"Chapter 19 of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses": Fight against injustice and save Laifu..."
In a hoarse voice, Mr. Pingshu began to tell the story.
"I heard that this man's voice was not hoarse when he spoke just now. Why did his voice change to this when he spoke of storytelling?" Zhu Yuanzhang was very curious about Mr. Pingshu's hoarse voice.
Gao Fei chuckled and explained: "I heard that this was ordered by His Royal Highness himself. The prince said that this kind of voice is more flavorful."
"This storytelling is also made in English." Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly.
He also knows Zhu Han's character, he usually likes to have fun.
But you can just play normally. Now there are disaster victims everywhere, why do you do this kind of thing?
Lao Zhu of storytelling has never heard of it before, it is definitely something new.
Therefore, the stories told by Mr. Pingshu must have been created in Qiwu.
Writing such a long story will definitely take up a lot of Zhu Han's time.
Lao Zhu felt that what his brother did was a little too ignorant.
"This thing about the Three Heroes and the Righteousness should have been written by the King of England himself, right?" Lao Zhu asked pretending to be casual.
When mentioning this matter, Gao Fei suddenly became excited and said, "That's right. Old Chang also has some vision. No one else can write such a powerful story except His Royal Highness."
At this time, the storyteller on the stage had already begun to get down to business.
Lao Zhu didn't pay too much attention at first. When had he not seen him before?
Although this storytelling is novel, Lao Zhu now understands what is going on.
To put it bluntly, it's just telling a story.
The reason why these people are so fascinated by what they hear is simply because they have never seen the world.
This is what Lao Zhu originally thought.
But as he listened, Xiaozhu gradually became drawn into the story.
As the storyteller narrated, my mood kept fluctuating.
Just when he heard the excitement, the storyteller was suddenly shocked: "I know what will happen next, and I will explain it next time."
The story ends abruptly at the most exciting place. Where has Lao Zhu ever experienced such a scene?
Looking at the whole world, who dares to play this trick in front of Zhu Yuanzhang?
"Why did it stop now?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked, still unfinished.
Gao Fei chuckled: "How about Old Chang? You haven't heard such an interesting story before, have you?"
In "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", Zhu Han directly copied the storytelling of Mr. Shan Tianfang from later generations.
What’s more, it’s very funny, requiring all uncles and gentlemen to use this kind of voice to speak storytelling.
It has to be said that even in later generations, most people will be fascinated by these storytellings.
Not to mention in this era of lack of entertainment.
As soon as the storyteller finished speaking and would like to listen to the explanation in the next chapter, a wailing sound erupted in the teahouse.
"How come it's all over so quickly?"
"Sir, you can't stop here, otherwise, I won't be able to sleep tonight."
"Sir, please drink some water quickly and then continue talking."
Don't talk about them, even Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to urge the storyteller to continue talking.
If it hadn't been for a private visit incognito, he would have even directly ordered the uncle to continue.
Most of the people in this teahouse look like ordinary people.
However, there are also some moves that are relatively luxurious, like those of people like Gao Fei.
When Mr. Shu asked the people next to him to come down to ask for rewards, some people even rewarded them with a mina of silver directly.
From a visual inspection, it should be at least about one or two.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but look at it twice.
You must know that at this time, the purchasing power of silver is quite strong.
Even in Yanjing, a skilled worker's monthly salary is only a little over one tael of silver.
This person just listened to a piece of storytelling and could easily reward him with a tael of silver.
This shows how generous the shot is.
"Who is that person?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously.
If it were in a place like Yingtian Mansion, or even in the current Yanjing City.
If someone casually offered a reward, even one or two taels of silver, Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't care too much.
But this is Datong Prefecture, which has just suffered a drought that is rare in a century.
The people lived in misery, and even some resurrections suffered considerable losses.
It would be strange if he could act so generously under such circumstances and not make people curious.
