269 Changes in Kyochu
Zhao led the education to escort Gao Di back to Beijing It was already early August, I thought that the emperor would ask about Gao Di's condition and ask about the situation of the counterinsurgency in Guizhou by the way, who knew that only someone from the Military Affairs Yuan simply asked about the situation, and when he asked, he was absent-minded and a little formal. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. Of course, he still cared about Gao Di, asked the three imperial doctors to discuss and take turns to take care, and said the emperor's will to let Gao Di return to the house to recuperate and not worry about miscellaneous things affecting his condition. Gao Di was nearly seventy years old and contracted a disease and a bump along the way, and the average person would have died a long time ago, but fortunately, Gao Di had good physical fitness, and seemed to be dying but did not die, and it was not until the spring of the second year that he was considered a good one.
Zhao Shujiao received an order to rest for two days and then go to the canal to meet his subordinates, these people had been running from Liaodong to Guizhou for several years, and when they were old and tired, it was time to rest completely. According to the new military service system, those who did not become hundreds of households at the age of 26 should be unconditionally discharged, and the meaning of the Military Affairs Yuan is that Zhao Shujiao arranged ordinary soldiers in many villages that had already chosen sites along the canal, where they reunited with their families to build their own houses and roads≡ and he and other officers recruited young people by the canal to prepare for the construction of the river, and most of these young people were the children of veterans, and they were considered to have dedicated their youth and their lives to their children and grandchildren.
The Military Affairs Yuan did not care much about the affairs of Guizhou, not because it did not think that it was important, but because it was necessary to master the rhythm of everything it did. Now that the rebels have been firmly surrounded and it is difficult to talk about it for a while, it is time to stabilize the situation, digest the territory and people that have been occupied, and it will take time to build roads and houses, or to settle the people who are in doubt. When everything is straightened out, the rebels of Shuixi and Zhijin should be as dying as the current Gaodi, and it won't take much time to put down the rebellion.
Many things in this world lie in a slow and urgent, in many ancient examples, it belongs to the slow and unhurried to solve the problem urgently, and the result is that the lack of follow-up has become an invincible situation. Just like the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms, the side with a large number of people always thought that the enemy would become powder in response with a big wave of his hand, and as a result, the enemy would fall short with fewer victories and more achievements. If Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu and Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi did not camp hundreds of thousands of people in the field to defeat the enemy in one go, but divided their troops to guard the main roads and cities, and the others fought the enemy under the cover of the cities and fortresses, history might have been rewritten.
Of course, the Military Affairs Yuan also has a consideration is to take this opportunity to completely solve the Tusi system, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi and other places Tusi are as many as cows, these people have been the emperor of the soil for a long time and feel the benefits of no one to restrain them, and they will naturally want to live a certain day to be the real emperor's addiction ♀ to some Tusi usually spend all day drinking and accumulating strength to lie dormant and wait, once the country's national strength is weakened or there is a foreign invasion and there is no time to take care of it, they immediately rebel and establish themselves as kings. We must take this opportunity to eradicate all of these cancers that have grown on the country's body, otherwise no one can guarantee that there will be no more chaos in the future.
Of course, there are other reasons why the Military Affairs Yuan wants to stabilize for a while, and the most important reason is that Apocalypse is also sick, and he is very sick and difficult to treat, and this matter has to start from the beginning of the year.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Gao Di left Beijing to go to Guizhou, and Tianqi thought that there were about 200,000 soldiers in the surrounding provinces of Guizhou to participate in the counterinsurgency, and now there were 60,000 soldiers from Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao, plus Gao Di went to Guiyang to take the town, so even if the rebellion could not be completely quelled, at least the situation could go along a route favorable to the imperial court. The north side was negotiating with Huang Taiji, because Liu Xingzuo returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, the two sides lost the basis for continuing negotiations, but everyone did not announce the cessation of negotiations because of this, because they all maintained a situation of not fighting and not talking, Huang Taiji wanted to concentrate on dealing with the Mongols, and the Ming Dynasty also wanted to free up the internal affairs, and everyone took what they needed.
As for the Mongol Apocalypse, it is even more not, Lin Dan Khan of the Han Department has been betrayed by the Jurchens for so many years, and the Jurchens have been pressing step by step in the past two years, and he definitely has no idea of entering the Great Wall, but if the Ming army is too wasteful to open the city gate and Lu Fu seduces others to attack, it is another matter. Now the Jizhou Military Region is already strong under the governance of the overseer Xiong Tingbi and the governor Wang Huazhen, and the generals under his command Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and other generals also take Zhang Jing'an as an example one by one, and want to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions to the general army to sit on one side, they don't take the initiative to rush out of the Great Wall to kill the Mongols, they should have snickered, and they didn't even think about attacking the Ming army on the Great Wall.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the Mongols and the Jurchens are united, which may only exist in theory, and with the pride of Lin Dan Khan, he could not say such a thing. In Lin Dan Khan's heart, he is a descendant of Genghis Khan, belonging to the noble and arrogant golden family on the steppe, the Ming people in the Great Wall and the Jurchens in Liaodong were all people under the rule of the Mongols, and now these people are strong and strong, they are also chaotic people≈ Dan Khan thinks that to revive the majesty of the Great Yuan, he can't cooperate with the rebels, so he neither wants to cooperate with the Jurchens to deal with the Ming army, nor does he want to cooperate with the Ming army to deal with the Jurchens, he always looks around with his proud head high, and only bows his head at night to think hard.
