"If you issue a holy decree under the banner of the emperor, are you not afraid that these representatives really think it is the emperor's will?"

Zhang Yan said.

In fact, Yang Qing is not a false holy decree.

There are some important things that still need to be sent to Chang'an, and Zhu Cihong will sign them, and they will be passed on by stagecoach relay from Nanjing, and it will not take a few days to go to Chang'an by Shangluo Road. Then Li Zicheng will also give this face, he is responsible for letting Zhu Cihong sign it, and then send it back to Nanjing on the same stagecoach, and the jade seal will be stamped on the side of the prison country.

This completes the procedure.

Including the convening of the representatives of the four people, the same way was used, first the cabinet drafted the decree, then sent Zhu Cihong to sign, and then took it back to cover the jade seal.

Therefore there is no false proclamation of the Holy Decree.

This is the cabinet drafted, the emperor agreed, the authentic holy decree of the prison seal, but the emperor did not have the right to disagree, the jade seal of the prison was held by the Marquis of Zhongyong and then built by himself, but there is no problem in the procedure. In this way, the emperor of Chang'an received an application from Nanjing to supervise the state, and thought that it was necessary to reform the imperial examination, but he did not know the meaning of the people, so he specially convened the representatives of the four people to discuss it, and the majority of the representatives of the four people agreed to implement it formally, and the majority of the representatives of the four people did not agree to pull it down, and the leader of this matter became the emperor.

The common people are also shouting long live our emperor!

But......

"Why did Donglin Qunxian welcome him?"

Yang Qing said.

"You're so bad!"

Zhang Yan immediately understood, and said with a bewitching smile.

Donglin Qunxian's goal to welcome Zhu Cihong is to use him as a weapon to deal with Yang Qing, and the first priority to deal with Yang Qing is to prevent the reform of the imperial examination, so after Zhu Cihong returns, they must be given to block the reform of the imperial examination. He convened the representatives of the four peoples with the reform of the imperial examination, and then the representatives of the four people decided to carry out the reform of the imperial examination at the Nanjing Conference, but he came back to overturn this resolution......

Is this playing with us?

Those who had the power to adjudicate state affairs for the first time and were bombarded with civil rights ideas for the next few months, and the delegates who had visited the good days in the imperial estate would be immediately enraged, and all that was left was for Yang Qing to raise his arms as their supporters.

"What about the emperor?"

Zhang Yan said.

"That's not what we need to think about."

Yang Qing said.

Indeed, at that time, Donglin Qunxian was the first to refuse, and if Zhu Cihong accepted the decision of the Four People's Conference, then he would be a betrayer.

The Donglin sages will clean up the traitors.

In fact, even if Zhu Cihong comes back, as long as he is not simple-minded, he will not immediately take action against Yang Qing, a powerful minister, this kind of thing needs to be laid out for a long time, and it is necessary to divide and disintegrate the army and Jinyi Wei controlled by Yang Qing, and Yang Qing's wings need to be cut off first. Even the emperor has to play a puppet for a long enough time, during which he has to keep giving Yang Qing an official and a knight, and obey him to confuse him, this is the standard practice, in short, according to the historical routine, this is impossible without three or two years.

But as long as a new imperial examination is completed, then Donglin Qunxian's control over officialdom will also collapse.

So Donglin Qunxian can't wait.

They had to stop the reform of the imperial examination with thunderous means if Zhu Cihong came back.

"Am I a little sorry for the first emperor!"

Yang Qing said with emotion.

He is putting Chongzhen's son in the pit!

"You're sorry for the first emperor!"

Zhang Yan slammed his head with his two heavy hammers and sneered.

In the following time, everything was normal in Daming, that is, with the connivance of Yang Qing, the wave of advocating civil rights intensified, and even appeared on the street for a walk. And the vast majority of voices in the newspapers were also shouting about civil rights, and even the news of the Ming army's recovery of Taiwan was drowned out by this wave......

The Dutch surrendered after holding out for two months.

The governor of Karon, with the remnants of 1,400 men in the city of Geranza, finally chose to surrender.

I have to say that this kind of fortress is really strong, and in two months, even if the Ming army mounted the cannon of the invincible general outside the city, it did not really blast open this fortress. During this period, the Ming army fired a total of more than 3,000 40-jin flowering shells at it, plus more than 3,000 solid bullets, including more than 400 30-jin shells. These shells forced a gap in the second floor of the city and razed all the buildings, but they still failed to destroy the third level of the main fortress.

However, the power of the invincible cannon still destroyed the courage of the Dutch.

They had to surrender.

Taiwan officially returned to the control of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there were still a small number of Dutch in the chicken coop who controlled the original Spanish stronghold, and such a trivial matter was not worth mentioning, and a random battalion could be solved there.

And that's exactly what happened.

After taking the city of Geranza, six warships and a battalion of marines immediately went north, and easily regained the chicken coop, these six warships did not stop their voyage, after the chicken coop was replenished with sufficient supplies, they continued to the north, erecting the symbol of the Ming territory in Pengjiayu. They then continue on to their next stop, the Diaoyu Islands, from which they eventually return to the Yangtze River and arrive in Nanjing, when the new year arrives......

