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Chapter 14 Recruiting Warriors to Voyage Around the World
(Pictured: Kunyu Wanguo Quantu)

The ninth day of February in the first year of Chongzhen.

Taihe Gate.morning.

Before the morning court started, all the ministers first sang a poem collectively, and the title was Wen Tianxiang's "Song of Righteousness", and then the morning court began.This time the singing was much neater and more imposing than the previous one. I guess they have rehearsed in private.

The inspiration for Yang's reform actually came from engaging in pyramid schemes.Tell lies and lies a thousand times, ten thousand times, and your head will be washed clean.So there is also the matter of "singing poems" when the ministers go to court.The purpose is to "brainwash" the ministers.

Then there is the discussion.

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Yang Reform sat on the "dragon chair" in a daze.Underground is a group of courtiers discussing matters.There is a lot of discussion and arguing about whether to increase the salary.Yang Reform was in front of a group of spammers on the BBS. Posts and speeches were meaningless, and his voice was directly blocked as the sound of "croaking" during the renovation of the house next door.

After Yang Reform went to visit the new army yesterday, he suddenly realized a lot. The first is that the military must be strictly controlled. To put it bluntly, it is training the new army and deepening loyalty education. His own martial arts examiners will be his own gravediggers in the future.

Grasping the military is easy, as long as you have money, you can train as many new troops as you want, you don’t need to report to anyone, you don’t need anyone’s consent, you can buy as many guns as you want, and you can buy as many cannons as you want Just buy as many cannons and build as many battleships as you want, without looking at anyone's face.This is the benefit of being an emperor.

As long as those ministers give them money, or don't ask them for money, they will not care about what you do, whether you are a carpenter or a Taoist priest at home.

Yang Reform thought to himself boredly, and suddenly found that the entire hall was quiet, without a single sound, and all the ministers were looking at him eagerly.

Yang Reform asked: "Hey! Why are all the lovers looking at me? I don't have a face, hehe, how is the discussion going?"

The ministers were out of breath, and thought that it was really interesting for you to be the emperor. We spit out for a long time below, and spent a long time working hard. You are good, sitting on the top in a daze for a long time, feeling our feelings The saliva for a long time was in vain.If I had known earlier, I would not have performed so laboriously.

An old minister played: "Report to the emperor, the ministers and others discussed the issue of increasing Liao's salary. They have different opinions and cannot be unified. Please ask the emperor to judge!"

"Sacred order? Pay increase? Didn't I allocate 200 million taels of silver from the internal funds a few days ago? Why, it will be spent soon like this?"

"Report to the emperor, the 200 million taels of silver from the emperor's internal funds is being allocated. This is to settle the debts accumulated over the years. The increase in Liao's salary is just to meet the needs of the eastern captives. The emperor cannot always support it with internal funds!" The old official said something fair, the Liao salary is definitely not what Chongzhen can pay with the current internal funds.

For example, a soldier needs to spend one tael of silver (food, pay) a month, 12 taels a year, and 120 million taels a year for 200 soldiers, not counting the money spent on equipment and training, burning and burial, and pensions. Rewards, officers, construction of military almshouses, etc., if there is no [-] million taels a year, it is impossible to fill the pit of [-] sergeants.What's more, there are no less than [-] soldiers in Liaodong, and there are troops from other directions?No matter how much Chongzhen's internal money was, he couldn't resist it.

"Well, I understand what Aiqing said, but I also understand what the salary increase is. I think everyone understands where the salary increase ends up. I won't say much, and you, Aiqing, should think about other things. Let’s find a way.” Yang Reform vetoed the matter of raising wages. In fact, raising wages has always been added to those poor households who were already poor. The scholar-bureaucrats and the landlord class have nothing to do with this matter. It is to force those people to rebel!By that time, the war outside the customs has not subsided, and the customs will be in chaos.So Yang Reform wisely vetoed this matter.

The hall was silent!All the ministers were silent, the emperor's words were correct, and everyone knew where the salary increase went.Just stop talking about it.Let's talk about something else.It seems that the emperor is also a good man, so it's not easy to fool around!

Yang Reform suddenly said: "I see that you are all tired, let me talk to you about other things today, and relax... I watched "The Complete Map of Kun Yu Wan Guo" yesterday, and I occasionally thought about it. If the earth is really round, how can a person stand on it? Or to put it another way? Starting from a certain seaport in Daming, traveling to one place after years, won’t they return to the original place?”

Shrimp?The Earth is round?The ministers on the ground were all dumbfounded. The elite of the scholar-officials in the Ming Dynasty could not understand. We elites have always only talked about the Four Books and Five Classics, poems, songs and Fu. As for the earth is round?Is it related to us?The boat sails towards one place and will return to the original place. This problem seems too, too much?It's so far away!It’s really beyond my consideration. All we think about is to charge a few more buckets of land rent, raise two concubines, drink a cup of wine, raise a few children, and beat the children when we have nothing to do in rainy days.As for how round the land is and how wide the sea is, these are not things we consider.

"Picture above." Yang Reform said.

The little eunuch below ran out quickly.Standing in front of the officials, a huge map was unfolded.This is the original copy of the famous "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu".Basically, it is close to the modern map.It is considered to be a relatively complete and credible map.It can be seen from this that there has been a gap between the technology of the East and the West. At this time, Western technology has begun to catch up with the East, and there are technologies that surpass the East.

