sinovels Chapter 509 Family Affairs and State Affairs
Chapter 509 Family Affairs and State Affairs
On the second day, the eldest servant girl couldn't wait for her brother to come back. On the third day, she didn't know in the backyard that someone had invited the Duke to go to the yamen...
But the Wu family didn't know it until August [-]th.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I heard that there were thieves in the Yang family!
"Have you recruited a thief?" Wu Youwei was shocked: "Did you hurt someone?"
"No." Wu Mingde shook his head: "Because Liu'er is going to marry into an official family, Uncle Yang bought her four servants, eight servant girls, and two servants to marry her as a dowry. There are three people, and the neighbors around are also some old and weak women and children. In the past, they would have been successfully stolen, or injured or even murdered. Instead, they were caught by these people, but because of those servants, no He was afraid that the thieves would hurt the master’s family, and those people died on the way to the yamen.”
Wu Youwei frowned: "Dead?"
"Well, he's dead." Wu Mingde said: "However, those few people are all well-known local bastards. It may be that they heard that the Yang family has appointed a noble family and wanted to go in and steal some gift money. When we made an appointment and hired a family, many people I’ve all seen the excitement, and the Yang family doesn’t have a high courtyard wall.”
Although it is said that the wealth is not revealed, but people can't help but see the betrothal gift!
"That's fine. This kind of person will kill himself if he does many injustices." Wu Youwei took this matter as a normal eye for money.
"They have few families, so you can find a few people who have a little bit of kung fu and send them to a nursing home. We will pay for the wages." Wu Youwei has seen many elderly people living alone in later generations who were robbed by people who cared because their children were not around. In addition, Yang's place is an outer city, where fish and dragons are mixed, and a large amount of wealth is kept at home, because in ancient times people basically got married after the autumn harvest or at the beginning of spring.
Get married after the autumn harvest, the busy farming season is over, and everyone has time.
Get married at the beginning of spring, which means the birth of all things in "spring". It is said that the bride who gets married at this time will soon be pregnant.
They just passed the betrothal ceremony in August, and the day of getting married is scheduled for February [-]th, before the spring sowing next year.
That is to say, that expensive betrothal gift will be kept in the Yang family for at least half a year. For such a long time, there is no guarantee that something similar will not happen.
Wu Youwei asked Wu Mingde to find a few nurses who know kung fu, also to ensure the safety of the family members.
"Okay, father." Wu Mingde went out to deal with this matter, but he met Wantong when he left the gate.
Wantong looked at him, his eyes made Wu Mingde puzzled: "Uncle Wan..."
Wantong pulled him aside and said something, Wu Mingde's face darkened for a moment: "Thank you Uncle Wan, I know about this matter."
"You can figure it out yourself, don't let your father worry about it." Wantong patted him on the shoulder: "You're grown up too, and the Wu family will have to rely on you in the future."
"Thank you, Uncle Wan." Wu Mingde's face softened a little, he bowed his hands as a salute and left, with a murderous look on his back.
Wantong rubbed his chin. He didn't expect the limp Wu Youwei to raise such a fleshy son, huh?
Turned and entered the door.
Wu Youwei was calculating the harvest for this year, and the butler Lin Su was also there. He only entered the study after the young master left, and together with Wu Youwei, he was calculating the things needed for doing good deeds.
As the family business grew bigger and bigger, Wu Youwei donated more and more charitable things and money.
However, Wu Mingde knew these things. As Wu Youwei's sole heir, he didn't feel that his father was a prodigal. Didn't he and his unmarried daughter-in-law meet through charity work?
Seeing Wan Tong coming, butler Lin Su stood up from the ledger that had just been put down. He thought, should he avoid it?
After so many years, Butler Lin Su has already agreed with Wantong.
"Go ahead, I'll come and find something." Wantong waved his hand, took a plate of golden jujube cake from the kang table in front of Wu Youwei, sat next to him and started eating by himself.
He came in a hurry, thinking about having a meal with Wu Youwei, he would be hungry, seeing that Wu Youwei won't be able to eat for a while, so he ate a snack by himself to make up the bottom line.
Seeing this, Wu Youwei quickly checked the account book with Butler Lin Su, and asked him to go to the kitchen to prepare meals.
It was almost September at this time, and it was the time when it was half-cold, and I was a bit rushed to eat three meals, but still hungry after two meals.
