Outside the Central Pole Hall, Xu Miaoyun led her youngest daughter, Zhu Zhiming, and led the remaining five of her own children to follow behind Sun Gou'er, the head of the palace.

From time to time, Zhu Gaoxu looked back at the Zhongji Hall, which was left behind and became smaller and smaller.

He looked outside at Zhu Gaosui, the third elder on the side: "Ying Tiancheng is really good-looking, the palace is many times larger than the Yan Palace." ”

Zhu Gaosui's eyes were dripping, as if he was thinking about things all the time, he cautiously glanced at the concubine who was walking in front, and said in a low voice: "Our Yanwang Mansion is built and repaired according to this Ying Emperor City. ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded, then whispered again: "The boss was left on the emperor's side." ”

Zhu Gaosui whispered even more: "The boss is the son of King Yan, and the father must be talking about things at this time, and the old nature is also qualified to listen to it." ”

Zhu Gaochi's gaze gradually became far-reaching, and he said quietly: "We also want to hear what we are talking about." ”

Zhu Gaosui immediately closed his mouth and glanced at the concubine in front of him.

He picked up his steps and hurried up, shouting: "Mother, I heard that there are countless delicious and fun things in Yingtian City, you and your father have been in Yingtian City for a long time, and the child also wants to go to Yingtian City to visit." ”

Xu Miaoyun, who has now given birth to seven children, is still in good shape, and because she is Princess Yan, she is raised gracefully and luxuriously.

Xu Miaoyun smiled dotingly, and stretched out her hand to pat Zhu Gaosui's head: "We have just returned to Beijing, and your father and grandfather still have to discuss the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty with the imperial grandfather." When you settle down in the past few days, your other uncles' brothers and sisters are also here, and then let Yunxi take you out of the palace to visit. ”

Zhu Gaosui didn't get permission to go out of the palace to play now, but his face was smiling more and more happily, and he nodded and said: "The child thanks the mother and concubine for agreeing, and the child can also see what the father and mother lived in Yingtian City were like." ”

Xu Miaoyun shook her head with a smile: "It's all the same, it's just that there are more people and they look better." ”

Zhu Gaosui took the empty hand on the other side of the concubine and said happily: "I saw Brother Xi with my own eyes today, and he is really heroic. When he returned to Beijing this time, the emperor's grandfather said that he would select some imperial grandchildren to study in the main hall, and he didn't know if the child had this opportunity. ”

Xu Miaoyun smiled silently, but her eyes were a little misty, and after a long time, she chuckled and said, "Are you also a person who can sit in the school?" I just ask that your uncles can come back in time, and when the time comes, they can also teach you some military affairs of the Zhongshan Palace, so that they can guard your father in front of the battle in the future. ”

"The Ancient God Emperor"

Between the gold bricks and blue tiles, the female rolls and sons of the Yanwang Mansion gradually drifted away and disappeared into the palace.

Inside the Middle Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it calmly and said that he wanted to include Zhu Di who was going to include the acres of Yan Fantian into the acres.

The old man turned his head to look at Zhu Gaochi, who was huddled with Zhu Yunxi.

A kind smile appeared on his face: "Gao Chi, tell me, how about Yun Xi now following your second uncle to the stall in Zhejiang Dao to become an official gentry?" ”

As soon as these words came out, three pairs of eyes in the side hall lit up at the same time.

Zhu Biao immediately looked at the fourth child silently.

Zhu Di and Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Gaochi at the same time.

Experiencing this for the first time, Zhu Gaochi, who was in full view of everyone, had a flush on his face, and coughed several times uncontrollably in his throat.

Then he tensed up and said in a low voice: "Sun Er thinks that this move is the first-class benevolent government for the people of Daming!" ”

All kings like their policies to be called benevolent.

Zhu Yuanzhang was the same, so happy that he patted his thigh and asked, "Tell me, what other thoughts and insights do you have?" ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded, because the conversation box had been opened, and he began to elaborate slowly and carefully: "When my grandson was in charge of the palace in recent years, he knew how much land his family occupied, although my father repeatedly ordered us to entertain the food and the people, the people in the fiefdom were also doing well. But what about the rest of the world? I am afraid they will not be as hospitable to the people as my house has. ”

"If these people have taken fame, they don't have to pay land taxes to the imperial court, and they don't have to pay Ding taxes. They will only become richer and richer, and they will be able to buy more land for less silver in disaster years. In the long run, the land and population that the imperial court can collect and pay taxes will only become smaller and smaller. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Gaochi looked up at the old man with a worried face, and then looked at the three people around him, and then continued to say softly: "Sun Er calculates that it will not be many years, if it is not improved." At that time, the people of the Ming Dynasty will be extremely rich, but the court and the people will be poor and unable to open the pot. Wait until then...... The imperial court will not have money and food to support the hundreds of thousands of border troops, and there will be no money and food in the official warehouse to help the local disaster......"

Zhu Yuanzhang let out a long sigh, his eyes flickered, and he was thinking about something.

Zhu Biao and his cub looked at each other silently.

Only Zhu Di, as if it was the first time he discovered his cub, still had such far-reaching vision and determination.

However, the last words were a bit serious, and they almost said that the Ming Dynasty went to the place where the country died.

