"Mother, I'm a little bitter, but it's slowly sweetening."

"I ate a lot today because I'm afraid I won't be able to eat enough."

"Mother, I dreamed of you, and suddenly woke up......"

"Mother, how are you doing over there? Xiongying is doing well. ”

"Xiongying is working hard to eat and exercise hard, because the child is afraid of being bullied in the future, but the child has no mother to complain about, mother, the child has now started martial arts!"

"Mother, I'm a little tired......"

Zhu Xiongying held a brush in his hand, brushed and brushed on the paper to write and draw, write and tear one piece.

Outside the window, it was raining continuously, Zheng He and Zhou Kuan stood silently outside and watched Zhu Xiongying write and draw alone, Zhu Xiongying just wrote down his thoughts on the paper, and tore it off when he wrote one. "Mother, the first day of May is your death day, but the child doesn't dare to see you, the child is timid......"

Writing this, Zhu Xiongying put down the brush, and suddenly found that it was already raining outside, Zhu Xiongying stood up and looked outside, the candle flame in the lantern was flickering because of the wind and rain, and the lights almost fell.

Zheng He hurriedly straightened the lantern, and Zhu Xiongying grinned.

"The night is cold and frightened, and the tears and lights fall ......"

He stood at the door speechless for a long time, stretched out his hand, and watched the rain wither and watch the rain fall.

Long.

Zhu Xiongying grinned and said, "Zheng He, big companion, you see, today's rain seems to be a sad person." ”

"Crying and crying and crying tired, sobbing and choking twice, and then continuing to cry."

"Maybe it's a motherless child, too."

Zhou Kuan and Zheng He's hearts tightened, Zhou Kuan's lips were buzzing, he didn't say anything for a long time, staring at Zhu Xiongying with tears in his eyes, although His Royal Highness the Emperor Eldest Sun was a little out of tune on weekdays, but in fact he was just a child pretending to be strong......

He was a glutton, and he practiced martial arts hard, making himself like a hedgehog, arming himself, thinking that this would fill the emptiness and sense of loss in his heart.

Zheng He whimpered directly, and said hoarsely: "Your Highness, you ......"

Zhu Xiongying grinned and said, "Why cry? ”

"Not all children grow up in their parents' arms."

As soon as Zhu Xiongying's words fell, a voice sounded outside the hall.

"Good grandson, that's a good point!"

Zhu Xiongying looked out the door in surprise.

Between Zhu Yuanzhang walked slowly with his hands behind his back, one attendant holding a lantern in front, and two attendants holding a huge umbrella cover to block the rain, his majestic face, now only a smile remains, looking at his good grandson Zhu Xiongying.

"Grandpa Huang, why are you here?"

Zhu Xiongying ran over in surprise and threw himself into Zhu Yuanzhang's arms.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, hugged his shoulders, and sighed with sighing eyes: "In the past, you were afraid of thunder and rain, and you slept with your grandmother. ”

Zhu Xiongying pouted and said, "Grandpa Huang, you have just finished dealing with the twists and turns, right?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Zhu Xiongying's face was full of joy.

"You came just right, I made milk for the imperial grandmother during the day, cooked it for her to drink, but she only drank a little bit, leaving a lot of fresh milk, grandson, I just learned the kung fu of boiling milk tea, the imperial grandfather, you wait a while."

Saying that, Zhu Xiongying instructed Zheng He to burn a small stove.

In the Song Dynasty, the market snacks such as chaos picks were very developed, and the use of small stoves in the palace was also very common, and coal began to be widely used.

Zhu Xiongying poured in some sucrose, added tea leaves, and stir-fried in the oven.

It didn't take long for the cane sugar to melt and start to bubble, at which point boiling water was poured in, stirred for a moment with a spoon, and the tea leaves were poured in.

When the tea boils, a pot of fragrant caramel milk tea is ready.

Stir-fry some millet and put it in, which can be both full and nutritious.

When Zhu Xiongying was doing this, Zhu Yuanzhang kept looking at him quietly, his eyes were full of kindness.

"Grandpa Huang, you have a taste!"

Zhu Xiongying scooped up a bowl of milk tea and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Okay, thank you, eldest grandson." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the people around him and gave them a look, such as Zheng He, Zhou Kuan, and the people around Zhu Yuanzhang all left.

"Grandson, we're ashamed of you......"

Zhu Yuanzhang had a trace of guilt on his face, and he looked at Zhu Xiongying with a painful heart: "Your father sent all the old people who brought the crown princess Lu into the palace out of the palace, we weren't vigilant before, but now that I think about it, when your mother died, we really shouldn't have straightened the Lu family......

