sinovels Chapter 504 The Complete Map of the Emperor Yu
Chapter 504 The Complete Map of the Emperor Yu
Not to mention, Wu Youwei went back and thought about it for half the night, and finally came up with a solution!
How to formulate taxes for all religions?
It is formulated according to the area of religious buildings and the number of practitioners. If the place is small and there are few people, it may only need to pay [-]% of the tax.
If the place is large and there are many people, the maximum is 5.00%, to [-]%, and even more [-]%.
For the specific plan, he wrote a memorial and submitted it to Emperor Xianzong.
Not to mention, Emperor Xianzong really agreed, but he changed it, because now that Ming Dynasty is strong and strong, he doesn't value the little tax from religion, but he can't get used to religion too much.
So it is a symbolic charge, because the Taoist sect has played a leading role, so the Taoist sect has gained a lot of benefits, and the tax is lower than that of the Buddhist sect... .
The Daoist sect was happy, and overwhelmed the Buddhist sect!
Wu Youwei, on the other hand, once again lived a life of being urged to write.
The old monk is a fast reader, but he has to pay attention to the background when copying novels.
The snowflakes are fluttering, the time is long, and Laba is here again.
After Laba, it is the New Year.
When he was young, Wu Youwei asked Wu Mingde to sacrifice to the stove.
"Me?" Wu Mingde was surprised.
"Yes, you!" Wu Youwei said: "You will be able to try after the new year. When you grow up, you should also learn to take care of the family. You must come to worship the stove and worship the ancestors after the new year."
"Okay." Wu Mingde swallowed, "I'll come, my father will give me some pointers."
"Yeah." Wu Youwei sat on the chair and whistled with Erlang's legs: "From now on, these things will be yours. Your father and I are already so old, so we don't have to work hard."
In fact, he felt that the child was old enough to do some work for him as a father, such as offering sacrifices.
Hey hey hey..
Wu Mingde looked at his so-called "older" father with a dark face. If he went out and said that the two of them were brothers, people would believe him!
My father seems to have never aged. He is in his 30s and he doesn’t grow a beard either.
"Father, are you still old? What are you going to do if you make people age?" Wu Mingde took a piece of jujube cake from the dim sum plate in front of his table, dumbfounded: "Also, Uncle Wan is older than you. It’s amazing to let him hear such words!”
Wu Youwei paused in Youzai Youzai's figure: "Huh!"
Wu Mingde snickered and ate the snacks that were accepted.
The stove is worshiped in the small year, and the ancestors are worshiped in the new year.
The process of sacrificing the stove is not too much, but there is a move to kill chickens.
Because it was the young master's first time to kill a chicken, butler Lin Su specially chose a big white rooster. It was said that the head of the chicken can't be beheaded, but the neck can only be wiped.
Of course, when pouring the chicken head, the chicken flutters very cheerfully!
However, after the attack, it's time to send the Stove Lord to heaven.
It's time to cut off the chicken's head, but it's Wu Mingde's first time to kill a chicken!
After he took the knife, the chicken... was still alive and kicking!
Wu Youwei laughed out loud, butler Lin Su's face turned green, okay?
Wu Mingde had no choice but to kill the chicken. In the end, the chicken's neck was left with the chicken skin still attached...
The kitchen was full of chicken feathers. After a few big men sacrificed to the stove, they were kicked out by the housekeeper's wife, and some female relatives went in to clean it, otherwise they would really be unable to cook.
When Wantong came to Mo Ling Villa for the New Year, Wu Youwei even told him about it as a joke, and the corners of Wantong's lips curled up when he heard it: "After all, he is a scholar who has never seen blood."
Practice martial arts every day to strengthen your body, and three or five little hooligans will definitely not suffer, but if you really encounter a strong one, you still have to deliver food.
In addition, he was pampered and raised since he was a child, and he didn't do much work. At most, he could bring something to others and earn some pocket money, which was considered work.
Although he can farm, he is definitely not proficient.
It is also impossible for him to work in the fields with farm tools for many years.
Therefore, I have never killed chickens or ducks.
Even if it was killing pigs, he just watched from the sidelines. It was only after he was 16 that he was allowed to watch the killing of pigs and sheep a few times.
Well now, it can be seen that he is indeed a "powerless" scholar.
"Let him kill a few more times in the future." Wu Youwei sat on the heated kang, gnawing a frozen persimmon: "What's killing a chicken? At least you have to learn how to kill a pig."
