Can you live forever

Chapter 33 Separation of Powers by Sea and Land, Co-governance of the World

This time I went to Jiming Temple to visit Wang Yangming, and left after the mid-heaven of the moon.

Regarding the completion of Jindan Avenue to the tenth realm, Wang Yangming personally wrote several letters and sent them to Wudang Mountain, Baiyun Temple, and Qingshou Temple... This matter will also be fermented rapidly in the Jianghu. Know.

At the same time, Zhang Zhixiang's reputation was also spread.

"The Origin of Qi Ti" has not yet been written, but "Taiyi Jinhua Purpose" and "The Origin of Qi Ti" have been passed down as heavenly scriptures in the Jianghu, and there is even a saying that if you get these two books, you can become a fairy immediately...

Of course, it's all laymen who don't understand to join in the fun.

But when the deeds of Poyang Lake spread, people heard that Zhang Zhixiang was able to summon the spirit official to descend to earth, so they believed in the rumor.

Zhang Zhixiang stayed in Yingtian Mansion for the third day, outside the osmanthus garden of Wang's house, there were countless people from the rivers and lakes complaining that they wanted to see Zhang Zhixiang.

Rather, from the second night onwards, Liang Shangjunzi had already started committing crimes. The Wang family had 200 well-trained guards in Guiyuan, and not many people could sneak into Zhang Zhixiang's courtyard.

Moreover, Zhang Yonghuan is a warrior with good ears.

No one succeeded in stealing, but it aroused the excitement of people in the Jianghu. After all, it must be a treasure if it is guarded so closely!

Zhang Zhixiang was quite troubled by this.

In the past few days, I had to reduce going out and copy the book as soon as possible and send it to Mr. Yangming for evaluation.

But he talked with Wang Yuanzhi about the steam engine. Wang Yuanzhi said that there is a factory in Yingtianfu that uses steam engines. If Zhang Zhixiang is interested, he can visit after he gets in touch.

At noon that day, Wang Yuanzhi sent someone to send a letter, and the contact was established.

It is a shipyard that is using the steam engine.

Inland waterway ships do not install steam engines, because steam engines are bulky and cumbersome, and can barely be loaded on sea-going ships with thousands of materials, and will sacrifice a lot of warehouse space. If they are used on large ships with thousands or even tens of thousands of materials, they will complement each other. And there are enough stocks to load coal for power.

Take a boat along the Qinhuai River to the Yangtze River, and go down the river for twenty miles, and you will find the Longjiang Shipyard.

A few miles away from the Longjiang Shipyard is the famous Treasure Shipyard back then, but it has been abandoned for various reasons, leaving only some large warehouses for use by the Longjiang Shipyard.

There are more than 5000 registered craftsmen households in Longjiang Shipyard, and including the recruited workers, there are a total of [-] people.

When the ship approaches the Longjiang Shipyard, the first thing you see is the big ship being assembled on the dock, the tower, the pulley block, and the huge steel machine that is emitting black smoke...

"That's the steam engine."

The huge machine group that provides power for the ship assembly work is a steam engine, a boiler for burning fire, a cylinder, a closed container for transmitting hydraulic pressure, and a huge wooden tower crane for power transmission, pulling up the huge components little by little...

"The steam engines used in factories, dry boats, and steam engines on sea ships are all different."

"But the principle is the same, both boil water and use steam as power."

"This kind of steam engine is basically used in shipyards, large steel factories, and mines. The largest ship in Longjiang Shipyard today is [-] ships, and it has not played the fullest role of the steam engine."

"These machines are left over from the time when seagoing ships were built."

Wang Yuanzhi was very clear about the situation of the Longjiang Shipyard, and he had nothing to hide from Zhang Zhixiang, so he continued to talk a little bit: "The emergence of the Longjiang Shipyard is actually an explanation for the split of the Treasure Shipyard. "

"During the orthodox years, the Lord Shaoguo suspected."

"Taking advantage of the chaos in the court and the weakening of imperial power, they joined forces to split up the Treasure Shipyard, and moved all the machines and workers capable of making ships with more than ten thousand materials to Changguo County (Zhoushan) in Ningbo Prefecture."

"It was split up for nothing, and it was difficult to explain to the court. It was said that Bao Shipyard's management was chaotic, and the industry was slack, so it was rebuilt into a new factory."

"So Longjiang Shipyard appeared."

"In the early years, Longjiang Shipyard was able to manufacture sea-going ships with thousands of materials. Longjiang Shipyard provided King Ning with warships, but at that time the Longjiang Shipyard official was imprisoned and cut off, and the shipyard was also abolished."

"Nowadays, only ships with less than [-] materials can be built."

What Zhang Zhixiang heard can be said to be "shocking". In order to monopolize overseas, those people did things that were extremely rampant. Zhang Zhixiang suddenly remembered the lack of Zheng He's archives in later generations.

It was rumored in later generations that Liu Daxia hid and destroyed it, and some people claimed that it was Qianlong who repaired the Siku Quanshu and destroyed it, and planted it on Liu Daxia.

In fact, Liu Daxia did have hidden files, but what was hidden was the files of the Southern Expedition to Annan during the Yongle period.

The absence of Zheng He's files has nothing to do with him.

"The Zheng He file..."

Wang Yuanzhi suddenly smiled and said, "I moved away. In the year of Tumubao, the imperial court no longer had Zheng He's archives, and they couldn't even find a complete sea chart."

"hiss--"

Zhang Zhixiang gasped, there was a shadow of conspiracy in the civil fortress, how lawless this group of people really are! !

And finally understand what is held in the hands of this group of businessmen, it is - sea power!
"You are too lawless..."

Zhang Zhixiang murmured, and Wang Yuanzhi said with emotion: "Lawless? Whose law is his law? It's just that the times have changed, and imperial power can no longer encompass the world."

"It's actually not bad."

"In the past, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together, but now they rule the world with merchants. The land belongs to the court, and the sea belongs to us. There is nothing wrong with it."

"unless……"

"Let merchants also become part of the imperial court, so that we can stand directly on top of the court without resorting to the methods of scholar-bureaucrats. At that time, Daming will have both land and sea."

"pity."

"The emperor will not agree, and neither will the scholar-bureaucrats."

Zhang Zhixiang suddenly thought of the British constitutional monarchy system. What is the difference between Ming Dynasty's cabinet system and that?Of course, the real power of the Queen of Britain is much greater than that of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty...

The civil official group's "holy son of heaven ruled from the bow", emptied the king into a puppet.

The gentry played hotly with the merchants again.

These people are bustling when they are sharing the cake, and when something really happens, who will come when they need to contribute?Everyone turned their heads and stared at the puppet on the throne again...

No, Your Majesty, come here.

Today, Zhang Zhixiang has probably understood what Chongzhen said before he hanged himself on Meishan: all civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty can be killed.

So, Ming died in Wanli?
No, it might be Jiajing, or it might be Zhengde, or it might be Orthodoxy, or else, Zhu Yuanzhang should not have established Ming Dynasty.It has only been a few years since we expelled the Tartars and restored China...

(End of this chapter)