To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

Zhu Biao really wanted to follow Zhu Yuanzhang's wishes, but his mother, Empress Ma, also left him a will.

Empress Ma held Zhu Biao's hand on her deathbed and said, "Mother Biao has been virtuous all her life. Now that you are old, you must not listen to your father. Your father and I are living over there. You must not send a bunch of little goblins over here to make things difficult for me!"

Your father and I have only room for our graves! This old man still wants to be surrounded by women after he dies! He's dreaming! He'll have to spend his next life guarding me!

If you dare to put the little devil in my way, I will never let you go! If you want to have a happy life in your next life, I will die after you!

Zhu Biao was overwhelmed, with his father's request on the one hand and his mother's earnest instructions on the other.

It was Xu Huizhen who came up with the idea: "Your Majesty, how difficult is this? Just make some terracotta figurines. This will satisfy the late emperor's requirements and also satisfy the empress dowager. It's the best of both worlds!"

Zhu Biao slapped his thigh and thought that he could just fool his father this time. His mother's life had been very difficult.

The concubines in the palace who had never given birth had truly escaped death. The inner court had already prepared white silk, but these people couldn't believe that they wouldn't have to die. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank the Queen Mother for her mercy!

He also composed a poem for Empress Ma:

"My sage, benevolent, has brought up my family and nation. He nurtured and raised me, and I will never forget his kindness. His kindness will be unforgettable for thousands of years. He will warn those who descend to the underworld, and the vast heavens."

Starting with Empress Ma, a rule was established. It would be a dream for future Ming Dynasty monarchs to think of burying living people with the dead. The ministers could refute the emperor with just a few words of the ancestral rules!

This is particularly good. In ancient times, the rules of ancestors were more important than anything else. If you, as a descendant, want to usurp the authority of something that your great-grandfather failed to do, you are simply dreaming!

Xu Huizhen also breathed a sigh of relief. This terrible system of burying people alive with the dead should be stopped from now on. The majesty of Empress Ma is obvious to all. Her dominance is truly amazing!

It is better for these concubines to become nuns than to die. It is better to live a miserable life than to die!

Xu Huizhen published many medical books over the years. The imperial court compiled these precious medical books into textbooks and opened schools at Xu Huizhen's suggestion.

The direct beneficiaries were the people of the Ming Dynasty. After medical students extracted high-purity penicillin, the average life expectancy in the Ming Dynasty rose sharply. After the rules of diagnosis, treatment and delivery were standardized, the maternal and infant mortality rates dropped sharply.

In just a few decades, the Ming Dynasty welcomed a population of 600 million.

The noble group and imperial power of the Ming Dynasty entered the peak period of expansion. Zhu Biao encouraged people to have more children, and the court would give you land and farm tools as long as you dared to have one.

The powerful Ming Dynasty occupied large territories in the south and the north. The Minister of Revenue was worried to the point of losing his hair because there was too much land and not enough people!

The Ministry of Revenue asked the Ministry of War to take it easy while conquering such a large area. However, he did not have the skill to make a large number of people at once, so where could he find so many people to fill the gaps for him!

Now the imperial court is particularly hoping that a disaster will hit some part of the country. As long as there are disaster victims, the imperial court will try its best to persuade people to move south or north.

Good food, good drinks, good hospitality. As long as you are willing to move, each family will give you hundreds of acres of land! The court will also provide you with farm tools and housing!

The clerk in the yamen was so eloquent: "Nanyang is a place full of gold, and rice can be harvested three times a year! Why worry about finding a wife? You are talking nonsense, the girls there are as beautiful as flowers.

Two batches of numbness can be exchanged for two virgin girls! Pretty and obedient, good at making tea and cooking, what kind of pretty girl is hard to give birth to? Rumors are pure rumors. The butts of native women are as big as small millstones. Auntie, just tell me how many grandchildren you want.

I'm afraid you can't take care of it, but the locals there are very good at taking care of children. They just need to provide them with food. Two taels of silver can buy several locals!

Why are you afraid of being bullied? Oh, you're so worried! They'd be lucky if the Ming Dynasty didn't bully others. If they poke a hair off your head, we'll beat them into a paste! We'll all kneel down and help you lift up your hair.

I have signed up for your family. Food, clothing and shelter are all provided for you. Only our Ming Dynasty has such a good thing.

How can you walk there? The carts have been prepared long ago. The cement road is smooth and won't shake you. Once you get to Tianjin, you can take a treasure ship to the sea. It's fast and stable!"

After a lot of trickery from the yamen runners, he got an extra ten taels of silver this month!

This kind of extreme tug-of-war happens every day in the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the reduction in the labor force, landlords dared not raise rents and had to coax tenants to farm. Fortunately, the imperial court took over the grasslands, and there was no shortage of large livestock, and farming was no longer so tiring. Otherwise, this kind of land would have become a problem.

The imperial court officials are now obsessed with population control. Any man or woman of marriageable age who doesn't marry is guilty of a serious crime, and the fine alone is hefty. If you pay the fine and still refuse to marry, the court will do it for you! They'll match you with an official partner!

As for wanting to be a widow? What are you dreaming about? Hurry up and find someone to marry. If you don't, the imperial court will help you find one! Your clan doesn't agree? Who dares to disagree? Just give the government a beating and they'll agree.

The family and the new husband's family were not allowed to embezzle any of the property left by a widow's ex-husband. It must be used to support the children left by her ex-husband. Anyone who dared to embezzle a widow's money would be punished with a hundred lashes of the cane if caught!

This combination of measures caused the population of the Ming Dynasty to grow explosively!

Now, as soon as the children of the common people of the Ming Dynasty were born, they had to be sent to the official school when they were six years old, regardless of gender. The court trained a large number of talents. Those who liked to nitpick took the imperial examinations, while those with bright minds were trained to study agriculture and engineering.

Studying engineering is particularly popular nowadays. Often, students are recruited by various ministries to engage in scientific research right after graduation, and can also become officials in the court!

The court is not short of corrupt scholars now, but what it lacks are scientific researchers who can do practical work. As long as you are smart enough and can produce something, getting a high position and a generous salary is not a dream. The number of scientific researchers is also growing explosively!

After Zhu Xiongying ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty truly stood out from the crowd. When the Ming Dynasty sneezed, the few remaining small countries around it would tremble all over!

Life was truly better for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and having enough to eat was no longer a problem for them. Meat sold briskly during the New Year holidays, and even ordinary farmers could buy a few pounds of meat to make new clothes for their wives and children.

Mrs. Ding is already 96 years old. She has five generations living together with a large number of children and grandchildren. The old lady has a poor memory and likes to watch the children making noise under her nose every day!

That afternoon, the youngest child in the family was playing with the old lady. One minute the old lady was telling the child to go slowly so as not to fall, and the next minute the old lady was lying in the rocking chair and passed away smiling.

The child went to Ladin's hand and said, "Grandfather, look at this grasshopper made of straw. Isn't it pretty? Grandfather, why don't you say anything?"

When the servant saw that something bad was happening, he hurried out to report it!