"If you don't know how to do it yourself, don't ask for a child." Wantong doesn't support this very much. A person who wants to take the imperial examination and become an official, how can he learn how to kill pigs?The person in front of him can't butcher pigs, isn't it because Tan Hualang has passed the exam, and Zuo Chunfang University has passed the exam.
"Who said I can't?" Wu Youwei threw away the persimmon and slipped out of the kang: "Tomorrow I will kill a pig for you to see!"
"Okay, okay, you know it, can you know it?" Wantong hurriedly held him down: "It's already 28 tomorrow, and you still kill pigs? Who kills pigs at this time?"
Really, the wind is the rain.
When did you become so impatient?
"Hmph!" Wu Youwei continued to go down the kang: "I'll have haggis soup in a while, I heard that the kitchen has been boiled for a whole day, and the soup is milky white."
Definitely tasty enough.
"Let me tell you, don't go down to the ground." Wantong wanted to hold him down, but he still struggled: "I'll go down to the bathroom."
Wantong: "...???"
Seeing him bending over and trotting towards the bathroom, he couldn't help laughing.
Hearing the laughter, Wu Youwei turned his head and glared at him.
Wantong felt that he was really poisoned by him. How could he find such a wretched posture cute?
The sky is full of fireworks, and another year has passed.
This year, all the countries paid tribute, and the king of Japan paid the most valuable tribute. The second prince paid [-] catties of copper ingots!
Several neighboring countries basically don't have their own currency system, they all use Daming's copper coins as the most basic transaction currency, so that... Daming is suffering from a copper shortage!
Zhancheng paid tribute of 5000 catties of rice, various spices, and [-] taels of Jinsha.
Those who pay tribute in Chenla are not outstanding, because they have just passed away and are still in the running-in period.
Annan also paid tribute this time, and there were quite a few, because he was afraid of Daming.
Now among the neighbors, there are princes of Daming on three sides, each more fierce than the other, I am afraid that at some point, these princes will kill the emperor of Daming without even telling him.
Because the Li family was not the earliest monarch and royal family of Annan, Annan was the chief envoy of Jiaozhi back then.
Strictly speaking, it is the territory of Ming Dynasty. If it hadn't been "abandoned Jiaozhi" by Emperor Xuanzong in the second year of Xuande, this place would have belonged to Ming Dynasty.
Daming even restored the vanished "Chenla" country, and restoring its state capital system is simply a piece of cake!
Can he not be afraid!
And Samarkand is the lion that pays tribute.
Twelve pairs of adult lions and six cubs.
There are twenty in total, exactly, Emperor Xianzong ascended the throne for 20 years this year.
The gifts offered by the ministers are different. Wu Qiong's side is a variety of flower derivatives, perfumes, essential oils, and original solutions.
What Songjiang Mansion sent was all kinds of newly researched cloth. Weaving machines are now everywhere in Daming. Daming's cloth can't be used by itself, and all of it is sold to the border trade.
Emperor Xianzong was very interested in the gifts from the Taiwan government. What they sent was dried fish, which was so big that it was as tall as a person!
There are also mature Jiahe to show that the weather is good and the world has a good harvest.
Wu Youwei presented the "Full Map of Huang Yu" to Emperor Xianzong, which is the current map of the whole territory of Ming Dynasty, painted with modern techniques, with red painting dye marks for roads, cyan dye for counties, and cyan dye for prefectures and cities. Blue dye, the provincial government uses saffron, etc., which are clear and visible at a glance
There are all kinds of garrisons, frontier guards, and camps....
The whole picture is two meters high, standing upright, it can be as big as a wall!
Emperor Xianzong put this picture in his imperial study, cleaned out a separate wall, and hung this "Full Picture of Emperor Yu".
Wantong knew this picture, and it took Wu Youwei a lot of time to draw it. There was also a map of the world, which he didn't show.
But this picture is enough to make Emperor Xianzong happy.
Moreover, several copies of this picture were distributed and printed, one for the local defenders and the other for the Sixth Ministry.
Especially the Ministry of Industry, can't put it down to this picture!
It's just that at the New Year's banquet that the emperor set up for all the officials, someone proposed the matter of choosing a concubine for the East Palace.
Emperor Xianzong didn't mention this matter, neither did the Empress Dowager Zhou who was the emperor's grandmother, nor did the Empress Wang, and even the imperial concubine Wanhuang who was the biological mother didn't say a word. Instead, the ministers were anxious.
