The layout of the Ming Dynasty's Gewuyuan is that six pavilions surround the first floor of the sky. Outside these six pavilions is the Prince De's Mansion under construction, which is the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu. Opposite Zhu Zaiyu is the emperor's palace. Palace.
This palace covers an area of no more than ten acres, with a city wall and a three-story pavilion that is twelve rooms wide.
There are a total of forty-six rooms in the pavilion. If Zhu Yijun stays in the Gewuyuan or Jiangwu Hall until night, he can stay in the palace directly without returning to the palace.
Zhu Yijun suddenly asked: "Sir, what do you think is the first priority for the development of the country?"
Zhang Juzheng looked at the courtiers around him. His Majesty's inquiry was very sudden. Under the spring breeze, everyone was thinking. Standing on the sixth floor of Tianyi Building in Gewuyuan, it was actually easy to get an answer, that is, technological progress.
The advancement of technology has brought about a large abundance of products, or translation, technology is the primary productive force.
"People." Zhang Juzheng answered His Majesty's question concisely and concisely. He did not subconsciously believe that technological progress would bring about improvements in production efficiency and the abundance of products would promote the prosperity of the country just because he was standing on the first floor.
Zhu Yijun said doubtfully: "Human?"
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, if the poor coolies are regarded as production tools, then among all the production tools, the most powerful must be the poor coolies themselves, because they contain the power to change the color of the world. Since ancient times, The disaster of chaos and destruction does not originate from the barbarians, but from the struggle to promote the common people."
"The Qin Dynasty was so strong that it annexed the six kingdoms and unified the world. Those who disrupted the world were not the six kingdoms, but the small people Chen Sheng and Wu Guang."
"The Han ruled the world, and the four barbarians blocked it. They called Han to come to the court, and the people who disturbed the world with their soldiers were not the four barbarians, but the small people of Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao."
"In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, when the heroes fell and killed them, and all the nations came to congratulate them, and their soldiers disturbed the world, they were neither heroes nor barbarians, but Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, a commoner."
"Hu Yuan marched far away, the world overturned, the foreign countries surrendered, and those who disturbed the world with their soldiers were not powerful men, but Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Emperor Gao, and ordinary people."
Zhang Juzheng sharply commented that Emperor Gao Zhu Yuanzhang was just a commoner before he became emperor, because Emperor Gao himself never evaded the fact that he was born in poverty, and even did not evade the fact that he became a monk in Huangjue Temple and begged for three years. .
It's not a shame.
The Kong family in Yanzhou took this matter and said all day long that Lao Zhu's family was a nouveau riche. Others founded the country and recognized their ancestors everywhere. Even the Huns Liu Yuan knew that Liu Chan was their ancestor, but the Ming Dynasty did not recognize their ancestors.
The Qing Dynasty of Tatar also recognized the Wanyan family as their ancestors and called themselves Hou Jin. At the time of Huang Taiji, the country's name was changed to Qing.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not think that it was shameful to be born in a humble position.
Qi Jiguang said very solemnly: "Just like war, victory or defeat is determined. Weapons are an important factor in war, but they are not the decisive factor. The decisive factor is people, not things."
The reason why Qi Jiguang is so sure is that weapons require people to use them, and they also require long-term maintenance and upkeep. If the army is not fully built, and if the country tends to collapse, no matter how strong the military equipment is, it will only serve as a dowry for others. Just clothes.
When the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were communicating, the Jin State had a powerful weapon, the Iron Buddha, which was a heavy armored cavalry. The Iron Buddha of the Jin State was directly modified from the Northern Song Dynasty's infantry armor by robbing the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, I think what Yuan Fu said is right." Wan Shihe said with a frown: "I dare to overstep my bounds. During the Yongle and Xuande years, I made seven voyages to the West. The Ming Navy was so powerful in the South and West that no barbarian overseas dared not disobey. There was Ceylon who robbed our fleet of the Ming Dynasty, and the three treasure eunuchs captured their king alive and brought him to the capital."
"However, such a majestic fleet was no longer found in just a dozen years. If Hu Zongxian's staff Mao Kun had not carefully collected the old records of the envoy's water journey, I am afraid it would be difficult to see them again."