Of course, in addition to external strife, there are also internal hidden dangers, that is, a group of Taixi people who always want to brainwash the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, they found that it is difficult to let the Ming Emperor be baptized into the religion after several attempts, so they turned to the ministers to recruit believers ♀, some ministers are not stupid, knowing the attitude of the Apocalypse towards these foreign monks, they all respect them, and they are really annoyed and sarcastically say a few words to them, which makes Long Huamin, Deng Yuhan and others embarrassed, even Xu Guangqi, who has already joined the church, has also privately expressed his heart to the Apocalypse several times, said that he was first a courtier of the Ming Dynasty and then a believer in God, which made Tianqi very satisfied.
Apocalypse satisfaction is satisfaction, but also knows that people's hearts need to be constantly connected, otherwise, who knows if it will change one day? According to the original agreement with Xu Guangqi, as long as he increased the yield of corn and sweet potatoes by half, he would be named a marquis, and Tianqi determined that Xu Guangqi had completed this agreement according to the information fed back from various places, so he issued a decree to announce the canonization of Xu Guangqi as the Marquis of Songjiang, and reiterated that as long as he could increase the yield of sweet potatoes and corn by two times, and also cultivate the drought tolerance of potatoes and promote Kaikai, he would be crowned a duke, which made the ministers of the court envious of Xu Guangqi and also thought that Tianqi was a man.
Among the people in Beijing, Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan were the leaders, and after they learned the news, they first congratulated Xu Guangqi, and then asked Xu Guangqi if they could get more help from Hou Xu from now on§ Guangqi told them that the marquis was just a virtual title, and there was no substantial promotion, and there were many marquis in Beijing, and there were dukes and princes above the marquis, and the princes of the Ming Dynasty were like the stars in the sky that could not be counted, and the little marquis was nothing at most, and the most money was given every year.
Seeing that Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan were a little disappointed, Xu Guangqi said all the words he said in the Heavenly Apocalypse Sect, and said that as long as Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan stepped up their efforts to translate the more than 7,000 books they brought as soon as possible and teach the people of the Ming Dynasty, if it was proved that this knowledge could be useful to the military and production of the Ming Dynasty, they would also be rewarded with titles. If the translated knowledge is judged to be useful, then the translator will receive another reward, and if they can persuade them to talk about Galileo or Kepler, they can also be confiscated.
Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan were also quite moved when they heard it at first, but they thought about it and said that they were members of the Jesus Society, and whether they could accept the title of Da Ming and ask the Jesus Society to agree. As for Galileo and Kepler, they were indeed their friends, but the two of them did not have a good relationship with the Jesuits, and even if they were willing to come, they would not be able to come without the help of the Jesuits. Since they brought 7,000 books, they must have translated them to the people of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Ming court needs them, they can speed up the translation, they don't need any extra money to live a hard life, as long as the court funds them to build churches throughout the country, because the construction work is more expensive.
After Tianqi got the news of Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan, he immediately asked someone to convey his decision, translating books is translating books, repairing churches is repairing churches, the two things cannot be confused, because they are willing to translate books, so they have agreed that the Taixi people will build churches in the capitals of all provinces across the country, so that they don't want to be greedy and insatiable, so as not to get the last nothing∞ churches have to spend money, they can earn their own money, and the way to earn is to translate useful knowledge and form productivity as soon as possible. After being recognized by everyone, you can get the corresponding remuneration, and one way is to build a medical hall, build a school, treat the sick, save people, teach and educate people, and get corresponding remuneration for treating people's diseases and teaching people to read.
Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan couldn't help frowning at first, but they were a little overjoyed when they thought about it, this emperor and ministers are not easy to convince, isn't it easy for the people to fool? Isn't teaching children to read and write the same as cultivating young parishioners? So the two immediately agreed.
Since there is no need to worry about the war and internal hidden dangers in the north and south, you can handle internal affairs with peace of mind, but Tianqi is a very lazy person, and he used to go to the court every few months, and now he has left all the things about the court behind. It turned out that he was on the court in the Qianqing Palace for his own convenience, the place was very convenient from his residence, and it was nothing to hold a court meeting occasionally, and then the Qianqing Palace was burned by the earthquake, and the court meeting was changed to the Huangji Palace outside, of course, there is another reason why the apocalypse did not tell everyone, that is, there is a tower in the original damaged room of the Qianqing Palace, pressing the mysterious topaz.
After the Apocalypse moved the central money house and mint next to the Ziguang Pavilion in the imperial city, he then set up a training center in the Chonghua Palace in the east of the imperial city, specializing in training palace ladies and interested officials and their dependents, so that they could learn skills including medicine, embroidery, cooking, and silver work in the Chonghua Palace. Coupled with the Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall occupied by the Military Affairs Yuan and the Government Affairs Yuan, as well as the Ciqing Palace occupied by the Supervision Yuan, the entire imperial city and the first half of the Forbidden City became very lively. In order to avoid potential safety hazards, the Apocalypse ordered people to cut off the Forbidden City, starting from Cining Palace, Yangxin Palace, Qianqing Palace, Fengxian Palace, and Renshou Palace, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.
Tianqi himself is not lazy, every day during the day when he is in a good mood to move to Wenzhao Pavilion to study, opposite the Wucheng Pavilion has a lot of fitness equipment for him to exercise, he knows that good health is really good.