Chapter 322 Their place is not suitable for farming
After his imprisonment, Wang Chonggu went to the city gate building to deliver a message to His Majesty. The matter was finally over, and Wang Chonggu looked at the people gathered under the city gate and felt long He breathed a sigh of relief. At this point, the lives of himself, his children and grandchildren, and his nine clans were truly saved.
With the emperor's order, he killed the entire Confucian family. When it comes to criminals in the future, he and Ji Gang are the same sycophants and traitors.
He has no regrets. He has no regrets about killing the whole family of the Confucius family. Even if his grave is filled with garbage in the future, he will not regret it. Those disgusting things done by the Confucius family deserve to die, even Xu Xu Jie's Huishan Hall has become somewhat Huishan. After all, Xu Jie really brought up those children who can grow up.
Today, Wang Chonggu, a remnant of the old era, finally boarded His Majesty's ship. This petition of submission finally came to fruition, and the heart that was raised in his throat finally fell to the ground.
This is Wang Chonggu’s own certificate of surrender. In fact, Zhu Yijun himself believed that when he received the certificate of surrender from Wang Chonggu, it was Wang Chonggu who settled 190,000 refugees in the caves of the Great Wall in Xuanda. From that time on , Zhu Yijun thought that Wang Chonggu was not unusable, at least he was not a cheap Confucian, but an official.
"Your Majesty, all the 582 criminals in the Confucius Mansion must be beheaded." Wang Chonggu bowed his head and said.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said with a smile: "It's hard work for the second time."
Qi Jiguang confirmed again that Ma Fang was right. Wang Chonggu really didn't dare. The emperor asked him to kill everyone in the Confucius family. He really killed Wang Chonggu.
"Wang Cifu, I heard that the Ministry of Punishment is investigating a gambling house case recently. Are you going to arrest people today?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said with interest.
Wang Chonggu glanced at Qi Jiguang, and then said: "Your Majesty, this matter is still related to the Beijing Camp. The military laws of the Beijing Camp are strict and gambling is prohibited. Violators will be punished with military sticks in the least serious cases, but there are people watching outside the Beijing Camp." The family members of the soldiers were killed."
Qi Jiguang's expression changed drastically and he stood up suddenly. He immediately clenched his fists but didn't say much. He sat down a little lonely. Outside the military camp, there was no room for him. It was under his control. He had actually heard about these people before the expedition, but the expedition was imminent, so he didn't care.
He is a military commander, a very capable military commander. He can't control much outside the battlefield.
Wang Chonggu bowed his head again and said: "In early June, the family members of a soldier from the 17th Infantry Battalion of Beida Camp went to the Shuntian Mansion Yamen to beat drums and complain about their grievances. I saw the official documents of Shuntian Mansion and started to arrest them. , It just so happens that Jilong Island is short of people to log wood. "
"Not only in the military camp, but also around the official factory, there are also people who specialize in this business. The craftsmen and soldiers have a lot of money because of the favor of the imperial court. With little savings, these traitors set their sights on the craftsmen soldiers and their families."
Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "Select a few leaders and behead them in public to intimidate them. ."
"I obey the order." Wang Chonggu obeyed the order. This matter is not difficult to handle.
No matter how difficult it is to deal with, is it still more difficult to deal with the people who killed the Kong family?
Zhu Yijun is definitely a low-key emperor, and he will bow his head to people at every turn. Logically speaking, does gambling really lead to beheading?
The emperor's non-criminal decree was interfering with the judiciary, but Wang Chonggu failed to fulfill his duties as a minister of punishment, censuring Chen Shan and refuting His Majesty's decree.
Tan Lun and Hai Rui's judgment of Wang Chonggu was correct. Wang Chonggu was indeed a traitor.
What your Majesty told you can be done. The people organizing the gambling games are many desperadoes. They don’t have any blood on their hands. How dare you open a gambling house? Without any blood, how could the money released be recovered? Wang Chonggu could pick out dozens of the leaders of this kind of business, let alone a few and behead them.
It is necessary to carry out His Majesty's imperial orders and ensure judicial fairness. As a second assistant and chief minister, I can still grasp the middle scale.
