Wanli Xinming

Chapter 199 Deng Zilong

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng said solemnly: "The court will only have to invest in the affairs of Burma within five years. The soldiers stay in the foreign land for a long time, which consumes a lot of money, but it is worth it! If it is a national policy, it will be honorable , Private enclosure shipbuilding, five years is enough to build thousands of ships! According to the regulations of treasure ships, the processing cost of one ship is only 7000 taels of silver, and 600 million taels of silver is enough for a thousand ships. If a thousand treasure ships are built, Annan's hometown It can also be taken lightly—five years later, grain and rice can be shipped out without sailing to the west, and fed back to China!”

After Zhang Juzheng returned to Beijing on vacation for four months, he seemed to be a different person, which surprised and delighted Zhu Yijun.Although the thousands of treasure ships he mentioned are not a law, but the Chinese have no experience in manufacturing soft sail warships, and it is not surprising that Zhang Juzheng can't imagine it.

Despite being limited by his knowledge, Zhang Juzheng's changes were reborn, and Zhu Yijun wanted to know what inspired him and brought him into a state of high harmony with himself.

In fact, Zhu Yijun had this idea because he underestimated the power of his own newspaper to inspire people's wisdom.The three daily newspapers started in the third year of Wanli are nuclear weapons in opening up people's intelligence.

Zhu Yijun's day-to-day thoughts and thoughts often choose to speak out, and let the secretary around him organize them into outlines and opinions, and send them to the three newspapers.According to his own understanding, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper collected relevant materials, and formed articles to advocate in the newspapers—a modern man’s thoughts, broadcast by three amplifiers among the people, and those who have transmigrated into civilians, and slowly changed from the people around him. The efficiency has increased thousands of times, not to mention the imperceptible bonus of the emperor's identity and words and deeds!

Due to the limited vision of the editor-in-chief and the degree of acceptance of the audience, Beijing newspapers inevitably restrained their hands when promoting new ideas. Although they had a subtle effect on Zhang Juzheng and others, they did not achieve a qualitative change.Moreover, Zhang Juzheng was so busy that he wished he could divide it into two parts for use in one minute. He even read newspapers occasionally, and seldom entered his mind.

During the four months of his stay in Jiangling, Zhang Juzheng could read Nanjing Daily carefully every day. The ground-breaking writing and deviant words gave Zhang Juzheng a lot of ideological baptism.

Li Zhi, who was gradually liberated by Feng Bangning, and Wang Shizhen, who was obedient to him, have already stirred the hearts of Jiangnan people into a turbid state. Only the wise can figure out the emperor's strategy for governing the country from the ideological trend of the mud and sand - and Zhang Juzheng is exactly that kind of A man of great wisdom.Precisely because the emperor gave leave to stay at home, he had a long period of time to ponder and consider strategic issues such as where Daming would go during the reform.

Therefore, giving busy people frequent holidays and recharging will be of great benefit to their careers. This is a real "blessing" -- it should be regarded as a model for future generations of black-hearted bosses.

Regarding the sea map and the design of the treasure ship of the eunuch Sanbao, it was rumored in later generations that they were all burned by Liu Daxia, the old minister of the Ministry of War - Liu Daxia couldn't answer, and could only carry this ancient injustice on his back. [Note 1]
Zhu Yijun not only wanted to restore the grand occasion of the arrival of all nations in the Yongle period, but also went a step further, leading the Chinese nation to participate in and lead the tide of dividing up the colonies, and attached great importance to the charts and design drawings of treasure ships.In the second year of Wanli, people were sent to dig out all kinds of design drawings including treasure ships in the old paper piles, and they were handed over to the Zhongguan to transcribe and brought to major government-run shipyards.

In the past two years, Zhu Yijun's protection of classic archives has also improved by several orders of magnitude.Any prefecture-level state taxation department in the future will keep and organize electronic files and documents.It can be said that, the tax bureau with deep pockets and its own file room does not meet the provincial one or two provincial standards, then the tax bureau is embarrassed to say hello to his peers when he goes out.Therefore, Zhu Yijun paid more attention to archives management than the previous emperors.

