Ming Emperor Chat Group, Creating Apocalyptic Prosperity

Ming officials were very particular about wearing official uniforms and hats.

Let's not talk about whether the head will stink if the hat is worn for a long time.

Just having such a black gauze hat on his head, when going out, his identity is different.

Not to mention the exquisitely embroidered beast gowns whose colors represent different grades.

After wearing it, the first floor in the court hall is even more clear at a glance.

Therefore, no matter how hot the weather is, the officials of Ming Dynasty will dress neatly as long as they are in office!

Even if they go out for a stroll after work, some people are reluctant to take off their official robes.

However, the ethos that has lasted for more than two hundred years has not been continued in the people of the Ministry of Agriculture.

It's not that they don't want to dress neatly, but that they really can't dress neatly.

Because their main working place is in the hot field.

Most of their work is farming, fertilizing, weeding, and recording the growth process and other conditions of crops.

Generally speaking, to do these things, there is no need to wear official robes and hats to show off.

Ever since, after two or three months in a row, the painting style of the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture has become more and more sloppy...

They only keep two or three people in rotation every day, and handle official business in a comfortable office.

The rest of the people had to work in the fields all day long.

Because they have to do farm work frequently, these officials of the Ministry of Agriculture cannot wear exquisite official robes, nor can they wear black gauze hats.

They began to put on straw sandals, straw hats, and narrow-sleeved clothes for farm work to go to work.

Some people even set off directly from home to the fields, and didn't even bother to check in at the Forbidden City.

Anyway, the emperor didn't go to court in the early morning, and it was a waste of time for the disciples to enter the palace.

Of course, it is okay not to enter the palace to check in, but not to come to the field.

Because the emperor sent Jinyiwei to go to the field every day to roll their names, check the number of people and their respective post identities.

In this way, even if someone wants to be lazy, they can't be lazy.

It's just that Jin Yiwei didn't come to roll call early, so it doesn't matter if the officials from the Ministry of Agriculture come late.

And the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, when they are in the fields on a daily basis, needless to say, they have been doing physical labor all the time.

More of their work content is actually to observe the growth of food and record it in the book.

After finishing their work, everyone can find a shady place to sit and brag together.

If you are in the Forbidden City, you have to immerse yourself in official business all day long.

In addition, you have to guard against people from other departments (such as Yushitai) who come to catch the pigtails and make small reports.

Comparing the two, farming outside is much more free than in the Forbidden City.

Moreover, the salaries of the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture are much higher than those of the other six ministries.

Therefore, for some honest and honest officials, it is much easier and more comfortable to farm in the fields and observe the disguised appearance of food than to deal with complicated political affairs in the Forbidden City.

Among those who can think this way, Wen Tiren is the first one.

Wen Tiren is notoriously clean and honest, and his family lives on this salary.

Of course he is happy to get more money now.

Moreover, as the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, he is the boss of the Ministry of Agriculture. If there is any heavy work, his younger brothers will naturally rush to do it.

His basic work every day is to come to the field for a walk, and then go to the palace to have a look.

Then go back and write a letter to the boss of the emperor, and report on the daily situation.

There are people who think like Wen Tiren, and there are naturally people who don't.

The person who doesn't think so is naturally Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi's family is rich, so he doesn't care about the salary at all.

He came to be an official to show off his ambitions!

He came to be an official to honor his ancestors!

He came to be an official to help the Donglin Party make a comeback!

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Now what he can do every day is not to pick up manure, but to pull weeds...

How can he support the Donglin Party to make a comeback!

Qian Qianyi was devastated...

So he made a request to the emperor that he was unwell and wanted to resign.

However, two or three months have passed, and the emperor will always be in a state of being unable to read back..

So he asked for sick leave, and he could hide for a few days!

However, the emperor directly sent an imperial physician to his home to treat him

After going back and forth, he didn't dare to pretend to be sick.

After all, if the imperial doctor finds out that he is pretending to be sick, that would be deceiving the emperor and a death penalty!

Whenever Qian Qianyi was working in the field with the sun above his head, he would think of a question from his soul,

Is it really necessary to force the officer?

The Ministry of Agriculture in the capital is busy with work.

The officials of the Ministry of Agriculture who were sent to various places also started to distribute the fields and food.

