Chapter 308 How can there be forty years in the world to supervise the country?

Author: My little carp

Chapter 308 How can there be forty years in the world to supervise the country?

one year later.

Daming Palace, Imperial Study Room.

Zhu Wuwu sat on the throne and kept giving instructions on the memorial. He had done this at Hulong Villa for twenty years. Now he just changed the place and he was very skilled.

However, he still made unified requirements for the memorials of various governments and ministries: small matters must be two hundred words, and major matters must be within five hundred words, otherwise they will be fined.

Otherwise, you won’t be able to finish it, or you won’t be able to finish it at all.

During this one year of supervising the country, he did not carry out drastic reforms and only did two things.

The first thing: large-scale cultivation of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other high-yielding crops traded from foreign countries.

In fact, these things were brought to the Ming Dynasty when Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty went to the West. However, because he did not bring much, he could only cultivate them slowly and select seeds.

Afterwards, Chengzu died and the people died and the government ceased, so it was over.

But Zhu Wuwu had read ancient and modern classics and already knew the whereabouts and habits of these crops.

At that time, Zheng He led a fleet of more than 30,000 people and more than 40 large ships on seven voyages to the Western Ocean, visiting more than 30 countries and regions, covering a distance of millions of miles.

Later, an important official dossier was left behind, called "Zheng He's Mission to Shui Cheng".

This dossier contains a large amount of original information about Zheng He's voyages to the West, such as technical information on Zheng He's treasure ships, the charts used by the fleet, and the customs and habits of various countries.

During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor ordered Xiang Zhong, Minister of War, to search Zheng He's old archives. After three days of searching, he was surprised to find nothing.

Xiang Zhong asked: Where are the files?

Liu Daxia, who was a chauffeur at the time, replied: The three-guarantee voyage to the West cost hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died. What is the benefit of getting the treasure? Although the old files are still there, they should be destroyed, so why are we still asking questions?

In short, it’s just two words: gone.

In the end, of course, the matter was settled.

But Zhu Mingli knew clearly that the Liu family was one of the largest maritime smuggling companies in the South China Sea.

Although these families are not well-known, their wealth is astonishing, and they control almost all affairs in the coastal area. Even the local parents and officials look up to them.

In their eyes, changing parents is just a matter of words.

If Thirteen Thousand hadn't stepped in midway, he wouldn't even have known about shipping.

As for these high-yielding crops, do those families know about them? Of course they do. They even clearly understand that if these crops are popularized, they can benefit all people and feed tens of millions of people.

There is great hunger at every year and people cannibalize each other. This kind of thing will never happen again. It can be said that the merits will last forever.

But the only thing they did was to plant these crops in their own gardens. Occasionally, they would take some friends to show off and appreciate them: this is an exotic Western grass, with a high yield per acre and a unique taste.

As for releasing it and letting the miserable common people plant it so that they can have enough to eat?

impossible!

If everyone has enough food, warm clothes, and a place to live, then how can they have their current status and rights? Who will cultivate so many fields in their homes?

How can we force those miserable ordinary people to spend their entire lives working for them?

Only by making those people poorer, more miserable, and more difficult to live, will the rich and powerful families like them live happier.

In the past, Zhu Mingwu could ignore it, but it is different now. He is the prince of the prison country, and all the people in the world belong to him.

If these crops can be promoted, the population of the Ming Dynasty can at least double within ten years. By then, history will be like iron. Will he not be a wise emperor?

The second thing: root out evil!

This kind of thing is actually very simple. If you shoot the first bird with an arrow, you have the intelligence relationship with Dragon Guard Villa. Whichever house is awesome, you can beat them.

According to what the little yellow cat said, Ming Dynasty does not allow anyone to be more awesome than him!

Of course, there is actually another important purpose in doing this: to scare the monkeys, demonstrate authority, and eliminate dissidents.

Naturally, there are many people who are dissatisfied with him as a prisoner of the country. It's okay to obey the government, but some even directly oppose him. Why do such people still exist?

This is to block the progress of Ming Dynasty and directly capture them and send them to farm.

Only when all the officials obey his orders and act in unison with him can he continue to execute his plan smoothly.

The other most important thing is to make money!

During the hundreds of years of peace in the Ming Dynasty, every one of those big families could be said to be extremely wealthy. In just one year, he robbed five large families, ten medium-sized families, and three smugglers, and he plundered money worth tens of millions.

Two silver taels of fields, shops, and treasures.

Ming Dynasty's finances suddenly became lighter.

Only when you have money can you do things, otherwise who will work hard for you?

His actions naturally made the entire officialdom full of complaints. The memorials and letters sent to Northern Xinjiang every day could be used as firewood, but they either couldn't find Zhengde, or they worked hard to find it, but they were all dismissed with one sentence.

"Is it your uncle who oversees the country or you? You have a lot of free time. Do you want to come and fight with me? Come on, let's go to the grassland to harvest grass and grain together!"

