I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 276 Chapter 275

Chapter 275

"The concubine wants to take Cihong with her and go to Liaodong. After staying in Liaodong for a period of time, she can learn from General Cheng to govern the region and deal with political affairs. By the way, she can take a look at the customs and customs around Liaodong, which will be of great benefit to Cihong. , is better than being locked up in the deep palace every day, reading those articles left over from thousands of years ago day after day."

When Emperor Chongzhen told Empress Zhou about Fu Zonglong's idea, Empress Zhou's first reaction was not to oppose, but to support. When Cheng Shijie was in the face of the saint, he once discussed the economy with Emperor Chongzhen, which made her memory very deep .

In all fairness, Emperor Chongzhen inherited the Great Treasure as a young man, and he himself worked very hard. In order to deal with state affairs, he studied under the guidance of many masters.

When Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie why he was able to open up the situation in Liaodong, Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen that he was forced to do so. There were too few military fields, so he tried every means to repair canals and irrigation wells, turning wasteland that was not suitable for farming into Good land; for example, he will take crop rotation according to seasonal changes, plant a variety of crops a year, and make full use of the land; for example, he will find ways to raise more livestock, accumulate manure, and increase the fertility of the land instead of Blindly fight hard.

Cheng Shijie thinks a lot, reads a lot, and understands a lot.Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised. He also read a lot of books, but there was nothing Cheng Shijie said in the books.Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen at that time, because the people who teach you to read are nerds who don't eat the fireworks of the world. They don't know how miserable the common people are, let alone how hard a bowl of rice and noodles can be eaten. Of course, they don't bother to know that they only have the so-called way of saints in their minds.

Empress Zhou kept Cheng Shijie's words in her heart: "As an emperor, you must know how to know people, how to use people, how to educate people, and how to drive people. These sage articles can't teach you, they can only tell you. You want to be close to a virtuous minister, far away from a villain. But the question is what is a villain? What is a virtuous minister, and where is the boundary?"

Emperor Chongzhen was confused by Cheng Shijie's question at that time.

Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie what he could do to govern Liaodong, and Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen that as a leader, one must understand

To understand the basics of financial management, one must at least be able to understand the accounts handed in below, and have an intuitive understanding of daily expenses and inventory.

As a big official, you have to know how to select the talents you need most, trust each other and work together with them.

As a big official, he knows a little about overall planning and command. Once a natural disaster occurs in a place, how much manpower, money and food should be allocated for disaster relief, and these things should be used in practice.

There were also some drunken remarks at the time, which were all very deviant words: "As long as the emperor cultivates his character, is respectful and frugal, the weather will be smooth and the world will be peaceful. It is even more bullshit. As the king of a country, he has to be black-hearted and thick-skinned." ! None of the emperors who created a peaceful and prosperous world were able to read these saints' articles!"

Empress Zhou recalled that when Emperor Chongzhen first came to the throne, he was manipulated by the gentlemen of the Donglin Party, exempting commercial taxes, tea taxes, and mine taxes. I used to live by reading these thousand-year-old articles, and I must learn some practical skills from capable people, so as not to be like Chongzhen after being enthroned, and being treated like a monkey!
Regarding the matter of Empress Zhou going to Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen hesitated: "If the queen and the crown prince go to Liaodong together, I'm afraid..."

Before Emperor Chongzhen could finish speaking, Empress Zhou laughed and said, "If Emperor Jianwen hadn't cut down the feudal clan, would Emperor Taizong raise troops to calm the situation?"?
"No, Emperor Taizong had no intention of rebelling back then!"

"Then, why did Emperor Taizong raise troops to calm Nan?"

Empress Zhou went on to say: "If Emperor Jianwen didn't cut down the vassal, even if Emperor Taizong wanted to rebel, he would not succeed. After all, Emperor Jianwen occupied righteousness at the beginning!"

Emperor Chongzhen understood what Empress Zhou meant. Emperor Jianwen cut down the vassals forcibly under the circumstances that the vassal kings had no faults. During the process of cutting down the vassals, he forced the uncle to death. Being opposite to the emperor, Emperor Taizong rebelled and rebelled, the kings stood by and watched, Jianwen's ability was low, and there were huge omissions in strategy and tactics, which made Emperor Jianwen's efforts to cut down the vassal fall short.

