First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 178

Liu Bowen didn't know if he could pass the test. Anyway, he didn't use his real name. It was impossible for Zhu Jiajun to find him.

In a good mood, Liu Bowen wants to take a stroll around Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the place where Jiangnan is rich in powder. Why not take a good tour?

Liu Bowen walked around the street for a while, and the most obvious feeling was that the street was clean, and it was completely clean. There used to be messy people in any city in the past, like some gangsters, beggars, gangsters, gangsters... These regular combinations are not even seen in Yingtian.

Then there are the streets, debris, leaves, and even excrement and urine...all cleaned up and looked brand new.

This is something that can't be done in Yuan Da.

Liu Bowen was very curious, so he asked, who is in charge of this? Zhu Jiajun asked the common people to do it, right?

"At first glance, you are a foreigner. Zhu Jiajun did it yourself. They came to clean it in person, and they told us that we must drink clean water, live cleanly, and eat hygienically, so that we will be free from diseases and disasters, otherwise the plague will spread, but It will be fatal, you see, these street clutter, they are all cleaned up."

Liu Bowen was stunned for a moment. These red thieves said that the plague had something to do with these filth and filth. There is a saying in medical books, but it's not yet certain.

"So Zhu Jiajun will come to clean up every day?"

The guy smiled, "In the beginning, there were too many piles, and it was not easy to deal with. Zhu Jiajun came here. Now it's all prisoners doing."

"captive?"

"Yes, it is the original Yuan Ting's Tartar soldiers!"

"What? Captive officers?" Liu Bowen was really a little frightened. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had captured a lot of Yuan troops, but Liu Bowen felt that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely use it to expand his strength and be incorporated into his subordinates.

No matter how you look at it, it shouldn't be used for cleaning!

"You didn't lie to me?"

The young man rolled his eyelids, "What are you doing to lie to you? The one who took the lead was the former censor Fushou! Darling, our general marshal can really do it, such a big official comes to clean every day, and pushes the sundries out of the city... How can you see this fun thing except Jinling?"

Liu Bowen was stupid. Indeed, apart from Zhu Yuanzhang, he would definitely not use it anywhere else.

Good luck, Doctor Censor!

He is a good official, a man of integrity, and he is loyal to Dayuan. The red thief broke Jinling. He didn't escape, and he didn't die for the country. After being captured, he was willing to go out to work. This is very strange. !

Did you see the wrong person?

Or do the red thieves know how to use magic and can steal souls?

While Liu Ji was thinking, sure enough, some prisoners came out to work. They were dressed in navy blue clothes, lined up in a neat line, and came out shouting numbers.

Looking at their faces, there is even a little excitement, I don't know why they are happy?

You are prisoners, it is not ashamed!

For the first time, Liu Ji felt that his brain was not enough, and his three views were hit hard.

Sure enough, they are a group of shameless people who have let down the grace of God.

No matter how talented Liu Ji is, in the face of this situation, he can only draw such a conclusion.

But for these prisoners, this is not the case.

They go out to work and perform well, they can be counted as points... This point will be regarded as the result of their transformation. When the points are high and the transformation is completed, the hard labor can be ended early and the qualifications for dividing the fields can be obtained.

Divide the fields one day earlier, and live a good life one day earlier.

Eat well, clothe yourself, and live with a wife.

Such a good thing, a fool is not willing to do it!

Sure enough, this group of people worked extremely hard, and they were not afraid of getting dirty or tired. When they encountered heavy work, everyone was scrambling to do it, and no one was willing to fall behind.

With such enthusiasm on the battlefield, is it still possible to let Zhu Yuanzhang enter Jinling?

Liu Bowen was constantly being impacted, and he couldn't understand no matter how he thought about it.

However, Liu Bowen is also a very conceited and talented person. In fact, it can be seen from his experience as an official that it can be said that Gao Gujie hurt him.

In the face of the situation that he couldn't figure out, Liu Bowen came to be serious, he must figure out, what secret method did the red thief use?

Let's just say that these prisoners in front of them, when they came out to work, obviously could be lazy and escape, but everyone worked honestly and did not resist at all.

Only a few people, holding small notebooks, patrolled from one end to the other, and recorded what they saw. Who performed well, who performed poorly, and how to score, all depended on their pen.

At noon, more soldiers from the Zhu Family Army came over with bamboo baskets, steaming hot, and sent them to the captives.

The food is really good. It's the steamed bread with multigrain flour. Although it is not as sweet as the steamed bread with white flour, it is big enough to be full.

Two steamed buns the size of their fists and a large bowl of vegetable soup made the prisoners eat the spirit of the mountains and the sea... Liu Bowen swallowed subconsciously.

He is not someone who doesn't understand anything. In fact, Liu Bowen is also leading the troops.

Although not many, there are hundreds of people.

What worries him the most is the food!

Ordinary people can eat one meal a day, but those who have to go to the battlefield should eat at least two meals a day, and they have to work.

If you can't eat enough, let alone kill the enemy, even training will not work.

Liu Bowen was led by Xiangyong, which means that he wanted to beg for the rich and powerful in his hometown, asking those landlords for help and generous donations.

The taste of begging is not good, even if it is a fellow begging for it, it is just as uncomfortable.

Taking the food of ordinary soldiers as an example, the food is not as good as that of these prisoners.

