Chapter 53: The Family and the Country

Xie Jin’s face was slightly unsightly, but given that Zhang Anshi was the crown prince’s wife and brother, he still patiently said, “This is not a matter of lack of manpower, it is a matter of violating etiquette, and if the palace learns of it, how will you teach His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to explain to His Majesty?”

Zhang Anshi was not happy to hear it, so he looked at Xie Jin with a puff of anger: “Then let them starve to death outside?”

“This …… has its own division.”

Immediately, Zhang Anshi said, “If there is a division that can dispose of it, there won’t be such starvation.”

Xie Jin showed a bit of impatience, he was after all a university scholar of the Wen Yuan Pavilion, and he thought that Zhang Anshi was harming His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by doing so.

With so many people filling the East Palace, what will His Majesty think? What will those who want to criticize the Crown Prince think?

Xie Jin said, “Mr. Zhang is still young, there are some things…still don’t understand…”

Zhang Anshi said: “I only recognize one reason, the East Palace more manpower, the starving people have a mouth to feed, what’s wrong with this? Now take these people to come, to relieve the disaster in Suzhou and Songjiang also has great benefits, less so many mouths, the starving people will be less.”

Xie Jin saw Zhang Anshi can not talk, then busy toward Zhu Gaoqi salute: “Your Highness, this matter can not be ah, once His Majesty is informed, will certainly be the wrath of the dragon face, this matter is related to the major, please think twice, Your Highness.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but say in annoyance, “The opinion of a corrupt scholar!”

“Shut up!” At this time, a crisp voice rang out.

The crowd looked toward the source of the sound, but they saw that Crown Princess Zhang was coming over with a cold face, leading Zhu Zhanji, trailing behind a group of palace eunuchs and eunuchs.

Zhang Clan hated the iron and said to Zhang Anshi, “Anshi, how can you speak to Bachelor Xie like this.”

“Sister ……”

Xie Jin was busy greeting Zhang.

Zhang nodded and said politely to Xie Jin, “Bachelor Xie has worked hard. Sherbrother is reckless, please don’t be offended.”

Zhang then coldly added to Zhang Anshi, “I’ve heard that you’ve recruited quite a few women to come, where are they?”

Zhang Anshi said resentfully, “Just over the urn wall.”

Zhang then said to Zhu Gaoqi, “Your Highness, why don’t you go and take a look first.”

Zhu Gaoqi sighed, “Good.”

A group of people climbed the high wall of the East Palace, along the palace wall of the aisle, and then to the Cheng En Gate gate building, from here overlooking down, they see the outside is a crowd of people.

Most of the ragged people were barefoot, and in this cold weather the pimply men stood huddled and timid.

Zhang stared at the crowds of people and didn’t move a muscle.

Xie Jin said to the crown prince and Zhang: “Your Highness, Your Highness, the Queen, the wind is strong here, it is better to hurry to go, these people …… Chen will find a way to hand over Yingtianfu disposal.”

Zhang looked back and glanced at Xie Jin: “How does Mr. Xie intend to hand it over to Yingtianfu to be disposed of?”

“This ……”

Zhang waved at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi was afraid that Zhang would screw him and refused to go forward.

Zhang’s then reprimanded: “Usually you are bold, but now you know that you are afraid.”

Zhu Zhanji, who was being held by Zhang, said in a milky voice, “Mother consort don’t be angry, I will be good.”

Zhang Anshi smiled with an embarrassed look on his face.

Zhang’s murmured, ”First, have someone settle them down and give them all a clean up. If they are not sick, let them enter the palace, have Sister Li and Sister Zhou do this, and then order Teng Jian to take care of their clothing and food, and teach everyone not to slack off, they won’t last much longer with the weather being so cold.”

Zhu Gaoqi couldn’t help but be surprised, “Ah ……”

Xie Jin was shocked, busy saying, “Your Highness, you are ……”

Zhang’s face didn’t have much expression, but the whole person appeared indescribably dignified, while her mouth said, “People without food and clothes will die!”

“But ……”

Zhang said, “I know that the good intentions of the public liberation, if it really caused any gossip, I have my own to bear, and now the most important thing is …… to live one more person is a person.”

Xie Jin obviously feels that Zhang has some gynecological views, “His Majesty is surrounded by ……”

“Will anyone around His Majesty take this opportunity to criticize the Crown Prince?” Zhang said here, his eyes fell on those ragged people, eyes flashed pity, then said: “But Xie Gong has not tasted the taste of starvation and freezing, right, I have not tasted, my brother has not tasted. But my Zhang family …… is not a rich and noble family origin, but also know the suffering of the human world, know that in such a disaster year, people live how not easy.”

