Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 276 Pay equal attention to the three prisons
evening.

Longevity Palace.

Under the pavilion in the back garden, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, father and son, drank herbal tea and chatted while looking at the sunset in the west.

Empress Li Yao and Empress Dowager Xu, as usual, deliberately avoided the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty and specially chatted about domestic matters in the wing room.

In history, Empress Xu only lived 46 years old. Fortunately, through Zhu Gaoxu's unremitting efforts, she was finally successfully renewed.

At this time, 63-year-old Xu Miaoyun was holding her fourth great-grandson and chatting with Li Yao about the children's studies.

Outside, under the pavilion, Zhu Di handed a map to Zhu Gaoxu.

"I am very pleased that you attach so much importance to the affairs of Shu and send your trusted followers to support Youyu's succession."

Zhu Di pointed to the map as he spoke: "This is a simplified version of the "Comprehensive Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms". The places circled with red ink on it are the places I will inspect in the future."

He pointed at Luzon Island with his right index finger and said: "My first stop after going to sea will be to Luzon Island to take a look, and then I will go south to Old Port and Malacca, and my third stop will be Mount Ceylon."

Zhu Gaoxu discovered that Zhu Di wrote the serial number with a red pen after the name of the place he planned to inspect, and this serial number turned out to be a simple numeral (so-called Arabic numeral in later generations).

Zhu Di saw Zhu Gaoxu's expression in his eyes and said with a smile: "You want to ask me why I started using simple numbers?"

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu nodding, he immediately explained: "It's not because of the influence of you and Zhan Yu."

A few days ago, Prince Zhu Zhanyu was ordered by Zhu Gaoxu to add a specific evolution process to simplify the evolution of Chinese characters into simple numerical symbols, but after racking his brains, he only came up with one, two, three, five, seven, nine, and zero. As for the evolution steps of four, six and eight, I haven't figured it out even after thinking about it.

So he went to the longevity palace to consult Zhu Di, but Zhu Di was good at marching and fighting, and was not proficient in numbers or magic at all.

But Zhu Zhanyu said that the less familiar people are with arithmetic and numbers, the easier it is to figure out the evolution process from Chinese characters to simple numbers.

After many exchanges with Zhu Zhanyu, Zhu Di unexpectedly found that this simple number was very useful, so he tried to use it in his daily notes.

After using it, he felt that simple numbers were very convenient and simple, easy to remember, write and recognize, so he also used simple numbers in his navigation plan.

"Dad, are you planning to live on the Peacock Peninsula for a while?"

Zhu Gaoxu discovered that after Zhu Di left Mount Ceylon, his fourth stop was the six Ming vassal states in the west of the Peacock Peninsula.

Zhu Di asked doubtfully: "Isn't it possible?"

"The climate in the southern part of the Peacock Peninsula is even hotter than in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas of the Ming Dynasty. When my father arrives there, he will probably be acclimatized to the climate just like the soldiers of the Ming Army who first entered Annan."

Zhu Gaoxu advised: "My son still hopes that my father will not go up without going up. If he has to go up, it is best not to stay too long. Dad, my son is not worried about your health. The main reason is that my mother's body is a little weak."

Zhu Gaoxu knew that he could not persuade Zhu Di, and Queen Mother Xu Miaoyun had already decided to accompany Zhu Di through the last part of his life.

"If your mother hears what you say, I'm afraid she will be moved to tears again."

Zhu Di sighed with emotion.

After a pause, he looked up at Zhu Gaoxu and said solemnly: "In a few days, after the trial of the General is successful, I will go out with your mother, and we will also complete a feat of sailing around the earth. .After we leave, it will be up to you to take care of the affairs of Lao Zhu’s family.”

"Tell me, how do you plan to govern the Ming Dynasty in the next ten years?"

There is no need for Zhu Gaoxu to hide anything from Zhu Di, and Zhu Di is an experienced politician who can check for his omissions and fill in the gaps after listening to his ideas.

