When Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, returned to Nanjing, his movements were much smaller than that of Ma's army.

One is that the former is not a big victory after all, and the other is that even if you turn around Nanjing, it is easy to follow.

In addition to Zhu Zhen and Zhu Gaoxu, the two chief and deputy commanders, only 100 personal soldiers followed him, and even the messengers who traveled to and from Nanjing were useless.

After the two men left their respective soldiers in the suburbs of Beijing, they rode directly into Nanjing City side by side.

It can be regarded as an unexpected little surprise for Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di.

"I thought Uncle Six would still have a few days."

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen walked down the imperial steps and personally ran to the palace gate to hold up Zhu Zhen's arms. Looking at the latter's face that had washed away the dust, he sincerely admired: "A few years of conquest have made the sixth uncle look more energetic, so handsome, good." ”

"The minister didn't dare, but it was His Majesty's Holy Mighty Long, which made the minister feel broken."

In front of his eldest nephew, Zhu Zhen looked a little nervous, mainly because he was frightened when he was still in Xi'an.

The latest Minglian Kanyu map made Zhu Zhen not sleep well for a few days and nights, and the only thing in his mind was that his father had chosen a good successor.

"Sixth, when did you learn this kind of rhetoric?"

Zhu Di, who was standing next to Zhu Yunwen, stepped forward and hammered Zhu Zhen on the chest: "When our brothers joined forces for the first time in the Northern Expedition, you squeezed me to death and scolded me for nothing." ”

"Fourth brother, at your level, don't compare it with Your Majesty, it's too much worse."

Zhu Zhen raised his eyebrows and choked, but because of this, he dissipated the restraint in a small area between several people.

The three uncles and nephews chatted happily, but Zhu Gaoxu on the side was left out in the cold, but instead of looking for a sense of existence, the latter stood aside in a regular manner, standing straight in a military posture, until Zhu Yunwen looked at him sideways, and then bowed with his fists.

"Your Majesty."

This greeting made Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di look at each other in surprise, and the former became more and more emotional.

"Gao Xu has also grown up."

Thirty-four-year-old Zhu Yunwen and thirty-one-year-old Zhu Gaoxu are obviously brothers of the same age, but Zhu Yunwen's tone and tone are like the latter's father, and the brothers Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen, who were standing on the side, nodded frequently.

Zhu Di had a fatherly smile on his face: "This bastard boy first spent five years in Moting, and then went to the northwest, nearly nine years before and after, and there have indeed been earth-shaking changes." ”

Hearing Zhu Di's words, Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly changed his direction and saluted Zhu Di: "Unfilial son Gaoxu, ask my father how he is well." ”

"Yes, Lao Tzu is very good."

It was difficult for Zhu Di to be old, but at this time, he was a little teary-eyed, and his hands slapped Zhu Gaoxu's two big arms a few times: "Good son, you are so strong." ”

"Dad, the child is not filial, and he has not been able to fulfill his filial piety in front of your knees for so many years."

Looking at the white hair on Zhu Di's temples, Zhu Gaochu knelt down with a pout, hugged Zhu Di's thighs and cried, and the latter was also sentimental, stroking Zhu Gaoxu's head and sighing.

Such a picture of father and son filial piety touched Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Zhen quite a lot.

Zhu Gaoxu is lucky, at least, he can come back alive to see his father.

How many sons of the Ming Dynasty have never had the opportunity to return to their hometown in their lives since the moment they put on their armor and embarked on the journey.

"By the way, is Gao Xu married?"

Waiting for the father and son to relate to their relationship, Zhu Yunwen suddenly thought of such a question: "I remember that before Gao Xu, this kid went to Moting to take up his post, the fourth uncle originally chose a family affair, did it become a family?" ”

When asked about this, Zhu Di also came back to his senses, and then remembered that his second son was very sloppy in his life's affairs.

Back then, he chose a family for Zhu Gaoxu, who was also a famous family, but he never thought that the plan would not catch up with the changes, and he had not yet given a dowry, which was the Northern Expedition to the grassland.

After the battle, Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the grassland to serve as the protector of the desert court, and then directly followed Zhu Zhen to inspect the platform.

