"How is your mother?"
"My mother is very kind!" After saying this, Hou Yong took off his official hat and knelt down again to kowtow under Zhu Yunhe's surprised eyes.
"What are you doing?" Zhu Yunxi said displeasedly, "We have said that our monarch and his ministers should be alone, so there is no need to kneel down every now and then!"
"I'm kneeling here for my mother. Before entering the palace, my mother specifically asked me to kowtow to the emperor properly!" Hou Yong was moved, his eyes were red, "My mother said that the Chief Si Yamen and the Prefect Yamen and the County Yamen both sent people to knock on the door. Beat the gongs and drums to deliver the emperor’s decree to your home! The scenery is endless!”
"In the clan that day, the clan leader led the men to pay homage to the ancestral graves. The elders were all in tears, saying that my lineage was the glory of the clan. The emperor's imperial edict was wrapped in red cloth and placed in the clan. The ancestral hall."
"The local officials helped the minister's mother politely, gave her money, and got into the carriage. The food, drink and accommodation along the way were things she could not even imagine. She was so frightened that she did not dare to put down her chopsticks. She said that she would be satisfied with this once in her life, and she could close her eyes even if she died now!"
"When I arrived in the capital and saw the spacious house, my mother was so happy that she almost fainted. She cried and told me that the emperor's kindness is higher than the sky!"
"Hi!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, his heart aching, and stepped down from the throne to help him up with his own hands and sit down, "Hou Aiqing, don't be like this!" He said, patting the back of the other person's hand, "You have worked hard on the place these years, I just want to I just did what I should do." After saying that, he sighed, "Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and I feel sad to see you like this!"
"I have no way to repay the emperor's kindness to me. I can only serve your majesty now and die for me!" Hou Yong wanted to kowtow again.
"Sit, sit, sit!" Zhu Yunxi patted the other party's shoulder, walked a few steps on the ground with his hands behind his back, and said, "Shame on the king!"
"The slave is here!"
"Two hundred bolts of cotton and one hundred bolts of silk have been allocated from the inner treasury to send to Hou Aiqing's family. In addition..."
"Your Majesty!" Before Zhu Yunxi could finish speaking, Hou Yong knelt down again and shouted, "I will never dare to obey the imperial edict!"
"I am a minister of the emperor who reads the books of the sages. It is my duty to be honest and honest, and it is my responsibility to do things well. I have not done enough, so I dare not accept such a generous reward from your majesty!" He said, kowtow and continued, "The emperor pities me, and I will bear in mind the five Internally, the country has freedom and laws, so how can the emperor not reward us excessively?"
"A tough one again!"
Zhu Yunxi sighed and helped the other person up, "It's not for you, you give it to your family!"
"My salary is enough..."
"What's enough?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "It's not easy to support a family with just such a small salary. Is it enough for your seven sons? I heard that you dig money out of your teeth every month to support poor students in your hometown. "
"Hou Aiqing, you make me... feel ashamed! I am rich in the world, but a virtuous minister like you lives in poverty. How can you let me live with myself? The old man's family law, I am now You can't change it, and the country's salary can't be changed just because of you. But what I reward you from my inner treasury is a painstaking effort on my part, and you must bear it!"
"A man should live his whole life. No matter how great his official position is, no matter how good his reputation is, it is really filial to pity his mother and live in poverty all her life. Living in the capital is not easy, and food and rice are expensive. Is it possible that you brought your mother in and want her to be an old man? Will I suffer with you?"
Hou Yong was already crying, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! You treat me like this... Throughout the ages, no one has ever been as good as me, and he has been given such an opportunity by the emperor! I can't repay my body to pieces!" As he cried, Hou Yong ignored him.
Zhu Yunxi stopped him and kowtowed hard.
"Get up!" Zhu Yunxi took the other person's hand and looked into the other person's eyes, "What are you to pieces? The Ming Dynasty was destroyed? I want you to be a good errand and serve the country well." He said, smiling, "In the past you were
You are far away, not by my side, and you don’t know my temperament.”
"Whether you say I have a good temperament or that I am soft-hearted, I am such an emperor. You ministers are loyal to the country, so naturally I will not let you down!" (I'm sorry, Fourth Master, for stealing your line!)
"Your Majesty!" Hou Yong was already crying bitterly and broke down in tears.
Outside the palace, the living man who was responsible for recording Zhu Yunxi's words and deeds was even more engrossed in the notes on the emperor's daily life, writing as if he had a magic pen.
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After sending away the crying Hou Yong, Zhu Yunxi put on light and breathable clothes and looked out the window in silence.
"Isn't it time to increase the salaries of officials? We can't think about the horses running away without giving them grass!"
"But the country seems to be increasing its tax revenue and the national treasury is sufficient. But if this precedent of salary increase is set, it will cost a lot of money!"
"He Guangyi, we took over the Yinshan Mountain over Xiaowo earlier. Our Ming Dynasty is short of money!"
