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She nodded immediately and said: "A Pao, there are indeed fewer women in your harem... Auntie heard that there are many beauties in Jiangnan, why don't you let aunt choose twenty or thirty beauties for you to enrich the harem! "
It's so sweet!
Although Zhu Heqi didn't mean that, Da Boling's words still warmed his heart. Da Boling is probably the only woman who can treat him like this?
He sighed for a while, and then said to Da Boling: "How can twenty or thirty be enough?"
"Then..." Da Boling was stunned for a moment, and immediately increased the number, "Then choose a hundred!"
Zhu Hechi still shook his head: "Not enough, not enough..."
Can this body bear it?
Da Boling was a little worried about Zhu Heqi, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "Two hundred..."
She glanced at Zhu Hexi, under the dim candlelight, a dark cloud seemed to be cast on a fierce face, it was really hard for her to refuse, so she added more, "Then three hundred, no More!"
"Okay!" Zhu Heqi nodded and laughed, "Auntie, I'll listen to you... let's choose 300 people first! Auntie, help me choose!"
"Yes." Da Boling nodded, "Auntie will definitely help you choose."
Zhu Hechi smiled and said, "Auntie, let me talk about the conditions!"
Da Boling said: "Okay, tell me, I will remember."
Zhu Hechi said: "First, don't be too young, preferably in your 20s, especially if you are a widow!"
"Ah..." Da Boling couldn't laugh or cry, why did this condition follow her? Should the "breast" be wider?Does the body need to be plumper?Do you still need a little martial arts, so I can practice boxing with you?With such conditions, it is a bit difficult to select 300 people!
Zhu Hexi then said: "Secondly, these women must be proficient in at least one of the techniques of silkworm rearing, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing!"
"What?" Da Boling couldn't believe her ears, "A Pao, you fell in love with Weaver Girl? Auntie is not very good at this..."
Da Boling knows some needlework, but sericulture, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing...these are too professional, she really doesn't know how, is it possible to learn from scratch?
"Like? How can I like them?" Zhu Heqi knew she had misunderstood, so he hugged her and said with a smile, "My favorite is you, Auntie!"
Zhu Heqi's sincere words made Da Boling very helpful. After humming, she asked again: "A Pao, then why did you choose these women to enter the palace? Do you want them to be palace servants and do some miscellaneous tasks?"
Zhu Heqi laughed and said: "The harem of the lonely family is not big, and the famous women are Shuzhen, you, Jiaxin, and Yubing. They don't need too many servants... Dozens of palace people are enough. Yes, we have this number now, and there is no need to increase it.”
Zhu Hechi is very economical in this regard... Although he is full of energy, but because he only favors Da Boling, he doesn't need too many concubines.Since there are not many concubines, the scale of the palace can naturally be made smaller, not only do not need many palace people, even eunuchs are not needed.
"Then what are you going to do with the three hundred girls?" Da Boling asked puzzled.
Zhu Hexi said: "To tell you the truth, my aunt, I chose them to enter the palace because I wanted to study the techniques of silkworm rearing, silk reeling, weaving, and printing and dyeing."
"A Pao, why are you doing this?" Da Boling felt incredible.
But Zhu Hechi said: "The Gujia recently looked through the archives of Jiangning Weaving, and also looked at the stored inventory... I think there are many things worth improving! Although the Gujia will let the silk merchants and machine owners below think about it. There are some ways, but some things can’t be done by others, and you have to study hard yourself, only in this way can you achieve something.”
Da Boling couldn't laugh or cry: "But you are an emperor, go to study weaving. If you spread the word, isn't it a bit..."
What happened to the weaving?
That's an entry-level skill for industrialization!
Didn't the British Industrial Revolution start with the textile industry?The appearance of the spinning jenny is generally regarded as one of the signs of the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Now the textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River is much more developed than that in the UK. Why can't we invent a "big wave" spinning machine?
Although he doesn't study mechanics, his hands-on ability has always been strong, so he thinks he can give it a try.
In addition, the textile industry chain is quite long, not only textile machinery, but also the big project of printing and dyeing!
With Zhu and Chi's chemical knowledge, it is not difficult to create sulfur dyes.
With sulfur dyes, the Ming textile industry is expected to export more silk, satin and cloth—exporting dyed silk and cloth can obtain a longer industrial chain and more profits than exporting raw silk.
And a longer industrial chain and more profits can help Daming's textile industry step into the threshold of industrialization as soon as possible!
However, Emperor Weaving is indeed a bit of a nonsense.
Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi looked at Da Boling in his arms again, and said with a smile, "Auntie, or you can take care of this matter."
Of course Da Boling nodded immediately: "Okay, Auntie listens to you."