"I personally believe that when Mr. Yuan Fu said that the fundamental responsibility of a country lies in people rather than skills, he is not denying skills, but that skills are ultimately used by people. If people are ignored, there may be a danger of overthrowing. "
Zhang Juzheng and Wan Shihe, who are well versed in the theory of contradictions, know very well that Zhang Juzheng's expression is not that those who have machines must have things to do, and those who have things to do must have motives, opportunism, haste makes waste, etc. They are still expressing: The Ming Dynasty If a country wants to be stable and make progress, its most important thing is people. Its core logic is still that people are the foundation of a country, and if the foundation is strong, the country will enjoy peace of mind.
If we want to develop society but ignore people, we will abandon the fundamentals and pursue the inferior.
This is a question of route. Zhang Juzheng is also afraid that the little emperor will go astray. It does not mean that technological progress is not important. If it is not important, Zhang Juzheng will not agree to the construction of the Gewuyuan, and he also strongly supports it. Today, most of the books on the first floor are Zhang Juzheng ordered officials at all levels to carefully search and find them.
Zhang Juzheng means that the most important thing is people.
Productivity is man's ability to transform nature, and the subject of this ability to transform nature is man. To talk about technological progress without talking about man is, in Zhang Juzheng's view, a waste of time.
Zhu Yijun nodded solemnly and said with a smile: "I will definitely keep what you said sir in mind at all times."
The conflict between Grand Tutor Zhang Juzheng and Emperor Wanli originated in the second year of Wanli. Zhang Juzheng refused to allow Emperor Wanli to open the Aoshan lanterns, because the rewards of Aoshan lanterns often cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was too expensive, and Emperor Wanli wanted to see them. Zhang Juzheng stopped him, and Feng Bao came out to deal with it. In December of the fourth year of Wanli, he gradually drifted away because of the purple robe issue.
Emperor Wanli wanted to dye his purple robe more often, but Zhang Juzheng used Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Longqing as examples to teach Emperor Wanli a lesson.
Zhang Juzheng said: Emperor Shizong did not pay attention to luxury and extravagance, so he chose the one that was suitable for a long time and used it. Every emperor's robe is worn out and never replaced, so his longevity in the country may not be due to this. I have heard that this is not the case with the late Emperor. It is easy to wear an imperial coat. I hope that the emperor will only take the emperor as the law. If you can save one garment, ten people will receive it. If you use one garment lightly, there will be dozens of people. Those who suffer from the cold must remember it.
Zhang Juzheng's words are not rude, they are a warning. He brought out the emperor's grandfather and said that the Taoist priest would wear out his clothes before changing them, so he enjoyed the country for a long time. Emperor Longqing, on the other hand, had easy access to clothes. .
It is not known how Emperor Wanli responded to this sentence, leaving only one sentence: At that time, people also said that people are so poor that they have wives to pay tribute to.
Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng had a fierce conflict in the fourth year of Wanli because of the color of a piece of clothing. Zhang Juzheng reprimanded Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli didn't know what he said, but Zhang Juzheng took out Emperor Wanli's father and grandfather to reprimand him. , obviously the contradiction is intensifying.
When the commotion started, everyone on the right and left came out to persuade them, saying that poor coolies still had to sell their wives and children to make ends meet, and they finally persuaded them to stop.
Zhang Siwei entered the cabinet under this background. From the fifth year of Wanli to the tenth year of Wanli, the imperial struggle seemed to be dominated by the Jin Party led by Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Siwei, but in fact it was the emperor who was arguing with Yuan Fu about the line. .
In December of the ninth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng, who already knew that the situation was over, signed a memorial to exempt the people from paying taxes and completely left the center of power.
Emperor Wanli won, but Ming Dynasty lost completely.
Zhang Juzheng really wanted to teach Emperor Wanli well, but in the end he failed to do so.
But Zhu Yijun was different. He didn't care much about food, clothing, housing, transportation, and hardship. He only cared about whether the Ming Dynasty could start again.
The reason why he cares, is so persistent, and so heroic is because he is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. This is his obligation as the emperor. This is the reason.
Zhu Yijun went to the capital camp after coming out of the Imperial Palace. He stayed there until the evening before returning to the palace. His bow had already weighed seventy pounds. This weight was almost the same as that of Li Rusong at this age.
Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang, Yang Wen, Li Rusong and others took turns to praise the emperor, and also took out several backward elements in the Beijing camp to admonish them. The selection could only be made after the Beijing camp was fifteen years old, and most of them could be selected. They were all over 18 years old. As a result, these more than 50 people could shoot a bow weighing 60 kilograms.
