Life-saving depends on seeking medical advice, not asking for help from the Medicine King Bodhisattva.
Zhu Di, the emperor, is quite materialistic.
Xu Jingchang was quite pleased.
Zhu Di looked at Xu Jingchang with a proud look on his face and sneered: "Tell me, you gave the boss a bad idea and asked him to attack the kings. What are your plans?"
Xu Jingchang was suddenly startled and shouted: "Your Majesty, it was not my idea to take over the prince's palace and build a school!"
When he said this, even Empress Xu didn't believe it, let alone Zhu Di.
Zhu Gaosui even shouted: "If you dare to do something, what can you do if you accept it? The boss is so honest, how can he do such outrageous things?"
Xu Jingchang was speechless now. He looked around and found that his aunt also had a sullen face, as if there was no need to deceive herself...
Xu Jingchang was depressed. He finally understood what it means to do unjust things and lead to self-destruction, and what it means to dig your own holes and jump out of them... After two or three years of hard work, he didn't dare to say that it smelled bad, and it was because people hated dogs.
If anything bad happens, it will be blamed on him.
But the problem is that this sexy operation was really not done by him. It was clearly done by Fatty Zhu himself.
Xu Jingchang realized one more thing. Yingtian's big fat pig is definitely not simple. This guy is very good at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger! No wonder he got the last laugh and deceived his father and brothers!
"Anyway, it was my idea to let the vassal princes seize the temples and ancestral halls... I just followed the trend and borrowed the prince's advice!" Xu Jingchang was still trying to argue for himself.
But everyone automatically ignored the following words, and Zhu Di asked directly: "What is your purpose of expropriating ancestral halls and temples?"
Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Your Majesty, what's the point in abolishing the Confucian sacrifice?"
Zhu Di was shocked. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly felt enlightened.
This is a complete reshuffle!
Xu Jingchang's prescription for border management was to abolish the guard stations and build farms. Use the guards officers to lead their soldiers to colonize the land and guard the border. When necessary, slave labor was introduced to increase the amount of commercial grain and strengthen the self-sufficiency rate in the north.
This makes sense.
Regarding the feudal kings, his proposal was to train them and grant them some industries. In short, as a clan member, you can make a fortune, but don't think about military power and land.
This makes sense logically.
But can these two strategies be implemented smoothly?
What are you thinking about?
That's not what dreams do.
Looking through the annals of history, it is not uncommon for correct strategies to be severely deformed or even go astray. Otherwise, reform would not be so difficult.
"Your Majesty, please think about it, whether it is to build a farm or develop an industry, what is needed?"
Zhu Di hummed: "Of course we need talents."
Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Your Majesty talks too much, but in fact, only people are enough."
Zhu Di was startled for a moment, but Zhu Gaoxu caught Xu Jingchang's meaning. He said in a low voice: "Father, my cousin means someone who wants to work!"
Zhu Di was even more surprised, "People? They are everywhere, what else is difficult?"
Xu Jingchang was not needed this time. Zhu Gaoxu looked up to the sky and sighed, tears coming out.
"Father, my child has been busy for more than two years. Do you know how wronged he has been?"
His crying frightened Zhu Di.
"Are you still aggrieved? I just see that you have become rich. Your family property is more than your internal money!"
Zhu Gaoxu felt aggrieved, "My child has earned money, but it's also hard work to earn it!"
Empress Xu saw this and said curiously: "Second brother, you are just a dull gourd. You keep everything in your heart and don't want to say it out. We are a family, so just pour out the bitter water in your stomach. Don't people say
Well, we can’t just watch thieves eat meat and not watch thieves get beaten.”
These words made Zhu Gaoxu even more aggrieved, and he almost became a thief.
The biggest problem in setting up a workshop in Yingtian is recruiting workers.
Yes, there are people everywhere, but few can enter the workshop.
Zhu Gaoxu initially wanted to recruit workers from the city, but he soon gave up... There were indeed craftsmen who were good at textiles in the city, but these craftsmen generally worked at home.
To put it bluntly, it is a family workshop.
Some have only one or two looms, and many have three or five.
The mother takes her daughter to do the work, or the mother-in-law takes the daughter-in-law to do the work... They weave, and the men help buy silk threads and sell the silk. At the same time, they do odd jobs or open a small shop.
Although he is not considered rich, there is absolutely no problem in providing for his family's life.
Don't even think about letting them enter the workshop and weave silk together with hundreds of thousands!
If you can be a small boss, why should you go into a factory to tighten screws?
The truth has been the same throughout the ages.
Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to focus on the countryside, hoping to recruit farmers... Then Zhu Gaoxu became completely prosperous.
Because it is far more difficult to recruit farmers than citizens, ordinary people are not willing at all.
"Is it because you offered less money? Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. Don't you understand this truth?" Zhu Di said quietly.
Zhu Gaoxu hummed: "Father, it's easy for you to say, how much do I have to pay? How much can I earn? You can't let me lose money! People in the countryside, whether they have land or not, can only rent land.
.They all regard farming as the right path, and becoming a craftsman is something they have no choice but to do, and it is something they do as a lower class person."
