Chapter 815: The sword for opening the gold mine and the sword for investigating corrupt officials
When he heard that the Kulin people asked the Ming Dynasty to exchange weapons, Deng Zilong was extremely calm on the surface. He knew that the process of opening the gold mine would not be smooth, and there was no lie to do anything, because the Kulin people pointed at each other several times, and even asked Deng Zilong's sword.
Deng Zilong's sword was a gift from the emperor when he was awarded the title of Shilong Marquis. It was a ritual instrument, not a weapon, but itself a decorative object representing his identity. "Give it to him." Deng Zilong calmly detached his ritual vessel, handed it over to common affairs, and agreed on trade items.
Before Dinghai, Zhenhai, Pinghai and Jinchi are established, we must be friendly to prevent the attacks of the Kulin people and cause slow construction. Even if there is a rammed earth city wall, it is a home to shelter from wind and rain.
And most importantly, the Ming Dynasty had very limited understanding of the Kulin people. It was unknown how many people there were in its tribe and ethnic group, whether there were any weapons or toxins that could be wiped out by blood, and whether there were unknown diseases that would damage the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
The conflict rashly occurred without the protection of the city. The military soldiers of the Ming Nanyang Navy were driven into the sea. This was a huge joke. Deng Zilong really couldn't afford to lose that person.
The Ming army did not pay special attention to the trade situation, but instead set up camps according to training.
The Ming army camp mainly focuses on a hard camp, such as the pits of horses, horses, a meter-high camp wall, artillery positions, watchtowers, arrow towers, etc. This is derived from the experience of Emperor Chengzuwen’s five personal expeditions.
Without a hard village, there will be no victory.
The trade was not going well because the Kulin people not only asked for many weapons, but also muskets. They had seen the guards on the stargazing ships and used muskets to kill saltwater crocodile.
Deng Zilong looked at the 36-pound gunpowder guns at the head of the five-mast crossing the foreign ship. What are the uses of a few muskets?
It was the Ming Dynasty who gave the Kulin people enough muskets. Will they use it? Has it been trained? Is there any gunpowder? Are there many muskets in their Ming army? Are there artillery? Is there a combat system?
Nothing.
But the Kulin people firmly asked for it, so they asked someone to take a handgun and didn't give it to them. No matter how much it was, the Kulin people obviously didn't use the firegun. After fiddling for a long time, they couldn't understand the principle, so they had to take away the gunpowder-free handgun.
The musket without gunpowder is just a fire stick. The Kulin people thought that some special spell was needed to activate the heavenly punishment.
The Kulin people handed over the golden stones to the Ming army, replaced some salt, iron pot, long and short soldiers, and left happily.
Governor Zhang Cong drew on a very simple geometric map and said with a serious expression: "The golden plain mentioned by the Kulin people is nearly 300 miles west of the Jinchi Pond. The Kulin people cannot tell how far it is. They only know that starting from here, it takes a day and a night to walk, and we also estimate it."
"General, we must hire local barbarians to go and find out. They are a little too greedy. We must be careful of local barbarians."
Deng Zilong looked at the simple geometric map and said with a serious expression: "Not my race, we must have a different intention. First, cultivate the surrounding wasteland and plant our seeds. The boat master, the earth master, and the doctor of agriculture must be protected. The gold mine is there and cannot be escaped."
It is the wisdom of our ancestors if they are not of our race; building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king is also the wisdom of our ancestors.
This is the wisdom of our ancestors. When you don’t know how to do it, jump out and tell you, don’t be afraid, child, we have walked through the road and it will work.
Protecting talents is also the wisdom of our ancestors. In the past, Qi State established the Jixia Academy, which triggered a hundred schools of thought. Later, the Han Dynasty established an investigation system, and all the wise men arrived, and the Han Dynasty lasted for four hundred years. The Tang Dynasty opened the imperial examination, and the Song Dynasty worshipped the civil administration, which led to the prosperity of Zhenguan and the prosperity of Bianjing.
Talents are the foundation of building the world and the foundation of building a country; those who have a prosperous country all regard gathering talents as the key; wherever civilization is prosperous, cultivating talents must be the first priority.
