"Stomp—"

In the East Palace, when the sound of an arrow hitting an arrow target sounded, Zhu Ciran, who was dressed in a red round-necked robe, was holding a half-strength bow and arrow, practicing archery against the arrow target five steps away.

It's just that Zhu Ciran is a little absent-minded, and every time he shoots an arrow, he always subconsciously looks to the side.

As far as his eye could see, Kim Hyun was standing there, but his brows were furrowed and his eyes were empty, as if he was thinking about something.

"Sir, my archery class is over!"

Zhu Ciran lowered the bow and arrow in his hand and opened his mouth to Jin Xuan who was not far away, and Jin Xuan also reacted at this time.

He walked to the arrow target, looked at the arrow on the target, nodded slightly, and then turned to look at Zhu Ciran.

Although he has a bitter face, he still praises Zhu Ciran's hard work:

"Your Highness has done a good job, it seems that we can go to the inner city today to observe the people."

"Yay!" Hearing this, Zhu Ciran jumped up, and turned his head to look at the more than ten eunuchs behind him in the next second.

In front of these more than ten eunuchs stood two eunuchs of no low rank, namely Li Chaoqin and Tu Wenfu under Wei Zhongxian.

"Hurry up, go get ready for the carriage, I'm going to the inner city with my husband."

"The slave maid takes the order...... Li Chaoqin and Tu Wenfu smiled on the surface, but in fact, they showed a cold color as soon as they turned their heads, and the more than ten eunuchs behind them saw this and immediately sent someone to arrange it.

Zhu Ciran may still be too young to notice the changes in the two, but Kim Hyun is not.

He was keenly aware of the changes in the two of them, and felt a little uncomfortable.

The education he received was not the traditional Confucian and Mencian way, but that didn't mean he could accept eunuchs.

In the education received by Yanshan students, the most important sentence is "pro-virtuous ministers, far villains", and "Teacher Table" is an article that must be recited every month.

In Kim Hyun's view, his disciple was born in the royal family, which is both good luck and bad luck.

Fortunately, his father and uncle laid him a peaceful and prosperous era of martial arts.

The bad luck is blamed on his uncle being "Zhu Di", but his father is not "Zhu Yuanzhang".

The lord is weak and the minister is strong, which is not a good thing for a dynasty.

What's more, when Kim Hyun was in a political class, he memorized a sentence written by Zhu Youzhen in the textbook very carefully.

"If there is no external trouble, there will be internal trouble......"

Is there any external trouble in the current Daming? Naturally, there are, but whether it is Jianyu, Beiyu, Xifan, or Donghu, they are not enough to cause any fatal damage to the Ming Dynasty.

What can really make Daming fatal is often the internal fighting within Daming......

It is true that King Qi is the person Jin Hyun respects the most, and Jin Hyun also very much hopes that King Qi will sit on the throne, because he also thinks that the emperor is sometimes a little greedy for pleasure.

But right now, he is not only a minister, but also a teacher......

Thinking of this, he looked down at Zhu Ciran, who was playing with the bow and arrow in his hand.

Looking at each other, Jin Xuan was a little sad, just because although he knew that King Qi was a loyal minister and had no intention of taking the throne, there were too many people who wanted King Qi to sit on the throne.

If people who had this idea before, such as Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, Huang Long and others, were all for self-preservation, then the new Yanshan officials who took the stage did not think so.

Jin Xuan understands very well why everyone doesn't think so, a very realistic question, they think too well of Daming and the emperor.

Including Jin Xuan, the same is true, in the various textbooks of Yanshan compiled by King Qi, they are full of the emperor's good intentions for them, and how much the emperor loves the people......

This kind of education, which is full of patriotism and love for the emperor, made many Yanshan officials have great hope and worship for the emperor Zhu Youxiao before they left the Yanshan Academy, and because Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, barely mentioned his own merits, most of them were grateful and respectful to Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

It's just that when there is a sense of disobedience between the person and the person who is created, an atmosphere of disillusionment will appear.

After many Yanshan students became officials, they worked in the court and local areas for several years, and gradually began to discover that the so-called wise and martial emperor who loved the people was actually not as caring for the people as in the books.