As for some big players simply rising up and wanting to rebel? That's not a big problem.

In the past year, Zhengde has also done two things.

The first thing: in the first half of the year, we swept across northern Xinjiang. One person took Cao Zhengchun and a thousand black cavalry, and they did not sleep and stopped all the way. They swept across the nine borders and beat any tribe that refused to obey.

The second thing: In the second half of the year, he led a thousand black cavalry to patrol the country's border defenses, reducing the army of one million to half a million, and beating anyone who refused.

Of course, many of them were free pay. According to the calculations of the great scholar Wang Yangming, by eliminating half of the army, the Ming Dynasty's combat power would not decrease but increase.

It's so outrageous.

"Your Majesty, Grand Master of Wenyuan Pavilion, Wang Yangming would like to see you." Eunuch Sun came in to report.

"please."

Wang Yangming walked in slowly: "Meet the prince."

"Without courtesy, Bachelor Wang, how did you go about the task I gave you?" Zhu Wuwu asked calmly.

Not long ago, he understood the reason why Zhengde promoted Wang Yangming so quickly. After knowing him for a long time, he realized that this man's martial arts skills and talents were not inferior to him.

Wang Yangming saluted: "I report to the Supervisory State that three thousand accountants who are proficient in using new accounting methods and new numbers have been trained. In a short period of time, the shortage of internal treasury, national treasury, six ministries-related properties, silver taels, etc. has been found.

This is the relevant defect memorial."

Let Eunuch Sun take the memorial, Zhu Wuwu flipped through a few pages and sighed: "Shocking."

It can be said that among these six films, every one counts, and there is basically no one that is not worth it.

Yes, if you work hard to pass the imperial examination, if you don’t make a fortune, is it worth the hard work of studying day and night?

"Jian Guo, how are you going to solve it?" Wang Yangming asked curiously.

Zhu Wulan pondered for a while and felt helpless. If this kind of thing was not handled well, the entire Ming Dynasty might be paralyzed.

"Wei Chen feels that this matter should not be too involved, and it is better to only punish the culprit. In addition, the salary of the Ming Dynasty is not enough for the officials to live a decent life, so the salary should also be mentioned..." Wang Yangming gave his opinion directly.

Along the way to Longchang, he realized the true truth, the knowledge of the husband's mind, which leads to conscience. If knowledge and action are unified, something will happen.

That is to say, all things must know how they are, know why they are the way they are, and investigate their roots.

Zhu Wuwu nodded: "As it should be."

Wang Yangming continued to present a memorial: "After sorting out the financial files of the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years, and comparing the historical materials of the previous dynasties. The minister also discovered that the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty may be damaged, and it is also inseparable from the national affairs of the past dynasties.

It won’t take three hundred years to get rid of the problem.”

"Oh? Bachelor Wang, please tell me." Zhu Wulan became interested.

He had to admit that what Wang Yangming said and did sometimes really surprised him.

“The first and most important issue is one that has been encountered by all dynasties: land annexation.

Prince, think about it, the Ming Dynasty has been at peace for hundreds of years, as long as there are no wars and no major disasters, the population will only increase.

But there is only so much land, and those big households are still using various methods to annex the land, what will happen in the future?" Wang Yangming asked.

Zhu Mingwang thought for a while: "Since the Han Dynasty, people have been able to buy and sell their own land. Since the Qin Dynasty opened Qianmo, the fields have been opened and expanded by common people. However, in the end, these fields were basically acquired by the rich and noble.

The rich can buy fields if they have funds, and the nobles can occupy fields if they have the strength. Those who plow the fields can only contribute to the rich and powerful families. The common people are no different from the cattle and horses plowing the fields.

In the end, more and more people became slaves and servants, and could only become vassals of those wealthy families, losing everything."

Wang Yangming nodded: "Indeed, I call the output of all the land in the Ming Dynasty the total productivity. Although the land in the Ming Dynasty is large, it is ultimately limited, so the productivity is also limited, and the population that can be fed is also limited.

If big households take away most of the productivity, leaving tens of millions of people to live on the most basic means, then as long as there is a major disaster, the overthrow of all the people will only happen in a matter of seconds.

It's okay if it's just one major disaster. If the Ming Dynasty encounters various disasters in certain years, there will only be one result: the entire Ming Dynasty will collapse."

Zhu Wuwu was surprised: "How could it be such a coincidence?"

"Yes!" Wang Yangming said firmly: "I have summarized the historical data of past dynasties. In fact, the desolation of most dynasties is not external troubles, but many internal worries.

Those people always say that in the last years of the dynasty, great disasters occurred constantly because of the influence of heaven and man, and that the emperor had no virtue. But is it possible that the land where we live has constant natural disasters every two or three hundred years?

At that time, the big families and the imperial court were already pushing the common people to the limit, and there were constant disasters. There was only one result: the government forced the people to rebel! They had no choice but to rebel! Because they all wanted to live."
To be continued...