Chapter 827: Where is the Road (I)

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In the golden rape field, Shen Ge Lao spared no effort to fool his cousin.

Although Shen Jing was vigilant, he had no choice but to let Shen Daguan 'shed only two lines of tears in his life, one was a beauty and the other was an official', and he was scratched by Shen Mo steadily. Although he knew it was a pit, he still asked like a curious baby: "How high can you rise?" Is it three levels in a row? ”

"It's the same knowledge to be promoted to three levels in a row," Shen Mo said with a disdainful face: "You don't like to be cold, I can't take it yet." ”

"So, level four?" Shen Jing swallowed his saliva and said, the fourth level is the prefect, that is the official he dreamed of becoming.

"Guess again." Silent or shaking his head.

"Level five?" Shen Jing's heart beat faster.

"A little bit of fun, okay?" Shen Mo still shook his head.

"Level six?" Shen Jing's tone changed.

"Can't you guess two more levels?" Silence gives a hint.

"Level eight?" Shen Jing asked tremblingly.

"Yes." He nodded with a silent smile.

"It turned out to be a pastime for me," Shen Jing calmed down at this time: "Even if the emperor wants to pull my seven-grade tribute official into a third-grade official, it is absolutely impossible." ”

"Anything is possible." Shen Mo smiled and said, "Do you think that with my identity, you will make such a joke?" ”

"How is that possible?" The corners of Shen Jing's mouth said: "Brother, brother, I have asthma, and athlete's foot, and I have hemorrhoids again recently, you can't fool me." ”

"That's good, I'm the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, the Taibao, the Dongge University Scholar, the Military Department, and the Criminal Department," Shen Mo put away his smile and said: "Now I will talk to you officially, as long as you agree to the arrangement of the imperial court, you will be directly promoted from the seventh rank to the third grade, how so?" ”

"My mother......" Shen Jing sat on the ground with his feet weak, and turned the robe worth twenty taels of silver into a mud pocket.

Shen Mo smiled and squatted down and said, "What's the matter with sitting on the ground?" Agree or disagree? ”

"Why do I feel so unsure?" Shen Jing said with a vigilant face: "Can you tell me first, where are you going to send me?" ”

"A place you hear about it all the time." Shen Mo whispered: "Luzon, Manila." ”

"Scared, I said, how can there be such a cheap thing?" Shen Jing lù showed such an expression, and shouted: "That is the country of Java in the ancient books, farther than the ends of the earth, more wild than Guangxi and Annam, natives, fierce beasts, poisonous insects, scorching heat, and hurricanes, but whoever goes, nine deaths and one life, you just give me a product, and you have to have a life!" ”

Shen Mo played with a daisy on the ground, smiled and listened to him, and when Shen Jing said that he was tired, he asked, "Then do you want to go?" ”

"Don't go, don't go...... Shen Jing's head shook like a drum: "How good the huāhuā world in Shanghai is, I'd better stay honest." ”

"If you don't want to, forget it, I'll find someone else." Silently patting the dirt on his hands, he stood up.

"I'm sorry." Shen Jing said with genuine guilt.

"It's okay...... "Shen Mo shook his head indifferently and said: "This is an eighth level in a row, if you do a good job, you can still live in an official house, are you still worried that no one wants to go?" ”

"Official, official residence?" Shen Jing almost swallowed his tongue and said, "What kind of errand is this, to make the imperial court bleed so heavily?" ”

"Hehe......" Now it was his turn to be silent and reserved, and he turned around and walked aisles: "You don't do it again, why do you ask so much?" ”

"Don't, don't worry......" Seeing that he was about to walk away, Shen Jing was in a hurry, and reached out to hug Shen Mo's tuǐ and said: "Let's talk again, talk about ...... again"

Shì Wei, who was in the distance, was shocked into a cold sweat when he saw him actually 'attacking' his own pavilion elder, if it weren't for Shen Mo just standing between them and Shen Jing, I am afraid that there would be several projectiles to greet him immediately.

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Seeing the guards nervously leaning over, he smiled bitterly and waved his hand, signaling them not to come.

