Chapter 622: If you continue to defeat the ministers, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed!
The Ming Dynasty killed the envoy again. It killed Felipe II and sent the Ming Dynasty special envoy Solon. The court officials did not object too much.
No one from the Ministry of Rites even jumped out to object on the grounds of Rouyuan people. Ligas also remained silent and did not intercede for Sauron through the Ministry of Rites, because Fan Yingqi’s example was bloody and made all the courtiers and The scholar-bureaucrats were all frightened.
Using the classification of the class of elected officials by Yan Shixuan, the former magistrate of Shanghai, Fan Yingqi has a Jin Party background and the legacy of his master Ge Shouli. Fan Yingqi is definitely a heavenly person among the class of elected officials. The future is bright, and the official career is like an outing in the garden in March.
But now Fan Yingqi can only hide in the Jiecu courtyard because Fan Yingqi looks like donkey dung and eggs like opium balls.
His Majesty the Emperor's decision to kill made Ming Dynasty and Luzon closer. From Luzon's point of view, this is: Your Majesty has me in your heart.
For all people in Luzon, this decision was made because His Majesty had me in mind, so he killed Sauron regardless of the Ming Dynasty's urgent need for silver inflows, so that Luzon's anti-drug war on the ground received strong support from the court.
If the emperor decides not to kill Sauron, Yin Zhengmao will definitely kill Sauron in order to carry out the anti-drug war, because there are really many poisonous insects in Luzon. By then, the court and Luzon will get further and further away from each other. The further away you go, the humble Confucians in the court will take the opportunity to stand up and shout, saying that the lords who have been entrusted overseas are disobeying His Majesty's imperial edict and are disloyal and unfilial, and everyone will punish them!
As for Luzon, we also have to consider a question. Does the Ming Emperor really regard the Ming people in Luzon as Chinese people?
If a king treats his ministers like dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman;
If a king treats his ministers like dirt, then his ministers will regard him as a bandit.
The barriers and cultural differences created by the ocean will be like an unhealable wound, getting bigger and bigger, and eventually drifting away. This is also the reason why the Central Plains did not expand overseas in the past dynasties. Too It is easy to escape from the rule.
Ligas brought good wine and food to the prison of Fusi in Beizhen, preparing to send Sauron off again. After all, they were all old acquaintances. As a two-faced person, Ligas received two salaries. The Texi envoy, Legaz and Sauron are colleagues.
“Thank you to the Holy Lord for being a generous man, allowing me to see you for the last time without any psychological burden. Thank you for your kindness.” Legas’ visit to Solon was reported, Chen Mo As a prisoner serving a sentence of 1,000 households, standing quietly aside and visiting the prisoner is naturally not a private meeting.
Wang Jiaping also visited Fan Yingqi when he returned to Beijing. Because of His Majesty's generosity, it is no longer taboo for friends to send him one last visit.
"You are already a bureaucrat of the Ming Dynasty. You have betrayed Tessie, betrayed Spain, and betrayed His Highness Felipe!" Sauron looked at Legas and said angrily: "I didn't do it for Having a headache because of the constant flow of silver? Daming doesn’t want any goods from the West, just silver!”
“You are talking nonsense.” Ligasi said calmly: “The West does not have a comprehensive commodity disadvantage, such as The rosewood dragon's blood tree from Brazil, a high-grade dye that is truly red and can be used to dye silk, is extremely expensive. The Emperor Ming Dynasty conducted many trials with little success; for example, the extremely high-grade saltpeter from Peru; the palm from West Africa Oil, cotton from India, these are all things that the Ming Dynasty urgently needs. "
"And at the beginning, we in Spain also had the advantage of building ships. Now the Ming Dynasty's fast sailing ships have been mass-produced. We in Spain. Where is the five-masted ocean crossing ship? Has it been imitated? "
In the early years of Wanli, when the Ming Dynasty had just opened its doors to the sea, in fact, the Ming Dynasty did not have a wide range of commodity advantages. Yes, Taixi's superb glass technology is also one.
