Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and sat down loudly.

Fang Jifan also sat with him, with a little smile on his face, but he said he was not nervous, which was fake.

Fang Jifan was really nervous than Zhu Houzhao. He was in front of the emperor and vowed to protect Zhu Houzhao.

Emperor Hongzhi also showed a smile on his face. He used to look at his son and didn’t like him, but today he looked at Zhu Houzhao and found that he had a different impression!

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao for a long time, and found that his son seemed a little mature and steady, and his beard had grown. He pursed his lips and his eyes were bright, which made him feel a bit transformed.

Emperor Hongzhi stroled the case without showing any expression, and said for a long time: "Why are you so thin?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Fang Jifan.

He finally understood one thing now. It turned out that he could not say something, but he had to let others say it.

Fang Jifan: "..."

After coughing, Fang Jifan said with great sarcasm: "Report to Your Majesty, His Highness, the Crown Prince, led scholars, refugees, cultivated land, and ate and slept with refugees. These two months have been a little harder, so Your Highness has lost weight."

"Eat and sleep together?" Emperor Hongzhi was stunned.

He doesn't believe that such a person will be his own son.

His son has always been spoiled and grown up by women in the deep palace. Will he eat and sleep with refugees?

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Fang Jifan with a smile: "I didn't ask Fang Qing's family, I asked the prince to answer in person."

This clearly means, what kind of tricks do you want to play?

Zhu Houzhao had received Fang Jifan's instructions in advance, and the two sides conducted simulations, so they were not excited. Instead, they said: "My son is indeed eating and living with refugees. Just as Mr. Wang said, if you want to know the people's needs, you need to have the same sense! The same sense is easy to say but difficult to do. If you do not eat and sleep with refugees, the so-called empathy is nothing more than a formality."

"So, do you understand what empathy means?" Emperor Hongzhi was calm. He could almost imagine that these two guys had already prepared to deal with him before they came.

It’s not so easy to lie to me!

Although I don’t explain how to read it, it’s not something you two yellow-mouthed children can fool you just want to fool them.

He looked at Zhu Houzhao with no expression and said, "Okay, I believe you."

Let’s just say two words, with a bit of ridiculous meaning.

Zhu Houzhao was still not as excited as before, and actually said seriously: "Thank you, Father."

“…”

The smile on Emperor Hongzhi's face was still there, but he glanced at Fang Jifan at the corner of his eyes.

Fang Jifan looked innocent and had something to do with me? I have to take the blame for good and bad things?

"Crown Prince..." Emperor Hongzhi suddenly said: "Tell me, what is the market price of rice now?"

This understatement sentence seemed like a sudden attack, and walked around behind Zhu Houzhao and gave Zhu Houzhao a stick.

Didn’t you say you ate and slept with the refugees? Didn’t you say you already have empathy?

OK, it depends on whether you know the sufferings of the people. This is not easy. This is the simplest question. If you can't answer this, you two young children will be exposed.

snort!

Do you think I don’t know about you being a scholar in the West Mountain? It’s really eye-opening.

Zhu Houzhao looked at his father strangely, shook his head straightforwardly, "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Sure enough, the stuff was exposed.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled slightly.

On his imperial case, there was a secret report from the factory guard. The current rice price was clear, and Emperor Hongzhi's eyes flashed with disappointment, which was completely disappointed.

Sure enough, I am deceiving the king here again.

This is treating me as a fool.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi sneered: "You don't even know the price of rice, but you dare to say you eat and sleep with the people? Have the same opinion? You dare to say you know the sufferings of the people? I will tell you that since the beginning of winter, the price of rice has increased by 10%. I am worried about it..."

"Father..." Zhu Houzhao suddenly interrupted Emperor Hongzhi's words and looked at Emperor Hongzhi deeply.

Fang Jifan also looked at Emperor Hongzhi strangely. This was not because he wanted to show disrespect. Fang Jifan had always been very respectful to the emperor because... he was afraid of death!

Emperor Hongzhi was a little angry. When was it your turn to interrupt me, and frowned and said, "What?"

Zhu Houzhao said: "My father didn't know that 90% of the people in the world didn't know what the price of rice was? Most of the rice on the market was white rice, so it could be sold at a price. In fact, most of the people only dig food in the fields. They didn't have money to buy rice. Everything needed was planted from the fields. Except for paying tenant rent and government taxes, the rest were broken rice, rotten grain, and the whole family couldn't eat enough. What's more, what they left behind was just broken rice and yellow rice. Even if it was

If they want to sell, no one is willing to buy it. They neither know how to sell grain nor have any spare money to buy grain. The price of grain is related to the father, the ministers in the court, and even the many wealthy families, and the middle-aged and upper-middle families living in the city, but this has nothing to do with 80% of the people! They are self-sufficient and do not know what the price of grain is. Therefore... the son ministers really find this question asked by the father. Is it related to the refugees? "

“…”

Zhu Houzhao said such a long sentence in one breath, but Emperor Hongzhi was a little confused when he heard it.

is that so?

