Chapter 799 I just say one word, and everything is done in silver!
It is not easy to leave your name in the history books. It is really difficult.
And by pledging a donation, you can leave a lasting legacy, even if it is an inscription at the Normal School.
This is a very big temptation for the wealthy households who don’t know where to spend their money. Therefore, the main problem in pledging donations for the Normal School of the Capital of the Ming Dynasty is to divide the spoils, rather than forcing powerful people to pledge donations. .
This also involves a question of confidence. The powerful Ming Dynasty leader Hao You has great confidence in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of trust mainly relies on trusting the emperor.
The most dangerous part of the Wanli Reform was the tenth year of Wanli. There were initial results, but not much. The contradiction between incremental distribution and stock distribution was the most intense, which was the time when the emperor went to Nanya for inspection.
At the most dangerous time, His Majesty used powerful means to ensure his own safety and protect the achievements of the Wanli Reform.
It is easy to plan to control the strong, but difficult to plan when the weak is in chaos.
When the country is strong, all decisions made can be successful; but when the country is weak, no matter how clever the plan is, it will fail.
The Ming Dynasty has truly entered an upward cycle, and the emperor's wisdom determines the length of this upward cycle, so Zheshe households are willing to spend money to buy some reputation.
At this time, no one can destroy the Wanli New Deal of the emperor and Yuan Fu, not even the emperor nor Yuan Fu.
"That's good, just don't worry about it all with complaints." After hearing the report, Zhu Yijun felt relieved knowing that he almost started a fight in order to grab the opportunity to leave his name in Qingshi.
A government decree caused a lot of complaints, which was not a situation the emperor wanted to see.
Zhang Juzheng held up his hands and continued: "In addition to passing down the history, what these powerful people also want to do is to have incense and love. Since the master of heaven and earth is a teacher, preaching, receiving karma and solving doubts, naturally he will have incense and love." , whoever becomes successful in the future will have something to do with them.”
"Your Majesty, sometimes there is a threshold for bribery, and it is very high."
"It's already difficult just to know which temple to kowtow to. If someone gives you some pointers, you can kowtow to the right temple door. But it's not enough to kowtow to the right temple door. If the temple doesn't open the door for you, you can't. Unable to burn incense and worship Buddha.”
"Incense and passion can be used in places like this."
These teachers in the subsidized normal school are part of the network of powerful people.
Sun Kehong likes to throw money at maritime schools to ensure his absolute advantage in maritime trade.
Not only the emperor knew the importance of education, but also powerful right-wing officials knew that the bureaucracy grew out of the education system, and the Dinghai school system also divided the spoils.
Zhang Juzheng talked about the other thoughts of these powerful people. Burning incense and worshiping Buddha, whether it is a real Buddha or not, depends on the guidance of an expert. Whether you can enter the temple, you need a guide, and the incense sentiment can be used in this kind of way. place.
Political resources are an extremely expensive resource. Those who take over everything and engage in blatant corruption will definitely put themselves in trouble.
Yan Song's bribery was very secretive, but Yan Shifan's bribery was unruly and everyone knew about it. He even blackmailed Prince Yu's palace, so he was naturally not tolerated.
How to pay bribes without any fuss is a required course for powerful right-wingers;
How to quietly put money into your pocket and land it smoothly is a profound knowledge for all bureaucrats.
Giving and accepting bribes can never be done with money.
"I see." Zhu Yijun sighed and said, "The imperial court has no money. If it had money, it wouldn't be their turn."
Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment and chose to tell the truth: "Your Majesty, the imperial court also has a lot of money and food. Even the normal schools in various provinces were built directly by the imperial court. In the end, it was the local normal schools, not the imperial court."
"And there are higher schools, secondary schools, and elementary schools behind them. Even if the imperial court's money is as vast as the Pacific Ocean, it won't be enough."
Before Wan Shihe died, he wrote a memorial saying: In the process of colonization, colonists inevitably become localized.
