Chapter 674: Everything is mine!
The content discussed by Zhu Yili and Li Yougong is called foreign chaos.
Both Zhu Yixuan and Li Yougong have followed His Majesty the Emperor since they were children. They are more familiar with maps than the generals. They are both good at arithmetic, and arithmetic is regarded as foreign learning in the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty translated many Thai and Western texts. Arithmetic works complement Ming Dynasty's deficiencies in arithmetic.
Before the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty set out to open the sea, Ming Dynasty’s understanding of the Red-haired Fan and the Golden-haired Fan was no different from its understanding of the Japanese pirates. It was right that the small overseas Fanyi countries came to the Ming Dynasty to beg for food.
Even Portugal’s envoy Huozhe Yasan became a favorite of Emperor Wu Zong as early as the Zhengde period. In the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, Portugal and the Japanese were equal.
Overseas chaos and Japanese invasion seem to be threats from the ocean, but there are still huge differences.
Regarding Hong Mao Fan and Jin Mao Fan as a type of Japanese plague is an uninformed understanding, because Hong Mao Fan and Jin Mao Fan are really too far away, even if they are of a commercial nature. The ocean trade can only be carried back and forth once a year. With such a long journey, and the lack of effective ocean deployment capabilities, the Ming Dynasty has no effective means to punish these red-haired people.
The cost of conquest is simply too high and impossible to achieve.
This means that these red-haired and golden-haired fans will commit more unscrupulous crimes and become a problem for the Ming Dynasty.
“It seems that this silver grew from the soil of the New World. The colonial governors only needed to use cheap slaves to mine the silver from the mines, and then they could get enough rich goods from the Ming Dynasty, but Silver is a medium for storing value. How long can Taixi continue to do this kind of money-losing business?" Zhu Yixi looked at the list of goods sent by the Ministry of Finance and said solemnly.
Are these Thai and Western Fanyi really willing to do so? In other places, they would just rob openly, but when they arrived in Ming Dynasty, they had to do business normally. It would be strange if they were willing to do so! Moreover, it was Daming that made all the money, but they could only buy Daming's goods in Daming, and they couldn't get them anywhere else.
Li Yougong said in agreement: "For the Ming Dynasty, the West is too far, and the same is true for the West. In the short term, I, the Ming Dynasty, do not have to worry too much about the problem of foreign chaos, but in the long run, foreign chaos will inevitably occur. Profit dictates."
"They are not good at doing business, but they are very good at burning, killing and looting."
Zhu Yili thought for a moment and said: "We need to build a moat. , at the very least, these barbarians from the West should not be able to enter the Strait of Malacca."
King Lu stood in front of the map, pointed heavily at the location of the Strait of Malacca, and said: "The Prime Minister of the Thousand Islands. It is time to start the real implementation of the Lord of the Development of the Xu Islands. The Songjiang Sun family, the Jimo Chen family, the Dianbai Zhang family, etc., who meet the requirements, should be given to the third-class Marquis. "
The Lord of the Development has been established since then. After that, it has not been enabled.
Firstly, the originally agreed five-year period has not yet come, and secondly, there is a strong opposition from the DPRK and China, because in the eyes of the ministers, this will lead to the proliferation of the Ming Lord System , that is, selling officials and conferring titles in the Han Dynasty. In order to deal with the opposition of courtiers, the system also made some changes.
For example, it was originally intended to have the same formal official title as the Ming Dynasty Wuxun, and Yicheng Bo, Ningyuan Marquis and the like had formal title names, but now it has become a distinction between first class, second class, and third class. .
But Zhu Yili knew very well that the Ming Dynasty’s martial arts were martial arts. In the hinterland, overseas, and in any corner of the world, they were the hereditary martial arts of the Ming Dynasty. However, Lord Pioneer was only in the land he pioneered. It can be used, but its status is not recognized in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. This was made very clear at the beginning of the establishment of the system.
In fact, it is a version of the enfeoffment system. In places where the Ming Dynasty's hand cannot reach, the enfeoffed lords are allowed to restrain and manage.
"I obey the order." Li Yougong was stunned for a moment, and then immediately obeyed his command.
