Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 223 Beating the Noble Family
Half a year passed in a blink of an eye.

In the newly built Fengtian Temple in Luoyang, Zhu Yuanzhang formally summoned representatives of the world's gentry.

From today onwards, Lao Zhu was too lazy to continue pretending. He directly sat on the emperor's throne and met with representatives of all aristocratic families including the Yuan family.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang like this, including Yuan Shao, the faces of all the representatives of the aristocratic families looked very ugly.

After all, it is still the Han family in name, and they are still Han officials, and Zhu Yuanzhang's move is undoubtedly slapping the royal family and slapping them in the face.

"We know what you are thinking right now!"

"I'm afraid half of the people want to kill us and hurry up, don't they?" Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes and stared at all the gentry below.

Seeing that no one answered, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but continued with a smile: "Actually, to be honest, we have endured it for a long time. We conquered many planes before, and we directly killed each plane, killing them. until."

"Only this side of the world, we have been restrained since we entered, and we haven't killed a lot."

"But don't think that we are really vegetarians!"

"When it comes to killing people, we are definitely better than all of you." Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at everyone below him, and he didn't look back until everyone lowered their heads involuntarily.

"It's not that we don't dare to kill you, but we cherish talents."

"Your world is very special. A third-level extraordinary world has not formed a complete cultivation system, and almost all the extraordinary power has been absorbed and refined by your generation."

"Whether your top military generals' personal strength or your top civil servants' brain development are top-notch!"

"If Dahan is a country that is truly highly concentrated and can perfectly dispatch manpower and resources across the country, I even feel that it is impossible for me to conquer this world."

"But unfortunately, you are just a mess."

"This is why I was able to completely conquer the Han Dynasty in just a few years."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Yuan Shao and others below looked at each other in blank dismay.

To be honest, most of them couldn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang was saying at all.

Because many people present still don't know that Zhu Yuanzhang and others are from another world.

Seeing the reactions of these people, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and laughed.

In the past two or three months, he has relaxed a lot of restrictions on their identities. If these people are willing, they must be able to find out something.

But he didn't expect that until today, these people still don't know that he is from another world.

It can only be said that after removing Cao Cao and others, this year's opponents are a bit rubbish!
"Since you don't understand, let's not talk about it!"

With a big wave of Zhu Yuanzhang's hand, several guards in Jin Yi walked in carrying a big box.

"There is actually only one thing to call you here today!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said: "That is to discuss with you the future direction of the great man."

"Let's talk about policies first. There are three most important policies in the future: "First, slavery must be abolished; second, land must be measured; all land must be taxed. "

"Third state-owned mineral resources must be nationalized, especially iron ore."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's eloquent words, a large number of gentry below couldn't help but looked at each other. Although there was no expression on their faces, the shock in their eyes was unstoppable.

"He did announce it!"

"He really dared to announce it directly in front of everyone!"

"Isn't he afraid of chaos in the world?" Yuan Shao roared in his heart.

In fact, these news had already begun to circulate in Luoyang before. When Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the representatives of the world's gentry to discuss matters in Luoyang, everyone had already started talking about it.

For this reason, Yuan Shao even exchanged opinions in private with many representatives of the gentry who came to Beijing.

But everyone felt that Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to take such a big risk.

After all, Wang Mang has already proved that this is a wrong route.

Whoever dares to do this can only be directly torn apart by the gentry of the world.

After all, the world is still in the hands of the gentry.

Even the officials of the imperial court are all gentry. It is simply unrealistic for you to let the children of these aristocratic families harm their own interests and serve the country.

Before entering the main hall today, Yuan Shao was prepared. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely use the gentry today. He had already discussed with many representatives of the gentry. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang did not do too much, they would give up some interests, compromise with Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, in the past few months, everyone has been oppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

This kind of suppression includes all aspects, from open and covert fighting by local armed forces to business competition on the surface to food. It can be said that these aristocratic families have completely failed.

But even so, Yuan Shao and others did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang really had such great courage, and he wanted to achieve it in one step, and the reforms he carried out were more radical than Wang Mang.

This immediately silenced all the gentry.

They are fighting against Zhu Yuanzhang in this way.

And they were not afraid of angering Zhu Yuanzhang, because the death of one or two members of a large family would not hurt their vitality at all. They dared to come to Luoyang, and dared to enter this hall today, which showed that they were not people who were afraid of death.

If Zhu Yuanzhang really dared to break the rules and kill all of them in this hall, he would be fighting with the gentry all over the world.

Even though they don't want to see such a situation, they are not afraid at all.

"Ha ha!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked around, seeing the silence of the crowd, he couldn't help but raised his head and laughed.

Everyone suddenly became puzzled, not understanding what Zhu Yuanzhang's smile meant.

"I have said so many things that make you unhappy, so let me say something that makes you happy!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and opened the box that Jin Yiwei brought in, revealing stacks of drawings.

"Do you know what these are?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

This time, without waiting for everyone to answer, he continued: "This first page of drawings records a kind of loom, which is [-] times more efficient than the loom that the big man is using now."

"And the cloth we wove is better than the best cloth available today."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he looked around at all the aristocratic families: "I don't know who wants this secret recipe?"

Everyone couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva when they heard the words.

No one wants this kind of thing!

But before everyone could speak, Zhu Yuanzhang took out a second drawing.

"This is the process of sugar making. Similarly, both efficiency and process have been optimized to a certain extent. We can guarantee that those who get this process can get more than ten times the profit."

The sound of swallowing saliva sounded again.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to read them one by one, so he took out all the blueprints from the box and signaled Jin Yiwei to hand them to everyone below.

"I'm going to have a showdown with you today!"