Zhu Yijun still did not give up on mounted archery. Although Qi Jiguang repeatedly said that mounted archery was just a show-off ability and useless in actual combat, Zhu Yijun was still practicing hard and had stabilized to the level of three arrows and one hit. This is already an excellent level. This It means that His Majesty the Emperor can now ride a horse and gallop.
After Zhu Yijun took a shower, he sat down and took a sip of water, preparing to continue reading agricultural books after dinner. Recently, he was studying rubber trees, but rubber trees are grown in Guangdong and Guangxi and Wanli seawalls, and Zhu Yijun asked Mr. Guo from far away in Luzon to make this After studying rubber trees, Ming Dynasty needs this thing to be used in dynamic seals.
Feng Bao and Zhang Hong were waiting around. Feng Bao saw that His Majesty was finally free and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I heard an interesting thing."
"Oh? Tell me." Zhu Yijun nodded and said.
"Sun Jigao, I got scolded again." Feng Bao raised his head, and as soon as he spoke, Zhu Yijun became happy.
The number one scholar in the second year of Wanli was always scolded.
"My name is Sun Jigao now." Feng Bao bowed his head and said.
Zhang Hong bowed his head and said: "I am now a swarthy beggar."
Feng Bao said: "Speaking of it, yesterday, Sun Jigao was going for an outing with others. While walking, he met a beggar, begging on the roadside. Sun Jigao, Gu Xiancheng and others laughed at the beggar. Why did Sun Jigao laugh at this beggar? Where is the beggar?"
Feng Bao changed his identity, held up his hands and assumed the posture of a Confucian scholar, and said: "You beggar, you are so weird. You are already begging, and you still have to worry about your face? Did you deliberately paint your face to beg?"
"It turns out that Sun Jigao and Gu Xiancheng have fallen to this point by mocking this beggar, and they still insist on having this face, smearing their faces dark for fear of being recognized by others." Zhang Hong explained. Sun Jigao felt that this beggar and Others are different.
Zhang Hong bent down and pretended to be a beggar. He raised his eyes and looked at Feng Bao with disgust before he said, "I blackened my face because I felt ashamed. Those nobles painted their faces so dark." Whiter than the dead, what’s the point?”
Zhu Yijun was stunned and asked: "Two great companions, are we Ming scholars still using rouge and gouache?"
"You will need it to participate in the poetry festival." Feng Bao answered His Majesty's question.
"The court officials never apply rouge or gouache on their faces." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said. He really didn't know that it was really strange that scholars in the Ming Dynasty still applied powder.
"If the courtiers or ministers apply powder, they will probably be thrown out by the court officials." Feng Bao explained with a smile that there were court officials in the Ming Dynasty who dressed up as women and entered the court. They all had imperial staffs. In terms of scope, some royal sticks do increase your reputation, but some royal sticks are a shame if you receive them.
"You guys keep talking." Zhu Yijun finally understood and continued to listen to the joke.
Feng Bao held up his hands and turned into Sun Jigao again. He pointed at the beggar and said angrily: "I don't understand nonsense. This is just to cover up flaws."
Zhang Hong slowly stood up and said: "I said you have no shame, but you only heard me say you applied powder and defended the matter. Why is this? So you really have no shame."
"Officials have no sense of shame. They open their doors wide, trade gold for silver, confuse right and wrong, and surrender to private families. Where is the shame? Why don't I be a beggar!"
Feng Bao angrily wanted to chase the beggar Zhang Hong, but the beggar ran away without a trace. The matter ended here.
Zhu Yijun slapped his thigh and said, "Well done! Who wrote this plot?"
"It's not written, it's a true story. Someone saw it and wrote it out and submitted it to the People's Daily. The main writers of the People's Daily were Geng Dingxiang and Jiao Hong, so they published it as a joke." Zhang, a beggar who ran back from the house. Hong explained cheerfully.
Feng Bao and Zhang Hong burst out laughing when they saw this piece, and they performed an impromptu performance for His Majesty.
"Didn't you make it up? Is it true?" Zhu Yijun thought he was telling a joke, but he never expected that it was Sun Jigao who was really being humiliated by the beggar.
Sun Jigao opened up his family and exchanged gold for silver. The main method was to become a disciple. After becoming a disciple, Shu Xiu was restrained. Hai Rui, the divine sword of anti-corruption, couldn't resist Shu Xiu as well, right?
Sun Jigao provided imperial examination consulting services and helped Gu Xiancheng get the title on the gold list.
"There is another joke." Feng Bao thought for a while and thought that since His Majesty liked to hear it, he would tell another joke.
