Chapter 20 The king and the people farm together, which is treason
As a man, Zhu Yijun II, can he farm?
He really doesn’t know how.
The only living plant was pothos, the kind that can be grown with just a little water and soil, but he was able to raise it to death in the end.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to farm. People who know how to farm in the Ming Dynasty are like the crucian carp crossing the river. Are there any people who are better at farming than the people of Ming Dynasty?
As the emperor, Zhu Yijun wanted to farm. He organized some experienced farmers to carry out special research on growing potatoes. In fact, it was not very expensive. At the worst, he could free up the Long Live Mountain outside Xuanwu Gate for farming. that is.
It is the Long Live Mountain where the old crooked neck tree is planted. It is the Long Live Mountain where Emperor Chongzhen chose to hang himself at the last moment.
If you can grow flowers and grass, you can also grow potatoes.
No matter how bad it is, no matter how bad it is, even if the special research fails and potatoes are not grown, the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who is personally involved in farming and mulberry trees, has expressed his concern for farming. It has no practical significance, but it has It has a strong political symbolic meaning and can draw the Ming Dynasty's attention to potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are high-yielding crops, which means making a lot of money.
If you take action, trillions of people will look up to you, think it is right, and act on it.
If the emperor makes the slightest move, people all over the world will look at it and think that the sun is rising in the west. What did the little emperor do? How many people will look at potatoes and sweet potatoes? Once someone grows twenty or thirty stones, it will be a great good deed for the benefit of the people!
Empress Dowager Li was a little hesitant. The little emperor had just given her a lesson on Hongyi. Hong means caring about the world. If Luo Gongchen had not lied, there really were grain crops with an output of twenty or thirty shi per mu. Once That’s it, who in the world dares to say that a ten-year-old leader cannot rule the world?
Even if it fails, it will at least show that the emperor is ambitious and can gain more recognition.
Empress Dowager Li thought for a while and shook her head and said: "It is better to learn with peace of mind. Practicing martial arts can also be said to be the method of assassinating the king and killing the driver and the ancestors. After all, Taizu and Emperor Chengzu were all outstanding in martial arts. Now that the emperor is farming, he is really not doing his job properly. The courtiers have come to remonstrate with him, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to end."
Empress Dowager Li does not want to cause more trouble, she just hopes that her children can grow up safely and take over the Ming Dynasty smoothly. It can be considered that he has lived up to the late emperor's instructions.
Zhu Yijun still did not give up and said: "I will definitely complete my studies well."
"It's not because of the schoolwork." Queen Mother Li hesitated for a moment, but still explained the stakes in detail. After a while, Empress Dowager Li had directly requested it with authority, without any explanation.
But on the day when the king was assassinated, the little emperor knocked over a table and chair to avoid being chased. He said as soon as he opened his mouth, don’t blame him for his lack of etiquette, which made Empress Dowager Li feel sad, even a little sad. This mother and son How on earth did you end up like this?
If we are stricter and don't explain things clearly, I'm afraid the gap between mother and son will create a bigger gap.
Will the ministers in the court complain about the little emperor's marriage to Nongsang, and criticize the little emperor's words and deeds?
Yes, it will definitely happen, and everyone, even Zhang Juzheng, may object.
The emperor is a born nobleman. When offering sacrifices to Jumang in the spring, it is enough to symbolically support the plow. The most important thing is to study, study the Four Books and Five Classics, and be a good emperor that meets their standards.
In the Ming Dynasty, etiquette was strict.
Luo Gongchen broke his leg while running. He begged his grandfather and grandma everywhere to collect taxes on foreign ships. This tax was not received into his hands, Luo Gongchen. It was given to national funds or internal funds. .
He is not the only coastal defense fellow in Yuegang City Shipping Department. There are three coastal defense fellows in the Du Rating Office alone, as well as the Imperial Rating Officer, the Chenghai County Magistrate, the Fujian Governor, the Inspector, and the Fujian Governor. The heads of the Tax Department were watching. How much of the taxes Luo Gongchen collected from foreign ships would fall into his own pocket?
Luo Gongchen is generating income for the court.
