Chapter 539: Vision

Qin Mubai and Zhu Yuanzhang both turned around, and the two of them were wearing the most ordinary cotton clothes, which is very inconspicuous in this era, especially since this cotton clothes are still made according to the cotton style of the middle and lower classes in this era.

The era they came to was also summer, and they could only wear cloth in summer, not silk, this was definitely not a rich person, so whether it was Qin Mubai or Zhu Yuanzhang, they never thought that anyone would talk to them.

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man, about forty years old, wearing a very thin silk garment, and accessories hanging from his waist, etc., who looked like he should be a businessman.

"We went to the capital to find relatives. Zhu Yuanzhang also arched his hand at the middle-aged man, and then spoke.

"Looking for relatives?" The middle-aged man was slightly stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help asking, "Where did you come from?"

"We came from the deep mountains of Sichuan and Shu, in fact, our ancestors were Han people of the Yuan Dynasty, who ran into the mountains to avoid disasters, and had less contact with the outside world. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately spoke.

The middle-aged man immediately had some sudden realization, but he quickly smiled and said: "Both, I see, if you don't come out for a long time, then I guess you really have to understand it well, I'm afraid that when you arrive in Kyoto, you won't even know where to look." ”

"This old man, I don't know if you can tell us about it? Actually, we also want to inquire on the road, but we don't have a suitable person. Zhu Yuanzhang said immediately.

"Okay, anyway, our trip will take about six or seven days, and it's fine. The middle-aged man said with a dry smile.

"If you want to talk about this, you have to talk about the Yongle period of our Ming Dynasty. The middle-aged man arched his hand in the direction of the capital, and then said with a smile.

"It is said that during the Yongle period, Chengzu had just ascended the throne, and then His Majesty Taizu came back from the heavenly realm, giving His Majesty Chengzu support and a lot of guidance, it is said that there are immortals in the sky, of course, this is a legend from the outside world, according to His Majesty Taizu, it is not the fairy world, of course, we can't understand it, let His Majesty Taizu come back, this is the means of immortals. ”

"According to the guidance of His Majesty Taizu, His Majesty Chengzu quickly integrated the strength of the Ming Dynasty, opened the sea ban, established the fleet of the Ming Naval Division, and started trade with the South Seas. ”

"And now we have a lot of changes in the Ming Dynasty, such as the abolition of kneeling, cooperation with Byzantium or what empire in the West, the development of building materials called cement, and the construction of straight official roads in major cities across the country. Now I can say that the Quartet surrendered. The middle-aged man said with a smile.

Qin Mubai and Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at each other, although they only heard some fur, but the overall look was still quite good, at least the current Ming Dynasty was different from before.

"Our Daming sailor is very powerful?" Qin Mubai immediately asked.

"Of course, our Ming sailors are now known as the invincible armada on the ocean! There is no enemy across the seas! And almost the entire South China Sea has been attributed to our Ming Dynasty, and it is said that the shipyard has now begun to trial produce steel warships. The middle-aged man said proudly.

From the process of his conversation, Qin Mubai can feel that the people of the Ming Dynasty now have a strong sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, in other words, this is called a sense of national honor, in short, it is a sentence, that is, the country is getting stronger and stronger, and ordinary people naturally have more and more sense of honor and belonging to the country.

"What about the grasslands in the north?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

"From the Western Regions to the north, they are all under the control of our Ming Dynasty, whether it is the Mongols, or the Tile Thorns, the Jurchens, etc., all belong to my Ming Dynasty. The middle-aged man said with a smile.

Qin Mubai admired it a little in his heart, to be honest, what he told Zhu Di to Zhu Yuanzhang was just some general trends and some big concepts, but how far he could go, it still depended on Zhu Di's own.

But now that Zhu Di can do this, this is really awesome.

The speed of the passenger ship going down the river is not slow, and it is just tailwind, so Qin Mubai and they arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River in more than a day, and after arriving here, Qin Mubai and they found that places like Shanghai are probably also going to develop, and now it has become a city.

Although it is not as good as Nanjing and Hangzhou, it is obvious that this is the direction of future development, and here, Qin Mubai and they finally saw a larger warship, which should be almost close to the top sail battleship level in the post-modern era, at least one hundred and forty or fifty meters in length.

I'm afraid that, according to traditional Chinese sayings, is it at least four or five thousand big ships?

In the past few days, Qin Mubai and Zhu Yuanzhang have been chatting with the middle-aged man, and they have learned a lot about the process of chatting, for example, the current Ming Emperor is still Zhu Qizhen, but unlike Zhu Qizhen in history, the change of Tumubao did not happen at all, and he is now the general of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention, but also led the troops to fight overseas, it is said that in Nanyang, it is quite famous.

