Chapter 36 The Grandparents Get Along - The First Time
However, it is said that Yunxi supported Lao Zhu. In fact, Lao Zhu was in good health and Yunxi did not exert any effort at all. Yunxi chatted with Lao Zhu at various times along the way, and Lao Zhu would tell some stories about Zhu Biao's childhood.
Interesting anecdotes, and also some interesting anecdotes from Yunxi's childhood, and also talk about the breaks during the war, joking with the generals, and playing riddles with the counselors, as if you have an old People's Liberation Army grandfather who fought in the war, talking to you.
Things were the same back then.
Later generations of Yunxi (Sun Lin, I don’t know how many people still remember this name), his grandfather died before he was born, and he never enjoyed such a relationship. He didn’t have much contact with Lao Zhu before this life, let alone this.
It's time to be alone, so I really enjoy this time.
After a while, he arrived behind Kunning Palace. Yunxi finally knew what was here. It was a large field of crops. Some of the crops had been harvested, and some had not yet been harvested and were still standing in the fields.
Lao Zhu let go of Yunxi's hand, walked to the field, turned around and said to Yunxi: "Do you still remember that one time when you were seven years old, I brought Biao'er, and your second and third uncles were weeding here?
, you were playing with Gao Chi and Ji Xi, and then trampled a crop, causing Biaoer to beat you?"
Yunxi thought about it carefully and couldn't find any relevant memory at all, but he still replied: "I only remember that my father spanked me when I was seven years old, and then my second uncle persuaded me to stop."
Lao Zhu laughed and said: "Haha, Fan'er (the second eldest King of Qin) had nothing to do with him, so he could laugh and dissuade him. Fan'er (the third eldest King of Jin) also chased Ji Xi and wanted to spank him. The fourth eldest brother
He was not there at the time, otherwise Gao Chi would not have recovered."
After chatting and joking for a while, Lao Zhu stretched out his hand, and the person in charge of taking care of the crops immediately handed over the sickle. Lao Zhu walked into the field and started harvesting. Seeing this, Yunxi also took a sickle and learned to harvest.
Yunxi had never done anything like this. Although there were professionals (eunuchs) who kept giving him guidance, his efficiency was still very low, and he became exhausted after a while. After all, the fourteen-year-old's small body still had little strength.
Xiao. Although he wanted to persist, he had to stop and rest after a while.
Lao Zhu only made one more stick of incense and then stopped. He walked to Yunxi who was sitting aside and rested, stopped Yunxi from trying to get up, sat down on the chair, and said to Yunxi: "
I have never led you to grow crops, including those of you from the thirteenth generation (the acting king Zhu Gui, Fei Yi Prince Yinxiang) down to your grandsons. In the past, Biaoer and the others all followed me to farm the land myself. Today I will take you with me.
I am not asking you to harvest crops, but I am not trying to make you an expert in farming. You will not become an expert just once and half time. I just want you to know how hard it is to farm. When you eat, you should think about the hard-earned food in your mouth.
."
It was also the first time that Yunxi had a clear understanding and was touched by how difficult it was to grow food in the era without various agricultural machinery. "Because Lao Zhu was the only poor man in Chinese history, he had to do the most difficult and tiring work.
Only an emperor would hate corrupt officials so much.' Yunxi thought.
He opened his mouth and said: "Grandpa Huang, I understand." Lao Zhu looked into Yunxi's eyes to make sure that he was really touched, and then said happily: "It's good that you are really touched. It's not in vain for me to lead you."
Come here."
After resting for a while, Lao Zhu said: "I didn't want you to know about Jin Yiwei right now, but it happened to happen today, so I will let you hear it. Jin Yiwei has such a secret job to handle cases.
Most of them would implicate innocent people and use harsh punishments, so in the 20th year of Hongwu (Hongwu), I removed the Jinyiwei from handling cases and only let them be in charge of investigation, pursuit, evidence collection, etc. "
Yunxi agrees with Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view. In an era when politics was still relatively clear, there were indeed many problems with using an agency like Jinyiwei, whose interrogation process was completely out of sight, to handle cases, and if it was handed over to an open institution like the Sanfa Division,
The organization is much better. However, 'The reason why Jin Yiwei's case was so widely implicated was not because you deliberately condoned it.' Yunxi thought to himself.
