About the eve of dusk, Zhu Youxiao and others arrived at the Yangjia Pass, where "the forest is dyed all over the forest". The pass is a geographical term, referring to a relatively flat place in the narrow and relatively flat areas of the two mountains.

Zhu Youxiao is now here. The terrain is like a saddle. A small village happens to be in the middle of the saddle. From time to time, a cow can be mooed. When he looked back, he saw a shepherd boy riding a buffalo and walking towards the entrance of the village.

What made Zhu Youxiao curious was not the quiet and vivid scene of the shepherd boy riding a cow, but the shepherd boy was actually wearing smooth and shiny clothes made of high-quality satin fabric.

Logically, in western regions like Guangxi, the gentry group is not strong. Even in the Ming Dynasty, when it was more than two hundred years ago, the composition of most farmers is still mainly self-cultivated farmers. In other words, there are few such rich people and local gentry. But why can a shepherd boy riding a buffalo dress so luxuriously today?

Then, I looked at the surrounding farmhouses and houses surrounded by fences with blue bricks and black tiles. The roads in front and behind the houses were all bluestone slabs. The old trees in the village still had green leaves. Because it was dusk and the sky was dark, Zhu Youxiao could not observe that these were all woods dyed with sprayed dye liquid. He just felt that when he came here, he really couldn't feel the feeling of autumn.

But Zhu Youxiao still picked up a leaf and picked it up with his hands. He couldn't help but laugh and didn't expose it directly. Instead, he walked to the Guangxi Governor Fang Zhenru: "You have to show off in front of me. I understand, but there is no need to make autumn turn into spring. In addition, let the men, women, young and old in the village not look like ordinary people, but like local rich men or rich peasants. The Ming Dynasty has not yet flourished to this point, and even a little kid who is herding cattle is better than the young master of the landlord's family.

Fang Zhenru couldn't help but blush and looked awkwardly at the left governor Yang Honggui and Chai Zengyong, the two officials were responsible for the renovation and redecoration of the Yangjia Pass because Ningpin Luoruo visited his relatives and returned home this time.

At this time, Yang Honggui was also sweating. He said that according to the instructions provided by the Governor Fang Zhenru that Your Majesty was an ambitious emperor and loved the people the most. Although he did not seek extravagant expectations, the people could not be shown in front of His Majesty in a poverty-stricken manner, so he deliberately spent the funds originally prepared for His Majesty to enjoy luxurious treatment to improve the living standards of these villagers. However, he did not expect that His Majesty would still see it, but he had to look at the Youjiang Road branch patrol Chai Zengyong, hoping that Chai Zengyong would come forward to explain to His Majesty.

Chai Zengyong had to stand up. Before he could speak, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "No need to say anything. I know what you are going to say. As ministers, you should focus more on the important affairs of benefiting the people and making contributions to the country. If you do something stupid like this time, don't blame me for not being polite."

Zhu Youxiao said that, so he asked Chai Zengyong and other officials to lead them into the village to meet Yang Laoyao, the father of Ningpin Luo Ruo.

Ningpin Luo Ruo was already in tears at this time. When she entered the entrance of the village, she hurriedly saluted Zhu Youxiao, and then hurriedly walked quickly towards her own door.

However, at this time, her family had already been occupied by soldiers of the Fifth Army of the Army, and several sharpshooters holding rifles lay on the roof of her house and on a crooked camphor tree next to her.

Her father, Yang Laoyao and her weak brother, Yang Yier, were all wearing gorgeous clothes and waiting outside the house.

When Yang Laoyao and his son saw Ning Benluo Ruo, Yang Laoyao was already crying, his palms swayed constantly, and he wanted to reach out and run over to see his daughter, but suddenly realized that his identity was different, he hurriedly knelt down: "I've seen the Empress."

"Sister", Yang Yi'er just shouted and was about to run over, but Yang Laoyao pulled him back directly, and hurriedly pressed Yang Yi'er's head and made him kneel down.

Ning Ping Luo Ruo couldn't help feeling sad, and tears came out in a flash. However, thinking that the current emperor was followed by his grandmaster, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and the Seli Supervisor, and other bigwigs, he pretended to be calm and held back his tears, and hurriedly helped Yang Laoyao and Yang Yier up, and bowed to Yang Laoyao.

Although the father and daughter met, due to the huge difference in status, Yang Laoyao no longer dared to call her daughter intimately, and Ningpin Luoruo did not shout "father". His brother seemed to realize that it was different from the past, so he no longer wanted to get close to his sister mischievously. Instead, he followed Yang Laoyao. Even after entering the house, Yang Laoyao would tremble and personally brew a cup of coarse tea for Ningpin Luoruo. Ningpin Luoruo naturally did not dare to accept it, and hurriedly helped Yang Laoyao sit beside him.

Zhu Youxiao did not go through because he felt that if he had gone through, he would probably add more pressure to the father and daughter.

Zhu Youxiao walked casually to a farmer for a chat. Because he had already changed into casual clothes when he entered the mountain, these farmers could not guess what he was doing. However, seeing that the officials and men who often came to the village these days were following him, he thought that Zhu Youxiao might just be a high-ranking official who visited privately, so he was not very restrained.

Most emperors of the Ming Dynasty liked to understand the people's sentiments and had close contact with the people. Perhaps this was a good habit inherited from Emperor Gao, such as Zhu Houzhao later. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is now accustomed to going to the bottom to understand the situation of the entire society and understand their feelings.

In fact, officials such as Guangxi Governor Fang Zhenru were still worried that His Majesty would make some words from these lower-class people, even though they had already let these villagers go through the same verbs before.

"How much land is there in the family, how much tax is paid in a year, has the yamen distributed corvee labor, whether the wages owed are paid, etc."

Because Zhu Youzhai is not allowed to approach within hundreds of steps except those guarding Zhu Youzhai, when Zhu Youzhai asked this, he didn't have to worry about the Guangxi local officials standing aside from him who would hear what they were saying.

And the farmer was honest and told Zhu Youxiao in detail about the situation at home:

"There are so many fields, so many people are reluctant to farm. They all go to the city to earn wages for masters or workshops. I am now planting the fields of three families, one from my brother's house and the other from my cousin's house. They all planted them for me, so we don't have to worry about not having enough harvest, which leads to the situation where we never say we can't eat enough. The tax is much lower than in previous years. Without one or another, we will naturally live much better. In the yamen, we have been allowed to do a lot of work these days, but we have earned a lot of wages, and we can owe taxes first. Now the court is getting better and better than when I was a child."

The farmer couldn't help but sigh: "This is because I, the Ming Dynasty, has another good emperor!"
Chapter completed!