Zhu Laoliu has a good mother, and his future in Japan depends on her.
But Zhu Laosi can’t.
His biological mother, Concubine Li, was weak and had no chance of fighting against the North Korean yangban.
So there is no way.
Emperor Zhu had to pay attention to everything for the sake of his son's future in the Korean world.
The future of the Ming Dynasty will be a celestial dynasty system with Ming Dynasty as the core. In this system, the life of North Korea, the first filial son of the Ming Dynasty, must have a good life - because this is the model created by the Ming Dynasty.
If you want people to follow you wholeheartedly, how can you do it by just relying on brainwashing and deception?
To rule others, one relies first on violence and second on profit.
Violence does not last long. Only if it can obtain benefits, or in other words, has the support of a firm interest group, can long-term peace and stability be achieved.
So now Emperor Zhu wants to establish an interest group of Zhu's North Korea for himself and his son.
"The problem in North Korea lies in two points. One is the two classes, and the other is the farmers. The two classes are easy to solve. The key lies in the farmers. If North Korea wants long-term peace and stability, the farmers' problem must be solved. The farmers' problem has two cores. The first is the land conflict. The second is the conflict between farmers and landlords.”
"The so-called land conflict means that farmers have no land, while two groups of landlords own almost all the land."
“The so-called contradiction between farmers and Yangban landlords lies in the Yangban’s rule over the countryside and the cruel exploitation this rule brings to the peasant people. Under such exploitation, North Korean farmers have been in hopeless and extreme poverty for a long time. This is the root cause of the Donghak Party rebellion in North Korea!”
What is being spoken is not the Ma Dashen or the En Dashen of later generations, nor is it an investigation report on the peasant movement.
But Emperor Zhu.
Yes.
His Majesty, the Emperor of a great empire, is now talking about class conflicts in the countryside.
If people in later generations see it, they will definitely feel it is quite inconsistent.
Just listen to this.
It all looks a bit like a meeting hosted by Mr. Kim, the great mentor of later generations of North Korea.
But look at the delegates.
All of them wear black gauze hats and red robes.
All are feudal officials.
The person speaking on the stage was quite normal. He was Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty, wearing the uniform of a Ming army officer.
This is in the large conference room of the Changchun Palace in Zhongdu. There are more than two hundred civil and military officials living separately. Emperor Zhu’s powerful voice echoes in the hall. Everyone can hear it clearly. There is paper and pen in front of everyone. , they are all recorded in writing and writing.
This was Zhu's first rural work conference in North Korea.
Most of the officials attending the meeting were frustrated literati.
Most of these people were scattered throughout the Ming Dynasty or were selected as refugees from areas occupied by the Dongxue Party.
All have a certain level of education, can write and do math, and can use Chinese characters fluently.
They will now serve as the initial team of the fourteenth prince of the Ming Dynasty and the future king of Korea. They will be assigned to serve as officials in various parts of Korea. This is also the basic plan of the future Zhu family's Korea.
Zhu Daohua has been the emperor for so long.
The level of Machiavellianism has been honed.
Of course he knows.
My son cannot be a user of only one group in North Korea.
Those two classes of officials who came from wealthy families were not very reliable, so it was necessary to support an official from a poor family besides them.
This is the so-called balancing act.
in addition.
Emperor Zhu still knew it very well.
In any reform, it is easier to attack others than it is to attack oneself.
The Ming Dynasty's reform was a bumpy one, taking two steps forward, one step back, and moving forward in small steps.
Let alone dividing the land equally, even an imperial examination was completed in several steps by Emperor Zhu. He would rather launch a war to seize land than carry out any land reform in the country.
However, the reforms in North Korea were much more drastic.
Anyway, the landlord class in North Korea has little strength. Emperor Zhu can knead them at will, and Emperor Zhu has no pressure at all to divide them.
Let alone Emperor Zhu.
Even the Gong Gongs in the Ming Dynasty, representatives of the Ming scholar-bureaucrat class, did not take North Korea too seriously.
After Peng Jun and others confirmed that Emperor Zhu would not carry out any land reform to equally divide the land in the Ming Dynasty, they wisely stopped asking about North Korea's affairs.
Instead, he is busy with government affairs, especially preparing for next year's "big enke".
After all, there are too many things in the Ming Empire. As the prime minister and the leader of the Xianghu faction, the main force in the Ming Dynasty, Peng Jun has too many things to do.
In fact, the officials at all levels in North Korea who have been selected for the future do not object to the equal division of land. Anyway, the land divided is not theirs. Speaking of which, these people are all literati who have lost their land, so they have no objection to the equal division of land.