This is all the experience that has been tested and precipitated over the long years of history, and has become more and more innovative after a long time.
Deng Zilong is such a conservative person who believes in the wisdom of his ancestors very much.
He was wary of the barbarians from the beginning, and even hoped that the group of these barbarians would be large enough that there would be no shortage of miners, and he could even condense the cohesion of the Han people in the Governor's Office of Jinchi.
First camp, build a city, and reclaim wasteland. Although the rainfall is heavy, it is not a tropical rainforest. The land around Jinchi City is still dominated by plains. Both sides of the Cangwu River are full of fertile fields, and there is no need to log wood.
The Ming Dynasty's development in the Governor's Office of Jinchi officially began. The curtain was opened, and the thieves' den of the Yuanxu Islands sacrificed their flags. The route had been completely opened. Some ports suitable for the establishment of Mingguan were discovered along the way. The Ming Dynasty's development of the Juezhou continent officially began.
A month later, the rammed earth wall of Dajinchi City has been repaired and the land has been reclaimed and it is only possible to cultivate slowly.
During this period, Duntai Yuanhou also explored the surrounding situation. There were three tribes in the Kulin tribe, the largest tribe had only 30,000 dens, and the smallest tribe had 3,300 dens. "We were led by a coastal defense patrol team. When we went to Kingsoft to investigate, we were attacked by the barbarians. Fortunately, the coastal defense patrol team was very skilled, so we retreated." General Zhang Cong, with a serious expression, heard the situation.
The conflict has begun.
The Kulin people firmly prohibit the Ming army from entering the Golden Plain, because the gold mines here are the only targets for strangers to come here. Although the Kulin people do not know what these gold mines have to the Ming Dynasty, they are very important.
"Kill the chicken to warn the monkey. The largest tribe blocked us from entering the golden plain, so we will destroy him and kill one to warn the hundred!" Deng Zilong looked at the explored geometric map and clicked at the entrance of the golden plain and said, "Zhang Cong."
"The last general is here!"
"Take 1,500 soldiers to flatten the place." Deng Zilong sent a mission, but if he didn't take action, he would be thunder.
If the Kulin people did not show their aggressiveness and did not attack the Duntai Yuanhou of the Ming army, Deng Zilong would be willing to maintain peace for a longer time, and would even pay some goods to hire barbarians to do strong labor.
But the Kulin people expressed their offensiveness very clearly, and the Ming army must not spoil them.
Deng Zilong always kicked the lame man's intact leg when he went to war.
The Kulin people were barbarians. Compared with the Ming people, they were cripples. The first time the Governor General's Office sent troops was the strongest leg and the largest tribe.
Mining requires manpower. Deng Zilong led a small number of Han people. He needed a group of hard work to start mining, build official roads, build chimney roads, build city walls, and official factories. This group of Kulin people is enough.
Zhang Cong led 1,500-odd soldiers to march towards the Golden Plain. The war lasted for thirteen days. The strongest tribe of the Kulin people lost a lot of losses, and the Ming army entered the Golden Plain.
In this battle, the Ming army defeated the strongest tribe of the Kulin people, found the location of the gold mine, occupied the mountain pass, and captured 3,500 prisoners.
The most important purpose of the Governor's Office of Jinchi is that the gold mine has fallen into the hands of the Ming army.
Zou Diguang and other criminals were escorted to Beijing at the end of October of the 15th year of Wanli.
The cold wind in the northwest whistled, blew through Juyong Pass, blew through the large chimney of Xishan Coal Bureau, blew through the busy Jingsui Chi Road, and blew to Tonghe Gong Long Pool, causing ripples, and there was already a layer of thin ice in the dragon pool.
This year is another cold winter. There was a blizzard in Suiyuan, Shaanxi and Shanxi, and even a white-haired wind appeared in Womagang.
"Zou Diguang!" Zhu Yijun's expression changed after reading Yin Zongxin's memorial and sighed heavily. Zhu Yijun always thought that Zou Diguang was dead.
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "Isn't it good for Marquis Yingyang to be his big city lord in Sishui City? What else can I do to him? Or can Marquis Yingyang, Marquis Sishui, and Marquis Shilong do to him!"
