Chapter 248: Emperor Jianwen Graces Suzhou
When two smart people talk about this, it's hard to hide anything anymore. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I don't care what status my ancestors are, it's not easy to be hunted down and killed. I kept asking my dad to find out about the family's background, but my dad always told me that it was not the time yet and that he would tell me in the future. Besides, he sighed.
Yun Sisi thought for a while and said, "Also, you are still too young, your father can't tell you this, and he is afraid of causing you psychological pressure." ”
"Then why did you help me in the first place?" he asked.
Yun Sisi smiled: "You don't have to ask me this, but anyone in Wuzhong will not stand idly by when they hear about this matter, and will choose to help you without hesitation." Do you know why I hate Nan Qiaoyun so much? If she did this in a foreign country, it would be fine, but it happened to be in Suzhou Mansion. Who doesn't know that His Majesty Emperor Jianwen is kind to the people of the world, and he is the most kind to the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially our Suzhou Mansion. The people here will not and should not forget this Ming Jun for generations. ”
Besides, I understand, maybe the Guo family has been on the run, but they are unfamiliar with the feelings of people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially Suzhou Prefecture, for Emperor Jianwen.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Suzhou Mansion defended Zhang Shicheng, and Zhang Shicheng was the richest among the heroes. After capturing Suzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang hated it very much, so he levied excessive rents to punish the people of Suzhou Prefecture, and even the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were classified as "punishment areas".
In general, punitive measures are temporary and should be lifted later. However, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, had this ruthlessness, turned the punitive measures into a permanent national policy, and left a testament: it is not allowed to be changed from generation to generation.
In addition to implementing a punitive tax policy, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were not allowed to be the head of the household department. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, only Ni Yuanlu, an important minister in the last years of Chongzhen, was the secretary of the household department, which was a special case. Ni Yuanlu also took out the Sermon of Taizu to excuse himself, but Chongzhen did not allow it and insisted on appointing him as the secretary of the household department.
Chongzhen was trapped in the world with depleted wealth, empty treasury, starvation, and rampant banditry, so he had no choice but to appoint Ni Yuanlu, a powerful minister, and hoped that this capable minister would play tricks and find a way to generate money.
Ni Yuanlu is certainly a famous minister, but also a famous calligrapher in the late Ming Dynasty, and his artistic attainments in moral articles can be described as the pinnacle, all of which are refined. But the Empire State Building is about to fall, and he can't save the decline of the Ming Dynasty on his own, and in the end he can only die to thank the world.
Besides, when I think of Emperor Jianwen and the taxes in Suzhou, I think of Ni Yuanlu, and suddenly think: What if he is in Ni Yuanlu's position?
In fact, there is no way, the only thing that can save the emergency is to fight the local tyrants and divide the land and redistribute the wealth of the world, so that the central finances can be eased. But letting a group of people with vested interests carry out this matter, isn't it a conspiracy with the tiger, how can it be effective?
Chongzhen didn't expect that he was extremely poor, so he discussed with the prime minister to confiscate the property of all rich people. The prime minister cried and told him: Your Majesty, now there are no rebels in the world, only the rich.
This sentence clearly explains the real reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the country has reached the point where only the rich do not rebel, and the poor cannot live, so why not die?
The Ming Dynasty did not die in the 500,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, nor did it die in the hands of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, but in the accumulated corrosion of a group of huge vested interests -- the civilian-official clique. It is this group of bureaucrats who control the government from top to bottom, and Chongzhen has been completely hollowed out.
After Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he once completely abolished Zhu Yuanzhang's punitive policy against Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the first to shout Emperor Jianwen's holy son. It's a pity that after Yongle usurped the throne, he changed it back in an all-round way, and all respected the established policy of Taizu.
There is also such a story among the people.
Daoyan, the biggest contributor to Zhu Di's seizure of the throne, returned to his hometown to visit relatives and visit his sister. And his sister refused to meet, and scolded this brother in a high position through the window. Daoyan, the world's first minister, was scolded and cried. After being scolded by his sister and waking up, he realized that although he believed in the so-called way of heaven, in the eyes of the people of the whole country, he was a national thief, and even his sister was ashamed to have a younger brother like him.
After Dao Yan came to his senses, he began to do his best to help Emperor Jianwen escape. It was precisely because of Daoyan's help that Emperor Jianwen turned the corner and was never sniffed by the eagle dog sent by Zhu Di for the rest of his life.
Things in the world are often so weird and inconsistent.
"Isn't the Nan family also from Suzhou?" he asked.
"Their family has only moved here for two generations, and the people of Suzhou Mansion are not afraid of being dug up their ancestral graves? So you don't have to pity them, the Nan family has violated the biggest taboo of Suzhou people, and they deserve any punishment. The most hateful thing is that she also involved my second brother, if she wasn't pregnant with my Yun family's flesh and blood, the Yun family would not have allowed her for more than a quarter of an hour. Sisi said, so angry that her face turned purple.
People all have a bottom line, and the bottom line of people in different regions may be different, but the same is that the bottom line cannot be touched.
However, although Zhu Di said that the country was not right, the level of governing the country was still very high, so the people still supported him. This does not contradict the people's deep feelings for His Majesty Emperor Jianwen.