After the alarm was lifted, he kicked Shen Jing angrily and funny and said, "You are not an official anymore." ”

Shen Jing sneered and said, "You have to experience the sourness of a ten-year county order...... Ten years, you have become the prime minister, and I am still spinning on the seventh grade. "Shen Mo knows his cousin too well, in order to fight for a mere seven-grade black yarn, this rich man can take the initiative to ask Ying to send an envoy to Japan to negotiate with Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese bandits who was still generally regarded as 'murderous and murderous' at that time. So now, ten years later, facing the three products yòuhuò, and instead of being born and dying, but directly going to become an official, how can he refuse?

"So, what do you want to do?" Shen Mo squinted.

"Let's talk about what to do first." Shen Jingdao.

"I can't say yes until I say yes." Silent and hateful smiled: "It's confidential, you know. ”

"Okay, okay, I agreed......" Shen Jing said with a depressed look of 'you are always like this': "From xiǎo to big, you eat me to death, every time...... Pull me along. He held out his mud-stained hand.

"Who let us be brothers," Shen Mo stretched out his hand to hold him indifferently, shook him vigorously, pulled him up and said: "Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers, at the critical moment, if you don't help me, who will help me." ”

"That's still true." Shen Jing patted his ass and stood up: "Now, you can talk to me." ”

"Okay, let's talk as we go." Silent walked with him in the yellow huā of the ground, and explained the truth of the matter. It turned out that after a series of fierce battles, from the Luzon king Suleiman down, his royal family members, civil ministers and military generals were also dead...... As for how they died, naturally there is no need to go into detail, in short, it is clean and neat. But the country could not be left without an owner for a day, so with the support of the Nanyang Company and more than 20,000 Chinese in Manila, a puppet king named Raja Ejman was elected.

Immediately after the new king ascended the throne, he petitioned the imperial court to canonize him, and sent a governor and garrison to exercise the right to rule over the region.

Speaking of this, Shen Jing had questions: "Since the national letter was handed over to Beijing in October last year, why have four months passed, and it has not been published in the Di newspaper?" ”

"As soon as I came, the government was turbulent." Shen Mo was a little embarrassed and said: "So, the party dispute is wrong." Hurriedly took the next one: "Second, Zhao Zhenji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is not interested in this, and is only willing to recognize his vassal status, and does not agree to the rest of the requests...... So I have to put it on hold for now. ”

"Oh, after talking about it for a long time, it's still not a score." Shen Jing said suddenly.

"The reason why I told you now is because there is a score now?" On his silent face, there was no trace of words: "The situation has changed, Zhao Zhenji has left the Ministry of Rites, and the new Shangshu Gao Yi of the Ministry of Rites supports this matter." In fact, what he said was subtle, the key is that Xu Ge Lao, who was not interested in expanding the territory, finally left.

Once the high arch returns, it will inevitably need several exciting events to boost morale and establish prestige. And Luzon gave him a big gift silently - this opened up a large territory for the Ming Dynasty without a single soldier...... Although it is an overseas enclave, after all, it was a vassal state that was subordinated to Emperor Chengzu back then, and now it is renaturalized by the Ming Dynasty, and its significance is not shameless.

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"What the people in the imperial court want is a false name, and the final result must be to accept the invitation of the king of Luzon to set up a Luzon governor with the rank of shìlang in the Sanpin Military Department, and symbolize the xìng faction of one or two thousand garrisons." In the court, Shen Mo didn't need to explain Shen Jing too much, so he simply said: "And what we focus on is practical benefits...... Don't look at it, they don't take Luzon seriously, but as long as this governor uses the right people, he can revitalize this overseas territory that is equivalent to three Zhejiang! ”

"Why did you choose me?" Shen Jing also lù solemn sè, he heard the importance between Shen Mo's words.

"First of all, the situation in Manila is very similar to when you first arrived in Shanghai." He said silently: "They are all thriving and important port cities, but the difference is that the situation is more complicated and there are more difficulties to face. Although there are many officials in the Ming Dynasty, only you have the experience to deal with such a complex situation and know how to lead it to good development. ”

"You let me manage a city, and this can barely be difficult." Shen Jing frowned and said, "But being the governor of a country is far beyond my ability." ”

"Hehe, you can give me Manila first." Shen smiled silently: "Outside of Manila, there is Nanyang Company in charge. ”

Hearing this, Shen Jing's eyes appeared hesitantly and said, "What kind of city do you want me to build Manila?" "Others don't know, but he knows something about the Nanyang Company, and knows that it is a very complex organization, and it is by no means a traditional chamber of commerce, but an armed chamber of commerce similar to the East India Company of the Westerners.

