Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 250 Let's Work!His Royal Highness Liao Wang!

At the time when the imperial court was still carnival or talking about the fact that His Royal Highness King Liao won the whole of Yunnan in less than half a year.

There is not so much public opinion among the people. Everyone agrees, and it is all one sentence, His Royal Highness Liao Wang is awesome.

Wang Wuliu is the father of Wang Erxi, and his son went to the front line to fight with His Royal Highness King Liao.

He was also a veteran of Daming before, but after so many years of fighting, his body could not hold on.

Moreover, he was bruised and bruised, leaving his legs and feet disabled.

He definitely couldn't fight a war, so he retired to the second line and worked as a job in the government office of Yingtianfu.

Although he was just an ordinary low-level official, in the eyes of the villagers, Wang Wuliu's official position was already a very special existence.

So if there is any gossip news, everyone will be happy to discuss it with Wang Wuliu.

After all, in everyone's thinking, this Wang Wuliu is a member of the government yamen, and the news he knows is naturally internal news.

Recently, the topic that the people of Yingtianfu are most concerned about is naturally the war in Yunnan.

Although they didn't go to the battlefield themselves, many people's sons, nephews and other relatives were on the battlefield.

Not only that, but as a citizen of Daming, they are naturally very concerned about whether Daming can win the battle this time.

If Daming completely flattened Bei Yuan, wouldn't that be a sign of prosperity coming?

It is not easy to encounter a prosperous age these years, and the common people are naturally very happy in their hearts.

As for the information, in fact, Wang Wuliu didn't have much information.

But I also heard some miscellaneous news. At this time, I can't tell the folks in the village that I don't understand. There are not a few people who brag on weekdays.

Naturally, he could only bite the bullet, stroked his beard, and talked about those things while shaking his head.

What Wang Wuliu heard was naturally more exaggerated than the real situation, such as when Liao King Zhu Qi ordered those generals to occupy all parts of Yunnan.

In fact, Zhu Qi didn't personally go out to fight on the front line, but after the information passed down was summarized by the above, what the officials below said was naturally different.

And the version that Wang Wuliu heard was that His Royal Highness Liao Wang was like Zhao Yun in the Three Kingdoms period, and he was as brave as 7 in and 7 out to kill Bei Yuan without leaving a single one.

When attacking Kunming, His Royal Highness King Liao took the lead and beheaded one with Fang Tian's painted halberd. Hundreds of people can be said to be extremely brave, just like Lu Bu was alive.

And this is just the bravery on the battlefield, what is even more powerful is the deterrence of His Royal Highness King Liao to the Duan family of Dali.

Everyone knows that the Duan family in Dali has been in Dali, Yunnan for hundreds of years, so there is no need to mention this strength.

But the Dali Duan family is not even a fart in front of His Royal Highness King Liao.

It is said that His Royal Highness the King of Liao rode a white horse and arrived at the door of the Duan family in Dali after traveling three thousand miles day and night. At that time, he frightened the leader of the Duan family in Dali to half death.

Especially after seeing such a heroic figure of His Royal Highness King Liao, he immediately knelt down and surrendered without the slightest intention of resisting.

When the ordinary people heard such a bizarre story, they all showed surprised expressions.

Unexpectedly, in the legend, it really happened that a single person could defeat thousands of troops. Our Royal Highness Liao Wang is really amazing.

Discussions like this naturally abound in the streets and alleys of Yingtianfu.

Anyway, during this period of time, the first sentence everyone said when they saw others was, His Royal Highness King Liao is awesome!
And even if Zhu Qi didn't go back to Ying Tian Mansion, he knew that Ying Tian Mansion must have boasted himself to heaven at this time.

As for the Duan family in Dali, they quickly handed over to the officials of Daming.

After all, their leader, Duan Qingyu, has already decided to surrender to Daming.

Naturally, no one would continue to resist stubbornly. Even if they wanted to resist, they had to beat Daming.

