The fourth day of the first month of the first month, the fifth day of the first month, the banquet of the ministers, the sixth day of the first month, even if many ceremonies are still continuing, Zhu Yuanzhang has returned to his previous daily state.

The sixth day of the first month.

The early dynasty is still in the main hall of the Wu Wangfu in Jinling City.

It is now considered a royal palace.

In fact, everything in the new palace has already been prepared, and yesterday's big banquet was also on the side of the new palace. However, the relocation date chosen by the Ministry of Rites is the seventh day of the first lunar month, and Zhu Yuanzhang does not dare to do this kind of thing that needs to look at the feng shui calendar, so he has been running on both sides.

In recent days, in addition to ascending the throne, one of the things that Zhu Yuanzhang was most happy about was that Tang He conquered Fuzhou.

On the 28th day of the lunar month of the previous year, he received a letter from Tang He, and General Zhengnan described the situation on the southern front as quite grim, and Zhu Yuanzhang was worried for several days, thinking that it would be another protracted 'Pingjiang lock city', and it was not good for this year.

Unexpectedly, on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the news came back.

It turned out that on the day of receiving Tang He's handwriting, on the 28th of the lunar month, with the assistance of the inner line, the Southern Expeditionary Army conquered Fuzhou City in one go.

Zhu Yuanzhang was both happy and angry about this.

Happily, Fuzhou is down, and Chen Youding in Yanping City is difficult to support for too long. After pacifying Chen Youding, the remaining He Zhen and his ilk in the southeast are not to worry, and he can mobilize troops to concentrate on the Northern Expedition.

Angry was Tang He's lack of responsibility and almost lied about the military situation.

For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang specially sent an envoy to Fujian, and brought a message to his fellow courtier, without a reward after Kecheng, and there was no verbal reward, all of which were beaten openly or secretly.

This morning, the main content of the discussion was the war on the northern and southern fronts.

One of them is still the problem of grain and grass in the Northern Expedition.

The hydraulic engineers who will be sent to Shandong have sent back the news that the method of diverting the Yellow River to transport the river is feasible, and the location of the mouth of the river is already being carefully selected. However, the leading official who will be in charge of the department also admitted that it is the dry season of the Yellow River, and the amount of water that can be introduced into the canal is limited. Moreover, Wang Baobao upstream will not dig the estuary and divert the water source as he did.

In short, the subtext is that if you want to ensure the supply of food and grass for the Northern Expedition army, you still need other supplements.

How to replenish?

Land?

After a few words of discussion, Zhu Yuanzhang vetoed it.

Because of the need for a large number of people, the land transportation consumes too much on the way. Moreover, even if we don't talk about consumption, the south is about to start spring, and the recruitment of people at this time will inevitably affect spring ploughing.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country.

Even if the Northern Expedition is suspended, Zhu Yuanzhang will not make this decision.

So the topic came back to shipping.

The atmosphere was awkward for a while.

Yesterday's banquet for the ministers, a certain Huguang and other provincial Pingzhang who delayed the big thing because he took the wrong medicine was not invited, so it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is still angry. Now, it's still the same question, who is going to preside over the shipping?

As a result of the discussion, it is still necessary to wait for the southern front to be at least pacified in Fujian before the general can be dispatched to take charge of this matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually has a candidate in private.

soup and.

It stands to reason that Liao Yongzhong, who is the same as Hua Gao, is the most suitable for Chaohu Lake sailor, but the matter of transporting grain is important and important, but after all, it is overkill.

Since you are not responsible for Tanghe, then go and transport grain!

Speaking of military affairs, Zhu Yuanzhang on the throne picked up a book prepared in advance: "This is Jia Sixian's "Qi Min Technique" of the Northern Wei Dynasty, I recently read this book carefully and felt a lot. Such as 'the eater is the foundation of the people, the foundation of the people's country, and the foundation of the country', etc., do not lose the words of the sage. I have been in China for thousands of years, and the etiquette has been perfected, but I always ignore Guan Zhong's sentence 'Cangqiao is real and knows etiquette', if Cangqiao is not true, the people have nothing, how can they keep the etiquette. Hence ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, looking at one person: "Shan Anren." ”

Shan Anren, who will be the secretary of the secretary, arched his hand and said: "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I order you to mobilize craftsmen as soon as possible, the book "Qi Min Techniques", 5,000 copies will be printed in a month, and distributed to hundreds of officials in the world," said and turned to everyone in the hall: "You must read it carefully, and understand the matter of agriculture and mulberry, if it is perfunctory, he will ask about the content of it every day, and he can't answer, no wonder I didn't remind it today." ”

Lao Zhu's words fell, and the ministers didn't know how to react for a while.

