Chapter 34 Royal Mercy
As soon as Li Mingxun entered the Changchun Palace house, a stream of heat came to his face. He twisted his neck, which was stiff due to riding a horse, and sighed comfortably. It was as warm as spring. Looking at the radiator exposed in the corner, Li Mingxun smiled and said, "The hands and feet are fast, and they are installed so quickly."
Zhu Yushu put down her work, walked up to take off her cloak for Li Mingxun. She looked at him carefully looking at the radiator and touched it, and couldn't help but smile: "With the urging of you, the emperor, how unhappy they are? Besides, the things are ready-made. I have been using them for many years in Yongning, Qingdao and Jeju. We came from the south and had never seen them like a local bun."
Li Mingxun naturally knew how cold the weather was in the north, and he knew that his family lived in the south, which was very cold, so he asked someone to install heating in the palace. In fact, this set of things was also used when he was in Qingdao. Li Mingxun took the teacup and took a sip. Zhu Yushu asked with concern: "Didn't your Majesty come back two days ago? Why did you delay it? Is it not going well in Tianjin?"
"The construction in Tianjin is fine. As winter begins, roads and port facilities are being built. The dock will be expanded in the spring next year. It is very smooth. However, when I came back, I did not go back to Beijing directly, but went to Zunhua." Li Mingxun explained.
"Zunhua, what are you doing there?"
Li Mingxun smiled and said, "I went to see the imperial tomb that the Qing court built for Fulin. I thought I had built a lot of money, but I had just dug the foundation. I have turned the foot of Changrui Mountain. It is a good Feng Shui. I have already continued to cultivate it. After it is finished, you and I will be buried there. Haha, my Li family not only wants to seize the Qing Dynasty, but also occupy his dragon veins. It's interesting to think about it."
During the emperor's reign, there were all dynasties, but only Li Mingxun could do the task of occupying other people's imperial tombs. Zhu Yushu didn't care. He also knew that her husband always had some strange ideas. He didn't care about the details, and added a cup of tea to him. Sitting there, he picked up his own work. Li Mingxun then realized that not only the queen Zhu Yushu, but also the female officials in the hall were holding copper needles and holding wool, knitting sweaters there. His two dexterous hands flew, and the sweaters appeared bit by bit. Li Mingxun looked at him and felt even more surprised, and asked, "When did this sweater happen?"
"A few days ago, Princess Cheng came. Seeing that I was in the palace, I taught me the trick of knitting sweaters like a treasure. The wool was produced in the factory in Beijing. I am afraid there are more than a dozen colors. Seeing that Princess Cheng was very good, I learned it. I have only been studying for a few days and haven't learned it well yet." Seeing Li Mingxun reaching out to pick it up, Zhu Yushu hid it a little embarrassedly.
Li Mingxun had to take the semi-finished product from the female official's hand. He still remembered that in his previous life, when he was young, every household knitting sweaters. When he was in school, there were girls secretly knitting. But after thinking about it, he didn't think that this was something that should be found in the 17th century, so he asked: "Where did Princess Cheng learn this French from?"
Zhu Yushu smiled and said, "It's not all that I learned. Princess Cheng is very smart. She has been with Princess Cheng for many years in Yongning in the past few years. Yongning is located in the north and cannot grow cotton. People wear knots and linens in summer and fur coats in winter. The cotton cloth is transported from the south. The local area is mainly wool textiles. At first, it only made wool and felt. Later, the woman in Vladivostok learned hand-knitted wool, wool socks, and scarves from the wife of the foreigners. Princess Cheng thought it was strange and thought about it with the women. She first tried it with chopsticks. Over time, it turned into this copper needle to knit. Now in Yongning, ordinary children, if they don't even know how to knit sweaters, they dare not be smart."
"If you use less cotton when you sweater and woolen coat, you don't have much cotton. It's good, not bad." Li Mingxun praised it, but compared it with the semi-finished product in Zhu Yushu's hand, and found that the woven sleeve was shorter than his arm, but much longer than the child's arm. He immediately understood: "I'm afraid this was woven for my brother-in-law."
Zhu Yushu lowered her head and said, "I heard that my brother and the others are already on the way to the north. He is alone and helpless and wants to be detained. How can I rest assured? I just want to knit a few sweaters and pants, make two cotton coats and send them to you..."
Li Mingxun said: "Don't worry, although he can't escape from his crime, but with you and I, who feels really abused him? This time, everyone came north, and there were ten or twenty people squeezed a car. He occupied two cars, one loaded books and one ride, with a stove inside, and food and drink as well as the escort officer. He was not a war criminal, he was simply a VIP treatment. He knew it from both sides, but everyone pretended to be deaf and dumb, so I turned a blind eye. Don't really think he was like a prisoner."
