Qitai asked urgently, "Is this really feasible?"
Zhu Yunwen was confused: "What does Mr. Huang mean by this? Why do you support him instead?"
"If you want to take something, you must give it first." Huang Zicheng said: "The rise of the Southern King is so fast that it has never been seen before."
"Is Your Majesty really not worried at all about what is behind him, and is he plotting to usurp the country?"
Zhu Yunwen was stunned when he heard this.
Huang Zicheng said calmly: "Even if His Majesty doesn't doubt it, we can make him doubt it."
Qitai pondered: "I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on us alone."
A sinister smile appeared on Huang Zicheng's face and he said, "Didn't he hit Lan Yu once before, and I heard that Lan Yu was quite grateful to him?"
"Lanyu, this person, only knows how to charge into battle and lacks strategy and thought. As long as we give him a little guidance, we can lead him by the nose."
"As long as Lan Yu takes the lead in writing the letter, please appoint His Royal Highness Nanwang as the crown prince, and his subordinates will naturally follow."
Huang Zicheng continued: "We heard that King Nan had made a flintlock gun, so we took this opportunity to spread the word. If King Nan inherits the throne, the officers and soldiers in the army will be able to get guns. As long as we encourage them, the soldiers will definitely obey."
"Nanwang originally had a name for his poems. People like to tell strange things the most. He is only seven years old. He just needs to make up some stories, saying that he is the reincarnation of the heavenly king and he should inherit the throne. The people will tell it to ten people, and then it will be passed down to hundreds of people. Very soon There will be a huge momentum soon.”
"Let them write to the court again, asking for a grandson."
"Let's mobilize our own people to build momentum together."
"In this way, there will be hundreds of civil and military officials, nobles of the court, soldiers of the three armies, and common people in the countryside."
"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could kill the crown prince Liu Zhi, but I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, couldn't kill him?"
"The key to this plan depends on how much momentum we can create."
"I want your Majesty to think that everything is the plan of King Nan. He wants to seize the Ming Dynasty."
"Good!" Qi Tai praised it: "This is a great plan."
Huang Zicheng said: "We can also put a book in the belly of a fish and write "Damingxing, Emperor Nanwang"."
Qi Tai was stunned and said: "I'm afraid this is a bit too much, right?"
Huang Zicheng said: "As long as the momentum is big enough, your Majesty can't tell the truth from the lies. You don't have to worry about this, I will take care of it."
Zhu Yunwen was overjoyed when he heard the discussion between the two of them. He thanked him and said, "I'll leave everything to you two gentlemen."
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While Huang Zicheng and others were plotting, Zhu Yunzhen was busy teaching students in Tianfu Yamen.
Yingtian Mansion has its own private school, and there are not a few students in it.
Of course, those who went to study in government schools were all aiming for the imperial examination.
But in fact, very few people can actually win the imperial examination, let alone become a Jinshi.
Most students may only be selected as a scholar, and then go home to open a teaching school to teach young children.
Zhu Yunxuan decided to increase business taxes and at the same time reform the tax system, which would require a large number of talents.
Later generations promoted nine-year compulsory education, and naturally there was no shortage of people who knew how to read.
But in this era, scholars are a limited resource and there are not many.
Recognizing Chinese characters is actually a very advanced skill. It is much more complicated and difficult than learning a craft or mastering an ordinary professional technology.
The popularization of education in later generations made people accustomed to it, and they thought it was nothing more than that.
In fact, if you really want an illiterate person who cannot read to know all the Chinese characters that should be mastered at the junior high school level, and to master the cultural knowledge at the junior high school level, the difficulty of education will be higher than accepting him as a disciple and teaching him to do acrobatics. many!
The economic development of later countries is inseparable from a large number of cheap labor, the so-called "demographic dividend".
But in fact, if there is no universal compulsory education and if everyone is illiterate, the population will be the largest, and there will be no dividends. It will only become a burden.
Illiterates who are completely illiterate can even be said to have no value in cultivating.
Because it is too difficult to train them to collect taxes and do accounting.
Students from the government schools at least have a solid foundation and they are all literate.
Although Zhu Yunxuan was only seven years old, he was not excluded in any way when he entered the government school and gave lectures to the students.
This is not because of his status as King of the South.
In fact, no matter how high his status is, if he is not knowledgeable enough and gives lectures in a government school, he will be laughed at by the students.
The scholars of this era are all truly looking higher than their heads.
Even the emperor's family dared to say privately that he was born in a mud-legged family and had no education.
Although Lao Zhu knew this very well, there was nothing he could do about it.
Although he raised the butcher's knife at every turn and made these scholars tremble with fear, he could not change their minds.
Lao Zhucai desperately hopes that his family can produce a descendant who is a good scholar and slap those scholars in the face.
It is also because of this that Zhu Yunxuan became the pride of Lao Zhu.
The name of the child prodigy has long been known throughout the Ming Dynasty.
If we write poems twice before, some people still question whether they were ghostwritten by others and whether it was Lao Zhu who "created gods".
Jixianlou's impromptu poem completely silenced them.
Who doesn't know that His Royal Highness Nan Wang has amazing talents?
Who doesn’t know that His Highness Nan Wang is the most talented in poetry in the world?
