"Dream Dream Pillow, what's so strange about that thing? My father actually exchanged it for the integration of universal education and the opportunity for our royal family to go to school in that main world. Although I don't know what the use of this integration of education is, At that time, I listened outside the door. Zhao Yuanzuo of the Northern Song Dynasty valued this thing very much. As you know, our father also felt that he had not studied enough all his life, so he must let us study well, so he was very fond of this kind of thing. Things are extremely important, so I took that opportunity to exchange for another chance to study. But what I want to know is why the other party wanted to exchange this thing. You also know that the cost of education for all is quite a lot, and it is not two per year. Years are not three or five years, but ten or twenty years. Only in this way can a generation of people be cultivated. I really don’t know what they want to do?"
Zhu Xi looked at the Dream Dream Pillow and said what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted.
Zhu Biao frowned on the spot. Is this to control the minds of the people? The concept of the king of heaven and earth as his master is widely spread among the people. Does he want to be the master of the world? His heart is big enough, but over there Zhu Biao really wanted the scientific concepts of the main world. After all, they were really good.
Besides, after studying there, these people may be inferior in depth of knowledge, but their breadth of knowledge is indeed much higher than that of the talented scholars of the Ming Dynasty. Even the ministers and bachelors are not as good as them. According to In their words, this seems to be called an era of knowledge explosion.
Although all knowledge is only superficial, the breadth of this knowledge is indeed far beyond what it is now. Everyone can be said to be an all-rounder, and they can understand by analogy whatever problems and problems they encounter.
"Don't worry about this. Their education is a good thing and an opportunity for us. I will talk to them personally about this. There are some things you don't know about it, but this study, you Everyone must go there, I don’t know if you are going, but those noble sons and the top three ministers in the court are going, and I am going too.”
At this time, Zhu Biao directly said "I". This title means that this is not your brother's request to his younger brother, but the emperor's request to his ministers. This is much more formal.
"My brother accepts the order."
The three of them all stood up, raised their hands, and gave a solemn salute.
This time it was accepted.
"Come, now that we've finished talking about the business, let's talk about something else. Let's talk about a family matter of mine. I want you to help me with my advice."
Zhu Biao smiled and pulled the three of them to sit next to him.
"Brother, if anything happens, just tell me."
"It is said that the big businessmen in Jiangnan have regained their strength, right?"
Zhu Biao said softly, as if he was embarrassed.
"Yes, I often sent people to the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the areas of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Fujian and Zhejiang. The big businessmen there started to live extravagantly again. They started the thing of silver waves and gold again, so that every August 18th , when there is a big tide in Qiantang, a lot of people go to grab those gold leaf ones, why don’t you have any idea about this matter, are you preparing to kill the pig?"
Zhu Fang knew the extravagance of those wealthy businessmen. He felt that it was time to kill a wave of fat pigs and fatten the national treasury and internal treasury. This was what Zhu Yuanzhang had done before.
Those wealthy merchants were all maritime merchants, and maritime merchants were illegal. If they were convicted, they would all be killed if they went to sea in violation of orders.
These people are the pigs left behind by Zhu Yuanzhang. When something goes wrong, future emperors can kill those who eat meat. It is a pity that none of the future emperors can understand Zhu Yuanzhang's good intentions. On the contrary, those civil servants have nothing to do with anything. Yes, go cut them two pounds of flesh.
In the end, he was not ruthless and cut them awake. They realized that they had used the money to feed the dogs. In other words, this group of people brought Daming down.
"No, I just want to know if they have recovered their strength. As for the idea of killing pigs, I don't have it. After all, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the fourth dimension of the country. They are all my people. How can I just kill them? This is not what Renjun did, you can’t do this, you can’t do this.”
Zhu Biao quickly waved his hand and said, he is different from Zhu Yuanzhang, he still wants to have face.
"Then what do you mean, what do you want to do?"
Zhu Xi heard what Zhu Biao meant, and it wasn't that he wouldn't do it. But he couldn't do this. In other words, Zhu Biao wanted to kill the pigs, but he didn't want to kill them all at once like Zhu Yuanzhang. He probably wanted to keep the pigs flowing.
"Well, you see, your little nephew, that is, Yunxi, is not young anymore. I plan to choose a concubine for him. Also, I have just ascended the throne and I need to have some new things. I want to enrich myself. Let's take a look at the harem. Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants are the fourth dimension of the country. Before, our father had regulations that only allowed candidates to be selected from small families to enter the harem.
Of course, this is the need of the court's political situation. In order to avoid the lessons of the previous dynasty's relatives who interfered in politics and strictly control the power of the relatives, the queen of our dynasty selected as many private Xiaojiabiyu as possible.
Moreover, the "Women's Training" compiled in the first year of Hongwu also stipulated that in the selection of concubines, "all emperors, princes, concubines, and concubines should carefully select daughters from good families, so concubines and concubines are popular among the people."
There was also a sign warning that concubines in the harem could not interfere with the government. It goes without saying.
As for this, I think that our royal family must treat scholars, farmers, industry and commerce equally. When selecting, the requirements can be stricter, but women of the right age who are scholars, farmers, industry and commerce should be able to join, and Should we also collect some dowry? The queen doesn’t want it anymore. This queen still wants Xiaojiabiyu from a commoner background, but are those concubines okay? Haha, you can help me give advice. "
Zhu Biao was a little embarrassed, but the other three people understood clearly what he said. He wanted to collect dowries from the families of wealthy businessmen. This matter could be considered. If the emperor and If the prince takes this initiative, then we princes can do the same.
Although the current dowry is not as generous as that in the Song Dynasty, marrying into the royal family is what those wealthy businessmen dream of, so it seems that it can be considered.
"If this is the case, what about commercial taxes? Will they still pay taxes? Once they become relatives of the royal family, who will dare to collect their commercial taxes? In this case, there will be no commercial taxes in the late Ming Dynasty. It may appear in advance, brother, how do you plan to solve this problem?"
Zhu Rui thought about it for a while. Commercial tax was a big problem. This benefit could only be gained once, but the disadvantage was permanent.
