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Chapter 487 Dongdu going to Daming to study medicine can save Daying
Four years of well-off autumn.

It has been three years and four months since the Prince Regent Zhu Shuren planned a pilot reform for the new monarch.

In the first year of Xiaokang, Yingtianfu abolished the division of residence, to the second year of Nanzhili Jiangnan part plus Jiangxi and Zhejiang individual prefectures, and then to the three years of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, and finally added this year's newly developed Huguang, Fujian.

It is estimated that in another year, this new policy will be promoted in all provinces in the Yangtze River Basin and south.

During the whole process, the resisters who jumped out on the surface were mainly the big landlords and gentry who felt that paying the money and food as a proxy was insulting to the gentlemen.However, these resistances were resolved by the imperial court's envy and power.

Those who should be exonerated will be exonerated, and those who should have their property confiscated will be confiscated.The court's actions are also well-founded, and the evidence for conviction and punishment is solid. Basically, it will try not to expand the scope of attack, nor will it wantonly infringe on the legal property of rich households, so as not to cause indiscriminate panic in the society.

Of course, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and there are too many cases, so there must be some wrongdoings.But as long as the error correction mechanism is done well, you will admit your mistakes. For those who have indeed broken the family magistrate, killed the magistrate, framed and robbed other people's family property in the process of handling the case, as long as it is verified, the relevant reform officials will also be removed from the reform team. What should we do? Just do what you can, so as to indignate and reassure the people.

Isn't that what cruel officials like Yao Qisheng, Chao Cuo, and Zhang Tang do?Zhou Xing came to Junchen for the same reason.

It's just that Zhu Shuren was more frugal with the cruel officials who pulled hatred, and he didn't kill the anger of the people in just one year like Emperor Han Jing.

Zhu Shuren has still kept Yao Qisheng alive so far, and he has also been firmly established as a doctor in the household department, and he is also the top echelon of all the doctors in the household department, who is ranked and most highly valued. To promote a servant from among the doctors, he may be the one with the highest priority."

The cruel officials who are pushed to execute the punishments are usually lower in rank. How can Yao Qisheng have to use his residual heat to die after the reform is completely completed, otherwise who else will help Zhu Shuren do the dirty work?

Compared with the successful promotion of "abolishing Ding and dividing the registration", the pilot project of government-run loans for poor peasants to annex fields has been much slower. So far, it is still only piloted in Hangzhou Prefecture and the neighboring Shaoxing Prefecture, and only in Hangzhou Prefecture It will be closed soon.

When it's time to close the net, all the bad debts that were fraudulently borrowed and wanted to be Lao Lai will eventually be exposed.

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However, even these reforms and constructions are in full swing.But the government and the opposition, the biggest focus of attention today is still not on these things.

Because in the eyes of many people, there is another major national event that deserves more attention this year, which is far more important than those "small troubles" in economic, fiscal and tax reform work.

That is, as the time is about to enter the five years of Xiaokang from four years to a well-off society, the timetable for the new emperor Zhu Ciyu to be in charge is becoming more and more imminent.

When the first emperor died, he left a will.Let Zhu Shuren, king of E, be regent for a period of four years until the new king is weak.

In the second half of this year, the little emperor will be officially 20 years old, so theoretically, in a few months, after the end of this year, the regent Zhu Shuren will return to the little emperor in the new year.

Otherwise, even if Zhu Shuren had the confidence to forcibly continue to exercise the power of the emperor with full authority, the appearance of eating would be ugly. After all, this was a violation of the oath made by the late emperor before his death.

In addition, according to the original timetable, the first emperor also said that before the young emperor was allowed to take charge, he would not use weapons against his neighbors again.Therefore, from the first year to the fourth year of Xiaokang, Daming has been resolutely implementing the national policy of peaceful farming and recuperation.

According to Zhu Shuren's first seven-year plan timetable, starting next year, the investigation of Myanmar and Vietnam's previous crimes can be formally and publicly put on the agenda.

Therefore, in the past year or so, those who have gradually accumulated contradictions and resentment towards the reform have not rushed to stand up and resist.In other words, only [-]% to [-]% of the original [-]% rebellion and resentment actually broke out.There are also [-] to [-]% because of this consideration, they temporarily forbear and do not want the court to have side effects.

The mentality of those hidden ninjas is nothing more than this: if certain contradictions and voices against the reform must erupt at the end of the third or fourth year of Xiaokang,

Then once Zhu Shuren seized the excuse that he wanted to "complete the implementation of the government orders that have not yet been implemented", then the timetable for him to return to power as the little emperor may be reasonably postponed.

Now only when Zhu Shuren does not disagree with him on any specific administrative measures, and says "ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes" to what he says, so that he can get off work on time.

Even if in the end we really want to oppose the abolition of Dingjiao and the poor peasants' purchase of land loans, or oppose other government decrees,
After the little emperor is in charge of the government smoothly, then use the little emperor's rebellious psychology and the mentality of wanting the new emperor to take charge of the government, and then instigate it with twice the result with half the effort. Isn't it good?
Although under normal circumstances, it is somewhat unlikely that the little emperor would be expected to oppose the policy of his biological biological father.

