sinovels Chapter 492 Chenghua 7 Years
Chapter 492 Chenghua 7 Years
Emperor Xianzong unabashedly announced the loss of favor of the queen and the queen, and the person who arranged the wedding became the imperial concubine who now holds the Phoenix seal alone.
All the ministers didn't even have a censor to say anything in the memorial.
Emperor Xianzong was very satisfied with the acquaintance of the ministers.
The Wang family were even more afraid to make a sound like quails.
As the dust of the son-in-law matter settled, the time came to the twelfth lunar month.
During the Laba period, the porridge is cooked and given away, and the Laba porridge from other people's homes is also accepted.
The palace sent two more copies, the crown prince gave one, and the emperor gave one.
The prince's is similar to eight-treasure porridge, and the emperor's is similar to stubborn nine porridge.
After eating Laba porridge, it's time to celebrate the New Year.
Originally, a year of peace came here, but in the end, some people didn't stop.
In winter and December, Geng Shen, also thought that Ma Yin violated Datong.
Bingyin, Zhu Yong, Wang Yueshuai Jingjun Yuzhi.
"Hasn't he been beaten into a bare commander? Why...he made a comeback?" Wu Youwei remembers that Yisi Ma was disabled by the beating, right?
"He went back to the grassland to regroup." Wan Tao said, "But he made a mistake, that is, not everyone on the grassland is of one mind."
He had been stabbed to Daming's side a long time ago, and the other party's soldiers invaded Datong, and he was beaten to death.
Although it was winter, the generals of Ming Dynasty were not afraid of being overwhelmed by too many military achievements. They wanted to have a good time before the year, so as to have a good year.
Zhu Yong and Wang Yue have lived more and more in the past two years. Guarding the north, they have the oil and water from the mutual market, and they also have military achievements that they bump into from time to time. Of course, they will not be polite to a defeated subordinate.
Unceremoniously, the two beat each other up again, and this time, they directly disabled him!
The other party can be said to be familiar with each other once, and rolled back to his hometown deep in the grassland.
I don't know how to live in the days to come.
But Daming didn't just let it go that way, but anyone who lent troops to Yi Sima Yin was set up as a refusal account by Da Ming, and they had no part in doing anything.
Now, the contradictions on the grassland were further intensified. You must know that the power changes in the Mongolian king's tent were very fast and frequent, and they didn't think there was anything wrong, because they respected the strong.
Whoever can lead the tribe to live a good life, whoever can lead the army to fight, has the right to speak!
Zhu Yong took advantage of this feature to push the border of Ming Dynasty to the grassland by [-] miles. Of course, within the range of [-] miles, Wang Yue cunningly established it as a military buffer zone. The entire range has become a market site!
The mutual market is not decided by Daming, but by Daming and other Mongolian tribes. Daming is responsible for maintaining He Ping of the mutual market, but Mongolia, as the other party of the mutual market, also has the responsibility to ensure the safety of the mutual market.
Among them, the most active one is the Mandulu tribe. Manduogule united several tribes and made a lot of money. Who doesn't envy them now?
This time Da Ming can use them, and they are actively working on it.
And Daming didn't really say that it occupied land for no reason, and the twenty miles of land would be used for the mutual market.
Therefore, whoever makes trouble is the common enemy of everyone!
When he got the good news, Wu Youwei admired Wantong very much: "You are really right|||!"
"Daming's mutual market in the north is actually quite good. There is no shortage of wool felt, beef and mutton, and even war horses." Wan Tongdao: "And there are few wars, and peace is the most important thing."
Only when there are fewer border wars can the people live and work in peace and contentment.
The "soft invasion" proposed by Wu Youwei is indeed very suitable for Daming. You can see that the civil servants are not talking about it anymore.
Moreover, the national power of Ming Dynasty has also increased, and it has opened up territory. The south alone has occupied Champa for nothing, and Japan now... .
The more Wantong thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was too good. Although he swallowed it a little bit, it didn't cost a single soldier!
Now all the necessities of life on the grassland are held by Daming. Salt, cloth, cotton, sugar and other daily necessities are all under the control of Daming. Anyone who is not obedient will not be provided. On the grassland, these things are hard currency.This is soft knife cutting flesh!
They also distribute a large number of Buddhist scriptures on the grassland, so that everyone on the grassland believes in Buddhism!
Anyway, there are many beliefs on the grassland, and there is no shortage of Buddhism.
Buddhism in the Central Plains is to be vegetarian....
