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Chapter 40: Popsicles of the Ming Dynasty

The next day, Zhu Cheng reported the list of promotions to Emperor Tianqi.

When Emperor Tianqi saw that there were 114 hundred households and two deputy thousand households, namely Feng Menglong and Liu Jingting. Emperor Tianqi smiled slightly. Zhu Cheng was just a child after all, and promoted thousands of households to write and storytellers. Don’t you know that military command is a very professional profession? There must be problems with the outsider leading and expert.

Emperor Tianqi did not say it out loud, but asked Wei Zhongxian to stamp it with a large seal and sent it to the Ministry of War. Wang Xianggan, the Minister of War, was not a member of the Donglin Party and did not like to refute the emperor's imperial edicts to seek fame. He saw that Emperor Tianqi personally promoted the hundred Jinyiwei and households, and knew that Jinyiwei was a royal soldier. Not only did he not make things difficult for him, he urged his subordinates to handle the new officials of the hundred and thousands of households as soon as possible. Anyway, the emperor had already said that these military officers were paying military salaries in children's playgrounds and had nothing to do with the Ministry of War.

Three days later, the nine thousand households sent to the imperial village in Jingxi were already in place and came to the Children's Paradise to meet Zhu Cheng. As soon as they met, the nine thousand households expressed their attitude that they were only qualified to go to the imperial village in Jingxi and would not interfere with Zhu Cheng's training. Zhu Cheng was very happy to see that they were so informed and gave them many specialties from the children's paradise, which made them laugh.

Feng Menglong and Liu Jingting's official documents have been sent to them. Liu Jingting took them out and read them eight times a day. Feng Menglong was better, but he didn't read them eight times, but he just showed off his 16 times in front of Hou Huiqing.

The things were ready, and Zhu Cheng decided to leave and return to the imperial village in Jingxi. He had not been watching the Jinyiwei training in the imperial village these days, and he didn't know what the situation was now. Feng Menglong's health has not yet fully recovered, but he strongly requested to go to the imperial village in Jingxi. Zhu Cheng asked the famous doctor Shi Longyou's opinion, and agreed.

The wheels rolled, and the group left the capital and headed straight for the imperial village in the west of Jing.

After leaving the capital, Qianhu felt that the road was extremely bumpy and was almost shaking the bones. A Qianhu lifted the curtain and saw that the road was bumpy and a walkway. There was an official road next to it, which was flat and wide, and a layer of wet straw was covered with.

The Qianhu shouted: "Carrier, stop!"

The coachman stopped the car and turned around and asked, "Master Qianhu, what's the matter? The imperial village in Jingxi has not arrived yet."

Qianhu scolded: "A bastard, the official road next to it is very flat. Why don't you walk here and take this haunted path?"

"Mr. Qianhu doesn't know that this official road was built by the imperial village in Jingxi. It is said that it was laid on it called cement. When it was first laid, it was like mud, but after a while, it would be as hard as a rock. Master Qianhu came early. If it was three or five days later, he could walk on the official road, which was fast and stable. But now he couldn't go up. The official road was full of mud-like things, with a stamp pressing on it." As he said, the coachman pointed ahead, "Look, Lord Zhu Cheng and Zhu's carriage were also walking on the path."

Zhong Qianhu looked at it and found that Zhu Cheng's carriage was also dancing on the road.

The thousand households couldn't help but secretly complained in their hearts that Zhu Cheng would not enjoy happiness. It would be great to walk on the flat official road a few days later. Even if you don't consider others, you have to consider the carriage. Walking on such a bumpy road, the service life of the carriage will be shortened.

After an hour of bumpyness, I finally arrived at the imperial village in Jingxi.

The military camp of Jingxi Huangzhuang has not been completed yet, but Qianhu's houses have been renovated. All Qianhu's hearts were warm when they looked at their residences. They were all excluded in the Jinyiwei, otherwise they would not have been sent to Jingxi Huangzhuang. Seeing this brand new house and exquisite furniture in the house, they secretly made up their minds that as long as Zhu Cheng did not rebel, he would definitely give him the greatest convenience.

Looking at the winter wheat covered with snow in the fields, everyone couldn't help but exclaim: "Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest."

Everyone was enjoying the beautiful scenery behind the snow, but saw someone busy there, leaving a few lines of footprints on the snow that were so badly damn the scenery.

Zhu Youjian said angrily: "Parent Wang, what are you doing? You're trampling the snow to pieces."

Wang Chengen said: "The old slave is directing his servants to collect ice."

It turned out that after Zhu Cheng went to the capital, Wang Chengen directed his servants to dig a large ice cellar in the imperial village. Although the soil was frozen in winter and shoveled down, only a white seal could be left on the soil, but there were many people in the imperial village. In addition to the new recruits from the Jinyiwei, a huge ice cellar was quickly dug out. After the ice cellar was dug, Wang Chengen directed his servants to collect large ice cubes and prepare to be put into the ice cellar for use in summer.