Your Majesty wanted to resolve the main contradiction on the ground in Shandong. Your Majesty wanted the death of Confucius. Then Wang Chonggu supervised the execution. The 582 people who were executed in the end all deserved to die. They were all involved in human life lawsuits. people.
“The business of these gambling houses is really hard to guard against.” Wang Chonggu began to explain the routine of gambling houses, which is to kill pigs.
The traitor approaches the target as a fellow villager and friend, and gradually gets along and becomes friends. Then he goes out to play and goes to the venue. When he sees someone cheating, the traitor will encourage the target to place a bet. It's not much, ten pennies is not too little, twenty pennies is not too much. After the beginning, the pig who entered the game will definitely win, and win a lot.
When the pigs start to come in and out of the casino, the traitors will take the pigs to the venue in advance. At this time, there are not enough people, so they need to match the disciples, that is, to gather together people. You can bet as much or not as you like. At this time, the boss of the gambling shop would also advise, telling the 'pig' never to gamble, and tell them some stories about the casino. The Chen family had their hands chopped off, the Liu family had their feet chopped off, the Zhao family sold their ancestral home, and the Wang family became their wives.
This is to persuade pigs, but these words are carefully designed. If you lose, you will win. On the other side, the Dong family has acquired the land, the Ran family has acquired the house, and the Jin family has become rich overnight. In the gambling game, Pigs often ignore the miserable fate of the former, and only see the latter, who make a lot of money, making more than a dozen taels of silver overnight, and become rich and wealthy.
After arranging a disciple and persuading pigs, they still did not kill pigs, but raised pigs. At this stage, don’t kill them yet. The pigs will come to the gambling house on their own, and they will win again and again. Lose, this one has been fattened and ready to be killed.
The specific operation of killing the pig is to go to the bank, which is to let the pig act as the banker. On a certain day, it is specially arranged that the pig keeps losing and the banker keeps winning. Then when the pig goes to the bank, it is the time to kill the pig.
When the pig is being killed, there is a row of people behind the pig. Each of these people is carrying a package, and the package is full of money. These are loan sharks who lend money. It doesn't matter if you lose everything. These pig killers borrow money. I'll bet you.
Normally, the pigs can be killed in one night, and the ancestral home, farmland, and daughter-in-law can all be lost.
At this point, the people in the gambling house will let the pigs pull other pigs over. How much money can be earned by pulling one person over? This is the capital to make a comeback and win everything back. A person who kills pigs repeatedly The plate is ready.
“Those craftsmen, when it’s more than 40 degrees outside in the summer, they are in the wool-cooking factory, and it’s almost 50 degrees inside. The heat makes them dizzy, and the heat makes them dizzy. They are stirring the wool there. "After a day's work, my hands were swollen and peeling. I worked hard to get three coins, but in less than a quarter of an hour, I lost them all!" Wang Chongguyue said! The more excited he gets, especially when he hears that he is still being led by someone else, his eyes get angry. Not only is he draining people dry, but he also wants to turn them into his accomplices!
None of the craftsmen in these workshops are poor laborers, working hard to earn some money, but they are all thrown into a place like this. How can Wang Chonggu not be angry!
Why do cheap Confucianists want to castrate Wang Yangming’s philosophy of mind and change knowledge and action to align with conscience, instead emphasizing only on conscience? Because once you start practicing, you will see the hard work, and once you start practicing, people’s thoughts will Involuntary change.
Zhang Juzheng said that virtue is gained by practicing it.
Virtue obtained through practice cannot be controlled by people, nor can it be influenced by deep-rooted thoughts. Wang Chonggu can see the hard work of the craftsmen, and he knows how the craftsmen earn their money through hard work. , you can naturally sympathize with these craftsmen, and when faced with this kind of ugliness, you will be involuntarily angry.
To turn a person into a ghost, it only takes about twenty days from approaching the pig to killing the pig. Even some unscrupulous descendants of powerful and powerful families have been robbed of a lot of money. The powerful and powerful families can come to ask for it, and these gambling house owners also have to sell their face, but how can these poor coolies ask for it? You can only trick others.
