Chapter 403: The Battle of Burma - Part I
Zhu Shuren unexpectedly got the allegiance of Newton who was given for nothing, and of course he was very proud.
However, Newton is not yet fully in a state after all.
Historically, he graduated at the age of 22, stayed at home for two and a half years to 25 years old, and initially invented calculus. When I returned to Cambridge, I worked with other colleagues and spent two years perfecting it.
Finally, at the age of 27, he came up with calculus that was enough to be called the "first complete body", and then with this achievement, he sat in the "Lucas Professor of Mathematics" seat - don't underestimate this seat, it is the only supreme student in Cambridge, and can enjoy an additional £100 a year of the King's charter allowance, which is the only one.
Now that Newton has a better research environment, Zhu Shuren can occasionally point to his direction (which is limited to directions), or put forward needs, and it is estimated that Newton's research progress can also be accelerated. But in any case, it will take another year and a half or so to produce the final results, that is for sure, it will only be slow and not fast.
In this way, Newton would have to be busy until at least the middle of the six years of being well-off before he could free up his hands to deal with other things. For example, Zhu Shuren mentioned "preparing for the Ming Dynasty to build a modern, natural science-based university".
But fortunately, Zhu Shuren asked Newton to write a letter back to England to shake people, which also takes at least a year and a half - today's Ming four-masted high-speed sailing ship, a one-way trip to Britain takes nine months, and the fastest round trip is a year and a half.
It is also necessary to ensure that the ships that set sail in November must arrive in Malacca before the Chinese New Year, so as to ensure that they can sail through the southernmost part of Indochina at the turn of the monsoon at the turn of winter and spring, and take advantage of the southerly winds after the beginning of spring.
And if the monsoon is not used enough to rush to the trip, or the import and export goods and negotiations will be delayed, it is no problem for the enemy to be lenient for two years.
If all goes well, it will not be too late to start building a substantial science and engineering university in two years.
After sorting out these contexts, Zhu Shuren also knew that this unexpected harvest was in no hurry, so it was better to stock Newton for the time being, and the tenure would grow naturally.
As long as you provide sufficient resources and a good living environment, and then let him be completely free to do whatever he wants.
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The words are divided into two ends.
With the temporary stocking of Newton by Zhu Shuren, a month or two passed in a flash, and the wheel of history also entered the five years of well-off.
And the top priority of this year, naturally, is the little emperor Zhu Ciyu, who is finally going to officially become pro-government.
Zhu Shuren didn't want to make any extraneous toss in this matter, he needed to maintain the legitimacy and authority of his own son, and ensure that all plans were carried out smoothly and orders were forbidden.
So during the New Year, several grand celebrations were held in Nanjing, and the imperial court also announced some orders for amnesty-
However, before the amnesty, those who cheated on loans the previous year were either beheaded or had already been sent on the road and set off for overseas penal colonies, so the amnesty had nothing to do with those people, and there was no need to worry that the amnesty would destroy the imperial court's fiscal and tax system.
Zhu Shuren also saw this, so he chose to close the net in the early autumn of the fourth year of Xiaokang, because he knew the amnesty schedule in advance in his heart, and he wanted to kill the person who should be killed first.
This can also be regarded as a kind of prestige, letting the people of the world know that everything is in the plan of the imperial court, and which red lines cannot be touched.
After the celebration and amnesty, on the day of the Lantern Festival, Zhu Ciyu went to the Ming Tomb and the mausoleum of the first emperor Longwu to worship, and then sacrificed to the Taimiao, and officially announced the pro-government on the second day of the Lantern Festival.
After all the processes are completed, Zhu Ciyu is inevitably a little high-spirited, after all, he is a young man who has just turned twenty years old, and he can finally be in power, who doesn't want to do something big?
Having previously lived in the shadow of his maternal grandfather and father, such a person always wants to prove himself.
Especially Zhu Ciyu was born, his father has not yet been picked, and he is even more unable to "establish a virtuous" than the generation methods of other Ming emperors in previous dynasties-
The previous generations of Ming Emperors, most of them had their own fathers who were also emperors, although there was a method of establishing ancestors who were long, but if the eldest son was too unvirtuous, it was still possible to abolish it.
Only Zhu Ciyu, he himself became the emperor, but his father was not the emperor, so his father's other sons, because they had not gone through the procedures of succeeding to the emperor's grandson, could not threaten him at all.
However, according to the common sense of biology, in the case of multiple children, the eldest son is often not the highest IQ - according to the academic explanation of later generations, it is generally believed that when the eldest son is born, he lacks other sons to compete with him for paternal and maternal love, and he can get the favor alone, so the speed of forced intellectual development will be slower.
When the second son and the third son were born, there were already other brothers, and they had to compete for favor, which "rolled" a trend of early intellectual development.
