Late spring.

Bai Chongyan, who was allowed to go back to his hometown to visit relatives first, finally came to Kaifeng again.

He was not in a good mood, because his father was seriously ill in bed, and he could die at any time.

Knowing that his son was promoted to the political envoy of Henan, Lao Baiwai asked his son to hurry into Beijing, and then went to take office. He also said that he could insist on living for a few more years, and he would never let his son go home in the short term.

By the way, the old white officer now has an official body.

Because the two sons were confidants of the crown prince, he was named Chengshilang (正九品京官). Although it is a fictitious position and does not receive a salary, it is enough to make the old white man have a bright face.

Even his dead mother and old wife were given orders.

Bai Chongyan came to the capital and lived directly in the second brother's house.

When the brothers met, they were extremely emotional.

When Bai Chongyan talked about his father's illness, Bai Chongwu also felt worried, and lamented that he could not go home to visit.

After talking about family matters, we talked about business again.

Bai Chongwu said: "This farewell, I don't know when I will see you again, I am going to be sent to Japan to do things." ”

"Japan?" Bai Chongyan was taken aback, "My brother is the prince's confidant, how can he go to that overseas state?" ”

Bai Chongwu sighed and said: "This is reuse, the errand of the third grade." ”

These words made Bai Chongyan even more surprised, because after the reform of the Ming official system, the third grade is at the level of the six squires.

How could it suddenly be established overseas to establish a three-rank official position?

Bai Chongwu took a pen and paper, sketched a few times, drew three small circles, and said: "This is Iwami Province, this is Tsushima Island, and this is Sado Island." In all three locations, there is gold and silver, and the quantity is very large. Only send warriors to station, the court can not rest assured, and it must be balanced by civil and military forces. ”

"The imperial court intends to set up the Iwami Governor's Mansion in Iwami National Castle. Establishment of sub-offices of the Governor's Office on Tsushima Island and Sado Island. The Governor is the third rank, the deputy governor is the fourth rank, and the deputy governor must be an official of the Inspectorate. ”

In the next few decades, the imperial court would encourage overseas immigrants to lure the Ming people to go by mining gold and silver. Waiting for the two islands of Tsushima and Sado, the Han people became more numerous, and they would also set up counties to open a government and send officials to govern. ”

"One percent of the gold and silver obtained from the three places will go to the royal family, and ninety percent will go to the household department. The household department cannot be monopolized, and must be taken out and handed over to the ministries and institutes to share the profits. ”

"The governor and the general of the garrison can apply to withhold gold and silver to expand the port, mine the mines, and solicit immigrants."

"In terms of the army, the imperial court will set up the Zhendong General's Mansion in Iwami Kunijo. Successive generals of the garrison were awarded the post of general of Sanpin Zhendong. ”

"Governor and General Zhendong, five-year term. Unless there is a major accident, it cannot be re-elected. ”

Bai Chongyan had already turned from surprise to shock, and hurriedly asked, "How much gold and silver is there?" can make the imperial court pay so much attention! ”

Bai Chongwu said: "When everything is rolled out, according to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it is estimated that you can get millions of taels of silver every year." Or even more! ”

Bai Chongyan was dumbfounded: "Japan is a small country, how can there be so much gold and silver buried?" ”

"By the way, Governor Iwami, he is also in charge of diplomatic relations with Japan." Bai Chongwu added.

Bai Chongyan reminded: "The ground is full of gold and silver, my brother must be vigilant, don't be confused by yellow and white things." ”

Bai Chongwu smiled bitterly: "The deputy governor must be from the Inspectorate, and the household department will not send people to check the accounts from time to time, even if I want to be greedy, I have to have that courage." ”

Big corruption will inevitably be punished, but small corruption is definitely no problem, and the officials who audit the accounts don't even want to find out.

It's a lucrative job!

In the next few days, Bai Chongyan visited his friends in Beijing and learned more about the imperial court.

He was really apprehensive about his new errand.

……

After a year of rest, all provinces had a surplus.