Zhu Yili has always been like this. He will do it first and then talk about it. If it doesn't work, he will turn over the biscuits and pretend that there is no such thing.
While His Majesty is away, the mischievous King Lu comes to court and implements some controversial decrees to see the effects and practice them.
Start first, and gradually sum up experience and lessons in the collision of contradictions.
When Yin Zhengmao went to Luzon, many people in the dynasty said that it would become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty in the future, but now Luzon is gradually becoming one of the hinterlands of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Qing abbot has made it look impressive. In this way, Wang Hua's speed even surpassed that of Suiyuan. Even now, the Qingzhang of Suiyuan cannot implement it because there are really too few people.
Zhu Yirui is not always messing around, for example, he caused a public trial, and for example, he is now arrogantly promoting Lord Kaifeng.
"When the third son of King Tota Li was born, he had the character "N" on his left palm and the character "Zha" on his right palm, so he was named Nezha. This Nezha is a person who cannot be restrained by worldly rules."
"This prince went to the sea to purify himself and caused trouble in three dynasties. He trampled down the Crystal Palace and caught a dragon and tried to cramp it into a tapestry. The king of heaven knew it and wanted to kill him for fear of future trouble. Nezha was furious and took the knife in his hand. , cut off the flesh and return it to the mother, remove the bones and return it to the father, return the father's sperm and mother's blood, and return a little soul to the Western Paradise to pray to the Buddha." Li Yougong reminded Zhu Yiyi that there should be a limit to his nonsense. (Journey to the West Chapter 83.)
Zhu Yiliu is so smart that he naturally understood what Li Yougong meant. Doesn’t that mean that he is the Nezha who is making trouble? If he makes too much trouble, he may end up being cut off. The consequences of repaying the mother, and repaying the father by eviscerating the bones.
“Tch, do you really think that the emperor brother is a figure like the King Li Tianwang of Tota?” Zhu Yixi shook his head and said: “You followed the emperor brother when you were ten years old. It has been twelve years, and you still don’t understand the emperor brother. If I really I went into the sea to pull out the dragon's tendons, and the emperor would just hold his head for me and tell me to pull it out completely so that I could make a Xuanyuan bow, and pull out the teeth to make a Qiankun arrow."
"There are really people to blame. The emperor brother will only light up the whole world and go to heaven to ask the Jade Emperor why he is embarrassing my two brothers."
Li Yougong is a subordinate, he treats the emperor His perspective is to look up, so he will see some compromises in His Majesty's actions, but Zhu Yili is the younger brother, and he looks at the Emperor at level, so he will come to a completely different conclusion. It is just the identity of the Emperor that traps him. .
The sky is falling, the emperor is holding on!
"What His Highness said is sincere and reasonable." Li Yougong was stunned, and then immediately bowed his head and said, that is indeed the case. Whenever Zhu Yili gets into trouble, His Majesty will always bring more people into the capital to prove that, Zhu Yixuan was just messing around, like a child playing house.
It’s really violent, you still have to look at the emperor.
Zhu Yili stood in front of the Kanyu map and said with great conviction: "My brother and I actually don't like fighting, not at all."
"Because the soldiers who are most loyal to the country will Die, then brave warriors, and finally cunning, utilitarian, selfish warriors, but still willing to fight for the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"These people can be called great, these great people. , will die on the battlefield. When all the warriors who reported to the emperor to rescue the head of Guizhou leave us, what is left is ultimately just a contest between hypocrites and true villains."
"Hypocrites and true villains. No matter who wins, it will be a disaster for the world."
"So, we need to do everything possible to prevent the war from happening in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, as long as there are gentlemen in the world, the situation will be better. The situation will not be so bad that it cannot be dealt with.”
"The Han Dynasty has been loyal and loyal from generation to generation, but this generation is chilling. After all, there will be a day when dark clouds cover the sun."
Zhu Yiliu is the world's top carnivore, the hereditary and irreplaceable prince of the Ming Dynasty. The last thing he wants is for the Ming Dynasty to die, so that he will not have a good life.
