Chapter 535: Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven
Thus the dispute over land law was resumed......
It's all back to square one.
Then, in the fairest way, a new vote will be held to decide whether to maintain private ownership of land or to nationalize it, and truly leave the fate of the country to the people to decide. Yang Qing will not do anything extra for this, and he will not hesitate to strike at what the gentry want to do extra, and then come to a truly fair vote.
That's what he wants.
Truly leave the fate of the country to the people to decide.
It wasn't manipulated by anyone, in fact a lot of it was manipulated by him in the past, but the next vote will be without any interference.
The fairest vote.
And then no matter what the outcome is, he will accept it, even if the public land law is really vetoed, he will still accept it, the big deal is the forced expansion of immigrants to the outside. At the same time, let the Ming army continue to go out to plunder, the British can watch the Irish starve to death while transporting food, and of course the Ming can do the same. As long as the country can be constantly replenished with plundered food, and at the same time continue to forcibly emigrate to the colonies, then the problem of more people and less land can be solved.
At the end of the day, he has a backup plan.
It's just that this scheme is difficult to operate.
After all, his natural population growth rate is entering a peak of crazy growth, and the millions of people added every year will make him anxious for the rest of the day.
It's much easier to have the Gongtian Law.
And at this time, Li Laiheng arrived in Chengdu as the personal envoy of the protector.
Then he was warmly welcomed.
After all, when the old bandit saw the old bandit, the friendship of those battles came to his heart, and his identity at this time was also the best advertisement, as the last secession force of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates could pursue a treatment that was as generous as possible.
They are no longer able to maintain their separatism.
After seeing the elite strength of the Ming army that entered Yunnan to prepare for battle, these guys knew this better.
Lee Rae-hyung is here to bring them hope.
No one knows what Li Laiheng then talked to the bedridden Shu Duke Zhang Xianzhong, in short, the day after their meeting, Shu Duke Zhang Xianzhong officially wrote to the empress that she could not manage the government because of old age and illness, and asked to enter the court to go to the southern capital for treatment. His letter was sent to the southern capital as soon as it was expedited, but his post as governor of Sichuan was retained, and his son Li Dingguo acted as the agent of the military and political affairs of Sichuan. In addition, Sun Kewang was awarded the title of Marquis for his meritorious service in supervising the logistics and transportation of Burma in Chongqing, and with Sun Kewang as the newly established Chongqing Commander, he also used the 24th Army of Sichuan to march south, and transferred the 14th Army originally in Hanzhong to the south to strengthen Sichuan's defense.
In addition, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi and other generals of Zhang also received titles such as marquis and earl, and a total of more than 20 people were knighted.
In addition, the Sichuan army was expanded.
The Sichuan army, which originally had only two corps, increased one army, so that the Sichuan army left in Sichuan became two armies, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi each led an army, and Ai Nengqi was the envoy of Xikang, leading an army to Xikang to lead an army to Xikang, leading Xikang military and political affairs, and his son Ai Chengye took over his original Luzhou town guard.
Zhang Xianzhong was edicted.
Immediately on the same day that he left for Nandu for treatment, Liu Wenxiu let go of Jianmen Pass and let the Fourteenth Army pass through and take over Jianmen Pass.
Subsequently, Sun Kewang and others complied.
In this way, Sichuan returned to the hands of the imperial court.
"Well, forget it!"
Her Majesty said.
"You're not going to cure him again, are you?"
Immediately after, she looked at Yang Qing with a vigilant gaze.
"Did I get kicked in the head by a donkey? Besides, I don't have the heart or the ability, his disease is at least now incurable, and the blood vessels are estimated to be able to scrape out fat oil, and if you want to save him, you have to brush his blood vessels again. The big fat man of 400 pounds, he has not done anything but eat and drink all these years, this is a psychological shadow of hunger when he was a child! ”
Yang Qing said speechlessly.
Zhang Xianzhong currently weighs 400 pounds, which is completely comparable to An Lushan.