The renovation of the Confucian Temple has recently been launched nationwide, and the imperial court was only a suggestion before.

The Temple of Literature and the Temple of Confucius must be separated from then on.

The sages enshrined in the new version of the Temple of Literature almost made the ministers quarrel with each other.

Legalists are all excluded.

Among the "five beetles and eight traitors" listed by Han Feizi, Confucian scholars are ranked first, as long as Confucianism governs the country, this old man will never want to turn over.

As for Shang Ying, Zhu Ming can't accept it without the opposition of the ministers, because the Book of Shang Jun is too anti-human!

There are probably only three kinds of people who admire Shang Ying: one substitutes himself as a king; One is that there is something wrong with the brain; There is also a lack of clarity about Shang Ying's claims.

Mozi was elected to the Temple of Literature, which was forcibly decided by Zhu Ming.

Lao Tzu was not controversial, and the civil officials were not disgusted.

Xunzi also kept his seat and was not kicked out of the Temple of Literature.

The ministers of the Han Dynasty, a large number of people entered the Temple of Literature.

Sima Qian, Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Su Wu, Zhang Qian, Zhang Heng, Cai Lun......

Zhu Ming selected the sages of the past dynasties, based on meritorious service, morality, and speech.

Like Sima Xiangru, he is a speech, and engaging in literary creation is also a speech, and this person also pacified the southwest and contributed to China's subjugation and development of the southwest region. Words are the mainstay, and meritorious service is both.

The principle of Qu is to have both virtue and words.

Zhang Qian's meritorious service is a proper meritorious service, and the merit is beneficial in the present generation.

Through Zhang Qian's hands, the crops introduced into China are: grapes, alfalfa, walnuts, pomegranates, sesame, cucumbers, broad beans, garlic...... If anyone dares to object, Zhu Ming can rightly go back: Do you eat garlic?

The ministers' arguments about Cai Lun are no less than Mozi's.

The reluctance of civil officials to worship eunuchs is one thing, and the other is Cai Lun's poor character.

Cai Lun was first involved in the dispute over the storage position, framed the Song nobles, and forced the prince's biological mother to commit suicide by taking poison, and the prince himself was deposed as the king of Qinghe.

Then he framed Liang Guiren, took away Liang Guiren's son, and transferred this future emperor to the Dou family to raise.

Cai Lun has always been dominated by the Dou family, but later sold the Dou family to help the little emperor who wanted to be pro-government to overthrow the Dou family.

The sages in the Temple of Literature, and the gods and goddesses all record their achievements.

Zhu Ming forcibly sent Cai Lun to the Temple of Literature, and in order to appease the emotions of the ministers, he specially asked people to add a comment: "It is not enough to be a public person, but to improve papermaking, its benefits are in the future." ”

Now that the local government is financially well-off, the imperial court ordered that all prefectures and counties must rebuild the new Confucian Temple.

However, because there were too many controversial sages, some local officials disobeyed the yang and the yin, and secretly canceled the gods of Mozi, Cai Lun and others. And most officials and Confucian scholars don't know which sages are selected, and even if they do, they pretend not to know.

As a result, the inspection of the imperial history had an incidental task, ordering the non-standard Confucian Temple to rectify within a time limit.

……

Routine pre-imperial meeting, this thing is equivalent to a small court meeting.

The ministers and ministers are very relaxed, after all, there will be no war this year and next year, as long as there is money and food, there will be no big problem.

Meng Zhao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Your Majesty, the provincial capitals and counties rebuilt the New Confucian Temple, and Cai Lun caused too much controversy. When the cabinet received opposition from several hundred magistrates, it ordered the Ministry of Rites to reconsider the matter, and there were many voices of opposition from the Ministry of Rites. ”

Zhu Guoxiang looked at his son with a smile.

Zhu Ming also smiled: "Opposition is invalid." ”

Meng Zhao pursed his lips, he was a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and the matter of the Confucian Temple was decided.