"Wan Dazai, Ma Zongbo, what are the provisions of the Ming Law and the Ming Huidian?" Zhu Yijun was very curious about the provisions of the Ming Law on gambling.
"The first offender was trapped and killed, the second offender chopped off his wrists, and the gambler chopped off his fingers." Wan Shihe said with a complicated expression.
Your Majesty beheaded the first criminal, and exiled the second criminal to Ryukyu and logging in chicken coops. This is already extremely lenient. Emperor Taizu Gao even set up a gambling house in order to move trees and establish trust. The gangsters gathered together, and after the fish had entered the nest, they caught them all and buried the leaders alive. A group of lackeys cut off their wrists, and all the gamblers chopped off their fingers.
Taizu was indeed cruel, but at that time, under Hu Yuan’s indulgent rule, all kinds of bad habits became commonplace. The cruelty during the Hongwu period, discussing one thing without considering the world situation, was an act of contempt for Confucianism, and the tyranny of Hongwu , most of them are in line with the heavy codes used in troubled times.
At that time, the social contradictions were so intense that they were irreconcilable, and the Yuan Dynasty was unable to reconcile this contradiction. Emperor Taizu Gao, who solved the contradictions, was to pioneer, to solve problems and provide solutions, so as to be able to surpass all collectives. .
Zhang Juzheng also taught the emperor that overcorrection will lead to overcorrection.
Zhu Yuanzhang's own cruelty, some things are due to helplessness under the world situation, and some things are completely wrong. For example, after Zhu Biao's death, in order to allow Zhu Yunwen to successfully succeed to the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang launched major cases one after another. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to maintain the stability of the top-floor building during the indiscriminate purge, but Zhu Yunwen himself was not worthy of Emperor Taizu Gao's purge of the court.
The last thing a gambling house should do is to target soldiers and craftsmen, and the person who supervises the government factories is the second assistant Wang Chonggu.
When the emperor asks, these people will definitely pay the price in blood.
Ma Ziqiang hesitated to speak, but still did not say it. In fact, this is a sleeping law, a law that is no longer used in practice. The boss of the gambling house beheaded, the lackeys chopped off the wrists, and the gamblers had their fingers cut off. After Hongwu, it was never implemented again. It was long ago relegated to the column of tyranny and fell asleep.
This can be regarded as the activation of the ancestral law, and it can also be regarded as the ancestral law, even though it has not been implemented since Hongwu.
His Majesty did not deal with gamblers too harshly, but struck hard at the traitors in gambling houses.
After the Meridian Gate imprisonment, Zhu Yijun brought Qi Jiguang to the Ancestral Temple, which is the place where the Ming Emperor worshiped his ancestors. Zhu Yijun brought Qi Jiguang here, in fact, to tell his ancestors that our Ming army was fighting again Come back with a big victory.
The Ming Army finally looks like the Ming Army now.
After going through the tedious etiquette, Zhu Yijun took Qi Jiguang back to the side hall of Wenhua Palace. There is a huge map of Kantu, which was made by Zhu Zaiyu, the uncle of the Ming Dynasty, using trigonometric mapping and latitude and longitude. The map produced is considered an extremely sophisticated map at the moment and is considered a top national secret.
Qi Jiguang held a wooden stick and explained to His Majesty the Emperor the details of the invasion and why such decisions were made. There were many decisions that, in hindsight, were indeed correct and extremely simple. , but at the time, without sufficient intelligence support, these judgments were difficult to understand.
This can only be attributed to something as mysterious as military talent. Qi Jiguang is always able to be ahead of others, respond in advance, and predict the enemy first, which requires long-term experience. It also requires extraordinary talent.
When Qi Jiguang reached this point, his biggest enemy on the battlefield was himself.
Those who rely on the greatness of the country, are proud of the masses of the people, and want to show their power to the enemy are called arrogant soldiers, and those who are arrogant soldiers will be destroyed.
"Being Qi Shuai's enemy is indeed a sad thing." After listening to all Qi Jiguang's reports, Zhu Yijun said with a smile on his face. Qi Jiguang may have made some mistakes, but this proud man Qi Jiguang never made the same mistake as a soldier.
