Qianmo is vertical and horizontal, the valley làng is surging, and it is golden.

A short brown man with a white cloth wrap and an eleven or twelve-year-old boy walked slowly between the valleys.

The boy looked left and right, like most children who grew up in the city and had just moved to the countryside, and his eyes were full of novelty.

"This is the millet, which is the millet of the five grains mentioned in the book. Everything in the world is wonderful. This grain also has a strange thing. It does not open in the daytime, so many grains, no matter when, do not open in the daytime, but at night, in the second half of the night, as if they knew the hour, hehe, you say it is not wonderful! ”

The man said with a smile, then bent down and plucked a weed from the grain, which was similar in shape to the grain. He put his hands behind his back, gently shook the weeds in his hands, walked leisurely, looked at the golden valley in front of him, and said: "A long time ago, the Yellow River was the most developed time for the Han people's agriculture, until the Sui and Tang dynasties, the north and south of the Yangtze River were still far less developed than the northern agriculture.

But later, it was worse, especially after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the land of cultivation in the north became a grassy land, and the population became scarce, but this is only one aspect. This is an easy thing to do. Trouble-in-the-beaten? That is already in the past, more than 40 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and there are still a few years of war in the north. If the Tartar dares to come to the side, then hit him back! Out in the boondocks? I didn't have time to grow up with a baby, so I was transferred from a crowded place to enrich the population in the north.

However, there is one thing that is very difficult to do, and that is the weather! Grandson, the peasants depend on the weather for food, and I don't know how to do it in the north, and it is much worse than before. Don't underestimate the weather, if there is an inch of rain in the sky, the ground will be flooded. The sun will dry up an inch more than an inch of the earth, and the crops will dry up. The wind blew a little stronger, and the ripe crops were destroyed. ”

The young man asked, "Grandpa Huang, the soldiers are scarce, it can be solved." If there are fewer people, it can also be solved. But the weather is bad, and we are not immortals, what should we do? Does this north have to fall? ”

It turned out that these two people were Zhu Di and his imperial grandson Zhu Zhanji.

When Zhu Di toured the north, he also brought Zhu Zhanji out. The eldest grandson of the emperor grew up in the deep palace and did not know the difficulties of the crops. He also brought out this eldest grandson, who was most favored, and took him with him when he went to the countryside to observe the customs and customs and the fields and mulberries. Let him know that the needs of the state are all due to this, and the life of the people is not easy, and he should be the king of the people, and he should be merciful to the people. This is also a piece of his hard work for his heir.

After listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, Zhu Di bowed his head and said: "Grandson asked well! But if you have the heart to do it, how can you not do it. Grandson, whether it is the emperor who governs the world or the officials who govern the locality, they have a priority in doing things and deal with things. What is the urgency of choosing something important and urgent to do first, and then doing something minor and delayed? Food and clothing! What is important? Civilize!

These are the two most important things for a monarch. The climate in the north is harsh. Do you have to let the people be willing to be poor? Lack of food and clothing? Otherwise! Can you blindly transport grain from the south? That's not going to work, teaching is urgent, not helping the poor! When the climate is bad for a year, the land will be barren, and after two years of barrenness, the people will have to move to other places in order to survive, and after three years, the land will be gone, and the people will be gone.

We need to change that. We can't change the sky, but we can build water conservancy. Make up for the shortcomings of the sky. The branch river passes through it, and the stream spring comes out. Even digging wells on the spot can lead to Narita. After the establishment of Taizu, the most important farming thing, from the first year of Hongwu to the present, I Ming Dynasty opened a total of more than 5,000 pond weirs, river canals, and pi canal embankments, and now agriculture has far exceeded the Yuan time.

However, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the north was not quiet, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the entire Central Plains was destroyed, at that time, the grain was mainly concentrated in the south, and in order to let the people have enough to eat, it was necessary to first build these places that produced more grain, so these water conservancy were mostly concentrated in the south. Now that the water conservancy construction in the south has become large-scale, it is possible to concentrate on the development of the north! ”

Zhu Di explained this principle of the country to Zhu Zhanji in simple terms, and Zhu Zhanji understood it in his heart and nodded frequently.

Zhu Di said: "Of course, in order to revive agriculture in the north, we must not only focus on water conservancy, such as purging the government officials, encouraging land reclamation, improving the soil, cultivating carefully, and selecting crops suitable for drought......

As soon as he said this, a postman suddenly rode his horse and galloped along the ridge from a distance.

At the edge of the valley, a large group of officials were waiting there, avoiding space for the grandfather and grandson, and telling them to wander freely in the fields and chat. As soon as they saw a post guard arrive, someone stepped forward to ask a few questions, and someone led the post man who got off the horse to run towards them, Zhu Di saw it, so he took Zhu Zhanji's hand and said: "Go, go over and have a look!" ”

Zhu Di went up, the post guard took out a sealed chapter, which was the chapter of the impeachment of the prince by the Imperial Procuratorate, Zhu Di rushed back to the ground, under a big elm tree, the eunuch moved to Maza, carried a small table, and served tea, Zhu Di drank the water, while looking at the concerto, the chapter was watched, and his face was displeased, and he commanded loudly: "Come to someone, draft the decree." ”

At that moment, someone carried a few more cases, put them not far from Zhu Di's side, spread the paper and grind the ink, and after the official sat down on the case, he picked up the pen and waited.