As for this matter, which does not harm the interests of any Ming people and generates income for the court, there are many opponents in the court. The nine classics of the country are to cultivate literature and virtue to soften people.
The little emperor actually wants to marry Nong Sang, and the courtiers will definitely report it to him.
This also involves the dispute between agriculture and Confucianism.
Agriculture advocates "co-cultivation between the king and the people" and "equal harvesting". Co-cultivation between the king and the people means that the king personally participates in farming, and equal harvesting means that all harvests should be distributed evenly to everyone.
Equal harvesting was never possible in the productivity of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and was similar to the political concepts of the Utopia and the World of Great Harmony.
The king and the people farm together, this is a view that was personally refuted by the Confucian sage Mencius!
"Chapter 4 of Mencius Teng Wen Gong" records in detail how Mencius personally debated the issue of common farming between the king and the people with agricultural scholars, and Mencius won with an overwhelming advantage. Of course, this is one-sided Confucianism According to records, agriculture has long lost its orthodoxy.
This is all a story from the Pre-Qin era. Will the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty still use the disputes from the Pre-Qin era to argue about the principles of the Ming Dynasty?
Isn’t this the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who holds the sword of Shang Fang from the previous dynasty?
Confucian scholars really know how to do it.
Because Confucianism is a theory that highly venerates the ancients, and Confucian scholars are a group that highly venerates the ancients. The first thing the ministers like to do is to speak of the three generations of Dharma, Yao and Shun. It seems that if Yu doesn't quote it like this, he will look uneducated.
The emperor personally cultivates the land. Doesn’t everyone in the world have to cultivate the land?
This is a slap in the face of Mencius, the great Confucian sage, and a slap in the face of Confucian students all over the world.
The king and the people farm together, which is treacherous and unethical!
Queen Mother Li is not knowledgeable, but she understands ministers. These ministers still want to give lectures when they have nothing to do, let alone when they have something to do.
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen were quite dissatisfied with the corrupt Confucianism. Empress Dowager Chen felt that the ministers in the court had made a basket out of Confucian rules and put the emperor in it. It's just using the word sage to restrain the emperor.
Those ministers, powerful right-wingers, and gentry who are deeply educated in Confucianism, as long as they have a little respect for Confucian classics, they can ignore the country, and they are not ambitious but just perseverant. Determined to poach Daming's corner?
Empress Dowager Li explained the reasons with great sincerity. If the emperor really wanted to do it, he could wait until he grew up and could take charge of the throne. Zhu Yijun fully understood Empress Dowager Li's worries and nodded and said, "I understand, kid."
After he returned to the dormitory in the inner palace of Qianqing Palace, he neither read the books of sages nor thought about the Jin Party. I am thinking about how to promote the planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Zhu Yijun didn't even care about collecting taxes from foreign ships. All his thoughts were on potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After a short weighing, he decided that he must go ahead and get rid of the shackles of ethics and education that the king and the people work together. The key man in this matter was none other than Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng is in control of the cabinet. If he can firmly support his marriage to the farmers and mulberry trees, and the monarch and the people to work together, then this matter may not be impossible.
Zhang Juzheng is not a traditional, conservative, pedantic or stubborn Confucian scholar. However, all reformers will have doubts about the old system, and then want to improve it and realize their own ambitions. .
In fact, no matter what happened, Zhu Yijun would not suffer a loss. Even if the king and the people could not work together in the end, it caused the Ming Dynasty to attach great importance to crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. Zhu Yijun made a lot of money this time.
The ten-year-old young emperor worries about the world first, has the world in his heart, and wants to do these things for the world, but he does not pay attention to the methods. After all, the little emperor has not studied Mencius and the Analects of Confucius. I only studied it seriously for three days, but I don’t know the importance of it.
The ministers of the Ming Dynasty still have this kind of tolerance. Officials who do not have this kind of tolerance are naturally ministers who do not practice benevolence and have no heart of obedience. We should initiate non-punishment measures to punish such unfaithful and unfilial ministers. , sent to the Jiecu Hospital, the heart, liver, spleen and stomach were dug out to see if they were all black!
