At the end of the third year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun issued an edict to commend Hou Er and his wife for blocking the water, and renamed the Eleventh Fort of Gaojiayan to Houmen Village. At the same time, the emperor also adopted Hou Er's orphan, named him Zhu Houlin, and raised him in Chen
Under the name of the Queen Mother, she was given the title of "Princess Leping".
Ma Shengming, the magistrate of Qinghe County, who almost died in the Gaojiayan embankment burst flood, escorted the princess to Beijing together with the Zhongguan who came to deliver the order.
The girl of Hou Er's family was only eleven years old after the Chinese New Year. According to the people of the Hou family, the old Hou family didn't know what kind of virtue their ancestors had accumulated, but Hou Er, a fool, actually gave birth to a princess.
It turns out that the villagers who shed tears of sympathy for Hou Er and his wife, in addition to lamenting the impermanence of the world, also had small flames of jealousy burning deep in their hearts. Especially after Badazui returned home after telling this legendary story, he saw himself
The ugly girl kept screaming that she was hungry - she wished she had been there that day and jumped in after Guan Yong.
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In the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, the capital was cold and humid. Since the twelfth lunar month of the third year of Wanli, the heavy snow has almost never stopped.
With the capital Zhili as the center, half of northern China was covered by heavy white snow like cotton wool.
At the beginning, the courtiers praised "the auspicious snow heralds a good harvest", but the heavy snowfall that has not stopped during the New Year has already overwhelmed more than 20,000 private houses - Beizhili suffered a heavy snow disaster.
In terms of providing relief for this snowstorm, since the autumn harvest has already passed, the problem is not food, but the shortage of cotton-padded clothes and quilts.
Zhu Yijun ordered Zhang Jing to stop all other production, and all the major factories of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with a total of nearly 100,000 people, were devoted to cotton transportation and quilt production.
Due to the implementation of assembly line operations, 600,000 quilts and 1.5 million cotton coats were produced in just one month - all of which Zhu Yijun bought with internal funds and distributed to the disaster areas for free.
As soon as this move came out, all the people praised it. The "Jingshi Daily", which was published in the capital before the end of the year, praised Zhu Yijun to the point of disgusting. However, in the eyes of the victims who had received the warmth of the royal family, the praise in the newspaper was not enough - Zhu Yijun was
The loyalty of the people at the bottom of the North has been raised to over 90%.
Following the emperor's rhythm of disaster relief, the two queen mothers, Chen and Li, also showed compassion. Each of them went out of their way to set up a total of 300 medical clinics in the capital, Beizhili and other places. The first batch of medical school students were taught
Under the leadership of the emperor, the poor were given free medical treatment. Of course, they still had to go to the pharmacy with the prescription to get the medicine. For those who really had no money to get the medicine, the Queen Mother also gave the medicine, but it required the guarantor of the village chief and the neighbors.
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Time entered the end of the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, and the convoy escorting Princess Leping finally arrived in the capital despite the wind and snow.
Hou Daidi, Princess Leping, now renamed Zhu Houlin, received meticulous care along the way. Along with the official who delivered the decree, there was also an eunuch in the inner study and two palace maids, who taught the princess royal etiquette along the way.
Serve daily life.
During the first half of the month on the road, the princess had two stomachaches because the food was too oily. In addition, both her parents had died, and she was left alone. She was very depressed. The Zhongguan and the two maids tried their best to coax the princess.
Feeling better.
Because the princess was born in poverty and had never read a book, the little yellow door in the inner study room taught her how to read and write along the way.
After some walking and walking, they finally arrived in the capital. Magistrate Ma was reluctant to leave and wanted to find a residence to live in. At this point, he had to be separated from the princess and her entourage. If the emperor could specially summon him, a seventh-rank sesame official, Ma Shengming felt that the blue on his ancestral grave
The smoke is not much less than that on the ancestral graves of the Hou family.
