Chapter 514 The Difference between the North and the South
The dust of Wang Zhi’s case has settled, and Wang Zhi has also been appointed as the commander-in-chief of Shuangyu Guards, and the area under the jurisdiction of Shuangyu Guards is also the area controlled by Shuangyu Island. range of sea areas.
It can be said that with the establishment of Shuangyu Guards, the Ming Dynasty's influence on the sea has been expanded the most since Yongle. Its scope of influence can reach Japan in the north and Luzon in the south.
On this large sea area, in addition to the Japanese pirates who still refused to give up and the Westerners from the far west, the Ming Dynasty was also regarded as the most powerful maritime power in the East and Southeast. .
However, this power is still a bit weak now. After all, most of this power comes from the original Shuangyu Island pirates. Although Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou’s subordinates are not weak, after all, their subordinates are not weak. Most are good at land warfare, and not many are good at sea warfare.
Moreover, it is also subject to the number of seagoing ships today, as well as the size and firepower of the seagoing ships.
So it will take several or more years to fully control this maritime force.
The prerequisite for truly digesting this maritime power is that the Longjiang Shipyard can be strengthened to build the most invincible ships of today, and then fill them with regular imperial troops. In this way The forces of these pirate factions who were entrusted to Zhaoan were completely controlled by the imperial court.
Otherwise, this group of lawless gangsters who are used to being pirates and gangsters will be really difficult to manage.
If you don’t do it right, you may even injure yourself.
Therefore, the top priority now is to let Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou each lead their own elites who can fight naval battles, and dismantle some of the elite pirates in Shuangyu Island into their respective naval fleets in a mixed and dispersed manner.
Then let them train and integrate through suppressing Japanese pirates and arresting smuggling at sea. In this way, the maritime power of the Ming Dynasty can develop for a long time, and use Shuangyu Guard as a new starting point to transform the Ming Dynasty into a new one. We are also brought into the great wave of the Age of Discovery to compete with Westerners for future world dominance!
So this time Zhu Zaijing also attached great importance to the establishment of the Dongyang Navy.
"Yuhuatian, have you remembered your mission?"
Zhu Zaijing looked at Yuhuatian who came to the palace to pay his respects.
After Yuhuatian heard Zhu Zaijing's words, he immediately bowed: "Your Majesty, I will remember every word in my heart!"
Zhu Zaijing hummed: "Very good. I recommend you. Go to Longjiang Shipyard as a guard eunuch and As the supervisor of the Dongyang Navy, I actually have very high expectations for you. After you arrive in Nanjing, you must fulfill your responsibilities well and don't associate with those sour scholars in Nanjing who can only recite poems and compose poems."
“Also Don't care about the eunuchs and old nobles who guard Nanjing. They are just a piece of rotten wood forgotten by the imperial court in Nanjing. They cannot serve any big purpose. You only need to remember that your duty is to build a big ship. Armed Oriental Water Master, follow the example of the Three Treasures Eunuchs of the past and achieve unparalleled achievements!"
Yu Huatian bowed excitedly again. This time he was able to reap such great benefits and be so reused, it was all because of Zhu! Zaijing’s support and favor.
So he naturally knows how important his responsibility is this time. As long as he does a good job in Nanjing, when the ship goes overseas in the future, his name will be remembered in history.
Therefore, Yuhuatian knows better than anyone how great Prince Yu's kindness is to him this time!
Yu Huatian replied excitedly: "I will definitely live up to the prince's expectations! I will definitely build a big ship in Nanjing and will never join in the troubles with the slanderous Confucians in Nanjing."
Zhu Zai Jing smiled and said: "Okay, okay, don't be so excited. Those people in Nanjing are used to living a good life. When you go there, you will definitely be beaten by them." Welcome and send. If these people want to give you benefits, you should still accept them, but remember who gave them and how much? Remember them clearly, they are also yours. Great work!"
When Yu Huatian heard this, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart. It seemed that the prince in front of him had long wanted to take action against the serious illness in Nanjing.
It seems that my visit to the Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing this time is not simply to supervise the construction of large ships.
Of course, when Zhu Zaijing asked Yuhuatian to supervise the construction of large ships at the Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing, he did not bet all the shipbuilding treasures on the Longjiang Shipyard.
