When Zhu Yuan fell asleep, in the imperial city in the east of the city, after dinner and the school examination, the old Zhu Cai, who had left his sons' homework these days, came to sit down in the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace and began to accumulate the review of the chapters.

I have to say that Lao Zhu's ability to conquer the world is inseparable from his abundant personal energy.

Shi Zai Lao Zhu often reviewed the recitals until late at night, and for decades he got up before dawn to get up early, and it can be judged that his personal sleep time is usually only two or three hours, which is four to six hours, which is undoubtedly difficult for ordinary people to insist on.

Ma settled the children and came here.

After entering the door, he subconsciously glanced at the big copper cabinet in the study again, waved his hand to signal the palace people who were waiting to retreat, walked to her husband's side, picked up the teapot and refilled a glass of water for Lao Zhu, and first found a relaxing topic: "Husband, this time...... Why did you bring back a flock of ducklings? ”

Lao Zhu frowned slightly and browsed through a clear suggestion that he wanted to implement benevolent government in the hope of reducing taxes for the local government, if it was in the past, even if he did not agree, he would not feel that there was anything wrong, and after being instilled with various economic studies by his own treasure twenty-third grandson, he instinctively began to dislike it.

If the tax cut does not benefit the people at the bottom, but only fattens those big and powerful, what is the use?

Randomly read a sentence, put down the pen, Lao Zhu picked up the tea next to him and sipped it, only to realize that his wife next to him was talking to him: "Oh, the ducklings are ......" and became interested in a blink of an eye: "Lady, this is not an ordinary duck, it is the one who does not go through the hen's nest, and uses the thermometer in the greenhouse to balance the hatching miles, Yuan'er said, with this method, millions of chickens and ducks can be obtained a year, and an industrial chain can be introduced." Oh, these are all national events, you don't need to know, just put those ducks in the garden and raise them. ”

It's only a few words, and it's time for 'Yuan'er'.

Ma Shi thought for a while, stopped detouring, and asked, "Husband, on the dock today, I want that kid to recognize the standard...... Uncle? ”

Lao Zhu put down the tea bowl, opened another piece of music, stopped his movements when he heard the words, nodded and said: "I just want to talk to you, and when these few days are over, let Yuan'er recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, I have already told him that he will be passed on to my second brother, and he will inherit the incense in that room." Also, this generation...... I told you a long time ago that Yuan'er is our own family, and the details ......" Lao Zhu said, and also looked at the big copper cabinet in the west corner: "...... I'll show you next year, and I'll just think that I can count it as grandchildren. ”

What Zhu Yuan has done in the past half a year, Ma generally knows.

It was also a relief.

A few days ago, the husband stopped the child in Yangzhou in advance, and he couldn't wait to see it, and when his son was having dinner together, he mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, and Ma became worried.

Again, I thought a little crookedly.

Ma would not allow anyone else to threaten his son's status, he wanted to wait for his husband to come back and test it, but he didn't expect that it would be such a turning point.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Ma quickly hesitated again: "Husband, what Yuan'er has done in the past six months, the concubine has also heard about it, it is indeed a great achievement, and it is not too much to pay homage to the marquis." However, how can the title of the dignified county king be easily granted? ”

Lao Zhu browsed a piece of music attentively, shook his head and said: "I told you, Yuan'er is our own family, if it weren't for the fact that it was too much to do under my name, I wouldn't give it to the second brother, this is all wronged by him." ”

Ma insisted: "The concubine still thinks it's inappropriate. ”

"How is it inappropriate to exchange a county king for our Zhu family for thousands of generations?" Lao Zhu turned his head to look at his wife, who was still insisting, and thought about it: "I'll show you something." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and took a stack of papers on the table, and handed it to his wife: "You must have read all those knowledges of Yuan'er." These are the many national policies that I discussed with him on the way back in the past few days, you see, and then compare those rotten Confucian rap nonsense, heh, among them, there is a mathematics test paper from Yuan'er, and a champion paper of Wen Tianxiang, that is a talent for governing the world, you must be able to distinguish at a glance. ”

Ma Shi took the paperwork, stepped aside and pulled a chair to sit down, and said: "Husband, Wen Tianxiang is a loyal and martyr, even if the Yuan Court is also quite praised, can it not be slandered?" ”

Lao Zhu said with a smile: "I know, heh, Yuan'er said the same thing, Wen Tianxiang's temperament must be praised." It's just that his palace test article is sprinkled with thousands of words, but they are all clichés. Yuan'er said that after reading it, he thought it was only twelve words. ”

Ma Shi was curious: "Those twelve words? ”

"Pro-virtuous ministers, far villains, cherish the people's strength, cultivate military equipment," Lao Zhu said: "Look, the things that can be said in twelve words are 10,000 words." Besides, these twelve words, which the king does not know? Yuan'er also said that the question is how to do it, which is what the minister should consider and suggest, rather than talking about some useless big truths. ”

Ma nodded slightly.

