Daming: From the end of Hongwu

In the amusement park of Duke Zhao's mansion, there is a viewing platform. Under the platform is a clear lake. There is a strange rockery in the lake. The water leaps out of the mountain, and the sound of the water is so beautiful.

Zhen Wu sat on the viewing platform and threw some bait into the lake below from time to time, attracting many colorful koi to jump over the lake.

"No wonder Xiaoqi always liked to stay here before." Zhen Wu threw the last bit of bait into the lake, clapped his hands and said, "It really can make people feel peaceful."

Ma Yi walked over with a water basin to let Zhen Wu clean his hands, and said with a smile, "Master Qi is the most precious here. Speaking of which, these fish were all thrown by Lord Qi. Now the fat ones are almost fine." gone."

"That's true, even the fat ones are believed to be pigs." Zhen Wu smiled, but then sighed: "They are lucky."

After Zhen Wu washed his hands, he wiped them and said: "Okay, it's time to get down to business, you go tell Cheng Liang to prepare the horse, and let him accompany me to the palace later."

Ma Yi responded.

Zhen Wu strode towards his study.

Now that he decided to attack the craftsmen, he just took advantage of the opportunity to discuss his views on the craftsman with Zhu Di.

As for the handicraft industry, Zhen Wu had already prepared the memorial. After he came to the study, he took the memorial and changed his body and outfit before heading outside.

Cheng Liang was already waiting outside the door, and when Zhen Wu came out, a group of people mounted their horses and headed towards the palace.

However, not long after Zhen Wu left, Xu Jingchang's mother came to visit.

After receiving the report, Zhu Yuying briefly thought about it and asked, "Where is the uncle? You haven't come back yet?"

Xue'er replied: "I heard from Steward Ma that the uncle came back for a while, but now he has gone out again."

Going out again?

That's unfortunate.

If she wanted to talk about Xiao Liu's affairs, her sister-in-law would not dare to make decisions at will.

Standing up, Zhu Yuying said to Xue'er: "Treat the guests for a cup of tea first, the old lady and I change clothes, and then invite the guests to sit in the back room."

Xue'er should be, and went down to treat guests generously.

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On the other side, Zhen Wu had already entered the palace, and was led by the eunuch to Zhu Di's study not long after. When Zhen Wu entered the study, he found that Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji were also there.

Zhu Di was chatting and laughing with Zhu Zhanji, having a good time, but Zhu Gaochi sat aside, handling some government affairs for Zhu Di.

This grandpa three...

Zhen Wu shook his head amusedly.

After Zhu Di heard the voice, he raised his head and glanced at Zhen Wu, and said annoyedly, "What are you doing here now? Are you free?"

hiss.

Zhen Wu took a deep breath.

Good guy, look at this, his son-in-law has also been rejected.

"There is something I want to discuss with Your Majesty." After speaking, Zhen Wu took out the memorial, walked over and handed it to Zhu Di himself.

Zhu Di took it suspiciously, and as soon as he opened it, Zhu Zhanji who was on the side came over. Zhu Di smiled and spread the memorial, pulled Zhu Zhanji into his arms and said, "If you want to read it, then read it with grandpa."

Afterwards, the two watched Zhen Wu's memorial about industry together.

There is only one central idea in the memorial, that is, industry can strengthen the country, which includes the detailed information of Zhen Wu's investigation, as well as some visions and opinions of Zhen Wu from later generations.

Zhu Di frowned while watching.

After a while.

Zhu Di exhaled, then turned to look at Zhu Zhanji and said, "Boy, do you understand?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a bitter face: "I seem to understand it, but I don't seem to understand it. I don't know many things in it."

Zhu Di laughed twice: "My good grandson, you are really sincere, but it doesn't matter, if you don't understand now, you will understand later."

Zhu Zhanji looked up at Zhu Di, and asked aggressively, "Can't Grandpa Huang tell me, I think I understand now."

Zhu Di laughed again, probably because he was very satisfied with Zhu Zhanji's attitude in his heart, but after laughing, he shook his head and said: "It is easy to understand this memorial, but it is not easy to understand all aspects behind the memorial. This requires you to have enough knowledge and understand enough principles, now that you are still young, you will not be able to learn everything in a short while."

"Oh." Zhu Zhanji responded with some displeasure.

Zhu Di pampered Zhu Zhanji's little head, then turned his eyes, pointed to Zhen Wu and said to Zhu Zhanji: "When you are two years older, I will let you stay with your uncle for a few years. Let's learn all his skills, shall we?"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up: "OK."

"Okay." Zhu Di patted Zhu Zhanji's buttocks and said, "Let's have fun, your uncle and I..." At this point, Zhu Di turned his eyes to the fat Zhu Gaochi, and said in a cold tone: " And your father, let's get down to business."

