Chapter 596 Severe punishment, I did this evil person
There is a widely circulated legend in the West, that is, in the vast ocean, there is an island called Daxi Island, and Daxi Island is in danger In the Peruvian Sea, the lost Taisi fleet once set foot on that dreamlike land.
Everything is so prosperous, everything is so orderly, all the tranquility on this island, all the order, all the laws that are very different from the world, all come from the place where sages gather, Solomon's Palace.
Solomon’s Palace is the temple of science.
As it continues to spread, this Solomon's Palace becomes more and more specific. It has existed for 1900 years. It was originally composed of craftsmen on the island. It is a trade union and a noble organization. It is the guiding light of Onishi Island, created specifically for the study of nature and humans.
Solomon’s Palace has a huge talent reserve, complete experimental sites and equipment, an amazing number of research teams, a relaxed and free atmosphere of public opinion, everyone can speak freely, and a rigorous and rigorous argumentation process. And he is unswervingly promoting all kinds of wonderful scientific equipment to every corner of Onishi Island.
Of course this is a legend in the West. In the legend, Solomon's Palace was also a church.
A place that specializes in scientific research is actually a church. This is somewhat contradictory and ironic. People cannot imagine things they have never seen before. In the imagination of the Thai people, without the church, there would be nothing. They have never seen a world without a church, and they seem to be missing God’s instructions
The most important thing in Thailand now is secularization, which is to oppose the cruel oppression of the Inquisition. It is more dangerous to engage in science in Thailand This is because the all-pervasive believers often pull out all these deviant and disrespectful people and send them to the stake.
Legas told this story to the emperor more than once, and he also perfected the story, but it happened not in Atlantis, but in the far east, the Ming Dynasty, which has a long civilization, Solomon The palace has a more specific name, the Imperial Palace.
As for the description of the first generation of sages, Legas made reference to Mozi, not Lu Ban.
Because he witnessed it with his own eyes, Legaz’s description of the ‘Temple of Science’ was more specific and detailed.
Zhu Yijun flicks the ball in his hand. He is just a bit of a diligent emperor, and is a bit out of tune with the world of genius. A parabolic orbit and a small ball can be associated with the boundless starry sky. A nearly correct answer.
"The tedious general affairs have affected His Majesty's state of mind. If the courtiers were respectful and would not keep His Majesty so busy, Ming Dynasty would definitely have one more versatile Doctor of the Five Classics." Zhu Zaiyu said again Said once with great regret.
It is the tedious general affairs that have delayed His Majesty's time and prevented His Majesty from focusing more on the investigation of objects. It is the worldly intrigues that have polluted His Majesty's imagination. Otherwise, His Majesty would have become an excellent person. Doctor of the Pentateuch.
Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "Envoy Sha'at once told me a proverb circulated among them: Don't use your true skills easily, otherwise, everyone will easily find out that you have no skills."< br>
“I can only understand what you are saying.”
Zhu Yijun moved the small ball in his hand with great interest. From these tedious experiments, the Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty refined the According to Newton's first law, any object must maintain uniform linear motion or rest until an external force forces it to change its state of motion.
Newton doesn't like others to praise him for how great he is. He said in a letter to Hooke: If I can see further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.
This is not only Newton mocking Hooke for being a hunchbacked dwarf, not one of the giants he stood on, but also self-effacing that his achievements are standing on the shoulders of giants.
Because the first person to put forward a similar point of view was Galileo. After the inclined plane experiment, Galileo concluded: If there is no friction, the ball will roll down forever. If it is not forced by any external force, it will not change.
Then a natural question arises, what force does the ball or slider receive when it slides down the slope?
This force is obviously the same force that makes a ripe apple fall from the tree.
“Rain will fall from the sky, and so will wind and sand; arrows will strike arcs, and so will cannonballs; but people have become accustomed to these phenomena they have heard and seen, and have never understood the mystery of them.” Zhu Yijun looked at Zhu Zaiyu and said with a smile: "The Royal Institute of Geosciences has lived up to my expectations when it was established."