In the same month, Zhu Ying, the censor of the military affairs capital of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Chen Zheng, the commander-in-chief of the army, discussed Guangxi Yao and broke it.
This year, Liangji, Huguang, Henan, Shandong, and Yunnan were exempted from taxation and grain.
Eighteen vassal states including Ryukyu, Siam, Sumatra, Turpan, and Samarkand paid tribute.
But what Wang Zhi and the others sent contained [-] catties of silver embryos!
"Sure enough, there are silver mines in Japan!" Emperor Xianzong smiled and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the memorial: "Have someone repair a book, ask Wang Zhi to mine it, and use their local people to work as miners for me. Those who don't want to be mine , get out!"
Emperor Xianzong is refreshed now, sure enough, Wu Youwei did not lie, there are not only silver mines, gold mines, but also copper mines!
Daming was severely short of copper!
Although the use of silver has been opened, copper coins are still the most used for daily change, so Daming is short of copper, and the shortage is severe!
Because the surrounding vassal countries also use the currency of Ming Dynasty, it means that there are several vassal countries in Ming Dynasty that use the money of Ming Dynasty.
You said that Daming is short of money, how can you not be short of money!
Even pirates and Japanese pirates would rob Daming's copper coins for collection.
Emperor Xianzong was naturally happy when he got a bargain. It's the Chinese New Year, and the rewards given to Wu Youwei are comparable to first-class ones.
All the courtiers knew that the Grand Master Zuo Chunfang was not only respected by the prince, but also a confidant of today.
Among them, Wan An is the most jealous.
The Wan family has had many ups and downs. Although he is only a small official now, no one dares to underestimate him. Maybe when this guy will get up again.
The more Wu Youwei was valued by the emperor and the crown prince, the more he felt uncomfortable, and he got in a lot of stumbling blocks both openly and secretly, so why didn't you see him fall off his horse?
Master Wu, who didn't see his horse, was eating rice cakes at home: "You should eat rice cakes during the Chinese New Year."
"Yeah." Wantong sprinkled sugar on the rice cakes fried in soybean oil: "Eat less, I won't be able to eat dinner after a while."
"Okay." Wu Youwei ate the fried rice cake happily.
This is the sticky rice grown in the sandy land in the north. It is very sticky and has a pure taste. Now this stone sticky rice is quite expensive.
However, the rice cakes made are really delicious, with a layer of sticky rice and a layer of beans, layered on top of each other, cut into slices, fried or fried, or steamed and eaten, the taste remains the same.
It's the Chinese New Year, and they also sealed and stopped writing.
It was rare for the two of them to stay at home. After eating the rice cakes, Wu Youwei suggested: "Why don't you go to Moling Mountain Villa this year? There are many people and it's lively."
"Okay." Wantong didn't care.
But after Wan Jie found out, he immediately started to move things to Mo Ling Villa.
When I was young, I moved collectively to Moring Mountain Villa, and brought a lot of things, as well as various gifts.
Wu Youwei only cared about playing with Wan Jie's youngest son. The little guy was only over a year old, and he just knew how to talk nonsense, so it was so much fun!
When we arrived at Mo Ling Villa, Wu Qiong and the others couldn’t come back this year, and there were only a few housekeepers left in the second room, but Wu Youwei still went to have a look. I got a red envelope.
It turned out that on this day, it happened that Wu Qiong sent someone from Yunnan to deliver the New Year's goods all the way back.
"Is it okay over there?" Wu Youwei saw that the person who came back was the book boy who grew up with Wu Qiong, and now he has a family and a career.
"Okay, everything is good!" The man named Wu Xiaoyou said: "The master is doing a good job over there. The flower cake you mentioned can be shipped to the north for sale at this time. Good guy, it's really expensive!"
And pointing to the box of a carriage alone, said: "The old lady specially transported a carriage back for you."
Their current flower cakes have developed a natural antiseptic time, and they can be shipped to the north for sale in winter. A box of eight flower cakes costs one tael of silver per box for a single flavor. The cheapest ones with multiple flavors are It costs eight taels of silver, and the most expensive Baihua cake costs 100 taels of silver for a box!
Although it is expensive, the female relatives of rich families are flocking to it. It is said that if you eat too much flowers, you can stay young forever!
Don't talk about others, let's just talk about the widowed mother of Wu Shenyi in Yunnan. Logically speaking, the widow should be old-fashioned, but Mrs. Wu looks about the same age as her daughter-in-law!
