Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1969 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-])
Thanks to the fact that the Kunning Palace is far away, after Gao Wushi and Liu Ping continued to talk about the recent personnel arrangement of the Kunning Palace, they still had time to talk about the [-] hectares of arable land in Nanyang.

As I said before, the area where the so-called "[-] hectares of cultivated fertile land" is located is the southern part of Sumatra Island, which is roughly located in South Sumatra and Lampung Provinces of later Indonesia, accounting for nearly half of the main cultivated land in these two provinces. about.In addition, the area of ​​arable land that the two provinces can provide to the emperor as overseas Huangzhuang is also about the same, which is half and half.

Liu Ping was not in vain during this time. He sent someone to roughly inquire about the agricultural situation around the "Old Land of Xuanweisi in the Old Port".

However, the local Chinese businessmen and descendants of the Chinese have said that the local climate, hydrology and other conditions are actually very good. Not to mention that it will definitely be able to produce three species a year, but two species a year will certainly be no problem.

When Liu Ping and Gao Yushi mentioned this, they mainly wanted to ask Gao Yushi to make sure. Who knew that Gao Yushi laughed and said: "From the perspective of climate and hydrology, the two places assigned to Overseas Huangzhuang are actually the same. Rice can be planted all year round, but doing so may lead to loss of field fertility, so for the sake of long-term, it is recommended to grow two kinds of rice a year, and the water will flow for a long time."

Liu Ping suddenly said: "Oh...so that's the case, Master Hou is really far-sighted." Having said that, from Liu Ping's slightly flickering eyes, he might not be too satisfied with two things a year.

"It's not impossible to think of three kinds a year..." Gao Wushi said: "Jinghua has been studying how to maintain the fertility of the land these years, and it has made some progress. Although the fertility of the land in southern Xinjiang is good, the They are also starting to implement some methods to maintain the fertility of the land, and the effect is not bad. If Nanyang Huangzhuang needs this in the future, Jinghua will not hesitate to pass on the skills.”

Liu Ping was very surprised: "Is there such an ingenious method?"

The word "ingenious workmanship" seems inappropriate to be used here, but Liu Ping was not born as a Jinshi master, and he was too pragmatic to care about it. Anyway, he could understand what he wanted to express.

Gao Wushi said: "This set of methods... may be a bit complicated for ordinary farmers, especially when they first come into contact. Therefore, this requires them to first cooperate. It doesn't matter if they don't understand, just do it; second. You must study hard, and you must not miss every step, let alone do the wrong steps at the wrong time, and you must strictly follow the instructions of Jinghua technicians, and you must not be lazy."

Liu Ping patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry about these things, Lord Hou, the slaves have basically arranged the arrangements. The first batch of [-] military households that are going to be sent to Nanyang are all carefully selected by the slaves. Every household has at least one young male. There are no 'little' in their family, but there are 'old', so they must not dare to be lazy in their work, otherwise how can they support the elderly?

Besides, the servant girl specifically said that if the servant girl refuses to work hard, the servant girl will not send the big girls and daughter-in-laws to Nanyang, then they will be the last ones in Nanyang... That's it, are you afraid that they will be disobedient? "

High pragmatism sounds silly, I'm afraid you are not born to be a black-hearted capitalist?As far as your thinking is concerned, if it is not really necessary to develop Nanyang now, I should hang you up as soon as possible, so as to be worthy of my party skin back then.

"Then... if they do a good job, do you have any suggestions for rewards?" Gao Wushi asked after a long while without words.

"Working hard is a matter of course, what reward is needed for this, Master Hou is really... er, Master Hou is so benevolent and righteous."

Gao Wushi said angrily: "Your management method is not good! Liu Ping, Liu Ping, you really don't read books. Let me ask you, have you read Su Dongpo's "On Punishment, Reward and Loyalty?"

Liu Ping said in embarrassment: "Well, how can this servant compare her knowledge with Master Hou's six top scholars? To tell you the truth, if you don't mention this article, this servant really hasn't even heard of the name...it's Dong Layman Poe wrote it?"

Gao Wushi shook his head helplessly and said, "Let me read a passage and you listen carefully."

"Yes, yes, thank you Lord Hou for your guidance."

