I am the king of the dead

Ran Siniang is actually not willing to go back to Tai'an Palace, especially Empress Dowager Wu has a lot of complaints about Ran Siniang's management of Miyun Pharmaceutical Factory, which is often seen in public, so Ran Siniang doesn't want to go back.

Eat mine, drink mine, spend the money I earned back, and still be justified and majestic, mocking me with a gun and a stick!

Ran Siniang would rather go to this big villa with a gun and stick than to go back and make trouble.

This conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a problem since ancient times, and it may be good for both parties not to meet each other.

Zhu Qiyu tied her belt and said with a smile: "I advise you not to overestimate your strength. We really don't want to go to Changchao, and you can't bear it. What nonsense."

"Underestimate people." Ran Siniang stretched her waist, hooked her hands softly and said, "Husband, come here."

"Then come." Zhu Qiyu paused with his hands tied around his belt, thinking that this proposal is really good. It is not too much to be scolded as a king of subjugation all day long, so it is not too much to do something like a king of subjugation.

Ran Siniang's complexion changed, from being lazy and coquettish when she didn't get enough sleep in the early morning, she turned pale a little bit, she quickly waved her hand and said: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, how can you ignore the state affairs? I don't want to be scolded by Yushi Hanlin Daji Baosi, Your Majesty should hurry up and discuss with the court."

Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile: "Is it really unbearable?"

"I can't bear it." Ran Siniang couldn't help shaking her head and then nodded.

"Let's go." Zhu Qiyu fastened his belt and stopped teasing.

Ran Siniang didn't get up either, and said in a sweet voice, "Respectfully, Your Majesty."

Can Ran Siniang hold on?Is Ran Siniang trying to show weakness to satisfy His Majesty the emperor's vanity as a man and to compete for favor?Zhu Qiyu didn't know, and didn't intend to get into it, but Ran Siniang knew, she didn't get up until the sun was high, her waist and eyes were still sore, and sometimes Ran Siniang suspected that His Majesty was a donkey.

There are many things to discuss in the court.

The re-opening of the Western Regions has been arguing for more than a year about several issues concerning the Xingdu Division of the Western Regions, and it is finally coming to an end. Substantial progress has been made in reopening the Western Regions and the Xingdu Division of the Western Regions after the Ming Dynasty achieved the first great victory in the Northern Expedition.

Minister of the Ministry of Industry Wang Xi bowed his head and said, "The survey of the Ministry of Industry has almost been carried out. The Ministry of Industry has come up with a draft. Please preview it, Your Majesty."

The draft was only two pages, and Zhu Qiyu quickly read it. Although the draft produced by the Ministry of Industry was thin, it definitely did not mean to fool His Majesty. well considered.

"It's a good job. Unfortunately, King Qingwei didn't see it." Zhu Qiyu said with a little regret. This was probably the only regret Chen Mao had when he left. The day when the Ruojiaozhi Road was opened to traffic.

Zhu Qiyu handed the draft in his hand to the prince Zhu Jiancheng who was listening to the government and said: "Prince, take it. During the Chinese New Year, let King Qingwei have a look."

When working, it is called a job.

Zhu Qiyu didn't have any dissatisfaction with Zhu Jiancheng. He was not in Wenhua Hall or Fengtian Hall. Zhu Qiyu was called Cheng'er, a prince who was too smart, too alert, and too assertive. It's not a good thing, the prince is not so easy to be a prince, the prince who is on the verge of death, and the relationship with the emperor is first the monarch and the minister, and then the father and son. It is difficult to grasp the proportion.

Zhu Jiancheng didn't make Zhu Qiyu feel dissatisfied. The child's performance in all aspects was just right.

"My son obeys the order." Zhu Jiancheng took the draft and solemnly put it in his pocket. He gradually discovered some ways of being a prince, that is, to do well what his father ordered, and to do what his father did not order. Son, doing nothing is a kind of wisdom, but sometimes, doing nothing is a kind of stupidity.

When Hu Wei told Zhu Jiancheng that doing nothing is a kind of wisdom, Zhu Jiancheng didn't understand the truth, but now he understands a little bit more.

"Your Majesty, I'm old and weak, and I've already sent a petition to beg for the bones to be returned to my relatives. Please give your Majesty permission." Seeing that His Majesty was satisfied with the draft, Wang Qiang talked about his own affairs.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the draft that was put away by Zhu Jiancheng and said: "Wang Shangshu is too modest. I don't think Wang Shangshu is old and weak. For the matter of cross-toeing, I have to rely more on Wang Shangshu."

