Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 383 I am willing to do this

Zhu Di and his wife left with doubts. Most of these mysterious things are difficult to understand.

In particular, they have never learned any dialectics.

Even Wang Buli didn't know much about this change.

Many words can confuse them.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a long time in the post station and decided to write a letter to his eldest son Zhu Biao.

In this way, it can be regarded as an explanation to him, and the most important thing is to share some of the difficulties that the Ming Dynasty will encounter in the future.

How can a ruler avoid this?

Finally, I would like to ask how the government is being handled now and whether there are any difficult problems.
After finishing writing, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a long time before asking the Jinyiwei to send him away.

Many of the things Zhu Yuanzhang saw in the fairyland this time made him feel unbelievable.

His descendants are so unreliable in their conduct.

Even though Wang Buli just said that some problems were left by Zhu Di himself, the Ming Dynasty could not always go to war. It was normal for the soldiers to be not good at fighting after enjoying peace for too long.

The most important issue is the military system, which gave Zhu Yuanzhang a headache.

But the solution Wang Buli came up with wasn't any good other than adding more money.

money.

This was exactly what Zhu Yuanzhang lacked. Although a silver mine was found at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, the output was not very large.

Now all kinds of things are lingering in his mind. He wants to get a handle on each of them, but he doesn't know where to start.

After dawn.

Wang Buli continued to accompany Zhu Yuanzhang on his inspection tours in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Wen Ke brought the latest news from the interrogation, saying that the grain was resold and that there were people in the court.

The most important thing is that this clue is broken and the whereabouts of the middleman is unknown.

"It doesn't matter."

Wang Buli didn't take it seriously. It seemed that this situation was not the only one in Jiangnan.

"It must be a conspiracy. It will eventually be exposed."

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Wang Buli's words of comfort.

When it comes to solving cases, I'm not as professional as Wang Buli.

The weather was getting hotter at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang's trousers were torn due to traveling, so he just asked someone to mend them but did not change them into new ones.

He believed that only by passing by other people's fields and asking for water could he find out more about the real situation.

Opportunities like this are not common at all.

"Buli, I have governed the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and this is my first time to visit incognito. It really opens my eyes."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat under the shade of a tree like an old farmer.

Wang Buli had already changed the hand he was holding into a palm-leaf fan and had also changed into the clothes of a nobleman.

At this time, he was even more radical than Zhu Yuanzhang, who wore torn clothes. He just wore big shorts and a vest, and a straw hat on his head to protect himself from the sun.

No one would think that he was a rich and powerful person.

Nowadays, many common people in the Ming Dynasty work in the fields without wearing shirts to avoid being scratched, and most children are bare-butted.

"In general, it is much stronger than the Yuan Dynasty, but it has not yet reached the threshold of prosperity."

"Hahaha."

Zhu Yuanzhang felt somewhat proud when he heard what Wang Buli said.

"We know how hard it is for the people under the Yuan Dynasty, and we always wanted to finish everything in one go.

Now I think that haste makes waste. If you build a palace too quickly without building a good base, you don’t know when it will collapse.”

After Zhu Yuanzhang entered the fairyland and saw so many things about the future of the Ming Dynasty, it was inevitable that he would feel a little shaken in his heart, regarding the way he thought and felt.

"There is something wrong with the military system. The good policies we issued for the benefit of the people have become like this when they reach the grassroots level. They are not being used in the right way at all."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Wang Buli, who was dressed like a pauper, and said, "You are always talking about money, but I don't think it's quite right.

There is also the policy of using work as a substitute for relief once a disaster occurs, which is not very safe for us.

By that time, when famine strikes all over the country and there is no food, even if the court gives them money in disguise, what is the use?
In my opinion, farmers are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and should not be easily shaken."

"What my father-in-law said makes sense."

Wang Buli had some understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of ​​governing the country. Now the Ming Dynasty was in the stage of crossing the river by feeling the stones.

After all, the position of prime minister had been abolished, and it was not enough for the emperor to appoint the prime minister on his own.