It's just that it feels a little weird.

Ma didn't know that there was the word 'brainwashing', but her feeling was that her husband had been brainwashed, and he didn't leave 'Yuan'er said' in three sentences.

Is this normal?

Flashing through this thought, Ma's attention had already turned to the document in front of him.

The first is a military strategy against the steppes.

The opening theme of the strategy is that after taking the Guannei, in the next few years, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty will be on restoring production in the Central Plains, so as to continue to accumulate national strength. However, while concentrating on production, we must not give up military oppression on the grasslands, so as to avoid the expansion of various departments outside the border and the threat to the Central Plains again.

Relevant measures.

The first is a strict blockade of ironware, salt, tea and other substances.

Ma also knows this.

Skipped soon.

The second is the blitzkrieg method of reversing the 'Grass Valley'.

The northern guards continued to send cavalry to raid the grassland, with the aim of destroying the living forces and disrupting production activities, and at the same time, this could also be used to train the Ming cavalry.

Cavalry has always been the shortcoming of the Ming Dynasty.

Through the 10,000-level blitzkrieg method that goes out every year, similar to the battle when Feng Sheng and Li Wenzhong raided Kaiping, this can not only continuously weaken the enemy, but also train more cavalry troops for the Ming Dynasty and lay the foundation for completely solving the grassland problem in the future.

The third is to nibble away step by step.

While constantly weakening the grassland tribes through blitzkrieg warfare, we must not abandon the Huairou policy and recruit the grassland tribes who are willing to join us.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty will continue to build cities and fortresses in the areas where its own troops can be projected, and expand step by step to the outside of the fortress.

For example, if you completely eliminate the hostile forces within 100 miles of the northern pass, you can build a city on the border of 100 miles, surrounded by fortresses, and even some other defensive measures. And this 100-mile area can not only be handed over to the attached tribes for grazing, but also can be properly tuned to feed the army.

And so on.

Behind this strategy, a six-year goal was also set, the so-called two 'three-year plans', to take Kaiping, the capital of the ancient Yuan Dynasty, to bring all the areas within the city into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, to achieve long-term effective control, and then use this as a base to continue to expel the grassland tribes to the north and west.

Following her husband step by step, Ma also knows how to do the military.

For this strategy, Ma's first feeling is just one word.

Steady!

Moreover, Ma also saw one of the very important problems, all dynasties, for the north, not that they could not be beaten, but that they could not be defended, and the biggest special feature of this strategy was that it took into account the word 'keep', rather than finishing the fight, not being able to keep it, and had to return again.

Although there are still various details missing, thinking about the results of the little boy's operation of the ocean in just over half a year, Ma also believes that the other party should have a way to achieve a kind of 'Shou' in the north that can at least reach the level of self-sufficiency without wasting the Ming Dynasty's national funds.

This is also key.

Why couldn't the dynasties keep it in the past?

Not a shortage of major generals.

Rather, ten catties of grain may be consumed on the way to the north, so it is really unaffordable.

Thinking so, Ma turned to the second copy with some expectation.

This is an infrastructure strategy.

Compared with the military strategy that was known at a glance before, 'infrastructure' is a new word, and Ma is a little puzzled.

Read carefully, and this will be clear.

Presumably, it is related to dredging canals, opening roads, building bridges, etc.

However, some of these specific elaborations began to be a little incomprehensible to Ma again.

For example, it mentions the 'distribution' that she has seen or heard more than once from her husband's side, apparently from a teenager's theory, which divides this 'distribution' into two types, the so-called 'distribution of benefits at the institutional level' and 'resource distribution at the territorial level'.

This 'infrastructure' involves the latter.

There are also examples.

If the Yuan court could smoothly transport the grain abundant in the south to the north, support the expenses of the imperial court, and raise officials, troops and even the people, it would not collapse so quickly, and the Ming army would have broken through the capital all the way in less than a year.