"I am very pleased."
"Then, Uncle Emperor, Geotechnical Institute. Is the hospital really not short of money?”
“No, another sum of money has arrived,” Zhu Zaiyu said quite accurately. The share of the steam engine production last year has not been spent yet, and this year’s money has arrived. There is no way to spend it all. The doctors of the Five Classics are already spending their money very hard.
The scale of the Five Classics Doctors is still too small. One day, there will be Doctors of Gewu all over the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zaiyu cannot imagine what a grand occasion it will be.
Zhu Yijun stayed in the Gewuyuan for a long time. Huang Zifu showed his discoveries. The reason why the Royal Gewuyuan invited the emperor to visit him this time was not the steam engine.
Compared with more abstract theories, more concrete reality can show their role more realistically. Huang Zifu refused the first-class merit medal in public because he hoped that Gewuyuan could get more recognition. Compared with Pan Confucianism has deep roots, but the influence of Gewuyuan is still too small.
Zhu Zaiyu led His Majesty the Emperor to introduce in detail various specific improvements of the thirty-six-horsepower steam engine. Compared with the eighteen-horsepower iron horse, the thirty-six-horsepower steam engine has become smaller in size. Half of the room became the size of a large long table.
Miniaturization, standardization and large-scale are the three requirements of the Ming Emperor for steam engines, and the Imperial Palace is fulfilling the requirements of His Majesty the Emperor.
The noteworthy improvement here is that the improved boiler has a lot more hot chambers, and the boiler has a honeycomb-type structure.
This allows the heat of coal combustion to be distributed more evenly throughout the boiler, steam is generated faster, and as the air tightness increases, the air pressure of the boiler begins to increase.
“Perhaps Chen Steam Turbine took the wrong path from the beginning. It should have changed from an ordinary reciprocating steam engine to a high-pressure reciprocating steam engine, so that the high pressure required by the steam turbine can be achieved.” Zhu Zai Chu had been working hard on the steam turbine for seven years. As the reciprocating steam engine continued to develop, he desperately discovered that this road was blocked.
Exploring the boundaries of human cognition is always accompanied by such pain. You don’t know where the road ahead is, let alone whether your own path is correct. Will you waste your entire life on this? On the road.
“My husband told me, don’t be discouraged or disappointed. It’s really cruel to have no results after working hard, but you still have to go on and don’t be upset because of failure. This is the perseverance of a scholar.” Zhu Yijun He said with a smile: "Besides, Uncle Emperor, have you really gained nothing from the research and development of steam turbines?"
"The thirty-six-horsepower steam engine in front of me uses higher temperatures and higher pressures. Isn’t a boiler a small step towards the success of a steam turbine?”
“You can’t reach a thousand miles without accumulating small steps, and you can’t build a river without accumulating small streams.”
Zhu Yijun encouraged Zhu. Zaiyu, it’s not that this road is blocked, it’s that this road is blocked at this moment, so why worry? It cannot be realized today, but one day in the future, the Doctors of the Five Classics of Gwuyuan will finally realize it.
After Zhu Yijun asked about key issues such as the mass production of the thirty-six iron horses, the production capacity of the hydraulic pad, etc., he waved his hand and rewarded the doctors of the Five Classics before leaving the Gewuyuan with unsatisfied feelings.
The Royal Gewuyuan was a stage built by the emperor himself. Even the stage and pillars were ordered by Zhu Yijun to go to Prince Zheng’s Mansion. Zhu Yijun really liked it here, but he couldn’t stay long. There were state affairs waiting for him. .
Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu went to the imperial study room of Tonghe Palace together and wrote a memorial. To sum up, it can be summed up in one sentence: The country is suddenly in danger, and the words are too much to describe.
In the eyes of Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu, the crisis encountered by the queen's birth is a major event that endangers the country and the country.
Zhang Juzheng is really not an alarmist.
What would happen if Wu Lian's hand slipped during a caesarean section and the queen died on the spot? Will Wu Lian be sentenced to prison for investigation? Will they be involved in the investigation? There was even violent turmoil in the country, and wave after wave of purges followed?
