My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 928 Abolition of burial
Under the joint persuasion of Zhu Zhanhe and Chang Sining, Queen Mother Wei finally gave up the idea of ​​letting her concubines be buried for Zhu Gaoxu, and directly sent someone to inform Yang Shiqi of this decision.

The Queen Mother refused to draw up a list of those to be buried, and Yang Shiqi had nothing to do. After all, he couldn't rush into the palace to argue with Queen Mother Wei, right?

Therefore, the matter of burying concubines had to be abandoned. Zhu Zhanhe also took this opportunity to directly legislate to prohibit burying people in the Han Dynasty. Not only the royal family, but also some dignitaries and even rich people would also let their slaves be buried, so the legislation was very difficult. If necessary, if someone violates the rules, the reporter will be rewarded, and the person who performs the burial will be punished with murder.

The prohibition of the sacrificial burial system is not just to save the lives of a few concubines, but it represents the end of a barbaric and cruel system. Now the Han Dynasty has started the first industrial revolution, the people's lifestyle, and the country's politics and military structure will usher in a huge change, and some backward systems will also be ended, and burial is just one of them.

In the original history, it was Zhu Qizhen, the emperor who was reviled by later generations, who ended the burial system in the Ming Dynasty. This may also be his only commendable political achievement as emperor and empress twice.

Zhu Zhanhe did not want to be compared with a mediocre emperor like Zhu Qizhen, so he took the lead in banning sacrificial burials in the Han Dynasty.

However, except for the burial, there were no changes to other funeral matters. Under the auspices of Yang Shiqi, Zhu Gaoxu's funeral was also held very grandly.

The imperial mausoleum was built dozens of miles west of Xijing City. It was backed by mountains and faced by water. It could be said to be a geomantic treasure. Zhu Zhanhe planned to build this place into a royal mausoleum, and all imperial mausoleums would be built here in the future.

Zhu Zhanhe's own imperial mausoleum is located next to Zhu Gaoxu's imperial mausoleum, and he plans to reduce the size of his imperial mausoleum. After all, nothing will happen until death. Only two types of people are happiest when building such a luxurious imperial mausoleum. One is a tomb robber, and the other is a person who will make a fortune from various tourist attractions in later generations.

Zhu Zhanhe planned to take responsibility himself. In the future, his children and grandchildren would definitely not dare to surpass him in the specifications of the imperial mausoleum. This would help the Han Dynasty save a lot of money.

After Zhu Gaoxu's funeral was over, Zhu Zhanhe finally focused all his energy on government affairs. He first promulgated a series of reform measures, such as attaching importance to the development of industry and commerce and increasing various protections for workers.

With the application of steam engines in various industries, coupled with the emergence of new technologies and new inventions, Dahan's industry and commerce have become extremely developed, and the number of workers has also skyrocketed, even approaching the number of farmers.

But correspondingly, there are still many problems with the treatment of workers. Some factories even mistreat workers. You must know that the so-called bourgeois revolution in later generations mobilized the power of workers. Zhu Zhanhe did not want to cause anything in the Han Dynasty. Revolution, so simply improve workers’ conditions in advance.

Whether they are workers or farmers, they are all ordinary people. Their main concerns are nothing more than food and clothing. At most, they also add marriage and future child-rearing issues. As long as these aspects can be guaranteed, no one will have enough to eat. We have to make some kind of revolution.

In the past few years, Zhu Zhanhe focused mainly on external expansion and was inevitably a little neglectful of some domestic situations. Now that he has inherited the throne, he can legitimately carry out some domestic reforms.

Of course, this will definitely touch the interests of some people, but with Zhu Zhanhe's current prestige and ability, no one with an open mind dares to challenge his majesty. Even a few princes who did not respect the law were severely punished by Zhu Zhanhe After a while, the most serious one was directly demoted to Africa to look after the plantation. Even his brother's crimes were treated equally, which made many people finally remember that the newly enthroned Emperor had served as the commander of the Imperial Guards when he was young, and even established the feared Dongchang. Although Zhu Zhanhe When he was the prince, he was known as a man of kindness, but he would show no mercy to anyone who dared to oppose him.

Therefore, it can be said that Zhu Zhanhe carried out various domestic reforms very smoothly. This also allowed Dahan to undergo great changes in just a few years, especially the improvement of workers' treatment, which made industry and commerce shine again. New life.

Nowadays, the proportion of agriculture in Dahan has further shrunk. Although Dahan's agriculture is also very developed, compared with the more developed industry and commerce, the proportion of agriculture's output value has gradually shrunk. The various taxes originally imposed on agriculture have also been eliminated by Zhu Zhan. We must abolish it bit by bit, because if it is not abolished, the benefits from agriculture will not be proportional to the hard work. People would rather work in factories than farm.

When Zhu Zhanhe was reforming the Han Dynasty internally, information from the Ming Dynasty was continuously sent to Zhu Zhanhe's desk through the eyes and ears of Jin Yiwei.

The biggest change that Wang Zhen's power brought to the Ming Dynasty was the rise in the status of eunuchs. Seeing that Wang Zhen was so powerful, a group of powerful eunuchs in the palace naturally did not want to be left behind. Some people sought refuge with Wang Zhen and climbed up trees. Some people felt that they were no worse than Wang Zhen, so they deliberately curry favor with Zhu Qizhen, thereby gaining considerable power.

For example, the imperial eunuch Xi Ning was the eunuch most favored by Zhu Qizhen besides Wang Zhen. This Xi Ning was a Jurchen who was said to have been captured by the Ming army from Liaodong. In the Ming Dynasty, there were castrated foreign boys who were sent to the palace as eunuchs. traditions, this Xining is one of them.

Xi Ning relied on Zhu Qizhen's favor and trust, and the Royal Horse Supervisor was in charge of the Four Guards Camp and the Warrior Camp in the palace. These were the imperial guards in the palace, so Xi Ning reached out to the army and used it to The eunuchs who were stationed to supervise the army took over many affairs in the army.

Moreover, Wang Zhen was even more arrogant and domineering than Xi Ning. He even looked down upon important ministers like Zhang Fu. His younger brother was encircling the capital and had conflicts with Zhang Fu's family. He even took away the relatives of Zhang Fu. A pregnant woman was beaten to death, resulting in two deaths.

Zhang Fu was angry and went to the palace to complain to Zhu Qizhen. In the end, Zhu Qizhen just asked Xi Ning to hand over the attacker and serve him in the army. You must know that the army is Xi Ning's world. What is the difference between his brother joining the army and returning home? .

And that wasn’t the end of it. Xining had a grudge against Zhang Fu, so he later collaborated with officials to falsely accuse Zhang Fu of embezzling twenty hectares of land. Zhu Qizhen didn’t even try him, and directly ordered Zhang Fu to hand over the land. .

You must know that with Zhang Fu's identity, even Wang Zhen respected him, but Xi Ning deliberately found trouble to provoke him, and Zhu Qizhen even tried to sidestep him. This left Zhang Fu with no choice but to hand over Tian Di Nin. Got this bad breath.

The arrogance and domineering eunuchs such as Wang Zhen and Xi Ning have made the Ming Dynasty angry and resentful, but with Zhu Qizhen supporting them behind the scenes, it is useless no matter how angry the others are, they can only dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

(End of this chapter)