Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 112 Cao Wei’s style?Zhu Yuanzhang thought it was great!
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Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the execution of Huang Zicheng, Liu Sanwu, Zhou Guanzheng and other three people who had been convicted before.

After noon, the execution ground on the east side of Yingtian Emperor City was already crowded with people, all wearing prison uniforms.

These people are the three tribes of Huang Zicheng, Zhou Guanzheng, Liu Sanwu and others.

Next to these people, there are many executioners with big muscles and waists standing. As soon as the executioner gives the order, they will swing their swords and chop off the best heads one by one.

After a few years, this is another large-scale beheading case in Yingtian. The last major case was the Guo Heng case in Hongwu in 18 years.

Below the execution ground, people were crowded with people watching the excitement. They pointed at the people wearing prison uniforms on the ground and cursed.

"These people really deserve to die. The Emperor Sun Fu has survived a great life, and now he wants to return to His Majesty, but these people are actually obstructing him!"

"They also wrongly accused Mr. Cao, the man who created the situation, and said that Mr. Cao deceived His Majesty!"

"Bah! Mr. Cao set up a manufacturing bureau and hired craftsmen who were as hard-working as us. He was so kind to them. How could Mr. Cao do such an evil thing?"

"Master Cao also led troops to fight, destroyed Beiyuan, invented the train... maybe we can sit together in the future. Master Cao has done great things, how could he be a traitor who deceived His Majesty?"

"These people deserve to be damned for falsely accusing Mr. Cao!"

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Cao Wei, dressed in casual clothes, stood in the crowd and listened to the praises of the people in his ears, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

Today, Huang Zicheng and others were executed. All the officials in the court, because they were former colleagues, did not come to the execution ground to see their ugly behavior.

Only Cao Wei, who had no friendship with Huang Zicheng and others, and who had no psychological pressure at all, and had nothing to do, wandered over to the execution ground to see what happened to Huang Zicheng, the best teammate of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention, everyone on the execution ground had different expressions at this time, which was really interesting.

At the front of the execution ground were the principal criminals Huang Zicheng, Zhou Guanzheng, and Liu Sanwu, and behind them were their respective tribesmen.

Roughly counting, there must be more than 100 people.

And most of Huang Zicheng's clan members looked at them with such hatred?It was as if they were going to be eaten alive!
These people were implicated and lost their lives for no reason. Even their relatives within the three clans must have overwhelming resentment in their hearts!

Just imagine, people like Huang Zicheng, Zhou Guanzheng, Liu Sanwu and others were eating hot pot and singing at home. Suddenly, the Jin Yiwei broke in and took people without explanation, and later told them that their heads would be lost. How could they not resent Huang Zicheng and others for implicating them? people?

If they weren't trapped tightly, I'm afraid they would have rushed up to eat his flesh raw and drink his blood!
Suddenly, Cao Wei noticed that Huang Zicheng saw him on the execution ground.

After the two of them looked at each other, Huang Zicheng's expression turned resentful!

It's all because of Cao Wei, Cao Wei did all this!
If Cao Wei had not taken Zhu Xiongying in, how could things happen today?
Liu Sanwu and Zhou Guanzheng, who were beside Huang Zicheng, saw the change in his expression and followed Huang Zicheng's line of sight to see Cao Wei standing in the crowd.

Cao Wei also stretched out his hand in front of his chest and waved at them.
Suddenly, the expressions on several people's faces started to gnash, as if they wanted to bite off a piece of meat from Cao Wei's body.

Seeing how angry and helpless they were, Cao Wei showed his white teeth happily.

If possible, Cao Wei really seems to have stuffed Qi Tai and Fang Xiaoru into the ranks of the execution ground.

It's not that Cao Wei has a deep prejudice against them, but that these two people, like Huang Zicheng, are familiar with poetry and books, but know few principles. They are masters who can only talk on paper.

Zhu Xiongying will ascend the throne in the future and become the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Putting such a person among Zhu Xiongying's courtiers may cause trouble at some point.

However, compared to Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and Fang Xiaoru still have some merits. If they are a little better, Cao Wei doesn't have to kill them.

Moreover, Zhu Xiongying is different from Zhu Yunwen. Behind him are Lan Yu and many other Huaixi officials who have contributed to his efforts. Presumably it is not Qi Tai and Fang Xiaoru's turn to do bad things.