"I am different from His Majesty. As long as I win, I don't care what means I use to win." Zhu Yixi expressed his attitude to Li Yougong very definitely. Winning is everything to him. As for whether Daming is good or not. Okay, then he doesn't care.
He was not the one sitting on the dragon throne. He was the one who supervised the country with a square stool. This was also a rule passed down from the Yongle period.
On the second day of March in the thirteenth year of Wanli, King Lu officially ordered the canonization of overseas lords.
When Lord Kaifeng's decree was implemented, all the officials in the capital were silent and there was no fierce opposition. Now the officials have figured out King Lu's temper. He is an unreasonable master!
The emperor is still reasonable at least, but King Lu cannot listen to any of his objections. Now the officials’ only hope is the emperor who they have scolded for twelve years. They only hope that your majesty can Come back early, this Zhu Yili is really unruly in his behavior.
After the criminals involved in the Yizhou opium den case entered the capital and were carefully interrogated by the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen, they discovered why this opium den was so audacious and dared to open for business when the Ming Emperor was on his southern tour.
The opium den in Huiminfang, Yizhou has been established for more than three years. At first, the people around it did not notice anything unusual, but then it became so smoky that the people nearby couldn’t stand it anymore, and the opium den was The smoke made the people around them feel weak and had trouble sleeping and eating as if they were infested with lice.
After several families discussed it, they went to the Yamen to complain. Lei Shizhen, the magistrate of Yizhou, sent a Yamen servant to visit and told the people that there was nothing unusual.
Originally, the matter should have ended here, but that night, several families who went to sue suffered disaster. There was a curfew in the city, but a group of young people showed up in Huiminfang openly and openly. , the house was smashed, the person who sued had his legs broken, and was warned to mind his own business, otherwise the whole family would be killed.
These few families are not very popular, and they don’t know what a casino is doing to cause such a big fight. A fifty-year-old man couldn’t bear it anymore, so he went out with a knife. , there is no return, no one knows where to go.
After this, no one dared to speak out, no one dared to talk about this opium den. This kind of thing happened more than once, so that the people could only pretend that it did not exist. This was also an opium den. The reason why you do whatever you want, no matter how powerful your emperor is, with your hands and eyes reaching the sky, no one tells you, but you can still see?
Isn’t this a coincidence?
Just in time, it hit the muzzle of the emperor's southern patrol gun.
Zhu Yili finally finished approving the memorials, and all the memorials that had been backlogged for four days were sent to the six yamen. This inefficiency made the officials somewhat uncomfortable, but after all, the machine of the Ming court was still functioning normally. Work.
Zhu Yili walked out of Tonghe Palace, stretched hard, and headed towards the Royal Garden. The emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu invited Zhu Yili to go because he had important things to do.
Daming’s 48-horsepower steam engine, Shengping No. 4, was successfully tested. The production workshop of Xishan Coal Bureau is also under construction and is expected to be completed before the end of the year. The Shengping No. 4, with an annual production of more than 3,000 units, will give Daming Inject new vitality into the basic economy.
“Isn’t arithmetic already developed to this point now?” Zhu Yili stood in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, looking at the works in the arithmetic compartment, dumbfounded.
Because of the emperor's request, Zhu Yili's arithmetic was not bad, but the arithmetic he learned was addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, basic geometry, positive and negative numbers, and decimals. Since Li Kaifang became a doctor of the Five Classics, he came up with the number axis For this kind of thing, arithmetic seems to have opened the door to another world. Now there are many more data drawings, variables, equations, functions, images, etc.
These gadgets made Zhu Yili admire his miraculous skills, especially the trigonometric function image drawn at the main entrance, which made Zhu Yili look at it for a long time.
“Always learn and always be new.” Xiong Tingbi had a headache looking at these arithmetic calculations that he no longer knew at all. This thing looks difficult, but in fact, it is indeed not simple.
"Hahaha, Xiong Da still has to take the imperial examination, and he doesn't have to do it alone! You still have to learn these things, you are really lucky!" Zhu Yirui said proudly with his hands on his hips. Seeing that Xiong Da was unlucky, It is also one of Zhu Yili’s pleasures.
