I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 77 The Wind Rises!Daming Xing, Emperor of the South!

Qi Tai asked in a hurried tone, "Is this really feasible?"

Zhu Yunqi was puzzled: "What does Mr. Huang mean by this? Why do you want to support him instead?"

"If you want to take something, you must first give it." Huang Zicheng said: "The speed of the rise of the Southern King is unprecedented."

"Is Your Majesty really not worried about what is behind him, plotting to usurp the country?"

Zhu Yunwen was stunned when he heard this.

Huang Zicheng said with a sullen face, "Even if His Majesty doesn't doubt it, we can make him doubt it."

Qi Tai pondered: "I'm afraid it's not enough just relying on us."

A sinister smile appeared on Huang Zicheng's face, and he said, "Didn't he hit Lanyu once before, and I heard that Lanyu was very grateful to him?"

"Sapphire is a person who only knows how to charge forward, and lacks resourcefulness and thinking. As long as we give him a little guidance, we can lead him by the nose."

"As long as Lan Yu takes the lead in writing the letter, please appoint His Royal Highness Nan Wang as the crown prince, and his subordinates will naturally follow."

Huang Zicheng continued: "I heard that King Nan made flintlock guns, and we used this to spread the word that if King Nan inherits the rule, all the officers and soldiers in the army will be given guns. As long as there is some encouragement, the soldiers will definitely obey."

"Nanwang originally had a name for his poems. People like to tell strange things the most. He is only seven years old. He just needs to make up some stories, saying that he is the reincarnation of the heavenly king and he should inherit the throne. The people will tell it to ten people, and then it will be passed down to hundreds of people. Very soon There will be a huge momentum soon.”

"Let them write to the court again, asking for a grandson."

"Let's mobilize our own people to build momentum together."

"In this way, there will be hundreds of civil and military officials, nobles of the court, soldiers of the three armies, and common people in the countryside."

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can kill the crown prince Liu Shi, so why can't I kill the emperor of Ming Dynasty?"

"The key to this strategy depends on how much momentum we can create."

"You must make His Majesty think that everything is a trick of King Nan, who wants to take over Daming's kingdom."

"Good!" Qi Tai praised it: "This is a great plan."

Huang Zicheng said: "We can also come to a fish belly collection and write "Da Mingxing, Southern King"."

Qi Tai was taken aback for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid this is too much, right?"

Huang Zicheng said: "As long as the momentum is big enough, His Majesty can't tell the truth from the fake. You don't have to worry about this matter, I will take care of it."

Hearing the discussion between the two of them, Zhu Yunwen also beamed with joy, and thanked him: "I will leave everything to the two gentlemen."

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While Huang Zicheng and others were plotting, Zhu Yunxi was busy teaching the students in the Tianfu Yamen.

Ying Tianfu has its own school, and there are not a few students in it.

Of course, those who went to study in government schools were all aiming for the imperial examination.

But in fact, there are very few who can really win the exam, let alone the Jinshi.

Most of the students may only win a scholar, and then go home to open a classroom to teach young children.

Zhu Yunxi decided to increase business taxes and reform the tax system at the same time, which required a lot of talents.

Later generations will promote nine-year compulsory education, and naturally there will be no shortage of people who can read.

But in this era, scholars are a limited resource and there are not many.

Recognizing Chinese characters is actually a very advanced skill. It is much more complicated and difficult than learning a craft or mastering an ordinary professional technology.

The popularization of education in later generations has made people accustomed to it, so they feel that it is nothing more than that.

In fact, if an illiterate who does not know Chinese characters is really asked to know all the Chinese characters that should be mastered at the junior high school level, and to master the cultural knowledge at the junior high school level, the difficulty of education is much higher than taking him as an apprentice and teaching him how to juggle many!

The economic take-off of later generations of countries is inseparable from a large amount of cheap labor, the so-called "demographic dividend".

But in fact, if there is no universal compulsory education, if there is no literacy, the population will be the largest, and there will be no dividends, it will only become a burden.

Illiteracy who are completely illiterate can even be said to have no value in cultivation.

Because it is too difficult to train them to collect taxes and do accounting.

The students of government schools at least have a solid foundation, and they are all literate.

Although Zhu Yunxi was only seven years old, when he entered the government school and gave lectures to the students, he was not excluded in any way.

This is not because of his status as the Southern King.

In fact, no matter how high his status is, if he is not knowledgeable enough, he will be laughed at by the students if he enters the government to give lectures.

The scholars of this era are all truly looking higher than their heads.

Even the emperor's family dared to say in private that he was born with mud legs and was uneducated.

Although Lao Zhu knew this very well, there was nothing he could do about it.

Although he raised the butcher's knife at every turn and killed these scholars with fear, he couldn't change their thoughts.

Lao Zhu desperately hopes that his family can produce a descendant who is good at reading, and he will slap those scholars in the face severely.

It was also because of this that Zhu Yunxi became the pride of Old Zhu.

The name of the child prodigy has long been known throughout the Ming Dynasty.

If we write poems twice before, some people still question whether they were ghostwritten by others and whether it was Lao Zhu who "created gods".

Jixianlou's impromptu inscription completely silenced them.