Seeing the natural dirty ice cube, Zhu Cheng shook his head and said to himself: "What's the use of such dirty ice cubes? If you want to make it, make popsicles. That thing will only be comfortable to eat in June."

This sentence seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest. Everyone was talking about it when they heard this. What is this "popistil"? Ke Qingqing and Zhu Youjian even looked at him with big eyes open, and stars seemed to appear in their eyes.

Zhu Cheng couldn't stand the two of them's gaze attacks and said, "Okay, can I do it now?"

Zhu Cheng ordered Qian Xiaozhao to make thousands of wooden boxes. Fortunately, Qian Xiaozhao led a carpenter team, with many people and great strength, so it took half a day to make these wooden boxes. Then he asked someone to cut a few bamboos and cut them into smooth bamboo sticks.

The following matter is simple. Let Wang Chengen boil water, add honey and milk, pour it into a box, and put it outdoors for a night.

When they were harvesting, Zhu Youjian and Ke Qingqing felt saliva. Zhu Cheng asked Wang Chengen to fold the wooden box and put it into the innermost part of the ice cellar.

Zhu Cheng originally thought it was the most delicious food in summer, but unexpectedly someone actually set his sights on it during the cold weather.

One day, Zhu Cheng came back from an inspection site and found that Zhu Youjian and Ke Qingqing's mouth were red. Zhu Cheng reached out and touched Ke Qingqing's lips, and he asked, "Have you stole the popsicle?"

Ke Qingqing was caught and was embarrassed to speak, but just smiled naughtyly.

Zhu Youjian said with a smile: "A few thousand popsicles, eat a few that don't matter first."

Zhu Cheng was amused and cried, saying, "The weather is so cold, isn't it uncomfortable to eat popsicles?"

Seeing that Zhu Cheng was not angry, Ke Qingqing said, "It's not cold. The room is so hot that I'm almost sweating."

Ke Qingqing said nothing wrong. Since the road was built, it has been very convenient to transport coal from the capital to the Huangzhuang. The fuel of the Huangzhuang kang has long been changed to coal. The Huangzhuang building has been installed with a hot kang according to Zhu Cheng's requirements, so the room is as warm as spring.

Zhu Cheng thought of the hot popsicles in the northeastern winter and summer in the future. Seeing the two people in front of him, one 11 years old and the other 10 years old, both children, they couldn't bear to blame them too much, so he said, "Eat less. If you eat too much popsicles, your stomach will not be able to bear it. By the way, after you eat popsicles, where did the wooden box and bamboo sticks be placed."

Zhu Youjian pointed to the fire pit, and Zhu Chengxin was so clear that the wooden box was put into the kang and destroyed the body.

Zhu Cheng couldn't help but feel ache. It cost a lot to make this wooden box. They were so afraid that they would be scolded by themselves, so they threw it into the fire.

Seeing that Zhu Cheng was about to leave, the two of them immediately flashed out and ran away.

The monk could not run away, so the two were caught by Zhu Cheng at night. Not only was they scolded, but they were thrown into the recruit camp for two days.

However, seeing the pitiful appearance of the two, Zhu Cheng felt soft and stipulated that they could only eat at most three popsicles a month.

Time is gone, but it is walking very fast, and it is the end of January in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Cheng collected a few trucks of vegetables again and returned to Beijing. This time he came to Beijing, he felt particularly relaxed, so he brought Cao Huachun to him and asked him to be responsible for selling vegetables in Beijing, making a small profit. Although it was already spring, Beijing was still cold and green vegetables were still priced but not in the market.

Zhu Youjian is quite filial and wants to bring some popsicles for his brother to taste, but Zhu Cheng stopped him. Just kidding, the emperor was the protagonist during the wedding. If he eats bad things, wouldn’t he leave a joke forever?

However, when the emperor got married, he really had no time to help. The officials of the Ministry of Rites had already made arrangements. He now went to the palace every day, just chatting with Zhu Youxiao.

On February 3, after the emperor's wedding, Zhu Cheng stopped running to the palace. According to historical records, Zhu Youxiao and Queen Zhang Yan had a very good relationship, so he did not become the super big light bulb.

However, at noon on February 4, when Zhu Chengzheng and a group of children were having fun in the children's playground, an eunuch came to pass the imperial edict and asked him to go to the palace.

Zhu Cheng couldn't help but wonder, at this time, Zhu Youxiao didn't talk about love with Zhang Yan, so why did he do for him? He looked at the eunuch carefully, his face was pale and his voice was quiet, and he was indeed a eunuch.

Zhu Cheng followed the eunuch to the palace. There were 9,999 and a half houses in the Forbidden City, with a swaying back and a winding path. He had no map, so he naturally could not recognize the buildings and roads inside. However, he had been to the palace several times and knew the location of the Qianqing Palace. But this eunuch took him around the east and west, and he had never walked these roads before.

Zhu Cheng was framed by the Donglin Party once, and he was alert and stopped moving forward, shouting sternly: "Where are you going to take me?"
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