On the New Year's Day of the twelfth year of Hongwu, King Fu Yuchen of Baekje, King Jintao of Silla, and King Li Chenggui of Hening came to the Ming Dynasty to meet with them. Their own morals were not worthy of their positions, which led to frequent natural disasters and constant man-made disasters, leaving the land and the people without shelter.
Food is the cause, so I ask for sacrifice of soil to return home.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately refused and promised that the Ming Dynasty would provide a total of 600,000 shi of grain to the three countries to pacify the common people and allow them to return to governing the country with peace of mind.
A few days later, the three kings again petitioned for surrender. The emperor once again gave gold, silver and jewels, and promised to send the navy to clear the sea area and promote trade to promote trade and people's livelihood.
A few days later, the lords of the three kingdoms knelt again outside the Fengtian Palace and resolutely expressed their gratitude. The emperor sent the prince to personally comfort him. The prince came out in court robes and asked the lord of the kingdom: "You are the lord of the outer vassal country and screen the vassal dynasty. Your Majesty has granted me the food.
The soldiers thought they were helping, and no matter what they asked for, nothing was answered. Why is this happening now?"
King He Ning said: "The emperor of the Celestial Dynasty has great kindness, kindness and justice. In the past, the Goryeo royal family was immoral and the people of Goryeo were in dire straits. He ordered his ministers to establish a feudal state and protect the people's livelihood in order to maintain peace and peace. However, the ministers were incompetent and the country failed after several years of establishment.
The failure to stabilize the country shows that it is indeed a lack of virtue."
King Jintao of Silla said: "Although we are a foreign vassal, the people of the country all respect the Holy Lord of Heaven and regard them as king and father. Now that I am incompetent in governing the country, I am willing to plead guilty, but the people are not guilty. Please show mercy to the Holy Lord."
, accept and support you.”
The King of Baekje, Buyeo Chen, sobbed: "The emperor was wise and talented, and he had the ambition to help the world and bring peace to the people. He took advantage of the opportunity, followed the heroes, fought the chaos and destroyed the strong, and became an emperor in fifteen years. After the establishment of the government, he studied ancient rituals, made rituals and music
, revise the laws and regulations, revise the laws and regulations, depose the heretics, list the scriptures, correct the names of the hundred gods, strictly observe the rituals of sacrifices, observe the astronomy, calculate the calendar, establish the feudal system, observe the laws and regulations, and be careful about rewards and punishments."
"The Antarctic is hot, the north is over ice, and the sun and the moon are in the east and west. They are unyielding and stupid. I would like to follow the book and just follow a few words to secure the country and provide for the people. I never thought that everything would be difficult and difficult.
We have made no progress, and now the country is not at peace and the people are uneasy, so we have no choice but to shamelessly stay inward and entrust the country and the people to work hard and ask the Holy One to take the trouble to rule it."
The three kings bowed their heads and said: "All the people are in dire straits in the fire and water, please pray for God's mighty grace to benefit the people in all directions!"
The prince sighed and reported back to his father, and all the ministers advised him. The common people of the Three Kingdoms sent thousands of people to request him, and the Holy Heart sympathized with him, so he established the state of Korea and ordered the Ministry of Personnel to immediately draft the candidates for the county magistrate.
Prepare millions of stones of food to save the people from fire and water.
The Lord of the Three Kingdoms was the Marquis of Hening and Baekje, the Marquis of Xinluo. He was given a salary of two thousand dan. He ordered the Ministry of Works to build a mansion. He was appointed the Marquis of Hening as Li Chenggui and served as the official of the Prince's Mansion. He also served as the Minister of the Ministry of War and participated in the military affairs of the Governor's Mansion.
The Ministry of Personnel selected the candidates the next day, and naturally they were Zhu Biao's confidants. Guo Chong, Zhang Fan, and Li Jin had experienced the prefectures and counties, and this time they walked around the six central departments of the imperial court, and then went to local officials as officials. This official career
The experience is considered complete and can be used as you wish in the future.
A few months later, the legitimate daughters of Baekje Hou Xinluohou and Ninghou's family also took advantage of the situation and decided to be the concubines of King Qi and King Chu of Jin, and they were completely integrated into the Ming Dynasty system.
Zhu Yuanzhang also gave feasts and field rewards every now and then to ensure morality. As for the Korean people, they have experienced too many hardships in the past few decades, especially in recent years, they have to recruit troops to cross the sea to attack Japan, which has led to the real
Nine of the ten rooms are empty, and the houses are full of frost and widows.
After being included in the Ming Dynasty, the first step was to completely stop conscription and provide food relief to the people. Most of the remaining aristocratic families in Goryeo were forcibly moved to Fengyang, the land was evenly distributed among the people, all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were abolished, and taxes were exempted for two years...
The Ming Dynasty had too much experience in managing the rivers and mountains that were in ruins and waiting for prosperity. The Korean people had already lost sight of everything. The past few decades had been changing, and they only cared about whether they could survive, and the rest had long been indifferent.