Butler Lin Su hurried to the kitchen and ordered the dinner to be served.
Over there, Wu Youwei also put away the ledger, and went with Wantong to the flower hall of the main house to wait for dinner.
"I met Tai Ning when I went out. He has something to go out, and he probably won't come back for dinner. Let's eat first." Wan Tong said, "I think he will be staying at home in the city tonight."
"Oh, fine!" Wu Youwei won't be so strict with his son when he's grown up, besides, he's at work now anyway, so he has to go out when it's time to meet and socialize, so we can't always treat him as a child.
For this reason, Wu Youwei has increased his son's monthly payment of 20 taels of silver to 200 taels after he took the test, and there are also 300 taels of various entertainment expenses.
And his own storeroom key, which was given to him too.
Wu Mingde had his own yard since he was a child. In addition to the three main rooms, there are also three warehouses, all of which are for him to store his things. He received all kinds of silver longevity locks, gold collars and other things since he was young. , When he grew up, he became the champion of the six first prizes and received various rewards, and the three warehouses were full.
Now that yard is already occupied by Wu Mingde himself.
As for Mo Ling Villa, when it was known that Wu Mingde had a sweetheart, he asked Butler Lin Su to find someone to start renovating.
Refurbishment works are completed before winter.
In the spring of next year, you will be able to get married and use it.
Especially that courtyard of Wu Mingde.
They have all been refurbished, but there is no furniture inside. Now Wu Mingde lives in the capital. When he is at home, he makes do with the second room in Wujia Village. Anyway, there is no one in the second room.
The food was put on the table quickly, and Wantong was really hungry, so he finished two bowls of rice and half a plate of braised pork in one go before he recovered.
Wu Youwei felt distressed when he saw it: "Next time, don't be hungry, and eat first when you come in."
If he hadn't closed the account book early today, would this man still be standing up?
"Just this time." Wan Tongdao: "It's just that there are too many business matters today, and there are also some personal matters, so it's a bit troublesome to deal with."
"Oh." Wu Youwei saw that he didn't want to say what it was, so he didn't ask, and put some green vegetables into the bowl for him: "Eat some vegetables, you can't always eat meat."
Wantong ate the vegetables in one bite, chewed them a few times and then swallowed them. He still likes to eat braised pork......
Two days later, Wu Youwei and Wantong returned to the capital, butler Lin Su began to bring people around to deliver things, which is a common practice.
Two days later, Wu Youwei took Wu Mingde to Ciqing Palace to give lectures to His Highness the Crown Prince.
In fact, His Royal Highness has mastered the classics and history collections, and besides, someone will tell him about these things. Wu Youwei mainly talks about some unorthodox and practical things.
For example, by explaining the sea charts, His Highness the Crown Prince would know that Daming is not the only country, and those small and big countries outside have no connection with Daming.
What's more, the subordinate countries in various places are not very respectful to Ming Dynasty.
For example, North Korea only came when Emperor Xianzong came to the throne. Because the offerings were eunuchs and ugly court ladies, Emperor Xianzong didn't like it, so he didn't accept them, and told them not to come here all the time.
They dare not pay tribute for 20 years.
"Isn't that what the father said?" His Royal Highness said, "They dare not disobey the order."
"However, the emperor also told Ryukyu. Didn't Ryukyu come to congratulate him?" Wu Youwei said, "Besides, Ryukyu is much poorer than North Korea. Sending goose feathers from thousands of miles away is less polite and more affectionate."
North Korea dared to look down on Daming, not because after the Tumu Fort change, Daming's national strength was weak, so they dared not to look down on Daming.
At the same time, it was Emperor Seongjong Li Zhe who reigned in North Korea.
During Joseon's reign, the country's economy and culture flourished.
Chengzong invited Shilin sent to the palace to participate in politics, established Hongwenguan in the palace, and set up a think tank composed of Confucianists to offer advice and suggestions for governing the country, and perfected the system including Sixian Mansion, Sijiayuan and Hongwenguan. North Korea's three-division system.
The Seongjong period was another golden period of cultural development in Joseon after Sejong, and a large number of books were published during this period.
During the reign of King Seongjong of Joseon, except for the occasional intrusion of the Northeast Jurchen, there were no major worries inside and outside North Korea, and the court seemed to be divided into two factions: the old Hoon faction and the new Shilin faction.
From then on, the Li Dynasty began to move towards an era of Wen Tian Wu Xi, military equipment abolished, and party struggles intensified.
