Chapter 138: Gifts to the Empress Dowager
Obviously, Wang Lun's words were exactly what Zhu Chenhao wanted!
He smiled coldly and said, "Yes, that's right, it's true that today's son is injustice, and the current prince is even more ridiculous. Look at Fang Jifan, who is surrounded by him, is notorious and angry with both humans and gods. But such a treacherous villain is said to be loved by the emperor and the prince. From this we can see that the people in the world have already suffered to a great extent."
Zhu Chenhao's eyes shone brightly and said with a sensation: "This Fang Jifan...is a good move."
Wang Lun looked at Zhu Chenhao carefully: "Your Highness means..."
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if such a greedy and greedy evil young man can be used by me? Think about it, this man's father Fang Jinglong is also a tiger general. If he can win over his son, his old man will not be able to rebel in the future. Fang Jifan is so close to the prince, as long as he satisfy his appetite, he will definitely speak for him in front of His Majesty and the prince at any time. Such a fool can't even find a lantern..."
Speaking of this, Zhu Chenhao seemed even more proud and continued: "With such a fool, Gu Wuyou is also a book compiler... tell Cao Jian that Fang Jifan's request was met all, and that the other ones were nothing else, that was, there was money."
Zhu Chenhao's confidence is not unreasonable. His vassal areas are in Jiangxi. Jiangxi is originally a land of fish and rice. Nanchang Prefecture, Shanggao, Yichun and Gao'an are also his vassal areas. There are a large number of copper mountains in the vassal areas, which makes the Ning Prince's Mansion rich and powerful.
In history, the Ning Palace raised a guard of more than 30,000 people, and secretly raised tens of thousands of thieves. When he rebelled, nearly 100,000 troops were gathered in an instant, which shows that the Ning King had a deep family.
"Students understand that students are writing books." Wang Lun bowed. He thought about it, but had some concerns, and frowned and said, "The Fang family started out with Jingnan. Fang Jinglong was even more loyal to the court. Fang Jifan... seriously... would be willing to be your Highness..."
"What do you know?" Zhu Chenhao glared at him and said, "Gu has already ordered people to inquire about Fang Jifan. Such a thief who is obsessed with interests can make him willing to surrender if he uses some means."
Wang Lun nodded and finally said, "Then, the student understands."
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In the west mountain of Fang Jifan, three experimental fields for cultivating sweet potatoes have been received in this hot weather.
Seedling cultivation must be selected to select the most vigorous and seemingly uninfested sweet potatoes and continue to breed. As for the others, they have to eat them.
The taste of this sweet potato is pretty good. Because he harvested about a hundred kilograms, Fang Jifan took some of the seemingly crooked jujubes and jujubes home and ordered people to cook them in a pot. After cooking the porridge, he himself refused to eat it first. God knows what kind of sweet potatoes are in this era, so it's better not to eat anything wrong.
So the five disciples gathered together, and each of them placed sweet potato porridge on the table, hot porridge, and mixed with the unique flavor of sweet potatoes, giving people a very strange feeling.
"Eat." Fang Jifan was so kind that he looked very happy.
Xu Jing looked at the nose and the nose, and sat in a daze. He was the most clear-headed person. His mentor was attentive and was either traitor or thief!
Ouyang Zhi, Liu Wenshan and Jiang Chen seemed to have known their mentors for a long time, and they seemed to be wandering. Look at me, I look at you, and you didn't move your chopsticks easily.
Tang Yin was still simple and said gratefully: "Thank you for your porridge."
After saying that, Tang Yin lowered his head very seriously and began to move his chopsticks.
Then everyone looked at Tang Yin carefully, and saw Tang Yin breathing and slowly put the orange sweet potato into his mouth. He suddenly felt a sweet fragrance accompanying the porridge. His expression suddenly relaxed, and the smell was... great.
"Yeah... delicious, delicious, eat quickly, eat quickly... you don't move your chopsticks."
But no one moved his chopsticks.
Everyone thinks that even if you penetrate the intestinal poison, you will have to wait a while before the attack occurs.
Tang Yin seemed to have not seen everyone's weirdness yet, and said very clearly: "It's really delicious, mentor, you can eat it too."
Fang Jifan smiled, looking mysterious and shaking his head and said, "I have eaten it for my teacher, Xiao Tang, you eat more."
Tang Yin suddenly felt warm in his heart. Although his mentor was good to him on weekdays, he rarely saw his mentor so considerately. His eyes were a little red. This was called three-point color, which means that spring flowers bloomed.
OK, indeed... it's low emotional intelligence.
Fang Jifan couldn't help but sigh for Tang Yin in his heart.
The response of this sweet potato porridge meal was particularly good, but for Fang Jifan, this kind of grain still needs to be cultivated in large quantities, but now he has a clear mind, Fang Jifan feels a little more comfortable.
When he went to Zhan Shi Mansion again, Zhu Houzhao saw Fang Jifan and his eyes were bright. When there was no one around him, he hurriedly approached Fang Jifan and asked in a low voice: "Did King Ning send the money?"
Fang Jifan shook his head.
Zhu Houzhao immediately became regretful and said angrily: "Will this dog be reluctant to leave?"
"This..." Fang Jifan smiled: "It depends on His Highness Ning's determination."
