People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 210 This national fortune, please leave it to the two of you
Empress Ma saluted the two of them suddenly, but Mu Ying and Ping An were taken aback.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were stunned.

Mu Ying hurriedly said:
"His Royal Highness, you are Zheshachen!"

Empress Ma said solemnly:
"I don't usually pay much attention to government affairs, but the emperor asked me to prepare this family banquet yesterday, so we know the whole story!

What the two of you are doing is related to the common people and the country, so I salute you both here! "

Ping An looked confused, although he was promised a heavy duty by the emperor, he also knew that they were going to sea!
But why he went to sea, and what to do when he went to sea, in fact, he didn't know at all.

Now that the queen mentions it, he is naturally full of doubts.

Mu Ying quickly knelt down and said:
"I dare not!"

"Thank you, then I will reprimand you for your mistakes!"

The two knelt on the ground, terrified.

Queen Ma said:

"Ying'er, you can be regarded as the one I brought up since childhood. Today is a family feast, so can't you call me mother?"

Mu Ying's body trembled violently, with mixed feelings.

He remembered that it had indeed been a long time since he had called Empress Ma a mother.

"Mother, my son apologizes to you!"

Mu Ying called mother, Empress Ma nodded in relief,

She turned to Ping An:
"Ping An, your father Ping Ding sacrificed his life for the country, the emperor and this palace recognize him for his merits, and pity you for being helpless, so they adopt you as a foster son!

Although you are different from Ping An, you grew up under my knees!

But since today is a family banquet, let's forget about the difference between monarchs and ministers, but follow the principles of human relations! "

Ping An was moved, and imitated Ping An and called her mother.

Empress Ma smiled happily, heyed, and helped the two of them up with her own hands.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son watched Queen Ma's movements quietly.

Especially Lao Zhu, whose eyes almost turned into crescents.

Having a wife like this, what can a husband ask for?
Empress Ma bought Muying and Pingan's hearts with a few words,
Just by looking at Mu Ying and Ping An's moved faces, one could tell how clever Empress Ma was.

"emperor……"

"The empress has already said that today is a family banquet, so there will be no monarchs and ministers, only father and son!"

The emperor gave the queen a face and followed her words.

Mu Ying and the two looked at each other, and they both lowered their heads and called out to their father.

The two sat down, Zhu Biao got up and filled the wine glass!

It was said that it was a family banquet, and there was not even a serving maid around.

The two were fearful again, and when the crown prince poured wine, they dared to sit ostentatiously, but under the stern gaze of the emperor, they could only sit.

After this set, Muying is fine, and Ping An is on pins and needles.

After Zhu Biao sat down, he pointed to the food on the table:

"This is my mother's own cooking. I haven't eaten a dish made by my mother for a long time!"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also followed everyone to call mother. In this family banquet, it seemed that the relationship between monarch and minister really did not exist.

Lao Zhu didn't ask other questions either, but wentssiping with everyone.

This kind of harmonious atmosphere gradually infects the still restrained Ping An, and after a while, the atmosphere gradually becomes harmonious between pushing cups and changing cups.

Queen Ma is the guest of honor of this family banquet, and everyone's lubricant,

Although she doesn't speak much, she can make people feel like a spring breeze at the key points.

Finally, as time passed, night fell.

After drinking for three rounds, Empress Ma stood up and said:

"I'm too tired to drink, so I'll take my leave first!
Next, you men drink it yourself! "

As soon as she left, the atmosphere on the field gradually changed subtly.

The attitudes of Mu Ying and Ping An also became cautious.

"Muying, this time you go out and take twenty basalt cannons with you, but you will remember it for me. Before you go to sea, I don't want to hear this thing spread!"

"minister……"

"The family feast is not over yet!"

Old Zhu glared at Mu Ying, who laughed.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ping An, with a smile that was not a smile:

"Peace, do you know why I let you go to sea?"

Ping An quickly replied:

"Emperor... father, I don't know!

However, my son guessed that since the emperor asked his son to go to sea with the Xuanwu cannon, but for the sake of Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng's former troops?

I heard my father mention before his death that these people can cause us a lot of trouble at sea!

Especially Zhang Shicheng's old department almost cut off my way of transporting grain by sea in Ming Dynasty!

Every time I think of this matter, I can't sleep or eat!

As long as the father thinks highly of Erchen, Erchen and Big Brother Muying will definitely wipe out the power of the sea for His Majesty! "

Ping An made a generous statement, showing his loyalty there.

