Generally speaking, the spearhead of Ming Dahe's crackdown was aimed at all officials and the people, but the focus was on punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and more than 80% of its entries belonged to officials.

Lao Zhu originally wanted to make his subjects afraid and not dare to commit a rash offense by issuing a "great edict", but in fact it did not have the desired effect.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang himself had to admit that "as soon as his edict came out", "the wicked thought otherwise, they still followed the past", and "made ordinary mistakes".

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to see the imperial holy books that were once collected by families and recited by everyone.

By the time the history of the Ming Dynasty was revised in the early Qing Dynasty, the "Great Message" had become a rare book, so that the historians made many mistakes in its narration.

As a founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang often had a sense of responsibility to "open peace for all generations", worried that "you will make mistakes after I die", and always wanted to devote himself to a perfect ideal system, especially not to fade over time.

However, it turned out that such a system could not exist.

Times are changing, systems are distorted, and there is simply no such thing as a system that exists forever.

This situation is not uncommon in history.

Even Qin Shi Huang was the same.

He said, "I am the first emperor. The generations to come, the second and third generations to the eternal world, the spread is endless. ”

As a result, it was only passed on to Qin II, and the descendants were not used.

These founding emperors often have a kind of self-confidence.

The reason is also very simple, they won all the way.

There are countless times on their path to success when everyone else is wrong and only he is right.

Therefore, there will be an illusion: I am the destiny of heaven, and my thinking must be correct, only in this way can I achieve the ultimate victory!

In fact

If they hadn't always insisted on themselves, resisted public opinion, and looked at the torch, they would not have finally reached the position of emperor.

But that's why they often have an extreme sense of self-confidence in designing systems that seem reasonable, but work in diametrically opposed ways.

Qin Shi Huang is like this, and so is Zhu Yuanzhang.

Lao Zhu wants to use the system he designed to put an end to corrupt officials forever, eliminate any unstable factors forever, and create peace for the Ming Dynasty.

This set of "Great Message" published throughout the country has it in every household, but when Zhu Yuanzhang died, everything disappeared and disappeared in the long river of history inexplicably.

Facts have proved that all attempts to use a set of policies to build a foundation for eternity will eventually become a joke of history - unless you can never die, keep the system never deformed, you will not succeed at all.

But it's like no one can die forever, so there is no system that can run forever!

In the past, Lao Zhu was a fan of the authorities, and he couldn't see these at all.

Su Che stood on the shoulders of his predecessors, so he could see a little longer-term, he saw very openly, children and grandchildren have their own plans, and if he wants to solve all problems once and for all, it will cause the opposite effect.

During the busy days when the whole country was busy, Su Che was busy and revised some unreasonable places in the edict, and at the same time added some new things.

During this period of time, there can be no big moves, and the entire state apparatus is running at a high load, and it is difficult to do other things, otherwise once it is chaotic, the consequences will be unimaginable.

However, there are no big moves, but small actions can be.

During this time, Su Che expanded the Di newspaper department and renamed it "Da Ming Di Bao", and he wanted to open a nationwide official newspaper, which was a complementary thing.

The literacy campaign in full swing has made the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty continue to rise, and more and more people can understand the text, and the newspapers at this time can be regarded as directly opening up the fast track from the upper to the lower levels of the country.

Through Di Bao, even the people at the lowest level can know the country's policies, and they don't need to convey them through those officials, so that the difficulty of distorting the policies will be greatly increased.

In this way, the rule of officials will also become clearer, of course, only relatively clearer.

But even so, it's a nice improvement.

Time passes day by day, and a year passes.

On this day, the Faculty of Agriculture finally came up with their results.

A group of old farmers stood in an experimental field, and after a period of calculation, their eyes were full of excitement: "It's successful, Your Majesty's hybrid breeding theory has finally succeeded!" The yield of this batch of spiritual rice is fifty percent higher!! ”

"And this number should continue to improve, our current technology is not mature enough, we can continue to cross-breed, and more powerful seeds can appear!" The old farmer on the side said excitedly.

"Quick, go and inform Your Majesty!!"

"Finally it worked!"

"I finally lived up to His Majesty's expectations......"

"We've finally come up with some results!"

