"Declaring the superior's intention, Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner of Ding Chou Section and former Hanlin scholar, and Bai Dunxin, the deputy chief examiner, colluded with Lan Yu's remaining party, disobeyed their superior, ransacked their homes and exiled them to Suzhou Wei!"
"Attendant Zhang Xin, hiding examination papers from northern candidates, Ling Chi"
"Ding Chou Ke champion Chen, You Zan Shan Wang Junhua, Si Zhi Lang Zhang Qian, Secretary Jing Bureau Collector Yan Shu Zai, Zheng Zi Dong Guan, Prince Palace Chief Shi Huang Zhang, Ji Shan Zhou Heng and Xiao Yi, and those who have confused the Holy Land, were all sent to the Yunnan Conscript Army."
On May 17th of the 30th year of Hongwu, Liu Sanwu and others, who originally thought that Ding Chouke's spring boudoir had passed, were captured by the Jinyi Guards led by Song Zhong before they had time to react.
Zhu Yuanzhang denounced Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner, and Bai Dunxin, the deputy examiner, as "blue jade remnants". In particular, he seized on Liu Sanwu's old account of writing a letter to vindicate Hu Weiyong many years ago and identified Liu Sanwu as a "rebel."
Except for these two, all other officials involved in the case were severely punished and sent into exile. Only Dai Yi and Yin Changlong were exempted.
The reason why these two people were exempted was that after reviewing the test papers, the names of candidates from the north were on the list of successful candidates.
After the incident broke out, the candidates in the north were rejoicing, while the candidates in the south believed that the court was unfair. Many southern scholars went to court one after another to plead grievances for Liu Sanwu and others.
Zhu Yuanzhang rejected all these memorials that came like snowflakes, and issued an order on May 23 to put the completed "Enriching the People's Register" on file.
On May 24, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order that except for the rich people of Yunnan, Guangdong, and Sichuan who would not move, the other nine chief secretaries of Zhejiang and other Zhejiang and the eighteen prefectures of Yingtian in Zhili who were listed in the "Fumin Register" had no land exceeding seven hectares. All 14,241 households moved into the outer city of Nanjing and were given residences.
To the common people, these two incidents were unrelated, but to officials from both the government and the public, they all knew that this was Emperor Hongwu's counterattack against the rich southerners in the Nanbei Bang case.
Before they could react, the time came on the first day of June.
On this day, in the Fengtian Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang dragged his sick body and personally questioned more than 700 tributes who had failed to be selected as Chungui, and appointed Han Kezhong, a native of Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, as the number one scholar, and the number one scholar in Ding Chou Kexia Ranking.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also admitted 60 people except Han Kezhong as Jinshi.
As if to counterattack, the sixty-one people admitted this time were all from the north. Compared with the spring list, which was all from the south, there were ten more people.
Not only that, because Chen, the top pick in the spring rankings, and Liu Shi'e, the top pick in the spring list, were executed, only Yin Changlong among the southern candidates admitted this time entered the Imperial Academy.
Looking back at the summer rankings, in addition to Han Kezhong, three people were elected to the Hanlin Academy, and five of the top two were also elected to the Hanlin Academy.
Although not many people were killed in this case, the impact was extremely bad. Especially Liu Sanwu's own words that "Northerners are not good in arts and sciences" angered the candidates in the north.
If Zhu Yuanzhang had not been decisive enough, the North-South issue would have further expanded.
A seemingly confusing case was handled to the extreme by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Unfortunately, from this case, many people saw Zhu Yuanzhang's embarrassing side.
"Dad's health is failing..."
On the tenth day of June, when the dust of the North and South List case had settled, a disrespectful word was heard in the palace of Prince Jin of Taiyuan.
Sitting in the Chengyun Hall, Zhu Fan held a Di newspaper in his hand and a letter sent from the palace on the table.
According to the Di newspaper, Zhu Fan noticed that his father's condition was not good. Otherwise, he would not have ended the case so hastily this time. He should have launched a special operation and arrested and executed all those who were standing in front of the stage and behind the scenes. .
The reason he was in such a hurry was because he felt he didn't have enough time.
Thinking of this, Zhu Fan glanced at the family letter on the table.