Obesity leads to a sickness, and from time to time I go into a coma or something like those European ladies who are strangled by their waists, but fortunately, I also bought a lot of smelling salt from Nandu to prepare. Of course, even if he can be cured, he can't be cured, just let him die like this, and it can be regarded as worthy of his efforts in governing Sichuan over the years, although it is mainly Li Dingguo who is governing. But to make the natural population growth rate of Sichuan comparable to that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, this is meritorious, and when he comes to Nandu, he will use some special medicines, so that he can complete his life journey in drunken dreams and death!
As for what special drugs are, this goes without saying.
Yang Qing has already made a purified one.
This thing is actually not rare, after all, the trade between Daming and West Asia is prosperous, and this thing has long been very popular in that area, and those Daming sailors who went to Suez, Aqaba, Basra and other ports are impossible not to touch.
It's just that the Ming Dynasty is strictly forbidden.
All the merchant ships were confiscated when they were discovered, and then the confiscated ones were taken by Yang Qing for deep processing.
This can also be regarded as the protector who has treated him, after all, people are here to seek medical treatment, of course the protector cannot stand by and watch, he must be healed, as a miracle doctor, this is a must. His godsons and his subordinate old bandits will also feel the Protector's sincerity towards the Lich King, after all, eating this will definitely make the Lich King feel a significant improvement in his body, there is no doubt about this. But this thing can't stop him from dying, it just brings him some psychological comfort, so he will still die in the various diseases caused by obesity.
But that has nothing to do with Yang Qing.
Miracle doctors are not omnipotent.
The protector of the country was benevolent and righteous, and did not hesitate to try to save his enemies, but after all, the will of heaven was difficult to disobey, and the Duke of Shu died of illness......
Anyway, the Lich King is at an end to the curtain.
With the curtain call of the last separatist in the land of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empire completed the de facto unification, and after decades of war, the land finally ushered in the realization of true peace. However, it is too late for the Sichuan delegates to participate in this session of the Four People's Congress, after all, the remaining two months are not enough to complete the draw of lots for the representatives of the Four People's Deputies from all over Sichuan, so they still have to wait for the next session. Anyway, the Gongtian Law does not include Sichuan, and the voting results of this session have no impact on them, and those gentry will not be too enthusiastic about participating in the Four Peoples Conference, they are actually quite reluctant to Zhang Xianzhong, and it is estimated that they are resentful of Zhang Xianzhong's sudden departure. Although they can indeed be exempted from the public land law, they still have to pay this tax, and Li Dingguo's transition period is the process of the imperial court checking their land and then letting them pay taxes.
And not only Tian Fu, Lao Wang's tax department also has to be stationed in Sichuan.
In short, taxes must be paid.
The Protector has always been very American on the issue of taxes, no matter what is easy to say, but this tax has nothing to talk about, it must be paid, dare not pay the tax and wait for Lao Wang to show his means as a dead eunuch!
"Hurry up and deal with these of yours, I still have to go to welcome my mother next year!"
The Empress said.
Empress Zhou was buried by Li Zicheng in the northern capital, Chongzhen was buried in the southern capital, of course, they had to be buried together, this matter had to be buried by the empress herself, and her brother, and when Empress Zhou's Zigong was brought back, her brother should also leave for Hawaii. The expeditionary fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division had arrived in Hawaii and had sent back the message of victory, which was very simple, but ......
That's a victory too.
This was the first time that the Ming Dynasty had conquered a land that was originally unknown.
Strongholds in the Americas do not count.
The strongholds in the Americas were used for friendly trade with the Indians, not for war with them, although there would definitely be war, but that would have to be said later. The conquest of Nanyang was a crusade against the rebellious vassals, after all, they were called ministers hundreds of years ago, and they were also under the rule of the Old Port Xuanwei Division, and now only the Ming Dynasty is restoring its rule.
At this time, it is estimated that the marines there have already used whips to drive the natives and build a royal palace for the future Hawaiian king.
The empress gave her brother the title of king.
After all, her father used to be the king of letters, so it can be regarded as the knighthood before her brother took over her father, but it has not been made public, this has to be welcomed back to Zi Palace, at that time, her brother was meritorious in welcoming Zi Palace, so that he could be crowned king. King Xin's fiefdom Hawaii, or Yingzhou Mansion, which has been filled in on the map of the Ming Dynasty, is not Yingzhou, after all, this name is more in line with the geographical location of Hawaii, so it can be said that the Chinese people have known Hawaii since ancient times.