This...... What's the fuss?

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't wait for everyone's feedback, and continued: "Moreover, the book "Qi Min's Technique" will be selected as a compulsory course for Guozi Studies in the future, and Xu Chunren ......."

The main hall here is not big, and Xu Chunren, who is a fourth-grade Guozi Xuejiu, can only stand outside the hall, and hurriedly comes to the hall when he hears the words: "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "In the future, in addition to the compulsory study of "Qi Min's Technique", each person will divide one acre of land and cultivate daily. Er personally went to the countryside and selected ten elders who were good at farming to teach them, and all the elders were awarded the position of assistant teachers of Bapin. ”

Xu Chunren arched his hand in confusion and said, "Your Majesty, this ...... From ancient times to the present, the minister has never heard of the matter of making the country's son supervise the life and farming? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was unquestionable: "There is it now, don't think that I am just talking about this matter, the matter of farming will start this spring, I will take the time to see it in person, and the results of the labor of all living beings will also be used as an evaluation in the future." In the future, if you don't understand agriculture and mulberry, you can only talk to me about the big truth, and I don't want it. ”

After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand to let Xu Chunren step back, looked at the ministers again and said: ""Qi Min's Technique" is only one of them, I will choose other books in the future, and set them as compulsory books for official students. The reason, I also make it clear to you today, we have been in China for thousands of years, and scholars have only explored the aspirations of the people in the world, but they have rarely studied the way of the existence of these hundreds of millions of people. What I command today is to fill in this missing leg. What about the other leg? The way of farming, the way of water conservancy, the way of calculation, and so on, the miscellaneous studies that you and other scholars look down on on weekdays are the other leg. ”

What Zhu Yuanzhang said today comes from Zhu Yuan's dedication to the 'study of economics', and the inspiration is the book list provided by Zhu Yuan.

At the beginning, he heard about the 'study of economics', and Lao Zhu only understood the truth, but he couldn't figure out how to do it for a while.

Until that book list.

Zhu Yuanzhang's first reaction was similar to that of readers in this era, why are they all 'miscellaneous books'?

asked people to find some books on the list, and when he was free recently, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't release the volume.

The ancient scientific works that provide all kinds of professional knowledge, combined with the fundamental 'economic science' given by Zhu Yuan for the time being, Lao Zhu is full of inspiration, drawing inferences from one case and giving birth to all things.

The most important aspect of economic science is to increase productivity.

How to increase productivity?

When he saw the book list of "Qi Min Yaoshu", "Wang Zhennong's Book", "Mengxi Pen Talk", "Water Jing Note" and so on, Lao Zhu suddenly became enlightened, and the means to improve productivity are not the knowledge contained in these books!

Lao Zhu has always been a person with super executive ability.

If you think about it, you have to do it.

Moreover, now that he has ascended the throne as emperor and created the Ming Dynasty, the new dynasty must of course have some new atmosphere.

Zhu Yuan's little show has to wait for three years because of "Book from Heaven", Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't feel that since he has mastered the truth, he has to wait three years before he can implement it.

So today is just the beginning.

On the one hand, Lao Zhu has already finished reading this book, thinking that the combination of truth and technology in the book, in Zhu Yuan's words, is simply 'two legs', so he decisively decided to be a compulsory book for all officials and all living beings in the future.

After talking about his reasoning, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't stop for a moment, and called out Tao An, a bachelor of Hanlin, and asked the other party to organize people to combine the arithmetic books such as "Fixation" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to compile a comprehensive book of arithmetic.

In the future, it will also be distributed as a compulsory course for Guozi Studies.

Zhu Yuanzhang also gave the reason.

Recently, Zhu Yuanzhang has flipped through various mathematics books, and Zhu Yuanzhang feels that most of them are too obscure, and some of the contents are suspected of being mysterious. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang demanded that the official mathematics books compiled by the Hanlin Academy must be simple, explain the truth in the vernacular as much as possible, and not pretend to be profound.

Inside and outside the main hall.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden orders one by one, the officials at all levels finally understood that His Majesty the Emperor, who had just ascended the throne for only two days, was ...... I want to change the law!