Huaibei was hungry, this case was hyped up back then, and many Yanshan officials were also a little shaken in their hearts after they came into contact with this case and understood the emperor's compromise.

Especially after seeing Zhu Youxiao's move to build the palace every month, their filter on Emperor Zhu Youxiao was even more shattered.

Looking back, they found that the so-called person who fought for the country and ran for the people was actually Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, who trained them to walk out of Yanshan, their cognition was also completely subverted.

From their point of view, King Qi is the person in the book, and the emperor is not worthy of the wise son of heaven in the book at all.

When the king of Qi was fighting abroad, and wanted to break his head for military salaries, the emperor built civil engineering in the inner court and overhauled the three major halls.

When the king of Qi was outside to help the victims and strictly investigate corruption, the emperor rested and relaxed in the inner court.

When this epistemic shock appeared, many officials began to question the emperor's authority.

They don't know what Zhu Youxiao has done before Zhu Youzhen, but they just judge right and wrong from their own perspective and what they can see.

In this way, in their hearts, they naturally have no respect for Zhu Youxiao.

Since Kim Hyun became the official of the East Palace, many people who had a good personal relationship with him have gradually distanced themselves from him, and many people have also advised him to resign and express to the emperor that he is not competent, so as to protect himself.

Even Bo Chengde, the county lord of Daxing, who was his best friend, persuaded him to leave the East Palace, because everyone could see that the East Palace would inevitably conflict with the Qi Palace's Mansion in the future.

If it was Kim Hyun in the past, he might have turned down the errand too, but when he wandered around the East Palace and saw a certain palace, his mind changed.

That palace is the Qinqin Palace, which was once the palace of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

Since the King of Qi moved out of the palace, the palace has been locked all year round, and there are East Palace guards at the door.

Although Kim Hyun is a civil official, don't forget that he also came out of Yeonsan, and his skills are not bad.

It took him some thought to enter the Qingong Palace, and after seeing some of the environments and ornaments in which King Qi once lived, he abandoned his former thoughts.

There are not many things in the palace, a copy of Qi Wangben's "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", one by one, has been processed, and Zhu Youzhen sorted out and put it in the bookshelf.

Jin Xuan read those notes and found that when Zhu Youzhen dealt with the notes in the prison country, he often used "long live" as the beginning, and always "Long live and lonely ......" as the beginning.

In the receipt of the processing of the notes, each copy of the notes is also annotated to the celebrant.

That is to say, even if Zhu is inspected by the state, if he doesn't actually write his name and doesn't use his self-title, others don't know whether this note was handled by the King of Qi or the emperor.

In disguise, Zhu Youzhen is giving way.

After reading these notes, Jin Xuan no longer felt that Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, was greedy for the throne, and even he saw a lot of Zhu Youzhen's handling of the vassal king's innovation in the notes.

In those treatments, Kim Hyun can clearly see that Zhu Youzhen is very concerned about the affairs of some vassal kings, and he himself is one of the vassal kings.

In other words, Zhu Youzhen didn't think about staying in Daming, and he stayed in Daming now, just to stabilize the situation......

"Your Highness, Speaker Jin, the carriage is ready......

Tu Wenfu's words brought Jin Xuan back to reality, he glanced at Tu Wenfu, bowed back, and then followed Zhu Ciran to the gate of the East Palace.

Tu Wenfu looked at his back, his smile gradually turned cold, and at this time, Li Chaoqin also walked up and said:

"I did a good job on the surface, but I still look down on us eunuchs in my heart......"

"This person is not easy to deal with, let him teach the prince, I am afraid that he will ...... in the future" Tu Wenfu said three points, but Li Chaoqin understood the meaning, and he couldn't help frowning:

"Choosing him to be the prince's official is a matter set by Long Live Forever, and there are still Yanshan and Qi kings behind him, you and I are humble and can't help him."

"Alas......" Tu Wenfu also sighed when he heard this, and then he could only shake his head and follow Jin Xuan and the others with Li Chaoqin.

Kim Hyun helped Zhu Ciran into the carriage, and he stood by the window.

"Isn't it up the bus, sir?" Zhu Ciran asked ignorantly, but Kim Hyun replied:

"The lower official is a foreign minister, and in the inner and outer courts, only Banzai and several highnesses can ride in the carriage."

