Chapter 2643: Crossing the River and Burning the Bridge
And now, Emperor Jiajing succeeded in cultivating immortality.
He began not to pay attention to political power, and began to arrange ministers, princes, and gentry at will.
However, he forgot that this would come back.
Now he remembered.
He began to compromise with those ministers.
Can't compromise directly, so he restored the Riddler's color.
The ministers also began to choose to compromise with him.
After all, if this continues, everyone will suffer great losses.
So the villagers began to know again:
"The emperor is not dead. It was a rumor before, but now it is Jiajing."
And after this incident, Jiajing discovered his own weakness:
The people are not directly in his hands.
He knew this before, so he had to use power to deal with those people.
Now he decided to use a more direct method.
Use magic to solve problems.
So a new round of oppression of the people began.
It’s just that he spared the wealthy families and those high-ranking officials.
But this day.
Wen Rensheng and the other four people have decided to make a fool of themselves.
They couldn't tolerate Jiajing's chaos any longer.
A typical feudal emperor, always in trouble.
Weak externally.
It seems that a group of Japanese pirates have been defeated, but everyone knows the background of the Japanese pirates: a small number of hired tool pirates, a large pirate holding company, and various local forces as the background.
But against the real enemy, the northern grassland, they suffered defeat after defeat.
Until Qi Jiguang grew up.
"It is easy to kill Jiajing, but difficult to bring peace to the world, so we have to kill him and then pretend to be him, so as to cause as little turmoil as possible." Wen Rensheng said.
The other three nodded.
Then they began to devise a method.
If you want to kill the opponent, you must lure the opponent out.
How to seduce?
"This is easy to handle. He needs resources for cultivating immortality, so just make one up for him."
"What if he doesn't come out?"
"If he doesn't come out, as long as he doesn't come out, The same goes for people around him," Wen Rensheng said with a smile.
Soon.
The news spread that a thousand-year-old elixir appeared in the mountains on the western outskirts of the capital.
When Jiajing heard this, he immediately smiled.
"What a ridiculous rumor, a panacea that lasted ten years did not exist ten years ago."
It was only the next news that moved him.
“The ten thousand year elixir is fake. It is said that the national jade seal has been born and can symbolize all people.”
Jiajing had to pay attention.
Because the piece of jade "ordained by heaven to live long and prosperous" has been missing since the Han Dynasty.
The next step is to re-create it.
The Ming Dynasty piece was stolen from the Yuan Dynasty.
But those from the Yuan Dynasty are not considered true.
So Jiajing immediately sent someone to look for him.
Of course he also knew that this was probably a trap.
So he sent many people to design a trap for counterattack.
However, he found that the people he sent had no news.
And Yuxi seems to be really born.
Because he found that his luck was losing.
Obviously it is going to be lost to another person.
This is not possible, this is a big problem.
He immediately sent out his most trusted eunuch, whose cultivation level was only half of his own.
He is in the foundation building stage.
The Great Eunuch is already at the sixth level of Qi Refining.
Then, there is no more.
The great eunuch was also destroyed.
“Damn it, who is it?”
Then he felt panic.
Because he suddenly discovered that every bit of the power around him to defend himself was taken away by others.
He didn't take the bait.
But as a veteran, if the chariots, horses, artillery, soldiers and elephants are all gone, doesn’t that mean he is dead?
Then the four of them rushed into the palace in fear of Emperor Jiajing.
All the masters in the palace were captured.
Emperor Jiajing wanted to escape, but the skills he practiced were based on luck.
If you leave the palace and the capital, you will have no luck.
Like an emperor who leaves the capital, he can easily lose his throne.
Baozong is one of the most typical examples, and there are many other examples.
If you leave the capital, you will lose the hearts of most of the officials and the people.
The likelihood that they would recognize another emperor was greatly increased.
So Emperor Jiajing had no choice but to stick to his guns.
"This guy is still a bit difficult to deal with!" the novice man said seriously.
"He can't hold on for long. This guy has never fought a real monk's battle and has always been aloof."
"Yes, he actually ran away because he was afraid of pain?"
"Persistence is ridiculous."
These people have gone through Wen Rensheng's arduous training.
And it takes a long time.
They also know how terrifying the Lord God is.