These colonists have stayed in those places for a long time, and the information and education they received will change. Their ideas have become increasingly different from those of the Ming Dynasty. They look the same and even speak Chinese, but their interests are no longer completely the same as those of the Ming Dynasty. Converged.
The same is true for some of the envoys who were sent abroad. Because of the long distance or different countries, they lived like foreign barbarians while they were alive. They did not care about the interests of the Ming people at all, and would even follow the local barbarians to use the Ming Dynasty to seek their own interests.
The same is true for schools at all levels, which are inevitably localized.
"Sir, what you mean is that in terms of cultural context, the Ming Dynasty should pay special attention to the Kowloon University Hall and follow the imperial court's footsteps?" Zhu Yijun frowned.
Wan Shihe only advocated that Nanyang, that is, within the Strait of Malacca, was the core interest of the Ming Dynasty. As for matters beyond the Strait of Malacca, it was out of reach and was left to merchants.
What Zhang Juzheng meant implicitly and externally was that he wanted the imperial court to firmly control the Kowloon University Hall, so that top talents would be concentrated in the Ming Dynasty.
It is probably because this Kowloon University School is the eldest son, and the remaining schools will be given to the imperial court if they have enough money, and if there are less, they will just let them go.
"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said. He hoped that your Majesty would be realistic and that those local schools would ultimately be managed by local yamen.
The energy of the imperial court is not unlimited, and the money of the imperial court is not unlimited.
"What you said makes sense." Zhu Yijun recognized Zhang Juzheng's suggestion. Gao Qiyu proposed the framework of the Dinghai academic system, but this framework needed to be repaired.
It is necessary to clarify the priorities and to distinguish between those who are close and those who are close.
Zhang Juzheng no longer recognized Gao Qiyu as a student, but he still actively offered advice and suggestions for the Dinghai academic system created by Gao Qiyu. Zhang Juzheng supplemented some issues that Gao Qiyu could not see.
"Your Majesty, this year's large sailing ship has arrived in port again, and the silver imported from Thailand and Spain is only 3 million silver, but this time there is 120,000 taels of gold." Zhang Juzheng talked about another purpose of his entering the palace, diplomacy.
The inflow of silver was visibly slowing down, and the galleons sent by Felipe this time still did not have enough silver supply. This was really difficult for Ming to accept.
The listed price in the Ming Dynasty was that one tael of gold was equivalent to sixteen taels of silver. Of course, this price would fluctuate greatly under Wang Qian's manipulation.
This time the large ship arrived at the port, including gold, it was converted into five million silver. However, these 120,000 taels of gold were not included in the liquidity of the currency. The currency of the Ming Dynasty was still silver and copper coins.
"The inflow of silver is slowing down, and prices in major metropolitan areas may be sluggish. Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, the implementation of the whipping method was stopped. Otherwise, I would not be a hero of the Wanli Reform, but a criminal." Zhang Juzheng was a little worried.
The silver imported from Europe and the West kept coming for a while, which almost made Zhang Juzheng almost fall over.
Without a sufficient supply of silver, the one-whip method of currency tax could not be implemented.
Falling prices have led to a decline in workshop production scale;
Scale cannot dilute costs, overall profits decline, and workshop owners can only squeeze labor costs;
This further led to the decline in scale leading to fewer goods, vicious competition in workshops, lower labor remuneration, people were generally unwilling to buy non-essential goods, consumption declined, and demand fell, ultimately leading to further economic malaise.
If the Ming court used a whip to remove the silver at this time, it would be equivalent to removing the silver, which would reduce the circulation of goods and further exacerbate the money shortage and deflation.
"Your Majesty, Ming Dynasty is too big and needs too much money." Zhang Juzheng sighed.
The essence of the problem is that the Ming Dynasty is too large. With 130 million inhabitants and a vast and complex territory, the transformation of the Ming Dynasty's small-scale peasant economy into a commodity economy is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
Relying on silver alone as currency is really not enough.
But the time has not yet come for issuing treasure banknotes.
Zhu Yijun said helplessly: "Before the gold collection is completed, the money shortage may continue for some time."