The size of the forty-eight-horsepower steam engine was smaller than the previous Shengping No. 3. Zhu Yili circled the iron horse three times to the left and three to the right, asking questions for a long time with great interest. The talent and ideas are not yet exhausted.
"Your Highness, please come here this time. In addition to confirming the success of the test run of Shengping No. 4, there is one more thing." Zhu Zaiyu held up his hands and said: "Let Dr. Wei talk about this matter. "Wei Youshan, the inventor of water-fertilizer in the Ming Dynasty, received the Chonggu Award for water-fertilizer. He is now a doctor of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy of Research in the Ming Dynasty. He specializes in the study of fertilizers. Wei Youshan led the process improvement of water-fertilizer.
“The water and fertilizer production in the 12th year of Wanli can benefit about six million acres of farmland, which is 60,000 hectares, which basically covers all the cultivated land in the Shuntian Prefecture area. "Wei Youshan said slightly nervously: "There seems to be no difference between water and fertilizer, at least we haven't found any disadvantages so far."
"Is your highness farming?"
Wei Youshan faced it. I wasn't nervous when I was the emperor, but I didn't know where to start when facing King Lu, because His Highness King Lu didn't farm.
"I don't know how to farm, so I went to the fields with the emperor's brother, but it was just to play with my nephew. I have never farmed seriously, unlike the emperor's brother." Zhu Yili told the Five Classics very clearly Doctor, I, a naturally noble person, really don’t know how to farm.
In the civil and military affairs of the entire dynasty, there were only a few ministers who could chat with His Majesty on the matter of farming.
Wei Youshan was silent for a moment before saying: "I am from Fengxiang, Shaanxi. There is a rich man named Li in our area. His family has thousands of acres of fertile land. When he goes out to visit relatives and friends, he will pick up broken straw shoes on the road. Get it up and smoke it on the roof. After a thick layer of soot is smoked in the woodshed, the broken straw sandals will become soft and can be thrown into the compost pit."
"It's not this plum. The member is poor, but on the contrary, he is very rich, and he is not stingy. He is simply in need of money."
Zhu Yili's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Ah, it turns out that these broken straw shoes and the like are piled up. Compost, I saw the emperor doing this before, it turned out to be for fertilizer.”
He could understand Li Yuanwai’s behavior, and didn’t even think that Wei Youshan was making up stories, because Zhu Yili had really seen it before. It's also strange that the emperor's brother piled those broken straw sandals and rags there. After a while, they disappeared. It turned out that they were all used for composting.
"Huh?" Zhu Zaiyu looked at Zhu Yili in astonishment. In the Buddhist Scripture Pavilion, all the Five Classics doctors looked at Zhu Yili in horror. Wasn't it true that the Ming Emperor also picked up rags? ! Is this kind of thing something that ministers like them can listen to?
"The Great Light Sect has a saying that prophets have eight great virtues, and frugality is one of them. Everyone, why are you making such a fuss?" Zhu Yiliu said calmly.
Zhu Yili was a little panicked, so he spoke quickly and told the emperor's story. He really wasn't spreading rumors about the emperor. The emperor really did it, and more than once.
"What your Highness said is absolutely true. The country depends on the Holy Lord. Your Majesty is like the scorching sun in the sky, so why should the world be unhappy?" As an official of the Ministry of Rites and a representative of the administrative power of the Royal Academy of Gewu, Shen Li hurriedly came out to express his position! This is your Majesty's wisdom. Can the emperor's affairs be called picking up rags? That’s called resource reallocation!
Definitely not picking up rags!
"Composting is actually a very difficult thing. Brother Huang told me many times, but I'm stupid and didn't remember it. I don't know how to compost. But the process of composting is called decomposition. Brother Huang told me that if If the compost is not mature and the compost is not hot, the little bugs in the soil will not be burned to death. If you spread it, the seedlings will be burned.” "Fat master." Zhu Yixuan didn't like farm work, so he took a rough look at it.
The decomposition process of composting does not actually burn bacteria to death, but turns organic matter into inorganic matter. Piling organic matter directly into the ground will cause bacteria to multiply and cause fever to burn seedlings. Moreover, these organic matter, the roots of plants It can't be absorbed either.
