"I will pay my respects to His Highness the Grand Sun."

"Excuse me, gentlemen."

On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the 33rd year of Wanli reign (1605), after the short Spring Festival holiday, after repeated negotiations and compromises between various forces, the eight ministers who were finally recognized came to Ciqing Palace to meet Zhu Youdong.

Since he has been officially canonized as the grandson of the emperor, Zhu Youdong is the king. Therefore, the eight attendants must first treat him as a king and minister, and then Zhu Youdong will treat them as a teacher and student. As for the three accompanying students? If you are not a grandson, how can you get such an awesome teacher to teach you? Whether this teacher-student relationship can be established in the future depends on your performance.

After the two parties had finished their greetings, Shen Li made an invitation gesture to Lu Kun. Then this moral master who had been resting at home for more than seven years took a step forward: "Your Highness, this is the teaching schedule agreed upon by the ministers and others. Please take a look at it, Your Highness."

Eight teachers took turns teaching, and to be honest, it was somewhat stressful.

Although Zhu Youdong is only over four years old now, he still has a lot of schedule every day.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was a model worker, so during the Hongwu period, civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to the lowest rank, had only three days of vacation throughout the year.

After Lao Zhu's death, emperors of all dynasties could not bear such high-intensity work, so they gradually increased various holidays. By the Wanli Dynasty, civil servants had eighteen days of holidays a year.

Although Emperor Wanli has not been in court for many years, this does not mean that Wanli does not work. As long as Wanli works, Zhu Youdong usually follows him to learn how to handle government affairs.

When a person stands at different heights, he will naturally see different things. As a time traveler, Zhu Youdong's knowledge must be better than that of the entire Ming Dynasty. But in terms of handling actual government affairs, when he went from Huangji Palace to Yangxin Palace, he accepted Wanli everywhere After receiving the advice, his ability to handle government affairs is improving every day.

Therefore, his time is very tight. He can only give these eight teachers the afternoon.

"After discussion, I suggested that two classes should be held every afternoon. I would first teach the Analects of Confucius for Taisun, Shen Ge would teach Mencius, Jun Yi (Zhang Yicheng) would teach calligraphy and painting, Fei Bai (Xiong Tingbi) would teach Ming Law, and Zhisheng (Sun Chengzong) would teach The grandson writes eight-part essays, Changqing (Wen Tiren) teaches the grandson etiquette, and Zixian (Xu Guangqi) and Mr. Li teach astronomy, arithmetic, calendar, and agriculture. After every four days of teaching, the grandson can take a day off to review what he has learned. This way , a cycle every five days. When the court is closed for holidays, it will be automatically postponed."

"Master Lu made careful arrangements and the students had no objections."

"In this way, I have decided on the course. Starting at two o'clock tomorrow, I will come first to teach the grandson."

"Students must be waiting at Ciqing Palace on time."

After the eight gentlemen withdrew, the somewhat formal but solemn atmosphere suddenly relaxed a lot, because the remaining people were all Zhu Youdong's real subordinates.

"My servant Li Jinzhong, please pay your respects to the young master."

According to the account of Liu Ruoyu, the author of "Zi Zhong Zhi", in the Ming Dynasty court, eunuchs were the emperor's domestic slaves, so when they addressed the emperor, they also called him "Emperor" or "Your Majesty" except when courtiers were present. In private, they generally called him "Emperor" or "Your Majesty". The dead emperor is called the temple name, such as Xuanmiao Grandpa, Shimiao Grandpa, etc. The current emperor is called Long Live Lord, and if the relationship is relatively close, he is called Grandpa directly. The prince is called Qiansui Lord, and the more affectionate one is called Xiao. Grandpa. As for the grandson... well, you can't call him Centenary Master, right? So, now the eunuchs in the palace have gradually agreed that in the future, the nicknames of the prince will be split. He will only call the prince Qiansuoye, and the grandson will be called Young Master.

"Well, Li Jinzhong, I heard that your last name was not Li before?"

"Master Shengming, my maid's real name is Wei. In order to enter the palace, I changed my name."

