First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Biao put away the letter to his father, queen mother, and then wrote it to his princess. The general reply was to praise her for doing a good job, and then he didn't have to be too polite to his wife, he had to hold it The majesty of the princess.

At the end of the writing, Zhu Biao didn’t reply any lovesickness poems to her. Love can’t last long, and love will hurt. Zhu Biao still hopes that he and Chang Luohua can respect each other as guests and support each other through this life, instead of making earth-shattering .

Now that she is a newlywed, Chang Luohua is naturally devoted to Zhu Biao, but in the future, people will come in the East Palace one after another, and those who love too deeply will hate more deeply. It is better to have no love at all I didn't give so much hope at first.

Someone fetched the letter written by Mrs. Zhang, and then ordered the fast horse to send it back to the capital. Liu Jin brought a basin of water to wash Zhu Biao's feet, and then let him rest. Rest days are always rare. Zhu Biao had to go back to camp early in the morning.

In the early morning of the next day, before the sky had brightened, Zhang’s mansion was already brightly lit. Zhu Biao dressed up and went to the front yard. Zhang’s family was waiting there, including the sleepy children, who saluted Zhu Biao. Bring breakfast to Zhu Biao, and then tell Liu Jin with red eyes.

If Mrs. Zhang could be called sister by Zhu Biao, she would be Liu Jin's aunt. Naturally, she agreed with a smile. Of course, Mrs. Zhang was not stupid, and naturally respected Liu Jin, the personal eunuch.

After eating, there was a glimmer of light in the sky, Zhu Biao said a few more words to Mrs. Zhang, then got up and went out, and finally turned to look at Mrs. Zhang's eldest son and said, Teach him well, he will be useful in the future.

The members of the Zhang family hurriedly knelt down and thanked him. With these words, this child will be guaranteed for the rest of his life. As long as he doesn't raise him in a wrong way, he will be able to work next to His Highness the Crown Prince. The future is very bright.

Zhu Biao smiled, untied the dragon-patterned jade pendant around his waist and asked Liu Jin to pass it to Mrs. Zhang: Let's leave a thought for Sister Yu'er, with the love of master and servant back then.

Mrs. Zhang also understood when she heard this, His Royal Highness meant to give everything that should be given, and the Zhang family should respect themselves in the future, and should not rely on his name to do evil. Mrs. Zhang said with red eyes: Your Majesty, I thank you.

Zhu Biao took one look at her, got on his horse and swung his whip and left, followed by the brigade. Fortunately, it was early in the morning, and with the help of guards clearing the road, the brigade left the city smoothly, and the officials of Pingyang Mansion also saw them off at the gate.

Zhu Biao nodded at them and rode his horse past. The officials bowed to see them off. At least a hundred years of wealth and honor have been achieved, just like Jia Mu in A Dream of Red Mansions.

After Zhu led his two thousand riders out of the city, he followed more than a thousand people one after another. This was all arranged by Fei Ju just in case. No matter what happens in Pingyang City, three thousand elite iron armor is enough to protect His Highness the Crown Prince from rushing out. city ​​gate.

Zhu Biao led the army back to the camp. After chatting with Zhu Xi and others who were welcoming him, he arranged for the army to pull out of the camp and march directly to Taiyuan Mansion. It also passed many villages along the way, but Zhu Biao was not in a hurry to move. It is easy to provoke a rebound.

What's more, Zhu Biao didn't bring too many people, it was impossible to surround the whole of Shanxi, and he couldn't catch the young and strong fleeing around.

Therefore, it is still necessary to be soft first, and gather some people who really want to leave or cannot survive in the local area. With their cooperation, the future work will be easier.

Of course, this still needs the support of the government and the gentry. Before Zhu Biao entered Shanxi, he asked local officials to call the old patriarchs of the villages. The patriarch is the one who is really in charge.

Of course, there are also famous families in Shanxi, headed by the Wang family in Taiyuan. Of course, their power is far less than that of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but in the eyes of the common people and some scholars, the Wang family is still very prestigious.

It's a pity that the era of belonging to aristocratic families has long passed. Since the imperial examination flourished, the imperial power has hung high above their heads. If Zhu Biao says a word, they have to be obedient, otherwise Shanxi will see blood.

Speaking of this, Zhu Biao has to thank the ancestors of the previous dynasties once again. The aristocratic families who gradually grew from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties have long been factors that influence the change of regime, especially the Jiupin Zhongzheng System and the Yin Clan. The implementation of custom made them reach the peak.

How majestic and dignified it is that the king and the horse share the world, but this is precisely an insult to the emperor. In order to consolidate the imperial power, starting from the Liu Song Dynasty, the rulers began to work hard to weaken the influence of the gentry. The supreme rule of the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen The founders actively promoted the hands-on skills for the children of the poor family and promoted a large number of children of the Han family, allowing the Han family to compete with the gentry.

However, compared with the Sui Dynasty, the policy of weakening the gentry during the Southern and Northern Dynasties is simply nothing. After Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty established the Sui Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule and reduce the influence of the gentry on the court, he created the imperial examination system. Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh.

Afterwards, the Sui Dynasty took hundreds of thousands of people from the gentry tyrants by adopting the Da Suo Mao Yue and the method of losing nationality, and implemented the method of equalizing land. During the period of Emperor Yangdi, the part of the tribes and slaves that could still be controlled by the gentry were deprived of the ability to receive land.

It can be said that during the Sui Dynasty, the gentry had lost legal protection and economic support, and the powerful gentry who had been rampant for hundreds of years were a thing of the past.

So they made a last-ditch effort, and the Li family of Longxi replaced the Yang family as their representatives. Among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion canonized by Li Shimin, it can be seen that those from the Kanto gentry accounted for fifteen of them.

It’s just that they forgot that no matter which family becomes the emperor, the suppression of the gentry group will still not stop. Li Shimin ordered Gao Shilian and others to compile the Clan History, which is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty version of Hundred Surnames. , but Gao Shilian and others obviously don't think about the holy will, they still rank the Cui and Lu clans of the Kanto and the Li clan of the royal family as the first-class gentry.

Li Shimin was so angry that he jumped up and scolded his mother, completely disregarding the majesty of the emperor: I and the Shandong Cui family... are rude; relying on wealth and honor is shameless; I don't understand why the world cares about it?

Since then, the end of the Tang Dynasty has been struggling to suppress the gentry, and the improvement of the imperial examination system has allowed the former aristocratic gentry to gradually transition to the civil service system. However, if there is a little carelessness, the civil official group will be more terrifying and greedy than the gentry.

Zhu Biaoce looked at the front aimlessly, but he thought in his heart that there would always be idiots in the aristocratic family, and it was easy to have one who could climb to the top of the civil service.

The two great gates of imperial examination and officialdom will cultivate the best talents from generation to generation. This will be his greatest help but also his biggest stumbling block.

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