"Your Majesty, you can actually issue an additional one million silver of overseas treasure banknotes, anchored with tobacco. Not many people in Ming Dynasty recognize the overseas currency banknotes, but there are still many people in Nanyang who recognize it. "Zhang Juzheng put forward his own opinion.
For making the Ming Dynasty great again, neither the emperor nor the ministers thanked free trade. Now Zhang Juzheng means to suffer the barbarians in Nanyang again and contribute to the currency circulation of the Ming Dynasty.
Is it possible that the people of Ming Dynasty are already suffering a lot?
When it comes to this kind of thing, there is no doubt at all about the Westerners, and there is no need to even debate the scriptures. The high moral inferiority of the Ming Dynasty in the colonial era is real, and the suffering of the Yi people is still considered. To propose, to weigh.
This mentality is not conducive to colonial development.
"That can only be like this. Slave labor in the plantation is already very hard. I rummaged through my pockets and found that I don't have much silver and I can't be kind. I have nothing to do, so I will issue an additional one million silver." Bao Chao, please replenish the currency." Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and chose to approve.
Zhu Yijun is the emperor. Likewise, he is also a human being, not an omnipotent god. He cannot change silver. To truly make silver cheap, it will take until the third industrial technological revolution, when silver becomes a by-product of electrolytic aluminum, to achieve nearly the same value. In endless silver.
This one million silver banknotes, which are popular overseas, are mainly used to exchange for red copper from Luzon.
"Your Majesty, this time the envoy from France to France is a woman, the Patriarch of the Great Illumination Sect, Marion de Montmorency." Zhang Juzheng leaned forward slightly and said with some worry: "She created that Freedom Rider The regiment, the 12,000-strong Skitarii, is a bit too fast.”
"Her father is a field marshal in France, and her purpose is not simple."
If he had only come as the Patriarch of the Great Light Sect, Zhang Juzheng would not have thought so much, but this time Marion was also the envoy of France.
What this means is self-evident.
The French royal family has been in turmoil due to the issue of heir. Like a piece of fat meat, everyone is watching. The Montmorency family wants to replace it. It is already Sima Zhao's heart and everyone knows it.
Zhu Yijun immediately said: "There are not enough benefits. I will not provide more help and support just to confer one more overseas vassal king. It is a false name. It does not matter whether it is the King of Kings or the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets." .”
"I just say one word, and everything will be done in silver!"
"I also mean the same thing. Thailand and the West are too far away, so the Ming Dynasty cannot interfere directly. France and Portugal are completely different, and Marion and Antonio are completely different. Without the support of His Majesty, Antonio will have problems whether he can continue to sit on the throne." Zhang Juzheng reminded the risks involved.
In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, France launched an attack on Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Spanish Governorate of Brazil, but it ended in failure. Later, it relied on the northern Atlantic route to carry out colonial activities in the northeastern part of North America, but it was not very smooth.
Overall, France is not yet qualified to take the table when it comes to colonization.
Zhang Juzheng frowned and said: "At present, there are not many things that Marion can come up with. The only things worth paying attention to are the charts and needle charts of the northern Atlantic route. Due to geographical reasons, they are not of high value to the Ming Dynasty."< br>
"As for Marion's spread of the Great Light Sect, I think it is not necessary."
Zhang Juzheng was a scholar-bureaucrat. He never understood what was so fussy about religion. This Tessie was beaten to a bloody head just because of this.
In fact, most of the Ming Dynasty literati found it difficult to understand why religion became the representative of the order in Europe and the West.
King Antonio of Portugal was able to receive assistance from the Ming Dynasty. It was because the Ming Dynasty urgently needed a fulcrum in the West, so it gave a war loan and paid for it in the form of a five-masted transoceanic ship.
The return on this investment is very high. Portugal paid an interest rate of 4% over a 40-year extension. Ming Dynasty has already recovered the cost, and it will be a pure profit thereafter.
At that time, the cost of a five-masted transoceanic ship was not high, but the price was extremely expensive. Felipe II had to queue up to buy one.