The matter of the Duan family in Dali has been completely resolved. As for the words of King Liang, they are of no use now.

Of course, killing him would not kill him. After all, King Liang also made great contributions to helping Daming unify Yunnan in essence.

Without him, I don't know how many Ming soldiers' lives would have been sacrificed along the way.

So Zhu Qi respectfully sent him back to Tianfu to Zhu Yuanzhang to deal with.

And what is waiting for King Liang will certainly not be riches and honors.

Zhu Yuanzhang is not the kind of person who cares about face, because of his little reputation for kindness.Just how kind you are to your enemies,

This is naturally impossible, but King Liang must still have something to do. As for what to do, it depends on Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement.

If it was before, Zhu Qi felt that King Liang must be under house arrest.

But now after his words and deeds, Zhu Yuanzhang may let him go to labor reform, maybe,

After all, after developing a new type of steel, the demand for metal and coal mines is increasing.

Although Daming has mined two or three mines, there is a serious shortage of workers.

After all, Daming is still a country dominated by agriculture, and most of the common people still work in the fields.

Every day, they are farming with their backs facing the loess, or they are reclaiming wasteland.

Although Zhu Qi has brought them the three treasures of civilization, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn.

But the cultivation of the three treasures of civilization has only been planted for more than two years. It is naturally impossible to say that there will be achievements so quickly and the people will be well-fed.

Moreover, Daming's technology is not very developed now, and its ability to resist natural disasters is not very strong.

If there is a flood or insect disaster, it is very possible that the grain will not be harvested.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to devote all our energy to industry, and we must continue to increase agricultural output.

These people were sent to Yingtian Mansion, they must be sent to work in factories or miners.

There are not enough workers, and it would be better to kill them as coolies.

It is not only these captives, but also the corrupt officials who have committed crimes in the court are treated in this way. This is called waste utilization.

Zhu Qi wasn't very concerned about King Liang's future.

He is the only one now, and what he cares about is to build Yunnan's administrative framework as soon as possible.

And Zhu Qi also deeply felt that the most difficult part of being a ruler is that there are not enough people under him.

People who are familiar with it are trustworthy only so much, and those who are unfamiliar and untrustworthy, you dare not use them.

Of course, the most important thing is that those people have no ability at all.

It's not that the Ministry of Officials doesn't recommend talents, but the talents recommended by the Ministry of Officials are also benevolent and moral.

But when they actually do things, I'm afraid they won't be clean. This is the second thing. The key is that they don't do things. You said that after the local officials arrive in the place, they should judge the cases and understand the people's conditions.

But when the officials recommended by the Ministry of Officials arrived in the local area, they all went to drink with the local gentry.

The good name is to build a good relationship with those local people and use the power of the people to control the people.

If this is all right, then what is the need for the imperial government? Wouldn’t the direct civil self-government be over?
The reason why the imperial government exists is naturally to have its purpose.

The reason why the imperial government exists is naturally to maintain the majesty and sense of existence of the imperial court on the one hand, and to benefit the common people on the other hand.

And if colluding with local powerful gentry can benefit the local people, then this reputation would not be so bad.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to cultivate a group of officials who know what they should do when they are in office.

Instead of looking for those local tyrants like headless chickens, the main thing officials do when they go to the local area is to boost the economy.

Take the common people to reclaim wasteland to grow food.

Which households are missing something, what difficulties can be solved, and those that cannot be solved by help should be reported to the higher authorities.

This is the most important thing an official should do, and this is just the most basic, if possible, to lead a party of people to continue to move towards food and clothing.

Of course, this is something for later, that is to say, if an official cannot serve the people all the time, then there is really no need to continue to be an official.

And Zhu Qi put together all kinds of things, and finally arranged the position of the leader of the grassroots officials.

The position of grassroots officials is still very entangled, and they can only use local people for the time being, but Zhu Qi also understands one point, that is, the selection of talents must be reformed as soon as possible.

