On New Year's Day of the twelfth year of Hongwu, King Fuyuchen of Baekje, King Jintao of Silla, and King Li Chenggui of Hening came to the Ming Dynasty to meet with them. Their moral integrity was not worthy of their position, which led to frequent natural disasters and constant man-made disasters, leaving the land and the people without shelter. Food is the cause, so I ask for sacrifice of soil to return home.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately refused and promised that the Ming Dynasty would provide a total of 600,000 shi of grain to the three countries to pacify the common people and allow them to return to governing the country with peace of mind.
A few days later, the three kings again petitioned for surrender. The emperor once again gave gold, silver and jewels, and promised to send the navy to clear the sea area and promote trade to promote trade and people's livelihood.
A few days later, the Lords of the Three Kingdoms knelt down outside the Fengtian Palace again and resolutely expressed their gratitude. The Emperor sent the Crown Prince to personally comfort him. The Crown Prince came out in court robes and asked the Lord: "You are the Lord of the outer vassal kingdom and screen the vassal kingdom. Your Majesty has granted me the food. The soldiers thought they were helping, and they responded to whatever they asked for, so why is this happening now?"
King He Ning said: "The emperor of the Celestial Dynasty has great kindness, kindness and fairness. In the past, the Goryeo royal family was immoral and the people of Goryeo were in dire straits. He ordered his ministers to establish a feudal state and protect the people's livelihood in order to maintain peace and peace in the Celestial Dynasty. However, the ministers were incompetent and the country failed after several years of establishment. The failure to stabilize the country shows a lack of virtue."
King Jin Tao of Silla said: "Although we are a foreign vassal, the people of the country all respect the Holy Lord of Heaven and regard them as kings and fathers. Now that I am incompetent in governing the country, I am willing to plead guilty. However, the people are not guilty. Please show mercy to the Holy Lord." , accept and support you.”
The King of Baekje, Buyeo Chen, sobbed: "The emperor was wise and powerful, and he had the ambition to help the world and bring peace to the people. He took advantage of the opportunity, followed the heroes, fought the chaos and destroyed the strong, and became an emperor in fifteen years. After the establishment, he studied ancient rituals, made rituals and music , revise the laws and regulations, revise the laws and regulations, depose the heretics, list the scriptures, correct the names of the hundred gods, strictly observe the rituals of sacrifices, observe the astronomy, calculate the calendar, establish the feudal system, observe the laws and regulations, and be careful about rewards and punishments."
"The Antarctic fire is burning, the north is over icy soil, the sun and the moon are wandering between the east and west. They are unyielding and foolish. I would like to follow the script. If I can imitate a few words, I can secure the country and provide for the people. I never thought that everything will be difficult and difficult." There is no progress, and now the country is uneasy and the people are uneasy, so we have no choice but to shamelessly stay inward and entrust the country and the people to work hard and ask the Holy One to take the trouble to rule it."
The three kings bowed their heads and said: "All the people are in dire straits in the fire and water, please pray for God's mighty grace to benefit the people in all directions!"
The prince sighed and reported back to his father. All the ministers advised him. The common people of the Three Kingdoms sent thousands of people to request him. The Holy Heart sympathized with him and allowed him. Then he established the state of Korea and ordered the Ministry of Personnel to immediately draft the candidates for the county magistrate. Prepare millions of stones of food to save the people from fire and water.
The Lord of the Three Kingdoms was the Marquis of Hening and Baekje, the Marquis of Xinluo. He was given a salary of two thousand dan. He ordered the Ministry of Works to build a mansion. He was appointed the Marquis of Hening as Li Chenggui and served as the official of the Prince's Mansion. He also served as the Minister of the Ministry of War and participated in the military affairs of the Governor's Mansion.
The Ministry of Personnel drafted the candidates the next day, and naturally they were Zhu Biao's confidants. Guo Chong, Zhang Fan, and Li Jin had experienced the prefectures and counties. This time they walked around the six central departments of the imperial court, and then went to local officials as officials. This official career The experience is considered complete and can be used as you wish in the future.
A few months later, the legitimate daughters of Baekje Hou Xinluohou and Ninghou's family also took advantage of the situation and decided to be the concubines of King Qi and King Chu of Jin, and they were completely integrated into the Ming Dynasty system.
Zhu Yuanzhang also gave banquets and field rewards every now and then to ensure morality. As for the Korean people, they have experienced too many hardships in the past few decades, especially in recent years, they have to recruit troops to cross the sea to attack Japan, which has led to the real Nine of the ten rooms are empty, and the house is full of widows.
After being included in the Ming Dynasty, the first step was to completely stop conscription and provide food relief to the people. Most of the remaining aristocratic families in Goryeo were forcibly moved to Fengyang, the land was evenly distributed among the people, all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were abolished, and taxes were exempted for two years...
The Ming Dynasty was too experienced in managing the rivers and mountains that were in ruins and waiting for prosperity. The Korean people had already looked down upon everything at this time. The situation had changed in the past few decades. Now they only care about whether they can survive, and the rest has long been indifferent.