The Ming Dynasty interfered too much in Thai and Western affairs, and the gains outweighed the losses. Interference cost manpower, material and financial resources.
"Your Majesty, the Shah's envoy is here, and he also brought Salim, the prince of the Mughal Kingdom." Xiao Huangmen walked into the imperial study and reported the envoy's visit.
"Xuan." Salim is the eldest son of Akbar, who is now in the Mughal Kingdom. This Salim is not a fuel-efficient lamp, which makes Akbar love and hate him. He has no choice but to throw Salim to the Ming Dynasty. It’s better to go to school and not go back in the short term.
Salim didn't do anything, but he was a little impatient waiting for the succession, so he made some small rebellion, and almost succeeded.
Akbar was the de facto founding emperor of the Mughal Empire. Without Akbar, the Mughal Empire would not have ruled the South Asian subcontinent for more than two hundred years. Under such a powerful master, he almost succeeded in planning a rebellion. Two brushes can't do it.
Akbar had three sons in total. Of these three sons, only Salim was the most talented and had shown extraordinary wisdom since he was a child.
Emperor Akbar, after a long life, finally lost his former decisiveness and iron-blooded skills when it came to the issue of his successor. He chose to forgive Salim and sent him to the Ming Dynasty to study abroad.
"Greetings to your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Shah Maimaiti saluted respectfully, and then something happened that gave him a splitting headache!
Salim did not kneel down, but looked at the Ming Emperor with curious eyes.
"The Shah's envoy is exempt from the courtesy."
"You are quite courageous." Zhu Yijun looked calmly and looked at Salim. He was eighteen or nineteen years old. It was the rebellious period of the boss of heaven, the second boss of earth, and the third son of me. He was dressed in a typical Turkic Mongolian style, with a golden and black hair. He wears a white turban and a yellow mandarin jacket with various patterns embroidered on it.
Zhu Yijun smiled and asked: "Why, I am not convinced?"
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"Young king, you have no proud achievements, why should I kneel down to you?" Salim half-raised his head and said with some pride.
Shah Maimaiti didn't know how to translate it. This trouble-loving prince had caused a huge disaster. Salim didn't know what kind of being he had angered.
With the emperor's order, the 130,000-strong naval force might indeed send troops to the Indian Ocean to capture his father and bring him to the capital to punish him for being disrespectful.
Zhu Yijun didn't even wait for the translation. This Salim's face was full of rebelliousness, with two words written on his face, "I won't accept it!"
Zhu Yijun is very experienced in dealing with this kind of child. Zhu Yijun has shown such an expression many times. The best way to deal with such a rebellious child is to give him a beating. If one beating is not enough, then give him another beating.
"I see you are also a martial arts practitioner. Let's go and walk around my martial arts room." Zhu Yijun stood up, looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, "Is Luo Qianhu here?"
"Here you come, Your Majesty..." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.
"Sir, don't worry, I'm not a child anymore. He's no big or small, and I can't tell the importance. I'm the king of a country." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I won't fight him. I will fight with Luo Sigong, and let Luo Sigong beat him. ”
"Call the bear again."
"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again. Your Majesty is the king of a country and the most important person in the country. If you start a fight with the princes of other countries, if anything happens, it will be a diplomatic accident of the level of a landslide.
Xiong Tingbi wanted to go to North Korea to annihilate the Japanese, and wanted to return to Suiyuan to continue quelling the horse bandits, but the emperor was reluctant to let him go. He asked him to prepare well for the Jinshi examination, pass the Wen Jinshi examination first, not to be eager to make meritorious deeds, and to accumulate the harvest of Suiyuan.
It was just a matter of time to bring him here to fight, not to mention Luo Sigong bullying him, a foreigner, just because of his age.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Yijun put on his armor, finished warming up, and started fighting with Luo Sigong. Luo Sigong had a bad temper and didn't think about being submissive at all. , who didn’t know, thought he was the enemy who killed his father.
The emperor had an order: Use all your strength and don't hide your secrets.
Zhu Yijun responded with ease. In a total of twenty rounds, Luo Sigong only won one and lost eighteen.