This is a fact for all to see!
Then it spread like the wind in Madam's circle.
Wu Shenyi's widowed mother ate flowers and drank nectar water every day, and she became younger every year!
Then, flower cakes are sold like crazy in winter in the north.
All tribes in Yunnan are now vying to be loyal to Daming, so as to get a quota in Daming's hand to sell flower cakes.
Because the yamen buys flowers uniformly, many ethnic groups in Yunnan live in the tropical rainforest, and there is no shortage of flowers. They are picked every day and sold to the yamen, and the copper coins can be used to buy some daily necessities such as sugar, salt, and cloth.
Especially the spirits, crystal glass products, etc. that the chiefs like; the exquisite gold and silver jewelry of the Ming Dynasty that the female relatives like.
Now Wu Qiong has become a favorite in Yunnan, and the Mu Palace has also made a lot of money by cooperating with him.
But the annual gifts he sent back were all local specialties in Yunnan, such as dried medicinal herbs, fruit wine, seedling silver heads, dried meat, bamboo fungus, etc.
There is nothing too expensive, but I personally edited a book and asked Wu Xiaoyou to hand it to Wu Youwei.
After counting the presents, Butler Lin Su arranged for them to go back to the second room to have a look, while Wu Youwei opened the letter and read it.
This is also a family book.
The opening is of course a hello.
Not only greetings to Wu Youwei, but also Wantong.
The second is to talk about the situation there.
Four flower cake factories have been put into production. In addition, two essential oil workshops are under construction, and four workshops are trying to make perfume.
Then there are businessmen from Shanghai who invest in building factories to process some special products locally, such as various dried vegetable factories, because there are many mountain vegetables in Yunnan that can be processed, so there is no shortage of raw materials.
The other one is the textile factory. The indigo-dyed cloth in Yunnan is very strong, wear-resistant and beautiful. The weaving of the Tujia family in Yunnan is definitely not as good as the textile factory. In addition, the men and women of ethnic minorities are not as particular about defense as the Han people. The factory recruits workers, okay? , Almost all the men and women in the village have gone to work.
Weaving thick cloth to improve the treatment of the northern army, and some people came up with new weaving and dyeing patterns, and the factory was booming.
Only one thing, he wants to build a school next year.
But I am afraid that no students will come to class. After all, how can children from ethnic minority families learn things from Han people?
Also, there are all kinds of edible insects in Yunnan, such as stick insects, if they are made into cans, will anyone eat them?
Wu Youwei was delighted to read it, so he picked up a pen and wrote back to him, writing it all afternoon.
I wrote a lot of suggestions and opinions, and I also included a box of brand new copper coins, as well as more popular jewelry in Beijing and other things.
In addition, they sent someone to send the gift to Wu Lier's house.
In the 17th year of Chenghua, in the spring, Bingxu of the first month, a great sacrifice to heaven and earth was held in the southern suburbs.
The sky full of fireworks bid farewell to the old year and ushered in the new year.
Because the two of them celebrated the New Year here at Moling Villa, and they could see the fireworks from the capital city on the villa, which was more interesting than celebrating the New Year in the capital city.
The first day of junior high school was spent at home to catch up on sleep, the second day of junior high school played mahjong for a day, and by the third day of junior high school it became lively, and all the girls who could come back came back.
Not only did they come back by themselves, but their children also came back. The oldest one was already in his teens and was a young boy, and the youngest could only crawl.
There were a lot of people, and the Moring Villa was very lively. Wu Youwei was sitting among a bunch of little dolls, grabbing toffee from them with a big smile on his face.
Wantong moved the pillows, and piled up the side of the kang with pillows half a person's height, for fear that the little ones on the kang would accidentally fall off.
The housekeeper hurriedly spread three layers of wool felt on the floor, and another layer of blankets, and the noise of the children in the room never stopped.
The brothers-in-laws and son-in-laws who saw it all had big heads.
On the other hand, Wantong saw Wu Youwei so happy, so he asked someone to bring milk tablets for the children again.
Eating too much sugar is bad for your teeth, so give me dry milk.
The female relatives were busy in and out of the kitchen, Xu Niang saw her daughter was happy, and she was very happy in her heart. Her daughter returned to Moring Mountain Villa when she returned home, and her son-in-law also followed, and she was greeting outside. The gift she gave her was A set of gold face, the inlaid jade is of good quality, it can be seen that it was carefully selected, and besides, the daughter of the daughter's family has already run all over the place.