Zhu Di said: "Gao Chi Wu'er, I order you to supervise the country, you must be cautious everywhere, don't be impatient." The ministers are all pillars of the country, and occasionally they are small and outdated, and An can humiliate them? Also, when you sit in the Taizǐgōng, you should not listen to and believe partially, and treat others with your own likes and dislikes......"

Zhu Di's big vernacular, the proposed official has long been accustomed to it, and he writes like a fly, brushing and writing: "Tell the prince, I order you to be a supervisor, and all affairs must be lenient and impatient." If a minister has a minor fault, he should not be humiliated; Don't listen to likes and dislikes, and nurture virtue and hope, at this time. The importance of the world's machine affairs, it is advisable to inspect and act, the slightest negligence, the harm is endless. Remember: Be tolerant of the ministers, don't let your likes and dislikes be. All heroes who commit crimes and transfer soldiers must be executed! ”

After the official wrote it and gave it to Zhu Di to read it again, Zhu Di nodded and said, "Use the seal, send it out!" ”

After Zhu Di finished speaking, he took Zhu Zhanji's little hand and said, "Let's go back to the cotton huā field over there." ”

As soon as the grandfather and grandson walked away, Zhu Zhanji picked up the grievances for his father, and he pouted and said: "Grandpa Huang, even if the grandson's father has something inappropriate, but after all, he is the crown prince of the dynasty, how can the imperial grandfather reprimand him because of a few words from an imperial envoy." Grandpa Huang didn't even know why his father scolded the minister......"

Zhu Di was stunned, turned his head to look at his grandson's serious little face, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh: "Hahahaha......"

Zhu Zhanji was even more displeased, shook off Zhu Di's big hand and said, "Why is the imperial grandfather laughing, isn't what the grandson said wrong?" ”

"Hehe, of course not!"

Zhu Di doted on his head, and said earnestly: "Grandson, your father is my son, but in state affairs, he is a king and a minister. The imperial grandfather doesn't need to know why your father scolded the minister, he has always been gentle, since he is angry, there must be a reason, knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, do you still need to ask? ”

Zhu Zhanji said in surprise: "Then why did the emperor's grandfather ......?"

Zhu Di's expression became serious: "Grandson, your father may be angry, but summoning the minister to meet Yu Zǐgōng and teach him a strict lesson, this is arrogance." The crown prince was ordered by me to supervise state affairs on my behalf, but he could not discipline the minister on my behalf, he could only solve the matter, and these matters should be decided by me. Whether he had a reason or not, to do so would be to shake my authority! ”

Zhu Zhanji said puzzledly: "But ......, my father is the son of the emperor's grandfather, and he will be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future." ”

Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "If you are not the emperor for a day, you will not be in charge of the monarch for a day!" In a family, Lao Tzu is not at home, and the son can make some decisions for Lao Tzu. But a country can never be done! There are no two days, there are no two masters in the country, this is not an empty phrase in the play, there is a university question in it. ”

Zhu Di stopped, let out a long breath, and said, "Everything in the world has its truth. Just like the grain, it will always only open in the middle of the night, the sky is not clear, the huā is defeated, since ancient times, it has never changed, we don't understand the truth, but it must have its reason. The same is true of the court and the world.

From the emperor to the cabinet, from the cabinet to the six ministries, from the six ministries to the three local departments, the imperial court and the local government run through the large and small government mén, between the various government méns, between the various official positions, and the joint affairs constitute a huge net that controls the world, and the emperor is the center of this net.

All of this is interdependent and mutually restrictive, and any violation of its rules will destroy the coordination of the entire huge net, thus distorting and deforming, appearing places beyond its control, and even causing greater consequences, and even the destruction of the country. If the king does not become the king, and the minister does not become the minister, he will brew a big luàn. Therefore, this order must not be luàn, and no one can make it luàn for any reason! ”

Zhu Zhanji listened, and lù looked thoughtful.

Zhu Di took his hand and walked slowly along the ridge into the distance, and his solemn voice floated in the wind: "

Grandson, the monarch can never let the minister override the king, whether he is the king's closest filial son, or the loyal minister of loyalty and martyrdom, the king is the king, the minister is the minister, otherwise the king is not the king, the minister is not the minister. Even if what he did was out of loyalty to the king, it was unforgivable. Because ......, when he is above the king, the authority of the king has already been hurt, and the officials will inevitably lose their reverence for the king because of this.

A farmer takes care of more than a dozen acres of fields, and he has to adapt to the seasons and seasons, breeding and planting seedlings, weeding and killing insects. And an emperor takes care of the whole world, up and down, left and right, inside and outside, there are more things to consider and calculate, and one carelessness is the death of tens of millions of people, or even the subversion of the country. Zhanji, one day, you will also become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor, what you think about, not for one person, you have to look at the world, you have to keep these words in mind! ”

Zhu Zhanji also said with a childish voice: "Yes, the emperor's grandfather taught, and the grandson should keep it in mind!" ”

Ask for recommended tickets and commuter passes! (To be continued)