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Chapter 513 Touring Guizhou and Chen Meigong

After hearing the report from Sichuan officials such as Ma Shiying on Civil Affairs, Zhu Youxiao asked for a while and then went to Guizhou in early autumn.

Among the thirteen former heads of the State Council of the State Council within the Guan Dynasty, Guizhou Cheng announced the establishment of the State Council of the State Council, its economic foundation was relatively weak, and its ethnic composition was more complex than Sichuan. The actual jurisdiction of the migrant officials sent by the central court such as the governors could only be limited to a few important strongholds.

Moreover, there are many students in this area. If you change the land and return to the flow, it will be more difficult than Sichuan. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao did not change the land and return to the flow in Guizhou first, but instead asked Ma Shiying to become the governor of Sichuan first and do it in Sichuan first, but then it radiates and affects Guizhou.

If necessary in the future, Zhu Youzhao will set up a governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and let Ma Shiying be the first governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and then implement a policy of changing land and returning to the land in Guizhou based on Sichuan.

Therefore, the current changes to Guizhou are still mainly to popularize and educate Han culture. A large number of the literati who were sent to Guizhou, which did not even understand the language.

Among them, Chen Jiru is naturally his representative. In fact, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to exile Chen Jiru to the southwest at the beginning. After all, Chen Jiru was a simple hermit and had long been exiled from court politics. However, this person had a close personal relationship with Dong Qichang. When Dong Qichang was circulated, he still made a fuss about Dong Qichang. If he was not punished as a doctor, Zhu Youxiao simply demoted him to Guizhou.

According to the news from the people from Dongchang in Guizhou, Chen Jiru was quite happy. Although he had not had enough food after arriving in Guizhou, he lived in Yadong, but he was determined to learn from Wang Yangming to come to the Dragon Field to gain enlightenment.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao first released a group of literati exiled to the southwest, he did not let Chen Jiru come back.

Many literati can still take on teaching and professor positions even when exiled to the southwest. Only Chen Jiru only works as a private school teacher, so naturally the subsidies are less than those of others all year round.

Even Chen Jiru still remembers that the only time he gave me an extra meat in his mansion was that he was rewarded because of the birth of the eldest son.

After entering Guizhou, Zhu Youxiao had to change to ride a slide rod. Due to the complex terrain and the relatively difficult administrative difficulties, the official road has not been widened. Zhu Youxiao's large carriage cannot pass. This time, Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to use too much manpower to carry it over, so he changed to ride a slide rod, which can be regarded as an experience of the transportation mode of local rich people among the people.

The squeaking slide rod fluctuates with the green mountains of varying thickness. If you look closely, you will find that the mountains and forests in the distance are already full of Fifth Army soldiers or Jinyiwei, either in the light or in the dark.

Some Dongchang men who are stationed in Guizhou also pretend to be peddlers and pawns to tell the people who are leading the way whether it is safe in front of them.

The people in charge of the guards below were frightened and afraid that there would be any mistakes. Zhu Youxiao, his concubines and ministers from the upper class were as calm as possible. He could also give some poems to live up to his leisure and wild fun.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao also knew that various accidents would happen when he went on a tour, but this was not the reason why he had to stay in the Forbidden City all his life. If as an emperor, he could not even go wherever his own country wanted, then it would be meaningless to own this territory.

Moreover, the level of the guard can be trained in this way, especially for now when class contradictions are gradually eased, due to the needs of economic development, the political power struggle has once again changed from severity to ease. Spy agencies such as Dongchang, which target domestic intelligence and inspections, can only rely on His Majesty the Emperor to go on a patrol every time they go on a tour as a major event to train their work ability.

During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng's examination method was re-implemented by Zhu Youjiao again since the seventh year of Qi. Zhu Youjiao did not want to spend so much money to support a group of idle people who only know how to chant the wind and the moon and don't do any practical things. Based on the principle of the ability to work harder, the assessment is necessary.

The East Factory naturally also has an assessment. Whether the tour was going smoothly was an important assessment task for them, so they had no choice but to ignore it.

Because it was already autumn, the rain in the entire Kaili Mountains was a little more frequent. The fog was filled with wet and slippery along the way, and it was hard to see blue. The climate gradually became a little cold. Zhu Youxiao was ready for this trip. He had already put on a big cloak. Ningpin Luo Ruo and Liu Rushi who followed him had already put on Guanyin bags and covered them with big sweaters.

