Chapter 448: The Burden of Changing History

After talking about Zhao'an, Yang Gai put down his mind and chatted with Zheng Zhilong about more things at sea.

Horse-drawn carriages also jingle through the streets of the capital.

Although Zheng Zhilong was mentally prepared for the emperor to know about overseas affairs, when he talked to the emperor about overseas affairs, he realized that the emperor's understanding of overseas was far beyond his imagination, and the emperor knew even more about overseas products, climate, geography, and human relations than he knew more about overseas pirate leaders. The more he talked to the emperor, the more frightened Zheng Zhilong felt, fortunately he was wise, fortunately he was the emperor he followed, if he followed the train of thought before he came, wouldn't it be a dead end?

"Your Majesty is really knowledgeable, and knowing so many things, the grass people are really envious!" Zheng Zhilong wiped his sweat again and again, what the emperor said, at the beginning, he could still talk about it and talk about it, but the more he said it, the more confused he became, the more he couldn't understand it, what the emperor said was beyond the scope of his understanding.

"Hehe, don't be a grass people, grass people, you have now been recruited by me, follow me to do things, you can be called a minister, I will discuss it with the cabinet in two days, see what official position is better, don't dislike the official, some people will have the opportunity to be promoted in the future." Yang corrected.

"The minister understands, it's just ...... Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask, is there really a black and white horse on the whole body as Your Majesty said? And a bird as big as a horse? What's that deer that's two stories tall? Although Zheng Zhilong is known as Jīng's maritime affairs, he still has a very little understanding of things outside the South China Seas, and when he chatted with the emperor, he gradually changed from a chatter to a listener.

"Hehe, yes, there is indeed this kind of animal, which is completely different from the species in my Daming land, Yiguan may want to ask me how I know,...... Hehe, it's actually very simple, Zheng He's trip to the West back then, an official should have heard about it, and he arrived at these places, and recorded the local products, customs, humanities, geography, customs, etc., so I will know so clearly. Yang Gengai said with a smile, if you talk to Zheng Zhilong about Nanyang, Zheng Zhilong can still say a few words, and then expand outward, Zheng Zhilong can't say anything, thanks to the fact that he often watched the animal world before crossing over, fooling Zheng Zhilong, it's no problem, this may be the biggest advantage of modern people over the ancients, and the amount of information is no longer on an order of magnitude.

"The world is so big, there are no surprises! The minister is like a frog at the bottom of a well, and today is an eye-opener. Zheng Zhilong sighed, verifying that what the emperor said was obviously what he saw with his own eyes, if it was just to understand these things from the text, obviously, it was impossible to be so detailed, it was impossible to be so sure, and it was impossible to be so coherent and comprehensible, Zheng Zhilong looked at the emperor's eyes, and was more in awe, the legend that the emperor had the guidance of a god and man, Zheng Zhilong now believes more and more, Zheng Zhilong believes that the emperor must have personally been to these places and seen these things, but think about it is tens of thousands of miles away, what else can be said other than to have a god-man professor in a dream?

The carriage still jingled forward, passing through countless streets and alleys.

A tall building appeared outside the carriage window. Surrounded by a relatively open space, a circular building, and only some windows on the second floor, with green tiles on the top, Yang Reform already knew where he had been.

Yang Reform said: "Can an official be here? Do you know what it is? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has been here before, and it was Lord Lin who led the minister, this is the Grand Theater." When Zheng Zhilong saw this building, his expression changed a little.

"It also has a name, can you know it?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, I know that it is called Tulou, also called Hakka Building, and it is a house where the Hakka people live in Fujian." Zheng Zhilong said this, his expression was obviously much more silent.

