Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 78 Zhu Biao is exhausted both physically and mentally

Hongwu four years.

After the beginning of spring, Zhu Biao felt exhausted from the continuous reports of disasters coming from various places.

Rather than the disaster, what bothered him more was official corruption.

Taking the Fengyang riot as the trigger, after investigation, Zhu Biao found that the corruption of Ming officials was much more serious than he imagined.

Zhu Biao, who had just dealt with a group of corrupt officials and was on his way back to Beijing, suddenly opened the curtain of the carriage and said, "Change the route to Yangzhou!"

"Yes, Your Highness."

drive!
Yangzhou City.

A luxurious carriage drove slowly toward the government office along the Yangzhou Central Avenue paved with asphalt.

Sitting in the carriage was the exhausted Prince Zhu Biao, who was closing his eyes to rest.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

At this moment, a melodious sound of chimes attracted Zhu Biao's attention.

Zhu Biao opened his eyes, where did the bells come from?
He opened the carriage curtain and saw a large group of children running out of a building in front that he had never seen before.

Zhu Biao quickly called his men to check the situation.

"Your Highness, I heard from the people around me that that tall building is the national primary school in Yangzhou City." The subordinate came back soon.

"primary school?"

"According to them, it is what we call a private school. According to them, it was founded by Master Yang himself, and he is mainly responsible for the management and teaching. Those who come to this national primary school are all children from Yangzhou City. ." There is no need to doubt the ability of a person who can accompany the prince. He has already asked all the questions clearly in advance.

After not seeing each other for a few months, Yang Qing came up with something novel again.

Zhu Biao nodded.

If it were him, he might actually be able to find a solution.

He looked forward more and more to Yang Xian's ability to solve the doubts in his heart.

At this moment, Zhu Biao happened to see Yang Xian walking out of the elementary school, and quickly asked someone to invite him over.

Things are so coincidental.

"Your Highness, why are you here in Yangzhou?" Yang Xian looked at Zhu Biao on the carriage and asked in confusion.

Although these days, he has been busy with his own affairs and building modern Yangzhou step by step.

But he has also heard about the disasters across the country. Logically speaking, Zhu Biao, who is involved in political management at this time, should be very busy.If I came to Yangzhou to communicate about the wool processing and garment making department, there is not much time at this time. After the spring, the weather gets warmer, and the matter of the garment making department becomes less urgent.

It’s still early until next winter, and all that is needed now is to prepare wool and other raw materials in an orderly manner.

"Get in the car and talk." Zhu Biao said.

"Thank you, Prince." Yang Xian nodded and got on the carriage.

What an honor it is to ride with the prince.

Zhu Biao's chamberlain looked at Yang Xian and his expression immediately changed.

And what surprised him the most was that neither Zhu Biao nor Yang Xian thought this was something special.

The carriage door and the curtain were closed at the same time.

The chamberlain who was driving jumped out of the car and led the horse instead.

Inside the carriage.Zhu Biao began to complain to Yang Xian, and he found that only when he was with Yang Xian could he be so unscrupulous and speak freely.

These days, I started taking over the Fengyang riot case.

Zhu Biao personally investigated and dealt with five corruption cases.

In the most serious case, hundreds of people lost their heads.

The more he checked, the more frightened he became.

Zhu Biao knew in his heart that the people he had found were just the tip of the iceberg. There were countless corrupt officials hidden in the entire Ming Dynasty, in the dark places that he could not see.

Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials deeply.

Among the emperors of all dynasties, he considered himself second in this matter, and no one dared to say that he was first.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to have his family destroyed by corrupt officials in the Yuan Dynasty, he wanted to eat their flesh, drink their blood, twitch their muscles, crush their bones and raise ashes to these corrupt officials.

Coupled with the riots in Fengyang, his hometown, it pushed Zhu Yuanzhang's emotions to the extreme.

Zhu Biao also hated corruption and believed that these corrupt officials should be killed.

But in his opinion, sometimes Zhu Yuanzhang's actions still go too far, and Zhu Biao's methods of implicating others are still too harsh.

These days, he is physically and mentally exhausted.

I don’t know if killing people like this can really stop this trend of corruption.

After listening to Zhu Biao's words, Yang Xian was silent for a moment and suddenly said: "I wonder, Your Highness, the Crown Prince, have you ever tried to put yourself in the perspective of those corrupt officials and think about why they are corrupt?"

"Putting yourself into the perspective of a corrupt official?" Zhu Biao looked at Yang Xian doubtfully. As expected, the other party would bring him new surprises every time.

"These officials, the group of people who conquered the world with the emperor, needless to say, they can almost be said to have risked their lives to reach their current status. Take ordinary scholars, it is also ten years of hard work. After studying hard, I got an official position. First of all, they will think that they have paid a lot, and secondly, the work done by officials in the Ming Dynasty is too much and too tiring."

"Take the officials in the capital of Yingtian Mansion as an example. It's just dawn and most of the people are still sleeping. But for the officials in the capital, it's the beginning of another morning."

The Ming Dynasty, especially the early dynasty during the Hongwu period, was not as easy to film as in later TV series.

After getting up early, he would ask the maids to bathe and change clothes, have a full breakfast, then sit in a sedan chair and arrive at the palace gate. In the morning, he would go to the palace, play with his colleagues and blow some water, and then go to the morning court.

When Boss Zhu was the emperor, people often said that it was not the court but the destiny that served him.

According to the "Da Ming Huidian" records, in the early morning of the Ming Dynasty, at 3 o'clock in the morning, the ministers would arrive and wait outside the Meridian Gate.

The capital is so big, but not everyone has the strength to live within the second ring.

Officials who live a little further away have to get up at midnight, wash up, and get ready to go.

And how to go to the morning court, our Lao Zhu also has regulations. Without special circumstances, only walking is allowed, and horses and sedans are not allowed, unless granted by the emperor.

If there is extreme weather, it will be over and the time to get up will have to be earlier.

The imperial court also knew that morning court was too early, at midnight, and there were no street lights in ancient times like in modern times. In addition, the streets in ancient times were not as smooth as they are now, so it was common for someone to step on a pothole accidentally and get a bloody head.

Therefore, the imperial court directly arranged people to wait for the officials who came to court with lanterns at a fixed time and place to guide them.

These people are also called lamplighters.

Every time the officials saw these lamplighters, they would swarm in, fearing that they would miss the time.If you are late, you will have to wait for the next lighting person. If you miss the time to go to the morning, it will be over.

Therefore, Zhu Laoer did a good thing by building asphalt roads in the capital. All the officials in the capital should thank him.

(End of this chapter)