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Chapter 37: Letting the People Eat in Peace

Chapter 37: Letting the People Eat in Peace

Zhu Yunzhang still underestimated, Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts about the people.

The next day, the Oracle. Yingtian Prefect Hu Zhishan because of the placement of displaced people unfavorable, resulting in the people begging into beggars, the penalty of three years of salary, dismissed to stay in place of the crime to see.

Huaixi Resident, because the relief is not in place, so that the people displaced. A dozen officials were jerked to the end, sent to Yunnan. Even a governor, because the accounts are not clear, directly to the Ministry of Justice, waiting for him, after the fall beheading.

After a few days, Zhu Yunzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang climbed the walls of Yingtian, watching the general blue jade with tens of thousands of Ming Huben, out of the division. On that day, the capital was filled with people who wanted to witness the heroism of the men of the Great Ming because the elite of the Great Ming were on the march.

Lan Yu and the generals before leaving, rushed to the direction of the imperial city, three kneel nine kowtow. Tens of thousands of Daming's men and women shouted in unison, "Daming will be victorious".

At that time, Zhu Yunzhang noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang's body, hidden under the dragon robe, was unusually upright. The face is full of nostalgia for the once momentous years, as well as the expectation of the blood and fire of the river and mountain.

The following days, flowing water, quietly walking.

Zhu Yun Yun reads and writes and practices martial arts every day, bragging and farting with those young princes in the academy, and clinging to his two young sisters at home. For his daily meals, he eats with Zhu Yuanzhang, and even listens on the sidelines when Zhu Yuanzhang receives his ministers.

When not dealing with political affairs, the grandparents either walked in the imperial garden or fiddled with farm work in the palace, on the two acres of land planted by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

All in all, things were moving in a direction favorable to Zhu Yunzhang. His relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang was getting better and better, and the old man had even become somewhat inseparable from him.

Because with this grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang could always have a smile from the bottom of his heart, and could always see in this child the temperament of his own when he had just ascended to the throne as the emperor, when he was spirited and dared to be the first in the world.

At the same time, Zhu Yunzhang's filial piety, and sincerity, also deeply impressed him.

In the court, there are hidden rumors. King Wu Zhu Yun Yun, is the emperor's choice of the emperor's grandson.

But Zhu Yunyun did not complacent, he is now only Zhu Yuanzhang favorite grandson, the name has not been determined, he is now only an empty head of the King of Wu without power.

Now he has to be modest and cautious, only when he really became the grandson, he can realize the ambition of his heart, and he can really gather a force that belongs to him by his side.

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang once again decreed.

In October, the Emperor's birthday, the feudal lords from all over the world can return to the capital to congratulate the birthday. But the entourage can not exceed two hundred people, along the way the government shall not bother to receive, the food used must be simple.

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The sunshine of June is warm.

In the afternoon, summer bugs chirped low between the greenery.

As if he were an ordinary old farmer, Zhu Yuanzhang sat on a chaise longue, fanning himself with the straw hat in his hand and smiling at Zhu Yunzhi, who was clumsily working in the crop field.

This is a paddy field, right in the Forbidden City of the Great Ming.

Even when the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget his identity as a farmer, hand planted two acres of fields, and enjoy it.

The paddy field is full of water, Zhu Yunzhang bare feet in the muddy water, deep and shallow, but also try to maintain the balance of the body, not to step on those thriving seedlings.

This era of agriculture is far less developed than the later generations, only rely on manpower to eliminate weeds in the field. But the ecology of this era is extraordinarily good, from time to time there are frogs leaping out of the water in the two acres of paddy fields, and tadpoles are swimming around Zhu Yun Yun's feet.

"Huh, stupid ground this porcelain, know thought you are pulling weeds, do not know thought you pick radish? "

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the clumsy Zhu Yunzhang and laughed aloud, the joyful smile made the wrinkles on his face blossom, like a kind old man.

Farming, can be much harder than reading and practicing martial arts. After coming to this world for almost three months, Zhu Yun Yun's physical fitness has been greatly improved. However, every time he worked in the field for a while, his back would ache.

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Hearing his grandfather's ridicule, Zhu Yun Yun turned back and smiled, then bent down to fight with the weeds in the paddy field, but his fingers suddenly encountered a hard thing.

When he picked it up and looked at it, he was instantly happy.

"Royal grandfather! "Zhu Yun Yun held up the thing in his hand, turned around and shouted, "Look, the snail! "

"Is it fat?" Zhu Yuanzhang immediately sat up, shuffled his cloth shoes to the edge of the paddy field, laughed and said, "If it's fat, fish a dish, we will eat snails later!"

"Good le!" Zhu Yunyun smiled and touched up in the paddy field.

"Aiya, our big grandson ah! Why so stupid?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and threw off his shoes, into the paddy field, "Let me tell you, when your grandfather was a child, the children of the eight villages touched the snail, no one can touch me!"

Said Zhu Yuanzhang, grinning, "Look, there it is!"

"Imperial grandfather, great!" Zhu Yunzhang immediately farted like a cloud, and then exclaimed like a child, "Imperial Grandpa, there are still small fish in the paddy field!"

"Catch it, fry it and eat it, it smells good!" Happy, Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth emerged from to big Huaiyin.

The slanting sun rises in the sky, full of summer red.