Or to ask more simply and clearly, will the supreme emperor of Ming Dynasty go crazy?
I don’t know, Zhu Yijun himself doesn’t know, he doesn’t know what will happen.
This is the biggest drawback of the imperial system. Success depends on failure. The upper and lower limits of the empire are closely related to the emperor himself.
In their memorials, Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu also talked about an issue, that is, His Majesty should protect Wu Lian, the doctor.
Wu Lian saved the queen. Such a great achievement, but he needed the emperor's protection. This seemed very outrageous, but Zhang Juzheng told an old story.
In the 21st year of Jiajing, the Renyin Palace changed and Master Tao was assassinated by a palace maid. However, the imperial doctor Xu Shen gave strong medicine to save Master Tao, and he took several prescriptions and finally recovered. Master Tao expressed his gratitude For saving Xu Shen's life, he was appointed as Minister of Rites, the Crown Prince's Taibao, and received generous gifts. Xu Shen later died of panic. He saved the emperor and received a high official and a generous salary, but he began to suffer from panic in March of the following year.
What is Xu Shen afraid of?
Time flies, Zhang Juzheng can no longer ask the truth about what Xu Shen is afraid of. The man has passed away, but the lesson is still there, and Wu Lian cannot die in fear.
Wang Chonggu talked about the four untrustworthy things in the capital, the Hanlin Academy articles, the arsenal's swords and guns, the imperial hospital's prescriptions and the tea soup in Guanglu Temple.
The prescriptions of the imperial hospital are not trustworthy. Many times, it is not that the doctors of the imperial hospital are powerless, but that they are incompetent. Those who cannot save the royal family will die, and those who save the emperor's family will also die.
After Ming Wuzong became seriously ill, he wanted to change his doctor, but Yang Tinghe refused to change him. In the end, he dragged him around until he died.
"Wu Lian will not be embarrassed by anyone. Even if it is a female generation, I will not let anyone embarrass Wu Lian and her family. This is my promise." Zhu Yijun picked up the In Zhubi, he wrote his words on the memorial. This is the written evidence.
"Now she has a weakness that can be criticized. She is a female official." Zhang Juzheng said with a complicated expression: "I am very worried. After this joy has passed, the court officials will start to criticize this person." It’s over.”
The reformers only need to practice their deeds to make the Ming Dynasty better, while the cheap Confucians have more to consider. They can always find all kinds of things. He used strange angles to deny the New Deal, and then vigorously promoted the rotten theories of the third generation of law, which made everyone laugh, and he kept showing his lower limit.
The emperor was very happy because the mother and son were safe, and even sent auspicious boxes to all officials. At this time, there was no memorial to the officials to displease the emperor, but it would be done after the jubilant atmosphere passed.
Confucius said: Only women and villains are difficult to raise. If they are close, they will not become grandchildren; if they are far away, they will resent.
In political practice, Wu Zhou is used as a lesson. Even if future generations conclude that Wu Zetian is a queen, not an emperor, etc., Wu Zhou was established, and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi did He was the king who destroyed the country in the Tang Dynasty. This is an indisputable fact.
"Wan Shi and Wan Dazai have already written a memorial on this issue. He said that this is the ancestral law." Zhu Yijun took out a memorial and handed it to Zhang Juzheng.
“Is this also an ancestral law?” Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment, even a little dazed. How could this become an ancestral law in Wan Shihe’s hands?
Zhang Juzheng opened it and looked at it for a long time before he realized that it was really the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, the first old port propaganda envoy in the Ming Dynasty, Sister Shi.
After the death of Shi Jinqing, the first Jiugang Xuan comfort envoy, Shi Jinqing’s son and daughter competed for the position of King Srivijaya, that is, the position of Jiugang Xuan comfort envoy. This fight came to no result.
After Zheng He went to Jiugang and learned the details, he finally identified Sister Shi as the comfort envoy of Jiugang. This is the ancestral law established during the Yongle period. This is really not far-fetched. Under the understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanwei envoy was an official of the Ming Dynasty.
