The Apocalypse has not been piled up for several months, and this is also what many ministers of etiquette are very criticized.

Because they don't want the Son of Heaven to hide behind the scenes and lend the imperial power to others, which is not conducive to them knowing the Son of Heaven in the first place, and then knowing how to use the Son of Heaven.

As soon as they heard that the Son of Heaven was going to hold a court meeting, many ministers did not dare to delay no matter how tired they were and indulged in the tenderness of their wives and concubines, and they all came to the court room to be leaked.

Not long after, after the ministers stood on the court and Tianqi was also seated, Zhang Gui suddenly came out and said:

"Your Majesty, Mao Yuanyi, the deputy chief soldier of the Guangdong Former Water Division and the current director of the Praise Painting of the Puppet Dynasty Military Department, is willing to abandon the darkness and surrender to the Ming and join the imperial court.

Mao Yuanyi?

The courtiers were taken aback.

These people didn't expect that such a heavyweight puppet court official would suddenly have to join the imperial court!

You must know that it has always been the officials of the imperial court who went to join the puppet dynasty because they were dissatisfied with the reform.

But now there are officials of the puppet dynasty who are willing to join the imperial court, and the key is still a deputy chief soldier of the former Guangdong Navy Division.

Tianqi didn't expect Zhang Gui to mention Mao Yunyi, so he also said quite cooperatively: "Quasi-playing, you should order Siquan to use it." ”

"Your Majesty, Mao Yuanyi is now waiting outside the palace for the edict, can you invite him to thank him?"

"In addition, he has important things to report to His Majesty, he wants to expose the masterminds behind the instructing Ge Yingdou and Wei Boxiang to leak the secrets of industrial drivers and steal the steel materials of the Industrial Division!"

"Xuan!"

As soon as Zhang Gui finished speaking, Tianqi couldn't wait to shout.

At this time, when a civil official of the DPRK and China heard this, his expression couldn't help but tighten.

Mao Yuanyi walked into the main hall not long after.

He was originally dissatisfied with Tianqi and Zhang Gui for changing the imperial examination system.

Although he himself was actually quite accomplished in military and equipment, as a son of a bureaucratic family, he was also more willing to protect the interests of the gentry and landlords, believing that he should respect virtue and etiquette, let the Han people only learn the way of the sages, and let the Han people be honest cattle and horses, instead of making enemies to outsiders in order not to let the common people be cattle and horses.

After all, what if this intensifies the contradictions between the foreign Yi and China and makes the border troubles worse?

Wouldn't it be difficult to enjoy peace forever?

In fact, this can be regarded as the typical thinking of feudal landlords in agrarian society, who are afraid of conflict, and want to have a quiet and good time, and they are harmonious and happy with each other.

But biologically speaking, interspecific fights are inevitable.

It is also human nature to be afraid of power and not to be virtuous, and it is the same for foreigners, because you are virtuous, people will really respect you, and they will not conflict with you.

Therefore, Mao Yuanyi's landlord thinking can only be said to be wishful thinking, and it can be regarded as a manifestation of Gou An's cowardice.

Of course, for the landlords, they felt that this was the most cost-effective way of diplomacy, after all, they were not short of money or land, and there was only one life.

It's just this kind of thinking, Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" has already criticized it.

Therefore, it cannot be said that the ancient Chinese people all thought like this, and there were also scholars and doctors from high positions, which can be regarded as one of the reasons for the immortality of Chinese civilization.

Turning back to the words, Mao Yuanyi also supported the puppet dynasty because of this landlord thinking, and was willing to follow Wang Wenkui to do it.

Of course, he also hopes to become a civil official in his heart, just like many military attaches who have good achievements in skills in the Ming Dynasty have become civil officials.

This can be regarded as a little selfish desire of his.

Mao Yuanyi, who was born as a generational eunuch, has a deep civil official plot, and is ashamed to just enter the official career as a military minister, but he is not good at current literature, so he has always been a military attaché.

