Chapter 316: Zheng He's Fleet, On the Ming Dynasty

Su Su said again: "Brother Qiang, there is another most critical thing in Nanjing that I haven't said yet, that is, the Zheng He fleet developed by Zhu Di!" ”

Wang Qiang's spirits lifted, if he talked about anything else, Wang Qiang was a person who listened to lectures with an open mind and was a primary school student, but when it came to the Great Voyage, he couldn't help but know when it came to Zheng He's fleet.

Wang Qiang couldn't help but be in awe: "If you can develop, Brother Zheng He's fleet will really admit that he is the first emperor of the ages!" Zheng He's flagship treasure ship in the game is big and scary, nearly 150 meters long and 60 meters wide, it is simply a moving sea football field, and a modern aircraft carrier is nothing more than 300 meters long, is this true? The seafaring powers of the West said that it was impossible for the timber structure to support such a huge wooden ship to sail on the sea, and it was impossible for China to build a large ship that they could not build a hundred years before them. ”

Su Su sighed with emotion: "To believe in the rigor of our historical records, even the Tengwang Pavilion has been rebuilt 29 times and recorded clearly, how can the size of the ship be wrong?" The biggest controversy is nothing more than how many meters one zhang in the Ming Dynasty is equal to now, but no matter how different there is, this treasure ship must be more than 100 meters, and it is still incomparable to them. ”

Zhou Tai also sighed: "I also want to know, I only know the ship of the Han Dynasty, if Wang Qiang wants to upgrade the artifact ship and it is useful for me to help, I will definitely help." ”

Su Su said with a smile: "Correct solution, if our Chinese navigation technology really has to be calculated, I am afraid that it will have to be counted as the three thousand boys and girls invited by Qin Shi Huang to Xu Fu to seek immortal medicine overseas." The seafaring technology accumulated over the past thousand years is probably not comparable to those seafaring powers that were forced by the Ottoman Turks to jump into the sea. Not to mention that the current Song Dynasty should be relying on trade with Southeast Asia to continue its life, and the navigation of the Song Dynasty should also be very developed. ”

Zhou Tai laughed and said: "I don't understand the affairs of the Qin Dynasty, that is, when my lord Sun Quan was here, he developed a route to Southeast Asia, Ryukyu, Taiwan, and Japan. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Tai sighed: "At that time, the lord wanted to capture the natives from Taiwan and Japan to enrich the labor force, so he sent Zhuge Zhi and Wei Wen to send tens of thousands of people to Taiwan. Then Zhuge Zhi garrisoned the army in Taiwan for a year, and most of the soldiers died of illness and death, and finally only brought back a few thousand natives. The lord remembered Lu Xun's original opposition, and he couldn't hold his face, so he beheaded Zhuge Zhi and Wei Wen, hey, ......"

Wang Qiang also sighed: "Hey, sailing, it's a sacrifice to be made." ”

Su Su said with a smile: "But at that time, the Wu Kingdom was only on one side, how could it be sacrificed?" So this kind of thing can only be implemented by a unified and powerful empire, so the Ming Dynasty happened to implement this great cause. ”

Wang Qiang said sadly: "But Zheng He's fleet was abolished after only seven voyages, not to mention that the technology was lost, even the drawings were burned, and there was a special sea ban, this Nima is really wise for only three generations, stupid as a pig!" ”

Su Su laughed and said, "Could it be that Brother Qiang thinks that the emperor of the future generations is mediocre?" No vision at all? ”

Wang Qiang was surprised: "Isn't it? All kinds of carpenters in the Ming Dynasty are wonderful? ”

Su Su sighed: "It's not that simple, the history of the Ming Dynasty was all repaired by the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was also the worst hacked, among which the worst black is Zhu Yuanzhang, what kind of soil peasants only kill people and so on." If you really want to say it, let's start with the Yuan Dynasty not understanding the economy and taxation, and as a result, a mess caused a very serious landlord annexation in the Jiangnan region, and then produced the germ of capitalism. It is also a celebrity in Nanjing. ”

Wang Qiang frowned: "Yes, yes, yes, I know!" Zhang Weijian also played him back then, Shen Wansan began to help Zhang Shicheng, and later Zhang Shicheng was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor and held a grudge against him and was jealous of his huge rich property, Shen Wansan saw that the limelight was not right, and proposed to pay for the repair of the Nanjing city wall, and then said that he would reward the sergeant, but this sentence made Zhu Yuanzhang move to kill the chicken, and then he copied his home many times, and exiled him to Yunnan. ”

Su Su sighed with emotion: "There are too few historical materials about Shen Wansan, there are too many legends, and there are even legends that his wealth from overseas trade is converted into the current RMB 10 billion net worth, which is a famous boss in the modern world, and it is unimaginable in that era, if this is the case, Rothschild is not worthy of lifting his shoes, in short, I will not mention it here." Anyway, with the appearance of this person, you know that a capital consortium has been born in the south, and this is the bureaucratic consortium headed by Prime Minister Hu Weiyong, who is working against Zhu Yuanzhang. ”

Wang Qiang nodded again and again: "Well, my brother has watched a "Queen of Bigfoot", which contains Hu Weiyong looking down on Zhu Yuanzhang and plotting to rebel. ”

Su Su sighed: "Because Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a peasant, what he hated most was the exploitation of the peasants by the bureaucratic landlords, so after he became the emperor, he did not forget his original intention, and introduced a series of policies to benefit the peasants, and suppressed the officials' income. ”

