Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 978 The growth of the prince

  Emperor Hongzhi looked suspicious.

  He took the memorial, opened it, and read it carefully.

  It is densely packed inside, obviously, it was drafted by Prince Zhu Houzhao.

  Emperor Hongzhi could recognize this handwriting like a dog crawling into ashes.

   Of course, these are just details and not important.

  Emperor Hongzhi continued to read, but was a little shocked.

   Warehouses in various places, which ones need to be strictly checked, and which ones can be delayed.

  For example, the rice warehouse, there is no need to check it first, because once something is found in the rice warehouse, it is very likely to cause chaos.

   But the cloth and silk must be strictly checked.

   As for how to check, it is best not to use the factory guards. People will change their faces when they hear about the factory guards.

Let Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice check it first. Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice may not dare to offend everyone, but in order to complete the confession in the palace, they will definitely choose a group of unlucky ghosts. First investigate and deal with these unlucky ghosts. First easy and then difficult.

  The most important thing for the imperial court is to maintain a high-pressure posture.

   In this way, for the time being, it can prevent anyone from doing more harm. When the time is right, the palace has completely grasped the initiative, and then it can release the ultimate move, killing all the rats in the warehouse with one blow.

  Emperor Hongzhi looked at it, and couldn't help expressing emotion.

  He raised his head: "Is this your idea? You have to be careful, if you use other people's things to perfuse me, today... I will definitely punish you."

   This sentence was asked to Zhu Houzhao.

  Emperor Hongzhi had a stern face, full of sternness. This regulation was meticulous, and everything was considered.

   It doesn't look like the prince's style at all. The prince's character is reckless and he likes to go straight. However, in the memorial, there is a strict layout, and many details have been thought of.

  Zhu Houzhao was speechless, aggrieved, what happened to the father today, he has made great achievements, but he always regards punishing himself as a mantra, is it his own?

He said aggrievedly: "Father has wronged my son too much, how dare I use other people's things to perfuse my father. Of course, there are some ideas of Fang Jifan here, but many places are written by my son himself. I have been working in Xishan for these years. Don’t you know how to make a thing beautiful? Just like my son pondering about steam locomotives, the development of a locomotive requires the recruitment of skilled craftsmen from all aspects. How? Let all kinds of craftsmen gather together, work together, encounter difficulties and obstacles, how to solve them, which problem to solve first, and which difficulty to overcome later, there are all mysteries here."

  Emperor Hongzhi didn't understand about steam locomotives.

   I don’t want to move either.

  But what Zhu Houzhao said pointed to the essence.

If you want to do one thing, to put it bluntly, you want to gather people together, how to get things done, it’s not as simple as one person plus one person, it becomes two people, everyone has their own ideas, They all have their own minds and different personalities, how do you make sure they can work together instead of causing trouble for each other?

   This is actually the case when doing anything, and Emperor Hongzhi believed it a little bit.

  I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. It seemed that it was an extremely correct choice to let the prince go to Xishan.

  The so-called unity of knowledge and action in the new learning really trains people.

  Prince... really grown up, more and more familiar with and mastering the methods of solving problems... Isn't this... the purpose of Zhan Shifu's hope to educate the prince so that he can become a talent and learn the art of the emperor?

  The so-called emperor's art, for some people, is just a so-called conspiracy.

But in fact, Emperor Hongzhi did not agree with this at all. The art of the emperor is a way for a leader to do things. As the monarch of the world and the father of his subjects, instead of racking his brains to plot against each of his subjects, it is better...to make every subject, Use it in the right position, and then the entire court will be twisted into a rope to solve the country's major affairs one by one.

This is the way of justice. As long as the world is stable and the common people live and work in peace and contentment, the people of the world will praise the emperor's sageness and treat the emperor as his own father. Man, what harm can he cause?

The Ming monarchs of all dynasties, why worry about rebellious officials and thieves, the so-called careerists and rebellious officials and thieves, whoever dares to take the lead, the emperor has a paper edict, and the three armies obey orders. In between, it will be wiped out.

On the other hand, those emperors who claim to be smart, play tricks, and think about the so-called checks and balances all day long, there are a few people who will end well. People who are unpopular and take advantage of this to be complacent will only suffer the consequences of their own death in the end, and die without a place to die!

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Zhu Houzhao: "Okay, I'm here to test you, let's see if this is what you wrote, the ugly words are up front, if you can't answer, I will punish you. "

  Punish you... very familiar.

  Zhu Houzhao felt that his father was suffering from brain disease. He looked at Emperor Hongzhi, and then Fang Jifan, who seemed to have noticed something, said: "Father, just ask."

