Chapter Fifty-Three: Life and Karma Are Gone

Just like Zhu Biao said, when people's hearts are never satisfied, there will be trouble on the night of the knighthood.

Zhang Yi, Marquis of Heqing, and Hou Huayun of Huai'an, and Yu Tongyuan, Marquis of Nan'an, went straight to the palace after drinking, and clashed with Wang Zhi, Marquis of Lu'an, who guarded the court, and had an armed fight......

Zhu Biao doesn't care, it's inevitable, there are always people who are unbalanced in their hearts, these three are just the stupidest.

In the future, these nobles are indispensable to fight openly and secretly, and with the return of Xu Dachang Yuchun, there are more bigwigs in Huaixi, and Li Shanchang will also concentrate on winning people's hearts.

These are all headaches for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao's suggestion to give more titles is to intensify their contradictions, but also to boost their arrogance, the more the courtiers fight, the safer it is for the monarch.

This time, there are too many people who are not worthy of virtue, if they don't converge, disaster is not far away!

Zhu Biao told a few people around him about the crown princess, Yun Jin was okay, and the remaining Nuan Yu and Shuang'er were a little panicked, and Zhu Biao didn't say anything.

These are inevitable things, and Zhu Biao will naturally protect them, but he will not support Nuanyu and let them contradict the crown princess.

Three days later, Zhu Biao received a notice that it was at the morning court meeting that Zhu Yuanzhang made a holy decree to Chang Yuchun to give marriage.

Chang Yuchun has already happily received the decree and thanked him, and returned to the house to prepare, of course, this is what he is doing, and this matter has already been decided.

It stands to reason that Zhu Biao is the crown prince, and the emperor's decree on marriage has already been issued, and this matter is decided, and the wedding will be held directly at that time.

But I didn't expect the queen to give an edict to the Ministry of Rites to prepare six ceremonies.

Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, the ancient pre-marriage ceremony was troublesome, Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Naji, Nazheng, announcing and greeting! He thought he would have escaped......

There is no way, Yi Zhi has already been issued, although Zhu Yuanzhang is unwilling to interfere in government affairs in the harem, but when the mother is in charge of her son's wedding, Comrade Zhu is not easy to say.

The next day, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites led a group of people to the East Palace to meet the prince, and informed him that the princess's Jin Ce and Jin Bao were already preparing, and also brought nine geese for him to choose, and they would be sent to the Kaiping palace in a while.

This is the first step, the gift is sent to explore the style, and the wild goose is sent because I feel that the wild goose woman sings the husband with her single-mindedness.

In addition to the wild geese, there are many treasures, all of which were prepared by Queen Ma herself.

Zhu Biao picked a pair of good-looking geese, and then it was finished.

In the next day's questioning session, the officials of the Ministry of Rites led the people of Qin Tianjian and the celebrant to run towards the Kaiping Palace, and several princes also joined in the fun.

On the third day, the palace maid beside the queen led the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian to Zhu Biao and Chang Luohua respectively. The two of them are a match made in heaven! ”

On the fourth day of the levy ceremony, according to the rules, men and women have no matchmakers, no money, no coins! In fact, it is a gift to the old mother-in-law, and Zhu Biao, as the prince, naturally can't be stingy.

Mo said that the gifts of his mother-in-law, even the servants and maids of the Kaiping Mansion have their own gifts, which was arranged by Zhu Yuanzhang and also showed that "the manna descends, the emperor's grace is mighty!" ”

The fifth day of the announcement is that the two families set the date of the official marriage, so far the overture of the drama is finished, and the real trouble is still on the day of the final wedding.

The wedding date was set in September of the second year of Hongwu, and this matter has been completely decided.

Zhu Biao also went to Kaiping Palace, but unfortunately he didn't see Chang Luohua.

But these are all trivial matters, maybe Zhu Yuanzhang thinks that his son is about to marry a daughter-in-law, and he is not a child anymore, and some government affairs will be sent to the East Palace for him to see after they are handled.

Zhu Biao also really began to understand the situation of the world, it can only be said that the current Ming Dynasty is full of wreckage, some important towns are basically in ruins, and the world-famous Yangzhou City is actually only left with eighteen families and twenty-one living trees.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, officials were corrupt, the Mongolian aristocracy was rotten, and the government was corrupt. In order to eliminate the deficit, the Yuan court increased taxes and printed a large number of new banknotes, "Zhizheng Bao Banknotes", and the ensuing inflation, natural disasters such as famine and flooding of the Yellow River made the people's livelihood miserable.

Faced with the bleak situation of mourning and starvation, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a policy of rest and recuperation, and Zhu Yuanzhang replied in Li Shanchang's recital on taxation: "The world is initially decided, and the people are in financial difficulties, just like a bird that can just fly cannot pull out its feathers, and a tree that has just been planted cannot shake its roots, and it must be recuperated in peace." ”

It is now necessary to adopt such a policy, while advocating the preservation of wealth from the people, in order to ensure that there are sufficient labor resources on the front line of agriculture. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the whole country that landlords were not allowed to keep slaves and maids, and all slaves and maids they raised were released as good citizens.

Those who were sold into slavery due to hunger were redeemed by the imperial court; Strictly control the development of monasteries, explicitly order that each prefecture and county can only have one large monastery, prohibit women under the age of forty from becoming nuns, strictly prohibit monasteries from adopting child monks, and young people over the age of twenty must obtain the consent of their parents and officials if they want to become monks.

Within three years after becoming a monk, he will go to Beijing to take the exam, and those who fail to pass will be sent to the people. The implementation of these policies has increased the number of workers in society

In the middle of November, Zhu Biao suddenly received a notice and immediately set off with the royal car, fortunately Liu Jin moved quickly, and set off directly with the necessities for going out.

No one knew the route of Zhu Yuanzhang's trip, and in the next half month, Zhu Yuanzhang randomly screened the towns near Nanjing to check whether the imperial court's policies were implemented.

Along the way, Zhu Yuanzhang led the princes to personally observe the livelihood of the people, and if the magistrate did not act or was corrupt, he would take it directly, and if it was serious, he would be sentenced to death, and the general one would be escorted back to Nanjing for the criminal department to deal with.

At the end of the month, it was freezing cold, and Zhu Biao sat on Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon bowl and drank hot tea.

Zhu Yuanzhang is still reviewing the recitals, and he is basically idle from morning to night all day, and he is very busy.

Zhu Biao also picked up the recital that Zhu Yuanzhang had already reviewed and looked at it, and suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Biao'er, have you read the recital on the Yangzhou prefect?" ”

Zhu Biao thought about it for a while, it was yesterday's "Back to his father's words, Erchen remembered that it was the prefect of Yangzhou who asked the court for money, grain and people, saying that Yangzhou could not survive this winter!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang also put down the chapter and took a sip of tea: "Yangzhou! When we were young, we always heard people say how prosperous and rich Yangzhou is, and we still want to go to Yangzhou when we want to eat! ”

Zhu Biao laughed when he heard this: "I want to burn ** at that time?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a folded piece and slapped it on the top of Zhu Biao's head, and then sighed, "What is said in the piece is too miserable, we have to go and see it with our own eyes, there are only a dozen or so families left in Yangzhou?" ”

Zhu Biao straightened his face and said, "Father, since ancient times, the founding monarch got the same after sweeping away the troubled times, the people are scarce, and the fields are barren. Since the rise of the war, people have died or migrated to other counties, and they are not allowed to return to their hometowns, and their flesh and blood are separated, and their lives and industries are wiped out! ”

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