"Let's talk and listen." Zhu Yijun nodded and said.
Feng Bao said: "But after the examination, Sun Jigao took Gu Xiancheng to see a prostitute. The prostitute's name was Qi Yaxiu. When Qi Yaxiu went there, it was a little late. Sun Jigao asked the prostitute, why were you late?"
"The prostitute said that after reading two volumes, she didn't hear her say hello."
"Sun Jigao and Gu Xiancheng laughed when he heard this, and asked the prostitute, what is your name?"
"The prostitute said: My name is Qi Yaxiu, and my nickname is Ya'er."
"Sun Jigao laughed wildly when he heard this, and said to Gu Xiancheng: I thought it was Qi Yaxiu, but it turned out to be the odor below the navel."
Zhu Yijun actually understood that "stinky" has two pronunciations. Sun Jigao, this bitch, was just playing a homophonic joke to humiliate this prostitute for studying. How could a prostitute who spread her legs to serve others still study?
Moreover, this prostitute obviously had an accent, and Sun Jigao was also laughing at her accent.
The Tomb Sect, which enjoys humiliating people, can cause so many troubles with prostitutes.
It's just a prostitute, let's have fun. The important thing is that we look like husband and wife on the couch, but we don't know each other off the couch. You provide the money, I provide the meat, everyone agrees, and we have a good time.
Sun Jigao was obviously not satisfied with such enjoyment, and wanted to humiliate others to show his nobility.
Feng Bao saw that His Majesty understood that there was no need to explain too much about the ugly faces of these scholars, so he continued: "After saying this, the prostitute became angry and said with a sneer: I thought several of my patrons were military officials, but they turned out to be civil servants."
Civil servants and Wen Guan are all playing homophonic jokes, but prostitutes are obviously hanging out with the lower classes, and their curse skills are even better. Wen Guan is a dog with a nose as sensitive as a dog.
Qi Yaxiu's name is Qi Yaxiu, and she doesn't really have navel odor, but Sun Jigao, Gu Xiancheng and others are indeed civil servants, and they are indeed dog-like.
The prostitute didn't dare to offend Sun Jigao too much, so she scolded him, but she had to hear it.
Sun Jigao was the number one scholar, but he was ignorant and rigid, but that didn't mean he was stupid. On the contrary, he was not stupid at all, and he understood it immediately.
Feng Bao continued: "Sun Jigao was furious: The bitch is rude!"
"The prostitute said: If I were a female dog, you would be male dogs; if I were not a female dog, you would be male princes."
The prostitute uses an allusion here, wearing a crown after wearing a monkey, saying that when a monkey wears a human crown, it becomes a human.
Hou, monkey, Duke Hou, male monkey, this is a homophonic joke, but they scolded Sun Jigao to death. They were going to hook up with a prostitute, and they were hooking up with a female dog, so wasn't Sun Jigao a male dog? Since it is not a male dog, it is a monkey.
Zhu Yijun immediately became happy, shook his head and said: "This is just a joke after all. Qi Yaxiu is a servant, how can he scold his patron like this?"
"It's really not a joke, because it happened in Yanxing Tower, which is Huangzhuang after all. After Qi Yaxiu cursed, grandma looked for someone to find someone to find peace with Xu Jue, and Xu Jue sent him to Yongsheng Woolen Factory Already." Feng Bao bowed his head and said.
These prostitutes all work in the lower classes. In the past, they would not dare to scold him like this, but now they dare. If he scolds Sun Jigao, he will at most be sent to a woolen factory. Although his life may not seem as decent as before, but his life But much more stable.
"This Sun Jigao gets scolded wherever he goes." Zhu Yijun then shook his head, so that was what happened.
"Your Majesty, the palace will open underground ditches for dredging in March." Feng Bao reported on the work in the palace. Dredging. The palace will open underground ditches for drainage in spring, summer and autumn every year. During the Jiajing period, the drainage from Donghua Gate to Xihua Gate The water in Jinshui River is more than three feet deep. It rained really hard.
After hearing the news, the Taoist priest only asked the internal officials to open the ditch and dredge it again to prevent waterlogging due to heavy rain. He did not issue an order to kill the nine tribes.
"Yeah." Zhu Yijun was right. It's not a big deal. It rains heavily and water accumulates. Isn't that a common thing? The craftsmen who built the palace during the Yongle period did not bury oil-paper packages in the ditch.
