Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2276, sit and watch the situation change

The departure of Emperor Zhengde marked the end of an old era, but also the beginning of a new era.

The crown prince Zhu Zaicheng ascended the throne of the Ming emperor very smoothly, and changed his Yuan to Yongsheng. 1771 in the Yanhuang calendar was the first year of Yongsheng, which officially opened the history of Yongsheng Dynasty.

Zhu Zaicheng is already in his early forties, and he is in the prime of life.

He has always followed the path that Zhu Houzhao once walked, starting from a small county magistrate step by step, from the county magistrate, the prefect to the chief envoy of a province.

At the same time, in terms of Zhu Zaicheng's education, Emperor Hongzhi personally found a teacher for him. The teacher team with Wang Shouren as the main teacher also allowed Zhu Zaicheng to receive a new type of education.

Zhu Houzhao also attached great importance to him, and sent Zhu Zaicheng to serve in the army for three years. He trained in the army and became familiar with military content.

Since he was a child, he was cultivated in strict accordance with the model of the successor of the Ming Dynasty, and his performance has always been quite excellent, which made Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde quite satisfied, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also praised him.

Although Zhu Houzhao has more than 200 sons and many brothers, his status as a prince has always been unshakable. Of course, this has a lot to do with the prince system of the Ming Empire. He has been a prince since the day he was born. Destined to be the successor of the Great Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zaicheng, who was in the prime of life and received extremely strict education, began to show some of his thoughts and intentions from the day he ascended the throne of the emperor.

In winter, it is extremely cold, and Qiongzhou is frozen and snowed heavily. At the same time, there are successive years of drought, floods, locust plagues, earthquakes, etc., and famines are raging.

If you can be idle, you can be idle, take good care of your parents, and write your own books. As for what the Ming Empire will become, Liu Jin no longer cares about it.

The Li family has opened a large number of commercial firms, thinking of doing business in various industries, but helplessly, various industries in Daming have already been occupied, and it is difficult for latecomers to squeeze in.

Liu Jin, who lived in Hongyun Manor in Nanyun Province for the elderly, has truly become a hermit. Since the death of Emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin has never had any correspondence with any ministers in the court.

The rapid development of capitalism has provided soil for new ideas and trends of thought, and various ideas and trends of thought spread rapidly in Daming and even around the world.

For Liu Jin, his heart is also very clear.

These monks and Taoist priests don't know how much money they have cheated from Zhu Houzhao's hands. Money is second, and more importantly, they made the palace a mess, and made Zhu Houzhao's later years a lot of stains. go faster.

From Zhu Zaicheng's point of view, what is the public world, this world belongs to their old Zhu family, and everything should be decided by him, the emperor of the Zhu family. Naturally, the great Ming's country is passed down from generation to generation by their old Zhu family, not what The abdication system of Yao and Shun.

Zhu Zaicheng is also very clear about this, so this is also an important reason why he supports conservative officials, because compared with newly emerging thoughts and ideas, traditional Confucian thoughts and theories are obviously more suitable for the rule of feudal dynasties.

When the South African colony dispatched a large number of warships, cannons, a powerful army, and even the air force, people all over the world knew the great strength of the South African colony.

"Letter, letter, the autobiography written by my Zhuangyuan Liu, let alone a million taels of silver, is worth tens of millions of taels of silver, even hundreds of millions of taels of silver are worth it."

For example, in order to snatch some oil fields, they directly kill people and force the other party to transfer them to themselves at a low price. On the Golden Continent, they wantonly seize gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, etc.

This is already an old age, and he is still boasting here.

If it is the Ming Dynasty in history, at this moment, it has already entered the end of the precarious dynasty. Various peasant uprisings are endless, and it is time to change the dynasty due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Xu Wan'er, who was coaxing the baby to sleep, looked at Liu Jin and shook her head helplessly.

In particular, the spread of the Gongjia faction theory in Daming is extremely detrimental to the Zhu family's rule.

Even if his eldest son Liu Xin and youngest son Liu Qing would call or write letters from time to time, and they mentioned some things in the ruling and opposition parties or some things about Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin didn't care anymore, and he didn't comment on it. Beak.

These little guys usually live in Hongyun Manor for a few months. Because Liu Jin has a lot of descendants, there will always be a few little guys chattering here in Hongyun Manor, which makes the quiet manor change. It was much more lively.

But fortunately, the current Ming Dynasty has a solid foundation accumulated by the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties, coupled with the development of technology and industry, convenient transportation, etc., it can face everything in the Little Ice Age with ease.

They also demoted these upright ministers to remote areas through some people who had made friends with the Li family.

Taking the current situation in Siberia as an example, wherever they go in exile, they are basically waiting to die, but it is still extremely ugly, because it is too cold, too cold, and the area for hundreds of thousands of miles is desolate.

Furthermore, Liu Jin also felt that the new emperor might not be as generous and benevolent as Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde, so he went to wade into this muddy water by himself, so that he would not lose his fortune when the time came.

However, this was rejected by Liu Jin. It was hard for him to be free. How could he go to this muddy water, so he pushed it away on the grounds of his advanced age and poor health.