But Wu Youwei thought how old is His Royal Highness?
How could it be possible to choose a concubine?
What kind of concubine did you choose for a little rabbit with no fur?
Therefore, when Emperor Xianzong asked Wu Youwei, he expressed his thoughts in front of the ministers: "I believe that His Royal Highness is still growing up, and he is the prince of a country, not a prince. The monarch of the country, the emperor's heirs are prosperous, and there are more than [-] princes and daughters, so there is no need to worry so early."
The crown prince was born in the sixth year of Chenghua. This year, it will be 20 years in Chenghua. He is only 14 years old. At that time, he was just a junior high school student. How dare he fall in love?
Teachers and parents, he is too dark to "talk"!
"Oh?" Emperor Xianzong also felt that what Wu Youwei said was quite reasonable: "So Qing thinks, how old is the crown prince before he can get married?"
"When a man is twenty, he can get married. After the crowning ceremony at the age of 20, he can choose an auspicious day to get married." Wu Youwei said eloquently: "The princess can choose a lady at the age of sixteen or seventeen. After two years, she will be eighteen or nineteen years old." , the body has also grown up, and after marriage, the emperor's grandson will be in good health."
This kind of health preservation is known to ordinary families, and the royal family is even more particular about it. Princesses don't get married until they are 17 years old, and they don't have children until they are 20 or [-] years old.
"Not bad." Emperor Xianzong himself is in good health, and his son is in good health. Of course, he also hopes that his grandson is also in good health. The four emperors of the Ming royal family have not seen their grandsons for three generations.
It's like a curse, and some people even secretly say that because Emperor Yongle was not in the right position, the offspring...don't live long.
Emperor Xianzong now has what he wants, and he wants to revive the wish of the emperors of all dynasties, and see the emperor's grandson, a healthy emperor's grandson.
Break the so-called "curse"!
He no longer lacks material things, but he lacks spiritual comfort.
The emperor said "not bad", who would dare to ask the crown prince to choose a concubine so blatantly?
Besides, the prince is not yet 15 years old, they just want the prince to choose a concubine and get married... I'm afraid it will really take two years.
It's just that I didn't expect that it would be four or five years after being supported by Wu Youwei, a scholar of Zuochunfang University.
The daughters of the right age in their family, the youngest is 14 years old, the same age as His Royal Highness; the oldest is 16 years old, two years older than His Royal Highness.
Whether it is the largest or the smallest, you can't wait four or five years.
The rest didn't fit either.
The crown prince and concubine Yuan must be the daughter of a descendant.
This matter was interrupted, but someone did not give up.
For example, Wan An, his grade is not high now, but he is just right.
He has a prostitute who is 15 years old this year and looks like a flower and jade. He can't be the prince's husband, but he can be the prince's father-in-law!
So Wan'an tossed up and down, there was really someone who couldn't match his thoughts.
As a result, in the first month of the Chinese New Year, the capital suffered an earthquake!
At that time, Wu Youwei and the others were sitting in the house eating hot pot, Mongolian beef, and one-year-old lamb on the grassland. Hey, let’s not mention the taste.
Because it happened to be the day when the younger sisters and daughters returned home, the whole family sat down to eat hot pot lively, and opened more than a dozen tables, especially there were many children, and children love to be noisy. To be scalded is to let an adult take care of a child, and this is almost not enough.
Older children are easy to manage, but four or five-year-olds have to be taken care of.
While eating, Wu Youwei was still fishing for big shrimps from the hot pot, and felt a wave of shaking: "Why is the hot pot shaking?"
Wantong reacted the fastest. He picked Wu Youwei up by the waist and ran out. At the same time, when he passed by the door, he pulled Wu Youwei's rabbit fur cloak hanging at the door and wrapped him up.
The others were not weak either, and the children were sent out the door immediately.
Fortunately, Mo Ling Villa is a big place, and although there are many people, Wu Youwei built a martial arts arena for him with cement because Wantong always came.
It is the first month, when it is cold.
Fortunately, although the magnitude of the earthquake was greater, the place was open and on a mountain, and there was only one family, so there was no collapse.
Most of the houses in Beijing are very strong, but some old houses and those that are not strong enough have collapsed.
The concrete avenue is also broken in places.
"History of Ming Dynasty" records: In the first month of Gengyin in the spring of the 20th year, an earthquake occurred in the capital.
