Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 86 New Year's Eve

The life of Emperor Hongzhi was extremely bumpy. He was born by a court lady, and the Concubine Wan Gui was in charge, and he was regarded as a thorn in the side. Since he was born, he was watched by countless people, walking on thin ice. Go through fire and water, his mother who sacrificed for himself. There is also the **** who carefully hid him, and the **** who was finally executed. Someone yelled angrily at Emperor Hongzhi's father, Emperor Chenghua, who was also the Empress Dowager Zhou who was born to a court lady. And after marrying a wife, no matter how dangerous he encountered, Empress Zhang, who was in trouble with him, even in the court, countless sacrificed their lives in order to fight for the foundation of the country, never compromised with Emperor Chenghua and Concubine Wan Gui, desperate to die The numerous courtiers of Emperor Bao Hongzhi who succeeded the Datong.

  At the beginning, the first emperor of Chenghua had the idea of ​​changing the crown prince. People like Liu Jian made suggestions without hesitation and cried bitterly. Ask Yingyinggong and others, and Yingyinggong and others are all ashen-faced and silent, but the attitude towards the former emperor of Chenghua is self-evident. It is Lian Fang Jifan's father, Nan and Bo Fang Jinglong, who are eloquent on the spot. cry. Seeing that the civil servants were like this, and the military officials were like this, Emperor Chenghua gave up these thoughts unwillingly.

The life of Emperor Hongzhi was a legend, which made him understand the sinister human heart, but also made him realize that there is a lot of warmth in this world. He knew very well that the original self was the hope of countless people, and he, Even if you exhaust everything, don't favor luxury, don't love beauties, work hard every day, and work hard day and night, you will never disappoint.

  The most important thing is that he has learned tolerance. Even in the face of the lackeys who flattered Concubine Wan Gui back then, even though they were abolished or ordered to send soldiers, Emperor Hongzhi hardly shouted and killed them.

Emperor Hongzhi returned to his proper appearance, just sighed, and began to worry about his stupid son slightly: "I am not angry with the prince, but just worried, the prince can take anything he says when he is playing around, and he has no opinion, just like this The annual income balance of the calculation..." He lowered his eyes and glanced at the book: "Actually, I don't know. The last time I taught the prince a lesson, the prince must be dissatisfied. He is such a child. In Zhan Shifu, the crown prince must be trying to figure out the accounts. Seeing him like this, Fang Jifan probably knew that the crown prince couldn’t figure it out. Instead of wasting your efforts, it’s better to coax him, this silly son, take it seriously. And , this fellow has become more and more courageous, and dared to accuse his father of being a fool!"

   "..."

   This is His Majesty's family matter. Liu Jian and the three really don't know how to persuade them.

Emperor Hongzhi immediately shook his head and smiled again: "But Liu Qing's family is right. The prince has no brothers since he was a child. He was lonely when he was young. When I was his age, sometimes... I was very lonely in my heart. It's not a bad thing that he can trust someone. This is why I ordered Fang Jifan to study with him in the first place, but there is one thing, Fang Jifan is really unreliable sometimes, and he has to change!"

   It seems that the anger has dissipated.

  Zhu Houzhao seemed to hold his breath, and he didn't even go to the palace. He didn't go to the Queen Zhang of the Kunning Palace and the Empress Dowager of the Longevity Palace to ask how he was. He only said that he was unwell.

  …

It’s the Chinese New Year, the streets are full of joy, and the food and drinks in several restaurants have been ordered, and then they are delivered to the mines of the Xishan Coal Mine. This is all Fang Jifan’s handwriting. For the Chinese New Year, these miners dragged their families to Fang’s family. Mining, how can Fang Jifan be stingy, chicken, duck and fish are indispensable, this move makes Wang Jinyuan want to cry, money is all white money, although Zhen Guo Mining is now making money every day, it is so wasteful ...It's not a problem, so Wang Jinyuan resolutely decided that he would not be at home for the night of the New Year's Eve. He would come to the mine and eat for nothing. If he eats a little more, he will earn a little back.

For the first time, the miners and their families in the mine lived such a prosperous year. There are buckets of dishes, those dishes that are usually uneatable and unnamed, but now, there are buckets of dishes. When I moved to the mine, it was cold and cold, so I didn’t worry about the food and wine going bad, so I stored it a day or two in advance, and waited until the day of the New Year’s Eve, just boil the pot and heat it up. For the princes and nobles in the city, it was just the most ordinary day, but for them, it added a bit of color to their black and white lives.

In the city, the scholars yelled at Fang Jifan, but here, the miners and the female family members were surprisingly unanimous in their praise of Fang Jifan. The young master took them in, but now they are still mostly in rags, curled up under the wall, not knowing what will happen tomorrow.

  At the end of the year, it is necessary to start paying wages. The wages are not paid with banknotes, nor are the so-called firewood and coarse grain deductions, but real silver and copper coins.

Wang Jinyuan was meticulous with the accountants, shouting a personal name, and distributed the money. At this moment, many people shed tears, and the dark faces soaked in coal showed white teeth and smiled. But the corners of his eyes were moist.

  Obviously doing business, how can you do it like doing good deeds? Wang Jinyuan shook his head secretly in his heart, he felt that he had fallen.

  Fang Jifan is researching the big fireworks for Chinese New Year.

Both saltpeter and gunpowder can be bought at Wang Gong Factory in the southwest corner of the inner city. There is a special gunpowder bureau there. It is not only the royal arsenal, but also makes some fireworks for sale. However, Fang Jifan is not satisfied with ordinary fireworks. Well, naturally there must be a lot of movement and movement to look festive and lively.

As for Deng Jian, when he saw the young master 'making trouble', he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart. He is not a smart person. He only knows that the young master is not serious, but he is serious. He is actually a dull person. I only know that the master has ordered that the young master should not get sick, so he will always be like a follower, stalking the young master, for fear that if the young master is negligent, the old disease will recur, and if he dies, there will be no young master in this Fang family.

Xiao Xiangxiang stopped with a few girls from a distance, while drying the clothes of the master's house, while staring at Fang Jifan who was laying wires in the backyard from a distance, the young master was so concentrated and serious that he couldn't tell She is pretty and has a different kind of temperament. Occasionally, when the girls around her chuckle and say something, Xiao Xiangxiang turns a deaf ear to it and starts to have something on her mind.

  Fang Jinglong went to visit his relatives as usual. Those elders had to go to see them early when they should. Occasionally he would go to the Beijing camp to make inspections.

  New Year's Eve is here.

   Jingli suddenly boiled.

People forgot about the prodigal son of the Fang family and the gambling game in Chunwei. At this time, laughter and laughter were everywhere, and even the poorest family took out a little surplus that was rare in a year and prepared better food and drink than usual. , Women and children, no matter how poor they are, they still have to tear a few feet of cloth to make new clothes.

  Only in the north and south stalls of the household department, on this New Year's Eve, Li Dongyang seemed a little anxious to get angry.

There are more than 70 officials in the north and south stalls, and they are still busy. In fact, the accounting at the end of the year should have come out many days earlier, but after several checks, it was found that the south stall and the north The number reported by the stall did not match.

  This...is embarrassing.

What is involved is the surplus of the national treasury. This is not a trivial matter. Once the calculation is wrong, there is nothing on the books, but the court thinks that the things on the books are still there. If there is a problem with the expenditure, it will be a big deal thing.

   There is no way, and no one knows which link is wrong, so... we can only recalculate.

  Because of the huge amount of calculations, and in order to prevent mistakes and omissions, the more than 20 clerks in the north and south stalls almost checked their calculations independently.

  (end of this chapter)