Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 300 Sapphire: I want a house built of gold

What Chen Youliang did really broke the moral bottom line.

It is true that in the long river of history, there have been such foolish kings as Chen Youliang, even wise emperors, many of them were rhodium-skinned, such as Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Li Longji, etc. In the Qing Dynasty, such deeds also happened. The list goes on and on.

However, none of them lived in the same era as Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang. It is not that Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang have a high moral bottom line, but that they rose from humble beginnings, and their moral values ​​are more in line with ordinary people's ideas.

Zhu Han can only use two words to describe Chen Youliang's behavior: Disgusting!
But at the same time, Zhu Han also gave Zhu Yuanzhang a thumbs up: "Brother, you can do it. The spies have been placed in the palace, and such private matters can be found out. This spy work is really good."

After being praised by Zhu Han, Zhu Yuanzhang looked very proud, and then said very seriously: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. In our opinion, intelligence is equally important. When we were reading a book recently, we saw Han Xin's last stand. A big taboo for military strategists, the reason why he dared to do this is because he obtained accurate information in advance and made corresponding arrangements, so he dared to fight with his back. So before you said to find spies, we are now more and more agree with this sentence .”

Zhu Han gave Zhu Yuanzhang a thumbs up. Regarding the things Zhu Yuanzhang did, even if he is a traveler who knows 500 years, he has to admire Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s growth does not need to be mythical. Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor among the grassroots. In order to avoid being imitated by ambitious people, in the original history, in order to maintain Zhu Yuanzhang’s rule and let the world recognize the legitimacy of Zhu Yuanzhang’s access to the throne, in the When continuing Zhu Yuanzhang's family tree, let Zhu Xi become Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestor, let the world know that Zhu Yuanzhang is not a grassroots, but a family in decline, and then Zhu Yuanzhang inherits the luck of Zhu's family and recreates the universe, so those who want to become emperors should not Make up your mind again, there is no Zhu Xi among your ancestors.

However, in this life, Zhu Yuanzhang was not installed with a non-existent ancestor.

First of all, the power of civil servants is much weaker than that in the other world.

Zhu Han took the lead in the charge and directly overthrew the Confucius family, the sacred place in the hearts of civil servants.

After this incident, the civil service forces could no longer resist the imperial power.

As for what the civil official said, he was worried that ambitious people would follow Zhu Yuanzhang's actions after knowing Zhu Yuanzhang's background. Days, if a court doesn't even have the ability to let the people live a good life, then what's the point of existence? Let me tell you, it's better to overthrow such a court as soon as possible!"

Zhu Han agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but shocked the other ministers. They looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han in disbelief, and thought to themselves that they were serving two things.

Which emperor doesn't want his country to survive for thousands of years?Can it be passed on from generation to generation?
But when it came to Zhu Yuanzhang, why did it become another matter?

They don't seem to care about the longevity of the Ming Dynasty, but think that the country should be overthrown if it is not good for the people. In the eyes of many people, Zhu Yuanzhang is an outlier among emperors.

But looking at what Zhu Yuanzhang did, it is indeed a different kind. Not to mention conquering the world, but also conquering it, including all the surrounding small countries into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and continuing to expand, it is even crazier than Temujin war madman.

When Temujin and Kublai Khan were fighting, they fought on land anyway. Zhu Yuanzhang played more wildly. He not only fought on land, but also at sea, but he was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang. A lot of fertile land that has never been developed has been discovered, and people can't help being jealous when they hear it.

The most important thing is that the population of Daming has exceeded [-] million, and it is still growing. This is not counting the aborigines in some overseas enclaves of Ming. If those people are included, the population of Daming is even larger than imagined Much bigger.

Those who opposed Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning are afraid to speak now, their faces are swollen from beatings, who dare to speak anymore?Annoying Zhu Yuanzhang, he sent them all overseas to teach the Four Books and Five Classics to the aborigines.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang has brought down so much land, which is also good for the officials. They do not need to steal, rob, or accept bribes. They only need to invest their wages and coffin funds, and the annual income can make their income Triple it.