This is one of them, and the other is that in fact, the changes in the civil fort in history, as well as Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qiyu's brothers, plus the Ming Dynasty in this period, actually have many mysterious things, but they are no longer able to be found in history, not to mention anything else, Zhu Qiyu's son died inexplicably, these things cannot be really a coincidence.

Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu in history can actually be regarded as a good emperor, according to the performance in history, Zhu Qiyu is more suitable to be an emperor than Zhu Qizhen, but that is because Zhu Qizhen's rights at that time were almost hollowed out, and Zhu Qizhen, who succeeded to the throne at the age of 9, was almost given the right by the harem queen mother, eunuch Wang Zhen, and Sanyang.

Later, after the change of Tumubao, his younger brother Zhu Qiyu became the emperor, and after being the emperor for eight years, Shi Heng and others launched a coup d'état, and Zhu Qizhen became the emperor again.

Because such as Ming Shilu, Tang Shilu, these historians who recorded the emperor's words and deeds, were very disciplined in these two dynasties, and the emperor didn't dare to change the records in it casually, and even some emperors didn't dare to look at it.

But in the Qing Dynasty, well, it's okay to add two sentences here and subtract two sentences there, and even the history books of your own dynasty can be changed at will, what are the history books of the former Ming Dynasty? What's more, in order to combat those forces that oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, in order to reduce the reputation of the Ming Dynasty in the hearts of the people, all kinds of tampering and smearing, I am afraid that there are not a few tricks.

Otherwise, why do you think that the Jurchen population ruled for so many years? This is the result of a multi-pronged approach, and I have to say that the descendants of the Confucian Mansion at that time really did good things.

But that's history, but now, this one is different, first of all, although the emperor here is Zhu Qizhen, it's true, but Zhu Qizhen did not succeed to the throne at the age of 9, but at the age of 19.

In other words, Zhu Zhanji lived 10 years longer than in history, Zhu Zhanji in history only lived 37 years old, and now he lives 47 years old, and Zhu Zhanji was originally weak and sick later, and basically helped deal with things in the harem, otherwise Zhu Qizhen in history would not have been able to stand up for so many years.

In fact, there is a historical reason why Zhu Qizhen favored Wang Zhen in history, after all, he is an emperor, but no one listens to him at all, except for Wang Zhen, of course, it is unknown whether Wang Zhen really listens to him, but at least on the surface, Wang Zhen listens to him.

Although it seems that it is only 10 more years, the changes in these 10 years are too great, and the most important thing is that Zhu Di's reform of the Ming system, although the entire Ming Dynasty is still six, but in fact, there have been countless new yamen, and these yamen are almost equivalent to the responsibilities of the six departments.

Although they are ostensibly under the jurisdiction of the Six Ministries, in fact their rights are almost the same as those of the Six Ministries. What's more, the mutual oversight of some of the power institutions, coupled with the tremendous overhaul of the military's power, the relationship between the military and the government is very much like that of modern times.

To put it bluntly, it belongs to that kind of relatively independent existence, there is no such thing as literati leading and suppressing military attachés, and it cannot be said that there is absolutely no matter of eunuchs interfering in politics, but it is too little, mainly because the education problem of this prince is not like in history.

These Ming Emperors after Zhu Di have broadened their horizons many times than before.

In this way, in the process of understanding the Ming Dynasty, Qin Mubai and Zhu Yuanzhang arrived in the capital. More detailed things, after seeing Zhu Qizhen, you can naturally know, speaking of which, Zhu Qizhen is just Zhu Di's great-grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandson, and it is not very far from time.

However, what he has seen and heard along the way, to be honest, Qin Mubai can already roughly feel that Daming definitely has the germ of capitalism, and it can even be said that it can no longer be described as a bud, to a certain extent, it has entered the primary stage of capitalism.

It's still an old routine, after Qin Mubai and Zhu Yuanzhang entered the capital, not to mention the prosperity of the capital, at least from here to the official road of Tianjin Wei, Qin Mubai was in a trance and had a feeling of returning to the afterlife, how did they study the cement Qin Mubai didn't know, but at that time he just roughly said that there was such a thing.

But Qin Mubai is not playing chemistry or anything like that, he knows that there seems to be limestone in the cement, but he doesn't know anything else, he can say a fart so he came, so he just said that there is this thing, and now this cement has been developed, this is the power of the Ming craftsman!

From this, it can be seen that the ancients must not be underestimated!