Chapter 23: The First Year of Jianwen

Xu Da's eyes were tired and blank, and he said indifferently, "Let him go."

Feng Sheng said, "I know, they bullied me for not having a son, but don't you think about a few virtuous nephews?"

Feng Sheng's words were full of resentment, but there were also some facts.

In ancient times, if you didn't have a son, you were looked down upon, especially at Feng Sheng's age. Among Feng Sheng's descendants, there are no people who are in charge, and the hearts of the old departments below are not stable.

Xu Da said indifferently, "Lao Feng, don't pretend if you are in front of me. Don't you know that this is what He means? I'm old and don't want to toss anymore. And the world is going to be chaotic. I am favored by His Majesty, and I don't want to embarrass the new emperor, he can do whatever he wants, my sons are not successful. Just a few years of sharpening. When I'm dead. I guess the new emperor will remember."

Feng Sheng was silent for a moment after hearing this, and said, "General, don't you think there is something strange about Your Majesty's death?"

Xu Da said: "It doesn't matter if there is one, focus on the overall situation. You must know that this world is not only Your Majesty, but also me. Your own things, you have to feel distressed. Can't toss anymore. I can't toss anymore."

The meaning of Xu Da's words, Feng Sheng couldn't understand it better.

Xu Da doesn't think that there is no problem with Zhu Yuanzhang's death and Zhu Yunwen's succession. I don't want to ask. I can't ask either.

After all, the Ming Dynasty needs an emperor. It only takes an emperor. If Zhu Yunwen has a problem, and Zhu Yunwen is not worthy of being the emperor, then who can? Zhu Xiongying? It's a pity that it's not in Beijing, not to mention that the vassal kings in various places have military power, although they are all overseas, and it is difficult to dispatch, but if someone should cooperate with the outside, it may not be impossible to set off a storm.

There can be no chaos in the world. This is Xu Da's most determined idea.

Nothing else matters.

Feng Sheng said, "Is this what we don't want to mess up, so we won't mess up? Do you think that you have less to do with He Xi and I have more to do with him, in my opinion, He Xi is not a fool. He doesn't do what he doesn't know what he's sure about. Now that Beijing is reacting so quickly, it is natural that it was premeditated."

Xu Da said, "What do you mean?"

Feng Sheng said: "Beijing will not be able to calm down for a while." There was a sneer on the corner of Feng Sheng's mouth, and he said, "The world is already in chaos."

Xu Da didn't speak, just sighed deeply, and suddenly had a feeling in his heart that maybe he should have died a long time ago.

If you die early, you don't need to see this situation.

And where will Daming go?

Where is the world headed?..

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Xu Da's thinking, Zhu Yunwen didn't feel it.

At this moment, he succeeded to the throne in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's spirit.

Zhu Yunwen was dressed in a dragon robe, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's coffin, and said, "Grandpa Huang, I know, you actually don't like me very much, if my father is still alive, the last one to ascend the throne must be the eldest brother, after all, changing the law is what you want to do." It's just that my father is gone, and the situation in Daming is unstable, so I had to choose a compromise. Because I can bridge the gap and pass on the world."

"However, you give Big Brother a chance."

"That's good, I'll let you see me defeat my big brother in a dignified manner, and let him go down there to accompany you. Let him confess before your father and you that he is inferior to me."

"Besides, I'll do whatever you want. Just not now. Master Fang looked down on me in the first place. The reason why I support me is just a last resort. It just so happened that I had no choice but to do it."

"Look. I am the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I will definitely do better than you, better than my eldest brother, and better than my father."

Immediately, Zhu Yunwen bowed deeply and walked out of the main hall, and the two doors behind him slowly closed. Closing the deep atmosphere on the main hall, only the sunlight shone on the golden hall, Zhu Yunwen closed his eyes slightly, he enjoyed the sunlight at the moment.

Soon after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, the first edict came out.

Garnish the world.

First of all, amnesty for the world, and release all the guilty and non-guilty.

Zhu Yuanzhang re-ruled affairs, and the law was strict,

Even if the Da Ming Law was revised under the auspices of He Xi, the punishment scale was not something that could be changed for a while. And Zhu Yuanzhang himself hates amnesty the most.