The official who delivered the order saw what he was thinking, and he had a good impression of this somewhat upright local official, so he said: "Master Ma, don't leave in a hurry. Let's go to the palace to deliver the order and see how the emperor treats the princess."
We’ll decide on an arrangement later.”
Ma Shengming was eager for this sound, so he quickly thanked him and said that he was waiting for him.
The group of people waited outside the palace gate for an hour before the decree came out. Since Princess Leping had never been to the capital before, the emperor was afraid that she would not be able to come out after entering the palace, so he asked the Zhongguan to lead him to live outside the palace for two days. The day after tomorrow, he and Ma
The county magistrate went to the palace to see him.
The Zhongguan said with emotion: "The emperor really didn't say anything to the princess, and even gave the slave twenty taels of gold - let us accompany the princess to visit Beijing and buy some things."
Magistrate Ma's mouth was filled with displeasure. He followed the lieutenant to a large house and escorted a group of people to live in. The two palace maids also had happy faces, and they all thought they had taken advantage of the princess. After hearing this, Princess Leping also felt happy in her heart.
feel happy.
As a foreign minister, Magistrate Ma had the opportunity to be accompanied by internal officials and greet the princess on the way. However, at this time, he could not be together and had to find another place to live. But he was overjoyed to be summoned by the emperor and left with a smile.
Already.
The next day was the first day of the second lunar month. In the morning, the lieutenant asked the princess to get up and have breakfast. Since the palace maids were not allowed to leave the palace, they dressed up like the princess in the clothes of common women. The group hired two carriages and drove in a small group of officers and soldiers in royal robes.
Under escort, I was ordered to go shopping.
The palace maid surnamed Sun who accompanied the princess along the way was riding in a carriage with Princess Leping. On the way, she said to the princess: "I think that the emperor may want the princess to buy something for the queen mother. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it's more or less out of his heart -
I wonder what the princess thinks?"
After hearing this, Princess Leping's big eyes on her red face flashed and she said with a smile: "It's all up to Sister Sun's arrangement."
After hearing this, Palace Maid Sun said with a smile: "I dare not call you sister when you are a princess. You must not call me sister like this when you enter the palace. In this case, let's go to Rishenglong first. I have long wanted to see it."
He opened the curtain of the carriage and ordered out, and the group went straight to Rishenglong.
When the sun rose, the two maids and the princess covered their faces with gauze hats, got off the car and went directly into the store.
Unlike the Rishenglong in the north, there is no lobby to divert guests. After entering the lobby, there is a circle of glass display cabinets at different heights, filled with rare treasures - which made Princess Leping dizzy.
The two palace maids had not even left the palace before, let alone doing errands such as shopping. They were dazed at this time. The official who passed the order was stunned when he saw several people, and he himself was sweating. He waved to the shopkeeper in the lobby.
Called over.
When the shopkeeper saw that the lieutenant was accompanied by his female relatives, he didn't know what to make of it. He looked at them and saw that they were all dressed up as girls, and they didn't look like the lieutenant's wife. Judging from the clothes, the lieutenant's rank didn't look like her.
As if he can afford a wife.
He approached and asked in a low voice: "What orders do you have, father-in-law?" The lieutenant said in a low voice: "This is a noble person in the palace. Please arrange for a maid to look after him and give him some advice."
After hearing this, the shopkeeper looked at the Zhongguan up and down. He was very suspicious that these were a group of liars. The Zhongguan had no choice but to take out two gold cakes and put them in the palm of the shopkeeper's hand and said: "Just use these flowers, no matter what."
It’s definitely more than—well, it’s better to have some left over.”
The shopkeeper glanced at the golden pancake, squeezed it with his hands, and said with a smile on his face: "Father, what are you doing? What else can you do to ruin the shop?" He said polite words, but turned around and left.
He handed the gold to the cashier and called a girl out.
The girl had received professional training and knew immediately that they were a group of local leopards. She first led them to observe them in the lobby, and then asked them what they wanted to buy.
