Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 15 Venture Capital from King Yan of Daming

With the help of Lao Wu, the work of tidying up the new home became much easier.

Old Wu was a native of Jinling, he was very familiar with Jinling, and he quickly helped Chen Yunfu hire a dozen or so laborers from the market.

Employment, short-term labor.

These are two very key words, write them down, don't test them.

There were slaves in the Ming Dynasty, and this policy has been criticized because there were no slaves in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the Song Dynasty turned a blind eye to the private servants of the official, noble, prominent, and rich families, but set up a memorial archway, which is the master customer system.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the custom of keeping slaves by the Mongols led to the reappearance of slavery, and the Ming Chengyuan system also retained this much-criticized policy that was not allowed by post-modern civilization.

Since there were slaves in the Ming Dynasty, why did Lao Wu hire day laborers instead of buying slaves directly.

The reason lies in an edict issued by Zhu Yuanzhang in the fifth year of Hongwu.

"The weak, lonely and poor cannot survive as slaves in the common people's house.", "When the edict expires, it will be released as a good person. Those who violate the law will plead guilty according to the law. They will have no family members and will be distributed to the heroes as slaves."

The meaning of these two sentences strung together is concise and important, that is, non-official families cannot raise slaves.

The class nature is highlighted here.

Chen Yunfu is not an official, of course he is not qualified to raise slaves at home, so he can only hire a group of people to enter the house in the name of day labor.

He can't even be called a servant.

Because the word servant also has the obvious meaning of master and servant, and it has the nature of the oppressed and oppressed class under the traditional patriarchal system.

The short-term workers will not have this feeling.

Chen Yunfu was just the boss, and he was on an equal footing with the employees.

It is like the relationship between the so-called individual industrial and commercial households and employees.

The latter gets paid to go to work, and if they are unhappy with their work, they can turn around and resign.

There is no detention relationship in which one party is forced to lead the other.

As for the wives, daughters and slaves who voluntarily sold themselves to the wealthy class before the imperial edict, Zhu Yuanzhang's instruction was "officials for redemption", which means that the government will buy them and release them for good.

However, considering the huge impact of the empty printing case and the Guo Huan case in the early Ming Dynasty and the devastating impact on local landlords, tyrants, and wealthy classes, it is estimated that the possibility of the government spending money to buy them is not enough.

Pulling away, let's get back to the topic.

Old Wu hired more than a dozen short-term workers for Chen Yunfu, and then he left. Now this former Yan Mansion has become Chen's house, and the second owner is ushered in again. That is to say, it's over, and it's time to return to the Yamen.

It is impossible to stay and be Chen Yunfu's housekeeper.

Even if he wanted to, Chen Yunfu couldn't be more afraid to admit it.

At any rate, Old Wu also ate in the yamen, even a petty official couldn't work in his ordinary household, so Chen Yunfu really didn't know what was good or bad.

Fortunately, there are Ling'er and the others who used to be court ladies.

Ling'er was the female official when Empress Ma was near. She came from the Shang Palace Bureau.

As for myself.

Yao Guangxiao came here and wanted to take him to dinner and meet someone by the way.

As for who to meet at night, this question seems to be tacitly understood by everyone.

Wangyue Building, Tingyun Pavilion, Chen Yunfu and Yao Guangxiao sat here for about a quarter of an hour, when they heard footsteps outside the door, the back door was pushed open from far to near, and a man who had already guessed in his heart walked in. .

Great Ming King Yan, Zhu Di is here!
"See King Yan." Yao Guangxiao got up, and was the first to salute.

With a warm smile on Zhu Di's face, he has lived in this capital for half a year. He looks much younger and his evil spirit has faded a lot.

"Master Daoyan, there is no need to be polite, just sit down."

While talking, Zhu Di's eyes fell on Chen Yunfu behind Yao Guangxiao.

"My lord, this former poor monk's younger brother, whose dharma name is Daoming, is now a vulgar, and his surname is Chen Yuyunfu."