Qi Jiguang doesn’t like war. He has seen too much cruelty on the battlefield and is well aware of the dangers of military disasters. He will never fight if he can. Every time he fights, he will put himself Think about how to reduce losses from the perspective of defeat.
Poverty, cough and love, these are three things that cannot be concealed in the world. Obviously, after Qi Shuai returned to Beijing, the smile on the emperor's face never stopped.
"Qi Shuai, why can't the Central Plains Dynasty send its troops south?" Zhu Yijun pointed with some doubts at Burma, Mengyang, Luchuan, Laos, Dagu La and other areas. Comfort, a kind of military restraint that is not tenacious, now Mang Yinglong's Dongyu Dynasty poses a threat to the southwest of the Ming Dynasty.
Qi Jiguang thought for a moment and said: "They are not suitable for farming there."
"It's reasonable." Zhu Yijun said sincerely.
Qi Jiguang analyzed from two angles why the Central Plains Dynasty did not form a county-based rule in the southwestern region. He took the four expeditions to Luchuan during the Zhengtong years as an example. From the expedition to Luchuan during the Hongwu period to During the Yongle period, Sanxuan and Liuwei were established, and the Annan Kingdom was conquered to establish the Jiaozhi Thirteenth Division. In the Zhengtong period, the Ming Dynasty attacked Luchuan four times. The Ming Dynasty always wanted to expand to the southwest. Until the Jiajing period, Dao Ye returned Chen Bingzhennan Pass, planning to invade Annan Kingdom.
But in the end, during the Wanli period, it still stopped in Yunnan. Not to mention the internal factors of Rouyuan people's influence and public opinion, and the internal conflicts that a large number of chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou needed to change their land and return to their hometowns, it was only external factors. There were two reasons. As a result, Ming's attack was blocked. The first reason is that it is difficult to fight.
There are many rainforests in the southwest. It is very hot all year round. Rainfall is very frequent. The vegetation is too lush and there are many mosquitoes.
A temperature that is too high will lead to two consequences. Once the activity is more intense, you will sweat like rain. If you sweat too much, you need to replenish not only water, but also sugar and salt. This gives Logistics brought extremely terrible pressure.
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of his special pear syrup, which is salty and sweet, and the taste is really weird.
Whether it is sugar or salt, they are both rare things. The army can easily number hundreds of thousands. No matter how rich the court is, it will still be at a loss. If there are more people inside, I am afraid that in a battle, half of the Ming Dynasty will be killed. .
However, rainfall is frequent and the roads are muddy, especially in the northwest where there is a lot of red soil. Once you step on it, it will be like clay and it will be difficult to move forward. Enemies who are familiar with hydrology and geography will take the opportunity to sneak attack. The army's ability to pass is extremely weak and they want to conquer. It becomes more difficult.
More mosquitoes lead to more malaria. Non-combat attrition such as injuries and illnesses can easily affect morale and put great pressure on logistics. Malaria can kill people, but visible enemies are not scary. , the invisible enemy is the most demoralizing thing.
The second reason is that we cannot farm.
For the same reason that the Ming Dynasty did not occupy the grassland, the grassland cannot be cultivated because of low rainfall. Then there is always precipitation in the Southwest, so why is it not suitable for farming?
It is not easy to open up wasteland. Reclamation is tiring, and logging is even more tiring. The best way is to burn it all with a big fire. Setting fire is the only way for humans to clear up wasteland. This has been true since ancient times. However, setting fire in the rainforest depends on the timing. Taking Sanxuan and Liuwei as an example, there are only 21 days a year that are suitable for setting fires. Although not much can be burned, the roots will grow when it rains.
In Sanxuan Liuwei reclamation, all the roots in the ground must be dug out, otherwise the food planted will be covered by local plants soon, and the local land will be barren.
The land is barren, relatively speaking. It is all sol soil, which is soaked in water due to constant rain. It is not fertile soil and is not suitable for farming.
“Your Majesty, when cultivating wasteland in the hinterland, one person can cultivate an acre of land in a few days. Even if it is barren, in a few years, this land can stably produce two stones of food. And in the southwest, It takes eight people and more than 20 days to carve out one acre of land. In a few years, it may only be enough to produce one stone of food.” , but not now, there is teak over there," Qi Jiguang said in conclusion.