However, at this time, Zhu Youxiao saw a barefoot farmer standing by the edge of the field, holding a rake and carrying mud to protect the ridge. Some children were carrying loads to pick up dog feces everywhere, and they were about to enter the cordon. Yidongchang had already pulled out his knife, jumped off a ginseng tree and pointed the blade straight at the child.

The prefect Kaili, who was following the entourage, sighed helplessly. He had informed all the people in the prefecture in advance according to the notice above. He should not enter within fifty steps around the imperial road, otherwise it would cause his life to be injured. Today, the child had obviously forgotten this regulation and was getting closer and closer.

Seeing that the blade was about to cut off the child's back, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly shouted: "Slow down!"

Suddenly, the Dongchang Actor's knife stopped in mid-air, and his entire body's hind limbs climbed on the branches and did not descend. The child realized the danger at this time. He looked up and saw a person holding a knife aimed at him. The child was so scared that he was stunned for a moment. A basket of dog feces in his hand also fell to the ground, pointing at the horse feces of the Fifth Army cavalry tremblingly and said, "I just want this."

In an era when chemical fertilizers were not yet popular, organic fertilizer was the only fertilizer that could be used as a fertilizer for agricultural production to increase crop yields. Therefore, farmers attach great importance to manure, at least it is more important than soil. Some children who cannot do farm work will be arranged by the family to pick up animal manure everywhere. This child was obviously attracted by the large amount of organic fertilizer brought by the large cavalry in Zhu Youxiao's imperial guards, which led to the child almost losing his life today.

However, Zhu Youxiao also saw that the southwest area is much behind other areas of the Ming Dynasty, such as Shandong, Jiangnan and other areas. The agricultural economy still occupies an absolute dominance in these places. This is also the reason why the conservative gentry representing the agricultural economy in the court still accounts for a large part. The Ming Dynasty has almost also seen a phenomenon of regional gaps becoming increasingly widening.

This is also a problem that Zhu Youxiao had to consider in the future. The management scope of the entire empire is becoming wider and wider. Different regions will definitely experience imbalance due to different geographical locations and different development methods. If the gap is good, but once it is larger, it will inevitably lead to the split of the empire and the sense of happiness after social wealth will also decrease.

After all, just as a person's sense of pride comes from comparing with others, people in a region's likes and dislikes about society also come from comparing with people living in other regions.

Zhu Youxiao needs to be vigilant about these phenomena. There are only two effective ways to make a certain degree of closure and poverty caused by poor geographical conditions. One is to build roads and the other is to continue to focus on education. The former is to break geographical isolation and promote more economic exchanges between the region and the outside world, while the latter is to promote more people living here to master the key to knowledge and thus change the overall way of the region.

But both of these require huge investments to be carried out, and the latter will cause more local elites to flow to other places, and will prompt the place to remain in poverty, and even have increasingly serious problems with empty nests and aging.

The more he thought this way, the more problems he could predict. Zhu Youxiao found that his mind was not enough, but he also knew that although he could change the destiny of history, he could not truly change the evolutionary route of history for hundreds of years as a unit. Zhu Youxiao could only cross the river by feeling the stones and do his best to maintain and stabilize the situation of the Ming Empire.

"Let him go and order officials from all over the country to notify the people in their jurisdiction, and make sure that no people will break into the Imperial Road warning area without authorization. If any people are treacherous, the official hall of the prefecture and county where they are located will be dismissed!"

After Zhu Youxiao said this, Li Mingrui turned his horse's head and issued an order. At the same time, the prefect Kaili couldn't help but tremble. He didn't know what to do. Now that this happened in his jurisdiction, he couldn't help but secretly swore that he would teach these yamen runners a lesson after going back, and actually asked the children from the people to come to pick up dog feces. Isn't this clearly a way to cut off his own way?