"As I said, there are a hundred kinds of secret recipes for sugar making and weaving in this box. They are all advanced techniques that can greatly improve productivity. You can read the introduction in detail. After reading it, you should understand that we are not cheating. Yours."

"We will give these one hundred secret recipes to the first one hundred families who respond to the imperial court's policy, and this family will receive technical support from the imperial court to help him build the corresponding workshop until the workshop is profitable."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, the atmosphere below suddenly became a little weird.

"Ahem, Taiwei Mingjian, my Jiangbei Zhuge family is willing to respond to the imperial court's call!" An old man coughed softly and said directly.

"My Lu family is also willing!"

"There is also my Zhong family, it is my duty to serve the court."

Looking at the appearance of the old men who were still putting on dead faces just now, scrambling to express their determination to him, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile slightly.

He knew that these guys from aristocratic families were smart people, able to see what was the most beneficial choice for his family.

In the past few months, with the continuous dumping of Daming grains here, the price of grains has dropped again and again.

The reduction in food prices has directly led to a great reduction in the value of land.

Zhu Yuanzhang once used this strategy in the Jiajing plane, and the effect was extremely good, and it is also applicable to the Three Kingdoms plane now.

The influx of a large amount of food has made these so-called aristocratic families miserable. The resources they have invested in farming have far exceeded the benefits that the land can receive.

In addition, with the excavation of the Grand Canal, various handicrafts from the Ming National Workshop poured into the entire Han Empire, directly monopolizing local trade.

Under the unscrupulous industrial products and continuous dumping of food in a huge industrial country, there is only one fate waiting for these aristocratic families, and that is complete bankruptcy.

And all of these actions were carried out within reasonable and legal rules.

Even those aristocratic families can't say anything.

Of course they struggled, and even used some extreme methods, but it is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang used reasonable and legal means to rub them on the ground no matter whether it was overt or covert, civil or military.

All of their methods have been used, but still to no avail.

This is also the reason why these aristocratic families responded to Zhu Yuanzhang's call so well this time to come to Luoyang.

They had to figure out where the imperial court got so much food and various daily necessities.

They also had to figure out why the imperial court did this, and what exactly they wanted to do?
At the same time, they also urgently need to find a new means of getting money so that they can continue to maintain the family from decline.

The new technologies and techniques proposed by Zhu Yuanzhang undoubtedly answered all the doubts in their hearts.

It turns out that the reason why Zhu's can have so much grain and so many cheap goods is because of these new techniques!

What surprises them even more is that Zhu Yuanzhang is willing to share these new techniques with them, which is a real life-saving straw.

This is why they are so scrambling to respond to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"The specific negotiations are out of our control!"

"After you go back, you can discuss it with your own family, and then discuss the matter with officials from the relevant departments of the imperial court."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and interrupted the more and more lively scenes of expressing loyalty, and continued: "Since the discussion on this matter is over, the second matter can be discussed next."

"When you go back to the family this time, you can bring back a piece of news. Each family will bring three of the most outstanding disciples, and they will follow me back to Daming for a three-year study abroad."

"In addition to your family disciples, those local officials will also be sent to Daming for further training in batches."

"This will help them gain a deeper understanding of the various systems of the Ming Dynasty, broaden their minds, and truly serve the court in the future."

"In the future, this will also become a custom. The court will completely abolish the system of promoting Xiaolian as an official. The most rigid requirement for entering the court as an official is to have studied in the Ming Dynasty."

Seeing that everyone was still puzzled and confused, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to explain too much and asked them to retreat.

Afterwards, someone will explain to them in detail what is the Great Ming Dynasty, what is called advanced study, and what is called broadening one's mind.

After these people left, Zhu Biao walked in with two Jin Yiwei.

"Father, there is news from Liangzhou!" Zhu Biao said with a smile.

"Oh...!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help being happy when he heard the words, he took Jin Yiwei's letter and opened it to read.

This is Sapphire's reply.

The letter introduced in detail his rectification of the Liangzhou iron cavalry during this period, the most important of which is Jia Xu's role in it.

After reading it, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help grinning.

"This Jia Xu knows the current affairs. I didn't expect him to help Lan Yu so unreservedly. I didn't expect that!"

If it wasn't for the help of Jia Xu, a very prestigious military adviser in the army, it would be impossible for Sapphire to completely control the Liangzhou iron cavalry in such a short period of time.

After all, Liangzhou is actually more complicated than Bingzhou.

Apart from Lu Bu and Ding Yuan, the most prestigious general in Bingzhou is Zhang Liao, and Zhang Liao disappeared unexpectedly because of the war, which gave Zhu Di the opportunity to reform the Bingzhou Army.

But although there is war in Liangzhou now, the war is not in crisis. The most important thing is that there are many talented generals in Bingzhou besides Dong Zhuo.

For example, Hua Xiong, Guo Si, Li Jue, etc., none of these people are fuel-efficient lamps.

If Lan Yu dared to hand over their military power, they might rebel immediately.

Apart from Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, the one who can suppress these arrogant soldiers must belong to Jia Xu.

Although this person is not well-known in the Liangzhou army now, his energy is extremely great, which Lan Yu introduced in detail in the letter.

Moreover, Lan Yu highly respected this person, saying that he has great talent.

You must know that Lan Yu is an extremely proud person, and to be praised by him, it can be seen that Jia Xu does have something.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew this very well. Jia Xu was originally a figure as famous as Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia in the original history.

It would be strange if such a character had no real skills.

"Tell Lan Yu to tell Jia Xu to come back to Luoyang to report on his work as soon as possible after handling the matter in Liangzhou, and tell him directly that this person is of great use to us." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile after reading the secret letter.

(End of this chapter)