Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 15 We are alms

A quarter of an hour later.

Li Wei woke up slowly and saw that he had been dragged to the big tree on the roadside. Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting not far away to rest, and the little girl who was being chased was guarding beside him.

"My dear friend, you're awake!"

Seeing Li Wei wake up, the little girl shouted happily, and then quickly got a water bag.

"My dear friend, please drink some water."

Looking at the water bag handed to his mouth, Li Wei was not polite, took a few sips, and then glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang again, well, it seems that this escape failed!

"Where's another bandit?"

Li Wei asked casually.

"He ran away. If we glanced at him, he would be so scared that he would pee and run away."

Li Wei felt that these words were a nod to himself.

But having said that, although this old man is not young, he fights really fiercely. Thinking of the situation just now, Li Wei couldn't help but shudder slightly.

"You're so cowardly, so you fainted from fright? We thought you were really not afraid of death!"

"I...I am fainting from blood, am I fainted from fright? Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you!"

Faced with Zhu Yuanzhang's ridicule, Li Wei forcibly backed down.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and refused to comment.

"By the way, little girl, why are you alone in this desolate place, where is your family?"

Li Wei changed the subject and asked the little girl.

"My whole family was killed by bandits, and now I'm the only one left."

As he spoke, the little girl's eyes welled up with mist, and she was about to cry.

Li Wei was a little panicked for a moment. He encountered this kind of plot on TV, and he really didn't know how to deal with it.

After thinking for a while, Li Wei looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who turned his head and looked away.

Li Wei suddenly became unhappy: "Lao Zhu, why don't you do your best to be a good person and take this little girl in?"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows: "What do you call us?"

The situation was urgent just now, so he didn't pay attention. Now when he heard this title, his face suddenly turned unkind.

"What's that called? You can't call it...then, right?"

Those who are away from home must not call His Majesty the Emperor with open mouth and silence anymore!
"Our real name is Zhu Baba..."

Li Wei: ...

Why do you want to add a seniority to yourself?But I don’t deserve it, okay!

"You can call us eighth master!" Zhu Yuanzhang continued.

Li Wei rolled his eyes after hearing this. He didn't want to call him dad or Ba Ye.

"Then do you accept it or not?"

"Why don't you ask the little girl what she means?"

Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

Li Wei looked at the little girl, who looked at him timidly, with a begging look in her eyes.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so cruel just now. The little girl saw it and was very afraid of this old man.

Li Wei also understood what the little girl meant, but now he couldn't protect himself and really didn't know how to deal with the little girl.

"My benefactor, this little girl is willing to be a slave and a maidservant, serving my benefactor. I hope my benefactor will take her in!"

The little girl knelt down and begged.

Li Wei hurriedly supported her. As a modern man, he couldn't bear to kneel down at every turn. He neither wanted to kneel to others, nor did he want others to kneel to him.

"It's not that I don't want to take you in, it's just that I can't help myself now!"

Li Wei sighed and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang after speaking.

"Don't worry, we won't care about you anymore wherever you like to go from now on." Zhu Yuanzhang understood what he meant.

"Really?" Li Wei said in surprise.

"Of course, Jun Wu... A gentleman always means what he says." Li Wei was overjoyed. With his words, he finally no longer had to run around or play in the wilderness to survive, and could go back to the city to develop openly. .

"Okay, we still have things to do. If you want to follow, you can follow. If you don't like to follow, you can follow wherever you want!"

Zhu Yuanzhang patted his butt and stood up, packed the knife and package, got up and left.

Li Wei thought for a while and decided to follow the old man. He was afraid that he would encounter some robbers again and lose his life, so it was safer to follow him and kick him away when he returned to the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang took Li Wei, and Li Wei followed the little girl, and began a formal private visit incognito.

Li Wei didn't know the road and wandered around on the hillside in the forest. But Zhu Yuanzhang was different. Under his leadership, the three of them saw a field not long after walking.

To be precise, it was a wasteland that was being reclaimed. Several farmers in coarse linen clothes were wielding hoes with great difficulty.