"That's good, that's good." Zhu Yushu felt a little relieved.
Li Mingxun clicked the sweater in her hand and said, "You can knit sweaters and pants, but you don't have to worry about the cotton coats. The security bureau has arranged all the arrangements, Changping City has been cleaned up, the house inside has been repaired properly, and the cotton coats and quilts and shoes needed by the war criminals are also ready. They are said to be war criminals, but they are militarized.
You have never been to the military camp, but you have also considered it to have seen that the uniform clothes in the army are like this from head to toe. So, don’t bother with what is exposed, and you don’t need to do it even if you want to do the clothes inside, just do it.”
"Then can Junhua and I go and see our brother?" Zhu Yushu asked carefully, her eyes full of desire.
Li Mingxun nodded: "In two months, I will go there after I settle down there, otherwise you will go there as soon as he comes. If you are not satisfied with it, there will be no way to go there. The management office cannot carry out work. When you arrive at the management office, the war criminals will be treated equally. If you raise the standards for him, you will raise the standards for more than 3,000 war criminals. The people below cannot handle it. Let's make arrangements in two months, and you can go quietly when the time comes."
Li Mingxun was unwilling to mention this topic. He neither wanted to be selfless nor did he want his wife to ruin the key issues of war criminal reform. But this level was very difficult to grasp, so he could only change the topic: "Now the cabinet has moved south to Nanjing, why did he become a princess yet? I'm afraid I'm just teaching you to knit sweaters."
Zhu Yushu smiled: "You think you, the emperor, listed the Prime Minister's family in the royal family, and the emperor's kindness is great. Don't you know that they are very worried about becoming a princess. Her eldest daughter is fifteen years old this year. According to the imperial law, she will be a grown-up next year. She finally got old but became a royal family. She is worried that her daughter's family's marriage cannot be controlled by herself."
After hearing this, Li Mingxun shook his head: "It's not that he is afraid that his children will not be able to help their marriage, but that he is afraid of marriage and marriage."
Zhu Yushu glared at him: "You know it in your heart, too."
Li Mingxun also has two daughters, but his eldest daughter is only ten years old. Before he talks about marriage, the Han area has been restored, and the frontier industry has recruited vassals. Mongolia, Jurchens and Manchuria are increasingly favored, and some of them have received royal titles. It is already a big topic to marry royal daughters. If there is really a marriage, the royal princess is young, so it is not necessary to use royal family daughters. King Cheng has only one son, and the daughter of King Rong has already married, so only the eldest daughter of the Wang family is at the right time.
"What are you planning for this?" Zhu Yushu asked when Li Mingxun was unwilling to say it.
Li Mingxun smiled: "You said to Ah Hai's wife that marriages like the Qing Dynasty are absolutely not allowed, but the royal family is not taboo. The daughter of the nobles and congressmen is married to foreign vassals. However, if a family of relatives and nobles is willing to marry with the inner vassals, the royal family can also do something for them. Their daughters will marry whoever they like, as long as they do not violate the law."
"Your Majesty is enlightened." Zhu Yushu said with a smile. She was happier that her daughter would not become a political tool.
"It is also said that it is enlightened and unintelligent. Now that Beijing and Shin Kyoto are running schools, the Lifan Academy has also formulated rules. In the future, the legitimate sons of the Neifan will go to the capital to study and study with the children of the noble families. After being together for a long time, they will inevitably have a marriage relationship. But if I really marry the Manchu and Mongolian Jurchens of the Neifan, wouldn't someone have brought up the national policy of Ming Dynasty's disagreement and said that I won't cause trouble." Li Mingxun was very open-minded.
"Since your Majesty has this idea, I will just return to the princess like this, so that she can feel at ease." Zhu Yushu said with a smile. At this moment, a female official walked in and went to the queen and muttered a few words. Li Mingxun originally didn't want to pay attention to women's affairs, but when he heard about things like the Security Bureau, he asked, "What trouble did He Wenxi cause you again?"
"He did not cause trouble for me? It was because I begged him for something. His Majesty was a few days late for him to come back and didn't see that situation. Good guy, thousands of people surrounded Chongfu Temple. If He Wenxi hadn't done it quickly, something big would have happened." Zhu Yushu was still scared when she remembered that day.