Wang Qian's job of cross-toeing is done quickly and well, there is no way he can't do it, since he can do it, he should continue to do it.

"Minister...obey the order." Wang Cheng was helpless, the emperor forbade him, and he could not leave the official post. Since His Majesty wanted him to continue, he could only bite the bullet and continue.

"I don't understand the joint memorial of Yu Shangshu and Shen Shangshu of the household department. Can Yu Shangshu explain it to me in detail?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Shiyue and talked about the recent revision of the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations. There are 96 articles in the constitution, and one article has been subtracted. , there is one more account under the household department.

Yu Shiyue opened her notebook, looked at it, and said, ""Gangxianshilei" is the key to the administration of officials. After communicating with Wang Shangshu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, I decided to cut one item, that is, accepting beauty and goods means accepting bribes. , Your Majesty, this does not mean that such cases will not be dealt with, it is just that they have been moved to the "Household Order", and they will still be punished, and they are empty of money and people."

"If beauty is combined with wealth, and bribery is established, then the beauty is an object. Beauty is obviously not an object, and some people are obviously not objects, so it cannot be said to be bribery. If the concubine disposes of it, he will be whipped one hundred and two times, his property will be confiscated, and he will be exiled in a miasma."

After Zhu Qiyu finished listening, he said: "Indeed, some people are really nothing."

Daming concubines require a marriage certificate, which is clearly stipulated in the household order, and the folks are limited to having no children at the age of 40. Daming is so big, and the laws of Daming may not be able to extend to all aspects of Daming to implement concubines in place, but this There are only so many officials, and it will be much simpler if the implementation is in place.

Taking a concubine without a marriage certificate starts with 120 lashes, ransacking the house and exile, which is much more severe than putting it in the bribery column in Gang Xian.

In "Gangxian Shilei", beauties are priced and objects, but in "Household Order", beauties appear as concubines, and this punishment is particularly reasonable.

Shen Yi bowed his head and said: "If you have a household under the household, you can't settle without a father. This is an extra clause in the household registration of the household. If you don't have a father, you don't have a surname. If you don't have a surname, you are a savage."

"The reason for doing this is actually very simple. This is to plug the leak. In the past, the powerful family was forced to accept concubines without marriage certificates. Concubines can settle down at will if they have children. As far as I know, this trend is very strong in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and unfilialism is regarded as the three nos. Later, to cover things up, it is not a problem for a family to have dozens of concubines, and these concubines will have piles and piles of children. From now on, they must have a marriage certificate to become a person with a native place, to obtain fame, and to have a way You can only be considered as a person if you are cited.”

"This is actually an extension of the descending system of King Xiang's palace, where Cheng Ding, the son of the clan, can ask for a name."

Shen Yi's words were too blunt, and it was clearly aimed at the powerful family. If the court of Daming had any enmity with the powerful family, it would be the Ministry of Household Affairs, which controlled the means of production. , or even control the population through hidden households, this is the destruction of the Ming Dynasty's tax roots. No household minister is willing to face the empty state money and face the spittle of courtiers, and do it himself.

Zhu Qiyu listened carefully to the reports from the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Household Affairs, nodded and said: "I understand, if you take a concubine without a marriage certificate, you can search your home."

The Emperor Ming extracted the key information. The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishments, and the Ministry of Officials considered this beauty as bribery, and moved this clause to the "Household Order", changing the nature of the bribed beauty into the category of concubines, and then using the "Household Order" as a concubine. "Decree" is executed, and the house can be ransacked.

The Ministry of Households used the basic concept of no father, no son by restricting the means of settlement, to implement the clause in the household order that no concubine without a marriage certificate, and then ransacked the house.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households used a perfect logical closed loop to achieve the purpose of taking concubines without marriage certificates and ransacking their homes.

To oppose the proposals of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Officials, it is necessary to prove that the beauty is a thing or an object, not a person. So is the beauty a person?

To oppose the proposal of the Ministry of Household Affairs, one has to prove the paradox that one can have a child without a father, and of course one cannot have a child without a father.

No one knows how to extract key information better than the Great Emperor.

"Does anyone object?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the courtiers in the Wenhua Palace. This is a court discussion, and if you don't speak, it will be announced in the Fengtian Palace.