"Idiot! Don't be a good scholar or a pirate! If you end up like this today, you will have more than enough death!"
There is a supreme official named Liu Hanru in Sanduao. There was a backbone of the Jin Party before named Fan Yingqi. These were all talents who were heartbroken by Zhu Yijun. To this day, Zhu Yijun is still resentful.
In fact, it was not only Zhang Juzheng who was exiled in the Ming Dynasty, but also Zhu Yijun hoped that Zhou Liangyin would not be too much.
Talents are rare, and making the Ming Dynasty great again requires more people to move forward together, and everyone is getting rich and the fire is high.
Zou Diguang was really lost in the jungle of Java. He could still be remembered as a pioneer, rather than appearing in the memorial as a criminal.
"Behead the public." Zhu Yijun criticized Yin Zongxin's memorial. He did not throw Zou Diguang into the Jieyu Courtyard and cut it alive because the criminals in Jieyu Courtyard were already overcrowded and there was no shortage of such a specimen. It also left a trace of face to the scholars and officials.
In Yin Zongxin's memorial, there was no news about the Governor's Office of Jinchi. The sky was high and the water was long. Zhu Yijun wished Deng Zilong all the best. If the local barbarians insisted on provoking the Ming army, then put the three-inch dragon on the dragon. Zhu Yijun will bear all the sins.
Everyone's head is his. "This Xu Chengchu." Zhu Yijun picked up a memorial. When Xu Chengchu arrived at the Censorate, he began to work diligently. Under the leadership of Hai Rui, he found a corruption case, a teacher from the Tianxiong Academy of Daming Prefecture, Song Shanyong.
Song Shanyong is a juren. He has been a teacher in Tianxiong Academy for more than 18 years. This person is not very good at taking sides and has chosen the wrong choice every time. He has never been promoted to county magistrate. He continued to do this position as a teacher.
Over the years, Song Shanyong has trained 16 Jinshi, 96 Juren, and has truly had students all over the world, accounting for 90% of the total number of Jinshi in Daming Prefecture and 80% of the number of Juren in recent years, making Tianxiong Academy a well-known excellent academy on the North China Plain.
But Song Shanyong was hated.
Tianxiong Academy is the official academy of Daming Prefecture. This official academy is well done, and the students all go to the official academy to go to school. There are no students in this private school, and there are no students. These private schools naturally hate Song Shanyong so much that they gritted their teeth and wanted to get rid of it.
And the more juren and Jinshi students passed the exam, the more famous the academy, the more outstanding students will be concentrated in this academy.
Even some students from Shanxi, who are not far away, have to study at Tianxiong Academy. For a time, Tianxiong Academy is really worthy of the couplets on their doors: the light of the literary light shines like a fighter; the Confucian style champion is as high as a cloud.
This made people even more hated. Why did you, Song Shanyong, take up all the cultural context of Daming Mansion? Some people started to ask Song Shanyong for trouble. Song Shanyong would not choose sides and did not have any background.
But Song has many disciples!
The sixteen Jinshi, even if they are not loyal to the king and the country, no thief can help their mentors. Moreover, nearly a hundred juren also controlled their power in the local area. Song Shanyong lived a smooth life.
This year, I was finally picked up wrong. Over the years, Song Shanyong has received a total of 5,400 taels of silver. The main reason is that some students have to give away silver when they enter school, and some students hope that Teaching Song can take extra care of their children and also give away silver.
Song Shanyong had collected so much money intermittently in the past eighteen years. After the incident was exposed, the local government had to file a lawsuit with the Censorate and go through impeachment procedures.
The powerful and powerful people in the Daming Mansion demanded that Song Shanyong be dismissed immediately. After Xu Chengchu verified the actual situation, he determined that the fact of corruption was established.
But the trouble with this matter is: Song is good at using it. He collected the money and did not put it in his pocket, but used it on Tianxiong Academy, built the school building, dormitory, canteen, drilled a well, and bought the latest return air furnace to keep students warm.
Song Shanyong really didn't spend a penny on the 5,400 taels of silver from bribery!
