Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 727 How to Train the Future Emperor
Chongzhen coughed, interrupting that bastard's fanning the flames... If he continues to fool around like this, who knows what kind of hell it will make his future emperor look like!

Only then did Yang Menglong realize that Chongzhen had returned, and he knelt down with everyone without sincerity, saluted, and then called out with surprise: "Your Majesty, why did you leave work so early? I remember that you should still be in court now." ah!"

Chongzhen glared at him fiercely, and said coldly: "When will I retire from the court, do I need your consent?" The next second, the majesty of the emperor made him throw him out of Jiuxiaoyun, and he leaned closer and was cooking puffer fish The pot of soup, with bright eyes and drooling, asked: "This soup is delicious, when will it be ready?"

———— Just now Wang Chengen ran over and told him that Yang Menglong was here and brought a lot of delicacies. He ended the boring court meeting without hesitation and ran back in a hurry.Compared with my own taste, the boring court meeting doesn't seem to be that important. Anyway, the result can't be achieved in a day or two. Wrangling for ten days and a half is considered efficient, and dragging on one or two The month is normal, and even if it drags on for a year or two, everyone is calm.

Empress Zhou said with a smile: "We have to wait a little longer. It is said that the skin must be boiled until it is soft."

Chongzhen muttered: "How long will it take to cook? I'm very hungry now..."

Concubine Yuan hurriedly said to the maid: "Xiao Ping, hurry to the imperial dining room and get some cakes to fill the emperor's stomach."

Chongzhen stopped him: "Don't, don't, don't! I still have to save my stomach to eat puffer fish. If I eat pastries first, I won't be able to eat much good food!"

Is this the emperor or a foodie?
All the concubines were dumbfounded.

Chongzhen looked around again, and it seemed that there was nothing else but pufferfish.He said to Yang Menglong with some dissatisfaction: "You just brought these pufferfish?"

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes straightly: "How many pufferfish? These pufferfishes weigh seven or eight catties each. They are very rare, and they must be handled carefully. The cost of hiring a pufferfish to kill is more expensive than killing a cow!"

Chongzhen shouted: "Too few!"

Yang Menglong said: "If it's too little, I'll send someone to catch it myself. That's all I brought with me anyway!"

That's how he dared to talk to Chongzhen like this...

Over there, the faces of several Japanese puffer fish chefs were twitching...Yang Menglong brought them into the Forbidden City and asked them to cook puffer fish for the emperor of Ming Dynasty. Running over and appearing in front of them, their darlings have been trembling all the time——If one of them is not handled properly and a little bit of toxin remains, Japan will not be wiped out!They were sweating on their foreheads, and they were extra careful, lest there be any accidents.Even the best chefs in modern times are under great pressure when cooking pufferfish. Many chefs can't stand it after working for a few years. They give up this job with very high salary and good treatment. The whole body is covered with poisonous ingredients, so the pressure can be imagined!
Chongzhen didn't understand the distress in the hearts of these babies at all, and swallowed hard while guarding the pot.He knew the pufferfish's good name, but it was the first time he saw pufferfish appearing in the pot after growing up so big.This thing is so toxic that even ordinary people have to stay away. As an emperor, how could he allow such a thing to appear in his imperial dining room!Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Yang Menglong, a bastard, dared to bring pufferfish into the palace, let people cook it on the spot, and invited the emperor's family to eat it. Good luck, such a good thing must not be let go.

After much difficulty, the puffer fish meal was finally done: a pot of puffer fish soup, a puffer fish hot pot, a fried puffer fish, and a plate of puffer fish sashimi.Originally, puffer fish liver was also extremely delicious, but the toxicity of that stuff was too strong, and the identities of Yang Menglong and Chongzhen were too scary, several Japanese cooks dared not to cook puffer fish, and killed the puffer fish as soon as possible. The liver was thrown into the fire and burned——if that bastard asked to taste it, they would be miserable!A group of people sat together, Chongzhen quickly stretched out his chopsticks to pick them up, but was blocked by Yang Menglong.While wondering, those Japanese chefs stepped forward, tasted a few mouthfuls of each dish, and then stood aside with bitter faces, as if they had been greatly wronged.Chongzhen couldn't help asking Yang Menglong: "What do they mean?"

Yang Menglong said: "Trying the dishes, in order to avoid poisoning the diners, the chef will try a little pufferfish after serving it on the table, and then stay aside. If he is fine within a stick of incense, the diners can eat it with confidence."

Chongzhen suddenly realized: "It's the same reason that the eunuchs try to eat before I eat."

Half an hour later, the cooks were still alive, everyone cheered, the bowls and chopsticks moved, and they gorged themselves, enjoying the delicious pufferfish soup and pufferfish meat.Especially Chongzhen, this foodie only took a sip and his eyes glowed green. He was so hot that he couldn't help but screamed delicious, and he was so fierce when he grabbed it!