"This is a godsend!"

Yang Qing took out a handful of gray-black dirt from a pocket in front of him, ignoring the pungent smell, and said with a greedy gaze like grabbing a handful of gold.

"This is,?"

Song Yingxing said curiously.

"That's right, it's dung, bird droppings, there are countless seabirds migrating on the sea, they often fly thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles, and those isolated islands on the sea are their stops on the way. The they pull there piles up for millions or even tens of millions of years, and finally these guano even accumulate more than a dozen zhang thick and become guano stones over the course of tens of millions of years. ”

Yang Qing said.

The significance of guano does not need to be superfluously explained, at least in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the value of guano was also inferior in Europe in the Ming Dynasty, because Europeans had no habit of using manure at all, and even the Parisians piled their manure too high outside the city walls, so that the enemy stepped on the dung heap to attack their cities, and did not think of using these things to help their barren land produce more food. This problem is not unique to the dark Middle Ages, even in the mid-nineteenth century, Hugo was still condemning them through Les Miserables, preferring to send fleets to the poles to collect petrels and penguin droppings and let their own manure flow into the sea.

However, guano will still be of great help to agriculture in the Ming Dynasty.

Because it's the best.

All kinds of manure is bird droppings first, and the second is human manure, which will be the best fertilizer supplement before the birth of chemical fertilizers, especially for rice, which is different from Europeans who need to cross tens of thousands of miles, it is simply at the door of Daming's house.

Diaoyu Island, Dongsha, Xisha ......

Almost all of the islands in this circle have considerable reserves of guano resources.

Yongxing Island alone reaches 200,000 tons.

These guano support the Ming Dynasty agriculture for more than ten years without pressure, and then expand outward after more than ten years, at that time the navigation technology is also enough to support, it is nothing more than to go to those islands in the western Pacific Ocean to continue digging. One Nauru is estimated to be enough to support the advent of the fertilizer age, and Nauru is about 10,000 miles away from the Ming Dynasty, but relying on the equatorial current and the Kuroshio Current, it is the most suitable for shipping. The guano is also significant to Yang Qing, as it is the best way to replenish nutrients to those lands, and even if they are used in large quantities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, where transportation is most convenient, food production in the region can skyrocket.

"How are you going to use this thing?"

Song Yingxing grabbed a handful of bird droppings and said.

"State-run, the newly discovered guano island is the property of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, so only the fertilizer company authorized by the Ming Emperor has the right to exploit it. However, the mined guano will not be sold in the market, and it can be used for only one purpose, as a reward for those who can provide qualified military horses for the imperial court, and the more rewards are provided, the more rewards will be given.

As for whether the horse was raised by himself or obtained from some other source, this has nothing to do with the imperial court.

In short, it's a prize.

Horses will still be purchased at market price, guano is an additional reward, selling a qualified military horse to the imperial court will give you an additional bag of guano, selling a thousand horses will get a thousand bags, in short, the more guano you will get. Huangzhuang farmers can also plant pasture grass and provide it to the garrison nearby, which can also be exchanged for guano. In this way, it is estimated that in less than ten years, I will be able to exchange guano for 100,000 cavalry and 300,000 vehicle-mounted infantry, and completely sweep away all the surrounding Hulu who threaten the Central Plains.

Yang Qing said.

"And who's going to dig up guano for you?"

Song Yingxing said.

"Slaves!"

Yang Qing said innocently.

"You keep advocating civil rights, but you want to use slaves on a large scale?"

Song Yingxing said speechlessly.

"Does this conflict with my advocacy of civil rights? Civil rights, first of all, must be the people, first of all, I have to be the people of the Ming Dynasty to be the people, not my Ming people, of course, not the people, let alone the people. For example, the more than 1,000 red-haired people captured by the Navy in Taiwan recently will be sent directly to Diaoyu Island to dig up guano until the East India Company pays a ransom for them. I would give them a set number of digging per day, and then they would get fresh water and food if they did, and if they couldn't do it, of course they wouldn't be able to get it. In the future, all the aliens captured on the battlefield will be thrown to these islands to dig up guano, and use the dug guano in exchange for their food and fresh water, and those who can't dig will starve to death. ”

Yang Qing said with a smile.

It is said that his industrial chain is very shrewd, basically reducing the investment to a minimum, even the food provided to the prisoners of war can be mainly fish, anyway, there are fish around the Diaoyu Islands.

Give them some vitamins at most.

This can be regularly shipped to them with fruits picked in Taiwan.

This can also stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to breed horses and traders, especially those who smuggle grain, they can go and exchange horses with Dolgon, even if Dolgon is not willing to do so, they can force him to do so. After all, what Dorgon desperately needed in the north was food, and these smugglers used their horses to get rewards for guano, which they sold for greater value.

They're sure they'll do it.

The main smugglers between the north and the south are on the blacklist of Jinyiwei, just to prevent the people in the north from starving to death and not being caught, and when the day is almost over, they will be wiped out.

Raid the house!