my days with tyrants

Chapter 104 The Spring Breeze of Reform Blows the Ground

Fengyang.

Letter to the country.

Yang Feng, who had paid homage to King Xiangwu of Eastern Ou as the ambassador of the Great Xia Kingdom, took a meaningful look at Mrs. Zhu who was kneeling on the ground.

The latter lowered his head as if he didn't see it.

He immediately withdrew from the meeting with the emperor's grandson under the guidance of his intellectuals. The latter was allowed by Zhu Yuanzhang to come to express his condolences on behalf of His Majesty the emperor.In addition, the dukedom of Xinguo, which had no heir in history, was succeeded by Tang He's grandson Tang Yujiao and others under the advice of the emperor's grandson this time, and changed to Lingbihou.Even so, the Tang family was grateful to the emperor's grandson, and the emperor's grandson also gained the respect of Tang He's generals.

Lao Zhu didn't let Tang and his descendants succeed him, but it wasn't because he didn't have a suitable heir.

It is true that his sons are all dead, and his eldest grandson is indeed dead, but there are still several other grandsons. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang wants the Tang family to inherit, he just finds one from among them.

He did it on purpose.

Because of the matter of Tang and the eldest daughter, the two had a very tense fight.

It is said that there was a quarrel.

This is also the reason why Tang He later said that he was too sick to stand up.

He was also afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would kill him.

Therefore, in the eyes of Tang He's generals, this Xin Guogong will definitely not be able to continue, but now because of the appearance of the emperor's grandson, he can get a Lingbihou, which can be said to be a surprise.It also let these generals see that the emperor's grandson actually has a lot of affection for these veterans, so they will naturally be loyal to the emperor's grandson.

Lao Zhu also knew this.

He also doesn't mind letting his grandson buy people's hearts in this matter.

To be an emperor must have this kind of mind.

Lao Zhu has already chosen him as the grandson of the emperor, so he really doesn't mind him cultivating power in advance, and even started to let Zhu Yunxi handle the memorial in advance. Lao Zhu is actually a very traditional person.

Outside the mourning hall, Yang Feng continued to look at Mrs. Zhu, his coveting heart made people look sideways.

"The ambassador met Princess Lu?"

Liu Sanwu who also came with him stroked his beard and said.

"I met him once in Suzhou. Brother Xianzong was still together at that time, but I didn't know the real identity of the princess at the time, and brother Xianzong didn't say anything about it. It was a bit rude. In fact, I have also been to Lu Palace. It’s quite a hit, and I plan to visit again someday when I’m free.”

Yang Feng said.

(Yan Shenggong: Don’t come here!)
Then he continued to look at the filial Mrs. Zhu like a hungry ghost.

The latter still lowered his head as if he didn't see him.

"I remember that King Lu has a queen?"

he asked.

"The son of Prince Lu is not from the concubine, but from the side concubine. Now he lives with the side concubine in the ten princes' mansion in the capital. As for the princess, His Majesty specially ordered him to return to Ning to take care of King Xiangwu of Dongou. When the funeral of King Xiangwu of Dongou is completed, it is also If you want to go back to the Tenth Palace in the capital or back to the Lu Palace, but it should still be the Tenth Palace, after all, the son is underage, and there is no male in the Lu Palace, so it will be inconvenient for the princess to go back."

Liu Sanwu stroked his white beard and said.

"Understood, a group of widows will inevitably fall into the melon fields!"

Yang Feng said.

Liu Sanwu smiled slightly.

"But your rules are too bad. At that time, widows remarried casually."

Yang Feng said.

"There is no law in Ming Dynasty that prohibits remarriage. Although chaste and strong women are indeed worthy of respect, it does not prohibit widows from remarrying. It is just that remarriage must be from the husband's family. Then the ambassador wants Your Majesty to issue an order?"

Liu Sanwu said with a smile.

At this time, an official came out to express his condolences, and Liu Sanwu got up to talk to him.

Mrs. Zhu raised her head extremely quickly, and gave Yang Feng a fierce look, but Yang Feng could only feel it.

Yang Feng smiled slightly.

Then he clapped his hands slightly three times.

Mrs. Zhu refused with his eyes, but he insisted with his eyes. The two completed a secret and silent communication in less than five seconds. The depth of mutual understanding is amazing, but they didn't notice that the old man Liu's eyes were strange. He stroked his white beard.

Of course, the third watch will definitely not work.