It took more than ten days to clear the account of Tianxiong Academy. Song Shanyong himself also paid 120 taels of silver to build a small garden in the back mountain, and a Tingyuxuan, so that the students could hold poetry meetings regularly.
After the Censorate found out, the case was submitted to the emperor for red criticism.
The Censorate's meaning is: if you get the punishment, you should seize Song Shanyong's fame and fortune according to the system, and you should confiscate your income, but because it is used in the academy, you will not be confiscated. Just let him return home and rely on his relatives. "Xu Chengchu, Xu Chengchu, a fool." Zhu Yijun said with the memorial: "The censors of the Censorate are excluding him. Such a difficult thing has been pushed into his hands. If you don't do it, Xu Chengchu will still have the integrity of his body? If you do it, you will offend people."
The censors of the Censorate are offending people. After all, it is the responsibility of the inspectors, but Xu Chengchu obviously suffered a loss of inexperience.
Song Shanyong's disciples were widely used, and he spent all his money on the academy. In the eyes of scholars, this is not greed.
But the provisions of the "Charity and Constitutional Class" stipulate that corruption is an act. As long as you take money, you are greedy and do not look at the purpose.
Severe punishment, immediately offend Song Shanyong's disciples, and not punish them severely. If they are indifferent, then can they get the money at will as long as they are for the so-called official business? Then the boundaries between official and private matters will be extremely blurred, and corruption will eventually lead to bribery.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Generally speaking, such cases that are thankless at first sight are not handled by the Censor, because it will be very troublesome to submit the emperor's red criticism. The emperor's punishment and non-punishment will damage the holy name.
Song Shanyong took the silver as a favor. If you don't take it, parents would think you want to wear shoes for their children. His use of the silver in public is morally noble and does not harm the public's personal interests. The officials of the Ming Dynasty are like this, so why worry about not prospering in the Ming Dynasty?
Generally speaking, the Ministry of Justice of the Censorate will handle it by calling back and asking questions. If the local government responds twice, the local government will not report it again. If the local government really insists on impeaching, it will report it to the Ministry of Personnel and Your Majesty and go through the impeachment procedures.
Obviously, someone wanted to give Xu Chengchu some eye drops to let him know the power of the officialdom. He did not follow the convention and handed it back to Xu Chengchu. "Scholars can do this in a mess, and they can do anything when they are free! They have nothing to do all day long, and they know that they are intrigue and are really idle, so they go to Shanglinyuan to grow potatoes!" Zhu Yijun picked up his pen, thought briefly, and began to criticize:
[Song is good at using private money to pay for money, and his career should be punished; however, his virtue can be demonstrated for his achievements in cultivating talents for 18 years. He was dismissed from the position of teaching, retained the title of Juren, changed his position as a member of the Imperial College, and specialized in the method of cultivating talents in academy. ]
[Another 3,000 silver was granted to repair Tianxiong Academy, and a monument was erected to record the list of his disciples in Tingyuxuan - I do not reward him for accepting bribes, but I cherish his wisdom in cultivating talents. ]
The position of a teacher is a punishment, to maintain organizational discipline;
The retention of fame and reputation and the change of the Imperial College is from the emperor's private resignation, that is, special pardon. It is not that simple to obtain the emperor's private resignation, even Yin Zongxin, who is thousands of miles away, knows that the emperor loves to kill people and has to do something practical to achieve such an honor.
Song Shanyong used the 3,000 silver greedy for the ink, and the emperor paid the fine for him, which was to settle the account. This matter ended here and would not be a stain on Song Shanyong's future;
Embroidering inscriptions was to record and praise such noble behavior, and warned Song Shanyong's disciples and scholars all over the world that the emperor would help him protect the situation when doing good deeds.
Zhu Yijun doesn't know whether a good person will be rewarded. He only knows that when things come to him, evil people should be rewarded, and good people will be rewarded.
"Your Majesty is wise." Feng Bao dryed the ink traces and handed them over to Xiaohuangmen, and gave them to the cabinet's Supreme Court of Zhang Li.
Emperor Shizong once said: All clear and turbid streams can be used, and the emperor can control the underworld, neither black nor white, but only checks and balances.