On the field, Huang Zicheng and others were still glaring at Cao Wei with murderous eyes, but they also knew that they could not do anything about Cao Wei now.

at last,

The executioner gave an order.

"Execution!"

In an instant, everyone on the execution ground turned pale and trembling like chaff.

Huang Zicheng and others no longer had any ferocious arrogance. They were all covered in cold sweat, as if they were out of their minds. When the executioner came to them, they closed their eyes in despair.

At this moment, Cao Wei really saw the look of regret on their faces.

If they were given another chance, Cao Wei believed that they would never make the same choice as before.

But unfortunately, they have no chance...

The executioner raised his knife and dropped it, and large pieces of human heads fell to the ground, dyeing the stone platform of the execution place red.

The people in the audience burst into cheers, the traitorous ministers were dead...

Cao Wei left the execution ground and came to the Manufacturing Bureau to find Song Ping. At this time, Song Ping was inspecting the work of workers in the steelmaking plant.

"I asked you to compile books before. How are you doing now? Are you lazy?" Cao Wei asked jokingly.

Song Ping shook his head like a rattle, "I will do my best to do what the adults tell me to do. You will follow me."

Cao Wei followed Song Ping to his dormitory. Song Ping took out a thick book. Cao Wei took it and started reading slowly.

Planting mulberry, raising silkworms, growing rice, digging wells, building houses, waterwheels, windmills, making kilns and burning bricks, refining coke, making steel, manufacturing sky lanterns, application of pulleys and gear sets, steam engines, developing trains, and in refining Some brightly colored metals found in the process of coke and steelmaking were tested for their effects...

In less than a year, Song Ping has transcribed so much knowledge in all aspects, which is enough to show that he never relaxed even when Cao Wei was away.

Cao Wei nodded happily and closed the thick book in his hand.

"In terms of agriculture, let me tell you some interesting things..." Cao Wei told Song Ping the principle of selective cultivation, and the latter's eyes lit up when he heard it.

"My lord, is this really possible?"

Cao Wei said: "This is something I have tried. It can indeed significantly increase the output of a single type of grain in the long run. After next month, if you have time, you can go to the Ministry of Industry and have a look. There is an experimental field in the Tuntian Department. It’s the high-yielding wheat I cultivated before. I’ll say hello to them and go directly there when they fall down.”

Song Ping nodded repeatedly, like a chicken pecking at rice, "I remember it, little man!" "By the way, have you decided what name you want to give this book?" Cao Wei asked again.

Song Ping was stunned and shook his head. He really hadn't thought about it.

"It was the adults who asked me to do this in the first place. Why don't I let the adults give me a name? I've been doing menial jobs and don't have the leisure and elegance. I'm afraid the name won't be nice or loud."

Cao Wei smiled slightly, "Then why not just call it "Tiangong Kaiwu"."

Song Ping chewed the name twice, his eyes brightening, "Okay! Sir, what a good name, "Tiangong Kaiwu" is such a resounding name!"

Saying that, Song Ping quickly found a pen and wrote the words "Tiangong Kaiwu" on the corner of the front page of the booklet, for fear that he would forget it.

"If I am no longer here in the future, you must remember to be more diligent. The same goes for Zhao Heng. Daming Industry still has a long way to go. You two are very talented and cannot be wasted." Cao Wei suddenly said.

After Song Ping nodded subconsciously in response, he felt something was wrong.

"Sir, what do you mean? Not here? Where are you going?"

Cao Wei shook his head and did not answer him, with a sad look on his face.

Cao Wei didn't say anything, and Song Ping didn't dare to ask any more questions. He just said, "The words of the adults will be remembered by the villains."

After sending Song Ping to continue doing his own business, Cao Wei slipped back home and began to lie down.

The next day.

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Zhu Xiongying spent two days writing a preliminary accounting of the world's fields, and after going to court, he got it in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Grandpa Huang, this is the charter drafted by my grandson. Please take a look at it, Grandpa Huang."

Zhu Yuanzhang took it with a smile, put on his reading glasses, and looked at it carefully.

After watching it for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang could feel that Zhu Xiongying really put his heart into this charter.

In response to local officials, ranging from the prefect, Tongzhi, and Tongpan, to the prefecture, Tongzhi, county magistrate, and county magistrate, Zhu Xiongying arranged corresponding work processes for them, which were rigorous but not cumbersome and orderly.

In addition, there is also the division of responsibilities of personnel at all levels in the household department, and all of them are within the charter.

