Chapter 61 Recuperate and recuperate, or forge ahead?
"Fifth brother, he..." Zhu Biao paused, thought for a moment, and then continued: "Fifth brother is very lazy every day, either sleeping until midnight, or reading some scripts on the market. Occasionally, he will
I went to West Street incognito and wandered around for a while, but there wasn't anything else going on."
"Oh?" Lao Zhu raised his eyebrows, "This bastard has a pretty good life!"
"...adopted father and adopted mother." Mu Ying lowered her head and thought for a while, then said to Lao Zhu and Queen Ma: "Let me dare to say something, I think the fifth brother doesn't have anything to do with us. If we wait,
Whenever I asked, he always gave me advice. In these days, he told me many methods for improving firearms, such as the 'paper-wrapped gunpowder method', the 'post-loading method', the 'flint method', and the more advanced '
Rifling method', 'pointed projectile', etc. are all good methods that can greatly increase the power of firearms."
"Fire gun is an important weapon of the military. No matter which one of these methods, it is worth tens of thousands of gold, which is enough to determine the success or failure of a national war. If the fifth brother has other desires in his heart, how can he tell the truth like this?"
"Yes. Although the fifth brother is also naughty, he has always been very close to his brother Erchen. Even Erchen's wife, the fifth brother is very caring." Zhu Biao also said.
"Just now, he even pulled Erchen privately and asked him to get more cow and goat milk, saying that it can strengthen the physique of pregnant women. If Erchen was not a close relative, how could he be so considerate?"
Both his son and adopted son expressed their support, and even his wife, Ma, was looking at his expression. Lao Zhu looked slightly ashamed and thought for a while, "Time is still short, let's take another look."
"Biao'er, we have already ordered the palace to make the soap that Lao Wu made. When we look back on this business, we will incorporate it into the imperial property according to Lao Wu's method."
"Leave it to Lao Wu to take charge of this matter. Don't let him have too much time on his own. If this man is idle, he will inevitably become exhausted."
"But he is still young, so you should take a look at him first. On the surface, he will be treated as a business that you are in charge of."
"The Sui Dynasty did this, but a small Goguryeo completely destroyed the Sui Dynasty! Yesterday, we revealed something to Mr. Li, and Mr. Li immediately turned pale and told us that we should rest with the people and use the country as our country.
The community is the most important..."
"Su'er is right when he says something. There is no system that is everlasting! The more we think about it these days, the more we feel that the imperial system has its limits!"
"What you mean is that Su'er has ulterior motives in using the benefits from outside to lure you into becoming an expansionist hero?" Empress Ma twisted her eyebrows. "Isn't this impossible? Even if there is a monster, there is Emperor Yang Yin Jian.
Now, you, Emperor Zhu, can't fall into this evil trap, can you?"
"Before Xiao Wu left the palace, he specifically asked Ping'er and the others to take good care of me. In recent days, Ping'er and the others have come to my palace to take stock in the morning and dusk no matter what the weather.
It’s because of brother’s advice.”
"I asked the Hanlin Academy to search through ancient books, but they couldn't find the 'golden mountains', 'god seeds' and the like that Lao Wu mentioned. Those Hanlins thought I was asking for a fairy mountain, and they all told me that everything in the Central Plains is omnipresent.
Yes, everything outside is a barbaric land. This is the consensus of sages of ancient and modern times..."
"...Yes." Zhu Biao nodded. Mu Ying couldn't bear it for Zhu Su, so she raised her head and said, "Won't the foster father call the fifth brother to have a private chat?"
"That... doesn't it prove that what Su'er said is true?" Queen Ma said. "It's more important to reassure him!"
"In this case, why not save more family property..." Lao Zhu looked at the "Kun Yu Ten Thousand Kingdoms Map" hand-painted by Zhu Su on the screen under the moonlight, and drew a big circle on the map with one hand
, including Europe, Asia, Australia, the United States and other continents. "As long as the family fortune is big enough, even if there are descendants of a prodigal family, it can support them for a few more years!"
