Traveled through Daming, but was punished by the old Zhu Shizu

The north is too pitiful in comparison, and in addition to the undecided war in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, those young and middle-aged people are either fighting or on the way to war, so those who can still pass the imperial examination are no worse than the southern candidates.

Candidates in the north were angry and felt that the imperial examination was unfair.

Candidates in the south are also unhappy. The war in the north is an objective environmental problem. You can’t come to the examination room to make trouble because of this!

Therefore, the southern candidates and the northern candidates are completely motivated,

The rural examinations in the past two years have been good, but after the general examinations and palace examinations, those who have finished the essay test basically have to take part in martial arts, and the offline candidates from the north and the south have to fight a boxing match.

The contradiction between candidates from the north and the south is getting bigger and bigger, and even Lao Zhu can't handle it a little bit!

When this matter is completely out of control, Lao Zhu can only use the tried and tested trick,

All killed.

Thoroughly formatted.

But when this step is really reached, the conflict between the North and the South will be completely irreconcilable.

In the case of the North and South List, this is how Lao Zhu did bad things with good intentions. Lao Zhu disagreed that the list was full of southerners, killed all the examiners, and re-ranked the list. The list was full of northerners, so Lao Zhu was happy.

However, what would the southerners think of the result of such a disposition?

Candidates for the imperial examinations are supposed to be based on strength. Why are you northerners crying and fussing, and you have to be re-ranked, and even kicked the southerners out of the imperial examinations? This is the real injustice!

Therefore, Lao Zhu's success in doing this also laid a huge foreshadowing for the decline of Ming Dynasty.

The hearts of the north and the south are not aligned, and it will be a matter of time before they split.

Of course, Xiao Zhu and Empress Ma couldn't have imagined that this matter would develop so seriously that it almost shook the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

Xiao Zhu rubbed her hands, "Mother, I still have to go to Liu's house and Xu's house, so I'll leave first."

Empress Ma nodded and said with a smile, "Go. After you go to Liu's house, please also give me a voice. Remember to be humble. Grandpa Liu's family is old after all. You can't be superior to others just because you are the prince..."

After Zhu Biao listened carefully to Queen Ma's teachings, he nodded in response. It was Queen Ma's constant nurturing all these years that made Zhu Biao such a perfect prince.

Chapter 140 Zhu Gaochi Was Taken Down by Popcorn

Yandi Liu Mansion

"My brother is the most powerful person in the world!"

"Nonsense! My father is the most powerful person in the world!"

"Hmph! You're just talking nonsense, I don't want to play with you anymore!"

Wan'er pursed her mouth angrily, and the fat man beside Wan'er, who was about the same age as Wan'er, saw that Wan'er was angry, and hurriedly ran to Wan'er's side on short legs, and said in a milky voice,

"Sister Wan'er~ Don't be angry~"

"Hmph, if you don't admit that my brother is the most powerful person, I won't play with you anymore! I don't want you to come to my house either!"

When the little fat man heard that he would not be able to come to Liu's mansion, he shook his hands. Wouldn't that mean that he would never be able to eat sweet popcorn again? !

Comparing popcorn with your own father, popcorn must be more important!

"Sister Wan'er~ I remember wrong~ Daddy is the second most powerful, and the most powerful in the whole world is indeed your brother!"

Wan'er turned around and asked seriously,

"you sure?"

The little fat man nodded again and again, "Sure! Sure!"

"Humph~ This is more or less the same~" Wan'er took out two popcorns out of nowhere, and the little fat man's eyes lit up when he saw it, "Your reward~"

"Thank you, Sister Wan'er!"

Zhu Di, who watched the two children fighting from a distance, saw that his own child was bought by popcorn casually, he couldn't help holding his forehead, and sighed,

"This kid is really greedy! With this appearance, how can he look like a prince?"

Liu Xiu laughed out loud. The little follower behind Wan'er is the future fourth emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Hongxi,

Zhu Gaochi.

However, the difference is that Zhu Gaochi's biological mother should be Xu Miaoyun, but in this time and space Xu Miaoyun has not married for a long time, as if God wanted to keep it for Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu, a little butterfly, indeed turned time and space in a different direction.

However, even if Xu Miaoyun didn't match up with Zhu Di, Zhu Di still found a Princess Yan in Yandi, and Zhu Gaochi was born in the full year, so nothing changed.

Seeing his little fat man begging Wan'er pitifully for a mouthful of popcorn, Zhu Di couldn't hold back anymore, turned his head to the other side, looked at Liu Xiu, and said in bewilderment,

"Sir, why do these kids love this popcorn so much?"

Liu Xiu smiled, this popcorn, for Daming's children, is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow,

Speaking of which, making popcorn was also Liu Xiu's whim, because one day Liu Xiu discovered that apart from maltose, Wan'er really didn't have any snacks that could grind teeth. After all, in ancient times, snacks specially prepared for children still too little,

In order to protect Wan'er's teeth, Liu Xiu came up with popcorn. Making popcorn is not difficult at all. The most important thing is that there is a machine for popping popcorn. Made it within a day.

(Ghost Hand: So I am the strongest tool man, right?)

And when Wan'er popped the corn for the first time, she was completely in love with it. The slightly sweet and slightly burnt taste, coupled with the crispy texture, can definitely win over every kid.

But it’s not so attractive to adults. Zhu Di vomited after tasting two of them. It doesn’t matter if he vomited.

