Chapter 970: Make the best use of your talents

Chen Wu glanced at him and said, "It should be our family's gratitude to the Pavilion Boss, if it weren't for the adults who arrived in time, I don't know how to clean up this scene?"

Yang Shiqi said in his heart: "You three eunuchs have come out, can you still clean up this scene!" Naturally, he couldn't say this, but he just nodded and said, "Father-in-law is polite?"

Chen Wu saw him in a big red official uniform and said, "Lord Yang, what is this?"

Yang Shiqi said: "Enter the palace to meet the emperor?"

Chen Wu hummed, Wang Zhen on the side was about to say something, glanced at Chen Wu's lips and moved, but did not make a sound.

Yang Shiqi arched his hand and said, "The old man still wants to see the emperor, so he won't stay, thank you to the three fathers-in-law for today's matter?"

Chen Wu said: "Lord Yang is polite, polite!"

Yang Shiqi didn't say anything more, straightened his clothes, turned around and walked towards the palace.

Looking at his distant back, Wang Zhen said in a low voice: "Gonggong Chen, do you say that the emperor will change his mind?"

Chen Wu's eyes narrowed slightly, shook his head and said: "Our Long Live Lord, it seems to be soft, but he is a very assertive person in his bones, these officials are so noisy, the emperor has long been disgusted in his heart, you can rest assured, the rules of Hong Wuye are gone, and our eunuchs should also get ahead!" After speaking, he glanced at the direction in which Yang Shiqi left, sorted out his clothes, and followed, Wang Zhen and Cao Jixiang immediately chased after him.

In the imperial study, incense is burning.

Zhu Zhanji stood beside the dragon case, a red pen in his hand casually sketched the scroll, and two eunuchs stood beside him, carefully serving the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Yang Shiqi sat down, slowly and slowly with this tea soup, in the pervasive incense, the monarch and the minister were peaceful.

I don't know how long it took for Zhu Zhanji to put down the red pen in his hand and said, "Lord Yang is here today for me to set up an inner study hall in the palace, right?"

Yang Shiqi did not deny it, nodded and said: "I have already set the rules for Hong Wuye, eunuchs are not allowed to read and write, they are not allowed to be crowned and dressed by foreign ministers, they are not allowed to concurrently serve as foreign ministers, and the official rank is not more than four grades, and the ban of "internal ministers are not allowed to interfere in political affairs, and those who are predestined to be beheaded" are cast into iron plates, and the palace gate is suspended, and His Majesty is allowed to read and write, which is against the rules of the ancestors!"

Zhu Zhanji didn't stop, he just frowned when he heard the words and said: "Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, I understand it, but I just let them recite poems and books, understand the words of the sage, and understand the meaning of the sage, so as to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism like all Aiqing, I don't think there is anything wrong with this move?"

Yang Shiqi said: "But ...... the rules of the ancestors?"

Zhu Zhanji smiled faintly and said: "It is good that the ancestors have rules, but some rules also need to be changed, when Hong Wuye in view of the Han and Tang Dynasty eunuchs interfered in politics and manipulated the emperor's life and death, he set this rule, and now I have passed through the Hongwu Dynasty, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi Dynasty, all kinds of rules and regulations have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the eunuchs are only in charge of the East Factory, and do not involve military power, non-Han and Tang Dynasty eunuchs can be compared, I think that the emperor's grandfather understood this truth, only after the martyrdom, the eunuchs were given heavy responsibilities, and successively sent Li Xing to Siam (now Thailand) , Zheng He went to the West, Hou Xian envoy to the Western Regions, Wang An and other overseers of the military camp, and Ma Jing inspected Gansu. In the eighteenth year of Yongle, the East Factory was added in addition to the Jinyi Guard, and the eunuchs were appointed to preside over the special investigation of the subjects (see Factory Guard), and the eunuchs began to obtain the power of envoys, special levies, supervising the army, sub-towns and spying on the hidden feelings of the subjects, so that the eunuchs could make the best use of their talents, and made indelible contributions to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Shiqi understands very well in his heart that Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty set that set the rules, in fact, since he died, it has not had much effect, this is not how unfilial the descendants of the later generations, but the set of rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, many things are not applicable to the government at all, these are not in a high position can not be seen, nor can I think of it, such as the household tax of the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Yuanzhang is compassionate to the people, after ascending the throne, he introduced various preferential policies, the field endowment is set to the minimum, the newly reclaimed land is exempted from three years of forced labor, and the craftsmen under the craftsman registration system are given more to improve their lives and give subsidies, but based on his lack of thorough understanding of the household department, the empty seal caseThe occurrence originated from a financial system after the founding of the Ming Dynasty: the local officials of the Ming Dynasty had to go to Beijing every year to report the financial accounts of the year to the household department. The financial statements of the magistrate must be completely correct with the household department, so that they can be considered clear.