Zhu Xiongying grinned.

He brought Zhu Yuanzhang a soup spoon and motioned for Zhu Yuanzhang to taste it.

"Grandpa Huang, if you can calculate everything and do everything, then aren't you an omnipotent god? Redeeming your grandson is guilty of disobedience, in fact, this is a common problem of a founding monarch like you, that is, you always feel that you can grasp everything and are completely in control. ”

"You just talk about this Tang Dynasty, when Li Yuan built the Tang Dynasty, what a glory he was, with Li Jiancheng in charge of the center and Li Shimin in charge of the army, he thought he could suppress the two sides, what in the end? The change in Xuanwumen was already doomed when he gave Li Shimin military power. ”

"Speaking of the Qin Dynasty again, how heroic is the first emperor?"

"An emperor through the ages, never greedy for women, wholeheartedly inherited the grand wish of the ancestors of Great Qin, and established Great Qin by the will of several generations of Great Qin ancestors, but he did not set up a prince, and the son Fusu had the style of being a king, but he was degraded, causing Zhao Gao to collude with Li Si, set up Hu Hai, and died of Great Qin II!"

"The most distressing thing is that Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, ended the chaos of the five dynasties, and had the opportunity to unify China, but as a result, most of the descendants of Taizu died in vain......"

"A founding emperor like you, who ended the troubled times and opened up the dynasty, is always a little paranoid."

After Zhu Xiongying finished speaking, he found that Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, so he couldn't help but quickly sit upright and whispered: "Grandpa Huang, you won't be angry, right?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head with satisfaction.

He took a sip of the milk tea, and while tasting Zhu Xiongying's craftsmanship, he said: "We made our fortune in cloth, if we want to quickly calm the world, we need to use talents, we still remember that in the eighteenth year of Zhizheng, we met the chief of the nine sages of Xiuning, Zhu Sheng, in Xiuning, Huizhou." ”

"He warned us that if we want to quickly pacify the world, we must 'build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king'!"

"In addition, it is the world that is decided, seal the Yongya first!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flickered, and he gently stirred the spoon in his hand.

"The first three, we have done it, but first seal the teeth, we really can't do it, the former yuan is a tax system, the color of the merchants, landlords and squires all over the country, after more than a hundred years of taxes, change the way to exploit and deduct, trying to squeeze the people, this kind of officials is useless."

"Most of the recommended talents are old people from the former Yuan, and we want to do something practical for the people of the world, so that the people of the world have land to plant, so that the people can eat enough!"

"Therefore, we must use those Confucian scholars, without them, our old Zhu family can't afford to collect rent, can't collect food, can't raise soldiers, how can we talk about recovering the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

"When your mother was in ......, scholars from all over the country were reluctant to go out of the mountains to help my Ming Dynasty, and Hu Weiyong levied heavy taxes on all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, which caused the Confucian scholars to complain the people.

"The other is, your grandfather and I, I also left early to beat my little father, without my father's love, we are afraid that your father will be uncomfortable, and we are afraid that you will not have a mother's heart, now that I think about it, the imperial grandfather is indeed too paranoid......"

Zhu Xiongying's heart warmed.

He really wanted to say loudly to Zhu Yuanzhang, Grandpa Huang, you did it in your previous life.

In his previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang made extensive use of Guozijian and many students of Taixue to survey the country's land, census the population, make Huang Ce and fish scale books, and measure the land of the whole country.

This took 20 years, and it was not completed until the 20th year of Hongwu.

During this period, Li Wenzhong, the prince of Cao Guo, who presided over this work, was also poisoned and assassinated......

In the previous life, after 20 years of Hongwu, there were more than 700 acres of landlords in the world, and there were only more than 15,000 households after statistics.

Among them, a large part is still honorable.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty, basically as long as the body is healthy, everyone can have land to cultivate, billions of trees were planted all over the country, new rice seeds were found from Annam, and cold-tolerant rice seeds were also found from Goryeo, rice was planted in the north, the Grand Canal was dredged, the Great Wall was built, and various guard stations in the south were built post stations.

Whether it was the Chagatai Khanate or the Northern Yuan, they did not dare to face the Ming Dynasty, but only dared to secretly and constantly harass.

You really did it......

Zhu Xiongying took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang, you have this heart, Xiongying is really happy." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "I know that you have investigated the cause of your mother's death, as well as Yun Xi's brain disease, in fact, we have also investigated, I am afraid that you have wronged the Lu family, and your mother is ......."

