According to the regulations, the area where the draft is drafted must suspend marriage. In the emperor's beauty pageant for more than half a year to a year, girls can't marry, and guys can't marry daughters-in-law, they all have to wait for the emperor to pick first, as long as they don't get married, they may be picked away. The draft in the eighth year of Wanli seriously harassed the normal life of the people in Beizhi, Hebei, and Shandong.

If you do this kind of thing once, you can still pinch your nose and endure it, but you just did it last year, and you will come again for a while this year, so it is really unbearable for uncles and aunts, although I don't know what the attitude of the officials in the capital is, but the officials in Nanjing are already gearing up and ready to offend Long Yan.

According to the latest news obtained by the newspaper, Ma Yundeng, the imperial historian of Nanjing Zhejiang Province, and Niu Weibing, who was given by Nanjing Like, have all written to admonish. The gentry in the opposition were even more unceremonious, writing articles in the newspaper one after another, silently following the prompts, turning to the chapter of 'Famous Scholars on Politics', and saw three articles criticizing the Wanli Emperor for his young age, following in the footsteps of his father, day and night, indulging in the wine pond and meat forest, and ignoring Junde and government affairs. Although they are all pen names, accustomed to the silence of the chapters and admonitions, it can be seen at a glance that the people who wrote these articles are all people who used to be in the court, and even current officials.

For ordinary people in the southeast, this news with a fragrant atmosphere may attract their attention more, but in Shen Mo's opinion, it is really insignificant compared to the other two.

The second piece of news about the emperor was that Wanli ordered the construction of the border wall of Liaodong.

The so-called side wall is the Great Wall. At the beginning of the country, Emperor Taizu ordered Xu Da to repair the Great Wall of Juyongguan to defend Beijing. However, before the Tumubao Rebellion, the Chinese were confident that they could defeat the Mongol cavalry in field battles, and large-scale construction of border walls was considered unnecessary. But the change of the civil fort was a turning point. After that, it was considered dangerous and unwise to attack Mongolia directly, so it became a national policy to shift the country's border defense policy from offensive to defensive and the construction of the Great Wall. After a hundred years of hard work, a border wall known as the Great Wall of the Great Wall appeared from the bank of the Yalu River in Liaodong in the east to the Jiayu Pass in Gansu in the west, traversing the northern frontier of the empire with a total length of 12,600 li.

For a long time, the Mongols invaded hundreds of times a year, such as the famous 'Gengxu Change', which was the Mongolian cavalry breaking through the Great Wall of Jizhen and Gubeikou and hitting Tongzhou along the Chaobai River. Although the Great Wall has been repaired, it has not had the desired effect.

Until the fourth year of Longqing, after Qi Jiguang served as the chief soldier of Jizhen, he personally patrolled the plug and after careful inspection, he believed that these side walls were not only thin but also decadent, so they could not stop the enemy attack at all. Moreover, although there are some brick and stone platforms on the side wall, these platforms have no connection with each other, and they can neither hide the soldiers nor have a place to store munitions and equipment, and as long as the enemy army climbs the heights and launches their arrows, it will be difficult for the defenders on the platform to hold on, which is not conducive to the battle. So he said: 'The side wall of Jizhen stretches for 2,000 miles, and if there is a flaw, it will be flawed. It is useless to repair the year after the next year. Please cross the wall as a platform and look at the four reaches. The platform is five zhang high, and the void is a three-story platform with 100 people, and the armor and grain are available. Ordered the soldiers to paint the land and build 1,200 first......

This has been the full support of the university scholar Gao Gong, so since the fifth year of Longqing began the arduous wall repair, platform construction project, Qi Jiguang personally supervised the work, the quality of the project requirements are extremely strict. He divided the city wall into one, two, and three, with the two-sided brick-clad city wall as the first-class side wall, the one-sided brick-clad city wall as the second-class side wall, and the stone city as the third-class side wall. At the same time of strengthening the city wall, he built a bunker-like enemy platform, and finally spent three years to rebuild the Great Wall line from Shanhaiguan to Changping, and built 1,000 enemy platforms, building the Beijing division defense line as solid.

Although during the Wanli period, Ji Chengliang's limelight far surpassed Qi Jiguang's, Tuman and Duoyan would rather face Li Chengliang's butcher's knife than run into a wall with Qi Jiguang. Because although the tiger is fierce, there is always a time to nap, and there is always an occasional harvest, but there is not even a crack in the copper wall, and the head can only be touched to break the blood, and it will never be pleased.

And the Wenchens' evaluation of Qi Jiguang is much higher than that of Li Chengliang, on the one hand, because Qi is a Confucian general and his ethics are far better than Li. What's more, compared with the fierce and untamable Liaodong cavalry, Qi Jiguang's method of building the king's eight shells made them feel a lot of threats to themselves.