It was a letter written by Zhu Yuanzhang. The content of it was Zhu Yuanzhang telling Zhu Fan how to graze, how to raise sheep and horses, and various concerns about not exhausting the pasture for fishing.
In addition to these, Zhu Yuanzhang also told Zhu Fan at the end of the letter that if hundreds of thousands of Hu soldiers march south in the future, there is no need to confront them head-on. They only need to move the soldiers, horses and civilians into the city, and stop the idea that the Hu soldiers can attack the grass valley, and the Hu soldiers will naturally retreat. .
In this case, it would have been impossible for Lao Zhu to explain so carefully in the past. It was precisely because he was so careful that Zhu Fan noticed something fishy.
In the past, when he controlled more than 100,000 soldiers and horses along the border such as Shanxi Dusi and Shanxi Xingdusi, his father always told him how to patrol the border, but now he told him to defend.
"Child..."
Zhu Fan gritted his teeth, why did Shanxi change its offensive and defensive positions? It’s not because most of his military power was taken away!
The old man was afraid that he would cause trouble, so he took away most of his military power and transferred his old troops. Now, except for the three guards of his headquarters and the Dongsheng Guard of Hetao, he could not mobilize any Shanxi soldiers and horses.
How could I be so defensive about my son!
Zhu Fan clenched his fists, and his chest felt stinging from time to time.
Since the last time he failed in the fight with the old man and fainted, he would feel pain in his chest from time to time, but he recovered quickly.
He also asked the doctors in his house about this disease, but they all said that it was due to his own anger.
"Can't be angry..." Zhu Fan comforted himself, while narrowing his eyes slightly: "Dad, I won't do anything while you are alive, but if you leave, don't blame the child."
"In this world, brothers are like brothers!"
When Zhu Fan said these words, thousands of miles away in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang took his three grandchildren up the Purple Mountain and came to the mausoleum of Queen Ma.
He took Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Jixi to offer incense to Queen Ma. Although today was not the anniversary of Queen Ma's death, he didn't know why but wanted to come here to see her.
Sitting under the shade of the Shinto tree, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know when he had a wooden stick in his hand.
He held the wooden stick with both hands and watched the three children not far away offering incense to his sister, and he finally felt a touch of family affection in his heart.
Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying were still fighting the rebellion in the Qinling Mountains. He didn't have any old brothers around him, and even if he wanted to say something, there was no one.
At this time, he couldn't help but miss Zhu Gaoxu.
He didn't know why he missed that child, but he would think of him subconsciously many times.
"grandfather……"
Zhu Yunwen's voice woke Zhu Yuanzhang up, and when he came to his senses, the three of them were already standing in front of him.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly stood up and led them down the mountain. At the same time, he asked:
"Have the three of you encountered any difficult issues while managing politics in Wuying Palace recently?"
As he talked, he walked down the mountain. After Zhu Jixi heard this, he hurriedly expressed: "It is a bit difficult to relocate the rich households in the world. Many officials below are working against the rules. Only the tribute students of the Imperial College can come forward to successfully relocate the wealthy households."
"It's just that the number of tribute students in the Imperial College is too small."
Zhu Jixing was sighing and complaining, but Zhu Yuanzhang taught them like an elder:
"It is good to open up official schools to cultivate talents for the imperial court and prevent others from taking advantage of their talents."
"Do you know how much it costs to train a student in this official school?"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't need to look back, he knew that these three ignorant children couldn't answer.
Among his many descendants, probably only the late Zhu Biao, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, Zhu Chun, Zhu Youdun, and Zhu Gaoxu can answer this question.
Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang's guess was correct. Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi behind him were hesitating, but they couldn't answer.
Looking at their appearance, although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know what "being separated from the people" meant, he knew that it was difficult for the children in the deep palace compound to understand the suffering of the people.
"You don't care about these things, so you can ask this kind of question..."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the city of Nanjing in the distance and said slowly: "Last year, the Ministry of Rites and the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army reported that the imperial court opened 747 official and health schools, with an expenditure of more than 1.76 million dan. "
“That’s all, it’s just the students’ expenses for bringing their own rations, books, paper, pens and inkstones.”
