Chapter 376: Who Keeps Whom in the Dark?

"Master Sun, please entrust you with the promotion of this method of warfare." Yang Gengai was quite satisfied with the exercise.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely do his best." Sun Chengzong agreed.

"Fu Mingde." Yang Gengai shouted again.

"The slave is here." Shi Mingde finished arranging the martial arts performance, and ran to the emperor's side to wait.

"This kind of grenade with a lengthened fuse, you should pay more attention, produce more, and be sure to supply it to the front-line soldiers in sufficient quantities. Yang Reform also instructed, grenades, Yang Reform began to plan, but to defend the city, from high to low, with the help of the protection of the city wall, it can be said to be a sharp weapon to defend the city, however, I really didn't expect that the grenade will have this kind of "obscene flow" play, to be like this, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty will tease the wild boar skin in the future, it is really not difficult, originally thought that the grenade for the cavalry because of its light weight, limited power, but it can be heard, I didn't expect it, now it is not necessary to throw it out, as long as it is thrown to the ground, Then wait for the enemy to run up automatically, so that the grenades now rationed to the cavalry are much larger and more powerful than before, which has to be said to be an unexpected gain.

"Slave and maid obey the order...... Fu Mingde immediately agreed, he has a lot of experience in the production of weapons, and he now likes it more and more for the golden sign of "Made in the Great Interior", and he is even more interested in what the emperor said, sharing some of the credit for pacifying the Dongyu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I've finished watching this martial arts, so let's disperse, and still go back to Wenhua Hall to discuss matters." Yang Gai said to the ministers again. In this military exercise, watching how grenades play lewd streams, Yang Reform is very satisfied, and the military lessons given to the ministers are not in vain, at least let everyone know that there are more and more ways to crack down on the Eastern Prisoners.

Several officials who were originally eager to try and prepare to "do things" heard that the emperor was going back to the Wenhua Palace, and they also rested their energy, so they didn't say anything, but they still waited until they returned to the Wenhua Palace, which was too bright and bright, and it was really not a good place for deliberations.

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Mandarin Palace.

In the middle of September, the sky was already very cool, not as hot as the previous days, that is, at noon, there was still a trace of heat, but when you hid in the tall hall, you could not feel a trace of heat.

When they arrived at the Wenhua Palace, some officials saw the opportunity and immediately brought up the matter of Zheng Zhilong, because what the emperor did was very dangerous, and it was very dangerous to use the pirate leader to reopen the market and reopen the sea to ban taxes, so that the "general backstage" who had been doing Nanyang business was very anxious, if the emperor really mastered the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang with the help of the pirate's power, then the "good days" of doing free Nanyang business for more than 100 years were over, and the emperor had to find an opportunity to collect taxes, and the scholar class was exempted. Tax exemption is the "fine tradition" of the empire, if the tax is paid to the heads of the scholars, it is not tolerated, it must be stopped, even if it is collected by the pirate leader, it cannot be collected by the emperor, the emperor gets the silver, the power will rise sharply, their efforts to limit the imperial power, influence the government and control the world, it will be in vain, and the struggle must be carried on.

"You're saying I shouldn't have treated that pirate leader so much? It's against etiquette, isn't it? Yang Reform asked, on the issue of Zheng Zhilong, Yang Reform has made all preparations.

"Back to Your Majesty, that's exactly the case, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, high up, that pirate leader is a thief, a lowly person, how can Your Majesty do such a condescending thing without regard to his identity? Your Majesty, there is no need to treat that pirate leader so politely, with a seven-grade petty official, he will carry out a holy decree, declare him a five-grade coastal defense guerrilla, and send him away, the southeast is peaceful, why does Your Majesty need to surrender his identity so much to influence him? His Majesty's willingness to recruit him and give him an official position is already a great gift, and it can already make him grateful to Dade......" A minister immediately followed Yang Reform's words.

Yang Gai felt funny in his heart, how much role and value does Zheng Zhilong have, you Ming Dynasty people don't understand, give him a five-grade petty official, and let him go back? Isn't this a return to the mountains? No matter how idiotic you are, you won't be stupid to this extent.

