Chapter 135: Sword Guide to the Sea (Page 1/1)

When he knew that his biggest reliance no longer existed, Kong Yinzhi immediately became extremely obedient, as long as the emperor did not remove himself from the position of the head of the Kong family, then there was no problem in selling all the fields to the imperial court.

Yang Lian said: "These two thousand hectares are used by Taizu to worship the master, and they are needed for sacrifice, and Lian does not dare to deprive them. But the other fields were taken back by the imperial court. It's just that the income from the sale of the land needs to be given to the Confucian Mansion in a few years, but the interest will be paid. There shouldn't be any problem with that, right? ”

Kong Yinzhi said with a smile: "Of course there is no problem with this, as for the interest or something, you don't have to give it, it can be regarded as my Kong family's filial piety to the emperor." ”

Yang Lian said with a smile: "Money must be given, and interest must also be given to you, you can rest assured of this." As for you to honor the emperor, that's your business, the Ministry of Agriculture doesn't care about this kind of thing, we only care about the fields and water conservancy. ”

After Yang Lian said goodbye, he came to Qufu County. The county order greeted him at the door, Yang Lian entered the yamen, and after everyone sat down, he said: "Trouble the county order to gather all the officials and officials in the county, and Ben Shangshu wants to requisition them." ”

After everyone gathered, Yang Lian said: "This incident is the first time that the Ministry of Agriculture has requisitioned personnel from the Ministry of Agriculture. Ugly things come first. If someone wants to go against the yang and the yin, and wants to go against the Ministry of Agriculture, then it is best to see if their neck is constantly slashed. This official asked Commander Wu to borrow twenty brocade guards, which was specially designed to deal with this kind of person. ”

Everyone was shocked and said, "But according to the orders of Lord Shangshu." ”

This is the most land redistribution that Yang Lian has encountered, and the matter is very complicated, first the farmers must be divided into two categories: land and non-land, and then the fields should be graded according to the degree of fertility, and then the price and loan duration should be set according to the field.

Zhu Youxiao demanded that all the fields be re-leveled, leaving a sufficiently wide road between the fields. Although Yang Lian didn't understand why he did this, at least such a field looked comfortable because of its neatness, and in fact, the loss of field area was not very large.

Because it was a slack time, a large number of local farmers were organized to begin leveling the fields vacated by the Confucian government, and Yang Lian also recruited a large number of migrant workers from nearby prefectures and counties to organize the fields in Qufu.

Because the money from the Confucian government did not need to be given now, Yang Lian easily signed a land sale agreement with the farmers. The extremely long lock-up period for the fields sold in the Cultivators' Ownership Movement, and the right of first refusal of the imperial court under the same conditions, largely prevented the concentration of land in the hands of a few.

The agricultural cooperatives opened four branches in Qufu in one go, and sent a large number of cattle from Sun Chengzong in Xuanfu Town, which were of course not used to kill cattle for meat, which greatly alleviated the embarrassment of cattle for cultivated land.

In November, the decree finally came down. Kong Yinzhi was enshrined as the enshrined officer of the Most Holy Ancestor of Dacheng, and in the holy decree, the selection method of the enshrined officer of the Most Holy Ancestor of Dacheng in the future was explained, of course, this was after Kong Yinzhi could not serve as the enshrined official of the Most Holy Ancestor of Dacheng.

Although Kong Yinzhi was robbed of the Holy Father, he was already very satisfied, his first task now is to take care of his body, if one day his body is not good, then even this Dacheng Holy Ancestor can't be an enshrined official, that is not the emperor's hands, naturally there are former enemies who will come to find trouble.

In the readers' letters, there are many people who oppose this, believing that this position should be inherited by the eldest son of Confucius, and of course there are those who support it, believing that the position of the Dacheng Most Holy Master should be selected by a sage, and if it is only designated according to the primogeniture system, it will lose the meaning of the sacrifice.

Of course, the controversy caused by this incident is not very noticeable, because the South China Sea Economic Strategy has already begun to make trouble.

After receiving the contact information of the two Portuguese sent by Sun Chengzong, Huang immediately sent someone to contact them. After some conversation, Huang decided to contact the Portuguese to attack the Spaniards.

In 1580, when the House of Avis in Portugal was severed, Philip II (Philip I of Portugal) promised to give preferential treatment to the Portuguese nobility at the Spanish court and to maintain Portugal's own laws, currency, and government when the Iberian League was founded. Lisbon continues to be the capital of the kingdom. However, during the reign of Philip III (Philip II of Portugal), the autonomy of Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal, which constituted the Spanish Empire, was reduced and centralization was strengthened.

The Spaniards raised the tax rate on Portuguese merchants, and a large number of positions of real power were occupied by Spanish aristocrats. This caused a great deal of discontent among the Portuguese, who pinned their hopes on Sebastiã's rightful heir, the Duke of Bragança, who was a close confidant of the Duke of Bragança, who sought supporters of the Portuguese all over the world in preparation for a war to expel the Spaniards.

Faced with this situation, Huang Kezhang is of course very happy. The Portuguese had only one present colony in Southeast Asia, the Malay Archipelago of Tiwen (East Timor), while other places such as Malacca and Indonesia were occupied by the Spanish and Dutch. The two sides agreed to attack the Spanish-occupied Luzon first, with Manila as the specific target.

The Portuguese sent twenty ships from Macao, and first came to Dayuan to join the Ming army. The Ming army dispatched a total of 180 ships, including 10 lucky ships, and set out from Dayuan on 12 November to Manila.

The soldiers of the Ming army were divided into two parts, the navy had a total of 7,000 people, and the army had a total of 10,000 people, the navy commander was Chen Houfu, and the army was the Ming Royal Marine Corps under the division commander of Gui Shuzhen.

Led by the Portuguese, the army reached the sea off Manila. At this time, the Spaniard was shocked and sent messengers to inquire.

Chen Houfu received the envoy. The messenger asked through the tongue man (translator): "What is the Ming army going to Manila for?" ”

Chen Houfu said with a calm face: "Have you forgotten the events of the thirty-first year of Wanli and the thirty-seventh year of Wanli?" ”

In the thirty-first year of Wanli, the Ming court sent people to Luzon Jiyi Mountain to prospect for mining (because Luzon is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty), the Spaniards had occupied Luzon at this time, thinking that the Ming Dynasty was going to war against the Spaniards, so they collected all the iron tools at a high price, the Chinese were greedy, so that the family was defenseless, the Spaniards ordered the names of the Chinese, gathered together, 300 people entered a courtyard, slaughtered in batches, and killed more than 25,000 people. In the 37th year of Wanli, the Spaniards once again raised their butcher's knives and killed more than 20,000 Chinese because the Chinese merchants protested against the excessive commercial taxes. As soon as the envoy heard this, he understood the reason or excuse for the Ming Dynasty's troops.

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