In particular, Zhu Yuanzhang also referred to the cabinet system of later generations and configured a simple one for Zhu Biao.

"What's the point?"

"Of course." Wang Buli explained with a smile:
"If the emperor, who is high above, does not lose touch with the common people, then the policies he formulates will surely benefit the country and the people.

If there were any mistakes, it would be because the officials who were in charge of the execution had manipulated the situation.”

"Well, you are also a good observer."

Zhu Yuanzhang also agreed with Wang Buli's words. He has been cracking down on wealthy households and subsidizing ordinary people over the years.

Strictly controlling the treatment of officials is to prevent them from doing things that harm the people.

However, the descendants in later generations were too lenient towards officials.

The land owned by that group of Jiangnan officials in their hometown was simply alarmist. The salaries he gave to his sons were all fake, but those officials had actually occupied the land.

Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that what Wang Buli said was quite in line with his temper.

But sometimes, talking to him makes him so angry that he starts to moan.

It's really a love-hate relationship.

When Zhu Biao received the letter from his father, he naturally understood that his father had entered the fairyland again and discovered some problems in the Ming Dynasty, so he asked him to call a group of wise men to solve these problems.

“A new problem has arisen.”

Zhu Yuanzhang also told the crown prince everything about the military system and asked Prince of Yan Zhu Di to do it.

Zhu Biao did not care about the many problems because he was still young and they were all challenges that could help the Ming Dynasty move to a higher level.

No one's advice could make these rulers more heartbroken than seeing the terrible things their descendants would do.

So what can be changed must be changed.

But you still need to choose the right timing.

Zhu Biao felt that he was young and strong, especially since his father had let him do it, he must do it well.

So no matter how many problems or documents are thrown at him, he will work overtime to get them all done.

This is to prevent my father from being worried while he is on patrol outside and having to come back to clean up his mess.

Zhu Biao thought that he had been tempered by the years of helping his father handle state affairs, and that taking on the responsibility alone was just a simulation training for his future as an emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Biao did not think that these problems were problems, as there were always various solutions.

Don't make a fuss while you are young. When you are older, you will have less ambition and will be more likely to just get by.

Zhu Biao wrote out the problem separately and called his simple cabinet, asking them to discuss it first, and then discuss it together after reaching a conclusion.

As for the construction of a military academy, it still requires careful discussions with the generals and teachers in the Imperial Academy who have teaching experience.

Zhu Biao found some time to write a reply to Zhu Yuanzhang, and then wrote another letter to Wang Buli, asking for his opinions on some issues.

Compared with others, Zhu Biao always subconsciously thought that Wang Buli's method was more practical.

This guy is really aiming to solve the problem as the basic point, rather than considering balancing the various forces in the court.

On political struggle.

He is really not a qualified subject.

But it was this point that made Zhu Biao trust him very much.

Zhu Di, who was in Peking, also sent his trusted aides out to continue investigating the situation of the garrison troops.

Last time he got a lot of information that many soldiers were bullied by their superiors and were ordered to make corrections. Now let's see if any changes have been made.

If there is no further change, we will have to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty’s garrison troops will inevitably decay, and my father’s strategic vision will no longer hold up.

Not to mention that these soldiers had to support themselves to travel far to the northern desert to fight the Mongols.

If the soldiers cannot farm peacefully, then what is the point? In short, all the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty took action, and for a while, the officials in the court complained again and again, why are they being given more work?

Instead, Zhu Biao issued a wave of subsidies as a reward to some departments that cooperated with him diligently.

The Shangshu and the Shilang thanked him verbally but did not take it to heart.

Instead, those officials and clerks in the yamen were grateful to the prince.

Nothing said.

After all, the prince really distributed food and banknotes.

Which of these officials is not envious of Jiangning County's operations?

The sixth-rank yamen all receive subsidies, and even a minor clerk lives a comfortable life, but these high-ranking yamen do not have that.

Fortunately, the prince was considerate of them and gave everyone some rewards.

In other words, when the current emperor is away on an inspection tour and the crown prince is in charge, many of the ministers feel very "comfortable" and "relaxed".

