Chapter 478: Safe shoulders can help farmers and mulberry trees
The sweet potato field by the Pipa Lake at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain is a bustling work scene.
At the beginning, when only the officials from Shanglin Yuan were present, some worked hard and some were lazy.
But when Zhu Yunxi and others came down from Zhongshan Mountain and Xie Jin walked into the sweet potato field with a hoe, no one dared to be lazy anymore.
Cabinet minister Xie Hanlin personally dug sweet potatoes and did not spare any effort in his work. This made the supervisors who had resentments in their hearts not dare to say anything more and could only lower their heads and do what they were doing.
And as Zhu Yunxi also picked up sweet potatoes in the ground with a hoe, the movements of people's hands became faster and faster in tacit understanding.
"This is Mr. Jie Ge's lesson today?"
An official from Shanglinyuan Prison, even though he already knew what would happen today, still asked with some doubts and uncertainty.
Yuan Sutai hid under the pergola and did not participate in the work in the sweet potato field.
He glanced at Zhu Yunxi and Xie Jin who were digging sweet potatoes with familiar hands and feet, with a smile on his face.
Then he softly asked the subordinate officials of the Yamen: "How do you feel when you look at Taisun Xiege Lao?"
Everyone in Shanglinyuan Prison was stunned for a moment.
The young master's question seemed a bit abrupt, and everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the two elders of the Emperor's Grandson and Xie Ge who were not far away in the sweet potato field.
Digging sweet potatoes is a cooperative matter. Someone has to cut the sweet potato vines first, then someone wields a hoe to dig the sweet potatoes, and finally someone has to pick up the dug sweet potatoes.
Among them, digging sweet potatoes with a hoe is the most tiring thing.
However, the emperor's grandson and the elders of Xiege both chose to dig sweet potatoes.
Someone replied in a low voice at this time: "Both His Highness and Mr. Pavilion are very skilled in their hands and feet. Although they are not as good as the old farmers in the fields, they are not worse than me."
All the officials in Shanglinyuan Supervisory District will farm, which has been increasingly required in the past two years.
The man opened his mouth and everyone understood.
"It really is!"
"I didn't realize it just now, but now I see that both Your Highness and the Elder are so familiar with this type of farming!"
Some people reacted and exclaimed in surprise.
"My great-grandson is busy with the country, and the elder is worried about government affairs. When will he have time to experience farming and mulberry trees in person? Why is he so skilled?"
Yuan Sutai shook his head and chuckled: "My heart is worried about farming mulberry trees, and my hands have calluses from farming. My shoulders and back are exposed to the sun, and sweat drips from the loess. If you have a heart, you don't know how to do it even if you don't do it often. If you don't have mulberry trees in your heart, you will wear clothes."
Come, put out your hands for food and open your mouth. Even if you have free time, you don't want to do farming."
Everyone couldn't help but fell silent.
The young master's words are not harsh, but anyone in the world who has something to do with farming and mulberry farming can roll up his trousers and go to the fields.
Just like them, they are the subordinate officials of Shanglinyuan Supervisor.
Ten or twenty years ago, there was no one who had not read the Four Books and Five Classics and entered the officialdom. After serving as a prisoner in Shanglinyuan for a few years, he could read everything even if he didn't know it before.
"So today's class with Mr. Xie Ge is to let the supervisors of the Imperial College know how difficult it is to farm mulberry trees?"
Yuan Sutai nodded and said: "How many people only know that the scoops and drinks they drink every day are grown in the ground, but they don't know how much sweat it takes to eat that bowl of rice.
The world should not be like this, at least these students who read the articles of sages and aspire to serve the country in the future should not be like this.
This is also the reason why Mr. Xie Ge came to Linyuan Supervisor today to teach the supervisor students."
Everyone nodded in understanding and looked at the two elders of the Emperor Taisun and Xie Ge in the sweet potato field again.
At this moment, Zhu Yunxi and Xie Jin were just concentrating on lowering their heads, waving the hoes in their hands, and constantly digging out the ridges where the sweet potatoes were buried.
Xie Jin only saw the sweet potato field in front of him.
But Zhu Yunxi glanced at this person from time to time.
Time is passing by little by little, and the sun in the sky is getting stronger and stronger, making people's scalp itchy and back sweating.
The whole sweet potato field unconsciously lost the sound of people, leaving only the sound of sickles cutting, hoes digging soil, and sweet potatoes being put into baskets.
Some people wanted to take a rest, but when they looked up, they could see that Taisun and Ge Lao were still insisting. No one dared to take a rest in front of these two people.
"What on earth is this going to do?" A supervisor in the distance began to vent his dissatisfaction to his companions in a low voice.
The companion curled his lips: "What else can I do? Isn't it just digging sweet potatoes?"
"Can you dig out the truth by digging up sweet potatoes? Taisun Jiejiege keeps stopping, so who of us dares to stop? Isn't this set up for us all?"