"Who is so bold? The military control state in the capital has caused trouble as soon as it was over. I'm afraid there are feudal remnants who are causing trouble later." Li Mingxun's face changed. He only left the capital for a few days and had such a big deal. But he thought about it and asked, "What does this have to do with the queen? If you ask the Beijing-Tianjin Security Department for such a public security incident, at most, you can ask the Security Bureau for help. How can you involve the queen?"
"Because the group of people who caused trouble were eunuchs." Zhu Yushu had no choice but to say.
It turned out that with the change of dynasties, tens of thousands of eunuchs in the capital had lost their food and clothing. If we say that eunuchs were just accompanying each other and changing their masters, but being a part of the empire is an exception. The law of the empire clearly stipulates that except for the royal family, including the royal family, no eunuchs are allowed. Even if they are royal, they will not use eunuchs under the age of twenty.
The purpose of this law is to ban eunuchs, which destroys human body and spirit. Now there are only dozens of eunuchs in Li Mingxun's palace, all of whom are dowry or taken in by the queen. Whether in Nanjing or Beijing, whether in the pseudo-Ming or the Qing Dynasty, the eunuchs of the two royal families will no longer be taken, which directly makes tens of thousands of eunuchs in the capital unemployed. These eunuchs will serve people all their lives, but no one dares to use them in the empire. In fact, the law only stipulates that eunuchs must not be used as their homes outside the royal family, and does not discriminate against their participation in industry and commerce. However, the empire is still in a time of severe punishment and law, and no one dares to try it.
Chongfu Temple was originally renovated and expanded by eunuchs. Most eunuchs in the Ming and Qing dynasties donated to the purpose of raising their elderly people here in the future. However, after a few thousand people came, Chongfu Temple could not bear it, so they simply turned them out, which caused thousands of eunuchs to besiege Chongfu Temple.
"He Wenxi just asked someone to tell me that he had found out that the eunuchs had not hurt anyone in the besiege of Chongfu Temple, but only demonstrated to the royal family. He arrested a few leaders and learned that their purpose was to let the eunuchs be taken in the palace." Zhu Yushu looked at Li Mingxun's expression and said carefully.
Li Mingxun smiled: "I am the emperor, only one queen, two concubines, three sons and two daughters. Is it necessary for thousands of eunuchs to serve? They are all here. How can these female officials be resettled? No, no one, please place them in the Beijing-Tianjin Administrative Office."
"Yes." Zhu Yushu responded, but Li Mingxun blinked her eyes and asked quickly: "The queen seems to have any objection?"
"I want to use these people," said Zhu Yushu.
Li Mingxun joked: "Thousands of people are there, you can't support them in vain. Oh, why not do this? I will also choose a show once. If you choose dozens of concubines in, they will have work."
"I didn't say I'd let them go to the palace to serve." Zhu Yushu knew that Li Mingxun was joking, so she gave him a blank look and asked, "Your Majesty still remembered that I asked me to hold a workshop outside the city a few days ago?"
Li Mingxun nodded and remembered some of it. The capital was settled. Zhu Yushu took advantage of the fact that the families of the veterans and senior congressmen were all there and took some money from the palace and recruited some. She set up seven or eight workshops in the capital, mostly for textiles, embroidery, and garment. In order to give the abandoned children and daughters in the capital a way out.
Let’s say that the Qing royal family in the capital fled, and then a large-scale liquidation was carried out. The original officials and powerful families were uprooted. Some of them fled to the north of the Mobei, and most of them were exiled to the frontier, but the officials and their immediate relatives were exiled. Those who depended on the powerful and powerful and children were abandoned. Some of the Eight Banners who fled were even thrown away their mothers and children. Those who were liquidated thought they wanted to be beheaded, so they made arrangements in the chaos.
When the family fled, these people dared not admit that they were powerful families in the Qing Dynasty, but they had no way to make a living. They mostly stayed on the streets and begged and stolen. Although the Military Control Commission and the Beijing-Tianjin Administrative Office had relief measures, they only provided food and clothing. It was not a long-term plan. These displaced men and women could still be arranged to farm outside the city, but no one could take care of the orphans and half-old children. The workshop organized by Zhu Yushu recruited these people.
"Does the queen want to arrange these eunuchs to embroider or cut clothes?" Li Mingxun smiled.
"The loom in the workshop requires fine and efficient people. I think eunuchs are suitable. Moreover, many middle-aged and elderly eunuchs have management experience in the palace. They are more suitable for managing widows, widows, orphans, and abandoned children are more suitable than female officials. What does Your Majesty think?" Zhu Yushu asked.
Chapter completed!