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"Your Majesty, the local land inventory in the eight southeastern provinces seems to have caused a lot of public resentment, and many newspapers have pointed out that the land inventory is a bad government...... Is this new deal too urgent? In addition, Vietnam has always been our Ming vassal state, and now the Ming Dynasty has joined forces with France to attack Vietnam, is it a bit too much? ”

When a ray of morning light sprinkled into the dormitory of Qianqing Palace, Luo Xiangmei whispered, Zhu Jishi looked at his frowning wife and gently took her into his arms.

The estrangement between their husband and wife seems to have disappeared. Some time ago Maria. Clementina gave birth to a daughter named Isha, Luo Xiangmei is also very fond of this mixed-race doll, and almost spends all day in the Qianqing Palace teasing this very cute little guy, and Maria. Clementina also looks like a sister. Naturally, she also won the favor of Emperor Zhu - Luo Xiangmei is not the age of old pearl yellow, and she is no worse than Maria when it comes to beauty.

Although Luo Xiangmei once took action to rectify the problem of interfering in politics in the harem, she, the queen, and Maria, the imperial concubine, were obviously exceptions. These two women were very keen to give Emperor Zhu some political and diplomatic advice. Now the Ming Empire is three big things.

The first is to check the land of the eight southeastern provinces, this matter was not promoted by Emperor Zhu's decree, but the eight provinces spontaneously, the purpose is naturally to investigate the Ueda in the gentry and wealthy families into the lower field, and at the same time investigate the lower field and middle field of the small people and small households into the upper field! At the same time, he also wanted to find out the land hidden from the hands of the small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants who had little power to expand the tax base—there is no doubt that Emperor Zhu also wanted to collect more taxes now. The industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty has kicked off, and there are many places that need government investment, such as railways, ports, telegraphs, postal and other projects, and the Yellow River and Huai River control projects are also about to be launched, the navy will be expanded, and the northeast will be developed, and funds will be prepared for the future war with the Russian Empire. Therefore, Emperor Zhu also had a positive opinion on the actions of the eight provincial governments to check the land. However, from the standpoint of the broadest masses of peasant brothers, the land inventory is certainly a bad government, and it is not surprising that there is some resentment among the people.

The second major event was the Sichuan boycott movement, which was held in the autumn of the third year of the liberation. The Ming court announced the postponement of the Sichuan imperial examination. On the surface, it seems to be giving in to the Sichuan scholars, but in fact, it is to put them aside. However, the Sichuan boycott incident did not stop because of this, and then there was a "Six Gentlemen's Petition" incident, and six Sichuan Shilin leaders were ready to organize a group to petition Emperor Laozi in Yingtianfu. He also played out the slogan of "protecting the name of the religion, prohibiting heresies, and stopping the new deal." They didn't get to the end of the day. However, it has already stirred up the situation in the eight southeastern provinces. There was almost a big debate in the newspapers. There were those who supported the "six gentlemen" and those who opposed the "six gentlemen," and all kinds of opinions were turned into impassioned words that were published in newspapers and periodicals of all sizes in the eight southeastern provinces. Inside the teahouses and wine shops in Yingtian, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other places. They were all talking about the "Six Gentlemen's Petition," which was really lively, and the sales of all kinds of newspapers increased greatly, and even the newspaper industry in the eight southeastern provinces also made a lot of money.

The third major event was the use of troops against Vietnam, and the use of troops to fight a war was a major national affair in theory. However, now that the Ming Dynasty has a strong military and has united with the Western powers of France, no one in the court thinks that they will lose the war, so not many people take the invasion of Vietnam to heart. And in fact, the main force of the Ming Dynasty is not their own regular army, but the Dali warlord Du Wenxiu's H civilian armed forces, even the soldiers with their families a total of more than 200,000, the mighty set off from Dali, Yunnan, and walked a month to Zhennan Pass, at this time has swaggered into Vietnam, and the Ruan Dynasty's tofu scum army fought a few battles that are said to be very fierce, and tens of thousands of people died on both sides.

Du Wenxiu reported that he killed 100,000 Vietnamese soldiers! Self-inflicted damage of 12,000. However, the General Staff didn't believe it at all, so they vaguely reported to Zhu Jishi that they had killed tens of thousands of enemies and suffered more than 10,000 losses. Emperor Zhu didn't care too much, and he didn't expect to rely on Du Wenxiu to destroy Vietnam, as long as he could occupy the rich Red River Plain in northern Vietnam, he would complete the task.

