First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Biao was still in a daze at the Wenhua Palace at this time, and the current situation was a bit complicated. Liu Jin knocked on the door and walked in with a plate of snacks.

Liu Jin put the snacks aside and bowed and said, The servant girl went out for a walk and found a lot of interesting things.

Zhu Biao came back to his senses, picked up a piece of snack casually and signaled Liu Jin to continue, and Liu Jin began to talk with dancing.

There is no way, Zhu Biao's status is destined to make it difficult for him to go out for a walk every day, and it is not easy for him to use the people who are close to the military captain's mansion, so he can only let Liu Jin go out for a while.

Zhu Biao couldn't help being happy when he heard that a businessman was preparing to catch his son-in-law under the list. This custom flourished in the Song Dynasty, but it has become much lonely now, or it is simply grabbing the son-in-law under the list.

Now that the military is strong and the culture is weak, the nobles in the capital also look down on these newly promoted scholars. After all, they are only sesame officials who have passed the palace examination. There are sons of their own old brothers.

That is to say, rich businessmen who have no confidence will move this idea. After Zhu Biao is finished, he will think about it. Rich businessmen now have strong political demands, because although they can take part in the imperial examination, their social status will still remain as long as they fail the exam. is the lowest.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that merchants were not allowed to wear silk and yarn—Order silk, yarn, gauze, and cloth for peasant clothes, and merchants should stop wearing silk and cloth. If one of the peasants is a merchant, he is not allowed to wear silk or yarn. The farmer does not do farming, but concentrates on being a writer, so he is classified as a vagrant. The government arrests all vagrants. Merchants themselves are still restricted from entering official positions, and there is a gap between them and scholar-bureaucrats.

For businessmen, money loses its meaning when it reaches a certain amount. They are like children carrying money in the downtown area. Not to mention those big officials in the frontier, even the officials in the state capital can bite them hard.

Therefore, it is normal for merchants in the early Ming Dynasty to seek to improve their social status. After all, there are restrictions everywhere in their lives, and this gentry is also ashamed to associate with merchants, and anyone who clings to them will be killed.

Zhu Biao is not prepared to intervene too much now. The Ming Dynasty is waiting to be prosperous, and the business is the same. Zhu Yuanzhang’s policies for them are very good. Now the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is agriculture. If too many people can’t even eat, then the business How can it prosper?

But this must also be put into the plan. Zhu Biao found his own notebook and wrote it down. If Ming wants to truly prosper, he must develop maritime trade and supply China with resources from other continents.

With the increase of the population and the coming of the Little Ice Age, it is impossible to rely solely on farming. After all, the ability of farming civilization to resist natural disasters is too poor. here we go.

It is unreliable to rely on the sky to eat. God will not care whether you will starve to death, but how to limit the commercial power is also a big problem. Fortunately, China has always been more powerful than rich, which allows Zhu Biao to operate room.

In the next few days, Zhu Biao stayed in the East Palace honestly, and news from the capital was gradually received from all over the Ming Dynasty. The entire scholarly community was in a state of excitement, and letters were exchanged frequently. Zhu Biao looked at it and wanted to set up a postal department. up.

After a few more days, letters from all over the world were concentrated and sent to two places, one was the capital and the other was Shandong. These two places had become a whirlpool, attracting the attention of all scholars in the world.

Yanshenggong's mansion has been noisy for many days, and the owners of the houses gather together to discuss it every day. Yanshenggong Kong Xixue also has a headache. He has been to the capital, so he naturally knows that the current emperor looks down on them.

Before his death, his father had specially instructed him not to go to the capital again unless it was absolutely necessary. Kong Xixue never thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would be so aggressive. His father had just died not long ago, and now he was being forced to go to Beijing again.

Now Kong Xixue is being roasted on the fire. Everyone in the world is waiting for him to come forward, and all the tribes are also persuading him to go to Beijing as soon as possible, as if he can solve all problems by coming forward.

In the Wencheng Hall of the Confucian Mansion, Kong Xixue sat on the top, and his uncles, brothers and eldest son sat below. One of the old men said: This matter is very wrong. This old man has received more than fifty letters from the south of the Yangtze River. Now, I want the old man to persuade the Patriarch to go to Beijing.

The other, who was younger, said: There is no need to think about it, this is the current emperor who wants to suppress my Yanshenggong Mansion, it is really deceiving!

Kong Xixue's younger brother, Kong Xiwen, played with the bracelet and said: The current emperor is extremely righteous in the world, and there is no need for me, the Kong family, to justify his name. Naturally, he will not be polite to us.

Gong Na, the eldest son of Yan Shenggong, said at the side, Since we know it's a Hongmen banquet, it's fine for my father not to go, so what can the emperor do?

Kong Xixue sighed and said: Now the emperor is still reasoning with us. If we don't go, what will the emperor do? The emperor is not very reasonable today.

The old man also frowned. The strength of the Confucian Mansion is more about fame. Of course, if it is urgent, tens of thousands of well-trained young adults can be gathered. They are all loyal to the Confucian Mansion. Now they are farming for the Confucian Mansion , This is the bottom line accumulated for thousands of years.

But this is only to ensure that the Kong family can protect themselves in troubled times, not to fight against the imperial court or fight for hegemony. The nature of the Kong family determines that they must never ascend to the throne.

After discussing for a long time, Yan Shenggong sighed and said: Go, if you don't go, there will be big troubles, and the reputation of my Confucian Mansion will also suffer a huge blow. If you can't even keep Mencius, the sub-sage, it will be called Tianwen Wen. What do people think?

The rest of the people should look at their patriarch with complicated eyes. The emperor forced them to go to the capital, obviously to tease them severely. Now it is undoubtedly a sheep in the mouth of a tiger. If they are forced to agree to something...

Yan Shenggong stood up and bowed to Confucius behind him and said: As Yan Shenggong, I naturally put the most emphasis on multiplying the saints and seedlings. It is my responsibility to protect the Confucius family. If I can't do anything, I will die of illness in the capital. .”

The rest of the people stood up and bowed respectfully to his back, and then walked out, leaving only Yan Shenggong and his eldest son Kong Na inside, and the corner of Kong Xiwen who was the last to leave raised his mouth.

The next day, the Confucian government announced that Lord Yansheng would leave for the capital immediately, and the news made the scholars boil again. The name of Lord Yansheng’s understanding of righteousness spread all over the country, and scholars from all over the world began to use their This form promotes the reputation of the Confucian family.

Mao Xiang, who was in the south of the Yangtze River, also breathed a sigh of relief, and set off to rush back to the capital. The chess game has been set up, and the players are already in place. It depends on who can be more skilled.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Biao also breathed a sigh of relief. If the Kong family was determined to be a coward, no one would be able to do anything about it. After all, the saint Miao descendants respected by the dynasties of all dynasties could not directly slaughter Yan Shenggong's mansion with an army.

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