"How about your mother?"

"My mother is very nice!" As he said that, Hou Yong took off his official hat and knelt down again under Zhu Yunxi's surprised gaze.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Yunxiu said unhappy, "Everyone said that our king and ministers are alone, so we don't have to kneel down at any time!"

"I am kneeling for my mother. Before entering the palace, my mother specifically instructed me to kowtow to the emperor!" Hou Yong was moved, his eyes flushed, "My mother said that the governor's yamen and the prefectural yamen and the county yamen sent people to beat drums and drums to send the emperor's imperial edict to the home! The scenery is so glorious!"

"On that day, the clan leader led the men to sacrifice to the ancestral tombs. The elders were all crying and said that this lineage was the glory of the clan. The emperor's imperial edict was wrapped in red cloth and placed in the ancestral hall."

"The local officials politely supported the old mother of the minister, presented the money and got on the double-carrying carriage. The food, drink, accommodation along the way were things she didn't dare to think about. She was so scared that she didn't dare to put off her chopsticks. She said that she would be content with this one in her life, and she could close her eyes even if she died now!"

"When I arrived at the capital, when I saw the spacious house, my mother almost fainted. She cried and told the minister that the emperor's kindness was higher than that of heaven!"

"Hi!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, feeling sad. He walked off the throne and helped the other person up with his own hands, pressed him down, "Don't do this for Hou Aiqing!" As he said, patted the back of the other person's hand, "You have worked hard on the place over the years, but I have only done what you should do." As he said, he sighed, "Loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved at the same time. I am also sad when I see you like this!"

"I have no way to repay the kindness of the emperor to me. I can only take effect on Your Majesty in this time, and I will die before I die!" Hou Yong wanted to kowtow again.

"Sit down!" Zhu Yunxiu patted the other party's shoulder, walked on the ground with his hands behind his back, and said, "Tortoise!"

"I'm here!"

"The inner warehouse has two hundred pieces of cotton cloth and one hundred pieces of silk to Hou Aiqing's house, and......"

"Emperor!" Before Zhu Yunxiu could finish his words, Hou Yong knelt down again with a thud and shouted, "I dare not obey the order if I die!"

"I read the books of sages and wise men as ministers. Being honest and honest is the duty of me, and doing things is my duty. I have never made any contributions, so I dare not be such a generous reward for Your Majesty!" As he said, he kowtowed and continued, "The emperor mercies me, and I remember it in the five internal areas. If the country is free and the laws and regulations, how can the emperor be rewarded indiscriminately?"

"I'm a tough guy again!"

Zhu Yunxiu sighed in his heart and helped the other party up, "It's not for you, you give it to your home!"

"My salary is enough..."

"What's enough?" Zhu Yunsheng smiled, "It's not easy to support a family with just a little salary. Are your seven sons enough? I heard that you even pick up money from your teeth every month to help poor students in your hometown."

"Hou Aiqing, you make me feel ashamed of this! I am rich in the world, but a righteous and virtuous minister like you live a hard life. How can you let me deal with it? I cannot change my family rules now, and the country's salary cannot be changed by you alone. But what I reward you from the inner treasury is also my hard work, and you must bear it!"

"A man is a real man and lives for the rest of his life. No matter how famous the official is, he is poor at home, but he will have a poor life for the rest of his life. This is really filial piety. It is not easy to live in the capital, and both fire and rice are expensive. Could it be that if you pick up your mother and ask her to suffer with you?"

Hou Yong was already crying, "Emperor, Your Majesty! You treat me... Throughout history, no one has ever been able to get such an opportunity from the emperor! I am so crushed to pieces that I can't repay you!" As he cried, Hou Yong kowtowed hard despite Zhu Yunxi's obstruction.

"Get up!" Zhu Yunxiu held the other party's hand and looked at the other party's eyes, "What's the matter? The Ming Dynasty was destroyed? I want you to work hard and serve the country well." As he said, he smiled, "In the past, you were far away from me, and you didn't know my temper."

"Whether you say I have a temperament or a soft-hearted person, I am such an emperor. If you are loyal to the country, I will naturally not let you down!" (Sorry, Fourth Master, stole your lines!)

"Emperor!" Hou Yong was already crying bitterly and burst into tears.

