Zhu Yijun II was a man, could he farm?
He really doesn't know how.
The only living plant was pothos, the kind that can be grown with just a little water and soil, but he was able to raise it to death in the end.
It doesn't matter if you don't know how to farm. People who know how to farm in the Ming Dynasty are like crucian carp crossing the river. Farmers?
As the emperor, Zhu Yijun wanted to farm. He organized some experienced farmers to carry out special research on growing potatoes. In fact, it was not very expensive. At the most, he could free up the Long Live Mountain outside Xuanwu Gate for farming.
It is the Long Live Mountain where the old crooked neck tree is planted. It is the Long Live Mountain where Emperor Chongzhen chose to hang himself at the last moment.
If you can grow flowers and grass, you can also grow potatoes.
No matter how bad it is, even if the special research fails and potatoes are not grown, the Ming Dynasty's little emperor, who is married to farmers and mulberry trees, has expressed his concern for farming. It has no practical significance, but also has a strong political symbolism. , can attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty to potatoes, sweet potatoes, and these high-yielding crops, which is a huge profit.
When you make a move, trillions of people will look up to you, think it is right, and act on it.
If the emperor makes the slightest move, people all over the world will look at it and think that the sun is rising in the west. What did the little emperor do? How many people will look at potatoes and sweet potatoes? Once someone grows twenty or thirty stones, it will be a great good deed for the benefit of the people!
Empress Dowager Li was a little hesitant. The little emperor had just given her a lesson on Hongyi. Hong means caring about the world. If Luo Gongchen hadn't lied, there really were grain crops that could produce twenty or thirty shi per mu. Once they were grown, who in the world would Dare you say that a ten-year-old leader cannot rule the world?
Even if it fails, it will at least show that the emperor is ambitious and can gain more recognition.
Empress Dowager Li thought for a while and shook her head and said: "It's better to study with peace of mind. Martial arts can be said to be the method of assassinating the king, killing the driver and ancestral methods. After all, Taizu and Emperor Chengzu were both great in martial arts. Now the emperor is farming. It’s really not doing its job properly, and if the courtiers gather to remonstrate, I’m afraid it will be difficult to end it.”
Empress Dowager Li did not want to cause more trouble, she just hoped that her children could grow up safely and successfully take over the Ming Dynasty, which would be considered as fulfilling the late emperor's instructions.
Zhu Yijun still did not give up and said: "I will definitely complete my studies well."
"It's not because of schoolwork." Empress Dowager Li hesitated for a moment, but she explained the stakes in detail. Originally, Empress Dowager Li just requested it directly with authority, without any explanation.
But on the day the king was assassinated, the little emperor knocked over a table and chair to avoid being chased. He started by saying, "Don't blame him for his lack of etiquette." This made Empress Dowager Li feel a little sad, and how did the mother and son end up like this? For my sake?
If the restraint is stricter and the explanation is not made clear, I am afraid that the gap between mother and son will create a greater gap.
Will the ministers in the court complain about the young emperor's marriage to Nongsang, and criticize the young emperor's words and deeds?
Yes, it will definitely happen, and everyone, even Zhang Juzheng, may object.
The emperor is a born nobleman. When offering sacrifices to Jumang in the spring, it is enough to symbolically support the plow. The most important thing is to study, study the Four Books and Five Classics, and be a good emperor that meets their standards.
In the Ming Dynasty, etiquette was strict.
Luo Gongchen broke his leg while running, and went around begging his grandfather and grandma to collect taxes on foreign ships. This tax was not given to him, Luo Gongchen, but was given to national funds or internal funds.
He is not the only coastal defense officer in the Shipping Department of Yuegang City. There are three coastal defense officers in the Du Rating Office alone, as well as the Imperial Rating Officer, the County Magistrate of Chenghai, the Governor of Fujian, the Inspector, and the chief officers of the Fujian Taxation Department. Now, if Luo Gongchen collects taxes from foreign ships, how much will fall into his own pocket?
Luo Gongchen was generating income for the court.