Although the third main god is relatively merciful, the future war will be cruel.
After all, they are modern people and have been eliminated.
So at the cost of several arms, they captured Jiajing.
Then turned it into a puppet.
“In this way, our plan can be realized.”
“Yes, a qualified emperor should be a puppet.”
"There is no need to change the emperor. Change the cabinet, but the cabinet cannot be changed too frequently."
"And if the emperor doesn't understand, don't interfere too much, just see the results."
Like Chongzhen, I changed it repeatedly, but I still couldn't grasp the fundamentals.
The most powerful savior was not used.
That is Sun Chuanting. Because this is a loyal minister who is likely to become a powerful warlord.
Because he was able to sort out the occupied land and get military pay and food from these lands.
It is a pity that Chongzhen could not resist the pressure of these gentry petitions, forcing him to fight quickly.
Absolutely ridiculous.
This is a failure to grasp the fundamental point.
Is that the time to take care of the mood of the gentry in the place?
Not at all.
We should take out a province and let Sun use his hands and feet.
Chongzhen has no self-confidence and no patience.
To put it bluntly, I have not done things from beginning to end and lack patience.
This is how Chongzhen failed.
A complete failure.
In contrast, Jiajing was very patient.
Unfortunately, he met Tian Tuan.
Wen Rensheng’s wisdom completely crushed him.
In this way, the four successfully captured Jiajing.
"What are you going to do? I am the emperor, the Son of Heaven, and the destiny of the Immortal Dynasty!"
"Don't make mistakes!"
"Beware of divine punishment!"
However, the four of them turned a deaf ear.
They don’t care about the emperor.
They directly replaced Jiajing, and then changed Jiajing's previous methods and cleaned them up again.
The entire Ming Dynasty is still enjoying a good momentum.
Because the lowest level can still survive.
At least 90% of people will survive.
They first figured out how to pass the exam.
In fact, Jiajing has developed a simple test method.
But he was not in the mood to go deeper. His main time is still spent on cultivation.
Every three years, he just finds a group of people who are loyal to him to serve as examination officials and conduct inspections in the capital.
This kind of authority is very powerful, and it is equivalent to urging yourself to get up early.
The difficulty can be imagined.
Wen Rensheng relied on his golden finger ability and his own skills.
Then large-scale training begins.
Academic, industrialized training.
Train a large number of disciples.
Then take advantage of the convenience of cultivating immortals and build an immortal network.
Use information network to build a new Ming Dynasty.
In other words, although the Ming Dynasty's productivity is still that of ancient society, in terms of information exchange, it has entered the modern information age.
With this powerful exchange of information, the economy and various creative aspects have developed rapidly.
Just like in the Jiangnan area, people mainly pursue strange things.
The more peculiar it is, the more eye-catching it is.
Men wear all kinds of strange clothes and like all kinds of novelty things. Western things are especially fashionable. This is reflected in the fact that Xu Guangqi and others specialized in translating Western books. Many terms were defined at this time.
The term in Elements of Geometry has been used until modern times.
It can be said that these talents are the first batch of eye-openers, and the gap is very small at this time.
Some systems are easy to introduce.
It is a pity that the vitality of these systems is not strong enough to replace the original Ming Dynasty or to fight against the barbaric power.
Wen Rensheng understands this aspect very clearly.
Now, Wen Rensheng has solved this problem with a better system.
Fast exchange of information allows businessmen to quickly capture business opportunities.
Then sell large amounts of supplies to places in urgent need.
This is a very convenient place.
It can quickly stabilize prices.
The next step is to vigorously improve transportation.
After the improvement of information and transportation, the next step is to make efforts in food production.
Jiajing did relatively well before.
He directly found many kinds of high-yield crops from overseas, such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, high-yield rice...
These crops later played a huge role.
Energy is conserved.
In fact, the starch yield of these so-called high-yielding crops is not much higher than that of wheat and rice. The most important thing is that it is relatively productive.
They can be planted in barren and scattered plots and are drought and barren resistant.
For example, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn can be grown in fields and dry land.
It requires much less water than wheat.
Even if the weather is poor, there will still be a harvest.
This greatly reduces the possibility of famine.
In fact, with the promotion of these crops, the population has doubled to twice its original size.