He Zhang leaned forward and said, "Your Majesty has a question. If this beauty is pregnant and sent overseas to study in Daming as an expatriate, wouldn't that be taking advantage of our Daming law?"

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, it was indeed a loophole.

The old god Shen Yi said: "Such an obvious loophole, how could it be possible to just open it up like this, even if you go back to Daming to study, you still need to ask who is the father, if you are willing to let your son recognize someone else as his father, then you can only praise him open-minded."

This is Jingtai's court meeting in December 11th. In this evil feudal era, under the framework of patriarchal world outlook and values, in this era when women go to medical schools and show their faces in public, it is immoral for women. If the powerful sons recognize someone else as their father, it would be better not to have children.

He Zhang smiled and said, "I have no doubts."

Zhu Qiyu looked around the courtiers again, and seeing that no one spoke, he said, "That's it."

The reason why the Beijing officials did not object was because it did not involve their own personal interests. The Beijing officials all lived in the mansions of Yongfang, big and small. Let alone taking concubines, Jin Yiwei knew everything about what to eat at night. They can't take concubines, but the local officials are unscrupulous. Since ancient times, they have not worried about the injustice. I can't you can, I have power, and I let you can't.

"Songjiang governor Li Binyan watched the sky at night, looked up at the universe, and said that it might be the winter sequence again." Zhu Qiyu talked about the winter sequence of the four seasons. It wasn't that the thick eyebrows and big eyes of Li Binyan suddenly started talking about things through the sky, but the four seasons. One way of saying is that the rapid development of Ming Dynasty may enter a period of stagnation.

Yu Qian sat up straight, and said quite confidently: "Your Majesty, I think it's a good thing."

"Your Majesty, the 12 years since your Majesty ascended the throne have just proved Du Fu's poem: the rice is flowing fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are full. Classes, male farming and female mulberry are not lost. Officials and sages play Yunmen, and friends all over the world are glued to each other."

"All of these are the achievements of His Majesty. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, light corvee and light taxation, equalization of land and farms, both public and private operations for the benefit of mountains and rivers, opening up the sea and benefiting the people, etc., are all the successes of today's Ming Dynasty. the root of the world."

Zhu Qiyu stretched out his hand and interrupted Yu Qian's words, saying: "I don't agree with Yu Shaobao's words. Today's Ming Dynasty is the result of the concerted efforts of all people from all over the world tomorrow. I just did something that should be done, and it's not worth it." Such praise cannot be attributed to me alone, Yu Shaobao, the courtiers sitting here, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers who fought in the four directions, the people of the Ming Dynasty, all the people of my Ming Dynasty have made meritorious service."

"This fire, I alone, can't burn so well."

Yu Qian was blocked by His Majesty's words for a while, and his thoughts were a little confused. He is not a flatterer Hu Wei, he is responsible for what he said, and every sentence is true.

The courtiers had tense faces, they were all professionally trained, and they generally couldn't smile.

It was even more difficult for Emperor Wen to get a compliment from Yu Shaobao. In Fengtian Hall, when Emperor Wen was wounded by Yu Qian, the first emperor was preached by Yu Shaobao, and King Jili was ripped off. It was so hard to say something obedient, but His Majesty gave it back with a few words.

When did Yu Shaobao suffer this kind of grievance!

How aggrieved Hu Wei was at the beginning, how aggrieved Yu Qian is now.

Is Your Majesty wrong?That's right, His Majesty has only one person. Today's brilliant Ming Dynasty, His Majesty can't do it alone even if he is exhausted.

Are Yu Shaobao's words wrong?That's right, it's not His Majesty, Daming is still in the quagmire at the moment, how to deal with King Jili is the top priority of the court.

Zhu Qiyu said to Yu Qian: "Yu Shaobao, please continue."

Don't flatter, talking about things is the most important thing.

"What did you say just now?" Yu Qian recovered from his trance, and realized that he was almost led astray by His Majesty. He hurriedly said: "Da Ming's national power has recovered rapidly in the past 12 years, but the process of rapid development However, there are still many hidden dangers left, and every winter sequence, every economic stagnation is an opportunity to clear old accounts."

"This is a precious opportunity, even a fighter that must be seized."