"The "Book" said: 'The suspicion of crime is light, and the doubt of merit is serious. Rather than killing innocent people, it is better to lose. There can be no punishment, but the punishment exceeds righteousness. If it exceeds benevolence, you will still be a gentleman;

In ancient times, rewards were not based on honors, and punishments were not based on swords and saws.Rewarding with juelu means that the way of reward is applied to what juelu adds, but not what juelu does not add; punishment is based on knife and saw, and the power of punishment is applied to what the knife and saw can reach, but not to what the knife and saw can't reach.

The former king knew that goodness in the world cannot be rewarded, but juelu is not enough to persuade; he knew that evil in the world cannot be punished, but a knife and saw are not enough to cut it.Therefore, if you doubt it, you will return it to benevolence, treat the world with the way of a gentleman and an elder, and make the world follow each other and return to the way of a gentleman and an elder, so it is said that loyalty is the ultimate. "

After hearing this, Liu Ping was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and said, "This seems to be a matter that the Ministry of Punishment should be in charge of. What does it have to do with Nanyang Huangzhuang?"

"The reason is understandable." After Gao Yushi finished speaking, seeing that he still couldn't understand, he said: "According to "Shen Zi", Confucius once said: The ancient wise kings understood the virtues of the people and made the best of the people, so there is no Virtue is abolished, and there is no simple people. Rewards have nothing to do, and punishments have nothing to try.

The Yu family did not reward or punish, but the people could use it, and it was the most virtuous;Rewards are not overdue, and the people are expected to quickly obtain the benefits of doing good; "

Then he asked: "You can always understand this paragraph, right? If not, you can always understand the last sentence, right? — Rewards are not overdue, and punishments are not exempt."

These eight words are easy to understand, that is to say, rewards should not be outdated, so that the people can quickly get the benefits of doing good deeds; punishments should be implemented on the spot, so that the people can quickly see the consequences of doing bad things.

Although Gao Yushi uses this as a comparison here, it is a bit like referring to Daming as the Zhou Dynasty that Confucius said "the decline of virtue", but Liu Ping can't hear it anyway, but he understands Gao Yushi's intention: "Oh, you always Say...if there are only punishments but no rewards, even those people seem to be working hard, but because they have nothing to do, they will not work hard in the final analysis, will they?"

It seems that if you don't read enough, you don't necessarily have to be stupid. Liu Ping's comprehension ability is still good.

"That's right, that's exactly what I mean." Gao Wushi said: "Although military households are here to cultivate land, they are military households after all, and sometimes some principles in the military are common. Why ban it? Let alone make them willing to work harder."

"Your Majesty really has a good opinion. According to Your Majesty, how should the rules of rewarding meritorious punishments in the Huangzhuang be established so that the Emperor will not blame the slaves for their generosity, and at the same time ensure that these fertile fields can be reclaimed as soon as possible. And a good harvest?"

Oh, it turns out that Liu Fangcai's exploitative practices were partly out of fear that Zhu Yijun would blame him for being generous to the emperor?Well, it's not difficult to understand. After all, such a huge task naturally means huge power and unexplainable benefits. There must be many people secretly coveting it...

Wait a minute.When Gao Yushi thought of this, a face suddenly flashed in his mind——Li Wenjin.

Li Wenjin, the third son of Li Wei, Marquis of the Wu Qing Dynasty, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Li, the third uncle of the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, and the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

The biggest characteristic of this guy is his greed for money, and he has the "capital" of being greedy for money.In order to protect the safety of his sister and nephew, he entered the inner court from the palace and acted as the last safety valve for the mother and son for a long time.It was not until Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Li became Jin Guifei, and Zhu Yijun entered the East Palace that Li Wenjin's task ceased.

Traditionally, older sisters tend to love younger brothers the most, and nephews tend to get close to uncles.Li Wenjin is not only a close relative, but also has such great achievements. After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he naturally became a detached and special existence in the ruling and opposition parties.

To a certain extent, Zhu Yijun was especially fond of the Li family - he gave his grandfather a posthumous gift of An Guogong, gave his uncle a special license to attack the Marquis without giving favor, and appointed his second uncle as the governor of the Chinese army. There is a credit for Li Wenjin.

But such a person, he is a greedy guy.In the early years, Gao Yushi often "made business" with him, gave him some dividend rights in Jinghua's business, and often directly stuffed money. The relationship between the two has always been good.

However, as Zhu Yijun's status became more and more stable, Li Wenjin's protective role to their mother and child in the past has long since disappeared, and Gao Yu's rapid rise in political status has also greatly weakened his need for Li Wenjin's help.Of course, there is also the influence of Queen Mother Li not asking about the government.