"Does the official know why the Hakka building is being built like this?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is to guard against bandits, wild beasts, and robbers." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Is Yiguan a Hakka?" Yang asked again.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister must be counted as at least half of the Hakka family." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Can an official know, what is a Hakka?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is the person who moved from the Central Plains before, and when he arrived in Lingnan, far away from his hometown, he called himself a Hakka." Zheng Zhilong was born in Quanzhou, Fujian, so he naturally knows the origin of this Hakka family. ,

"Can an official know why the Hakka people are far away from their hometowns and away from home to today's Fujian?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, I heard my father say before, I heard that in order to avoid the disaster of war, there are eight surnames into Fujian, dressed in the south, and called eight Fujian, the minister's surname Zheng is also one of them, so I know." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Yes, it is precisely to avoid the scourge of war that your father is erudite." Yang reformed and boasted.

"Back to Your Majesty, my father was a xiǎo official in Quanzhou Mansion before his death." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Hehe, yes, a person who does not forget his own history is a good person,...... If I don't work hard to change, the world of this Han family, the clothes of this Han family, I am afraid that I will lose the country and become extinct, and I can still flee to the south before, but now I am afraid that I will not even have the opportunity to cross to the south......" Yang Gengai sighed worriedly.

"Your Majesty, this ...... shouldn't be! The minister thought that His Majesty had governed the world well enough, and the people were grateful to His Majesty. Zheng Zhilong was shocked when he told the emperor, this is too terrifying, now it doesn't look like he will lose the country!

looked at Zheng Zhilong with a frightened look. Yang Gai said with a smile: "At the level of Yiguan no longer me, naturally I can't see a lot of things, and now it seems to be Qingping in the sea, but has Yiguan thought about it?" If I hadn't had for the relief of tens of millions of taels of silver, and if I hadn't hollowed out my internal money to support the Liaodong War, what would my Ming Dynasty be like? ”

"This! ......" Zheng Zhilong was terrified and painted a terrible scene for himself! Outside the Guan, the Ming Dynasty is still constantly defeated, the loss of soldiers and generals, Shaanxi is a large-scale peasant rebellion, and other places are not to mention a little disaster, such as he suffered such a big disaster in Fujian, but it is not ranked in the Ming Dynasty, this is a real end times! Don't say anything else, just say that he, if he hadn't met the emperor, it is estimated that he would have been fighting while doing the Ming government, while doing trade, at ease, there is like now, for the emperor to take it to death, where will the Ming be so peaceful now?

"Alas, there are strong enemies peeping outside, and there is a continuous sky inside, I, the emperor, am not easy to be! If you don't have a heart, this Han family world, which was finally taken back from the hands of the Hu people, will be lost in my hands. Yang Gengai sighed.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Dongyu is just a subtle Xiǎo trouble, and for my entire Ming Dynasty, it is nothing to worry about!" Zheng Zhilong was sweating wildly, and the emperor told him this, as if he was a cabinet scholar, which made Zheng Zhilong feel pressure, what is wrong with the emperor? Maybe you think too highly of him, right? He is just a pirate leader, even if he is capable, but he is still a pirate leader, and it is a great favor to be able to see the emperor, but he never expected that the emperor would talk to him like this.

"Subtle xiǎo suffering? I'm not afraid to tell an official that this year, there are xiǎo million taels of money in preventing and dealing with Dongyu, does Yiguan still think that Dongyu is a xiǎo trouble? Yang Gengai said with a smile.

Ten million taels? Zheng Zhilong couldn't close his mouth in surprise, and looked at the emperor stupidly, looking incredulous. I thought that he was under pressure to build a ship with one million taels of silver every year in the face of the emperor, but now the emperor told him that in addition to ten million taels of silver for disaster relief this year, he also spent ten million taels of silver on Dongyu, and a xiǎoxiǎo Dongyu is really so powerful? Also, doesn't it mean that this year the emperor has already paid 20 million taels of silver? That's too much, isn't it? All kinds of surprises, all kinds of incredible, all kinds of surprises, made Zheng Zhilong stunned.