"If within the Winter Preface, if the preservation is for the sake of preservation, and the government is lazy and slack in order to save trouble, then a good opportunity will be missed, and the old account that cannot be settled will become an old disease. This old disease is stacked on top of each other. Fighting opportunities are missed on the battlefield. Everything is lost, and it is the same in state affairs, if you miss a good opportunity, it will accumulate more and more, and if you want to solve it, it will be difficult to cure."

After Zhu Qiyu finished listening, he looked at Zhu Jiancheng. Zhu Jiancheng obviously didn't understand it very well, but he remembered that this is the prince Zhu Jiancheng. He is not an extremely intelligent person. He can't understand but he will remember. He has experienced a lot. , I gradually understood.

"Yu Shaobao is really good at the system of the state." Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Then let's make a deal, how to clear the old account."

In fact, it is a question of who suffers.

Chapter 929 Freedom Without Boundaries Is Not Freedom

In the case of Prince Consort Xue Huan, why did the ministers, especially the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hanlin, and others, not say a word?This is a typical punishment for words, isn't the emperor out of justice?

Xue Huan wanted to die by himself, and the literati and bureaucrats couldn't help even if they wanted to help, not to mention the nightmare of the group of officials. Washing the ground with water is the matter itself, and what His Majesty has done has been very lenient.

It doesn't matter if someone like Xue Huan is just a rice bug, but after he did these things, Xue Huan became a dangerous person.

During the Shu Han Dynasty, Li Miao appointed Qian as the prefect, the prime minister joined the army, and the general of Anhan. Li Miao and Zhuge Liang had a grudge.

The reason for killing Li Miao was very simple. If Zhuge Liang was still alive, Li Miao's words could be ignored. Zhuge Liang might plead for Li Miao, but after Zhuge Liang passed away, Li Miao's speech would be very, very dangerous. If you become a dangerous person, you should be punished.

Liu Chan, the empress of Shu, is often said to be a dou who cannot be supported. However, in the face of the absolute strength of one mine and eight mines, Liu Chan was able to support the Shu Kingdom for more than 40 years after Zhuge Liang's death. It was very necessary to kill Li Miao. At that time, the Yizhou Wu family in the court was the family of the Empress Dowager Wu's relatives, as well as the local people in central Sichuan. Liu Chan's main supporters were the outsiders from the Jingzhou faction controlled by Zhuge Liang.

Li Miao blatantly slandered Zhuge Liang, and even denied Zhuge Liang's achievements. Zhuge Liang's body was still alive, and if Liu Chan didn't kill Li Miao, would the Jingzhou faction continue to support Liu Chan?

It's really dangerous to look straight at the wolf and the tiger!

He was talking about a person like Li Miao. His speech was not only about personal honor and disgrace, but also threatened the country and society. He was a sinister person.

It’s the same in Daming. Duke Jun, who was one of the heroes of Dingding and Dingding, died of illness. Before he died, he still rushed back to the capital from Jiaozhi. Lord, he was slandered so genuinely and falsely by Xue Huan, the captain-in-law, just because the emperor accepted his authority, so he ignored the overall situation, just to disgust the emperor, if the emperor did not deal with it, then the defense was about to change. How should Duke Jun's government get along with Daming?

Disregarding the family and the country because of personal grievances, regardless of the severity, is also a dangerous person.

Freedom without boundaries is freedom without order, never true freedom.

Why did the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and the Ministry of Officials transfer the accepted beauties from the "Gangxian Shiyao" to the "Household Order"?

During the long-term anti-corruption struggle, Wang Ao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, discovered that corruption of ink is actually only an insignificant part of the power-money transaction. Controlling the means of production by holding assets on behalf of others is the most influential and worst place.

For example, when Wang Ao investigated and dealt with the corruption case of the magistrate of Dingxing County, he found that the 11 silver of the magistrate was corrupted by ink. This 11 silver was only a small part of his rent-seeking power. , has become a wealthy family in the county.

Tanmo's current silver is only 11 silver, but through exchange, the county magistrate controls more than half of the cotton spinning in Anlu County, and his annual income is much more than the 11 silver.

If it was carried out in accordance with the previous "Constitution and Policies", he could only confiscate his money and silver, and exile him to a smoky place.

To deal with it according to the current "Gang and Constitution Positives", that is, to convict with 11 silver. On the grounds of taking a concubine in the marriage certificate, the family was justifiably ransacked.

Power and color have not been separated since ancient times.