After all, the current Longjiang Shipyard has been in ruins since Yongle. Although it can still build ships, the ships built now are all flat-bottomed boats running on the canal, and the largest ones are not. It will exceed 600 materials.
And this kind of 600-material boat will definitely not be able to ride the wind and waves on the sea.
So, while Zhu Zaijing asked Emperor Jiajing to restore the glory of Longjiang Shipyard, he also ordered people to build ships in Weixuan Port, Tianjin.
After all, this is the place closest to the capital. Not only is it easy to control, but it can also directly use administrative means to recruit shipbuilding materials and shipbuilding craftsmen from across the country.
Therefore, Zhu Zaijing did not have much hope that Nanjing could build a real big ship. What he really hoped for was whether Tianjin Wei, a place under his actual control, could build an ocean-going ship!
One of the most important reasons for letting Yuhuatian go is to let him collect some evidence in Nanjing so that he can attack the big families in Jiangnan in the future.
After all, this group of Jiangnan wealthy people were the most well-fed and idle people in the entire Ming Dynasty. The life and ideological level of this group of people were generally much higher than those of ordinary people.
But these people with good living standards and high ideological realm are generally selfish people, and it is difficult for them to unify their own interests with the interests of the Ming Dynasty.
More often, they will think that the Ming Dynasty is taking advantage of them.
And this kind of thinking is undoubtedly the most intolerable to Zhu Zaijing!
So, Zhu Zaijing had to take precautions and send someone to explore the depths of Jiangnan first. When Hai Rui's magic sword had been sharpened to a certain level, the power accumulated by the imperial court had also reached a certain level. After the point.
Zhu Zaijing will let these big people in Jiangnan, who are selfish and only think about their own interests, know why the flowers are so red?
The reason why Zhu Zaijing can't look down on these big Jiangnan households is actually not because he hates the rich.
It’s because there is really something wrong with the thinking of these big Jiangnan households.
They are like the petty bourgeois liberals of later generations. They only think about their own interests and never think about what they have to pay for the country.
And not only that, they will also use a set of high-profile rhetoric to ridicule and slander the court, as if they are the most sober group of people, and the court and the people in the court are all bastards .
So it was precisely because of their mentality that led to the final demise of the Ming Dynasty!
You must know that in the original historical time and space, the north and south of the Ming Dynasty were like parallel worlds with polar contrasts.
The Ming Dynasty in the north was on the verge of collapse due to the Jurchen attack in Jianzhou and the devastation of the Little Ice Age. Ordinary people had no way to survive, either starving to death or being exposed to plague or other outbreaks. The disaster took away lives, and in the end, at the last resort, they had no choice but to tie their heads to their belts and follow the various rebel armies to stutter.
But in the Jiangnan area, it was a different scene. The wealthy households and common people in the south of the Yangtze River still lived a leisurely and contented life. When the north was exchanging food for food, they actually still had spare food to brew for festivals and daily life. Enjoy the drinks.
And this is not the most extreme thing. Take the nostalgic prose "Looking at the Snow in the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake" written by Zhang Dai, a great litterateur in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, as an example.
He clearly recorded his leisurely life watching the snow in the West Lake in December of the fifth year of Chongzhen. In the article, he wrote in detail: "When we arrived at the pavilion, two people spread a felt and sat opposite each other. A boy was making wine and the stove was boiling. When he saw Yu, he was overjoyed and said, "How can there be more people like this in the lake? "I pulled Yu to drink together. Yu Qiang drank three big whites and said goodbye. I asked him his surname. He is from Jinling and is visiting here."
From this passage, we can see that they are also in the same world. In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, the sky in the north was about to collapse, but the south still had the time to drink and enjoy the snow, feeling the impermanence of time.
Although later generations spoke highly of this article, saying that every word was exquisite, and although the length was small, the artistic conception was broad.
But if you are familiar with what kind of dark age the Chongzhen era was, and then read this prose, you will know how terrifying the gap between the north and the south is.
So in order to clean up this self-interested petty bourgeoisie that is moaning for no reason and does not want to serve the country and protect the family, Zhu Zaijing must make arrangements in advance.
Kill the unhealthy practices of the southern literati!