At least the prince has not shown any intention of exterminating your three clans.

There were even some shady ministers who secretly wondered what would happen if the emperor was like Qin Shi Huang and died while on an inspection tour.

Isn't it a great thing that the prince can succeed to the throne?
It can be said that after Zhu Yuanzhang went out and the prince took power, the atmosphere in the court became much more relaxed.

Wang Buli received a letter from Zhu Biao, asking him some policy questions.

Wang Buli felt that Zhu Yuanzhang did not mind the trouble of making the stone go around in such a circle.

Or do you feel that there are some things I will never tell him?
Wang Buli pondered for a long time, and then directly wrote out Yongzheng's method of having officials and gentry serve as one and pay taxes as one, so there was no need to consult Zhu Biao.

In any case, the ones who are harmed are the official gentry, who are also some of the vested interests of the Ming Dynasty regime. Without some strong means, it is feared that it will be impossible to implement it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also very surprised that Wang Buli wrote for such a long time.

I don’t know what Biaoer said to him that asked him to keep writing.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not disturb Wang Buli, but just listened to the Jinyiwei's report on the temple's resistance against the government.

This is also what he heard on the road.

The monks of Qiancheng Temple broke the law and, while on the run, they openly confronted the government with force, killing one yamen runner and injuring two others. They then fled into the temple, but the temple abbot led two hundred monks, surrounded more than a dozen yamen runners, and refused to hand them over, not letting them go until dawn.

The temple is so "full of martial virtue" that it is actually a legacy of the previous dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who spent his early years in temples, also understood these principles.

In the Yuan Dynasty, it was very common for temples to engage in business.

In the fourth year of Zhongtong (1263), Kublai Khan issued an edict allowing monks and Taoists to "earn rent from farming and pay taxes from trade", and the phenomenon became popular.

For example, the Dahuguo Renwang Temple was built by Kublai Khan’s queen, and her assets were spread across the country.

Among them, there are 140 "Jianghuai Taverns" alone;

The same is true for ordinary temples. There is a saying in Yuan opera that "Jinshan Temple is filled with tea-trading boats."

Feng'en Temple on Zhending Road also had "more than 100 guest houses", which were hotels. Later, it expanded to 80 rooms and also operated "two bathhouses and one wine shop".

For people in the Yuan Dynasty, temples and Taoist temples were not only a community of faith, but also an economic community.

Temples need manpower to purchase land and houses, open mines and engage in business. They also need manpower to protect assets or participate in oppression.

This is probably the identity of these “several hundred men”.

In addition, temples enjoyed the privilege of exemption from labor service during the Yuan Dynasty.

Although this policy was repeated many times, one year after Zhu Yuanzhang was born, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan still stipulated in an edict that "monks and nuns shall not be required to perform any corvée or labor service" and "monks who have temple lands and are required to pay rent shall be exempted from such service." This policy has not changed since then.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was seventeen years old, he was sent to a temple by his family. He lived in the temple for four years. In addition to having no place to eat, he also used the privileges of the temple to avoid the labor service that all registered citizens had to bear.

Zhu Yuanzhang had visited a temple before, so he naturally knew that in the Yuan Dynasty, temples were actually a kind of social organization with money, people, and a network of connections.

Therefore, his attitude towards temples and monks is extremely contradictory.

On the one hand, he often showed great respect for monks, Taoists, gods and Buddhas.

Because the Linggu Temple in Nanjing had to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's palace, the temple and the Zhigong Pagoda where the Liang Dynasty Zen Master Zhigong was buried were moved together.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that all expenses and manpower for the relocation be borne by the government.

After the new temple and the new Zhigong Pagoda were completed, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the release of all prisoners who had participated in the reconstruction work, on the grounds that "Sakyamuni Zhigong has been dead for thousands of years, but he can still give life to you and others."

In fact, it is to offer merit to Sakyamuni, the Great Awakening Golden Immortal and Zhigong Zen Master by releasing the prisoners.