For Chinese New Year, there was an earthquake in central Beijing, which is not a good sign.
Even the Lantern Festival is not as lively as before.
Renchen, the imperial court began to write, and the first thing Emperor Xianzong did was to order the ministers to repair the province.
Decrease contributions, prepare borders, stop construction, deal with unjust prisons, lenient silver classes, labor services, horse prices, and pay tribute to soldiers who died in battle.
Ding You, worshiped heaven and earth in the southern suburbs.
Because there was an earthquake just after Chinese New Year, when Emperor Xianzong offered sacrifices, he prayed sincerely to heaven and earth, hoping that God would make Daming feel better.
But after the earthquake, the censors had their say.
I don't know when it started, some of them actually said that the East Palace does not cultivate personal virtues, does not discuss marriage, has no successors, and other far-fetched reasons to impeach the East Palace Crown Prince.
Others said that the emperor did not open up branches and leaves for the royal family, as if what Wu Youwei said at the New Year banquet on the first month was like wind, and no one listened at all.
This made Emperor Xianzong keenly sense something, and ordered Wantong to investigate in private.
Due to the earthquake in the capital during the first month of the Chinese New Year, Emperor Xianzong had to go to Fahai Temple and Baiyun Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings.
These two places are Buddhist temples and ashrams used by the royal family.
Taoism prays for blessings, and Buddhism burns incense. Anyway, all the gods and Buddhas in the sky are asking for it.
No one is offended and no one is left behind.
The Taoist sect is very good, but the Buddhist sect is a bit too grand, because they invited the hundred-year-old Master Ji Kong to preside over the ritual.
Master Kong insisted on reading the scriptures for a day even at the age of [-]. Wu Youwei went with him, but after the emperor and the others left, Wu Youwei stayed.
He helped Master Jikong back to his Buddhist monastery, and complained: "Why do you have to go out to chant scriptures at such an advanced age?"
"Just doing my best." Master Ji Kong said with a smile: "I haven't done anything for many years, and it's quite fresh."
Wu Youwei rolled his eyes: "Just make trouble! Do you still think you are a teenager? You are already over a hundred years old."
Master Ji Kong just laughed, and Wu Youwei had no choice, so he secretly put some spiritual water in the vegetable porridge for him, for fear that the old monk would exhaust him to death.
The aftermath of the earthquake in central Beijing continued, and people were panicked. After doing the Buddhist rituals, it got better a lot, and the people in the Qin Tianjian also said that it was just like this for a while.
Central Beijing has its own government to arrange some aftermath matters.
It was only in February that things became more and more out of control. There were private rumors in the capital that the emperor would not choose a concubine for the crown prince, and the capital was unstable.
The days when Long raised his head were not comfortable.
However, because the exam is about to take place, there are many exams in Beijing, and this unhealthy trend is not valued in the eyes of scholars.
Upstairs in the Overseas Building, Wu Mingde was invited to a party. Hearing that someone was still tirelessly talking about such rumors, he said to a few new friends: "His Royal Highness is only 14 years old after the new year, and he is not Do you know whose daughter is so anxious to get married?" Well, what he said was too poisonous!
If anyone talks about the matter of "His Royal Highness chooses the concubine Yuan", I'm afraid it will hurt the daughters who have not left the house.
"Oh? His Royal Highness is only 14 years old? Isn't it fifteen or sixteen?" Sure enough, the new acquaintances were all candidates who came from other places to take the exam.
They don't know much about the imperial court, especially His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who doesn't often show his face in front of the people, and they only vaguely remember that he was in his teens.
In ancient times, people matured precociously, and there were many young masters from rich families who had maids in their teens.
It's just that even if it's a maid in the royal family, it still has a reputation. Isn't the mother of the second prince an example.
"I'm 14 years old, I'm still a half-grown boy, and my studies are very heavy every day, and it's no easier than you and me." Wu Mingde said: "What are those people who make the prince choose a concubine feel at ease?"
"Exactly!" One of the sons said: "The crown prince chooses a concubine or not, so the emperor is the one to decide, why let them worry about it? If the prince is over 20 and still doesn't choose a concubine, it's not too late to worry!"
Several other people also felt that 14 years old is too young, and the girl is still 15 years old.
News among these scholars was passed quickly, and they were considered to be the grassroots of the gentry at any rate. What they said was more convincing than the wild guesses of the common people.