Since the opening of the Agricultural College, these good farmers recruited from the private sector have been given quite high treatment and status by the imperial court, but there are very few students who enter the Agricultural College.

At first, they were very happy, less money and more status, what could be more enjoyable than this?

But as time passed, they couldn't sit still.

Although there are very few students in the College of Agriculture, their treatment has not been left behind at all, and they have been given official positions.

But this has also generated a lot of rumors, and there are more and more voices from outside questioning them and ridiculing them.

Outsiders say that they are not worthy of their morality, they are not worthy of their duties, they are not able to do it, and their wits are not matched!

There are too many of these voices, and they also have a lot of psychological pressure.

Many people even asked the court to resign.

In this era, reputation and face are very important, and many people can abandon anything for the sake of face and fame.

In the face of the resignation of these agricultural college teachers, Su Che did not accept them, but assigned them a new task - in addition to teaching, they also started the task of cultivating seeds to verify the theories that Su Che came up with.

If it is done, it will be a great achievement!

It's a daunting task.

These agricultural college teachers had no reason to refuse, and gladly accepted.

In fact, they also want to prove that they are not eating for nothing, but can contribute.

For a long time to come, they were in the midst of rumors and doubts, which made them even more eager to make some achievements.

And today.

The results are in.

This batch of experimental fields cultivated through cross-breeding, the yield of spiritual rice has increased by fifty percent, which is not a small number, and if it is promoted to all parts of the country, it will be a very terrifying effect!

Moreover, this number can continue to increase, and the seeds of spiritual rice can continue to be cross-bred, and the final result may even be doubled!

These old farmers don't dare to think about too high a result, in their opinion, doubling the yield is already very terrifying.

It is true that this batch of spiritual rice, more than fifty percent, is already very powerful.

As the news reached the palace.

Su Che stood up excitedly, laughed and said, "It's finally done!" ”

If it doesn't work out, he still thinks that Lingmi can't be cross-bred, but it turns out that it's still okay!

Zhu Biao, who was on the side, saw his father's expression, and suddenly asked unexpectedly: "Father, what has happened?" ”

In the past few days, Zhu Biao was responsible for building roads, he did a very good job, his reputation spread all over the country, and he was supported by countless low-level people, which also made him gradually find self-confidence, become a lot more lively and healthy, and the psychological pressure was not so great.

Su Che said with a smile: "The Agricultural College has come up with their results, the hybrid breeding has been successful, and the yield of spiritual rice has increased by nearly fifty percent, which is still a preliminary result, and it can continue to improve in the future!" ”

Zhu Biao couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, he is not a prince who does not know the suffering of the people, he is still very clear about the concept of increasing production by fifty percent, which will greatly improve people's livelihood and enhance people's power!

Daming has taken another big step on the road to national prosperity and people's strength!

"That's a great thing! Congratulations to my father! Zhu Biao said with a smile.

"Let's go to the experimental field of the College of Agriculture!" Su Che smiled and said.

"Do you want to bring the minister with you?" Zhu Biao suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked.

"Take them with you, of course!" Su Che nodded, he must let these ministers who like to talk cool things take a look, and the Agricultural College, which they look down on the most, has also come up with its own achievements!

"Yes!!"

Soon, an order came down, and the important ministers of the Ming court quickly gathered together, they were all a little confused, and they had not yet reached the day of the court meeting, and there was nothing particularly important recently, why did they suddenly summon them?

What's going on?

Later, these ministers followed the emperor's Luan to a farm in Yingtianfu, which was an experimental field belonging to the Agricultural College, and the surrounding farmers were relocated.

At this moment, the spiritual rice is ripe, and the rice field is golden, like a golden carpet.

Each of these spiritual grains was so full that the stalks bent down.

When the ministers saw this scene, they only felt relaxed and happy, and the scenery was really good and pleasant.

Those ripe spiritual rice, swaying slowly with the breeze, wafted out an intoxicating aroma of rice.

"The growth of these spiritual rice is really good!" Some ministers couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Majesty brought us here to see this?" Someone reacted.

"These spiritual rice are indeed extraordinary, I feel that the yield is much more than that of ordinary spiritual rice, and it is very commendable that such a large field grows so well."

"It's ...... Auspicious from the sky? ”

In ancient times, auspicious people were part of politics.