Those officials who only looked at the Four Books and Five Classics were not able to manage any political achievements in the local area, they just dawdled around and ate the extra food from the iron rice bowl from the imperial court.

And if you want to cultivate truly useful talents, the most important thing is to change the way of the imperial examination. Of course, if you want to change the way of the imperial examination, it is not something that can be done overnight.

This must be a very long process, and it must first start with the books read by scholars all over the world.

Basic science must be tested and learned. You say that you can’t even do statistics well, and you can’t understand a tax form given to you. What kind of magistrate are you still doing?
The rest are some common sense things that can lead the common people to make money to fill their stomachs.

You must also let those officials know that you said that an official who can't even farm the land let him go to the county government, what troubles the common people encountered in farming or reclaiming wasteland.

You can't even deal with finding you, a magistrate. You can only go and drink with others every day. What's the use of having you as a magistrate?
That is to say, it is necessary to cultivate some highly specialized talents.

In the eyes of scholars at the time, this was obviously a bit absurd.

In their thinking, as long as they have thoroughly studied Confucianism, all problems will be solved naturally.

As for the common people not being able to eat enough, it is because they are not diligent enough, or they have not done anything good in this life, which made God angry, and this is probably the only way to think about it.

And Zhu Qi stayed in Kunming for two months, seeing the political mess of the local officials, and the common people down there, not knowing what to do, and being able to live a day-to-day life, was also sad.

Although he is not good at fighting such things, he is still good at leading the common people to transfer money to cultivate the land.

Yunnan is a very rich place. In modern China, the food and crops produced in Yunnan are also second to none in the country.

Not to mention its rich natural resources, and the tourism industry will definitely not develop now.

What needs to be done most is to reclaim wasteland, grow food, and equip the common people with iron hoes and the like, and if it is possible to distribute a farming ox for each family.

Liang Wang inherited their habits from the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and there was no improvement in people's livelihood at all. Most of the common people became serfs and had no property of their own.

And the first thing Zhu Qi had to do was to attack the landlords and the powerful. Those landlords who held a large number of serfs under their hands, and those who were unwilling to release their people and fields, needless to say, ransacked their homes and served them.

Collecting their property and distributing it uniformly has already been done once at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, so it is naturally very skillful.

In addition, it is to set up rules and publicize the laws of the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and not allow those landlords to annex the land.

This is especially true for officials. If any officials dare to annex land, they will be stripped of the skin without saying much.

In the early years of Hongwu, the criminal law was very strict.

What's more, there are so many Jinyiwei guards watching, so there is no need to worry about colluding with these officials.

After all, these Jinyiwei are directly responsible to the emperor, and Zhu Qi is also very serious about their ideological work.

And pay attention to every Jinyiwei.They will conduct regular ideological talks and training to let them know that what they do is not for themselves,

It's not for the so-called interests, of course, the wages and the like will definitely be in place, but the work they do is more important for the country and the nation.

This sense of pride continues to deepen in their hearts, and naturally there will be more and more Jinyiwei.When working, always think about your own job, instead of being corrupt like those officials whenever you have the opportunity.

However, the fact that he is not corrupt has been something that cannot be completely cut off since ancient times. Even in modern times, various countries have different levels of performance.

So Zhu Qi could only reduce it as much as possible.It is impossible to completely eradicate it for the benefit of the common people.

But no matter what, the reform of the imperial examination is imperative, and how to carry out the reform is another big problem.

The easiest way Zhu Qi thought of was to publish new books, and then promote them and tell the readers all over the world.

After two years, the content of the imperial examination will be reformed, and the content in these new books will be changed.

As for the books, of course they are modern textbooks, and only Zhu Qi can compile these textbooks.

Thinking about it, Zhu Qi sighed.

Come on, it seems that the idea of ​​wanting to take a break has failed again, let's continue to compile the book.

(End of this chapter)