The court meeting lasted for five days in a row, and there was no conclusion on the issue of land annexation and dedication. Instead, two distinct factions emerged.
One group was the opposition, headed by Hou Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Shi Jingqing, the Imperial Censor of the Zuodu Procuratorate. They not only attacked the Yiyi whip law, but also brought the issue of land occupation to the royal family. This way they were telling Zhu Yunwen that the royal family occupied land and the gentry should buy some. What's going on?
The homesteaders have nothing to eat or drink. We paid for the land, and the land deeds are clear and clear. We also use the purchased land to support their family. The court wants to restrict the purchase of land?
Why?
If you are an official, you only care about the scenery of these acres of land. If you restrict it, wouldn't you hang everyone on the tree?
Besides, this is an ancestral system. Your grandfather didn't say anything when he was here. You just come up and cause trouble. What do you mean?
One faction was the approval faction, headed by Huang Zicheng, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Qi Tai, the Minister of Personnel Affairs. They supported the imperial court's adoption of restraint measures to restrict the gentry from maliciously occupying land, protect the interests of homesteaders, and requested the imperial court to increase efforts to clear land.
If anyone comes out to object, send someone to check how many acres his family's salary farm is supposed to be, and how many acres it actually is. Where did the land come from? If he was deceived and abducted, he should be dismissed from his post for questioning and the land returned to the owner-cultivator. If the land was purchased through legitimate channels, If so, you also have to collect agricultural taxes. Why, because what you buy is not your salary land!
As for the three old foxes in the cabinet, they stood at the front and yawned every day without helping or caring about anyone. When Zhu Yunwen left, they rubbed their sleepy eyes, consciously took out pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and silently wrote Hu Jun's "For The people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are asking for orders." Memorial.
There is no other way. If I copy it again today, it will be twenty-one times, and I have to memorize it.
Xie Jin didn't care, he was just copying books, he was good at it, and he only did it five times a day anyway.
Liu Bu Shangshu, you look at me, I look at you, with a relaxed look on your face, it’s just ten times, it’s easy.
What's pitiful about the remaining officials is that each of them had to copy the document twenty times.
Some unlucky people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate actually wrote a few "tongjia" characters when they were copying yesterday. They were called to the Wuying Palace by the emperor and reprimanded for half an hour. It is said that they were also punished by copying "Plea for Life for the People of Jiangsu and Zhejiang" 》Sparse fifty times.
Fifty times, I don’t know if these guys had a rest last night.
After Xie Jin copied it once, under the surprised eyes of Yu Xin and Zhang Yan, he took out four copied copies of "Please for the People of Jiangsu and Zhejiang" from his sleeve.
Yu Xin pointed at Jie Jin and almost shouted, "You're cheating," but he couldn't.
Xie Jin handed the copied memorial to the chamberlain at the side who was responsible for sorting the memorial, and left Fengtian Hall laughing.
Zhang Yan chuckled and said: "The great talent Jie is indeed extraordinary, we are lagging behind..."
Yu Xin lamented, Xie Jin had already expected that there would be no results in the court today, and the emperor would order the copy, so he wrote it in advance and handed it over when the time came.
From this point of view, among the three ministers in the cabinet, only Jie Jin understands the emperor best.
cabinet.
Yu Xin, Zhang Zhen, and Xie Jin were discussing the annexation of farmland. Ru Ru entered the cabinet carrying a wooden box, put the wooden box on the table, and said solemnly: "Three cabinet elders, I, Ru Ru, am a millionaire." Thousands of soldiers, the way to survive is here."
Xie Jin and others frowned, not knowing what it meant.
Yu Xin stood up, walked to the wooden box, patted it, and asked, "Master Ru, please explain the matter clearly."
Rujun opened the wooden box. Inside was fifty neat stacks of medical gauze, a bottle of alcohol in one corner, and a small pair of scissors.
Jie Jin and others didn't say anything. They took out the medical gauze, unfolded it, looked at it, and smelled it again and again. They didn't know what it was used for. Even if it was just scraps of clothing, it was too broken and too small. The thing is soft and light, and it is not suitable for hanging beams.