Zhu Zhanji nodded, but he couldn't help feeling sorry for his father in his heart. He was really disgusted by his grandfather.

At this time, Zhu Di threw the memorial to Zhu Gaochi, and after Zhu Gaochi finished reading it, he asked coldly, "What do you think about this?"

After Zhu Gaochi closed the memorial, he glanced at Zhen Wu with some admiration, and then said respectfully: "Father, my son thinks this is a good thing. If the imperial court strongly supports it, not only will the world's craftsmen be able to rely on their ability to eat, but the whole world will be able to eat." All walks of life will also have great development, and this extension will be beneficial to the people of the world, and it will also promote the fact that the father sent Zheng He to the West."

Zhu Di nodded and said, "Since you think it's a good thing, I'll leave it to your Prince's Mansion. Later, you will come up with a detailed set of rules and see where to give support."

Zhu Gaochi got up and should be.

When Zhen Wu heard this, he couldn't help it anymore, and said: "Your Majesty, I actually have a little idea. After all, handmade products are made by craftsmen. Why don't we start with the craftsmen and carry out the craftsman registration system?" Some changes."

"How do you want to change?" Zhu Di looked up at Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu swallowed his saliva, and tentatively said: "Why don't we start with the status, can the Ministry of Industry set aside some official positions for these craftsmen, and evaluate and appoint outstanding craftsmen."

As soon as the sound fell, it was like a heavy hammer striking a bell.

Both Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi looked straight at Zhen Wu.

What does this mean?
Prying civil servants' interests?

Zhu Di smiled coldly and asked, "Do you think if this matter is brought up, the court will cause a commotion?"

Zhen Wu thought for a while, and uttered a word, but the next moment, Zhen Wu said: "But your majesty, we can't be deterred just because someone will object, just like military craftsmen, they specialize in firearms all their lives, how important it is to us ,Your Majesty is a person who came out of the battlefield, you know the advantages and disadvantages of firearms, if we give them a chance of promotion, they will definitely try their best to improve firearms, if things go on like this, we will be invincible in the world only by virtue of firearms. "

Zhu Di fell into deep thought.

Zhu Gaochi frowned deeply. The theory told him that what Zhen Wu said was good, but the Confucian education he had received since he was a child told him that these firearms and military craftsmen are heretical in the final analysis and cannot rule the country. .

Why should you be an official if you can't rule the country?
And why are you an official?
Zhen Wu seemed to have guessed Zhu Gaochi's thoughts, turned to face Zhu Gaochi, and said solemnly: "His Royal Highness, I know that there are many profound scholars in the Prince's House, and those scholars may look down on others, even us warriors. , but His Royal Highness, don’t be influenced by some people, and forget the way of parallel civil and martial arts established by Taizu, after all, the ending of the former Song Dynasty is still vivid.”

Zhu Gaochi looked a little embarrassed.

Zhen Wu seemed to be unaware, and continued: "The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the guards all over the world, are the physical Great Wall that protects my Ming Dynasty, and the firearms developed by the military craftsmen will be the sharpest spears in the hands of the soldiers. Such credit, Why is it not worthy of the affirmation and appreciation of the imperial court? The literati rule the world with their pens, and the warriors mount their horses to secure the world. Each has equal importance. It cannot be said that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and prosperous. It is all due to the literati’s governance. If there is turmoil, how can the country be governed by literati! You can't let them hold positions in the court, right?"

"Presumptuous!" Zhu Di angrily slapped the table.

Zhen Wu immediately leaned over and confessed: "The minister is guilty, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Forgiveness?"

Zhu Di almost couldn't laugh out of anger, Zhen Wu's face changed too quickly: "You fucking know how to ask me to forgive my sins, you are so used to it, you are a man from the Dudu Mansion, meddling in the affairs of the handicraft department What to do, besides, the arrangement of official positions is also a matter of the Ministry of Officials, so it's not your turn."

Zhen Wu just wanted to open his mouth to refute.

Zhu Di probably knew that Zhen Wu was eloquent, so he immediately said: "Quickly shut your mouth, the court will not be in chaos until the north is settled, so don't say that again, I have other plans in my heart."

Having said that, Zhu Di turned his head and said sharply to Zhu Gaochi: "Boss, just pretend you didn't hear about this, do you understand?"

Zhu Gaochi leaned over and said, "I understand."

Seeing this, Zhen Wu sighed helplessly. He knew Zhu Di's temperament. Generally, if Zhu Di said this, it meant that Zhu Di had made up his mind, and it was meaningless for him to say more.

In fact, Zhen Wu also understands Zhu Di's thoughts. Zhu Di has great ambitions in his heart and wants to expand his territory and surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties. Otherwise, Zhu Di would not have come up with the literary and historical event of "Yongle Dadian".