"It's better to work with peace of mind. How can you and I be more valuable than His Highness and Mr. Ge? These two can do it, how can we say that we can't do it?"
"..."
"Do it slowly! If you really do this for a whole day, I will probably be lying in the house unable to move for ten days."
"Make the noise louder and use less force, so that we can save some energy."
"..."
These cabinet ministers who were originally dissatisfied with the lectures became supervisors digging sweet potatoes. Gradually, they changed from dissatisfaction and venting to pretentiousness.
And outside Shanglinyuan Prison.
Zou Xueyu's eyebrows can crush a whole walnut.
Half an hour ago, in order to prevent the Imperial College students from causing trouble again, Yingtian Prefecture's Yamen immediately arranged for officers from one prefecture and two counties to go to the Imperial College.
However, when people from one prefecture and two counties finally arrived at the Imperial College, they found that the entire Imperial College had already been deserted, and the courtyard of the classroom was completely empty, with not a single person in sight.
Zou Xueyu, who missed the bet, almost fainted on the spot.
It was not until the government officials from Beicheng came over to report the matter that the people in the prefect's Yamen realized that these Imperial College supervisors had actually left the city early in the morning to go to Shanglinyuan Prison.
Is the Imperial College going to make a big fuss in Linyuan Prison?
These two places are completely incompatible with each other.
Zou Xueyu immediately had the idea of closing down the Imperial College immediately. After calming down for a while, Zou Xueyu led the people to Shanglinyuan Prison without stopping.
In this way, it took more than half an hour of hard work.
Zou Xueyu walked away sweating profusely, but finally saw the Yamen of Shanglin Yuanjian.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Your Highness, Mr. Jiejiege, is in Shanglinyuan Prison today?"
Zou Xueyu looked at the Jinyi guards and Shangzhiqin military guards outside the Shanglinyuan Yamen, and asked the concierge in front of the Yamen.
The porter of Shanglinyuan Supervisor nodded: "Back to the magistrate's office, His Highness and the elder are in the sweet potato field behind the Yamen, and the young master is also there to accompany them."
As a result, Zou Xueyu's brows tightened a little more.
"Are the people from the Imperial College also behind?"
The concierge stared at Zou Xueyu with strange eyes, nodded and said, "Yes."
Zou Xueyu immediately turned back to look at the Yamen subordinate officer behind him: "Let's go!"
He was really a little scared.
Even the grandson, Ge Lao, young master, and those people from the Imperial College were all in Shanglinyuan Prison. Zou Xueyu was still afraid that something would happen again, and that his Yingtian Prefecture Yamen would eventually be the one to take the blame.
After all, the Shanglinyuan Supervisory Office is also on the territory of Yingtian Mansion.
"Fu Zun..."
But when Zou Xueyu was about to take people from the prefect's Yamen into Linyuan Prison, the concierge stopped him in front of him with a nervous look on his face.
Zou Xueyu glanced sideways at the concierge: "What? I can't enter Shanglinyuan Prison yet?"
The concierge immediately shook his head and looked at the three-class servants of the government office who were brought over by Zou Xueyu in front of the Yamen: "Of course the government officials and you can enter, but the servants of the government office..."
Zou Xueyu waved his robe and turned back again: "You guys stay here."
After speaking angrily, Zou Xueyu stared at the concierge with dark eyes. If this guy said the word "no" again, he swore that he would lead the people from Yingtian Mansion to seal the door of this guy's house tomorrow.
The concierge saw the inexplicable anger on the face of the palace master and quickly stepped aside.
Zou Xueyu, who was finally able to enter the Shanglinyuan Prison, snorted coldly, waved his robe and stepped into the Shanglinyuan Prison.
After a while, Zou Xueyu finally arrived near the sweet potato field from the Yamen.
From a distance, you can see the entire sweet potato field, where countless supervisors are busy digging sweet potatoes. The scene is really unique.
Zou Xueyu saw the emperor's grandson and Mr. Ge in the sweet potato field at a glance.
"I am not mistaken?"
Faced with Fu Zun's hesitation, Ying Tianfu Tongzhi nodded helplessly and said: "Back to Fu Zun, it is indeed His Highness and the two elders from the Xiege Pavilion. Over there under the pergola are the young master and the supervisor from Shanglin Garden."
Zou Xueyu glanced at the Imperial College students scattered in the sweet potato field and said cautiously: "I've been working for most of the day. How did the good teaching turn into this?"
Yingtianfu officials are unable to give an answer to this question.
The sun was already three in the sky at this time, and the autumn sun still had a hint of heat.
Countless prison students have begun to feel heavy on their hands and feet.
Even though these supervisors have been rotated several times, everyone takes turns cutting sweet potato vines, digging sweet potatoes, and loading sweet potatoes. But how can the supervisors who have never been involved in farming and mulberry persevere?
Some people have even begun to move slowly, unwilling to move even a moment.