“The product advantage of Ming Dynasty was gained bit by bit. It is even said that it was earned bit by bit by His Majesty’s life.” Legas saw clearly how Ming Dynasty established its product advantage. When Huo was reborn, the situation was very bad in the early years. Even the most noble man in the world, the emperor, was in danger. The Ming Dynasty was great, but it was not strong enough.
"Solon, you are the secretary of His Highness Felipe and a close minister of His Highness. Let me ask you, when Antonio had just established a foothold, His Highness negotiated peace with Portugal and killed a group of nobles in order to concentrate power. Why? Why don't you continue?" Legas asked a question that was difficult to answer.
Felipe II was very envious of the Ming Emperor's nearly unlimited power. When he was defeated and the opposition clamored, he launched a killing night and killed many nobles. Legaz had always I was waiting for news, but when I didn't, it seemed like the matter was over here.
If half of the power is concentrated, is it centralization?
“The resistance is too great.” Sauron murmured to himself. Felipe II not only envied the unlimited power of Emperor Ming, but also envied Ming’s ability to concentrate on doing things. This is a way to solve social conflicts. method, but Felipe II failed in the end.
“Do you think there was no resistance to the Wanli Reform of the Ming Dynasty? On the contrary, there was great resistance. His Majesty, who was twenty-two years old, experienced four life-and-death crises alone. His Majesty, who was only twenty-two years old, experienced it Four times, all to make Ming Dynasty great again, so how many times did our Highness Felipe go through it? Once? Twice?" Legas asked with a sigh.
"No." Sauron closed his eyes and said slightly painfully.
Under the feudal system, the rise and fall of a country was closely related to the individual king. The rise and fall of a country was tied to one person, which was naturally an extremely dangerous political situation.
As for the Ming Dynasty, as a big country in the East, and Spain as the first empire on which the sun never sets in the West, the monarchs of the two countries have many similarities. They are both diligent, have great ambitions, and are also quite talented. Perseverance has been maintained for several years, but Felipe II is still slightly inferior after all.
"Just because of a few nagging words from my mistress, some complaints from governors in various places in official documents, and the opposition of some nobles, the action was stopped. There is an old saying in China that is consistent, either don't do it or do it. In the end, giving up half-way is not perseverance and weakness." Li Yashi looked at Sauron and said: "So, it is not surprising that Ming Dynasty is at an advantage in the national competition."
"You. Instead of trying to persuade His Highness, he used some conspiracy and tricks in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage in a short period of time. I would like to ask you, even if the three coastal defense inspectors really let them go, you established a channel and took those 120 The box of opium was delivered to Ming Dynasty, so what?”
"It won't work if the quantity is small, but if the quantity is large, it will be inspected. More than 10,000 kilograms at a time will affect more than 10,000 people, and they are all powerful and right-wing. Will it really have an impact on the national power of the Ming Dynasty?"
Sauron waved his hands repeatedly and said: "You are looking at it too superficially and too closely. The competition between the two countries is not ten or twenty years, but a long-term competition of fifty or one hundred years. This is not a short-term advantage. , but the long-term advantage. You have never seen poisonous insects in Davao, Cebu, and Luzon. They are everywhere. This is a Pandora’s box. As long as it is opened, the devil will be released.”
Legas sneered, and then laughed, smiling, with a sad look on his face and said: "What am I thinking? It's because you don't understand the Ming Dynasty or China."
"Opium has really become the heartache of the Ming Dynasty, so it will correct its mistakes. This kind of correction may come from the imperial court, which punishes them with severe punishments. If the imperial court cannot do it, just change the imperial court. Every dynasty in the Central Plains, In each reincarnation, some crises that endanger the world must be effectively resolved in order to secure the throne."
"This land has never been a world owned by one family. You just don't understand the Ming Dynasty, it's not my superficial view. "
"The poisonous insects in Luzon you mentioned, the surname of the country has ordered that poisonous insects be shot wherever they are seen, and beheaded wherever poisonous insects are caught. Guess how long it will take for the Luzon Governor's Mansion to control them. "These questions?"
Legasi laughed at Sauron for not understanding the Ming Dynasty, and he was also laughing at the cultural differences. The Ming Dynasty has deep-rooted feelings for the world. This is an additional product of high morality, and the Ming Dynasty's terrible error-correcting power is doomed. This land will always stand tall in the forest of the world and occupy a pivotal position.