The three present looked at each other and smiled, making him puzzled.

Zhu Yuanzhang said:

"I let you go to sea, not to fight those people, now that the north has not been settled, I, Ming, do not have the national power to entangle pirates at sea!
Of course those people at sea have to clean up! "

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were cold:
"It's just that now is not the time for you to drive out the pirates for my Ming Dynasty and revive the coastal defense!
I let you go to sea, to a distant place!
Bring back to my Ming Dynasty the fetish that influenced China's millennium national destiny! "

Ping An was shaken all over. Like Mu Ying, he thought of the time when the First Emperor sent Xu Fu to seek medicine.

Could it be that the emperor wants to learn from the Xu family and go to overseas fairy mountains to seek the protection of the gods?
Seeing Ping An's confused look, the three of them laughed.

"I didn't go to seek the elixir for myself as you guessed, but I knew from a reliable channel that there is a magical thing overseas that can change the destiny of my Ming Dynasty!
Just go here, where you go, the journey is thousands of miles!
Even if I fully support this trip, your life and death are uncertain!

I can't promise you anything, but if you can come back one day!

Daming will be proud of you! "

Ping An took a deep breath and replied:
"If it is beneficial to the country and the country, my son and minister will die!"

He plopped and knelt on the ground, kneeling three times and knocking nine times.

Lao Zhu is very satisfied, Mu Ying is his son raised since childhood, he knows 1
This peace at least passed his test!

"Okay, I'll use it for a few years to revive my Daming Navy, and I'm just waiting for you to come back and take our soldiers of Daming to travel all over the world!"

After finishing speaking, the emperor imitated Empress Ma and bowed to the two:
"This is the fate of the world, please two!"

The two of them had never seen the emperor like this, and Ping An was so moved that he didn't know what to do.

They hurriedly returned their salutes to the emperor.

This family banquet is over!
On the second day,
Ping An and Mu Ying embarked on a trip to Fujian with the emperor's secret decree.

They did not make too much publicity and walked quietly.

Mu Ying and Ping An, after bidding farewell to their wives and children, came to the gate of the city, only to find the emperor in casual clothes waving at the side of the road!

Carrying the hope of the emperor, the two turned and left.

Only Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were left watching silently.

"I hope next year, our Daming can go to sea smoothly!"

Zhu Biao sighed casually.

"Overseas things can be expected, but not too much!
What Zhang Yi said is the real thing!

Let's go and have a look! "

The father and son did not go back to the palace directly, but went to Qingxin Temple,
Near the Qingxin Temple, there was a lot of voices.

Zhu Yuanzhang has never seen so many people appear here.

Most of these people are craftsmen, and they are building Taoist temples in full swing.

Officials from the Ministry of Industry are still patrolling.

Since the Ministry of Industry was cleaned up, no one dared to delay the project at the Taoist Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang avoided the officials of the Ministry of Industry and walked into the Taoist temple by himself.

Deng Zhongxiu and Lao Mo welcomed them in.

Zhang Yi was not alone in the Taoist temple. When they entered, they could vaguely hear voices.

The two stepped in, and Lao Zhu's eyes lit up.

Zhang Yi is accompanying a beautiful woman and a girl at this time, what is he playing with on the table?
The woman's clothes were shabby and patched, but they couldn't hide her appearance.

And the little girl is also carved with jade, very beautiful.

Old Zhu secretly wondered, where did this guy meet this mother and daughter?
"Uncle Huang!"

Zhang Yi looked up, saw Lao Zhu coming, and waved hello.

Li Shi and Meng Yao immediately stood up and saluted Lao Zhu.

"What are you doing?"

Lao Zhu looked at the seeds Zhang Yi put on the table, and probably understood Zhang Yi's recent actions.

"This is the seeds I have collected from various places, and I am sorting them!

I will plant these seeds in the experimental field next year to see if I can breed good varieties!

If only I could pick some good varieties! "

Zhu Yuanzhang counted the rice seeds on the table, and there were as many as seven kinds.

This surprised him too. Although he had been farming, he had never really studied rice.

Zhang Yi smiled at him:

"I didn't expect there to be so many. In fact, there are many rice seeds that live in the form of weeds on the edge of the field, but no one pays attention to them!

These rice seeds, if no one excavated them, may be extinct and no one knows!
They are the breeds naturally selected by nature, Xiaodao wants to try it!

If I can grow good results next year, I can breed! "

Lao Zhu picked up one of the seeds, and saw that Zhang Yi had marked many things on the package of the seeds.