Sometimes, auspiciousness is the icing on the cake for a peaceful and prosperous era, sometimes it is about the legitimacy of the emperor, and sometimes it is even a lifesaver for the dynasty.

The origin of the politicization of auspiciousness is very early, and there is a record in "Huainanzi" that links the political achievements of the Yellow Emperor with nature.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu formally established the theory of heaven and man induction, and he believed that "heaven" was conscious and could see everything in the world.

If the king has no way, the heavens will send disasters; If the king is virtuous, the heavens will send auspicious gifts to praise.

The Confucian system gradually became a pan-moralization of it, turning it into popular values such as "people are doing, and the sky is watching".

Xiangrui is also about the legitimacy of the change of dynasty.

In ancient times, there were frequent changes of dynasties, and the way of presenting the Mandate of Heaven was "those who have the power to do it themselves", that is, auspiciousness.

These spiritual rice in front of me are rising so much, isn't it the proof of Daming Xiangrui?!

At this time, Su Che came not far away, he looked at these important ministers of the government and the opposition, smiled and said, "I summoned you today, there is a great happy event to share with you. ”

"The agricultural college we opened was criticized a lot by you in the past, saying that they were not of much use, so today, I will put the results in front of you and let you see!"

"Yu Shan'an!"

"The minister is here!" An old peasant official hurriedly replied.

"Tell me about your work, let me hear it, and let them hear it too!" Su Che said lightly.

"Obey orders!" The old peasant official Yu Shan'an's usually stiff back stood up unconsciously at this moment.

He slowly turned around, glanced at the Minister of the Manchu Dynasty, and then said seriously: "The minister was ordered by the king to study hybrid cultivation of rice seeds, based on the theory provided by His Majesty, failed several times, and finally achieved results a few months ago. ”

"Over time, these seeds grow into fruits."

"That's what you're seeing, it's the latest research from the Faculty of Agriculture! Cross-breed spiritual rice! ”

"We have strictly calculated, about every acre of land, the yield has increased by 50%, which is still the yield without special intervention, and we can continue to optimize the cultivation in the future."

"The final optimization result is likely to increase by seven or eight percent, or even double!!"

"As long as these cross-cultivated spiritual rice seeds are promoted, Daming will inevitably be more prosperous!"

In the end, Yu Shan'an, the old peasant official, did not forget to make a summary: "These are all achievements made under His Majesty's theory, and our Agricultural College has only done some insignificant work!" ”

Listening to Yu Shan'an's words, these important ministers of the court were stunned, and they all looked at the old peasant official in amazement.

Isn't it auspicious?

Is it the result of artificial cultivation?

Can it even be extended to the whole world??

This agricultural college has really made achievements for them!?

Even the ministers who despised the Agricultural College before, they all realized their merits at this moment, even if Yu Shan'an gave this credit to His Majesty, but they made such achievements, and the credit will definitely not be less.

Once these cross-bred rice varieties are promoted to the whole country, the yield of Ling rice will be doubled?

It's unimaginable!

Many ministers' breath stagnated, and their hearts were full of shock, Yingtianfu Agricultural College, which they regarded as a joke, had been ridiculed for a long time, and they had several targeted nicknames.

Who would have thought that such a group of mud-legged people would make such a great achievement!!

As for those nobles, they are even more excited at the moment.

They have fought all their lives and fought for most of their lives, and they understand the importance of grain and grass the most, and what will happen to rice varieties whose yield has nearly doubled? It's exciting to think about!

"You don't have to put all the credit on us, your dedication, we see in our eyes, the credit of the Agricultural College will never be less!" Su Che stood up and said loudly:

"Let's publish your credit in the Daming Di Newspaper, so that everyone in the country can be happy together!"

"You and other agricultural officials will inevitably leave their names in history and be an example for farmers all over the world!"

As soon as these words came out, those old peasant officials suddenly became excited, who would have thought that they would also have the opportunity to leave a name in history? What an honor!

When those ministers heard this, they all had very mixed feelings.

Leave a name in history!

This is the ultimate goal pursued by the literati.

The peasant officials they looked down on the most in the past have unknowingly come to this point?

Many ministers subconsciously want to say, just they deserve it?

Think about it.

It's really a good match!

(End of chapter)