Great Ming National Teacher

Chapter 100 Clan Policy

Zhu Youjian did what he said. On the night of New Year's Eve, he really didn't go back to the Forbidden City. He just celebrated the New Year in Fengyuan Villa. When Wei Zhongxian and the Ke family got involved together, they had already completely lost their power. The only heavyweight figure was Zhu Youxiao's queen Zhang Yan, who now lives in the Hall of Renshou.

For this emperor's wife, Zhu Youjian is very respectful. He can become the emperor, and Queen Zhang played a decisive role in it. It's just that Queen Zhang strictly abides by her duty. After all, she is the emperor's wife, not the empress dowager. Although the title is still Queen Yi'an, as a queen whose emperor's husband has passed away, she is quite low-key. Many people came to her and asked her to come forward to persuade Zhu Youjian not to do something out of line, but she didn't take any action. .She also knows a lot about Zhu Youjian and Li Yunya, but Zhu Youjian is both the emperor and her brother-in-law. From the point of view of the Zhu family's blood, she is just a daughter-in-law with a foreign surname, and it is difficult to say a lot. It can't be said that as long as Zhu Youjian doesn't bring Li Yunya close to the Forbidden City and give him the title of male queen, Zhang Yan will never intervene.

Fengyuan Villa turned out to be Wei Zhongxian's house. It was Wei Zhongxian's plan to use it for the elderly. He spent a lot of money on decoration. Before it was installed, it fell into the hands of Li Yunya. Years old, this villa was built according to the specifications of a hundred years less than the imperial palace. It is beautiful and magnificent, as one can imagine.

The place where Li Yunya usually lives is called Chongxuan Palace. After a renovation, water and electricity are connected. Although the research on light bulbs has not yet gone out of the laboratory, other electrical appliances can be used, such as electric fans, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, dryers, electric appliances. Irons, rice cookers, etc., although they are primitive and outdated compared with later generations, they are finally usable.

On New Year's Eve, Zhu Youjian first went back to take the Zhu family to worship their ancestors, and then returned to Xishan, and followed Li Yunya's family of four to write Spring Festival couplets and cook New Year's Eve dinner. After ordering eight dishes and two soups, Li Yunya sat in a group in the Chongxuan Palace without the need for others to serve him. Li Yunya was next to Zhu Youjian, peeling shrimp and adding vegetables for him, while asking the two children about their ambitions in the new year.

Zhu Cihong said: "Next year I will finish all the middle school courses, get a diploma, and enter the university." After speaking, he glanced at Zhu Youjian anxiously, and saw that his father was concentrating on helping Li Yunya pick fishbone, as if he hadn't thought about it. He took his words to heart, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "I still have to pass all the subjects of the military academy."

"Okay, have ambition!" Li Yunya praised, and said to Zhu Youjian, "Let Lang'er go to college." Zhu Youjian was very strict with Zhu Cilang, and he was never willing to let him go out like Zhu Cixuan. When studying at school, teachers are always invited home to teach him. Li Yunya only allowed him to go to the military academy after he talked about it.

Zhu Youjian didn't raise his head: "Okay, but I can't go to the current Beizhili University. I want to establish a new Royal University. I will use your garden and give me at least half of the space. All teachers and students who come here , and all the details of his wealth have been investigated.” He sent a piece of fish that had been picked out to Li Yunya’s bowl, paused for a while, and then said, “After all, Hong’er is the prince.”

"Okay, it's a good thing that you want to run a school. For this Fengyuan Villa, I only leave Chongxuan Palace, Tianmen Palace in front, and Yaochi Palace in the back. The rest will be used as a school for you."

Zhu Youjian paused with the chopsticks that were stretched out to pick up vegetables: "It's...you don't need that much." He just wanted half of his garden to make his heart hurt because Li Yunya insisted on asking Zhu Cihong to go outside to study, but he didn't expect Li Yunya to be so generous. , "The house under your name was given to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to the Zhonghua Newspaper, to Peking University, to the orphanage, for the past few years, but there is only such a garden left, I..." He was a little embarrassed, and gave it to the orphanage. I found an excuse for myself, "It's an outsider talking about you in the words of nine thousand years old, so I thought..."

"You don't need to say it, I know what you mean." Li Yunya thoughtfully gave him a spoonful of fried corn with pine nuts, "I live alone, I have no family, children, and disciples, and I don't want to Hiring a large group of servants to clean and build every day. In fact, I had the idea of ​​donating it, but I didn’t think about what to do. In fact, let me tell you, I feel that three gardens are too big for me to live alone. If you don’t often Come here, I will only stay in Chongxuan Palace, and I will retire here in the future when I move out from Nanhai."

Zhu Youjian was not happy: "For those who celebrate the New Year, why are you old?" He sighed first, "It's true when you say that, they are both so old, and we are old too." He He turned his head and looked at Li Yunya, his eyes sparkled, "Tell me, if we don't go out to sea again, if we drag it out for a year, will we really be old?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian like this, the blood in Li Yunya's body surged up one after another, wishing he could embrace him and kiss him, but he promised Zhu Youjian that when there is a third party present, especially when there are children and outsiders In front of you, you must maintain dignity and do not do too intimate things. Holding back your energy, you blurted out: "No problem! After the Chinese New Year and the Great Court Meeting, I will take you out to sea! This country is enough. Let's leave the rest to Lang'er and the others to finish."

After dinner, the four of them played mahjong to watch the new year. Li Yunya was born lacking in competitive chess and card games, and Zhu Cihong was also rigid. Both of them were very weak. Instead, it was Zhu Youjian and Zhu Cixuan. Thirteen Yao, I Hu Yiqi, Li Yunya suspected that the two of them cheated more than once, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t find any evidence, so they could only keep paying out. Soon, Zhu Youjian’s pocket money After losing everything, Li Yunya took out a lot of notes and lent him, but asked him to pay an IOU.

