Chapter 885: The Essentials of Governance

After the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng officially ascended the throne, he first began to reform the outdated system of three princes and nine kings. After the operation of the new imperial court institutions such as the Six Ministries, it fully proved that it was more advanced than the previous dynasty's Three Princes and Nine Secretaries system, so soon all departments began to operate normally. Emperor Hongwu Qin Feng passed through the GuΓ² Military Aircraft Department and began to control the world in a smooth manner.

The Military Aircraft Department has thus become the highest decision-making body of the imperial court, but although the military advisers of the Military Aircraft Department have certain power, they often only "kneel and accept the record" when Emperor Hongwu has the power and is diligent in his administration.

The Great Qin Dynasty had a great power in the local area, and held the power of the Yizhou Army (garrison), but the Qing Dynasty had a strict supervision system and measures, including the 13 imperial history system of the Imperial Procuratorate and the black-clothed guards directly under the Hongwu Emperor. Therefore, although the local power of the Great Qin Dynasty was great, it was always loyal to the central government. The Great Qin Dynasty had a vast territory, and the history of each state was suitable for the location, and at the same time, it also avoided the situation that the Great Qin Emperor commanded indiscriminately because of the unknown geographical shape.

The political system that Emperor Hongwu knocked down from later generations was far more advanced and perfect than that of the Qin and Han dynasties 1,800 years ago, so the Great Qin court has always maintained a much more efficient internal affairs efficiency than that of Western Shu and Eastern Wu. When the central court has a decision, the local government will immediately implement it. Moreover, the strict supervision system made it impossible for local officials to accumulate the power of rebellion. In the distant future, there was no division of local officials in the huge Great Qin State, which shows that the political system formulated by the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng was fruitful.

In the first year of Hongwu, the Great Qin Dynasty was a song and dance, although the rule of Emperor Hongwu has been flourishing, but compared with the imperial era of China after a thousand years, there is still a gap.

Therefore, the reform of the political system was successful. After the operation of the new imperial departments was on the right track, the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng contacted the governance measures of the later prosperous emperors. A new round of internal coup d'Γ©tat was started, and the history called the "Hongwu Reform Law" laid a solid foundation for the later "Hongwu Prosperous Era".

May of the first year of Hongwu. Qin Feng summoned all the military advisors of the Military Aircraft Department, and the military advisors "knelt down to accept the record" and implemented Emperor Hongwu's changes to the world.

A country is nothing more than four major aspects: political, military, economic, and cultural.

Militarily, due to the backwardness of the productive forces, the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng did not carry out major reforms, but demanded to ensure the logistics supply of the army and train hard. Less bloodshed in wartime. Fight bravely to defend your home and country. These two sentences became the basic policy of the Qin army.

In addition to reforming the old imperial court institutions and establishing new institutions such as the Six Ministries, the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng set the imperial examination system as the basic system for the country's selection of talents. The imperial examination system replaced the scholars and the queens, so that the opportunities for the children of the poor families to enter the ranks were greatly increased, bringing a new atmosphere to the political arena of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu also expanded the rights of the officials and encouraged the courtiers. Regardless of the size of their official position, they can criticize their own national decisions and domestic policies.

In terms of the state's economic and administrative affairs, it also implements the system of equalizing land and adjusting rents.

Economically, the Great Qin Dynasty at this time, although the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng very much wanted to establish an empire based on industry. However, we can only adapt to the times and first do a good job in building a large agricultural country based on agriculture.

Qin Feng implements the system of equalizing land and adjusting the rent.

The Juntian system, the fundamental meaning is the Great Qin Dynasty, that is, the Hongwu Emperor himself. He allocated unclaimed land to small farmers according to the number of people to cultivate, and the land was nationalized. After a certain number of years of cultivation, it is owned by small farmers. As we all know, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the land annexation of the scholars was very strict. Often a large clan owns tens of thousands of hectares of land and thousands of domestic servants. This is why these warrior clan gate valves continue to grow, and even have the strong strength of separation. Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu distributed land according to population and was nationalized. While revitalizing the national economy, it further weakened the power of the gate valve clan.

