Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 638: When to receive you depends on His Majesty’s mood!

Timur came to Kangju City with great fanfare, and before coming, he deliberately informed the surrounding monarchs, so that everyone knew about it, for fear that the movement would not be big enough.

Regarding Timur's actions, Zhu Yunxi had already known through the intelligence network all over the place.

But he didn't have any reaction to this. In his opinion, as long as Timur dared to come, he could be called a hero.

When Timur entered the Ming Dynasty, he received special protection from the Ming Dynasty army.

However, the bodyguard he brought with him was strictly limited.

First of all, in terms of numbers, he was only allowed to retain [-] guards, and the rest of the army had to stay outside the Ming Dynasty.

Timur looked at the boundary monument filled with Ming Dynasty characters and felt a sense of despair.

It seems that Daming wants to completely occupy the Samarkand area, and has no plans to go back at all.

It's just that it's a bit too cruel for this humiliation to be borne by an old man who is dying.

Although the new boundary monument of the Ming Dynasty gave Timur a great stimulus, who was Timur? He was either fighting or on the way to war in his life. How could he be defeated by this small setback?

However, when he saw the flat roads in the area controlled by Ming Dynasty, Timur was still a little bit off guard.

I have governed this area for decades, and I have never built such a smooth and solid road!

The Ming Dynasty was able to achieve such great progress after only a few years of governance.

Comparing the two, I am really far behind the "Emperor Sun" who is dozens of years younger than me.

Especially when he saw his own people happily pushing wheelbarrows, driving horse-drawn carts or ox carts on the road, singing and laughing along the way, his heart felt like a knife was twisted.

Can not go back!

Even if he leads the army back now, the people of this land will pick up swords and guns and help the Ming people attack him!

The Emperor Sun of Daming not only conquered this land, but also conquered the hearts of the people in this land.

Just his indiscriminate construction and management of this place has benefited the people of this land for several lifetimes!

Timur continued on his way in the carriage, observing the changes on both sides of the road.

The village has become neater, the market has become more lively, and the number of vendors on both sides of the road has become more numerous, and the items sold have also become more dazzling.

In the early years, rare items that only maritime merchants could bring back, such as Ming Dynasty porcelain, silk, high-quality paper, etc., were now openly displayed on the carts of vendors and sold along the street.

This is the real change that Daming brought to this land!

What frightened Timur even more was salt!

Just now he seems to have heard a vendor hawking that a catty of salt only costs ten cents!

What is the concept of ten coins?

In the past, even half a catty could not be bought!

Timur curiously called the street vendor.

"Boy, can you show me your salt?"

"Okay!"

"Let me tell you, this is high-quality salt from Daming. Take a look at the color, it's turquoise. A few years ago, only aristocrats could afford high-quality salt!"

Timur picked up a pinch, put it in his mouth, tasted it, and nodded affirmatively.

"It's really good salt, and it's high-quality green salt!"

“This kind of salt used to cost at least a hundred cents a pound, but now it only sells for ten cents!”

Green salt is refined from well salt through filtration, and it was also a high-end product in the first few years of the Ming Dynasty.

However, following Zhu Yunxi's involvement in the salt industry, Daming's salt industry adopted a large number of mechanization and processes, and the cost of salt production plummeted.

Although Zhu Yunxi still did not relax the salt monopoly system, it is much better than in earlier years.

At the very least, the current government officials no longer arrest salt dealers who sell illegal salt.

Because the official salt of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed private salt in terms of output, quality, and price.

In order to make money, the current private salt can only try its best to export it to neighboring countries with various gimmicks.

Due to the limitation of Ming's productivity, Daming's official salt has not been dumped abroad in large quantities, which gave them a glimmer of life.

"Little brother, can you tell me why such good salt is sold so cheaply?"

"Of course this is due to our new Emperor!"

"Our Ming Emperor is so powerful. He not only defeated Timur, who was full of evil, but also brought us such a good life!"

"These salts are all thanks to our Emperor Daming. He saw that the people in our Kangju area were too miserable, so he specially called on the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to sell us salt at a loss, so that our people can eat such good and cheap table salt!"

"Sir, would you like to weigh me ten pounds?"

"It's not that I deliberately fooled you, but I heard that the price of salt is going to increase..."

