Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 23 This is... Reformation!
He ascended the throne on the fourth day of the first lunar month, held a banquet for the officials on the fifth day of the first lunar month, and on the sixth day of the first lunar month, even though many ceremonies were still going on, Zhu Yuanzhang had returned to his previous daily state.

The sixth day of the first month.

In the early dynasty, it was still in the main hall of King Wu's Mansion in Jinling City.

It is now considered a palace.

In fact, everything in the new palace has already been prepared, and yesterday's banquet was also held at the new palace.However, the relocation date chosen by the Ministry of Rites is the seventh day of the first lunar month. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare to do it according to his will, so he kept running around.

In recent days, apart from his accession to the throne, one of the happiest things for Zhu Yuanzhang is that Tang He conquered Fuzhou.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month years ago, I received a letter from Tang He. General Zhengnan described the situation on the southern front as quite grim. Zhu Yuanzhang worried for several days, thinking that there would be another protracted "Pingjiang Lock City". It's not going well.

Unexpectedly, on the morning of the second day of the new year, the news came back.

It turned out that on the day when Tang He's handwriting was received, on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, with the assistance of the insiders, the Southern Expedition Army conquered Fuzhou City in one go.

Zhu Yuanzhang was both happy and angry about this.

The happy thing is that now that Fuzhou is down, Chen Youding in Yanping City can hardly last too long.After Chen Youding was defeated, the remaining He Zhen and his like in the southeast would be nothing to worry about, and he could mobilize the army to concentrate on the northern expedition.

What was angry was that Tang He lacked responsibility and almost lied about the military situation.

For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang specially sent envoys to Fujian, and brought oral instructions to his fellow countryman. There was no reward after conquering the city, and there were no verbal awards.

This morning, the main content of the discussion was the war on the north-south front.

One of them is still the problem of grain and grass in the Northern Expedition.

The hydraulic engineer who will be sent to Shandong has sent back news that the method of diverting the Yellow River to save money is feasible, and is currently carefully selecting the location for digging the mouth of the river.However, the leading official of Jiang Zuosi also admitted that the current is the dry season of the Yellow River, and the amount of water that can be introduced into the canal is limited after all.Moreover, Wang Baobao, who was upstream, would not dig the mouth of the river to divert the water source as he did.

In short, the subtext is that in order to ensure the supply of food and grass for the Northern Expeditionary Army, other supplements are still needed.

How to add?

Overland?

After discussing a few words, Zhu Yuanzhang vetoed it.

The land transportation volume requires a large number of civilians, and the consumption on the way is too large.Moreover, even without talking about consumption, spring is about to start in the south, and the recruitment of peasants at this time will inevitably affect spring plowing.

Farming is the foundation of the country.

Even if the Northern Expedition was suspended, Zhu Yuanzhang would not make this decision.

So the topic came to shipping again.

The atmosphere was momentarily awkward.

The ministers at the banquet yesterday, a certain Master Pingzhang from Huguang and other provinces who delayed the event because of taking the wrong medicine, were not invited, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang is still angry.Now, the question remains, who will host the shipping?

As a result of the discussion, it is still necessary to wait for the southern line to be pacified at least in Fujian before the general can be transferred to take charge of the matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually has candidates in private.

Soup and.

It stands to reason that Liao Yongzhong, who is also from the Chaohu Navy like Hua Gao, is the most suitable. However, the transportation of grain is important and important, but in the end it is overkill.

Since you are not in charge of Tanghe, then go to transport food!
Speaking of military affairs, Zhu Yuanzhang on the throne picked up a book he had prepared in advance: "This is "Qi Min Yao Shu" by Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty. I have read this book carefully recently, and I have learned a lot. , The people are the foundation of the country, the country is the foundation of the monarch' and other words, which are not inferior to the words of the sages. I have been in China for thousands of years, and the etiquette and law have been perfected, but I always ignore Guan Zhong's saying that "canglin knows etiquette when it is real", Ruo Canglin It's not true, how can the common people keep the rituals when they have nothing left. Therefore..."

Zhu Yuanzhang said, looking at one person: "Shan Anren."

Shan Anren, the general secretary, cupped his hands and said, "The minister is here."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I order you to mobilize craftsmen as soon as possible. Five thousand copies of the book "Qi Min Yao Shu" will be printed in one month and distributed to all officials in the world." If the matter of Nongsang is perfunctory, I will not be able to answer the content of it when I ask about it in the future, so don’t blame me for not reminding me today.”