Lao Zhu continued: "The reason why Jin Yiwei is allowed to monitor the ministers is because the ministers are not loyal to the country and have their own selfish interests. In order to prevent their plans from harming the country, they have to monitor them; it is precisely the monitoring of these ministers,
Only then can we discover so many corrupt officials and punish them."
In Yunxi's view, this part of Lao Zhu's views has some truth. After all, who has no selfish motives? Isn't it because Lao Zhu is so protective of his officials from corruption because this country belongs to him? People without selfish motives are rare.
But Yunxi felt: first, it was impossible to eliminate corruption in feudal society; second, it was impossible to use spy surveillance to fight corruption. Not to mention that using a large number of spies would also cost a lot of money, and the most important thing
One reason is, don't spies have selfish motives? Even the ancient Arabs who used castrated people without offspring as officials could not eliminate selfish desires, let alone spies with normal bodies.
To prevent corruption, we need to rely on systems. However, the Ming Dynasty could not adopt the system from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. The main reason why there were very few corruptions from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty was that most officials came from aristocratic families.
In Yushi's life, everyone knows that as long as he is not a regular worker, he will be an official, and his descendants will be an official as long as they are not a regular worker, so they will not make any money when they are officials; in the Ming Dynasty, because the family was hit hard by the Meng Yuan, many
All the noble families in the north died, and the noble families in the south also suffered heavy losses. At the same time, due to the development of papermaking and printing, and the maturity of the imperial examination system, a family had no way to guarantee that it would always be an official and could only be a commoner landowner. Therefore, in order to
Future generations and his own life after retirement, he worked hard to make money when he was in office. This is why Lao Zhu killed every corrupt official he found, but still could not stop corruption.
The Song Dynasty was in the transition period from aristocratic landowners to commoner landowners, and there were many corrupt practices. Based on various methods of later generations, Yunxi already had immature ideas and planned to implement them after the Hongwu period passed.
.But it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no corruption. (This paragraph refers to Yi Zhongtian's "Appreciation of the Three Kingdoms" and "Appreciation of People", which are later compiled text versions. I personally think it makes sense.)
When Lao Zhu saw that Yun Xi was silent, he thought it was because he did not agree with what he said, because Zhu Biao had different views from his own during his lifetime. He sighed, stopped talking, and said something else: "Bao
It seems to me that I have thought of everything about the banknotes. The only thing left is how the officials below are doing their jobs. Just ask every day how they are doing. Please pay more attention to the military academy these ten days and do your best.
Think about what to do."
Yunxi also felt that there was nothing he could do here in Baochao. He couldn't do it well if he was asked to deal with specific matters, so it was time to go to the Ministry of War to deal with the affairs of the military academy. After all, that was also very important. So he said
: "Yes, Grandpa Huang, from tomorrow on I will go to the Ministry of Household Affairs every morning and then go to the Ministry of War."
Lao Zhu nodded with satisfaction and did not continue the topic.
Then Lao Zhu thought for a while and said: "You are about to be crowned the emperor's grandson. It is not good to use 'I' or 'I' anymore, which will be disrespectful to your identity. From tomorrow on, you will use the word 'I'"
'This is what I call myself."
Yunxi replied: "Yes, Grandpa Huang, I" saw Lao Zhu frowning and quickly changed it to "I remember." He felt very uncomfortable. He was used to calling himself 'I' and not used to anything else.
.And modern people call themselves the same regardless of their status, so he felt very awkward. But since Lao Zhu gave the order, he had no choice but to obey.
Lao Zhu said: "In front of uncles, brothers and other relatives, if there are no other outsiders, you can use the self-identity 'I', but when facing other people, you must use the self-identity 'Gu'. I just wanted to let you remember that I
Use the word 'lone', you don't have to use it in front of grandpa in the future." Yunxi nodded in agreement.
After a while, it was the second quarter of Youshi (6 p.m.). Yunxi helped Lao Zhu back to the Qianqing Palace. The grandfather and grandson had dinner together again, and then Yunxi returned to the Wenhua Palace.
Returning to the Wenhua Hall, Yunxi rested for a while, and then listened to Wang Jin's report on today's situation. Seeing that there was nothing special, he read a book, sorted out his thoughts for the day, and went to bed!
