Next comes the Chinese New Year, which is also one of the three annual holidays for officials. For the royal family, celebrating the New Year is very time-consuming, and Yunxi was deeply touched after becoming a grandson in the past two years.
However, those who should socialize must socialize, and even emperors like Lao Zhu could not avoid it, let alone Yunxi. Yunxi ended another Chinese New Year in a daze. During this period, in addition to the prescribed banquet, he met with the officials of the East Palace
You must also attend the banquet held by the students at the Martial Arts Hall; although Yunxi did not stay long, he also participated in the banquet held by the students at the Martial Arts Hall.
After the New Year, Yunxi rested for a few days according to the custom of later generations, and it was not until the seventh day of the lunar month that he cheered up and started working.
The first thing to deal with after the New Year is the issue of "employment distribution" for Wutang students. Lao Zhu has been killing corrupt officials. Although it is mainly civilian officials, there are also military officers who were killed for corruption. However, the official positions vacated by these killed people
It’s not enough for nearly 300 students to have official positions. Those in the Duke’s family can temporarily stay at home for a period of time, but others can’t do it. They can’t be left to wait for the title. After attending the martial arts hall, they can’t be promoted.
Then the people below will think that the martial arts hall is of little use.
Fortunately, Lao Zhu was prepared in advance. He first asked some students whose fathers were older to go back and replace their father's hereditary students, and to give priority to the hereditary students with good grades; then, Lao Zhu, because of the current characteristics of "there are no big battles, but constant small battles",
Disorganize the origins of some students and send them to other places to fill vacancies or wait for them to be filled. According to Lao Zhu and Yunxi's pre-arranged grades, they will be filled when there are vacancies; and Lao Zhu ordered that if there is no military merit in peacetime, priority will be given to promotion of martial arts.
students in the hall.
On the one hand, now that Lao Zhu is still here, the Ming Dynasty has just been founded for more than 20 years, and the upper-level officials are just fine. Most of the middle- and lower-level officials in the army do not have particularly obvious factions.
On the other hand, for those places that accept students from the Jiangwu Hall who are ready to fill in any vacancies, there are often students from their area who are filling in for vacancies in other places, and they may be in the same school building.
The Eight Twisted people can always build relationships, even if they exclude people, it shouldn't be too obvious.
In this way, Lao Zhu and Yunxi's plan was not implemented smoothly.
Then there are some people. Lao Zhu said to Yunxi: "These people with excellent grades, why don't you take them with you when you go to the north for inspection? Firstly, you show that you value them; secondly, these people are all capable, so it's good to
Protect you on the road; Grandpa Sanlai is in the middle of the capital after all, and there may not be people below who can deceive Grandpa. You might as well find these people on the road and let them make up for it on the spot."
Yunxi felt that Jiang was still too old, and a group of people served them for free. In the end, they would probably be grateful, so he said: "Then just listen to grandpa."
Yunxi immediately said to the students who had not been assigned: "I am going to the north for inspection this summer, and I will take you with me." The students were really grateful and felt that they had taken advantage of it. Others who were assigned were envious of them.
Next is the start of a new martial arts class. Of course, Yunxi also leads the class himself. This time, Lao Zhu started with two sentences, and then Yunxi gave a long speech to encourage the students.
On the second day of the lunar month, Feng Sheng, the duke of the Song Dynasty, was killed for being "lawless". Although Yunxi admired Feng Sheng's achievements, he was very reluctant to let Feng Sheng be killed. However, he could not change Lao Zhu's decision and could only accept it silently.
Reality. At this point, all the six founding Dukes have passed away.
Fortunately, Lao Zhu was not implicated, and the deaths of Fu Youde and others did not turn into a major case. At last, about 30% of the founding heroes were left, and there were relatively enough capable generals. The "Four Major Hongwu Cases" in history There will be one less case.
On the second day of the lunar month, Lao Zhu issued an order: "The Ministry of Households organized hundreds of households into liars. In marriages, death, illness, and disasters, the rich in the li will help with wealth, and the poor will help. Harvest in the spring and autumn, and work together to teach the people to live in harmony." That is to let the people live in harmony. Ordinary people help each other in units of a hundred households. This is another action taken by Lao Zhu to break the power of local clans and increase the state's control over the people.
Together with the previous payment of grain by the government and the gentry together and the sharing of land between farmers and farmers, this also weakened local power. Lao Zhu also spared no effort to weaken local power.
In the same month, Muchun captured Aziz and ended another rebellion in Yunnan. At this time, Zhu Zhen had already set off for Yunnan to take office, but he had not yet arrived in Kunming.
Before Zhu Chu left, Yunxi talked to Zhu Chu again: "Uncle King Min, you must pay more attention when you arrive in Yunnan. Yunnan is not like the mainland, and it is not like the north. Uncle Wang must pay more attention. There will be bigger things waiting for you in the future." It’s up to you.” After saying that, he left.
Zhu Ming looked at his leaving figure and pondered his words, but did not respond for a long time.
There were hundreds of doctors following Zhu Chun. Lao Zhu had officially ordered the establishment of medical clinics in various chieftains, but there was a temporary shortage of suitable doctors. So because Zhu Chun had just taken office, all the doctors he could collect were sent to Yunnan (including Guizhou). ) followed Zhu Chu. Other provinces could only wait.