In short, Li Wenjin has hardly played a big role in the past ten years. Basically, he is a eunuch who is in charge of the imperial horse and prints. eunuch soldiers.

In fact, the Beijing camp has nothing to supervise the army. Although the imperial guards originally had eunuchs, but because the imperial guards could be said to be under the direct control of the high-practical army (although the name did not even exist in the later period), Qi Jiguang was also highly pragmatic. He is a supportive person, so the supervising army in the Imperial Guard system has almost become a transparent person, without any sense of existence.

Not to mention in the later period, after the establishment of the Daming Royal Military Academy, Gao Yushi created a "declaration" position, and this rule first affected the imperial guards guarding the capital.

Therefore, the Imperial Guard became the first army to set up the post of "Xuanzheng", which was concurrently held by the deputy Xuanzheng of the Daming Royal Military Academy - as mentioned earlier, the Xuanzheng of the Daming Royal Military Academy was the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the deputy Xuanzheng was the Rongzheng of the Ministry of War waiter.

As a result, the Ministry of War has in fact been responsible for directly supervising the Imperial Guards, so the "Jingying Supervising Army", which was originally sent by the Imperial Horse Supervisor or the Great Eunuch himself, has completely become a decoration.

Having said that, one thing is clear: Although Li Wenjin has a high status now, in fact, the only serious power left is the palace ban.

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi suddenly gasped.

Is Li Wenjin loyal?For Queen Mother Li, he must be loyal, so he should also be loyal to Zhu Yijun, the "sister's son".

However, Li Wenjin's loyalty is not extended by extension.In other words, it is very likely that his loyalty is only valid for Queen Mother Li and her son, and it is hard to say if it is to "spread".

Maybe according to ordinary people's opinion, Zhu Yijun's son is also the grandson of Empress Dowager Li, but so what?In Li Wenjin's mind, there is likely to be an idea: the emperor doesn't only have one son, as long as he has a son, isn't it all right?

In this way, considering Li Wenjin's extreme greed for money and his mastery of the imperial confinement power, if someone really wants to use the crooked brain of the emperor's son and not play Li Wenjin's idea, then he is really blind.

Gao Wushi was distracted here, but Liu Ping was puzzled, the question he asked had not yet been answered by Lord Hou.So he asked cautiously: "Master Hou, Master Hou?"

"Ah? Oh..." Gao Wushi came back to his senses and said absent-mindedly: "These rules and regulations are not difficult to deal with. When you and Chen Zhangyin come to my residence, I will ask the secretariat to sort out a list of Jinghua's farms in southern Xinjiang. The rules and regulations are for your reference."

"Oh, thank you so much, Lord Hou. The servants and servants will not dare to forget the great kindness and virtue of Lord Hou." Liu Ping said hastily.

Gao Wushi waved his hand, and asked with a frown, "Is the Jing Army still under the control of Li Wenjin and Li Zhangyin?"

"That's natural." Liu Ping nodded in affirmation, but he added: "But the Jing army is useless long ago. For the palace ban, from the Qianqing Palace to the south, the Han generals are the main ones, and the palace city is Jinyiwei and the army. The Beijing camp takes turns and uses it intermittently.

On the surface, the Jingjun said that it was in charge of the harem, but in fact, the harem, whether it was the Ciqing, the Second Palace of Compassion, or the Kunning Palace, or the East and West Twelve Palaces, actually did not need to be guarded on weekdays, and those rules have long been abandoned. "

"Then..." Gao Wushi thought for a while, and then asked: "Is there anyone in the palace who can ignore all kinds of rules and go anywhere?"

"Isn't that the emperor? Oh, no, the emperor can't, at least the two palaces of Ciqing and Cining, even the emperor can't trespass." Liu Ping pondered: "If you want to say that, it seems that only the queen mother of the two palaces You can go anywhere... But this assumption is useless, how could the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces visit everywhere? The Empress Dowagers care about the rules the most."

Gao Wushi didn't pay attention to this, but asked: "Then what if Li Zhangyin wants to walk around the palace? Will someone stop him?"

"Uh, this..." Liu Ping couldn't help frowning, and after thinking about it seriously, he shook his head and said, "No."

"How can you be sure you won't?" Gao Wushi asked.

"He's an eunuch, and the imperial confinement itself can't restrict him. And his status... is very special. Wherever he goes, he will be regarded as the Empress Dowager, so who dares to stop him!"
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