The ancestral law is true!
Zhang Juzheng said sincerely: "Mencius said: If I can't do it, you are called a thief. But whoever says that the way of the former king is beyond my ability, then he is a thief."
Wang Chonggu said sincerely: "No wonder Recently, these cheap scholars have no time to criticize the minister, but they have turned their guns and pointed it at Mr. Wange. When Mr. Wange is in court, it is indeed like a stick in his throat. It is even more uncomfortable for them than the minister is in the court, and it is very uncomfortable. "
"The key is that Wan Shihe has distorted the ethos of the Ministry of Rites. Shen Li has always been unafraid of the powerful and has not flattered the powerful, but now he has turned into a flatterer. "
Wan. Shihe drew away all the firepower of the traitorous minister.
In the matter of Wu Lian becoming a female official, he either believed that the Xuanwei Division of Old Port was not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or that Emperor Cheng Zuwen was wrong, or that he was a thief that I cannot call him.
To say that the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty is not in line with the established pattern of the Ming Dynasty's restoration of the Governor's Palace of the Old Port. It goes against the trend. The Strait of Malacca is the Jiayuguan Pass on the sea. This has long been a consensus, even if There is no legal basis, and you have to grab it. Jiayuguan was not in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty from the beginning, nor has it always been in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty.
You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately.
But if Emperor Cheng Zuwen is wrong, then His Majesty is very likely to send the cheap Confucian who said this underground to debate Emperor Cheng Zuwen face to face.
Whether Emperor Cheng Zuwen Zhu Di was wrong or not, tell him face to face.
I cannot call you a thief. Mencius said it. You cannot deny what Mencius said and say that Mencius is wrong.
The Ming Dynasty not only had its first female governor, but also its first female marquis. Qin Liangyu was the first female marquis of the Ming Dynasty.
"Actually, the first female official in the Ming Dynasty was Mrs. Zhongshun, the chief envoy to Suiyuan." Zhu Yijun added some arguments. At first, he was not opposed to Sanniang's being the chief envoy to Suiyuan, but now he is opposed to Wu Lian As a female medical officer, is this bullying Wu Lian for not having any cavalry?
To this day, Sanniangzi still controls part of the military power, namely the cavalry of the old reconciliation faction. The Ming court did not immediately disband these cavalry, but incorporated them into the establishment of the Suiyuan Frontier Army. Still under the command of Sanniangzi, it can be regarded as showing the determination of the Ming Dynasty King to transform the grassland.
"If there really is a quarrel, our civil servants in the Ming Dynasty will bully the weak and fear the strong, and have no bones and righteousness." Zhu Yijun first gave this kind of people a label, that is, no bones and righteousness. This kind of people are all the same It's a rat!
What most famous Confucian scholars fear is losing their reputation. When Zhu Yijun comes up with such a big label of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, ordinary Confucian scholars cannot stand it at all.
Sanniang has military power, but she doesn’t dare to say anything about the seriousness of the matter. She sees that the medical officer is easy to bully, so she bullies the medical officer?
No one is the same. Zhu Yijun is also a scholar.
Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu finally showed a relaxed smile. Before coming to the study room of Tonghe Palace, the two ministers were still worried. Now they are not as anxious as before. Now they have Wan Shihe to deal with them head-on. These cheap Confucians can also relax a little bit.
"Your Majesty, Shen Shixing's promotion of a whipping method in Songjiang Mansion is not going well." Zhang Juzheng looked solemn. He came to the imperial study room of Tonghe Palace not only to express his concern for the emperor, but also to protect a doctor. Officials are mainly about state affairs, which is a whipping method tried out in Songjiang Mansion.
“The imperial court implemented the one-whip method, because the corvee was included in the land acres, which resulted in an actual increase in land tax.” Zhang Juzheng explained the logic of being aggressive and right-wing.
Taxes, land rents, and private demands of the township ministries. The private demands of the township ministries include all kinds of cleverly named corvees. Now that the court has promised to incorporate labor into the land, can the court guarantee that there will be no excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the future?