"So many?" After hearing Lao Zhu's words, even Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but take a breath. Although Zhu Jixi and Zhu Yunwen did not behave like him, their eyes widened.
Seeing that they were so ignorant of people's livelihood, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little disappointed, and continued to ask: "Do you know how much food a family has to pay every year if they want to support a child to go to a government school?"
"My grandson... I don't know." The three of them responded one after another, and Zhu Yuanzhang also said after hearing this:
"Ordinary people support a child to study, not to mention other things. In terms of food, even a baby has to eat five shi of rice a year. Plus the rest of the meat and vegetables, oil and salt, it costs at least two guan of money. This is still It’s just food expenses.”
"As for other things, reading requires not only food, but also pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
"There is no need for me to tell you the prices of these things. You should know."
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhu Yunwen took the opportunity to continue: "When my grandson was in the East Palace, his father asked his grandson to use ordinary pens, inks, paper and inkstones, which cost three guans and eight dollars a year."
"Well..." After hearing Zhu Yunwen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang finally nodded with satisfaction, and then said:
"Besides these, there are also a lot of books..."
"You need a copy of the Four Books and Five Classics, the Essentials of the Masters, and past exam questions. For this price, four or five pieces are indispensable."
"When you are in the official school, you have to deal with the worldly world. Otherwise, without the friendship of classmates, it will be very difficult for you to take the imperial examination in the future."
"I asked the children in the Beijing Army. Their children spend no less than five guan each year just to deal with the world."
"In this way, supporting a child to study requires at least ten ounces of silver every year, and it will vary depending on the husband's talent and learning, the number of books purchased, the four treasures of the study, etc."
"After all, if a family wants to support their children, even if the parents only have to eat and drink, they have to spend thirty ounces of silver to continue."
"Although the city of Nanjing is very big, how many people can afford thirty ounces of silver..."
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be sighing at the last sentence, and when he said this, Zhu Jixi and the other three stopped asking questions.
Even with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, the annual surplus of money and food is only eight or nine million shi, which can be converted into copper coins of only two to three million guan.
In other words, even with the Ming Dynasty's current fiscal surplus, if they want to support their children in education, they can only maintain a number of more than 200,000 people.
But the problem is that in today's Ming Dynasty, official education and health education have just been promoted, and there are still many prefectures and counties without schools.
Without official schools, there would be no free tutoring, and ordinary people would have to spend their own money to hire tutors.
The cost of hiring teachers is not something that every household can afford. Take the treatment given to county teachers in Ming Dynasty as an example. It is at least the eighth-level treatment, with a regular salary of seventy-eight dan per year, plus various miscellaneous things. The welfare is at least forty dollars after discount.
With such expensive money, even if the wealth of a village or town is concentrated, it cannot afford to hire a few gentlemen.
If the court does not invest money in local areas, the schooling environment for ordinary people will only get worse.
Lao Zhu's words were listened to by Zhu Gaochi and the other three, but their performance failed to make him like them.
Although Zhu Gaoxu was not here at the moment, based on his knowledge of the boy, the boy would definitely be able to come up with some novel ideas after listening to his words.
Pity……
Zhu Yuanzhang looked to the north and did not continue talking.
Maybe he didn't know that the boy he missed was busy helping the Ming Dynasty expand its territory...
"Your Highness, the Orimi ground is ahead!"
On the same day of June 10th, Meng Zhang's voice appeared. While Lao Zhu was busy educating his three grandchildren, Zhu Gaoxu was riding the wind and waves on the Songhua River.
More than a dozen horse-drawn boats sailed down the river, led by three warships, with the Bohai flag fluttering in the wind on their masts.
On the bow of a warship, Zhu Gaoxu was holding the side of the ship with one hand and holding the mace at his waist with the other. A smile could be seen on his calm face.
Standing next to him were Meng Zhang and Xu Sheng. Needless to say, the former was a brother who, like Cui Jun, came from the guards of Nanjing City and went north with Zhu Gaoxu.
After all, Xu Sheng is single-minded and brave in battle, so letting him cooperate with the calm Meng Zhang is something Zhu Gaoxu has long thought about.
During this northern expedition to Ataiwailan, Zhu Gaoxu set out on the second day of May, setting up water stations all the way north.
