Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 498 Touring Guizhou and Chen Meigong
After listening to reports on civil affairs from Sichuan officials such as Ma Shiying, Zhu Youxiao went to Guizhou in early autumn after giving orders.

Among the thirteen original commissioners in Guannei, the establishment of Guizhou's commissioners was relatively late, its economic foundation was relatively weak, and its ethnic composition was more complex than that of Sichuan. The district can only be limited to a few important strongholds.

Moreover, there are more natives in this area, and it is more difficult to reform the land and return it than in Sichuan. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao did not carry out the reform in Guizhou first, but let Ma Shiying be the governor of Sichuan first. , first in Sichuan, but then radiated and affected Guizhou.

If necessary in the future, Zhu Youxiao will appoint a governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, let Ma Shiying be the first governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and then implement the policy of reforming the land and returning the locals to Guizhou on the basis of Sichuan.

Therefore, the current changes in Guizhou are still mainly for the popularization and education of Han culture. A large part of the dispatched literati were dispatched to Guizhou, where they did not even speak the language.

Among them, Chen Jiru is naturally his representative. In fact, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to exile Chen Jiru to the southwest at the beginning. He had a very close personal relationship. When Dong Qichang was copied, he even complained about Dong Qichang, saying that the punishment was not as burdensome as a doctor, so Zhu Youxiao simply demoted him to Guizhou.

According to reports from Dongchang's people in Guizhou, this Chen Jiru was very happy. Although he didn't have enough meals and lived in a cliff cave after arriving in Guizhou, he determined to learn from Wang Yangming and come to Longchang to understand Taoism.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not let Chen Jiru back when he released a group of literati who were exiled in the southwest for the first time.

Many literati were still able to serve as teaching professors and other academic positions even if they were exiled to the southwest. Only Chen Jiru was only a private school teacher, and naturally the subsidies throughout the year were less than others.

Even Chen Jiru still remembered that the only time the mansion gave out extra meat was because of the birth of the eldest son of the emperor.

After entering Guizhou, Zhu Youxiao had to take a sliding pole instead. Due to the complex terrain and administrative difficulties in this area, the official road has not been widened, and Zhu Youxiao's large carriage cannot pass through. This time, Zhu Youxiao The school was unwilling to use too much manpower to carry it, so they changed to take a sliding pole, which can be regarded as an experience of the transportation mode of the folk rich people.

The creaking sliding pole fluctuated with the green hills of different shades. If you look carefully, you will find that the distant mountains and forests are full of Fifth Army soldiers or Jin Yiwei, either in the light or in the dark.

Some Dongchang fans stationed in Guizhou also pretended to be traffickers and pawns and used various methods to tell the guides whether it was safe ahead.

The people in charge of the guards below were terrified, fearing that something might go wrong, while Zhu Youxiao, his concubines and ministers at the top were as calm and calm as possible. Live up to this leisurely and wild interest.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao also knew that various accidents would happen during the tour, but this was not the reason for him to stay in the Forbidden City for the rest of his life. If, as an emperor, he could not even go to his own country, then There is no point in owning the territory.

Moreover, the level of security guards can be trained in this way, especially when class conflicts are easing day by day. Due to the needs of economic development, the political power struggle has once again changed from strict to loose. The secret service can only rely on His Majesty's every tour as a major event to train working ability.

During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng’s examination method was re-implemented by Zhu Youxiao as early as the seventh year of Tianqi. Zhu Youxiao didn’t want to spend so much money to raise a group of people who could only sing the wind and play the moon and could not do anything practical. Idlers, in line with the principle that those who can do more work, assessment is necessary.

Naturally, East Factory also had an assessment. Whether the tour went smoothly or not was an important assessment task for them, so they couldn't help but ignore it.

Because it is already autumn, the rain in the entire Kaili mountain area is less frequent. The road is full of fog, wet and slippery, and it is difficult to see the blue sky, but the weather is gradually getting a bit cold. Zhu Youxiao is preparing for this trip. Qiqi, he himself had already put on a big cloak, and concubines Ning Luoruo and Liu Rushi who followed had already put on Guanyin pockets and big woolen clothes.

