Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 41
Outside the hall, Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying were in front, Mu Ying was slightly behind, and the three walked forward with smiles.

"Since father and emperor have said it, you should stay in Beijing for more days!" Zhu Biao said with a smile, "These years, our family always gathers less and leaves more. Not to mention the queen mother, even if she is lonely, she misses you very much!"

This sentence is sincere and there is no falsehood.

When Zhu Biao was a child, he grew up lying on Muying's back.The relationship between the two is not brothers, but better than brothers.

"Stay longer, let's get together more!" Zhu Biao continued, "You are far away in Yunnan, and you don't know when you will be able to return to the court after this trip. The mother and queen are getting old, and the father just doesn't say it, but he is also in his heart." Miss you, spend more time with them!"

Mu Ying was almost in tears, and the big man's eyes immediately turned red, "I also want to serve His Majesty and Queen all the time, and I also want to be with Your Highness every day, but"

"As a minister of the country, I should put the country's affairs first!" Mu Ying continued, "Abiding by the duties of a minister and being loyal to duty is the greatest filial piety of a minister. Now that Yunnan is in Gangping, I can't leave for a long time. In the past few days I will go back when I see the queen again!"

"I've been lonely since I was a child. Your Majesty and Your Majesty are kind and affectionate. Your Highness is like a brother to me. Because of this, I can't be negligent. Among the adopted sons of Your Majesty, I am the oldest, so I should be a role model for other brothers. "

"Hey!" Zhu Biao sighed and said with a smile, "You are just too rigid and thoughtful!" Then he said, "How is your son? Gu Ye hasn't seen that boy for several years. I didn't even drink the wedding wine at that time!"

"The dog is stupid, both civil and military are unbearable, but there is only a heart of loyalty and patriotism!" Mu Ying said.

"Look, there's no one like you who can say that his son is so miserable. That child grew up alone, and now he is in the army with you, and he has experienced so much that he can handle it alone." Zhu Biao laughed.

Talking and laughing, several people have arrived at the gate of the palace.

"Your Highness, please go back!" Mu Ying bowed and saluted, "Don't dare to trouble Your Highness to see you off!"

"Then I'll send it here!" Zhu Biao said with a smile, "On the day you leave, I will send you the wine!"

Mu Ying nodded, and after prostrating, she left slowly.But he looked back three times a step, and after walking a few steps, he seemed to remember something, and turned back again.

"Your Highness!" Mu Ying said to Zhu Xiongying, "I have a little thing for you!" As she spoke, she tore off a piece of ancient jade from his neck, "It's not something valuable, but I asked for it in the temple before." Your tribute, stay safe!"

"The Marquis of Xiping is far away in the frontier, so he needs this protection even more!" Zhu Xiongying laughed.

"Take it!" Zhu Biao said, "Thank you, Uncle Ying!"

"Nephew, thank you, Uncle Ying!" Ordinarily, these words belonged to the indiscriminate distinction between the monarch and his ministers, which messed up the rules and regulations.But there are no outsiders here, and Zhu Biao regards Mu Ying as his own brother.

Mu Ying didn't object, she nodded silently, kowtowed again and left.

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The father and son turned back to Fengtian Hall, and when they had just reached the door, they heard Zhu Yuanzhang's angry roar coming from inside.

"Ah, we haven't killed anyone for a few days, these officials don't take us seriously!"

Zhu Biao took Zhu Xiongying in, and saw Mao Xiang kneeling tremblingly, while Zhu Yuanzhang was holding a document in his hand, pinching his waist, and his face was full of anger.

"Biaoer, you came just in time! Take a look!" Zhu Yuanzhang threw the documents in his hand over, his anger undiminished, "The Yellow River in Henan has been flooding year after year. We spent a lot of money to let the river channel and the local officials call people to clear the river. Silt the fields!"

"But look, ah! Some unscrupulous officials misappropriated more than 2000 yuan of the money allocated by the imperial court to the local river channels! The fields that were originally reclaimed by dredging should be distributed to the poor. But let those officials, It was sold to a local big family at a low price!"

"It's unreasonable. We have repeatedly ordered all places not to accept bribes, but they take our words as a deaf ear because of the high sky and the emperor's distance. Biaoer, do you think we should kill or not!"

Zhu Biao looked at it with a frown, and said, "This kind of scum, if you don't kill it, it won't be enough for the common people to be angry!"

"You go!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to Mao Xiang, "You personally take Jinyiwei to Henan, arrest all the officials involved, and don't let any one go. Don't let them die happily, and give us a knife in front of the people. Don't let their family members go, the men will be killed, and the women will be used as prostitutes in Jiaofang, no dividends!"