In the last round, Luo Sigong was already a little tired of parrying. Zhu Yijun looked at the neutral position and hooked a kick on Luo Sigong's left foot. The kick was fast, accurate and powerful, and Luo Sigong was brought to the ground.
"You're still the same, your foot is unstable." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and pulled Luo Sigong up.
Luo Sigong was disgraced back then because he couldn't stand his horse properly and fell to the ground. At that time, just like now, His Majesty stretched out his hand and pulled him up, and also pulled him out of the hell he was blamed by everyone. .
In fighting, the competition is actually about basic skills. The more solid the foundation, the more skillful you will be. When your skills reach the level of mastery, it is actually almost instinctive to make moves.
Luo Sigong's talent is not as good as the emperor's, especially in the lower hand, so the older he gets, the more Luo Sigong loses.
"I am ashamed." Luo Sigong said helplessly: "I am no longer qualified to give advice to His Majesty."
"It's okay. I have been looking for you for so many years, but I have only found you who dare to take action with all my strength." Zhu Yijun took off his dodo and said with a smile: "When you leave, take a stewed goose back. There are too few dodos. No, I’m not willing to eat it.”
This is true, even Zhu Yiyi is like this. The older he gets, the less King Lu dares to attack with all his strength. Later, he was unable to fight back. The man fell down before the sword could reach him. The main attack was on a majesty with great martial arts skills!
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty." Luo Sigong thanked him respectfully.
Every time sparring ends, His Majesty will reward you with something to eat. It doesn’t matter what you eat. This is the Holy Family.
"Beat him hard." Zhu Yijun looked at Salim next to him and whispered.
Salim is indeed a martial arts practitioner. He can see that in the fierce battle just now, the emperor and his ministers all attacked with all their strength, without holding anything back. Every move was very dangerous, and every move was a killing move.
Salim accepted Luo Sigong's challenge, and Salim was defeated.
Luo Sigong had fought the emperor for twenty rounds, and even though he had used up more than half of his strength, he still ruthlessly crushed Salim. Salim was beaten so hard that he had no power to fight back. As relaxed and freehand as a child.
In wrestling, whether you have strength or not can be seen at a glance. Luo Sigong already has the strength to choose sharp soldiers, and Salim is really no match.
"Now, this stabbing head is finally convinced." Zhu Yijun sat on the Grand Master's chair in the martial arts room and said happily to Zhang Juzheng.
There were ten rounds in total, and Salim didn't win once. Apart from that, he didn't form any effective attack. Luo Sigong still held back some strength and wasted the whole time, toying with Salim for ten rounds. round.
His Majesty asked him to beat people, but not to kill.
"It's very ordinary. It's even difficult to enter the capital camp." Luo Sigong got out of the battle and gave a fair evaluation.
Salim didn't have time to show off his unruliness, because Xiong Tingbi came on next!
Xiong Tingbi has no intention of letting off steam at all. They are all of the same age, so why should he offend?
Full firepower, full power!
In ten rounds, Salim fell down with his armor ten times, and each time he was hit hard. At the end of the fight, Salim couldn't even get up. He lay on the ground and took off his armor. Breathing heavily.
At this time, Salim was lying on the ground, doubting life.
Among the three people who entered the battle in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was the strongest, followed by Xiong Tingbi, and then Luo Sigong. He was invincible in the Mughal Kingdom, but he could not get past a single round in the Ming Dynasty.
Xiong Tingbi came to His Majesty, bowed his head and said: "It's really ordinary, you can't enter the capital camp."
"Very good, take a stewed goose with you when you leave." Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xiong Tingbi also ate the goose.
Shah Maimaiti walked over, with an extremely excited look on his face, and kept giving lectures. He helped Salim stand up from the ground, took off his armor, and then went to the emperor to see him again.
"Greetings to your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Salim performed a non-standard salute of five bows and three kowtows in broken Chinese.
"Do you know why your father sent you to the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Yijun did not let Salim be freed. After Shah Maimaiti translated, the emperor continued: "Your father told me that he did not know that he was Who, this is a great sadness.”
