the owners and tenants of these mulberry fields in Zhejiang will lose their lives. We ate.Therefore, the first thing is to build a granary to stabilize food prices and relieve victims when food prices soar and disasters occur.

Not only Hangzhou, places like Huzhou, Ningbo, and Shaoxing are indispensable.Building a granary is easy.Money is enough, but long-term management is the problem.In order to change rice into mulberry in Zhejiang, Zhu Youtang specially allocated 100 million taels from the customs money from the Ministry of Households.The 100 million taels will be taken care of by Zhu Hou for the time being, and will be handed over to other people, even if it is Zhang Fuhua, Zhu Youtang is not at ease.

Zhu Houzhao didn't want to use the money in such a place, he still wanted to get the ideas of the grain merchants.What he thought was to build the granary first, what to do with the grain in it, and let the grain merchants buy it.Several local grain merchants are responsible for the granaries in various places, and the grain is changed once a year.The price of one-year old grain will naturally be reduced, and the price reduction will be made up by the government according to the price difference between new grain and old grain in the market.This is equivalent to the grain merchants earning tax money from it.The taxes in the Ming Dynasty were still very heavy, so it was actually profitable.

Naturally, the food of the grain merchants is not under the control of the yamen, so they are not afraid of corruption by the officials.In order to make more money, the grain merchants will naturally not let him neglect management, let the grain go bad and lose money.Coupled with the supervision of the squires, this is actually a very good way.It's just that the government is stuck with the money that will not be given to them at that time. Zhu Houzhao believes that such problems can still be solved under his own rule.

Zhang Fuhua and the others didn't really agree with this approach, but Zhu Houzhao insisted, and the money was indeed limited, so they had to temporarily agree to try it.Although those grain merchants agreed quickly, they still seemed to distrust the government. Zhu Houzhao could only let them do things first. As for trusting things, take your time.When they see the benefits, they will naturally rush to do it.For this matter, Zhu Houzhao also personally wrote a pair of couplets for the family of the seven granaries, which can be regarded as his own promise.

Zhu Houzhao has been busy, and Du Ruo has not been idle either.With such a big light bulb as Gao Feng, Du Ruo vented all his grievances on what he was doing.Such momentum made both Xing Wu and Xu Beiniang feel unbearable.

It has always been Du Ruo's idea to build one or two large mulberry gardens in Zhejiang to supply the raw materials for the textile factory, but the textile factory is already eye-catching enough, let alone a mulberry garden.Now that everyone is building a mulberry garden, Du Ruo naturally doesn't need to hold back and let go of it.But now the market of mulberry gardens is promising, and it is not easy to build a mulberry garden of the scale Du Ruo expected, so Du Ruo had to talk to the landlords one by one.Anyway, I'm holding back my energy, so I'll just send it all to them.

By October, things in Zhejiang were basically coming to an end.After all, it will take until next spring to plant trees. Now that it is winter, the only thing to do is to watch the craftsmen repair the granary.

Zhu Houzhao finally received the items sent by Mrs. Zhang. It has been very cold in Zhejiang these days, and Zhu Houzhao was worried that the newly bought clothes would not fit well.After receiving the item, he immediately pulled out his white fox fur clothes and put them on.Mrs. Zhang was also thoughtful, knowing that it was inconvenient for Zhu Houzhao to be too ostentatious when she was outside, and the clothes she brought were all comfortable and unobtrusive, which was exactly what Zhu Houzhao thought.

Mrs. Zhang didn't know Du Ruo's aesthetics about the clothes that were sent together.Zhu Houzhao likes to dress plain, and Zhang sees that he is always like a little old man and likes to dress him up cutely.Now that she added Du Ruo's clothes, she only tidied them up according to Zhu Houzhao's. They were also cute fox scarves and the like. Even the cloaks were made of an ermine for each person. The two big buttons on the front also looked cute.

He really didn't want to wear it, so Zhu Houzhao put it on for him, and it looked a little more childish in an instant.Du Ruo felt awkward, his clothes were usually muskrats, like beavers, and there were such clothes there.Even if there are those couple outfits that were still worn by Zhu Houzhao in modern times.

Zhu Houzhao told Gao Feng to go to Quanzhou by himself.Sitting on the big boat along the way, it was a little colder.Du Ruo saw that Zhu Houzhao had shrunk into the quilt, so he simply let Liu Jin in and Gao Feng went out.It is only said that Gao Feng is getting old, it is better to go to rest.

After Gao Feng left, Du Ruo was not afraid, so he threw a hand warmer and let Liu Jin nestle on the bed in front of the stove.Du Ruo hurriedly got into Zhu Houzhao's quilt to warm him up.