"Can Uncle Qi do the same?" Zhu Ciran became interested, and Kim Hyun patiently explained:

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi is a long-lived dear relative, and he is also a prince, not only can he ride a carriage in the outer court, but also ride an elephant."

"That's it......" Zhu Ciran nodded, and then leaned on the car window and chatted with Kim Hyun without a word.

"Sir, is the inner city fun?"

"In the inner city, most of the people living in the capital are powerful and wealthy businessmen, as well as officials at all levels, and there are less fireworks and ...... of the people."

"Then can we go to the Outer Three Cities?"

"The outer three cities are mixed, His Highness is still young, and when His Highness is older, the lower officials will take His Highness down."

"Then when can I go outside the capital?"

"Your Highness needs to be bigger......"

"How old do you have to be to go outside the capital?"

"When His Highness ties his hair (fifteen), the lower official will take His Highness down again......"

"Will the gentleman be replaced like the other gentlemen?"

"It depends on the ...... of life"

The master and apprentice talked back and forth, and soon the carriage arrived at Donghua Gate, and on the side of Donghua Gate, there were already more than ten Jinyi guards and more than 100 soldiers from the Wanping Battalion waiting.

As soon as Jin Xuan walked out of Donghua Gate with Zhu Ciran, the hundred households in the Jinyi Guard stepped forward and handed out the token of the Qi Palace, and Jin Xuan took it, and the other party also said:

"Under the command of Commander Li Tongzhi, I will come to guard His Highness."

"Thank you......" Jin Xuan handed back the token when he heard this, and then took Zhu Ciran around the inner city in the Gongwei camp of more than 100 people.

Although there were many imperial courts that exploited the people in the past dynasties, the rulers of the middle and late Ming Dynasty carried out very good innovations.

In the year of the Apocalypse, after Zhu Youzhen canceled the Liao salary and exempted several miscellaneous items, in fact, the lives of many people were still relatively nourishing.

At this time, the common people also had to perform compulsory service for the affairs of the state, but according to the policy formulated by Zhu Youzhen, even if they were served, the government had to pay a salary of five wen a day.

There was not much money, but at least it would not be wasted on the people who were in forced labor.

At the same time, such regulations also made many officials who did not dare to violate discipline reduce the chances of allowing the common people to participate in forced labor.

Therefore, even in the inner city, you can actually see many people wandering around the inner city.

There were also many people who, although not well dressed, still bought houses in the inner city.

Among the people who came by, many people looked at Zhu Ciran's convoy curiously, and Jin Xuan and the others did not scold.

The social atmosphere of the late Ming Dynasty gradually opened up, and there were no more rules in the early Ming Dynasty, and there was an endless stream of people who secretly wore official uniforms, gave uniforms, and bought helmets.

Beijing's commercial transactions were not among the top five in the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, but with the rise of various institutions such as the Imperial Horse Supervision and the Tianjin Shipyard, the new jobs added to the capital increased the population by a large amount.

"Your Highness, do you know how many people there are in the capital?"

Jin Xuan asked Zhu Ciran in the carriage while walking, and Zhu Ciran was stunned when he heard this, scratched his head and said distressedly: "My mother said it, but I forgot." ”

"So far, there are more than 1.27 million people ......," Kim Hyun taught, reminding:

"Of the more than one million people, more than 800,000 live outside the four cities of the capital, and less than 500,000 can live in the capital."

"Among the 500,000 people, there are nearly 200,000 people in the southern city, 100,000 in the east and west, and more than 100,000 in the inner city."

"These 100,000 people in the inner city are actually the richest people in the Ming Dynasty......"

Kim Hyun said, and Zhu Ciran also looked around the street.

More than a large number of jobs have been added around the capital, so the business of the capital has also developed, and there are even signs of surpassing the city of Nanjing.

On both sides of the streets of the inner city, many people were walking in the streets and alleys pushing vendors who picked up goods, Zhu Ciran looked at an oil seller, pointed at him and said, "Sir, what is this person picking?" ”

"Pass him over......" Jin Xuan looked at the brocade guard next to him, and the brocade guard also stopped the oil seller when he heard this.