She is still in the mourning hall at midnight. In fact, there is definitely no chance in the short term. After returning to the ten princes' mansion in the capital, she should have a chance. It is similar to the collective dormitory of the feudal kings. The emperor’s grandchildren are studying in the capital, and theoretically they all want to live there, so it is very beneficial for him to visit nearby at night. In addition, Zhu Yunqi is also living in the Tenth Prince’s Mansion at this time, and Zhu Yunqi can only do it after he succeeds to the throne.

If Zhu Yunxi is willing.

If he just doesn't ennoble Zhu Yunqi, then the latter can only live there for the rest of his life.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhang Xianzong, who had been watching coldly, even watching the exchange just now, said in a stern tone.

"Uh, you know me, even if you want to do something, I won't be here."

Yang Feng said.

"Are you fishing?"

Zhang Xianzong said in a low voice.

It's not that he doesn't know that Yang Feng looks younger than him, but in fact he is a standard old fox, and he is definitely not a hungry ghost. After all, this guy has a lot of beautiful girls in his family, but he has never touched any of them so far.That innocent one almost makes people suspect that he is a gentleman, and of course he may also like diplomacy. If such a person shows such an obvious anxious look on such an occasion, it is obvious that he is acting.

This guy is used to fishing.

Zhang Xianzong, who has not been with him for a day, knows this very well.

"What kind of fishing, you have to make a nest first, and then match it with good bait. I just threw a hook, which is still a straight hook. If you can be hooked like this, do you blame me?"

Yang Feng said.

"Zhang will not sit idly by."

Zhang Xianzong said directly.

"Then you can go and tell him. Just tell him that I'm just pretending. I deliberately seduced him. Do you think he believes it or not?

Brother Xianzong.

I told Dai Gui that if loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. Sitting on the fence will lead to no good results. Do you think you will still be regarded as one of your own by them now?You are already the companion of the emperor's grandson, you pushed Huang Zicheng away, you are their traitor, even if you think you have a clear conscience, you are still their traitor.

Because your loyalty is not absolute.

Now you can tell them, and the emperor grandson will feel that your loyalty is not absolute.

In the end, you are not human at both ends.

You have to understand that in your current situation, you must choose to stand in line.

Must choose one.

And if you choose one, you must disconnect from the other.

Do you still want to go? "

Yang Feng said.

Huang Zicheng was eventually removed from the emperor's grandson to accompany him.

Now it has been kicked back to do the compilation of the Imperial Academy.

And Zhang Xianzong was appointed as the new accompanying reader.

So in just two years, his second place has far surpassed the No. [-] Scholar, all the way from writing to serving as a bachelor's student, and then studying with the emperor's grandson. Although the latter's position is not high, it is not an official position to be precise. , but the emperor selected from the Hanlin to study with the emperor's grandson.

but……

This is the assistant minister of the future.

The future is infinite.

In a sense, he stepped up on Huang Zicheng.

traitor!

What a traitor.

The faster he was promoted, the more hated he was to people like Huang Zicheng, who even thought he got it by betrayal.

Zhang Xianzong held the teacup in some pain.

Yang Feng is not interested in caring about him. If it weren't for his old acquaintance, there is no need to even remind him. Now that Zhang Xianzong is going to say that he is pretending, people like Liu Sanwu will not believe it. Even if Liu Sanwu believes it, Huang Zicheng will make him not believe it. .

And Lao Liu is not a cunning and cunning person.

A treacherous and cunning person, dare to come up with such a thing as the North and South List?

Even if the Nanbang really came out, when Zhu Yuanzhang gave them a chance, would he dare to continue to make troubles, and finally completely angered Zhu Yuanzhang?A truly cunning person would not be so stupid. He is very smart, but only as a Confucian scholar. In a sense, they are Confucian scholars in the traditional sense, and they believe in the way of sages and sages they believe in.But as far as their ability to do things is concerned, let alone that kind of old and cunning conspirator, they are still far behind a qualified bureaucrat.

Qualified bureaucrats will not rush down the slope after Zhu Yuanzhang gives the opportunity.

So Yang Feng really doesn't care about them.

He went fishing.

He still hooks straight and hard, as long as the fish is stupid enough, he can catch it.

He got up and slipped away quietly.

He appeared again in the middle of the night, but at this time the mourning hall was still full of people, and Mrs. Zhu was still kneeling there, seeing that there was really no chance, so he reluctantly left, and all this was under the watchful eyes of Old Man Liu.

The next day, Linhuaiguan in the snow.

"This is the place where grandpa's dragon thrives!"

The emperor grandson looked at the snow-covered banks of the Huaihe River with emotion.

The river still flows quietly.