Yao Guangxiao stepped aside and introduced Chen Yunfu to Zhu Di.

And Chen Yunfu was not ambiguous, and he didn't dare to look at Zhu Di casually, and directly lifted his robe and knelt down to worship.

"Grassman Chen Yunfu, see His Royal Highness King Yan, the prince is a thousand years old."

He is now a commoner and has no official status. He is no longer a monk in Tianjie Temple. When he sees a vassal like Zhu Di, of course he has to salute. How dare he make a bow at will.

But he didn't bow down this time, and Zhu Di lifted him with both hands when he was a few inches away from the ground.

"Little Master Daoming, don't be so polite. You have been chanting scriptures for your mother for half a year. For this, I owe you a favor."

Twenty-year-old Zhu Di was very polite, coupled with his heroic appearance and his status as the king of Yan, it was hard not to feel good and friendly, but Chen Yunfu didn't dare to take it too seriously.

Because Zhu Di is the poison of blind power, he should not be touched lightly.

Besides, Yao Guangxiao didn't know what An's heart was when he brought him to see Zhu Di.

Sure enough, Chen Yunfu stood up, thanked Zhu Di, and Yao Guangxiao beside him spoke.

"King Yan knows that my junior brother has returned to vulgarity now."

"Oh?" Zhu Di pretended to have just learned about his posture, and suddenly said happily: "Good thing, good thing. Little friend Yunfu is very talented, but also smart and quick-witted. It is really a shame to be a monk. It is a good thing to return to the vulgar. If there is no friend Where to go, how about going to Peiping with Gu in a month's time?"

Is this an olive branch from Emperor Yongle?

Chen Yunfu was a little unbelievable, and he was not as famous as Zeng Tai, so how could He De be worthy of Zhu Di's invitation?

There is no pie in the sky, this point, Chen Yunfu has always been firmly in mind.

So he said immediately, "King Yan doesn't know that Caomin has already settled down in Jinling and plans to work and study poetry in order to participate in the imperial examination next year."

Being rejected, Zhu Di didn't show any anger, and still nodded with a smile.

"Okay, okay, it's a good thing to take part in the imperial examination and get an official rank. It's a good thing to serve the country. Then I wish my friend Luming High School a top three victory in advance."

After saying that, Zhu Di clapped his hands, and several guards outside the door opened the door and walked in.

Groups of two and two each carry a box.

The box was very heavy and made a muffled sound when it fell to the ground. It seemed that there was a lot of weight inside.

Zhu Di was also unambiguous, and directly opened the two boxes.

In an instant, Chen Yunfu, who was adorned with dazzling jewels, couldn't help holding his breath.

Two chests full of jewels and gold and silver!
"Jinling is no different than other places. There are more places to spend money. I have been in the north for a long time. The products are poor and there is nothing to offer as a gift. Fortunately, I helped Goryeo drive away the Mongols and confiscated a lot of gold and silver. If you don’t need it, I’ll give it to you, little friend Yunfu, thinking it’s subsidized by the imperial examination.”

The earliest political donation in ancient times was this imperial examination funding.

If there is a local family that has a scholar or something, they will not be short of money when they enter the imperial examination in Beijing. The local rich and rich will often line up to give money, which is called subsidizing the imperial examination. In fact, it is political donations.

But political donations are all methods used by the lowest-level businessmen. After all, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and Zhu Di, as the most powerful vassal king in Ming Dynasty, how could he send money to Chen Yunfu?

In other words, why should Chen Yunfu?
This can only show one point, at this moment Zhu Di has already begun to lay out Jinling.

And Chen Yunfu, who was able to receive a gift of real estate from Zhu Yuanzhang, became Zhu Di's goal.

As soon as the news of Zhu Biao's poor health spread, there would be a stir in all directions.

Or how to put it, the prince is the foundation of the country.

The prince is ill, and the country is in turmoil.

(End of this chapter)