Since Lao Zhu transferred two more thousand households to the north, Zhu Gaoxu used more troops than originally planned this time.
In this northern expedition, he brought 200 armored cavalry, 300 light cavalry and 2,000 infantry.
In addition to the 600 boatmen who managed the warships, the clockmaker Wang Yuan and other 100 craftsmen of various types, the total number of people was 3,200.
Naturally, he brought so many people, not all of them were used to attack Ataiwailan, but many people were dropped off halfway to let them build water stations.
Water stations are also waterway stations. On the two thousand-mile waterway from Jilin City to Hulawen, there is no need to build water stations in the six cities. But starting from the mouth of the Sacha River, Zhu Gaoxu put down a small flag of soldiers and horses every fifty miles. And led the army to build a water station for Xiaoqi at a suitable place.
It is almost 1,500 miles of waterway from the mouth of the Sachah River to the city of Hulawen, so Zhu Gaoxu prepared to put down 30 small flags, which means 300 people, to build the water post.
As for himself, he only needs to bring 2,200 troops and horses, which is enough to defeat Atai Wailan. After all, Atai Wailan is only a bandit at best.
While he was thinking this, he also observed this place called Orimi Ground based on Meng Zhang's words.
This Orimi ground, if Zhu Gaoxu remembers correctly, should be located near Tongjiang City in later generations.
This place is located in the hinterland of the Sanjiang Plain. If you continue down the river, you will see the confluence of the Heilongjiang River and the Songhua River.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked around.
The environment of the Sanjiang Plain more than 600 years ago was far worse than when the Great Northern Wilderness was developed.
At first glance, the two sides of the Songhua River are either mountain forests with mixed needles and broad grass, or swampy plains. Even if you want to stop the boat and find a place to land, it is difficult to find it.
Zhu Gaoxu looked back at a Bohai navy soldier who looked a little different from the Han people, and spoke to him in Haixi Jurchen language: "Is there anyone farming food in this place?"
"Back to Your Highness, this place is full of swamps, infested by wild beasts, snakes and insects. No one would want to live in such a place. Even the wild people of Udiha will find places to live and farm near the mountains."
Flood plains were great places in the industrial age, but not in ancient times.
The places that can be knocked out of the plains are places with relatively low terrain.
In such a place, if there are no reasonable water conservancy facilities, the fields will easily be flooded by flooding rivers. Therefore, the places that can be cultivated are basically in places with relatively high terrain near mountains.
It's just that when Zhu Gaoxu looked at it, he could rarely see bulging hills, which also showed that there were indeed very few residents in this area.
Zhu Gaoxu knew that this place had the most fertile black land, but as far as the current situation was concerned, dragging people here to open up wasteland was almost the same as killing people.
If he wanted to develop this place, he would have to be like the savages, building water conservancy facilities from high ground downwards, and then reclaiming the wasteland.
Zhu Gaoxu asked his Jurchen soldiers that the location of Nahura Wen City was almost the later Khabarovsk, the intersection of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River.
Nahurawen City was built at the foot of Tulemei Mountain on the right bank of the Ussuri River, similar to the location of Khabarovsk in later generations.
Calculating the distance, I still have to walk four hundred miles by water.
With this in mind, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and walked to the cabin of the warship, ready to take a good rest.
Although the four-hundred-mile waterway is not long, it will take at least five or six days to reach Hulawen City because the Bohai Navy needs to stop the ship to build materials for the water station.
The reason why he was walking so slowly was because Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to fight Atai Wailan. He was more inclined to drive Atai Wailan away and directly occupy Hu Lawen City and the fields outside the city.
He walked slowly just to give Ataiwailan time to escape.
While he was thinking this, the Bohai Navy quickly arrived at the location where the next water station was to be built.
With the help of more than 2,000 people, the foundation of a water station was excavated and laid in just one afternoon.
Thousands of kilograms of concrete are poured into it, and at the usual speed, it will dry out in about five or six days.
With the foundation in place, the rest of the surface work was left to the small army that was left behind.
The next day, Zhu Gaoxu continued to lead the Bohai Navy down the river, and then stopped the ship fifty miles away and put down his troops and horses to build a water station.