The location and characteristics of the seeds were collected, and there was even a picture of the seeds drawn by Yi himself.

"These things will be sorted and planted in different experimental fields next year!

Aunt Meng's family and little Meng Yao are the ones who help me manage it! "

Zhang Yi pointed at Li Shi and Xiao Mengyao, and said with a smile:
"This is my tenant's wife and daughter. They can read and write, which is exactly what I want!"

When Mrs. Li heard that Zhang Yi mentioned her, she hurriedly saluted.

Lao Zhu nodded his head as a return gift.

"Little master, you and the guests sit first, let's go out..."

Knowing that Lao Zhu and Zhang Yi had something to discuss, Li's mother and daughter left.

"Uncle, is it early today?"

In autumn, when the cool breeze was blowing, Zhang Yi couldn't help wrapping himself up, and then fiddled with the charcoal fire around him.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked back and forth at the seeds on Zhang Yi's table, overjoyed.

Let alone Zhang Yi can come up with something?
It is the matter of collecting seeds that makes him happy.

This is the hope for the future of Ming Dynasty, and it is also the key to whether the people can have enough to eat.

"I let people learn from you and start to make the soil method fertilizer and dung pill!
In the spring of next year, use my field to accompany you to try!
Also, this year I bought a lot of fields near Beiping, and next spring, I will farm with you too!
If it is really feasible to move rice to the north, you should make the first contribution! "

Zhang Yi smiled, it was great to have big landlords like Huang He willing to eat crabs.

If the north really let him grow the rice successfully, he wouldn't mind using Longhushan's relationship to give the Huang family some credit.

Let Daming plant rice in the north in advance.

The northward migration of rice should have been completed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the unreasonable tax system made the people of Ming Dynasty resist the increase of grain production. In addition, the landlords annexed the land in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the court from the courtiers to the people opposed this matter.

Only then did the real large-scale promotion of rice in the north be delayed until a hundred years later.

After Kangxi, the emperor who loved farming, was born in the Qing Dynasty, the rice migration to the north was truly completed.

In Zhang Yi's view, this matter is also a kind of regret, but this kind of regret can be made up by him.

The Hongwu Dynasty did not have the scruples of the Wanli period, and Zhu Yuanzhang also had enough prestige to promote this matter successfully.

But before that, let Huang He grow the fruit first!

Zhang Yi told Lao Zhu some details, and Lao Zhu took them down silently.

"I'm also interested in the donkey-horse breeding you mentioned!

If it works, the mule is a good business!

By the way, I found a noble person to bring up the issue of China and France...

This nobleman is very interested in your method..."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Yi chatted casually, and Zhang Yi was also very satisfied.

He doesn't care about opening Chinese law, but he cares about many things that Huang He doesn't pay attention to.

It is a very happy thing to be able to subtly change the world for the better.

"correct……

I also heard about the Ministry of Industry, the adult behind me said, you have to be careful!
Yang Xian is not the only one you have offended this time, he is a man of great ambition and talent, nothing to worry about!

But Li Shanchang, like many Huaixi officials, regards you as a thorn in the side..."

Old Zhu's words ruined Zhang Yi's good mood.

Hemp egg!

He didn't want to expose himself in front of those nobles, but he couldn't help but trouble himself to come to the door.

"By the way, about your work in the Ministry of Industry...you told Huang Mu about auditing..."

"Actually, this kind of thing is very simple. It is nothing more than finding someone who is familiar with arithmetic to check the accounts. Uncle is interested in this?
I forgot, your business is all over the world, so you must be interested in this!
But, don't take it seriously, the system of auditing is good!
But a good system is useless without execution!
This is the way of the world, what is lacking is not the system, but the ability to execute and control officials...

Just like those people from the Ministry of Industry, the court doesn't care about it!

But if you can't supervise, it will lead to rampant corruption!
This is the case in the capital, and the place below is even more chaotic.

Just like your business, you can manage the capital and Wu!

Can you manage shopkeepers in other places? "

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for the same reason, and nodded in agreement.

The system is never the key, and corruption itself is an act of undermining the system.

The point is, how to restrict the occurrence of corruption, can it only rely on supervision and killing?

Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the topic he had talked with Zhang Yi before, and he felt emotional:
"I still remember you said before that the Zhu family's official dogs are not proper!
Instead of saying what you said is right or wrong, let me ask you, if you were the emperor, how would you solve this corruption problem? "

(End of this chapter)