Ming Dynasty: The ghost betrays the Confucian sage, my son Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 7 Fourth Master Zhu’s dream! Zhu Yuanzhang: The ambition is greater than ours

The setting sun slants.

The thin ice on the Qinhuai River shone with fine golden light under the afterglow.

Fourth Master Zhu has returned to his small courtyard.

He was practicing the sword, and the long sword flew in his hand, sometimes as violent as the wind and rain, sometimes as cunning and cruel as a snake or scorpion.

Every time he swings the knife, Fourth Master Zhu's body will erupt with strong momentum, like a violent beast. The long knife draws sharp arcs in the air, making a sharp sound of breaking through the air.

The sun went down quietly, and the Qinhuai River suddenly fell into a deep cold.

The temperature dropped sharply, and the breath he exhaled turned into wisps of white smoke in the cold wind.

Only then did Fourth Master Zhu put away his sword.

I examine myself three times a day and exercise my body three times a day. He never stops.

Zhu Yuanzhang came in with a food box, and looked at the mighty Fourth Master Zhu, and was lost for a moment.

How does this look like an 80-year-old man?

"Eight Lang, are you back?" Master Zhu greeted.

"There is a lot of work in the yamen. I came back late. The fourth master hasn't eaten yet, has he?" Zhu Yuanzhang raised the food box and wine in his hand.

"No, aren't we waiting for you?" Fourth Master Zhu grinned.

The two sat down in front of the stone table and took out the food from the food box and put it on the table.

Zhu Yuanzhang remembered the scene when the family was eating around the table in the yard when he was a child.

How could one eat so well at that time? There is wine and meat.

But the family was also very happy at that time, and eating every evening was the moment he looked forward to most.

My father and mother were sitting on the main seats, and my brothers and sisters were all there.

He has four brothers and two sisters. He is the last one and gets the love of the whole family.

"Chongba, you eat this cake."

"We're not hungry, let's eat quickly."

"Chongba, please grow up quickly."

At that time, he never thought that after a drought and insect disaster, coupled with man-made disasters, his father, mother and brother would starve to death in the famine.

……

"Eight Lang, what's wrong?" Master Zhu shouted.

Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses, wiped the corners of his eyes, and smiled bitterly: "We think of our parents. Hey, it would be great if they were still alive."

Fourth Master Zhu raised his glass and sprinkled it on the ground.

He who traveled through time had seen too many deaths during the Yuan Dynasty era.

"The Ming Dynasty was built on the bones of the people." Fourth Master Zhu sighed, "I hope that every time Zhu Chongba raises his head, he will be worthy of heaven, and every time he lowers his head, he will be worthy of those underground. Ancestors.”

"That's good, we'll remember it." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded heavily.

"Hey, remember, you are not the emperor. You are not the emperor." Fourth Master Zhu was not angry.

"We should always remind ourselves." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled awkwardly.

The two began to eat.

Fourth Master Zhu’s appetite is twice that of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Lian Po is old, can he still make a living?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Fourth Master, you are more powerful than Lian Po."

"I want to live a long life, but I have to protect my health." Fourth Master Zhu burped.

He consumes a lot every day and naturally eats a lot.

Moreover, if you want to eventually become a Confucian sage, you have to live a long life. If you die before you have reached a few realms, it will be a huge loss.

The heavenly book of destiny in my mind was lost in vain.

"Fourth Master, I think your hunting and killing is not a long-term solution." Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea and said, "It will only last a long time if we buy a few acres of land." "Farming? There is no future." Fourth Master Zhu shook his head. .

"Then what else do you want? Although you are strong, your age is here after all, so don't worry about it." Zhu Yuanzhang spread his hands and said, "I will help you buy a few acres of land later. How about you enjoy your old age?"

"My life has just begun? How can I enjoy my old age?" Fourth Master Zhu stared speechlessly, "Balang, let me tell you, I want to form an invincible fleet, go to sea, build a country overseas or something, and become an emperor. Then Zhu Zhong Eight starts and one bowl, I’m definitely better than him.”

"???" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his forehead, "Founding a country overseas?"

"That's not the case!" A light flashed in Master Zhu's eyes, "You can't rebel, right? Although Zhu Chongba is not very good, he has nothing to say to the people, and he will be a good emperor, so I won't steal his empire. "

"You sound like you can rob him if you want." Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes.

"The world is at home, you can't grab it." Mr. Zhu waved his hand, "But there is a lot to do overseas."

What he was thinking about was that Columbus went out to sea with a few broken ships, discovered the New World, opened the Age of Discovery, and established the invincible Spanish Empire.

Now more than a hundred years before Columbus, he went to the American continent first.

There is silver and gold there, as well as potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other high-yielding grains.

"There are farts overseas, they are all barbaric places." Zhu Yuanzhang was disdainful.

"You don't understand this. There are rich silver mines and gold mines overseas." Fourth Master Zhu glared, "Forget these, there are still grains with a yield of one thousand catties per mu, or even four or five thousand catties."

"Really?" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.

"Sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, don't you know?" Fourth Master Zhu spread his hands.

"It sounds like the truth. How did you know?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"I know a lot." Fourth Master Zhu snorted, "If Zhu Chongba wasn't like Liu Bang, I would have helped him, but he is too cruel."

Zhu Yuanzhang has a black streak on his head.

Old man, why do you always scold us? What grudge?
……

It was already dark outside, and the night was like a huge black velvet cloth, covering the sky tightly without leaving any gaps.

The cold wind blew by, and the Jin Yiwei outside the courtyard shivered from the cold.

After finishing their meal, Fourth Master Zhu and Zhu Yuanzhang drank tea around the stove.

"By the way, Ba Lang, do you have anyone in Yingtian Mansion?" Fourth Master Zhu suddenly asked.

"Is something wrong?" Zhu Yuanzhang was curious.

"Am I still a refugee? If you have anything to do with it, get me a household registration." Fourth Master Zhu said.

Founded in the early Ming Dynasty, the "fish scale yellow book" system had not yet been perfected later, but the household quota system had been implemented.

Without household registration, strictly speaking, Fourth Master Zhu is a refugee.

When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he knew the importance of household registration. He said: After the chaos, the Central Plains was wild and the people were sparse. The so-called "opening up the fields and increasing the household registration" is the urgent task of the Central Plains today.

So in the first year of Hongwu, he proposed the household quota system:
Register the household registration of the whole country, set up the household registration, household registration, with the name, age, residence, cadastral, household department, and the registration given to the people. There is a secretary who plans to calculate the expenditure every year. When performing sacrifices in the suburbs, Zhongshu Sheng will present the household registration under the altar, in the sky of sugarcane, to offer sacrifices to Tibetans.

This is a kind of protection for the people, so that they can farm on their own land with confidence and no longer move easily.

Zhu Yuanzhang also strictly divided the social classes, and the various levels of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were clearly distinguished.

He pays special attention to agriculture, reducing taxes or even exempting taxes, and focuses on restoring production.

Of course, this may also be related to his background as a farmer.

"We have some connections. Let's find a farmer for you." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "You need to take the scientific examination to become a scholar."

"No, I need business registration." Fourth Master Zhu raised his hand.

"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, "You don't want to be a farmer, but you want to become the meanest businessman?"

"You know nothing, I need to make money." Fourth Master Zhu glared, "Can you make money from farming?"

The reason why he wanted to become a businessman was so that he could engage in business.

At present, he urgently needs to accumulate the first pot of gold, and then use the money to expand the fleet and eventually go to sea.

(End of this chapter)