Chapter 22 Facing the sea, spring flowers bloom

Zhu Qizhen didn't stay on the river embankment all the time, and after traveling more than ten miles, he got on the boat. Yu Qian led Zhu Qizhen all the way to the mouth of the Wei River, that is, the mouth of Dagu.

Yu Qian focused on introducing two ports to Zhu Qizhen, which were in Dagukou and Beitang.

One is the mouth of the Wei River and the other is the mouth of the Chaobai River.

Zhu Qizhen also went over to take a look. Beitang is far away, so I didn't go. And it was dark, so Zhu Qizhen stayed at Dagukou.

Dagukou was previously subordinate to Tianjin Wei.

After all, in the thirteenth year of Yongle, the sea was stopped, and before that, Dagu had always been an important place for shipping, and it was necessary to defend against pirates.

It is only after the resumption of shipping in Zhuqi Town and the opening of the sea that the development here is the most rapid.

The originally uninhabited coast rose almost overnight, from a hundred households to a town with a population of thousands.

And this change, at all, has not reached the end at all.

If you think about it, you will know that the canal has created the most prosperous place in the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, along the canal economic belt, which is also the reason why the canal cannot be stopped in the late Ming Dynasty.

Because millions of people rely on the canal to eat, and the richest dozen cities in the Ming Dynasty rely on the canal to eat, such a big pattern change, the center of the late Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to ignore the interests of these places.

This is true for canals, and it is also true for shipping.

As the departure place of Daming shipping, that is, Nanzhili Zhenhaiwei. It is the city of Taicang, a little west of Shanghai. Because the upstream rivers have not yet silted, the Huangpu River is not yet used.

The port of departure is Liujiagang when Zheng He went to sea, and this is also the place where Yongle departed by sea thirteen years ago.

With these two starting points and ending points, the future development must be extremely impressive.

Liujiagang is in Suzhou, needless to say, Suzhou is a prosperous place in the world, and the population of Suzhou City is even better than that of Beijing.

Even if there are some improvements, the effect will not be immediate, after all, Suzhou is already very prosperous.

The only thing is Dagukou, which was just a hundred households before, and was selected by the wave, and suddenly it seemed to be a pig on the tuyere, blown into the sky.

Zhu Qizhen met with the local elders in Dagu.

Of course, there are not many fathers and elders in Dagu, and most of them have migrated in the past two years.

Zhu Qizhen deeply felt the rapid changes in Dagu. There is a feeling that Shenzhen took off overnight.

Most people have the impression that the ancient impression is stereotyped and stagnant, but they don't know that the biggest constant in this world is that it is always changing.

Nearly 80 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, if you don't look at the history of later generations, just look at the current 80 years, this change is simply earth-shaking.

Eighty years ago, the Mongols killed the Han Chinese

Eighty years later, even the children lost their power in the grassland.

Eighty years ago, the Semu people were rampant, and they were the second devils second only to the Mongols, and eighty years later, I am sorry that the Semu people are not very easy to marry if they want to marry. Of course, compared to the surviving Semu people, the dead Semu people have nothing to say.

Eighty years ago, the management of the Yuan Dynasty was very loose, the place was almost divided, and the local lords, whether Mongolian, Semu, or Han people, were very rampant.

Eighty years later, the rich families of the Great Tomorrow are all carrying their tails between their legs, although the tails have a tendency to re-, but they are still willing to spend hundreds of stones of grain to sell for the sake of a paper document for the imperial court. The Ming Dynasty became a traditional and Han Chinese powerhouse dominated by yeoman farmers.

Generally speaking, perhaps the Ming Dynasty had such and such problems, when Emperor Xuanzong handed over this empire to him, it was still on the rise, although the upward trend was getting weaker and weaker.

This is also what Zhu Qizhen has always been worried about, what will happen in the future? When he hands it over to his son in the future, will it be a dynasty on the rise, or a dynasty that is becoming more and more involuted?

This is what has been worried.

However, seeing the current Dagu Town, Zhu Qizhen suddenly felt a sense of relief.

It turned out that he had been immersed in conspiracy and conspiracy for the past few years, struggling between calculating and being calculated, and wandering between trust and doubt.

In the middle of the night, I opened my eyes, looked at the curtain on the bed, looked at the moonlight, and figured out everyone's thoughts.

