Chapter Seven: The Wind and the Depression (17)
Ding Yi's strength does not lie in the planning of this kind of political affairs, so he did not take the initiative to make up his own mind about this matter. Not only did Chen San, Liu Ji, and Cao Jixiang draft several options, but they also sent three of the plans in Ding's circle to Athens, Suez, Guinea, Ceuta, and other places to solicit the opinions of officials from all sides.
Regarding this issue, in fact, Li Bing and Yu Qian have long been aware of it, so they also have a draft in their hearts. It's just that at this time, many soldiers and civilians under Ding Yi have never had an accident, so they didn't mention it. Even Li Bing asked whether it was too late to wait for the world to be decided?
It's good now, so why bother? Dan Ding Yi unceremoniously rejected this opinion, and Yu Qian and Li Bing showed their skills and also listed their own charters. It took a long time for the ships to go back and forth, until Ding Yi was about to leave for Paris, and he generally came to a conclusion, that is, the governance of the Americas should be governed by the military and the people.
The detailed rules have not yet been issued, but there is no doubt that the taxes will be attributed to the central government, and the salaries and allowances of military and government officials will all be paid by the central government. Moreover, Yu Qian even proposed that the total amount of subsidies for the garrison of the local yamen should not exceed the salaries of soldiers and officials - didn't Ding Yi do this back then? The money that the soldier got was several times the salary, plus his own influence in the army, and the result was today's Ding Yi. Yu Qian is preventing the appearance of another Ding.
"What complaints do you have over there?" Ding Yi looked at the report that was submitted, but asked Liu Ji, "He has finally achieved self-sufficiency, but at this time, he has to divide the military and the people, and he has to pay taxes and so on." Will there be resistance in your heart because of this? ”
Liu Ji shook his head and said, "There has never been a report on several lines. Nothing was changed. After all, they are all disciples of Mr., and they are not feudal towns after all. There's nothing wrong with thinking about it. Probably influenced by Chen San, it is rare for Liu Ji to say this so bluntly.
Ding Yi laughed when he heard this. Wan'an can't make a feudal town, and he still has this confidence. If the officers and soldiers of the Rong First Division can be sold by Wan An, then Ding Yi is really too much of a failure. As Liu Ji reported, the reports of several lines, around Wan An, have the intelligence of the Heaven and Earth Society, the intelligence of the Zhongyi Society, the ideological report of the Rongyi Division, and the discipline report of the military police. There are those six-room scribes in the county who have been beaten down.
If Wan An really had any thoughts, he would be quarantined immediately, and then the commander of the regiment of the Rongyi Division would organize all the magistrates and Liufang scribes who had gone overseas to serve as chiefs, and then withdraw to Huta in batches. This is a contingency plan that is set in place before departure.
"Domain? By the way, what is the situation of the vassal king who went to Australia to become a vassal prince? Ding Yi thought of this incident and asked Liu Ji.
"Mr. Yu, the informants here are all from Suez. According to the abridgement, most of the vassal kings went to Australia, and there were some casualties from everyone. But now it's settled. Some feudal lords began to build ships, hoping to start trading with the local people in China. "Liu Ji has a good brain, as long as he has a purpose. As soon as Ding asked, he could answer all the questions.
"Settle down." Ding Yi groaned for a while. Commanded Liu Ji, "No need to delay any longer." ”
"Sir. There is no perfect solution. Liu Ji saluted Ding and praised him.
So just before Ding Yi was ready to go to Europe, Chen San waved his army from Smyrna to the east, and when he conquered Ephesus and Miletus, he established the capital.
Through the agreement of all parties, Smyrna was temporarily taken as the line, that is, the temporary capital, and the country was named: Ming.
The countries called it the Western Ming to distinguish it from the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
Ding Yi rejected all the mentions of the founding ceremony: "He will arrive in Beijing on the same day, and it will not be too late to teach all the countries to come to court!" ”
Then he took the regiment of guards, escorted by the Aegean Fleet, and sailed directly to Marseille, preparing to go ashore from Marseille and march towards Paris.
For Ding Yi, things are so decided, but for Yu Qian and Liu Ji, there are still a lot of things to do.
To put it bluntly, it is the cutting of interests.
The first is the Suez Canal, Liu Ji, Cao Jixiang, Chen San and others, including Wang Yue and Wan An, all firmly believe that the interests of this canal should belong to Ximing. Their reason was that Ding Yi beat him, and Xu Bin was not allowed to be allowed by the imperial court at that time, and it was Ding who entrusted him with an important task after he came west.
And Du Ziteng and Yu Qian were a little hesitant about this, they thought that Ding Yi was leading the army of the Ming Dynasty at that time! How can you say that it has nothing to do with Daming? I felt that this was unreasonable, so I negotiated with Daming to distribute benefits. This Ding Yi doesn't care at all, but Yu Qian and Liu Ji have to take care of it.
There is also the question of the ownership of the Arakan Kingdom, the current king of the Arakan Kingdom, who fought with Ding Yi for several years before returning to take over as the king, is a thorn in the head. Except for Ding Yi, who wants him to convince him, there is absolutely no way, as soon as Ding establishes the country, the Arakan Kingdom will ask for the internal belonging, and Po Xiu invited himself to the king and became the governor.
But the Kingdom of Arakan is legally a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, and this is another account that has to be calculated.
