allonlinenovel Chapter 1190 We need to be more spirited and straighten our backs.
Chapter 1190 We need to be more spirited and straighten our backs.
Did God draw us based on our appearance?
Emperor Zhu was left speechless, both amused and exasperated by Old Man Wang's words. After a long while, he finally sighed and said, "What merit do I have to do this...?"
Old Man Wang suddenly grabbed Emperor Zhu's hand tightly and said, "Your Majesty, you should go and see Ningyang. There, everyone has land to cultivate, work to do, and money to earn. Every family's children have access to education, they can eat meat every month, and wear new clothes every year."
"And then there's the hospital. The hospital in our Ningyang County is really impressive now. Not only do we have dozens of doctors, but we've also recruited a hundred or so little girls from the county to learn medicine. Plus, there are workshops that employ women. Now in our Ningyang County, not only can men make money, but even girls can make money."
"And it's not just Ningyang, but also Qufu, Wenshang, and Yanzhou next door are pretty much the same."
"I never dared to dream of such a good life before."
Old Wang wiped his eyes again and said, "Just like the master said, we are clumsy, clumsy in our hands, feet, and mouths, but we also have a conscience. We know that the emperor is truly good to us. We farmers have nothing to repay the emperor with, so we can only enshrine his portrait and burn three sticks of incense on holidays. That is our small token of gratitude."
Yang Shaofeng's expression was somewhat complicated and difficult to decipher.
Ordinary people all praised Old Deng, but in the eyes and mouths of aristocratic families, officials, and merchants, Old Deng had absolutely no redeeming qualities.
What's even more outrageous is that this kind of thing will remain the same even hundreds of years from now.
Ordinary people may keep a statue of an elderly person in their home or car.
Some people will still relentlessly smear that old man, even fabricating all sorts of jokes.
Yang Shaofeng's mind was filled with random thoughts, while Emperor Zhu's heart skipped a beat.
Old Wang wasn't very old; he was probably a few years older than Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen.
However, compared to Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, Old Man Wang's face was already covered with spots and wrinkles, and his old hands were rough and wrinkled, with calluses so thick that he could not even clench his fists.
At first glance, Old Man Wang looks at least twenty years older than Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen; people would believe he was seventy or eighty.
But where in Ningyang County are there 70 or 80-year-old people?
In the first year of the Hongwu reign, that scoundrel deliberately brought out the household registration book in order to cause trouble for people, and even emphasized its importance in his memorial to the throne.
If I remember correctly, Ningyang County had about 300 households and a population of less than 1,500 in the first year of the Hongwu reign, with the oldest person being only about 50 years old.
It's only the eighth year of the Hongwu reign now...
Even so, if we treat them a little better, they will always remember our kindness.
Seeing that Emperor Zhu's expression was becoming increasingly solemn, Black Sesame Dumpling suddenly chuckled and looked at Old Man Wang, saying, "Uncle, since we've been fortunate enough to have meat to eat, clothes to wear, and books to read, you must live well and try to live to be a hundred years old."
"When you reach your seventies, the government will provide you with rice, flour, oil, fish, meat, and wine. These are all good things that you shouldn't refuse."
"Besides, my brother-in-law might be sending you things while simultaneously cursing you as a troublemaker."
"It's interesting to think about."
Yang Shaofeng curled his lip and said, "Aren't there enough troublemakers in Ningyang County? Dogs irrigate people's wheat fields in the dead of winter. If you didn't know better, you'd think they owed them a huge favor. But if you did know, everyone would say they're ruthless bandits."
Black Sesame Dumplings burst into laughter, and Wang Laoshi and the others blushed.
Wheat in winter is not afraid of being watered.
However, wheat, regardless of the season, is always susceptible to damage from being watered with fresh, hot manure mixed with salt and alkali.
Pay attention!
Watering wheat thoroughly in winter can actually help keep it warm, which is beneficial for its growth in the spring.
After being left to ferment, the manure becomes an excellent fertilizer.
However, the "rejuvenating soup" that has not been fermented is still a "rejuvenating soup" with more or less salt and alkali added to it, and this stuff is enough to burn wheat seedlings.
Even more critically, alkali can affect the pH level of the soil.
The shady things those bandits in Ningyang County did weren't aimed at ruining Chen Er's harvest; they were aimed at completely destroying Chen Er's land.
Distracted by Yang Shaofeng and the black sesame dumplings, Emperor Zhu's mood was no longer heavy, and he even joined in the joke.
"Yes, there are quite a few bandits in Ningyang County."
"Especially after that scoundrel became the magistrate of Ningyang, he brought out a whole bunch of bandits."
"You guys know Li Mingchen, right?"
Emperor Zhu asked Old Man Wang a question with a smile, but before Old Man Wang could answer, he said to himself, "We sent him to Qian'an in Yanyun to be the magistrate, but that guy did something wrong. Just because Hu Yuan's cavalry wanted to attack Qian'an County, he took eight hundred herdsmen and went to the grassland."
Do you know what slogans he shouted?
Emperor Zhu laughed so hard he shook his head.
"And it wasn't just him; several other county magistrates from Ningyang County also led their men to the grasslands, and in the end, we had to have them intercepted and brought back."
"What's most interesting is that the slogans these little guys shouted were all remarkably consistent."
"Seize people, seize grain, seize grasslands!"
"Who would believe that Ningyang County doesn't produce bandits?"
Old Wang and the others blushed, but Emperor Zhu laughed again and said seriously, "However, it's good to be a bandit. Bandits don't suffer losses or get bullied."
"Since the Song Dynasty, how many losses have we suffered? How much humiliation have we endured?"
"Now, we just hope that the people of our Great Ming Dynasty are all like them, bandits who don't suffer losses or get bullied."
"We need to be more spirited, stand tall, and be willing to break rather than bow down to those barbarians and corrupt officials!"
Yang Shaofeng suddenly felt like he had a lump of phlegm stuck in his throat, and he had to spit it out.
So, the idea that an emperor was captured and a new emperor was established, and that even before he was completely finished, he still thought that the whole of Liaodong could be recovered, and that he stubbornly fought on multiple fronts and refused to move south no matter what, was passed down by you, old Deng?
Yang Shaofeng suddenly smiled and said, "Let's capture all the barbarians and use them as laborers, then let our people of the Great Ming farm the land. In the future, we won't have to worry about barbarians anymore."
Emperor Zhu glanced at Yang Shaofeng and scolded, "How many people does our Great Ming Dynasty have now? How dare you dream of such a thing?"
After scolding Yang Shaofeng, Emperor Zhu grabbed Old Man Wang's hand and shook it, saying, "Old brother, when you go back, you have to think about it and tell the children at home to have more children."
"Just like this bastard said, there's plenty of land outside. If we don't farm it, our whole family will be eaten by those barbarians."
Old Wang grinned and shook Zhu Emperor's hand, saying, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I'll go back and urge the children in my family to have more babies!"