Zhu Yixi has always been like this. He can't remember things clearly that he is not interested in, so he has this misunderstanding.
Wei Youshan continued: "After pulling the radish, the season has entered the cold winter months. During this period, when the weather is fine, people will go to the ground to burn ashes, which is to burn straw, branches, shrubs , weeds, etc., are put into a cone-shaped earth stove, and a fire is lit at the bottom. Once the flames pass, these straws and the like will become crackling. "
"Usually, they will. Choose pine or fir trees, because these two types have a high oil content. This is what people often call stewing tobacco.” Plant mounds of soil one by one, and during spring plowing, a dustpan of ash and half a shovel of compost is the best fertilizer.”
Pan Jixun said that Suiyuan was a bit reckless in reclaiming wasteland, and they just set fire to the mountains. Naturally, it is a manifestation of eagerness for quick success, but it is also an attempt to burn ashes.
“This is how the ash mixed in the compost came from.” Zhu Yili suddenly realized that the emperor would do this every year when he went to do spring plowing. At that time, Zhu Yili was still wondering what was added here. .
Now he finally understands that ashes are also fat.
Zhu Yijun told his brother more than once, but Zhu Yijun really didn't like it, and he didn't bother to talk about it later.
“We have discovered a substitute for burning ash.” Wei Youshan looked at Zhu Yili and told him about the recent discoveries of the Royal Institute of Furniture, and took out a small palm-sized box and said, “This is from Mineral salt from the Western Regions can be added to water and fertilizer instead of burnt ash. "What is this?" Zhu Yili asked curiously.
Wei Youshan shook his head and said: "I don't know. We Doctors of the Five Classics also know this and don't know why, but the test results show that it has the same effect as the things burned with ashes."
< br>"This thing is called Jing Jue Salt. It was brought to Jiayuguan by merchants from the Western Regions to sell it, but no one wanted it. This kind of salt will be poisonous if eaten."
Jing Jue Salt is sold as salt, but People who bought it soon discovered that it was inedible at all and was unsaleable. The reason why it was called Jingjue salt was because merchants from the Western Regions said it came from the ancient country of Jingjue in the Western Regions, but in fact the ancient country of Jingjue had perished long ago.
In fact, these exquisite salts all come from Yanze (Lop Nur), which is a saltwater lake in the Western Regions.
The Imperial Academy of Science and Technology has always been criticized as a waste of internal and state funds, because the things studied by Doctors of the Five Classics in the Academy of Ancient Sciences are always strange, and all kinds of things will be transported to the Imperial Academy of Sciences through the Ming Dynasty administrative system. Most of the research conducted by the institute has no results, and this is also the case. The research of the Five Classics doctors is indeed strange.
But it was this strangeness that made Wei Youshan find a substitute for burning ash again, in the Western Regions.
"It only needs simple processing and can be added directly to water and fertilizer. It is much easier to use than burning ash." Wei Youshan was a little helpless. Zhu Yiliu, who was born to be a noble man, did not understand what he said, and His Majesty was not around. Wei Youshan scratched his head a little.
Burning ashes sounds fun, but it is actually very tiring. Outdoor activities in winter are the most tiring, and the hard soil is not easy to work with. It also burns part of the most important firewood, which is the lifeblood, especially in The freezing winter in the north.
The processing is actually very simple. It means heating the water solution, cooling it to a certain temperature and crystallizing it. Fishing out the crystals, washing and drying them. After repeating this process, you can get the absolute salt in Wei Youshan's hand. Who cares? Whatever, as long as it works.
"I can't fully understand its importance." Zhu Yixuan rubbed the salt and said quite accurately: "Who told me not to work hard? I can't understand your anxiety either. I don’t even understand how hard the people work to burn ashes. After all, I don’t have to burn ashes.”
“But I understand one thing. Is this a mine?”
< br>"It's a mine." Wei Youshan thought for a moment and agreed with His Highness Prince Lu's definition. It was indeed a type of mine.
