Chapter Respect
After a greeting, Zhao Bing entered the main hall, paved with blue bricks, and a map of mountains and seas were hung in the middle hall. Banners were hung on both sides, with the words "I shouldered the morality and the article was written with a harsh hand." The banner was "Loyalty to the country". Seeing that the handwriting was a bit blurry, there were also hairs on the edges. It was obvious that it was not hung temporarily, but it had been a while.
"Your Majesty, I haven't read a book for the low-ranking position, and I only learned a few words after entering the General Administration Army. I felt that the couplets written by Your Majesty for Qiongzhou Prefecture were very good, so I remembered them. Later, I found someone to rewrite them and hang them in the middle hall, thinking that they were alert and to educate their descendants to make progress." Feng Zi'an explained with a smirk when he saw His Majesty stop and watch.
"Haha, you can still educate future generations even if you don't forget the old days, which is great!" Zhao Bing smiled, but he also felt embarrassed. This sentence was two sentences from his plagiarized poem by Yang Jisheng, a member of the Nanjing Ministry of War, in the Ming Dynasty, but now it has become his private goods.
"Well, although Your Majesty was young at that time, these two lines of poetry expressed the responsibilities of our scholars, and also demonstrated Your Majesty's grand ambitions, allowing countless scholars to be taught for life!" Lu Xiufu stroked his beard and nodded.
"Lu Xiang praised me so much, I am ashamed!" Zhao Bing shook his head and laughed, and said, "Zi'an, Lu Xiang's handwriting is rare. Your handwriting is already worn, why not ask Lu Xiang to write a new one!"
"Is this... Is there such a blessing in my rank?" Feng Zian was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lu Xiufu and said in a panic.
"As long as Young Master Feng doesn't dislike it, what's wrong?" Lu Xiufu laughed after hearing this.
"I am not able to seek humble positions, but I just don't dare to have any unreasonable thoughts!" Lu Xiufu agreed so readily that Feng Zi settled down and said repeatedly.
Zhao Bing sat down, and the two concubines were invited to the back hall by the old lady to speak. So many people rushed in from the room, which made the empty house crowded immediately. Even the chairs they sat on were temporarily found, with all kinds of things. "You can write the words later, but I have brought a lot of people today. I am afraid that you will not have enough food for you!" He saw Feng Zi'an's wife who was serving tea winks at her husband repeatedly, and immediately understood in her heart, and took a sip of tea and asked with a smile.
"Your Majesty, humble position...there are indeed fewer preparations for humble position!" Feng Zian thought that the emperor had always been a light chariot and simple servants who came to go out, and there would be no more than a hundred guards and eunuchs to protect him, but he did not expect that the emperor would bring Lu Xiang and others together. With their entourage, there were no less than three hundred guards, so the advance preparation was definitely not enough. He smiled embarrassedly.
"Your Majesty has already thought of it and has been prepared for a long time. Young Master Feng arranged for someone to find a spacious place to set up a camp and help the chefs to help them!" Xu Hong said from the side.
"This... Your Majesty and all the Shangguans came to Beizhi to spend money!" Feng Zian said even more embarrassedly.
"Your salary is not much. We are full and we leave. You all are afraid of eating braised vegetables and scolding me for a year!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.
"How dare you be a humble official? There will always be a way to deal with it!" Feng Zian quickly said.
"Oh, how do you deal with it? Do you have to rely on horses to eat and pick out some money from the horse's mouth?" Zhao Bing asked with a smile.
"I dare not forget Your Majesty's teachings. Even if I starve to death, I will not use public money!" Feng Zi'an said solemnly.
"So I can't starve a good official to death, so I have to take it myself!" Zhao Bing spread his hands and said helplessly.
"I am so ashamed of my humbleness. Your Majesty and all the Shangguans and brothers have visited the humble house, but I can't buy a decent banquet and treat you. It's really..." Feng Zi'an looked ugly and shook his head and sighed.
"Okay, don't you know your Majesty's habits? No matter where you go for a meal, you will have to pay it back in time. How can you make an exception when you come here?" Zhuang Siqi saw that he felt uncomfortable and patted his shoulder and said.
"I know that Your Majesty has rules, is it still the case now?" Feng Zi'an looked at Zhuang Siqi, then the emperor said.
"Of course, Your Majesty's meal expenses are still in accordance with the command standards. Wherever you go, you still pay it back as usual. Of course, when you come to our house, you have to eat and drink well. The money is not paid!" Chen Renweng continued, and finally couldn't help sighing helplessly.
"Why is this?" Feng Zi'an's wife asked timidly.
"What a fool. The daughter of the Chen Shangshu family is the imperial concubine. Where can you get the meal money when His Majesty goes to his father-in-law's house to have dinner?" Feng Zi'an pointed to the back hall and scolded with a dark face.
"Oh, so that's it. Even if the son-in-law in the countryside goes to his father-in-law's house for dinner, he needs a delicious and delicious treat. It's wrong for Chen Shangshu to care about it!" Feng Zi'an's wife nodded after hearing this, and gave Chen Renweng a little politely and said seriously.
"My wife taught me a lesson!" Chen Renweng found it interesting and replied.
"Shangshu Chen, the country women don't understand the rules, so they even say something bad!" Feng Zi'an immediately turned black after hearing this. He didn't say anything else. His horse farm supervisor was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Chen Renweng was his serious and directly under the jurisdiction of the Shangguan, so he quickly scolded his wife.
