Chapter 19 Yuan Keli, a powerful minister in need

Ye Xiang was noncommittal, and asked Wang Chengen to bring a chair for Yuan Keli to sit on, and let him think about it after watching the tea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Ye Xiang is a traverser who grew up under the bombardment of anti-Japanese dramas, and he is not interested in cold weapons that carry knives to catch and kill, he advocates hot weapons such as rifles and artillery. He also believes that the generals are like Kong Ming who can win thousands of miles, and they must be tempered by actual combat. This Xu Guoquan is only the champion of martial arts, maybe he has the courage of a horseman, but who can guarantee that he is not Zhao Kuo?

For Jiannu, Ye Xiang had no special feelings, and the most advanced civilization represented by the Ming Dynasty at that time was destroyed by it, which was caused by a variety of reasons, which can only be said to be a kind of sadness. Due to the limitations of history, although its subsequent rulers absorbed some advanced ideas, they ultimately did so to strengthen autocracy, which is not a kind of historical regression.

Ye Xiang knew that it was a matter of time before he started a war against him, but it was definitely not now, he looked at the old man in front of him who was nearly sixty years old, and said seriously, "Huang Kao Bintian, my sorrow is no less than yours, you want to repay the kindness of your knowledge, but what about me?" I am only 16 years old, and I feel a lot of pressure to shoulder such a big country. ”

Yuan Keli is indeed as Ye Xiang said, he is eager to repay his kindness, so he will ask to see him without publicity. Zhu Changluo only reigned for a month, and before the decree reached the place, he had already died, which made him very depressed, "How can Weichen not know the situation of His Royal Highness, so why did he prevent Xu Guoquan from serving as the secretary of Liaodong Governor [qiān]?" ”

"Hey, you must already know that I have asked the British public to choose people from Beijing, don't you know? It's okay, it's okay to say it now. I just want to use Sun Chuanting to train a group of grassroots officers who can lead troops, but Sun Chuanting is a scholar, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to be competent. ”

"Your Highness wants to train troops? Isn't this the responsibility of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces? ”

"Although I don't know how to train below, my training style is a little different from what I am doing now." Then Ye Xiang briefly told him about the set of military training in later generations, and finally said in conclusion, "The soldiers trained in this way are more obedient to orders, and the people of a class eat and live together, deepen friendship, and can help each other more in wartime." The most important thing is to cultivate in them obedience and make them understand that the first duty of a soldier is to 'obey orders'. In this way, after several wars, you can become a veteran, and then bring the old with the new, forming a snowball trend and expanding rapidly. ”

"Your Highness, Weichen also knows a little about military affairs, if it is really as His Highness said, why not let this method be widely promoted by the Governor's Mansion in various guards, wouldn't it be faster?"

"It doesn't work, at the moment, most people regard serving in the army as an errand and just to make a living. I have to wait for the world to feel that the military is a sacred profession. Moreover, I am just talking on paper, and we need to first conduct small-scale experiments and improve them through practice, otherwise the more than 2 million officers and men across the country will take the liberty of revising their training methods, and I am afraid that something will happen. ”

Yuan Keli pondered for a long time before he figured out this view, which was common in later generations, and understood the subtleties of it. However, they also understand that cultivating soldiers' sense of honor, dedication, teamwork, and obedience is a systematic project, and that strong financial support is needed to ensure that soldiers are well fed, clothed, equipped, and logistically supported.

After Yuan Keli figured it out, he felt that he was a little reckless when he came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and he couldn't help but feel embarrassed to get up, and the stool he was sitting on was like being nailed, and he was uncomfortable, so he stood up and bowed and saluted and said, "Your Highness is far-sighted, but Weichen has a shallow vision." There was a lot of offense just now, please forgive your Highness. ”

Ye Xiang saw that he seemed to be moved by this capable minister, and he also got up with a smile, stepped forward again to hold his hand, and said sincerely, "Aiqing is also worried about state affairs, what is the crime?" Hey, the emperor's vision of people makes me out of reach, and Aiqing will always be by her side in the future, and I need to mention more. ”

"His Royal Highness is not Wuxia Ameng, it is impressive, Emperor Daxing let His Royal Highness inherit the unification is indeed a vision."

Ye Xiang saw that there would be no end to each other's politeness, so he put Xu Guoquanzhi aside, pulled him to the front of the canon and the fold, pointed to them and said, "These books, I look too strenuous, can you help make a mark." ”

Yuan Keli knew that the training was not in a hurry, not to mention that the day after tomorrow would be held, and there were many things, and he would no longer be entangled. Seeing Ye Xiang took out the canon, he asked how to do it, and after listening to the punctuation marks, he felt that this method could be promoted throughout the country. This is true even in later generations, such as "Is my avatar awesome?" So the use of punctuation marks can make the meaning more clearly expressed.

Yuan Keli looked at the more than 100 books and was a little big, "Your Highness, this is a small minister who can do it for you, but there are too many of these "Ming Huidian", do you have to mark them one by one?" It is better to let the Hanlin Academy do it for you, and then let the celebrant re-engrave it, not only that, but this marking method can be popularized in the future, so that more people can easily understand the subtlety of the poem. ”

The Hanlin Academy is the five-grade yamen, and there are bachelors, attendants, editors and other officials, who are specially responsible for the preparation of edicts, documents, Wenhan and other things, such as the main participants of the "Yongle Canon" are Hanlin, so I will not repeat them.

The celebrant is the equivalent of the cabinet of the inner court, and it is a four-grade yamen, with a governor and a palm seal, and many people in the hall. The institutions under the jurisdiction of the celebrant have the main library of books, the inner book hall, the economic factory, etc., among which the inner book hall is the training school for the eunuchs and is regarded as the right way.

