But nothing happened in Jinshen Hall today. When Yunxi arrived at Jinshen Hall, Lao Zhu had already retreated, but he was meeting with ministers at this time. The little eunuch at the door saw Yunxi coming and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed
He said, "I have met His Highness. His Majesty said that if he is not free, just ask His Highness to put what he has written in the room in the West Pavilion where His Majesty usually handles government affairs." Yunxi followed the words and took the paper in his hand. Well, that's fine.
Call it a fold, put it in the house, and then walk away in a polite manner.
There was nothing else going on on the 20th. Everyone was doing whatever they were supposed to do. It was as if nothing happened in the Jinshen Hall on the 19th, and no one mentioned it on the surface. It was just that the average error rate of officials increased significantly. One official said
There were several wrong words written in the memorial, and Lao Zhu scolded him severely in the morning. He was so frightened that he thought he was about to "travel three thousand miles to the country." Unexpectedly, Lao Zhu just scolded him and did not deal with it seriously.
On the 21st, after Yunxi checked in at Yunwen's office, he went to Wenying's office to check in every three days. However, Wenying was not lively at all today. Starting from noon yesterday, the atmosphere in Wenhua Hall was not right.
, Wenying also felt it, and Concubine Li specially warned her, so she had nothing to say today.
This made Yunxi very depressed. Although he and Wenying couldn't chat together the past few times he came here because they just had nothing to say, but seeing a lively and cheerful beautiful girl talking happily can make people feel relaxed (
Don't get it wrong). Not to mention that modern Yunxi is the youngest in the family. Both his uncle's and grandma's brothers and sisters are older than him. He has never experienced what it feels like to have a sister who is about the same age.
But today, oh, this damn atmosphere. Yunxi felt uncomfortable seeing Wenying sitting so solemnly, so he stopped tormenting each other and quickly stood up to leave. Wenying was obviously relieved after seeing Yunxi off, and then
Follow the instructions and send someone to deliver a message to Concubine Li.
Of course Concubine Li knew what happened in Jinshen Palace yesterday. Although she didn't know what Yunxi said, she understood that these views must be amazing and increased the possibility of Yunxi becoming the crown prince. However,
She also noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang had not expressed his opinion in the past few days, so she decided not to place a bet and continue to wait and see. After all, the matter was very important! Moreover, even if Lao Zhu agreed with Yunxi's views, it did not mean that Yunxi would definitely be able to become the crown prince.
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Concubine Li, who was only hanging around in the harem, certainly didn't understand that accepting Yunxi's point of view basically meant that Yunxi would become the crown prince. Concubine Lu and her think tank who only knew about palace fighting also didn't understand this.
Nothing happened next. The ministers were surprised, but no one dared to speak. However, the atmosphere in the capital became more and more solemn. Officials of all sizes felt as if invisible hands were grabbing their necks and felt suffocated. The Imperial Palace
It was a little better among them, but everyone also felt bad, just like they did before Prince Yiwen died.
Doesn't Lao Zhu know that something is wrong with the atmosphere in the palace? Of course it's impossible. However, he is still struggling.
Yunxi's idea of expanding the land to provide enough food was based on Zhou Fengguo's point of view. He most agreed with the aspect of sufficient food, but he was worried that it would turn into militarism when it came to expanding the land. Although Yunxi's words were sound and logical, in actual implementation it changed.
It's hard to say what the outcome will be, especially once territorial expansion becomes a national policy. In such an atmosphere, many things that are not in line with the emperor's original intention will happen. When I was dealing with the Hu Weiyong case, many people I didn't want to deal with were involved.
Being implicated means that I have to punish them symbolically, so this point needs to be considered again.
I am very disgusted with the idea of confessing a country. As an unprecedented self-made emperor, how could he allow someone to take away the rights in his hands! Not even his own son! But after thinking about it for a few days, he understood that it was impossible to seal a country in a remote place.
The best way to preserve one's son is to maintain a state. If the next emperor supports enfeoffment, by the time he takes office, the feudal states will be deeply rooted and irrevocable. So whether to implement the enfeoffment system or not, we should consider it again.
Consider it.
Before Lao Zhu could think about it, the ministers were already suffocating to death. On the morning of July 26th, Bao Xun, the censor of Youqiandu, relied on his selflessness and the censor's right to hear what was said, and wrote a letter saying:
"I heard that Your Majesty convened the kings on the 19th to discuss government affairs, and His Royal Highness the Third Grandson of the Emperor made shocking remarks. Why don't Your Majesty listen to it and listen to the opinions of the ministers?"
Lao Zhu was not surprised at all. It was surprising that a great scholar like Bao Xun could hold back. He also needed such a bold and fair minister to remind him. So he said: "Since Mr. Bao raised it, I will sort out Yunxi."