This is a complete mess.

"I've been married."

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly replied: "The so-called parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker, the minister got along with a Mongolian girl on the grassland in his early years, and he was afraid that his father would not agree, so he hastily became a relative. ”

As soon as he heard that Zhu Gaoxu had married a Mongolian girl, Zhu Di was about to go crazy and was stopped by Zhu Yunwen.

"Look at you, no wonder Gao Xu is reluctant to tell you, now that you have children, Fourth Uncle, do you still plan to break up the family?"

An adult man in his thirties can't be a bachelor for the rest of his life.

"In a few days, I will let the queen find another wife for Gao Xu, or will she get married."

Under Zhu Di's appeasement, Zhu Yunwen beckoned a few people to sit down, and cared about Zhu Gaoxu's private affairs with the identity and attitude of the head of the Zhu family: "You just talked about your wife and children, how old are the children, how old are they, and what are their names." ”

As soon as he heard about this short matter in the family, Zhu Di also took it to heart, how to say that it was also his grandson.

"A son and a daughter, a son is three and a half years old, and a daughter is five years old."

Zhu Gaoxu smirked: "Our family lined up the characters and walked the soil, and just in time to catch up with the ministers guarding the border boundary, I named my son a Qi character, called Zhu Zhanqi." ”

Zhu Zhanqi, isn't this the same name as the second prince?

At this time, Zhu Di was completely blown up, pointed at Zhu Gaoxu's nose and scolded: "Okay, you bastard, don't you understand the rules of avoiding the Venerable?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu was still a little dazed at first, but this sentence of avoiding the Venerable made him come back to his senses at once.

When the child was born, he was patronized and happy, how could he have the time to think about the name of the emperor's son.

Just wanted to confess, I heard Zhu Yunwen's words.

"Fourth uncle, you can't be quiet, Gao Xu came back so easily for so many years, just now he was holding his head and crying, and now he is even arguing and scolding, and when he can't see it when he looks back, he secretly thinks about it, what is the matter."

didn't give Zhu Di a chance to speak, Zhu Yunwen waved his hand: "There is a name left and right, why avoid the Venerable, I have more than 70 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are still fewer names with Yun and text, all of them have been changed?"

What's even more outrageous is that there are still many people who have their names first, and they have to change them in order to avoid the Venerable, which is unreasonable. ”

Not to mention the whole world, there are not a few people who change their names because they avoid Zhu Yunwen's name, and the most famous is Xu Huizu.

How many years did the original name Xu Yungong call, but as a result, Zhu Yunwen was born, and he had to change it.

Taizu said to Xu Da, why don't you change your name to Huizu in the future, and the meaning of Guangzong and Yaozu is also very good.

Ignoring the trivial matter of the name, Zhu Yunwen laughed at Zhu Gaoxu.

"Only three and a half years old? You're a little late, look at your eldest brother's Zhanji, he is fourteen this year, and he will be able to get married and have children in two years. Fourth uncle, sixth uncle, time flies so fast, when Xiao Zhanji was 100 days old, I also shouted Gao Chi to eat with the queen, and the queen also gave Zhanji a long-life lock.

Today, when I opened my mouth, Zhan Ji was already fourteen years old, and he was a young man, hehe, I didn't feel old, but let these children chase after the old. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen shook his head and smiled bitterly, and told his parents: "Wen Kui is sixteen, and the queen has been nagging Wen Kui's marriage in my ear every day a few months ago. ”

A few big men, an emperor, and three generals in the army, don't talk about the country's military aircraft, but talk about furniture here.

"Your Majesty doesn't say it, the minister hasn't found out yet, why haven't you seen Wen Kui today."

Zhu Zhen turned his head left and right: "Doesn't Wen Kui live here?" ”

"I moved out last year, and now Wenqi lives with me in this Qianqing Palace, but he went to school and hasn't come back yet."

Zhu Yunwen explained: "Wen Kui is a young man and can't live in the palace, so I asked him to move to the hidden mansion where I was back then." ”

Sixteen years old, it is the age of adolescent sexual sprouting, there are too many palace ladies in the palace, Ma Enhui was afraid of a scandal, and offered to drive Zhu Wenkui out of the palace.