King Zhu Di of Qi finally relieved his burden and returned to Beijing, where he could spend time with his beloved wife and young son. It had been more than two years since their wedding, and it had only been a few months since their eldest son was born. He always came and went in a hurry.
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In February of the twelfth year of Hongwu, Prince Consort Li Zhen of Youzhu Kingdom, Cao Guogong, passed away. The only remaining elder of the Tian family passed away. Zhu Biao, who had long expected it, put on the plain clothes and linen clothes prepared by Liu Jin, and gave instructions calmly and methodically. Everything was done, and people were sent back to the palace to report the funeral.
Cousin Li Wenzhong was already on his way back, but he didn't catch up, so he had to help with the funeral arrangements. Winter was difficult, and 80% of the elderly died during this season. After Li Zhen died, Zhu Biao almost died. I have to come to visit him in person every day, and I expected it when I saw him today. I have been waiting until he returns to the world and leaves his last words before passing away peacefully.
Zhu Yuanzhang arrived soon after. In fact, he had come to see him yesterday, but Li Zhen had been asleep and Lao Zhu had important military and political affairs waiting to be dealt with in the northern border of North Korea, so the two could not say goodbye after all.
Lao Zhu looked sad. After carefully asking himself about his brother-in-law's last words, he sighed: "Biao'er, we have lost another relative."
Zhu Biao didn't say anything more, he just stood silently in front of his father. After a while, Old Zhu adjusted himself, and after carefully looking at the remains again, he calmly ordered: "Stop visiting the court for three days and pursue the title of King of Longxi. The posthumous title was respectfully presented, and he was buried at the original site of Douguang Mountain in Lingji Township, Xuyi County, in honor of the eldest princess."
Obviously Zhu Yuanzhang was also prepared for the death of his old brother-in-law.
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According to Wang's example, the funeral will be very glorious, and naturally the funeral will have to be suspended for a long time, until Li Wenzhong comes back to bury it in person.
I don't know whether it was due to the bitter cold this winter. Within one month, in addition to Li Zhen, Zheng Beiqiong, the Imperial Academy of Zhongdu, and Chen De, the Marquis of Linjiang, passed away. Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad.
Therefore, it was discovered that there is a saying that there is a blank seal between the various states, prefectures, counties and the Ministry of Household Affairs. That is to say, the local government has to prepare a blank seal in order to ensure that the money, food, fiscal revenue and expenditure, and tax accounts are exactly the same as those of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so that the documents can be transferred smoothly. The blank paper should be sent to the household department for accounting before adding the amount. This has been the practice since the Yuan Dynasty.
The emperor was furious, thinking that this was an act of deception, and if things continued like this in the late Yuan Dynasty, the government would be corrupted. He denounced this act in the early morning, and ordered that the chief seal official be executed, and his deputy was sent to the army with a hundred sticks. At that time, even the censors No one dared to remonstrate.
I can only cast my hopeful eyes on the prince. After the crown ceremony, the prince grew a short beard on his chin, looking very solemn and solemn.
Zhu Biao shook his head slightly at them, signaling not to violate the Holy Spirit's wishes at this time, and to allow me to give private advice later.
Sure enough, after the court ended, many people were waiting at the Wenhua Palace. Zhu Biao didn't even have time to drink tea, so he went to the Wenhua Palace to receive many officials.
It can only be said that this father and son can do this, otherwise it will be a serious crime that can abolish the reserve position.
After saluting, the Minister of Hubu said hurriedly: "Your Highness, for the number of money and valleys, the prefecture must be combined with the province, and the province must be combined with the department. The number is difficult to decide, and it will be decided when it comes to the department. The provincial government is six or seven thousand miles away, and it is also close. It takes three or four thousand miles to complete the book and then use the seal. The round trip has to take years. Therefore, it is printed first and then written. This expedient will last for a long time, so why is it a serious sin?"
Zhu Biao snorted and said, "Is there really no corruption at all here?"
"I have heard a saying once. How much corruption is involved is a matter of great difficulty. How to divide the spoils among the ministries is determined. Do you know?"
It is normal for the court laws to have shortcomings. The officials below are best at exploiting such loopholes, which involves the interests of many people.
At first glance, it seems that it is just a compromise made by officials due to limited transportation and communication conditions. At most, it is just a sneaky trick by the officials below. But in fact, the accounts should be as much as they are. If there are legitimate reasons for slight discrepancies, then they should be. Explain the reason for the discrepancy, rather than correct it.
If all changes are made in this way, then there will be huge loopholes in the various accounts compiled by the imperial court in the past year. In the end, it will be the hundreds of people in the imperial court who will be responsible, not the officials.
The Minister of Punishment said: "Your Highness, this government may have shortcomings and should be reformed. National legislation must first clearly inform the world and then punish criminals. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have never had laws with empty seals. There are officials who inherit the previous system and do not know the crime. , You really shouldn’t be good at killing them.”
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(End of chapter)