Let me read the content for you. What you heard may not be complete." So he took out the terms of permission and circulated them to them.
Today is the Xiaochao, and there are not many people attending the court. There are only a dozen people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, six ministers, ministers, and six subjects, a total of more than forty people. Lao Zhu has been restless these days and copied again.
I ordered multiple copies, so after a while everyone finished circulating them.
Bao Xun saw that the content was almost the same as what he had heard, so he said, "Your Majesty, I have a different opinion."
Lao Zhu suddenly waved his hand to stop him from speaking, and said: "The morning meeting is over. If you have different opinions on this, please come with me to Jinshen Hall to discuss it in detail. Everyone else should leave." After that, he left.
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Of course, among the ministers, Bao Xun, Liu Sanwu and others went to the Jinshen Palace together, and others who felt they had something to say or who had strong concerns also followed. Several people from the Ministry of Revenue had urgent government affairs today, so they had to look regretful.
Go back to deal with it. There are still a few who are cautious and feel that they have nothing to say and go back, but most people go to Jinshen Hall.
When they arrived at Jinshen Hall, Lao Zhu did not let him start immediately. Some people were wondering what His Majesty meant, and saw Prince Qing coming down. Everyone suddenly realized. More than a dozen princes came one after another. Finally, Yun Wenhe
Yunxi came together.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang indicated that he could start talking. Of course, Bao Xun stood up again and faced Yunxi and said: "Your Highness, I have some different opinions on His Highness's views. I hope Your Highness will understand."
Yunxi said, "Sir, it's okay to speak." Bao Xun had been a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. Although he had never taught Yunxi, he still respected him as sir.
Bao Xun said: "I don't think the strategy of 'expanding the land to provide enough food and imitating Zhou's feudal state' proposed by His Highness a few days ago is particularly appropriate."
"It is right to feed the people, and it is right to expand the land to feed the people; but our territory of the Ming Dynasty far exceeds that of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and is equivalent to the combined territory of the Song, Jin, and Xixia countries, and the population is now less than two times the total of the Song, Jin and Jin countries.
One-third (the actual population of the Ming Dynasty was about 57 million at this time, and the combined population of the Song and Jin Dynasties in 1205 was about 150 million). It can be seen that there are still large tracts of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty that have not been cultivated due to abandonment in the Yuan Dynasty."
"In the past, it took the Tang Dynasty 130 years to increase its population from 30 to 40 million people in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China to 67 million people, and there was no widespread rebellion. The population growth rate of the Ming Dynasty will not be much faster than that of the Tang Dynasty. There will always be
It took more than two hundred years; and according to my investigation, one acre of high-quality paddy field in the Song Dynasty could only get three dan of grain. Today, in the Ming Dynasty, we can get four dan of grain, which can feed a larger population. If we continue to expand our territory, it will easily evolve.
It has become a barbaric militarism.”
"During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was conducting conquests in all directions, which consumed a lot of national power. If he had not changed his ways later, the people entrusted to him would have almost suffered the destruction of the country in the Western Han Dynasty. We must pay attention to the lessons learned from the past. I wonder what Your Highness thinks?"
In fact, what Bao Xun means is that if the Ming Dynasty follows the current model, even if what you say is correct, there will still be more than 200 years of national destiny. If the emperors are more capable, the national destiny will be longer; but if it does not stop
Fighting may not be able to maintain his rule for a longer period of time. It seems that Bao Xun came well-prepared today and even checked the rice yield per mu.
Although the point Yunxi put forward that day was unexpected and unexpected, it actually had loopholes. It was just that everyone was shocked that day. After several days, everyone came up with counterarguments.
Yunxi knew very well that comparative theoretical topics such as 'the relationship and evolution between territorial expansion and militarization' could not yield results. It was impossible for him to defeat the opponent in this aspect, and he abandoned it
This was actually because I was a little excited at the time. I wanted to make a splash but also wanted to vent my frustration. As for increasing the development of domestic idle land, I couldn’t say anything. How could I talk about the scientific development concept with ancient scholar-bureaucrats like Bao Xun?
,sustainable development?
So he replied: "What you said makes sense, but although there will be no problem for more than two hundred years, as someone who takes the emperor's salary and shares the emperor's worries, shouldn't he consider the emperor's worries in the next two hundred years?"
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Yunxi did not directly answer the question about territorial expansion, but asked the other party whether he should share the king's worries. Which minister dared to say no in front of the king? Even sideways detours would not work in Zhu Yuanzhang's era.
However, although the concerned people at the scene noticed that Zhu Yunxi did not answer this question directly, the civil servants, at least the civil servants at the scene, could not come up with this to pursue them, because if they want to completely overturn this point, they must come up with at least one theory
There are solutions to the problem of "enough food". But currently, none of the solutions that everyone can think of can work.
