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Chapter 118 Taming Yangou

"Father?" Zhu Biao called Lao Zhu next to him with his arms pillowed.

"Don't be afraid of those civil servants, we don't like them either." In the dark, Lao Zhu replied easily: "They don't dare to mention what happened today."

"I'm not tired from practicing boxing... Will you still learn from us tomorrow night?" Old Zhu asked.

"Study, learn your fighting skills." Zhu Biao said: "Then I will teach my father Huang economics."

The father and son were lying on the finished memorial and talking.

"What is economics? Why teach us this?" Lao Zhu heard this word new, but had never heard the minister say it.

"It is the name created by Erchen, which means to distribute the resources to each common people in the most reasonable and balanced way." Zhu Biao said.

"I don't understand." Lao Zhu turned his eyes around and couldn't figure it out.

"There is a big pie, and it is useless if it is given to people who are not hungry. Only when it is given to the hungry victims, this pie is the most useful."

Lao Zhu nodded. He said that, so he understood.

"People grow food, they use hoes and oxen, this kind of ability can be called productivity. The surplus food at home belongs to resources."

Later, when Zhu Biao understood, he had to change this kind of knowledge into colloquial Chinese, and Lao Zhu immediately understood it.

"Those who know how to weave can exchange cloth for food grown by others, which is the basis of the economy that Erchen said, it is buying and selling, trading.

Common people weaving cloth, growing grain, and embroidering and making clothes all belong to handicraft industry, and there is another kind called industry. "

"Industry?" Old Zhu turned over without resting his arms: "Tell me."

"For example, weaving cloth, the cloth shop needs one horse per month, and the weavers can keep up. The business of the cloth shop is very good, and there is a lot of demand. When the weaving cannot keep up, there are smart people who make a machine to help people weave cloth. , Cloth will be much faster, this kind of utensils without hands is called industry. We can also borrow the power of water."

"The power of water? Is it the kind of irrigation water wheel we have seen? When cooking, its heat will lift the lid of the pot. Is this considered power?"

Zhu Biao nodded: "Forget it."

The next day, an uninvited guest came to the East Palace—the speech officer Zhou Qing.

Since the founding of the country, Zhou Qing's subordinates have impeached many people, and he is also the most arrogant.He often commanded Lao Zhu with the thought of a civil servant, and beat Lao Zhu no less than a hundred times.

Lao Zhu bothered him, but there was nothing he could do.

Zhu Biao would not have any communication with the speaker on weekdays, except that time when he came back from seeing Chang Yuchun and was blocked by Zhou Qing.

This time the speaker Zhou Qing asked to see him, the people in Zhan Shifu's eyes widened and they were stunned.

His Royal Highness is going to be in trouble, Zhou Qing is not someone to be messed with.

"Chen Zhouqing, I have met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

After Zhu Biao glanced at the people in Zhan Shifu, he said to Zhou Qing: "Zhou Yushi, what's the matter with you?"

Zhou Qing glanced at the people around him, and said politely: "I have something to report to Your Highness."

"Speak, and listen."

Zhu Biao did it on purpose. He knew what Zhou Qing asked him to do, so he just pretended not to understand.

"Uh, His Highness took a step to speak."

Immediately he laughed: "They are not outsiders, so Zhou Yushi doesn't have to shy away from it, just speak up when you have something to say."

"I...impeach that Sun Yong."

"I just remember, didn't Sun Yong take him to the Ministry of Punishment."

"The minister wants to impeach, and Sun Yong keeps saying that the governance of the court depends on the merits of scholars, and it is the most shameless thing to accuse them of their political achievements.

When the Han Dynasty destroyed the country in the Song Dynasty, where was the Kong family?In order to avoid death, he knelt down and begged for mercy from the Yuan thief, and even helped Yuan Ting want to destroy us Han people.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the thieves slaughtered the surnames of Li, Zhao and Liu to suppress the Red Turban Army.

The Confucian scholars of the Confucian family helped foreigners hide their scandals, and educated scholars to be lackeys and slaves.

It was His Majesty, it was His Majesty who led the people to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, recapture the Han and Ming Dynasty, and save the people from fire and water.

General Xu personally invited him to the Kong family, but the Kong family didn't know good from bad, and when the army came, they kept kneeling in front of the army, begging for mercy and surviving.