"Hasn't the examiner sent you the list of Jinshi this time?" Zhu Yijun asked with some confusion.
According to the date, the list should be sent today. After Emperor Zhu approves, the list will be published. Zhu Zaiyu, the director of the Institute of Geosciences, has already approved the arithmetic paper. He is waiting for the examination to confirm the list and publish the list. Announcement of math scores.
"It's tomorrow." Feng Bao bowed his head and said, "Took one more subject, so this batch of papers will be postponed by one day."
"Indeed, I will add the additional volume tomorrow." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and continued to study the planting of his own rubber trees and the rubber.
This thing is very interesting. Rubber trees are native to Brazil. Captain Antonio regarded them as ornamental plants and sent a lot of seeds. However, they cannot be planted in Beiya. The only places in Ming Dynasty that can grow rubber trees are Hainan and Guangdong.
Of course, there are also the Nanyang countries that nominally belong to the Ming Dynasty.
Early the next morning, Zhu Yijun met his long-lost second assistant Lu Tiaoyang. Lu Tiaoyang and Shen Shixing were the examiners this time. The list of candidates for the Chinese-style Jinshi examination was finally determined.
The number one scholar was Jiao Hong. As soon as the name appeared, Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief. It was not a problem for the number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty to be scolded everywhere. Jiao Hong's fighting ability was obvious to all, and he was the only one who scolded others.
Zhang Siwen and Wang Qian were also in the list of Jinshi. After reading it, Zhu Yijun found that Gu Xiancheng was also there, and his face immediately turned ugly.
He picked up the ink pen, crossed out Gu Xiancheng's name and said, "I don't like this person and won't let him be Chinese. Sir, can I do this?"
"Of course." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.
The imperial examination is also called Enke. Isn’t this thing just according to His Majesty’s wishes? Besides, it’s just a matter of crossing out one person. According to the basic logic of the master-master unity, it doesn’t matter if His Majesty takes back all the names on the list and retakes the exam.
During the Hongwu period, after the North-South Examination broke out, Emperor Taizu Gao ordered a re-examination. Wasn’t that a re-examination?
Your Majesty is just excluding someone you don't like. This is not uncommon in all dynasties.
It is expected that Your Majesty does not like Gu Xiancheng. That guy made arrogant remarks at Yanxing Tower and was overheard by Your Majesty. Your Majesty even went to refute him personally because Your Majesty got to know Jiao Hong, the number one scholar.
Zhu Yijun did not intend to adjust his ranking. Since Jiao Hong was ranked first in the general examination, he would still be ranked first in the palace examination as long as there were no problems. Who made Zhu Yijun like this student who spoke arrogantly and scolded Confucians everywhere?
As for Gu Xiancheng, I'm sorry. His name was crossed out in this place and he can only come back next time. If no one tells Gu Xiancheng, Gu Xiancheng will refer to it three times and then completely lose his qualifications for Jinshi.
Besides, Your Majesty, please finish the drawing before asking. Are you asking for the opinion of the minister?
"That's it." Zhu Yijun handed the list to Zhang Hong, and then picked up another list, specializing in Enke Jinshi, a total of 150 people. After Zhu Yijun read the list, he didn't cross out anyone, and directly stamped it. , which can be regarded as approval of this list.
The specially-gifted Enke Jinshi have all served in the local area for many years, and they have all been ranked among the top three in three years of passing the imperial examination. They are not Zhang Juzheng's cronies. People who are living alone see him as a crony of Zhang Juzheng, and they obviously do not understand the political system of the Ming Dynasty.
It is a joke for a genuine Tutor to have a lot of cronies who are not in the mainstream and have no official status.
"Did Huang Qing come to Beijing to express his duties? I'll make an announcement later." Zhu Yijun saw Huang Qing's name. He was born in the current county magistrate. He came to Beijing to express his gratitude. He mostly did land reclamation, water conservancy construction and fish and meat power.
Huang Qing and Hai Rui already had something to say, because Huang Qing was also impeached as a powerful man.
"I obey the order." Zhang Juzheng obeyed the order of his leader. It was his suggestion to let the emperor see his foreign officials. His Majesty has been resolutely implementing it over the years, instead of finding reasons to evade.
Huang Qing, named Xingping, was from Jiangxi. He was not tall, half a head taller than the fifteen-year-old Zhu Yijun. He was relatively thin and looked a bit big in official uniform. He came to Beijing to receive his seal and went to Renhe, Zhejiang to be the magistrate. Huang Qing The reason he didn't pass the Jinshi exam was that he didn't take the exam because he had no money.