Zhu Xiongying said with a bitter face: "Grandpa Huang, we know why." ”

"You see, our eldest uncle Chang Mao, second uncle Chang Sheng, third uncle Chang Sen, the three uncles have no heirs, and they can't give birth to a baby, which actually explains the problem, the bloodline of our old Zhu family is fine, but the bloodline of the Chang family on the side of my maternal grandfather King Kaiping is indeed something hidden."

"You may not know, I had a dream, it seems to be something from my last life, my last life, that is, when I was eight years old, died because of the wind disease inherited by the Chang family......"

"You must be very curious, why does your grandson eat a lot of tiger and wolf things every time, and change her tricks to exercise every day, your grandson is afraid, your grandson is afraid that I will leave like this, the imperial grandmother can't stand it, you will also be uncomfortable, and our father is even more uncomfortable."

"I'm even more afraid, those civil officials and big landlords have begun to change their tricks to support the new emperor and grandson, just like what they are doing to Yun Wei now, now they are all afraid of you and their father, but Yun Wei is still young."

"Confucian scriptures and righteousness are the most demagogic, think about it, if I am gone, Yun Xi has a brain disease, and it is not easy to speak, who can you choose? Isn't that what Yun Wei gains......

"Now I haven't found out what the disease of my inherited Chang family wind disease is, so for the sake of insurance, I can try not to go out as much as possible and continue to exercise every day." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't speak.

After Zhu Xiongying finished speaking, he squinted and said: "We know what you mean, the imperial grandfather is not such a paranoid person, and he also knows the truth of the death of people, these days the Hanlin Academy compiled the secret history of the Yuan, we found that the former Yuan is not bad, on astronomy, surveying the lunar calendar, on geography, compiling a map of China, on the military, and fighting everywhere The territory is vast, but they die and die, and the officials rule!" ”

"The Mongols were not good at governing the country, they were only good at war, so they handed over the power of governance to civil officials, Semu people, large landowners who paid a lot of taxes, and even monks and lamas."

"Although it can be suppressed by the force of the Mongols for a while, it will never last long."

"During this time, I read all the books you wrote, and I have a lot of understanding, my Ming Dynasty's martial arts are not bad now, but it is poor in internal affairs, you thought before, the First Five-Year Plan is to engage in people's livelihood and clean up the governance of officials, in fact, it is a little less, the imperial grandfather estimated, I Daming wants to train a new group of Tai students, Guozi supervisors, push various policies to the countryside, and regain the right to speak from the landlords and squires, it will take at least ten years!"

Zhu Xiongying was stunned.

I have to admire the imperial grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because in the previous life, the Ming Dynasty spent ten years cultivating all kinds of students, Guozijian students, and imperial examination personnel, re-surveying the land, and implementing the policy to the countryside.

It's a pity that in the previous life, after Zhu Yunwen came to power, he was fooled by civil officials for a while, and many of the policies set by Zhu Yuanzhang were banned, and a very important point is that the policies can no longer go down to the grassroots level, and the supervision methods, photographed the Jinyi health inspection schools in various places, inspectors, and the supervision of the local officials of the feudal kings in various places The powers of the magistrates were all withdrawn, and the Son of Heaven became blind and could only see in front of him.

Moreover, at that time, the Son of Heaven could only pin his hope on the noble moral character of the local magistrates, praying that they would abide by the law and discipline, and would not embezzle the taxes and gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty.

It's like putting a piece of meat in front of a dog and telling the dog not to eat it secretly, but the piece of meat is actually the owner's and has nothing to do with the dog......

The grain and rent collected by the Ming Dynasty are not his magistrate's, and the goods that the magistrate is greedy for ink are his own.

If there is no supervision, the Zhu Ming royal family is blind and blind, and when they went to Baozong to study abroad, they lost the foundation of hundreds of thousands of old pawns of the three generations of the Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming royal family was completely cut off their hands and feet, deaf and dumb, and their hands and feet were broken.

The civil officials cut the flesh on the emperor if they wanted to, and they cut the flesh if they wanted to and pee.

"Grandpa Huang, you are quite accurate, how is my Daming Royal Bank popularized in various places now?"

Zhu Xiongying asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang drank milk tea and said with a smile: "Now the Daming Royal Bank sells 11 million taels of national bonds at a time, and these silver are used to immigrate to Shanxi, Guangzhou, and Jiangxi. ”

"There are also more than 4 million taels of gold and silver in storage received from various places, mainly those merchants and wealthy households, because we forcibly sold treasury bonds, and there was a sense of resistance."