"This Qing family, do you know what the meaning of me working so hard to recruit Zheng Zhilong is so?" Yang Gengai said with a smile. ,

The ministers were puzzled one by one, they couldn't understand what the emperor meant, and they didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd. What is the meaning of recruiting a pirate leader? It's nothing more than to save one side of the war and relieve the suffering of the people of one side, what else can there be?

Those ministers were even more heartbeating, could it be that the emperor meant to accept Zheng Zhilong, so that he could use Zheng Zhilong's hand to control the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang? Is this what His Majesty is going to collect?

A few people are very uncomfortable, this kind of thing, can only beat the side drum, talk to the emperor about righteousness, talk about the ancestral system, talk about the people's interests, talk about anything, but you can't tell the emperor that the sea business is very profitable, the emperor, you have recruited Zheng Zhilong, do you want to accept all of us's silver?

These ministers who said that they couldn't recruit Zheng Zhilong like this were a little unnatural, looking at the emperor's face, his face was full of smiles, and he couldn't figure out if the emperor really knew that the sea business was making money, so he wanted to accept everyone's silver, so he was so happy, if so, he was afraid that he would have to mobilize the ministers of the court to stop this matter, but now, because of the urgency of time, the ministers have not been connected well, how can this be good?

"Hey......, back to Your Majesty, in fact, ......, it's like ......this, there are many winds and waves on the sea, and it is not easy to ...... the boat, Your Majesty, don't care too much about a little pirate leader, Your Majesty can give him an official position for him to live in, it is already very benevolent, solve the problem of bandits in the southeast, and also calm a matter in Your Majesty's heart, and it is enough to show Your Majesty's sanctity, Your Majesty, it is better to focus more on the people and seek more well-being for the people of my Ming Dynasty......" An official who played against the high-level hospitality of Zheng Zhilong, I really couldn't find any excuses, so I could only talk nonsense to the emperor. The emperor hasn't said that yet, so now he can only be deceived and deceived.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister really can't guess what His Majesty means, but this Zheng Zhilong is really not worth His Majesty's big fight, and even promised to exchange Zheng Zhilong for two huge library buildings, Your Majesty, this is really not worth it, Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader, he is not worthy, and he can't stand it......" The other minister is not good to directly oppose the collection of the reopening of the market, and oppose the collection of taxes, because in any case, it is now to discuss Zheng Zhilong's recruitment of security, not to discuss the possibility of the emperor collecting taxes after Zhao'an, It hasn't reached that step yet, and now it's still against the emperor's high-level recruitment of Zheng Zhilong, as long as Zheng Zhilong is kicked away from the emperor's sight, and Zheng Zhilong is casually given a petty official, the emperor wants to collect sea taxes, even if it is a soup, the emperor has not expressed his position clearly, they can't say it clearly, and both sides are in the dark and beating drums.

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty...... Not worth ......"

"Yes, Your Majesty, you really shouldn't ......," the ministers who spoke said in the same way. Anyway, it is to prevent the emperor from contacting Zheng Zhilong, and even more to prevent high-level recruitment of Zheng Zhilong.

Yang Reform looked at it and wanted to laugh, for Zheng Zhilong, a figure who can influence the pattern of the Ming Dynasty and change history, Yang Reform has worked hard, Zheng Zhilong's ins and outs, life and death past, Yang Reform is innocent. The situation and the amount of information involved are naturally not comparable to these Ming Dynasty people, and the cognition and vision of this matter naturally threw off these Ming Dynasty officials a few streets. As soon as these officials moved their butts, Yang Gengai knew what they were thinking. He really wants to control Zheng Zhilong, so that he can get Zheng Zhilong's "family property" into his name in the future, otherwise, he would not have made such a big effort, let alone such a high standard, and would not use a few huge libraries to fish for Lin Zhu in exchange for the support of a group of people in the DPRK and China.

