Chapter 500: Emperor Bang Six

Wang Yangming was silent.

According to Wang Yangming's thoughts. He didn't really want Zhu Houhuang to ascend to the throne, and Yang Tinghe's thoughts were the same, he felt that Zhu Houhuang was not a peaceful person, and such a person ascended the throne, which would be a blessing and a curse for the Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Houhuang pleaded like this, and he couldn't help but say something.

Because he knew that he was naturally labeled with the mark of King Yong. If there is no such thing as today. Then he will return to Daming one day, but with the present and one thing, he has already been honored with King Yong, and he has been lost. Don't be delusional about going back to the Ming Dynasty. Wang Yangming sighed and said: "Your Highness, to create the foundation of Dongyong, why do you want to go back to Daming to compete for the throne, among the old ministers, Your Highness should not have read these two letters." If His Majesty has the ability to break through Yang Ge Lao's obstruction, he will be crowned as the prince. Your Highness should obey his own orders. If His Majesty can't subdue Yang Ge Lao, then His Highness will do more and make more mistakes, and less and make fewer mistakes. The leakage of eagerness has made His Highness lose points in His Majesty's heart, and he must not be in a hurry. ”

Zhu Houhuang seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand, and said: "Now, all the disturbances in the DPRK and China are coming to Gu, how should Gu deal with it, do not do anything?" Won't you be implicated? ”

There is no retreat in the matter of seizing the heir, and even if you want to retreat, there is nowhere to retreat. Doing nothing is simply being slaughtered.

"Your Highness, what do you think you should do?" Wang Yangming asked rhetorically.

Zhu Houhuang was speechless for a while, yes, what should I do? He found that he was completely out of his hands. I don't know where to intervene.

Wang Yangming said: "The key to winning the heir lies in the Jingshi, His Royal Highness is thousands of miles away, and he can't do anything with all his strength, but if he makes a rash move, it will not only be unprofitable but harmful." His Royal Highness is not as good as the deep affairs of the fundamentals, in order to move later. ”

"What is fundamental?" Zhu Houhuang asked Wang Yangming for advice.

Wang Yangming said: "Your Highness thinks, why did Your Majesty choose His Highness as the prince? Wang Yangming didn't wait for Zhu Houhuang to say, so he answered for him: "Without him, Your Highness Shen Xiao Your Majesty." ”

For the princes of previous dynasties, the deepest curse is that the emperor often says that he is not like himself. But the reason why Zhengde looks up to Zhu Houhuang is that he is like himself.

Zhengde is so happy that he wants to expand his territory, and so does Zhu Houhuang.

Zhengde does not like Confucianism, but has improved in miscellaneous studies, such as Buddhism, and Zhu Houhuang also does not like Confucianism, and in Zhengde's opinion, he has also attained attainments in arithmetic.

Zhengde felt that Zhu Houhuang's ascension to the throne would allow him to inherit his political ideas well.

Therefore, when I wanted to establish the prince, the first thing that came to mind was Zhu Houhuang.

"But just Your Majesty Shen Xiao, and not all the reasons why Your Highness set up His Royal Highness as the prince, His Royal Highness went to sea with 200,000 taels, and there is today's victory in Dongyong, showing His Highness's ability, which is the final reason why His Highness chose His Highness, so His Highness should do what he has been doing, so that His Majesty firmly believes that his choice is not wrong."

Zhu Houhuang said: "Disciple knows," Zhu Houhuang saluted and said: "Disciple, I will personally supervise the progress of artillery, strive to capture Malacca City, and present a gift to Your Majesty." ”

The matter of seizing the heir, directly using conspiracy means, is an inferior matter. And to show your talents, to prove that you are the best heir, is superior.

Zhu Houhuang got Wang Yangming's guidance and went to supervise the construction of artillery with full of vitality.

After Zhu Houhuang left.

Wang Yangming poured himself a cup of tea alone and pondered carefully.

What he said to Zhu Houhuang did not lie to Zhu Houhuang. The battle for succession has developed into a clear battle between the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty and the power of the cabinet, which is not something that Zhu Houhuang can intervene in at all, and there is no need to move around, and it can only give the other party a flaw. However, it is not a word to appease Zhu Houhuang. What Wang Yangming was thinking at the moment was. Is Zhu Houhuang really unfit for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

Does Zhu Houhuang have any talent? Yes.

