Chapter 1118: Old Enemy
After Tang Yi handed over all government affairs, he didn't have any nostalgia, only took his family, loaded two carts of books, and left the capital. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
On the day Tang Yi left Beijing, it was still the third watch in the middle of the night, and countless torches appeared everywhere in the capital, one after another, and slowly the entire capital was shrouded in red light.
At this moment, Wanli didn't sleep, he stood at the highest place in the palace, raised his eyes and looked out, every bit of fire, like a grain of charcoal, fell to his heart, and gradually burned and roasted one of his hearts.
Wanli walked around irritably, thundering, angry, frightened, but helpless.
The scene that I didn't want to see appeared the most, although it had been estimated before, but when Tang Yi resigned and left suddenly, the movement was too big.
From this moment on, Tang Yi is a truly morally perfect person, and he is no longer impeccable.
Meritorious service, Tang Yi has been busy in the north and south for more than 20 years, and the country has been in charge for 15 years, opening up the territory, refreshing the rule of officials, saving prestige, and now the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty is Tang Yi's own work.
Liyan, Tang Yi wrote three books of Tang Xue, published "General War", presided over the editing of "Ming Accounting Minutes", wrote "Logic", reinterpreted the study of mind, I dare not say that the works are equal, but each book has created a discipline. Moreover, Tang Yi introduced mathematics into the management of yamen at all levels. The evaluation of officials no longer relies on wind evaluation and scholarly discussions, but really looks at the growth of the economy, the income of the people, the public security situation, the implementation of national policies, and the development of education. Although it is said that the numbers are not perfect, at least this is a relatively reasonable evaluation system, and the civil servants and officials are more and more recognized, and the reasonableness of the evaluation also greatly restricts the wanton behavior of those in power.
Lide, retired after success, resigned from all positions, and had no love for stacks. Tang Yi is not one of those hypocritical literati who shouts about the dung of his fame, but is full of thoughts of becoming famous. He has truly reached the pinnacle of power, and is even qualified to do so. But after ten years, Tang Yi strictly abides by his duties. There has never been a monopoly on power, and everything is based on the collective opinion of the cabinet, whether it is the appointment of personnel or the implementation of new policies, all of them are open and honest, which makes people impeccable.
Meritorious, virtuous, and immortal, these are the standards of a saint!
Throughout the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the closest figure is Wang Yangming, and then push forward, Zhu Xi, the master of science, his doctrine has ruled for hundreds of years, but his morality is too bad, and he has no achievements in politics, so he is actually far from the standard of a saint.
Let's go a little too far, how about the two saints of Confucius and Mencius? They only traveled around the world, peddling ideas of statecraft, but in the end they achieved nothing, only wrote a few books, and only after a few hundred years were they revered as sages. When he is really alive, he has few merits.
Tang Yi is different, he not only has books, but also practice, and has really created a generation of prosperity. It truly achieves the unity of knowledge and action.
At this moment, Tang Yi officially surpassed Wang Yangming and became a benchmark for generations of readers, an unattainable peak!
The people of the capital, helping the old and the young, civil and military officials, farmers and businessmen, and even the envoys of various countries gathered in the capital, and the merchants of the world, have taken to the streets.
The young children snuggled up to their fathers, listening to them tell that this market was built by Tang Yi when he was the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, this cement pavement was built by Tang Yi in the second year of Longqing, the high-rise building was built in the second year of Wanli, and the school was built with the funds of Yuanfu......
One by one, such as a number of treasures, everyone suddenly discovered at this moment that in the past ten years, so many changes have taken place in Daming, and everything stems from the Longwan New Deal led by Tang Yi.
How fortunate they are to witness the earth-shaking changes, how lucky they are to witness a moment in history!
"Motosuke's carriage has arrived!"
I don't know who shouted, everyone looked for prestige, and sure enough, there was a sound of horses' hooves, the escort team opened the way in front, and Tang Yi's carriage followed from behind.
Everywhere he passed, the people were deeply troubled - Tang Yi had officially requested the abolition of the kneeling ceremony five years ago, but since the Yuan Dynasty, the kneeling that has been in use for hundreds of years is so easy to change, and there are still widespread kneeling in the world, and some people even shout, if you don't kneel and kowtow, what is the use of this knee!
When Tang Yi left, his request instantly penetrated into the hearts of the people, and no one dared to make irresponsible remarks.
When Tang Yi's carriage left, people slowly raised their heads, with tears in their eyes, and shouted loudly: "Yuanfu is good!" ā
"Have a nice trip, sir!"
"Don't forget the big guy, sir!"
"Go back to the capital often!"
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All kinds of cries, one after another, Tang Yi sat in the carriage, he didn't lift the curtain, just closed his eyes to recuperate. But his mind was in turmoil, and he couldn't listen to anything.
He is very worried that after decades of being in charge, after coming down, he will be like many retired old people, infected with the terrible retirement syndrome, and sign off on the menu at home without document review...... Soon he felt that he would not be so bored, and he had many hobbies, such as returning to his hometown, listening to Kunqu opera, listening to Pingdan, raising flowers, planting grass, fishing, writing books, and enjoying family fun.
However, what really worried Tang Yi was the court situation, he used his own Zhishi to give the imperial power a fatal blow, which can be said to be extremely beautiful. However, he was facing a monster that had been cultivated for thousands of years, and it was unknown whether he could be completely killed.
