Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 350 Ma Xiuying: Do you want to be like Zhu Han?
"350 miles of railways are laid every year, which is indeed a little less."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little dissatisfied with the speed of the laying of the railway tracks. It was only 350 miles a year. Could he still see the emergence of this main railway artery running from east to west?

How can we speed up the speed of laying railways?

After thinking about it, he finally found out that it was population. With enough population, he could achieve his goal.

expansion!

In Europe today, there are close to a million prisoners of war. Zhu Yuanzhang wants to drag those people to the northern grasslands and ask them to help lay the railway.

Ma Xiuying could see Zhu Yuanzhang's eagerness. She also understood the importance of the main railway artery to Daming, but she also knew that this kind of thing should not be rushed. Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang who was in a very urgent mood, Ma Xiuying comforted: "Don't be too impatient. We can only lay 350 miles of railways a year, because our raw materials are insufficient, and the proficiency of workers has not reached the standard. If they become proficient in the future, maybe we can deploy more people to lay more railways.”

Ma Xiuying's comfort made Zhu Yuanzhang feel a little better, but he still said: "To build factories, we need to build more steelmaking plants, and mobilize all active manpower! Qiwu is not willing to use local ore ... Now we can't care about so much, the big deal is to fill in the hollowed out mine when we have a chance in the future!"

Zhu Han is not very willing to use domestic resources, thinking that they have occupied overseas land, and plundering resources is a key part of it. Zhu Yuanzhang is also impatient, so of course he does not want to procrastinate. He decided to mine domestic minerals first, and the big deal will happen later. Then pull the ore from overseas and bury it underground.

If Zhu Han knew Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, he would definitely give him a thumbs up. No one would think so.

Liaodong is developing very well, and a heavy industrial zone has been formed. No matter how anxious Zhu Yuanzhang is, he still has to adapt to the actual situation. Development? Are you going to be the emperor outside? No, let’s write him a letter and scold him.”

"..."

Ma Xiuying: Lan Yu still doesn't know what a train is, does she?

But now Zhu Yuanzhang obviously doesn't think about these things, he just wants to vent his emotions, and doesn't think about other things at all.

As for scolding Sapphire...you can scold him if you want.

Beating children on rainy days is also idle, and Lan Yu is also a cheap person, and he will not feel at ease if he is not scolded.

After writing the letter scolding Lan Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang told Ma Xiuying the [-] miles sent from Yingtian urgently: "Let's let Biaoer supervise the country, and seven or five assistants, these two people are in the court, just let them go. , basically do not intervene in the government affairs of the court."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied. He felt that Zhu Biao, as the prince and future emperor, should be diligent in his administration instead of handing over all government affairs to ministers.

No matter how capable the minister is, he and the royal family are not of one mind after all, how can Zhu Biao and Zhu Han entrust the affairs of the court to the officials?Even if it is handed over to them, Zhu Biao has to understand it.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang talk about family affairs, then...Ma Xiuying can no longer pretend that she doesn't hear. She doesn't participate in the affairs of the court, but Zhu Yuanzhang often whispers in her ear, and Ma Xiuying still understands the affairs of the court.

"What are you complaining about? I told you seven or five years ago that the government affairs of the court should be handled separately. It is you who insist on monopolizing the power."

First, Zhu Yuanzhang complained, and then said: "Qiwu did this to take care of Biaoer. Now Biaoer is still young and it is time to grow up. If he handles government affairs like you, his body will be tired. Broken."

Zhu Yuanzhang forcefully argued: "Then seven or five won't..."

Originally, he wanted to say that the Seventh Five-Year Plan should help with more government affairs, but he couldn't continue talking halfway through.

As far as Zhu Han's personality is concerned, it is already a remarkable thing that he can stay in Yingtian and help Zhu Biao now, and to expect him to do more work...that is simply fantastic.

Ma Xiuying said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "You are the emperor, and Biaoer is the prince. You can do whatever you want, but you can't ask Biaoer to be like you."

Everyone has their own way of being an emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang cannot force Zhu Biao to do exactly the same as him.

Seeing Ma Xiuying's attitude, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to say something to defend his point of view, but he had to shut up.

In terms of reasoning, Zhu Yuanzhang is no match for Ma Xiuying.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Forget it, we don't care what Qiwu and Biaoer do, but if we know that they are not doing well, we can't just watch them mess around!"