This case is a typical act of water delivery. Your Majesty brought a bowl of water in a biased manner. "Why do I think I'm just making up for the numbers when I'm alive?!" Zhu Yijun stood up suddenly, looked at the memorial in front of him, and said in surprise.
"Ah?" Feng Bao was stunned and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"Parent Feng, do you think this world of genius is that different from the world of us mortals?" Zhu Yijun asked blankly as he looked at the memorial in front of him. "I am the one who makes up the numbers." Feng Bao glanced at the memorial and immediately admitted his conscience when he saw it from the Gewu Academy. He could immediately give in. He could play a few moves with those scholars and officials. With the support of His Majesty, he could occasionally show off his power.
But these monsters in the Groundbreaking Academy are really a bit terrifying.
Sometimes, Feng Bao couldn't quite understand the memorials of the Gewu Academy. Feng Bao understood the previous part, saying that the steam engine was very strong.
The horsepower of the Shengping No. 6 steam engine, without gaining weight, soared to 180 horses, while the middle horsepower was 150 horses, and the minimum stable horsepower was 130 horses.
According to the characterization of the Gewu Academy, the horsepower of Shengping Six is 150 horsepower, and the single-stroke architecture still has room for improvement, and the new multi-stroke architecture has already been drafted.
The speed of the Ming Dynasty's horsepower is increasing steadily and orderly. The Ming Dynasty's demand for horsepower has no upper limit. Before the Chinese New Year this year, the first batch of Shengping No. 6 iron horses could be delivered in total. Before June next year, the annual production scale will be formed with an annual output of more than 1,000 units.
The Daming Geju Academy ate a total of 2 million silver dollars in the treasury, but it received an immeasurable huge profit.
Feng Bao couldn't understand the following content. There were a lot of graphic design drafts and six formulas. These six formulas were summed up empirical formulas. The wind tunnel built by His Majesty the Emperor spent a lot of money to achieve results.
As for buoyancy, ups and downs, orifice outflow, lift coefficient of gliding wings, etc., what surprised the emperor was that the Daming Geju Academy had discovered the scale effect of fluid.
It is not that the experiment can be expanded in proportion to be completed, and the effects can be exactly the same. There is a similarity here.
After the scale is enlarged, it cannot achieve complete similarity. It requires correction by experience and practice. This is a long engineering problem. It requires summary of experience. The more experience, the more accurate the correction.
"I am worth the million silver." Zhu Yijun wrote a memorial and praised the doctor of Juwu Academy for Juwu, hoping that they would continue to work hard.
The summed formulas, experiences, and observed scale effects do not seem to have much significance for the current Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yijun still recognizes this kind of research. No matter whether it is useful or not, it will be studied first, and it may be used in the future.
Zhu Yijun always firmly believes that krypton gold can become stronger!
And it is not completely useless. The Gewu Academy has designed a new propeller and has been transferred to the Songjiang Ship Design Institute to conduct experiments on the Feiyun. The Feiyun has been modified several times and has gradually become a comprehensive experimental platform. Any ideas of the Gewu doctors will use them to verify them on the Feiyun.
Feiyun has forgotten its ambition to become the first battleship of the Ming Dynasty, and now it is constantly mounting various equipment for experiments.
Krypton gold can indeed become stronger, and good news came from Songjiang Mansion Shipyard.
Songjiang Shipyard has designed and manufactured a new type of stargazing ship, which is a fast sailing modified stargazing ship that can sail quickly. It sets out from the New Port of Songjiang Prefecture, arrives at Coconut Sea City within one month, and arrives at the Governor General Giveaway within three months.
If the Ming Dynasty could find another fulcrum, the stargazing ship built by this fast sailboat could arrive in Thailand for normal observations and better observe hydrology and geography. The first stop of this stargazing ship was to North America.
When trading with the barbarians in North America, the Ming sailors obtained a piece of natural gold treasured by the barbarians, but these barbarians could not tell the source, so the stargazing ship would go to North America for stargazing.
"This voyage will be back in the spring of next year. Let's go to the Luzon and Yuanxu Islands to observe first." Zhu Yijun rejected the observation plan of Songjiang Prefecture, and the brave fleet is still not allowed to rely on the North Pacific currents to travel to North America in winter.