The oil seller was so frightened that he froze in place, and then walked over with a heavy oil pot in the shouts of the brocade guard.

He gently put down the oil pot on the flat shoulder, and then prepared to kneel on the ground, but Kim Hyun said:

"Just stand and talk......"

"Yes, yes...... It's ......" The oil seller was scared silly, and the people around him also looked at this side, wondering how a dignitary who could have hundreds of soldiers and guards would call an oil seller to come forward.

"What did you pick?" Kim Hyun naturally knew what the other party was picking, but he was giving Zhu Ciran a lesson.

The oil seller was about fifty years old, and he wore ordinary coarse clothes, and a coarse cloth around his waist to wipe his sweat.

Faced with Kim Hyun's inquiry, the oil seller was stunned, and could only reply in a whisper: "Back to my lord, the grass people picked the oil ......."

"Are these things heavy?" Zhu Ciran couldn't wait for Jin Xuan to ask, and hurriedly asked.

"About two hundred catties ......," the oil seller replied in a humble whisper, for fear of making this group of dignitaries lively, but Zhu Ciran was speechless when he heard this: "So heavy? ”

"It's not very heavy, it's just that when I go out, it's heavier, and when I come to the inner city, there are more people who buy it, and the more I pick it up......" The oil seller saw that Zhu Ciran and Kim Hyun had no malicious intentions, and he relaxed a little.

"You sell oil every month? How much money can I make in a month? Kim Hyun knew the income of the oil seller, but he deliberately asked Zhu Ciran to listen.

In the face of his inquiry, the oil seller wiped the sweat from his hands, and then replied:

"It's not sold every month, it's about three days a month, and after removing the cost, you can earn three or four taels of silver......"

"That's it?" Zhu Ciran didn't believe it a little, and then heard that the other party only sold it for three days a month, and said with disgust:

"Why are you so lazy, there are thirty days in a month, and you only sell for three days, if you sell them for thirty days, won't you be able to earn dozens of taels of silver?"

"This ......" The oil seller was choked by Zhu Ciran's naïve words, but Kim Hyun said with a smile: "If there is any difficulty, it is ......"

"This ......" the oil seller hesitated again and again, and finally said: "Back to my lord, it's not that the grass people are lazy, but that the grass people and their families have to comb the thirty acres of fields at home on weekdays, and then squeeze the ripe peanuts for oil." ”

"Thirty acres of peanuts can produce forty stones, and forty stones of peanuts can only produce twenty oil, which is only enough for grass farmers to sell for three days a month......"

"Thirty acres of land? Do you have so much land? Zhu Ciran talked to civilians for the first time, and there were many things that surprised him, but for his inquiry, the oil seller said:

"There are ten people in the grass family, and the whole family makes a living by planting peanuts and extracting oil."

"Ten people ......" Zhu Ciran calculated, and only said after half a sound: "That's three acres for one person?" So little? ”

"Three acres of land was still given by the King of Qi, and in the past, there were only four acres of land for the ten members of the Caomin's family......" Zhu Ciran's words made Zhu Ciran nod, and he asked curiously:

"People like you should be considered to have a worse life, right?"

"I ......" The oil seller looked at Kim Hyun, and Kim Hyun comforted: "Tell the truth is ......"

"Yes......" The oil seller nodded, and said to Zhu Ciran: "This kind of grass people are already the best among the people." ”

"Caomin's hometown is from Xuanfu, Shanxi, and the people there only have eight or nine taels of silver for a year's hard work, and they have to pay three taels of silver to the government Ding Yin and Tian Fu."

"To pay so much?" Zhu Ciran asked rhetorically: "Then why don't they sell oil?" ”

"If you sell a lot, the government collects a lot, and if you have a lot of oil, no one buys it." When the oil seller said this, Jin Xuan also knew that he couldn't let him say it anymore, so he immediately took out a hundred yuan and said:

"Okay, you go ahead and sell oil, it's a hard time to delay your hard money selling oil, and it's tiring."

"Where is the adult...... The oil seller was frightened by Kim Hyun's hanging money, and he held it in his hand, neither did he retreat nor accept it, until Kim Hyun signaled the convoy to leave, he carefully accepted the money.

