Not long after Rao Wei sighed, the house slave who was waiting to be asked came back and said that the farmer had a local accent.

Ai waited for him to ask and Rao Wei to breathe a sigh of relief.

Because although the punishment intensity of the Ming Dynasty has been reduced a lot, and many major crimes do not need to be punished, the spy force has been strengthened a lot, so Ai Zhiwen and Rao Wei, who are dissatisfied with the current situation, still have to be cautious, like thieves to guard against all kinds of people who may find out their true political views.

In fact.

In today's Ming Dynasty, as long as there are no political propositions or are consistent with the political views of the imperial court, or they don't care so much about the fact that the political opinions of the people in power in the imperial court are different from their own, and they don't miss the era when they can suck the blood of their compatriots without hard work as long as they are educated and born, they will not be so painful at all, and they will only feel that this is the most beautiful era.

Because in this era, as long as you are the people of the Ming Dynasty, there are investment channels that make sure you don't lose money, the taxes are even lower, and you don't have to worry about foreign invasion and plunder, and you don't have to worry about the superiors not respecting yourself and not treating yourself as a person.

Whether it is an official or a worker, you don't have to be too nervous, and then meeting a boss or employer is like a slave meeting a master, and even you need to be particularly aware of your own human feelings in order to get promotion and valuable feedback.

The only drawback is that you can't be too powerful in front of your own compatriots, especially in front of your own compatriots, who are lower in rank and younger than your own class, and you have to be much more restrained than before.

This was true from the emperor to the common people.

The emperor wants to give some respect to the ministers, and he can't say that he will be imprisoned if he goes to prison, let alone Ling Chi.

The common people should give their wives and children some respect, and they can't say that they will be killed.

This is very uncomfortable for some people who are accustomed to riding on their own heads and only preaching courtesy and forgiveness to the outside world.

But because Emperor Zhu Yijun came from later generations, he did not have the thinking of the world, and he was used to treating his compatriots with lower power and status than himself as people, at least his education from a young age let him know that he had to pay attention to mutual respect in personality, especially the national education he received since he was a child, which made him more accustomed to looking at problems from a national perspective, so he was used to treating his compatriots as people, and he was used to treating his Han ministers as people, the palace maids and eunuchs around him as people, and even the Han people in the world as people.

And the emperor was accustomed to treating his compatriots as human beings.

Naturally, the people below began to get accustomed to treating their compatriots as human beings, and began to suppress or transfer the evil nature of their hearts to the outside, and put the goodness of their hearts on their own family and their own people.

After the spiritual core of guarding the inside and outside changed from the emperor, the bottom also changed.

Those who are not accustomed to it are only a minority, those who still have some nostalgia for the old way of life, and prefer to revive the traditional rites.

And these people are mainly middle-aged and elderly, after all, they have experienced that era.

Because of this, although these people are a minority, because they are older, many of them still have a certain amount of power and status in the current society of the Ming Dynasty, which makes it seem that their voices are very loud, and from time to time they have to turn the country back to the past.

But in essence, as time goes on, their voices seem loud, but they are becoming more and more powerless to turn the current situation around.

And more and more people are becoming more and more accustomed to this era, accustomed to this kind of ideological disrespect for the ancients, only respecting the objective laws of facts, and not believing in the authority of the pragmatic way of life.

Therefore, although there are voices of resistance to the imperial court's business, when the imperial court's paper cigarettes are on the market, they are still popular.

The populace quickly fell in love with the commodity, and even preferred that the money they smoked would be taken by the imperial court rather than by private individuals.

Due to the improvement of the people's education, coupled with the fact that the official newspaper and some Dongchang personnel have been increasing their efforts to educate the people, the people's wisdom has been greatly opened, and they understand more about their relationship with the country, and the stability of the country, especially the financial stability, has a great relationship with their personal happiness, and they know that changing the dynasty is not as simple as changing a surname.

Therefore, the people are not as numb and apathetic as before, and they are not averse to the proper exploitation of the state.

It's just that some wealthy businessmen and wealthy businessmen and powerful bureaucrats are very greedy for the huge profits in them after seeing the popularity of paper cigarettes.

It is true that some people or groups do not curb their greed, and always hope that the more power they have, the better, and the more wealth they have, the better.

"Your Highness, if you were the crown prince, in this case, in the future, the profits of these official tobacco, minerals, and weaving products will be yours."

this day.

Ouyang Ling, the side concubine of the second prince Zhu Changhui, mentioned the matter to him with a smile when the second prince lamented that there was still some money left to buy another garden, obviously intending to let Zhu Changhui fight for the throne, and in the future, he could turn all these official profits into royal private property, and even use this to win over some nobles to support his reform.

Zhu Changhui said with a serious expression: "Didn't you push Lone into the fire pit, if I were the prince, I was afraid that the embankment would be used with black incense!" ”

"Who dares to harm the prince."

"Your Highness will never believe such words, and those who spread such words may only have ulterior motives."

Yang Ling's eyebrows frowned slightly and refuted Zhu Changhui's words.