In the original time and space, when the Qing government was revising the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 95 volumes of formal archives and classics left in the Ming court, and millions of archives were destroyed due to poor management and dangerous wars. "Encyclopedia Britannica" is called "the largest encyclopedia in the history of the world" in the "Encyclopedia" entry. The "Yongle Dadian" with [-] volumes has only more than [-] volumes left in later generations, and they are scattered all over the world. , It is a catastrophe for the treasure of civilization.

Just like Zhang Juzheng's idea of ​​eradicating Dongyu's grammar and classics, the Manchu era's systematic annihilation of Ming documents was also an endogenous reaction of the ruling class.Zhu Yijun is also quick to stop the colonial grammar and classics, and he attaches great importance to the "Yongle Grand Ceremony" of his own nation.

After the compilation of "Yongle Dadian" was completed during the Yongle period, only one copy was copied, called "Yongle Original", which was brought to Beijing by Chengzu.The original manuscript was stored in Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing, and it was destroyed by fire in the 14th year of Zhengtong.

In the 41st year of Jiajing, Emperor Shizong appointed Gao Gong, Qu Jingchun, Zhang Juzheng and others to be responsible for the re-recording of "Yongle Dadian", which was completed in the early years of Longqing and was originally returned to Nanjing.The original is stored in Wenyuan Pavilion, and the copy is stored in Huang Shicheng.

When Zhu Yijun was in power, the "Yongle Grand Ceremony", which had not been published for a long time due to "expensive labor costs", was ordered by Zhu Yijun to open a printing plate. Plate making is nearing completion.

The two rulers and ministers in the Forbidden City were planning the next move of the Dongyu Dynasty, but the army in Manmo was idle.

After the annihilation of the main force in Toungoo in World War I, Liu Xian and Deng Zilong had a dispute over the movement of the army.Liu Xian believed that the emperor's purpose was Yang Wei's presence in the southwestern states, and the original words were to make "the ministers of Xuanwei kneel and hang up the gold and red cards" - so the purpose of the war has been initially achieved, and the next step should be to return to the division and defeat Zheng Meng. Raised the main force of Mingda tin, and then erected copper pillars to commemorate the merits, and destroyed production facilities such as Dongyu Baojing.

Deng Zilong is different from Liu Xian. He was born in Wuju. He is good at calligraphy and chant. He is the author of "Feng Shui", "Straight Point of Formation" and "Hengge Collection", etc., both civil and military.He persuaded Liu Xian to say: "Commander, in the past, when the army marched forward, I never expected to meet the main force of Dongyu so quickly, and to slay the reckless Yinglong in the first battle. Since then, the merits of our bronze pillars have been small - He Ru Defeating Bogu and destroying this country? Fenghou is also in the palm of his hand!"

Liu Xian is from Jiangxi, and his surname is Gong.He has been in the society for many years, and he has developed a high force value and a cheeky skill, and he is daring and ruthless.Once went to Sichuan to be a private school teacher for a while, specializing in teaching children how to join the underworld.Because of a chance, he pretended to be the name of Liu Xian, a military household in Sichuan, and joined the army. He even dared to give gifts because of his bravery in battle, and he even made it to the general soldier.

Since then, it is more difficult to address him in the military circles who are close to him. Everyone knows his surname is Gong, so it feels very strange to call him Liu Shuai.But calling him Gong Shuai is even more embarrassing. Liu Xian has lived under Liu Xian's name for most of his life. All official records are Liu Xian. What do you want to call him Gong Junmen, mocking me Gong · Was Liu Xian·Wei Ming a funny guy back then?
Liu Xian was also very helpless, and did not dare to ask the court to cross the Ming Road.Therefore, everyone who knew him called him "Weiming", and his subordinates called him a military sect or a commander, even if it was not very solemn.

He was even more depressed when he heard Deng Zilong say that he had the hope of being a prince.In my heart, I said that he, a surnamed Gong, is a good thing for Liu Xian's family to honor their ancestors. It is better to play Sanguang to grab the treasures and spend the money. Along the way, he followed the army and guards like a shadow, which made Liu Xian miserable.