It is said that the protector of the country should also talk about it since ancient times.
After all, the next frontiers of the Ming Dynasty are places that have never been explored, or even never appeared in ancient geographical chronicles, and these places must be found with names that can be used since ancient times. Hawaii can be called Yingzhou, North America can be called Daiyu, South America can be called Yuanqiao, aren't they legends drifting away? In fact, it drifted there, and as for why it is drifting, this needs to make the continental drift theory come into play. And it can explain that China is the center of the earth, and later the continental drift caused the current world, as for why the ancients knew about the things of hundreds of millions of years ago......
Isn't that easy?
Don't let the theory of evolution be born, anyway, no one knows whether the theory of evolution is true or not, and Darwin will have another hundred and fifty years!
Just make up an ancient system by yourself, it is said that the Protector has made up enough myths over the years, and even a mythological system with Haotian God as the creator god has been established, at least in his fanatical believers' hearts. They all believe in the existence of Haotian God and the ancient gods, but the gods live in another dimension, and the souls of people who die have to go there to be judged, the guilty enter the netherworld, the innocent are reincarnated, and the meritorious are ranked in the immortal class. But the world is scientific, there is no god to give the world wind and rain or anything, everything in the world is in accordance with the laws of nature, and human beings can also change the world through science. And Haotian God created the universe and incarnated as the will of the universe, he is everywhere, the universe and him are integrated, the universe is vast, aliens exist, and the earthlings are just a grain of dust created by Haotian God. The ancient gods were all ancients selected by Haotian God, and they had merit to Huaxia, so they became gods in the fairy world......
In short, he has many followers.
Then under this mythological system, he can redefine the geography of this world based on the theory of continental drift.
It doesn't matter what it's called now.
After hundreds of millions of years, it is impossible to retain the previous name, and the position may change under the theory of continental drift, only the Chinese civilization, the source of this world civilization, can re-depict the ancient world through some things that have been handed down.
Then the Classic of Mountains and Seas, overseas immortal mountains and the like can all be brought in......
This is not Yang Qing's nonsense.
From the perspective of modern people, of course, he is making up nonsense, but there are no things that have become common sense in the minds of modern people in this era, and no one in this era will think that man evolved from apes. Then Yang Qing's definition of Haotian God's creation of all things in the universe and incarnation of the will of the universe will become common knowledge about the origin of human beings in people's hearts. Similarly, no one in this era will know the theory of continental drift, Yang Qing described the Pangu continent as composed of Chinese civilization as the core plus the classic of mountains and seas, but later the continental drift was separated from the world at this time, and those foreign countries were bred by those strange races. Then the people of this era will also take this as common sense, and finally a world civilization system with Chinese civilization as the core that he came up with in his brain will be in people's minds from this moment.
And continue.
At the end of the day, he had to build a worldview for the people of his time.
And then go out and conquer.
The Ming Dynasty is not one of those European countries that was forced to colonize by the environment, and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty weakened the motivation for foreign colonization, so the people of the Ming Dynasty must be given a clear destiny.
This is why the Europeans in the colonial era desperately advocated Greece, Rome, and even "discovered" the relics of various civilizations all over the world, to put it bluntly, to reshape the worldview of Europeans, after a long period of medieval darkness, Europeans have been ignorant to the extreme.
They must have a new worldview to sustain their national self-confidence.
Even if it's a fake.
Even in modern times, those with a little common sense know that the long works of the ancient Greek sages were simply unrealistic in the era when there was no paper-making technology, let alone have to go through thousands of years of inheritance under the suppression of the church, but those generations of scholars still had to grit their teeth to defend them. Because these are the origins of their worldview, their ideological cognition is based on these things, and their civilization history is based on these things, if these things do not exist and are forged......
So what are they?
Continue to be like the ancestors of the Mongols who were as confused as their ancestors did when the fog of the Middle Ages dissipated after their expeditions to the west?
At the beginning of a new era, we have to start with the reshaping of the worldview, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be bombarded by others with cannons, and watch the flying cannonballs reshape the worldview established by others. Then go out and use cannonballs to blast open other people's countries, let others look at the cannonballs flying towards them, and reshape the worldview that Daming has established for them!
This is conquest!
A real conquest!