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

"In Ming Dynasty, each household has five or six children. The total number of children is close to ten million, but it is far from enough." Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "We must continue to encourage them to have children."

Daming's total population is now 50.00 million, and children account for [-] million, close to [-]%, which is a terrifying proportion.

When these children grow up, it will be a huge 'mineral lode'.

This point, with the vision of Zhu Yuanzhang and his officials, and the limitations of the times they lived in, they couldn't see it at all.

However, they can still realize that this group of people will be young and strong labor force when they grow up, and if there are more labor force and more people participating in production, the court will be rich and strong with strong fighting power.

Therefore, successive dynasties have introduced a series of policies to encourage people to have more children.

Some are fines for not getting married when they reach the age, and some are directly paid by the government to their wives.

However, the past dynasties did not know that the basis for the people's willingness to have a large number of children was a stable life.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has achieved a prosperous life for the people, the population of children has skyrocketed in an instant.

"It's up to you to implement it."

"Observe the decree." The Guangxi provincial official led the decree.

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"Your Majesty..." At this time, Erhu came to Zhu Yuanzhang's side and whispered something in his ear.

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression immediately froze when he heard the words: he was so angry that he laughed instead: "Zhang Ning, the county magistrate of Qingliu County, is so courageous that he dared to secretly call us a dog emperor?"

When the officials heard this, they were all turned up and down, and there was no sound at all.

Everyone was stunned. In the Ming Dynasty, there were officials so arrogant?

Simply unheard of.

They dare not scold the emperor even in their dreams.

"If Zhang Ning only had the crime of scolding us behind his back, we wouldn't do anything to him. After all, there are too many scholars scolding us in the world." Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "But the damn thing is that the imperial court's policy of distributing money has promulgated It's been half a month, and he's still procrastinating."

"Let the people complain and complain, and it's miserable. All the people who wanted to appeal to Dahao were stopped by his guards and executed in secret."

"It is an unforgivable crime to openly oppose Daming's principle of building a country based on Taoism."

"You still say that the people in the world are pariahs, and he is a master. Emperor Zhu can't control his remote county, and the sky is far away from the emperor. What are you saying that the pariahs in the world are our parents, and we have to protect them like that? "

"hey-hey!"

"He's right. Our parents had no land, no food left in the family, and several people starved to death. They were indeed the lowest level of untouchables."

"We want to let him see whether our emperor is far away from him."

"Listen to the decree, execute Zhang Ning Lingchi and punish his nine clans!"

Zhu Yuanzhang has never been lenient in punishing corrupt officials.

The laws he made were the strictest in all dynasties.

"According to the order!"

When the officials heard the words, they all mourned for Zhang Ning and his family.

"Your Majesty, there are still many local officials like Zhang Ning in the Ming Dynasty." Er Hu said, "He is not an exception. According to the investigation, basically every province has many people like him."

"Why can't a black sheep like Zhang Ning always be killed?" Zhu Yuanzhang lamented upon hearing this.

"Your Majesty, because Daming is really too big." Liu Bowen stepped forward and said, "It is inevitable that the crops grown in a crop field will be mixed. The larger the crop field, the more barnyard grass. This is unavoidable."

"We think you haven't got the point right yet." After Qin Yu's training, Zhu Yuanzhang said that his thoughts and vision were much higher than those of the officials, "We think that in the final analysis, it is still the poison of Confucianism."

"Confucianism divides people into grades, grades, grades, grades, and grades, and the concept of making people superior and inferior has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for thousands of years."

"Let everyone in the world feel that it is natural to be a master after becoming an official. After ten years of hard work and fame, you should be a master. Never consider the feelings of those people who are servants."

"The essence of being a master is to oppress and be oppressed."

"Isn't there an old saying that is popular among the people, that one can be a master only when one endures hardships."

"Just imagine, if for thousands of years in China, the idea of ​​freedom and equality popularized by the Ming Dynasty, would there still be so many people who regard themselves as superiors and others as pariahs?"

"The emperor's analysis is profound!" The officials suddenly realized when they heard this.

They said:

"Sure enough, it's all poisoned by Confucianism."

"This thought is indeed causing endless harm. Thoughts are harmful to everything, not just a little bit."

"Although it has been removed now, its poison is still there and deeply rooted."

"What our Ming Dynasty is doing now is to build a country based on Dao and build a natural society." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Natural society is like a natural ecology."

"The ecology of nature has no oppression."

"Your Majesty, I dare to ask you here." At this time, Liu Bowen said, "Building a country based on Tao is to establish the natural world, and in the natural world, is it oppression if a wolf eats a sheep? Is it oppression when a tiger eats a rabbit?" ?”

In one sentence, Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Can't answer.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "This is a profound philosophical question, and no one has ever raised it before."

"It is estimated that it contains a more profound thought of building a country with Tao."

"It's commendable that you can ask such a question. It proves that you are already thinking about building a country based on Tao at a higher level. We can't answer such questions, so we can only find time to ask Mr. Qin for advice."

"However, we can be sure of one thing."

"After wolves eat sheep and tigers eat rabbits, they will never be complacent. But some people will be proud of plundering other people's lives and oppressing others, and they are proud of it."

"Okay, let's put this issue aside and continue talking about the Ming Dynasty. There are so many black apples like Zhang Ning for a living."

"Your Majesty, the idea of ​​equality and freedom has just been promoted in the Ming Dynasty, and it hasn't been long, and it hasn't been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people." Yang Xiandao, "I feel that if such an idea can be implemented for 200 years, the concept of wanting to be a master will gradually fade out of the world. human memory."

"By that time, there will be more than half of the black sheep."

"It is not a matter of one generation or two generations to completely remove the poison of a thought."

"We have to wait another 200 years. It's too long." Zhu Yuanzhang obviously didn't want to wait that long. If a good idea takes effect too slowly, he is not happy, and he really wants to see the effect immediately.

"Now the subjects of Ming Dynasty are like fish just fished out of the stinky ditch of Confucianism."

"Although it was changed to a clear pond that established the country based on morality, there are still a lot of filthy things such as sediment and feces in the stinky ditch in the stomachs of some fish. If they are all vomited out, over time, even the clear pond will be polluted."