"Does Yiguan know why I want to talk to Yiguan about the Hakka family? To deal with the Eastern Captives, I need to consume a huge amount of money every year, plus the huge expenses required by immigration, even I feel very stressed, where does this money come from? Don't be afraid of a joke...... My annual gold and silver are only 100,000 taels. If you can't get the money to deal with the Dongyu that day, the defense line in the north will collapse immediately, and the Han family will fall immediately, and it is not impossible to say that the country will be wiped out, and this is also the reason why I let an official go to see Shanhaiguan, once the Hu people enter the Central Plains, it is the time when my Han family crosses to the south, no, it should be said, there is no chance to cross south, and now Bafu has been by the sea, and further south, it is the sea, so it is said that it was possible to cross the south in clothes back then, but now, There is only one way left to destroy the country and destroy the species......" Yang said.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the emperor stupidly, not knowing what to say, not knowing why the emperor would tell him this. The emperor thought too highly of him, and the high hopes placed on him were too deep, so high that he felt terrible, and he felt terrified that he was just a pirate leader. ,

"That's why I have the determination to dominate the sea, the maritime trade is lucrative, and I can get millions of taels of tariffs every year, and with this silver, I can deal with the Dongyu and support the immigrants. In this way, can an official understand my heart? Yang reformed.

"Chen understands......" Zheng Zhilong breathed a long sigh of relief, it turned out that there was such a deep reason for this, no wonder...... No wonder ......, so it sees, the emperor has always been interested in the huge profits of maritime trade, no wonder his abacus can't be played, the emperor has such a great determination, how can he let himself be the government while monopolizing the maritime trade? Sure enough, I can only choose one, and I can only choose to be an official! According to what the emperor said, the emperor's determination to clean up the pirates and raze the people can be compared with the extinction of the country, so fortunately he took refuge in the emperor, otherwise, he would also become one of the many pirates that the emperor cleaned up.

"I am telling Yiguan this today, just so that Yiguan can understand my heart, understand my difficulties, and share some burden......s for me," Yang said.

"Minister, minister is uneasy...... what His Majesty said is too heavy, the minister's ability is meager, and he may not be able to complete the things that His Majesty has done, and the minister is afraid that the minister will live up to His Majesty's high expectations, and the minister is deeply panicked...... "Zheng Zhilong said seriously. The emperor looked up to him so highly, told him such a serious thing, and talked to him in such a low profile, which made Zheng Zhilong feel great pressure and great fear, can he Zheng Zhilong be associated with the extinction of the country and the species? What the emperor said was outrageous.

"It doesn't matter, although this matter is difficult, but with me to give you guidance, I to give you shelter, and you follow me, I believe that it will be possible. I believe in the ability of an official, and don't be arrogant about it, believe in me, and my vision will not be wrong. Yang Reform encouraged Zheng Zhilong, he did say a little heavily, and put the burden of saving the country and exterminating the species on a pirate leader, who believes this? Who isn't afraid? However, history shows that this burden did fall on the pirate leader and his son.

"Command!" Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief, his face looked better, the emperor said that it was too scary, of course, if he followed the emperor, he didn't care.

"I know that Yiguan is the leader of the merchants of Quanzhou, and I don't let Yiguan do business, and Yiguan also understands why, I gave the merchants of Quanzhou a promise that in the future maritime trade, as long as my sailors go, they can go and be protected by me, and if someone is not good for them, it is not good for me." Yang Reform said again.

"The minister will order, and the minister will definitely bring His Majesty's words." Zheng Zhilong agreed.

Yang Gai looked at this Zheng Zhilong, this is a person who can change the fate of the late Ming Dynasty, he is such a "super high-standard" appeasement, self-depreciating identity and talking to him, I don't know how much effect I can receive, maybe I have told Zheng Zhilong too much, maybe I have too many secrets, but, as a figure who can change history, it is really necessary to raise him to the height of history, and it is indeed necessary to talk to him face-to-face, at a deep level. Gather this person, and let him voluntarily do things according to his own wishes, otherwise, I am afraid that it will not work...... I don't have much time, and I don't have time to slowly cultivate talents, Yang Gai looked at the sky outside the window, prayed that he was doing right, and prayed that Zheng Zhilong could do what he wanted.

