Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 96 A good deal (Third update, please vote for me)
Night falls, and in an era when there is little entertainment, many people go to bed early.

No, Zhu Jingjing fell asleep holding the poem that Queen Ma brought her.

The Crown Princess happily praised Zhang Yifan and said that she had read Zhang Yifan correctly. She was happy to be able to bring him and Zhu Jingjing together, and she and Zhu Biao hugged each other and fell asleep.

Zhu Di returned to his house and was so happy that he was about to be able to truly lead the army that he was so excited that he and Xu went to bed very late.

Zheng Jingxue sent his uncle Zheng Shili away and asked him to rush back with sixty Ming Dynasty treasure notes to give money to his mother; while he himself was worried about his father's safety and finally fell asleep.

Of course, there are also those who don’t sleep.

For example, classmate Mei Yin, who has encountered setbacks, is reading at night with a military book in his hand.

Also, Zhu Yuanzhang was not sleeping yet. He was writing something with a brush until late at night.It's much later than before.

After Queen Ma heard about it, she was worried about what he had done and rushed over to see what was going on.

"Your Majesty, is there anything that can't be discussed until tomorrow?" Empress Ma said with a bit of complaint, "It's late at night, so you should pay attention to your body!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he put down his brush and said with a smile: "I guess I can't sleep even in bed, so I just want to sort out what that kid said today!"

After hearing this, Queen Ma immediately knew that he was referring to Zhang Yifan, and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Is it difficult to think clearly about what he said?"

She listened to it today and didn't find anything particularly difficult to understand.

But she came back to her senses immediately and asked again: "Did it happen after I left?"

When she said this, she had already walked to Zhu Yuanzhang and saw that the rice paper in front of Zhu Yuanzhang was full of words, scrawled, corrected and crossed out. In short, it seemed a bit messy.

Zhu Yuanzhang reached out and took the hand that Queen Ma extended, looked up at her, and said with a wry smile: "Yes, after you left, this guy said a lot about the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes that cannot be printed casually. Although there were a lot of them. I can understand his general meaning, but after I got into the specifics of national affairs, the more I thought about it, the more complicated it became."

Having said that, he raised his chin towards the piece of paper on the table and said, "Look, I'm thinking about how to do this, but I feel like I can't do it. I always feel that this is more difficult than fighting a war!"

Queen Ma was very surprised when she heard this. She thought for a moment and then replied: "In that case, let's summon him to the palace tomorrow to talk about this matter!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled after hearing this, stood up and said: "How old is he? It is already very remarkable that he can see the reason why money cannot be printed indiscriminately. If it is combined with political affairs, do you think he can understand it?"

Zhang Yifan cited the example of Liujia Village and Yishi grain trading, etc. These examples are simple and can easily explain the problem, allowing him to understand the true meaning of money.

However, it is really too complicated for the country to make good use of this money.He did not think that Zhang Yifan, who was only 16 years old, could sort out the relationships in national affairs and do this well.

During the day, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped Zhang Yifan based on this understanding, feeling that he already roughly knew what was going on, and he would understand it when he went back and clarified it.

As a result, he found that when it comes to real sorting out, understanding the principles of money is one thing, but how to actually do it is another matter. It’s really difficult!

This is not to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is stupider than Zhang Yifan, but that there was no such institution as a bank in ancient times, let alone a central bank. It would be strange if he could figure it out out of thin air.

But Zhu Yuanzhang has already made some decisions on other matters.

For example, regarding spying, including spying on news from neighboring countries, as well as grasping people's livelihood resources in various places, etc., Zhu Yuanzhang was already considering whether to set up such a yamen specifically to do this on the basis of school inspections.

In its original history, as Jinyiwei developed, it had the function of spying on information, both at home and abroad, and collecting private prices.

Originally Jinyiwei was established after the Hu Weiyong case, but now Zhang Yifan, a butterfly fanning its wings, seems to be ahead of schedule.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang held Queen Ma's hand, and the two left. As they walked, he said to Queen Ma: "This boy, I really don't know how his brain is grown. He knows the smallest things. Jing Jing said that he is the most talented person in the world. I thought she was just fascinated before; now..."

Having said this, he paused and said with great emotion: "...I already believe that choosing him over the Li family will be worthwhile in terms of national affairs!"

This comment was considered very high, and Empress Ma was a little surprised when she heard it.However, for this result, she is also very happy that both family and state affairs have reached an agreement.

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Zhang Yifan naturally had no way of knowing about this situation.After he handed over the Prince Consort's Mansion in Nanjing City, he went to hand over the one hundred acres of land the next day.It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang took care of him, and the one hundred acres of land was very close to Liujia Village.

Therefore, he returned to Liujia Village after handing over.

