Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at the other side, but the other coachman had also disappeared without a trace.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little stunned, he really liked these two people.

Although it is a bit annoying to talk endlessly.

However, from these two people, he was able to gather a lot of useful information.

Now, he knew that a new yamen had been set up on Yanjing's side, which was responsible for transportation matters here.

Moreover, this yamen is completely different from the yamen he used to understand.

However, after knowing most of the functions and powers of this yamen, Zhu Yuanzhang was also relieved.

The smile crawled back on his face, and he said triumphantly to Queen Ma who was riding a donkey behind: "We know that Qiwu will not disappoint us."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pick you up, Zhu Han had other thoughts.

If he really had, the position of this emperor would have been given to him a long time ago.

It's just that with such a big court, everything must have a rule.

If Zhu Han didn't even notify him, he would have made a brand new yamen in Yanjing.

Then what he did was a little too much.

"After all, it's your younger brother, and Qiwu knows how to measure." Queen Ma smiled softly.

The two of them slowly moved forward and soon saw the reason for the traffic jam.

It's similar to the coachman they met before.

There must have been another carriage that broke down, blocking most of the road.

If you change to before, even if it is blocked, there is no big problem, just bypass it.

But now in Yanjing, there are too many carriages entering and leaving the city.

Most of the roads are blocked, and the impact is very great.

Now, the broken carriage has been carried to the side of the road.

When he walked by, Zhu Yuanzhang also saw that there were people wearing official clothes who were repairing cars there.

Although strictly speaking, these people are not officials, they can only be regarded as petty officials.

But even so, Zhu Yuanzhang has never seen a few cases where the officials are so dedicated to doing things for ordinary people.

I can't help but sigh with emotion: "Yanjing is really a good place with simple folk customs."

As soon as the words fell, I saw a man sitting in a carriage, just poking his head out to check the situation, and the richly dressed people said disdainfully: "What folk customs are simple?"

"It's just because the king of England is in the traffic capture brigade, what is called the thing that is open skin."

"These guys, if they do a lot of things and do something well, when it's time to pay them a salary, they will give them more money, I heard what it's called a bonus."

"Therefore, the most fundamental reason why they work so hard is not for money."

"The dignified lord actually puts money in his mouth all the time. My face has been disgraced by such a person. ”

This person Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know, but he scoffed at his words.

If you really only rely on the distribution of silver, you can make the civil and military capitals of the Manchu Dynasty do things so hard, and Zhu Yuanzhang is really not stingy with silver.

Historically, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang looks so picky.

In fact, one of the biggest reasons is that Zhu Yuanzhang looks down on officials from the bottom of his heart.

Think of them as a bunch of unprofitable and insatiable guys.

Such people, on the contrary, can't give them too much. Shall they be fed and drunk to the satisfaction of the people?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's salary is maintained to the extent that these officials are not enough to starve to death.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that the country's economy would develop over time.

The seemingly reasonable salary he formulated was difficult to support those officials themselves in the later period, let alone a large family.

This has led to the fact that there was a Ming Dynasty, but all officials who are truly honest and honest will have a very hard life.

It also appeared, such as Bing Jing Tan Jing, which was simply a bribe, but everyone turned a blind eye.

Even the emperors of later generations turned a blind eye to these things.

There is no way, they can not blatantly raise the salaries of officials, but also make the lives of these officials live.

I can only let this kind of thing happen.

After the person who complained to Zhu Yuanzhang just now left, Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned.

A master responsible for protecting Zhu Yuanzhang quietly walked out of the crowd and came to Zhu Yuanzhang's side.

seemed to walk past Zhu Yuanzhang inadvertently, but he was actually following Zhu Yuanzhang's orders.

"Go find out who this guy is."

Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand, what that open skin was something.

However, as the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang knows very well that Zhu Han's approach will definitely have a very huge role in promoting those low-level officials.

The guy in front of him is definitely not a good person to criticize his younger brother so much.

"Yes."

The master who protected Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

From the time he appeared until he left, almost no one noticed his presence.

It's as if he never appeared.

"Chongba, maybe this person is just angry for a while, just complaining a few words." Queen Ma's voice sounded from behind Zhu Yuanzhang.

Others don't understand Zhu Yuanzhang, can Queen Ma, the pillow person, not understand?

If this person was complaining about Zhu Yuanzhang, Lao Zhu might not care so much.

However, this guy is so good that he can't die, and he said bad things about Zhu Han in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

With Zhu Yuanzhang's temper, I'm afraid he won't let this guy go easily.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled when he heard this: "Don't worry, queen, we don't bother to deal with this kind of villain now."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his words and said: "However, let's always see who is saying these words."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang say this, Queen Ma stopped talking.

Regardless of whether what Zhu Yuanzhang said is true or not, she has already entered her duty by bringing it up here.

If you continue to talk about the puppet, you will inevitably be suspected of interfering in the government affairs of the harem.

The reason why Queen Ma has been able to be with Zhu Yuanzhang for so many years is that her relationship is so good.

Except that when Zhu Yuanzhang had not grown up, Queen Ma gave Zhu Yuanzhang a lot of help and did her best to help Zhu Yuanzhang.

The most important point is that he will never really interfere with Zhu Yuanzhang's decision.

It's just that if conditions permit, try to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to change his mind.

The two of them walked forward for a short time, and there was an intermittent whistle sound.

It turned out that there was a huge intersection ahead.

Two wide avenues also converge here.

Although these roads have been built quite wide, compared with the current number of carriages, this road is obviously not wide enough.

Right in the middle of this intersection, there is a person from the traffic catching brigade, directing the traffic.

Their clothes are not the same as the official uniforms of the imperial court, and it is impossible to forget them as long as they see them.