Zhu Yuanzhang bypassed those who were busy, chatted with an old farmer who was resting, and asked about the farming situation.

Seeing his extraordinary temperament, the old farmer did not dare to neglect him and replied carefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care. After chatting with the old farmer, he continued to walk forward. He passed by a village and went in to take a look. He chatted with the people who lived a hard life and shared some of the dry food he brought with him to those who could not afford to eat. people left with the gratitude of those people.

Li Wei followed him around, watching these ancient people working hard, and couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

He was also born as a farmer. When he was a child, he often followed his parents to work in the fields. However, at that time, Clockwise was not fully mechanized, but most of it was done by machines, and there were not many jobs that required manual labor.

And these old farmers in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the early Ming Dynasty, basically relied on manpower for everything from clearing land and weeding to farming and harvesting. Although they also had cattle, not every family had them.

In order to have more cattle for the people to cultivate the land, the current law prohibits eating beef.

"We overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, but what we inherited was a ruined country. At that time, cultivated land was abandoned everywhere in the Central Plains. After more than ten years of management, we gradually resumed farming. Look at these people, who have worked hard all their lives. , it’s just to have a full meal, how difficult it is!”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.

Li Wei nodded in agreement, and he felt the same way.

As the saying goes, those who are covered with silkworms are not sericulture farmers. Ordinary people have been farming all their lives. However, every time there is a natural or man-made disaster and there is not enough food to eat, the first people to starve to death are these ordinary people who have been farming all their lives. People in the city do not farm. , but those scholars and businessmen will not go hungry, even the workers will be ranked behind the farmers.

In the final analysis, it is because workers do not have the right to distribute the fruits of their labor. As the saying goes, the harder you work, the richer your boss will be. Getting rich through hard work means that he will get rich if you work hard. It does not mean that whoever works more will get more. .

"Li Wei, didn't you say that you are from future generations? Can you tell me how future generations will evaluate us?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked suddenly.

"tyrant!"

Li Wei told the truth that he was resentful after being detained for more than a month, and he would not be polite when he said this.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry about this either. This evaluation was expected by him. Not to mention future generations, even now there are people in the court openly and secretly calling him a tyrant, especially those officials he appointed himself.

"You don't need to tell me this, let's talk about other things!"

"Later generations think you are a legend. From a beggar to an emperor, you expelled the Tartars and restored China, which was an unprecedented feat. Although you were ruthless and killed countless people, you also punished corrupt officials, so most people think you are a good emperor. "

Li Wei made a brief summary based on the little historical knowledge he gained from film and television novels.

"What beggar? We are asking for alms!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little displeased: "Although we killed many people, they were all corrupt officials and rebellious soldiers who oppressed the people and violated the law. We killed with peace of mind and a clear conscience!"

"That's not necessarily the case, right? For example, in this case of Hu Weiyong, you killed 8 people and you deserved to be killed?"

"Nonsense! We have only 2 officials in the Ming Dynasty. How could we kill 8 to [-] people!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and glared at Li Wei with wide eyes.

"Well, don't you still have relatives and family members?"

"There can't be 8 or [-] people! Most of the family members of the prisoners have been assigned to open up wasteland and cultivate land!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when everything was in ruins and was in need of people, how could we easily kill tens of thousands at this time?Do you think we are really a fool? "

Zhu Yuanzhang is telling the truth. At least up to now, he has not massacred anyone in the Hu Weiyong case. Except for Hu Weiyong and a few other main culprits who were executed by their clans, most of the others were beheaded and their families were exiled. Some people, like Lu Zhongheng and others, were even killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. They were let go without any punishment. Of course, these people were killed again ten years later, but there were other reasons at that time.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know what he would do ten years later, and Li Wei, a novice in history class, didn't even know.At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him angrily, and he was also afraid in his heart.

"Then, maybe I remembered it wrong."

"Hmph! No matter how you slander us, as long as we are good to the people, the people will remember us in their hearts. Even thousands of years later, there will be people who will question your statement for me!"

Li Wei curled his lips secretly, "What are you talking about? It's none of my business!"

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