Ligas, who lived in the Wanli Restoration era, would naturally come to this conclusion, but if Legas had come earlier, such as in the late Jiajing years, I am afraid there would be another completely different conclusion, that is Daming is just a broken house, it will collapse if you kick it.
“It is impossible to control the problem of poisonous insects!” Sauron said loudly.
Legasil said sternly: "His Majesty, the Emperor, sacrificed your head to the flag. Sauron, you are His Highness's think tank. With such wisdom, how can you assist His Highness? Your Majesty took your head to sacrifice to His Majesty. The flag of the anti-drug war, don’t you see it?”
"His Majesty brought you down in the capital and beheaded you in public. This was to tell the world, and to tell Lu Song that the anti-drug war must be won, and it must be won. Using your head as a guide, he launched an anti-drug war, and by the way, Lu Song was transformed into a king who disobeyed. Catch them all in one fell swoop."
"This..." Sauron looked at Li Yashi blankly, and he finally understood the meaning of Yin Zhengmao's last words to him.
“Let’s get down to business. As for you, go in peace. If Your Majesty is kind, I will bring your ashes back to Taixi. Of course, as a criminal, you may not have the right to have your body collected. Maybe a monument will be built for you, and your bones will be buried under the monument to tell the world why you were executed." Ligas looked at Sauron and said with a bit of sadness: "Go in peace."< br>
“Can’t you save me?” Sauron was like a drowning man grasping the last straw, hoping that Legas could save him.
Legasil smiled and did not answer. He turned around and left. This was his final farewell.
Legasil did not go back to Huitongguanyi, but went to Tonghe Palace. Walking on the streets of Daming, Legashi looked at everything familiar around him, the rows of shops, the shouts one after another, and the dazzling array of things. The various commercial goods and the never-ending quarrels between neighbors all seemed so familiar. Ligas looked down at his official robe. He had become accustomed to the comfortable life of the Ming Dynasty.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is indeed in the imperial study room of Tonghe Palace, reviewing memorials. Various affairs of the empire need to be handled by the emperor.
Li Yashi walked into the royal study smoothly. Zhu Yijun thought that Li Yashi came to plead for mercy. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty thought it was necessary to meet and explain clearly the reason why Ming Dynasty killed people. Sauron was indeed the messenger, but he First there are the criminals.
"I pay homage to your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Li Ya paid a courtesy visit.
"Sit down and talk. If you want to intercede for Sauron, don't do it. You know what he did. I can't forgive him, otherwise the poison will be endless. The Ming Dynasty has its own national conditions." Zhu Yijun motioned to Li Ya Actually sat down and talked.
Legas had already learned the trick of being a cheap scholar, crying, making trouble, and hanging himself. It was too ugly. If Legas really asked for mercy, he could only die with Sauron.
"If I don't plead for him, he deserves to die." Ligas shook his head. On this matter, Ligas had a position but had no reason to plead.
Legasil looked hesitant and said again and again: "Your Majesty, I am here to say goodbye, and I plan to return to the West."
"Huh?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said: " You made a solemn oath before God that you would never marry and serve God. Later, you broke your oath and returned to Taisi. You have only one way to die. The inquisition will put you at the stake and burn you alive. "
“Don’t think that Felipe II will protect you. You know better than me that religion, as one of the elements of national construction in Spain, is an extremely important centripetal force and cohesion. Why do you think that Felipe II will protect you? Will the Second Emperor offend the Holy See for your sake?"
Legas said helplessly: "Your Majesty, Sauron has committed such an unforgivable crime. If I don't go back, the Ming Dynasty will break off diplomatic relations with Spain. In trade, it is Spain that is inseparable from the Ming Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty that is inseparable from Spain.”
“Once diplomatic relations are severed, the Ming Dynasty can still smuggle from Japan, Womagang, the West, ocean trade, and Spain. Merchants got a huge amount of silver, but without the galleons trade, Spain lost one of the cornerstones of its dynasty, the circulation of silver."