"This gauze is called medical gauze, and the bottle contains alcohol."
Rujun explained solemnly, and finally said: "Whenever a soldier is injured, he only needs to pour alcohol over the wound and use gauze to stop the bleeding. This can prevent the soldier's wound from suppurating and heal as soon as possible, which is a must-have for the military. I lead the military department and have to do both. For the sake of millions of soldiers, I implore you three to help me with all your strength."
Jie Jin and the others looked at Ru Ru who was giving a serious salute, and they also became serious.
Zhang Yan held a piece of gauze and asked, "Is it really so magical?"
Rujun took out a document from her arms, handed it over, and said: "This is jointly signed by twenty medical officers in the capital, all of whom guarantee that medical gauze and alcohol can avoid pus and promote healing. I have also witnessed it with my own eyes See what you see and apply it with your own hands, there is no possibility of deception.”
Jie Jin smelled the alcohol, frowned, and asked, "Isn't this just soju?"
Ru Yu shook her head and said: "I have visited all the restaurants in the capital, but none of them can brew such powerful shochu."
"Wait, where did these come from?"
Yu Xin asked.
The corner of Ru Yu's mouth felt awkward, and she sighed and said, "It belongs to King Zhu Zhi of Liao and King Zhu Geng of Min. Even this medical gauze was provided by them."
"Two kings? Improbable, right?"
Xie Jin said doubtfully.
Jie Jin still knows what kind of character and what they are good at. How can they create these things?
Eliminate hundreds of thousands of doubts.
Ru Yu saluted again and said: "It doesn't matter if it's them or not, but these should be used as military supplies for the Ming Dynasty to be equipped for the Beijing camp, the border army, and the local guards!"
Yu Xin said incomprehensibly: "Since it belongs to the two kings, can't we just let them donate it? Why come to the cabinet?"
Ru Yun raised her head and said with a grimace, "Because the two kings only sell these things but don't offer them to them."
"What?"
Yu Xin, Zhang Yan, and Xie Jin were surprised at the same time.
Only selling but not offering?
Isn’t this the profit-seeking businessman?
As a grand prince of the Ming Dynasty, the son of Taizu, and the uncle of the emperor, wouldn't it be embarrassing to practice the way of a merchant?
Taizu left an ancestral precept that all future generations will not be allowed to engage in business!
What are these two kings going to do?
There was sadness in Ru Yu's eyes. She had the same expression at the beginning. Who would have thought that the dignified vassal king would turn into a merchant, with no sense of family and country, and no feelings of serving the people or the army.
At first, Rujun wanted to be tough, but the problem was that there was no second merchant in the capital that could provide alcohol. She found someone who sold shochu and asked them to distill it a few more times to make the shochu even hotter, and then asked three questions. If he didn't have enough money, he was kicked out.
I visited all the cloth stores in the capital, but no one had ever seen medical gauze, let alone copied it.
The Second King supplies it exclusively. If your Ministry of War wants something, you can only buy it with money.
The two evil-hearted kings actually asked for one tael of silver for a wooden box.
Thinking of her one tael of silver, Ru Rui's heart ached.
"Please ask the cabinet to come forward and persuade the two kings to provide medical gauze and alcohol to help protect our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty."
Ru Yu pleaded.
Yu Xin and Zhang Yan looked at Xie Jin at the same time. Xie Jin looked at the two of them depressedly and said, "This matter concerns two million soldiers and the foundation of the country. You might as well report it to the emperor and let him be your lobbyist." Bar."
In the Jinshen Hall, Zhu Yunwen almost burst out laughing when he looked at Ru Yu's memorial.
OK.
Let me convince you to donate what you have worked so hard for?
I agree, but the queen doesn’t agree either!
PS:
It needs to be mentioned that the six ministers in the Ming Dynasty sometimes did not belong to the same person. In order to decentralize power, Zhu Yuanzhang had many ministers, seven, eight, or more than a dozen were normal.
During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, the number of ministers ranged from one to four.
The ministers of the Ministry of Justice at this time were Bao Zhao and Hou Tai.