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, the officials didn't know how to react for a moment.

What... what's going on?

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't wait for everyone's feedback, and continued: "Furthermore, the book "Qi Min Yao Shu" will be selected as a compulsory study of Guozi in the future, and Xu Chunren..."

The main hall here is not big, and Xu Chunren, the fourth-rank Guozixue sacrificial wine, could only stand outside the hall, and hurriedly came to the hall when he heard the words: "The minister is here."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "In the future, the Imperial College students will not only be required to study "Qi Min Yao Shu", but each person will be divided into one mu of land for daily farming. You will go to the countryside and select ten seniors who are good at farming to teach them. The job of a teaching assistant."

Xu Chunren cupped his hands in confusion and said, "Your Majesty, this...Since ancient times, I have never heard of the matter of making the son of the Imperial College live and work in agriculture?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was unquestionable: "Now it's here, don't think that I'm just talking about it. The farming will start this spring, and I will take the time to see it in person. The results of the labor of all living beings will also be used as an evaluation in the future. In the future, the selection Officials, if they don’t understand Nongsang and only talk about the truth with me, I don’t care.”

After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang waved Xu Chunren back, looked at the ministers again and said, ""Qimin Yaoshu" is just one of them. I will choose other books in the future and make them compulsory books for officials and students. The reason for this is that I am here today. I also tell you clearly that for thousands of years in China, scholars have only explored the aspirations of the people in this world, but seldom delved into the way of the existence of hundreds of millions of people. This is like a person missing a leg, so that My dynasty in China changes frequently, with ups and downs. What I ordered today is to make up for the other leg that is lacking. What is the other leg? The way of farming, the way of water conservancy, the way of counting, and so on, you readers The miscellaneous learning that I usually look down upon is the other leg."

What Zhu Yuanzhang said today is fundamentally derived from Zhu Yuan's contribution to "Economic Studies", and the inspiration is the book list provided by Zhu Yuan.

He had heard of "Economics" at first, and Lao Zhu just understood the principles, but he couldn't figure out how to do it.

Until that book list.

Zhu Yuanzhang's first reaction was similar to that of scholars in this era. Why are they all "miscellaneous books"?
Ask someone to find some books on the list, and Zhu Yuanzhang can't put them down when he has a little free time recently.

Combining the ancient scientific works that provide a variety of professional knowledge with the incomplete "economics" given by Zhu Yuan, Lao Zhu is inspired again and again, drawing inferences from one instance and giving birth to all things.

Along with "production" in economics, the most important thing is to increase productivity.

How to increase productivity?
When he saw "Qi Min Yao Shu", "Wang Zhen Nong Shu", "Mengxi Bi Tan", "Shui Jing Zhu" and so on on the book list, Lao Zhu suddenly realized that the means of improving productivity are not the knowledge contained in these books what!

Lao Zhu has always been a person with super execution ability.

Now that you think of it, you have to do it.

Moreover, he has already ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and created the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the new dynasty must have some new atmosphere.

Zhu Yuan's little scholar had to wait three years for the "Book of Heaven", but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think that since he had mastered the truth, he would have to wait three years before implementing it.

Therefore, today is just the beginning.

The choice of "Qi Min Yao Shu", on the one hand, is that Lao Zhu has finished reading this book, and believes that the combination of principles and techniques in the book, in Zhu Yuan's words, has "both legs", so he decisively decided to serve as a hundred officials and Compulsory books for all students in the future.

After explaining his reasoning, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't stop for a moment, and called out Tao An, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and asked the other party to organize people to compile a comprehensive book of calculations based on calculation books such as "Zhu Shu" and "Nine Chapters of Numeracy".

In the future, Baiguan will also be distributed as a compulsory course for Guozixue.

Zhu Yuanzhang also gave the reason.

Recently, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that most of the various calculation books were too obscure, and some of the contents were suspected of being mysterious by the author.Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang requested that the official mathematics books compiled by the Imperial Academy must be simple, explain the truth in vernacular as much as possible, and not pretend to be profound.

Inside and outside the hall.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden orders one by one, the officials finally understood that His Majesty, the emperor who had just ascended the throne for only two days, was... reforming!
(End of this chapter)