jdhmnovel Chapter 569 Damn it, we've fallen into a trap again!
Chapter 569 Damn it, we've fallen into a trap again!
Emperor Zhu is quite worried lately.
The first question is how he managed to escape again after returning to Beijing this time.
To be precise, the question is how to reasonably send Zhu Biao to the capital to oversee the country while I run away with my girlfriend.
Secondly, I had a headache about how to write the book.
According to that scoundrel, as the dignified emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how can you promote the idea of caring for the people and the ideal of universal harmony if you don't write books or biographies and only write a memoir that you are dragging your feet on?
If you don't publicize it, the common people won't know your true thoughts, Emperor Zhu.
Moreover, local gentry and those cynics who were inclined towards Hu Yuan would take the opportunity to spread their ideas.
They might even come up with some more jokes about pearls, jade, and white jade soup.
Most importantly, the students of Dengzhou University, the Imperial Academy, and other prefectural and county schools had no way of knowing Emperor Zhu's true thoughts.
They don't understand your thoughts, and coupled with the misleading influence of local gentry and cynics, these students can easily go astray.
However, if you write a collection of Zhu Yuanzhang's writings and let the students know your thoughts, even if only one out of ten students learns from it, it can save a student who was almost going astray.
Saving one student can benefit at least the people of an entire county.
Even if a small township-level government office is added between the prefecture and county and the village and community in the future, at least the people in that township or town will benefit.
Emperor Zhu felt that something was off about Yang Shaofeng's statement, but he couldn't figure out what it was after thinking about it for a long time.
But Emperor Zhu was convinced of one principle.
That bastard is definitely up to no good.
They might have some ulterior motive behind getting me to write this book.
As long as we don't agree, we won't fall into his trap.
Seeing that Lao Zhu was just like Qi Zai, scheming and calculating but unable to figure it out, and even taking his good intentions for granted, Yang Shaofeng was immediately very unhappy.
You old fool, how dare you doubt me?
Am I really so unworthy of your trust?
Yang Shaofeng rolled his eyes. "If my father-in-law doesn't want to write it, that's fine. There are plenty of people willing to spread their ideas. At worst, we'll just make up a few more jokes."
Emperor Zhu was slightly taken aback, then flew into a rage.
That bastard is deliberately trying to make things difficult for us!
Emperor Zhu said with a dark face, "I'll write it if you want, but you at least have to tell me what to write, right?"
Yang Shaofeng's eyes widened, and he asked in return, "Don't you know what to write?"
"Good guy."
"That gentleman once said, 'No investigation, no right to speak.'"
"But I never expected that you, who experienced all of this firsthand, would not know what to write?"
"How about this, you can just write whatever you want, whenever you feel like it, and then publish it in the official gazette."
"When you have written more articles, we will revise them into a collection."
The Emperor Zhu's face immediately darkened further.
We finally understand.
This bastard didn't come here today to cause us trouble.
He's deliberately trying to make us look foolish!
Damn it, even though our old Zhu is literate and can read and write, and can read and reply to memorials, who in the world doesn't know that we old Zhu were originally cowherds? All the knowledge we have is what we learned from our girlfriends later.
Asking us to write articles is like asking Zhang Fei to do embroidery!
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't help but glare at Yang Shaofeng: "Then tell me, what should be written in this article?"
Yang Shaofeng rolled his eyes again: "For example, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, how serious was land annexation, how miserable were the lives of ordinary people, and then we can dig deeper along this line."
Emperor Zhu was slightly taken aback and asked, "Dig deeper?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "Of course we need to dig deeper."
"For example, why would those local gentry and gentry want to annex land? What benefits would annexing land bring them?"
"What methods did they use to achieve their goal of annexing land?"
What will happen to ordinary people after they lose their land?
"For example, how did the tax policies in the later period of the Yuan Dynasty differ from those in the earlier period?"
"Compared to the taxes of the Yuan Dynasty, what are the differences between the Tang and Song Dynasties and the Yuan Dynasty, and what are the differences between the Ming Dynasty and them? And why did you, Your Excellency, formulate such a tax policy?"
"And why did Kublai Khan heavily rely on Han Chinese, even burning down Karakorum?"
What impact did Kublai Khan's heavy reliance on Han Chinese have on Confucian scholars?
"Why are there so many Confucian scholars now shouting that they should be loyal to the Hu Yuan dynasty? Are they truly devoted to the Hu Yuan and consider themselves Hu Yuan's subjects? Or are they just nostalgic for the leniency and so-called benevolence shown to them during the Hu Yuan era?"
"Or to put it more bluntly, do they want to be loyal to the Hu Yuan dynasty, or do they want to restore the small court system and tax collection system of the Hu Yuan era?"
"..."
Yang Shaofeng kept talking.
The Emperor Zhu's expression grew increasingly bewildered.
On the surface, every question Yang Shaofeng asked seemed easy to answer, even without the slightest difficulty.
But if you really delve into it, every single question is incredibly complex.
For example, why did the local gentry and gentry frantically annex land?
To analyze this problem, we must first analyze the thoughts of the local gentry and the benefits of their actions, and then follow the steps to analyze their merger methods and possible solutions.
The same goes for Liu Bi... Why did Kublai Khan heavily rely on Han Chinese?
Was Kublai Khan's heavy reliance on Han Chinese officials really just due to a simple power struggle for the Khanate?
What is the connection between the struggle for the Khanate and the burning of Karakorum?
In any case, any question can lead to a whole bunch of smaller questions.
Once all these issues are sorted out, even if it's just as this scoundrel said, and all we have to do is write according to our own understanding, these issues are enough to give us a headache. We might not even be able to write the answer to one of them in a single official gazette.
But what this bastard said wasn't wrong.
After all, those local gentry and gentry were no good people; they only knew how to exploit the common people to the death.
If we don't write articles to challenge them, who knows how they'll fool the people.
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the more his head ached. In the end, however, he said with a dark face, "I'll write it when I have time."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Emperor Zhu realized something was wrong.
Damn it, we've fallen into a trap again!
"You bastard!"
"You're just deliberately keeping us from having any free time!"
Emperor Zhu casually picked up the small dragon ball he had just pried off from the table, wrapped it in paper, and stuffed it into his pocket. As he walked out, he muttered under his breath, "Fine, since we agreed to your terms, we'll just have to accept our fate."
"But you, you bastard, made us write this, so you have to list out the problems for us, and we'll write it down one by one!"