Fast Travel: A Record of Unusual Creatures

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao asked some other questions one after another. Qu Jie paid a fee of one thousand taels at a time to answer some questions. Some questions were given three answers: upper, middle and lower. As for whether to adopt them or not, it was their business.

After they left, Qu Jie lay down.

"Lao Zhu is too troublesome. This guy really regards the whole world as his own. He has no idea of ​​co-ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. The world is not a world for one person, but a world for all people!"

It's too difficult to change him. Do you want to change him?

Zhu Biao is okay, but his ears are soft...'

That's right, Qu Jie, who was very disappointed with Zhu Yuanzhang, is now considering whether to change someone. What she calls changing someone is not just as simple as changing someone.

There may also be a change of emperor.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Qu Jie finally gave up the idea. After all, Meng Yuan's problem has not been solved yet, and a benevolent monarch may not be able to sustain it.

After Zhu Di came to power, he fought for more than ten years, and then when his great-grandson's generation came, he was beaten back first.

But if Zhu Yuanzhang is not allowed to change.

Qu Jie was also really unhappy.

So she started to make trouble that night. Didn't she instill a brief history of the Ming Dynasty into Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son through soul connection? While instilling memories, she also hit their souls by the way. A brand to facilitate future dreams and so on.

Even kill them or manipulate them.

It's easier to have a brand.

Of course, what Qu Jie did that night was not to kill them. She just made up a few dreams for Zhu Yuanzhang, and made up some very immersive dreams, which were even better than his own dreams. Much more real.

The kind of dream that is no different from time travel.

In some dreams, he became an old farmer who worked diligently in farming, because King Zhu Ping of Qin ordered the soldiers and civilians in the pass to buy gold and silver. Because he could not pay, he went with him to pray at the Prince of Qin's Mansion, and was beaten to death.

In some dreams, he turned into the Queen of Qin's concubine Wang Shi who was under house arrest. Not only did her daily life be very painful, she was almost a real woman, and she was also buried after the death of King Qin.

In other dreams, he became an upright official and wanted to work diligently, but because his salary was too low, his family could not eat a few meals of meat throughout the year. His mother died of illness, and then his wife became seriously ill. In order to save his wife, he As a last resort, he started to collect bribes and was stripped of his skin.

Similar dreams, or adaptations based on real situations, without any exaggeration, were just dreams that brought Zhu Yuanzhang into the role of the protagonist. Qu Jie compiled ten of them in a row before resting, and she was in a pretty good mood while sleeping. , I finally became a screenwriter.

Such a dream, or such a thing.

There are many in the history books.

Therefore, Qu Jie has no shortage of material at all. Even if he composes Zhu Yuanzhang's dreams for several months without repetition, there is absolutely no problem and everything is appropriate.

Qu Jie fell asleep after making up her dream.

Of course Zhu Yuanzhang started to dream.

Because Qu Jie's ability to fabricate dreams has indeed been greatly strengthened in the previous world, Zhu Yuanzhang did not clearly feel like he was dreaming. Even his own memory was weakened in the dream, and no matter how angry and dissatisfied he was in his heart I couldn't vent, I could only follow the dream and endure the pain and torture.

Whether it's physical or psychological.

For example, the official, because of his integrity, felt the pain and torture in his heart when he watched his mother die of illness but could do nothing, and the pain and torture in his heart when he had to accept a bribe in order to save his wife.

Including physical pain at the time of death.

will be reflected in his soul.

Qu Jie didn't understand Zhu Yuanzhang's character building process, but she did feel that Zhu Yuanzhang lacked empathy, so she wanted to let him experience it personally.

It is best to have the best effect, and it is better to let him have some changes.

It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work.

Anyway, at least Qu Jie felt better.

……

When Zhu Yuanzhang got up the next morning, he was still immersed in dreams and couldn't extricate himself.

After a long time, he murmured in a depressed voice:

“Are official salaries really too low?”

No one answered him, but if his experience in the dream last night was correct, this is undoubtedly a very certain thing. If he is not a descendant of aristocratic family, but just an official from a poor family, huh, relying on salary alone, let alone buying money in Yingtian Mansion Now that we have a house, it is difficult to rent a house.

After renting the house, the rest is just for food and clothing.

Those wealthy days of honorable ministers.

Which one did it with salary?

Not to mention that their salaries are not paid out in a very timely manner. Sometimes they are replaced by items, and sometimes they are paid with treasure notes that depreciate as soon as they are available. Many middle- and lower-level officials who are incorruptible or have no place to earn money rush to pay as soon as they get their salary. First go to the market and replace it with rice, flour, oil and grains.

Not only was he worried that his precious money would depreciate again, but he was also worried that his family's rice supply was indeed about to bottom out.

What a life!

Not as good as some petty officials who are far away from the emperor.

Maybe it was because he had done it some time ago, but it was not so real. It was indeed a dream that he thought about every day and dreamed about at night. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang did not suspect Qu Jie for the time being. After he woke up, he sat on the bed and pondered for a while. Continue to go to court and deal with large and small matters.

Then I continued to dream that night.

This time, he dreamed that he became his concubine and was buried after his death. He dreamed that he became an ordinary palace servant and was tortured by King Qin for fun.

Dreaming about working diligently as an official and not doing bad things.

But he was implicated and killed.

He also dreamed that he was a victim of a natural disaster in the year Zhu Qiyu died, but because of the restoration of Zhu Qiyu Town, not only did the officials withdraw money and food for disaster relief, but they also deliberately refused to go to disaster relief.

In the end, the family of six starved to death.

When he woke up again during the day, Zhu Yuanzhang almost vomited blood again because he remembered that there was indeed a small record in the brief history of the Ming Dynasty. It was that after the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, for unknown reasons, he not only recalled Zhu Qiyu to the throne At that time, the disaster relief officials and money and food sent out directly ignored the disaster area, resulting in heavy casualties in the disaster area. It can be seen that the emperor's evil deeds were far more cruel than the feudal kings.

A simple stroke or two sentences in the historical records, but in fact, how many families were destroyed. The so-called household registration halved did not mean that only one or two families died.

More than half of the population in an area died!

For a long time after that, Zhu Yuanzhang would dream every night. At first he might think it was normal, but after three or four days of dreaming, he knew that it must be related to Qu Jie, but because he guessed that these dreams were actually They were all things that really happened now or in the future, so he didn't go to Qu Jie to question them.

Instead, I write down my dreams every day after I wake up.

From the perspective of low-level officials and ordinary people, we may be able to see the various shortcomings, corrupt officials, and the evil deeds of the vassal kings.