"The Great Emperor wants to completely reform Korea and eliminate all its ills."
Pu Shanyi sighed.
He was also born in the second class, but his family fell into decline very early. At the age of thirteen, he went to Nanyang with his family to make a living. Later, when the Ming Dynasty regained China, he lived with his family in Zhongdu.
It has been more than ten years since I left North Korea.
In fact, Pu Shanyi can't even speak Korean fluently.
He even took part in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately he failed.
After seeing that the Ming Dynasty was recruiting Koreans to serve as officials in North Korea, he signed up without hesitation.
Although the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination could not be passed, the Korean imperial examination was still easy - after all, there were few Koreans in the Ming Dynasty, and the pressure of competition was not great.
"Yes, the Emperor of Heaven is really the father of Korea!"
Sitting next to Park Sun-il is a Korean named Jang Dae-hyun. He was originally an untouchable from Class 7. When he was a child, he worked as a pupil for a wealthy young master, so he knew some writing. Now he can actually be an official—— In the previous North Korea, it was impossible for someone with his background to hold an official position, so Zhang Daxuan was willing to not only kneel down and call the Ming Emperor father, he was also willing to call him his ancestor.
"That's right, after four hundred years of ills, 20 million Korean people, 3,000 miles of beautiful mountains and rivers, finally have a peaceful day!"
Pu Shanyi said.
When he was in Nanyang, he saw the collective farms of the Ming Dynasty, so he knew that farmers had another way of life - they did not rely on the gentry, were not afraid of the government, and owned their own land (actually their own), whether it was shared or shared Labor, or working alone in dividing the fields (the operating model of collective farms is not fixed, but generally, sales and purchases are carried out collectively), can make farmers live a prosperous life.
Even if you have to frequently participate in battles, even if someone dies. ,
But no one thinks this kind of effort is not worth it.
Because everyone is fighting for their own interests.
The farmers in the collective farms were not afraid of the gentry or the government, they had no worries about food and clothing, and they could even run private schools to educate their children.
Since, a collective farm without gentry landlords runs better than a countryside ruled by gentry.
So what is the need for the landowning gentry to exist?
And what effect does the existence of these gentry have on the country?
As far as the two classes of wealthy households in North Korea are concerned.
They will just lie down on the bodies of North Korean farmers and suck their blood.
Wen cannot stabilize the country, and force cannot defend the country.
What a bunch of rubbish.
At this time, Emperor Zhu, sitting on the rostrum, continued to start his "Zhu's Rural Theory."
"The current class and land system in North Korea are the biggest obstacles to the development of North Korea. The wealth of North Korea cannot be used for the people, but is taken away by the two classes of wealthy households who make up a small number of the population. The wealth of a country cannot be used. Raising soldiers does not support the people. It only raises a parasitic class that does not produce and cannot create wealth. This is a huge burden on the entire Korean society. Therefore, this parasitic class must be cut off, the privileges of the two classes must be cancelled, and all classes must To be equal, the imperial examination should be extended to all people. Any Korean citizen has the right to participate in the imperial examination of North Korea! In addition, there should be an age limit for the imperial examination. It should be up to thirty years old. After thirty years old, there is no need to take the imperial examination. , do something else, whether it’s farming or doing business, it’s better than sitting at home and studying hard.”
Emperor Zhu moved the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination reform to North Korea.
North Korea takes China as its guide in everything.
So the problems in this country are actually similar to those in China, no, they should be more serious - at least China's imperial examinations are open to all people, while only two groups of households in North Korea can take the examinations, and class consolidation is even more serious. The elite of the entire society is just a group of hundreds of people. A useless scholar.
Emperor Zhu is not opposed to reading books by saints and sages. It is very good to read some principles of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Emperor Zhu supports it very much.
But you can’t study for a lifetime.
If a country's elite reads the Four Books and Five Classics to death and does not participate in production or create wealth, can the country develop?
Emperor Zhu did not want his son to rule a very poor North Korea.
If Old Fourteen were to rule a pauper country like North Korea, which is a powerful country in the future, he would go to his eldest brother Zhu Yichi every now and then to fight in the autumn wind.
That's so irritating.
Jinshan Governor's Mansion, Jinshan City.
"Brother, what should we do now? Why have we lost such important things? We are here to join our second uncle, not to join the collective farm!"
The person who was speaking was a tall young man who was drinking corn wine with an annoyed look on his face.
"Forget it, just go to the collective farm. After all, you are still an official."
"Is a ninth-grade official considered an official? What kind of training do I need to attend? If I had known earlier, I would have gone to Chengdu."
