King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 88: Lao Zhu teaches his son on the street, and Jiang Gu is paralyzed!

Hear this.

Zhu Biao was slightly startled.

Private visit via incognito?

My father did very little about this matter.

After all, he was too busy reviewing memorials and handling government affairs every day.

Private visits via incognito servers waste a lot of time!
  Zhu Biao couldn't help but said: "Father, I have to deal with all kinds of things every day. It's really hard work! It's my fault that I don't understand the people's feelings. I'd better let my son do it by himself when it comes to private visits in disguise!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "For us, national affairs are naturally important!

Every memorial we approve here is related to the peace of millions of people!
  However, it is also our responsibility to educate the prince!

What we carry on our backs are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and I am teaching you for the sake of the people of the Ming Dynasty in the future!

Needless to say, just sleep less tonight!

What hardships have we not endured in all these years? This is still okay! "

Zhu Biao didn't want Zhu Yuanzhang to be tired, but he couldn't stop him, so he had to say yes with a wry smile.

in fact.

Zhu Biao was not completely ignorant of the sufferings of the people.

In many cases, he was even more considerate and caring for the people than Lao Zhu.

For example, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Zhu Biao, who was only fifteen years old, inspected Yangzhou.

Seeing that the people in Yangzhou were hungry, they stopped drivers and begged.

The compassionate Zhu Biao couldn't bear the people to starve but he couldn't do anything about it. He even ordered his subordinates to dismantle the carriage, kill his own horse on the spot, and cook meat for the victims.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also worried that Zhu Biao, the prince, was not down to earth, so he ordered Zhu Biao to go to the people in person to experience the hardships of the people.

Zhu Biao was also deeply touched.

but.

As the country becomes more and more stable.

Zhu Biao rarely has the opportunity to go to the private sector to experience things.

And this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly discovered that although Zhu Biao had some understanding of the poverty of the people, his understanding was not profound.

something.

He, Lao Zhu, was like a mirror in his heart.

But Zhu Biao was very ignorant about this.

Zhu Yuanzhang decided that it was better to let Zhu Biao experience it personally in order to truly understand the real situation of the people living in the land of Ming Dynasty.

This is more meaningful than letting those rotten scholars teach you, or teaching by your own words and deeds!
  After all, Zhu Biao's meaning to Zhu Yuanzhang is far different from other sons.

Zhu Biao was born in the first year of Longfeng.

He is Zhu Yuanzhang's first son.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was still King of Wu, he was established as the crown prince and had high hopes.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Yu was established as the prince in the first year of Hongwu and officially became the successor of the empire.

It can be said that to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao not only meant the prince, but also his son.

From small to large.

Zhu Yuanzhang took Zhu Biao with him, taught by words and deeds, and crafted meticulously.

Counting on him to inherit the great cause and become an outstanding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

In the tenth year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang delegated power to Prince Zhu Biao and asked him to handle government affairs.

Of course, Lao Zhu's problem of being greedy for power has not changed. In the end, asking Zhu Biao to be counselor in government affairs turned into Zhu Biao listening to reports from his ministers, and it was Lao Zhu who made the final decision.

Throughout his life, Zhu Biao never really did anything or made any decisions.

But Zhu Yuanzhang would never forget to teach Zhu Biao on weekdays.

Take him with you all day long, whether dealing with government affairs or talking to ministers.

Basically, Zhu Biao had to be taught a long lecture.

And this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang insisted on taking Zhu Biao for a private visit in private, just to give Zhu Biao a clearer understanding of the people, the people, and the class.

If the world is not prosperous, the people will live a good life!

Many national policies are not tax cuts.
  This point is very important for whether Zhu Biao will be deceived by his ministers in the future, whether he will make mistakes in judgment, and whether he will make any wrong decisions.

What's more.

Zhu Yuanzhang had not been to the private sector for a long time, and this time he was also curious.

Ying Tianfu.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were walking on the street.

Both of them were dressed in civilian clothes.

Suddenly freed from the strictness and tension of the palace hall, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao relaxed a lot.

Lao Zhu, in particular, was smiling all over his face. He had lost all his previous majesty and looked just like an ordinary old man.

He was followed by the commander of the Jin Yiwei, Jiang Yu, and dozens of plainclothes Jin Yiwei, secretly distributed at the front, back, left and right.

Next to Jiang Wei.

Yu Cheng, a member of the Jinyi Guards, whispered: "Sir, this mission was too hasty! We didn't have time to investigate the surroundings! His Majesty is surrounded by real people! They are not pretending to be ours!
  Besides, it’s hard for us people to cover everything.”