To put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang is still unwilling to believe that Zhu Han can do this to anyone other than the 'old Zhu family', but once he finds out that doing so is not good for Daming, he will immediately stop Zhu Han from doing so.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want any turmoil in the Ming Dynasty that had been built up so hard.

But Ma Xiuying said: "With Qiwu here, it will only get better and better. Besides... Although Qiwu has faded out of court these years, who can forget Qiwu's methods?"

Governing the army with an iron fist, Zhu Han created the Ming army that swept the world in his own way.

Strictly governing officials, now Zhu Yuanzhang's government orders for hundreds of officials are basically revised on the basis of Zhu Han's proposal.

Anyone who underestimated Zhu Han would only make himself look bad in the end.

After being told by Ma Xiuying, Zhu Yuanzhang had no way to refute it anymore. Now Yingtian's court situation is different from what he imagined, which made Zhu Yuanzhang a little manic: "Okay, okay, let's leave it alone, okay? It's hard. Come out for a while, let's not care about the dirty things in the court, tomorrow we will go shopping and play! We will play as we play outside on Qiwu."

"..."

Ma Xiuying's complexion became a little ugly, she looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "When Qiwu goes out to play, he will find a few foreign women. Your Majesty also wants to find them?"

Even if you, Zhu Yuanzhang, play in private, Ma Xiuying can also turn a blind eye, but now you are actually in front of me, saying that you are going to find a foreign woman?

Do you think I, Ma Xiuying, have no temper at all?
"..."

Zhu Yuanzhang felt numb immediately, and hurriedly explained: "We, we didn't mean that, we, we wanted to take you shopping together, girl, don't you like shopping? We, we didn't want to find foreign women, really No!"

"Humph."

Ma Xiuying snorted coldly, gave Zhu Yuanzhang a supercilious look, then turned and left.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang regrets it a bit.

If you come out to inspect the world by yourself, you just come out. It seems that there are many things that you can't do with Ma Xiuying.

"It's our own fault too... You're so good, why do you want to speak out in front of the girl?"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying went out for inspections. Although they would focus on inspections of the world, they would still go shopping in their spare time.

Because of Zhu Yuanzhang's unscrupulous words yesterday, Ma Xiuying didn't give Zhu Yuanzhang a good look at first, but soon the joy of shopping made Ma Xiuying smile on her face, and the unhappiness that happened last night quickly disappeared.

Ma Xiuying enjoyed the fun of shopping. Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have to carry the bag himself, this kind of aimless shopping really made Zhu Yuanzhang's iron feet feel a little painful.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Why should I take Ma Xiuying with me?

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Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying came to go shopping. Although they could enjoy the fun of shopping, the things they bought were not for them, but to visit the orphans in the orphanage.

Because of years of wars, there are many orphans who have lost their parents due to wars all over the country. Among them, there are men and women. When Zhu Han learned of this situation, he immediately went to discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang. He established orphanages in provinces. , adopting orphans who lost their parents due to war, imparting knowledge to both men and women...

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang objected to women's reading at first, but when Zhu Han was talking about the matter, Ma Xiuying was also at the dinner table. After she heard Zhu Yuanzhang's objection, her face became ugly. Harmony, so I immediately changed my mind and waved my hand: read!All read!The people of Ming Dynasty, regardless of gender, should study, and Ma Xiuying was satisfied.

Including Zhu Han, Ma Xiuying and Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as his relatives, adopted sons, including Xungui, all contributed a lot to these orphanages. Anyway, it is useless to keep the money, it is like a pile of Instead of metal, it is better to use it to support children.

It is worth mentioning that the orphanages in these provinces all have a common name: Daming Royal Welfare Institute, and Zhu Yuanzhang is the honorary director of all orphanages.

In other words, the children living in the orphanage are all Zhu Yuanzhang's "children".

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang is willing to spend money. The idea of ​​adopting orphans is the same as adopting adopted sons at the beginning, let them use himself as a bond and unite with him, but now there are so many orphanages, and the children in them are both civil and military. Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't expect everyone to become a talent. If they can pass the grades at the grassroots level, the initial investment is not a loss.