King Zhu Di of Qi finally relieved his burden and returned to Beijing, where he could spend time with his beloved wife and young son. It had been more than two years since their wedding, and it had only been a few months since their eldest son was born. He always came and went in a hurry.
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In February of the twelfth year of Hongwu, Prince Consort Li Zhen, Duke of Cao of Youzhu Kingdom, passed away. The only remaining elder of the Tian family passed away. Zhu Biao, who had long expected this, put on the plain clothes and linen clothes prepared by Liu Jin, and gave instructions calmly and methodically.
After all, he sent people back to the palace to report the funeral.
Cousin Li Wenzhong was already on his way back, but he didn't catch up, so he had to help with the funeral arrangements. Winter was difficult, and 80% of the elderly died during this season. After Li Zhen died, Zhu Biao almost
I have to come to visit in person every day, and I have anticipated it since I saw him today. I have been waiting until he returns to his former glory and leaves his last words before passing away peacefully.
Zhu Yuanzhang arrived soon after. In fact, he had come to see him yesterday, but Li Zhen had been asleep all the time, and Lao Zhu had important military and political affairs waiting to be dealt with in the northern border of North Korea, so the two could not say goodbye after all.
Lao Zhu looked sad. After carefully asking himself about his brother-in-law's last words, he sighed: "Biao'er, we have lost another relative."
Zhu Biao didn't say anything, just stood silently in front of his father. After a while, Lao Zhu adjusted himself. After carefully looking at the remains again, he calmly ordered: "Stop visiting the court for three days and posthumously grant the title of King of Longxi.
The posthumous title was respectfully presented, and he was buried in the plains of Douguang Mountain in Lingji Township, Xuyi County, in honor of the eldest princess."
Obviously Zhu Yuanzhang was also prepared for the death of his old brother-in-law.
"promise."
According to Wang's rules, the funeral will be very honorable, and naturally the funeral will have to be suspended for a long time until Li Wenzhong comes back to bury it in person.
I don't know whether it was due to the bitter cold this winter. Within one month, in addition to Li Zhen, Zheng Beiqiong, the Imperial Academy of Zhongdu, and Chen De, the Marquis of Linjiang, passed away. Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad.
Therefore, it was discovered that there were empty seals in the documents exchanged between the various states, prefectures, counties and the Ministry of Household Affairs. That is to say, for the purpose of money, food and financial revenue and expenditure, local tax accounts were exactly the same as those of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so that transactions could be smoothly submitted, and empty seals were prepared.
The blank paper should be sent to the household department for accounting before adding the amount. This has been the practice since the Yuan Dynasty.
The emperor was furious and thought that this was an act of deception. If things went on like this, the government would become corrupt like that in the late Yuan Dynasty. He denounced this act in the early morning court. At that time, he ordered that the chief seal official be executed, and his deputy was sent to the army with a hundred sticks. At that time, even the censors
No one dared to remonstrate.
I can only cast my hopeful eyes on the prince. After the crown ceremony, the prince grew a short beard on his chin, looking very solemn and solemn.
Zhu Biao shook his head slightly at them, signaling not to violate the Holy Spirit's wishes at this time, and to allow me to give private advice later.
Sure enough, after the court dismissed, many people were waiting at the Wenhua Palace. Zhu Biao didn't even have time to drink tea, so he went to the Wenhua Palace to receive many officials.
It can only be said that the father and son of this dynasty can do this, otherwise it will be a serious crime that can abolish the throne.
After saluting, the Minister of Hubu hurriedly said: "Your Highness, for the number of Qiangu, the prefecture must be combined with the province, and the province must be combined with the department. The number is difficult to decide, and it will be decided when it comes to the department. The distance from the provincial capital to the department is six or seven thousand miles, and the distance is also close.
It takes three or four thousand miles to complete the book and then use the seal. The round trip has to take years. Therefore, it is printed first and then written. This expedient will last forever, so why is it a serious sin?"
Zhu Biao snorted and said, "Is there really no corruption at all here?"
"I have heard a saying once. How much corruption is involved is a difficult matter. How to divide the spoils among the ministries is determined. Do you know?"
It is normal for the court laws to have shortcomings. The officials below are best at exploiting such loopholes, which involves the interests of many people.
At first glance, it seems that it is just a compromise made by officials due to limited transportation and communication conditions. At most, it is just a sneaky trick by the officials below. But in fact, the accounts should be as much as they are. If there are legitimate reasons for slight discrepancies, then they should be
Explain the reason for the discrepancy, rather than changing it to match it.
If all changes are made like this, there will be huge loopholes in the various accounts compiled by the imperial court over the past year. In the end, it will be the hundreds of people in the imperial court who will be responsible, not the officials.
The Minister of Punishment said: "Your Highness, this government may have shortcomings and should be reformed. National legislation must first clearly inform the world and then punish criminals. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have never had laws with empty seals. There are officials who inherit the previous system and do not know the crime.
, you really shouldn’t be good at killing people.”