"Minister, obey the order!" Mao Xiang kowtowed.

"The old man is so ruthless!" Zhu Xiongying thought to himself, "As long as corrupt officials fall into his hands, there will be no good end!"

"Why can't we keep killing them!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily again, "We have killed so many corrupt officials in the past years since the founding of the country. But the corrupt officials in the world just keep killing them, like his mother's weeds. One stubble after another!" As he said, he said angrily, "We don't believe it, they are not afraid? Huh, let's see, it's our knives that are fast, and these weeds grow fast!"

"In fact, local officials also have many difficulties!" Zhu Biao thought about it and said, "The salary is too low, and there are welcome and sent in the officialdom."

What he said was true, the salary of the Ming Dynasty in all dynasties was extremely low.For example, for a magistrate, one month's salary is only seven stones in rice.One stone is about 120 catties, which sounds like a lot.

But now the cost of being an official is high. The chief official of a county, the secretary of the staff, the yamen servant, the driver, all have to spend their own money to support them, and even buy their own official uniforms.Under such expenses, Qishi's rice grains were not enough.

"You don't need to say good things for them! We don't know them yet! Desires are hard to satisfy!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily, "Even if you give them a monthly salary of 100 taels of silver, he is still greedy! The salary is too low, damn it!" Don't be an official!"

"When you become an official, you become an old man. Wherever you go, you will be greeted and hugged. The common people will kneel when they see him, and the rich will hold him up when they see him. Guangzong Yaozu, holding power in his hand. Being a master is not enough, How can there be such a good thing in the world if you want money?"

"After taking our salary, you have to be a good official and do good deeds. Oh, the common people don't see a few copper coins throughout the year. They feel that their salary is low when they are superior, and their conscience is eaten by dogs?"

"The Song Dynasty in the former dynasty was kind to officials like him, and their salary was the highest. But if you change from being greedy to still being greedy, everything is full. When the Jin people come and the Mongols come, there will be no more people who sell their butts for glory."

"In our Great Ming, officials must be different from previous dynasties. Those who are only focused on making money, don't become officials as soon as possible, so that we don't have to work hard to kill them!"

"Don't look at us as the emperor now, but let's accept the common people's reason. Officials should not be greedy. If they are greedy, they should be killed!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said a lot in one breath, still feeling aggrieved, picked up the tea bowl on the imperial case, and gulped it down.

Zhu Biao lowered his head and whispered again, "Corrupt officials should be killed, but is there any question about how to deal with their family members?"

"What is there to discuss! The father of the official embezzled the money of the people's country, the son and daughter of the official son, the wife and the concubine drank spicy food with the popular ones. Then they said in a blink of an eye that they were not guilty! Nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang was angry Said, "If they enjoy the blessings, they are guilty! What they eat and wear, what are they wearing, which one is not greedy? Deal with them together, so as to set an example to others!"

As he said that, Zhu Yuanzhang said again, "Biaoer, we know that you have been studying with those old masters since you were a child, and you have a kind heart. But you can't listen to those scholars and scholars for everything in the world!"

"Those people, you put your nose on your face, you have to learn to be ruthless! Treat them ruthlessly, and they will be afraid of you! Otherwise, if you give them one, they will dare to ask for ten. If you don't give it, you are not benevolent, you are The mean king!"

Zhu Biao smiled wryly, "I didn't listen to them, I just think that the punishment of my Daming is too severe now. It is rare to hear of the whole family being slaughtered every now and then in the past dynasties!"

"You feel cruel!" Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him, "Then wait for your emperor to say, we are still alive, listen to us!"

"Grandpa are arguing again?"

At this time, Empress Ma appeared outside the palace with several palace attendants.

After entering, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang angrily, "If you have something to say, you can't speak well, and you can hear your loud voice no matter how far away you are!"

"National affairs, you women should not care about them!" Zhu Yuanzhang said displeased.

"Heh!" Empress Ma sneered, "Why don't you tell me when you yell at my son?" Then she looked at Zhu Xiongying, who was sitting on the side eating snacks and watching the excitement, and said, "Look, my brother Ying is scared. !"

Immediately, he walked to Zhu Xiongying's side, pulled him up, walked out, and said, "Come on, go to grandma's for dinner! Boss is coming too!"

Empress Ma pulled Zhu Xiongying in front, and Zhu Biao was behind.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at their three mothers, and said to Mao Xiang, "Hurry up, let's go to eat!" As he said, he stepped up to catch up with the three mothers in front.

Empress Ma stopped, turned around and said, "Did I call you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked embarrassed, "You don't want us to eat too!" He said, "Sister, can you bear the heart to make us hungry?"

(End of this chapter)