There are a lot of people who accept the ideas and thoughts of the Gongjia School, especially the young people. Everyone has read the book and knows more. Naturally, they think more and see more clearly.

People from the public faction even proposed that the imperial power should be under the civil power and be supervised by the common people, and that the prince should be guilty of the same crime as the common people if he broke the law, let alone those arrogant relatives.

But the Li family is different. It is completely unscrupulous to rely on the domination, protection, and pampering of the queen and the emperor.

"Ok!"

Xu Wan'er was speechless when she heard it.

Liu Jin put down his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, lay down comfortably on his old man's chair, and began to read the latest newspaper.

The winter is bitterly cold and frozen for thousands of miles. Many criminals exiled to these places were directly frozen to death. I don't know how many have lost their hands and feet.

This kind of doctrine is heresy, outrageous, and will be severely punished and punished.

This made Emperor Yongsheng even more angry, and even directly issued an order to the vassal states and colonies, demanding that the dissemination of these rebellious theories and ideas be strictly prohibited.

However, where there is oppression there is resistance.

"Writing this autobiography is really not an easy task."

On the contrary, this aroused the Li family's desire for revenge, and also contributed to the arrogance of the Li family. They even openly beat the ministers who impeached them in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

First of all, the first thing he did was to exile all the monks and alchemy priests raised by Emperor Zhengde in the palace to the desolate Siberia.

During the more than ten years of the Yongsheng Dynasty, more than half of the time, there were extremely bad and extreme weather in various places in Ming Dynasty, and even all over the world.

I am almost 70 years old, and I can still live well for a few days, and I still have to worry about these things.

"Haha, it's finally finished!"

All these made Zhu Zaicheng hate them very much, and immediately exiled them to Siberia as soon as he took the throne, and they would never come back.

Zhu Houzhao has driven away many cabinet ministers and chief assistants in the past two years. The cabinet ministers and six ministers are like watching flowers on horseback. After changing them over and over again, no one can satisfy Zhu Houzhao. .

The reason why such things happen is mainly because of the continuous emergence of new ideas and new trends of thought along with the rapid development of capitalism and the rise of new learning.

These mine owners who were unwilling to sell their minerals to them were almost all brutally retaliated by them. The methods were extremely cruel, and they even killed people directly if they disagreed with each other.

Since Liu Jin, Xu Wan'er, and Li Zhen got older, Liu Jin's descendants also discussed sending some children in the family to Hongyun Manor to accompany them.

Now Liu Jin has grown a mustache, and the hair on his head has become snow-white and snow-white, but he hasn't lost his hair, otherwise it would be ugly.

In addition to rectifying the smoky harem, exiling those monks and priests, and cleaning up those eunuchs who bewitched Zhu Houzhao and so on.

At the same time, it also publicizes the mistakes made by Emperor Yongsheng, especially his favor on his relatives, wantonly destroying the existing rules of Ming Dynasty, allowing his relatives to be arrogant, plundering, ruthless, and wantonly destroying the Ming system.

On this day, Liu Jin was very happy holding the autobiography he just finished.

The South African colony was also not to be outdone, and also dispatched a powerful fleet to confront it. After the rapid development of the South African colony over the years, although its population size was not as large as that of Ming Dynasty, it already had tens of millions of people.

As for the affairs of the DPRK and China, they are only obtained through newspaper reports, and they don't care about anything else.

In addition to the problem of foreign relatives, Zhu Zaicheng also began to gradually favor the traditional conservative civil servants, which caused the conservative civil servants to resurrect, and many practical officials who emerged from the new school were suppressed.

Indulging the relatives, so that the relatives are arrogant, lawless, unscrupulously destroying some of the existing rules and systems of Daming, and even openly resisting paying taxes, so that the work of the tax office has been greatly affected. any solution.

This made Xu Wan'er and Li Zhen very fond of it. There is nothing to do in their later years, and it is still a very happy thing to take care of the baby at home.

"Look how happy you are!"

It took me more than ten years to write this autobiography. After writing this autobiography, Liu Jin is already an 80-year-old old man.

Moreover, Zhu Zaicheng also specially sent people to Nanyun Province to invite Liu Jin, hoping that Liu Jin could come out and continue to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, and lead all the officials to assist him.

Although it is said that he has long since ignored the affairs of the ruling and opposition parties, it is naturally impossible to say that he does not care.

Natural disasters are considered natural disasters, and another aspect is man-made disasters.

In the ruling and opposition parties, Zhu Zaicheng also quickly stabilized people's hearts.

After all, Liu Jin also taught him for a period of time, and he was considered half a teacher. In addition, Liu Jin had enough prestige and ability, so he wanted to invite Liu Jin out of the mountain at that time.

"My autobiography has been written for more than ten years, and it is already 1784, 14 years since Yongsheng!"

At this time, Liu Jin's butler brought some newspapers over.

Under the tension between the two sides, the breathing of the whole world even stopped.