In the end, the game ended with Li Yunya losing 32 cents.

After watching the new year, they went back to their rooms to sleep. Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian lived in the main hall, and Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cihong lived in the east side hall.

At night, Zhu Youjian put his arms around Li Yunya's waist and reiterated again: "You promise me, you must do it!"

Li Yunya kissed him on the forehead: "Don't worry, since we met, I promised you, what didn't I do?"

The next morning after getting up and washing up, Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cixuan kowtowed to each of them in turn, Zhu Youjian gave each a jade pendant as a gift, and Li Yunya gave a red envelope: "100 yuan lucky money for each person. I borrowed six yuan and eighty-four cents, so there are only ninety-three yuan and sixty cents in your red envelope, and I deducted the arrears directly, and returned the IOU you wrote yesterday to you."

Zhu Cihong took it with both hands, and thanked him solemnly.

Chinese people pay more attention to etiquette. On the first day of junior high school, my family members pay New Year’s greetings. On the second day of junior high school, my daughter visits home to pay New Year’s greetings. From the third junior high school, people from outside all come. Some are nobles who are in-laws of the royal family, and some have a good personal relationship with Li Yunya. , For example, Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Xu Xiake, Song Yingxing, etc., all sent one or two sons and grandsons to kowtow to Li Yunya with gifts. Li Yunya prepared a thick stack of lucky red envelopes in advance, 100 yuan per person.

Although Chongzhen Tongbao has been changed into banknotes now, one yuan is also equivalent to one tael of silver, and 100 yuan is 100 taels of silver. Even for these high-ranking officials' children, it is not a small sum, but Li Yunya's family has a big business. , not short of money, but also has a high position and weight, not afraid of impeachment, and can give as much as he wants.

Regardless of whether it is the royal family or the folk, except for those who are alone like Li Yunya, there will be various sacrificial activities. Zhu Youjian keeps taking his two children out, but no matter how tired or late, he will eventually return to Fengyuan When he came to the villa, in his spare time, he called people from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Defense, and asked them for the full set of sea charts that Daming had discovered so far, as well as the customs and customs of various well-known overseas ports and cities, the price of goods, etc., to make trips for himself. Plan, while he was working hard on his own, he was also paying attention to Li Yunya. Seeing that Li Yunya had never moved, and he seemed to be carefree every day, he couldn't help but hold his breath, but he couldn't help but say it after the big court meeting.

After watching the lanterns and eating the Lantern Festival on the 16th day of the first lunar month, the grand court meeting at the beginning of the year began. This year is the [-]th year of Chongzhen, and the court meeting will formulate a third five-year plan. The task is relatively heavy. In Zhonghai Taihe Palace, Li Yunya and Zhu The inspectors led the leaders of various ministries to study the future national line. This time, Li Yunya proposed two new reform measures.

First of all, Zhu Youjian's booth was designated as the military aircraft department. The emperor took the heads of the three ministries of national defense, foreign affairs, and supervision as military aircraft committee members, and Li Yunya took the cabinet heads as cabinet members. A standing committee member decides all the most important events in the country. The emperor is always a natural standing committee member with a veto power. The prime minister of the cabinet is nominated by the committee members and appointed by the emperor.

This kind of reform further blocked the emperor's direct interference in government affairs. He could not make decisions on major national affairs by himself, and could only make decisions through voting.

Originally, Li Yunya planned to propose this reform measure in a few years. Even if Zhu Youjian trusted him again, after all, he might not be able to agree to the continuous reduction of imperial power. Even Li Yunya was worried that he would turn his back on him. Zhu Youjian cared less and less about the government and paid more and more attention to his private life. He only wanted to travel abroad. Li Yunya took this opportunity to move this thing out. Zhu Youjian was also afraid that he would leave. Zhu Cihong will change course and mess up the country, but also feels that the army and the veto power are still in his hands. He is not afraid of ministers rebelling, and he can agree to it without worrying about government affairs.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Yunya intends to establish a constitution. The first article of the constitution stipulates that the descendants of the Zhu family will always be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Anyone who tries to overthrow the imperial power will be punished by law. The country's basic law, so it also dispelled Zhu Youjian's most resistant heart.

Li Yunya's second reform is aimed at the clan. From now on, as long as the vassal princes of various places donate all the land under their own names, excluding houses and real estate, just cultivated land, mountains, mines, etc., they don't need to limit the land. Within their own fiefdom, they can go out freely to study and do business in various places, with only a few restrictions such as not being allowed to join the army and entering state-owned enterprises.

In this case, in the future, the prince will not need to be a foreigner. For example, Zhu Cixuan, he can stay in Beijing and do what he likes.

As soon as this policy came out, the world was in an uproar again. Tang Wang was the first to respond, donating all the fiefs, and then all the family went to Beijing to face the saint and thank the emperor for his kindness, followed by King Han, King Gui, and King Lu who donated land one after another. In Beijing, King Chu and King Fu expressed their opposition, saying that the emperor was bewitched by demons and wanted to deceive their land, intending to cut down the vassals, but all the kings who entered Beijing were rewarded by Zhu Youjian, and the worst was A house in the capital was even given to Tang Wang, the largest royal bone china company in the country, and many princes and grandchildren entered the royal school to study. Now other vassals followed suit. As the descendants of the Zhu family, they are not short of money. , but has been confined within a mansion since birth, like a confinement, the outside world, especially the world of Daming, which has undergone more than ten years of transformation, has greater attraction, and some vassal kings even feel that as long as It's worth it even if you die immediately after being able to go out for a walk around the world!