This time when he came to Liaodong, Zhu Yuanzhang was going to visit the orphanage. After all, he was the honorary director, so he had to go and see his "children" no matter what happened, right?

Ma Xiuying also liked children very much, so she was happier than Zhu Yuanzhang. After arriving at the orphanage, Zhu Yuanzhang went to see these children in class, while Ma Xiuying went to the kitchen with the women hired by the orphanage to cook for the children.

Cooking is about the combination of meat and vegetables, which must be nutritious. Ma Xiuying stewed a pot of hot braised pork, fried a vegetable dish, and then boiled a pot of fish soup. The children mingled together.

When eating, Ma Xiuying and Ma Xiuying ate together around the children in the orphanage. Zhu Yuanzhang kept adding meat to the children's bowls, for fear that the children would not be full.

Gu Tongzhi next to him saw Zhu Yuanzhang's actions. Although he could understand that Zhu Yuanzhang was taking care of the children, but...Zhu Yuanzhang's actions made Gu Tongzhi very uncomfortable.

If you give the meat in the bowl to the children, isn't that clearly saying that I squeeze the children for food?

Gu Tongzhi whispered next to him: "Your Majesty, Empress, we can eat the food in our bowls by ourselves. Children can't eat so much meat. They must pay attention to balanced nutrition."

Hearing Gu Tongzhi's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened: "What is balanced nutrition? Children can only grow strong if they eat more meat. Why are you reluctant to part with these two pieces of meat?"

"Your Majesty, that's not the case. I set up a welfare home in Ming Dynasty to take care of children all over the world. This is a great thing. How can I treat children badly?"

Gu Tongzhi explained to Zhu Yuanzhang, "We should eat meat as well as vegetables, so that our health will be better. Sooner or later, these children will have chickens (eggs) to eat, and they will also have meals at night. Today we eat meat and rice. Tomorrow we might switch to chicken nuggets and brown rice and make sure the kids are healthy."

In order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's misunderstanding, Gu Tongzhi explained a lot. After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was not as angry as he was just now, and nodded and said: "You are a bit interesting to know the state. You are the first one who dare not let us feed the children. of."

This was Zhu Yuanzhang's compliment. While Gu Tongzhi was happy, he still said humbly: "The minister is just doing his due duty."

It's not credit, it's duty.

Just such a sentence made Zhu Yuanzhang remember Gu Tongzhi.

When arranging candidates for the prefect of Liaodong, Zhu Han did think about it. As a land outside the customs, Liaodong is rich in resources, and it is also a very suitable "experimental field" in Zhu Han's mind. Therefore, the officials in charge of Liaodong need to have a certain vision. It is even more necessary to understand the new policies of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, Gu Tongzhi served as the secretary by Zhu Han's side. In addition, he had a bachelor's degree from the former Yuan Jinshi, so Zhu Han arranged him in the After arriving in Liaodong, Zhu Han was not at ease at first, but Gu Tongzhi did a great job, and Zhu Han gradually let go of what he had been worrying about.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying liked to stay with the children very much, and they didn't leave until evening. Sitting in the carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang happily held Ma Xiuying's hand and said, "Sister, our Daming income is indeed very high, which is higher than that of previous dynasties. Both are high, haha...Our Ming Dynasty was only established for nine years, but it has created a great cause far surpassing Qin Huang, Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu! However, our expenses are also high, let’s talk about these children, to train them How long does it take to become a talent?"

Ma Xiuying put forward a different idea: "Qiwu likes children so much. The children in the orphanage can't do anything except study, farming and raising livestock. These children should experience it, otherwise how could they Do you know the truth of "every grain is hard work"? Let me say, let the children learn to live, raise chickens, herd cows, mow grass...they should learn to do these things in their spare time."

"Well, what you said can be done."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that what Ma Xiuying said was reasonable, and said to Ma Xiuying: "July [-] loves children too much, but we can't blindly spoil them. We should let them experience a lot. Let's make changes when we go back. The children let them do some labor within their ability to cultivate children. Children's ability to be independent."

The husband and wife talked more and more deeply. At night, Zhu Yuanzhang did not appreciate the foreign beauty from Korea, but rested with Ma Xiuying.

Just reconciled with Ma Xiuying, Zhu Yuanzhang will not touch her bad luck at this time.

(End of this chapter)