Jiang Wei frowned and said: "These officials all know! What can we do? Whatever His Majesty wants us to do, we just have to do our best!"

Yu Cheng said bitterly: "It's too difficult, sir. I'm very nervous. This time, I'm really not prepared at all! Not to mention that His Majesty was really assassinated, even if he was frightened, are we all guilty of death?"

Jiang Wei said angrily in a low voice: "Shut up! After being a royal guard for so many years, can't you still not change your face when Mount Tai collapses? How do I usually teach you!"

Yu Cheng laughed dryly and said, "My lord, it's just that my subordinates really can't be as calm as my lord."

"Grind the scissors, chop the kitchen knife——!"

Jiang Wei's eyes were stunned.

"Knife? Quick! Protect Your Majesty!"

Yu Cheng looked at Jiang Wei and stammered: "Sir, that's what the common people call you, for sharpening scissors and kitchen knives!"

Jiang Wei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and glanced at Yu Cheng.

"When you are a royal guard, you have to remain calm even if the mountain collapses in front of you, but you also have to maintain a high degree of vigilance!"

Yu Cheng laughed dryly, nodded repeatedly, and said, "Yes! Yes!"

"Selling fish——! Kill for sure!"

"Kill? Protect His Majesty!"

As he spoke, Jiang Yu was about to take out the knife in his hand.

Yu Cheng held it down.

"Sir! Don't be nervous! This is a fish seller!"

Jiang Wei said angrily: "The fish seller is screaming for death! Wait for His Majesty to leave later and take him down for interrogation! If you dare to kill fish today, you will dare to bully the market tomorrow and bring disaster to the countryside!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were walking on the street, looking at the prosperity everywhere, but they felt relaxed and at ease.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "When we invaded Yingtian under the tyranny of the previous dynasty, it was a piece of rubble and the people were in embarrassment, but there was no such prosperous scene as today!"

Zhu Biao smiled and said: "Yingtian is, after all, the most virtuous area at the foot of the emperor. Such a scene is quite reasonable!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

He said to himself: "Is it prosperous? It may be prosperous, but the prince needs to watch more carefully!"

Zhu Biao looked at the street.

There are many shops and lots of people.

Although according to the regulations of the imperial court, merchants are only allowed to wear silk and cloth, but even so.

These businessmen also dress in their own style.

Different from ordinary people's common clothes.

Their cloth or silk clothes are all embroidered with complicated and exquisite patterns, and the designs are well-fitting and elegant. Even a simple piece of cloth seems to be valuable.

What's more, the inside of his cloth coat is clearly made of silk.

It looks a bit weird.

Yingtian can be regarded as the place with the most wealthy people in the entire Ming Dynasty.

From time to time, nobles and officials' children passed by on the street.

He rides a tall horse, wears silk and satin, and his clothes are embroidered with gold threads and even pearls. When he speaks, he is also full of arrogance.

With inherent superiority and unruliness.

The shopkeeper and the clerk were busy and smiling with smiles on their faces.

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and whispered: "Father, my son and ministers see nothing strange!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Why do we see someone with a yellow face and skinny muscles sitting on the roadside just to sell a few bundles of vegetables?
  Look at the east side of the street, there are beggars there!
  Look here again, the patches on the clothes of these vendors are all torn! The clothes are in tatters! How long have they worn their clothes?
  Prince, if we take you to the outskirts of the city, would you believe it? There are even poorer people who don’t even have enough to eat and are struggling between life and death every day!

This is the Ming Dynasty under our rule!

The poor get poorer and the rich get richer!
  Even if we try our best to suppress the wealthy businessmen, we cannot change this fact! "

Zhu Biao looked at what Zhu Yuanzhang was pointing at.

It suddenly dawned on me!

It turned out that under the prosperity he saw, poverty and hunger were hiding in the corners!

It's not that there's something wrong with his eyes, it's just that these people are really inconspicuous among such a big city.

For a while.

Zhu Biao was a little stunned!

He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and couldn't help but said: "How could this happen?
  There are so many rich people in Yingtian, and ordinary people sell them things and do things for them.
  You can always make a lot of money, why are there so many poor people?
  Even if these people reveal a little bit from between their fingers, it is enough to feed and clothe these people!
  Why are they still so poor? "

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao and asked with a smile: "Yes, why are they still so poor?"

Zhu Biao frowned, and for a moment, he didn't know how to answer.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said: "Let me tell you! Because these rich people are not willing to give even a little bit of benefit from the gaps between their fingers to these common people!