We must let them know that the north and the south are one family, and that the north will not have a good time, and that will be the time when they wake up from their slumber.
At that time, even if they miss the old days and the leisurely years in their hearts, they will be out of reach.
Everything will never be the same again.
So no matter what, we cannot allow this refined and self-interested style of thought and writing to continue to poison the wealthy families and people in the south.
Otherwise, when the world falls apart, apart from writing some moral articles and placing all the blame on the court, they will not see any other actions.
So for this kind of refined and self-interested cultural trend, Zhu Zaijing felt that no matter how dark the hand was, it was just too much!
After all, if you really have to wait until the moment the sky collapses and want to deal with them again, then it will be too late.
After explaining Yuhuatian, Zhu Zaijing also withdrew his thoughts.
Now he has completely brought himself into the era, and has also made his mission and responsibilities clear.
After all, if you really want to develop an era well, relying solely on advanced technology may be effective in the short term, but without ideological storms and changes, the original ideas will still be allowed to remain in the declining body of the Ming Dynasty. , spreading like cancer.
Even if Zhu Zaijing spent his whole life laying the foundation for the Industrial Revolution for the Ming Dynasty, the fruits of victory will be won by this or another group of people who don’t know where to come from. careerists steal.
Therefore, for a long-term plan, and for there to be less cultural rifts and big cultural differences between the north and the south, Zhu Zaijing must prepare for ideological transformation while solving practical problems.
Only when this is achieved can the north and south of the Ming Dynasty become an organic whole.
Instead of the North seeing the South as rich and stingy, the South sees the North as barbaric and poor.
The South feels that the North has taken advantage of them, and they know how to suck blood through the canal every day.
The north feels that the good days of the south are all because they resisted the grassland enemies at the front.
If there is such an ideological deficit, then there will be no mutual understanding and the same goals between the North and the South.
If there is no mutual understanding and the same goals between the north and the south, then it will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for both the court and ordinary people.
Once this potential disaster breaks out, people in the north and south will stand by and watch each other, regardless of each other's life and death.
It is just like the suffering that happened in history.
The North is about to collapse, and the South has failed to help, and is still living its own happy and peaceful life.
Then when the North completely collapses and the desperate people become sharp knives in the hands of the aliens in order to survive, the first one they will attack will be the idlers in the South.
So in order to prevent such a tragedy from happening, Zhu Zaijing must start from both the ideological and economic aspects at the same time, not only to improve the economic foundation of the north, but also to improve the ideological problems of the south.
As long as these two problems are solved organically, I can’t say whether the Ming Dynasty can survive for another three hundred years, but it should not be a big problem for at least another hundred years.
After all, everyone is full and satisfied, the strength of the foreign enemies has been restrained and weakened, and the Virgin's emotions have not been seduced by the prosperous years, so there is still hope that the stability of a hundred years can be maintained. .
Of course, as for whether people a hundred years from now will develop feelings for the Holy Mother due to eating too much, that is not something Zhu Zaijing can control. After all, by that time, Zhu Zaijing’s The grass on the grave is already three feet high, how can it still have the ability to influence people in the future?
Therefore, you must be pragmatic, do things well for your own generation, and lay a solid foundation for the next generation, which is considered a success.
As for the matter of Qianqiu Wanshi, it can only be left to the people of Qianqiu Wanshi to solve it themselves.
If they can solve it, then they will keep moving forward. If they can't solve it, then there's nothing serious about it. Even a beating can make their memory long.
After all, this is how history develops. History will always have some unexpected surprises at certain points. There will always be an unexpected fierce person coming from the sky to whip the world and let those who People who think they are civilized tremble in the face of barbarism.
Then after experiencing dozens or hundreds of years of suffering, blood will burst out again and enter a new round of prosperity and prosperity.
As for how long this new round of prosperity and prosperity can last, it depends on how far this new round of development can develop.
If the development is good, it will be more decades. If the development is not good, it will be less decades.
Anyway, severe beatings can never be absent, otherwise no matter how powerful a nation is, it will be impossible to break through the bottleneck and enter a higher state of development by relying on steady development.
So, this is what Lao Tzu said: "the peak will then decline" and "the peak will be prosperous"!
Everything has pros and cons!
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