"Oh, Your Majesty, it's really, oh, not good for you to wear such a headdress." Wang Xi said to Yunxi incoherently.
Yunxi stretched out his hand to touch his hair and said with a smile: "I have carefully read the "Da Ming Hui Dian", which has regulations on the buns for me and the clan, but I have not found any regulations prohibiting this bun.
So why not?"
"But, your majesty, the ministers don't look good. When your majesty goes to court later, there will be many memorials to remonstrate before your majesty." Wang Xi said.
"Never mind them! Since I have not violated the "Da Ming Hui Dian" set by the emperor, I am not afraid of them making remonstrances. Just keep their remonstrance memorials and not publish them. It is just a change of hair. Besides, I'm sorry.
When I go to court, I wear a crown on my head, and the courtiers can't see my bun clearly." Yunxi said.
After hearing Yunxi's last words, "The courtiers can't see clearly my bun," Wang Xicai sighed and stopped talking.
"Wang Xi, I know you are doing it for my own good, but I also have my own reasons." Yunxi said to him softly.
"I also know that Your Majesty is right, but..." He had not finished speaking.
However, Yunxi also understood what he meant, and laughed and said: "It's nothing." Then he left his dormitory and went to the dining hall for breakfast.
Siqi was stunned when she saw Yunxi's bun, as if she wanted to say something; but before she could speak, Baoqing said loudly: "Yunxi, what kind of hair do you have!"
"
Yunxi said with a smile: "How do you think of my nephew's new bun? Does it look good?"
Baoqing sat down on his seat, first picked up a bun and took a bite, and then said: "It looks good, but a small part of my hair is spread over my shoulders. Aunt Zhou who took care of me once said that it is not good to have my hair spread out. After the Chinese New Year this year, I
My aunt tied up my hair and made it into a bun."
"My nephew, it's not like he has completely let his hair down." Yunxi also sat down and started eating after saying this.
Xiyao, who was dining with him, also had objections to Yunxi's hair, but she endured it. She knew that she could not persuade Yunxi's idea, so she would not speak for the sake of the couple's relationship. Not only that, Xiyi seemed to have the ability to speak.
The idea was also blocked by her.
It turned out that everything was fine when he went to court, and the ministers couldn't see his bun at all; but after he returned to Qianqing Palace after going to court, he aroused the admonitions of the four auxiliary officials and the ministers.
But Yunxi completely ignored this. After they said a few words and saw Yunxi's appearance, they could only stop persuading.
However, Yunxi himself was glad that the only "fundamentalist" among his cabinet officials, Fang Xiaoru, was studying in Jiangbei and not in the capital, so he could save a lot of things.
Next, Yunxi began to deal with the memorials. The first one was the matter of overseas grain reported by the Secretary of Shipping in Shanghai.
Yunxi looked at the ticket written on the sandwiched note: "The Book of Han said that low prices of grain hurt farmers, and the Shanghai Shipping Department should strictly prohibit the import of overseas grains; but the land where Yongjian was built was crowded and the land was narrow.
Overseas grain imports may be allowed after consideration. The signature is Wang Gen.
In fact, if it were Wang Gen who had just been admitted to Jinshi a year ago, the draft would not have mentioned the latter sentence at all, and would have also demanded severe punishment for Xiao Zhuo, Li Taiyuan and others who "made trouble" by importing grain from overseas.
But after more than a year of experience with Yunxi, although Wang Gen still disagrees with many of Yunxi's views, he also understands that some things are not so easy to stop. He also found records after Yunxi called for learning from Guan Zhong last year.
After reading books about Guan Zhong's deeds, coupled with Yunxi's usual words and deeds, he understood that it was impossible to completely ban the import of low-priced grains by ban alone, but bans could increase their import costs. The grains in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not expensive to import.
It can be stopped if the cost is higher.
But Yongjian is different. Yongjian has a large population and a small area. The price of local food has been above 200 yuan for a long time. It cannot be stopped by ban. Moreover, Yongjian cannot be self-sufficient in food. There is a difference between foreign food coming from Jiangsu and Zhejiang and from overseas.
It's not big, so he voted like this.
Yunxi was secretly delighted: 'It's a good thing that a standard traditional feudal scholar-bureaucrat has changed some of his thinking after being by my side for more than a year.'
'But his thinking is still stuck at the point where low grain prices hurt farmers, and he still needs to improve.'
Yunxi suddenly said to Wang Xi: "Go and send someone to tell Qitai, the Minister of Household Affairs, to come to the palace to see you." He himself picked up other memorials and started to criticize them.
After a while, Qi Tai entered the palace. Yunxi handed him the memorial of the emperor and continued to criticize the other memorials in his hand. When he estimated that Qi Tai had read the memorial, he said to Qi Tai: "What do you think about this matter?
Disposal?"
"Your Majesty, the low price of grain is hurting farmers, so the import of grain from overseas should be banned," Qitai said.
"Then do you think it can be completely banned?" Yunxi asked again.
Qitai was silent for a moment and said, "It's possible in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but I'm afraid it's not possible in Yongjian." He also immediately thought of the only province in the country that could not be self-sufficient in food at this time.
Yunxi asked Wang Gen to come over again and told him Qitai's thoughts, and then told Qitai Wang Gen's thoughts, and then said: "I think your idea is correct if you only consider it from the Ming Dynasty; but
If you think about it from the perspective of the whole world, not much."
"The world not only includes the Ming Dynasty, but also includes the countries in the South, East, and West (Indian Ocean), as well as the foreign countries in the north. As ministers of the Ming Dynasty, you should not only consider issues from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, but also consider issues from the perspective of the entire world."
"Although the land of Nanyang is covered with miasma, and many people who have just arrived there are infected with the disease. In the previous battle against Majapahit, more soldiers were infected with the disease than were killed by the Majapahit, but it is not the desolate land that many people imagine.
The land, at least the grain will be harvested three times a year, and the locals will not have to worry about having enough to eat without having to take care of the crops." Qitai and others could see the memorial from Nanyang next to Yunxi, so they naturally knew that what Yunxi said was right.
"In this case, it is impossible for farmers in the Ming Dynasty to make the price of local food lower than that of Nanyang food."
"So farmers should not be allowed to just grow food, they should be allowed to grow things that can be sold at a higher price."
"This..." Wang Gen didn't know what to say.
Emperors of all dynasties wished that farmers would grow food, but Yunxi actually said that farmers should be allowed to grow things that could be sold at a higher price. But he didn’t know how to argue. According to past memorials from Nanyang, he clearly knew that even in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas,
Even if grain is no longer grown, Nanyang can still have enough grain to feed the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As for Nanyang countries not selling grain to the Ming Dynasty, such a thing will never appear in his mind.
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Thanks to book friend Chiqiao Lanjin for the reward.