However, the Yuan court wanted to do this, and the key to it was the construction of transportation-related infrastructure such as 'canals', 'roads', and 'bridges', which was exactly what the Yuan court was not good at.

Traffic, another new word.

The strategy also states that excellent infrastructure can strengthen the imperial court's control over the local government, and at the same time, it can more easily achieve the 'distribution of resources at the regional level', and at the same time, it can also more smoothly implement the 'distribution of benefits at the institutional level'.

Compared with the previous military strategy, for this one, Ma felt that he understood, but he didn't seem to understand.

Because there's so much new in it.

Finally, there is the goal.

The same 'three-year plan' is to dredge the north-south canal from Dadu to Hangzhou, and the other is to improve the water and land transportation from Jinling to Linhao.

There are also annotations.

In three years, it will certainly not be possible to complete the entire dredging of the 2,000-mile-long north-south canal, so the key silted areas can only be cleaned up first, which will take months of survey and detailed planning.

Then there is the water and land transportation from Jinling to Linhao.

Ma's first reaction was that Linhao was her husband's hometown, and it must be because of this, so she inevitably felt ...... In the short term, there is little need.

The note is, for coal.

A diagram is also attached.

A brief hand-drawn map, marked with a red pen with two points, one is the old Zhu's hometown Linhao Mansion by the Huai River, the other is the Taiping Mansion in the upper reaches of Jinling, where the river was crossed, one marked with the word "coal", and the other marked with the word "iron".

There is also a line of text under the picture.

Obvious handwriting of a young man: 10 billion tons of Linhao Coal Mine and 1 billion tons of Taiping Iron Mine are enough to complete the initial industrialization.

Didn't you mean traffic?

Why is there another ...... What is this, industrialization?

Ma couldn't understand it anymore, but he felt that it should be a very important thing.

So I read the document again, savored it, and then continued to flip back.

The subsequent documents, either about 'tuntian', or about 'health', or about 'official system', or about 'household registration reform', and so on, each of these items, made Ma frequently feel suddenly enlightened.

At some point, Ma realized something.

If it was just one or two of them, perhaps no one in the imperial court could have thought of it, but so many new policy measures came from one person, which is simply ...... None can be described. Ma Shi was suddenly a little happy, that young man, well, according to her husband, is the Zhu family's own person, otherwise, if it falls into the hands of the Yuan Court, or even earlier, in the hands of Chen Youliang or Zhang Shicheng, it is really difficult to predict how the world will trend.

When there were only a few copies left in the thick stack of papers, Ma Shi saw the Wen Tianxiang Hall test paper that her husband had mentioned earlier.

With a bit of contrast, I read it with curiosity.

First of all, the question of the palace examination, the content is very long, Ma Shi browsed it, this is His Majesty the Emperor is asking about the 'way of heaven and man' in governing the country.

Great title.

Then came Wen Tianxiang's answer: "His Majesty the Emperor has been in the relationship for a long time, and when he is a friend of Thailand, he will meet all hearts with the way of the two emperors and three emperors, and the three periods will be here." The ministers were inspired by the flying kite and the leaping fish, all of which were one of the popular things in the Taoist body, and they did not want to travel to His Majesty's court, and His Majesty was happy to talk about it. The way is not good for a long time, Your Majesty's words and this, the blessing of heaven and earth, gods and people. However, those who have not been solved by the ministers have now apologized when the Tao is formed, and the Tao is waiting for politics. If you have the suspicion of being diligent and far-reaching, how can you look at the road and not see it? The minister asked Shuo Taiji to move the root of the movement, push the test of the divine power, and use the word "endless" in the holy question, to do His Majesty's encouragement, fortunately, His Majesty tried to listen. The minister heard that heaven and earth are the same as the Tao, the heart of the saint is the same as the heaven and the earth, the universe of the upper and lower four directions, the universe of the past and the present, during which the news of millions of changes is full and empty, and the transfer of millions of people is closed, why not the Tao......"

After reading a paragraph, Ma quickly understood.

At that time, Emperor Song asked 'the way of heaven and man', and Wen Tianxiang used the word 'endless'.

The Book of Changes has clouds: Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement.

At first, Ma thought it was a good pair.