Zhu Yijun signaled Zhang Hong to turn off the lights, go to bed early and get up early, and grow taller.
Zhang Hong understands His Majesty’s thoughts and concerns.
When Zhang Hong left Qianqing Palace, he kept waiting at the side of the palace gate without lighting a lamp, blending in with the night. After waiting for a long time, a palace maid hurried over.
"Have you told Xu Jue?" Zhang Hong asked.
"Yes." The palace maid hurriedly replied.
Zhang Hong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Well, let's go back."
Xu Jue was Feng Bao's man. Xu Jue worshiped Feng Bao as his godfather. Bao's confidant, and this maid was arranged by Zhang Hong to inform Feng Bao.
Zhang Hong found that he was more than qualified to be a eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, but he was not yet able to be an ancestor. As for the ability of Ge Shouli, whom Feng Bao was quarreling with outside the court, to be speechless, Zhang Hong did not yet have it.
This is an opportunity for Feng Bao. It depends on whether Feng Dajue is respectful or not.
At this time, in the Wenchang Pavilion of the Quanchu Guild Hall, Zhang Juzheng was lighting three bright lamps and writing and drawing non-stop. He was extremely busy with official duties. He returned to his private residence from Wenyuan Pavilion and When he came to the study room, he was annotating the new Four Books and Five Classics for the little emperor, and he also wanted to write a book for the emperor himself, "The Illustrated Theory of the Emperor's Manual".
This Emperor's Book of Illustrations is said to have illustrations. I was afraid that the little emperor would be impatient when reading, so he wanted to make some illustrations to attract children. The illustrations were done by Ma Ziqiang, the attendant, and the story in it was written by Zhang Juzheng Edited by myself.
Zhang Juzheng really hoped that Emperor Wanli would become a wise king. On the cold spring day of the first lunar month, he was not in the Nuan Pavilion, but in his study, wearing a heavy cloak, painting in person.
The pen in Zhang Juzheng's hand is a hard pen with graphite core sent from the palace, which is the pencil used by the little emperor.
The little emperor's oral instructions are right. Pencils are very easy to use, especially for Zhang Juzheng who needs to write a lot. The biggest benefit of writing continuously without having to dip in ink is not only saving time, but also the most important thing. It’s because the train of thought never stops.
Zhang Juzheng is a scholar. He is good at calligraphy and Taige style. With a little use of this hard-pen calligraphy, he can write extremely beautifully. After he finishes writing, he will hand it over to the clerk for copying and finally send it to the Imperial College. Engraving and printing, then presented to the little emperor for preview.
"Master, it's already time." You Qi solemnly told Zhang Juzheng that it's time for him to rest. You Qi is Zhang Juzheng's housekeeper. In the Ming Dynasty, he is called Master, and his family members have different names. Different, in short, You Qi is Zhang Juzheng's confidant.
Zhang Juzheng has never spoken a word in private to Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of rituals and eunuchs, at any time or anywhere.
This is a taboo matter. Once the chief minister of the outer court and the inner court are connected, it will be the Ming Emperor who should be frightened.
In most cases, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng rely on eye contact and tacit understanding.
But some things must be confirmed in private. You Qi and Xu Jue, the eunuch in the palace, are from the same hometown.
If something really big happens, for example, the Queen Mother wants to abolish Gao Gong's position as chief assistant, and the external court's cooperation is needed, Xu Jue will communicate with You Qi.
Zhang Juzheng rubbed his slightly sore eyes and said: "After writing this chapter, the thirty-six expositions of the eighty-one sages' rules have been written. They will be carved out tomorrow morning. At noon It can be used for the feast."
"A message came from the palace, saying that His Majesty the Emperor wants to plant the land himself," You Qi said with a particularly strange expression.
Zhang Juzheng also looked at You Qi with a puzzled look, and asked confusedly: "Huh?"
This little emperor is really a little out of the ordinary.
Learning martial arts is one of the six skills of a gentleman advocated by Confucius. The emperor can practice it or not. He is not afraid of hard work and does not delay his studies. He just practices it.
What’s going on in a place like this?
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