Ming Dynasty: Domination of the World from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 17 Jin Yiwei is on duty!
The corridors in the Imperial Ancestral Temple were all hung with white lights. Apart from the soldiers guarding the surroundings, there was no other people around, making the place seem very empty and desolate.

The atmosphere doesn't seem gloomy.

Outside the hall where the spirit tablets are placed, there are two majestic stone dragons, looking down at the visitors majestically, as if reminding them that this is the resting place of the eternally asleep.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the hall with ease.

There were rows of white lanterns hanging in the hall, as well as spirit tablets placed one after another, and he could call out the name of each one.

Zhu Yuanzhang just stood in the hall, his eyes scanning the spirit tablets one by one.

His thoughts seemed to be pulled back to a long time ago, when he was still very young and his family was extremely poor. He had no food to eat and no clothes to wear.

There was not even a straw mat to bury my parents.

The brothers around him starved to death one after another. At that time, they would do anything to get a bite to eat.

Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about this.

I don't know how long it had passed, Zhu Yuanzhang's voice sounded faintly in the hall, with a bit of relief, a bit of happiness, and a bit of confusion, but his eyes finally fell on a spirit tablet in the front.

"Sister."

"Our boss is getting more and more successful. He thinks more and sees farther than we do. He even dares to go against us. He must have learned this from you."

“We never taught him that.”

"Haha."

"But we're not mad at him."

"It's a good thing that he has his own ideas, but what we fear most is that our descendants will forget their roots."

"We have suffered hardships and have fought our way out of troubled times. We know how miserable the world is and how important food is."

"Don't we know that we are too strict and too strict on agricultural production? We want to be like this, but we can't do anything about it. We know very well what kind of officials we have."

"We are keeping an eye on them every day, but they dare to pretend to obey and disobey, deceiving their superiors and hiding the truth from their subordinates. If we focus on other things, the tragedy we experienced in the past will probably happen again."

"Can we do this?"

"It's so hard to live. It's so hard to have a stutter. So many people couldn't survive in the past."

"If we don't pay attention to farming, the corrupt officials in the world will be able to squeeze all the food out of the people."

"We stole our kingdom from the Mongols. What kind of people are the Mongols? They are a group of people who only know how to enjoy themselves and collect taxes. It was these people who increased taxes time and time again, which forced our parents and our brothers to death."

"Will they care about the lives of people like us at the bottom?"

"Under the destruction of these barbarians, so many fields have been abandoned, and so many people have starved to death. No one is farming, no one is reclaiming wasteland, so where is the food in the world?"

"It is true that I came from a poor peasant family. Many people in the court privately said that because of my family background, I was jealous of Confucian scholars and resentful of officials."

"But we are the emperor now, why should we hate them?"

"But I never paid attention to it, I don't care, and I don't care about face."

"Why should we save face? As long as the people live well and have enough food to eat, we can be shameless. But we are afraid that this world will become a castle in the air and a pile of bones in a tomb because of people's greed..."

"So we must lay a good foundation for Biaoer."

"We have to ensure that when we hand the world over to Biao'er, no one will starve to death in the world. We must keep a close watch on Biao'er and take good care of the farming."

“Agriculture is the foundation of a country. A solid foundation will bring peace to the country.”

"Only when agriculture is well managed can Biaoer be free from worries and do what he wants to do. Only when the people can survive can our Ming Dynasty last forever."

"Sit tight."

"We value agriculture, not for anything else, but to lay a foundation for our Ming Dynasty to last for thousands of years. As long as the foundation of agriculture is not destroyed, our Ming Dynasty will always stand tall in the world."

"This is what we are really doing!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head, and his old, wrinkled face, which was originally filled with various complex emotions such as bitterness, self-blame, and bitterness, has now turned into one expression.

arrogant!

Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of the Imperial Ancestral Temple with his hands behind his back, saying as he walked: "We would rather others stay where they are, or even regress, than we make agriculture the basis of all officials in the world."

"Since I have become the emperor, I will never allow such a day to happen again."

"And we have expressed our stance a long time ago."

"The Ming Dynasty is not only our private property, but also the property of the entire Zhu family."

"This is our Zhu family's world!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's chaotic mood completely calmed down. He was not wrong, but Zhu Biao still didn't understand his actions, so he would not explain.

He believed.

One day, Zhu Biao will understand.

Walking out of the Taimiao, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. He remembered Zhu Biao's aggrieved and frightened look in the hall, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Hey."

"The boss was also thinking about us and the Ming Dynasty. Why did we lose our temper at that time?"

"Besides, the boss didn't say anything wrong. We asked him to express his thoughts. Why should we get angry with him? Can't we just preach calmly?"

"This brat has the same stubborn temper as me, but it's good to have his own persistence and stubbornness."

Zhu Yuanzhang muttered a few times under his breath. He was not really angry with Zhu Biao. Instead, he turned all his anger towards Xia Zhibai.

It’s all this guy’s fault!

I was scolded by someone and felt unhappy, so the boss also suffered an unexpected disaster.

Zhu Yuanzhang had a gloomy face. He looked at Mao Xiang who was waiting not far away and said murderously, "Take the Jinyiwei people with you and go and capture Xia Zhibai who is participating in this imperial examination."

"I'll only give you one day. Within one day, I want to see this person standing in front of me."

"We don't care whether he has already escaped, committed suicide out of fear of punishment, or anything else, we only ask for one thing."

"You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you're dead!"

Done.

Zhu Yuanzhang left in anger.

Mao Xiang accepted the order with his hands clasped, but he was confused. Xia Zhibai? Who was this person? An imperial examination candidate? Could this anger His Majesty?

Although he was puzzled, he did not dare to delay any longer. He had heard that this man might have committed a serious crime, or at least angered His Majesty. He might even have fled or committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

If he really ran away or committed suicide, the search would be very difficult. Mao Xiang did not dare to be careless and immediately gave orders to prepare to search the whole city for Xia Zhibai.

Less than half an hour.

Mao Xiang received the news that Xia Zhibai had been found in a guest house on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

Hearing this news, Mao Xiang was stunned. This was unexpected. This man didn't run away? Then he snorted coldly. He had committed a crime, but he dared to be so arrogant. He didn't take him, the Jinyiwei, seriously.

Without any delay, Mao Xiang led a large group of people straight to the guesthouse where Xia Zhibai was staying.

Qinhuai River.

At this moment, he was so scared that he was in a panic.

Because the Jinyiwei has been dispatched!

(End of this chapter)