[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The matter of sending people to bring back the Han people who were kidnapped by the Japanese was an order issued by Emperor Hongwu before he abdicated. Therefore, when a ship full of wanderers docked at the port, it was not too surprising that everyone on board saw the dragon boat...

What a ghost!

Scary to death, okay?

Unexpectedly, the civil servants of Ming Dynasty, who had just returned to China and faced the big boss, instantly felt more than half of their exhaustion cleared up. They involuntarily tightened their skin and entered the first-level state of preparation.

The change in momentum between loose and tight is particularly obvious, but it brings out the difference between the horse and the horse who has always maintained a rigorous posture.

As expected of the envoy chosen by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he is really the same as the others before and after, always maintaining the best working condition.

The officials all gave admiring glances, and then when Emperor Hongwu sent someone to convey that he was waiting for the roll call and report work, they looked at their noses and noses very tacitly, and sent away the airborne boss with sympathy.

In normal times, everyone would have some negative emotions such as jealousy and envy, but this is Emperor Hongwu in front of him-although he is already the first emperor, but that is Emperor Hongwu!Emperor Hongwu, who has the strongest ability to consume officials!

Forget about this kind of chance that you will die if you don't do well.

And as we all know, the most difficult person to serve in this world is the person with the word "Xian" in his title. The former emperor and ex-wife are all invisible landmines.

After losing the rights and status they once had, people will inevitably try to find a sense of presence, and this sense of presence usually makes it difficult for others to grasp their sense of proportion.

If this predecessor is a kind-hearted person, it is fine, but if he meets a strong one, then the courtier will be as hard as a man caught between his wife and mother.

After all, the mother-in-law was originally the mistress of the family, and she was also deprived of her mistress status after her son got married, so she can be regarded as an "ancestor".

This is the case now.

Although Emperor Hongwu did hand over all the rights to Zhu Biao after his retirement, and moved back to his hometown in Fengyang to farm, this does not mean that he really left the center of power.

In this year, Emperor Hongwu, like every retired president of the beautiful country, put his energy into sorting out his life experience and compiling books. He successively printed and published "Shichen Zonglu", "Jizhilu" and " Four volumes of Yongjianlu and Zhusizhizhang

Although there are only four volumes, his four volumes are aimed at everyone in the court.

"Zhu Si Du Zhang" regulated the responsibilities and authority of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as the code of responsibility and behavior of officials, while "Shi Chen Zong Lu" recorded the good and evil of ministers in history and the matters of persuasion.

Both books are civil and military warnings and advices to the Manchu Dynasty.

This is not enough, Emperor Hongwu also asked people to compile "Jizhilu", which recorded the system norms of Tang and Song nobility, and aimed at those who are now in the founding war. The main purpose is to curb their extravagance. cute.

Obviously, in Emperor Hongwu's heart, it was not enough for his ministers and heroes to be honest, because he personally released a huge crisis that might exist for the dynasty, that is, the vassal kings stationed everywhere.

"Yongjianlu" is a textbook issued to many vassal kings. This book records the deeds and results of the evil and rebellious deeds of the clan kings of the past dynasties, and is used to advise his sons who were sealed to various parts of the Ming Dynasty to be honest. .

Look, look, how could this be done by the abdicated emperor?

Rather, maybe it is because of his abdication that he has more time to concentrate on tinkering with these things?This is even more terrifying, isn't it!

If the feudal lords knew what these courtiers were thinking, they would definitely roll their eyes.

Where are you now, you courtiers have been issued two books to regulate your behavior, and we are unlucky.

In the 22nd year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu changed the Dazong Zhengyuan into the Clan Mansion. At that time, the Zongren Ling was the King of Qin Zhu Xi, and the left and right Zong were the Kings of Jin and King Yan. The management and restraint of the royal family members embarked on the road of institutionalization. .

Although these three kings are all violent, but as everyone's elder brothers, they are generally very good to the younger brothers. If there are some mistakes, the board is lifted up and down gently, and everyone's brothers and friends are respectful and harmonious.

But now the situation is wrong!

Emperor Hongwu, who was free, suddenly realized that although he was no longer the emperor, he was still the head of the old Zhu family.

In the past, state affairs occupied most of his energy, and he was in debt to his children, but now he has time to take care of his family!

So, after securing the family's one-acre and three-point land, Emperor Hongwu wandered to the clan mansion.King Qin spent most of his time in his fief, and the Clan Mansion in the capital was like an office, mainly for archiving purposes.

But that's enough, Zhu Yuanzhang directly reached out to look at the scrolls that the King of Qin had dealt with before, wanting to see what problems or difficulties his own cubs had.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was really furious. There are many sons and grandsons who don’t learn well, and there are not a few sons-in-law who take advantage of their status to do bad things outside. What is the treatment of King Qin called reconciliation?