Zhu Changhui said: "Even if it is rumored that someone wants to use black incense for the prince, it is a rumor, but I can't compete with the imperial brother for the throne!" ”

"You should give up this wrong mind as soon as possible!"

"First, I am a concubine, and secondly, there is no need for this, how good it is to go out in the future, haven't you heard what the uncles said, overseas is not so terrible, rich and chic, there are fewer rules, and there is your own army, you don't have to be like at home, sometimes you have to bear the anger of the imperial history."

"But Your Highness, no matter how good overseas is Middle-earth, there are parents, sisters and brothers you know, and friends and confidants."

Ouyang Ling replied.

Zhu Changhui said: "But there are many rules, and I haven't earned much as a vassal king overseas." ”

Ouyang Ling frowned after hearing this, and felt that Zhu Changhui was not enterprising.

But for Zhu Changhui, the value of participating in the succession is indeed not great, mainly because the benefits are not much worth the benefits of going to overseas vassals, not to mention the risk of key failure, and the end of failure will be very miserable.

Therefore, Zhu Changhui is more keen to go overseas to join the domain.

After all, the situation overseas is now widely known, and as a prince, he also receives a lot of gifts from overseas vassal kings every year, and he also listens to many clansmen who are good friends with him talk about the experience of serving as a vassal overseas on the Wanshou Festival, and naturally knows that it is more comfortable to go overseas to become a vassal than to be an emperor at home.

To be an emperor at home, you need to treat your own people as people, but when you are a vassal king overseas, you don't need to treat the local natives as people.

Because after taking up the vassal overseas, there is no need to worry about the local natives rebelling, as long as the natives rebel, they can use their own army and the governor's imperial army to suppress it, and if they can't suppress it, they can ask the imperial court to add more troops to suppress it.

Other than that.

Because technologically advanced weapons and all kinds of equipment can be purchased from the central Ming Dynasty or directly provided by the central court of the Ming Dynasty, therefore, as a vassal state, there is no need to raise many technical personnel, let alone train local talents, just let them learn to be obedient, so that they can only practice the art of the weak people, and there is no need to respect the local people, and there is no need to treat the local people as people, so that they can be a real feudal slave owner.

King Wei now monopolized the interests of salt, cloth, grain, porcelain, tea, tobacco and minerals in his own vassal state, raised many palace maids and doormen, and enjoyed the life of everyone kneeling down to him every day.

"The imperial examination only respects Cheng Zhu, and can only speak on behalf of the saints, and must not express his heart directly, otherwise he will not be admitted!"

In order to better encompass the local people and not think about rebellion, King Wei opened the first imperial examination in his own country, but required that the scholars in his country could only participate in the imperial examination according to the scholars before the Ming Dynasty, and could only write eight articles that followed the ideas of science, and could not have their own innovations.

Zhang Mi, the new long history of King Wei, couldn't help but ask King Wei because of this:

"Your Highness, will this make my defense of the country lifeless, so that the culture will not be able to flourish in the future, and it will not be comparable to other vassal countries in terms of cultural governance?"

"It's not important!"

"Because what Gu wants is not that Wenzhi is more prosperous than them, but that I can let the Wangfu always be the owner of this land, and I can always keep the foundation here for the emperor."

"Therefore, what I want is to let the people here only be able to study the scriptures after studying, and only have stupidity and no aura, so that the country will naturally be stable."

King Wei said.

Zhang Mi nodded and said, "What His Highness said is true!" ”

Then, Zhang Mi said: "However, in the humble opinion of the ministers, should we set up some special departments, recruit some talents who can develop skills, and if the talents who can make equipment are officials, so as to avoid being bullied by other feudal countries in the future, which are inferior to other feudal countries in terms of sharp weapons?" ”

"Not necessarily!"

King Wei rejected Zhang Mi's proposal, and said: "If other vassal states bully our country, their own imperial court will uphold justice, and we will develop equipment and cultivate talents to make equipment, but we may not be tolerated by the imperial court!" ”

"What's more, once these skills are to be developed, these people must be given the right to question, so that they can't be too deferential, they have to be smarter, so that they can create, but this is not conducive to domination!"

"Therefore, not to mention that I can't cultivate craftsmen who are good at making things, even the existing craftsmen must be compiled into craftsmen and restrict their access, and others must also be compiled into civil and Confucian books, and they are not allowed to go out of the land of a hundred miles at will."

As he spoke, King Wei said: "As for firearms, it is better to buy them, than to build them yourself, it is better to buy them from the imperial court!" ”

"Even the army doesn't have to be too strong, the firearms and equipment don't have to be too advanced, just be able to ride and shoot bandits, anyway, there is the protection of the imperial court, so as to let as many people as possible go to farming and mining, and they are not allowed to go to sea or even wander around in business, so we must set up road guides, compile all kinds of household registration, and set up a sea ban system!"

"In short, everything is as at the beginning of the establishment of our emperor Ming Zhao, commerce and agriculture can only be controlled by the central court and the royal government!"

(End of chapter)