But it still doesn't look crowded here.

At least compared with the surroundings of the capital, it can still be called desolate. This is the population that Zhu Yuanzhang has persistently migrated over for more than 20 years, and he also forced to station a large number of guards. One can imagine what it was like in the past.But now it is much stronger than at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the area was directly described by the officials in the north as being uninhabited for thousands of miles along the Huai River.

"Talk about Fengyang, say Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine years of drought in ten years."

Yang Feng sang beside him.

Followed by a staring gaze...

"Don't look at me, this is a folk song that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it is said to have been passed down from the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to verify whether it is true or not, but it is also a fact that this place has always been poor in the Ming Dynasty. According to our history books at that time According to records, it is also true that there are nine years of famine in ten years."

He said innocently.

"Why is this!"

Zhu Yunxi said with some embarrassment.

"Your Highness, it's really nothing. This place is prone to natural disasters, and there is a big gap between the land yield per mu and the climate conditions in the south of the Yangtze River. Moving a large number of people from Suzhou and Hangzhou will inevitably lead to resentment. They produce four or five stones, and when they arrive here, they produce one or two stones per mu, and they are not allowed to leave, so how can they not feel resentment in their hearts, and they must vent it after a long time.

Make up a folk song, sing it and feel at ease.

Especially here is the capital.

Guangzhong capital city, emperor's mausoleum, garrison, these annual consumption, all kinds of servants, especially this servant, if there are more yamen, there will be more frequent servants, and the burden on the common people is particularly heavy.If you want to change this place, it's very simple. The corvee in Fengyang Mansion will be exempted, and then all kinds of servants will be hired by the government with money.Since it is a land of Longxing, it must look like a land of Longxing. Exemption from taxes is indeed a bit too big a step, but exemption from corvee can always be done, right?In fact, corvée itself is a great burden on the common people. Its harm lies in delaying the production of the common people. It can be converted into taxes in the future, and then the tax money can be converted into employment.

After the Ming Dynasty, this is actually how grain was discounted.

You can use Fengyang as a pilot to implement such reforms. "

Yang Feng said.

He has to prepare for the development of industry!
During his time in Jiangnan, the biggest problem he found, or the most detrimental to the development of industry, was the corvee.

Everyone, from peasants to artisans, and even citizens in cities, can't tell when they will go to corvée, and there are many kinds of corvee, from handling errands in the yamen to maintaining law and order, to transporting to the frontier, and even government officials. Construction is all corvée, so how can we develop industry?

After finally training a skilled worker, he suddenly had to serve corvee.

Then died on the way.

The possibility of such a thing is extremely high.

Not long ago, Zhu Yuanzhang just kindly allowed a county in Guangxi to use money to replace their corvee transportation mission this year. They wanted to transport grain from the mountains of Guangxi to Yunnan.

In this era, food was transported from the mountains of Guangxi to Yunnan!

Why not die on this road.

So the training was in vain until the end.

This system can be said to have seriously hindered the Ming Dynasty from moving towards a more advanced society.

"But grandpa didn't mean that."

Zhu Yunxi said.

By the way, it is indeed embarrassing to see the appearance of their old Zhu family's Longxing Land.

He knew that Yang Feng must not have lied to him.

"Then after you succeed to the throne, you have to show your kindness after you succeed to the throne. Use Fengyang as a pilot for this reason. If it is not bad, then gradually push it away. The left and right are now treasures. The bank has been operating well recently. The deposits are more than one million, and when you succeed to the throne, it will not be a problem, and you will not be short of money."

Yang Feng said.

But his fourteenth aunt is in charge of the bank.

The little princess, the money fanatic, after she informed her father and got a large reward, was pleasantly surprised to find out that Yang Feng had bought her a good thing that could be kept in the money pile every day, and took advantage of Yang Feng's going to Suzhou to directly occupy the bank. that office.

Then it's easy.

She went directly to the inner houses of those wealthy and dignified families to solicit clients.

princesses home.

House of princes and counts.

She didn't even spare those temples.

She is dedicated to her theoretical nunnery to pray for her mother, so it makes sense to go to the nunnery of the temple!She is a child, and she is still underage, so she doesn't need to care about her face. Why does soliciting clients not match her status as a princess?I am so innocent!In the end, the situation that Yang Feng never opened up was easily resolved by her, so professional things had to be done professionally, and she was in charge of the bank, so her father was at ease.

"So you can give it a try!"

Zhu Yunxi said confidently.

For young people, it is inevitable that they have big ambitions. Although they don't say it, they actually want to surpass his grandfather in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)