The celebrant and the eunuch are responsible for the ceremonial punishment inside and outside the imperial city, restraining the palace chiefs, listening to various servants, guarding the gate, urging the Guanglu Temple, training and educating promising eunuchs, and living in the northeast of the Forbidden City. The palm seal eunuch is responsible for the internal and external music and the imperial front kanhe, and the status is equivalent to the cabinet chief assistant of the outer court; Bingbi, Suitang eunuch is responsible for the chapter documents, according to the cabinet vote to approve red, Bingbi the most favored will be the governor of Dongchang, equivalent to the cabinet of the foreign court.

The master of ceremonies supervised the economic factory, which was responsible for printing books for the court, and the publishers specializing in engraving books were: 62 paper makers; 293 framers; 189 folders; 80 cutters; 134 printers; 77 black ink makers; 48 pensmiths; 76 painters; There are 315 lettersmiths, with a total of 1,275. These people were specially counted in Jiajing's ten years, and they were quotas, and the quota of craftsmen in the entire palace was 12,255 people, they were not eunuchs, they were normal people.

Ye Xiang had previously let the "Daming Huidian" be stored in the warehouse of the Si Li Jian Jing Factory, and when he heard Yuan Keli suggest reprinting, he shook his head and said, "There is no need to reprint, this Huidian is not a reference book, slowly, ah, I remember, I want to print, but not a dictionary, but a dictionary." ”

Ye Xiang thought of the influence of the Kangxi dictionary, and felt that instead of printing the less commonly used dictionary, it was better to recompile a reference book, in which not only can you use pinyin phonetics, side and stroke checks, and horizontal lines, but also use the application of punctuation to the extreme, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

Yuan Keli is a scholar, so he can naturally see through, seeing Ye Xiang's excited appearance, he felt that the prince had become cute, and laughed and joked, "Your Highness, this compilation of a dictionary is not a day's work, I think it took 6 years for the first book of the "Yongle Canon" to be written, and it was more than 100 people." ”

"It's only been six years, it's not long, I'm patient. You can compile a simplified version first, which is to include commonly used Chinese characters, which is only three or five thousand. After all, if you want to include all the Chinese characters from the past and present, the workload is indeed large, and not everyone needs it. The more Ye Xiang thought about it, the more feasible he felt, "If these two dictionaries are published, it will definitely be a great cause that will benefit the present and the future." Well, you have to hurry up and let the Hanlin Academy organize manpower, Lu Zhangyin ......"

Yuan Keli stopped Ye Xiang, "Your Highness, Your Highness is not in a hurry, not at this moment, all the adults are preparing for the enthronement ceremony, it is not too late to discuss it after everything stops." ”

Ye Xiang found that he was a little too excited, and when he saw Yuan Keli's kind smile, he was a little embarrassed to touch his nose like Chu Liuxiang, and said, "Hehe, okay then." Then he handed him the excerpt of Zhu Changluo's recall of the mine supervisor, "Well, this, this is the excerpt approved by the imperial examination to recall the mine supervisors from all over the country, what is the matter with the abolition of the 'mining tax' mentioned in it, Aiqing will give me an analysis and analysis." ”

Lu Shou has been not interjecting all the time, and in the past few days, he has seen that Ye Xiang has always been like a little adult, not crying or making trouble, thinking that it was caused by sadness, which made it difficult for him to accept. Seeing Ye Xiang surrounding Yuan Keli like a child at the moment, as close to nature as a grandson, although he was surprised, he felt that this should be the performance that a child of this age should have, and he couldn't help but smile, and then left them to discuss it by themselves and withdrew.

Yuan Keli is a native of Suiyang, that is, Shangqiu, Henan in later generations, and does not belong to the Qichuzhejiang and Donglin parties, but he maintains a relatively ambiguous relationship with many people in Donglin, such as Gao Panlong, who was the leader of the Donglin Party in the same year. He has always wanted to remain neutral, deeply worried about national affairs, and has always wanted to save the country with hard work, but the intensification of party strife in the middle and late stages of the Apocalypse made him unable to completely get out.

Yuan Keli saw that the prince asked at this time, there was no outsider, in line with the principle of following the good temptation, threw out his own opinion, "Mining tax is a collective name for the mining and taxation levied on the minerals contained in the ground, mainly gold, silver, copper and other metals, and the tax is the commercial tax, which exists since the establishment of the country, but at the beginning of the country, mining was strictly prohibited, so the mining tax was not taken seriously." At the time of the temple, there were three major wars, and the treasury and the treasury were all silver, so since the twenty-fourth year the eunuch was sent as the 'mine tax collector', oh, the mine supervisor mentioned in this excerpt. The income also goes to the internal carrier depot (internal money). ”

"There's nothing wrong with leviing taxes in this way, why should the minister ban it?"

"Your Highness doesn't know that this system itself is nothing, the key lies in the mine supervisors sent to various places by the palace. When they were at the temple, the mine supervisors sent did not understand the public opinion, and in order to complete the tax collection task, they often sought out the local wealthy families, falsely claiming that there were mines under their houses or ancestral graves, and took the opportunity to extort money. ”

Ye Xiang savored it carefully, and felt that the extortion against the rich landlords was not too much, and when the treasury and internal funds were empty, it was natural to find silver from them. Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't say it, but asked, "Is this the reason?" ”

Yuan Keli put down the fold, picked up the teacup, blew the foam on it, and took a sip before saying, "Of course it's more than that." ”