Of course, maybe he came out to work, and Zhu Jiajun made a swollen face and made him a fat man for his own face.

They won't have so much food, no!

Besides comforting himself, is there any other way for Liu Bowen?

He didn't wait for Fushou, the doctor of the censor did not come to work, and Liu Bowen couldn't find out the reason.

Perhaps it was Fu Shou who knew how to be embarrassed. A scholar should pay attention to integrity. He was also a high-ranking official in the Yuan Dynasty.

If so, it deserves admiration.

Liu Ji didn't know what Fu Shou was doing. In fact, Fu Shou, as a censor doctor, had a good level of education, and was called by Zhang Ximeng to participate in the trial.

There were also Timur and others who went with them.

Together, they worked wholeheartedly to select talents for Zhu Jiajun, and then let these people overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. It just so happened that Liu Ji also took the test.

This thing is full of dramatic effects, and the more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

Fortunately, Liu Ji didn't know, otherwise he might have fled directly. After all, this Jinling City is too scary.

But even so, it was enough to make Liu Ji messy.

After watching the prisoners' labor, he went to the Qinhuai River by the way. Anyway, no matter whether he went along the way or not, if the literati came, it was on the way. Otherwise, it would be a shame to come here on purpose!

It is a pity that Liu Bowen ate another closed door. Qinhuaihe's painting boat stopped, and the brothel was closed... After a little inquiries, it wasn't that Zhu Jiajun sealed the brothel.

But after Zhu Yidou was killed, many painting boats were the property of the Zhu family, and many girls were brought by the Zhu family. They finally united and handed a letter to Ying Tianfu.

The girls asked for their vindication and their freedom.

Who would be willing to do such dirty work... It wasn't because Zhu Yidou and his minions coerced and lured him into hell. The big guy washed his face with tears. Every year, how many sisters were either tortured to death or died of illness.

I implore the Grand Marshal to be the master of the big guy, and follow the example of Yangzhou to block all the brothels.

This letter has been handed to Lao Zhu, and many other women have handed over the blood letter.

Zhu Yuanzhang has accepted the case and is discussing how to resolve the matter of these women.

Yangzhou's experience has come out, and the direct seal is clean and tidy, which is very pleasing.

But what happened next was troublesome.

This trouble comes from two aspects. First, many parents are reluctant to let the girls in the brothel go home, and even if the parents accept it, the people around them will point at them, and they cannot raise their heads to be human beings. Wash your face with tears.

Second, many girls are accustomed to earning easy money, and they are unwilling to let them be knitted women to support themselves and support themselves. Some girls even seduce the soldiers of the Zhu Family Army and want to find a way out for themselves. Faced with this situation, the Zhu Family Army is also in a dilemma.

Is it so hard to do something good?

Some people even complained that since they don't know the good and the bad, then leave it alone, continue to open brothels and spoil them.

When the news reached Zhu Yuanzhang, it was obvious that someone had begun to insinuate and complain about Zhang Ximeng, after all, he made it.

Regarding this matter, Zhang Ximeng is also calm. If it was so easy to solve, someone would have done it already, so why did it last for thousands of years?

After thinking about it, Zhang Ximeng came up with his plan to set up a silk workshop in Yingtian, train these girls, and give them survival skills, so that they can rely on their own hands to make money with dignity, and create more tax and value for Zhu Jiajun.

When they improve, master a skill, and make money, they will naturally be able to get rid of the past, hold their heads high, and move towards a new life.

Yingtian is still preparing the details and has not finally come up with a plan, but in any case, Liu Ji's plan to swim the Qinhuai River has failed.

It has been the third day since he arrived in Jinling. The biggest news in Jinling City on this day is that the specific land division decree has finally been announced.

Compared with Chuzhou and other places, due to the developed silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River, the part related to mulberry fields should be greatly reduced, and taxes should be levied on mulberry fields.

And also proposed a heavy tax!

Mulberry fields are taxed twice as much as farmland!

The Grand Marshal had only one explanation for this: if you don't wear silk, you won't die, but if you don't eat, you will starve to death.

In this situation where there are still so many hungry people, using good land, planting mulberry trees, raising silkworms, reeling silk, and weaving gorgeous silk is only for the enjoyment of dignitaries and dignitaries.

Is this fair?

If it's not fair, we have to correct it!

What a Zhu Yuanzhang!

In the face of this program of dividing fields, Liu Bowen was greatly shocked.

Cutting down the number of mulberry fields and imposing heavy taxes, but not directly banning them, at first glance this is Zhang Ximeng's style.

There is no doubt that in this troubled world, giving up food and engaging in commercial crops is a self-destruction. UU reading www.uukanshu.com A variety of food is the king of kings.

But it is undeniable that silk is indeed a great source of interest, and it will also become an important part of commercial taxation in the future... So Zhang Ximeng strongly advocated that we should leave a way.

Liu Bowen could even foresee that soon, even now, the price of silk under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule would skyrocket!

But since you can afford to wear silk, you don't care about paying a little more tax.

Liu Bowen felt more and more that Zhu Jiajun's various measures were quite meaningful.

He reminded himself again and again that he had to slip away before the results came out.

But he still underestimated Zhu Jiajun's ability.

On the seventh day when Liu Bowen was wandering around, as soon as he returned to his residence, a group of people intercepted him.