Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

Chapter 634 The root cause of the deep-rooted family

After all, the reason why these aristocratic families have stood up for hundreds of years, and there are rumors of the so-called "emperors of flowing water, families of iron", isn't it because these aristocratic families have "resources" that others do not have?

Such resources can be real resources, such as salt and iron, or technologies, such as salt-smelting and iron-smelting technologies.

Emperor Mingguang felt that the topic was a bit sensitive, so he winked and asked Li Guizi, the chief eunuch, to go down.

Li Guizi, the chief eunuch, was very knowledgeable, and after a salute, he quietly withdrew.

"You...you really dare to say anything, and you are not afraid of spreading it." Emperor Mingguang sighed.

Li Wenchong shrugged indifferently: "What are you afraid of? I'm here with the emperor. I don't dare to talk nonsense outside. It's just here with the emperor, so I can relax."

Emperor Mingguang: "..."

I don't even dare to relax, how dare you kid? !

How many do you have today?
Emperor Mingguang couldn't say that he was not safe here, and his expression was a little helpless.

Li Wenchong continued as if he didn't see Emperor Mingguang, "Brother Huang, where do these technologies come from?"

"How do I know where the technologies of these aristocratic families come from? I need to know that this technology will not fall into their hands." Emperor Mingguang didn't want these technologies?
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But what's the use of thinking about it?

It is impossible for the family to hand it over.

If it weren't for the relationship between the Yao family and Li Wenchong, Emperor Mingguang believed that the Yao old lady Gu Qingling would not have "handed over" these technologies so easily.

In a sense, the "engagement" between Li Wenchong and Mrs. Yao is also a kind of "deal", and Emperor Mingguang knew it well.

Fortunately, Li Wenchong was willing to hit him right, otherwise, Emperor Mingguang would feel that he was sorry for Li Wenchong.

Even so, Emperor Mingguang felt a little guilty and wanted to "compensate" Li Wenchong.

"Brother Huang thinks, where did the fan technology come from?" Li Wenchong reminded.

Emperor Mingguang was stunned for a moment: "You mean..."

"In the beginning, the technology did not necessarily belong to the family, just like the fan technology, it was not created by the Yao family at first, but the craftsmen of the Yao family."

"Isn't that the Yao family?" Emperor Mingguang frowned.

The craftsmen belonged to the Yao family, and they must have signed a master-servant contract. The people belonged to the Yao family, and the technology naturally belonged to the Yao family.

"So this is the problem. Is there any way to let these people who can provide technology have a free body. He is just a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, not a slave of a certain family?"

Emperor Mingguang frowned even deeper.

Could it be that Prince Chong meant to let him compete with these aristocratic families for "craftsmen"?However, everyone knows that the best craftsman is in the Royal Manufacturing Office, how can he snatch it?
Those aristocratic families are not fools, they will hand over their cards.

"When Qingling was discussing with Chendi, she said that it was actually very simple—education." Li Wenchong looked into Emperor Mingguang's eyes with a serious face, "Just like the specialty class she ran in the Yao Clan School, Ding Chun's son Ding Yongjie is "Free Body", he will study and read in the Shushu like all scholars in the world, except that other scholars will take the imperial examination after they finish their studies, and he will inherit Ding Chun's work and continue to be a craftsman .”

Emperor Mingguang: "..."

Isn't that back to square one?

"Perhaps the emperor thinks that Ding Yongjie is free. Once he wants to inherit his father's job, he will be just a craftsman in the end... But what if he inherits the new identity of 'scientist'?"

Emperor Mingguang was startled and suddenly understood.

What Li Wenchong meant was that since craftsmen have a low status, they are often bought and sold by major aristocratic families as servants, but what if they change their names?

Although it is the work of a craftsman, but the name has changed...

"Are you sure that it will be useful if you change your name?" Emperor Mingguang said very cautiously, "No matter what name you change, in the final analysis, Ding Yongjie is just a craftsman."

"Even if he is a craftsman, he is completely different from his father Ding Chun. Ding Chun can only be a craftsman, while Ding Yongjie studies with scholars. He not only has the thoughts of a scholar, but also can invent and create. The blue out of the blue is better than the blue, and even became a contemporary Luban master."

"What if Ding Yongjie can't do it?"

"There are so many people in the world, and one Ding Yongjie can't do it, so we should run more schools and train more 'scientists' with Qing Ling's help. If we train more people, there will always be a few outstanding ones." When the time comes, give new titles to these prominent people, whether they are inventors or scientists...or even put them in the Ministry of Industry as officials. Brother Huang thinks that we still have no way to break the monopoly of the aristocratic family on technology? "

Emperor Mingguang was thoughtful: "No wonder."

"No wonder what?"

"It's no wonder that Yao Shuji wrote a letter to draw some patented technology, so he was waiting for me here. If I guessed the patented technology correctly, it is also the old lady Yao's idea, right?"

Li Wenchong smiled: "Sure enough, you are worthy of being the emperor, you can guess right."

"Don't put a high hat on me, you have slipped so far, and I'm covered in your bones, aren't you afraid that I will blame the Yao family?"

"How could it be? What Qingling thinks is also for the good of Daming. Otherwise, if she subsidizes a few more schools and picks a few suitable children to go home and raise them herself, wouldn't that strengthen the status of the Yao family? But Qingling didn't do that, because she believed like her younger brother that the emperor was a wise king, and would be like the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, who would sacrifice himself for the public, love the people like a son, be respected by virtue, and understand righteousness. Blame it on her. If you are a sage, your ministers will be virtuous, and if your master is bright, your ministers will be straight."

Emperor Mingguang looked at Li Wenchong with a half-smile.

Li Wenchong accepted it as soon as he saw it, and didn't intend to make Emperor Mingguang angry: "Oh, brother, Qingling will marry in after a while. She is the imperial concubine of my younger brother. It is not a family. If you don't enter the family, you will never be with yourself." Is your sister-in-law angry? You should be magnanimous, and for the sake of my younger brother, let her go."

"Protect her like this before entering the door. If she enters the door, why don't you hold her up to the sky?"

Li Wenchong said: "If after she enters the door, she still thinks about the emperor's brother and the Ming Dynasty as she is now, so what if the minister supports her a little bit? The minister is the emperor's brother first, the Prince Chong of the Ming Dynasty, and then it is Her husband, I can clearly distinguish between priority and secondary."

"I hope you don't forget your original intention when the time comes." Emperor Mingguang agreed.

As for why he didn't directly agree?

Because reason is the reason, but doing and saying are two different things.

Mrs. Yao and Li Wenchong are right to have this idea, and it sounds very reasonable, but this is not a small job, and whether it can be done is another matter.

Emperor Mingguang did not object, but he would not support it until there was no result.

After all, his support from the king of a country is a little too conspicuous, and it is too easy to expose the plans of Mrs. Yao and Li Wenchong too early.

Li Wenchong was very happy and directly assured: "Brother Huang, don't worry, this younger brother will be the best younger brother of Brother Huang for the rest of his life."

After Li Wenchong left, Emperor Mingguang stood alone in the hall for a long time.

(End of this chapter)