Zhu Xiongying pouted and said: "This is normal, as long as we firmly grasp the minting of the Ming silver coins in our hands, and then go back to Liaodong, and then go to the Wa Kingdom to lay down the Wa State of the Ishimi Silver Mountain and several other silver mines, we Daming will not be short of gold and silver, and there are also many copper and silver mines in the Northern Yuan, Samarkand and other places, these places have always been my Chinese homeland, and they should be recovered!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"By the way, the imperial examination is about to start, what do you think?"

Zhu Xiongying's head shook into a rattle.

"No idea."

"No comment."

"No suggestions."

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help it.

"Why, now suddenly I don't have any ideas?" "We know your thoughts, you are afraid that those civil officials will worry about you, because you don't respect Confucianism, don't learn Confucian classics, and there are already many old ministers who have opinions, but we all prevaricate back because you are still young."

"No, Grandpa." Zhu Xiongying pouted and smiled: "We're not afraid of this, as long as you and your father, as well as our descendants of the Ming Dynasty, according to the "Emperor's Political Program Centennial Plan" I left behind, and complete several five-year plans, my Ming Dynasty will never lag behind,"

"Nowadays, Taixue and the Ming Imperial Academy are actually in parallel, the nobles and the royal family, and the common people and the good family classmates, what they learn is completely different from the Confucian scriptures, as long as a seed is planted among the scholars, they will sooner or later become towering trees, so the grandchildren are not worried at all."

"Moreover, Confucianism is not completely unusable."

"For example, Zhu Xi's preservation of heaven and the principle of destroying people's desires, and the ethics of the general norm, at first glance are quite restrictive, but they are indeed beneficial to today's era and easy to rule, I have been founding the Ming Dynasty for fifteen years, and I have to spend money to fight wars everywhere, and the people have not been able to enlighten the people's wisdom.

"Hahahaha, that's good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Zhu Xiongying poured another cup of caramel milk tea for Zhu Yuanzhang, and then put in some fried millet, he stirred the milk tea, and said: "Also, Grandpa Huang, I proposed the formation of a cabinet, and the cabinet ministers are responsible to the Son of Heaven, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted.

"This policy is suspected of dividing the imperial power."

"However, after the decentralization, the power of domination can be divided to several people, as long as the Son of Heaven grasps the first assistant and has the right to supervise, it can indeed ensure the smooth operation of the Ming Dynasty."

"Yes, especially the right to supervise, we must not relax."

"Inspect the imperial history in various places, go to inspect with spare officials, and if the officials have problems, they will be dismissed immediately on the spot, and the officials will take office, and then use the honorables and royal family members from all over the country to supervise the work of the imperial history, the imperial grandfather, let's talk about something or something, in fact, this world is now our Zhu family and the nobles, but it is not ours, it is the people of the world."

"The people of the world trust our Zhu family and hand over the head of the world's cattle to us, of course we have to take the helm."

"The rights of the members of the royal family and the nobles should not be too large, and they should also be given a channel for the magistrates to impeach them, and this channel is the national security division, Jinyiwei, and the Son of Heaven must firmly grasp it."

"In this way, you and your father can have some free time, pay attention to the economy, agriculture, and people's livelihood."

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and stretched, yawned, looked at Zhu Xiongying with a smile and said, "Grandson, grandpa will sleep with you tonight!" ”

Zhu Xiongying's eyes lit up.

He jumped up excitedly and hugged Zhu Yuanzhang happily.

Instructed his subordinates to bring hot water, and after washing, the grandfather and grandson slept on the bed together, chatting, so comfortable, Zhu Xiongying felt the warmth of family affection again after a long absence.

"Grandson, you said that all this knowledge was obtained in your dreams?"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly asked.

"Yes, grandpa!"

Zhu Xiongying did not hesitate.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "We read the books you wrote, and sang the national anthem of the Ming Dynasty, looked at my Ming Red Flag, and sighed with emotion. ”

"I have you, and I will be prosperous!"

"Grandpa Huang, what you said is right, but I can't do it, we still need the help of many people, and we have to ask for the support of the people."

"Wait until the red flag is full of rolls, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom!"

"In the future, we will have red flags all over the world, and we will sing Daming songs everywhere!"

Zhu Xiongying put his feet in Zhu Yuanzhang's arms, curled up in a ball, he leaned on this Zhu Yuanzhang, shrugged his head, and found a comfortable position on Zhu Yuanzhang's chest, with a quiet smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Grandpa......"

"Huh?"

"I'm a little tired......"