However, the Great Qin Dynasty had not really unified the whole country, so Qin Feng still adopted a certain policy of Huai Rou, so the land of the original scholar class was not included in the scope of Juntian. In order not to be overstimulated, these scholars all over the prefectures and counties will make trouble, and delay the process of reunification under the loss of national strength.

There is also the regulation of rents, which stipulates that all households with equal land, regardless of the amount of land in the household, are taxed according to the capitation. To put it simply, if a person has 100 acres of land, then only one person's tax will be charged. In this way, the enthusiasm of the peasants to reclaim wasteland has been greatly mobilized.

In general, Emperor Hongwu attached great importance to agriculture and reduced the taxes and labor of the peasants, so that the peasants were able to stabilize production and cultivate for a while, which allowed the economy of the Great Qin State, which was based on agriculture. And Qin Feng started from himself, proposing to "quit luxury and be simple", he restrained his desire to enjoy, hoping to be able to go up and down, and throttle as much as possible. He also eliminated the maladministration of the Eastern Han Dynasty of "fewer people and more officials" and reduced the burden of the people in the world.

When it comes to the economy, even the great agricultural countries need the power of commerce. Emphasizing agriculture over commerce has been the fundamental idea of the emperors and ministers of the Chinese dynasties of the agricultural empire since ancient times. But Qin Feng came from a later generation, so he was one of the few emperors who did not discriminate against business. Not only does it not discriminate, but it also provides many convenient conditions for business development. Because Qin Feng knows that people can't just eat their stomachs, only business is the foundation that ultimately makes the country rich.

Under the advocacy of the Hongwu Emperor, the commercial economy of the Hongwu Dynasty has made rapid and rapid progress, and people want to get rich while having enough to eat, and there is the emperor's policy support, so new chambers of commerce and cities have sprung up.

Culturally, Qin Feng implemented his policy of grassroots pedantry, and national literacy was his goal at home. The Han culture is integrated with the border people, which is his cultural purpose to the outside world. Guozijian's study and the extra points of the imperial examination system allow students to travel more places. In order to be able to enter the Hanlin Academy, the scholars also tried their best to do a good job of education in the countryside.

In addition, Qin Feng's edict collected all kinds of books throughout the country and established a national library next to Guozijian. Cai Yong, You Heng and other great writers were found to be in charge of the country's library and book collection.

"I will never do anything to burn books and pit Confucianism, I want to preserve the cultural knowledge of China, not to break the generations, not to lose it, and to leave it all intact to future generations! This requires a vast knowledge base, and that is the Great National Library. ”

After this sentence spread, people in the world celebrated. The preservation of Chinese civilization is all due to the credit of Emperor Hongwu.

Although Qin Feng only had limited knowledge in later generations. It is not comparable to the Dazheng zhì family, but he still knows his own efforts. It has injected new and strong impetus into China 1,800 years ago. The policy outline of the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng was promulgated by the Military Machinery Department, his centralized authority, and actively implemented by all regions, and the political, military, economic, and cultural development of the Great Qin Dynasty was not a problem.

In the final analysis, in one sentence: which family is strong in the thousand-year-old prosperous era, there is only Emperor Hongwu since ancient times.

In June of the first year of Hongwu, Qin Feng, the busy Hongwu Emperor, finally had time to have a reunion dinner with all the imperial concubines, princes and princesses in the Qianqing Palace.

It is worth mentioning. Cai Yuan gave birth to the ninth princess Qin Yuan for Qin Feng, Mrs. Fan gave birth to the tenth princess Qin Qi, Da Qiao gave birth to the tenth prince Qin Wen, Xiao Qiao gave birth to the eleventh princess Qin Shan, and Sun Shangxiang gave birth to the twelfth princess Qin Xiang.

Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng is different from other emperors, he likes to eat reunion dinners, but the royal family has customization, and the young prince cannot enter the inner court at will. So when it's time to eat in this Qianqing Palace, it's really yin and yang. Two or three tables. is either a princess or a princess, fortunately there is Qin Wen with his father, but the one-year-old Lao Shi always cries.

Girls always love sweets, and I only see the princesses of the Hongwu Dynasty. No one eats, just looks at the pastries in their mouths.