The winter in the North Pacific is not peaceful at all, and the thick fog and violent waves will swallow up all the challengers.
Zhou Master believes that it is the complex effect of the warm currents in the Pacific Ocean and the cold currents and winds in the extreme north, which leads to the outbreak of bad weather very suddenly and frequently, and it is impossible to avoid it through observation. If you are not careful, you will be involved in the storm.
The courage of human beings is a bit too small in the face of the great power of nature.
Zhu Yijun had never taken a sea boat, nor had that chance. He had never seen how the waves that were several feet high were surging. Just thinking about it was very dangerous.
Chen Lin led a fleet to tour Japan regularly. When he passed through the east sea of Japan, he felt that mania more than once. Every winter, the navy fleet always sailed closer to the coastline to prevent disorientation and being involved in the storm.
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty continued to handle memorials, and memorials were only a night, which was one of the means to maintain the efficient system of the Ming Dynasty's bureaucratic system.
Xu Chengchu, who had just finished his shift, left the Censorate and returned to the Quanchu Guild Hall. As soon as he left the Censorate, he was blocked by a group of scholars and doctors.
Among the sixteen Jinshi disciples of Song Shanyong, three were Beijing officials and several others were awarded.
"Xu Jingshi's great official power! After 18 years of his mentor's life, when will he offend you? Sixteen Jinshi, sixteen jade scepters stand in the court, ninety-six sons, ninety-six red pens are in the prefectures and counties!" Hanlin, the leader, took a step forward and shouted sternly: "You only see the five thousand taels of pickled silver, why don't the Daming Mansion have a prosperous cultural heritage!" "What kind of bones and horns are just to gain fame and reputation."
Song Shanyong is his mentor, who knows how to teach and educate people in every way, should stand up and distinguish right from wrong for the teacher. It would be fine if Song Shanyong was really greedy, but the five thousand four hundred taels of pickled silver did not enter his own pocket! "The state has national laws! If you take it, it means you take it. If you are wrong, it means you are wrong! If you are right, why don't you dare to wait until the grand court meeting on the third day of next month to carry the scepter and make a fuss for the corruption and injustice!" Xu Chengchu encountered this situation for the first time. He was surrounded by several people and scolded him. He was panicked for a moment and only knew how to use national laws to defend it. "Absurd, Taizu appointed the Xiezhi card to give you such a censor. What's the point of being so powerful? Gangxian?" A doctor stood up and cursed: "If you don't arrest so many corrupt officials in the world, you just want to arrest gentlemen. What's the reason?"
The Xiexi card is the waist card of the Censor of the Censorate, representing the identity of the Censorate and the responsibility of inspecting all officials.
"Say again, my teacher is collecting shovels, not dirty silver, my teacher is not corrupt! Not a sinner! Why don't you ask the Daming Mansion, why haven't I allocated half a liang of academy paste for nineteen years!" Another scholar who made a living in Beijing pulled out a book of accounts from his sleeve, smashed it at Xu Chengchu's feet, and spat fiercely.
Song Shanyong was privately punished by the emperor, and only sinners were pardoned, which means that Song Shanyong was guilty.
These people cursed around Xu Chengchu, and Xu Chengchu opened his mouth and could not repay him at all. After everyone left, Xu Chengchu's face turned red and he picked up the account book on the ground.
The account book is very clear. In the past nineteen years, Daming Mansion has not given a single cent of paste and silver, and it has been used for other purposes, and it is very clear one by one.
Hai Rui stood in front of the Censorate's door, quietly watching Xu Chengchu being besieged, as if he had seen his shadow of the past. "Isn't it very uncomfortable? It's just like doing things. If you get this one, you don't care about that one. Your Majesty always says that there is no law in the world, and you have to ask the price for everything." "How about it, after experiencing this, do you still have to be the censor of the simplicity? I don't know how much hardship you have to suffer along the way." Hai Rui walked over and asked Xu Chengchu what he thought.
Xu Chengchu was silent for a long time before he said firmly: "Do it! I must finish the path I chose!"
(End of this chapter)