Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

The carriage was running very steadily, and Zhang Xin fell asleep while thinking about it.

I slept all the way to the imperial farm in the capital.

Although the New Year has passed, spring has arrived.

But the imperial farm was located in the north of the imperial city and was even colder than the capital. There was still remnant snow hanging on the trees along the road and there was not a trace of green on the ground.

After the group settled down in the imperial farm, it began to darken.

There was an extra uncle, Uncle Twenty, at the family dinner that evening.

Zhu Zhanyong, Zhu Zhanzang, and Zhu Jiabao were all very curious about their twentieth uncle. After they had eaten and had their tea, they started asking questions.

"Uncle Twenty, will there be torture instruments hanging in the Ministry of Justice?"

This is what Zhu Zhanji asked.

"Uncle Twenty, my eldest brother said there are a lot of bad guys in the prison of the Ministry of Justice? What do the bad guys look like? Are they ugly?"

This is what Zhu Jiabao asked.

"Twenty Uncle, is it fun to work in the Ministry of Justice?"

This is what Zhu Zhanyong asked.

After Zhu Song answered them one by one, various questions continued to pour out.

"I heard that beheaders drink alcohol to boost their courage before chopping off someone's head?"

"Can we go to the execution?"

"Brother said there are a lot of bad things in the law. Has it been changed now?"

"How does Uncle Grandpa judge a case? Is he like a storyteller, banging the gavel and throwing a wooden stick?"

"Are all the people in prison extremely vicious?"

"..."

Although Zhu Song was a little confused about the answers to the questions, he still answered them all carefully and clearly.

Some of them can even quote from classics, and they can recite the relevant laws and regulations from the Ming Dynasty Law and Edicts at will.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Xin rarely had to deal with the various whims of the little ones, so they just sat by and drank tea leisurely.

When Zhu Song had already talked about many provisions of the "Great Ming Code" before Zhang Xin stood up and interrupted the little ones' noise, and asked the people who followed them to take them back to the house to wash up and rest.

When Zhu Song was hesitating whether he should go back to the house, Zhu Gaochi just said that it was a holiday and had him sent away.

Zhu Gaochi, who had earned some time to spend alone together, was extremely beautiful. He turned around and looked at Zhang Xin who seemed to be thinking about something, then he sighed resignedly:

"Go ahead, what do you want to say?"

"I think Uncle Twenty can go work for the Beijing News."

Zhang Xin felt that Zhu Zhanji's decision to let a young eunuch be in charge of the Beijing News was only a temporary measure. After all, matters involving literati should be managed by literati.

But the civil officials in the court cannot be used.

She had always remembered that she had made Fang Xiaoru sick in her previous life.

If intellectuals were allowed to control the Beijing newspaper, it would be hard to say what would happen to it.

So it can only be our own people.

Originally, she wanted to use her eleventh uncle, Prince of Shu Zhu Chun, but Zhu Chun managed Shu very well and had used Fang Xiaoru before. Zhu Chun was also a brother of her nineteenth uncle, Prince of Gu Zhu Tan, who had attempted to rebel in his previous life, from the same mother, so the matter was shelved.

Now it seems that my twenty-uncle, the King of Han, could be of use.

As for the King of Han himself, in terms of knowledge, he is exactly the same as I just heard him talking to the little ones.

Judging from the maternal family and the wife's family of the King of Han, although the maternal family is not prominent, the Princess of Han is the granddaughter of Feng Guoyong, the Duke of Ying, who was a founding hero of the dynasty and the grandfather of the Emperor.

Duke of Ying, Feng Guoyong, died early, leaving behind a young son, Feng Cheng, so his younger brother, Feng Sheng, took over the leadership of Feng Guoyong's tribe. Feng Sheng was later also given the title of Duke of Song.

Therefore, Princess Han was born into a legitimate Duke's Mansion and was a direct descendant of military merit.

Although there were two concubines in the backyard, they were just concubines and did not cause any waves in the backyard.

Zhang Xin roughly explained his idea. Zhu Gaochi thought about it for a while, but did not deny it. He just suggested:

"Observe for a few days?"

"okay."

Zhang Xin nodded.

Zhang Xin started to work hard. Zhu Gaochi felt that if he didn't sort out the things that had accumulated during the Spring Festival, Zhang Xin would not be able to have a good holiday. So

Then he talked about some important court affairs that had not been resolved before the New Year.

Zhu Di worked very fast and accomplished a lot before the end of the year.

Zhu Gaochi originally expected his father to be unable to resist and go to war, but his father did not.

It only stirs up trouble in the country.

The first thing was that Zhu Di finally realized that he was doing something that an emperor shouldn't do.

He wrote a letter asking Zhu Gaochi to send censors to travel across the country to investigate the success or failure of official administration and the sufferings of the people.

During the New Year, the censors who had to go on business trips had smiles on their faces but tears in their hearts.

When leaving Beijing, Zhu Gaochi's back looked extremely desolate.

Zhu Gaochi felt that it was fortunate that he had already settled the issue of official land steadily.

These honest censors, in addition to their annual salaries and rewards, also received subsidies for their official land, so they were not so poor.

Otherwise, he would definitely be put in a sack.

After sending away the censor, Zhu Di's second thing came - to dig the Qingjiangpu.

The reason was that in mid-December, Zhu Di went to Huai'an to visit Chen Xuan, the Earl of Pingjiang.

After chatting for a while, Chen Xuan brought up things related to canal transportation.

After the ships from the south of the Yangtze River arrived in Huai'an, they had to cross the dam by land to cross the Huai River and reach the mouth of Qingjiang River, which was very labor-intensive. The local elders suggested to him that there was Guanjia Lake to the west of Huai'an City, which was only 20 miles away from the Yachenkou of the Huai River and was in a straight line with the mouth of Qinghe River. They should dig a river to divert the lake water into the Huai River to facilitate the passage of the ships.

Zhu Di thought about it and wrote a letter to Zhu Gaochi asking him to order the excavation of Qingjiangpu.

When everyone was getting ready for the New Year, suddenly, a big job was thrown at them, and everyone was pale.

Zhu Gaochi was so angry that his teeth were itching.

Wait until he has explained the matter clearly.

Zhu Di’s third incident came to light.

They said they wanted to come up with some kind of transportation system, which would require the common people to pay rent at designated granaries nearby, and the military would be responsible for transportation.

There is also a special note:

If the common people participated in transporting grain, they would no longer have to pay grain taxes;

If the common people paid the grain tax, they would not have to participate in grain transportation.

It can be said to be a policy that benefits the people.

Originally, grain from the south was transported to the north by sea, which was greatly affected by sea waves, tides and wind direction. It is reasonable to change to inland river transportation now.

This letter from Zhu Di is connected to the previous letter.

After the north-south grain transport rivers are completely connected, it would be a good idea to transport grain domestically by river instead of sea.

So as soon as he received the letter, Zhu Gaochi was quite happy to take care of this matter.

But after he finished talking with the cabinet and Zhang Xin, he realized that it was a sinkhole, a huge sinkhole.

First it was the cabinet. When the people in the cabinet heard it, they got furious.

Let’s not talk about the issue of troops being mobilized later to provide support for transportation. At the very least, there should be a granary nearby, right?

What is considered close?

How big should the granary be?

Taxes are levied twice a year. How many times do you plan to transport them?

In the end, it all comes down to how many granaries should be set up in how many locations to be enough?

Who is in charge of the granary? Who is responsible if there is a shortage of food?

Etc., etc--

After discussing for several days and staying up late for several nights, we finally figured out a rough idea of ​​the matter.