It's just that if you continue to read down, thousands of words in a row, from the four directions of heaven and earth to the past and present, from Yao Shunyu soup to Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, all kinds of quotations and classics, over and over again, this is also 'endless', that is also 'endless', Ma's soon tastes like chewing wax.

I barely saw half of it, and I couldn't read it anymore before I found the twelve-character relevance that my husband said before.

Because, the contrast between before and after is too strong.

The various strategies from a certain young man just now are all substantial, and they are all interesting to relish.

Looking at Wen Tianxiang's article again, even if he understands that writing and doing things are two different things, Ma still inevitably has a thought: Can the Song family use these people to govern the country without dying?

Silently putting this hall test paper aside, Ma Shi immediately saw another test paper.

Just by glancing at the various numbers and symbols on it, Ma Shi understood that this was the mathematics test paper that Zhu Yuan planned to use in the later imperial examinations as her husband said before.

Curiosity began to read.

Question 1: A county pays 32,000 stone of tax and grain a year, and it has 35,000 households, with an average of 4.5 people per household.

Question: According to the calculation of 30 taxes and 1, how much is the annual grain output of this county?

Ask again: The population of this county, the population under the age of 16 accounts for 21%, the population over 60 years old accounts for 7%, these two need 1 liter of ration per day, and the rest of the adult population needs 2 liters of ration, then, the county's annual grain production, deducting tax grain, can meet the people's consumption, if more, how much, or, how much shortage?

Even if he is already familiar with the book "Fundamentals of Mathematics", after reading this question, Ma is also a little dizzy at first glance.

The first question is simple.

The second question is, there are a lot of conversions, and what percentage is this, well, there is also a deduction of tax grain, in case you forget to deduct the deduction, it will be wrong at once.

It's not easy.

Moreover, Ma also saw another thing at a glance.

This question...... Too inaccurate in itself.

Is there any one who can eat 2 liters of food a day?

Moreover, the question of landlords and tenants was not considered in the title.

However, Ma quickly understood that this question was just a style, and behind it...... Well, Ma couldn't figure out the many connotations involved for a while, but it was definitely much more practical than Emperor Song's question asking about the 'way of heaven and man'. After that, a total of 10 questions, all of which are similar in content, and the way to solve them, in addition to mathematical calculations, there are also curves to draw charts, and there are tables to list, all of which are practical problems closely related to the lives of the people.

After Ma finished browsing, while trying to answer one of the questions, he thought that compared to the 'way of heaven and man', this is really the content of the imperial imperial examination.

Before such a question was finished, a voice suddenly came from my ear: "Lady......"

Ma looked up and saw her husband standing up with a smile.

glanced at the engraved leak on the book, and before I knew it, it was already past the hour.

Hurriedly put away the paperwork in front of him, Ma stood up and said, "Look at me...... All forgot about the time. ”

Lao Zhu still smiled: "Don't talk about you, I will forget the time when I watch it." ”

Saying that he and his wife carefully put away these documents, Lao Zhu said again: "Now, should you not object to me passing Yuan'er to the second brother's name?" ”

Ma Shi paused again, this time without much hesitation, nodded and said, "The husband is in charge," said and remembered one thing: "Biao'er mentioned it to me a few days ago, and wanted to let ...... What do you think of the teaching of Yuan'er? ”

"That's what I planned," Lao Zhu said: "Not only Biao'er, but every few of his brothers have to learn from Yuan'er." ”

Ma Shi paused again, nodded slightly, and said again: "That's it...... If this son is recognized in the name of the second brother, you said it before...... Grandchildren, don't you want to call your uncle every uncle? ”

Lao Zhu smiled: "What's this, as the so-called, the master is the teacher, and there is a precedence in hearing the Tao, no one said that the nephew can't teach the uncle." ”

The husband and wife sorted out the ratings and went out of the study together.

Having said this, Ma Shi mentioned another matter: "Husband, how to handle your birthday the day after tomorrow, and prepare for the concubine tomorrow?" ”

"Let's just do it," Lao Zhu obviously thought about it, shook his head and said: "The soldiers in front are still fighting, and besides, every time I have this birthday, I have to think of my father and mother...... Alas, I haven't had a good day," Speaking of this, Lao Zhu's originally good mood suddenly turned to darkness, and sighed: "Ming'er...... You only need to arrange the day after tomorrow to worship your ancestors, and then let them draw up an edict, and everything will be as usual on the day of your birthday, and you don't need to pay homage to congratulate. ”