You can make a lot of money by yourself, who is willing to accept bribes

Zhu Yuanzhang now encourages everyone to take out the money for investment. The money they earn can be clearly explained about the source of the money, and Zhu Yuanzhang can't label them as "corrupt officials".

This kind of business investment behavior makes money without taking risks at all. Who would not want to participate in such a good thing?
When Zhu Yuanzhang talked about this situation, he sighed a little:

"I didn't expect that in the end, we were the ones who let them not be corrupt."

This can be regarded as a high salary in disguise.

"Brother, this is normal. The development of Ming Dynasty is restricted by this era. After all, rich businessmen don't dare to invest money in Daming easily. These court officials."

Zhu Han saw it very thoroughly, and explained to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Businessmen see officials investing money, and some businessmen who know our policies and believe in us are also willing to invest in Daming, which will drive more businessmen in remote areas to join us. Join it, so that their interests will be bound to Daming and become a part of Daming's interest groups...Of course, the most people are still the common people."

After a pause, Zhu Han continued: "Now there are [-] million people registered in Daming, and each of them took out a copper plate, which is an astronomical figure. In the process of developing business in the future, they are the main force we need."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. Zhu Han told him that they want to guide the people: "But what about these officials? They started earlier than others. By the time the people started investing, the officials had already occupied all walks of life. .”

"It won't take that long, at most one year, and people will invest in it."

Zhu Han explained with a smile, "As for the court officials, it's good to let them withdraw at that time."

Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Han say so easily, but he didn't agree with it: "To put it lightly, how can they be willing to withdraw the money when they see it?"

"If you don't withdraw, then go do business."

Thinking of the famous "going to the sea" wave in later generations, Zhu Han said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Brother, it is a good thing for the development of Ming Dynasty that officials go to sea to do business."

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars are ranked first. Which of the scholars is not for entering the imperial court and honoring their ancestors?
Business is the most despised industry. How could they be willing to give up their official positions and go into business by themselves?
"Why not? How easy it is to do business."

Zhu Han said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Scholars despise money, but they need money the most. Some people take money very seriously. Otherwise, how could they be greedy for money? Now we give them a chance to do business and make money. They Can you not do it? Brother, as long as we formulate a series of laws and systems to protect the normal operation of business and limit the influence of the bureaucratic system on businessmen, there will be people with more open minds to do business."

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Han's words, he nodded thoughtfully. Zhu Han was right, but he also raised his own question: "It will probably take a long time for these rules to be formulated."

"Probably not. After all, the system is not formulated successfully. We can formulate it first, and then check for gaps and make up for it."

Zhu Han never recognized the laws of the ancestors. Some things must be followed, but some things have become dross, and there is no point in keeping them.

"Taking the essence and discarding the dross, leaving the meaningful and discarding the meaningless, Ming's national policy is definitely not static!"

Zhu Han doesn't want to have the bad habit of 'the law of the ancestors cannot be changed' in the future.

How did the Song Dynasty fail?

Isn't it because Zhao Kuangyin established the rules and then let the scholar-bureaucrats sit down?

In the future, after the Ming Dynasty conquered the world, a similar situation will definitely occur. Military generals are weak, and civil officials rule the world, but the team of scholar-bureaucrats must become a pure team of scholar-officials. Zhu Han does not want this situation Appear.

"You're right, our Ming Dynasty must be different from Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with Zhu Han very much, and said to Zhu Han: "Qiwu, what do you say, we will do what you say."

"Continue to develop commerce and make laws to protect commerce."

Zhu Han looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, "Our Ming Dynasty must establish laws to protect the normal business and trade. Only when we have credibility in the hearts of merchants, common people, and officials, can our business be successful."

A good business means that the national treasury will be enriched, and Zhu Yuanzhang knows this without Zhu Han.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Okay, then we know what to do."

"I know what to do, too."

The two brothers looked at each other like playing charades, with smiles on their faces.

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With the help of Firuz Shah of the Sultan of Delhi, Sapphire succeeded in making a routine for Chen Youliang, which can be regarded as a good start for the eradication of Chen Youliang and Wang Baobao.