The mansion outside the palace is not matched by a maid.

Zhu Yunwen was still a little unhappy about this, which was a little too ruthless.

"The queen is too worried, if there is something that can make Wen Kui look at her, marry her, give birth to an heir like this, I will be a grandfather and you will be a grandmother, and we can also experience the fun of holding a grandson."

For Zhu Yunwen's answer, where can Ma Enhui be willing.

"Is the palace maid worthy?"

These words made Zhu Yunwen a little embarrassed, and he turned around and left without eating dinner that night.

Insinuating and scolding whom?

When it came to the topic of the two brothers Zhu Wenkui and Zhu Wenqi, the three except Zhu Yunwen wisely chose to remain silent and did not answer. After Zhu Yunwen finished lamenting the scripture that was difficult to read at home, Zhu Zhen diverted the topic.

"Your Majesty, when the minister turned around from the northwest, he watched a lot of changes in Shaanxi and Gansu along the way, and he was amazed."

As soon as he talked about business, Zhu Yunwen's expression immediately became serious, and his body involuntarily sat up straight: "How is the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu?" ”

"The terroir is very different."

Zhu Zhen excitedly talked about what he saw and heard along the way: "From Lanzhou Mansion to the northwest, there are many kinds of trees along the road, and I heard that it is to prevent and control the expansion of the desertification area of the Hexi Corridor, and at the same time, Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu will widen the river along the upper reaches of the Yellow River and build water conservancy.

In the Guanye area of Shaanxi and Gansu, a lot of cattle and sheep have been introduced from Moting, and there are many people who have set up chickens, ducks and pig pens, and animal husbandry and breeding have been opened. ”

"What is the price of grain and salt in Shaanxi and Gansu?"

"I heard that there were fluctuations at the beginning of the return to farmland, but it quickly stabilized."

Zhu Zhen replied truthfully: "Most prices are not much different from before the return of farmland, and a small number of scarce goods have risen. ”

If the salt and grain are not chaotic, the people's livelihood in Shaanxi and Gansu will not be chaotic.

Zhu Yunwen put his heart down: "I'm afraid of food price fluctuations, and I can't go up and down, but if I can stabilize it, I will be sure." ”

Glancing at Zhu Yunwen's expression, Zhu Zhen hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know the government, but he still dares to ask, I heard that India's taxes and grain are very huge, and His Majesty ordered it to be burned?" ”

This question immediately made Zhu Yunwen smile bitterly.

"The minister shouldn't have speculated about His Majesty's Sacred Heart, but the minister grew up with a hard life, and the country was poor when he was a child, and even the ministers who were princes didn't eat four dishes in one meal, and it was a bit difficult to accept this kind of thing."

Zhu Zhen hurriedly clarified the reason why he spoke, and attributed the starting point of this question to his own distress.

"I understand, I understand."

Zhu Yunwen hurriedly raised his hand and signaled: "I am not a loser, I am also distressed to give this kind of order, and I haven't slept well for a few days, especially not long after the order to burn grain that year, Henan and Hebei were also hit by a locust plague, and hundreds of thousands of victims came out of more than a dozen counties, and tens of thousands of hectares of land were not harvested.

At that time, the scale of our breeding, animal husbandry, and wine-making industries was not large, and the consumption was limited, and the central government warehouses were all full, and the storage space could not be released, so I had to order the burning of grain.

But after that time, I and the cabinet began to formulate relevant policies, expanding the production of aquaculture and animal husbandry in Henan and Hebei, and building new official warehouses in Zhejiang and Fujian coastal provinces, and this year we did not burn too much, only more than 50 million stones.

Next year, Shandong's granaries will also be built, and Shandong and Hebei will return farmland one after another, releasing more space for grain use, and there will be no grain burning. I have to give me, the court, and a little time for construction and development. ”

There is no result of the process, Zhu Zhen is not bad, just asked euphemistically, Zhu Yunwen was almost scolded by Xia Yuanji.

Especially after the locust plague, when Xia Yuanji opened the official warehouse to provide grain, he almost didn't go to the Taimiao to sue Zhu Yunwen.

wrote a recital for several days to complain, but it made Zhu Yunwen angry and happy.