"I am a minister of His Majesty, and also a minister of Felipe. , and even more Spanish, I must go back."
Zhu Yijun frowned and tapped his fingers unconsciously on the table. He looked at Ligas and said: "I am assessing the risks. , thinking about whether to kill you, just say that Sauron and you planned it together. There is no red-haired man in the Ming Dynasty, so no one will intercede with you."
"You are here. In the 12th year of the Ming Dynasty, he knew a lot, and he passed the exams many times. He was a very capable person. ”
Li Yazhi could not be promoted in the Ming Dynasty because he was a red-haired fan and a Tartar official. Therefore, Li Yazhi and Gao Qiyu became brothers in distress at Honglu Temple. After filling in the name, there was no such person. Gao Qiyu and Li Yashi were both crossed out by Zhang Juzheng himself.
"Your Majesty will not do that. Your Majesty is a good man and has always been aboveboard." Legaz was the least worried about this problem because His Majesty was aboveboard. Legas really understood the Ming Emperor very well, because he could look at problems from an outsider's perspective and often had more different understandings. He knew very well that His Majesty did not actually have much discrimination against the Fanyi, unlike the Huayi. The Confucian scholars are different. His Majesty likes Taixi's works very much, especially arithmetic, but the Confucian scholars think that the barbarians are useless and their knowledge is rubbish.
Your Majesty is an upright person, and your Majesty never wrongly accuses anyone.
"Go back if you want. I'm afraid you'll be killed if you don't do anything when you go back." Zhu Yijun cherishes his talent, and feels a little pity for Legas, who knew it was a fire pit but still jumped into it. , call him stupid, he is doing it for the public interest of Spain, not for selfish desires.
“So I want to ask for an imperial edict to send a special envoy to Taixi, so that I will be safe. His Highness Felipe cannot protect me, but His Majesty can.” Legas said with a smile: “ In this way, the minister also has an identity, which can explain the reason, so that the two countries will not completely break off diplomatic relations, and the minister's family will stay in the Ming Dynasty. "
As the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, it will be no problem to kill the Ming Dynasty in the West. Envoys will attract the wrath of heaven. Even if the Inquisition is crazy and completely turns against the Ming Dynasty, Spain will not be able to bear the consequences, so safety is absolutely guaranteed.
"Are you kidding? You are a special envoy from the Ming Dynasty to the West, and you suddenly became the special envoy from the Ming Dynasty to the West?" Zhu Yijun looked at Li Yashi and said blankly. Sure enough, Li Yashi treated those cheap Confucians. Go learn it! The trick of using power to bully others is really perfect.
"I am originally an official of Honglu Temple, and generals are also officials, with official status." Ligas said matter-of-factly: "During the pre-Qin period, there was a kind of person called a counselor, who mainly engaged in For the school that focuses on political and diplomatic activities, some people accuse them of being unstable and capricious during the Qin Dynasty and Chu Dynasty. The villain here is talking about bad morals. "
"After the unification of Qin Dynasty, although the politicians were political leaders. It has declined, but there are still some, such as Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, Su Wu, Ban Chao, and our Ming Dynasty also had Fu An, Zheng He and others, all of whom were mainly engaged in political and diplomatic activities and cannot be regarded as lost. "
"There is always a need for people like this to serve as envoys to communicate on state affairs and prevent conflicts from further intensifying due to misunderstandings. Ming Dynasty will always do business with Spain. After all, the rich silver mines are in the hands of His Highness."
Rich Silver Mine, a silver mine with a grade of more than 60%. In the era before electrolytic aluminum, Rich Silver Mine was the largest producer of silver.
Electrolytic aluminum, after adjusting the voltage and current, can electrolyze silver. In later generations, the silver output of the great Eastern countries was 24,800 tons per year, about 710 million taels. In the era without electrolytic aluminum, silver was more than Gold is also an important currency-based precious metal. Many businessmen in the Ming Dynasty did not even want gold, but only silver.
Indeed, the Ming Dynasty still had to do business with Felipe II. The Ming Dynasty Navy did not have the ability to cross the Pacific to attack the rich silver mines. The Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to deploy across the ocean. In other words, the Ming Dynasty Navy was not strong enough. We need to continue to strengthen our military strength.