These officials prevented themselves from recruiting Zheng Zhilong at such a high level, not because they were afraid that they would use Zheng Zhilong's hands to extract their taxes? Isn't that the case in history? recruited the pirate Zheng Zhilong, but no one reminded the emperor that there was huge wealth on the sea, and if he mastered Zheng Zhilong, he could control a large amount of wealth, and it was every year, but these officials didn't know? Or do you know but refuse to tell Chongzhen? Even if it's cheap, Zheng Zhilong has to keep Chongzhen in the dark? Even if I didn't know it at the beginning, but later, even the books of the officials of the Ming Dynasty recorded that Zheng Zhilong relied on tax collection and became a huge wealth on the sea, and he had tens of millions of wealth in his hands. No one reminded Chongzhen, who had raised taxes and rebelled against the people; No one reminded Chongzhen that he could fight Zheng Zhilong's idea? Thinking about it, there is only one possibility, the bureaucratic ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of selfish interests, has already thrown the interests of the country behind, and there is no lower limit. ,

Yang Reform will naturally not make this mistake again, Chongzhen in the history of the Ming Dynasty is just an otaku living in the Forbidden City, may not know much about Beijing City, let alone thousands of miles away from the sea, and Yang Reform this otaku is an otaku swimming on the Internet, the amount of information he understands, far from being as thin as Chongzhen in history, treating Zheng Zhilong in this matter, has already had his own plans, those officials in the Ming Dynasty want to beat Yang Reform in the dark like Chongzhen in history, obviously miscalculated.

Several officials wanted to speak and stopped, speaking dodgy, clouds covered the fog, and some of the people in the Wenhua Hall understood, shaking their heads and closing their eyes to recuperate; Some are inexplicable, wondering if there is a problem with their knowledge, or a problem with their ears, why is a sentence so difficult to understand; Some people understand and are thinking about whether to push it. For a while, all the ministers were thinking about where their butts should be moved.

Yang Gengai saw that these disgusting things were almost performed, and he was ready to start performing his own things. smiled: "Actually, my deep meaning is for the well-being of the people. According to Xiong Wencan, Zheng Zhilong has recruited tens of thousands of victims to go to the Great Ryukyu Island to open up ......wasteland, and I thought, I spent tens of millions of taels of silver to immigrate from Shaanxi, spent so many silver taels, used so many manpower and material resources, and only dared to call millions of immigrants, which has exhausted my internal money and consumed countless efforts, but a small Zheng Zhilong can immigrate tens of thousands of disaster victims out in just a few months, so, I am so interested in this Zheng Zhilong, do you understand my deep meaning? ”

Yang Reform smiled and threw down the note, and Wang Chengen hurriedly took it and gave it to the minister to read.

As soon as the ministers heard the emperor's words, they exploded, it turned out that the emperor valued Zheng Zhilong so much, it was for this reason, no wonder the emperor was so interested in this Zheng Zhilong, it turned out that what Zheng Zhilong did was in line with the emperor's wishes, the emperor spent tens of millions of silver to transfer millions of victims out, and this pirate leader with his own strength, actually transported tens of thousands of victims out, so it seems that the emperor takes special care and values this Zheng Zhilong, and it is not an exaggeration,

A few ministers who were still thinking that the emperor was going to collect their taxes were even more frightened, fortunately they didn't say anything about the tax collection just now, otherwise, I'm afraid it would be difficult to finish, but I didn't expect that the emperor valued Zheng Zhilong's place, no wonder, in this way, the matter will be clear, what is the dragon's heart happy? What does it mean to be sympathetic? Here it is.

While the ministers were talking about it, they passed on Xiong Wencan's recital to each other, and they couldn't stop nodding their heads. No wonder the emperor values this Zheng Zhilong so much, and even did not hesitate to promise Lin Zhu two huge library buildings, you must know that the emperor spent tens of millions of taels of silver to immigrate to Shaanxi, but he only dared to claim that he had immigrated to one million. And that pirate Zheng Zhilong only relied on his own strength to immigrate tens of thousands, so obviously, the emperor vigorously recruited him, I am afraid that he will use his power to immigrate The emperor spent tens of millions of taels of silver, and it is nothing to spend some silver to build a library.