I can't wait to throw Xia Yuanji in prison and lock him up for a few years before he is released.

Just skip the process and see the results.

The act of burning grain is absolutely wrong, it is very wrong, and Zhu Yunwen never said that this is the right thing.

This is something that has to be done in a certain period of time in order to avoid greater risks.

Zhu Yunwen's grievances Zhu Zhen didn't understand, he just expressed his opinion on what he saw: "Duogan had a sandstorm this year, and several counties were also affected.

Since the imperial court has grain, why not give a little more, in fact, it can completely feed the people. ”

Faced with Zhu Zhen's sincere and distressing questioning for the people, Zhu Yunwen was silent for a moment before sighing.

"Sixth uncle, it's not that I'm ruthless, I'd rather burn it than give it to the people, but I can't be soft-hearted. In order to develop and build a locality, it needs the leadership of the imperial court and, more importantly, the participation and joint efforts of the local people.

If after the disaster, the people will eat more than they used to eat all year round. In that case, the people will not be lazy.

When they knew that the court could not bear to starve them to death, none of them wanted to work under the scorching sun, sweat beads falling to the ground, and eight petals of labor.

What will I do then? What about the imperial court?

Legislative?

The law does not blame the people, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the land is not terrible, millions, tens of millions! Our Ming Dynasty collapsed because of the lazy element of human nature.

What do you think of the northwest and southwest, inland provinces? They will also open their mouths like babies waiting to be fed and fed.

Natural disasters are nothing, and man-made famines are more terrible than natural disasters! ”

How terrible is the laziness of human nature, the Holodomor in Ukraine tells us the answer.

The Soviet Union's large-scale policy ignored the laziness factor in human nature, which led to millions, if not tens of millions, starving to death in that famine.

It has also been speculated by some conspiracy theories that this policy is not to ignore human nature, but to deliberately implement it knowing that human nature is so, with the aim of carrying out an ethnic cleansing of Ukraine.

"I don't want to explain this policy, because whether it is the collapse of food prices or the laziness of the people, it is a huge problem that we cannot handle well in this period.

Only when the time is up, can it be done. The plan of the Cabinet was to retain most of the cultivated land in Liaodong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Hebei, and Shandong, and to retain 30% of the cultivated land in the remaining provinces, and the area of these cultivated fields would be enough for self-sufficiency even if the imperial court lost India one day.

The premise is that the imperial court loses India, and I tell you that the Ming Union will tie India firmly to the chariot.

The conversion force we have released is extremely considerable, and because of the reduction of arable land, grain prices will rise appropriately, and I have also talked to Yan Zhen directly, and I plan to formulate corresponding price guidance policies to regulate the red line of trading. ”

Listening to Zhu Yunwen talk about economic issues, Zhu Zhen was a little at a loss: "The minister is just used to being thrifty, and he can't accept it for a while, His Majesty is willing to teach, and the minister is ashamed." ”

"Thrift is a good thing, and I also make steamed buns and side dishes, and a plate of fish and a stack of meat will be distributed."

Zhu Yunwen smiled: "The world still thinks that the emperor has hundreds of dishes every day, but in fact, I am so big, except for the establishment of the Ming Union some time ago, I invited those kings to eat a feast." ”

Frugality is a good thing, even extreme frugality.

Cognitively, one might think that being too frugal will lead to the waste of the goods produced, that is, the so-called production exceeding consumption will lead to excess production, and then deflation.

The harm of producing more than consumption is much lower than that of production being less than consumption, because what is produced is not just used to be consumed, but can be used to reproduce and continue to reproduce.

The length of the chain of production depends on the amount of production products put into its source.

Taking Daming burning grain as an example, grain is a raw product, grain can be used to make wine, and wine is a recycled product of grain.

Food can be used to expand farming and animal husbandry, which are also renewable products.

Cows produce milk, sheep produce goat's milk.

Cow's and goat's milk are products that continue to be recycled.

In this way, the wine is cheaper, the milk is cheaper, the meat is cheaper, all the recycled products are cheaper, and the people live in an environment with ultra-low living prices.