(Note: If modern families do not have the conditions to have more children, according to relevant research, before giving birth to the first child, the family has a cat and a dog, and a little bit of parental love is shared, so that the child is born to realize that there are multiple objects in the pet, which can roll up the child's intellectual development early.) In the final analysis, the evolution and progress of human beings are forced by the environment, and the king of volumes is everywhere. )
Although Zhu Shuren has always asked Fang Ziling to give his son the best education, it is only an improvement in knowledge and insight. Zhu Ciyu has always had some shortcomings in the development of his personality, such as resistance to pressure and frustration, which is definitely weaker than that of young people who grow up in a normal environment.
Fortunately, his father never expected any more talents in his generation. Zhu Ciyu only needs to reverse the legitimacy of "Shen Yizhu" in his life, similar to the character of other "Emperor Taizongwen" in history.
Anyway, Zhu Shuren can take good care of himself and strive to live longer. In the future, if I want to have a well-rounded and talented emperor in the Ming Dynasty, I have to count on a "good holy grandson".
Under normal circumstances, of course, the Ming Dynasty wants to establish a successor. But overkill must be overcorrected, Zhu Ciyu's generation has fallen behind some personality shortcomings due to special circumstances, and it must be reversed a little more in his son's generation in the future.
Zhu Shuren has already made a decision in his heart, in the future, his grandson's generation must make a special case, Lixian once, and let a group of grandsons roll a volume, but don't last too long, it's best to divide the winner as soon as possible, finalize it thoroughly, and then let others stop being whimsical.
There is no problem with the volume, but you can't make Kangxi roll up until the old emperor dies to determine the winner, let alone use family affection and intimacy, and whether the grandson is filial to his father and ancestors as a bargaining chip.
And it is necessary to set the law of the ancestors, only this once, not as an example, everything must be done before Zhu Shu's life, and step on the brakes.
What's more, since he had this in mind from the beginning, Zhu Shuren would definitely keep a good institutional backhand. For example, he can completely design "Liyan" and "Lichang" to be naturally opposed at the beginning of the design stage.
The easiest way is to use the increasingly advanced biochemical technology and medical level of the Ming Dynasty, combined with the medical skills of traditional imperial doctors, and forcefully intervene in the future when choosing a queen for his son.
Gather all the girls who are candidates for the queen for a physical examination, and specially select a woman with a high probability of not being able to give birth, and set up the queen as the son. In this way, he can ensure that his son will not have a "son-in-law" of the first natural blood in the future.
Then, find some talented and moral women for your son as concubines, so that they can develop naturally. When the time comes, look at a bunch of concubines, who is the most suitable for being the emperor in terms of personality and comprehensive intelligence,
Then, in the name of no queen, the original infertile queen was abolished, and the mother of the child who was going to be established as the crown prince was promoted to the queen, which was the "concubine" made afterwards, even if the other children were older than this concubine, it was useless.
In this way, it not only ensured the ancestral law, but also realized an overkill constitution, and brought the quality of the Ming Emperor back on the right track.
This trick, if the emperor himself is completely in power, is difficult to use, because the emperor's decision-making is easily influenced by his own feelings, and who he appoints as the empress to whom to pass the throne to, it is easy to sway because of which concubine he prefers.
But who made the Ming Dynasty a special period now, with the opportunity that the emperor's biological father and mother are still alive and hold real power. For them, if they change to a genuine daughter-in-law, they don't have to think about whether the relationship between the daughter-in-law and the son is good or not, as long as the saint grandson is good.
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It's a little bit long-term, and it's not yet time to be urgent. However, the reason is the same, that is, Zhu Ciyu has a strong desire to prove himself for various reasons, and he is happy at a young age.
Therefore, after being pro-government, he wanted to do something big very much, and even just two or three days after the "Great Political Return" ceremony, he hurriedly roared and took the opportunity to ask his parents to say goodbye to Zhu Shuren about the use of troops against Burma and Vietnam this year.
Although Zhu Shuren returned to the regency, he has accumulated power for a long time after all. His treatment in daily etiquette could never be as weak as that of Pu Yi in later generations, but in comparison, it was more preferential than Dolgon's temporary blessing.
Even if Zhu Ciyu is in power, he still comes to say goodbye every day in the morning and evening, and privately calls Zhu Shuren "father king" (whether it is a king or not an emperor, this is the bottom limit).
However, Zhu Shuren's self-proclaimed self-proclaimed is still "lonely", and Zhu Ciyu still calls himself "I", all of which are unprecedented, although it is wonderful, but it has also happened, outsiders who don't understand the situation, if they see this scene, they will definitely feel weird.
After the father and son saluted, Zhu Ciyu begged if he could arrange the use of foreign troops as soon as possible.
"Father, it's still the first month of the year, and the midwinter has just passed, can you arrange to turn over the old accounts of Burma and Vietnam in the past few years to win over Tusi and shelter the remnants of my Ming rebels, and take advantage of the fact that the weather is not too hot, and use troops against Myanmar?"