The palace maid came over to serve everyone with rice and wine. The wine was Japanese sake and the rice was cooked with Japanese rice. They were all trophies Yang Menglong brought back from Japan.After all, the Chongzhen family had a taste of sake, and their evaluation of sake was very low: "What a piece of crap, it's as bland as boiling water!" However, rice cooked from Japanese rice is quite popular, and the rice grains are round and have a tinge of color. It has a layer of pure white oil and is soft and fragrant in the mouth. I want to eat more after eating it. Even the queen ate two big bowls in one go.Chongzhen was even more surprised and said: "It's incredible that Japanese rice is so delicious. We must let them pay more tribute in the future."

Yang Menglong's mouth was full of gravy, and he said: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome, if the emperor wants to eat, I will lead the soldiers to grab it."

Chongzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't just kill and rob at every turn. The Ming Dynasty is a huge country. It must behave like a big country and cannot be known as a bully!"

Yang Menglong didn't care: "Fuck the style of a great country! The true style of a great country should be like that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. If any neighboring country dared to disobey, they would push him into the water and flatten him, break his legs, and then throw him two red dates. , let them sing praises!" He turned to Zhu Cixiang and said, "You must keep this in mind, don't let those old masters fool you!"

Zhu Cihong nodded earnestly: "I've figured it out a long time ago! When I first started school, I was polite to all my classmates and tolerated everything, but they all said I was stupid and wouldn't play with me. Later, I started to use my fists. After talking to them, I would beat anyone who dared to provoke me, and I quickly made many friends, including those classmates who bullied me before, and became good friends with me!"

Yang Menglong was very satisfied: "That's right, a man should have the pride of a man, and a big country should have the majesty of a big country, instead of pretending to be a good guy!"

Chongzhen was stunned for a long time, and smiled wryly: "I don't even know whether it is right or wrong to let Cilang worship you as a teacher... These days, those great scholars have been crying around me all day, and they are almost annoying me to death. !"

Yang Menglong picked up a fish head and gnawed it loudly: "What did they say?"

Chongzhen said angrily: "They said that my Cilang wasted his studies outside and forgot all the ways of being a king. One even said that he should lock Cilang up and let him take care of him, otherwise he would become a king. What a ruffian! It’s just unreasonable, do they still have the emperor in their eyes!” Lao Tzu always turned to his son, Zhu Cihong became wild, and Chongzhen was not very satisfied, but no matter how dissatisfied, only he can say, others Of course he is very upset at scolding his son like this!

Yang Menglong sneered: "Those guys are eager to turn the emperor into a puppet. How could they like a prince with a wild temper and strong opinions!"

These words simply spoke to Chongzhen's heart.Over the years, he has battled wits and courage with the ministers, but the ministers want to evade him and turn him into a machine that can only stamp memorials, an emperor who can do nothing but seal and reproduce offspring. He is the ideal emperor for all gentlemen. Emperors like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di who know everything and have a strong aura are simply a nightmare for ministers.But Chongzhen was not a puppet after all. He also had thoughts and opinions. He wanted to control the ministers in turn, so conflicts between the emperor and his ministers occurred one after another. The 17 years of Chongzhen's reign were a history of antagonism between the emperor and his ministers.Thinking about it this way, it seems that it is not a bad thing for his son to become wild. If he is too weak, he will definitely be bullied by the ministers.

Yang Menglong turned to Zhu Cixiang and asked: "I will go back to Nanyang in a few days. Are you going to go back to school with me or stay in the palace?"

Without even thinking about it, Zhu Cihong said, "Of course I'm going back to Nanyang to continue my studies! I can't stand that chatterbox anymore, I can't stand it for even a minute, who knows how I survived these years!"

Yang Menglong set his sights on Chongzhen.

Chongzhen smiled bitterly: "Yang Aiqing, you want to bring him back to Nanyang. I have no objection, but you have to take some time to teach him something! I sent Cixi to Nanyang, not to let him live with the children of ordinary people. Let’s have some fun together!”

Yang Menglong said: "Boss, at this age he should play with other children and live happily. If you force him to read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long, why don't you read him stupidly?"

Concubine Yuan interrupted: "Isn't it said that 'half of the Analects of Confucius rules the world'? If you don't read the Four Books and Five Classics, what can you read?"

Yang Menglong said: "Taizu and Chengzu didn't read the Four Books and Five Classics, but they still created a prosperous age comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties! According to me, the most important thing for a ruler of an empire is not to learn how many sages, but to understand the people's sentiments." , have your own opinions, and have the courage to do things. If you don’t even know how much a stone of rice costs, you will definitely be bullied by the officials. You can’t learn these things in the palace, let alone in books. You have to go outside!"

Empress Zhou said: "I agree!" She took out a cloth towel and wiped off the oil stains on Zhu Cihong's face, and said lovingly: "In the past, Cihong was taciturn and cowardly. He will suffer in the future, but after being with Yang Qing, he has become more cheerful and lively, and he is much stronger, so this is very good, I am very satisfied!"

Chongzhen murmured: "A loving mother often loses children!" But after all, he was also very satisfied with his son's transformation, and thought that it would not be wrong to let him follow Yang Menglong crazy for a few years, and then let him come back to learn how to govern the country when he was older. Chi... Yang Menglong is right, a child at this age should play to his heart's content, and forcing him to learn the way of a saint is pure perversion!
(End of this chapter)