"Your father, you, and your children and grandchildren will have to think about this question, who am I, from generation to generation."
Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to bring the letter of credence written by Akbar that had been prepared long ago. The Mongolian language had many errors, and the letter of credence could be written in Persian with long sentences.
"You haven't become a king yet, you are still very young, and you don't know the importance of who I am." Zhu Yijun took the certificate and said: "If you are not willing to receive an education in Ming Dynasty, I can retire you as a monk. You can go back.”
"I allowed you to receive education in Ming Dynasty because of your father's earnest prayer."
Who I am is very important and involves the fundamental issue of identity, the construction of a nation.
Akbar called his study abroad activities a search for his roots.
For a ruler, he can’t even figure out who I am and where I come from. This is a great sadness and irony. The rule will also become in danger because of identity.
Akbar really made an earnest request, hoping that Ming Dynasty could teach something to these foreign students. Even if he didn't teach science and engineering subjects, it would be polite to teach him the Four Books and Five Classics.
The tuition fees for international students in Salim are really expensive. One international student costs 10,000 taels of silver, not counting the 3% profit margin from the cotton trade.
"Do you want to go back?" Zhu Yijun asked Salim what he thought.
Salim thought for a long time before kowtowing again and said: "No, I want to go back after I finish my studies."
Salim really couldn't tell that he was a waste. Akbar had killed him a long time ago. The rebellion failed to seize the throne, but he was still alive and still the crown prince. Akbar had high hopes for Salim.
"I sincerely apologize for my recklessness and thank His Majesty the Emperor for his tolerance and kindness. I have a treasure that I will dedicate to His Majesty as an apology." Salim worshiped again and communicated frequently with Shah Maimaiti.
After Shah Maimaiti confessed his crime to the emperor, he left the martial arts room.
Salim didn't get up either. It would be insincere to apologize with empty hands.
Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng talked about state affairs, mainly about the Korean War. There were many problems in it.
For example, North Korea needed more officials, but the Ming Dynasty could not send many scholar-officials. No one wanted to go to remote areas. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty scholar-officials, North Korea was not as good as Suiyuan and Liaodong, and North Korean scholar-officials could not be used. Many Korean scholar-officials were The civil and military classes themselves could only set up some schools in North Korea.
Until there are no North Korean scholar-officials to train talented people, North Korea will always be in a state of semi-military control.
"Your Majesty, this is His Highness Salim's apology." Shah Maimaiti walked up to the emperor holding a box, with a rare expression of pain on his face. It was obvious that the items in the box were extremely precious.
When Feng Bao took the box from Shah Maimaiti, Shah Maimaiti didn't want to let go.
Feng Bao opened the box and inspected it carefully for a long time. He turned the box to His Majesty with a shocked expression and said: "A huge diamond, so dazzling."
A diamond the size of a baby's fist appeared in front of Zhu Yijun. This was the first time Zhu Yijun had seen such a big diamond. Zhu Yijun picked up the diamond in front of him and looked at it. Any impurities in the diamond were smooth and translucent.
"Send it to the queen." Zhu Yijun didn't care very much. If there was something good, he would also think about Wang Yaozhuo.
Shah Maimaiti said with a heartbroken face: "This is Koinol, which is the Mountain of Light. It was discovered in Mount Koler more than two hundred years ago. It is extremely precious. Your Majesty, I am very sure that Your Highness Salim, It’s really sincere.”
Even Shah Maimaiti thought it was too expensive and was indeed a treasure.
"No courtesy." Zhu Yijun said calmly: "I am indeed sincere."
Salim bowed tremblingly again and said sincerely: "Your Majesty is indeed a philosopher king. Facing such a treasure, he still has no greed. Even my father is afraid of this mountain of light."
"My father said that he is a philosopher king who is not swayed by fear or lust, but who is free even in chains."
"That's nonsense! I just prefer silver." Zhu Yijun shook his head in denial. He was a layman, completely opposite to the Philosopher King.
(End of chapter)