So, with an order, Lao Zhu raped his three sons, established himself as the patriarchal order, and officially began to collect the bones of the youngsters.

Anyone who is on the blacklist counts as one, as long as they are healthy, they all come to Fengyang, and the old man personally supervises the labor reform.

Isn't it robbing other people's land?If you grab so much, you have to plow the land, so don't push it, pick up the hoe and plow the land.

Can't do it?It's not enough for your crimes and you can't do it anymore, so why do you want so much?

Isn't it a usury outside?Then use your own body to experience such a high rate, and the peasants can't pay it back.

Don't you like looking for beautiful women?If you want so many girls, you must have a good physique, so go pick water and dung, Dad, this is for your future, if you have kidney deficiency, it will embarrass our old Zhu family.

In short, no matter what crimes these Zhu family children have committed, Zhu Yuanzhang can find the corresponding farm work for them to do.

The older princes are alright, they have all experienced similar farmland education when they were young, and the younger generation has grown up in the sap, so how could they have suffered so much, and within a few days, a few youngsters would encourage each other, thinking So he fled Fengyang and went to Yingtianfu to find his elder brother for help.

Mother is also so angry now that she is completely on the side of Dad. At this time, only the eldest brother can save them.

But who is their enemy? It is Emperor Hongwu who walked out of the battlefield all the way, over the mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire, with complete strategic thinking and accomplishment.

As soon as the little boy moved, the old father found out.On that dark and windy night, Emperor Hongwu was like the cunning hunter who waited for his family's group of "silly rabbits".

In order to accommodate these stinky boys, Zhu Yuanzhang had to stuff people into Fengyang Imperial City again.

Although Fengyang's imperial palace has not been completely completed, the basic structure has been completed, and there is no shortage of defense mechanisms that an imperial city should have.

If these brats could escape under such conditions, then he would have to admire their abilities.

In order to encourage his sons, Emperor Hongwu even said that if he could escape, the past would be wiped out.

The prince and sons-in-law who committed the crime wanted to cry, but if they had the ability, they wouldn't be here!

But people, always have an ideal, just in case it will be successful.

Therefore, Emperor Hongwu happily started the road of fighting wits and courage with the juniors in his family. He didn't temporarily let these youngsters go until he received the news of Lou Chuan's return.

Under the request of Zhu Biao, who has become the current emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang and his grandson met at Liujiagang, and then sailed all the way to Zhigu Port on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Zhigu Port was built in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, most of the Yuan Dynasty's capital was located in today's Beiping. However, Beiping was bitterly cold and could not supply the food and grass needed by the local residents and the army. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty had to use the means of transporting grain from south to north to meet the needs of the capital.

They dredged the northern section of the Grand Canal and changed the end point of its northern extension from Luoyang to Beiping. Since then, this artificial canal dug successively since the Spring and Autumn Period has a modern outline and has become a veritable Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

But this is not enough. Water transportation depends entirely on manpower, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In the case of huge demand in the north, water transportation alone cannot meet the needs. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty opened an unprecedented model of water grain shipping.

A load of grain departs from Liujia Port in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, passes through the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and then transfers all the way to Zhigu Port, and then transfers from Zhigu to Dadu through the Grand Canal. But at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, greedy demons were attracted.

Sea ships are driven by wind and are much larger than river ships. Therefore, the grain unloaded from sea ships must be stopped and redistributed at Zhigu Port. Therefore, a large number of granaries have been built here to accommodate sea ships and river ships. When Japan's ocean-going technology developed enough to reach Daming, the grain that couldn't fit in it naturally became the focus of the opponent's attack.

However, Zhigu Port was the economic artery of the Yuan Dynasty after all. It was heavily guarded, and it was not so easy to capture it. Therefore, the surrounding villages and ports along the route became the focus of greetings.

Most of the Han people who returned to China this time were residents of the Liaodong generation, and only a dozen or so had their ancestral home in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, Emperor Hongwu chose this place to welcome these returnees.

The building is huge, and it took more than half a day to see the mast from a distance to its front, and during this half day, Emperor Hongwu did not return to the comfortable room, but sat with his grandson on the big horse and golden knife in the current war-torn building. On the long-abandoned port.

The two most distinguished ones are sitting here basking in the sun, and the accompanying officials naturally dare not go inside, and all the civil and military personnel can only stand upright under the ravages of the autumn tiger, sweating profusely.

They had hoped that the large ship could drive faster, but the speed of the sea ship depends on the wind, and this day happened to be unfavorable, so the people on board could only draw up the sails and rely on manpower to move forward, the speed is naturally fast Can't get up.

Mu Bai was not in a hurry, he took this opportunity to discuss an important matter with his reluctant grandfather under the sun without changing his face.

Mu Bai wants to call Guozi Jiansheng to work in the local area.