As for this matter, which does not harm the interests of any Ming people and generates income for the court, there are many opponents in the court. The nine classics of the country are to cultivate literature and virtue to soften people.
The young emperor actually wants to marry Nongsang, and the courtiers will definitely report it to him.
This also involves the dispute between agriculture and Confucianism.
Agricultural science advocates "co-cultivation between the king and the people" and "equal harvesting." Co-cultivation between the king and the people means that the king personally participates in farming, and equal harvesting means that all harvests should be distributed evenly to everyone.
Equal harvesting was never possible in the productivity of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and was similar to the political concepts of the Utopia and the World of Great Harmony.
As for the monarch and the people working together, this is a view that was personally refuted by the Confucian sage Mencius!
"Chapter 4 of Mencius Tengwengong" records in detail how Mencius personally discussed the issue of farming with the agriculturists, and Mencius won with an overwhelming advantage. Of course, this is a one-sided record of Confucianism, and agriculturists have long since lost it. Orthodoxy.
This is all a story from the pre-Qin era. Will the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty still use the disputes from the pre-Qin era to argue about the principles of the Ming Dynasty?
Isn't this the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who holds the sword of Shang Fang from the previous dynasty?
Confucian scholars really know how to do it.
Because Confucianism is a theory that highly venerates the ancients, and Confucian scholars are a group that highly venerates the ancients. The first thing the ministers like to do is to follow the laws of the three generations, and talk about Yao, Shun, and Yu. It doesn’t seem to matter. Quoting it like this makes you look uneducated.
The emperor personally cultivates the land. Doesn’t everyone in the world of carnivores have to cultivate the land?
This slap is on the face of Mencius, the great Confucian sage, and the face of Confucian students all over the world.
The king and the people farm together, which is treacherous and unethical!
Queen Mother Li is not knowledgeable, but she understands ministers. These ministers still want to teach them when they have nothing to do, let alone when they have something to do.
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen were quite dissatisfied with the corrupt Confucianism. Empress Dowager Chen even felt that the ministers in the court had used the Confucian rules to make a basket and put the emperor in it. The ministers were just relying on the sages and sages. Word, restrain the emperor.
Those ministers, powerful right-wingers, and gentry who are deeply educated in Confucianism, as long as they have a little respect for Confucian classics, can ignore the country, and are not ambitious but perseverant, they will know that they will unswervingly dig up the Ming Dynasty. corner?
Empress Dowager Li explained the reasons seriously. If the emperor really wanted to do it, he could wait until he grew up and could take charge of the throne.
Zhu Yijun fully understood Empress Dowager Li's worries, nodded and said, "I understand, my child."
After he returned to his dormitory in the inner palace of Qianqing Palace, he neither read the books of sages nor thought about joining the Party. Instead, he was thinking about how to promote the planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Zhu Yijun didn't even care about collecting taxes from foreign ships. All his thoughts were on potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After a short weighing, he decided that he must go on and get rid of the shackles of ethics and education that the king and the people work together. The key man in this matter was none other than Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng is in control of the cabinet. If he can firmly support his family to work in the fields and cultivate the land together, then this matter may not be impossible.
Zhang Juzheng is not a traditional, conservative, pedantic or stubborn Confucian scholar. However, all reformers will have doubts about the old system, and then want to improve it and realize their own ambitions.
In fact, no matter what happened, Zhu Yijun would not suffer a loss. Even if the king and the people could not work together in the end, it caused the Ming Dynasty to attach great importance to crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. Zhu Yijun made a lot of money this time.
The ten-year-old young emperor worried about the world first, had the world in mind, and wanted to do these things for the world, but he did not pay attention to the methods. After all, the little emperor had not studied Mencius, and he had only studied the Analects seriously for three days. , I don’t know the importance of it.
The ministers of the Ming Dynasty still have this kind of tolerance. Officials who do not have this kind of tolerance are naturally ministers who do not practice benevolence and have no heart of reverence. It is reasonable to initiate non-punishment and send this unfaithful and unfilial minister to the Jiecui Courtyard. , dig out the heart, liver, spleen and stomach and see if they are all black!