"How come a ninth-grade official is not considered an official? Anyway, I can only go back in June next year."
Two young men were sitting in a tavern in Jinshan City with their heads hanging down, drinking.
They were Li Zhongyi's two eldest nephews, Li Dao and Li De, Li Zhongren's two eldest sons.
Originally, they came to seek refuge with their good second uncle Li Zhongyi, but when they arrived at Jinshan City, they found that the check and identity certificate in hand had been stolen by pickpockets. ,
This is incredible.
Unable to prove their identity, no one believed that they were here to join their relative Li Zhongyi.
Now they have two choices.
One is to join a collective farm and farm like most immigrants from Sichuan.
Another option is to take the official selection test in Jinshan City - it's actually very easy to pass. There are too few literate people in this place. Basically, as long as you can write and calculate, you will be a ninth-rank official.
It's too easy to get an official position.
But the Li brothers were unwilling to give in.
They originally brought a thousand yuan with them and wanted to hire a group of people to enclose the land and build a farm. But now, the check was lost - even though someone stole their check, they couldn't get the money out.
The check was a registered check.
But they don’t have a check in hand, so they can’t withdraw the money.
The Li brothers, who had become paupers, had no choice but to accept their fate.
Rather than going to join the collective farm, it would be better to stay in Jinshan City and participate in official training.
In any case, it would be much better to be an official than to be among the ordinary people.
The two brothers were complaining.
A cold snort of ridicule was heard.
Li Dao looked up and saw that it was a man wearing a red robe with quails embroidered on his waistband, holding a wine glass with a mocking look on his face.
The Li brothers looked at each other.
They are now considered candidates for ninth-grade officials, and they are not afraid of this ninth-grade sesame official.
Li Daogong cupped his hands and said, "This sir."
"Don't call me Sir, I can't bear it, I can't bear it." The ninth-rank official took another sip of wine.
"Do you really think you can go back next June? Just dream!"
The Li brothers looked at each other: "How do you say this?"
The ninth-grade official looked around and lowered his voice and said, "The Emperor is trying every possible means to immigrate to the New World. How can he let you go back so easily?"
"I'm waiting for an official!"
"Official? So what? Besides, when you are an official here in the New World in the future, don't put on any official airs. Be careful of being beaten!"
"Hit? Who dares to hit an official?"
"Haha, let me tell you, even though the immigrants who came with you are all honest and obedient people. They have stayed here for a year and a half, but they will not take you and me, a ninth-grade official, seriously. of."
"The adults are joking. Officials are officials, and people are people. Wherever I go, ordinary people are afraid of officials."
"snort"
The ninth-grade official snorted coldly, looking like you knew it sooner or later.
Right now.
A common man wearing fur clothes walked in, carrying the carcass of some animal on his shoulder, and swaggered up to the hotel manager.
"Shopkeeper, can you collect the game?"
"Take it! Take it! Just wait, I'll give you the money right now." The shopkeeper said politely.
"Okay, give me another jug of good wine and two side dishes."
Say this.
The man looked around and found that there was a seat in front of the Li brothers, so he walked to the table next to him and sat down.
The expressions of the Li brothers changed slightly.
Their family is the dominant one in Daqiao Town.
Ordinary people would bow their heads when encountering them.
And now they are wearing robes and official bodies, and there is an official wearing official uniform next to them.
Do these common people dare to stand on equal footing with officials?
There are no rules at all!
"Shopkeeper! Get this bitch out of here!"
Li De Li Erye was already very angry, so he immediately banged the table and started shouting.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at brothers Li Dao and Li De.
The Li brothers also looked at the woman. The woman was very ugly, but both of them felt as if they had seen her before.
'You can't do it, you two gentlemen, this is from Zhuangzi! 'The shopkeeper ran over in a hurry.
"Entering Zhuangzi? Which Zhuangzi is ascending?"
I haven't waited for the shopkeeper's answer.
Boom.
The woman dropped a package wrapped in a round object and smelling of blood in front of the Li brothers.
The two of them were so frightened that they trembled.
"Heads for Everyone"
Li De shivered.
"What happened to the collective farm?" the woman said.
"You two are Li Zhongyi's nephews, right?"
The Li brothers were stunned.
Li Da stood up hurriedly and asked, "Who are you?"
"Your aunt!"
The woman stood up, held up the head and said.
"Shopkeeper, I don't want any more wine and meat, there's someone coming from my hometown."
"Okay, okay." The shopkeeper also smiled along with him.
"Let's go, why are you hanging around?"
"Where to go?"
"Go to your uncle's place."
(End of chapter)