Liu Jin nodded with a smile, and then said boastfully: "Aside from other things, just this manuscript, after hundreds of years, do you believe that at least one million taels of silver can be auctioned off?"

They began to spread their own schools of thought and theories all over the world, using overseas colonies and vassal states as their base camps, and continued to infiltrate the Ming Empire.

The first point is that the severe weather of the Little Ice Age began to really show its power. Calculating the time, this is actually the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, and the most serious and powerful time of the Little Ice Age.

Liu Jin laughed immediately, and then looked at Xu Wan'er, time is not forgiving, the once great beauty has now become an old woman, but fortunately her health has always been good.

Time is slowly passing by, day after day, month after month, year after year, and the cycle is constantly changing.

"Haha, of course I'm happy!"

Zhu Zaicheng dispatched the Red Sea Fleet, the West African Fleet, and the Indian Ocean Fleet, plus [-] troops to suppress the South African colony.

Ordinary people still care about national affairs, let alone Liu Jin.

All kinds of new ideas and new trends of thought spread rapidly all over the world, and these new ideas and new trends of thought greatly shaken the rule of the traditional feudal dynasty.

The spirit is very good, the complexion is rosy, and the body is not bad. Every day, I can take a walk in this manor, walk a few laps to digest food and so on.

Except for a few small towns that specialize in the exile of prisoners, which can be connected to the outside world in summer, there is no connection or communication with the outside world at all.

For the first time, he realized in a real sense that apart from the Ming Empire, there is actually another country in the world with such a powerful military strength.

Zhu Zaicheng, Emperor Yongsheng, was different from his father. He was an infatuated kind. He was very affectionate with his queen, Li Shi, and loved Li Shi very much.

Of course, their most important thing is to tell some stories about Liu Jin's youth to some little guys in the family.

Zhu Zaicheng even issued a comprehensive order to prohibit the dissemination of relevant schools and theories in Daming. Anyone or any organization that spreads such theories will be regarded as treason and will kill the nine clans.

When he arrived at Zhu Zaicheng, he quickly appointed several of his teachers to serve as important positions in the court, into the cabinet, etc., quickly stabilizing the government and the opposition, stabilizing the hearts of the people, and at the same time controlling the court situation, quickly grasping all the power in their own hands.

This is not an emperor willing to be unknown, but an emperor with his own ideas and goals.

Because during this period, the Ming Empire even broke out serious conflicts with the South African colonies, and the two sides almost fought each other.

It's just that since Emperor Yongsheng came to the throne, Daming seemed to have gradually entered into troubled times.

These things will naturally come to the ministers of the DPRK and China. The ministers of the DPRK and China have impeached the Li family many times. However, because Zhu Zaicheng loves Queen Li, he always criticizes a few words without pain.

In fact, I can be regarded as a veteran of the Hongzhi Dynasty. In the Zhengde Dynasty, I was still in the court and the opposition only a few years before the beginning, and I have been traveling around the world since then.

After many years of not being in the court, now the officials in the court have changed batch after batch, and what I said has long been useless, not to mention that once the emperor and courtiers are in the court, the new emperor may not really like him.

"Haha, I love hearing that!"

For this reason, Zhu Zaicheng even actually exterminated the nine clans of several important figures of the Gongjia School, severely hitting the development of the Gongjia School's theory and the spread of ideas.

Emperor Yongsheng's suppression of Gongjia faction not only failed to achieve the expected effect, but aroused the resistance of Gongjia faction.

With advanced technology, developed economy, and strong military power, it is the most powerful country in the world except for the Ming Empire.

The Yongsheng Dynasty began to have some problems that had occurred in previous dynasties, such as arrogant and domineering relatives.

Although Ming is the suzerain country, the South African colony can listen to some of what Ming has to say, but when the Ming Empire has deployed its warships and cannons to the gate, the South African colony will naturally not allow themselves to be slaughtered and bullied.

Naturally, he also gave a lot of support and connivance to Li's family, just like Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, the two younger brothers of Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang.

Under the leadership of Zhu Zaicheng and Empress Li, Empress Li's Li family is also extremely arrogant and domineering, not to mention bullying men and women, and even has great conflicts of interest with many nobles in the court.

"Sir, today's newspaper has arrived!"

It's just that these various extreme climates still had a huge impact on many aspects of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, in the end, the shareholders behind the South African colony, the military generals and nobles of Ming Dynasty, succumbed to Zhu Zaicheng, saying that they would always be loyal to the son of Ming Dynasty. In addition, the strong strength shown by the South African colony made Zhu Zaicheng fearful. Three points, so it is also down the steps.

The war among the Ming people that almost broke out in South Africa is the biggest event in the past ten years.

To be honest, these generals of the Ming Dynasty, the honorable group, were also quite dissatisfied with Zhu Zaicheng, because he reused traditional conservative officials and introduced some policies that were not conducive to the development of capitalism.

Coupled with the fact that they doted on Empress Li and treated the Li family calmly, the Li family also offended Daming's Xungui Group and robbed the Xungui Group of their interests just like the Zhang family back then, and the conflict between the two parties became more and more serious.

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