Gao Fei glanced in the direction of the rewarder, and twitched the corner of his mouth: "Who else could it be? The richest people in the entire Datong Mansion are these grain merchants."
"That man's surname is Qian, and his name is Qian Youfu. He was originally just an ordinary small businessman. This time, he made a huge profit by selling food."
"Although he is not as good as those wealthy businessmen appointed by His Royal Highness, he still makes money from his own family."
Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly startled: "Why does it sound like you don't think highly of these businessmen?"
Gao Fei didn't answer and asked instead: "Why should I think highly of these people? After all, these guys just saw the high price of food and took advantage of the opportunity to come in to make money. What is there to think highly of?"
Zhu Yuanzhang felt even more strange: "That's not what you just said."
Gao Fei put his arms around his shoulders, as if you were too young: "Old Chang, don't you understand this?"
"His Royal Highness the King of England has told us more than once that although merchants did make a certain contribution to the drought in Datong Prefecture this time."
"But there is no need to talk about contribution with them, because no matter what they do, their most fundamental purpose is to make money."
"To put it bluntly, it's all for myself, so there's no need to think too highly of people like them."
Lao Zhu suddenly realized that he had forgotten about this incident.
Zhu Han mentioned these words to him more than once.
Of course, businessmen should not be looked down upon too lightly, because without business, the entire country would not be able to get rich.
But you must not take businessmen too seriously, otherwise it will only bring disaster to the country.
Just now, he was only thinking about why Gao Fei's attitude changed so much, but he forgot about this incident.
Seeing Lao Zhu's appearance, Gao Fei patted him on the shoulder again: "Study more, we still have a lot for you to learn here."
"But it's not me, Lao Chang, you are so old. Why are you not calm at all?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was said to be deceived.
What?
He is not calm enough.
At this moment, Lao Zhu really wanted to reveal his identity and give Gao Fei a chance to reorganize his language.
See if he is calm enough.
Of course, these are just thoughts in my mind.
He can't argue with a low-ranking official like Gao Fei.
That would be too embarrassing for the Ming royal family.
Maybe even Lao Zhu didn't notice it himself, maybe because he saw the shadow of his past in Gao Fei, so he rarely hid his emotions in front of Gao Fei.
Sure enough, Gao Fei saw that unconvinced look again.
Gao Fei immediately pointed at Lao Zhu and said: "Look what I just said? You have to have a little bit of dignity in life and don't show everything on your face. If you do this, you will definitely suffer big losses in the future."
"We...we." Zhu Yuanzhang stammered for a long time, but he couldn't think of how to refute Gao Fei.
In the end, I could only helplessly clasp my fists and say, "Thank you for your advice, sir. I'll note it down. I will definitely never forget your kindness."
Lao Zhu bit the last two words very hard.
Now was not the time to reveal his identity. He wanted to see if this guy would dare to talk to him like this when he knew his true identity.
Unable to stand Gao Fei's look of someone who had come before to give advice, Zhu Yuanzhang decisively changed the subject: "By the way, sir. Didn't you say that this storytelling was written by His Royal Highness himself?"
"But as far as we know, didn't His Royal Highness come to Datong Mansion to deal with the disaster? Although the situation in Datong Mansion is much better than before, there should be a lot of things to deal with, right?"
"Why does His Royal Highness still have time to write some commentary and painting books? Isn't this a bit..."
This time, before he finished speaking, Gao Fei suddenly stopped him from continuing.
"Stop, stop, stop!" He looked around at Gao Fei warily, and then lowered his voice and said, "Old Chang, you don't want to live anymore, you dare to say anything casually."
Zhu Yuanzhang blinked, and also lowered his voice and said: "Sir, I didn't say anything against His Royal Highness, did I? Is there any taboo in this?"
Gao Fei slowly shook his head: "There are no taboos, but you don't know how high the prestige of His Royal Highness in our Datong Mansion is now."