Li Zhe is the leader of ZTE in the Joseon Dynasty. Now that life in North Korea is better, the hidden dangers have not been discovered, so they are not so respectful to Daming.
In addition, there is a Jurchen with white mountains and black waters in the middle, and the news transmission is also blocked. They don't know that the development of Ming Dynasty has changed from what it used to be.
Besides, it is now in the later years of Joseon King Seongjong, he was busy balancing the government, but he didn't realize why the Jurchens in Baishan Heishui were eyeing North Korea, but they dared not attack Daming.
Not to mention that Daming's current city walls are tall and thick, and they have traded with the Jurchens, and the Jurchens have benefited, so of course they won't offend Daming, the God of Wealth.
If the Jurchens in the mountains and forests want to develop abroad, they can only attack North Korea. North Korea's geographical environment is similar to their living environment, and North Korea is much easier to attack than Ming Dynasty.
Hearing Wu Youwei's words, His Royal Highness also came to his senses: "How dare North Korea treat me like this!"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is angry. Over the past two years, there have been more than [-] tributes from Daming's vassal states. Apart from the [-] non-expropriated countries, there are also tribes on the grasslands. They come to pay tribute, which makes Daming feel at ease.
Because this means that Daming has already been humiliated.
And the border stretches forward for more than a hundred miles.
"This is because they feel that the sky is high and the emperor is far away." Wu Youwei said: "Not only are the vassals, but also some local officials have become local emperors. Relying on the sky high and the emperor far away, they dare to do anything. The Emperor Taizu established censors to control the big with the small..."
Wu Youwei also talked about the imperial court's supervisory agency, but this kind of small-scale system was fine at first, but then it failed. Fortunately, Emperor Xianzong raised their wages, so that the censors and officials were not so miserable.
This is how the current peace and prosperity come into being.
This year's autumn is another bumper harvest.
Of course, this year in history was a year of drought and famine, but with corn, this thing is resistant to cold and drought. Chenla will also send rice back, and ship it to the port one by one, and there will always be a million stones, because there is a lot of this... .
In addition to lectures on this day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should also "harvest" the corn he planted in the palace, and it was time to peel it.
Wu Youwei brought his nephew to work with His Highness the Crown Prince, he still knew how to do this job, but when he was thinking of taking advantage of the good weather at noon, he peeled off the corn coat and dried the corn cobs when it suddenly darkened.
Wu Youwei supported his forehead at that time, such a familiar feeling!
Sure enough, after a while, the eunuch outside shouted sharply, beating gongs and drums: "It's a solar eclipse!"
Yiyoushuo in autumn and September, there is an eclipse every day.
When the solar eclipse happened, everyone couldn't continue to work, so they all went to the palace.
After changing their clothes, they went to Qianqing Palace together.
Solar eclipse, although some people in ancient times understood that it was caused by celestial phenomena, but after all, only a few people understood it, and most people thought it was a harbinger of disaster.
Sure enough, when they arrived, many ministers also came.
Emperor Xianzong urgently held a grand court meeting at noon. Officials in Beijing and China were already afraid of various disasters this year, because there was an earthquake in the capital in the first month of this year.
On the second day of the first lunar month, there was an earthquake in the capital, which was as loud as thunder.
In Tianshou Mountain, Miyun, Juyongguan, and Gubeikou, the city walls, piers, abutments, and post fortresses collapsed, and some people died. They ordered 2000 soldiers from the Beijing camp to repair the eaves and abutments of Juyongguan buildings, and Jia Jun, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, supervised the repairs. Four Tombs of Tianshou Mountain.
At the same time, earthquakes occurred on all roads from Beijing to Daguo and Xuanfu, destroying the city and houses, splitting the ground and gushing sand.
Xuanfu ground cracked.Sand gushes out of water.
Yongping Mansion, Liaodong and other places also shook, the sound was like thunder.
It took the court half a year to repair all kinds of damage caused by the earthquake, and just after taking a breath, the solar eclipse occurred.
The officials were all downcast, and Emperor Xianzong felt uncomfortable. If someone asked him to commit an edict to sin against him, he would be so wronged!
It's the month, and the prairie horse bandits want to attack the Daming border, disturb the mutual market, and attack the granary.