"What kind of pen?"

"Eating these things is better than eating sugar. The child is growing teeth. Your Highness, is this kid in your family a bit too fat?"

Zhu Di scratched his head and said sadly, "Indeed, this four-year-old's body and bones are almost as old as seven or eight years old, but there is really nothing wrong with this kid except for his greedy mouth. Children eat."

Liu Xiu was a little surprised when he heard this, he couldn't tell that Yan Wang, who had a rough appearance, was still a master who loved children!

"Sir, all the former inns in Yandi have been renovated, and I'm afraid this matter will be over. Sooner or later, Dad will know."

"It doesn't matter," Liu Xiu took a sip of tea, "Sooner or later, His Majesty will know. Sooner or later, His Majesty will also know how much benefits these post stations will bring."

Zhu Di nodded, personally grasping the matter of renovating the post station, he has already faintly felt how much profit the developed transportation will bring!

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but take a deep look at Liu Xiu,

Your vision is so advanced!

"Well, after we share the profits, we don't have much money left from selling salt, so we can only spend it from other places."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xiu looked at the fourth child in surprise, "Your Highness also has a business to make money?"

Zhu Di was a little proud, "Naturally, that's how I got the money to renovate the station!"

"Oh? Let's hear it."

"It's simple to say, just beat the bandits. If I steal their money, I will be rich. But I can't point to this in the future. There are no bandits to fight in Yandi."

Liu Xiu's head was full of black lines. As expected of Lao Zhu's son, this guy's way of making money is the same.

While the two were talking, a strange monk with a head full of peach blossoms came over with a ledger, and Yao Guangxiao really went to work as the accountant for the Liu family.

"Your Highness. Master."

"Is something wrong?"

"A letter from Beijing, the 5000 million taels have been distributed."

Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "Father, why are you so happy? This treasury is enough to spend a few years!"

Yao Guangxiao had a delicate expression, "That's not the case."

Zhu Di had a bad premonition,

"The day before our money arrived, it was found that the treasury had a loss of 5000 million taels. The dividends we sent could only make up for the loss of the treasury."

"What?!" Zhu Di shot up at the table, his eyes spit fire, and Wan'er and Zhu Gaochi, who were so frightened and playful, stood in place. Liu Xiu signaled Ma Sanbao to take the child away with his eyes.

"The money we earned so hard is used to wipe the buttocks of those corrupt officials?! Grass! I shouldn't have given so much to my father! 5000 million taels of white money, if I hold it in Yandi, I can use it with a knife superior!"

Since Liu Xiu came to Yandi, the fourth child has also been involved in financial affairs. If he is not in charge of the family, he does not know how expensive the money is. Now the fourth child spends every penny very carefully.

But damn it, the saved money not only didn't show filial piety to the married father, but went to help those corrupt officials fill in holes!

Who the hell can't be angry? !

Liu Xiu didn't have the treasury's account book in his hand, and it was hard to say whether the treasury was in such a big deficit, whether it was corrupt officials, so he could only keep silent. Yao Guangxiao looked at Liu Xiu with a twinkle in his eyes,

"Master, what are you thinking?"

Liu Xiu said, "How can you have such a big deficit?"

You must know that the treasury cannot be out of money all the time, and the treasury will settle accounts every autumn harvest, that is to say, a deficit of 5000 million taels for the whole year does not mean that 5000 million taels have been spent, it will only be more!

The average annual tax revenue of Ming Dynasty is 500 million taels, and the highest is no more than 3000 million taels.

How did you lose so much in one year? !

Yao Guangxiao said categorically, "It is indeed the corrupt officials."

Chapter 141 High Mobility Divine Machine Battalion

Zhu Di and Liu Xiu looked at Yao Guangxiao, before they could speak.

Yao Guangxiao said directly, "Take the flood in the south in the first half of the year as an example. His Majesty allocated 500 million taels to Jiujiang Mansion. Beijing officials will get [-]%, local officials will get [-]%, and small officials will get [-]%. Chengdu is too much."

"If the money in this place is not enough for disaster relief, the local officials will send a letter to Beijing, saying that the money is not enough. Even if His Majesty knows what's going on, he can only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and can only allocate funds downward. For the floods in the first half of the year, 500 taels have already been allocated, which is barely enough to save so many people from dying."

"However, the flood is uncertain. If the flood is bigger in the coming year, the situation will only be worse."

"Damn it! If you want me to say, Dad killed it right! This group of corrupt officials should have been cut down a long time ago!" The fourth child yelled.

Yao Guangxiao looked at Liu Xiu. Yao Guangxiao was one of the few sober people in the dynasty. He had long seen that there was a huge time bomb buried under the superficial prosperity of the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. It was difficult for the royal family alone to solve this problem. up.

So what he thought was to support King Yan and break this deadlock from the outside.

This is the only way.

Of course, this was Yao Guangxiao's thoughts before meeting Liu Xiu.

Yao Guangxiao collected Liu Xiu's incidents in Beijing in the past few days, and only then did he understand his master a little bit. He didn't expect that Liu Xiu could use arithmetic to directly point out Ming's financial loopholes, which was even much clearer than his own vague concept.

After seeing what Liu Xiu did in Yandi, Yao Guangxiao seemed to see a completely different path. Yao Guangxiao hoped to use political power to change the Ming Dynasty's economic problems. Of course, he didn't know if this method would work.