The eyes of the masses of the people are bright, and the minds of the masses of the people are also broad.
Hongwu and Yongle years can be regarded as a prosperous era, especially in the Yongle period of seven expeditions to Annan, five expeditions to Mobei, but also rebuilt the city of Beijing, these three major projects than the Sui Yang Emperor to build dragon boats, dig canals, conquer Liaodong is not inferior at all, and even surpassed. But Yongle did not lose the country because of this, and even the vitality of the country was not injured, which is enough to prove that he has the strength to sit in the world.
Besides, while talking to Yun Sisi, she walked out of the pharmacy, and Yun Sisi heard that Zhou Dingcheng was here, so she pulled Zhou Dingcheng to Zhou Dingcheng's room together.
"It's Miss Yun, why are you here? Zhou Dingcheng just said hello, lowered his head and pondered his sketch, his brows furrowed.
As soon as Zhou Dingcheng painted, it had nothing to do with him if there was a fire outside, Yun Sisi and they had been here for so long, he didn't know at all.
Yun Sisi ignored him and said, "Wenbin asked me to come, saying that they would come later, and everyone would have a good time." ”
"Oh, this kid is a bastard, Miss Yun, stay away from him in the future. Zhou Dingcheng pointed and said.
"Ah, big brother, where did I offend you. Besides, he was dumbfounded.
"Where have you offended me? You have offended me everywhere. Zhou Dingcheng snorted coldly.
"Second uncle, why don't you go home to live?" Yun Sisi knew that Zhou Dingcheng was in a frenzy, and interrupted with a smile.
"yes, I'm not here to accompany this little bastard!" Zhou Dingcheng roared.
Besides, I touched my head, and I didn't know what was going on, and it was only a moment before I became a little bastard. This level has risen too high, and it is too fast, and it is a little uncomfortable.
"Besides, why did my brother make you angry? I'll teach him a lesson. "Yun Sisi deliberately inserted between them, ready to be with the mud.
"You said that there were just a few lines, and he drew them casually, but I've been drawing them for a long time, and I don't like them at all, he's not a little bastard, he's a little bastard! Zhou Dingcheng said angrily.
Besides, only then did I understand what was going on, it turned out that Zhou Dingcheng practiced the techniques he taught, and after practicing for a long time, he couldn't get in at all, and he couldn't find the feeling. This is very normal, it is impossible to completely master any technique in one morning, and if it can be used skillfully in one morning, if it can be learned as soon as it is learned, can it still be called a technique? But Zhou Dingcheng is different, as soon as he starts painting, he loses his normal thinking and is completely in a state of madness. Whoever is more serious than such a person is unlucky.
"It turns out that the second uncle is an apprentice here. But I've never seen such an apprentice in the world. Yun Sisi covered her mouth and smiled.
"How can I be an apprentice, Miss Yun, which gang are you, how can you speak for him, you won't be bought by him. Zhou Dingcheng's forehead began to squirm.
Besides, pulling the corner of Yunsi's clothes, signaling her to leave quickly, this person is now in an unreasonable state, and it seems that he is about to go crazy.
"I was really bought by him, and he said he was going to invite me to drink in the evening. Yun Sisi knew Zhou Dingcheng and deliberately teased him.
Yun Sisi is a big girl, and she is also reserved. When she was a child, her favorite thing with Wen Bin was to sneak into Zhou Dingcheng's studio, scribble his dye messily onto the paintings he had just started drawing, and then hide under the trees in the rockery, watching Zhou Dingcheng roar and go crazy in the garden.
Zhou Dingcheng obviously also remembered this stubble, and hurriedly said: "You are not good people, hurry up." ”
walked out of Zhou Dingcheng's room, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"I'm sorry, I dragged you here, who knew that I ran into the second uncle's mold. Yun Sisi said apologetically.
"It's okay, I really didn't tell him the right way to draw on purpose. Besides, he whispered.
"What? brother, you're so bad. Yun Si was dumbfounded, obviously she didn't expect that there would be this side.
Besides, he said embarrassedly: "It's not that I'm bad, I'm thinking about him, if he really blends these two styles of painting, it will be indecent." There's no way he's really starting again at this age. He wants to break through himself, so he is very anxious, and I set up an obstacle for him to slow down, and he can't be in a hurry. ”
The problem of painting is difficult to explain to the layman, and I have to talk about it in a relatively simple way.
"Oh, I don't know how to draw, and since you say that, you must have a point. By the way, is painting hard to learn?" asked Yun Sisi.
"In fact, it's similar to calligraphy, after understanding the basic painting method, what you see is personal talent, comprehension ability and continuous copying practice, and the way to get started is not difficult, but the difficulty is how to draw an amazing painting. ”
Besides, I thought to myself: any skill is easy to enter, the more you learn, the more difficult it is, and even more so in art, how many people can reach the pinnacle of art for thousands of years? It can be seen that it is an extremely difficult road.
Yun Sisi responded: "I understand what you mean, all the people in this world who read can write, but there are few people who really become calligraphers. ”
Besides, I sighed in my heart: How come Yun Sisi and he also have a heart-to-heart connection? Just thinking about it, suddenly a family member who followed Yun Sisi came to report that Zhou Wenbin and they were here.