He suddenly said in a deep voice of dissatisfaction: "Nonsense! The Ming Dynasty will last forever! ”

Without waiting for Zhu Gaochi to admit his mistake, Zhu Yuanzhang already snorted coldly, waiting for Zhu Laosi: "Shut up!" Let you read more but don't read, now Gao Chi can see farther than you! ”

"Erchen......" Zhu Di frowned and muttered.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a chance to explain, and gave Zhu Gaochi an encouraging look: "What you said is good, it is exactly the same as what Yunxi said at the beginning." It's just that you're a bystander, and besides, you understand something. ”

Zhu Gaochi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and for some reason he looked back at Zhu Yunxi beside him.

Seeing that Zhu Yunxi was blinking his eyes and constantly signaling to himself, he nodded silently.

"If my grandson is not mistaken, this time Zhejiang Dao Ding into the mu of the gentry integration, as well as the commercial tax reform, as long as it is done this year. From now on, the imperial court will be able to directly bypass the local yamen of Zhejiang Province and collect taxes into the large warehouse of the household department, so that there will be less local cover and concealment. ”

"My grandson also heard that Brother Xi and his second uncle have made two new yamen in Zhejiang Province, and with this construction, the court will not lose the new sources of taxation in the future."

"After this, the imperial court's control over the local area will also be incomparable, and it will be unprecedentedly strong."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted, and looked at Zhu Yunxi with a surging gaze.

Zhu Yunxi nodded and patted Zhu Gaochi's shoulder: "Brother Chi can still see it." The imperial court's ability to expand the sources of taxation is one thing, but it is also the ability to increase local control through this matter, which is another crucial factor. ”

Spread the land into the mu, the integration of officials and gentry, and the commercial tax reform.

If this is carried out, the imperial court will not need to speculate on how much taxes can be collected below, as long as it checks the number of acres of land determined before, the number of merchants, and the amount of new additions in the previous year, it can be clear how much taxes the imperial court can collect.

As a result, the power of the local government will be reduced and the power of the central court will be strengthened.

At a time when the imperial power and the relative power, the central and the local, are no longer in the struggle and division of power all the time, the significance of apportioning the land into the mu has an epoch-making role.

Moreover, if there is a local disaster year, the imperial court can also directly exempt the local taxes, and directly allocate a clear amount from other places to support relief.

This allowed the imperial court to carry out disaster relief more calmly.

Zhu Yunxi felt that this time he let the kings of the clan return to Beijing, and there was a harvest that made him unexpected.

That is Zhu Gaochi.

In front of the old man and the old man, they can always see through their means and goals at a glance.

Although Zhu Gaochi can also understand his own thoughts now, they are peers.

This made Zhu Yunxi, who had been lonely in his heart for a long time, finally found someone who could place his ambitions.

As for worrying that because Zhu Gaochi is too smart and too powerful, he will change the current status quo of being the emperor's grandson?

Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, everything has changed now.

Zhu Biao did not die of a serious illness, and Zhu Yunwen was already imprisoned in Fengyang.

Yan Wang Zhu Di?

Zhu Yunxi looked back at Zhu Di, who no longer knew when, ran to his father's side, and squatted on the ground, so that Zhu Biao's hand could be placed on his shoulder.

He felt that the problems he had been worrying about since last year might never appear again.

It's just a precautionary heart, but it can't be slackened because of this.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also began to make concluding words.

"Fourth, you are Zongzheng, and when you come back, you have to explain this matter to them. Don't think that it's us, the old man, who wants to take away your pocket money. ”

Zhu Di was still talking to Zhu Biao about the scenery of the north at this time, and heard the old man speak.

He immediately got up, clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Erchen knows, and he will definitely explain the reason for this matter to your brothers. ”

……

As time passed, Ying Tiancheng became more and more lively.

With the first one of King Yan from Beiping to respond to the sky.

Almost every day after that, a feudal lord would enter the capital.

As expected, these days, the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate and the officials of the Imperial Procuratorate, who have not been able to find evidence of criminal officials in the court, have expressed their disapproval and worry about the emperor's move.

I thought that I would not care about things this year, so that I could stay out of the matter, but I was forced to push out of the matter helplessly, became everyone's representative, and asked the emperor about this matter.

On the same day, Zhan Hui had just left the palace with his front foot.

Later, it came out that the dignified official Shangshu was scolded by the emperor in the palace as a disloyal and unfilial person, and he bluntly said that Zhan Hui was unpleasant to the family and filial piety of the heavenly family.

Later, someone recalled that when Zhan Hui left the palace that day, he was wearing a belt and slapping a black mark on his buttocks.

The old man of the emperor was really angry, not only scolding, but even beating up the officials and scholars.

In addition, the old man of the emperor pulled out the righteousness of filial piety.

Since that day, the imperial historians and officials in the court can only stay at home one by one and hold their anger, and everyone they see all day as if they want to put each other in the prison of Dali Temple.

It's just that under this short-term dispute, the undercurrents are constantly converging, and the Lion Rock is becoming more and more lively like Yingtian City.

In the city, because of a scandal and rumor, it was completely lively.

In the open space behind the Hanlin Courtyard in Dongcheng, a building has been erected, and it will not take long to completely build it.

Zhu Yunxi took Zhu Gaochi, who had recovered now, to skip class from the main hall and leave the palace, and found Xie Jin, who locked himself in the Hanlin Academy to write articles and study the unity of knowledge and action.

The three of them looked at the bookstore under construction in front of them, and whispered from time to time.

Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi exclaimed.

"What? Ren Hengtai not only insulted his niece and daughter-in-law, but also raised his niece in the back house? ”