This is a crop that directly increases the population limit.
As you can imagine, their output is quite stable.
Otherwise, the population cannot grow steadily.
In a bad year, a good profit can be achieved.
This cannot be achieved with staple foods such as wheat and rice.
Both wheat and rice require a lot of water and can only be grown on large, flat lands.
The demand for fertility is also relatively high.
Of course the reason why they have persisted into modern times and squeezed out other grains is very simple.
Their growth pattern is highly compatible with agricultural machinery.
Their ears are right on the head, so wheat and rice are easy to harvest and easy to plant.
Unlike other crops, corn is not easy to harvest. It is much more troublesome than wheat, and threshing is also troublesome.
Needless to say, sweet potatoes and potatoes require more complex agricultural machinery.
But in feudal society, this was not a problem.
And corn is more drought resistant.
Relying on sweet potatoes and potatoes, ordinary people can survive the disaster years.
In short, there is the agricultural revolution first, and then the industrial revolution. If agriculture cannot be done well, it will be useless no matter how well the industrial revolution is done.
The textbook only focuses on the Industrial Revolution.
It seems that once industrialization occurs, people will have food to eat.
This is nonsense.
In fact, the premise of the Industrial Revolution was that after sufficient food was obtained from the colonies, the agricultural population was squeezed out and turned into a migrant labor force. Only then could industrialization be achieved.
Because food has become a bulk commodity and can fully meet needs, people are no longer self-sufficient and need to sell their labor force to become part of industrial production.
The green revolution in the colonies came from the reclamation of large amounts of land, the use of mules and horses, and modern fertilizer technology innovations.
In this way, industry and agriculture promote each other and achieve a balance.
If there is a revolution without food and blindly engages in industry, everyone will starve to death.
Agriculture is always the foundation of the foundation.
And this point was not made deliberately clear.
Solving the food problem first can solve other problems.
So, under the arrangements of Wen Rensheng and others, compared with the entire era, the entire Ming Dynasty became very advanced and the economy was very developed.
While other forces were still in famine, Ming Dynasty had entered an era of obesity.
We have begun to promote healthy living.
Many people dream of living in Daming.
“Being a dog in the Ming Dynasty is better than being a human being here.” This is the thinking of many people.
After all, the Ming Dynasty’s dogs could eat well for more than ten years.
Be able to live freely without worrying about starving to death.
But in other places, they may never have enough to eat in their entire lives.
The main mission of rebuilding the Ming Dynasty can be said to have been basically successful.
But the rest is the key issue.
It is actually not difficult to create a prosperous age.
The hard thing is to keep going.
The mission requires that it last for more than 500 years.
There will be higher rewards for continuing for 5000 years.
This is a bit difficult.
The first 100 years of prosperity.
Everyone is happy.
Everyone is happy.
Paying tribute from all directions, they all requested to be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.
Grasslands, plateaus, deserts, and islands all choose to submit.
Then the second 100 years later.
A new problem has arisen.
People who had eaten and drank enough began to ask new questions.
"Why can't my son reach the foundation building stage?"
"Yes, why are there so few cultivation resources distributed."
"The resources have been monopolized by the upper class!"
“We are going to rebel. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must take back the resources they stole!”
In this way, a huge rebellion began.
The participants are mainly old men over 80 years old.
The motivation for rebellion is for one’s own grandson.
There is a saying that a grandfather loves his grandson the most.
I scolded and hit my son, and screamed at my grandson in pain.
“For our grandson, we must snatch back these cultivation resources.”
"We are old and can no longer do it. We cannot let our grandson make the same mistakes again!"
These old rebels attacked all the way and were invincible.
No one wants to fight them.
After all, there is still a habit there, respecting the old and loving the young.
What's more, the old men are doing it for their grandchildren, which makes the soldiers feel that this is for their own good.
Naturally, everyone is unwilling to put in the effort.
In short, a group of old men soon began to attack the capital.
The four people saw this scene, and three of them were very angry.
Of course Wen Rensheng thought it was normal.
The newbie man is very angry:
“100 years ago, you would have sacrificed everything just to have enough to eat.”
“Now that you have everything, you still want to rebel?”
“It’s said that the emperor crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and you common people did it. The same goes for the river!”
(End of this chapter)