Palace Lady Sun said: "We want to buy something for the elders in the family." After hearing this, the girl joked: "But we want to buy a gift for this girl's mother-in-law whom we have not met?"
When the palace maid heard this, her color changed, and she stretched out her hand to give her an ear scrape. The middle official who was following her had quick eyesight and quick hands, and stopped her. She scolded the girl sharply: "You are a merchant servant, you are such a dirty thing, you dare to insult a noble person with your words.
!Are you seeking death?!"
Princess Leping was so frightened that she hid behind the palace maid Sun. The palace maid was stopped by the Zhongguan. Her heart trembled and she said nothing. She just stared at the girl with a knife-like gaze.
After hearing the lieutenant's scolding, the girl's face turned pale with anger, and her mouth moved slightly as she was about to retort. As soon as she spoke, a fat little hand stretched out from behind her head and blocked what she wanted to say.
inside.
The shopkeeper pulled the girl hard and scolded her: "Go to the back, you won't have to do the work here from now on!" He turned around and said with an apologetic smile on his face: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's me.
It's my fault. - This is my niece. She just came here the day before and was not sensible. You guys, please give her a little face and spare her once."
The maid Sun didn't want to make a fuss. Seeing his sincere attitude, she stopped talking. The shopkeeper bent down to apologize and waved a female clerk over.
Unexpectedly, someone next to me interjected: "The eunuch is disgusting! It's just a joke, how can you dare to be arrogant? Under the emperor's feet, there is still room for you to show your authority?!"
The shopkeeper secretly complained when he heard this, thinking that I had to be unlucky to do such a job. But he didn't dare to show any of his face. When he looked up, his eyes lit up and he said: "It turns out to be Mr. Tao - you are here today."
Why do you have to come here free?"
The person who interrupted was Tao Dalin, the president of the Hanlin Academy. Since he was not feeling well today, he took a day off and came to Rishenglong to buy some things. He saw the scene of the senior official scolding the clerk.
Seeing his dignified demeanor and being able to tell that he was a civil servant without wearing official uniform, the lieutenant general heard him scolding him and did not dare to reply. He lowered his head and motioned for the princess and his entourage to follow him and go away.
The shopkeeper was busy and asked another female clerk to follow the group. He wiped the sweat in his heart and vowed for the thousandth time not to resign tomorrow, but his body was honest and he walked towards Tao Dalin.
Seeing that Tao Dalin's lips were purple and his face was pale, he quickly asked: "Master Tao, is he suffering from heart palpitations again?"
Tao Dalin nodded in agreement, and the shopkeeper said: "Just in time, the store just received a batch of 'Quick-acting Jiuxin Pills'. I'll get some for you."
Tao Dalin frowned and asked, "The price hasn't been reduced yet?"
The shopkeeper said: "It's down! It's down! It's a drop - this time it's two taels of silver and ten pills. This medicine is for life-saving purposes, you can't look at the price."
"I also have some newly developed prescriptions from the medical school, including Styraxianum Pills and Jiuxin Pills. I'll give you a copy later. The professor at the medical school said - forget it, I don't understand. Just look at this."
Tao Dalin ran to him and rummaged in a wooden cabinet under the counter, not knowing why. The shopkeeper rummaged for a long time and suddenly took out a large heart model, which shocked Tao Dalin.
The shopkeeper raised the big heart with his left hand, and said to Tao Dalin with a smile on his face: "This is a model of a human heart. Only the sun rises in the capital." Tao Dalin saw the heart model with dilated blood vessels, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
It's disgusting.
Unaware, the shopkeeper pointed his right hand at the big heart above his left hand and said, "Have you seen this blood vessel? The medical school has figured out that your disease is called coronary heart disease, and it is this blood vessel that is blocked - hey, hey,
Master Tao, Master Tao? Get the quick-acting heart-saving pills, quickly!"