Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 7 The real violence

When Li Wei saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to do, he resigned. Zhu Yuanzhang also disliked him and wished that he would get out as soon as possible when he was no longer needed.

After sending Li Wei away, Zhu Yuanzhang took care of some government affairs. It was very late before he packed up his backpack, got up and left the Qianqing Palace, heading to the harem.

In fact, the Qianqing Palace was the emperor's bedroom and originally belonged to the harem. However, it was only the emperor's own residence and there were no concubines here. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang often handled government affairs and summoned courtiers here, so the Qianqing Palace was more like a vestibule. Concubines in the harem are generally not allowed to come here.

If the emperor wanted to live by himself, he would live in Qianqing Palace, and if he wanted to find concubines, he would go to the harem.

Kunning Palace, located directly behind Qianqing Palace, is the main palace of the harem and the residence of the queen.

At this time, Empress Ma was sorting out a pile of notes written by Zhu Yuanzhang and putting them into categories.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang kept saying that he was not allowed to interfere in politics in the harem, in fact he was too busy and often asked Queen Ma to help him handle some affairs. Small notes like these were all things Zhu Yuanzhang had noted that needed to be dealt with, so he handed them to Queen Ma. , if he forgets about it, Queen Ma will remind him that there is something he has not done yet.

"Sister, we are back, hey hey hey..."

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted in a loud voice and walked in shamelessly.

As soon as he arrived in front of Queen Ma, he seemed to be a different person, his majesty was gone.

Queen Ma rolled her eyes at him and said angrily: "You are such a big man, so be careful about your image."

"Hehehehe, there are no outsiders here, what kind of image do we want?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Sister, don't be busy, we got some magical treasures today, and I brought them over specially for you to take a look at."

At this point, Empress Ma noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang was holding a black package in his hand. After knowing the magic of Li Wei's things, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to keep the package personally and not let anyone touch it, except of course Empress Ma. .

"What baby?"

Queen Ma asked cooperatively. In fact, she was not curious, but her husband said so, so she naturally had to cooperate to give him some face.

"Hey, don't believe it, it's really a baby."

As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang came to sit down in front of Queen Ma, put down his backpack, and then told the little palace maid who was waiting at the side: "Xiao Hong, go get a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and bring a pot of hot water."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Xiao Hong bowed and then went to get something.

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his backpack and took out Li Wei's remaining pack of instant noodles. This was the last pack. Li Wei usually worked in the factory and ate instant noodles when he was too lazy to move, so he only put two packs in the bag, but There are only two packs. At this time, this is the last pack of instant noodles in the Ming Dynasty!
But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't feel distressed at all. Although he liked to eat it himself, he wanted to share this good thing with Queen Ma, so in the Qianqing Palace, he would rather eat the remaining half of Li Wei's bowl than open the bag. Instead, he brought it back to Queen Ma.

No fire was allowed in the palace at night. This was an order given by Zhu Yuanzhang. The reason was because he was afraid of water leakage or fire.

Moreover, the ancients did not have three meals a day like modern people. It would be good for ordinary people to have two full meals.

Although there are nobles in the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma are both diligent and frugal people, and the concubines can only follow the thrifty attitude. In the evening, they can only make do with some tea and snacks.

After a while, Xiaohong brought bowls, chopsticks and hot water. Zhu Yuanzhang took them and asked her to leave.

Zhu Yuanzhang opened the package as if he were offering a treasure, followed Li Wei's instructions in placing the dough and ingredients, then heated the water, covered it, and pressed it with chopsticks.

"Hehehe, okay, you can eat it after soaking it for a while. Sister, you may not think that this thing is simple to make, but it is really delicious. You will know after you taste it."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

"Yes." Queen Ma agreed and continued to work on her own.

"Are you planning to take action against Hu Weiyong?"

Queen Ma suddenly asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang put away his smile and said: "Yes, we originally wanted to wait, but something unexpected happened, so we can only take action now." "Hu Weiyong is arrogant and domineering and should have been punished long ago. I don't know what you are doing." What are you waiting for?"