And just the day before he left Beijing, Lu Yi, the commander of the capital's internal guard and the former governor of Jinyiwei, suddenly died violently.
Lu Yi, as the son of Lu Bing, has been in charge of Jinyiwei for two generations, and they know too many secrets and are hated by too many people.
Although Jinyiwei has been reorganized for ten years, there are still many people who hate the Lu family, and Lu Yi's sudden death did not cause too many storms. But Tang Yi knew in his heart that in fact, this was the revenge of the royalists, who took revenge on the failure of the cabinet competition and used assassination to eradicate their opponents.
Coincidentally, in the ninth year of Wanli, Zhu Shitai, the Duke of Chengguo, also died, and Zhu Yingzhen took over the title of Duke of Chengguo, but Zhu Yingzhen was weak and incompetent, and his health was very poor, so he could not take on the big responsibility.
The right side of the Son of Heaven has fallen into the hands of the British Duke Zhang Yuande.
These two personnel changes are very unusual, but the response of the entire civilian clique can be described as sluggish and confusing.
The internal guards of the capital and the right bi of the Son of Heaven are actually in charge of Wanli's safety.
Tang Yi is in Japan, and Wanli's life is in Tang Yi's hands, but Tang Yi left, and no one in the cabinet has the weight to continue to control Wanli, so there is only a regression, at least let Wanli feel some security, so as not to live in fear all day long.
This is a strategic concession by the civil official group, everyone hopes that Wanli can accept it when it is good, and not continue to seize power, but no one is sure that Wanli will give in easily, sooner or later, the two sides will still have a showdown, without Tang Yi presiding, whether the civilian official group can win this hard battle, it is really hard to say......
Of course, Tang Yi doesn't need to care about these things for the time being, he has been busy for many years, and he was finally able to relax, leave the capital, get on the boat in Tongzhou, and go straight to Tianjin.
In the past few years, the capital has continued to expand outward, and Tongzhou has been together with the capital, connecting into a large area. A railroad carriage was built in the middle, and there were large carriages drawn by horses at regular intervals every day, going back and forth between the two places. Recently, research is underway to install a steam engine on a vehicle, and with a steam engine drive, the whole traffic will change dramatically.
At that time, most of the canals between Tianjin and Beijing will be abandoned, and Tang Yi may be the last guest. The ship went smoothly and rushed all the way to Tianjin.
At that time, Tang Yi did the Shuntian patrol and presided over the opening of the sea in Tianjin, and from that moment on, Tianjin embarked on the road to prosperity.
During his reign, Tang Yi deliberately divided the functions of the capital and positioned Tianjin as the economic center of the north. In the past ten years, Tianjin has become more and more prosperous and unstoppable.
Tianjin Guanyin has expanded its capital several times, and has almost stood alongside the transportation bank, becoming the financial center of the north. After Tianjin developed, schools were widely set up to develop education. In the second year of Wanli, Beiyang University was funded by Beiyang Company to build in Tianjin.
Compared with many schools in the southeast, Peiyang University is more professional and systematic, and has abandoned the concept of learning and excelling, and their students are no longer for the sake of becoming officials, but are truly oriented to the whole society.
Astronomy, Calendar, Mathematics, Navigation, Military Industry, Physics, Chemistry, Philosophy, Law, Commerce...... Many disciplines brought together some of the best scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and the steam engine was the result of their joint development with some schools in the southeast.
In Tianjin, Tang Yi really smelled the breath he wanted, the capital was layered, full of bureaucrats, everything was aimed at seeking stability and peace, and no fault was a great achievement, but it was inevitably lifeless and suffocating.
But when I arrived in Tianjin, it was completely different, the scholars here did not have such a strong utilitarian heart, and they did not put all their energy on being officials.
There are more than 10,000 knowledge in the world, not the way of Confucius and Mencius, the learning of officials is the best, everything is worth studying, exploring, they exhaustively study the truth, trying to use their own knowledge, to change the world.
Tang Yi specially consulted a group of young people who study mathematics, to Tang Yi's surprise, they have come up with the theory of calculus, Tang Yi is clear, since the emergence of calculus, mathematics is really closely combined with production, and will soon create unparalleled value!
Never underestimate the ingenuity of the Chinese people, all these years of hard work have finally blossomed.
Since leaving the capital, the smile on Tang Yi's face has not been broken, when he was in Jiajing, he once ran to the small station, spent more than two years, wrote a book and said, in a blink of an eye, nearly 20 years have passed, Tang Yi revisited the old place again, and stayed in the small station for more than ten days. Then, without hesitation, I took a boat from Tianjin to the south to my hometown of Suzhou.
"Don't let Tang Yi return home!"
Seeing the ship in the distance, someone secretly gritted his teeth, turned around, came out of the dock, and entered a small courtyard. Surprisingly, in the main hall sat Xu Guo, a bachelor who had just received a degree.
Seeing someone walking in outside, he hurriedly stood up, "Brother Ziwei, what should I do next?" ā
This man took off his hat, his hair was full of gray hair, better than frost and snow, his face was wrinkled, age spots were everywhere, but his eyes were very bright.
It was Zhang Siwei who had been defeated in the hands of Tang Yi, and he was still alive! (To be continued.) )