Accepting the money, he continued to pick up his flask and walked towards the street.

It's just that when he left, Zhu Ciran was puzzled: "Why did Mr. drive him away?" Don't let the disciples ask again. ”

"If you ask too much, Your Highness will bring trouble to him." Jin Xuan sighed, while Zhu Ciran was puzzled.

He was too young to know why asking questions would cause trouble, but in what he had just said, he heard his uncle, so he asked curiously:

"Sir, I think they are all grateful to Uncle Qi, but why don't they thank Daddy?"

With a word, Li Chaoqin and Tu Wenfu, who were following them, almost stopped breathing, and they quietly waited for Kim Hyun to break the siege, but Kim Hyun said:

"Long live the kindness to the people, you don't need to say it with your mouth, it's all hidden in your heart......"

"Oh......" Zhu Ciran didn't understand this sentence very well, but Li Chaoqin and Tu Wenfu in the back smiled bitterly in their hearts.

What to say does not need to be said with a mouth, it is hidden in the bottom of the heart, in fact, the people do not know what the emperor has done to them to be grateful.

Let's talk about the reduction and exemption of Liao salaries and miscellaneous items, in fact, corrupt officials have been secretly collecting Liao salaries, and the people also think that this is just an arrangement between the emperor and the imperial court.

The people will only be grateful for the reduction of taxes, but the distribution of fields is estimated to be something that the people will never forget for the rest of their lives.

Moreover, due to the corruption of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, did not let the people feel much tax reduction, which is why he was so angry after knowing the bad rules and income.

It's not that Zhu Youzhen didn't give credit to Zhu Youxiao, it's just that he can't catch it, and after he can't catch it, he still needs Zhu Youzhen to wipe his buttocks, so that the people only remember Zhu Youzhen, who finally dealt with corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

This is also the reason why Feng Shukou believes that the people's hearts are on Zhu Youzhen.

"Sir, I see that those people are very happy when they talk about the fields, you said that if the court gives ten acres of land to the people, will the people be grateful to the court?"

Zhu Ci opened his mouth suddenly, and keenly felt the people's desire for the fields, but what he said later was a little naïve, but for his age, such words were already good.

When Jin Xuan heard him say this, he also felt that he didn't come out in vain today, and explained his confusion by the way:

"If it is really possible, then the people will naturally be grateful to the court, but this thing cannot be done."

"As of now, there are only more than 87,000,000 acres of Daming land, and more than 11,000,000 people have registered and made a register."

"Ten acres for one person, where should I get the more than 20,000 acres of land that is missing?"

Jiaozhi and Xiaoxiyang Supervision Envoys handed over their yellow books, so the amount of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty officially increased to 870 million mu, which is also something that Jin Xuan recently learned.

He told Zhu Ciran about these things, and although Zhu Ciran didn't know how much 80,000 and 10,000 was, he could also hear that there was a big gap.

He nodded ignorantly, and then said, "Did Uncle Qi give three acres of land to every people?" ”

"Is this ......" Kim Hyun was asked, because he knew that except for Liaodong, Hexi, Jiugang, Annan, and Xiaoxiyangcheng, no other place dared to say that each person had three acres of land.

The fields of the Ming Dynasty are less than 300 million mu in the hands of the imperial court, and the remaining more than 500 million mu of land is actually in the hands of the gentry and heroes.

When it comes to the gentry and power struggle, Kim Hyun thinks that it is not the time to tell Zhu Ciran, so he can only say:

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi said that three acres of land will be given to every people, and you may be able to do it only when Your Highness grows up."

Zhu Youzhen didn't say this sentence, but Kim Hyun was planting seeds in Zhu Ciran's heart.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Ciran heard Jin Xuan's words, he said simply:

"Then I want to grow up quickly, and when I grow up, everyone will have three acres of land, and everyone will be happy......"

"That's the ......" Kim Hyun responded with a smile, but he was a little gloomy in his heart.

"If things are really that simple, then His Royal Highness the King of Qi doesn't have to fight with the gentry for so long......"

The update in the afternoon is still fixed at six o'clock.,I've been too busy with work lately.,I really can't take care of it.。

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