Ouyang Lun is very rich, the most important means of making money is to smuggle and sell a large amount of tea, and he can earn tens of thousands of taels of real money a year, and tea is a strategic material prohibited by the imperial court.

Xu Hao has secretly arranged for a secret investigation since Zhang Lin was executed, holding Ouyang Lun's incriminating evidence in his hand, if Ouyang Lun hadn't dealt with him again, he would have ordered someone to report and expose him, and he was also worried about Zhu Yuanzhang, and he didn't want Queen Ma's daughter to become a widow.

Since Ruyixuan had a drink together, Ouyang Lun sublimated his hatred into a battle of will between Gongzi and his brother, just like the eldest prince Cao back then. Xu Hao could feel it somewhat, but he didn't withdraw the manpower just in case.

In the Qianqing Palace, Xu Hao found that Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely energetic, but the whole person was already skinny, his eyes were bloodshot, and his back was slightly rickety, even if the emperor tried to straighten his waist.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very excited to see Xu Hao, who he hadn't seen for many days, and said: "I have been busy compiling and perfecting the Great Edict recently, thinking that it is the law of eternity. This is still your method in Shandong to inspire me, this edict is not a Xiucai text, it cannot be written by officials or officials, it has to be written by me in the vernacular so that everyone can read and understand it, so that if there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the people will take the big edict to denounce. ”

Xu Hao sighed in his heart, the edict is divided into six versions, and the most typical cases in the Hongwu period are written in detail, from the royal family to the Li people, there are all correspondings, and in case of trouble, just do what is written in the book, if something is urgent, the people can arrest the officials and escort them into Beijing.

There is no so-called Manchu so-called civil sue official like a son killing his father, first hit 50 boards, and if he wins the lawsuit, he has to travel 2,000 miles.

The Hongwu Dynasty Great Edict is like a red treasure book, every family has it, Zhu Yuanzhang is painstaking and lonely for the sake of the people, and deliberately decrees that those who have broken the law only need to collect the great edict. The crime was reduced by one degree, so within a few years, the Great Edict was spread to all parts of the world, and everyone had to do it.

However, the most severe punishment for corrupt officials in history could not stop the successors, and the most considerate Ming Dahe was quickly abandoned after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, and the people continued to be mermaids, even if the Qing officials of the Hongwu Dynasty occupied two-thirds of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Xu Hao was a little discouraged, he always felt that everything he did would be the same as Zhu Yuanzhang, and in the end it would be in vain.

The emperor's painstaking efforts were not understood by the subjects, but led to unanimous resentment from the top to the bottom of the government and the opposition, and even the crown prince Zhu Biao, who benefited the most, and the people of the world were very dissatisfied. Not to mention others.

Xu Hao's mouth was bitter, and he really wanted to tell the emperor loudly that he would be flooded after you died? Do you know that after you die, Dahe will be abandoned by the people of the world like toilet paper? Before the Qing Dynasty, the Great Edict all over the place was incomplete and almost extinct.

But seeing the weak appearance of the emperor who had exhausted his oil and dried up, Xu Hao was very moved, so he let the old man go with his heart.

Xu Hao reluctantly smiled: "Bixia Shengming." ”

"I don't need you to flatter." Zhu Yuanzhang trembled and said angrily: "If you are like them, simply don't come to see me forever, what I want is for you to tell the truth." ”

Xu Hao said: "Corruption must always be grasped unremittingly, and only persistence and persistence can never be relaxed." Otherwise, the spring breeze blows and kills again, and a batch emerges again, and it cannot be eradicated. And since Bixia has elected the emperor's grandson as the crown prince, the rule of officials will be changed from strict to lenient, and the punishment will be changed to heavy punishment to educate the people with the Confucian way, benevolence, righteousness and morality. The notoriety is borne by Bixia, and once the imperial grandson declares the benevolence and righteousness of the world, he naturally returns to the heart of the world in an instant, and the throne is as stable as Mount Tai. ”

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang exhaled a long sigh of satisfaction. In the end, Xu Hao can realize his good intentions over the years, and he can be said to be a confidant.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "I have worked hard for more than 30 years, and I have not hesitated to offend everyone by ruling the country with a legalist. It is to allow Yun Wei to smoothly implement virtue and politics after ascending the throne in the future and reappear in the prosperous era. However, the ancestral system formulated by my own hands cannot be changed, and I can't trust those literati who are superficially sanctimonious but in fact hypocritical and greedy, so I want my sons to guard their own side, and once Yun Wei is slandered and has a fault, then all the kings of the world should oppose it. ”

Xu Hao smiled bitterly in his heart, how can the imperial power allow others to restrain him? Can you think that Zhu Yunwen will be desperate for the imperial power, and will take away all the power that you have personally given to the vassal kings everywhere? Will Zhu Di overthrow Zhu Yunwen in the name of the Qing monarch under the name of the ancestral system formulated by you himself? Can you think that after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also took action to cut off all the rights of the kings? Wouldn't you even think that in the future, the children of the Zhu family will be bred in captivity like pigs and dogs, and the Zhu family will waste half of the year's taxes every year?

After 30 years of hard work and hard work, in the end, it is still impossible to avoid the reincarnation of a dynasty that only has two or three hundred years.