If you can’t plant the land by beating it down, why beat it? This is a very simple logic, but it is completely different now, because under the open sea, the trees in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, especially the big trees over a hundred years old, have become scarce. The wood needed for shipbuilding depends on this area. At this time , this place has enough value.
Logging, digging tree roots, clearing wasteland, and farming have become a matter of course.
"That's it." Zhu Yijun couldn't help but nod. Generals who were good at fighting in the Ming Dynasty must be good at farming. Farming and fighting are integrated.
"Why didn't you see Yu Shuai?" Qi Jiguang asked with some confusion. When His Majesty the Emperor was imprisoned today, all the civil and military officials were present, but Yu Dayou was not there. This made Qi Jiguang a little strange.
Zhu Yijun exhaled heavily, shook his head and said, "I'm sick."
"I requested an order to visit the patient." Qi Jiguang's eyes widened, and he planned to go to visit the patient immediately. Yu Dayou is seventy-six years old this year. At this age, it is really difficult to get up as soon as you lie down.
"Go ahead." Zhu Yijun signaled Qi Jiguang to go there.
Zhu Yijun did not go to visit the doctor. He always felt that he had committed too many crimes. If he went to visit, it would bring bad luck to Yu Dayou. This was Zhu Yijun's true thought. He went to visit the doctor several times, and Zhu Xizhong and Zhu Xixiao ended up with bad luck. None of them were very good. Zhu Yijun was waiting for news from the chief medical officer of Jieju Hospital.
At this time, Li Shizhen and Chen Shigong were both in Yu Dayou's house. Yu Dayou did occasionally feel cold. If he was a young man, his nose might run for a long time and he would be fine. However, as Yu Dayou got old, his physical fitness began to decline. A high fever broke out last night. Li Shizhen and Chen Shigong were so frightened that they didn't sleep all night, and they were watching over them.
"The fever is gone." Chen Shigong breathed a long sigh of relief and showed a relieved smile to Li Shizhen.
Li Shizhen also shook his head tiredly and said: "Well, one foot has entered the gate of hell, and finally I got it back."
In Li Shizhen's medicine box, there is a glass bottle with a clear solution in it. , is Chen Brine. This thing is less effective when taken orally. Instead, it is injected directly into the blood vessels, and the effect is excellent. Li Shizhen did not dare to give Yu Dayou a large dose, but injected a small amount, and the effect was excellent.
This time, the emergence of new drugs gave Li Shizhen hope.
“The output of this kind of thing is really too low.” Chen Shigong knew the magic of this medicine. The only problem was that the output was limited.
The only problem is the output. The output of this thing is almost equivalent to none. The yellow luck has a very high output, but that thing is poison.
"Is it true that yellow mold cannot be used? The yield is huge." Chen Shigong said still unwilling to give up.
Li Shizhen said helplessly: "Human beings are no different from rabbits, mice, and monkeys. Zhang Siwei has verified that yellow mold does kill people."
Yellow mold is poisonous, but the great medical officer They still don't give up and keep experimenting.
The purpose of the great medical officer seems to be to find the strain that produces Penicillium chloride in yellow mold, because the yield of yellow mold is really large.
There are indeed strains of Flavosporum that produce Penicillium chrysantha, but finding them requires a large number of people, whether Japanese pirates or Zhang Siwei and others, they can be found after many attempts.
Because the great medical officers did indeed refine the life-saving penicillium chloride from yellow mold at the very beginning. What exactly it is requires a lot of experiments to find out.
Qi Jiguang came and was stopped by the senior medical officers of the hospital. Because the patient was still recovering, it was not suitable to see people now. After Qi Jiguang learned that Yu Dayou's condition had improved, , so he chose to wait outside. After looking outside the window, Qi Jiguang chose to leave. Yu Dayou's face did not look like a dying tree.
On the seventh day after Qi Jiguang returned to Beijing, Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty met Yu Dayou again during the court meeting in the Wenhua Hall.
"Yu Shuai, are you all healed?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile when he saw that Yu Dayou was in good spirits.