"I can't do it anymore!"
“I really can’t do it anymore!”
In the field, a supervisor finally shouted.
Then there was a thud from the sweet potato field, and it was obvious that the supervisor who had called was falling to the ground.
If one person is unable to support himself, a chain reaction will immediately occur.
One by one, the prison guards fell to the ground, wrapping their hands in their sleeves and wiping the sweat from their faces.
"I really can't do it anymore..."
"This work is too tiring!"
"Woooooooo..."
When each prisoner couldn't bear it and gave up, some even collapsed and sat on the ground crying.
The sound of voices once again returned to the sweet potato field.
"Your Highness! The student really can't do it anymore. It's not that the student is unwilling, it's that he really can't do the job anymore..."
"Let the students take a break...students...students will dig sweet potatoes again tomorrow! The students will definitely finish digging all the sweet potatoes!"
"Xie Hanlin...Xie Hanlin...just let us have a rest."
The prison guards began to collectively shout for mercy.
Under the pergola, Yuan Sutai looked at the chaos of the prison students, with a smile on his face.
Zou Xueyu, who had just arrived, blinked and looked at the gang of supervisors who had only caused trouble for Yingtian Mansion all day long. At this moment, they were all slumped on the ground, and there was actually a sense of pride and the joy of watching a show in his heart.
Jie Jin finally raised his head, straightened up, and looked around.
"Your Highness."
He shouted and saw Zhu Yunxi stopped what he was doing and raised his head.
Xie Jin then shouted to the supervisors around him: "Are you really tired?"
"really!"
"It's absolutely true! Students don't dare to deceive Jie Hanlin. Students really can't bear it anymore."
"If the students are pretending, tell them to go out and avoid being struck to death by lightning!"
"..."
"Mr. Xie Ge, the students are really exhausted..."
There was a sound of complaints in the sweet potato field.
Xie Jin nodded and glanced at the sweet potato field where the harvest progress was less than half: "It's noon too, and the Shanglinyuan Prison will deliver the lunch I'm waiting for later. But before that, I have a question.
I have never been able to get an answer, so I would like to ask you guys."
"Xie Hanlin only asks questions. If the students know something, they will tell you everything!"
If you can move your mouth, don't move your hands.
It was just an answer to a question from Mr. Xie Ge. The supervisors immediately agreed without thinking too much.
Xie Jin opened his mouth and shouted: "The imperial court has recently received envoys from the Oara tribe in the grasslands. They want to make good friends with the imperial court. The cabinet wants to send some food and supplies to show our Ming Dynasty's benevolence and righteousness."
The problem suddenly turned to Ming Dynasty's foreign policy.
It's just that this issue is obviously based on history.
Most of the supervisors just thought about it for a moment and then started to agree. Many people even thought that the cabinet's move was a fair consideration.
However, Xie Jin added: "This includes the sweet potatoes you dug today... Of course, the output of this entire sweet potato field will be sent to Oara."
After finishing speaking, Xie Jin looked at the supervisors around him quietly.
At this time, the crowd began to make some different movements.
The imperial court wanted to send something to the Oara tribe in order to stabilize the situation on the border. This was something that all dynasties had been doing, and the Ming Dynasty could certainly do the same.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But suddenly, the thing to be given became the sweet potatoes they dug out just before they kept begging for mercy.
The prison guards began to feel unwilling to come.
The sweet potatoes that labor and management worked so hard to dig out here are finally able to ask for a moment of rest. So how can the sweet potatoes that we people like to dig up with so much hard work turn into white if the Walabu say it is good and cry twice?
It's just that no one spoke up to object loudly, but the silence of the group was clearly expressed.
Xie Jin added: "It seems that everyone agrees with the cabinet's proposal."
"Students disagree!"
"If the Oara tribe wants to form a good relationship with me, the Ming Dynasty, they should send us something!"
"If these sweet potatoes are given to the people of the Ming Dynasty, how many people can the sweet potato fields here feed? Why should they be given to those Oara people!"
Suddenly, there was inexplicable opposition in the sweet potato field.
Jie Jin glanced at the smiling Emperor Taisun not far away, raised his arms and pressed down.
"It seems that I have made a mistake." Xie Jin smiled as if he was mocking himself and said, "Can you please tell me why you don't agree with the cabinet's idea?"
Why?
Xie Jin's words immediately caused the supervisors to question him.
Naturally, they are embarrassed to admit that this is because they are unwilling to give to others what they have worked so hard to dig out.
Xie Jin smiled and continued: "Farming mulberry trees is a hard job to begin with. You only have to work for half a day today, and you are already miserable, but the people have to work year after year, and the warehouses are not full every year.
The suffering of mulberry farming is the suffering of the whole world.
You are all the imperial eunuchs, talents in the court, and will be members of the imperial court in the future.
With these shoulders, can you return to farming and mulberry crops every day? Can you carry the world's crops?"