Emperor Chongzhen also understood the real meaning of Empress Zhou now. Now state affairs are like cooking oil in a raging fire. A little carelessness will have disastrous consequences. The generals of the towns would definitely stand on the opposite side of the court, just like the princes and vassals at that time, even if they did not stand on the opposite side of the court, they would stand by and watch.

Maybe Cheng Shijie will also raise troops on the side of the Qing emperor. If that happens, the consequences will be disastrous.

In fact, the problem with cutting the vassals is that Emperor Jianwen’s starting point was correct. Even if the prince Zhu Biao survived and Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne normally, he would still cut the vassals. From the perspective of Emperor Jianwen, Emperor Jianwen’s move to cut the vassals It is not imperative, it is the eagerness for quick success that led to the final failure. Emperor Jianwen's method of cutting the vassal was not clever, and even a little stupid.

If you start to deal with Cheng Shijie by yourself now, you will be even more stupid than Emperor Jianwen.

What's more, even if Cheng Shijie wants to rebel, he has no righteousness, and now Cheng Shijie is already an extremely human minister. If he really wants to rebel, he should learn from Wang Mang and earn a good name.

But what about Cheng Shijie?
He confronted the gentry all over the world and offended countless people. When attacking the pirate Zheng Zhilong, a large number of people impeached him. When suppressing Zhang Xianzhong, they were also impeached by the gentry.

Xu Wenqi, the prefect of Huangzhou, made two memorials to impeach Cheng Shijie in just one month. One of them was that Cheng Shijie sent troops to rob more than [-] women in Huangzhou Prefecture and forced them to marry Ning Haijun soldiers. Countless people reported to the prefect The yamen and the Huangzhou government cannot resolve this matter, and the court needs to come forward to deal with it.

The second memorial is Cheng Shijie's struggle with the people in Huangzhou, which caused tens of thousands of people in Huangzhou to lose their families and cry loudly.The memorial of Xu Wenqi, the magistrate, was even signed by more than 300 gentry from Huangzhou Prefecture.

Emperor Chongzhen vaguely understood that Cheng Shijie had no objection now.

If he really turned against him, he would definitely have a good relationship with the gentry. Now Cheng Shijie is very rich. Although he often cries to Emperor Chongzhen for being poor, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen also knows that Cheng Shijie is rich.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie can buy a large number of people to cheer for him and sing praises for him with a small amount of money, but Cheng Shijie didn't do this.

Obviously, Cheng Shijie used this method to show Emperor Chongzhen that he had no resentment.

Empress Zhou felt sad when she saw that her husband had grown silver hair at such a young age. She thought that being an emperor should be as happy as Cheng Shijie, and handle the country's affairs with ease. He vomits blood, but the state affairs are getting worse and worse. What does the emperor feel like in front of him?
The octagonal building in Chibi Mountain has been built. This turret is located at the edge of Chibi Mountain extending into the Yangtze River. The octagonal building is tall and steep, with a total of eight feet and nine feet. The top column is added to the top and the walls are hollow. , an oil lamp as big as an iron pot, with three wicks as thick as a baby's arm, was also lit. It was covered with a glass shade to keep out the wind. From a distance, it was as bright as a bright moon hanging above the turret surrounding the house.

With the establishment of this turret, if there is an attack on the camp nearby, or a night ship docks, the lampkeeper on the turret will use a large bronze mirror with a concave surface to focus the light to a further distance.

In normal times, it can also guide the course and direction of ships sailing at night. It can be said that an octagonal building doubles as a lighthouse and a sentry tower.Limited by the light source and reflective materials, the long-distance illumination distance of the lighthouse is naturally far from being comparable to the searchlights of later generations, but it can barely illuminate the illumination distance of almost [-] steps, which is already satisfactory in this world.

While improving the safety of the camp, the turret also makes it possible to start work on and off the embankment at night.Since the design of Chibi City is not large and the construction area is limited, it is impossible to increase the labor force indefinitely. It is just that working in shifts greatly improves the work efficiency.

With the appearance of this octagonal building, the Ning Navy Navy Transport Squadron in charge of transporting ships realized the beauty of this lighthouse. on a night flight.

Of course, the officer who discovered the problem couldn't talk to Cheng Shijie directly. They reported it layer by layer, and finally reported it to Li Zhixiang. Li Zhixiang also thought he had nothing to do in Liaodong, so he came to Chibi City for this reason.

"Meet the Master!"

"Zhixiang, what wind brought you here!"

Li Zhixiang pointed to the lighthouse and said, "Commander, how much does this lighthouse cost?"

