Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 735: Must Cure the Disease
The atmosphere in the Huagai Hall was somewhat awkward.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses from his deep thoughts, he saw Crown Prince Zhu Biao stand up, take two steps, and kneel down:

"Your son apologizes to your father on behalf of the teacher!"

"I hope that Dad will take into consideration that my teacher is old and has worked hard for the Ming Dynasty for many years..."

"Alright, alright, get up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand unhappily:
"Since we have followed Biao'er and the Queen's request and not executed him, we will not pursue the matter further now."

Previously, Song Lian's grandson Song Shen was involved in the Hu Weiyong case. According to the law, Song Lian was to be sentenced to death. It was only thanks to the Crown Prince and the Empress's intercession that he was pardoned and exiled to Maozhou instead.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, the sudden news that his wife and son would die before him had already caused a great change in his mentality.

There is really no need to create discord between my wife and children because of an old man who is already over 70 years old.

Furthermore, let's take a step back and say that the History of Yuan Dynasty was written ten years ago. He did not find these mistakes after reading the book casually. Did those famous teachers and scholars who were familiar with the classics not find any problems? I'm afraid that's not entirely true.

From this, it can be seen that the governance of the Ming Dynasty still requires a lot of effort.

Compared with these things, it is not worth mentioning to investigate the life and death of a 70-year-old man due to his negligence ten years ago.

Before today, he thought that the Ming Dynasty was thriving and he was happy about his harmonious family, but now all this is gone like a dream.

There is the Japanese invasion nearby and the rebellion in Annan far away, and even further away there is the worry of Portugal.

Inside the palace, his wife died of illness, and outside the palace, there were rebels.

Faced with these, Emperor Ming couldn't help but feel confused, but the more he felt this way, the calmer he became.

After hearing what his father said, Zhu Biao finally breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, suggesting:

"Since there are omissions, I will revise the History of Yuan Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered over this proposal, and finally shook his head:
"Since our Ming Dynasty finally wiped out the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, there is no rush to rebuild it. Just ask your East Palace scholar to carefully examine it."

"Once the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty are completely wiped out, I think the number of students supported by our Ming Dynasty will be quite a lot. And once the Northern Yuan Dynasty is destroyed, those people, ah, will no longer have anyone to rely on."

"By then, it will still be too late to add to or rebuild it."

"Besides, even if we rebuild it now, using the same glue and paste, what difference will it make?"

Zhu Biao naturally knew very well who those people his father was talking about. He sighed in his heart and felt that there was really no other good way except to wait.

Perhaps only when the small Northern Yuan Dynasty is completely destroyed and those who only obey the emperor's orders but not the Chinese have nowhere to go, will it be the best time to put an end to Yuan Xiu's coffin.

On the other side, Ming Zi began to think about other things:
"The saying 'ploughing the courtyard and sweeping the holes' is really good. We, the Ming Dynasty, should plow the courtyards and sweep out the rat holes of the Yuan Dynasty remnants! We will leave them with nowhere to hide!"

"However, it will take another eight years for our Ming Dynasty to wipe out the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty? Brother Xu Da..."

The emotions contained in Zhu Yuanzhang's call were particularly complex.

Taking the 21st year of Hongwu as the boundary, I am afraid that Xu Da and his brothers had already died by then, otherwise it would be difficult for Lan Yu to take over. Zhu Yuanzhang also knew very well what kind of general Lan Yu was. He was more brave than strategic, less resourceful than martial. He was sharp enough to stand on the battlefield, but his leadership was difficult to show in the military tent. I am afraid that after the capture of Buir Lake, there will be another general who will take over the world.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang knew clearly how determined the Xu Da brothers were to destroy the Yuan Dynasty. After all, the two of them often talked about the regret of Liu Hechuan.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to sign this document, with a term of four years!" Xu Da stood up suddenly.

In the end, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who comforted his brothers:

"There is no need to do this. Canyuan is already in a state of dying. Compared with the safety of my brother, it is nothing to mention."

"If my brother is healthy, then the remaining Yuan will be destroyed."

……

"It is the same as Liao and Jin, both are legitimate."

Zhao Kuangyin already knew the result, but now he had a different idea. Not only was he unable to calm down, he even became a little angry:

"If you hadn't been in trouble at Gaoliang River, how could our Song Dynasty have suffered such humiliation?"

Perhaps future generations will have their own opinions on this, but in the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin, who was determined to restore the Yanyun area and the unification of the Han and Tang dynasties, it was an humiliation to establish the Song Dynasty together with the two Hu states.

But there is absolutely no room for refutation of this humiliation. After all, if you calculate carefully, as later generations said, the two Song dynasties controlled Hebei for less than two years in total. How could they have the qualifications to enjoy the exclusive legitimacy of the Central Plains dynasty?

Zhao Kuangyin's words were quite merciless, and Kong Jiong's head drooped even more.

This immediately made Li Yu and Qian Chu a little curious. It sounded like the Gaoliang River disaster was an urgent matter after the bald brother became emperor?
I have to find out somehow.

[After Tuotuo returned to power, he faced a situation where the Yuan Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

Faced with this situation, Tuotuo planned to completely quell the flood from the root and thereby solve the problem of the Grand Canal.

However, the opposition within the Yuan Dynasty at that time was also extremely fierce, and the opposition was also very reasonable, which can basically be summarized into two points.

The first problem faced was naturally the lack of money. River management itself was an unparalleled large project, and the manpower and material resources required were astronomical. The Yuan Dynasty at that time suffered from the same problem as the Song and Jin Dynasties, that is, the over-issuance of paper money led to the continuous depreciation of paper money. The economic system was already in tatters and was simply unable to bear the cost of river management.

The second problem is naturally the hidden danger of unrest caused by conscription. It would be fine if you gathered hundreds of thousands of laborers to repair the river normally, but if you cannot pay them or provide them with food, and these hundreds of thousands of people start to riot, then wouldn't our Yuan Dynasty be doomed in a matter of minutes?

But Tuotuo was determined: "Some things are difficult to do, just as some diseases are difficult to cure. Since ancient times, river disasters have been difficult to cure. Now I must get rid of this disease."

This is actually a particularly Confucian approach. From ancient times to the present in the history of the Han Dynasty, water conservancy construction has always been the top priority of governance, and controlling the Yellow River is the top priority. From this point of view, Tuotuo is quite knowledgeable about Confucianism. Like traditional Confucian scholars, he regards controlling the Yellow River as an important means to eradicate the malpractices of the government.

To solve the problem of financial crisis, Tuotuo's solution at that time was to change the currency system.

Although the circulation of gold and silver among the people was prohibited in the early Yuan Dynasty, paper money was still based on silver. Tuotuo's change of currency system changed the currency system to copper as the standard, and set paper money as the main currency and copper coins as the subsidiary currency. These circulated together with the old paper money, but the face value of the new currency was twice that of the old currency.

In essence, it was buying money with new money, using new money to scrape old money from the people, but it lost the money source, and easily opened the door to excessive issuance of money. In just two years, prices rose tenfold.

Tuotuo's new law was another shovel of dirt on the Yuan Dynasty's head. 】

(End of this chapter)