My uncle's name is Zhu Di

Chapter 244 Stupid Brother

To save one's life is to seek medical advice, not to ask for medicine king Bodhisattva.

Zhu Di, the emperor, is quite materialistic.

Xu Jingchang was quite pleased.

Zhu Di looked at Xu Jingchang with a smug face, and said with a sneer, "Tell me, you gave the boss a bad idea and asked him to attack the kings. What are your plans?"

Xu Jingchang was startled suddenly, and exclaimed strangely: "Your Majesty, it is not my idea to take over the palace and build a school!"

Once he said this, let alone Zhu Di, even Empress Xu would not believe it.

Zhu Gaosui yelled even more: "If you dare to act bravely, what can you do if you admit it? Boss is so honest, can he do such an outrageous thing?"

Now Xu Jingchang was also speechless. He looked around and found that his aunt was also sullen, with an expression of why she was deceiving herself...

Xu Jingchang was depressed. He finally knew what it means to commit suicide if you do many injustices, and what it means to dig a hole and jump yourself... After two or three years of tossing, he dare not say that it is not smelly, and it is also hated by people.

Anything bad will be pinned on his head.

But the problem is that he really didn't do this showy operation, it was clearly done by Fatty Zhu himself.

Xu Jingchang realized one more thing, Yingtian's big fat pig is definitely not simple, this guy is very good at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!No wonder he had the last laugh and fooled his father and brothers!
"Anyway, it's my idea to let the feudal lords confiscate the temples and ancestral halls... I just followed suit and borrowed the prince's suggestion!" Xu Jingchang was still trying to argue for himself.

But the big guy automatically ignored the latter words, and Zhu Di asked directly: "What is your purpose in expropriating ancestral halls and temples?"

Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Your Majesty, what is the reason for abolishing the sacrifices in the Confucian Mansion?"

Zhu Di was shocked all over, and after a little thought, he suddenly felt enlightened.

This is going to be a complete shuffle!
Xu Jingchang's prescription for frontier management is to abolish the guards and build farms.Use the officers of the guards to lead the soldiers to cultivate and defend the border. When necessary, introduce slaves to work, increase the amount of commodity grain, and strengthen the self-sufficiency rate in the north.

This makes sense.

Regarding the vassal princes, his proposal is to train them and grant them some industries. In short, as a clan, you can make a fortune, but don't think about military power and land.

This also makes sense in theory.

But can these two strategies be implemented smoothly?
What are you thinking?

Dreams don't do that.

Looking through the annals of history, it is not uncommon for the correct strategy to get down, seriously deformed, or even go the other way.Otherwise, the reform would not be so difficult.

"Your Majesty, please think about it, whether it is building a farm or developing an industry, what do you need?"

Zhu Di hummed: "Naturally, we need talents."

Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Your Majesty has said too much, but in fact, only people are enough."

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, but Zhu Gaoxu caught Xu Jingchang's meaning, and said in a muffled voice, "Father, cousin means someone who wants to work!"

Zhu Di was even more surprised, "People? They're everywhere, what's the problem?"

This time there is no need for Xu Jingchang, Zhu Gaoxu looked up to the sky and sighed, tears came out.

"Father, my son has been busy for more than two years, do you know how much he has been wronged?"

His crying frightened Zhu Di.

"Are you still wronged? I just see you getting rich. Your family property is more than your internal money!"

Zhu Gaoxu felt aggrieved, "The boy has earned money, but the money has been earned really hard!"

Empress Xu saw it and said curiously: "Second brother, you are a boring gourd. You keep everything in your heart and don't want to say it. It happens that we are a family, so you pour out the bitter water in your stomach. Didn't the common people say Well, you can’t just watch thieves eat meat, but not watch thieves get beaten.”

These words made Zhu Gaoxu aggrieved even more, and he became a thief if he dared.

The biggest problem in setting up a workshop in Yingtian is recruiting workers.

That's right, there are people everywhere, but few can enter the workshop.

Zhu Gaoxu initially wanted to recruit workers from the city, but he soon gave up... There are indeed craftsmen who are good at weaving in the city, but these craftsmen generally work at home.

To put it bluntly, it is a family workshop.

Some have only one or two looms, and some have three or five more.

Mothers lead their daughters to work, or mothers-in-law lead their daughters-in-law to work... They weave, and men help buy and sell silk.At the same time, I am doing odd jobs or opening a small shop.

Although it can be regarded as rich and powerful, there is absolutely no problem in providing for the life of the family.

Let them enter the workshop and weave silk with hundreds of thousands, that is not even thinking about it!

If you can be a small boss, why should you enter the factory and screw the screws?
Throughout the ages, the truth is the same.

Zhu Gaoxu had to put his mind on the countryside, hoping to recruit farmers... Then Zhu Gaoxu was completely successful.

Because the difficulty of recruiting farmers is far higher than that of citizens, the common people are not willing at all.

"Is it because you paid less money? You don't understand the truth that there must be brave men under great rewards?" Zhu Di said quietly.

Zhu Gaoxu snorted: "Father, it's easy for you to say, how much should I pay? How much can I earn? You can't make me lose money! The people in the countryside, no matter whether they have land or not, they can only rent land. They all regard farming as the right way, and being a craftsman is a last resort, and it is done by inferior people."