In order to completely consolidate the regime of the Ministry of Agriculture, and to prevent the Ministry of Agriculture from being infiltrated by other departments, the emperor Zhu Youxiao planned to separate the Ministry of Agriculture from the government offices in various places.

The specific performance is to rebuild an office and warehouse dedicated to the Ministry of Agriculture in various places!

As a result, the local construction of warehouses and office locations requires the use of civil engineering.

When civil engineering is used, workers are needed.

And these workers who came to build are naturally local people.

In this way, many people can have jobs to do and salaries to receive.

In other words, the move of building offices and warehouses of the Ministry of Agriculture in various places can solve a large number of farmers who want to rebel in a short period of time!

In order to allow the construction funds issued to various places to be truly distributed to the common people, Zhu Youxiao decided not to go through the procedures of the Ministry of Accounts for this account!

Instead, it is directly transferred from the national treasury to the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Agriculture directly distributes it!

Although some silver taels will definitely be embezzled during this period.

However, compared with the black accounts that have formed a pattern in the Ministry of Accounts and cannot be explained clearly, layer by layer, this method is obviously more effective in preventing money from being embezzled.

And Zhu Youxiao also decided one thing, that is, the food tax paid by the common people will be collected by the Ministry of Agriculture in the future!

Zhu Youxiao actually wanted to directly exempt the people from taxes, but if they were exempted directly, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty could not afford such a large expenditure.

For the time being, the country still needs food tax to maintain, so the matter of tax exemption will have to wait until the matter of "voyages to the West" is stable at the soonest, and the tour begins!

All government affairs have been distributed.

There are bound to be countless obstacles in its actual implementation.

And these obstacles are big or small, and they are all inevitable.

As early as the beginning, Zhu Youxiao knew that this road was not so easy to walk.

He never thought it would be easy to go!

It is not easy to govern the country and be a good emperor.

What's more, there are those aristocratic families who are secretly making troubles here!

Facing these visible and invisible opponents, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, is alone.

But since ancient times, only one person can stand at the pinnacle of power!

Right is loneliness!

field.

shade.

A group of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, who had just finished fertilizing and pulling weeds, were using straw hats as fans to fan them.

At this moment, they don't care about the image they cared about the most in the past. They are all sitting on their backs, and the fields are rough.

From a distance, they looked like a group of black peasants, no different from real peasants.

Even the handsome Zhou Yanru, under the wind and sun for several months, turned into a small soldier Zhang Ga.

At this time, the crowd was fanning themselves while discussing one thing,

"What? The emperor is going to court tomorrow? Is it true or not?"

It was Qian Qianyi who asked the question excitedly. He was shocked when he heard that the emperor was about to go to court!

"Well, Wen Shangshu just came to deliver a message, saying that the emperor gave an order to go to the court tomorrow, but the time has been changed. It is not like in the past that you can get Fengtianmen at Maoshi, but it is changed to Weishi in the afternoon."

The answer was Zhou Yanru, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.

"At noon, it's not that there's still time to finish lunch." Qian Qianyi showed.

"It's too late, so I'm going to bring my lunch here tomorrow, and I'll go straight to the palace after eating." Zhou Yanru replied.

Qian Qianyi was also speechless by Zhou Yanru's dedication...

"No way, let's go directly to the palace tomorrow morning, after the court ceremony, we can come here again in the afternoon..."

The rest of the people had the same idea as Qian Qianyi.

Anyway, the emperor last went to court in hundreds of years, and he took advantage of this opportunity to catch fish if he could.

Zhou Yanru smiled: "You can do whatever you want, and I won't stop you."

If others don't come, he won't come. How can he control others if he wants to?

It's just right if others don't come, and if he is late on purpose, he can let the emperor see how dedicated he is!

In this way, the sense of presence and professionalism in the eyes of the emperor will be greatly improved!

Zhou Yanru was thinking about it.

At the same time, other people also had small calculations in their hearts.

next morning.

The well-dressed people met again in the field.

And everyone, as agreed, all brought food.

Even Wen Tiren, Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, is the same.

Zhou Yanru died speechless...

Forbidden City.

Outside the Fengtian Gate.

Under the scorching sun, hundreds of civil and military officials gathered here, waiting for the emperor's arrival in discussion.

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Among this group of civil and military officials dressed in official robes of beasts, the most outstanding are the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The reason why they are said to be outstanding is because their skin colors are all surprisingly dark.