At the same time that Du Van Xiu attacked northern Vietnam, the Sino-French combined fleet carried less than 6,000 troops and went straight to Hue, the capital of Vietnam. At the end of October, there was a fight with the Vietnamese naval division off the coast of Da Nang, and the result was naturally no suspense, and on October 10, the Chinese and French forces occupied the fortress and port of Da Nang, but the commanders of the Chinese coalition forces were divided over the direction of the next military operation. Commander of the French Expeditionary Force, Riegaud. Vice Admiral de Genua hoped to occupy Cochinchina, Vietnam's rich grain-producing region, while the commander of the Ming expeditionary force, Zhang Jiaxiang, believed that the Vietnamese capital Hue should be encircled by victory, and as long as the Vietnamese court was captured, the whole of Vietnam could be forced to submit, and then slowly encroach on it, without immediately occupying the entire territory of Vietnam. However, the French were clearly in a hurry, and in early November they divided their forces south to attack Saigon.

At the same time, the envoy Nguyen Phuc Hong Gi, sent by the emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, Nguyen Phuc Hong Yi, to Guangzhou and asked the current governor of Guangdong, Zhao Daheng, to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. Many Confucian ministers thought that it was wrong for Vietnam not to submit to the Ming Dynasty at the first time, but they did not stand on the side of the Manchus and embarrass the Ming Dynasty, but just watched the changes in the Central Plains. And now they have learned that the Ming should not continue to persecute and attack Vietnam, let alone unite with the Western power France to fight Vietnam. Some people even published articles in newspapers putting forward suggestions for aiding Vietnam to resist France......

"Queen, it's better not to ask about the affairs of the foreign court, and I want to trouble you to think more about the affairs of the lady and the queen. In addition, the control of harem maids and maids also needs to be more careful. ”

Zhu Jishi and his wife always have some "generation gap", and after instructing her to do something, he got up and changed his clothes, had breakfast, and walked to the Jinshen Palace. Now there are horses and no sedan chairs in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Zhu is not used to being carried, let alone being carried by a group of women. And he doesn't want his women to not even walk a few steps all day long, and they all become fat women one by one.

Walking in the large and empty palace, Emperor Zhu's heart swelled with a feeling of loneliness. The emperor was originally alone, and Zhu Jishi, the emperor, and most of the ministers and concubines even had a big generation gap. Naturally, I felt even more isolated.

He knew that there were almost no courtiers and officials who were of the same heart as him, whether they were born in the Heaven and Earth Society or serious scholars, or even those officials who had received a little Western-style education, they were actually Confucian scholars in their bones. There is some rejection of Western things, and the enthusiasm to learn from the West is not very high, the difference is only whether to listen to him, the emperor, and whether he has common interests!

Therefore, Emperor Zhu could only fight and win over the ministers and officials and the entire scholar class, and it was useless to reason with reason, so he had to lure them to profit and threaten them on the other.

Now the benefits that should be given have been given, but the benefits can only buy the real villain, and they may not be useful to gentlemen or hypocrites. The "six gentlemen" who are now coming to Ying Tianfu are probably not something that can be bought by a little profit. It seems that it is time to show the might of the dictatorship of a Ming bourgeoisie!

When he arrived at the Jinshen Palace, the important ministers of the imperial court had already gathered there, and after the audience ceremony, Zhu Jishi didn't talk nonsense, took a deep breath and said: "How is the Sichuan scholar boycott incident handled?" Have all the scholars gathered in Chengdu dispersed? ”

"It's not gone yet." Zuo Zongtang said, "The report of the Sichuan Governor Yamen transferred by the Jingzhou Mansion (Sichuan has not yet received a telegram), and now there are tens of thousands of scholars gathered in Gongyuan Street in Chengdu, who are not satisfied with the postponement of the Sichuan imperial examination, and ask the imperial court to use eight shares to take scholars and hold the Sichuan imperial examination within the year. ”

Zhu Jishi snorted coldly: "Is the imperial court in charge or these scholars in charge?" Sichuan province gave 35,000 black gauze hats, is it not enough? They have to decide what to test! They are openly challenging the authority of the imperial court! Send an edict to Han Si, the governor of Sichuan, and Xiang Rong, the chief soldier, and let them send troops to suppress them! (To be continued......)