In the Ming Dynasty system, in the first year of passing the examination, a candidate could be sent to Beijing. However, Huang Qing's mother died and he had to observe mourning for three years. This was delayed, and later he had no money to enter Beijing.
Winning the imperial examination means leaping over the dragon's gate and changing one's status. Even if one accepts donations from some big families and uses the land that was exempted from the imperial examination to become Master Huang, he will not be too embarrassed to enter the capital. However, Master Huang will still be in the capital in the end. Instead of becoming Mr. Huang, he became Huang Qingtian.
Huang Qing's problem was that he had offended the local wealthy families, so no one dared to lend his name to him. If he didn't become Mr. Huang, it wasn't because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't do it. He had no money to enter Beijing, and he couldn't use the inn without an official position. There was no place to find horse cards, so he finally became an official and worked for twelve years. In the fourth year of Wanli, he became the magistrate of Renhe County.
After entering the palace, Huang Qing hurriedly knelt down and shouted "Long Live Long Live" three times.
"No gift, no gift." Zhu Yijun smiled at Huang Qing and said, "Huang Aiqing, today I will give you a special gift of Enke Jinshi. I hope that you, my dear, will not forget why you are giving me this gift. You can overcome the ultimate difficulty. You and I should encourage you together."
"I sincerely obey His Majesty's holy teachings." Huang Qing was silent for a long time before he solemnly kowtowed again.
"I have doubts about this kind of mulberry industry. Why is it that the south of the Yangtze River is covered with grain fields and cotton fields but few mulberry fields?" Zhu Yijun asked about Huang Qing's government affairs to see what this seventh-rank official who had climbed up from the civil service had to say. .
"Mulberry trees are profitable, but it takes two years to raise silkworms. It is extremely difficult for poor people to make a living, let alone grow mulberry trees." Huang Qing thought about it for a while before expressing his views on this issue.
If you grow mulberry trees, you can only get profits in the third year. So where does the livelihood come from in the first two years? The court's taxes, the grain rents of the gentry, the private demands of the rural areas, etc., made the people's lives difficult. Life was difficult. If there was no harvest in two years, planting mulberry trees would cost the lives of the people.
"This is the first time I heard what Aiqing said. A Confucian scholar told me that it was the common people who were short-sighted." Zhu Yijun suddenly recognized Huang Qing's answer.
There was a shortage of silk in the Ming Dynasty, and any silk they had was exchanged for silver. The dignitaries who were accustomed to wearing silk and satin naturally couldn't bear the days without silk, so they proposed to change rice into mulberry and plant trees to make money. , but Zhu Yijun's attitude towards this matter has always been unsupportive.
This decree seems good, but the cost that is never mentioned is that people's lives will become even more miserable.
Huang Qing's perspective on the problem is based on practical experience and is bottom-up. Zhu Yijun recognized Huang Qing very much. He said with a smile: "I have a second question. Aiqing came from the south of the Yangtze River and followed the canal. , in Aiqing’s opinion, do the advantages of transporting grain by sea outweigh the disadvantages, or do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?”
"Great benefits will make the country prosperous." Huang Qing bowed his head and said: "Haicao is only one million stones this year, and there are still three million stones in the river channel, but it is still great benefits. At least in the month of the reduction, the world's department stores will be smoother. There is no obstruction, and the people along the canal have not been unable to survive because of the transportation of grain and sea."
The transportation capacity of the Grand Canal is extremely limited, and water transportation takes up the canal for four months, which is the prime time of the Grand Canal. Grain is not a bulk commodity with extremely high exchange value. The greatest value of grain is its use value. , if the exchange value is driven up, it is harming the people, and it is a dynasty bug that needs to be cleaned up.
Huang Qing didn't want to talk too much. He just told His Majesty the answer. From the time he came to Beijing and saw the warehouses along the canal, he knew that the canal's transport capacity had been released, trade became more frequent, and grain and sea transportation were beneficial to the country.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "That's it."
The Ming Dynasty has always been like this, and theoretically it should be like this, but the reality is often not like this.
Of these two Ming Dynasty jokes, the first beggar laughs at Shilin, which is indeed a mockery of Sun Jigao, the number one scholar, and the second Qi Yaxiu is a mockery of Yang Shiqi, the first assistant in the Zhengtong period, saying that Yang Shiqi went to see a prostitute and was scolded by a prostitute. Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! ! ! !
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