Zhu Di frowned slightly, thinking: "Growing grain can fill one's stomach, but silk can't fill one's stomach. There is also a saying like that."

Zhu Gaoxu snorted angrily: "Obviously they are poor people, but they insist on saying that their parents don't travel far, and they don't even want to leave the village. I want to recruit female workers, and the trouble is even bigger. They say that men and women can't get close, women should There are rumors that I want to deceive women to go to the Qinhuai River to become a prostitute...Father, I am a dignified prince, and I have been slandered as a brothel owner, I am wronged!"

That's how it is!

Zhu Di's eyes widened angrily, "Who said that? Why didn't you arrest him for framing the prince?" He turned his head to look at Xu Jingchang, "Aren't you in charge of Jin Yiwei? The second child has been wronged, and you won't help him out?"

Xu Jingchang spread his hands, "Your Majesty, I cannot help you."

"Why? Don't you want to?"

Xu Jingchang said honestly: "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't do it. After all, the prison is only that big. Unless you increase the number of prisons by a hundred times, I can accommodate gossipers."

Zhu Di was dumbfounded, and couldn't help muttering: "There are so many?"

Empress Xu asked curiously, "Second brother, since it's so difficult, how did you gather so many craftsmen?"

Zhu Di also stared at his second child.

Zhu Gaoxu sighed: "This is thanks to my cousin. The school he runs has trained many craftsmen... Then there is a flood in Taihu Lake, and tens of thousands of people in western Zhejiang are displaced. I will go down and talk to the people about changing rice into mulberry. By the way, I recruited a lot of people, both men and women, who have done very well in my textile workshop, and now they are earning a lot of money, and are richer than ordinary farmers."

Empress Xu couldn't help asking: "Since life is going well, it must not be so difficult to recruit craftsmen in the future, and you have come to the end of all hardships."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled wryly and shook his head, "Queen, things are not that simple. I understand that those gentry and landowners are eager to tie up the common people in the countryside and never allow them to come out to work. What my cousin wants to do is clearly to steal food from the tiger's mouth. "

Zhu Di was quite surprised, "It's so? Xu Jingchang, is the second brother right?"

Xu Jingchang nodded and said: "Your Highness the King of Han sees it very clearly... I thought that everyone loves money, and everyone wants to get rich. There is nothing wrong with earning more. But gradually, I realized that some ordinary people, they don't They don't think so. Because they have to take risks to make money. At least they have to leave the countryside, enter the towns, leave the living space they are familiar with, and lose the protection of their clan relatives and friends. They dare not. Besides, many ordinary people simply believe in destiny. !"

"Life?"

"Yes, there are some people who are destined to be poor. They have worked hard all their lives and been poor all their lives. It's useless to fiddle around. It's better to accept their fate honestly!"

Zhu Di took a deep breath, shook his head and smiled wryly, "If I accept my fate, I'm afraid I will die in Jianwen's hands."

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Dicai said: "Xu Jingchang, in your opinion, what should we do with this matter?"

Xu Jingchang said: "Your Majesty, in fact, we have been working hard on this matter... such as overthrowing the sacrifices of the Confucian family, changing the orthodoxy, and re-establishing the orthodoxy of officials and schools. This is to change from the root. The next step is to implement these things and build schools. , Promoting education, is to wipe out the old ones and replace them with new ones. Only in this way can we make a fuss about it.”

Zhu Di suddenly sighed, "I understand, so the temples and ancestral halls were demolished for this reason?"

Xu Jingchang said: "That's right, only in this way can we shake the big family and solve them from the root... Without the obstruction of the big family, it will be much easier for Your Majesty to rectify the financial and taxation. Now that the Kong family has been solved, the vassal kings are going to have to deal with it again." Bow your head. This is the case for the two most respected and noble families, and others should not think of exceptions!"

Zhu Di trembled all over, he could only say that this game of chess is really big enough!

"Xu Jingchang, what benefits can I get?" Zhu Di said quietly.

"Your Majesty can obtain the power of the entire world, obtain unparalleled wealth, and establish unprecedented achievements!"

Zhu Di listened silently. After a long time, he suddenly slapped the table, making the bowls and chopsticks rattle. He laughed loudly, "Since that's the case, there is no one who doesn't support it."

Zhu Di's heart was completely settled, and the next day, Qi Wang Zhu Mi came back from Tianjin and complained to Zhu Di as soon as they met.

"Your Majesty, I don't even have a place to live now. At least give me some rewards so that I can have a place to settle down. Otherwise, your nephews and nieces will go to the streets to beg."

Zhu Di looked at him, hehe said: "Are you still resenting Duke Ding now?"

Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment, and could only say: "I think he's a bit dishonest..."

"Confused!" Zhu Di scolded unceremoniously: "Ding Guogong gave you Jinshan, but you are still blind!"

King Qi was shocked, "Your Majesty, I really don't understand!"

Zhu Di hummed: "If you don't understand, I'll tell you, you copied the temple, is there anyone?"

"Have."

"Do you have money?"

Zhu Yu was stunned, he had scraped off a lot of gold paint, but he was always a little embarrassed...

Zhu Di snorted and said, "You idiot, why don't you go to the pier to enclose land? You want others to get there first?"

King Qi was stunned for a long time, then suddenly turned his head and ran away, saying, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

(End of this chapter)