The surrounding carriages were all very obedient, listening to the command of the people of the traffic fast hunting brigade.

The other party's command gesture was very simple, just a few casual glances at the actions of those carriages, and he already roughly understood the meaning.

"This gesture is kind of interesting." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but praise.

The so-called layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is not a traveler like Zhu Han, who knows everything.

However, as a general who has commanded the army and fought for many years, Lao Zhu is familiar with the things on the battlefield.

Not to mention anything else, this gesture with the whistle can command so many people in an orderly manner with just a few simple movements.

The most important thing is that even people who don't understand anything can understand the meaning of these gestures by taking a few glances with the actions of the carriages around them.

This alone can play a huge role in the command of the army.

Just thinking about it, I felt that everyone around me was moving forward.

Zhu Yuanzhang also hurried and crossed the road with the crowd.

When he walked here, Zhu Yuanzhang found that a huge statue was being built here.

The statue is two stories tall, and now that I've just started to build it, it's not clear who the people on it are.

"Make such a big statue, this kid really doesn't know how to feel sorry for money."

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was a little sour.

Queen Ma smiled: "Chongba, but I look at the clothes and figure of this statue, and I still have a little shadow of you."

"This Yanjing City, in the future, will be the capital of our Ming Capital, it is impossible to put the statues of others, right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he heard this, and immediately felt that Queen Ma's words were very reasonable.

If it was his own statue, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt that it was not bad.

Anyway, the money for making the statue was all obtained from Dongying.

In other words, I didn't spend a penny.

Sensing Queen Ma's smiling eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little embarrassed and said, "Look at this statue, it's inexplicable."

"Why are we standing on a ball?"

This involves Queen Ma's blind spot, and after hesitating for a while, she said vaguely: "Qiwu must have his own meaning."

"A statue is nothing to look at, let's go to the city and find a place to live."

The main destination of Zhu Yuanzhang's trip is still Datong Mansion, and Yanjing is just a stopover.

But I didn't expect that there would be such a big change here.

After entering Yanjing City, Zhu Yuanzhang's first impression was that there were many people.

There were so many of them, it was as if all the people in the whole world had gathered here.

Along the way, Zhu Yuanzhang saw nothing but people and people.

Compared with the people on Tianfu Street, they are simply insignificant.

On the side of Yingtianfu, only during the New Year, or the Lantern Festival of the Midyear Festival, I am afraid there will be so many people.

Moreover, the people who could come out at that time were basically relatively well-to-do people.

Unlike here, the people walking on the street are all dressed in ordinary clothes, and many of them look like ordinary people engaged in manual labor.

Some people even have patches on their clothes.

This kind of scene made Zhu Yuanzhang think of what he saw when he went to Zhu Han's territory before.

The current Yanjing, although it is not as good as Zhu Han's territory.

However, there is already a shadow over there.

At least the people here are getting better.

What?

You ask Zhu Yuanzhang why he knows that the people here are living a better life?

Because just now, when Zhu Yuanzhang passed by a steamed bun shop, a piece of clothing with patches on it, it looked like the most ordinary low-level people were buying steamed buns.

"Boss, how do you sell this bun?"

"Five cents for vegetarian stuffing, ten cents for meat stuffing."

Hearing this price, Zhu Yuanzhang had to wonder if this guy was also a profiteer.

Yanjing's meat buns, ordinary street shops only sell for eight yuan, but here they sell for ten yuan?

What shocked Zhu Yuanzhang even more was that he originally thought that the people who were not too well dressed would think that the buns were too expensive and give up.

After all, in the past, the annual income of ordinary people was only about 20 taels, and the income of an adult a month was about the same as having three dollars of silver.

A bun costs ten cents, which is too extravagant.

However, the ordinary man who didn't seem to be very wealthy didn't blink his eyes and said, "Fill me with six meat buns."

The seller of steamed buns is extremely skilled, wraps the steamed buns in lotus leaves and hands them to the person who bought them.

Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that this situation was just an exception.

Maybe that guy is not well dressed, but he is not a man who is short of money.

But along the way, there are a variety of food stalls, and the prices are not particularly cheap.

Most of the prices are not much different from Yingtianfu, and some things are even more expensive than Shuntianfu.

However, the business of these food stalls is not bad.

And Zhu Yuanzhang can also see it clearly.

The main consumers in these stalls are not the servants of the rich families or anything.

They are the most ordinary people.

After walking for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang simply found a stall selling soup and bought two bowls of soup cakes.

While eating, he pretended to ask the boss who sold snacks casually: "Please ask, this is the first time we have come to Yanjing City." Is there always so many people in Yanjing City? ”

The stall owner was also a talkative person, and when he heard this, he laughed: "If that's the case, then I'll wake up laughing in my dreams."

"It's a pity, it's not like that, it's just that today happens to be a day off, so there are more people coming out."

"Rest?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, the officials had a day off, and the people in the past had never said that they had rested.

After all, even if they work non-stop all year round, ordinary people can barely fill their stomachs, where is there any time to rest.

It's the first time Zhu Yuanzhang has heard of a holiday for ordinary people.

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "Are all our businessmen here in Yanjing good people?" I used to be in Yingtianfu, and I never heard of a businessman who would give a holiday to ordinary people. ”

The boss who sold the soup cake smiled a little awkwardly.

After all, he is also a businessman now.

Although I know that this dignified old man in front of me is talking about those big businessmen, and it has nothing to do with their small business places.

But he is simple, but he is still inexplicably a little weak-hearted.

"Those businessmen naturally want the workers to work every day. But His Royal Highness has given a death order, there must be at least three paid holidays every month, and today is a holiday, which is why there are so many people. ”

(End of chapter)