"Okay, let's discuss the next chapter with the Ministry of Rites and draw up the decree." Zhu Yijun did not object. It was better for Ligas, a Taixi native, to go back and talk about this matter than to send a Ming Dynasty man to take the risk.
Zhu Yijun agreed to Li Yashi's request and continued to deal with the unfinished memorials in his hand. Looking at them, Zhu Yijun became happy.
"Haha, this Confucian scholar is a bit confused." The memorial in Zhu Yijun's hand was written by Sun Zhanwu, a new scholar in the 11th year of Wanli.
Sun Zhanwu believes that during the March outing, every family must bring girls, many of whom are still girls from brothels, which is really immoral, and lewd comparisons often occur, and it is now a place for gatherings. , most of them are in Taibai Building instead of the academy, which is extremely ungraceful.
Taibai Tower is a brothel, and there are some reasons why gatherings are held there. Many gatherings are in the name of gatherings, and the purpose is to visit the brothel!
Sun Zhanwu means that it should be forbidden to bring female companions on outings in the garden. In order to prevent the further deterioration of the trend, the place for gatherings and discussions should also be in the school hall.
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and replied: "You learn how to bark like a fox, and he goes to buy a fish. My heart and my actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is righteous." 】
The Fox Crying and Buying a Fish are the Fox Crying Fish Book. In fact, it is the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. If he does not take women to go outing, I am afraid it will attract the attention of Tiqi. These big men gather together, What if one of the idea kings said: The people are miserable, and so are our families!
Didn’t that cause a big mess?
Zhu Yijun sees a lot of weird remarks every day, but Sun Zhanwu's remarks are not excessive.
"Wang Cifu is not working in the cabinet?" Zhu Yijun asked with a frown, holding a memorial.
Feng Bao thought for a while and said: "Wang Cifu has never served in the cabinet. I really don't want to see Mr., I can't afford to offend him, and I can't afford to hide."
This is Wang Chonggu's original intention He couldn't afford to offend Zhang Juzheng, so he had to hide and not hang around in front of Zhang Juzheng. Otherwise, Zhang Juzheng would look at him every day and get upset. If he wanted to beat him, but he still couldn't win, who would he ask to reason with?
"Leave this memorial to the cabinet for the next chapter to Wang Cifu for disposal." Zhu Yijun handed a memorial written by Zhu to Feng Bao and said.
The content of the memorial is about Xishan Coal Bureau.
Wang Qian reminded the Ming Emperor at Yanxing Tower that someone had an idea to attack the shipyard. What surprised Zhu Yijun was that the first wave of offensive did not hit the shipyard, but the shipyard. Xishan Coal Bureau.
As an official factory, the Xishan Coal Bureau recently took over the coal market entrance. This is indeed a competition for profit with the people. After all, the official factories of the Ming Dynasty really cannot produce briquettes made of 30% loess.
This time, it was like poking a hornet's nest. Voices criticizing Wang Chonggu's accumulation sounded again, and Zhu Yijun was scolded along the way.
In Ming Dynasty, there were too many people who scolded the emperor.
When a ruler loses the support of the people, he often starts by gathering. If it is covered to facilitate gathering, then the ministers who are interested in profit will cater to the superior's wishes and exploit the people's wealth. This is why people's hearts are full of resentment, and the world is poor and impoverished. If the superiors use hatred to suppress the inferiors, then the subordinates will also enmity the superiors. This is the inevitable result of this logic.
Only use it to suppress the gathered ministers, causing them to harm the subordinates and benefit the superiors, and ruin the government and harm the people. As for the ministers who suppress them, they should follow the instructions and help the evil, and become one. Therefore, the people have nothing to live for, they often die of hunger, they are tired and have nothing to tell them.
Zhu Yijun learned another word from Confucian scholars, which is to restrain the ministers.
That is to say, a person who is unscrupulous and unscrupulous in order to amass money.
This word comes from the Book of Songs. Mencius also said in Gaozi Xia: When the old are left behind and the wise are lost, and the ruler is defeated, there will be concessions.