But what Mao Yuanyi didn't expect was that after he supported Wang Wenkui to set up another imperial court, although Wang Wenkui let him become a civil official, he discriminated against him for not being a jinshi, and also discriminated against him for only supervising the manufacture of equipment, and he was not accomplished enough in science, so he didn't pay much attention to him.

In addition, Mao Yuanyi felt that the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were advanced and the technology was updated and iterated quickly, so according to the actual situation, he suggested that Wang Wenkui attach importance to the research and development of skills, improve the status of craftsmen, and even give official status to skilled technical masters, anyway, some honorary official titles, and do not affect the power structure.

But Mao Yuanyi found that Wang Wenkui, a traditional conservative bureaucrat who only talks about his background and dignity in his bones, even despised a military minister like him who was born in an official family, not to mention a craftsman who was not respected in this era!

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Therefore, Wang Wenkui not only did not adopt his suggestion, but also abolished the silver system of class craftsmen implemented during the Zhang Juzheng period, and required craftsmen to serve for free, saying that it was to restore the ancestral system, which in turn caused a large number of Guangdong craftsmen to passively slack off or escape into the gate of the wealthy family to become domestic slaves.

In addition, for the industrial department set up by the puppet dynasty to imitate the imperial court, there was no intention of investing money to let Mao Yuanyi organize craftsmen, but was only keen on the sidelines, asking him to make rifled guns as if he had stolen the rifled gun technical data stolen from the imperial court, Mao Yuanyi was helpless about this.

It's just that he didn't expect that the R&D silver that made rifled guns would also be drifted away! When it came to him, there wasn't much left.

The key point is that the imperial historian of the puppet dynasty also asked him for bribes, saying that if he did not give money, he would be impeached for embezzlement or that the court would not be allowed to allocate this money.

Mao Yuanyi felt that it was too difficult to do things in the puppet dynasty, and the key official positions were not promoted, and even some imperial historians began to suggest the dismissal of the industrial department because he did not pay bribes, saying that this was not in line with the purpose of restoring the ancestral system, and the implication was to remove him.

Mao Yuanyi also didn't expect that the pseudo-dynasty of restoring the ancestral system and respecting science would become like this, and the increase in taxes led to the people's lack of livelihood, not to mention, the key was to increase taxes or financial constraints, many craftsmen and workers were not paid all year round, and the officials were not evenly paid, but the government was becoming more and more corrupt.

The most important thing is that there are many ministers of the puppet dynasty, but none of them are in charge!

The ministers and scholars only care about making money, and the imperial historians and officials only care about beeping, and the key is also for the money beep, and they turn a deaf ear to the phenomenon that people have starved to death in the city of Guangzhou.

Therefore, under the instigation of Xichang's meticulous work, Mao Yuanyi decided to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, even if it was for the sake of more and more mourning and starvation in Guangdong, he had to rejoin the imperial court, even if he might be punished by the imperial court for this.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Guizao asked Xichang's fine work in Guangdong to help Mao Yuanyi return to Beijing and become his guest, and now he also appears in the court because of him.

"The guilty minister has seen Your Majesty!"

Mao Yuanyi reverently knelt in front of the apocalypse to plead guilty, although he once felt that the Son of Heaven in front of him was an unscrupulous person, but he had to admit that at least this Son of Heaven did not make the Ming Dynasty worse and worse, at least after he left the puppet dynasty's ruling area, he did not see the starvation in the city again, so he now does have a sense of guilt for his past behavior of joining the puppet dynasty, and he feels sorry for the people of the puppet dynasty and the Son of Heaven in front of him.

Tianqi didn't bother to pay attention to Mao Yuanyi's personal affairs, and only asked eagerly: "Uncle Zhang Guo said that you know who is helping the puppet dynasty steal the skills of the Industrial Division, who is it, tell me immediately!" ”

"Your Majesty, yes."

Mao Yuanyi hasn't finished yet.

At this time, Zhang Sizhi, the head of the Hanlin Academy, had already shouted first: "Mao Shimin, why are you doing this?!" Are you worthy of science?! ”