However, at this time, Zhu Youxiao saw that there were still barefoot farmers standing on the edge of the field, holding up rakes to lift mud to protect the field, and some children were still picking up dog dung with a load, and they were about to enter the cordon , Yi Dongchang Fanzi had already pulled out his knife, jumped down from a towering old tree, and pointed the blade directly at the child.

The prefect of Kaili, who followed him from the side, sighed helplessly. He had informed all the people in the prefecture area according to the notice above that no trespassing within fifty paces of the imperial road was allowed, otherwise it would hurt their lives. Today, however, the child has obviously forgotten this rule, and even got closer and closer.

Seeing that the blade was about to cut off the child's back, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly shouted: "Slow down!"

Immediately, the knife of the Dongchang Fanzi stopped in mid-air, and the hind limbs of the whole body clung to the branches and did not descend. The child also realized the danger at this time, and looked up to see a person holding a knife at him. The child was stunned for a moment in fright, and a basket of dog dung in his hand fell to the ground. He pointed at the horse dung under the hooves of a Fifth Army cavalryman tremblingly and said, "I just want this."

In the era when chemical fertilizers were not yet popular, organic fertilizers were the only fertilizers that could be used in agricultural production to increase crop yields. Therefore, farmers valued dung soil very much, at least more important than soil, and some children who could not do farm work would be killed. The family arranged to pick up animal excrement everywhere, and the child was obviously attracted by the large amount of organic fertilizer brought by the large cavalry in Zhu Youxue's royal driving, which made the child almost die here today.

However, Zhu Youxiao can see that this southwest area is still far behind compared to other areas in Ming Dynasty, such as Shandong, Jiangnan and other places. The small-scale peasant economy still occupies an absolute dominant position in these places. This is also the representative of the small-scale peasant economy in the court. The old-school gentry still accounted for a large part of the reason, and now there is almost a phenomenon that the geographical gap is getting bigger and bigger in Daming.

This is also a question that Zhu Youxiao will have to consider in the future. The scope of management of the entire empire is getting wider and wider. Different regions must be uneven due to different geographical locations and different development methods. It is okay if the gap is small, but once compared If it is too big, it will inevitably lead to the division of the empire, and the sense of happiness after social wealth will also decline.

After all, just as a person's sense of pride comes from comparing with other people, the likes and dislikes of people in a region also come from comparing with people living in other regions.

These phenomena require Zhu Youxiao to be vigilant, and there are only two effective ways to make a certain closed and impoverished area due to poor geographical conditions, one is to build roads and the other is to continue to focus on education. Isolation promotes more economic exchange between the region and the outside world, and the latter is the key to increasing the knowledge among those who live here, which in turn changes the whole way of the region.

But both of these require huge investment to be able to be carried out, and the latter will make more local elites flow out of the country, and make this place remain poor, and even more serious problems of empty nesters and the elderly.

The more he thinks like this, the more problems he can predict. Zhu Youxiao realizes that his brain is not enough, but he also knows that although he can change the fate of history, he cannot really change the evolution of history as a unit for hundreds of years According to the route, Zhu Youxiao can only cross the river by feeling the stones, trying his best to maintain and stabilize the situation of the Ming Empire.

"Let him go, and order the local officials to be sure to notify the people in the area under their jurisdiction, and make sure that no more people will trespass into the Yudao security area without authorization. The official of the court must also be dismissed!"

After Zhu Youxiao said this, Li Mingrui turned his horse's head and issued an order. At the same time, the prefect of Kaili couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He didn't know what to do. Waiting for something, he couldn't help but secretly vowed that he would teach these yamen servants a lesson when he went back, and let the children of ordinary people come to this place to pick up dog dung.

Zhu Youxiao's tour is undoubtedly a challenge and an opportunity for these local officials who have not had the opportunity to report their duties in Beijing for many years. As long as what they do can satisfy His Majesty, they can directly put their names in front of His Majesty. Can also rise faster.Of course, dissatisfaction will be directly punished by His Majesty, and if your superiors know about it, you can use money to settle it. To leave this impression in front of His Majesty, no matter how much other ministers praise him in the future, it will be difficult for His Majesty to change his impression of him.