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, some sea merchants or fishermen raised funds to build lighthouses in some ports and some steep gorges along the coasts of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.Those who can’t afford kerosene will accumulate fuel to burn fires, but the actual light intensity and distance are limited, and the role of lighthouses in night navigation is not obvious, so lighthouses came out earlier, but they have not been popularized.

However, the design of this lighthouse came from Si Yongqiang, the ninth-rank Zhaomo of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry. This is the lowest official position in the Ming Dynasty. In an instant, I thought that the lighthouse of later generations would look like this.

The lighthouse designed by Si Yongqiang is very mature. The huge lamp post can store more than 3000 kilograms of fuel tanks, and the glass cover for windshield is located in the place that Cheng Shijie perfected for Si Yongqiang. In fact, the material of the reflector is in the design. Among them, Si Yongqiang used a large concave bronze mirror, and specially made a wooden shelf for the concave bronze mirror that can be moved and adjusted the angle.

The only thing Cheng Shijie improved for Si Yongqiang was the glass mirror, to be precise, the glass silver-plating process. The copper mirror was replaced with a glass mirror, and the silver-plating process was adopted instead of the traditional tin amalgam method with tin foil attached.

"The cost is more than 200 taels of silver. Do you want to build this kind of lighthouse in Lushun?"

"Lushun naturally wants to build a lighthouse, but the most important thing is to install this lighthouse on the ship!"

"If you put it on a boat, you don't need so much silver. The most expensive part of the lighthouse is actually the tower base. If you only need a light on it, 200 taels of silver is almost the same!"

"Commander, if our warships are equipped with this kind of lights, we can sail at night!"

In the era of sailing warships, warships did not have the ability to sail at night, unless the draft was very shallow and sailed on the surface of a lake or river, such as a water tanker, which could sail at night when guided by people on both sides of the river.

But in the sea, that will not work.

While Cheng Shijie and Li Zhixiang were talking, a riot broke out among the bandits on the shore, and the riot did not subside until Ning Haijun's thunderbolt rang.

Cheng Shijie asked with some displeasure: "What's going on?"

"It's all caused by this guy Sun Kewang!"

Sun Kewang caught up with Zhang Xianzhong. He was going to deceive Zhang Xianzhong and capture Zhang Xianzhong alive, but the problem was that Zhang Xianzhong was too smart. Sun Kewang's morality was not enough in front of Zhang Xianzhong. He made a set and put Sun Kewang in it.

If it hadn't been raining at that time, Zhang Xianzhong's gunpowder was damp and he couldn't fire, otherwise Sun Kewang would have confessed there. Fortunately, Sun Kewang escaped from the encirclement. This grandson is really a thief. The book turned against his good brother, Liu Jinzhong, one of the eight commanders under Zhang Xianzhong.

Liu Jinzhong was cruel and easy to kill. After surrendering to Ning Haijun, he found that Ning Haijun's military discipline was strict. He was not happy, but he didn't dare to escape, so he sent someone to confuse more than [-] women in his women's battalion to escape.

Liu Jinzhong's work was not confidential enough, and the rogues who were betrayed by Ning Haijun's generous treatment had already betrayed Liu Jinzhong, but the problem was that these Shaanxi women's battalions were all loyal family members of Zhang Xianzhong, and they were very uncooperative.

Cheng Shijie was unwilling to support idlers, so the problem became embarrassing.

Han said at this time: "Marshal, hand them over to this slave!"

"What are you going to do?"

"I have seen it. Most of these women's camps bring their children and separate them from their mothers. When mothers are working, they have to keep their children in the refugee camps. This way, you don't have to worry that they won't work hard, and even the guards don't care. No, just take meat as salary, children are in need of nutrition, I believe many people will be willing to work hard."

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie sighed, it is the most poisonous woman's heart.

"You are amazing, suddenly I am a little afraid of you."

Cheng Shijie's words were insincere, I'm afraid it's impossible to be afraid, and it's really amazing to be powerful.

Sure enough, women are the ones who know women best. Cheng Shijie probably can't think of such a way. For mothers, children are indeed the best reason. For the sake of meat, I am afraid that those mothers in the refugee camp will snatch their heads.

"Marshal, if you are embarrassed to come forward, this slave will come forward!"

Han didn't take it seriously, a woman, or a widow, had no means to survive in troubled times.

(End of this chapter)