Chapter 1150 Postscript 7: The Queen Mother’s Teachings to the Young Emperor
The unemployed are rioting in factories in the suburbs, which does not affect the wealthy people from going out to the city to relax.
When Xie Yan was going back, he saw a long line of carriages leaving the city.
BMW carved car, elegant and luxurious.
There are crowds of servants, shouting in front and crowding behind.
It may be that several families are going out together, and there are four to five hundred servants following the carriage alone. Even those servants are all well-dressed, as if they are superior to others.
Such extravagant behavior can solve the employment problem of many people.
Xie Yan was surprised and said: "After all, I am also the son of Tong Fan, and my father ranks second in the officialdom of Huangzhou Prefecture. Why is it that when they go out, there is a huge battle, and you are the only one following me when I go out?"
Wang Sheng smiled and said: "The family style is different."
Xie Yan said: "These families are difficult to manage, aren't they? My father is an official in Huangzhou Mansion, so I'm afraid I have to look at their faces."
"Everything must be discussed." Wang Sheng said.
Xie Yan suddenly had a question: "Even if my father doesn't care about ostentation, why doesn't he even accept a concubine?"
Wang Sheng suddenly suppressed his laughter and said, "My husband and my wife have a deep love for each other and cannot allow a third person to interfere."
"Why do these words sound false to me?" Xie Yan didn't believe it.
Wang Sheng said in a very cryptic way: "My wife has a distinguished family background. She was married off at the beginning. Although she is a woman, she is very assertive."
Okay, Xie Yan understands now.
It's not that his father doesn't want to take concubines, it's that he has a thief heart but no courage.
Xie Yiqin claimed that he could be the general judge of a government in his forties solely based on his ranking in the imperial examination and his official performance. Who would believe him? He didn't have an old father-in-law to support him.
Of course, the father-in-law's abilities are limited, and his future career will have to rely on Xie Yiqin himself.
Xie Yan asked: "What does my grandfather do?"
Wang Sheng replied: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the demolished tribes moved to Hebei. The second generation who moved to Hebei won the Jinshi, and gradually became a family of officials. The old Xianggong was an upright official, and was demoted to Java during the Dingtai period. He was promoted to governor of Luzon overseas. He requested to retire due to old age and died of illness early last year."
"Then in my grandpa's family, are there any uncles or other officials serving as officials?" Xie Yan looked forward to it.
Wang Sheng said: "There are still two people working as product officials. Lang Jun's uncle is a powerful political figure in Guangdong Province."
Xie Yan was delighted to hear this. He had become a second-generation official in his life. Both his parents were officials.
Thinking about the hardships of delivering food before traveling through time, it is finally over!
Thinking of delivering food, Xie Yan couldn't help but think of his parents in the original time and space. He could only comfort himself. His parents responded to the two-child policy and gave birth to a younger brother in their forties. He is no longer there, but he still has his younger brother to support him.
Xie Yan pointed to the fleet of cars that had gone away: "Where are they going?"
Wang Sheng guessed: "Maybe he went to Anguo Temple, where the incense is very popular. It is said that Han Qi once studied hard in the temple, and Su Shi also visited the temple every one or two days for five consecutive years."
"It's almost noon, how long can we play?" Xie Yan didn't like those guys.
Wang Sheng said: "There are many elegant houses in Anguo Temple for wealthy pilgrims to live in. As long as you can afford the money, you can live in the temple for a lifetime. When you leave the city at noon, you will definitely spend the night in the temple. Those wealthy people, one by one, We all got up very late, so of course it was very late to invite someone out."
It was approaching noon and they had to rush home for dinner, so they called a donkey cart.
When he got off the bus at the side door of the hall, Xie Yan unexpectedly met his colleague - the delivery boy.
This was a takeaway for his family. It was placed at the concierge and was not allowed in. Wang Sheng helped carry it to the backyard.
There are also other meals at home.
The mother explained: "I missed the chili peppers in Huibinlou, so I ordered one to be delivered. Liu Lang's injury has not healed, so don't touch the chili peppers today."
After opening the food box, Xie Yan looked at the peppers and was stunned: "Are these peppers available everywhere?"
My mother said: "It has spread to Hunan in recent years, and there are also a few farmers in Huangzhou Prefecture who are planting it. The price is quite expensive, but it will become cheaper in a few years if word spreads."
"Where did chili pepper come from?" Xie Yan asked.
My mother said: "There is a place overseas called America. In his later years, Emperor Taizong speculated that there was a beautiful state in the far east of the ocean, so he sent a fleet to explore it."