Zhu Shuren decided to step on the brakes appropriately for his son's urgency: "Originally, it was not impossible to consider, the imperial court had already made a plan, and the army would be mobilized in five years." But at the moment, there are two small changes, let's delay it for another half a year. ”
Zhu Ciyu was a little unwilling, and humbly asked: "I don't know what happened?" I am shallow, so I ask my father to make it clear. ”
Zhu Shuren stretched out a few fingers and counted them one by one: "First of all, in the early winter of last year, Gu Temporal decided to take the rodenticide, disinfectants and some other strategic materials produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and developed by the Biochemical Institute to England for overseas trade.
At present, Kyushu Island is still urgently working overtime to restore inventory. This change will delay the production of at least half a year and three months, and now the risk of using troops is too great, and the reserve of medicine is insufficient, and Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses are likely to suffer unnecessary additional non-combat attrition.
Second, since the decision was made in the early winter of last year, we did not carry out diplomatic warm-up in advance at that time. It is necessary to know that in the use of foreign troops, although the soldiers are expensive and fast, and they are taken by surprise, they cannot be completely unknown.
The morale of the internal people should also be warmed up and mobilized in advance, so that the soldiers will share the same hatred for the enemy. If the unprepared troops were suddenly pulled out to invade others, the soldiers would be confused.
In this case, it is better to let the work of diplomatic negotiations be presided over by the emperor himself. It can be delayed until this summer, and let Li Dingguo escort the envoy of the Ministry of Gifts to condemn the other party's crime and listen to the other party's reply.
Because midsummer was the time when it was most impossible to use troops against the Southern Barbarians, Myanmar and Vietnam would definitely not give in immediately, but had a high probability of choosing to hold each other and collude with each other to see if there was a chance to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Even if they want to be soft in the end, they can delay it until the winter is coming, and then give in, hoping to use my heavenly kingdom to love face and like the prosperous atmosphere of all countries to come to the court to submit, and squeeze my Ming Dynasty's desire to use troops.
And as long as we are fully prepared, we can use troops unexpectedly in advance when there is still a long time lag before the onset of winter, and we can get twice the result with half the effort. ”
Zhu Ciyu was stunned by his father's training, and had to admit that he was still too young, although he was forced by his adoptive mother to read a lot of books, but he learned all the upright knowledge, as well as the natural science knowledge of science and engineering.
In the final analysis, Zhu Ciyu's life experience is still a blank slate, just like college students who have no social experience in later generations, even if they have a lot of knowledge in their stomachs, they can't use it directly.
Zhu Ciyu humbly admitted: "I know that I am wrong, and I really shouldn't do it, so I will wait for another three months and half a year, and in the summer, when the enemy is the most lax, let the Ministry of Rites condemn it." Then in the fall, such as early autumn, when the hottest time has passed a little, immediately use the army! In this way, it can also carry the whole winter and early spring in a row, and expand the results of the war against the south!
But then, what should I do this spring, and what should I do? Isn't it necessary to act vigorously and resolutely, continue to increase the intensity of verification in the reform of the law of abolishing the division of nationality, and deter opponents? ”
Zhu Shuren shook his head: "This thing really needs to be done, but there is no need to do it specially, just let it be." Whether or not the reform of the law has been successful since ancient times depends on whether the use of troops abroad is successful. As long as there is martial arts externally, it can be confirmed that the internal changes have improved the national strength, and the arrogance of opponents will naturally be suppressed.
This spring, if you feel too idle, let's finish the wedding first, and let your queen mother choose a queen for you. Now that you have reached the crown, how to pamper the concubines and palace maids in the harem before I don't care about you, the queen's candidate must listen to his parents. After marrying back, you don't favor the queen, that's your business, it doesn't matter if you are lonely and your mother! ”
Anyway, Zhu Shuren doesn't care how his son plays with women, the queen just needs to make a fake one, I wish the queen was not favored, and it would be easier to abolish it without children in the future, anyway, he is just a tool man.
After Zhu Ciyu heard this, he was also slightly shocked, he knew that sure enough, everything was still up to his father, and these far-sighted things should be listened to.
So, in the spring of the entire well-off five years, Zhu Ciyu didn't do anything about the three fires of the new monarch and the government, and after handing over some ritual work, his main energy was on marrying a wife.
In the end, his queen chose a slender and weak woman who looked beautiful, but was indeed learned and virtuous. Roughly speaking, it is equivalent to a Lin Daiyu-type character, but her temper is better than Lin Daiyu.
In other words, it is equivalent to Lin Daiyu's body, Xue Baochai's personality, and knowledge, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are similar, even if they are in between.
Looking at the daughter-in-law candidate selected by Zhu Shuren and Zhu Yuchan, it is estimated that even if no one does it in the future, the natural life span may not live beyond forty years old, so they specially chose a short-lived person with poor health to be the queen.
And Zhu Ciyu thinks that this queen is at least okay with her appearance, and it doesn't matter if her body is almost there, anyway, she can still love when she is a young couple. In ten or eight years, with the fullness of the emperor's harem, who cares if the queen will be sick and unable to fulfill his wife's obligations.
All the progress and rhythm are in Zhu Shuren's plan.
(End of chapter)