"Whatever you dare to say, His Royal Highness is nothing at all, if someone listens to you,"
"Do you believe that neither of us can leave this teahouse today?"
Lao Zhu began to feel sour in his heart again. He was almost 100% sure that even he was definitely not as popular as Zhu Han.
Although Jin Yiwei is now controlled by his younger brother, he is directly responsible to him as the emperor after all.
Zhu Yuanzhang is often the first to know the news that Jin Yiwei has.
Many people among the people did not understand his actions and were even very dissatisfied with him.
But I have never heard of anyone being beaten up by the people around him for expressing dissatisfaction with him.
But in Datong Mansion, he was just questioning his brother. Otherwise, could it have caused such a big commotion?
"In our Datong Mansion, you can say anything. Even if you scold those grain merchants in the street, there is no problem. Not only will no one care about you, but they might even help you scold those heartless guys."
"But if you dare to say something against His Royal Highness, then you can expect to be scolded on the back by all the people of Datong."
"For example, half a month ago, a person accused His Royal Highness in the street because he was dissatisfied with the current high food prices in Datong. Guess what happened?"
"What?" Lao Zhu said a little unconvinced: "Can he still be beaten to death?"
Gao Fei nodded solemnly: "I haven't been beaten to death, but it's about the same."
"Almost half of the bones in his body were broken. If the Yamen hadn't arrived quickly, he might have been beaten to death."
"His Royal Highness also has a large number of people. After having the people from the Imperial Guard check it out, they found that this person was just complaining at most and had not really done anything detrimental to His Royal Highness."
"So instead of treating him, we asked a doctor to treat his wounds."
"Otherwise, the grass on this guy's grave would be almost three feet tall now."
When Lao Zhu heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.
If things really develop to that point, maybe not even the experts who protect him can protect him.
If this was really an accident, the mighty Ming Emperor would have been beaten into a disability by the people under his rule.
That would be so much fun.
Lao Zhu shut his mouth tightly and nodded repeatedly to show that he understood.
Gao Fei then breathed a sigh of relief: "Anyway, anyone in our Datong Mansion can say it, except His Royal Highness."
"That's right." Gao Fei seemed to suddenly remember something?
"There are two other people, and you can't talk about them casually, no."
Zhu Han has such a high prestige in Datong Mansion, which Lao Zhu does not find strange.
After all, although the current price of food in Datong Prefecture is very expensive, it is not so high that the people cannot afford it.
As long as you are not a poor person, you can always get by if you tighten your belt.
If you really have nothing, you can go to a refugee camp outside to find a living.
Then your life is no worse than that of the people in Datong Fucheng.
To be able to manage the entire Datong Mansion like this under such a natural disaster.
To the people of Datong Mansion, their brother is probably no less than those legendary figures.
But besides Zhu Han, there is someone else with such prestige.
This made Lao Zhu have to be vigilant.
Gao Fei started to smile evilly again: "In addition to His Royal Highness, there are two people whose prestige in our Datong Mansion is at its peak."
"Slandering them may have more serious consequences than slandering His Royal Highness."
"Because these two people are considered gods in our Datong Mansion."
Before, Zhu Yuanzhang was still wondering who Gao Fei was talking about, and was even thinking about how to suppress these two people.
He had already begun to wonder if these two people had ulterior motives.
But upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes speechlessly.
He already understood who Gao Fei was talking about.
The most lacking thing in Datong Mansion now is water, and among such big men, those who can find water.
To the common people, isn't that just like an immortal figure who can control the wind and rain?
And these two people are not others.
He is the second of my brother's students in Huangzhuang.
He Feng and Fang Hubin.
These two guys used what they learned to create a pressurized water well that could extract groundwater from underground veins.
The other is to be able to find the location of underground water veins on the ground.
These two people quickly restored water supply to many places in Datong, almost one village per day.
Although the water source is not as abundant as before, there are already countless people alive based on this alone.