"Just one word." Shen Mo stood and looked at him, and said word by word: "A city suitable for Chinese to live in." ”

"What about Luzon," Shen Jing asked again.

"A country suitable for Chinese habitation." Although the silence is calm in tone, the fanaticism between the lines cannot be concealed no matter what.

"......" Shen Jing was silent, he already had a premonition of what he was going to do...... He was in the most open Shanghai, and he still knew something about Luzon, which was located on an important shipping route, and knew that there were many tribes and xiǎo states living there. If you want to make the Chinese live a comfortable life, there is only ...... He didn't dare to think about it.

Seeing Shen Jing's face turn pale, Shen Mo knew that he had not seen the wrong person, if Shen Jing had a relaxed face until now, he would immediately change his mind and not let his cousin go to Luzon to die.

He stretched out his hands, held Shen Jing's shoulders tightly, and said in a sincere tone: "Brother, there are some things that can't be said too clearly, but there are other things that I can tell you clearly." After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "Look at the two Han Dynasty, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties, why can't any of the great unified dynasties of my Han people last for a long time, and they can't escape the fate of destruction?" The longest number of qi, at most about two hundred years, will be luàn like a cluster, the decline is fully revealed, and the years that follow are just lingering and waiting for death. ”

Shen Jing shook his head, this was a question he could figure out. I could only listen to Shen Mo decompose: "There is only one reason, four words 'land annexation'!" , the land annexation is fast, the end is fast, the land annexation is slower, the end is slow. Up to now, only the royal family and dignitaries who account for less than 2% of the country's population have been killed; However, it owns at least six to seventy percent of the country's land, which has exceeded the level of the Tang and Song dynasties, and is still intensifying...... If this continues, at most a few decades, it will be time for the world to be big, and the people who can't go on will rise up. As he spoke, a bitter smile hung on the corner of his mouth: "If there is no accident between the two of us, we should still be able to see it." ”

This was the first time that Shen Jing had heard his brother, the prime minister of a country, utter such a disturbing prophecy. couldn't help but say dryly: "Then how to solve it?" ”

"Of course it will be resolved." He nodded silently and said, "People of insight in the court already have a sense of crisis. Although they are full of wealth and clever ideas. But there is only 'a pot to cook rice, there is no way to set up a pot to cook the truth', so there is no way to 'except to fight the annexation and seize the food'. ”

"I can understand that." Shen Jing nodded and said: "Nothing else, more than eighty percent of Shanghai's cultivated land is owned by those dignitaries, of which Xu Ge's hometown accounts for more than half, and I am the county commander, but I have no way at all." ”

"That's exactly what happened." Shen sighed silently and said: "In a closed, predominantly agrarian social environment, no reform can succeed. It's like a person can't strangle himself without the help of external forces. Land annexation, the profit is all dignitaries, if you want him to spit out the ròu in his mouth, he dares to take your life! Even if he is an emperor, he can't deal with the entire vested interest group! ”

When Wang Anshi changed the law, he was also opposed by the opposition because of many measures that obviously benefited the country and the people. Song Shenzong was very puzzled, and asked the veteran minister Wen Yanbo: "Since you also admit that this is good for the country, why do you oppose it?" ”

Wen Yanbo may be old, or he may be too lazy to say some high-sounding words, and slowly replied: "Your Majesty, you are sharing the world with scholars, not with the common people......

This sentence can be a footnote to the failure of Wang Anshi's reform, and it can also be a note to the failure of all reforms.

So Shen Mo is not optimistic at all, and he will find another way for the next reform.

It's not that he is better than others, but he has a vision and insight beyond the times, and he knows that today's China actually has a way to go, but ...... The right time and place are only owed to people-

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There are at least two more shifts today. I'm about to catch up, and the gods are crazy about asking for tickets!! We can't rest anymore!!

Who still has a ticket, who still has a ticket!!!