Therefore, the proposal of ordering Jiubian to follow Qi Jiguang's example and everyone to repair the eight shells of the king together has never stopped, but Shen Mo has reservations about it, and the successful experience of Jizhen has not been promoted to other places. He has his own ideas, because history has long proved that the Great Wall built by the dynasty with huge manpower and material resources has not achieved the desired effect. From a military point of view alone, the Ming army needed to guard a border line that was more than 10,000 miles long, and the military forces were inevitably scattered, while the Mongol army, and later the Manchus, usually came by surprise and attacked them unprepared. Due to the limited means of communication, even if the Ming army was able to be constantly prepared and prepared for danger in times of peace, it could not accurately predict the time and place of the Mongol army's attack, so it was difficult to effectively block and defend against a large-scale surprise attack.

In Shen Mo's view, the best strategy to deal with the enemy in the north is to use both grace and power, to subdue it militarily, to control it economically, to entrap it politically, to slowly domesticate it, and even to use it for the imperial court. The middle strategy is to seize the land of horse breeding, establish a strong cavalry, and at least take the initiative to defend and counterattack, so that the enemy cavalry does not dare to attack lightly. The next strategy is to build the Great Wall for passive defense, which not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also has the worst effect, which can be described as half the effort.

Of course, these truths cannot be broken down like those civilian officials who do not know about military affairs, but talk about it, and silently prevaricate them with only one reason, that is, no money!

Qi Jiguang repaired the Great Wall for three years, and the cost was 6 million taels of silver, which was still built in Jizhen, which had the best foundation and was closest to the capital. And the characteristics of the Great Wall are, 'flaws are all flawed...... but if the nine-sided Great Wall is built according to this standard, it will not be able to stop without 30 million taels.

During the period when Shen Mo was in power, the state treasury never reached the level of 10 million, and often circled between five and six million taels. Since the sixth year of Wanli, the north has generally suffered from drought, and the Great Wall has not been completed.

But the situation changed after the eighth year of Wanli. At the end of August last year, Gu Yun suddenly made a mistake in the military department, saying that the general troops in various localities should not serve for a long time, and in order to prevent the troops stationed on the border from supporting their own troops, they should be given frequent changes of guards. Among them, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang are especially mentioned, they have a lot of power and responsibility to garrison Jiliao, and they have been sitting for more than ten years, even if they are to protect them, they should be replaced.

In fact, this was something that Zhang Siwei had already discussed with the emperor to transfer all the generals under Shen Mo's former curtain one by one, and then replace them with trustworthy generals. Although Zhang Siwei left the court, his henchmen are still there, and Gu Yun is Zhang Siwei's student.

Although the minister argued that the large-scale removal of the general troops of the border towns would lead to the instability of the border defense, the most taboo thing was that the border generals made friends with the internal servants, and he did not dare to say too much. In the end, this book was passed through the court meeting, and the first batch of six general military officers to change the guard was determined, and the top of the list were Qi Jiguang, as well as Ma Fang, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, Liu Xian, the chief soldier of Hetao, Yin Feng, the chief soldier of Datong, Tang Kekuan, the chief soldier of Guangxi, and Li Xi, the chief soldier of Guangdong. Except for Ma Fang, who retired directly because of her old age, the other five were all transferred to the mainland. Although the positions remain the same - they are all the rank of second-class general soldier, in reality they are very different. In the border towns, there are more than 100,000 strong troops under his command, while there are only more than 10,000 soldiers under the command of the general army in the interior, and they only deal with thieves and rebels.

On the contrary, it was Li Chengliang of Liaodong who was saved by the two military secretaries on the grounds that the war in Liaodong was fierce and others were incompetent. And Yao Changzi was also left in the Southeast Navy Division because of a letter captured from the Spaniards.

As soon as this decree was announced, public opinion was in an uproar. The six generals who were replaced are all famous generals who have experienced a hundred battles and can take charge on their own. It is precisely because of these six guards that the Tatar pirates have not dared to offend the border for more than ten years, and the country has always maintained tranquility. But people who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries, especially the Mongols in the north, who have been recuperating for more than ten years, will they become a strong tiger and wolf army again? No one is allowed to do this. How can it be reassuring to suddenly replace almost the entire line of defense and let some inactive successors take on the responsibility of national defense.

Wanli is the most uneasy one, his countermeasure is to build the Great Wall and build the side walls on the nine sides into Jizhen like this, my country will not be solid? Dependence on generals will also be minimized. Therefore, at the same time as the transfer of the six general soldiers, he ordered the military department and the engineering department to send personnel to various towns to inspect and formulate a plan for building the border wall.

In July of this year, the Ministry of War, together with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, submitted a budget, and the emperor was dizzy when he saw it, and it was a full 38 million taels! And if there is no such money in the treasury, even if there is, if the Wanli Emperor, who wants to keep his wealth as his life, takes it out, it is almost like killing him. But after thinking about it, this is something that has not been done silently, if you do it yourself, then what is it?