Yesterday I still had the face to invite the sage Kong, Your Majesty is wise, don't care about them.Instead of honestly studying in Shandong, they indulged this group of Confucian scholars to openly resist the edict in the court, threatening His Majesty and His Highness with blood splashing five steps.

How can these jumping clowns put taxes on the people and enslave the people, how can they be tolerated.

Your Majesty and His Highness don't care about it, it's the emperor's tolerance, but their faults, the ministers must impeach them, and let the people of the world know that they are thieves, a group of thieves who follow the trend. "

Zhou Qing danced and danced, pointing at the sky with anger for a while, and stomping on the ground for a while, scolding the Confucianists bloody.

The air froze for a few seconds, those people in Zhan Shifu looked at me and I looked at you, and then immediately said:
"Yes, they are all thieves, a group of thieves who follow the wind."

"Da Ming made it himself! The style of the official uniform is that of the empress and her daughters! Serving the imperial court is also our voluntary choice!
What does it have to do with Confucianism?It doesn't matter! "

"Your Majesty's policy will, they have no right to interfere."

Zhou Qing raised his head, and the people in Zhan Shifu also shouted, and everyone began to blame the Confucian scholars and the Confucius family.

"Our reading has nothing to do with Confucianism. We read the books ourselves. We don't recognize Yan Shenggong."

Zhu Biao said: "Zhou Yushi, I invite you to drink tea alone."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Zhou Qing laughed and followed Zhu Biao to leave.

Take Zhou Qing directly to the Academy of Science and Technology where Daming Weekly is printed.

Zhu Biao asked Zhou Qing to copy the word-for-word in the Daming Weekly, and ordered the little eunuchs to sort out and print it.

On the palace road outside the East Palace, Zhou Qing bowed his waist and said with a smile: "Your Highness, I sent the bird back. I shouldn't be deceived by Sun Yong."

"What to give, how nice is a pet bird. The five-story restaurant at your cousin's house is not bad. I have time to drink."

"The minister listened to His Royal Highness, and the humble minister retired first."

"Go."

Zhou Yong breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked forward.

Seeing the court lady and eunuch approaching, she raised her head again, puffed her chest out, hummed a little tune, and left leisurely.

The Ming Dynasty Weekly was published, and the scholars in the city were divided into two factions, and when they had nothing to do, they went to the tavern to argue and argue.

One team stood at Kong's house, and the other team stood at Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu.

The common people are rough people. I heard that Confucianism wants to put all taxes on them poor people, of course they don't want to.

At the beginning of March, the Great Court Meeting.

As usual, the officials were waiting outside the Meridian Gate early, holding the Ming Weekly in their hands.They have all read the article.

Hu Weiyong walked up to Li Shanchang with the weekly newspaper, "Prime Minister Li, what do you think?"

"Weiyong, my opinion is not important, what His Majesty says, we do the right thing."

The guards on duty behind him stared at the ground, silently recording what Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang said.

Including which lady's room they went to spend the night last night, and how long, they are all clear.

His Majesty does not allow the prince and empress to monitor them, and the guards tacitly pretend to be deaf and dumb when they meet.

Since that day, the speech officer Zhou Qing has never been more respectful and appropriate when giving advice to Lao Zhu.

After the court meeting, Lao Zhu discussed with Xu Da and the others about conquering Beiyuan again.

On the second day of March, when Zhu Biao was having breakfast in the palace, Mu Ying came in with a notebook.

"Muying, what's wrong?"

"Your Highness, I... I... don't know what to say." Mu Ying stammered.

"Speak directly and truthfully." Zhu Biao put down his bowl and chopsticks and raised his head.

"Your Highness, the scholars in the capital said that the gentry's payment of food is empty talk, and they are very dissatisfied.

It is said that the Yuan thieves have not been eliminated, and His Highness wants to kill the gentry.Some civil servants also said in private that His Majesty has the merits of founding a country, His Highness has never led soldiers to fight, and he is just... a little... doll with no strength to restrain a chicken. "

boom!
Zhu Biao brushed the bowls and chopsticks on the ground.

Yu'er and Jin'er were so frightened that they immediately came over to look at Zhu Biao's hands, busy cleaning up the pieces of bowls and chopsticks on the ground.

Zhu Biao got up to see Lao Zhu.

(End of this chapter)