"An official! Take your son back in the country of Wa, it's not xiǎo, it's time to start méng, stay in the barbarian land, it's not conducive to the growth of the child, after you take it back, send it to the palace, I send a great Confucian, a good teacher, when I am a little older in the future, I will come to be my shì servant, and I will be a great general in the future, how about it? Yang Reform said again, yes, since Zheng Zhilong has been subdued, how can Zheng Chenggong let it go? Or xiǎo child? It's okay, slowly cultivate from xiǎo.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zheng Zhilong immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and a smile appeared on his already happy face, the emperor said that he would protect the wealth of the Zheng family, it seems that it is quite reliable, his son has followed the emperor since xiǎo, and when he grows up, can he be less rich and noble? The phrase "keeping his family rich" is not empty words.

This grand theater, because the style is the Hakka tulou, so, come to the capital to do business, be an official, study tour of the Hokkien people, to here, will spontaneously come here, burn a stick of incense, worship, this tulou, gradually become the place of sustenance in the minds of the Hakka people in Fujian. ,

Yang Gengai got out of the carriage, burned a stick of incense, and prayed that Zheng Zhilong could do what he wanted, sincerely obey himself, sweep the sea for himself, and let himself receive enough tariffs.

Zheng Zhilong waited for the emperor to burn incense, and also put on a stick of incense, as for what he prayed for, only Zheng Zhilong himself knew.

……

Yesterday, Zheng Zhilong was recruited. Yang Gai was in a good mood, and he slept more comfortably.

I got up early this morning, and the god of jīng was much better than the previous days.

"Otomo, who are you seeing today?" Yang Gengai asked as he dressed, the positivity of this work is back, and it is no longer a painful thing.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's time to see Lord Jiulin Zhulin, the priest of the country." Wang Chengen hurriedly said, the emperor's work of meeting people is full, in order not to make people suspicious, they are all mixed together, and not all of them are members of the imperial party.

"Lin Zhu! Okay, then see you. Yang Reform recruited Zheng Zhilong, according to the agreement at the time, had to be fulfilled to Lin Zhu, Yang Reform did not mind fulfilling the promise to Lin Zhu, but was ready to win over this Lin Zhu, Lin Zhu represents a group of more neutral bureaucrats, many of them are "educators", this group of people, although they also enjoy the privileges of the bureaucratic class, but many of them still regard teaching and educating people, spreading sacred learning as their own ideals, subdividing them, and those bureaucrats who are bent on their own interests are still different, but it is worth treating differently and winning over.

Lin Zhu entered the warm pavilion and saw a jīng god emperor, and hurriedly saluted.

"Excuse me, sit down." Yang Gengai smiled and gestured.

Lin Zhu looked to the side, it was a round stool. Said: "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen." After thinking about it for a while, he sat down, sat up, and leaned forward slightly to show respect for the emperor.

"I promised Shifu that the library can be built." Yang Reform said first.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Zhu stood up again, for the sake of these two library pavilions, he put down his identity and did his best to receive Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader! Now, it's finally come to fruition.

"No need to thank me, Shifu did it, and I will naturally fulfill my promise." Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, then Zheng Zhilong is recruited?" Lin Zhu tried to ask.

"Well, Zhao'an, Shifu's credit is great!" Yang Gai sighed, Zheng Zhilong, a person who can change the history of the Ming Dynasty, deserves such a high-standard appeasement and such a high-standard treatment by himself, as for why, as for the reason, I am afraid that it is clear to me, a latecomer.

"The minister is ashamed and dare not be, serving His Majesty is what the minister should do, the minister has slandered His Majesty's two libraries, and he is already uneasy, Your Majesty said that the minister has made great contributions, and the minister is really afraid!" Lin Zhu was an honest person, although the two libraries were very attractive to him, but he still felt that he was suspected of slandering the emperor, and he was uneasy.

"Hahaha...... Shifu fruit is an honest person, I like it, hahaha, I like to be slandered by people like Shifu, hehehe, no matter what, this is all for the sake of holy learning, all for the sake of spreading knowledge, teaching and educating people, and it is consistent with the concept of the saint." Yang Gengai laughed out loud, this Lin Zhu, as recorded in history, is quite honest, but he is a trustworthy and reliable person.