However, Emperor Hongwu had previously issued an order that Guozijiansheng was not allowed to interfere in political affairs, so if he wanted to use it, Emperor Hongwu had to withdraw this prohibition, otherwise he would inevitably be gossiped about employing people.

"There are so many officials in the court, and there is an imperial examination every three years. How important is it for you to use the supervisor?" I also learned some of the usual gestures of farmers, such as hitting the farmer and talking to his grandson now, which looks really harmless and friendly.

Mu Bai looked at his arms, and he also assumed the same posture. Then his eyes lit up, and he found that this posture was really comfortable, so the old and the young started to talk in the same posture. .

"Grandson wants them to go to various places to build water conservancy projects, not the kind of big projects that involve thousands of people, but to go to various districts and counties to find minor problems." Mu Bai clasped his hands, "If the officials are asked to look, they may not think so. This is a problem, at most it is some inconvenience, but what the grandson wants to solve is precisely this two points of inconvenience."

Emperor Hongwu was born as a farmer, and he paid the most attention to agriculture. Therefore, after he ascended the throne, the upper and lower water conservancy irrigation was repaired and maintained several times. After dredging the Yellow River and rescuing the Huaihe River, the water conservancy problems of the entire Ming Dynasty have basically disappeared.

Therefore, the problem that Mubai wants to solve is simply local small troubles, such as places where water is easy to accumulate due to terrain, places where water cannot be stored, or where there are canals for irrigation, but they are too far away from the fields, and the villagers still need to rely on them. A place where people carry water.

This kind of problem is not a problem for magistrates, because they can be overcome by manpower.

If it is easy to accumulate water, you can dig a few drainage ditches, and if you can't store water, you can carry it yourself. Small problems that can be solved by manpower without causing a catastrophe are not considered problems by local officials.

This is not a vegetarian meal for their corpses, it is indeed that the task of the magistrate of Daming is indeed a bit heavy.

Mu Bai has experienced modern life, he is well aware of how carefully the modern officials, functions, and organizations are divided, and in today's Daming, an ordinary county magistrate basically has a dozen functions, and his deputy, His subordinates don't have the ability to govern either, so they can only be said to assist him in his work.

So generally speaking, as long as a local official with a little responsibility, even in a year with good weather, he will be as busy as a top, working at his desk for at least eight of the twelve hours a day.

Not to mention that there are basically few real peaceful places in Ming Dynasty throughout the year.

In this case, the distress of only a few or even a dozen farmers can only be left behind, and there is really no time to take care of it.

Of course, there is also a factor of numbness after seeing too much, because I have seen too many difficulties and distress, such "small problems" are naturally not considered problems.

But Mu Bai does not agree with this view.

Indeed, from a macro perspective, prioritizing urgent or more difficult problems is the optimal solution.

But what could be a bigger problem in the world than the inconveniences and grievances of millions of people coming together?There are no trivial matters between the people, let alone professional matters related to water conservancy. Daming is really not rich enough to not care about these issues.

But despite saying this, Mu Bai also knows that it is no longer possible to put pressure on the local officials, and if the local officials are really forced to focus on this, due to human inferiority, it may only be thunder and rain, which cannot solve the fundamental problem. question.

So he was going to mobilize a group of passionate people.

"The superintendent of the Imperial College is the future parent officer." Mu Bai said seriously, "It's not bad to get used to the working environment and the field of work in advance, just learn from practice."

"And the grandson also feels that the subjects taught by the Imperial College are somewhat limited." Mu Bai glanced at his grandfather's unchanging expression, and thought of the piece written by his grandfather that he saw when he was strolling in the Imperial College, and let him read it. Wanting to roll his eyes at the stele, he couldn't help but whispered: "Grandfather, my grandson doesn't want a group of subordinates who are full of words but have no ability to do things."

"They are well versed in the study of sages. They may be good people, but good people may not be good officials."

Emperor Hongwu tilted his head slightly, and just when he was a little sullen, he saw his grandson actually picked up his fingers and talked about the conditions for him, and his tone was very righteous.

"For local officials, they are the face of the emperor, so they should know geography from astronomy to the bottom, whether it is calculation or business, they should have some understanding, otherwise they will not even be able to collect taxes. Of course, the law must also be known , otherwise how to judge the case? And also have basic common sense, such as how to deal with disasters, how to avoid secondary disasters, such as how to deal with refugees, how to prevent diseases on refugees, etc. "

"By the way, it's better to have some medical knowledge. At least you need to know what diseases are likely to break out in each season, and prepare in advance. Ah, you also need to have architectural knowledge, otherwise you will definitely have trouble if you rely on external hires to build water conservancy..."

"Ying'er." Emperor Hongwu's expression gradually became meaningful, "What do you want to say?"

Mu Bai paused for a moment, leaned closer to his imperial grandfather, and whispered in a voice inaudible to others: "Imperial grandfather, what do you think about adding another civil service exam...?"