Zhu Yijun signaled Zhang Hong to turn off the lights, go to bed early and get up early, and grow taller.
Zhang Hong understands His Majesty's thoughts and concerns.
When Zhang Hong left Qianqing Palace, he kept waiting at the side of the palace gate without lighting a lamp, blending into the night. After waiting for a long time, a palace maid hurried over.
"Have you told Xu Jue?" Zhang Hong asked.
"Yes." The palace maid hurriedly replied.
Zhang Hong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Well, let's go back."
Xu Jue was Feng Bao's man. Xu Jue worshiped Feng Bao as his godfather and was Feng Bao's confidant. This maid was arranged by Zhang Hong to inform Feng Bao.
Zhang Hong found that he was more than qualified to be a eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, but he was not yet able to be an ancestor. As for the ability of Ge Shouli, whom Feng Bao was quarreling with outside the court, to be speechless, Zhang Hong did not yet have it.
This is an opportunity for Feng Bao. It depends on whether Feng Dajue is respectful or not.
At this time, in the Wenchang Pavilion of the Quanchu Guild Hall, Zhang Juzheng was lighting three bright lamps and writing and drawing non-stop. He was extremely busy with official duties. After returning to his private residence from the Wenyuan Pavilion, he came to the study. He would annotate the new Four Books and Five Classics for the young emperor, and also write a book for the emperor himself, "The Illustrated Commentary on the Emperor's Manual".
This imperial book is said to be illustrated, in order to prevent the little emperor from being impatient in reading and adding some illustrations to attract children. The illustrations were done by the attendant Ma Ziqiang, and the stories in it were compiled by Zhang Juzheng himself.
Zhang Juzheng really hoped that Emperor Wanli would become a wise king. On the cold spring day of the first lunar month, he was not in the Nuan Pavilion, but in his study, wearing a heavy cloak, painting in person.
The pen in Zhang Juzheng's hand is a hard pen with graphite core sent from the palace, which is the pencil used by the little emperor.
The little emperor's oral instructions are right. Pencils are very easy to use, especially for Zhang Juzheng who needs to write a lot. The biggest advantage of writing continuously without having to dip in ink is not only saving time, but the most important thing is that the train of thought will not be interrupted.
Zhang Juzheng is a scholar. He is good at writing calligraphy and Taige style. With a little use of this hard-pen calligraphy, he can write extremely beautifully. After he finishes writing, he will hand it over to the clerk for copying, and finally send it to the Imperial College for engraving and printing, and then submit it to Little Emperor preview.
"Master, it's already time." You Qi solemnly told Zhang Juzheng that it was time to rest. You Qi was Zhang Juzheng's butler. In the Ming Dynasty, he was called Master, and his family members had different names. In short, You Qi He is Zhang Juzheng's confidant.
Zhang Juzheng had never spoken a word in private to Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of rituals and eunuchs, at any time or anywhere.
This is a taboo matter. Once the chief minister of the outer court and the inner court are connected, it will be the Ming Emperor who should be frightened.
In most cases, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng rely on eye contact and tacit understanding.
But some things must be confirmed in private. You Qi and Xu Jue, the eunuch in the palace, are from the same hometown.
If something really big happens, for example, the Queen Mother wants to abolish Gao Gong's position as chief assistant, and the external court's cooperation is needed, Xu Jue will communicate with You Qi.
Zhang Juzheng rubbed his slightly sore eyes and said: "After writing this chapter, the thirty-six expositions of the eighty-one sages' rules are completed. They can be carved out tomorrow morning and used for the banquet at noon. .”
"A message came from the palace, saying that His Majesty the Emperor wants to farm the land himself." You Qi said with a particularly strange look on his face.
Zhang Juzheng also looked at You Qi with a puzzled expression, and asked confusedly: "Huh?"
This little emperor is really a bit unconventional.
Learning martial arts is one of the six skills of a gentleman advocated by Confucius. The emperor can practice it or not. He is not afraid of hard work and does not delay his studies. He just practices it.
What's going on in a place like this?
