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Chapter 395 Hongwu 18 Years

It only took two hours, and Bailixiu carved out two Yaoyao chairs.

Of course, these two rocking chairs carved from huanghuali wood by Bailixiu are not ordinary Yaoyao chairs. Bailixiu has put a lot of effort into the surface of the chair body, although there is no way to This is the Ming Dynasty, dragons and phoenixes are exclusive to the royal family, but other flowers, plants, birds and animals are available here.

Even Bailixiu carved two cute cat heads on the armrests on both sides of the rocking chair.

Early the next morning, Bai Lixiu took these two rocking chairs to the stall and started to set up a stall, and the stall was opposite Zeng Jing.

One chair is lying on the sun to practice Jiuyang magic, and the other chair is used for sale, and the price is directly priced at 100 taels without counter-offering.

For such a price, naturally many people shook their heads and left when they saw it. Although Bailixiu is made of high-quality huanghuali wood, it is not worth 100 taels of silver!
After making two rocking chairs from the pile of huanghuali wood bought by Bai Lixiu, you can make eight more rocking chairs!

That is to say, the cost price of this rocking chair is only ten taels.

It’s still Hongwu’s 18th year now. As for why Bailixiu knew it was Hongwu’s 18th year, that’s a question. Besides, in the original plot of Jian Yu, when Zeng Jing erected a monument for herself, it was engraved with the words “Daming Hongwu’s 18th year” it's time!

Of course, because it was the 18th year of Hongwu, the capital of Daming is not Beiping, the founder of Ming Dynasty Zhu Di, but Jinling as the capital.

Of course, Zhu Di now honestly has no intention of rebelling against his nephew.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang is not Li Yuan, and Zhu Di is not Li Shimin, so naturally it is impossible to talk about son rebelling against father.

However, there are many interesting things in the 18th year of Hongwu. In ancient times, ordinary people generally did not dare to fight with county magistrates and county officials, because no matter right or wrong, the final outcome must be that the common people suffer and are persecuted by county officials and others. , as the so-called "people do not fight with officials".

However, in the 18th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, shortly after Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, a strange thing happened. After an ordinary villager blatantly tied up the county officials, he was able to reach the capital unimpeded all the way. Is it an unexpected and strange thing to hand over the county official to Zhu Yuanzhang?
Generally speaking, the power structure of a feudal dynasty usually consists of three levels: the feudal emperor, the civil official management group, and the subordinate staff.

The so-called "subordinate staff" refers to all kinds of clerks and servants in the government at all levels.

For ordinary people, it is difficult for them to see the emperor's side in their whole life, and they seldom have real dealings with officials such as governors and county magistrates. Usually, the most contacted people are those subordinates who wear various power vests.

These large numbers of subordinates wandering at the grassroots level usually have no education, have not participated in the imperial examination, or failed in the imperial examination, so they can only dawdle in the yamen. Their way of survival is to keep asking the people to satisfy their needs. desire.

Because the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were not familiar with Confucian culture, they hired a large number of subordinate staff to govern the country. In the early Ming Dynasty, the subordinate staff were still arrogant and domineering, and incidents of subordinate staff even beating their superiors occurred.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the extreme treatment of civil servants and generals who fought with him, he also dealt with a large number of subordinate officials.

In the 18th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the criminal code "Da Gao" written by himself, which contained such a new rule:
From now on, if officials in the chief secretary, government, prefecture, and county are in office, idle officials, and those old and cunning people in cities and villages, if they dare to manipulate lawsuits, instigate crimes, frame others, collude with the government, and harm the state, the local government is allowed to The virtuous, upright and heroic men arrested these people and bound them to the capital.If anyone dares to intercept him halfway, he will show his head to the public!Every pass and ferry must not be blocked.

This is a new way Zhu Yuanzhang created for the other party's subordinates - "entering the public door by the side".Zhu Yuanzhang allowed those anxious common people who were exploited by subordinate officials to rush in through the small door on the side of the yamen, and arrest the subordinate officials who caused him wrong and send them to the capital.Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that officials along the way must not stop, otherwise, I will show my head to the public.

With the will of the emperor, there will naturally be the first person to eat crabs. The story takes place in Changshu County, Changshu, Jiangshu. The protagonist Chen Shouliu was originally an ordinary villager, living his poor life every day.

For unknown reasons, Chen Shouliu offended a local magistrate named Gu Ying, so he was attacked by Gu Ying. Chen Shouliu's family's only rations and the next year's grain were robbed by Gu Ying's minions.

This subordinate Gu Ying usually ran amok in the village, and the common people dared not speak out against him.Gu Ying thought that Chen Shouliu, who was honest and friendly, would just bear with it and get over it, and it wouldn't cause much trouble.In the end, he was wrong, because he met Chen Shouliu, and it was in the days when Zhu Yuanzhang had just promulgated the "Da Gao".

The anger in Chen Shouliu's heart finally broke out one day. One night, Chen Shouliu led his younger brother and nephew into the door of the "Public House", and took advantage of Gu Ying's drunkenness to kill Gu Ying. The five flowers were tied up tightly, and then they were escorted out of Changshu County overnight and went straight to the capital.This happened so suddenly that other officials in Changshu County had no time to react.

Chen Shouliu is a very intelligent villager. Before he left, he asked the villagers to find the "Dagao" issued by Zhu Yuanzhang and took it with him as a talisman.Because, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's will, all the villagers who hold the "Da Gao" to escort the subordinate officials who harmed the village to Beijing, all the way to the green light should be released.

When Chen Shouliu and others escorted Gu Ying to the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately put Gu Ying in prison. Two pieces of clothing each, and relieved them of their chores.

After Chen Shouliu and others left Beijing, Zhu Yuanzhang praised Chen Shouliu's fearless spirit in his decree, and called on all peasant brothers across the country to learn this spirit of daring to fight against evil forces in the officialdom.

In the commendation, Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "If anyone dares to fabricate charges, tell stories, and harass Chen Shouliu, I will kill him! Of course, if Chen Shouliu himself uses my name to run amok and harm the village However, if Chen Shouliu is at fault, the local officials have no right to make a decision, and he must be summoned to the capital for trial by me.”

The emperor opened Jinkou, and Chen Shouliu became the most dazzling star in an instant. In this atmosphere, during the 19th and [-]th years of Hongwu, groups of people could be seen almost all the time on the various post roads to the capital. The villagers escorted the tied rich or subordinates to the direction of the capital.

Under such circumstances, the hearts of the people in the early Ming Dynasty were naturally very cohesive. After all, the old Zhu Ke was also from a commoner rather than a family background, and the punishment for those corrupt officials was also very severe. , As for why the punishment is not for the scholar-bureaucrats...

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