Because of Deng Zilong's character Wuqiao and his name Daqian, Liu Xian said: "Daqian, the emperor asked me to do a few things, but there is no such thing as destroying the country. How can such a big country be destroyed in one battle? The new army can be destroyed by ten thousand people. After the kingdom, how will the tens of millions of people lead them? Each city, big or small, has to be guarded separately, like peppering noodles, and it may be weak in the future. Besides, it is also taboo to arbitrarily change the temple and compete for merit."

Deng Zilong listened, twitched his short beard under his jaw, and said with a smile, "You don't have to worry about this festival, and the fight against Bogu is not this year." Seeing Liu Xian's puzzled face, Deng Zilong explained his strategy:

"I heard from the captured minister, Dongyu, that Mang Yinglong called Yue Feng on his deathbed, and said that he was located in Mangyingli. Mangyinglong folded the capital, how many soldiers and horses can he gather in a rush in Mangyingli? Mingda Xi has an army of [-] people and is willing to give his brother the position of the lord of the country? As long as there is a little provocation, there will be wars in Dongyu."

When Liu Xian heard this, his eyes almost bulged out.The heart says a little white face, a bad heart, the ancients honestly do not deceive me!Hearing Deng Zilong continue: "Now there are soldiers capable of fighting in Dongyu, and there is also a part of Mubang. I heard from the prisoners that Mang Yinglong was relieved to return to the south because Hampa promised to cut him off. And when we pursued him, we could I haven't seen Mubang soldiers and horses - it shows how Hunba is a person."

"Looking now, Hampa didn't even need to get in touch with us, so he sold Mang Yinglong easily! This is also a restless master. Let's not rush to beat them one by one, so as not to be surrounded by enemies, let them have three kingdoms first. Romance or even the grass-headed king scuffles, playing a dog's brain."

Deng Zilong pointed to the map on the big case and said: "The southwest is better than the savage ones. This is a place that extends in all directions, where the throat is locked. As long as we station our troops here, let them fight for two years. , we openly hang the people and punish the crime, and let the people hang upside down, just like picking a ripe fruit, what is the difficulty of destroying this great country? Besides—the face and the inside are all there!"

Liu Xian took the big case and shouted: "Wonderful! You and I will jointly sign the manuscript and let the court agree to this discussion. If things work out, in three or five years, I will be free from trouble in the southwest!"

　Note 1: Liu Daxia's burning of sea maps has been widely recorded in many ancient books of the Ming Dynasty, such as Lu Shusheng's "Changshui Daily Copy", Yan Congjian's "Special Domain Zhou Zilu", etc., there are records.But these records all have one thing in common. They only mention that Liu Daxia "hides the chart and threatened to burn it", but it doesn't say that he actually burned it.

　　The records are very consistent: during the Chenghua period, someone wanted to imitate the old story of Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean in the Yongle Dynasty, and went to the Ministry of War to find information on nautical charts.Liu Daxia, who was the minister of war at the time, found the chart in advance and hid it.Moreover, it is said that the eunuch Sanbao's voyage to the West is a malpractice, and we, as ministers, should advise the emperor.Those data are still there, but they should be destroyed.What's the point of pursuing its whereabouts?

　　That is to say, even if it is said that he kept the ancient books of the charts privately, he did not say that he burned these charts at all.A more crucial point: this matter is only found in these folk records, not in any official historical materials.

　　You must know that at that time, Liu Daxia's behavior was very positive and worthy of special attention.Why didn't the historian record it?The fact that the official history books of the Ming and Qing dynasties did not adopt the attitude of this case when biography of Liu Daxia showed the fallacy of the relevant notes.

　　On the contrary, Wang Zhi wanted to attack Annan, and went to the Ministry of War to find the corresponding files. Liu Daxia really hid all the materials about Annan this time, and thought that once Annan was attacked, all the southwest would be destroyed. Given the circumstances at the time, it should be considered insightful.This incident is recorded in all historical materials about Liu Daxia, including his epitaph.

　　To sum up, here's a counterpoint to Liu Daxia.

　　
　
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