And in these links, a key point is often mentioned.

Productivity level.

Milk is a regenerative product, what is the productivity of milk?

The cow itself, the scale of breeding, the breeding technology and health process of the cow, and the milk disinfection process.

After these productivity increases, milk is cheap, and people can consume it at any time without deliberately frugality, which is the quality of life improvement brought about by productivity.

And how to promote the progress of production science and technology?

This is what Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet are doing now, which is to return farmland to change production.

Cattle farmers used to have a hundred people, but now they have 500 people.

This is to increase productivity by accumulating the number of people, which is called raw productivity gain.

But will the experience of 500 dairy farmers help improve the technology of dairy cow breeding, epidemic prevention and hygiene?

Five hundred, not five thousand.

There were 2,000 craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry who studied gunpowder technology, and later it became 20,000 and 200,000.

Can't come out with a Chinese Nobel? Don't say that you can't do it without theoretical support, if you are superstitious about Western science, the earliest theory was formed in practice.

Nitroglycerin plus diatomaceous earth plus sodium carbonate is an explosive.

The workers of the Ministry of Industry found themselves named, and they called Zhang San plus Li Si with Wang Wu.

Isn't it possible?

The core thing is still the same thing, but with a different name.

After this name and process were written in the book, didn't it become a theory that later generations regarded as the guideline?

China has been ahead of the West for thousands of years in steel technology, but it was overtaken after the Industrial Revolution.

That is, there are fewer experienced operators in the reproduction process.

And at the port of the reproduction link, the consumption is large.

If the raw materials can't arrive, the reproduction link will be gone.

Hundreds of millions of people in the Ming and Qing dynasties, hundreds of millions of mouths waiting to eat, the economic involution is extremely serious, the marginal benefit is almost equal to zero, the people can't even survive, the dynastic cycle law is unavoidable, and talking about productivity in that environment is a hooligan.

What we have to see is that before the Industrial Revolution, Britain was also extremely involuted, but they found a way to green the clouds.

That's colonization.

Through the way of foreign colonization to export the domestic involution, and then the domestic living environment is cheaper, a large number of agricultural primitive labor force into industrial labor force, more experienced workers and masters, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

In the early days of colonization, John Cow also burned grain.

It's just not ready.

Why didn't they take grain to the Qing Dynasty to exchange for slaves?

In the eighteenth century, the marginal benefits of Qing society had reached a dangerous line with the population explosion, and no matter how it developed, it was standing still or even entering the abyss, not to mention that it was still playing the game of seclusion and refusing to learn new technologies to evolve domestic productive forces.

The continental balance of power policy was John Bull's basic policy towards foreign affairs, and they were certainly happy to see the old empire in the East destroy itself, so that they could take advantage of it and turn China into a colony.

Grain is the source of all renewable products, even if it seems to be an artillery cannon that cannot be hit by eight poles.

By grasping the grain, we can open up countless reproduction chains, so as to bring down all the prices in all aspects of the Ming society, and promote the progress of the productive forces in the way that quantity produces quality.

In such an infinite cycle, all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty will prosper rapidly, and the level of productivity will be the same day by day, entering the so-called big bang stage of science and technology.

I dare not say that satellites go to the sky and high-speed trains go directly to this fantasy.

At the very least, it is necessary to achieve the level of steam loading, thick smoke billowing, giant ship cannons, and round-trip from the other side.

Today, Zhu Yunwen boarded the ship in Quanzhou and landed in Mumbai half a month later.

For this dream, Zhu Yunwen has been doing it, and he, Yan Zhenzhi, and the entire cabinet are paying attention to every link and process, and they are carefully escorting.

is still what Zhu Yunwen said to Zhu Zhen.

"Sixth uncle, don't worry, give me a little time, and give me a little time, what you see now in the northwest is what I must let you see now, and in the future, what you see again is what you want to see.

The Ming Dynasty is very big, the Ming Union is even bigger, this behemoth must be carefully maintained, and it cannot be allowed to collapse and dissolve, because as long as the Ming Union is here, I can develop more rapidly, time does not wait, day and night will fight! ”