No one with money and power has any good things!

We knew this when we were little!

When we were 17 years old, our father and mother both starved to death. Your grandfather had farmed the land for that rich man all his life. We thought, we must give them a grave to bury them, right?
  How is the result?

We went to beg the rich man, but the rich dog didn’t even want to give him a place to be buried!

In the eyes of these rich people, this poor man is not considered a human being at all!
  Why should they share their benefits with the poor?

Don't even think about it!

They will only take advantage of the disaster, and they will only take advantage of the disaster year to sell their grain at high prices and collect people's fields at low prices! Let the common people be their pigs and dogs! After you die, throw your body into the wilderness, buy more land, and trap more people!
  So, Prince, do you understand? "

Zhu Biao was a little confused. He seemed to have a vague answer in his mind, but it was not clear enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

"You don't understand this, and neither do we!

Then let us tell you!

Prince, there is never any fairness in this world!

The key to governance is to regulate fairness!

Try not to let the poor get poorer and the rich get richer!
  We have no worries about your ability or knowledge!

But I am only worried that you will be deceived by your subordinates!

Especially readers!

snort!
  Back then, you even jumped into the Jinshui River in order to plead for Song Lian!
  But do you know?

How can these scholars be so good?
  We now have to use them to govern the world!

But the world must never really fall into their hands!
  In the early years of Hongwu, those civil servants advised us to give preferential treatment to scholars! They advised us to exempt scholars from corvee and taxes!
  We thought it made sense at first!
  We want to conquer the world immediately, but we cannot rule the world immediately!
  We also used the strategies of Zhu Sheng, Li Shanchang, and Liu Bowen to conquer the world!
  Isn’t it right to give preferential treatment to scholars?

But let’s think about it later!
  Are these scholars short of money?

Can people who are really short of money afford to study?
  We have been illiterate since childhood, how can we be scholars?
  You have to be rich! "

Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly after listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

He seemed to understand something in his heart.

Zhu Yuanzhang hummed: "If we really completely exempt these scholars from corvee and land taxes, who will the court go to for money in the future?
  No matter whose tax the court collects, it will end up spending so much money!
  At that time, we will not be able to collect taxes from scholars, nor can we collect taxes from nobles and royal relatives! Wouldn’t these taxes all fall on the heads of the people?

If there is a disaster year, these people will not have enough to eat and will have to pay taxes. In the end, they will either starve to death or sell their fields!

By then, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, and the world will not be far from chaos!

So in the end, we only exempted these scholars from the corvee, but not from the land tax!
  We’ve given you preferential treatment, but you can’t give more!
  Otherwise, it will only be the poor who are cheated, and eventually our country will be cheated!

Think about it, did we want to be the emperor from the beginning?
  We just want to eat well, wear warm clothes, get a wife and have a bunch of kids!

But can it be done?
  In the end, we couldn’t even get enough to beg for food!

We were forced to become emperor by this violent and chaotic government!
  Prince, if we leave one day, you must remember it.

No matter what kind of policies the country implements, it must consider the balance between the poor and the rich!
  Never think that when the rich get rich, the poor will also get rich! Don’t even think about it!

In Yingtian Mansion, the rich are wearing bright clothes and angry horses, wearing gold and silver, while the poor are selling their sons and daughters and begging along the streets. This is clear evidence! "

After Zhu Biao heard these words, he was deeply moved and nodded repeatedly.

"Father said so!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled with satisfaction.

"If you really understand this truth, we will feel more at ease.

The more wealthy businessmen and giants there are in the world, the less good it is!
  Our Hongwu Dynasty is always attacking them!

Even if you become a powerful person, you cannot relax on this point!
  To put it bluntly, we, the royal family, are the ones who should be robbing the rich and giving to the poor! If it is the common people's turn to do it themselves, our royal family will also come to an end."

Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly and said: "Father said so! I must remember it carefully!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled with satisfaction and never mentioned the matter again.

He just looked around and said with a smile: "This Yingtian Mansion is a prosperous place after all! When we came out this time, it was quite eye-opening! Haha"

suddenly.

Zhu Yuanzhang found that not far away, someone was arguing about something.

Can't help but be curious.

He walked toward the crowd with Zhu Biao.

Jiang Wei saw that the two men were walking in a quiet place chatting just now, and now they were suddenly in a crowd again!
  I couldn't help but scream in pain, and hurriedly followed!

Where the crowd gathered was a salt store with four big characters written on it.

Cao's Salt Shop!

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