The court cannot guarantee it.
This is an obvious thing. The court is the court, and the place is the place. The court wants to live, and the place also needs to live.
So, in the eyes of powerful right-wingers, the essence of a whipping law is to increase taxes, because the court has no way to eliminate cleverly created names and excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes.
Hai Rui advocated that the land in Gaixian County should be responsible for the battle of Gaixian County. Money should be levied per acre and the officers should be self-employed. This can be achieved by collecting taxes in the front. The villagers have been cleared, the census has been carried out, and the heads have been collected. The tax is divided into four equal parts according to the upper, middle and lower incomes and is divided into acres. This can be done.
But is it really possible for a commission officer to be self-employed?
When the labor expedition was launched, wouldn’t the various local yamen use various reasons and excuses to shirk, postpone or simply refuse to pay? You know, it is extremely difficult to ask the yamen for accounts, because the yamen is the holder of the power. Now that the people sue the officials first, how can they ensure that the local yamen will fulfill its commitments when raising funds for self-employment?
At that time, all the people who owe money will go to the court and the palace to redress their grievances?
After communicating with Shen Shixing, the governor of Songjiang, the Sun family of Songjiang and Sun Kehong, representatives of the powerful rightists from Songjiang, raised these two questions in tandem.
In addition, when Sun Kehong was communicating with Shen Shixing, he raised the third issue. The currency tax on which a whip is based, once the inflow of silver stops, will only rely on Womagang. Whether the silver can support a whip method of silver circulation.
This question is not based on the current situation of Songjiang Prefecture. Songjiang Prefecture connects nine provinces and distributes department stores all over the world. Wherever the Ming Dynasty was short of silver, Songjiang Prefecture would not be short of silver. This is also the reason why Songjiang Prefecture took the lead in transforming a small peasant economy into a commodity economy.
Sun Kehong was standing in the position that the Ming Dynasty was going to be arrogant and right. When it was widely implemented in the world, the inflow of silver must be guaranteed. The Ming Dynasty must have enough currency. Even 10 million silver coins a year must be guaranteed. The imperial court that could not seal the seal still had to implement a whip law in the two capitals and fifteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Realistic conditions did not seem to allow it.
“These three questions raised by Sun Kehong are issues that the imperial court must face when implementing the one-whip method. I, the assistant ministers, and the court officials are still lacking in thinking about the issues. Even based on the theory of contradiction, we Various issues with the one-whip method have been taken into consideration, but it is still necessary to widely solicit opinions from all walks of life in order to make arrangements at the beginning of the decree, so that when problems arise, they will not be at a loss and close their eyes and pretend to be dead." Zhu Yijun vomited. He said solemnly with a foul mouth.
Before the whipping method even started, the Ming court was stopped by questions.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has tried its best to consider things from the bottom up when making decisions, but the trial implementation of a whip method still seems to be taken for granted.
The inflow of silver depends on overseas. This is a commonplace issue and can be left aside for the time being. It is also an urgent issue that needs to be faced when a whipping method is promoted nationwide in the future, and the remaining two issues become Roadblock, stumbling block.
“The first two problems, one is the administration of officials, and the other is the promotion of subordinates’ sentiments. If these two problems are not solved, they will definitely become tyranny.” Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table, thinking Find the solution.
"Your Majesty, there is actually a way to solve it." Zhang Juzheng said solemnly: "To increase the tax on land tax, under the whip law, the tax will be increased from 1 in 30 to 5 in 10. Both problems are solved.”
Zhang Juzheng came up with the old method of raising taxes.
This time it is not a threat to be arrogant, but a statement to the emperor that he really has this plan to implement.
Ten taxes are 50%, which is an unnatural tax of 50%. It is extremely difficult for local yamen and powerful right-wing officials to create clever names and private requests from the countryside. After all, the people of the Ming Dynasty are not docile. It is really difficult for them to live. If we don't go on, what happened in Gosochi will happen again.
The logic is to increase taxes and suppress mergers.