Qin Feng has never grasped the majesty of the emperor in this harem, and he is completely the father of an ordinary family. Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask: "It's not okay for you to always eat pastries, you have to have balanced nutrition." Meals are all to be eaten. On the contrary, these sweet pastries should be eaten less. ”

The eldest princess Qin Yue said respectfully: "Father." The food always has a weird smell, and the pastries are delicious. ”

Qin Feng frowned slightly when he heard this, the Han Dynasty etiquette system has regulations, and the Son of Heaven "must have the taste of eight treasures, sweet and fat, and delicious drink, and the taste of the world." ”

"Treasure the Eight Things": refers to cows, sheep, moose, deer, pigs (pigs), dogs, wolves, and bears.

There is also a cooking method: boiling, meat and soy sauce pouring rice. Chunmu, meat soy sauce poured yellow rice. Pork porpoise, simmered, roasted, fried and stewed suckling pig. Crackers, simmered, roasted, fried and stewed lamb. Pound the treasure, roast the cow, sheep, deer loin. Pickled, wine sugar beef and mutton. Boiled, baked dried meat. Liver cheeks, grilled dog liver in net oil.

"How can it be unpalatable?" Qin Feng casually took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, "Isn't it delicious?" ”

"I don't eat oily things, my mother said that I ate too much and gained weight!" Eldest Princess Qin Yue stuck out her tongue and said.

Qin Feng took a bite of vegetarian dishes and was immediately relieved. It turned out that the purity of salt in ancient times was not enough, so the cooked food would have a strange smell, and the meat would be better, covered by soy sauce and other substances. Stir-fried vegetarian dishes have more astringency. Originally, it was nothing if I was used to eating, but in the comparison of sweetened pastries, the taste was really not good, no wonder these little girls who don't like meat were reluctant to eat it.

However, how can a developing child not eat vegetables, and Qin Feng has no place to find vitamin supplements for the princesses. He is strict with his sons, but he is completely a loving father to his daughters, which immediately breaks his brain.

The queen Cai Yan on the side also took a bite and said with a smile: "Qin Yue, you can't be picky ......." ”

When Concubine Yue saw that Qin Feng was worried, she was very dissatisfied with her daughter, and immediately reprimanded. So, under the training of the princesses, the princesses had no choice but to put down their beloved pastries and eat obediently.

However, this matter was remembered in Qin Feng's heart.

So, in the afternoon of this day, Qin Feng asked the chief manager Dequan to find two catties of coarse salt, and asked him to go to Zhou Shan to get the tile of purified sugar, which is a confidential matter and is related to the sugar industry of the Royal Chamber of Commerce. So when it was delivered, there were several layers of boxes, and there were Daqin guards to escort it.

When the chief manager of the Ouchi Dequan carefully held a salt jar and presented it, Qin Feng opened it and looked at it, he was immediately dumbfounded, he took out a piece of brown crystal the size of a walnut, and pointed at it: "This is salt?" ”

plopped, Dequan knelt down, and said in fear: "Your Majesty, the minister is absolutely not wrong, this is the salt ......." ”

"Get up, get up." Qin Feng waved his hand.

Xin Xianying, the little tail who was writing the living notes on the side, pouted and said: "Your Majesty, you are really well-dressed, you are really good at governing the country, and you are proficient in marching and arranging!" And other little things, just ignore it! ”

Qin Feng swept the brown salt cubes, and said in his heart that you little girl is really good at talking back, in your eyes, I don't know anything about daily life except for marching and governing the country? Back then, the master was also a farmer's son who shaved food from the field, and the founding assessment of the country: eight generations of poor peasants.

However, even if Qin Feng was born in a poor peasant, even if he was a poor peasant after a thousand or eight years, he had never seen such a big piece of salt. The large pieces of salt in the later generations are also snow-white and snow-white.

Xin Xianying said again: "Such a piece of salt is very precious, and ordinary people don't have such a big one!" ”

"This salt with a lot of impurities is still precious?" Qin Feng was suddenly a little stunned, it seemed that for so many years, Emperor Hongwu, who had been marching and fighting day and night, had indeed forgotten something. (To be continued......)