“Under the sky there are many reasons, if reasoning, of course, I can not speak Xie Gong, but I am a woman, only recognize a reason, surnamed Zhu’s family sat in the world, the people’s life and death of the honor and disgrace on the emperor, the crown prince as a son, I do daughter-in-law, today, but where to teach a half of the people here starve to death in front of the East Palace, not afraid to be God’s abhorrence? ”

Words to this point, Xie Jin can only look at Zhu Gaoqi, hoping that Zhu Gaoqi can say something.

Zhu Gaoqi’s mouth trembled and finally said, “Listen to her.”

Xie Jin: “……”

Zhang’s but no longer understand Jinyin, towards Zhang Anshi gently said: “my brother, bastard is a little bit of bastard, usually do not personnel, but today this is a matter of right and wrong, but do the right thing. Came so many people, the East Palace side if not feed, then today, since the Palace here below, each person food two meals, all the use of half, and then really not, then think of another way.”

She paused, and then said, “As for the father and mother there …… parents how to view the crown prince and this palace, this is the parents of the matter, I can not change the parents’ mind, but thunder and rain, all for the king and father’s grace. Do children, can share the worries of the father and the emperor, so that I am a few less starving people in the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, this is the great reason.”

Zhang Anshi looked at his own sister, his eyes shining with light, and without missing a beat, he said, “Sister said it well.”

Xie Jin saw the situation, and look at Zhu Gaoqi, Zhu Gaoqi also settled down, he waved his hand, repel away the surrounding eunuchs and eunuchs, said in a low voice: “Ai Fei is right, Xie Bachelor is always on the Palace said that the fight for the reserves, the fight for the reserves? But what is the purpose of the fight for reserves? This palace to be a vassal king, will not lose the wealth?”

“This palace wants to be the crown prince, because this palace thinks, this palace can treat the world with benevolence and generosity, the ancestor’s kingdom shouldn’t be allowed to be trampled on at will, now if even the lives of so many people are in vain, then this throne, what is the point of occupying the position of the Crown Prince? The solution to the bachelor’s concerns, this palace is also very worried, but things have come to this, can not be shirked?”

Xie Jin sighed and said, “Your Highness’s intentions, I already understand.”

What he is worried …… about is the emperor s crisis of trust in the crown prince, and once this trust has a crack, then it will be harder than climbing up to heaven to bridge it again.

Up and down the East Palace, has begun to move, Teng Jian personally led the people, prepared food, out of the door of Cheng En, trying to find a way to let these women bathe, eat and make sure that there is no disease.

Inside the East Palace, a few of Zhang’s close sisters were organizing the resettlement matters.

Seeing that his brother-in-law and sister had no effort to pay attention to him, Zhang Anshi held Zhu Zhanji’s hand and went to the small hall to warm himself against the charcoal stove.

“Junji, ah Junji, you are really a filial child, as soon as I saw you I knew that in the future you would be uncle’s sweet little coat.”

Zhu Zhanji rested his cheeks and thought about his mind.

“After some days, I ordered some more yarn looms, now we have plenty of manpower in the East Palace, we can not just sit around, to expand production, uncle can not go in and out of the palace at any time, here’s the thing, you have to help uncle to keep an eye on it, know not! I don’t trust anyone in the world but you.”

Zhu Zhanji sat in his chair with his legs dangling in the air, swaying, swaying, and continuing to rest his cheeks.

“Hey, why don’t you kids say something?”

It was only then that Zhu Zhanji couldn’t help but say, “Didn’t A-Uncle say last time that he wasn’t allowed to talk to you.”

Zhang Anshi revealed a loving smile and touched his head, his voice filled with emotion, “Aunty loves you, how could he ignore you? You have to keep in mind to help A’uncle keep an eye on the production, got it?”

Zhu Zhanji thought for a moment and said, “Uncle has fallen into the eye of money.”

Zhang Anshi pulled a face, “What kind of words are these, we help people, but there is a saying that it’s better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish, you see a person about to starve to death, throw him food, this is called charity. But if you give him a chance to gain a foothold in the world, this is called helping.”

“Alright, you don’t understand yet, when you grow up in the future, you will naturally understand the good intentions of Uncle, who is worried to death about doing good deeds.”

Zhu Zhanji opened his eyes wide, with a confused and unsettled look on his face.