But in any case, relatively speaking, it was a little more relaxed than the period when Zhu Shuren himself stood at the foreground and exercised the imperial power justifiably.

Moreover, many people with dark psychology always firmly believe that "the absolute supreme power can corrode all family ties".

Since when Li Shimin had no legitimacy, he could conspire to drive his own father out of power.What's more, next year Zhu Ciyu will soon have legitimacy.

For the opposition, waiting is better than waiting.One is nine deaths and one life, and the other is ten deaths and no life.

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Under the Great Tomorrow, it is in such an atmosphere of prosperity and turbulence that it is rushing forward all the way.Occasional small problems are also covered up by this rapid development, and there is a boom.

It was also under such an atmosphere that in September of the fourth year of Xiaokang, a Dutch trading fleet that sailed from across the globe arrived in Daming again as scheduled.

Although the Dutch were defeated by Daming in Zheng Chenggong's war to recover the senior officials 15 years ago.

But later, as Ming Dynasty was willing to open up comprehensive trade and no longer engage in any maritime bans, after the Dutch handed over Descartes and Jansen-Tasman in exchange for thousands of Dutch military and civilian prisoners, they licked their wounds for a few years and then got back together. I want to do business with Daming.

No way, who made Ming's special products so rich, silk tea and porcelain can make a lot of money when sold in Europe, and the Dutch will not have trouble with money.Even if you get beaten up in the war, you still have to do business.

Since then, the Dutch have basically maintained that every one and a half years, a large number of monsoon fleets arrive in Daming, and the round trip still takes about two or three years.But later, with the improvement of Ming's sailing and shipbuilding technology, the Dutch and Ming competed with each other, and there were more and more high-speed sailing ships.

In the last seven or eight years, there have been cases where the Dutch asked Daming's shipyard to buy merchant ships at a high price.

Even more exaggerated, there is even a joint venture shipping company with the state-owned shipyard here in Daming to do maritime trade between Daming and Europe.

Anyway, they didn't have the strength to completely stop Da Ming. After Da Ming replaced a regent who supported navigation to act as the emperor, Da Ming himself could organize a fleet to trade in Europe.Ming's artillery and warships are also sufficient to deter all pirates in all oceans.

It's just that Daming still lacks a reserve of sailing talents across continents and oceans, and the cost is too high if it really depends on escorting by naval guns.That's why I chose to show my muscles first and then gave the Dutch a chance to join hands.

The Dutch accepted it with a mercenary mentality.

And after buying the flat-deck high-speed sailboat built by Daming and removing the Galen poop, the round-trip voyage between Europe and Daming will be several times faster.

Originally it took one year and one hour to sail, but now it can be compressed to nine months one-way, and it can also just catch up with the monsoon, saving one quarter of waiting in the middle, and realizing one round trip in one and a half years.

The fleet that arrived in Daming this time is composed of five flat-deck four-masted high-speed sailing ships built by Daming. They set sail from Amsterdam last winter, and they also picked up some people and goods at Dover on the way. After more than nine months, they finally chose to unload the cargo at the port of Hangzhou.

Because of the high speed of the fleet, the warships of European pirates in this era could not even catch up with them at all, so the journey was very safe. Totally useless.

As soon as the fleet docked, the merchants would naturally go to the Shipping Department to go through the formalities and prepare to ship and purchase goods.It is more convenient for ordinary guests who do not carry goods.As long as you stay on the ship for just one day, you can go through all the procedures for going ashore, which is considered very fast in this era.

After going through some simple procedures, a middle-aged British captain in his 50s and [-]s couldn’t help but point and point with a young scholar in his early twenties on the side of the deck boat looking at the scenery of Sanbao Port in Hangzhou. Show off your knowledge.

The British in this era have already gone through the religious wars and the decades of change that sent Charles I to the guillotine, so the status of secular scholars is obviously higher than that of the old era.

In the era of Charles I, the status of scholars who dabbled in science and engineering knowledge would be much lower than it is now. At that time, it was the era when priests and scholars dominated the discourse power in the academic world, and seniority was even more important.

(Note: The year Charles I was sent to the guillotine (1649) was the year after the 30-year religious war on the European continent (1648), so during that time, the social atmosphere in Europe was undergoing a comprehensive upheaval.

In the book, Zhu Shuren was able to recruit Descartes at the beginning, but it was actually because of a historical opportunity, which happened once in a thousand years, just before 1648.After the British mission is completed and European religions are opened, scientists will not like to flee so much)

But now, even young scholars can win the respect of the society as long as they make some achievements.Although the young man next to the old captain was only in his early twenties, he was a top student who graduated from Cambridge University after all.So much so that the old captain really wanted to show off his knowledge and knowledge in front of the other party, as if he could get a compliment from a senior intellectual, and he would have a good face.