Zhu Di frowned slightly and thought: "Growing grain can fill your stomach, but silk cannot fill your stomach. There is a saying."
Zhu Gaoxu said angrily: "We are obviously poor people, but they still insist on saying that their parents are not far away. They are not even willing to leave the village. I want to recruit female workers, but the trouble is even greater. They say that men and women are not close to each other, and women should
There are people who spread rumors that I want to trick women into becoming prostitutes in the Qinhuai River...Father, I am a prince, but I have been slandered as a brothel owner. I am wronged!"
This is so!
Zhu Di's eyes widened angrily, "Who said that? You framed the prince, why didn't you arrest him?" He turned to look at Xu Jingchang, "Aren't you in charge of the Jin Yiwei? The second brother has been wronged, and you don't help him stand up?"
Xu Jingchang spread his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I am helpless."
"Why? Don't you want to?"
Xu Jingchang said honestly: "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't do it. After all, the prison is so big. Unless you give me a hundred times more prisons, I can accommodate the gossips."
Zhu Di was stunned and couldn't help but murmured: "There are so many?"
Queen Xu asked curiously: "Second brother, if it's so difficult, how did you get so many craftsmen together?"
Zhu Di also stared at his second son.
Zhu Gaoxu sighed: "Thanks to my cousin, the school he ran has trained many craftsmen... Then there was a flood in Taihu Lake, and hundreds of thousands of people in western Zhejiang were displaced. I went down to talk to the people about changing rice to mulberry.
, and by the way, I recruited a lot of people, both men and women, who all work very well in my textile workshop and now earn a lot of money, making them richer than ordinary farmers."
Empress Xu couldn't help but ask: "Since life is getting better, it will not be so difficult to recruit craftsmen in the future, and you can be considered to have paid off the hard work."
Zhu Gaoxu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Mother, how can things be so simple? I finally understand that those gentry and landlords are eager to tie the people to the countryside and not allow them to come out to work at all. What my cousin wants to do is clearly to seize food from the tiger's mouth.
"
Zhu Di was quite surprised, "Is that so? Xu Jingchang, are you right?"
Xu Jingchang nodded and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Han sees it very clearly... I originally thought that everyone loves money and everyone wants to get rich, so what's wrong with earning more. But gradually, I realized that some people, they don't
That’s not what they think. Because when they come out to make money, they have to take risks. At least they have to leave the countryside, enter the towns, leave their familiar living space, and lose the protection of their clan relatives and friends. They dare not. Furthermore, many people simply believe in fate.
!”
"Life?"
"Yes, some people are destined to be poor. They have to work all their lives and suffer poverty all their lives. It's useless to mess around, so it's better to accept your fate honestly!"
Zhu Di took a deep breath, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "If I accept my fate, I'm afraid I will die in Jianwen's hands."
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Di said: "Xu Jingchang, in your opinion, what should we do about this matter?"
Xu Jingchang said: "Your Majesty, actually we have been working hard on this matter...such as overthrowing the Confucian sacrifices, changing Taoism, and redefining the orthodoxy of official schools. This is a fundamental change. The next step is to implement these things and build a school.
, To promote enlightenment is to sweep away the old ones and replace them with new ones. Only in this way can we make a fuss."
Zhu Di suddenly sighed, "I understand, so I demolished the temple and ancestral hall for this reason?"
Xu Jingchang said: "Yes, only in this way can we shake the big families and solve them from the root... Without the obstruction of the big families, it will be much easier for Your Majesty to rectify the finance and taxation. Now that the Kong family has been solved, the vassal princes have
Bow your head. This is the case for both the most noble and noble families, and no one else should be considered an exception!"
Zhu Di was trembling all over. He could only say that this game of chess was really big!
"Xu Jingchang, what benefits can I get?" Zhu Di said quietly.
"Your Majesty can gain the power of the entire world, obtain unparalleled wealth, and achieve unprecedented achievements!"
Zhu Di listened silently. After a long time, he suddenly slammed the table, causing the dishes and chopsticks to rattle. He laughed loudly, "In this case, there is no one who doesn't support me."
Zhu Di's heart was completely reassured. Suddenly, Qi King Zhu Shu came back from Tianjin and complained to Zhu Di as soon as they met.
"Your Majesty, I don't even have a place to live now. At least I can give you a little reward so that I can have a place to live and settle down. Otherwise, your nieces and nephews will be begging on the streets."
Zhu Di looked at him and said hehe: "Do you still resent Duke Ding now?"
Zhu Shu was stunned for a moment and could only say: "I think he is a little unreasonable..."
"Confused!" Zhu Di scolded unceremoniously: "Ding Guogong gave you Jinshan, but you are still blind!"
King Qi was shocked, "Your Majesty, I really don't understand!"
Zhu Di hummed: "If you don't understand, I'll tell you, you raided the temple, are there any people?"
"have."
"Do you have money?"
Zhu Shu was stunned. He had scraped off a lot of gold paint, but he was still a little embarrassed...
Zhu Di snorted: "Idiot, why don't you go to the dock to enclose the land? Do you want others to get there first?"
King Qi was stunned for a long time, then suddenly turned around and ran away, still saying, "Thank you for your grace!"