That is, virtuous people cannot be in high positions. If sycophants gather in the government, the king may lose his country.
If Wang Chonggu is used again, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed, that’s pretty much what it means.
It was the Jin Party who criticized Wang Chonggu. Zhu Yijun handed over the cabinet to Wang Chonggu, which meant that Wang Chonggu was asked to clean up the family.
“These cheap Confucians are right in all these things, but they put aside the facts. My husband and Wang Cifu tried their best to stop the government and factories from giving more power to Meishikou. It was a helpless move. After all, firewood, rice, oil, salt and firewood were all important. After Wang Ci took charge of the Xizhimen Coal Market, the price stabilized, and all the 30% yellow coal that had been passed off as substandard was eliminated."
"Who is it? Are you oppressing the common people by knocking their bones and sucking their marrow?" Zhu Yijun strongly disagrees with this memorial.
The truths are all correct. Zhu Yijun fully agrees with these truths. After the Northern Song Dynasty monopolized coal, one pound of coal cost 200 yuan. This was indeed a knock on the bones and suck the marrow out. But was Wang Chonggu a minister of the government? The price of coal in the capital of the Ming Dynasty has not increased at six cents per pound for twelve years. Compared with the previous price increases of ten to twenty times during rainy and snowy days, the Xishan Coal Bureau has not stopped.
But the Confucians always ignore the facts. After reading the memorial, it is very reasonable, but there are no facts.
Zhu Yijun continued: "Is this Xishan Coal Bureau the private property of Wang Cifu? In the past, the woolen official factory still had 10% of profits for the Wang family. Later, the dividends were too much, and Wang Cifu did not dare to ask for it. , Too much money is too much, and Wang Cifu’s dividends were all given to the craftsmen.”
“If the Mao Woolen Factory and the Xishan Coal Bureau were both Wang Cifu’s private properties, I would be fine if Wang Cifu’s son married a concubine. Go and congratulate me in person!”
“Even this Xishan Coal Bureau is not my private property, but the public property of the state.”
The Xishan Coal Bureau originally only took care of the Xishan Coal Kiln, but now Shengzhou, The official coal factories in Womagang, Yunnan Liuzhi, Nanya Ma'anshan, Jianghuai and other places are all under the management of Xishan Coal Bureau. If the Coal Bureau is really Wang Chonggu's private property, and his son Wang Qian marries a concubine, the emperor will have to come to congratulate him. , all the talents have arrived.
This huge wealth belongs to an individual and is truly as rich as a country.
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "The official factory is too big now. Let Wang Cifu work in the cabinet from now on. Only if he doesn't post floating notes on the memorials will these cheap scholars dare to look down on him."
"I guess. Wang Cifu doesn’t want to.” Feng Bao shook his head and said, “Wang Cifu doesn’t work in the cabinet because of his attitude.”
Wang Chonggu doesn’t want to work in the cabinet because of his attitude and actions. He doesn’t work in the cabinet, so naturally he can’t interfere with His Majesty. The general direction of the Wanli Restoration.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Yijun came to the Wenhua Hall again to preside over the court meeting. For twelve years, Zhu Yijun never missed the court meeting except for illness, so that the courtiers during the Wanli period took it for granted that the emperor You should appear in Wenhua Hall at this time.
But since the 21st year of Jiajing, it has been very difficult for cabinet ministers, let alone courtiers, to see the emperor.
"I think the Meishikou opening cannot be opened." Wang Chonggu, as the second assistant, first talked about the memorial that His Majesty sent to the cabinet yesterday. He said very solemnly: "Even if it is for the official camp "
As an emperor, Zhu Yijun can only let the humble Confucians die, but Wang Chonggu can make people worse than life and death. As a powerful man, Wang Chonggu has at least the right. There are nine ways to make people mentally ill, but Wang Chonggu did not do this. Instead, he agreed with the accusations of the memorial, chose to spit out what he had eaten, and separated the coal market from the official factory. Let the Ministry of Finance do it.
Although the yamen like a hydra is rigid, it is stable and will not pose a threat to the imperial power.
(End of this chapter)