At the beginning, I really didn't expect that I could still live like an old lady.
Speaking out, who wouldn't envy those colleagues?
Xu Niang was full of smiles while bringing melon seeds to her little granddaughter.
The excitement lasted until the eighth day of the lunar new year, and the whole family went to the city together because they wanted to see the lanterns.
"I'm holding Niuniu." Among the children, Wu Youwei is the most rare is Wu Xiao's daughter, Wu Niuniu, who is only three years old.
The little girl has big eyes, like black grapes, and has two small dimples when she smiles. She stood there wearing a small dress, and gently called Wu Youwei "Uncle". At that time, Wu Youwei was conquered by the little guy. .
In the past two days, I have to hug when I eat, and I have to hug when I walk. It is a posture of being responsive.
Moreover, the little girl is very light, Wu Youwei can hold her easily, if she is like the naughty boy of Li Qing's family, he will get tired after holding her for a while.
"Then you can hug him." Wantong is quite able to get used to him, just hug him if you want.
A group of people rushed into the capital, and after a day's rest, when the lights came on at night, the streets were already buzzing with people.
Because of the advent of glass, the most popular one now is the "glass lampshade", which is somewhat similar to the kerosene lamps of later generations, but it is transparent and colored.
On the first day, they wandered around the nearby streets, but on the second day they heard that there were ice lanterns on the other side of the moat, so the whole family went to the side of the moat again, and there were indeed ice lanterns.
The scale is quite large, and Daming, which never lacks skilled craftsmen, opened a special area for ice lanterns on the other side of the moat, and many people went to watch the fun.
There are even ice slides for children. Although there are also ice slides in Moring Mountain Villa, the ones are small and the ones are big. Adults can hold their children and slide together.
Wu Youwei hugged Niu Niu and lined up several times. Fortunately, there were a lot of them, and each of them took care of a child, and then took the child to play on the slide. There were quite a lot of people queuing up. A total of twelve slides were made into twelve slides. The appearance of the zodiac, a lot of people playing screams, children's laughter resounded all over the world, but because of the crowd, everyone was scattered by the flow of people in the end, and they couldn't all stand together, but the difference was not far, everyone They can still vaguely see each other.
Because he was having so much fun, Wu Youwei somewhat relaxed. After playing with Xiao Niu Niu for a while, he found a booth with fewer people and ordered glutinous rice balls and small wontons to warm up the child and himself, while waiting for Wantong and the others. come here.
"Come on, Niuniu eat the little wontons first, it's hot." Wu Youwei waited for the small wontons to come up, and then fed them to the little girl. Although the child was dressed thickly, it was winter at this time, what if it was frozen? alright.
So Wu Youwei paid great attention to keeping the children warm.
"Ahhh!" The little guy made noise while eating, which amused Wu Youwei again: "You are so cute!"
"Eat...eat...." The little guy knew to let her uncle eat too.
"Hey, Uncle eats it, too!" Wu Youwei also ate a small wonton, which was freshly cooked, and he swallowed it naturally, warming his stomach and warming his whole body.
One big one and one small one for you, and one for me, they look like father and daughter, especially the cute little girl, which makes passers-by smile knowingly.
The young father and the delicate little baby girl eating at the stall became a warm scene rarely seen in the night.
As everyone knows, several people have noticed him long ago.
Or rather, notice them...both!
After eating the small wontons, the glutinous rice balls came out. Wu Youwei slowly let the glutinous rice balls cool down. This food should not be eaten hot, as it will burn your stomach easily, because the stuffing inside contains sugar and oil. If you eat it Yes, the outside is cold, the inside is hot, it will burn the stomach.
After eating for a while, Xiao Niuniu pointed to the person in front and shouted, "Daddy! Daddy!"
Well, she yelled this clearly. When Wu Youwei turned his head, he found a person who looked like Wu Xiao from the back, but he just disappeared in a flash. In addition, the light was poor at night and there were many people, so he didn't think much about it and paid the money. I went over there with the little guy in my arms.
It's just... why did he feel that the crowd was so crowded?
Then he felt that he was being coerced and walked forward. When he felt that something was wrong, he had already been surrounded by people out of the range of the lively moat and into a dark alley. Because of the city wall, there was no Light the lamp, and the moonlight still can't come in.
Wu Youwei hugged Xiao Niuniu tightly, and just about to turn around, he stretched out a hand, covered his face with a hood, and sprinkled white powder on his face...