"Oh, it was already his current name before he entered the Imperial College?" Yunxi fell into deep thought: "It's okay to have a good reputation in the Imperial College, but it is very strange that his name was Mu Tianyan before he entered the Imperial College. Unless, he is
Before entering the Imperial College, I knew that I was going to enter the Imperial College.'
"How is this Mu Tianyan's family situation? Does he have any relatives or friends in the court?" Yunxi suddenly asked.
"Your Majesty, Mu Tianyan has an uncle who once served as an official in the court. He was convicted and demoted in the 30th year of Hongwu, and then became an official and returned home." Chang Ruijiang said.
"I see." Yunxi felt that he already understood the reason.
Then Yunxi asked a few more questions and let him go down.
It was already the beginning of Haishi, and it was already late at night in this era. Yunxi yawned and greeted the eunuchs who were accompanying him.
Wang Xi came in with two young eunuchs and instructed them to clear the table and serve His Majesty to rest.
Yunxi lay on the bed, and before falling asleep, he suddenly felt how important a considerate secretary was, and suddenly understood why emperors in the past dynasties often used eunuchs.
The importance of a considerate secretary cannot be overstated. Many officials in later generations will bring experienced secretaries with them when they are transferred. The emperor has many things to do, and a qualified and loyal secretary is very necessary. However, there are many taboos for ordinary officials entering and leaving the harem, so they are most suitable to be secretaries.
They were the eunuchs in the palace. Even Yunxi actually let Wang Xi and others take on the duties of secretaries and taught them how to read and digit.
‘The emergence and growth of the Secretary of Ceremony is ultimately due to the imbalance of civil and military forces. The emperor needs a civil servant to balance the power. I will definitely not be forced to do this.’ After this thought crossed Yunxi’s mind, he fell asleep.
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The next day, Yunxi learned in detail about the agricultural development of Suzhou City.
He dug up the files of Suzhou Prefecture and Jinyiwei in previous years, and compared with this year's statistics, he found that there were more fields for growing cash crops in Suzhou. Although it was still far less than that for growing food, it was more than it had been in Hongwu thirty years.
It has only been three years since the government collected taxes by 20%. Of course, the government does not collect cash crops. They use the money from selling cash crops to buy grain and pay taxes.
Of course, the prefect Xiang Bao hates this situation, so most of the fire damage is imposed on these farmers, so that their current income is not much different from that of farmers who grow food. But not every prefect is Xiang Bao, and they will always get benefits in the future
With more income than growing grain, it is inevitable that the Jiangdong region's grain output will shrink and gradually become the main producing area of cash crops.
If it were the Ming Dynasty in history, it is estimated that they would try every means to stop this process, but in the end they still could not stop it, resulting in food shortages and food prices rising sharply. But Yunxi would not.
Yunxi has always been very strange about one thing. Why have all the dynasties been staring at the Central Plains and never thought of conquering Nanyang? Why didn't Shang Zhixin, Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Keshuang and others bring a small number of trusted troops with them before they were finished?
What about escaping to Nanyang? With the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, it is not difficult to lead two to three thousand troops to seize a territory in Nanyang and live a small life, right? You have to be caught in Peking and lose your head to be happy?
Regardless of whether others can understand it or not, Yunxi can't understand it anyway. Precisely because of Nanyang, he is not worried about the reduction of food production in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As long as the Ming Dynasty has a strong navy, even if he does not become king in Nanyang, he can buy enough food to feed the people of the entire Ming Dynasty.
The price of belly is lower than the price of domestic grain.
Therefore, although he will not directly interfere with crop cultivation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with further economic development, cash crops will become mainstream sooner or later.
Yunxi also read other information about Suzhou. For example, the scale of the brothel industry is now probably the second in the country after Beijing. However, with the opening of Shanghai and Shanghai, there is a trend of being surpassed by Shanghai; in addition, people from the southeast region are moving to Beijing.
Basically, they all pass through Suzhou, so although Suzhou's tourism industry is still insignificant, it can be regarded as unique in the country; etc.
In addition, Yunxi also had to take time to comfort Baoqing and Xianqin, who were angry because they couldn't go to the market. The day passed in a blink of an eye.
When they were having dinner in the evening, Yun Zhi kept talking about what they saw and heard in the Suzhou market, which made Baoqing and Xianqin extremely jealous. Xianqin didn't dare, but Baoqing kept complaining about Yunxi.
Yunzhi said: "The market in Suzhou is really more prosperous than the capital. There are many goods that I have never seen in the capital. I bought a lot of things."
"I also met a girl who is about the same age as me, and her taste in jewelry is similar to mine. The two of us chatted very happily. If my identity could not be exposed, I would have made an appointment with her as sisters."
"By the way, I also saw a few women who didn't look very poor and were accompanied by maids without veils on their faces. Is the atmosphere in Suzhou so open? No, why are there so many people with veils on their faces?
?Besides, the temperament of those women seems to be different from that of ordinary women."
Yunxi felt that most of these women were prostitutes, not the kind of top-notch prostitutes - top-notch prostitutes generally did not go out, and were mostly the top prostitutes in some medium-sized brothels or the second-tier prostitutes in high-end brothels. After all, the capital city is
In the capital, prostitutes do not know or dare to go to markets far away from the Qinhuai River, so Yunzhi has never seen them. But there is no need to tell Yunzhi about such things.
Finally Yunzhi said: "I will go to the market tomorrow."
"Yunzhi, just stay for one day, and wait until the next day before going to the market." Yunxi was afraid that she would attract attention by going to the market every day. Although the consequences of kidnapping a princess were something that no one in the Ming Dynasty could afford,
But don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. It's better to be cautious.
"Okay, brother Huang." Yunzhi agreed reluctantly.
But Yun Zhi was actually snickering in her heart. She was very satisfied with being able to go out to the market once. She just said, "I'm going to go to the market tomorrow". She was actually testing Yun He. If Yun He didn't let her go out in the future,
It was nothing; but Yunxi still allowed her to go out, and she was so happy.
The next day, Yunxi was still studying the details of Suzhou. Until late that day, Feng Xianzhang, the chief of the Suzhou Jinyi Guards, came to Xingzai and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, I have told the Li family about this matter, and the Li family is willing to talk.
We talked about it, but I still have doubts in my heart.”
"What other concerns does the Li family have? Even if you don't tell me your name, they won't dare to look down on you, right?" Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, it has only been more than thirty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Shen's story has only happened not long ago, and the Li family is still afraid." Feng Xianzhang said cautiously.
"This," Yunxi couldn't completely eliminate their doubts, and said after a while: "I can only slowly change their minds. I will never kill the donkey."
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