The situation in Java and Luzon is the same, Zhu Dong and He Tiedan directly played the kidnapping of public opinion, got some book of the people, and sent it to the Daming Jingshi. The meaning is nothing more than to belong to Yunyun under the command of King Jinghai of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, Ding Yi resolutely resigned from the post of governor of the Sihai Metropolitan Mansion and the Anxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion this time.
Ding Ruyu, Liu Yiyi and others also asked to move west.
There are many similar things, including the belonging of the First Ming Division, the Third Ming Division, and ten marine brigades; the ownership of the fleets of the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the West China Sea, and the Mediterranean; The ownership of the Ministry of Industry of Guangdong, etc. This is also the reason why Li Bing persuaded Ding Yi not to establish a country for the time being.
Because if you don't establish a country and set up a capital, even if you have an emperor title, even if Western monarchs treat Ding Yi as a monarch, these things can be vaguely made up first. But once the capital is established, it is impossible not to make cuts. No matter how many brands of a team are established, how can they get it? Everyone has their own treasury, and each has its own overall planning and interests.
When these documents went to Tianjin to start water, they were loaded with three four-wheeled carriages before they were transported.
Because there were too many things involved and the road was long, I had to make multiple filings in advance so that the two sides could negotiate.
These are all major national affairs, and it is impossible for Liu Ji to deal with them indiscriminately at any time.
However, the big guys of the Daming Jingshi immediately fell into all kinds of disputes and disputes. Whether it is against the Suez Canal or the fleets in the East China Sea, the West China Sea, and the South China Sea, they have all demonstrated the strength to not give an inch, which is not unexpected by Liu Ji. What he didn't expect was that Ma Ang, the secretary of the military department, and Chen Wen, the first assistant, were furious at Ding Yi's resignation from the two metropolitan governors' offices, and roared on the spot in the Fengtian Palace: "How dare Liu Youzhi distort the meaning of the king of Jinghai County!" ”
Then the courtiers in the palace came out of class and scolded angrily, if they really want to change someone, they have to collapse on the spot.
The gist is that Liu Ji is a traitor, deliberately came to separate Ding Yi and Zhu Jianshen, this is not what Ding Yi meant, it was Liu Ji who misinterpreted it and so on. Even, Chen Wen said to Zhu Jianshen: "The minister thinks that if the king of Jinghai County wants to resign from the affairs of the two metropolitan governors and the two affairs of Yongzhen, then this matter is false, and there is no need to discuss it again!" ”
Ma Ang also seconded the proposal, but it was slightly milder than Chen Wen: "Liu Youzhi is wandering thousands of miles, and he is not in good spirits, so it is really not suitable to face the saint today, let alone discuss the affairs here at this time!" It means that Liu Ji took the boat and passed out, went back to sleep and woke up to talk again.
Even if Liu Mian was sprayed wildly by so many ministers, he had no power to fight back at all. So I had no choice but to push the boat down the river, and retreated under the pretext that I was sick.
Liu Ji did not go home, but lived in the Jinghai County Palace, Goldfish Hutong, and after seeing Liu Yiyi, Tianzhi, Xue Ning and others, he sent the scribe and staff officer An who came with him down to rest in the courtyard where he had always lived. Wen Fatzi, who came back to Huaxia with him, asked puzzledly: "Young Master Youzhi, the young master has resigned, and the old men of the two major governors will inevitably go west, and they can immediately settle countless officials and people, why do the ministers of the court not like it?" ”
"Uncle Wen, if someone doesn't collect a penny and guards the house for you, and there are robbers and thieves coming, they will fight bloodily for you; When the drought and water dry up, you will compete for water with your neighboring villages. Obviously, he could have taken away your property, but he was unmoved again and again. If such a person one day says that he has more than a dozen acres of water in his own house and will not give you the house to guard the yard, are you willing to let him go? Liu Ji said with a wry smile.
Hearing him say this, Fat Man Wen couldn't help but nod his head, and said that he would get up, Ding Yi was in this Huaxia, but isn't that the case?
"It's more than that." It was Ding Junyue who spoke, but she was followed by a eunuch.
This Wen Fat Man and Liu Ji are no strangers, they are the Huai'en eunuchs who call Ding Yi the eldest brother.
Wynne greeted them and said with a wry smile: "Let's invite the eldest brother back!" In this palace, it's not peaceful! ”
In November of the first year of Chenghua, after the eldest son of the emperor born to Concubine Wan Guifei died, Huai En found a lot of things wrong: "The concubines in the palace, if they are pregnant, they will be killed!" He stretched out his hand to Ding Junyue, "The governor of the palace is prohibited, you should know that what our family says is true!" ”
At this time, I heard someone chuckle and said, "In the palace? If the official goes on like this, as advocated by Jin, it will not take two years, but I am afraid that it will be for nothing! Everyone looked back, but when they saw the businessman, they brought a small servant, and the Tsing Yi hat stood on the side of the moon gate.
Liu Ji and the others hurriedly saluted, and Shang Yu had no intention of replying: "It's better to teach Rujin to come back and make a plan again!" Father-in-law Huaien should have an ear report, and the palace heard that Zhang Luo is going to make a west factory again! ”
"Yes, it is reported that grandpa intends to teach Governor Wang Zhi the official affairs of the West Detective Factory." Huaien also shook his head with a bitter face, "At this moment, only by inviting the eldest brother back can I teach my grandfather to change his mind." (To be continued......)
ps: I have something to go out for a whole day today, so let's change the chapter, and resume tomorrow. R1292