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "Now the weapons in the arsenal have been completely wiped out, and the border towns are in short supply. Now, pig iron is soaring, and pig iron everywhere is in a hurry. If you are me, what should you do?"

  Zhu Houzhao said triumphantly: "If my son is the emperor, it will be easy. My son has read some theories about the wealth of nations, and some of them are very reasonable."

  Emperor Hongzhi frowned slightly when he heard that Zhu Houzhao praised the Wealth of Nations Theory.

Zhu Houzhao continued: "Actually, people have a misunderstanding. They always think that the products under the world are constant and unchanged. In fact, no one can blame others. After all, it is because, for example, since Emperor Taizu Gao, the imperial court has been a year. The silk harvested was 760,000 catties, but up to now, the silk obtained by the imperial court is roughly the same amount. Because of this, if any disaster occurs and the shortage of silk occurs, it may cause major problems. "

"But have you ever thought about it, if there is a shortage of silk, it will cause a sharp rise in the price, and the skyrocketing price will inevitably make countless people willing to produce silk, which will in turn... stimulate the production of silk? In the coming year, the shortage of silk will , it will be resolved naturally.”

"Of course, sometimes, we can't wait until the next year, so we have to solve the current problem first, such as this pig iron, which is urgently needed by the imperial court, what should we do? First, we must never rob merchants directly. If we rob merchants, of course it will be solved The current problem will make countless merchants precarious. In the future, who will want to produce iron? Although there are guarding eunuchs in various provinces of Ming Dynasty to guard the mining areas to produce iron, but to be honest, this pig iron will never be able to increase production. Why don't you let go of the pig iron shortage and increase the amount of pig iron."

"Secondly, once the border towns everywhere are in a hurry, it is really troublesome. Therefore, it is necessary to save money. Whichever border town is most in short supply, it will be supplied first. Where it is not a critical place, you can Let's wait for a while. There are priorities! And then..."

  Zhu Houzhao began to speak eloquently.

  Things in this world are mostly like this. The problems to be solved may be different, but the methods may be the same.

He talked for a long time, and Emperor Hongzhi listened carefully: "So, if your subjects are the emperor, they will never treat weapons as a whole. These weapons include bows, crossbows, iron cannons, and swords. How can we generalize? Now that pig iron is not enough, we need to supply more bows and crossbows first, and firecrackers also need pig iron. During the drill, the loss is not light. You can encourage the soldiers to reduce the loss. For the battalions that can reduce the loss, you can give some money and food. Subsidy, right now, get through the difficulties first. I firmly believe that the shortage of pig iron will only take a few months, and it will slowly ease..."

  This Zhu Houzhao is very similar to the tone of Fang Jifan and Liu Wenshan, a pair of master and apprentice.

Emperor Hongzhi was noncommittal about this, but this guy seems to be able to find no thorns in the hype. Even...many methods, Emperor Hongzhi also took it seriously. He kept nodding his head and nodded: "Yes, I have made progress. Compared to the beginning, the improvement is not small, even if it is Liu Qing's family who offer advice, it is probably nothing more than that."

  Zhu Houzhao beamed and smiled: "Father, my son has already said it... My son is no longer Amon under Wu, and my father doesn't believe it. If I still don't believe it, I will ask another question and test my son."

Fang Jifan stood aside, his eyes rolling wildly. He seemed to smell something from Emperor Hongzhi. As a mentally handicapped patient, especially in this world, he still needs himself and must keep a useful body to benefit the world. Subconsciously, Fang Jifan distanced himself from Zhu Houzhao.

Emperor Hongzhi was also full of emotions: "There is no need to compare any more. I am very pleased today. At the beginning, I was very worried about you, because I was afraid that you would not be successful. Now, I can rest assured. In the future, I will be a member of the committee." You have more responsibility."

  This is what Emperor Hongzhi said from the bottom of his heart. How can a father be unhappy if his son is promising.

  I am after all... I am getting older and older, and my energy is stronger than before.

   After receiving the words of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao was filled with emotions. In fact... to be recognized by his father, this feeling is really good!

But while Emperor Hongzhi was feeling emotional at the same time as Zhu Houzhao, he suddenly put on a straight face: "What, you still called yourself the Son of Heaven just now, you rebellious son, you called yourself the Son of Heaven before I died, and I have to punish you No!"

  Zhu Houzhao: "..."

  ...

  Chapter 4 is delivered, fortunately, I am not disgraceful, go to bed, give me some encouragement.

  (end of this chapter)