According to Zhu Xiongying's regulations, it is indeed not a problem to accurately count the number of fields in the country, but that is when no one interferes.

Zhu Xiongying's charter was still too idealistic. It only standardized the process, but did not accurately anticipate some of the problems that would be encountered in the process of counting and re-dividing fields.

"Ying'er," Zhu Yuanzhang took off his reading glasses and looked at Zhu Xiongying beside him, "your regulations are good, but have you ever thought that when you let officials from various places do things, some local country gentlemen will Won’t it cause any hindrance?”

Zhu Xiongying frowned.

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he remembered.

Indeed, local villagers and gentlemen all own large tracts of land. Will they honestly cooperate with local officials in conducting land statistics?
In order to protect their own interests, they will definitely do everything possible to obstruct the subsequent re-division of land!
In such a situation, local officials are in the local area and have many constraints, making it difficult to truly enforce the law impartially.

How can this be solved?

If it were Marquis Zhong Tian, ​​what would he do?
Zhu Xiongying thought of Cao Wei at this moment, and thought of Cao Wei's casual and unruly face, as if smiling at him: Ying'er, what's so difficult about this little thing, you just need to...

Zhu Xiongying tried to think with Cao Wei's usual thinking, and gradually, he really caught a glimmer of inspiration.

He straightened up immediately and said, "Grandpa Huang, do you think this is feasible? Let the officials from all over the country coordinate their affairs equally and send them to other places to handle the matter. In this way, those country gentlemen will not be able to handle the affairs of foreign officials. There are no more constraints, and the officials can enforce the law impartially as they no longer have any interest relationship with the village gentlemen."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his eldest grandson in surprise. He didn't take it seriously at first, but then he frowned and thought carefully.

Zhu Xiongying's idea sounds a bit fanciful, but if you think about it carefully, it is really feasible!
Zhu Yuanzhang said before that officials in various places will be constrained by the rural gentry forest because they live in the same place and inevitably have many conflicts of interest. In addition, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the rural gentry forest has huge power in the local area. Some officials Even if you want to enforce the law impartially, you are powerless.

This situation has existed in all dynasties. Due to inconvenient transportation, it is difficult to fully implement the emperor's policies in remote areas.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang had a headache when he thought about this problem.

It would be great if all the railways in the Ming Dynasty were paved. If special personnel were directly sent to handle this matter, both efficiency and accuracy would be greatly improved.

It's just that the railway construction work in Ming Dynasty has just started, and Zhu Yuanzhang is in a hurry.

However, the plan proposed by Zhu Xiongying took a different approach and directly severed the interest relationship between officials and rural gentlemen.

The officials are from outside, and the country gentlemen don't know the details and dare not provoke them easily. Even if they want to transfer benefits, they can't help but worry about whether they will be beaten by meat buns and never come back. After all, those officials are temporary and have to finish their work. Just leave, then you don’t care whether you eat or not, and whether you take yours or not?When the time comes, I will lose my wife and lose my troops, and there will be no place to cry even if I want to.

As long as the rural gentry cannot form a relationship of interest with the officials, the officials will not be afraid of the rural gentry who influence the local area, and it will not be difficult to enforce the law impartially...

It's just that you have to think carefully about this matter.

It is no small matter to regulate officials across the country at the same level. If they are not properly arranged, I am afraid there will be even bigger troubles!

Also, let those officials be transferred at the same level, and the places where they are transferred cannot be too close. Otherwise, it will be just a matter of saying hello between the two neighboring counties, states, and governments, and the meaning of this will be completely lost.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded silently while thinking.

"Ying'er, how did you come up with this idea?"

Zhu Xiongying scratched his head and smiled sheepishly: "Grandfather, please don't laugh at your grandson. I was thinking about what Zhong Tianhou would do if he were to solve this matter, and then...I thought of this method."

"What? Grandpa Huang, does this method not work?" Zhu Xiongying asked nervously.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was speechless for a while, and then he grinned helplessly.

This style is indeed like what Cao Wei can think of. He never plays according to common sense, but every time he makes a move, it always has miraculous results.

Unexpectedly, Ying'er, a child who has been with Cao Wei for many years, has also learned Cao Wei's unfettered thinking mode.

Yes, Not Bad!

(Brothers, happy Mid-Autumn Festival, I hope you won’t be stuck in traffic.)
(End of this chapter)