"Your Majesty asked someone to bring these things to the banquet. I didn't care at first. Think about the nearly one million chunks of money and grain allocated by the Huaidong Horse Farm every year. How could the young prison, as the chief official, not afford a meal? When I came here, I realized that your Majesty was good. Don't blame your wife!" Chen Renweng sighed, "You have lived such a difficult life, but I don't care enough for my subordinates!"
"Shangshu Chen, this is a bad word. His Majesty was pursuing military discipline and establishing iron laws in Jiazi Town. The officials have always kept it in mind. Moreover, I was from a poor and humble family. At that time, the court had not paid any taxes. Corrupt officials and evil officials often extorted, making them hate them. After they became officials because of their merits, they vowed not to be the official who oppressed the people and was greedy and abused the law!" Feng Zi'an waved his hand and said.
Generally, horse farms are in remote places and have a hard life. In the eyes of outsiders, it is not a good place. However, people who are familiar with the inside know the beauty of it. Because they are far away from the court, they are the emperor far away. In that acre of land, they are the emperor, and everything is up to him.
And as Chen Renweng said, the horse farm is very rich in oil and water. The Huaidong horse farm alone raises more than 30,000 war horses, and the grain allocated every year is 100,000 stones. It is easy to intercept some things, that is, a few fewer bites per horse, and it is impossible to find out. Falsely reporting the number of horses, reselling horses, and deducting public expenses are even more common methods of embezzlement.
Therefore, even if a honest official manages the horse farm, it is easy to get tens of thousands of chunks of money from it every year. Feng Zi'an managed the horse farm as early as Qiongzhou and could not be unaware of the tricks. However, he still abides by the laws of the court and is willing to live a poor life, so he must be respectful.
"I'll talk about it later. Since Your Majesty is ready, I'll bother Mrs. Lau to help prepare lunch!" Seeing that Feng Zi'an and his wife were a little embarrassed, Zhao Mengjin came over to rescue her.
"That's right, the world is so big that you eat the most. Young Master Feng cannot hide his own personal information, and you must use the good things prepared at home." Zhao Bing also echoed and smiled.
"Oh, your Majesty and all the officials will wait, and the officials will go back!" Feng Zian no longer felt pretentious and accused everyone of crimes. He went out with his wife to arrange people to set up warm tents and arrange dishes in the courtyard.
"Feng Zi'an was a refugee back then, and he was just a servant who transported materials when he entered the rear army. Later, he entered the horse supervision to raise horses and left the general's army. At that time, he felt that he was honest and decent. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, he became the junior supervisor." Everyone sat down again, and Zhuang Siqi said.
"But do you still remember what happened when Jiazi Town opened the government?" Zhao Mengjin looked at everyone and asked, "At that time, Your Majesty summoned us to discuss how to consolidate the army and formulate rules. What did you say again?"
"The last general still remembers! Chen Fenglin said, "In the past, this dynasty recruited soldiers to tattoo the soldiers' faces and hands, which was the same as slaves and criminals. The generals were all ashamed of this. Your Majesty ordered the removal of this accumulated corruption. There were also many cases of favoritism and abuse of the law in the army. Your Majesty also ordered the law enforcement to be strictly enforced in the future. No matter who breaks the law, he will never tolerate it."
"Well, it's not bad!" Liu Zhixue continued, "We are all from old soldiers. We hate the false reputation, the monthly discounts, the monthly discounts and the purchase of workers, the generals embezzled and bribed the soldiers, and the soldiers who were sent by the soldiers. We proposed that we should eliminate them in the future and not treat the soldiers harshly."
"At that time, we also proposed to protect the people and not force the people to recruit people, tolerate science and technology, to attract food to the people, to rob the people, kill good people, and to disturb the people's evil deeds!" Zhuang Siqi also said.
"The situation at that time is still vivid in my mind when I think back now. Your Majesty has formulated an iron rule for this: First, respect the class and keep orders; Second, do not rob, do not disturb the people; Third, join the army and do not tattoo; Fourth, prohibit the statutory and fairness of the people; Five, prohibit the debt of the imperial guards, private service soldiers; Six, prohibit lynching, explicit rewards and punishments; Seven, prohibit private storage and burglary; Eight, prohibit urination and drowning everywhere, prevent epidemic diseases. Let the entire army abide by it, and those who violate the violations will be executed!" Liu Zhu said.
"At that time, we hated all the various drawbacks in the army, all of which were suffering. Now we are all in high positions. Do we still remember the sufferings of the soldiers under our command? Can we abide by the oath of that year?" Zhao Mengjin glanced at everyone and said, "Some people now say that I have been fighting for more than ten years and have made countless contributions. Eating good things and drinking good wine is nothing. Some people are punished too much, whipping soldiers wantonly, and even seriously injured, just because they privately said that he was in charge of soldiers and expanding their own residences; some are in favor of personal gain and harboring military generals who committed crimes, but they shamelessly claimed that they were loving military generals and handed over the imperial case all the memorials!"
"Oh, when I got here today, I felt ashamed. Seeing the shabby house of Feng's family and the shabby furnishings in the house, I felt even more ashamed when I heard what he said. When our official position was too big, we forgot the bullying we had suffered back then, forgot our original intention, betrayed our oath, and lived the most disliked person we had at that time. We had no face to face the brothers who died on the battlefield, and we were even more ashamed of Your Majesty's teachings back then!" Zhuang Siqi said in shame...
Chapter completed!