"Well, you are working next to me now. If you still dare not use your real name, it will seem like I am a shady shop here. From today on, you can return to your original name! I will write a note later and call the internal officer.

I’ll change your name back.”

"Thank you very much, Master, for restoring your original surname to me. I am so shameless and want to ask you one more thing. Can you please give me a new name?"

"Hahahahaha~~~Okay, okay, your name is Wei Zhongxian!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.how!

"Very good, Wei Zhongxian."

"My slave is here."

"I will leave it to you to take care of the village that Grandpa Huang gave me. If I do well, I will be rewarded by you. If I am not satisfied with it, haha, I am now officially enlightened. If it were in the Han Dynasty, then

It’s called opening the mansion and erecting the flag. So, if you don’t do a good job, I will have one less head to sacrifice the flag!”

"Please don't worry, young master! I will definitely take care of the village that the long live master gave to the young master. Well, no, that is, anyway, I will take care of it very clearly."

"That's called being well-organized! I know you didn't go to school properly when you were a boy and you weren't very literate. If you have the chance in the future, you have to study hard. Cao Huachun."

"Master, my servant is here."

"When I have time in the future, I will teach Wei Zhongxian to read more. I don't expect him to write any good articles. At least he can read, read memorials, and do math."

"Yes, slave, I obey."

"Wei Zhongxian, as for that Zhuangzi, what I want is absolute control. I will need to do a lot of things in this Zhuangzi in the future. You must absolutely obey and unswervingly execute any of my orders!"

"Yes! I understand. I must clear up the accounts of the village as soon as possible."

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty made clear regulations on the treatment of the clan. Princes, princes, various princes, generals, etc., all in one set. And although there are so many classes, the treatment of each class is very

rich.

Take the prince as an example: Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the prince's annual income would be 50,000 shi of rice, 25,000 guan of banknotes, 40 pieces of brocade, 300 pieces of silk, 100 pieces of gauze, 500 pieces of silk, and 1,000 pieces of winter and summer cloth.

, two thousand taels of cotton, two thousand jins of salt, one thousand jins of tea, and fifty pieces of fodder for horses every month. The satin is given to the craftsmen every year, and the prince's palace makes it himself.

What is this concept? During the peace period in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when the price of rice was very cheap, it was about seventy-eight shi to one tael of silver. The prince's annual income of 50,000 shi was more than 7,000 taels of silver. If the society was slightly

If there is turmoil and the price of rice rises, the money cannot be bought by a few thousand taels of silver. (After the Longqing switch, a large amount of silver poured in and the price of silver depreciated, so the price of rice during the Wanli period was between 0 and 05 taels of silver/stone.

fluctuates within the range)

The Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes continued to depreciate in value. By the Wanli period, the 25,000 guan treasure banknotes were almost like waste paper. Therefore, this can be ignored.

As for other pieces of silk and cloth, when the purchasing power of silver was very strong in the Ming Dynasty, they were worth about two to three thousand taels of silver.

In short, for a prince, the imperial court would distribute about ten thousand taels of silver every year.

Doesn’t sound like much?

However, what you have to know is that the people of the Lao Zhu family are very fertile! By the Wanli period, the number of various clans, including only men, had reached more than 130,000. If you strictly follow the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, all the

If the clan paid the full salary, the Ming Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue would need to be multiplied by another 14 to 15 to achieve this goal.

Therefore, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were extremely troubled by the clan. The emperors used constant discounts, delayed payments, and did not name the newborns of the clan (the emperor was the head of the Zhu family, and the head of the family did not name the newborns. This newborn

If you cannot register with the clan, you will naturally not have the corresponding salary) and other rogue means to reduce expenditures on the clan. But even so, by the Wanli period, more than 40% of the central government's annual fiscal revenue would be consumed by the huge clan

Lose.

Therefore, although the emperor's grandson was the crown prince, he could be compared to a prince. Although Zhu Youdong was deeply loved by Wanli, Wanli still only gave Zhu Youdong an imperial manor with an area of ​​more than 2,000 acres, and then gave him 5,000 taels of silver at a time.
Chapter completed!