The golden afterglow sprinkled on the earth, and the earth was full of golden color.

The golden light penetrated through the leaves and fell on the bamboo mat on the dining table in the forest.

On the simple wooden table was a simple meal.

The rice was the rice harvested from the paddy fields in the palace last year, crystal clear and resilient.

The dish is a dish of ginger and garlic fried snails, a dish of fried golden small fish, a dish of garlic fried shrimp, a dish of Zhu Chongba's favorite dried radish fried salted pork.

After working for a long time, Zhu Yunzhang was tired and hungry.

He has long since figured out Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament, he is the royal grandfather most can not see his children and grandchildren fearful, in his old man's eyes, wolf swallowing is a good man.

So the masters have just done, Zhu Yunzhang first to Zhu Yuanzhang rice, and pour him a small cup of wine.

Then he poured the oily broth of the fried salted meat over the rice and took a big bite.

Huffing! Huffing! Fragrant!

The flavors of the meat oil and rice in one mouthful were perfectly blended in his mouth, and his face was full of contented pleasure.

"Eat more, eat more!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and gave Zhu Yunzhang a piece of five-flower, three-layer salted meat.

"Imperial grandfather, you eat too!" Zhu Yunzhang laughed.

"Let's drink first!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed aloud, his white eyebrows moving before picking up a field snail and eating it beautifully.

His movements were skillful, and after two soft sounds, the meat of the field snail entered his mouth before picking up the wine goblet and taking a small sip.

After that, he picked up a small, golden-colored fish, biting off the head in one bite and chewing it in his mouth.

Eating beautifully, he grinned, "The flavor is good!"

In the distance, Xu Xingzu, the imperial chef who had served Zhu Yuanzhang for more than ten or twenty years, smiled with a toothless smile.

He was born as a cook in the army, for him to make these homely people's dishes is far easier than the imperial meals.

"Imperial grandfather be careful of the thorns!" Zhu Yunzhang saw Zhu Yuanzhang directly a fish into his mouth and chewed, hurriedly reminded.

"You, you grew up in the palace, you don't know anything!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "Once the small fish in the paddy fields are fried in oil, the thorns are crispy! "

Said, seems to fall into memory, "Our hometown where the fish is good ah! When we were young, followed in the big brother's ass, carrying a wooden bucket up at dawn, what loach ah, small fish ah, eel ah! Oh, every time you catch half a bucket, go back after you too milk with a little oil so a stew, ah! The taste!"

When people get old, they always love to remember the past. People are old, especially nostalgic homesickness.

Zhu Yunzhang look at Zhu Yuanzhang, whispered and laughed, "Royal grandfather, or, when the grandson accompanied you, back home to see! At that time, grandchildren personally catch fish for you! "

"Do not go back, laboring to hurt the people! "

Zhu Yuanzhang said indifferently, saying, with sadness in his tone, "Besides, others can't make that flavor! "

Mom's flavor, others definitely can't make it.

Zhu Yunzhang was also thinking about his mother at all times, thinking about the rice she made and the dumplings she wrapped.

"Grandson ah! " Zhu Yuanzhang spoke again, "This table looks simple to you, but when we were kids, we could only eat it when the year was good! Even if we got to eat it, we couldn't eat it with an open stomach."

"It's New Year's Eve, and your great-grandfather got palm-sized fat pork. We sacrificed it to our ancestors first, and then distributed it to our brothers. Your grandma and a few aunts and grandmothers could only watch, and couldn't eat a bit of it!"

"At that time, your great-grandfather always said, next year! Next year, we'll get more meat, so that our sons and girls can eat it!"

"In the coming year, your grandpa worked even harder! He slept later than the dogs and got up earlier than the chickens! The family is looking forward to a good harvest!"

"But the harvest was good, and the rent was high, so after giving the landlord to the government, the family was still starving."

"In the middle of the night, the brothers are hungry and their stomachs are grumbling!"

Zhu Yunyun listened silently, listening to the old man in front of him reminisce.

"But it was like that, your grandpa and grandma didn't complain, they should have planted the land, they should have paid the grain."

"Who knows that the heavens are not long-sighted, first there was a heavy flood with no harvest, followed by the plague, we have several members of the Zhu family, only your grandfather is left alone!"

Said, Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be a little emotional, "We were about the same age as you, a person ran into the temple as a young monk, at that time, the growth of the small, always by the senior brothers to bully. I was always bullied by my brothers. I had the most work and the worst food. Later on, he was driven out again and wandered all over the world!"

"At the end of the day, I couldn't see any prospects, so I gritted my teeth and joined the Red Turbans! "

Said Zhu Yuanzhang grunted, "Grandma, shit Da Yuan not let us eat, we will follow you to do! "

The old man's emotional ups and downs are too hurt, Zhu Yunzhang hurriedly advised, "Grandpa, all in the past! "

"But can not forget! "Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him and said, "Now we Zhu family sat in the world, but we can't forget when, what is our family's origin, our ancestors are poor! And all the poor people in the world, hard work, tighten the belt to live! "

"We are poor, we have to care about the poor. Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the table of food, "people call us an emperor, we have to be worthy of people, we have to let them can live in peace, eat peace meal." "

Zhu Yunzhang stood up and said solemnly, "Imperial grandfather, grandson remembers!"