Although Zhu Yuanzhang is very confident, no matter how confident he is, it is impossible for the ministers to let him leave the army with only a few hundred people for a long time.

After all, the Great Wall is about to go out of the Great Wall any further, and although some of the Mongols outside the Great Wall have indeed surrendered, there are also some tribes who are still secretly poking and poking and trying to make trouble.

If a gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, if something happens to Zhu Yuanzhang, I am afraid that everyone present will not be able to apologize if they wipe their necks.

Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant, so he could only rush back to the army after talking to the old soldier.

Back at the camp, Feng Sheng and Tang He received the news, and ran to Zhu Yuanzhang with Lan Yu to confess.

Tang and the three of them seemed extremely twisted, after all, the root of the problems of the military families was in Xungui, they were all Xungui's top figures, and this matter was inseparable.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't blame them much, after so many years of cracking down on corruption, Zhu Yuanzhang also understood that it was impossible to control the corruption of his subordinates by himself.

Over the years, Zhu Yuanzhang has been ruthless in dealing with corruption, but what is the result?

As he grew old, those old problems surfaced again, and the nobles were also cleaned up by him, and those who committed serious crimes before had been cleared up through the Hu Weiyong case.

At present, the rest are still relatively upright, and sometimes it cannot be said that the nobles are not strict in their governance, and human nature is always like this.

Fortunately, it was discovered early now, and the reform of the health centers has begun, and the health centers in the interior have been demolished in large quantities and turned into counties.

The border areas have also been replaced with standing armies, and there are 100 hereditary households in the army, and Zhu Yuanzhang is also signaling Zhu Di to clean up, thinking that it will be much better in the future.

Zhu Yuanzhang just sent the three of them out lightly and didn't take the initiative to mention it.

Zhu Gaochi on the side asked with some curiosity.

"Grandpa Huang, why don't you reprimand them anymore, they must also know part of the problem of the military households, and it is already a big crime to conceal it before and not report it."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled a little complicatedly, and kindly touched Zhu Gaochi's head.

"Things are not so simple, Xungui is intertwined, that is, they are probably innocent, but for the sake of a group of brothers who have worked hard with themselves, it is human nature to hide something."

"What's more, now that the obscene reform is taking place, most of the things have passed, what's the point of still holding on to this?"

Zhu Gaochi nodded as if he didn't understand.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with some emotion.

"Actually, I'm a little relieved to see that old man today."

"Relieved?"

Zhu Gaochi was even more confused, what is there to be happy about?

"You don't understand." Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You grew up in the Yanwang Mansion since you were a child, and you are a descendant of the royal family, so I am afraid that I haven't really taken you to the homes of poor people in autumn, right?" ”

Zhu Gaochi thought about it for a while, and it didn't seem to be, but he still said.

"At the beginning of the college, my brother-in-law also asked us to go to the homes of students from poor families in the academy to help."

"Hey, you don't want to think about it, in the suburbs of Beiping, there is a lot of land owned by your father, and he rents seeds for the people, and the rent he collects is not high. How else can I let my child go to college? ”

"But as long as you can let your children go to school, there are few really poor people!"

Zhu Gaochi nodded a little embarrassedly, similar words, He Qiu had also told them before, but Zhu Gaochi couldn't understand it very well.

"When I was a child, my family was poor, and I went out to be a monk and a beggar, and I came all the way, and I won't talk about some things during the period, and it was common for me to eat at the beginning."

"When I sat in the world, once I went out of the palace to inspect, quietly left a cadre of people, brought a few guards, and sat in the homes of real people, and the difference between me and the end of the Yuan Dynasty was not much bigger, I felt unwilling at that time!"

"You know, there was no overnight food in that farmer's house, and the roofs of the thatched huts were a little broken, and if it rained, it would leak everywhere."

"And there were only a few men who came out to receive me at that time, and there were no female dependents at all, do you understand why?"

Zhu Gaochi said hesitantly.

"Is it because men and women don't kiss, and women should avoid it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang scoffed.

"Don't listen to those people who read so much, how many real people understand this principle? Isn't it true that the female dependents don't work in the field? If you avoid it, who will fight the pigweed?

It's like wrapping little feet, have you ever heard of ordinary folk women wrapping their feet? It's your grandmother, whose background back then was not bad, didn't she have no foot wraps? ”

"Why is that?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said a little weakly.

"I don't have any clothes!"

Zhu Gaochi was taken aback, he really couldn't imagine that it would be because of this reason, he always thought that his senior brother Chen Siwei was already from a very poor family, but he had never heard that his family would be so miserable before.

Zhu Gaochi obviously forgot that Chen Siwei's father could still support his other younger brother to go to school, but he didn't treat the son born to his ex-wife badly.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with tears in his eyes.

"I went to Henan, and Henan is a good place! However, since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there have been many conquests in Henan, and there have been conscriptions in Henan to maintain the Yellow River. ”

"Ten years after recuperation in Hongwu, I originally thought that the situation in Henan was much better, but who would have thought that the local area was still so poor, and then Jinyiwei was specially investigated.

In fact, it was also because of the reason why I went on patrol at the beginning, in order to repair the roads, maintain the official residence, and take care of the requisitioned people, which made the local people lack food and clothing. ”

"After that day, I couldn't sleep all night, and I always felt that it was my fault, so since then, I haven't been on patrol much, even if I go on patrol, I also sent your uncle out, and the gap between the specifications of the prince and the emperor is still very big."

Zhu Gaochi said with some puzzlement.

"Grandpa the emperor ...... this time"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled softly.

"This time is different from before, the imperial court does have enough money and food, and your father has repaired the road and has connected many places in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that I have issued an order to levy and issue conscription, and I must give money, and it can no longer be gratuitous, so that I can rest assured that I can go out on patrol."

"What's more, a trip also has some political significance, mainly to deter the Mongols in Monan, and by the way, to see if it is time to maintain the water conservancy in various places."

Zhu Gaochi nodded ignorantly, he was only twelve or thirteen years old, although he had learned a lot from He Qiu, but this kind of thing was not easy for him to think through for a while.

"I'm telling you this, in fact, it's not for anything else, I hope you can take advantage of the fact that you are not a prince, go deep into the people, and personally understand the suffering of the people, otherwise you may not be able to understand the voice of the people if you just blindly stand on a high place."

"The reason why there were so many heroes in the early Han Dynasty was because their princes, and even the Son of Heaven, could often wear white dragon fish clothes and inspect the lives of the people in Guanzhong?

In the later period, the Han lord was always the young master, and the power was often in the hands of the ministers, even if the emperor seized the power, how could they, who grew up in the hands of the women of the deep palace since childhood, understand the suffering of the people? ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded seriously and said.

"I remember the teachings of the imperial grandfather!"