Is this what he likes?

Not necessarily.

Is there really no weariness in his heart?

But seeing all this, Zhu Qizhen's heart suddenly warmed.

"Perhaps, in this big empire, I can't change too many things alone, and I can't even see some of the changes I want happen. But where I can't see, a lot of change is happening. ”

"It's like spring doesn't tell the seeds, but the seeds are growing freely and blooming their own flowers."

"Although tens of millions of people have gone to me, will there be a good result here? No, now I am just practicing the righteousness in my heart with my life, and I don't hesitate to spare my life, so why bother with anything else. ”

"In my life, I just want to be like a spring breeze, no one in the world needs to know that I have been here, as long as every seed can bloom its own flowers, everyone can live their own life."

"For me, that's enough."

Zhu Qizhen thought of this, and he didn't live in a room, so he lived in a tent on a coast. called Yu Qian to accompany him, a rare debauchery.

Rarely drink to the point of getting drunk. In a daze, the sea faced the sea, and the sentences in the spring blossomed loudly.

But I didn't see Yu Qian's brows already furrowed.

For a gentleman like Qian, the image of the emperor is indeed wrong. But he has persuaded him several times, but every time he advises, Zhu Qizhen will

Please drink with Yu Qian.

It's not that Yu Qian doesn't drink, but he drank a few times when he was a teenager, but when he was the governor of Zhili, he knew that he had a great responsibility, so he didn't drink for a long time, lest he make a mistake.

But in the face of the emperor's wine, Yu Qian couldn't refuse, so he could only drink.

Once or twice is enough.

Yu Qian could still drink it, but after drinking a few more bowls, Yu Qian only felt that his mind was a little dizzy, and his steps were unsteady, but Yu Qian knew that he couldn't drink anymore, otherwise he would really get drunk.

But Yu Qian's mind is still very sober, and he secretly said in his heart: "I can't persuade you today, but Your Majesty is young and old, that is, today he looks like a teenager." Let him go. ”

But Yu Qian also kept in mind his responsibility, and he must not let the living officer record the emperor's black history. And the one who served as the living note was Liu Yan, the seven-year champion of orthodoxy.

Liu Yan is an old champion, and he was forty-nine years old when he entered the department.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen was busy with the illness of the Empress Dowager, and he didn't pay much attention to taking scholars at all, otherwise, Zhu Qizhen must find a younger one. Because in Zhu Qizhen's view, the top three may be superior, but in fact, there is no difference between heaven and earth, find a younger one, you can do more things for the court, but like Liu Yan, who is forty-nine years old, can serve the court for a few years.

But Yang Pu liked Liu Yan very much, and he felt that there was a lack of old adults around the emperor, so he sent Liu Yan to Zhu Qizhen's side to take charge of the living note.

Zhu Qizhen didn't care too much about this, so he gave Yang Pu a face. After all, Zhu Qizhen doesn't have any training plan for Liu Yan, let him train below for a few years, and then he should be old, and if he is allowed to serve as a noble official in the center.

Zhu Qizhen came out this time, and he didn't bring cabinet members, but found a group of people from the Hanlin Courtyard to accompany him. In charge of the paperwork from Beijing.

Yu Qian grabbed Liu Yan's hand and said, "Your Majesty is drunk, there are some things, don't remember them." ”

Liu Yan had a bit of the spirit of a historian and said, "But? ”

Yu Qian said: "No, if Your Majesty is drunk, if you stay in the history books, wouldn't it hurt Your Majesty's sage, I am in charge, you just need to say that Your Majesty is drunk, and the rest is His Holiness." ”

Yu Qian directly typed Haizi's poems into Zhu Qizhen's drunken words. Anyway, Yu Qian's aesthetics can't accept this thing at all. To know what is popular in the Ming Dynasty, it is the pavilion body. It's almost played to the extreme. With Haizi's poems, ice and fire are different furnaces.

Liu Yan also felt that this was a trivial matter, and it was not against the spirit of the historian, so he agreed. But he wrote it in his diary privately.

Hundreds of years later, however, his diary was exposed. Everyone thought that he had falsified this detail, and Emperor Gaozongwu's writing was still quite good, although there were not many works, but there were also a few masterpieces, and he would never write such an unorthodox text.