If you become an emperor again, you have to have some merits that will go down in history! After repairing the Great Wall, all generations will feel their kindness. Thinking about it like this, the emperor finally gritted his teeth and decided, repair! He appointed the first phase of the project as a 3,000-mile border wall in Liaodong Town. According to the plan, this section of the Great Wall will be expanded to 5,000 li, and the construction requirements will be the same as that of Jizhen, and it is initially estimated that 18 million taels of silver will be required.

The newspaper did not publish the budget, but Shen Mo has been the home of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, how can he not know how much it should cost?

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If there is some truth to repairing the edge wall, then the next project will not go anyway.

The third news is that next spring, the Wanli Emperor will come to the Tianshou Mountain Emperor's Mausoleum to pay respects. According to the etiquette system of this dynasty, the heir of the monarch every spring and autumn every year, he has to go to Tianshou Mountain to pay homage to the tomb and hold a sacrifice, which is a common thing, but in the edict issued at the end of last month, Zhu Yijun proposed to visit Tianshou Mountain at the same time as the sacrifice ceremony, and select the foundation of Shou Palace. On the 14th of this month, he sent another edict to the Ministry of Rites, instructing them to make all preparations as soon as possible...... Of course, the sacrifices are all precedents, and the emperor is concerned about the location of his longevity palace.

The Ministry of Rites did not dare to slack off, and the next day they played a question book to report on the preparations for the past half a month, and they had sent the priest Wai Lang Shuling to join Yan Bang, the director of the Dushui Department of the Ministry of Industry, Zhang Bangyuan, the deputy supervisor of Qintian, and Lian Shichang, a Fang Shi who was familiar with the geography of the Jinggi area, to inspect Tianshou Mountain in advance, and had selected three places for reference, namely Tanyuling in the east of Yongling, Xiangziling in the north of Yongling, and Lecaowa in the south of Dongjing.

For the sake of prudence, Wanli decided to send the Duke of Dingguo, Xu Shizhu, and the celebrant and eunuch Zhang Hong to choose each other in advance. At the same time, the Ministry of Rites recommended some officials who were familiar with the art of public opinion to accompany them, so Liang Ziqi, the left senator of the general political envoy, Hu Qingyi, the imperial history of the capital, and others who knew geography and also joined the ranks of choosing the foundation of Shougong.

This year, the Wanli Emperor was not yet twenty years old, and the world was deeply puzzled that this young emperor paid so much attention to the construction of his mausoleum in the prime of his youth. At that time, there was the imperial history of Deng Ben, feeling that the people were suffering from heavy labor at that time, and suffered from a great drought, it was suggested to postpone the construction, and the newspaper published his chapter slightly saying: "The temple has been on the throne for 17 years before this proposal, and those who are late for several years will be cautious." The emperor is prosperous in the spring and autumn period, and the power of the people must be used at the time, the poem says: "I have the same crop" to enter the public service, and I will do my own things. For such Confucianism, Wanli adopted the method of staying in China and not reporting it, but people in the newspaper industry were pervasive, and they actually obtained a copy of the chapter and published it.

For the emperor's thoughts, he is silent but he is more clear, otherwise, the best known person in this world is often the sworn enemy? Through getting along with the emperor all year round, he found that at the age of Wanli, he had a more thorough view of people's life and death, or was more negative in this regard. He estimated that the emperor was influenced by his father and ancestor...... Emperor Jiajing fasted every day and begged for immortality at night, but in the end he couldn't escape death. Emperor Longqing died young, and died six years after ascending the throne. Therefore, before Wanli is weak, he often sighs that life is short. That's why the emperor will devote his daily energy to the pursuit of pleasure in life and the construction of life after death.

There is another layer, that is, the Jiajing Emperor, who was infinitely afraid of death, built a Yongling Tomb for himself before his death, which is second only to Changling in scale, and the structure is fine and magnificent, and it is crowned in the tombs. The Longqing Emperor was not a mausoleum during his lifetime, and hurriedly built a burial after his death, not only the regulations were biased, but the address was not selected, so that in the early years of Wanli, the incident of the mausoleum subsidence occurred, and had to be repaired again, so the Wanli Emperor would be able to make his own auspicious soil when he could call the shots.

However, this is not a common people's grave, and the enormity of the project and the huge cost are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Emperor Jiajing's Yongling was repaired for more than ten years, spending tens of millions of dollars, draining the treasury, and collecting taxes for more than ten years. 'Jiajing Jiajing' is clean, and most of the scolding is caused by the construction of Yongling.

Even if the so-called sloppy Zhaoling costs a huge amount of four million taels, but judging from Wanli's character and such an urgent performance, he will definitely not make do with his father, but will be on par with Naizu-

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