"Your Majesty, my method is to reduce taxes. The proportion of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty has been increasing year by year. There is no need to make decisions on the people who are facing the loess and back to the sky. I think that Songjiang Prefecture, which has completed the transformation of the small peasant economy, You can be bolder and cancel the land tax directly, there won’t be much left anyway.” Wang Chonggu simply explained his approach.
Tax reduction, through the establishment of official factories, and the use of official factory profits to make up for this shortfall.
Tax cuts will indeed intensify mergers, but now the Ming Dynasty has no annexation and no annexation. It simply does not need land tax, stands up, puts the accelerator into the gas tank, and directly completes all mergers, so that The common people entered the official factories.
This is also a way.
"Aren't you just fooling around? The land enclosure movement in England caused beggars to be everywhere in the capital. There were two million people in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and beggars were everywhere. How chaotic was it? You are the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, you Don't you know? Songjiang Mansion is no less generous. With more than 2.4 million people, there are suddenly hundreds of thousands of beggars. Doesn't Songjiang Mansion become a place where demons are dancing?" Zhang Juzheng immediately objected.
"How many people are there in England, a small country? How many people are there in the Ming Dynasty? With your tax reduction decree, people are everywhere in the Ming Dynasty."
Wang Chonggu stood up suddenly and said: "You add more Doesn’t the tax cause vagrants to become unemployed? If the imperial court increases the tax to 50%, will the people still survive? Those damn things in the Japanese country, calling those famous people scum, is just flattering them. The Japanese country increases the tax. It’s even higher than your 50%!”
“Hasn’t Yuan Fu considered the consequences of tax increases?”
"That's why there is only a tax of ten and five. The people of the Ming Dynasty are not Japanese! Tax reduction, the court's tax reduction, who will take care of the poor coolies? The wool comes from the sheep, and taxes are not collected from the farmers. The local yamen will take care of the farmers' life and death. ?" Zhang Juzheng also stood up and said loudly, patting the table.
Wang Chonggu spit out his breath and said sternly: "So, the government factories and regiments are part of the construction, and there are also the engineering regiments and camps. I have a number of ways, at least there are resettlement methods. I am not afraid of refugees everywhere. The tax has been raised to such an extent that the desperate poor coolies will have their faces tattooed and become thieves to serve in the army."
"Only those bastard scholars in the Song Dynasty came up with such a bad idea! The smell will be disgusting after hundreds of years!”
“I advocated raising taxes, and I didn’t say that there would be no need for government factories or engineering corps to build camps. Why can’t we relocate them to the place you proposed? Can't it be used? They are all working for Ming Dynasty and are loyal to His Majesty. What you proposed does not belong to you alone! If you feel that it belongs to you alone, you can return the conflict to me!" Zhang Juzheng played a killer move! .
Wang Chonggu was a little dizzy after being beaten. He had already learned the knowledge and methodology in his head. How could Wang Chonggu pay back? Unscrew the head and give it back to Zhang Juzheng?
Zhu Yijun held his head. The Yuanfu and the Second Fu of the empire had a quarrel because of their different political opinions. They were so quarrelsome that they obviously did not reach any agreement in private before they quarreled in front of the emperor.
And what the two people said seemed to make sense.
"Those disciples and former officials of yours used the government factories and regiments to build and engineer regiments and camps. Do I want you to return them? Don't mess around. What we are discussing now is a whipping method!" Wang Chonggu was irritable. At this moment It's already on your face.
"Okay, okay! Stop arguing. Sit down when you've finished your performance." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "It is impossible to increase taxes. A merger to this extent is definitely not a tax increase. It can be suppressed; it is impossible to reduce taxes. Thirty tax per one is already very low. If it is reduced again, the court will not look at the countryside. "
"Neither can. You can’t reduce taxes even if you increase taxes, and you have to spread the poll tax among the acres. In fact, there is only one way to do it: severe punishment. ”
"You two assistant ministers have had enough of acting. Just sit down. Aren't you just going to ask me to severely punish you? How big a deal is that?"
"I did this evil man."
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