After Chen Youliang heard the news, he yelled at Firuzha, wishing he could dig out his ancestors and burn them to ashes.

He subconsciously believed that Firuzsha had already cooperated with Sapphire.

Sapphire... is going to attack him!
Chen Youliang did not have the courage to resist Daming, and had already started to flee after learning the news. Lan Yu did not continue to pursue after learning that Chen Youliang had escaped, but sent troops into Delhi Sultan to meet Firuz Shah.

When Firuzha saw Sapphire, he was trembling.

You know, at the very beginning, Firuzsha wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang. After all, the enemies in his eyes were the nobles of the Brahmins. After Chen Youliang cooperated with the Brahmins, Firuzsha sent many people to see Chen Youliang. Asking him to turn his guns to hit the brahmin nobles, but Chen Youliang never responded.

However, Firuzsha was not discouraged, and still wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang, and this time he really got a response. He sent Chen Youren and Zou Pusheng to meet Firuzsha, but he did not expect that these two people came to Delhi Sultan to cooperate He wanted to take his life. If Sapphire hadn't appeared in time, Firuzha would have been captured by Chen Youren and Zou Pusheng.

Chen Youliang's sudden betrayal almost led to the death of the Sultan of Delhi. Firuzisha did not expect his life to be saved by Sapphire.

He also saw the deterrent power of the Ming army. In his heart, Chen Youliang's big man was already invincible in the world, but he never imagined that there would be an even more invincible army.

Seeing the majesty of Daming's army, Firuzisha was very worried. After all, he wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang before. If Da Ming's army found out, would Da Ming deal with him?

However, Firuzisha had to show up. Daming had already surrounded his royal city, and he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

There is no way to back down, only to face it.

Firuzsha stood outside the royal city, silently welcoming the arrival of the Ming army.

At this time, he was extremely afraid in his heart, because he was worried that he would be killed by Lan Yu, but when he saw Lan Yu, he saw the smile on Lan Yu's face.

Is he laughing?
Are you underestimating me, or are you smiling sincerely at me?
Firuzsha didn't dare to speak, but Sapphire looked very polite: "Hello, King of Delhi Sultan, I am the general sent by His Majesty the Ming Emperor to India to eliminate the Han traitor Chen Youliang for you, and at the same time spread the friendship from Daming Come to India."

I have to say that Sapphire has really grown up. If it were replaced by the previous Sapphire, he would have already cut off Firuz Shah's head, and then went to enjoy the throne in the Sultan's palace in Delhi. He can hypocritically say If you are sanctimonious, you can already see the changes he has brought about.

Perhaps, Sapphire also knew that this was not what he wanted to do, but reality forced him to do so.

Sapphire opened and closed his mouth on the friendship from Daming. The Sultan of Delhi and Daming are separated by a narrow strip of water, and they are very friendly neighbors. He came to Firuzsha this time and brought a gift from Daming.

Tea, silk, porcelain, all oriental luxuries that Firuzsha considered, sapphires were brought.

Firuzha was still very nervous at first, but he didn't expect Sapphire to be so easy to talk to, and then look at Chen Youliang... hetui!nausea!
How to make people from Lan Yu and Daming not hate themselves?
What Firuzha thought of was: money!

After Sapphire arrived, Firuzsha directly sent a large amount of gold to thank Sapphire for her help.

Gold, glittering gold everywhere.

Sapphire's eyes narrowed accordingly. It can be seen that the Sultan of Delhi has a lot of gold. Looking at the palace's resplendent appearance... Although there is a smell of copper inside and outside, Sapphire feels that it is more expensive here. It suits him, Lan Yu thought happily: "In the future, apply to His Royal Highness, I don't want any title, just build me a golden house!"

In fact, there is no shortage of gold in the Central Plains. Even in ancient times, gold was the main currency. But later, a lot of gold was brought to the tombs of rich and noble families. The more there are, this is why tomb robbers in the Central Plains are rampant.

After all, it's a dead man's business, no matter how you do it, it's a business without capital, and if you dig it, you can enjoy the blessings for several lifetimes, who wouldn't want to take risks?
(End of this chapter)