Zheng Chenggong's heavy attack on the Vietnamese Navy happened in July.

The follow-up pursuit and annihilation of the remnants of the enemy and the launching of a ground offensive are only a few words, but in fact, how can the dispatch of the army end so quickly. Before and after, he also fought until the end of the sixth year of Xiaokang, and then killed Zheng Zheng and the so-called lord of the Li Dynasty.

The subsequent large-scale rebel rebellion will have to continue for a few more months, so until the spring of the seventh year of Xiaokang, these bad things can't stop.

It's just that after the overall situation is decided, those physical tasks are not something that the emperor needs to worry about, and the front-line generals can solve it on their own, and the rear only needs to ensure the supply of money, food, and ammunition.

Zhu Ciyu spent a peaceful New Year in the city of Guangzhou. This is the first time since he was born to spend the New Year outside of Nanjing, and it is indispensable to take a good tour of the surrounding areas of Guangdong.

After the Lantern Festival, he even made a temporary decision to take the fleet to go to sea a little and go to Danzhou in Hainan to enjoy the tropical seascape for half a month.

Although Zhu Ciyu took the sea route during his southern tour last year, after all, he has not yet seen the tropical islands, and the sea at the mouth of the Pearl River is always turbid, considering that he will never come to Liangguang again in this life, Zhu Ciyu must of course seize the opportunity to see the blue and clear sea. Under the pretense of a name, he said that it was to "go to sea to inspect and deter Myanmar and Vietnam, and show the Ming Dynasty's control of the sea power in the South Seas."

Fortunately, Zhu Ciyu still had a father in charge of his head after all, and he didn't dare to be too arrogant and indulge in fun, so he finally hurriedly returned to Guangzhou City in early February, not giving the accompanying officials the opportunity to go back and complain to the regent.

After returning to Guangzhou, Gu Yanwu advised that since the names of Burma and Vietnam had been finalized, and the land that should be ceded and the scope of naturalization had been clarified, His Majesty should return to Beijing in the north and end this round of southern tours that lasted for nearly a year.

Zhu Ciyu was still a little reluctant, feeling that it was rare that the weather was cool in early spring, and he wanted to stay in Lingnan for a while. But he also knew very well in his heart that even if he stayed, it would only be for a month or two at most, and he would not delay it longer.

Because last year he has seen the heat of the summer in Guangzhou, so once the summer, he will definitely return to the north, this time there is no need to be too anxious on the way back, you can change to the land, so that you can travel back to Huguang and Jiangxi all the way, walk slowly on the road for a few months, and return to Nanjing City in autumn.

For the sake of this careful consideration, Zhu Ciyu inevitably discussed with Gu Yan about revenge against the Spaniards:

"Gu Ge Lao, although Vietnam surrendered, but last year in Guangzhou there was a rumor that the Francophiles wantonly slaughtered our Han people in Luzon. As a great emperor, I can't sit idly by and watch the Han people being brutalized by barbarians in vain. It's better to let Zheng Guogong beat the rabbit with grass and kill the Franc machine colonial fleet in Luzon. ”

Gu Yanwu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "This matter is still condemned first, and it is still necessary to give Zheng Guogong time to repair." He attacked Burma and Vietnam by sea repeatedly, and after countless battles, his soldiers were tired, and his ships were broken, how could he immediately start a border provocation again?

The country of the Francophiles is 50,000 miles away from the South Seas, even if we condemn it by the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for them to get new reinforcements within a year and a half, so what is there to hurry?

Revenge must be revenge, otherwise it will damage my prestige, but how to retaliate, let's discuss with the regent after returning to Beijing. Besides, I asked Your Majesty to tour Guangzhou in the south, because this place is close to Burma and Vietnam, and these two countries are in the southwest of our Ming Dynasty, in order to negotiate and mediate to divide the enemy as soon as possible.

Luzon is in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, more than 1,000 miles east of Guangzhou, but is directly south of Fujian. Even if you want to use troops in the future, you should use troops from Fujian, and Your Majesty will go back to Nanjing to hear the news. The kings of these Franc machines are tens of thousands of miles away, and they can't negotiate with them, so they can only use their strength directly. ”

Gu Yanwu is very principled, and he insists that the legal needs of the emperor's southern tour are because the emperor represents the country and can help the country quickly deal with the conditions of diplomatic negotiations and make decisions in a timely manner.

If there is no need for diplomacy, only the need for national defense, then the emperor should not personally ask, isn't the lesson of Mingbao Sect deep enough? The emperor is responsible for moving his mouth, not his knife. In the future, as long as he doesn't keep his mouth shut, the emperor doesn't have to deploy in advance.

Where can Zhu Ciyu be reasonable? In the end, he had to negotiate and say a compromise, he would play outside for another two months, and then slowly return north. Zheng Chenggong also asked him to rest and repair as soon as possible to restore his combat strength. As for the Spaniards who will not beat Luzon in the end, how to fight, the regent will make a decision after returning to Beijing.

Gu Yanwu saw that the emperor was still obedient and took half a step back, so he wouldn't force the other party to be in a hurry, so he turned a blind eye and let the emperor play outside for two more months.

Zhu Ciyu finally dragged on until more than half of March, and then drove north from Guangzhou, and crossed Shaoguan into Hunan at the end of the month. Then pass through Nanyue Heng Mountain, not by the mountains and water, Pan Huan half a month.