But Zhu Houhuang is suitable for the emperor who is not suitable to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Yangming thought that it was not suitable, without him, and the political line was in the opposite direction.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, it has almost long been the government that does not go to the countryside and allows the local squires to be autonomous. However, Zhu Houhuang's Dongyong paid attention to the Qin and Han dynasties. Almost every strong man is in the official roster.

But Wang Yangming has also seen this power.

If it weren't for the lack of the law of arranging households and gathering the people, Lu Wan would not have opened up hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, built hundreds of miles of embankments, and established more than a dozen county towns in just one or two years, truly laying the foundation for Dongyong. Of course, this has Lu Wan's ability, but I have to admit that Dongyong has the superiority of the system.

And the Ming civil officials govern affairs, and they are quiet and inactive. But Zhu Houhuang's side consciously or unintentionally put his political achievements first, how much fertile land he cultivated, what good performance he had in taxes, and so on, this is the value of Dongyong officialdom.

In this way, the tentacles of the government have penetrated deep into the people, so that Zhu Houhuang has never had a shortage of manpower.

It was also Wang Yangming who brought a large number of Xinxue disciples to fill Dongyong's needs, but not all of these Xinxue disciples were in Dongyong. However, as soon as this side was done, Zhu Houhuang went south to defeat Franc Ji and open up Kuching, Star City, and there was a large talent gap in the two places.

The political orientation of the two is the reason why the civil officials tried their best to oppose Zhu Houhuang as emperor. Wang Yangming knew, and Yang Shen also knew that if Zhu Houhuang ascended the throne, he would have to set off a big storm in Daming.

But after following Zhu Houhuang for a long time, he can't completely deny that what Zhu Houhuang did was wrong, because if what Zhu Houhuang did was wrong, then how did Zhu Houhuang open up such a big foundation.

So Zhu Houhuang is not wrong, the entire Ming officialdom is so fly-trapped, is it wrong? Before, without Zhu Houhuang being elected as the crown prince, Wang Yangming could not think about whether it was right or wrong, but at this moment Wang Yangming must have a choice. Did he try his best to assist Zhu Houhuang and ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, or did he feel that Zhu Houhuang was not a candidate for the emperor, so he stood by and watched. Or even the rapids?

When Wang Yangming was at war in his heart. Zhu Houhuang settled the affairs of the Dayuan, and immediately left the Dayuan by boat and went to Beigang.

It's still in the middle of the artillery range.

It's just that the gunsmith who presided over the artillery at the artillery field was a gunsmith from the Beijing Division. The surname is Tang, and Zhu Houhuang calls him Master Tang. Master Tang is a middle-aged man in his forties, with bulging muscles, and he doesn't look like a craftsman, but a general.

On the side of the stove, the heat was steaming, almost roasting people, so that Zhu Houhuang couldn't bear it. Zhu Houhuang didn't come closer, and looked at it from a distance, and a rising firelight covered other things. Zhu Houhuang asked Master Tang and said, "Master Tang, can the artillery you cast destroy the city wall?" ”

Master Tang said loudly: "This small one, I don't know, but this is already the largest artillery that the minister can cast, and the minister is not sure." ”

Zhu Houhuang attaches great importance to the progress here, and slowly understands that ancient artillery, even if it is heavy artillery, is actually just that, you can see it as a huge iron pipe. There's something fixed on it. There is no tall component in it, the reason why copper is not used is iron, but the melting point of copper, as well as the problem of thermal conductivity, these are better than iron, and copper is easier to deal with than iron, after all, from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, China has played copper very slippery. Large-scale bronze pieces of casting abound, such as the bells and tripods of temples.

When Zhu Houhuang was talking to Master Tang, hot copper water was poured into the mold. Master Tang immediately went to the front to command. Regardless of the hot problem, I waited until it cooled down before I was relieved.

The next day, Master Tang took matters into his own hands and dismantled the molds one by one, and a copper cannon was made.

Zhu Houhuang looked at this copper cannon as if it was a round copper pillar, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, there were pieces of things that seemed to be clamps on it, the whole body exuded a copper yellow color, the top had not been polished, it looked like there was a rough feeling of metal, Zhu Houhuang went deep into the muzzle and touched it, the muzzle was about more than 20 centimeters, but in the breech, it was almost the same as the outside, the same roughness.

Zhu Houhuang immediately felt that this artillery was not as good as it seemed.