After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 403 The Essence of Governing the Country with Dao

"The child of the rich man's family has a hundred toys, while the children of the other tenant families don't even have a single toy."

"Therefore, in order to be able to play with the toys of the rich man's children, the children of those tenant families who have no toys will serve as cows and horses for the rich man's children, and obey any unreasonable assignments from him."

"And the children of the rich man's family have become their kings. Whoever doesn't listen to him, he will direct the children of the poor family who want to play with his toys to beat them, and they are very energetic."

"Children from poor families have been exploited miserably. Although they listen to the words of children from rich families on the surface, they are actually very dissatisfied in their hearts."

"As a result, there is no peace among the children in the whole village."

"A whole series of questions arise."

"The children of the rich family have become more and more arrogant and domineering, and have done a lot of bad things. And the children of the poor family have become selfish and surly, and have completely lost their innocence."

"But later, the minister's business prospered and he accumulated some wealth. So the minister distributed ten toys to each child in the village. The number of toys for the children of the landlord's family became 110, and the poor families who had no toys before The children with no toys in their hands now have ten."

"Your majesty, fellow colleagues, guess what happened to that village later?"

"What has become?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"My Majesty, later on, the village of my minister became peaceful, peaceful and happy." Shen Wansan said, "The toys for the children of the poor have changed from nothing to having, so there is no need for the children of the rich to be like cows and horses."

"Because although they still have one hundred fewer toys than the rich man's children, they have at least ten and they already have something to play with."

"It's just that there are fewer tricks to play."

"The children of the rich man's family can no longer let the children of the tenant's family be his cows and horses."

"It's natural for the children of the tenant's family to become less hostile towards the children of the rich man's family. Even the children of the rich man's family have begun to restrain themselves, because he has lost the stage for doing bad things."

"The children in the whole village have regained their innocence, become kind and lively."

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"Did you understand Mr. Shen's analogy?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the officials after listening to Shen Wansan's speech.

"He used the example given by a three-year-old child. If you can't even understand this, then your wisdom is not as good as that of a three-year-old child."

"My Majesty, I understand now." Li Shan said long.

"The minister also understands." Yang Xian said.

"Your Majesty, I didn't understand!" At this moment, a civil official stood out of the train and said angrily.

"If you don't even understand this, go back and remake it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.Immediately, Erhu stood up, took a few imperial guards, and dragged the civil official out.

Seeing this, the officials had a sneer on their faces.

In this case, pretend to understand even if you don't understand.

"Your Majesty, there are still people who don't understand, so please explain your words a little more clearly." Shen Wansan stood up and continued, "Before, there were no children from the rich man's family than a hundred children from the toy tenant family. The gap between the rich and the poor is A hundred times."

"And after the minister distributed ten toys to each of them, the children of the rich man's family had 110 toys, and the children of the tenant's family had ten. So the gap between them became [-] times."

"If I give them a little more, each will give 1 toys."

"Then the children of the rich man's family and the children of the tenant family, one has ten thousand and one hundred toys, and the other has 1 toys. Then there is almost no difference between the two."

"The child of the rich man's family is like everyone else!"

"To be honest, it is the children of the wealthy family who should be most opposed to giving money to the people. Because after everyone has given money, they will no longer be masters."

"Well said!" Zhu Yuanzhang clapped his hands when he heard the words, "It's even better than what we said."

"Shen Wansan, you are worthy of being the Minister of Commerce of our Ming Dynasty."

"Thank you, the emperor, for your compliment." Upon hearing this, Shen Wansan backed away with a smile on his face.

"Let me tell you that the essence of distributing money to the people is to equalize the rich and the poor, and to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Let the people at the bottom have a living security, and no longer have to sell money for food. soul."

"Let the rich no longer oppress the poor so smoothly."

"In previous dynasties, many rebels put forward the slogan of equalizing the rich and the poor, equaling the noble and the humble, which won the support of the common people. It can be seen that equalizing the rich and the poor is an important method to maintain the stability of the court, and it has the foundation of the majority of the people."

"Distributing money to the common people seems to be a very common and even brain-dead operation. In fact, it hides the great wisdom of governing the country with the Tao. The Tao is that those who benefit from the world win the world, and those who can generate benefits also have the Tao!"

"Instead of engaging in flashy construction, it is better to directly send money to them. Most of the money for building the imperial court was wasted, or was corrupted, and the people did not get any substantial benefits."

"Only sending money is the last word."

"Because the money is distributed directly to the people, bypassing those greedy black sheep."

"How much can food prices rise?"

"Compared with the money that the imperial court gave to the common people, it is completely scratching the surface."

"Emperor Shengming!"

"The emperor will last forever!"

"The emperor has realized the essence of governing the country by virtue!"

When the ministers heard the words, they all said.

"Now, do you still have any objection to distributing money to the people?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"The ministers have no objections, and there is no reason to object." The ministers said.

"That's good." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Just as we said just now, Jin Xingshangshu Lu Chang, and Hubu Shangshu Ru Taisu, you two handle this matter together, and the money must be distributed to the Ming Dynasty and every commoner .”

"Observe the order!" The two ministers stood out of the train and said.

"My Majesty, deposit every household's money in bank receipts. In this way, even if someone wants to cheat, they can't do it." Yang Xian said, "The Emperor's move is extremely clever."

"It's also a wise move to nationalize the bank and not allow any private operation." Shen Wansan said, "at least at this stage."

……

a day later.

The two ministers, Ru Taisu and Lv Chang, began to implement the first policy issued by Zhu Yuanzhang to govern the country with morality-distribution of money.

Ying Tianfu.

Boom boom boom!
On the street, a group of yamen servants dressed in red official uniforms took to the street.One of them held a gong and drum in his hand, kept beating, attracting the attention of the crowd, and shouted loudly: "Folks of Zhuque Street, listen up, everyone will go to the yamen to register at noon today."

"Our household registration, isn't it already registered, why do we need to register?" An old man next to him asked strangely.

"The imperial court has registered again, so it's not like they want to collect taxes in disguise again?"

(End of this chapter)