But at the next moment, another thought emerged in Zhen Wu's mind. Since the craftsman's registration cannot be changed for the time being, it is not too much for him to attack the military.

Thinking of this, Zhen Wu said: "Since this is the case, then I will not mention this matter for now, but I want to establish a lecture hall, what does your majesty think?"

"Lecture hall?"

Zhu Di frowned, and said, "Why did you start that thing?"

"Scholars have Taixue, can't we warriors have a general martial arts hall?" Zhen Wu said with a curled lip.

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows, as if his anger was throbbing.

Zhen Wu hastened to be honest, and explained: "Your Majesty, although we have martial arts in Ming Dynasty, they only hold once in hundreds of years, and the official positions in all guards are also hereditary. Basically, most of them rely on family education, but the level of them is hard to estimate. , That's why I thought about establishing a lecture hall, and when the time is right, you can even use the graduation certificate of the lecture hall as a part of the hereditary assessment, so that you can effectively guarantee your future military position, not a deadlock."

"That's not bad. When my late emperor was here, I paid great attention to the teaching and learning in the guard. How about this? Let's call Zhang Yuzhu and some others later. Let's discuss it carefully, and then think about where to try it first. Let's do it." Zhu Di said after thinking for a while.

Zhen Wu should be.

In the early days of the martial arts hall, it was estimated that they were all the children of lords, but there was no way to do it. Zhen Wu might also do something that harmed the interests of the lords, otherwise Zhen Wu would not be able to win favor in the military.

But once the Martial Arts Hall is well established and its importance becomes higher and higher in the future, there will naturally be a large number of second sons or concubine sons of the lord's family entering the school, and then naturally there will also be some poor relatives or old subordinates of the lord's family When the sons of his sons go to school, when there are more outstanding young generals, the hereditary status will inevitably be affected.

At that point, the military will have to undergo an upward revolution.

After that, Zhen Wu didn't want to disturb Zhu Di's happy gathering anymore, so he resigned and returned home. He went directly into the study and began to study how to set up a lecture hall and the courses of the lecture hall.

While he was busy, Zhu Yuying suddenly came to him.

After putting the tea on Zhen Wu's table, Zhu Yuying came behind Zhen Wu, gently pressed Zhen Wu's shoulder and said, "Mrs. Dingguo is here today."

"Mrs. Dingguo?"

Zhen Wu just took a sip of water and almost spit out: "When did Xu Jingchang marry a wife?"

Zhu Yuying chuckled and said, "It's not his wife, it's my aunt."

Zhen Wu turned around and gave Zhu Yuying a blank look: "You almost scared me to death." After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu turned back to busy with his own affairs, and asked casually, "What is she here for?"

"What else could it be?" Zhu Yuying said.

The movements of Zhen Wu's hands suddenly stopped.

Zhu Yuying sighed and said: "She was afraid that our family would disagree, so she came to the door to find out. I don't know what you think, so I didn't respond."

After these words fell, the room was silent for a long time.

a long time.

Zhen Wucai said uncomfortably: "Didn't we tell you about this? Xiaoliu is fine if he wants to. Don't worry about the impact of marrying Dingguo Gong on me. Father will tolerate me. Wait until the future...maybe it won't be in the future. I will take all the burden off my shoulders."

"Then I'll pass on the word when I turn around," Zhu Yuying said.

It took Zhen Wu another long while to hold back the word "hm".

Knowing that Zhen Wu was reluctant to part with Xiao Liu, Zhu Yuying walked in front of Zhen Wu, sat on Zhen Wu's lap, and put her head on Zhen Wu's shoulder.

She persuaded softly: "Actually, you also know that Xiao Liu has not been pestering you as much as before in the past few years, and more often stays in her own yard. She is growing up anyway, even if you don't consider She herself, for the sake of your reputation, has also started to avoid you. I believe that you will also feel distressed when you get along like this. We can't let her hide in her yard at a young age like our little aunt of the Xu family. Always be accompanied by the blue light."

"How is our little aunt?" Zhen Wu asked.

"What else can I do?" Zhu Yuying sighed and said, "The suitors have broken through the threshold, but they don't want to get married anyway."

Zhen Wu also sighed, speaking of what Xu Miaojin has experienced since she was a child, the eldest brother-in-law rebelled, the second brother-in-law was deposed, the eldest brother and the third brother turned against each other, and the third brother passed away due to the accident. They are very contradictory, otherwise they would not be so happy with Buddha.

Fortunately, Xiao Liu has been careless since he was a child, and has no worries in this regard.

This is a blessing.

In this case…

Zhen Wu breathed out and said: "Then let's get married. You can discuss this matter with your mother. You don't need to ask me. I... I guess I will be very busy during this period, so try to disturb me as little as possible."

Zhu Yuying hummed, put her palm into Zhen Wu's hand, and then tightly grasped Zhen Wu's hand with her backhand.

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