Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

The imperial edict, the old crooked neck tree and the pit.

"So, Mr. Jiang actually has one more class to finish?"

Zhu Gaoxu scratched his beard and asked Li Jinglong sideways.

"good."

Li Jinglong said with great certainty: "When I first talked about the "On National Destiny", I talked about how to extend the life of the dynasty and improve the Ming Dynasty's land system. From the root, we must solve the three major burdens that farmers have to pay taxes to the country. "

"Because these three major burdens are exactly the three main means used by the landlord class to annex self-cultivated farmland."

"If these three major burdens are resolved, the speed of land annexation and the ratio of the landlord class can be suppressed, thereby achieving the purpose of stabilizing the tax base of the dynasty and extending the life of the dynasty."

“The first is corvee service, which has been solved in theory through ‘sharing the service into the acres’. Homeowner farmers no longer need to perform corvee service and delay their farming work.”

"The second is food. This is solved through the 'silver banknotes'. Farmers only need to hand over banknotes, and no more food is needed to prevent corrupt officials from exploiting food through various means."

"The third one is farming cattle and seeds. Jiang Lang hasn't talked about this yet."

Today, Yuan Gong, who was invited by Jinyiwei commander Ji Gang to treat the injured in the prison, also came over. The four of them sat down in a square shape around a tree pit full of soil and broken roots and stems.

Jiang Xinghuo, who was forcefully dragged over, seemed a little listless and kept sighing.

Seeing that the teacher was not interested in class, the three of them didn't care. Instead, they spread their thoughts and started spontaneous group discussions.

It seems that a good academic style has been formed.

Yuan Gong heard it freshly. He had never heard of "On National Destiny", but he got the flavor from just a few sentences relayed by Li Jinglong.

It's a big deal to banish an immortal~

It's like standing in the sky and overlooking the human world for hundreds of years. Not only has he seen through the joys and sorrows of the world, but he has also found a solution.

In Yuan Gong's heart, this is really extraordinary.

Yuan Gong was from a standard family of top scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty. In the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, he would have been a high-ranking nobleman with five surnames and Qi Wang. Needless to say, his family and academic origins.

After the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, although his family fell into decline and even his entire clan was wiped out, Yuan Gong walked out of that small world and traveled around the world from then on. He not only saw the countless miseries of the common people, but also came into contact with countless high-ranking officials because of his physiognomy. dignitary.

Later, when the Ming Dynasty was established, Yuan Gong became a minister, then resigned and returned home.

Yuan Gong's life can be said to be rich in experience, and he has seen everyone.

——But he has never seen anyone like Jiang Xinghuo.

He is full of rationalism, as if he is a sage who is always ready to die as a martyr, and his vision and structure are surprisingly high, as if he has seen through the long river of history from above.

There is no need to say much about wisdom. I will not talk about the previous ones. I will just talk about it in order to solve the three major burdens of the farmers.

Yuan Gong didn't know what silver banknotes were, but the government and opposition parties were about to push the idea of ​​serving as slaves to their mothers, which was a great merit for countless living people!

You said people like Jiang Xinghuo are not banished immortals. Who is the banished immortal?

Not to mention that Yuan Gong had countless thoughts, but Zhu Gaoxu expressed his opinions directly.

“Cows and seeds?”

"I don't know how to deal with the seeds. It's hard to farm cattle? Just go and fight the Mongols on the grassland. As long as you clear out Beiyuan, won't you get millions of cattle and sheep?"

Zhu Gaoxu waved his fist: "By then, the imperial court will be able to provide as many cattle as the farmers in the world need!"

Yuan Gong hesitated to speak, but Li Jinglong simply spoke.

"Different."

"Why is it different?" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned.

"The breeds of cattle on the grassland are different from those of farm cattle." Li Jinglong explained as if he was a fool. "I only talk about farm cattle. There are many cattle in the north and buffalo in the south of the Yangtze River. As for the Mongolians, they are grassland cattle, used for meat and milking. Yes, they are good at moving and migrating, and their meat is fat and fat. They are not the same thing as farm cattle. They can be domesticated without being trained for several generations."

Li Jinglong put it another way: "Just like your eagle, a beast born and raised wildly. How long does it take to become a lovely person who is close to people and listens to people's orders?"

Yuan Gong then pulled the roots of the tree and said: "When training cattle to plow the fields, they first let the calf pull something behind it, which is the root of a tree of this thickness. The purpose is to let it exercise its physical strength. When practicing plowing, When practicing field skills, you will put a nose ring on the cow, just like putting a rein on a horse, so that the calf will be obedient and will not eat the crops in the field even if it is very hungry. As for the password, it is also slow. Nothing is achieved overnight if you train slowly.”

"That's true."

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and then shook his head. It seemed that his attention was indeed unfeasible.

"Then do you think there is any way to solve the problem of cattle farming?"

Hearing this, several people fell into deep thought.

Yes, is there any way to solve the cattle problem?

"If we can get hundreds of thousands of horses, whether for robbery or trade, it should be possible, right?" Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said, "I don't think it's impossible for horses and cattle to plow the same land. Horses are better than other beasts." Farmland is easier to control.”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately refuted it.

Li Jinglong shook his head again and said: "No, the price of horses in the Ming Dynasty is high. The reason is that even if the horse farmers specialize in raising them, they spend countless money and energy every year. The cost of using them as livestock to plow the fields is too high; and the southern grain-producing areas are It is so narrow and densely populated that most of the cattle needed for farming are buffaloes, and it is difficult for horses to adapt to paddy fields.”