Therefore, he thought for a while and said bluntly: "Dad, my son has decided to implement two five-year political plans, and each plan includes various aspects such as governance, border defense, taxation, education, medicine, equipment, etc. "

"Why five years, not three or four or six years?" Zhu Di asked.

Zhu Gaoxu explained unhurriedly: "Whether it is building a large official factory or implementing a new national policy, it requires a construction period or trial period of three to four years, and then at least a year of adjustment or improvement. Expect."

"If it is a factory, it will be in the fifth year before it can produce various types of firearms and materials according to the drawings. If it is a national policy, it will be in the last five years when good policies suitable for most regions can be obtained. In this way, the negative impact of the implementation of the new policy can be minimized. .”

“And these will become the basis for the next cycle plan.”

Zhu Di asked again: "Why is it called 'plan' and not 'planning'?"

Don’t think that the words “plan” and “planning” didn’t exist in ancient times.

"Book of Han·Volume [-]·Chen Ping Biography": "Sincere Minister's plan is admissible, I hope your Majesty will use it."

"Book of the Later Han·Volume [-]·Biography of Ma Yuan": "If you don't follow the plan, you can really lead him away."

"Pinghua of the History of the Five Dynasties, History of the Zhou Dynasty, Volume [-]": "Shizong looked at it from the past and gave him plans. It was completed in ten days, and the work was very economical."

"Planning" here means planning and planning, which is somewhat different from the meaning of "planning" in later generations.

"A plan is a specific plan or method drawn up in advance. If there are no accidents, it will be implemented as planned and will not be changed."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "As for planning, it is a kind of planning, a large scope, not specific enough. My son uses 'plan' because he hopes to act according to the plan and achieve it despite all difficulties."

"As expected of my good son, he is ambitious!"

Zhu Di first stroked his beard and praised, then asked: "Tell me, what important things do you plan to do in your first five-year political plan?"

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and then said: "Things have priorities, so my son will talk about the more important things first."

"The first thing is to rectify the inner court, improve the selection, promotion, pension and other processes of the inner court eunuchs and palace officials, and formulate customization to prevent the emergence of autocratic eunuchs in future generations."

"The specific aspect is to pay equal attention to the three supervisors, that is, the ceremonial supervisor supervises the school clerk (secretary), the internal official supervisor goes out to the four directions of the town, and the royal horse supervisor supervises the four guards."

He believed that if we wanted to prevent eunuchs from interfering in politics, we must create an environment where eunuchs could not interfere in politics.

Let the eunuchs be busy doing other things, firmly fix them within a certain scope of authority, and work hard to get the job done.

Only in this way can the possibility of eunuchs being promoted and reused through flattery be minimized!
"How to give equal attention to both?"

Zhu Di asked.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "My son decided to reform these three inner court yamen, and each prison will have two eunuchs to hold the seal."

"Three to five additional eunuchs will be added to the ceremonial eunuch, three to five additional eunuchs will be added to the imperial eunuch, and three to five additional eunuchs will be added to the imperial eunuch. They are all of the fourth grade. Previously, there was only one eunuch per eunuch. The situation of eunuch dominance will no longer exist.”

"The eunuch who holds the seal of each prison is responsible for the seal of the prison, supervises the etiquette and punishment names of the prison, binds the chief attendants, serves as errands, and listens to all the officials. The eunuch of the ceremonial department is also responsible for strictly guarding the entrance and supervising Guanglu Temple supplies and other things.”

"The eunuch who holds the pen of the Chief of Ceremonies is in charge of internal and external documents, as well as the imperial review, and reviews the cabinet votes."

"The eunuchs who serve as internal officials follow the eunuchs and serve on the emperor's side. Whenever major military and state affairs occur, the eunuchs who serve on them are responsible for transmitting the emperor's oral instructions to prevent other eunuchs from falsely transmitting the emperor's oral instructions and causing trouble in the palace."

"The Royal Horse Supervisor supervises the eunuchs, the four guards including Teng Xiang and Wu Xiang, and the five-city army and horse department."

(End of this chapter)