Naturally, Timur would not believe the lies of businessmen, and since he just said that he was "full of evil", it would be considered kind of him not to beat this guy up, so how could he take care of his business?

"I don't need it!"

"Also, I have to correct your mistake. Although His Majesty Timur did not achieve much during his reign, he never did anything harmful to the people. How can he say that he was full of evil?"

The salt vendor snorted coldly upon hearing this.

"The gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty said something, and I think it was very good."

"What do you call someone who is not in his position and does not seek his own government..."

"Since the old man Timur is in the position of emperor, if he does not do well, he is guilty!"

Timur frowned when he heard this, and instinctively felt that these words were too harsh.

If the common people all over the world think this way, what should the emperor do?

Isn't the "Emperor Sun" of Ming Dynasty afraid that the people will become less and less easy to deceive?

Timur also heard a famous saying in the Ming Dynasty, which is called what the people can let them know, but not let them know.

Logically speaking, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty should know how to fool the people. Why did Emperor Sun of the Ming Dynasty do the opposite, as if he was afraid that the people would know less about it...

With this question in mind, Timur observed and listened all the way, and discovered more incredible things.

For example, everyone is vying to speak Ming Chinese, even if they only have a few words of greeting, they keep asking people around if they have eaten or drunk.

Timur had long known that the custom of greeting people in the Ming Dynasty was neither Allah nor peace to each other. Instead, it was a vulgar way of asking about food and drink, as if the people in that land were hungry a few years ago. It's just about eating and drinking.

Although Timur didn't understand, he didn't laugh at it.I just feel that Daming people are pitiful, they have no faith, no soul, they are just a group of walking dead who know how to eat and drink.

Another point that confuses Timur is the ubiquitous scholars of Ming Dynasty.

These scholars seemed to spread knowledge and culture in various areas of Kangju City with pious beliefs.

He saw several scholars earnestly persuading the students to attend classes and teach them knowledge.

In addition, there are recruitment notices and recruitment documents everywhere. Sometimes they are building a certain reservoir, sometimes they are building a certain dam, or a certain ditch, etc.

These are all big projects. During Timur's period, they were all forced people to do the work. Why did they change to the form of recruitment in Daming's hands?

Does Daming give you money when recruiting workers?

For this reason, he called a local resident to ask.

"Dare to ask my brother, what does it mean for Daming to recruit workers to repair the canal? Is it a paid job or a free job?"

"Of course it's a free job!"

"However, there are people who do a good job and get paid, such as stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, etc."

"Ordinary laborers can only earn some work points, and enough work points can offset taxes and so on!"

Timur asked curiously. "What about the corvee, someone has to do the corvee, right?"

"Da Ming has no corvee!"

"It is stated in the official documents of the Ming Dynasty that the world is the world of the world and everyone needs to be paid for their work!"

"It's good for the Ming court. If you don't collect corvee, you won't collect it. If you work for the officials, you will be paid back. Hehehehe..."

"I've made up my mind, work hard for a few years, save enough work points and not offset the tax, but send my youngest son to a government school to study, and let him get a job in the future!"

"read?"

Timur looked puzzled again when he heard this.

"I see that many scholars don't teach students for free, why do they have to spend money to study?"

"The ones you mentioned are private schools. Private schools rely on the number of students to make money. The more students each teacher teaches, the more money the government will send every month."

"But the official school is different. You have to pass the official school based on your true ability. Those who fail will have to spend money, and it will cost a lot of money!"

"Because you can become an official after finishing the official school, and if you take the imperial examination, you can also become a high official!"

"Oh oh oh..."

As soon as Timur heard this, he understood, the second-level student-official system.

One public and one private complement each other.

Private schools cultivate a large number of literate people, and government schools select the best from among these literate people, and select talents who can be officials!

This system is very good, and I have to try to implement it when I go back.

After three days of traveling, Timur finally came to Samarkand, where he had been away for a long time.

It's just that when he saw the old capital again, he almost couldn't recognize the old capital.

"This city wall..."

The original Samarkand city wall is very characteristic of the Western Regions. It is not only tall and strong, but also beautiful to a certain extent.

However, the current city walls...

How should I put it, it cannot be said that the repair is not good-looking, but it does not match the dome building in the city, and it feels like the scenery of the two worlds is put together.

Timur saw the huge plaque hanging on the top of the city with the word "Kangju" written on it, and the flames of anger flickered in his eyes.