When he came to give lectures to the students, naturally no one dared to question him.
However, what the students did not expect was that Zhu Yunxuan came to give a lecture today, and he was not talking about poetry and poetry, but the double-entry accounting method.
"I have already petitioned the imperial court to establish a tax office in Yingtian Mansion to handle the collection of commercial taxes."
"This matter is very different from the ordinary eight-part imperial examination requirements. I have decided to select talents from among you in advance to serve as staff."
As soon as this sentence was said, the students below immediately became interested.
What is the purpose of reading?
What is the imperial examination for?
Isn’t it just to be an official?
Although it is indeed a bit miserable to be an official under Lao Zhu, there are still countless people rushing to take part in the imperial examination in order to get an official position.
Now that there is an opportunity to directly become an official without having to take the imperial examination or the imperial examination, except for a few geniuses who think highly of themselves and must find a "right path", who would not be willing?
Modern tax systems are very complex.
To establish a new tax system in Ming Dynasty that is in line with the development of the future era, the first thing needed is to cultivate taxation talents.
Zhu Yunzhen did not originally focus on this. He had many things to deal with, such as inventing fixed-load ammunition as soon as possible, building treasure ships to go to sea, and so on.
After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces.
The establishment and development of the system are also based on a certain level of productivity.
Without a corresponding level of productivity, many seemingly beautiful systems are just castles in the air.
But there is always a difference between ideals and reality. Now that he wants to gain a firm foothold, the first priority is to quickly implement and handle the increase in commercial taxes.
Therefore, cultivating corresponding taxation talents has become a top priority.
Otherwise, if those people from the yamen are allowed to go down to collect taxes according to the old method, good things will turn into bad things.
Zhu Yunxuan talked eloquently, telling the students how to determine taxes, how to issue invoices, how to manage, double-entry accounting, etc.
At the same time, while he was giving a lecture, a rumor about him spread like wildfire in Jinling City.
The King of the South is a child prodigy descended from heaven, and an emperor has come to earth, and he should be established as the Son of Heaven.
At the fish market, a fisherman is slaughtering fish for sale.
A lively fish was cut open with a knife, and a strip of oilcloth was exposed inside.
This scene immediately attracted the attention of everyone around, and everyone gathered around.
The fisherman seemed to be surprised that there was something in the belly of the fish. This was a rare thing that he had never seen before.
In front of the onlookers, the fisherman opened the oilcloth strip and saw a few words written on it.
The literate scholar next to him immediately read out: "Da Ming Xing, Emperor Nan".
In an instant, the scholar's expression changed drastically.
"What does this mean?" The fisherman was puzzled.
"Your Majesty has just made the fourth emperor's grandson the King of the South. I heard that he is a child prodigy, which is amazing!"
"What this means is that our Ming Dynasty is in full swing and King Nan wants to be the emperor?"
"It's not fun to talk nonsense, you will be beheaded."
"What are you afraid of? King Nan is not an outsider, isn't he also a descendant of the Zhu family? There is nothing wrong with him being the emperor!"
"I heard that His Majesty originally intended to make him the grandson of the Emperor, but many ministers in the court objected, so he did not."
"It's great that King Nan is in charge of Yingtian Mansion and imposes heavy taxes on those merchants! I have long disliked them. Why are these lowly guys like pigs and dogs so rich? The court should have imposed heavy taxes on them long ago. "
"That's right! Now that King Nan has opened his business qualifications, as long as you get a tax certificate, you can do business, and you no longer have to be exploited by those merchants. It's a great thing!"
"I think King Nan is really good. He is only seven years old and his poems are very impressive!"
"Isn't it just amazing? I heard the teacher in the school say that His Highness Nanwang's poems are the best in the world and are unparalleled in the past."
"Yes, yes, yes, I have also heard about "The Rolling Waters of the Yangtze River Passing East"... It is really well written! Although our old man is illiterate, I thought it was very well written when I heard it. It is much better than those sour and stinking scholars. Poetry is much stronger.”
"That's right, among the storytellers who talk about the Three Kingdoms nowadays, who doesn't start with this paragraph?"
"You think, King Nan is so powerful. If he becomes the emperor, will we ordinary people live a good life?"
"That's for sure. Look here, doesn't it say "Da Ming Xing, Emperor Nan"? Is this God's will?"
"Then why do the ministers in the imperial court oppose canonizing him as the emperor's grandson?"
"Does this need to be said? Is there anything good that can come from being an official? If every one of them is taken out and beheaded, only a few of them will be unjustly accused!"
As soon as these words were said, the people watching all agreed that there is no good official!
They are all corrupt officials and traitors to the country!
Since ancient times, when people mention officials, they always think of corrupt officials and bad guys. It’s unmistakable!
"We cannot let His Majesty be deceived by those traitorous ministers." Someone suggested.
"That's right, I think we can collectively submit a letter to the court, please make King Nan the crown prince."
"What a great idea. His Majesty always attaches great importance to public opinion. If we submit a letter together, His Majesty will definitely adopt it."
"Yes, let's collectively submit a letter to let those traitorous ministers take a look at public opinion and see if they still dare to oppose the establishment of Prince Nan as the crown prince."
"Then do it!"
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(End of chapter)
