Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

However, because this mountain peak is a stone mountain, it is difficult for trees to grow.

Therefore, during the construction, Zhu Youjian made a special explanation:

Try not to destroy existing trees.

……

Zhu Cixiang looked at several jujube trees with strange shapes next to the palace wall and chuckled.

(Yuanzao tree: wild persimmon tree. This thing was often used as a potted plant in later generations, and it was even very expensive at one time.)

The tree was covered with golden-red wild persimmons the size of winter jujubes.

They look like little lanterns.

Because it has snowed, the leaves have already fallen, leaving only the trees full of small lanterns.

It looks stunning.

Looking at those fruit trees, Zhu Cixiang felt his boredom disappear.

This thing is full of cores and not tasty at all.

On the other hand, the red and golden appearance is still attractive.

When no one was around, Zhu Cixi tasted it secretly...

This thing-

The skin can hardly cover the core!

Yesterday, the naughty third brother Zhu Cijiong climbed up a tree to pick persimmons. He missed the mark and rubbed against the palace wall, falling down bald...

Scratched skin.

As a result, he was severely punished by Queen Yi'an.

When I think of my third brother’s miserable, wrinkled face, his hands wrapped in bandages, and being punished to copy Zengguang Xianwen...

The boring morning session just now was no longer boring at all.

Zhu Cixiang came to Qinzheng Hall with brisk steps.

He sat on the chair and began to read the memorial.

Taking advantage of this moment of high energy, he first read the memorials that needed to be corrected by himself.

He had just revised two copies and picked up the third copy casually. After taking a look at it, he frowned.

This is a document sent by the Inspectorate.

It’s about a shop called “Yongfeng Trading Company”——

Because he was missing a few pounds, he was seized by the inspectors from the Zhengbei Military Division and reported to the Capital Inspectorate.

The Yongfeng store was seized and the shop owner and his entire family were executed in accordance with wartime regulations.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the death penalty must be reported to the court for approval.

This is the origin of Qiu Hou's practice of asking for beheading.

However, what is currently in effect is a "wartime law", and as long as military matters are involved, they will be dealt with quickly.

Zhu Cihong put down the memorial and frowned tightly.

"Your Highness, are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Wang Lian hurriedly leaned over and asked.

Zhu Cixiang waved his hand:

"I am alone.

Eunuch Wang, look here..."

Zhu Cihong pointed out the punishment results in the memorial to Wang Lian.

He hesitated:

"My lord, you are close to my father, and you know His Majesty's original intention in formulating the wartime order.

Do you think this punishment is too severe? "

The young prince couldn't bear it.

A dozen lives!

Are you going to be beheaded in such a hurry?

Zhu Cixiang frowned:

"If it's just because there's less than a thousand kilograms of iron, 17 people will have their heads chopped off...

The criminal law is too harsh! "

Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger!

After more than ten years of instruction from the civil service group, even after Zhu Youjian took the prince back to Handu, he instilled in him a series of concepts of the rule of law.

However, this long-standing thought that "a wise king should bow down and govern the world" cannot be reversed in a short time.

Fortunately, Zhu Cixi still understood the importance.

Wang Lian was appointed by the emperor to be the palm seal of the inner study hall.

To the royal family, Wang Lian was one of their own.

He was in charge of the cultural and educational affairs of the eunuchs. As a prince, he had to go to the inner study hall to listen to lectures every night.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Wang Lian can be regarded as his mentor.

Zhu Cixiang doesn’t understand…

But, he would ask people.

Therefore, Zhu Cixi expressed all his doubts.

Wang Lian reached out and helped the prince close the memorial.

He opened his mouth and said:

"Your Highness.

Do you think the person involved in Yongfeng Company should not be killed because of the heavy metal?

Is it right? "

"I am afraid that my governance will be too harsh..."

Zhu Cixiang nodded and admitted.

Wang Lian sighed and said softly:

"In the past, when Beidu was besieged, His Majesty tried his best to escape with us.

When we arrived at the new city, I was the only one with less than a hundred people around His Majesty.

The emperor personally charged, risking arrows that could be fired at any time, and captured the new city..."

Zhu Cixi's expression changed.

Although I have heard this story countless times...

However, thinking about it carefully, it still made him feel cold all over.

Arrows don't care whether you are an emperor or a soldier.

My father, who didn't even have armor at that time, once he was shot...

The consequences are simply unimaginable...

Wang Lian sighed:

"Your Highness feels that a mere kilogram of iron material is not worth mentioning.

Today's Ming Dynasty - even a small iron mine in Xichuan can produce more than this in one hour..."

Zhu Cixiang frowned.

Yes!

A mere thousand pounds of iron would be enough to cut off the heads of 17 people...

This is brutal!

Wang Lian shook his head.

No wonder His Majesty left the prince in an aristocratic university and never allowed him to observe state affairs.

Before this concept changes, rashly letting the prince watch the government will be harmful to him!

Wang Lian continued:

"Yes, a thousand pounds of iron material, with the scale of Ming Dynasty's hundreds of industries today...

What a shame!

Not to mention a thousand catties, but a hundred times more, so what? "

Zhu Cihong nodded.

The masters of the past said the same thing.

To govern the world, we must implement benevolent governance.

Wang Lian shook his head and guided:

"but!

Your Highness, this is a thousand pounds of iron.

Although it looks small...

Your Highness, may you know - if a barbed wire fence is made, how long can it be defended? "

Zhu Cixiang answered honestly:

"I don't know."

Wang Lian gave the answer:

“With the standard barbed wire layout method, we don’t talk about strengthening or weakening it.

A thousand pounds of barbed wire can defend 37 feet. "

37 feet?

Zhu Cixiang's heart skipped a beat.

The imperial road outside Fengtian Palace is 99 feet wide between the two palace walls.

In other words, it is equivalent to a little more than one third...

Such a wide road is enough for hundreds of cavalry to travel parallel.

Even in a charge formation, dozens of riders can pass through at the same time!

Wang Lian continued:

“With such a wide distance, if the cavalry——

In emergency mode, about [-] people can pass through in one minute. "

It turns out that the cavalry is so fast!

Zhu Cixi sighed deeply in his heart.

what!

wrong!

Zhu Cixi's expression changed——

If this thousand kilograms of barbed wire happened to be missing on the battlefield, it would represent the threat of tens of thousands of cavalry!

Wang Lian guided Zhu Cixiang toward the military formation and thought:

"Your Highness, do you know that tens of thousands of cavalry can be dispatched in one minute?

When our army loses its defensive formation, how many people can be killed? "

Zhu Cixiang was trying to follow Wang Lian's train of thought...

Suddenly I thought of those 17 people again.

He frowned and said hesitantly:

"Eunuch Wang, didn't our army defeat the Qing army and be unable to fight back?"

Wang Lian lamented.

The prince's temperament...

Destroyed by the Wenchen Cult!

As an emperor, being domineering is a common practice. Being so indecisive is not a good thing!

ps: Three more updates will continue today.