Zhu Biao was still in a daze in the Wenhua Hall at this time, and the current situation was really a bit complicated, Liu Jin knocked on the door and walked in with a plate of snacks.

Liu Jin put the snacks aside and bowed down and said, "The slave went out for a spin and found a lot of interesting things. ”

Zhu Biao came back to his senses, picked up a piece of dim sum and motioned Liu Jin to continue, and Liu Jin danced and said.

There is no way, Zhu Biao's identity is destined to make it difficult for him to go out every day, and he is not easy to use the people in the pro-military Governor's Mansion, so he can only let Liu Jin go out and walk around.

Zhu Biao couldn't help but be happy when he heard that some businessmen were preparing to catch his son-in-law under the list, this custom flourished in the Song Dynasty, and now he is much lonely, or he is simply robbing his son-in-law under the list.

Now that the martial arts are strong and the culture is weak, the nobles in the capital also look down on these new scholars, after all, they are only sesame officials after passing the palace examination, and they have the son of their old brother, and the future of this and that country is prestigious.

That is, the rich businessmen who have no confidence will move this thought, and Zhu Biaole will have to think about it after he finishes it, and the rich businessmen now have strong political demands, because although they can participate in the imperial examination, as long as they do not pass, their social status is still the lowest.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that merchants were not allowed to wear silk yarn - "order farmers to wear silk, yarn, silk, and cloth, and merchants to stop clothes and silk." If one of the peasants is a merchant, he shall not be clothed in silk or yarn"; He was forbidden to convert a peasant into a merchant and was stipulated to "not engage in farming, but to work exclusively on the end of the work", so he was classified as a "nomad". If there are vagrants, the government "will arrest them". The merchant's own entry into the government was still restricted, and there was a barrier between him and the doctor.

For merchants, money loses its meaning when it reaches a certain amount, and they are like children carrying gold in the downtown area, not to mention those feudal officials, even the officials in the state capital can bite them hard.

Therefore, the businessmen in the early Ming Dynasty pursued social status improvement, which is also normal, after all, their lives are limited everywhere, and this gentry is also ashamed to be with businessmen, and those who have attachments will be killed.

Zhu Biao is not ready to meddle too much now, Daming is in ruins, and the same is true of business, Zhu Yuanzhang's policy to them is very good, now the most important thing in Daming is agriculture, if too many people can't even eat, then how can commerce prosper?

But this must also be put in the plan, Zhu Biao found his own small notebook and wrote it down, if the Ming Dynasty wants to really prosper, it must develop maritime trade, and supply China with resources from other continents.

With the increase in population and the advent of the Xiaoice period, it is impossible to rely solely on farming, after all, the resistance of agricultural civilization to natural disasters is too poor, once natural disasters are not enough food for many years, then peasant uprisings everywhere will begin again.

Relying on the sky to eat is unreliable, God will not care whether you will starve to death, but how to limit the power of commerce is also a big problem, fortunately, China has been more powerful than wealth since ancient times, and Zhu Biao still has room for operation.

In the next few days, Zhu Biao stayed in the East Palace honestly, and all parts of Daming also received news from the capital one after another, and the entire Shilin was boiling, and the letters came and went frequently, and Zhu Biao wanted to set up a postal department.

After a few days, letters from all over the world were delivered to two places, one was the capital and the other was Shandong, and these two places had become a whirlpool, and the eyes of all the literati in the world were watching.

Yanshenggong's Mansion has also been noisy for many days, and the owners of various houses get together every day to discuss, Yanshenggong Kong Xixue is also a headache, he has been to the capital, and naturally knows that the current emperor looks down on them.

Before his father died, he specially instructed that he would never go to the capital again unless he had to, and Kong Xixue did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang to be so aggressive, how long did his father just die, and now he is forcing him to go to Beijing.

Now Kong Xixue is roasted on the fire, everyone in the world is waiting for him to come forward, and all the other clans are also persuading him to go to Beijing as soon as possible, as if he can solve all the problems if he comes forward.

In the Wencheng Hall of Confucius Mansion, Kong Xixue sat at the top, and the people sitting below were his uncles and brothers and eldest son, and one of the old men said: "This matter is very wrong, the old man has received more than 50 letters from Jiangnan, all of which are asking the old man to persuade the head of the family to go to Beijing." ”

The other one who was a little younger said: "What else do you have to think, this is that the current emperor wants to suppress my Yansheng Mansion, it is really too deceitful!" ”

Kong Xixue's younger brother Kong Xiwen played with the bracelet and said: "Today's emperor is extremely upright in the world, and he doesn't need my Kong family to correct his name, so naturally he won't be polite to us." ”

Kong Ne, the eldest son of Yan Shenggong, said on the side: "Since you know that it is a Hongmen banquet, if your father doesn't go, what can the emperor do." ”

Kong Xixue sighed and said: "Now the emperor is still reasoning with us, if we don't go, what should the emperor do, the emperor is not very reasonable." ”

The old man also frowned, the power of the Confucian Mansion is more fame, of course, if you are in a hurry, you can make up tens of thousands of well-trained young people, all of whom are loyal to the Confucian Mansion, and now they are farming for the Confucian Mansion, which is the foundation that has been saved for thousands of years.

But this is only to ensure that the Confucian family can have the power to protect themselves in troubled times, not to fight against the imperial court or to dominate the world, the nature of the Confucian family determines that they must not ascend to the throne.

After discussing for a long time, Yan Shenggong sighed and said: "Go, if you don't go, you will make a big mess, and the reputation of my Confucian Mansion will also suffer a huge blow. ”

The rest of the people should look at their own family master with complicated eyes, the emperor forced them to go to the capital so much, it was obvious that he wanted to make them ruthlessly, and now he was undoubtedly in the mouth of the tiger, if he was forced to agree to some things...

Yan Shenggong stood up and saluted Confucius behind him and said: "As Yan Shenggong, I naturally focus on reproducing the descendants of the saints, and it is my responsibility to protect the Confucian family. ”

The rest of the people all stood up and saluted his back respectfully, and then walked out, leaving only Yan Shenggong and his eldest son Kong Ne to stay inside, and the corners of Kong Xiwen's mouth rose when he finally withdrew.

The next day, the Confucian Mansion announced that Yan Shenggong would rush to the capital on the same day, and immediately this news made Shilin boil again, and the name of Yan Shenggong's deep understanding of righteousness spread all over the country, and literati and scholars in various places began to promote the reputation of Confucius in various forms.

Mao Xiang, who was in the south of the Yangtze River, also breathed a sigh of relief and set off to rush back to the capital, the chess game had been laid out, and the chess players were already in place, so it was up to them to see who could be better.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Biao also breathed a sigh of relief, if the Kong family was determined to be a turtle with a shrunken head, no one could do anything, after all, the saint Miao descendants respected by the dynasties of the past dynasties could not be overwhelmed by the army and directly slaughtered the Holy Prince's Mansion.

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