After walking and repairing the water station for another three days, Hu Lawencheng, who was extremely vigilant, learned about the news of the Bohai Navy heading north.
The Jurchen Hulawen who was hunting in the forest hurriedly ran to Hulawen City. At this time, the Bohai Navy was less than 200 miles away from Hulawen City.
The next day, the Jurchen who went down the river in a small boat ran back to Hulawen City.
The city of Hulawen is located at the foot of Tulemei Mountain. It is more like a wooden village than a city.
There are not many Jurchens in the city, with a population of more than 7,000 and only 2,000 men.
Although there were only a few people, they were already the majority of the population in this Beishan land, so Ataiwailan never thought that someone would take the initiative to hit him.
When the news arrived, he was completely stunned.
He was standing in a 100-square-foot wooden house, and next to him sat Tuchaha, who had escaped from the Battle of Daheishan, and many small-headed people.
"It's just the Han people. If we guard the city and don't go out, they will leave naturally after they run out of food."
"But we can harvest in the fields outside the city in September. If we can survive, they can harvest our food and beat us."
"Take the initiative. We have more than 5,000 men and women here. We are not afraid of being defeated."
After hearing the news about the invasion of the Bohai Navy, many small-headed people in the wooden house began to quarrel.
Atai Wailan had never fought against the Bohai Navy, but he also knew that the Bohai Navy could kill his father and annihilate so many prisoners in Bu Yancheng. He was definitely not something he could compete with, so he set his sights on his younger brother Tu. On Chahar.
"Tuchaha, you have fought against the Han people, what do you think we should do?"
As soon as Atai Wailan opened his mouth, everyone's eyes were focused on Tuchaha.
Facing these looks, Tuchaha was very panicked. Unlike many people in the city, he knew the strength of the Bohai Navy, so he knew very well that they could not defeat the Bohai Navy.
"My thought is, if we could, we might be able to surrender."
"surrender?!"
As soon as Tu Chaha opened his mouth, one of the leaders cursed: "The Han in the south killed your father and brothers, and you actually want to surrender?"
This man is an uncle of Tuchaha, so he dares to scold Tuchaha and Ataiwailan.
In fact, Tuchaha knew that he would be scolded if he said this, but he still said it because he knew that if he didn't say it, he would have no chance.
"The Han people in the south are all wearing armor, and they are Mingjia. We are no match."
Tuchaha first told a fact, and then asked the Jurchen kneeling in the wooden house: "How many people were there when you saw them?"
The Jurchen seemed to have been waiting for a long time, so when Tuchaha asked, he immediately explained:
"A lot! They are on a dozen large ships, much bigger than this house."
"I can't count the people on the boat, but they don't have Ming Jia."
"Did you hear that? They don't know how to deal with it!" The man seemed to have caught something sore, and he quickly spoke to Tu Chaha.
This time, before Tuchaha could speak, Atai Wailan frowned and said, "The Han people don't wear armor when marching because their armor is very heavy, three times as heavy as ours."
"Uh..." After hearing Atai Wailan's words, the man on the other end closed his mouth. Atai Wailan also looked at Tuchaha and said:
"Then Zhu Gaoxu killed Ama and our brothers. It is impossible for me to surrender to them."
"I told Sumucha from Nurgan in the north last year that if the Han people go north, we can take refuge in Haman'er Mountain."
"I have already sent people to transport a batch of grain there before. This time we first sent people to persuade Zhu Gaoxu to retreat, then loaded the grain on the ship and headed north to Haman'er Mountain."
"We'll come back when they run out of food."
"No!" After hearing Atai Wailan's words, Tuchaha quickly objected: "Now that Zhu Gaoxu is here, he will definitely not leave. The same is true for Buyan City back then."
"This place is different from Buyan." Ataiwailan didn't like Tuchaha's timid appearance, so he waved his hand and said:
"Let a slave out and ask him to tell Zhu Gaoxu that I am willing to pay him a hundred horses and two hundred sheep in the hope that he will withdraw."
Atai Wailan showed what he thought was generosity and money, but Tuchaha knew very well that this little thing could not satisfy Zhu Gaoxu's appetite.
If they leave this time, they will never have the chance to come back again...
(End of chapter)