There was no amnesty during the Hongwu years.

After all, how could someone who deserved Zhu Yuanzhang's crimes be released because of the amnesty.

Therefore, the political meaning of amnesty is not only amnesty. There is a deep meaning behind it.

Second, reduce or exempt the taxes owed by various localities.

In the past few days, Zhu Yuanzhang has done a lot of things to clean up the tax base. Because of the progress of the technology of the flying boat, the overall increase in the cultivated land of the Ming Dynasty has increased by two percent, not to mention the newly reclaimed land that has recently been included in the list of taxable land after the founding of the country.

In short, although Zhu Yuanzhang's goal of collecting all the land taxes has not been completed, the scale and depth of the land tax collection can almost be said to be the highest in the ancient feudal dynasty. Otherwise, Daming wouldn't have so much money.

Not only is the business tax growing, but the agricultural tax is also growing.

But the problem is that many scholars and doctors complain about this, and Zhu Yuanzhang enforces the law strictly. In terms of tax collection, there are naturally some things that over-enforce the law. So there is a lot of tax arrears in the world. It adds up to millions of stones.

This is because Zhu Yuanzhang has not handled government affairs much in the past two years.

Zhu Yunwen did this thing, not only to solve these tax arrears, but to send a signal to the scholars.

The third is to open the imperial examination.

That's the real bombshell.

From the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the opening of the imperial examination was the topic of Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking, and it was under He Xi's strong advice that Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the opening of the imperial examination and used the national prison to train officials. And He Xi is even more based on Guozijian and cultivated a huge new law faction today.

In order to open the imperial examination, there are countless Confucian ministers, one after another. At the risk of angering Zhu Yuanzhang, he also had to write a book to admonish.

It can be seen that this one is greatly implicated.

The imperial examination is certain, and the privileges of the great scholars and doctors will also be there. The status of a scholar is also there. Even if a businessman makes money, he cannot have a political position, and without a political position, no matter how much money a businessman makes, he is just a passing god of wealth.

In the end, it will still be in their hands.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is not a society where money can buy all capitalism, but a society in which power can be deprived of everything.

And Zhu Yunwen's era name has also been determined.

Nothing else is Jianwen.

He Xi did not interfere with the formulation of this year. It's that the world has been suffering for a long time. Too many people want to be a martial artist. Therefore, there must be a "Wen" character in the era name, and China has been in China for so many years, there are so many era names, and there are more era names with "Wen", and there are not many options to choose from. The era name of Jianwen naturally stands out.

It coincides with the policy formulated by Zhu Yunwen.

Anyway, Zhu Yunwen must open the door for three things, and his throne is also secure. Becoming a saint in the hearts of Confucian scholars, with the cooperation of scholars and doctors from all over the country, and the support of people in the army, in a short period of time, Zhu Yunwen's position cannot be shaken at all.

Unless there is an external force.

The external force in Zhu Yunwen's heart, the trouble of his henchmen is Zhu Xiongying.

It's just that he never thought that after he ascended the throne, he would stabilize the interior a little, and he would make a move against Zhu Xiongying. Unexpectedly, there was a person who he had to deal with first.

This person is none other than others. It is the King of Jingjiang.

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At this moment, He Xi was also very surprised by this matter.

After learning of Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the king of Jingjiang sent people to seize the Penghu Islands and go straight to Fujian. Fujian did not react at all, and several islands such as Xiamen were taken away. Let Jingjiang King Chen Bing Fujian, and have the momentum to seize Fujian in one fell swoop.

The reason for this.

The main reason is that the Fujian region is not prepared at all.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Tang He out to rectify the coastal guards to prevent unrest. Historically, the defense system established by Tang He was maintained for more than a hundred years before it was finally abandoned. Even if it is a famine

After the abolition, the fortress established by Tang He was also an important defense node.

But because of He Xi's appearance, it is very different.

That is, after the opening of the sea, the maritime power of the Ming army increased greatly, and there was no need to guard against the Japanese at all, and the sea was the wall of the Ming Dynasty. In this case, why build a lot of defensive cities, it is better to build more lighthouses.