Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 24 Spring Plowing Ceremony, Little People Big Heroes
When Cao Huachun caused a bloody storm in Nanjing, Li Cunming was holding a spring plowing ceremony and went to work in the fields himself.The system prompt in his mind kept beeping, constantly reminding him to obtain the negative emotional value of Nanjing officials.

"Cao Huachun is really a vicious dog, he's red-eyed! It's a good kill, it's a wonderful kill, and it makes the Donglin party members scream!" Li Cunming thought to himself with a smile.

Every year during the spring plowing ceremony, the emperor would go to the fields in the outskirts to try the plow to set an example for the farmers.Pigs and sheep are also slaughtered and grilled on a high firewood pile, so that the fragrance floats to the sky for the gods to enjoy. This is called "burning sacrifice".

In a field at the bend of the river outside the west gate of Ningling County, it is very lively at this time.

The farmers crowded together, a sea of ​​people, all looking at the emperor who was farming in the field.Two piles of raging fires were burning, and the pigs and sheep were roasted golden and fragrant.

Concubine Yuan, Princess Changping and Chen Yuanyuan also attended the ceremony.

There are many musicians on the side, playing the sheng and drums, and the atmosphere is cheerful and peaceful.

The emperor held the plow and followed a buffalo dressed in yellow silk. The buffalo was led by Jiang Dejing. The emperor and his ministers walked forward step by step.The soil was turned up by the plow, giving off a unique fragrance.

Li Cunming turned his head and shouted to Concubine Yuan and the others: "You guys also come to the field to experience the taste of farming, so that you can understand the hard work of farmers."

Concubine Yuan and Princess Changping came to the field without saying anything.But Chen Yuanyuan stood still and muttered: "Farming is the duty of farmers, and I am not a farmer..."

Li Cunming frowned and said: "Chen Yuanyuan, you have been with the scholar-bureaucrats a lot, and you have been contaminated with too many stinky problems! You don't work hard and don't know the grain. You eat the grain grown by the peasants and look down on the peasants. Are you more noble than me?"

"I... that's not what I meant!" Chen Yuanyuan hurried over.

From the beginning of the field to the end of the field, Li Cunming said: "That's enough, it's just a formality."

Greeting Jiang Dejing and others to walk up to the field ridge, Jiang Dejing and others are pampered and pampered on weekdays, they are already exhausted and out of breath.

"Come, stand by my side." Li Cunming said to several pre-selected peasant representatives.

When these people gathered around, Li Cunming took out a potato and a few corns, and said, "This is a potato, this is corn, and they are high-yielding crops from the West."

"To plant potatoes, you need to cut the potatoes in half, then spread plant ash and cooked manure on the cut, put them in the seed nest, and cover them with soil."

"The planting of corn is quite simple, just sow the seeds directly. However, it should be noted that there is a saying that "rice should be thinner, wheat should be thicker, and cows should lie in the sorghum field". It must also be thick and dense, so there can only be one corn seedling in a nest, and sufficient distance should be left between the seedlings."

While speaking, Li Cunming patiently demonstrated.

The farmers were dumbfounded, not because it was hard to understand, but because they didn't expect the emperor to be so familiar with farming. Could it be that the emperor is also farming in the palace?
An old farmer opened his mouth, showing his yellow teeth, and exclaimed, "Your Majesty, why do you know so much?"

Li Cunming smiled and said: "I only know superficially, and I specialize in art. In terms of farming, you are my teachers!"

"My God, how dare we be the emperor's teacher?" The old farmer shook his head and waved his hands in fear.

A man in his 40s said: "I understand how to grow potatoes and corn. But I want to ask, where is Xiyang?"

"Western Ocean is far away from our Ming Dynasty, on the other side of the world." Li Cunming said.

"Then can I farm in the West in the future?" the man asked.

Li Cunming laughed loudly: "Of course, as long as the officials of the Ming Dynasty are diligent in state affairs, the soldiers fight the enemy bravely, the craftsmen work hard, and the farmers work hard, one day, the territory of the Ming Dynasty will cover the western world. !"

Then he blinked and made a joke with the man: "Western women are pretty good, very pretty and attractive!"

The farmers burst into laughter, and the man said, "It doesn't matter to women, I just want to have more land."

Chen Yuanyuan curled her lips and secretly scolded the emperor for being unscrupulous. An emperor who is full of nasty words is indeed a fool.But she has some contradictions, the emperor has no pretensions to get along with the peasants, isn't it just to have fun with the people?