"Did you really discover it?" Xie Yan asked in surprise.
Mother smiled and said: "The two emperors Taizu and Taizong are gods descended from heaven, how could their speculations be wrong? However, there are also rumors that it was not smooth at the beginning. The first and second batch of sea exploration fleets disappeared. , it was not until the fifth year after Taizong's death that the third batch of sea exploration fleets returned from Luzon."
Xie Yan asked again: "Is there a governor's palace in the United States?"
Mother shook her head: "The United States is too remote, and not many people are willing to immigrate there. The imperial court has always organized explorations, and every time a group of death row prisoners were transported there. There seems to have been a pause of twenty or thirty years in the middle. It is estimated that the population there now Not much."
After discovering that America was remote and poor, the imperial court still insisted on exploring its land, which made many ministers incomprehensible.
But almost every emperor would organize a fleet to go to America, seemingly looking for a treasure called rubber.
No rubber has been found so far, but many other things have been brought back.
Such as chili.
Such as potatoes.
Such as tobacco.
The mother in this time and space is very good at eating spicy food. She was so spicy that sweat broke out on her forehead, and she actually became more and more enthusiastic as she ate.
Xie Yan also wanted to try it, but was prohibited from touching it because his injury was "not yet healed".
In the afternoon, he returned to the study and took out various textbooks to study.
The Four Books are still compulsory, and the Six Classics still have to be chosen. Xie Yan took a few glances and felt dizzy.
However, when reading those words, I always feel a sense of familiarity, probably because of this body.
"Is it possible to take a shortcut by bypassing the Four Books and Six Classics?" Xie Yan asked.
Wang Sheng said: "If you choose to take the Li Jinshi exam, the questions on the Four Books and Six Classics will be easier. Especially the Six Classics, the questions are very simple. But when taking the Li Jinshi exam, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geography are even more difficult. .”
"Then I will take the examination for Jinshi!" Xie Yan was overjoyed.
Wang Sheng advised: "Liu Lang, it is really difficult to be a Li Jinshi. Wen Jinshi's mathematics, physics and other test questions are said to be ridiculed by Li Jinshi as child's play."
Xie Yan said: "I just like to challenge difficult problems, don't stop me!"
He casually opened a mathematics textbook and was confused as he looked at it.
He knew the Arabic numerals, and he also knew the symbols for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but there were some symbols that he had never seen before in the Bible.
These symbols were created by the mathematicians of the Ming Dynasty!
Xie Yan quickly opened the physics textbook, and there were also a lot of symbols he didn't recognize.
Damn, it's not compatible.
Throughout the afternoon, Xie Yan was reading carefully, mainly to familiarize himself with the various symbols and units in this world.
During dinner, the second brother and the younger sister went home, but their father never showed up. It was probably because the riots by the unemployed had not yet been dealt with.
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Luoyang.
The side hall of Chui Gong Hall, inside the meeting hall.
Retired minister Yang Lide, who had just rushed back to the capital, bowed to the Queen Mother Ye and said: "The sage knows clearly that reform is not something that happens overnight. Being too radical and reckless will lead to bad things!"
Queen Mother Ye asked: "Mr. Yang came to the capital in a hurry and was anxious to see the emperor. Do you just want to persuade your majesty to postpone the reform?"
Yang Lide said: "As soon as the article in the "Da Ming Xun Bao" was published, chaos broke out in many places. How could the imperial court write an article to incite the people to rebel?"
Queen Mother Ye is less than thirty years old this year. Her eye sockets are a bit deep and her nose is a bit straight. The rest is no different from a Han Chinese.
The little emperor is eleven years old and is sitting there very sensibly. Sometimes he looks at this, sometimes at that, as if he wants to understand why the adults are arguing.
Queen Mother Ye did not answer the call.
Prime Minister Deng Gongwu said: "The child labor ban was promulgated at the end of last year and came into effect on January 1 this year. It's already summer, how many factories have complied with the ban? Not only did the factories not comply, but private newspapers also said nothing about it. Ti. What do they want to do?"
Yang Lide said: "Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes. You should not be too impatient. Even if you have to rush, you should let the officials take action instead of inciting the small people to riot!"
"Am I inciting the common people to riot?" Deng Gongwu sneered, "I am telling the truth and presenting facts throughout the article. Not a single reason is wrong and not a single fact is false!"
Yang Lide suddenly realized: "It turns out that the article was actually written by Deng Xianggong."
Queen Mother Ye suddenly said: "I asked the Prime Minister to write it."
To be continued...