Yuan Gong nodded immediately, thinking that Li Jinglong was right. The most worrying issue for any Central Plains dynasty is horse politics, because the raising of horses is too expensive. Ordinary people can afford to raise cattle, but they cannot afford to raise horses for free.

Everyone shook their heads, expressing their helplessness.

a moment ago.

"Where did we talk today?"

Zhu Di put on his favorite ordinary black armor, broke into the secret room with a knife, looked at the two clerks and asked.

Behind him was Zhu Gaochi who was moving slowly.

The two clerks shivered in fright.

Last night and this morning, the screams in Nanjing didn't stop.

I heard that Emperor Lei Ting was so furious that he personally led troops to capture Prince Gu's mansion. All the rebels who resisted inside were cut into pieces by the leader, leaving no one alive.

The alleys on both sides turned into rivers of blood, and corpses piled up like mountains. The entire capital was shaken, and the people were frightened and discussed the matter one after another.

Some of the brave ones even quietly ran to Prince Gu's mansion, which had become a murderous place, to see the corpses whose heads, limbs, or torsos had been chopped off, making them break out in a cold sweat.

It is said that there is also a gangster who is known as a bold man. After reading it, he fell ill when he returned home and is now bedridden.

As for Nanjing City, it is even more heavily guarded.

The veterans of the Yan army, armed with guns and bows, closed all the city gates, and no one was allowed in or out, including the nobles of the court and the six ministers.

The atmosphere in the palace was several times more tense than usual.

Anyone with some discernment now knows that King Gu failed in his rebellion and the emperor was furious!

What's more, things were so serious this time. King Gu actually dared to plan a regicide rebellion, which was really audacious.

Although King Gu is also one of the eight Great Sai Kings, who would have thought that he would actually dare to do something like rebellion?

What's even worse is that all of a sudden, all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky, and there are all kinds of versions.

Some people say that King Gu secretly hid Emperor Jianwen in his mansion a few months ago. Now the emperor discovered it, so the emperor used the name of King Gu to rebel and sent out a large army. The purpose was actually to kill the hidden Emperor Jianwen. .

Some people say that King Gu has long coveted the throne, so he planned to send troops to kill them all when the emperor went to the prison to visit the second prince, and then become the emperor himself.

Of course, rumors will only spread more and more outrageously. Basically, in the end, one person will talk about the city gate building, and the next person will spread it as a hip bone axis.

In short, when Chai Che and Guo Jing saw the murderous emperor, who had just finished beheading people and then continued his educational journey, they felt quite complicated.

"We haven't started speaking yet. The second prince and the others are discussing." Guo Jing did not dare to look at Zhu Di's face and speak. She just lowered her head and said honestly: "Mr. Jiang is in a low mood today. He keeps sighing and doesn't seem to want to teach."

Chai Che glared at him, indicating that he should say whatever he wanted and not add his own subjective judgment.

"Weird."

Zhu Di didn't take it seriously. He took off his knife, took off his skirt and armor himself, and then sat on the chair with his half-armor on.

At this time, Zhu Gaochi also slowly moved in and sat on the special wide chair as if he was relieved.

"It's not surprising." Zhu Gaochi sighed, "Father, banishing an immortal cannot be justified by common sense. We are still blocking their way. What if we cut off our heads and shed our mortal bodies and become immortals? .”

Zhu Gaochi put his thick fingers on his temples like bamboo shoots and rubbed them, and said softly: "I don't know if Yuan Gong saw something. The number one fortune teller in the world and the top real person in the Taoist sect must be something." Right?"

"I hope so." Zhu Di frowned more and more as he listened, "What is this bastard, the second brother, talking about? Using horses to plow the fields, it's a shame he can think of it!"

Zhu Di was not in a good mood today. He originally planned to go to Susong Jiahu to lead troops to personally implement the issue of sharing labor into the land. Now that the rebellion of King Gu suddenly happened, he could only postpone the plan temporarily.

Fortunately, I still caught up with a class, although Jiang Xinghuo didn't start teaching at all.

Zhu Di turned his head and asked, "What do you think about farming cattle and seeds?"

Zhu Gaochi also said with some embarrassment: "Father, it is definitely impossible to solve this matter. The number of cattle and seeds cannot be increased out of thin air. And, in fact, even if they increase, the difficulty is not in themselves."

Hearing this, Zhu Di hummed. He already understood what his big boy meant.

"It's just like the "Green Miao Law", where officials use it to raise and lower their hands, right?"

"Yes." Zhu Gaochi sighed helplessly, "Of the three major burdens proposed by Mr. Jiang, corvee refers to the extra labor of farmers themselves, and grain refers to the wasted part of paying taxes. As for farming cattle and seeds, to put it bluntly, isn't it The farming itself?”

"Corvee service, handing over grain, farming."

"The three major burdens are like three mountains weighing on the farmers' heads."

“It’s been like this for thousands of years, and it’s been like this for thousands of generations.”

Zhu Gaochi said bluntly to his father: "In fact, to put it bluntly, the changes in agriculture in the past dynasties are just to help farmers produce more food and reduce the troubles other than farming? But unfortunately, they all fail to get what they ask for. .”

"Your grandpa Huang once said that the vastness of the world means the largest farmland. This is the foundation of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Di looked at the wall.

"You said that many emperors and generals have not solved the problem since ancient times. Mr. Jiang, can you solve it?"