Who doesn't know that His Royal Highness Nan Wang has an amazing talent?
Who doesn't know that His Royal Highness Nan Wang's poetry talent is the best in the world?

When he came to give lectures to the students, naturally no one dared to question him.

However, what the students didn't expect was that Zhu Yunxi's lecture today was not about poetry, but about double-entry bookkeeping.

"I have already petitioned the imperial court to establish a tax office in Yingtian Mansion to handle the collection of commercial taxes."

"This matter is very different from the requirements of ordinary stereotyped imperial examinations. This king has decided to select talents from among you in advance to serve as bureaucrats."

As soon as this sentence was said, the students below immediately became interested.

What is reading for?

What is the imperial examination for?

Isn’t it just to be an official?

Although it is a bit miserable to be an official under Lao Zhu, there are still countless people rushing to take part in the imperial examination in order to get an official position.

Now that there is an opportunity to directly become an official without having to take the imperial examination or the Jinshi examination, except for a few geniuses who think highly of themselves and must find a "right path", who would not be willing?
Modern tax systems are very complex.

To establish a new tax system in Ming Dynasty that is in line with the development of the future era, the first thing that needs to be done is to train tax talents.

Zhu Yunxi didn't focus on this at first. He had to deal with a lot of things, such as inventing fixed-load ammunition as soon as possible, and making treasure ships to go to sea, etc.

After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

The establishment and development of the system is also based on a certain level of productivity.

Without a corresponding level of productivity, many seemingly beautiful systems are just castles in the air.

But there is always a difference between ideals and reality. Now that he wants to gain a firm foothold, the first priority is to quickly implement and handle the increase in commercial taxes.

Therefore, cultivating corresponding taxation talents has become a top priority.

Otherwise, let the people in the yamen go down to collect taxes in the old way, and good things can be turned into bad things.

Zhu Yunxuan talked eloquently, telling the students how to determine taxes, how to issue invoices, how to manage, double-entry accounting, etc.

At the same time, while he was giving a lecture, a rumor about him spread like wildfire in Jinling City.

The King of the South is a child prodigy descended from heaven, and an emperor has come to earth, and he should be established as the Son of Heaven.

At the fish market, a fisherman is slaughtering fish for sale.

A alive and kicking fish was sliced ​​open, revealing a strip of oilcloth inside.

This scene immediately attracted the attention of everyone around, and everyone gathered around.

The fisherman also seemed to be taken aback. There was something in the belly of the fish, which was a rare thing he had never seen before.

In front of the audience, the fisherman opened the strip of tarpaulin, only to see a few words written on it.

A literate reader next to him read out immediately: "Da Ming Xing, Southern King".

In an instant, the scholar's expression changed drastically.

"What does this mean?" The fisherman was puzzled.

"Your Majesty has just named the grandson of the Fourth Emperor as King of the South. I heard that he is a child prodigy. That's amazing!"

"The meaning of this is that our Great Ming will prosper, and the King of Nan will be the emperor?"

"I'm not talking nonsense, I'm going to beheaded."

"What are you afraid of? Nanwang is not an outsider, isn't he also a descendant of the Zhu family? There is nothing wrong with him being the emperor!"

"I heard that His Majesty intended to appoint him as the grandson of the emperor, but many ministers in the court objected, so he was not appointed."

"Nanwang is in charge of Yingtian Mansion, and it is great to levy heavy taxes on those merchants! I have long disliked them. How can they be so rich? The imperial court should have imposed heavy taxes on them long ago. "

"That's right! Now that King Nan has opened his business qualifications, as long as you get a tax certificate, you can do business, and you no longer have to be exploited by those merchants. It's a great thing!"

"I think Nan Wang is really good. He is only seven years old, and his poems are amazing!"

"It's just amazing. I heard from the teacher in the school that the poems of His Royal Highness Nan Wang are the best in the world, and they are unprecedented."

"Yes, yes, I've heard it too, "Rolling the Yangtze River and the Passing Waters of the East"...It's really well written! Although our old man is illiterate, I think it's so well written when I hear it, it's better than those sour and smelly scholars. Poetry is much stronger.”

"That's right, which one of the storytellers who are talking about the Three Kingdoms doesn't start with this paragraph?"

"You say, King Nan is so powerful, and if he becomes the emperor, will the common people live a good life?"

"That's for sure. Don't you see that it says "Da Mingxing, Southern King" here? Is this God's will?"

"Then why do the ministers in the imperial court oppose canonizing him as the emperor's grandson?"

"Does this need to be said? Is there anything good that can come from being an official? If every one of them is taken out and beheaded, only a few of them will be unjustly accused!"

As soon as these words were said, the people watching all agreed that there is no good official!

They are all corrupt officials, treacherous ministers and national thieves!
Since ancient times, when people mention officials, they always think of corrupt officials and bad guys. It’s unmistakable!

"We can't let His Majesty be fooled by those treacherous officials." Someone suggested.

"That's right, I think we can collectively file a letter to the imperial court, asking Li Nanwang to be the crown prince."

"What a great idea. His Majesty always attaches great importance to public opinion. If we submit a letter together, His Majesty will definitely adopt it."

"Yes, let's write a letter collectively, let those treacherous officials see the public opinion, and see if they dare to oppose King Linan as the heir apparent."

"Then do it!"

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(End of this chapter)