Zhu Hexi said: "In a few days, when the advisory meeting begins, Gujia will tell the regiments of the counties that you love weaving and want to build a Weaving Girl Palace in the palace. Then let them help select silkworms who are good at silkworm raising and silk reeling. 300 widowed women who are skilled in weaving, weaving, printing and dyeing will be sent to the palace. When the lonely family becomes the emperor in the future, I will make you the Noble Concubine of the Weaving Girl Palace!"
Da Boling smiled and said: "Then I will thank the emperor for his kindness!"
Zhu Heqi laughed loudly and said, "Xie En can't rely on words, he has to take actions..."
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"Teacher, this is a personal letter from President Wu..."
On the same night, Huang Zongxi did not fall asleep in the Taishi Mansion in Bird Clothes Lane. Accompanied by Wan Sida and Huang Baijia, he was meeting his disciple Wan Sitong who had just rushed back from Jiangling City.
Now Wan Sitong has become an official of Wu Sangui, and he has been named a Minister of Rites. He came to Nanjing from Jiangling this time in the name of a congratulatory envoy. The news of Zhu Heqi's recovery of Nanjing reached Jiangling. Of course, President Wu Sangui had to express something. up.
In addition, it is time for Wu Sangui to worry about Zhu Heqi's surprise attack on Wuchang and Hanyang.
So he had to send someone to Nanjing to find out the news.
"President Wu's letter cannot be read as a teacher." Huang Zongxi did not reach out to receive it, "Although Jian Guo is the lord of benevolence and righteousness, he will not send people to monitor you and be a teacher, but for a teacher who has studied Confucianism for half a lifetime, the principle of sincerity is still knew."
"Teacher," Wan Sitong said with a smile, "Actually, the president's letter didn't say anything serious...he just wanted to ask the teacher to persuade the third grandson in the upcoming advisory meeting."
"Persuading in?" Huang Zongxi was taken aback, "Didn't it be agreed to enter Beijing first? Whose plan is this?"
"It's Liu Xuanchu's strategy," Wan Sitong replied truthfully, "President Wu's Northern Expedition army has assembled in Xiangyang, and can go north to Nanyang at any time... The reason why the delay is because the President is worried that the third grandson of Zhu will attack Jiangling That's why Liu Junshi came up with this strategy. If the literati in Jiangnan and Zhejiang all support the third grandson's enthronement and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, then the third grandson will most likely not go westward from the alliance."
Huang Zongxi snorted: "They are judging the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain... The third grandson is a sage and gentleman, and he can't do such a thing."
Wan Sitong said with a smile: "What the teacher said is very true, but the students think that the teacher persuaded him because of the leader... This can make the third grandson feel at ease, and let him know that the people in Jiangnan and Zhejiang are just like those in Fujian and Guangdong." The people support him.
Secondly, it can also reassure President Wu...President Wu actually has no objection to the third great-grandson proclaiming himself emperor. "
"Teacher, Ji Ye is right." Wan Sitong's elder brother Wan Sida said, "The third grandson has an appointment with President Wu, but we have no appointment with President Wu...The third grandson doesn't want to break the contract, but it doesn't mean we can." Take no position."
When Huang Zongxi was told by him, he also felt that it made sense, so he said to his son: "Hundreds of families, please write a form of persuasion...I will ask everyone who participated in the advisory council to add their names to it later."
Chapter 433 Politics still needs to be coordinated and discussed
Three puffy cannons rang out, and two red-clothed and red-scarved "Ren-cutting Confucianists" held their long swords and strode forward to lead the way. One or two hundred people, including Huang Zongxi, Huang Baijia, and Wan Sida, had already arrived. Putting on "Confucius clothes", the counselors waiting outside the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City in Nanjing led into the vast and dilapidated Forbidden City.
This emperor's residence, which was built in the Hongwu period, has been dilapidated and dilapidated after a long period of neglect and vacancy and the devastation of war.After entering the Meridian Gate, you can see overgrown weeds and dilapidated palaces everywhere. Only the Hall of Martial Arts, which was repaired and used by Emperor Hongguang and Emperor Kangxi, and the surrounding buildings are still usable.
After Zhu Heqi lived in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, he asked people to take the bricks and stones of the dilapidated buildings in the Forbidden City, and built a high wall around the Wuying Hall to isolate the Wuying Hall from other parts of the Forbidden City. A piece of land.
On this enclosed land, Zhu Heqi had people build a pocket version of the front hall and the back bedroom.
The so-called front hall refers to the main hall of the Hall of Martial Arts and the courtyard outside the hall, as well as the newly built value rooms on both sides of the courtyard.