Zhu Youxiao's tour is undoubtedly a challenge and an opportunity for these local officials who have not been given the opportunity to go to Beijing to report their duties for many years. As long as what they do can satisfy His Majesty, they can directly make a name in front of His Majesty, and they will naturally be promoted faster in the future. Of course, if you are not satisfied, you will be directly punished by His Majesty. If your superiors, the Censor and the General Officer know, you can use money to settle it. However, if you make mistakes in front of the emperor, you cannot use money to settle it. And you may keep leaving this impression in front of His Majesty. No matter how other ministers praise you in the future, it will be difficult for Your Majesty to change your impression of yourself.

Good and bad are both simple underground, and people's memories are super lazy. Generally, they only remember their first impression of a person.

"Prince Zong, please inform us that after my imperial carriage, the people can pick up the dirt on the imperial road and do not stop it!" As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, the prefect of Kaili Zong Rong felt a little sad again and said to himself: "It's time to leave. Not only will he leave a bad impression in front of His Majesty, but he will also lose his way to get rich by blocking the imperial road and selling horse manure to the people or sell it."

"Yes, the empress dowager follows the order." Although the prefect Zong felt very distressed, he still insisted on smiling face and agreed.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what the prefect of Kaili Zong Rong was thinking. He did not come to the southwest for inspection to make a big purge of these local officials. After all, the Ming Dynasty lacked local officials now. Although many talents with high education have been successfully trained in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, this speed has not kept up with the expansion speed of the territory. Therefore, he did not mean to be too harsh about the prefect of Kaili's prefect who did not successfully avoid the people appearing in the warning area.

Not long after, when Zhu Youxiao, who was slightly resting, felt a hint of cool valley wind that made him wake up, he heard the sound of reading coming from the upper edge of the cliff ahead. The sound was loud and neat, as if there were hundreds of people.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel quite curious and hurriedly asked about the prefect of Kaili Zong Rong. The prefect of Kaili had to answer truthfully, that was Chen Jiru's lecture in the cave.

It turns out that Guizhou is mountainous, with limited government funds, and it is also difficult to build houses. After all, there are steep cliffs everywhere. Therefore, Chen Jiru, who was sent to be a private school teacher here, could only use the cliff caves between the cliffs as a place to teach. In fact, it is not just Chen Jiru's social studies, but many other social studies are the same. Even Chen Jiru himself has no house to shelter from the wind and rain, and can only live on the cliffs.

Zhu Youxiao could not imagine that Chen Jiru had trained a top scholar in the 11th year of Qi in this way, so he got down the slide rod and started walking into the cliff with curiosity.

When Zhu Youxiao came to the Yadong, he saw Chen Jiru standing on a blackboard hanging on a cliff wall in the deepest part of the cave explaining a set of Confucian scriptures. However, the students sitting on the pile of hays listened very seriously, including children who were only in their teens or who had just learned to recite the Three Character Classics, as well as old children who were over thirty years old.

"Does this Mei Gong have so many people every time you attend classes?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but ask Zong Rong, the prefect of Kaili.

Zong Rong hurriedly replied: "Yes, Mr. Mei Gong is a contemporary scholar. He is calm and does not pursue fame and fortune, and is also knowledgeable. Many people like to listen to his lessons. Even the officials themselves sometimes come and take a look. Sometimes they even have a thousand listeners. After all, such a person is a rare talent for Guizhou.

"Then let him stay ten years longer until he cultivates a famous scholar like him, Chen Jiru, comes out." Zhu Youxiao smiled and turned around and left here. He had no need to disturb Chen Jiru. Since this person enjoyed the feeling of teaching in the countryside so much, he as an emperor did not need to force others to go home or work in Beijing. However, before Zhu Youxiao left, he still asked Li Mingrui to appoint Chen Jiru as a professor, responsible for teaching and teaching staff in the whole palace.

However, just when Zhu Youxiao was about to return to Guiyang Prefecture and then to Guangdong and Guangxi, Dongchang Fanzi, who had been inquiring about the news, came back to report that he found a large number of soldiers from the Yi tribe ahead, and he also pleaded with His Majesty Zhu Youxiao in person.

Zhu Youxiao was very surprised by this. He didn't expect that when he met the chieftain's soldiers, he would come directly to block the road. However, Zhu Youxiao was not the kind of person who was as brave as a rat, so he decisively agreed to the other person's request and met the officials of the chieftain.

Zhu Youxiao really wanted to see what reasons these chieftains who opposed the policy of reforming the land and returning to the land would come up with, and where the bottom line of these chieftains was.
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