Good or bad, Jane is underground, and people's memory is super lazy, usually only remembering the first impression of a person.

"Prefect Zong, please inform me that after my Luanjia passes, the people can pick up the dung on the imperial road on their own initiative, and don't stop it!" As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, Zong Rong, the prefect of Kaili, felt his heart skip a beat again, and secretly said: Done, not only will you leave a bad impression in front of His Majesty, but you will also lose the way to make a fortune by sealing off the royal road to collect horse manure and sell it to the common people or peddlers after His Majesty leaves."

"Yes, my minister complies with the order." Despite all the pain in Zong Zhifu's heart, he still forced himself to agree with a smile.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what Zong Rong, the prefect of Kaili, was thinking. His visit to the Southwest this time was not to clean up these magistrates. There are few highly educated talents, but this speed is still not keeping up with the expansion speed of the territory, so he does not mean to be too harsh on the prefect of Kaili who failed to prevent the people from appearing in the warning area.

And not long after, when Zhu Youxiao, who was taking a nap, just felt a bit of cool valley wind and woke him up, he heard the sound of reading from the top of the cliff in front of him. Like hundreds of others.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel quite curious, and hurriedly asked Zong Rong, the prefect of Kaili, and the prefect of Kaili had to answer truthfully that this was Chen Jiru giving lectures in the cave.

It turns out that Guizhou is mountainous, and the government funds are limited, and it is also difficult to build houses. After all, there are steep cliffs everywhere. Therefore, Chen Jiru, who was assigned here as a private school teacher, can only rely on the caves between the cliffs as his home. The place of lectures, in fact, is not only Chen Jiru's sociology, but also many other sociology. Even Chen Jiru himself has no shelter from the wind and rain, and can only live among the cliffs.

It was hard for Zhu Youxiao to imagine that Chen Jiru had cultivated a 11-year Apocalypse No. [-] scholar in such a right place, so he lowered his sliding pole full of curiosity and began to walk into the cliff.

When Zhu Youxiao came to the cliff cave, he saw Chen Jiru standing in the deepest part of the cave, a blackboard hanging on the cliff, explaining a set of Confucian scriptures, while the students sitting on the haystack could not hear him. Seriously, there are children who are not yet ten years old or who have just learned to read the Three Character Classic, as well as old children who are over thirty years old.

"Does this Mr. Meigong always have so many people in class?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking Zong Rong, the prefect of Kaili at this time.

Zong Rong hurriedly replied: "Yes, Mr. Meigong is a great contemporary Confucian. He has a calm temperament, does not pursue fame and fortune, and is also knowledgeable. Many people like to come to his lectures, even the officials themselves sometimes Take a look at Weifu, and sometimes even listeners can reach as many as a thousand people. After all, such a person is a rare talent in a thousand miles for Guizhou.

"Then let him stay for another ten years until he can cultivate a famous person like Chen Jiru." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile, then turned and left here. He didn't need to disturb Chen Jiru. Since I enjoy the feeling of teaching in the countryside so much, as an emperor, I don’t need to force people to go home or return to Beijing to take up positions. However, before Zhu Youxiao left, he still asked Li Mingrui to appoint Chen Jiru as a professor to be responsible for the teaching and teaching staff of the whole government. .

However, just when Zhu Youxiao was about to return to Guiyang Mansion and then to Guangdong and Guangxi, a fan from Dongchang who had been inquiring about the news came back and reported that a large number of soldiers of the Yi nationality were found in front of him, and he personally begged for mercy. See His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao was very surprised by this. He didn't expect that the soldiers who actually met the chieftain would come to block the way directly. However, Zhu Youxiao was not the kind of cowardly person, so he decisively agreed to his request. Immediately meet the officials of these chieftains.

Zhu Youxiao really wants to see what reasons these chieftains who oppose the land reform policy will come up with, and where the bottom line of these chieftains is.

But I can be sure that this group of chieftains' army is not without self-knowledge, and they don't want to rush to tear themselves apart with the court, which shows that there is still room for change in the whole incident.

(End of this chapter)