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As soon as the scene changed, it was said that Hou Yong came home with the things given by the emperor, and the whole Hou house was in a state of excitement. Two pieces of cloth and one hundred pieces of silk, this is an unimaginable wealth.
In this era, fabrics were much more valuable than food, equivalent to gold and silver being hard currencies.
"My son!" Marquis touched the silk in her hands with tears in her eyes, "I have never seen such a good thing in my life! Your Majesty treats you so..."
Hou Yong supported his mother, sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard, and whispered, "The emperor is rewarding you. He knows that his son's salary is not enough, and he is afraid that you will be wronged in the capital, so he specially asked me to take it back as a filial piety."
you!"
"Amitabha, our ancestors bless you!" Hou Mu clasped her hands together and murmured piously to herself, "This is really the kindness of our ancestors!"
"What does this have to do with Buddha and ancestors? This is your kindness!" Hou Yong said with a smile, "My son kowtowed to the emperor many times according to your instructions. The emperor heard that you are in good health, and he was also happy!"
"I'll make some clothes later, and you can send them to the emperor!"
"Mother, the emperor is the emperor, there is nothing wrong with you!"
"My stitches are fine!" The Queen Mother was a little angry. In her opinion, if she didn't do this, it seemed that she would not be able to express her gratitude to the emperor.
After thinking for a while, he came closer to his son and said, "Son, you are really promising now!"
"When I passed by Jinan Prefecture, the magistrate and his wife came out to greet me personally. They welcomed me directly to their home, and their daughter-in-law even cooked for me with their own hands, which made me panic!"
Hou Yong just smiled silently and listened to his mother's words without making a sound.
"The magistrate of Jinan also accused me of not knowing that Hou Buzheng's mother was in the country, otherwise she would have visited her long ago!" Hou's mother said, crossing her legs, "Son, they said you were a former official.
It’s true, but once you enter the capital, you will reach heaven!”
"What kind of minister you are now will be the minister in a few years, and he will be the prime minister! I am a good boy, prime minister! Isn't that a person like Zhuge Kongming?"
Hou Yong smiled bitterly, "Mother, there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty!"
"It's almost the same! I've already found out that your staff helps the emperor manage the world's officials. You have the final say on who gets promoted and who gets demoted!"
"Mother!" Hou Yong said with a straight face, "Don't dare to talk nonsense!"
"Son!" Hou Mu said in a low voice, "Now that you are really prosperous, let's see if your hometown also benefits from you?"
Hou Yong was immediately stunned. The reason why he had not returned home in these years was not only due to lack of skills, but also the fact that he did not want to face those unavoidable favors after returning home.
"Look, in the past few decades, it was your father who committed crimes in our family first, and the clan helped and paid for it! Later, when you studied, it was the clan who helped you. When you became an official, the clan gave you travel expenses. I
At home, it’s all thanks to your uncles and their care.”
"My mother didn't tell you these things before, but now you are a real high official and will be the prime minister. Can you help your relatives and find something for them to wear official clothes!"
There are no bad parents in the world. As a son, Hou Yong must describe his old mother as a figure like Meng Mu in front of outsiders. But he knew in his heart that his mother was not very knowledgeable and could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
But he also knew that what his mother said was not wrong.
When a man achieves success, a chicken or a dog will ascend to heaven. When a man becomes prosperous, he should take care of and promote his relatives. What's more, when your family is in trouble, they will help you with all their heart.
"Mom! They all... why are they wearing official clothes? How can they be officials if they have no fame? It's not up to my son to say anything about this!" Hou Yong said with a bitter face, "Besides, being an official has its benefits.
What’s good? My son has been an official for all these years, but he’s still as poor as ever?”
The Marquis suddenly became unhappy, patted the soles of her shoes and said, "Son, your mother is old, but I am not confused! Are the poverty of farming and the poverty of being an official the same thing?"
"Wearing official clothes is better than farming, right? There are people who hold the power when you are alive, and when you are dead, the court will erect monuments and build archways."
"Although you have been poor all these years, because you are an official, who dares to show us shame! If nothing else, if you compete with the neighboring villages for the top of the mountain, they will give us three points!"
"No matter how poor an official is, he is still an official. The younger members of the family are not bullied outside, and no one dares to look at them. No matter how poor they are, they still have enough to eat and drink. I have lived a hard life. The world is in chaos, and the common people don't even have a stutter.
Only the common people will starve to death, but not the officials!"
"Besides, this is a matter of honoring our ancestors. All our relatives have become officials, and their descendants will no longer have to dig in the soil of our hometown for food!"
"You have to help with this matter. We are all relatives. If you are ungrateful after you have made a fortune, I will be too shameless to enter the tomb in the future! Anyone who passes by our tomb will spit on me!"
"Hey!" Hou Yong covered his face and sighed heavily.
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