Fortunately, in August, Governor Datong and Secretary of the Xuanfu Military Affairs Department Yu Zijun said: Datong and Xuanfu are flat and open, and it is advisable for the army to fight with vehicles. About [-] people form an army and use more than [-] vehicles. , Each vehicle uses ten infantrymen, and if it travels, it will be used as a formation vertically, and if it stops, it will be used as a camp. .
Emperor Xianzong thought this was a long-term strategy for defending the frontier, so he approved it.
Historically, this time building a chariot was a failure, because several people died in the trial, and it was finally scrapped.
But now it’s different. Chariots are not much slower than war horses when driving on the concrete road. In addition, now that there are firearms, chariots are very useful as movable trenches, especially when fighting against each other. Firearms, cold weapons such as bows and arrows, cannot penetrate the defense of the chariot at all, and firearms can still be thrown out.
This chariot is a new secret weapon created by Daming this year. It has not appeared in front of the enemy. This time, the horse thieves became the first experimental subjects. Played a ping pong game.
And because these horse thieves came to the exchange market, the people on the grassland didn't do it anymore.
They have been coveting the mutual market for a long time, but they dare not touch this piece of fat. Why should a group of horse thieves rush over?
But when they arrived, they found that the horse thieves were scattered and fled crying!
Being beaten by the Ming army was so ugly.
Five thousand horse thieves, [-] horses, only fifty horse thieves left after being beaten, and only sixty or so war horses left.
The Mongolian tribe who were rushed to clean up.
At this time, someone in the court said that it was because the crown prince had never had any heirs in the East Palace, and the emperor had no intention of choosing a concubine for the crown prince, which caused the astronomical warning.
I don't know why this kind of statement suddenly became popular, and there was a lot of trouble.
It was autumn, and there was severe drought and hunger in Shaanxi and Shanxi.
The records in history are very miserable, but now because of corn, even if there is a severe drought or famine, the imperial court has the ability to provide disaster relief.
Even Emperor Xianzong stopped handling materials and tax-free grain for this reason, and distributed funds to chestnuts.
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At the same time, before the closure of the river, the south will transfer millions of shi of grain to Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, and at the same time send more than 50 censors to supervise the disaster relief.
One is to prevent officials from corruption, and the other is to appease the hearts of the people.
In addition to food, there are also a lot of medicinal materials, cotton-padded quilts and so on.
Many medical students followed, and Songjiang Mansion also sent a lot of tents made of Songjiang cloth.
Because those two places have the habit of living in cave dwellings, the tents are mainly used to store food, cloth and other disaster relief items for those who used to provide disaster relief.
Because of the disaster relief, the saying that the prince Donggong chose the concubine Yuan got a chance and fermented.
By the time everyone noticed, the matter was already getting out of hand.
Emperor Xianzong was furious, and ordered Lin Jun, the servant of the Ministry of punishment, and Zhang Fu, a member of the Ministry of punishment, to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Wu Youwei was a little surprised, why not use Wantong?
Jin Yiwei has always been an expert at investigating cases, and Jin Yiwei also acts quickly.
Wantong, however, popularized the details of these two people to him during dinner after he came down to court.
Lin Jun is a Jinshi in Chenghua for 14 years. He is upright and dares to advise, honest and loyal, jealous of evil like hatred, love talent like thirsty, advances and retreats with courtesy, and always stays the same.
Historically, he was a veteran of the Chenghua, Hongzhi, Zhengde, and Jiajing dynasties of the Ming Dynasty. He was added to the Prince Taibao in the first year of Jiajing and died in the sixth year of Jiajing.In the first year of Longqing, Lin Jun was posthumously awarded as Shaobao, posthumously named Zhensu.
In history, he had a good reputation, but his official career was ups and downs, but now it is smooth sailing.
Then there is his partner Zhang Fu, who is also a straightforward person, and he does not avoid dignitaries when handling cases.
The two got together, and according to what Wantong told Wu Youwei, "God and ghost Biyi!"
"And the clues I found can also be provided to the two of them." When Wantong said this, his eyes were cold.
At the same time, Wan An's family.
In the study room, several people gathered together, all of them were overjoyed, especially Wan An: "Sure enough, God is helping me."
"That's right, father-in-law, how many times have you been up and down, but if you don't fall down, the emperor still has you in his heart..." A son-in-law flattered and flattered him: "This is God's will!"
Wan An proudly stroked his gray beard: "I will contact you again in the future, take this opportunity and don't miss it."