Naturally, the whole village came to greet him.The firecrackers that had been prepared also started going off.Although Zhang Yifan has not yet conferred the title of Prince Consort, the people in the village are already a little cautious when seeing him, let alone calling him Xiaofan, Xiao Zhang, Zhang Wazi, etc.

Zhang Yifan immediately realized this when he heard the words "Young Master".

Also, this house in the village will obviously not be habitable in the future because it is too small.

Zhang Yifan planned to build another big house and use this small house as a school for the village.

Zhu Yuanzhang made a decree last year to set up social studies, but social studies cannot be established easily. Classrooms, teachers, and the salaries of teaching teachers all have to be solved.

Liujia Village did not have the conditions before, and there was no one in the village who could speak to the government. Therefore, sociology still does not exist until now.

Zhang Yifan's idea is that he can come over to teach when he is free. At least in mathematics, physics and chemistry, he must teach himself.In other words, it is best if he can master this sociology.

However, it would not be possible if he was in charge of sociology himself.It would be best for this teacher to be someone of his own, who is capable and curious about new knowledge, so that he can easily teach for him when he is away.

With this matter in mind, Zhang Yifan began to choose a homestead for himself, and what kind of house he planned to build?
On the third day when he was thinking about these things, Zhu Di came to him.

As soon as we met, Zhu Di complained why he wasn't in the mansion in the city?

"Haha, I like this place, and I plan to build a villa here." Zhang Yifan initially selected the hill overlooking the village, pointed it to Zhu Di, and said at the same time, "When you have some free time later, you are welcome. You’re a guest!”

Zhu Di took a look and was not interested at all. He just said to Zhang Yifan: "Let's go to your house to talk!"

It was obvious that he was on to something serious.

So Zhang Yifan welcomed him into the old house.

As soon as he sat down, Zhu Di said to him: "In the past two days, Song Lian has taken the lead and publicly spread the thunder and dew in the court. I guess my father has listened to what you said."

"Oh?" Zhang Yifan was a little surprised after hearing this, and then said happily, "This is a good thing!"

"Also, the grand master is very active. Since yesterday morning, he has led the Minister of Etiquette to the East Palace to arrange things for you. After setting the articles of association, you can set the wedding date!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yifan was a little surprised, but this was also a good thing for him.

It seems that this Li Shanchang is not necessarily a small-minded person, or maybe he still listens to Zhu Yuanzhang and doesn't dare to cause trouble for him!
When Zhang Yifan was thinking this, Zhu Di continued to tell him the news: "When I went to collect information about the Japanese pirates, I heard that my father had an order to summon Mao Xiang, the commander of the Yulin Guards, to return to the capital. I felt that this It may also have something to do with what you said!"

Mao Xiang?Hearing this name, Zhang Yifan was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it carefully, he remembered that this person was the first commander of Jin Yiwei.Could it be related to the matter of spying on information?

Seeing Zhang Yifan's appearance, Zhu Di thought he didn't know what was going on, so he explained to him: "This Mao Xiang is one of the people my father trusts most. The emperor was worried that the traitors who were collaborating with the Japanese pirates were from the government, so he sent him, Yu Xian and others out."

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Yifan knew that Zhu Di came to see him for business. He probably collected information about the Japanese pirates and came to tell him.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but feel a little funny.It's only the third day, and he's in such a hurry. It's obvious that Zhu Di is actually very concerned about the opportunity to lead troops in the war. Even if it's a Japanese pirate who is like a rat, he still attaches great importance to it, otherwise he wouldn't be so Act vigorously and resolutely!

Sure enough, Zhu Di said to him: "Next, let me tell you about the Japanese pirates..."

Zhang Yifan nodded and listened carefully.

In fact, the problem of Japanese pirates already existed in the Yuan Dynasty.Not only the Yuan Dynasty, but also Goryeo had been suffering from Japanese pirates, which forced Goryeo to change water transportation to land transportation.

It was also for this reason that Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to the Japanese country when he first founded the country, hoping to solve the Japanese pirate problem through diplomatic channels.Of course, the diplomatic approach failed.

It can be said that from the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, all areas from Liaodong in the north to Fujian and Guangdong in the south were invaded by Japanese pirates.Especially in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian.

Those who failed to resist the Japanese, such as Li De, the commander of the Chaozhou Guard, were executed by Zhu Yuanzhang's order.

Of course, in most cases, the Ming army at this time was powerful. As long as they could catch up with the Japanese pirates, they would basically win.Some even took the initiative and destroyed the Japanese pirates' hiding places on the islands.

Even in July of the fifth year of Hongwu, Jiashen issued an order to the Nine Guards on the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian to build 660 sea boats to ward off Japanese pirates.But in the end, because Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that the money to build the boat would increase the burden on the people, he dropped the matter.But Hu Weiyong said that this is a good deal and can be built.

(End of this chapter)