Outside the hall, the daily man who was responsible for recording Zhu Yun's words and deeds was choked on the emperor's daily notes, and the writing was like a magical pen.

~~~

After seeing off the crying Hou Yong, Zhu Yunxiu changed into light and airy clothes and looked out the window and was silently conscious.

"Does it be time to increase the salaries of officials? You can't think of the horse running without giving it to you!"

"But the country seems to have increased taxes and sufficient treasury. But if the salary increase is set, a large amount of expenses will be required!"

"He Guangyi, I took over the silver mountain on Xiaowu earlier. Our Ming Dynasty is short of silver!"

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As the picture turned, Hou Yong went home with the things he gave me, and the whole Hou's house was filled with boiling. Two pieces of cloth and one hundred pieces of silk were a wealth that he could never imagine.

In this era, weavings were much more valuable than food, and they were equivalent to gold and silver as hard currency.

"My son!" Hou's mother touched the silk in her hand, with tears in her eyes, "I have never seen such a good thing in my life! The emperor is really..."

Hou Yong supported his mother and sat down on the stone bench in the yard, whispering, "The Emperor is rewarding you. He knows that his son's salary is not large enough. He is afraid that you will be wronged in the capital, so he specially asked me to take it back and honor you!"

"Amitabha, bless our ancestors!" Hou's mother clasped her hands together and murmured piously, "This is really the virtue of our ancestors!"

"What does this have to do with the Buddha and the ancestors? This is your kindness!" Hou Yong smiled and said, "My son kowtowed a lot to the emperor as you told him. The emperor was happy when he heard that you were in good health!"

"Let me make some clothes, and you send them to the emperor!"

"Mom, the emperor is the emperor, nothing is there!"

"My stitches are good!" Hou's mother was a little angry. In her opinion, if she didn't do this, she seemed unable to express her gratitude to the emperor.

After thinking about it, approaching his son a little, he spoke, "Son, you are really successful now!"

"When I passed by Jinan Prefecture, the magistrate came out to greet me in person. He welcomed me directly to his house. His wife even cooked for me by herself, which made me panic!"

Hou Yong smiled silently, listening to his mother's words without saying a word.

"The prefect of Jinan also accused me of guilt, saying that I didn't know that Hou Buzheng's mother was in the countryside, otherwise I would have visited him long ago!" Hou's mother said, crossing her legs, "Son, I said that you were a big official in the past, but after entering the capital, I was ascending to heaven!"

"What kind of minister is now and will be the Minister of the Shang Dynasty in a few years. That's the Prime Minister! I'm a good person, Prime Minister! Isn't that a person like Zhuge Kongming?"

Hou Yong smiled bitterly, "Mom, there is no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty!"

"It's almost the same! I've found out that your Ministry of Personnel is helping the emperor take charge of the officials in the world. You have the final say who is promoted or demoted!"

"Mom!" Hou Yong had a stern face, "I dare not talk nonsense!"

"Son!" Hou's mother whispered, "You are really successful now. Look at the hometown, are you also complacent about your fortune?"

Hou Yong was stunned. The reason why he had not returned home over the years was that he had no clones and had another layer, that was, he didn't want to face those favors that were difficult to shirk after he went home.

"Look at it, in the past few decades, your father first committed the crime, and the tribe helped the money! Later, when you studied, you were the tribe's helper. When you became an official, the tribe gave you the travel expenses. I was at home thanks to your uncles and their care."

"I used to not tell you these things, but now you are a real high-ranking official and you are going to be the prime minister. Can you help your relatives, find something for them, and wear official clothes!"

There are all parents in the world. As a son, Hou Yong must describe his mother as a person like Meng's mother in front of outsiders. But he knew in his heart that his mother had little knowledge and could not distinguish between the right and wrong.

But he also knew that what his mother said was not wrong.

If a man is enlightened and a dog is promoted to heaven, and a man is prosperous, he should take care of his relatives. What's more, when your family is not good, he will help you with your heart.

"Mom! They all... why are they wearing official clothes? They have no fame, how can they become officials? This matter is not the final word!" Hou Yong had a bitter face, "Besides, what's the point of being an official? My son has been an official for many years, but he is still as poor as he is?"

Hou's mother was immediately unhappy and patted the soles of her shoes and said, "Son, your mother is old, but I'm not confused! Are the poverty of farming the same thing as the poverty of being an official?"

"Wearing official clothes is better than farming! Some people are holding their hands and holding them. When they die, the court erects monuments and builds archways."

"Although you have been poor all these years, but because you are the official, who dares to show us a look! If you don't say anything, you will compete with the village next to you, and they will make us three points!"

"No matter how poor an official is, he is still an official. The younger generations in the family are not bullied outside, and no one dares to win. No matter how poor an official is, he will have no worries about food and drink. I have lived a hard life, and the world is in chaos, and the people do not even stutter. Only the people who starve to death, but some officials are!"

"Besides, this is the matter of glorious ancestors. Our relatives have become officials, and their descendants no longer have to farm in their hometown to dig food!"

"You must help with this matter. They are all relatives. If you are ungracious, I will not have the shame to enter the graveyard in the future! People will spit on our grave!"
Chapter completed!