Just listen to the old captain pointing Jiang Shandao:

"The development of Ming Dynasty is really changing with each passing day. When I came here seven years ago, there was no shipping department in Hangzhou. At that time, only Suzhou, Taicang and Ningbo had city shipping companies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Further south, Xiamen and Guangzhou had city shipping companies. up.

Now I never thought that our European ships would be accepted everywhere to handle customs duties. I heard that the old emperor of Ming Dynasty had passed away, and now his son-in-law is directly acting as regent and monopolizing the court. The strength of this opening up and reform is really determined. "

The young Cambridge University graduate was very humble after hearing this, and asked several questions, and then asked curiously: "Mr. Lessing Morton, you said that the last time you came to Daming was seven years ago. In the past seven years, have you not traveled this trade route repeatedly? It is said that as long as you navigators figure out a route, you should make full use of the experience you have accumulated.”

Captain Lessing Sussex Morton sighed: "Mr. Newton, things are not as simple as you think. After all, most of the shipping routes in the Far East are monopolized by the Dutch. Seven years ago, we were able to come because of the protection of the country. When the Duke was in power, the relationship between the British and the Dutch was pretty good.

But after the Lord Protector passed away seven years ago, the kingship was restored, and the relationship between the Dutch and us faded for a while.If I hadn't made up my mind this time, when Charles II re-launched the Anglo-Dutch war, I would not be able to win the trust of the Dutch again if I surrendered directly to the enemy. "

When this Captain Lessing Morton mentioned the word "surrender to the enemy", he didn't have any expression of shame or tone, it seemed very honorable.But this was normal in England in the 1660s, because some people were proud to be against the Royalists.

After the death of Cromwell seven years ago, Charles II was restored, and many people who did not like the royal family voted outside.In fact, decades later, when William III of Dutch descent was invited back to England to become the new queen, all those who had invested in the lottery in the intervening decades were all washed away.

It's 1666, and it's over in Europe.One year ago, in 1665, two major events happened. The first was that Charles II launched the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and the second was the outbreak of the famous "London Plague" in history.

Some people in later generations believed that the Great Plague of London was a subsidiary product of the Anglo-Dutch War, and that the slaughter of the war gave birth to the outbreak of the plague—because both the war and the plague happened to last for about two and a half years, starting in the spring of 1665 and finally Autumn 1667.

Obviously, the Captain Lessing Sussex Morton in front of him surrendered to the enemy because of the first of these two major events, the Anglo-Dutch War, and set foot on the Far East trade route again.

The 22-year-old Cambridge graduate of Isaac Newton next to him temporarily escaped from the UK because of the latter of the two major events, the Great London Plague, and planned to travel and study abroad for a few years.

And because I heard that Ming Dynasty has been leading the world in chemical research in recent years, and is very researched in the prevention and control of various insect repellents, disinfections and plagues, Newton wanted to come to see if Asians have any good ways to prevent the epidemic of plague (the Great London Plague in 1665) was a plague).

Perhaps at this moment, Isaac Newton's mentality is similar to that of Mr. Lu Xun, another time and space at the beginning of the 20th century, who went east to study abroad and tried to study medicine to save the country.The young Newton must have felt that "coming to Daming to study medicine can save Britain".

So when Newton heard that Captain Lessing Morton made the bet because he was dissatisfied with Charles II, he didn't think there was anything wrong.If it weren't for the opponent's shot, he wouldn't have been able to run back to Dover to meet his old friends when he set sail, and Newton couldn't have caught up with the boat by accident.

The two waited and watched for a while, and soon entered Hangzhou City.

Although Captain Morton had been to Daming seven years ago, after all, he had been to Suzhou and Nanjing last time, and he was new to Hangzhou, so he felt very novel.

Newton has never seen it anywhere, and he looks like a countryman entering the city.

After the two entered the city, they naturally went straight to the most prosperous city center first, but before they could see the real prosperity of Daming, they saw a large crowd of people watching the execution as soon as they arrived at the entrance of Guanxiang.

"Didn't you say that Ming is a country of civility and etiquette? It seems that in terms of execution, it is the same as Europe, and likes to show it to the public. Moreover, these torture instruments look terrible. Captain Morton, you can speak Chinese, and you can ask what these people have committed. sin?"

Morton has been to Daming a few times, and he has already learned the language to a superficial level. He even gestured and said, and asked a scholar wearing a square scarf next to him to ask about the situation, and turned his head to show off to Newton:
"I heard that these people committed the crime of instigating and defrauding the agricultural loans issued by the Ming Dynasty. The amount was particularly large, and they were the organizers, so they were sentenced to beheaded. Others who were lighter had ordinary beheadings. As for those who were instigated to carry out specific The farmers who cheated on loans were all exiled to Australia, Borneo, Kyushu, and Heilongjiang."

When Newton heard the words, he suddenly realized: "Is this the same as our British bonded debtors? If the debt is too large, they will be exiled to Virginia?"

Lessing Morton: "Almost, but we still have volunteers after all. 40 years ago, when my father was young, he drove a three-masted Galen ship 'Mayflower' and gave hundreds of A freedman voluntarily going to America. My family is a seafaring family from Plymouth!"

(End of this chapter)