I don't know if it's been planted for a long time or what, their temperament has become looser and more casual. Unlike other civil servants, they always put on the airs of a scholar.

It is more appropriate to say that they are like military generals rather than civil servants with Jinshi background...

The civil servants of the other six ministries all cast "sympathetic" eyes on everyone in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Even the people in the Ministry of Industry, who usually work the hardest, sigh in their hearts at this moment: there are people worse than us!

Under the sympathetic eyes of everyone, the people in the Ministry of Agriculture, who were so embarrassed to pick their toes, finally waited for the emperor's luanjia!

"The emperor is here!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Stay flat."

After a loud kneeling and bowing, Zhu Youxiao sat down on the dragon chair.

The civil and military officials also stood up.

Since I haven't been in court for a while, everyone is not used to it.

For a while, no one stood up and reported the matter.

In addition to the reason of not going to court for too long, the biggest reason is actually the way the current government affairs are handled.

The government affairs of the Ming Dynasty were basically handled through six ministries, the cabinet, and the supervisor of ceremonies, layer by layer, in the form of official documents.

That is to say, even in the days when he went to court every day, he spent most of his time listening to the ministers' bullshit.

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Either you impeach me for having a problem with my style of work today, or tomorrow I impeach you for marrying another concubine.

It is not uncommon to talk about serious things, but the proportion of nonsense is significantly higher.

This is also the reason why Jiajing did not go to court for more than 20 years, and Wanli did not go to court for more than 20 years, but what should be run in the Ming Dynasty can also be run.

If a dynasty wants to prosper forever, it is not enough for the emperor to be diligent and useful.

Chongzhen was diligent in his leadership, but it still didn't affect his status as the lord of subjugation.

The quiet atmosphere was quickly broken.

It was Wen Tiren who came out to speak.

Wen Tiren actually prepared to come out a long time ago.

But what he wants to say is business, so he is going to wait for those who talk nonsense to finish before coming out by himself.

I didn't want to wait for a long time, but there was no movement.

Wen Tiren didn't dare to wait too long, in case his emperor boss saw that no one was talking, it would be troublesome if he slapped his ass and left.

After all, this kind of situation has really happened before.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report. The grain seeds distributed by the Ministry of Agriculture to Xi'an half a month ago were looted by refugees in Xi'an.

Food seeds can't be eaten directly, why don't those refugees just wait for the fields to be distributed, but want to rob them instead?

In addition, half of the offices and warehouses of the Ministry of Agriculture in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have just been built, and several places caught fire for no reason.

Fortunately, the food in these places has almost been distributed, otherwise the loss will be even greater.

The minister thinks that these facts are strange, and there may be thieves behind the scenes.

These matters have been written to the ministers, and the cabinet has ordered Dali Temple to investigate the case, but to this day, no definite answer has been given!"

Zhu Youxiao knew all about what Wen Tiren said.

Zhu Youxiao also knows what is behind these things.

Zuo is nothing more than those aristocratic families, as well as some vassals who can't sit still.

However, these people are very smart, and they do these things to be watertight.

It can be said that you can't catch it, and you can't find it if you check it.

Although Zhu Youxiao knew it, he still had to act out the scenes that should be performed.

He asked aloud: "What did Dali Temple say, there is no clue at all?"

Dali Siqing immediately stood up,

"Your Majesty, Xi'an already has an idea for a while, if there is no accident,

Those who robbed the food seeds were not local refugees, but Junggar people in disguise.

They pretended to be citizens of my Ming Dynasty, and they ran away after grabbing things!

As for the fires in many places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is still under investigation.

But judging from the current clues, no accidents, it should be the Japanese pirates making trouble!"

After the minister of the Ministry of punishment finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao laughed.

Zhu Youxiao not only smiled, but also applauded.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

"It seems that the instigators of these things are all alien races!

Those who robbed grain in Xi'an were Junggar people, and those who burned the Ministry of Agriculture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were Japanese pirates.

The bad things are all done by foreigners, but the people who suffer are all the people of my Ming Dynasty.

Ladies and gentlemen, don’t you all like the result of the investigation in Dali Temple?”

As soon as Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, all civil and military officials knelt down in fear!

"Your Majesty! Forgiveness!".