In fact, the addition to the "Household Order" proposed by the Ministry of Household Affairs is not entirely aimed at powerful families. The Ming Dynasty is too big, there are too many folks, and there is no father to settle down. The court can't manage it even if it wants to. The main purpose is To limit the number of officials who control power, the number of officials is limited, and it can be controlled, and it can be controlled even more.

This also involves the basic political principles under the vicious feudal system. As long as you can control the big masters who open their mouths up and down, no matter whether they are officials or powerful, you can control them.

Therefore, in the thousands of years of feudal dynasties, the administration of officials has always been the top priority when judging merits and demerits.

Without the administration of officials, no matter how good the government order is, it will be implemented in a mess.

"I once watched the discharge of water from the gate of the Tonghui River, and found an interesting thing. There are always abrupt places in the riverbed. When the gate is released, the water will first flood the low-lying places, and then the water will slowly submerge these abrupt places. The highest goodness is like water, water is like this, and so are state affairs. Daming has been moving very fast in the past few years, and the water has overflowed the low-lying place, and this abrupt place has become a place that needs to be conquered." Zhu Qiyu said that he was in Chaoyang. The feeling of seeing the Wufenglou of the gate.

This abrupt point is the point of attack. In the case of rapid development, there must be problems. The duty of the court is to solve the problem. , If it cannot be resolved and reconciled, it will be a loss of justice for the world.

"Your Majesty's words are reasonable." Xiao Yi, the right servant of the household department, bowed his head and said, no matter in his tone or expression, he seemed to be saying that His Majesty knew that as long as it develops, there will be problems.

How can there be no problem?It will never change, remain unchanged, without development, naturally there will be no problems.

In fact, among some courtiers, His Majesty is asking for trouble. According to their Confucianism and respect for the ancients, these troublesome and difficult things will not happen, or they will not happen so quickly.If there is no change, there will be no variables, and there will be no troubles. The emperor does not need to work hard to solve these problems derived from the changes. He can enjoy power and enjoyment with peace of mind.

Tossing and tossing, exhausting myself.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "Then this time the Winter Prelude is approaching, there is actually only one thing to do, and it is based on reality."

Shen Yi opened the memo he brought, and after opening it, he began to write quickly, waiting for the emperor to continue to give instructions, while Wu Jing, a great mathematician at the Guozijian Jijiu, also opened the memo, ready to take notes.

Your Majesty's small economics class has started again.

Seeing this, Zhu Qiyu didn't continue talking, but whispered a few times to Xing'an, indicating that Xing'an brought up some pens, and these pens were exceptionally well-made.

A fountain pen made by the Ming emperor himself.

The nib of this fountain pen is made of pure gold. The roller rolling machine rolled the gold into three millimeters thick gold sheets, and then went to the screw press to print the patterns on them. The patterns embossed by Zhu Qiyu were exactly the same as those on the Daming silver coins. Wheat ears, and then use a diamond wheel cutter to cut out an ink supply port the size of a hair.

The ink feeder is made of teak wood with grooves cut out by a hob, which is rotated and placed in a sterling silver pen case.

The cap and body of this fountain pen are both made of sterling silver. The pattern on it is not complicated, and the printed pattern is quite simple and elegant.

"Give Shen Shangshu and Wu Jijiu a try." Zhu Qiyu signaled Xing'an to give two pens to Shen Yi and Wu Jing.

At this time, Xing'an looked at His Majesty very rarely, with a somewhat reluctant expression on his face.

Xing'an watched His Majesty make these pens, the state affairs are heavy, and His Majesty spent more than a year of free time making these few pens. There are only a few of them, and His Majesty just shows off his skills. This court discussion is just saying Xing'an probably felt a little distressed if he took it out and rewarded him.

The most difficult part here is the cupronickel ball on the tip of the pen. The cupronickel ball is too big to fit in, and it is easy to fall out if it is too small. Your Majesty has tried hundreds of times in order to find a suitable material for the penball. From gold, silver, copper, iron, steel Among many materials such as ink, white copper is selected.

Xing'an pretended not to hear clearly and asked, "Show the two Ming Gongs a look?"

"Stingy, try it for several Minggongs." Of course Zhu Qiyu knows why Xing'an is like this. Xing'an is also a craftsman, and the dragon flag big banners are made to perfection. After these pens are finished, Xing'an has never let him They have been covered with dust, and they are carefully taken care of, and they are almost ready for an incense burner.