"Decision?" Zhu Houzhao thought about it, then shook her head: "Don't worry about these for now, I will go to copy the Taoist scriptures."
This is really sudden. Didn’t Zhu Houzhao only like military affairs?
Fang Jifan said strangely: "Your Highness actually has such a good atmosphere."
Speaking of Taoist scriptures, Fang Jifan was very interested. In essence, he was also interested in Taoist scriptures. In his previous life, his hometown was near Gezao Mountain, which was one of the famous Taoist mountains. Influenced by this, he also read some Taoist scriptures. Uh... The purpose of reading Taoist scriptures was to improve one's personality, and the purpose of improving one's personality was to find a girlfriend, which was very happy.
Of course, the final result was that I read the book, but my girlfriend did not find it unexpectedly.
In fact, he was too young at that time, so he didn't know that the girls' eyes were Chanel and Armani, so naturally they wouldn't be the Tao Te Ching, let alone Gorky and Dumas.
Zhu Houzhao said with a look of annoyance: "In a few days, it will be the birthday of the emperor and grandmother. My father ordered the palace to copy a few Taoist scriptures and send them to you, otherwise..."
Speaking of this, Zhu Houzhao's eyes were filled with sadness and she said sadly: "Otherwise, I'll beat me up."
"Oh. Then... Your Highness works hard."
Fang Jifan laughed and looked gloating.
"Or..." Seeing Fang Jifan's behavior, Zhu Houzhao became annoyed. He was not a friend enough. He grabbed Fang Jifan and said, "Or, if you help me copy, isn't it said that there is a difficulty for brothers to share with each other?"
Fang Jifan immediately said: "The handwriting of me and Your Highness is completely different. You can tell by copying it. This is asking for death."
Zhu Houzhao shook her head and said, "Don't worry, the emperor's grandmother's eyes are blurry, so how can she see clearly? This is just a show of her feelings. Come on, I have treated you a lot on weekdays."
Fang Jifan seemed helpless.
Your Highness, the Crown Prince, it's really...
He had to look at Zhu Houzhao coldly: "It's not impossible to copy. I try my best to imitate Your Highness's handwriting, but... there is one thing that Your Highness should not bully Your Highness the Princess in the future."
"Okay, okay..." Zhu Houzhao's most feared was to write and write, so he naturally agreed and pulled Fang Jifan and started working.
The pen, ink, paper and inkstone are ready-made. In addition, a book of the "Tao Te Ching" was specially collected and a notes for the sutra.
The Tao Te Ching is understandable. As for the commentary, to be more concise, it is annotation of the Tao Te Ching. After all, some things are awkward and difficult to understand. How to understand the Tao Te Ching always requires authoritative people to translate and interpret it.
Fang Jifan only looked at the notes of the sutras sent by Zhu Houzhao, and couldn't help but smile: "Your Highness can't even copy books?"
"What...what?" Zhu Houzhao looked innocent.
Fang Jifan was confused. Forget it, if you look deeper with Zhu Houzhao, it would be like playing the piano against a cow.
The notes for the sutra sent by Zhu Houzhao were actually "The True Sutra of Imperial Morality" by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. Song Huizong's calligraphy and painting are both outstanding, which is admirable, but his annotations on the Taoist Ching are not many in Taoism. The reason why this book can be written is actually just to worship the name of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, he believed in sorcerers and liked alchemy techniques. Therefore, his understanding of the Tao Te Ching is mostly like alchemy techniques.
What's more, Song Huizong was the king of the country who destroyed the country, and the Queen Mother's birthday, you'll send such a thing... It's unlucky...
Fang Jifan saw it and couldn't help but shake his head. If he had sent the hand-written "The True Book of Imperial Morals" to the public, the Empress Dowager would probably want to kill Zhu Houzhao if he knew a little. It would be a miracle that this guy could live.
Fang Jifan really had a bit of brotherhood towards Zhu Houzhao. In major events, he naturally would not look at Zhu Houzhao and pretended to be dead. Fang Jifan said, "Are there any other version of the sutras? Is there any "Imperial Moral Sutra" by Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Ah..." Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment and said unintentionally: "Taizu also commented on the Tao Te Ching..."
Fang Jifan was speechless. He couldn't bear to tell Zhu Houzhao that the version of the "Imperial Morals" by Emperor Huizong of Song was indeed annotated by Emperor Huizong of Song himself. Who made people versatile? But Emperor Taizu Gao of the dynasty, this... is just a name.
Fang Jifan sighed and said, "So is there any "Laozi Jie Jie" in Ge Xuan?"
"Who is Ge Xuan?"
Fang Jifan was completely convinced.
He had to push the version of "The Imperial Moral Sutra" by Emperor Huizong of Song. Now time is in a hurry. When Zhu Houzhao finds the scriptures, the daylily is cold.
He then thought about it. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been hundreds of versions of the Tao Te Ching. In addition to the Emperors of each dynasty, all kinds of versions have their own unique insights. And those who have memories seem to be Wei Dayou's "Collected Meaning of Morals". Wei Dayou is a Ming person. Born during the reign of Emperor Wen, his "Collected Meaning of Morals" has been passed down from generation to generation.
Chapter completed!