Wang Qiang was surprised: "But the rebellion failed, and tens of thousands of people were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang!" ”

Su Su nodded: "Yes, kill tens of thousands of people, this is a civil war, and it lasted for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty, and the result of the first battle between imperial power and capital was Zhu Yuanzhang's victory, and then Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the position of prime minister and established Jinyi Guard, which was dedicated to closely monitoring officials." Zhu Di further formed a cabinet, and even more ruthlessly suppressed the consortium. ”

Wang Qiang was a little stunned when he heard this: "But what's the matter with Zheng He's fleet?" ”

Su Su said with a smile: "The suppressed bureaucrats want to go crazy for money, and the imperial court wants to make a fortune even if they can't collect taxes, so both sides have their eyes on overseas trade." The idea of the imperial court to control global trade was to establish a maritime ban and crack down on smuggling, establish the maritime hegemony of the super fleet, and monopolize maritime trade, so the Zheng He fleet, a large state-owned enterprise, was born. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's sea ban meant that private individuals were not allowed to go to sea, only state-owned enterprises were allowed to go to sea. ”

Only then did Wang Qiang understand a little: "What does the bureaucratic consortium mean?" ”

Su Su smiled coldly: "Collusion with the Japanese, collusion with pirates, collusion with domestic capitalists, in the form of smuggling, no taxes, against the imperial court." To explain how powerful the pirates of the DPRK were, such as Wang Zhi, a merchant of the Ming Dynasty who became the leader of the Japanese pirates, the Japanese were afraid of what he was afraid of. The most powerful is Chen Zuyi, the world's strongest pirate who rampaged in Malacca, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and even established himself as a king in Southeast Asia, and then was captured by Zheng He and beheaded by Zhu Di in front of envoys from various countries. ”

Wang Qiang was stunned: "Is there such a thing? Zheng He is so capable of fighting? ”

Su Su smiled: "Yes, when these two people were rampant, Brother Qiang knew what Hyreddin's red beard and blue beard had not yet grown." In fact, Chen Zuyi also looked down on Zheng He as a eunuch, and even more down on Zheng He's fleet as a 'river pond water division', so he wanted to rob the treasure ship fleet, and the result was what he just said. Now Brother Qiang should understand the attitude of the capital consortium towards Zheng He's fleet, right? ”

Wang Qiang finally understood: "Cutting off people's financial paths is a thorn in the eye!" ”

Su Su Zhengse said: "Exactly! The capital consortium must destroy the Zheng He fleet as a large state-owned enterprise by any means, and then it is equivalent to waiting for the opportunity, the young and unable to govern Ming Yingzong ascended the throne, the capital consortium bought the auxiliary eunuchs, and disintegrated the fleet on the grounds of various labor and money, and even the drawings and navigation charts and technical data were destroyed or sold to Westerners by Liu Daxia, so far, Zheng He's fleet collapsed, this is the biggest victory of the capital consortium! ”

Wang Qiang suddenly realized: "There is a traitor!" ”

Su Su sneered: "The capital consortium, as long as you can make money, you can do anything." The Jin merchants also kept selling salt and iron embargoed by the imperial court to the Mongols outside the Great Wall. In short, after the collapse of the maritime hegemony of the Ming Dynasty, the next step was to disintegrate the land hegemony of the Ming Dynasty, so the Battle of Tumubao, which completely declined in history, occurred. This battle was captured by Ming Yingzong after he grew up, and the emperor's main army was completely annihilated. ”

Although Wang Qiang didn't know Tumubao very well, he immediately understood: "The emperor was trapped? ”

Su Su nodded: "Yes, the various tactics discussed in later generations are inappropriate, the emperor is mediocre and listens to the eunuchs or something, there is only one reason for this battle, the bureaucratic consortium betrayed and killed the emperor's main force, all the information was leaked to the enemy, and the logistics were deliberately delayed, so far, the capital consortium has achieved a complete victory, and the imperial power has been hollowed out!" Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were all kinds of strange emperors, and they did not go to the emperor for thirty years. ”

Wang Qiang sighed bitterly: "Specifically scare the Ming Yingzong pit!" From the small pit to the old! ”

Su Su sighed: "But Ming Yingzong still woke up, after he was released back and regained the throne, he killed some people, but the general trend has gone." Capital also bought off the Donglin Party's public opinion to deceive the people and further resist the tax. After arriving at the Wanli Emperor, the emperor began to reuse a generation of famous ministers Zhang Juzheng to launch the final counterattack, and then the Ming border pass was in a hurry, and all kinds of Japanese robbers, Vietnam, and Nurhachi all came. These are all collusions of the consortium. When it came to Emperor Chongzhen, there was no solution. ”

Wang Qiang said bitterly: "The national capital is dead, what is the use of these capitalists making so much money?" ”

Su Su sighed: "Yes, who would have thought that the Qing soldiers would really enter the customs and rob them of their years of hard work?" This is the Ming Dynasty, one country has two kings, one is the emperor of the imperial court, and the other is the king of capital, and if you can't see the role of the king of capital, you can't understand the Ming Dynasty. But how strikingly similar is the United States today to the Ming Dynasty? I know where the problem is, but there is no solution. ”

Wang Qiang suddenly brightened: "Understood!" In the final analysis, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who thought about the peasants, and he was not on the same road as capital from the beginning. ”

Su Su said with a smile: "So the capital that controlled public opinion in later generations was the worst." And then there is another person who is strikingly similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements are far from being comparable to him. ”

Wang Qiang sighed: "I know. ”