Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 231 Liudu officials' resistance to national capital
The Forbidden City in Nanjing is the imperial palace in the early Ming Dynasty. Its scale is larger than that of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The city has taken on a new look, and the problem of water accumulation in the palace caused by the subsidence of the foundation has been solved, and the drainage system has been improved.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to live here for a long time, and he didn't care whether the palace, which is closer to the outer city, would be flooded again during the long rainy season, but when he saw the half-acre vegetable border outside the palace, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help wondering whether Zhu Yuanzhang really planted his own one-acre three-point land in this solemn mansion in this solemn mansion while wearing a dragon robe and holding a hoe when he was in charge of Yingtian Mansion.

"Lingxin, do you know how to farm?" Zhu Youxiao stretched out his arms and asked while letting Lingxin wear the crown suit for himself.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I was sold to the Confucian Mansion when I was three years old, and I don't know how to farm land." After Lingxin said this, Zhu Youxiao said: "I will let the servant find a hoe later, and I will ask you to plant the newly promoted sweet potatoes , when we return to Beijing, we can return to Beijing with roasted sweet potatoes."

As Zhu Youxiao spoke, he saw that Wang Chengen had already arrived. After nodding his head, he sat on the dragon chariot and came to the main hall amidst the sound of heavy ancient music.

The ministers of various ministries and institutes in Nanjing, officials of various prison temples, and officials of Yingtian Mansion were all listed in the hall at this time. There have been no early court rules for hundreds of years, so many ministers have not arrived yet, and even those who have arrived are still yawning.

This made the censor who was acting as the censor who was named before his departure very speechless. If it was in the capital, this year's Beijing inspection, I am afraid that [-]% of the officials in the capital will be dismissed and demoted.

The governor of Yingtian, Wang Wenkui, came to the hall early, and when he was greeting a few colleagues, he heard the words "Your Majesty is here".

Wang Wenkui hurriedly greeted with other officials, and Zhu Youxiao, who was already sitting on the golden throne at this time, shouted after shouting, "Governor Wang Wenkui of Yingtian."

When Wang Wenkui came out, he didn't dare to look up to see Zhu Youxiao. He just glanced sideways and felt that the emperor in front of him was a bit young.

Zhu Youxiao was also looking at Wang Wenkui, the governor of Yingtian, and saw that he was panting like silk, and his figure was thin. Although he had some extraordinary bearing, he was short of breath and very weak. He should be a person with excessive sensuality.However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about these things. It is a common phenomenon that most of the scholar-bureaucrats are obsessed with martial arts, and they are emotional and sensual.

"You are Wang Wenkui, the governor of Yingtian. Let me ask you, why is there so many squatters and poor people in Liudu, a place of wealth and honor in the two capitals? There are even gangsters who dare to kidnap children in public, and even gather hundreds of people to fight? "Zhu Youxiao asked Xiang Yingtian Governor Wang Wenkui.

Wang Wenkui couldn't help feeling secretly surprised, thinking that Chen Mingxia was really right yesterday, after Dongchang appeared in the shanty town, His Majesty knew the news so quickly, but listening to His Majesty's words, it seems that it is not only about the shanty town, but also questioning himself why Let Nanjing City become so chaotic.

Wang Wenkui secretly rejoiced that if it hadn't been for Dong Qichang's reminder, he might really not know how to deal with it at this time. He thought that he could get away with it by tidying up in a place where His Majesty can see a few days ago. After all, even if His Majesty came to Nanjing, he would only He stayed in Miyagi, but he ignored Dongchang.

Fortunately, under Dong Qichang's reminder, Wang Wenkui also made preparations, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, in recent years, more and more landless refugees have flooded into Nanjing City, and Nanjing City is the same. Like other towns in the south of the Yangtze River, silk weaving is very developed, so these people can rely on weaving workshops for a living;
But now, with the emergence of the Royal Weaving Bureau, the price of silk weaving has been suppressed, the order of the weaving business has been disrupted, and a large number of weaving workshops have collapsed. They can gather in the city, but they have no work to do and no land to grow, so they have to live in sheds. It is inevitable that those who cannot live will become bandits. For the sake of the country, I dared to ask His Majesty to ban the Royal Weaving Bureau, so as to benefit the people! "

Wang Wenkui spoke sharply and logically, and he knelt down and touched his head to the ground as soon as he spoke, so that Zhu Youxiao didn't know how to speak for a while.

Zhu Youxiao admitted that a company like the Royal Weaving Bureau, which represents advanced productivity, would break the old economic order. With the reduction of production costs, the price of weaving cloth will definitely decrease, which will lead to the reduction of profit margins of other traditional weaving workshops, and eventually Being eliminated, many employees in weaving workshops were laid off.

But Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Wang Wenkui would directly ask him to ban the Royal Weaving Bureau, instead of suggesting to improve the productivity level of other weaving workshops and the technical level of the employees.

"Do you think so too?" Zhu Youxiao asked other ministers at this time.

At this time, Lu Bingde, the censor of Zuoqian capital in Nanjing, also stood up and echoed: "Your Majesty, the weaving workshops are now squeezed by the Royal Weaving Bureau and there is no way to continue to open. Many weaving workshops have to dismiss a large number of employees in order to survive. Not only in Nanjing, but also in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and these unemployed workers have now reached hundreds of thousands. If this continues, it will definitely spark civil uprisings. "

Seeing this, other officials also stood up and proposed to ban the Royal Weaving Bureau, and tried their best to persuade Zhu Youxiao to benefit the people. In their view, the emergence of the Royal Weaving Bureau is indeed a disaster for the country and the people. Rising crime rates and housing prices, as well as a growing number of poor people are also related to this.

Not only that, but a man named Qian Rong even bluntly said that not only the Royal Weaving Bureau made it impossible for the people in Jiangnan to survive, but even the monopoly of the Royal Industrial Company also made it impossible for many people in Jiangnan to survive, because the Royal Industrial Company Exquisite glass squeezed the porcelain manufacturing market, causing many porcelain workshop employees to lose their jobs.

"According to what you said, what should be done? Is it impossible to stop glass manufacturing?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking.

Qian Rong suggested: "Your Majesty, you don't have to. You can let the Royal Industrial Company give the secret recipe of glass manufacturing to the porcelain merchants. The porcelain merchants may be able to regenerate and even benefit from this, and the number of people who can live for this can also increase. .”

"Qian Rong, let me ask you. Porcelain requires pottery clay, stacking clay, drawing blanks, printing blanks, repairing blanks, watering, and painting blanks. What's the next step?" Zhu Youxiao asked casually, and Qian Rong thought about it. Without thinking about it, he replied: "Return to Your Majesty, it's glaze."

"Your family burns porcelain, right?" Zhu Youxiao just asked, Qian Rong was at a loss for words, but seeing His Majesty looking at him coldly, he had to grit his teeth and reply: "I don't do business, it's my uncle who burns porcelain. So know."

Seeing that Qian Rong was able to answer truthfully, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to do anything to him, but announced his resignation with a dark snort.

(End of this chapter)