This seems to be a simple matter, but at that time, it was extremely tormenting: the financial system of the Ming Dynasty was extremely strict, and the financial statements of the household department and the local government, even if there was a place where the accounting was wrong, had to be re-made and declared. It's easy to make a book, but it's a problem to seal it. The magistrate made a good atlas, stamped the seal on the place, and waited until the capital to check, once he found that there was a mistake, he had to return to the place, rebuild the book and then seal it, and then run to the capital, which is equivalent to taking off his pants and farting, the officials tossed not to say, those ordinary people also suffered, and after being tossed for a long time, many clever officials also came up with a way. Of course, the official seal cannot be brought to the capital, but you can take the official seal first, pre-select and cover several blank albums, and bring it to the capital for later use. Once you find that there is a mistake, you can modify it on the spot, it is easy to do it, so that there will be more fraud, which is why the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is always greater than the silver two, and when it comes to war, the treasury will always be short of silver.

For another example, for the sea ban, before the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese dynasties did not implement the sea ban, especially in the Song and Yuan dynasties, overseas trade developed to a very high level, and the Song Dynasty had trade contacts with more than 50 countries and regions. The Song Dynasty's territory was small, and the number of troops was huge, and the agricultural tax alone could not maintain a huge financial expenditure, forcing the Song Dynasty government to set its sights on commerce and overseas trade. Therefore, the Song Dynasty adopted a series of measures to protect and attract foreign maritime merchants. In the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers adopted a mercantilist policy, encouraging overseas trade and foreign exports (in a specific period of time, private trade was also prohibited, for a short time), its market management and taxation system became more and more complete, coupled with the Chinese and foreign maritime merchants "their mutual markets, each according to their own wishes", so the Yuan Dynasty's overseas trade developed to a new height, and the income brought by overseas trade accounted for a large proportion of the country's financial revenue, becoming the "capital of the military state" of the Yuan Dynasty. Because of the active development of overseas trade, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in order to completely eliminate the hidden danger of the sea ban, he forced the implementation of the immigration policy, and in the 20th year of Hongwu, he forced the residents of Zhoushan Island in Zhejiang Province and two miles away from the town and the residents of other 46 mountains (islands) to move inland. In the process of implementing this policy, its barbarism of disregard for the property and lives of the common people can be seen everywhere, for example, the mandatory three-day period of relocation has made it difficult for the inhabitants of the island to raise so many ships within the specified time limit, so they have to "weave a gate and make a raft into a bed", and many people drowned. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the military officer in charge of the coastal area was Xinguo Gong Tang He, and when he immigrated, he stipulated: "Those who move before noon are the people, and those who move in the afternoon are the army!"

What is particularly lamentable is that "Ming Zu customized, and the board is not allowed to go to the sea", Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas and measures have been established as "ancestral teachings", and they should be unswervingly pursued by future generations. Behind Zhu Yuanzhang, the sea ban was slowly relaxed until the year of Yongle, but it was never abolished, which can be said to have a heavy impact on the growth of the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang's set of commerce is even more unworkable, from the Han and Tang dynasties to the two Song Dynasty, the status of businessmen is still rising, the importance of commerce in the national economy, is getting higher and higher, to the Southern Song Dynasty, even has replaced agriculture, become one of the sources of the treasury, the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty is less than half of the Ming Dynasty, but it is to feed more people than the Ming Dynasty, in the later period to resist the Tartar iron cavalry for more than 50 years of war, it can be said that the commerce of the Southern Song Dynasty is indispensable, even the Tartar court, also attaches great importance to commerce, but after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, because his own understanding is not deep enough, when discussing with Liu Ji how to reduce the burden of the people, said: "Today's plan, when the allocation is given to save money, then the people's power can not be trapped; He believes that saving on expenditure can reduce the burden on the common people and prevent them from falling into poverty; In September of the eighteenth year of Hongwu, he said: "Everyone says that agriculture is the foundation of food and clothing, but abandons the root and pursues the end, and there are few people who save it." In the world of the first king, there were no people who cultivated in the wilderness, and there were no silkworm daughters in the room, and there was no danger of water and drought, and there was no hunger and cold. Since the way of tithing, the skill of KitKat, and then the industry of agriculture and mulberry has been abolished. A farmer is obsessed with a hundred families to eat, a woman is weaving and a hundred husbands are treated, and there is no poverty for people. "Treat commerce as a serious obstacle to agricultural development. The meaning of suppressing business is overflowing. To this end, he did not hesitate to set all kinds of rules.

First, we should prevent the expansion of the ranks of businessmen and do everything possible to prevent the peasants from doing business. The five counties of Su, Song, Jia, Hu and Hangzhou are narrow and densely populated, and "the small people have no land to cultivate, and they often chase the last profit". The method of resettlement and resettlement was adopted to block the way for landless peasants to do business. If this method still has a milder benevolent color, then in his later years, it exudes a "smell of blood". In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the order of Fanzhi County, Daizhou, Taiyuan Prefecture: more than 300 peasants fled outdoors in this county, and they were not returned, and they were chased by the begging guard. After Zhu Yuanzhang read the recital, he instructed the household department: If the people are relocated to their land, if they are given enough food and clothing, how can they go to their hometowns lightly? If a farmer who has left his hometown does not engage in farming and specializes in business, he is regarded as an idle person who does not do his job properly and is allowed to be arrested. The peasants were violently driven back into the fields and they were not allowed to leave the land. Limit the number of merchants to a certain range.

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