Although Queen Ma is kind-hearted, she has no sympathy for such evil people.

Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment and said: "We didn't want to tell you so early, but now that our layout has been completed and will be implemented soon, it's okay to talk to you. We want to take the opportunity of getting rid of Hu Weiyong to abolish the Prime Ministerial System!”

"What? You want to abolish the prime minister system? I'm afraid this is inappropriate? Without the prime minister, what will happen to the government affairs of the court?"

Queen Ma said in surprise.

"Isn't there us? We can see that none of these scholars are good. They say they are loyal to the emperor and patriotic, but in private they are actually selfish villains. Once they are given power, they will do it for them. If you seek your own profit, you won’t take us and the people of Ming Dynasty to heart at all!”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with anger rising on his face.

"Can you be busy like this?" Queen Ma asked worriedly.

"It's okay, as long as we can stabilize the Ming Dynasty and let the people live a good life, it doesn't matter if we are a little bit tired!"

Before he became emperor, he always felt that it was Meng Yuan who made him unable to eat, and his parents and brothers starved to death. As long as Meng Yuan was overthrown, the people of the Ming Dynasty could live a good life.

But after being the emperor for more than ten years, he realized that the real tyrant was not the Mongolian and Yuan court, but these corrupt officials, profiteers and evil gentry!
The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty implemented a tax farming system. These barbarians took over the world but did not know how to govern it. So in order to save trouble, they directly sold the tax rights to those wealthy merchants and gentry. They did not need to take care of anything and directly received a large amount of finance and taxes, but these finances and taxes were all stable.

The ones who actually collect taxes directly from the people are those profiteers and evil gentry. They buy the right to collect taxes with large sums of money, and then collude with corrupt officials to plunder the people with all their strength and create various pretexts to tax the people. He was so scraped that he couldn't even eat.

The Central Plains is a vast land with abundant resources. Compared with the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the population is much smaller. If it were only the aristocratic class of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, even if they were extravagant and licentious, the common people could afford to live in poverty, but these corrupt officials, profiteers and evil gentry could not do it. Their families were huge. , there are so many of them, so greedy!

Although Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew Meng Yuan, the real Yuan Dynasty still exists. If the officials, merchants and gentry are not thoroughly cleaned up, then his Ming Dynasty will also become a violent Ming Dynasty, and sooner or later he will follow in the footsteps of the former Yuan Dynasty!
Those nobles in Meng Yuan are stupid, but he, Zhu Yuanzhang, is not stupid. He will not take the blame for these corrupt officials, profiteers and evil gentry!
Seeing his firm attitude, Queen Ma stopped trying to persuade him. Fortunately, Biao'er had grown up and could help a lot.

The two chatted for a while, and the instant noodles were ready.

"Sister, the noodles are ready, try it quickly."

Zhu Yuanzhang happily opened the bag and pushed the bowl of instant noodles in front of Queen Ma.

The alluring aroma filled the air, and Queen Ma lowered her head and smelled it in surprise: "Well, it does smell quite fragrant."

"Hehe, of course, have a try!" Zhu Yuanzhang handed her the chopsticks.

Queen Ma took the chopsticks and took a bite. The spicy and fragrant taste stimulated her taste buds and made her appetite increase.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Queen Ma did not live a life of luxury as a queen.

It's not that I can't, but I don't want to.

She has always been frugal and frugal, even reclaiming a piece of land in the Imperial Garden to grow her own vegetables.

Zhu Yuanzhang would often eat Xiaozao, and other concubines would secretly ask their servants to cook something delicious.But Queen Ma did not, and always insisted on being diligent and frugal.

This may also be the reason why she has been in poor health.

Although the food was delicious, Queen Ma was not greedy. She ate less than half of the bowl and gave it back to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"I've had tea before. I'm full. You can eat the rest."

"Okay, then I won't be polite to you, girl."

Zhu Yuanzhang was really rude as he said this. He finished the half bowl of noodles left by Empress Ma three times and five times and divided them by two, including the noodle soup.

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