Yu Dayou bowed his head and said: "Thank you for your concern, your majesty, the decoction in this Jieyuan hospital is indeed better than that in Taiyuan hospital."
Everyone knows that there are four unreliable things in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, namely : Hanlin Academy articles, weapons and weapons from the Arsenal; tea soup from Guanglu Temple, and prescriptions from Imperial Hospital.
The articles written by the humble Confucianists in the Hanlin Academy are stinking and extremely empty, while the swords and guns in the arsenal are rotten and useless. This is due to the lack of military preparations in the Ming Dynasty. Guanglu Temple is a place specializing in cooking. It is very The food was unpalatable, and the masters in the palace each had their own small dining halls. The prescriptions of the Imperial Hospital were due to the fact that there were too many dignitaries in the capital, and the Imperial Hospital was tied up as soon as the medicine could cure the illness. Dare to take medicine.
Yu Dayou even left a will, and as a result, the senior medical officers of the hospital were rejuvenated.
It’s time to joke. Obviously Yu Dayou is really cured. Thanks to Zhang Siwei and the Japanese pirates for their contribution to Ming medicine.
The court meeting began. Lu Tiaoyang held a memorial and said with a complex expression: "The Criminal Division reported to Zhao Youtang that he objected to the execution of the traitor in the gambling house."
"Zhao Youtang has received so many benefits. To write such a memorial, he must have received at least a thousand taels of silver." Zhu Yijun opened Zhao Youtang's memorial and drew a red Could Zhu Yijun really be fooled by these few words?
"Your Majesty, Zhao Youtang's words are not credible. He said that Emperor Taizu Gao was violent, inhumane, and brought great harm to the world. This is not true." Wan Shihe raised some objections. Everyone agrees that Zhu Yuanzhang was violent, but Wan Shihe had something to say when he said Emperor Taizu Gao had no tolerance for others.
"Oh?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe. Could it be that the Minister of Civil Affairs has his own unique opinions on etiquette?
Wan Shihe bowed his head and said, "Han Yike."
"What's wrong with this man?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.
Wan Shihe said tentatively: "This person has repeatedly complained about Chen Shan. Instead of refuting it, Emperor Taizu Gao accepted it."
There is really only one Hai Rui in the Ming Dynasty. Emperor? Not really.
During the Hongwu period, there was a government official who made fun of Zhu Yuanzhang. In the ninth year of Hongwu, Han Yike said that Emperor Taizu Gao was murderous and would kill people at every turn. Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry when he heard that he was whipped and banished to Fengyang, but accepted the advice.
At that time, Han Yike said: Punishment is to prohibit sexual intercourse, which is a civil rule. It should be based on the severity of the emotion, the public and private matters, and the size of the crime. Now I have ordered you to be banished to the village. This villain is lucky, but the gentleman is in danger. Begging for separation to unite everyone's hearts.
Han Yike pointed at Zhu Yuanzhang’s nose and said that Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t know rewards and punishments, and that all matters were banished to the countryside regardless of whether they were public or private, big or small. This is not a coward, what is it?
Zhu Yuanzhang accepted it humbly, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was incompetent was really underestimating Zhu Yuanzhang.
Han Yike remonstrated more than once. In the early days of the Republic of China, the wives and daughters of officials whose homes were confiscated were to be rewarded to officials in various yamen. Han Yike remonstrated again, and finally led to the establishment of the Jiaofang. and the improvement of the system, and Zhu Yuanzhang also said that Han Yike's advice was correct and he was a minister of integrity.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang was violent. This is a fact recognized by everyone.
When Zhu Yijun heard about it, he wrote the three words Han Yike on the memorial, which was regarded as Zhu's criticism and a formal response.
Lu Tiaoyang took out the second memorial and said: "The reception of the plantations on Wanli Seawall was not smooth."
Antonio did give up these plantations. But these plantations nominally belonged to him, Antonio, and actually belonged to the local governor. Even Antonio was helpless about this. It was impossible to maintain direct rule so far away.
We need the Ming Dynasty Navy to use force to collect the payment for the twelve five-masted transoceanic ships. If it is reasonable, then be reasonable. If it is not reasonable, then use force.
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