Chapter 742: Instilling new ideas into the prince (please subscribe)

Author: Linjiangjun

At the door of the Royal Study, Old Eunuch Li was on duty.

He is responsible for receiving memorials from the Council of Ministers, and will put aside those that are not urgent.

If it's urgent, take it to Zhu Kezang for instructions.

"Eunuch Li, where do you agree with the memorial that the Council of Ministers has just enacted?"

When Old Eunuch Li heard this, he didn't care too much about it. He didn't even raise his head and said perfunctorily.

"Well, he knows, I'll leave it there first!"

Everyone who was presented with the document said they would not re-apply for it.

Now Zhu Kezang is playing with the prince and the eldest princess in the imperial garden. The family is having fun and should not be disturbed.

"Mr. Li, then... was that the Prime Minister's personal order..."

Seeing this situation, the official looked embarrassed and hesitated.

It's hard for him to directly say whether he rejects the government-gentry integration plan, after all, it's not confidential now.

Prime Minister Chen Yonghua personally ordered it, so it is indeed a matter of whether to re-apply or not.

Old eunuch Li took the memorandum document recording the detailed rules for the integrated payment of grain by officials and gentry from his leg, ready to see what was going on.

Seeing that Li Taitai had already taken the memorial, the official couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then said respectfully: "Eunuch Li, I won't disturb you anymore, I'll just leave."

I can't help but respect him, so I can't offend the old eunuch who has been with Zhu Kezang through life and death without offending anyone.

He asked if he could give Zhu Kezang a small report, which would make him suffer.

After the little official finished speaking, he quickly left the imperial study without stopping at all.

Old Eunuch Li looked at his leaving figure, shook his head slightly, and immediately opened the memorial document.

In an instant, Old Eunuch Li’s pupils suddenly shrank!

His face was filled with horror, as if he had seen something incredible.

He thought he was dazzled, and then he read the contents recorded in the memorial back and forth several times before confirming that he had read it correctly.

Old Eunuch Li sighed, it was destined to be another bloody storm.

He was going to take the memorial with him and go to the Imperial Garden to meet Zhu Kezang.

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Outside the Imperial Garden, Zhu Kezang was playing Go with Prince Zhu Yiming while teaching him.

Zhu Yiming is not young anymore, so it's time to instill some ideas about country governance in him, after all, he is his heir.

Hearing a snapping sound, Zhu Kezang dropped the black chess piece in his leg into the chessboard and said slowly.

"Ming'er, he will test me tomorrow. I think it is wrong for a common man to pay attention to what he asks for."

When Zhu Yiming heard this, his face suddenly showed a thoughtful look. He seriously doubted whether his father was playing chess on the east side of him and interfering with him with extra moves!

He admittedly thought about something seriously.

After Zhu Yiming thought for a long time, he replied: "Father, I think money is the most important thing. With money, you can buy food, with money you can buy machinery for farming, and with money you can read and write, and change your life."

Zhu Yiming is only seven years old, but he actually has that understanding, which is a bit beyond Zhu Kezang's expectation. He is worthy of his kind.

Zhu Kezang said in a solemn tone: "Many people have different answers to that question.

In the dynasties before the New Ming Dynasty, there were two things that lasted for thousands of years and dominated the rise and fall of the dynasty.

They just want land and technology.

Only with land can you grow food and feed your family.

And every technological breakthrough will change an era.

It is very likely to cause the rise and fall of a court."

Zhu Yiming nodded in understanding.

As for the coal system, it was enough to plant a seed in the mind of the young prince and remember the importance of land and technology.

Just ask him to understand that thing, so that he can grasp the essence of the matter and not be fooled by civil servants.

He smiled again and said: "I don't quite understand what Father Huangquan said. Father will help us understand those things with examples."

In fact, the New Ming Dynasty is an example, relying on advanced weapons and troops to crush the Tatars.

"Ming'er, I've started to study history recently. Do I know why the Warring States Period was such a major change in history?"

"Is it because of the breakthrough in smelting technology that iron tools began to be equipped on a large scale?

Weapons made of iron are tougher and sharper than bronze weapons.

Iron farm tools can give a family the strength to cultivate wasteland.

With the advancement of formal smelting technology, one family could cultivate the land, and the common people escaped from the shackles of the nobles, became homesteaders, and went to wasteland to reclaim land.

If farmers control the land, they can feed a large number of children.

Do they protect their own interests?

Sons of yeoman farmers joined the army enthusiastically. Those men were more obedient to command and could form a far more powerful army than the private armies of nobles.

Countries around the world made changes one after another to adapt to the changes brought about by farmers and iron tools.

The seven kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin seized the opportunity and successfully implemented reforms, becoming the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

With the decline of aristocratic private armies, the feudal system was replaced by the county system.

Among them, Qin's reforms were the most thorough, and the national policy of farming and war could greatly mobilize the peasants. He had unified Tiandong before."

Zhu Yiming's eyes widened. He had never been exposed to the angle Zhu Kezang described.

Zhu Kezang continued to talk, from bamboo slips to papermaking, and from papermaking to printing.

"In the era of bamboo slips, the nobility had the right to speak. In the era of papermaking, the aristocratic family had the right to speak."

"The emergence of printing made books very cheap, and the descendants of small landowners could also read and write. A large amount of land was controlled by small landowners. They called themselves Tianshe Lang in the early dynasty, and ascended to the Emperor's Hall in the evening."

"They deny the gentry. The gentry doesn't care who rules the country, they only care about their own interests!"

"Ming'er, why did the dynasty last for three hundred years? Is it because of the land? What will the people do when the land is annexed?"

Zhu Yiming showed an expression of sudden realization: "Father, if he dissents the common people, he will also rise up because the port is peaceful!"

"Just like the father thinks that the emperor's sister is very good, but thinks that he is not so good, he will also feel that he is ordinary."

The clever prince took the opportunity to remind Yidong's father, Huang Mingke Zangqiu, to pay attention to fairness and ensure that a bowl of water is balanced.

"My brat, don't interrupt!"

No wonder it is said that at the age of seven or eight, dogs hate people and the rebellious stage has arrived.

"I have already made it clear that the country will be subjugated because of the land, so my father will try to alleviate the land issue before I take over the position."

Zhu Yiming nodded, his father was kind enough to solve all the problems for him.

"But no, Ming'er, I must remember that the New Ming Dynasty's technology, mainly steam engines, will change the entire world and China. In the future, merchants will replace the gentry and become the most important force in that country."

Zhu Kezang's words completely overturned the Confucian education that Prince Zhu Yiming received.

It is said that among scholars, farmers, and merchants, aren’t merchants the lowest?

"Ming'er, please remember that you can borrow the power of merchants, but you cannot let them do whatever they want. If merchants are not controlled, it will also lead to the destruction of the country."

"Father, he will definitely remember my teachings tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!