Among them, the main hall is the place where Zhu Heqi went to court, held meetings and worked on a daily basis.The duty room is the place where the servants are, and Zhu Heqi's servants and ministers of servants work here.The courtyard outside the main hall is the place where Zhu Heqi held the court meeting, so today's advisory meeting is held here.
It is now the November of the third year of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty's supervision of the country, and it has already entered winter.Today is the so-called Little Ice Age, even Nanjing, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River, is freezing cold to death after winter.After November of the lunar calendar, there have been several heavy snowfalls in Nanjing.
Therefore, the crime of holding a meeting in the open air is not so great. It would be bad if some of them were damaged by freezing.
Therefore, at the beginning of October, Zhu Heqi ordered people to build a "big greenhouse" with brick walls, a thatched roof and paper-pasted windows outside the main hall of Wuying Hall. The whole "warm shed" is burning warm... It is comfortable, but it lacks a bit of royal style.
Cotton curtains are hung at the entrance of the greenhouse. Once the curtains are lifted, you can feel the warmth and comfort inside.
Huang Zongxi walked in and took a look, and found that the layout inside was also very interesting.It's not like the Grand Court Meeting. It sits on a wooden platform facing south, and three rows of tables and chairs are placed on the platform facing south.One of the rows is in the middle, that is, two sets of tables and chairs are side by side, and the two rows are arranged on the left and right, forming a figure eight.
Below the wooden table are rows of tables and chairs facing north.
There is also a wooden sign on top of each row of tables and chairs under the wooden platform, and the words "Nanzhili", "Zhejiang", "Jiangxi", "Fujian", "Guangdong" are written on the sign.
Obviously, wherever the counselor is from, he can just sit there.
Among them, the counselors from Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi provinces have already arrived... They all came with Zhu Tianwang and the Ming court who moved from Guangzhou.There is also one council for each county. There are about [-] counties in these three provinces, and a total of [-] councils have been launched, accounting for more than half of the greenhouses.
"Teacher Huang, Wan Fantai, you two, please come on stage," a "Killing Confucianism" who led the way said to Huang Zongxi very politely, "Come with me, both of you."
Still able to sit on the stage... Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida glanced at each other, and followed that "Renren Confucian" onto the stage together.
There were already many people sitting on the wooden table, including King Zheng Jing of Yanping, Prime Minister Zhuge Sanhe, Governor of Zhejiang Province Chen Yonghua, Admiral of the Nanyang Fleet of the Navy Qiu Rong, as well as Mr. Yu, Gu Yanwu, Zhu Shunshui, Qu Dajun, and others who had just arrived from Guangdong. Su Yong... all university scholars!
And the two sets of tables and chairs in the middle are still empty, obviously reserved for Zhu Heqi and Zhu Tianwang.
This is the pattern of sitting on the grand scholar's platform and sitting under the counselor's platform...it looks very strange.
Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida also found their own seats. At the end of the right side of the two rows of tables and chairs arranged in a figure-eight shape, there are their seats-there is an origami nameplate on it!
Immediately after the two sat down, an attendant courteously stepped forward to serve them tea and water.The bone china cup produced in Chaozhou is milky white, thin and moist, and slightly translucent.It is also brewed with Beiyuan tribute tea from Fujian, which is fragrant and fragrant, and it will lift your spirits when you smell it!
Sitting next to the two of them was Gu Yanwu, an old acquaintance, so naturally he wanted to exchange some pleasantries when they met.But before they had a deep talk, a voice with a slight Chaozhou accent started yelling.
"His Royal Highness Prince Ding, His Royal Highness Jian Guo Shizi has arrived!"
Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heqi and his father and son came.
The academicians and counselors in the big greenhouse quickly stood up and saw the pair of "big sons and grandsons" of Emperor Chongzhen swaggering in from the gate on the other side of the big greenhouse, bowing and saluting together, shouting long live.
"Hahaha……"
"Flat body, flat body!"
Both father and son seemed to be in a good mood today, one called the big guy flat, and the other simply laughed.
The people below all stood up straight, and they were still peeking at Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heqi... The lighting in the big greenhouse was not very good. Although a lot of candles were lit, people who were a little further away still couldn't see the two clearly. people's faces.The only ones were two bearded men in yellow clothes and scarves, with long swords and empty hammers.
It looks like a reckless hero... If it weren't for the repeated certification of the Qing court, no one would believe that they are the descendants of Emperor Chongzhen.
"Sit, all sit!"
Zhu Heqi's resounding voice rang out again, and he let everyone sit down with a smile.
After seeing everyone sitting down chaotically, Zhu Hexi said: "Today is the first session of the Daming Advisory Council. This Advisory Council looks pretty good. It allows the lonely family and the father to directly listen to the opinions of the people below. What's the matter?" Those who want cooperation from below can talk about it. This is called negotiating politics...you can express your opinions, and the lonely family and the father can also negotiate with you face to face.