The Ming Dynasty was so abominable. It only occupied Samarkand, but even changed its name!

This is to completely eliminate the cultural heritage of Samarkand!

But after entering the city, Timur was not very angry.

Because he couldn't be angry anymore.

Seeing more and more Ming-style buildings in the city, Samarkand felt a sense of sadness and anger in his heart.

Maybe it won't be long before all the splendid buildings in the city will be demolished and replaced with loft-style buildings like Daming...

Since then, there has been no Musilin culture in this land!

When Timur came to the former palace, he instinctively thought that Zhu Yunxi would occupy the palace. But when he came here, he found that the palace had been transformed into a government office.

The original gate of the palace was demolished, and a huge fountain square was built together with the open space in front of the palace and part of the area behind the gate.

The buildings in the palace have also changed a lot, and all the buildings have become symmetrical. If there is a building on the east side, there must be another building on the west side.

"The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Personnel..."

"Is this the six-part system that Ming Dynasty is famous at home and abroad?"

When the officials of Honglu Temple heard that Timur had arrived, they hurried over to greet him, and when they heard what Timur said, they hurriedly echoed him.

"Your Majesty is wise, this is indeed a system unique to our Ming Dynasty. It originated from the system of three provinces and six ministries in the Tang Dynasty."

"However, this system is not only used by me in Ming Dynasty, but also in North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries."

"Oh oh oh..."

"Your clothes..."

Timur soon noticed the difference, because every Ming official wore similar clothes, the only difference was the patterns on their chests and the colors of the clothes.

But there are also many people whose clothes are the same color, only the pattern on the chest is different.

"Oh, Your Majesty is talking about our official uniforms?"

"Official uniform?"

"What is an official uniform?"

The clothing system has been a unique culture of China for a long time. Because of the influence of the Central Plains Dynasty, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries also highly borrowed from the Ming Dynasty's clothing system.

In contrast, the Middle East and Europe at the same time did not have the concept of uniforms, only some customary rules.

"Reply to Your Majesty Timur, the government office is the clothes that officials usually wear when they work."

"In our Ming Dynasty, there are strict regulations and restrictions on the clothes officials wear when working."

"For example, the rank of the official is the fourth rank, so you have to wear a red official uniform, and the embroidery on the chest must also meet the rank."

"The Yun Yan embroidered on Wei Chen's chest represents the fourth rank..."

"Oh oh oh..."

Timur felt that he had learned a lot of knowledge. All officials wore clothes according to the regulations. Doesn't it mean that His Majesty the Emperor could tell at a glance what level this person was, or even what position he held?

Ordinary people see and know the rank of the official, and there will be no misidentification.

No wonder Daming is so powerful, it turns out that even officials have such detailed regulations on what clothes to wear!

In contrast, my own empire has no such concept at all, it looks like a grassroots team at first glance!

If I could go back from the Ming Dynasty this time... bah bah bah, if I could go back from Samarkand, I would also set up a similar system to make the officials of the empire wear clothes according to the regulations!

What Timur didn't know was that His Majesty the industrious Emperor Zhu not only set standards for officials to wear clothes, but even made a set for the common people, down to the details of what kind of shoes the common people should wear...

However, this system did not wait for him to step down, and it was already corrupted during his tenure as emperor.

The common people admired luxury, and there were a variety of silk shoes, and many luxurious women would adorn their shoes with pearls and emerald jade.

Zhu Yuanzhang issued several strict orders for this, but still did not stop this unhealthy trend.

"Your Majesty, please come with me..."

"His Majesty, the Emperor Ming, learned that His Majesty was coming, and specially ordered someone to clean up the palace where you lived before. You can stay there and wait for my emperor to summon you!"

"Oh?"

Timur was very surprised when he heard this. In his opinion, even if the "Emperor Sun" of the Ming Dynasty did not use the palace for his own use, he shouldn't have treated it so badly, right?

"May I ask where His Majesty the Emperor of your country lives?"

"How long will it take to see me?"

"Oh, our Emperor doesn't like the noise in the city, so he built a new palace in a secluded place outside the city."

"As for when to receive you, it depends on our Majesty's mood."

"Our Majesty is currently discussing the future religious issues in the West with His Majesty the Pope from Rome. I am afraid that we will not have time to meet you in a short time."