"Those civil servants were also frightened. We set up a Maritime Affairs Department that has not yet been seen. These days, the memorials from those officials are like snowflakes. They all say that the Ming Dynasty has finally expelled the Mongolian Yuan, and the national strength has not yet been restored. Since ancient times,
Those who are willing to fight will inevitably perish. At this time, it is time to rest with the people first... He also quoted scriptures and said, throughout the ages, which dynasty after unifying the Central Plains, the first thing was not to recuperate, but to make enemies on all sides non-stop? "
"He told us that the household registration system has shortcomings and that military households will become a big problem in the future. We also sent people from the Guards Department to check with the people. The Ming Dynasty has only been a country for a few years, and there are already craftsmen who are registered as craftsmen but do not know their craftsmanship.
Military households in remote military households were oppressed by thousands of households, and some civilians were annexed by large households and their farmland was merged, and they could not find roads to bring them to their relatives."
Zhu Biao and Mu Ying were speechless. The carriage had arrived at the palace gate. Zhu Biao and Mu Ying stood up to say goodbye, while Lao Zhu drove straight to Kunning Palace with Queen Ma.
Lao Zhu opened the window and took in the watery night outside the window into the house. But he was still very troubled in his heart. "The methods Lao Wu told me are indeed effective. Not to mention the firearm improvements Ying'er said.
If the law is passed, it can be said that the cabinet is now on the right track, and it only takes a few more years to replace the prime minister. From now on, our Ming Dynasty will not have to worry about the prime minister's autocratic power."
"We are thinking that the things said by so many generations of Han ancestors are more trustworthy than those spoken by Lao Wu alone, right?"
"We originally thought that our system is seamless, and as long as we follow this system, it will be enough to make the Ming Dynasty difficult. Unexpectedly, there are already some problems in just a few years. If this is really passed down,
It must be completely rotten as Lao Wu said!"
"...There are a lot of things going on in the DPRK right now, and we have a lot of things to worry about...let's wait until later." Lao Zhu thought for a while and said.
"But that guy from Lao Wu really persuaded me." Lao Zhu smiled helplessly. "Sister, we have been patching up these holes in the Ming Dynasty these days. We didn't notice it at first, but now the more I look at it, the more I feel like it.
Our Ming Dynasty is just a big straw basket with holes everywhere!"
"That child is sincere to us. If he knew about our doubts, wouldn't it chill that child's heart?"
"I patched up the top and leaked the bottom, and patched up the left and leaked right. The more I patched up, the more I thought, even if our generation made the Ming Dynasty like an iron barrel, what if there really were filial sons and grandsons like Jiajing Tianqi, Qian Qianyi?
If you kill talented and dogged officials, no matter how reliable the system is, it cannot stand the test of time!"
"...We don't want this either." Lao Zhu sighed.
"What he said is true." Lao Zhu rubbed his furrowed eyebrows. In order to make up for the holes in the system these days, he spent a lot of effort and felt quite powerless. "But he didn't know.
Why, there are always hints in and out of words that we are resorting to militarism, tempting us to covet the mountains and rivers outside the Central Plains..."
"...Chongba, are you really still doubting Xiao Wu?" Previously, her son's adopted son was still alive, so it was hard for her to question her husband. But now that her son and adopted son were gone, Empress Ma finally spoke up.
"Then you want to..." Queen Ma looked at his back, somewhat confused as to what Lao Zhu was thinking.
"We can't make up our mind either..." Lao Zhu smiled bitterly. "I used to be a cattle herder in Fengyang, but now I'm the emperor. Back then, I could have spared no effort, but now the higher my status, the more I feel like I'm walking on thin ice.
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"If we set a national policy of expanding everywhere, if Lao Wu is really a monster who brings disaster to the country, and all the troops are sent out, but there is no gain, then the Central Plains will not fall into war again? Our Lao Zhu family will become the property of all Han people
sinner!"
"When we become the head of a big clan like Huaxia, we have to bring peace to all the Han people in the world! Besides, how can such a big matter be decided by the words of a mere kid?"