While chatting happily with the farmers, Gong Yonggu hurried over with Qi Dazhuang.Qi Dazhuang said sadly: "Your Majesty, my father passed away. Before he died, he wrote a memorial and asked me to give it to you."

"What?" Li Cunming exclaimed, his eyes were red when he took the memorial and read it.

"Ambassador Qi was already ill. During these days, he worked hard day and night to make more ceramic mines. He was exhausted! Before his death, Ambassador Qi still cared about the Ming Dynasty and recommended talents to me... I deeply appreciate it. I feel so sorry for you, so sad in my heart!”

"My majesty, please be sorry! My father said before he died that the emperor brought water for him himself, and condescended to ask questions. This is a great honor. This life is not in vain!" Qi Dazhuang comforted the emperor instead.

Li Cunming sighed for a long time, and ordered: "Jiang Dejing, take the relevant personnel and continue to improve the wasteland reclamation. Gong Yonggu, go and inform Zhou Yuji and Liu Wenbing to call all the soldiers and craftsmen in the city to the school grounds. I have something to say."

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Ningling is just a small county with a small school grounds.Tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of craftsmen gathered here, shoulder to shoulder, with almost no gaps.

Accompanied by Zhou Yuji and others, Li Cunming, wearing court clothes, a crown on his head, and a seven-star sword hanging on his waist, walked grandly to the simple general ordering platform.

Looking down from the Dianjiangtai, seeing the rudimentary school grounds, Li Cunming thought to himself: "Ningling is too small to support my ambitions!"

Then he came back to his senses, cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "Soldiers and craftsmen, we won the battle to defend Ningling, and you have contributed a lot. I have wanted to come and see you for a long time, but the state affairs are complicated. delayed until now."

"I have thousands of words, but I don't know how to start them. All I can say is, I remember your bravery and fearlessness, your righteousness and selflessness, Wang Yi who captured Li Guo alive but is still dying, and I remember working sick to the end. The exhausted Qi Tianming..."

Li Cunming was emotional, drew out his sword and said: "Maybe you all think that you are small people, small people who are struggling to survive in troubled times. But I want to tell you that small people can also be great heroes. You are all good friends of my Ming Dynasty." Erlang, is the hero of my Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live, long live!" The school field shouted like thunder.

"I declare that from now on, the soldiers' pay will be increased to two taels of silver per month, and the treatment of the craftsmen will be the same, and the guard station and craftsman registration systems will be abolished."

As soon as this remark came out, the school ground fell into silence.Then he shouted "Long live", knelt down and kowtowed to thank you.

The treatment of soldiers and craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was appallingly poor. A soldier’s annual salary was less than eight taels of silver, and he would face deduction and arrears from his superiors at any time, so morale was not high.

The same is true for the craftsmen, who are poorly paid, naturally lose their enthusiasm and creativity, not to mention the waste of many technologies, and the weapons they produce are uneven.

The salary of two taels a month is three times higher than before. How can they not be excited?
What is even more ecstatic is the abolition of the guard and craftsman registration system, which is more affordable than the amount of money given. This move is really what they dream of.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a good emperor, and he broke his heart for the people of the world.But the bad thing was that he was too worried.

The founding of the country established the system of guards and craftsmen to solve the problem of military pay and for the common people to have a fixed job so that they would not lose their jobs.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand that a vibrant country should not keep the common people firmly in one place, but should allow the population to flow and the class to flow.

Later history also proved this point. The guard system reduced low-ranking soldiers to slaves of high-ranking officers, and large areas of military land were also filled by senior officers, which could not support the soldiers at all.

However, the craftsman registration system makes the craftsmen miserable. The so-called "dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and rats can make holes". Down and out for a lifetime.

The emperor's will is nothing more than a life-saving straw!

"I assure you that those who have merit will be rewarded and will never be stingy; those who have done wrong will be punished and will never break the law!"

Li Cunming continued: "Chase Qi Tianming as the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, and give him a good burial. Qi Dazhuang, promote you to be a member of the Ministry of Industry, and take over the Military Weapons Bureau."

"Your Majesty, Xiaomin doesn't want to be a member of the Ministry of Industry, and he is not familiar with the affairs of the Ordnance Bureau. You should let me join the army." Qi Dazhuang said.

Li Cunming said: "Forget it, since this is the case, I will choose someone else who is capable. It is not bad for you to join the army. You are familiar with the operation of hot air balloons. When you make many hot air balloons in the future, I will form an air force, and you will be my parachutist." Bar."

"Thank you!" Qi Dazhuang smiled happily.

(End of this chapter)