Zhai Ruwen took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and said, "Your Majesty, the newly appointed prefect of Mingzhou has a performance. Mingzhou violated the name of the country and asked the imperial court to change it. The ministers all knew that His Majesty did not shy away from this matter, but the prefect of Mingzhou for two consecutive terms requested to change the name. If the imperial court has not changed, it is estimated that Mingzhou will always be playing. ”

Zhu Guoxiang was also afraid of trouble, and replied: "Then change it." However, when replying, it should be made clear that it is not changed because of obscenity, but it is more famous. ”

Li Bangyan is not good at anything else, but he is willing to get involved in this kind of thing: "Your Majesty, the minister is very familiar with Mingzhou, and the city there is making money every day." I heard that there is an ancient name called Juzhang, which can be changed to Juzhangfu. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Mingzhou sea trade is prosperous, and it can be changed to Ningbo Mansion. ”

"Good name!"

Everyone's eyes lit up and they all clapped their hands in admiration.

Li Bangyan is even more sycophant: "The prince is worthy of being the holy hand of resignation, and even the name change is amazing." Ningbo one, both auspicious and good-sounding. Even if the minister searched his stomach, he couldn't come up with a better name. ”

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and let his son pretend to be forced.

After everyone finished laughing, the planter said: "Over there, the Hanlin Academy has completed the first draft of "Guwen Guan Zhi" according to His Majesty's request. This is a selection of essays and essays. ”

He is eager to gain the recognition of civilian officials, and now he does not care much about the military, but is extremely enthusiastic about civilian affairs.

I heard that Zhu Guoxiang asked the Hanlin Academy to edit "Guwen Guan Zhi", and the seed master took the initiative to ask Ying to be the president of the editorial team.

Zhu Guoxiang took it and glanced at it casually, then handed it to his son and said, "The prince will look at it." ”

Zhu Ming carefully checked the table of contents of the article, nodded approvingly: "Good choice." It can be published in the world, and then select some famous articles, so that the government and county officials can teach them. ”

The seed master smiled from ear to ear, once this book is printed and published, he will inevitably be remembered by future generations of readers.

Zhu Guoxiang suddenly asked: "How is the compilation of "History of the Song Dynasty"? ”

Hu Anguo replied: "I'm afraid it will be another year or two, and many historical materials are being compared and considered repeatedly. ”

Zhu Ming suddenly said: "Send the envoys to the Jin State and let them transport the historical materials of the Liao State, and I Daming also compiled the "History of Liao" by the way." ”

Zhai Ruwen said: "I'm afraid that Jin Guo will not agree." The Jin people claimed to inherit the legal system of the Liao State, and once they agreed to the compilation of the "History of Liao" by the Ming Dynasty, they handed over the legal system to others. ”

"Whether they give it or not, we should send someone to ask for it, and we forgot about it in the last peace talks." Prince Zhu was a little unhappy.

The meeting of the monarchs and ministers was very relaxed, just like the usual family.

When the ministers dispersed, Zhu Guoxiang took his son to the Imperial Garden, and Bai Chongyan, who returned to Beijing to report on his work, was already waiting there.

"Meet the official, meet the prince!"

Bai Chongyan bowed.

Zhu Ming laughed, walked over and patted his belly: "San Lang, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you are blessed in Hangzhou, it seems that the rice in the south is very nourishing." ”

Bai Chongyan couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly inhaled to collect his stomach: "As I get older, I have fat on my abdomen, and Your Highness is smiling." ”

"Why didn't you bring your sister-in-law with you?" Zhu Ming asked.

Bai Chongyan said: "Neiko is at my brother's house. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Go rowing in Jinmingchi tomorrow, you bring your sister-in-law, and the second brother and his wife will also come." There are also Li Hanzhang and Meng Zhao, all of whom brought their families. We, the old people of Yangzhou, haven't gathered for a long time. ”

"Yes!"

Bai Chongyan suddenly became happy, it seems that the prince is still the same prince, and he has not been born for many years.

(Wangwang, I will definitely add it tomorrow.) ）

(End of chapter)