In March, when the capital was bustling with preparations for Yunxi's wedding, news came from Xi'an that King Zhu Ping of Qin had passed away. At that time, Lao Zhu happened to be talking to Shang Bing and the others. When he heard the news, Shang Bing almost went crazy on the spot. He passed out and immediately asked to go back when he regained consciousness.
Lao Zhu was also very sad. By the time of Zhu Ping's death, five of his sons had passed away. After all, Lao Zhu was an old man in his sixties, and he was bedridden immediately. Lao Zhu ordered that all major national affairs should be handled by Yun. Processing.
The center of power of the Ming Dynasty was temporarily transferred to the Wenhua Palace. Lao Zhu also allowed Yunxi to use Zhu Pi (Note 1), and Yunxi tried the feeling of being an emperor.
Yunxi was immediately very busy. It was a completely different feeling to watch the government affairs from the sidelines and to handle the affairs of the government personally. Yunxi was very busy, but fortunately, Lao Zhu was still around, and no one dared to deceive Yunxi because of his inexperience.
But Yunxi still felt very busy. Now Yunxi could finally understand clearly why the emperor in the mid-Ming Dynasty still used academicians even though he knew that relying on academicians would lead to a reduction in imperial power. Without them, they would be too busy. He was not that person. They all have the perseverance of Lao Zhu. Yunxi boasts that he is still able to persevere, but he still can't stand it anymore.
He had to use methods that have been proven by history to be effective in reducing the emperor's workload: Yunxi divided the memorials into two categories, those that only needed to be looked at or those that only needed to be criticized "yes or no", and he would handle them directly personally; those that needed to find a way , handed it over to Qi Tai, Lian Zining, Qin Song and others to first read the draft handling opinions, and then let him make the final decision.
In the end, Yunxi managed to survive with this method while Lao Zhu rested for more than ten days. But Yunxi knew that this method would not work, and it would be better to restore the position of prime minister. However, Lao Zhu explicitly ordered not to reinstate the prime minister. It was difficult for Yunxi to confront him directly, which was very troublesome. However, there were still three years before Lao Zhu's death, so Yunxi still had time to think about it.
When Lao Zhu was ill, Yunxi went to see him one time. Lao Zhu said to Yunxi: "My grandfather has five sons who have passed away. Except for Qi'er (Laojiu Zhao Wang), Zi'er (Lao Ba) died early.
King Tan) just couldn’t figure it out (Note 2). The others all died of illness at a young age, so how could I be left as an old man still in this world?”
"Last month, I rewarded him for leading troops to conquer the country and forcing him to surrender. I never expected that he would die like this."
Yunxi was also sad when he heard him mention Zhu Biao; and when he saw Lao Zhu was so sad, he couldn't say what he wanted to say.
Yunxi came to Lao Zhu to ask him to withdraw his order to bury the concubine of Qin Han King Zhu Xi.
A few days ago, Lao Zhu issued a decree: Let all the concubines of the Qin Han King Zhu Xi, including the main concubine Wang (Note 3) and the second concubine Deng (Deng Yu's daughter), be buried for Zhu Xi.
When Zhu Biao passed away, Lao Zhu ordered that all of Zhu Biao's concubines who had not given birth should be buried. At that time, Yunxi was a soft-spoken person and did not dare to propose opinions to Lao Zhu; secondly, he was hungry, sleepy, and not well informed, waiting for him
When he found out about the burial, everyone who deserved to die was already dead. There was no point in speaking for the dead, and he didn't dare to disobey Lao Zhu, so it was over at that time.
Burial by sacrifice is a very inhumane act. Ever since Qin Shihuang unified the world, no dynasty in China had sacrificed a living person for burial before the Ming Dynasty. At that time, only the barbaric Mongols would use living sacrifice for burial. Lao Zhu used living sacrifice for burial.
Inheriting the very bad customs of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Yunxi was firmly opposed to it. If he had to be buried alive, what would be the difference between the Han people and the barbaric Mongols!
So Yunxi came here hoping to ask Lao Zhu to take back his life. But looking at Lao Zhu's pale face, and he didn't know King Qin's concubine, it was difficult to empathize with him. Of course, the most important thing was that he was afraid of Lao Zhu, even though Lao Zhu was now a
Sick tiger, but Yunxi was still afraid. In the end, he couldn't say it.
But Yunxi silently made up his mind: when he can keep his word, he must abolish the burial ceremony!
Note 1: In ancient times, only the emperor could use Zhupi when writing on his official documents, which meant writing with red paint. If the emperor could not work properly and was represented by someone else, he would usually use blue script.
Note 2: At that time, in the 23rd year of Hongwu, the father and eldest brother of Prince Tan’s concubine Yu were involved in the Hu Weiyong party case and were killed. King Tan was also uneasy. Lao Zhu knew that King Tan was uneasy, so he sent someone to appease him and asked him to enter.
Jing didn't know that the thread in King Tan's head was wrong, and he and his wife Yu Shi died together. After that, he had no children and was exonerated.
Note 3: This Wang's original surname is Temu'er, which is also translated as Timur. His brother's name is Wang Baobao, and his original name is Tuohuan Temu'er. This Wang is the original form of Zhao Min in "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer".