But knowing this, what should be done still has to be done, no one will die in the future and not to work hard, not to fight for fame and fortune, not to fight each other, human nature with desire-hope ambition, with pioneering and enterprising spirit, with the good desire to conquer everything or pursue a comfortable life, in short, with all kinds of longing and hope, this is the reason why human civilization can continue to advance, just like the inevitable process of birth and death of all things in the universe, fate has endowed human beings with perhaps unique thoughts, At the same time, it is also endowed with the gene of self-destruction.

At this moment, Xu Hao had an epiphany, and his thoughts suddenly brightened! Since I don't want to be a monk and watch the ebb and flow of this world, then I will go through this life without any scruples, no matter what, it will be a dead word in the end.

Either you are born to be a hero, you are a ghost to die, or you are an ordinary person, and you probably have the greatest chance of being a bear.

Xu Hao, who had figured it out, was sober-minded, and suddenly blessed his heart, and said: "The minister should do his best to assist the emperor's grandson, and swear to maintain Bixia's long-cherished wish for life, and do his best for my Daming, if you violate this oath, you will be destroyed." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a murderous intention in his heart, immediately smiled with relief: "Okay! I hope you will remember the promise you made to me today, and I hope I am not wrong. As long as you can be loyal to Yun Wen, I will ensure that you will be prosperous and rich for the rest of your life. I can assert that you, Xu Hao, will become the pillar of the country and leave a name in history. ”

Xu Hao, who has such a ghost child, and the emperor who also has a ghost child look at each other and smile, and the monarch and the minister are suitable for each other, but in fact, they don't believe a word of the other party at all, phew! What about fools?

Zhu Yuanzhang said happily: "Pick up your old lady back as soon as possible, and the family will be reunited as soon as possible." Well, how to use your own Yun Wei to carefully consider, I will not overstep the bounds, but how can I treat you badly? I heard that your father is good at handling trivial matters, so go to Guanglu Temple to be a pawn, and your mother will be named the Six Rank Decree Anren. ”

"Guanglu Temple? Isn't that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is in charge of eating, drinking, and sacrificing? Oh thank you, Lord Long, my dad is also a man of his ability. Xu Hao said with a smile.

Xu Hao, who returned home at night, personally wrote a book, and the next morning openly instructed Li Qiu to send the letter to Beiping to the official post station. The letter told the truth, informing Yan Wang Bixia that he planned to take the whole family back to Yunyun for his father's official position, and as for when Zhu Di would release him, it would not be under Xu Hao's control.

Xu Hao is not worried about changing the court, not to mention the ambiguity with Zhu Di for many years, the relationship between them is very stable, and the emperor is also well-intentioned. The problem is that he has the heart to sell himself and take refuge, and he has to be willing to take him in.

Moreover, Xu Hao's mentality has changed a lot, he is no longer obsessed with secular fame and fortune and the future of the nation, and now he has no official position on his body, which gives him the convenience of hiding in the city, and he can calm down and think about some things.

There is no doubt that Yao Guangxiao's disappearance means that history has changed, which makes Xu Hao wake up to the unpredictable future, and he has to be extremely cautious in every step.

The sun rose as usual, and Xu Hao, who was dormant, silently prepared for the day when the emperor died, and hurried to deal with all parties.

In Xiaojia Village, under the leadership of the old lady of the Xiao family, because Xu Hao was hidden behind the scenes, the gentry and wealthy families in their hometowns agreed to take out food to help the villagers.

The Xiao family and the Xu family first took the lead very generously and took out 5,000 stone of grain each, which set an example, and naturally the rich people were embarrassed to be too stingy to make a move, so they opened a warehouse and released grain, and raised 20,000 stones, rice, noodles and other grains in one fell swoop.

Food must be carefully managed, and it is more precious than gold and silver in times of famine, and there is no room for carelessness. In addition to the 500-strong escort team, which was successfully set up to protect the grain, it was equipped with knives, guns, and sticks and assigned people to patrol everywhere.

Xu Hao felt that it was not safe, and adopted the tactics of crowds to mobilize the people to set up sentry posts, and turned the area around Xiaojia Village into an anti-Japanese base area, with slogans painted on the walls, what is united to help each other in the same boat, blood to defend the homeland, unkindness and injustice, betrayal of relatives in the township, and the whole village is killed by thieves and so on.

As a result, with the spiritual encouragement and the encouragement of the food ration to survive, the hearts of Xiaojia Village and the three neighboring villages were stable and spontaneously guarded, and not a single family moved outside, and not a single person starved to death.

Later, until the autumn, there was a shortage of food all over the world, even in the capital, people couldn't care about anything for the sake of their stomachs, they took risks and gathered people to die, robbed houses, rats, dogs, and stole in an endless stream, the government was busy with anxiety, and the effect was limited, and no one starved to death in any village or town? Only Xiaojia Village is calm here.

If there is food in the village, who will be a thief? It's really a family guard, outsiders dare to come to steal and rob, regardless of the number of people, immediately Hezhuang's wife and man are like jackals screaming and scolding to guard against death, the child ran to summon the escort team to come to support, several times should be beaten by dozens of thieves in a group of thieves, Xiaojia Village became famous for a while, and everyone knew that it was not easy to mess with here.

Therefore, it has affected countless villages in Jinling, and the squire and others heard that the people of Xiaojia Village are strong, and they have come to inquire, and they all admire Xiaojia Village's small cost and big gain, so they immediately went back to learn from it.

Soon, other villages and towns were gradually infected and followed, so that the number of people starving to death in Jinling was far lower than that of other places, and the old lady of the Xiao family became a living Bodhisattva of the Buddha of all families. (To be continued......)