"It's no problem if it's a mine. No matter what it is, just take it first and then talk about it!" Zhu Yili couldn't empathize with the meaning of this thing at all. He changed it to a statement that everyone could understand, There are mines in the Western Regions that the Ming Dynasty needs. Putting it this way, Zhu Yili felt that he understood its importance.
Zhu Yili couldn't tell the difference between iron ore, copper ore, silver ore and gold ore. In his opinion, they were all stones, but it was these stones that turned into gold and became an important resource of the Ming Dynasty. That would be easy to handle. If there are too many, it will be mined!
Whether it’s useful or not, we’ll have to wait and see.
"Ah? Ah." Zhu Zaiyu was stunned, and then relieved. Although Zhu Yixi is not good at learning and doesn't want to figure out what it is, his domineering character is very similar to His Majesty. Mine are all Mine!
Zhu Zaiyu thought for a while and said: "The Xuanwei Department of Laos has also donated this kind of ore, and the effect is the same. They are all the same thing."
"Understood." Zhu Yili immediately understood that there were mines needed by the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions and Indochina, and that was fine. The rich silver mountains were occupied by the Panyi in Western Europe, and even today the Ming Dynasty cannot reach out.
The mineral vein is close at hand. If we don’t occupy it, should we wait for the red-haired fans from Taixi to occupy it?
Ore veins will really attract the Ming army.
Zhu Yixuan soon wrote a memorial about the salt marshes in the Western Regions and the mines needed by the Ming Dynasty in Laos, and sent them to the Emperor of the Southern Patrol.
After receiving the memorial, Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty immediately summoned Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu.
“I farm, so I naturally know the hard work of farming. Burning ashes looks fun, but going outdoors in winter is a huge burden for the people. Cotton clothes, cotton shoes, etc. Consumables, and more food needs to be eaten. If this refined salt is really as magical as the Gewuyuan said, it must be in the hands of Ming Dynasty. "Zhu Yijun first set the tone for this matter.
Zhu Yijun understood what the doctors of the Five Classics called refined salt. It was actually a natural potassium salt mine. The plant ash burned was mainly potassium carbonate, while the natural potassium salt mine was potassium chloride. .
It exists in the Western Regions, indeed it exists in Laos, and the production of this thing is not complicated. It is a typical dissolution and crystallization method, heating and cooling, adding water and salt, and repeating the cycle. If the purity is not enough, it can be crystallized multiple times, mainly Control of temperature.
Wang Chonggu thought for a moment and said: "I know Wei Youshan very well. He is timid and determined not to deceive the emperor. After all, he was born as a poor coolie and likes to study strange skills. Fortunately, if it weren’t for Gewuyuan, the things he tinkered with would be difficult to achieve, and even tinkering with them would mean not doing his job properly.” Your Majesty really doesn't care at all, he just likes the auspiciousness of these strange skills.
"Then, if Chidao reaches Jiayuguan, we must also find a way to reach Yanze, and Laos. We must find a way. At least this mine must be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, so that I can sleep well." Zhu Yijun made Summarize.
What’s mine, everything is mine!
“This is a great blessing for Laos.” Zhang Juzheng immediately added: “As for the Xuanweisi of Laos, the place of the Fourth War, Taungyu bullied it, Annan bullied it, and even Even Siam can bully it. Ming wants Laos so that Laos can have a backer. With a backer, it can live like a human being. "
The Ming Dynasty does not need to use conquests to obtain essence. Salt, Lao Xuanwei Si wishes that Daming could look at him. As long as he takes one more look, they can survive in the cracks.
Zhang Juzheng put it very euphemistically. When he said bullying, it was not bullying. It was invasion, killing, blood flowing in rivers, and oppression that broke bones and sucked marrow.
Nothing is more important than surviving.
For the Lao Xuanwei Division, this is a great blessing that falls from the sky. Once the Ming army is really stationed in the mine, Annan, Siam, and Taungoo will at most shout twice and invade the territory wantonly. , the evil deeds of killing citizens will be gone forever.
The Ming army is really stationed, is it bullying Laos? That's obviously trying to make fun of Daming!
The Ming dynasty, a dynasty that was at war every day from its establishment to its demise, would really use force to tell others what a celestial dynasty is.
(End of this chapter)