On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang had long been committed to destroying the connection between monks and secular society, trying his best to force temples across the world to return to the boring activities of chanting Buddha's name and reciting scriptures. Many princes were equipped with monks, but no action was taken to disconnect them.

Now hearing this news, he was even more angry.

This bunch of bald asses.

Anyone who dares to defy the authority of the government will be punished.

Zhu Yuanzhang was already thinking about killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.

Wang Buli rubbed his wrist, waited for the ink to dry, then stuffed it into an envelope and gave it to Zhu Biao.

"Son-in-law, would you like to hear about the trouble caused by this monk?"

Mao Xiang took the initiative to walk forward a few steps, and only after he made sure that he could not see clearly the handwriting Wang Buli had placed on the table did he begin to repeat it.

After listening, Wang Buli said:

"They not only fought against the government, but also befriended officials, sold things for others, lent money for others, bought land, mined minerals, set up shops and lent money, and engaged in other commercial activities."

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a muffled voice: "These are not things that monks and Taoists should do. Whoever is caught doing this will have his head chopped off."

Wang Buli glanced at him and said, "Father-in-law, there are many eminent monks in Nanjing. Do you really not know the situation of their temples in Nanjing?"

"Or should we turn a blind eye?"

"How is it possible that it's like the first time I've seen something like this when I got here?"

Faced with Wang Buli's three questions, Zhu Yuanzhang remained silent. He had not made up his mind.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"The gods and monsters of the hundred schools are absurd and incomprehensible. I know that Your Majesty has seen through them. However, you still want to fool the world, such as the so-called teaching of the way of gods."

What Wang Buli meant was that Zhu Yuanzhang actually didn’t believe in those absurd myths and legends at all.

The reason why they wanted to establish "Shintoism" was actually to fool the people of the world and make them believe that the Zhu Ming regime had the support of heaven.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's inner thoughts were exposed by Wang Buli.

Even though this kid has been shouting that there are no immortals in the sky, how can he explain what happened to him?

The person who is closest to an immortal in the entire Ming Dynasty has been shouting that it's all fake.

Those who are false are always saying that they are true.

The world is so absurd and outrageous that even Zhu Yuanzhang feels it is not realistic at all.

"There's absolutely no need to do this."

After listening to Wang Buli's persuasion, Zhu Yuanzhang picked up his teacup and said, "I remember something like the Mandate of Heaven."

"The world has been conquered by force, the people have already obeyed, the villains are already afraid, there is no need to talk about gods and immortals anymore." Wang Buli snorted and laughed again:
"When your Majesty's family was almost wiped out, and you had no place to bury your parents, and were about to starve to death, I guess you prayed to some gods a lot, right?
But there are so many gods and Buddhas worshipped in the world, is there any one who responds to Your Majesty?

Your Majesty, you have achieved what you have today entirely through your own efforts, as well as the right timing. May I ask which deity has helped you?"

Although Wang Buli's words were soft, they were extremely deafening.

harsh.

It's too jarring.

Although it sounded harsh, Zhu Yuanzhang actually knew that Wang Buli's words were right.

The true logic of worldly affairs is "he who wins the world wins the hearts of the people" rather than "he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world". Talking about gods and Buddhas is just for propaganda purposes. If you really become an emperor, you don't have to take gods and Buddhas seriously.

Not only does he not have to take gods and Buddhas seriously, he also has to destroy those temples and Taoist temples that have money, connections, and networks.

"Then what do you think?"

In response to Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, Wang Buli stood up and began to collect his dried letters, slowly put them into envelopes, sealed them, and finally covered them with lacquer.

"Your Majesty made a living in temples in his early years, so you have more experience in this area than I do. It would be better if Your Majesty could issue a guideline document on the renovation of temples, and use it to renovate the temples of the Ming Dynasty."

Wang Buli believed that Zhu Yuanzhang was willing to do such a thing.

Sure enough, after hearing Wang Buli's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang was delighted.

He was very satisfied with issuing some guiding documents and implementing them throughout the world.

This is exactly what he wants to do!
"Okay, okay, I have to think about this matter, so as not to hurt the hearts of these monks and Taoists who support the Ming Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)