Chapter 39 Your Majesty is a Good Emperor
Punishing a city censor is nothing to Zhu Youxiao, but he has to admit that there are probably many Ming officials under his rule like Ye Jingshi.
At least from the red sleeves and tall crowns on the attics in front of you, you can tell how luxurious my Ming Dynasty official life was.
And behind this extravagance is naturally the corrupt administration and the degenerate worldly style.
Zhu Youxiao was not a strict guardian, and did not require the officials of the Ming Dynasty to be as honest as Zhu Yuanzhang.
But he didn't like these hypocrites who were strictly demanding their king, but they were doing things like thieves and prostitution, abandoning the country and nation aside.
Perhaps these officials have no sense of the country and the nation at all. Although they often say that they are for the Ming Dynasty, perhaps in their cognition, the Ming Dynasty is just the same as the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Even if they have a new dynasty, they can still become officials, and if they change their emperors, they will still worship them.
The word "Zhong" is just a saying that is spoken.
"We need to clarify the administration, curb the greed of these officials and gentry, and be a cold and cruel emperor!
Zhu Youxiao said secretly and took Zhang Yan to a stall selling candied haws.
According to Wang Chengen's opinion, since the Empress wanted to eat this thing, she just asked the people from the East Factory to help her buy it.
But Zhu Youxiao refused. The emperor always wanted to chat with these low-ranking people, but he asked about nonsense that you can eat enough and how many times a year he could eat meat.
The Empress also seemed to want to relive the joy of her youth, but she no longer had the dignity of the past. She took His Majesty the Emperor to see here and there from time to time.
But this made Wang Chengen and others who were escorting themselves were afraid that the two people at the top of the empire would make any mistakes.
When Wang Chengen saw that His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress were going to buy candied haws, he winked, and the two of them were tall and powerful, plainclothes men in the East Factory, and many people were blocked by them.
When Zhu Youxiao came, he could easily walk in front, pointing at the candied haws covered with straw stalks, and asked Zhang Yan: "I want to eat that skewer."
Zhang Yan didn't say anything, so she stood on tiptoe and took three strings, and smiled at Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly and asked the old man who sold candied haws a few words. Seeing that the old man couldn't answer, he left impatiently: "Give the money!"
Wang Chengen hurriedly threw down a silver ingot and ordered to his left and right: "Take all this away, so that His Majesty and Empress will not leave the palace to buy it again."
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At first, the old woman and her granddaughter who asked someone to take in her granddaughter on the street had the first time seeing such a luxurious carriage.
They were even afraid of dirtying the cushion, so they didn't sit on it. They just sat in the corner at a loss, looking at the pot of red charcoal fire in the middle, and couldn't help but reach out to their hands.
It was very warm when baked with hands, as if the whole world suddenly entered spring.
They didn't know that this was the carriage of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, but they did not reduce their gratitude to the owner of the carriage. Looking at the luxuriously dressed men outside the curtain of the carriage, who were usually showing off their power in front of them, they could only stand outside the carriage and be froze. They suddenly couldn't believe the scene in front of them.
It was not until Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan walked in that they realized that the warmth of less than half an hour was provided by the kind young man in front of them.
The old woman and her little girl kowtowed to Zhu Youxiao consciously. Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly helped the old woman up: "The old man doesn't have to be too polite, but Wang Chengen has brought some food. They probably are still hungry."
Zhu Youxiao’s carriage is very large, and it is a luxury version of the RV in modern times. Therefore, Wang Chengen, the chief of the Sili Supervisor, can also serve Zhu Youxiao and Queen Zhang Yan in the car at any time.
"Abide by the order!"
Wang Chengen responded and personally handed a box of pastries for the palace to the old woman: "Your Majesty will reward you, but you won't thank you."
Since it was in the car, there was no need for Wang Chengen to deliberately conceal Zhu Youxiao's true identity.
However, after hearing this, the old woman was stunned. Her mouth was so open that she could stuff an egg, and she burst into tears again.
Then, the old woman hurriedly pulled her granddaughter to kowtow to Zhu Youxiao. In the eyes of the old woman, it was simply unimaginable that she could meet the noble emperor. She couldn't help but be excited.
"Okay, old man, stop kowtow. You are the old birthday star. Your Majesty and I want to borrow some birthday from you."
As Zhang Yan said that, she helped the old woman sit on the couch beside her, and then comforted her: "Your Majesty, we are a good emperor who cares about the sufferings of the people. When he saw you people suffering, he couldn't stand it."
"Yes, yes, the emperor is really a good emperor!" the old woman echoed repeatedly.
But the little girl was very calm. After seeing her grandmother sitting down, she came over with her pastry, pinched a small piece of pastry into pieces and fed it into the old woman: "Grandma, you eat it."
Zhu Youxiao was already half lying on the soft couch. While Wang Chengen was hammering his feet, he looked at the latest "Da Ming Daily". After hearing the little girl speak, he glanced at the little girl without paying attention. But he happened to see the little girl with bare feet, and ordered: "Wang Chengen, you go and carry the girl into my bedding to hold it, and then serve a bowl of porridge to the old man. The granddaughter thought that his grandmother had bad teeth, why didn't you remind me?"
"Your Majesty, I have never served the old man!"
Wang Chengen explained and hurriedly went to do it.
Zhang Yan, who was standing beside him, saw that Wang Chengen was being sent away by Zhu Youzhai, came over to give Zhu Youzhai a massage.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile and thought to himself that he was the emperor. Even if he left the palace, the treatment would be better than that of ordinary people.
The little girl naturally didn't know how much he committed to covering the same bedding as His Majesty the Emperor. She was so hungry that she ate several pieces of pastries and then slapped her cheeks and stared at Zhu Youxiao.
For her, the emperor was as arrogant as the gods and Bodhisattvas, but she didn't expect that she would be so close to the emperor at this moment, and the emperor seemed not as old and fierce as they said.
Seeing that the little loli was staring at him, Zhu Youxiao asked, "What's your name?"
"If you go back to the emperor, my name is Yang Ai." The little girl's father is Tong Sheng, and she knows some etiquette. When she saw Zhu Youxiao ask her, she couldn't help but owed her body.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and didn't say anything, but suddenly, he remembered that Liu Rushi's original name was Yang Ai. When he looked at the little girl, although she was still young, he could see that she must be a beauty when she grew up. When she saw her calm and modest, he thought that this strange woman was a strange woman, and even when she was a child, she was different.
Chapter completed!