The mystery was solved, and the ministers were also smiling. The whole hall is a harmonious atmosphere.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is also Mao Wenlong, the governor of Shandong, and the Shuntian Mansion, saying that there are too many people who have escaped from Liaodong Pass, there are millions of people, and they are excessively gathered in Shandong, gathered in Gyeonggi, and it is not a thing, and they also want to immigrate like Shaanxi, there is no such great force in the local area, so I have to report that I have come here, I hope that I will treat everyone equally, and also find a way for these people to live...... I am dedicated to the people, knowing this news, I also tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep, I can't think of a way, but it's a pity, I am already unable to transport the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi, let alone the millions of people waiting to emigrate in Shandong, Gyeonggi and other places, but as their emperor, I can't ignore it, and I have made a grand wish, 'not to abandon it, Don't give up' is absolutely impossible to break my word, so, this matter, I also have a headache, however, I saw the Fujian governor Xiong Wencan's performance, my heart is also bright, since this Zheng Zhilong has the ability to emigrate, then, I may be able to borrow his strength to find a way to live for my millions of victims, and I will not be their emperor in vain......" Yang Reform said, saying that all the ministers are tears are down, what a good emperor this is For the people, for the sake of the people, he actually gave up his identity as an emperor and deigned to entertain a pirate leader, It's not easy, it's not easy to ......,

"Your Majesty, I am a benevolent monarch and ......," a minister said to the emperor with tears and weeping.

"Your Majesty is really bitter for the people of Li, and ......"

"Your Majesty is really a benevolent lord......"

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The ministers expressed their heartfelt support for the emperor's benevolence, the emperor's painstaking efforts, and the emperor's love for the people. Tears and sycophants don't want money to be sent out. Even those bureaucrats who were worried that the emperor would use Zheng Zhilong's hands to collect taxes were also "moved" by a mess, and tears and snot flowed down their faces.

“…… Hey, I want to work hard, but some Qing family thinks that I have nothing to do, saying that I shouldn't be such a high-level recruiter Zheng Zhilong......" Yang Gengai sighed.

"Your Majesty, it's all our ignorance, it's all our ignorance, it's all our ignorance, and I don't understand Your Majesty's painstaking efforts, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me...... Woo woo woo ...... "Those who opposed the emperor's high-level recruitment of Zheng Zhilong just now began to change the direction of the wind, crying and crying in support of the emperor, the emperor used such a "high, big, and complete" righteousness to recruit the pirate leader, and put Li Min and the disaster victims on his head, who dares to object?" Do you want this righteousness? Without righteousness, what can you do to fight the emperor? At the beginning, the emperor used the righteousness of obstructing the report of the disaster, preventing the imperial court from helping the victims, and putting the victims to death, and borrowed the head of the governor of Shaanxi alive. Now if you can't pinch something in your hand and fight with the emperor, you really have to be careful.

"Hehe, it's good that you can understand my hard work, but I didn't explain it clearly, which led to a misunderstanding between you,...... Hey, I sincerely recruited Zheng Zhilong, I hope Zheng Zhilong can understand my good suffering, can sincerely do things for me, I will definitely not lose him. Yang said with emotion.

"Your Majesty's benevolent heart, which can be seen every day, will definitely be recited for all the people, no, it will be recited for all the people......" The minister sent an impassioned sycophant.

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister guarantees that Zheng Zhilong will be moved to tears when he learns of His Majesty's hard work, and he will definitely serve His Majesty sincerely......"

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"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we should send a messenger as soon as possible to lead the matter, and form two major immigrants from the east and west with Xu Zixian's Shaanxi immigrants, and make every effort to transport the people affected by the disaster in our dynasty, one through the Yellow River, through the canal, through the Yangtze River, to Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake; An immigrating ...... to the Great Ryukyu by sea ship"

Some officials have their brains very fast, and they have quickly realized that since Xu Zixian's million immigrants have allocated 10 million taels of silver, then the immigrants from outside the customs of Shandong and Gyeonggi are also millions of people, and I am afraid that they will have to ask for millions of silver, how big is this fat difference? If you don't fight now, when will you fight?

The ministers immediately reacted, understood the "stakes", and started a heated discussion on the issue of the new immigrant.

Yang Reform looked at his ministers unexpectedly, this is too fast, he hasn't even thought about whether to emigrate, this group of people is now starting to fight for immigration? Shaanxi has spent 10 million taels of silver, I don't know if I can get it, and now I have a Shandong and Gyeonggi immigrants, and I still ask where to collect pants, so that I can become an immigrant.