Fang Jifan lowered his head and did not dare to see Emperor Hongzhi because he really did not want to show the emperor the expression of being "** mentally retarded" and wanted to keep a useful body and do more practical things for the people!

Yes...that's it. Our Jiefan is not afraid of death, but is afraid that he cannot die for the benefit of the people and makes fearless sacrifices.

Emperor Hongzhi was silent for a long time and was a little confused about how to question it.

But a question arose in his heart, is that true? Why didn’t the factory guards say it, and did the officials say it?

At this time, Zhu Houzhao suddenly said: "Since my father asked about the price of food, then my son wanted to ask, does my father know why these refugees were suffering from disaster?"

Emperor Hongzhi was stunned, why is it your turn to ask me?

"This...the natural disaster is not finalized."

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said, "It's not like this. The reason why people like Miyun have become refugees is not just because Miyun's arable land cannot meet the needs of these people. It is because, in addition to the disaster, many gentry have had a premonition that the large-scale planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes will plummet the price of grain. Therefore, they are unwilling to continue planting wheat now. They would rather desolate the land for the time being, and want to see the wind direction first before making plans."

"..." Is there such a thing?

Emperor Hongzhi was completely confused.

Zhu Houzhao then said: "Father said that the rice and flour on the market have increased by 10%. According to Erchen, this round of grain surge has nothing to do with natural disasters. Since the seventh year of Hongzhi, natural disasters have become increasingly worse. Why hasn't such a surge in the past? The reason is that many gentry are watching this trend. They would rather waste some of the land that is not fertile enough than rent it to others, thinking that they can change these land from wheat fields to potato fields at any time in the future."

Emperor Hongzhi blushed. He subconsciously picked up the secret memo on the desk, trying to find some clues from it.

However, there is no.

The responsibility of the factory guards is to quote. As for the reasons, this is beyond their ability.

Zhu Houzhao looked at his father with a smile, and then said, "The father also knows the sufferings of the people. Do you know that these refugees have traveled hundreds of miles and Miyun is not far from the capital, but how many people have fallen ill along the way? How many people have died next to the road?"

"What? Someone actually..." Emperor Hongzhi was moved and his eyebrows frowned deeply.

Then Zhu Houzhao said, "Twenty-one people starved to death on the way and thirty-seven people fell ill."

"..." Emperor Hongzhi's face became gloomy.

"The Father will definitely think that this is his father's mistake, and the government has no choice but to pay attention to it. But... the Father is wrong."

"Wrong...wrong?"

"Yes." Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "The father is wrong. What these refugees have in their hearts is not hatred, but gratitude. Does the father know why they are grateful?"

"..." Faced with these problems, Emperor Hongzhi felt that he could not resist it.

When he saw Zhu Houzhao's claws dancing, he looked like a newly grown male army, and began to provoke and demonstrate to the old lion king!

"Because they survived, for them, it was a gift to survive in the year of disaster. In the third year of Hongzhi, there was a severe drought in Miyun, and nine out of ten houses were empty. Many elderly people survived by chance. At that time, the government also provided relief, but the gifts of the court could not provide relief to so many victims of disaster, not to mention that there were even officials who had taken action from it, so that thousands of people starved to death. Now, these refugees have died or injured by hundreds. To them, it is a gift from God and a gift from the father."

Zhu Houzhao stared at Emperor Hongzhi, but in fact she was almost blurted out: "md, mentally retarded."

Emperor Hongzhi's face had changed from gloomy to miserable.

He still couldn't imagine the scene of Hongzhi for three years.

He searched hard for the third year of Hongzhi, and it was also a report from Miyun County.

It seems that there is no deep impression.

I think there are only a few words inside, just saying "Miyun is severe and the people cannot feed."

But how can this touch people's hearts just?

Zhu Houzhao looked at Emperor Hongzhi with a smile and continued, "So in the West Mountain, countless refugees kept praising the wise and kindness of their sons, believing that Fang Jifan was a good official for the people."

Praise...Saintly...

This sentence was heard in Emperor Hongzhi's ears at this moment, but it was particularly harsh.
Chapter completed!