So this session of the Advisory Council is the first, not the only one.In the future, a consultative meeting will be held to discuss politics, and this will be the family law of my ancestors in the new Ming Dynasty!There is no distinction between north and south, rich or poor, and they are all qualified to send counselors to the imperial court to express their opinions. If you have any difficulties or requests, you can raise them with the imperial court! "
It is political coordination and deliberation, not representative system!
Let alone the Internet these days, there are no newspapers or TVs!The monarch lives in the deep palace for a long time, and it is too easy to lose touch with the masses.
And once separated from the masses, the centralization of power is the centralization of power that has been emptied. If you want not to be evaded and not to command blindly, you must listen carefully to the opinions and information of all parties.
The lesson of Emperor Chongzhen is that he lived in the deep palace for a long time and knew nothing about love!
The three additional salaries he gave to the subordinates, the amount on the books is only 2000 million a year, and I don't know if there is 500 million in real income?
This sum of money is actually not too much compared to the economic scale of Daming at that time... The question is who will get it?
The economic development of the Ming Dynasty was uneven, and the currencies of various places were somewhat uneven.The economy in the southeast is developed, the sea trade is prosperous, and there is a lot of silver inflow, so you can take out the silver... In fact, the silver is transferred to the imperial court and used to buy food, silk, cloth, and iron firearms in the southeast.
But the Northwest is different. The Northwest is inherently poor, and there is no source of incremental silver. It is just a little stock that circulates there, and the silver taken away by the court is unlikely to flow back to the Northwest, so silver is in a state of nowhere to go. .
Even a fool knows what the result of drawing silver year after year will be!
Coupled with the long-term disasters that have been raging in the Northwest since the end of the apocalypse...there is no way out of his mother's life!
And the reason for this situation where everyone bullies the poor men in the Northwest is actually because the economy in the Northwest is backward, and the scholars do not get very good educational resources, so they are at a disadvantage in the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system... Even if the Ming Dynasty has North and South rankings, they can't pass other places in the north!
There are fewer Jinshi in the Northwest, and naturally not many people in the civil service system are willing to speak for them. After they lack the right to speak, they will of course become a doormat... When they are angry, they will be angry!
If Chongzhen had such a meeting for coordination and consultation back then, and the counselors from Shaanxi Province and Shaanxi went to the Forbidden City to cry poorly, the Emperor Chongzhen might have adjusted his policy and asked the rich in Guangdong and Fujian to pay the three salaries for the people of Shaanxi. Is it okay to hand over the child?
Chapter 434 What a good suggestion!Hurry up and follow the good example!
The Forbidden City in Nanjing, the Hall of Martial Arts, and the Big Greenhouse.
A "Hothouse Meeting" that is sure to be recorded in history is underway!
Zhu Heqi was still talking to the people below about how to hold the "Hothouse Meeting". He continued: "This advisory meeting is a place for the counselors appointed by the states and counties in the world to speak for the states and counties, but the states and counties of the world How many counties are there? My Ming Dynasty has a vast territory. In the heartland alone, there are two capitals and 13 provinces, a total of [-] to [-] counties. If there is one councilor in each county, plus merchants and local officials who pay more taxes Therefore, the number of elected councilors cannot be overwhelmed by the number of two thousand.
With so many people gathered together, each person speaks for a quarter of an hour, how long does it take to finish speaking?It takes a month, right?I'm afraid it won't work either!
So Gujia will consult with everyone today, and we will have a big meeting every three years in the future, and all the counselors will be here.Gu Jia and all the bachelors set aside a month to listen to your suggestions every day.
Except for this month, you counselors will be stationed in Beijing in turn.One government recruits one person at a time, and one person stays in Beijing for one year. After the one-year period expires, he will no longer serve as a counselor... and the counselors in the township have the right to secretarial speeches, and they can give private secrets to the lonely family at any time!
As for the counselors stationed in Beijing, in addition to being able to submit secret papers, they also have the power to discuss state affairs three times a month.
And this advisory council must also be in charge of a special person, Gujia wants the University Council to manage the affairs of the advisory council.In the future, each meeting of the Advisory Council will be presided over by at least one grand maester.The academician who presides over the meeting will also listen to the opinions of the counselors on behalf of the Gu family and the Zhongshu Province.
Do you have any objections to the above?If not, it will be done accordingly in the future. "
Of course, no one objected... Everyone thought that their counselor was a one-time job, but they didn't expect Zhu Heqi to turn this position into a long-term official position, and they also have the right to tell secrets!
Such a good thing, whoever opposes it is stupid!