The following ministers discussed a lot, and Yang Reform said: "My dear friends, although I claim to be the son of heaven, I never thought that the world is so big. Even if I am the son of heaven, I am called the lord of the world and rich in the world, but I only get [-]% of it. , lamenting how ridiculous and ignorant the name of the Son of Heaven is..."

"The minister waits for ten thousand deaths..." He knelt down on the ground again.The emperor actually said that his title of Son of Heaven was just for nothing. How embarrassing did this make the ministers feel!
"Well, what I'm actually thinking is that the name of the Son of Heaven doesn't match the reality. I'm thinking, there are so many lands in the world, why don't you move my people from the Celestial Dynasty there, firstly to alleviate the suffering of my dynasty's lack of land, and secondly It can be regarded as opening up a new territory. What do you love ministers think? In the future, you will open up a new territory, and you love friends will also be famous in history! How is it?..." Yang Reform was just to test the reaction of civil servants. He and Kaijiang did not report any hope.It can be seen that the civil official group burned the nautical charts of Zheng He's voyages to the West.

"Your Majesty, no, the overseas land is a land of barbarians, full of pestilence, how to immigrate there? I am afraid that if you go there, you will be close to death! Why do you bother those poor people?"

"Your Majesty can't do it. At present, the military expenditure is still beyond our means. How can we afford the silver required for immigration?" Another minister also hurriedly stopped him, probably from the Ministry of Household Affairs, who is more sensitive to money.

"Your Majesty, my country is a country of etiquette. Why do you want to start a war for a mere piece of land and cause people to die? How about destroying other people's food?" I guess this person is old-fashioned and confused, a typical example of cruelty inside and outside. Guy, my family is starving to death, and I still think about whether other people's homes will have food. If the United States in the 21st century had such sentiments, Saddam would cry and say that I really do not have "weapons of mass destruction."Between countries, in addition to interests?Is there anything else?

"The emperor can't..."

"The emperor can't do it!..."

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As Yang Reform imagined, the opposition was overwhelming.Yang Reform couldn't help sighing, thinking, the pressure is too great!Even the emperor, facing so many objections, has nothing to do!No way, my waist is not strong enough!If I were Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, I probably wouldn't have so many troubles. I could build a few more Zheng He fleets to go to North America to watch the Indians.

Yang Reform opened his mouth again, pretending to smile: "I know this is impossible, so I don't intend to do it, but I heard that overseas, there are high-yield crops, if I can bring back my Ming Dynasty, it will be regarded as One piece of merit can save countless lives, and it is really a living Bodhisattva that everyone in the world makes offerings to."

"My Majesty, Your Majesty is talking about overseas sweet potatoes, which are indeed a very high-yielding crop." The minister came out and played.

"Well, that's right, Aiqing knows these things?" Yang Reform's voice was full of joy. He finally met a "good guy". He really is a good guy!Don't you just do these things yourself?With these few things, in the bad weather at the end of Ming Dynasty, it is possible to live more people and make fewer rebels.

"Your Majesty, I don't know, but I heard Xu Zixian say it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes. It is said that Xu Shaobao planted sweet potatoes in the field." The minister reported in this way.

"Xu Guangqi?" Yang Reform understood. The Xu Zixian he was talking about was Xu Guangqi who was recently recalled to the court. He even added the title of Shaobao to him. This is a bit different from history. Shaobao was added after his death.However, there is another difference. Since the Wei case has not yet been decided, the cabinet and various ministers and other ministers have little mobility, and Yang Reform has not made any major moves. Xu Guangqi was supposed to be Minister of Rites, but he didn't make it, so Yang Reform gave him the honorary title of Shaobao, which was regarded as compensation.

"I know this. I also know that Xu Shaobao has grown sweet potatoes himself. You should learn more from Xu Shaobao! However, I also heard that there are other high-yield crops overseas. Road, move forward again, always moving in one direction, firstly, to verify the theory that the earth is round, and secondly, to record local products, especially crops, to select excellent seeds, so that they can be brought back to my dynasty and ease my food shortage. The situation, three times, I really wanted to experience the exotic customs, but I can't get out of the Forbidden City, even if I can get out of the Forbidden City, I can't get out of the capital, so I can only recruit warriors to go for me, and share the scenery along the way with The favors are recorded, and I can understand my longing. Of course, this matter is regarded as my private matter, and I will not embarrass you, and I will not ask for money from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Some warriors, build some big ships..."

Follow the old path of the Sanbao eunuch and move forward again, proving that the world is a sphere.This somewhat surprised the ministers, thinking that the emperor was really fed up, but it has nothing to do with us, just do what you want, at least you don’t want to send people out to find gods, we don’t care.But when they heard about looking for high-yield and drought-resistant crop seeds, everyone felt that although the emperor was messing around, he did a good deed, at least better than the carpenter.The most important thing is not to pay the Ministry of Households, that's fine, don't care what you do, you are the emperor, no one is in charge of you, so it's up to you.

Therefore, all the ministers said "good".Yang Reform recruited warriors and built a big ship to go to sea. Of course, the money had to be paid by himself, and it was considered the emperor's private business.

Therefore, the emperor ordered that it became "news" in the Ming Dynasty to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the world to build large ships in Tianjin and go out to sea, and to recruit warriors from all over the world to explore for the emperor.Another stone was thrown into the stagnant water of the Ming Dynasty, which stirred up several small waves.

(End of this chapter)