Before the emperor arrived, he also issued an order for the levy of conscription two months in advance, and asked the workers to build a road with green stone steps to climb Heng Mountain, and finally let people carry the emperor up the mountain with eight sedan chairs, and did some ceremonial activities of Fengyue sacrifice-

Under normal circumstances, even if the emperor is just sitting on his shoulder, it is far from enough for eight people to carry it, but the mountain road is rugged, and for the sake of safety, he urgently lowers the standard, and the follow-up will be handled according to this rule.

After sacrificing to Hengshan and returning to Hengyang City, Zhu Ciyu also inquired in private, saying where Zhang Xianzhong's family was twenty-six years ago.

There are Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang's old troops in the army, and they are also a little ashamed to hear this, after all, they were all "Western thieves" under Zhang Xianzhong, and some people pointed out the location of the ancient battlefield.

Zhu Ciyu also pretended to go to the sacrifice, putting on the emperor's fraternity posture. But what he was thinking in his heart was obvious: Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong killed King Gui Manmen back then, otherwise the emperor's grandfather might not have been able to be proclaimed emperor by his father in the patriarchal order......

At the beginning, the bloodlines of the Fuwang family and the Guiwang line were far and near, and they were all more recent than Lu Wangxi, and the Fuwang family was just accused of interfering in politics in advance, and the hatred with Donglin was too deep, so they couldn't take the throne.

But King Gui has no sin and no old hatred, in history, Shi Kefa tended to use King Gui to suppress King Fu's Lunxu, and it was Shi Kefa's indecision in history that he couldn't let go of this blood relationship, and finally Nanming was buried in chaos and sent to the court.

Although Zhu Ciyu didn't know about these changes, he knew very well in his heart that King Gui's destruction of the door would contribute to the preservation of the Ming Dynasty.

After crying and sacrificing King Gui, Zhu Ciyu continued to go north to Changsha at the end of April, and then did not stay long. From the beginning of May to Yueyang, at the end of the month to Wuchang, each place slightly depends on the hanging tour for more than ten days.

In Changsha, he climbed the Orange Island, Yueyang climbed the Yueyang Tower, and Wuchang climbed the Yellow Crane Tower to look down on the Parrot Island, and also went to the Daye Arsenal and the Iron and Steel Plant to inspect for a few days.

Those are the places where his father fought when he started a business, and Zhu Ciyu can be regarded as patriotic education, so that he knows how difficult it was for his father to go from a prison student and more than 20 years of entrepreneurship to such a world.

It wasn't until the time entered June that Zhu Ciyu felt hot in Wuchang, so Zhu Ciyu went down the river again, passed through Jiujiang, watched Poyang Lake, crossed the river to Lushan to escape the summer, and watched the incense burner peak waterfall to enjoy the coolness. During this period, it was indispensable to levy conscription in advance and build a bluestone slab step mountain road to Lushan Mountain.

At the end of July, when the weather gradually cooled, he went down to Lushan and returned to Nanjing to find his father and queen mother to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhu Ciyu knew very well that if he dragged on any longer and even missed the Mid-Autumn Festival, his father would definitely not give him a good look.

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The words are divided into two ends.

When Zhu Ciyu was out touring the mountains and rivers and returning from his southern tour, Zhu Shuren, who had worked hard, had to continue to deal with the government in Nanjing.

In the past year or so, there is not much difference between his son being in power and not being in government, and he is still needed as a regent to take charge of the court. The only change was that the diplomatic work and some of the military work were transferred out and handled by the mobile imperial battalion, and the government affairs of the remaining four ministries were still reported to Nanjing.

During the entire well-off six years, Zhu Shuren didn't have the energy to toss anything else, and it was better to be still. After entering the first half of the seven-year well-off, because he knew that Vietnam had been done, and the follow-up was only the work of dividing and dealing with the aftermath, he began to think about other grand strategies.

Gu Yanwu reported the news that "the people of Liangguang have heard of the slaughter of Nanyang Han people by the Luzon Franc machine", Zhu Shuren was of course the first to know about it, and he was not surprised more than his son.

In his previous life, when he was reading history books, he clearly recorded the three largest massacres of Han by the Spaniards in the Philippines.

Now it seems that it has happened, but it has been done more quietly and secretly, and the Spaniards have endured it for an extra few years.

This kind of thing is definitely going to be revenged. But it's a pity that Daming has enough enemies now.

Zhu Shuren originally had a timetable for the "Three Seven-Year Plans" of the Ming Dynasty, but now it should have been the time node when the first seven-year plan was successfully completed, the land tax and poll tax reforms were successfully promoted, and Myanmar and Vietnam were also eliminated.

Another Spain has emerged, and if it really wants to do it, it is estimated that it will delay the national strength of the Ming Dynasty for two more years, which will have to occupy the second seven-year plan cycle, and the money and grain will also be tilted in these directions.

This means that Zhu Shuren's decision to completely deal with the Great Northwest and Dzungar Mongolia in the second seven-year plan, and the Rakshasa people in the third seven-year plan to get rid of the Yaksa people, this timetable will be disrupted.

If you don't have enough time to farm and accumulate energy, you may end up facing the same dilemma as the Qing Dynasty in history, and the Galdan and the Rakshasa people will have to face a choice between the northwest and the northeast at the same time, and then they will have to face a choice, whether they can carry two enemies at the same time, or at least in the most difficult year or two, they will face two enemies at the same time.

Kangxi, who is parallel to time and space, chose to retreat some interests in Nebuchu, in exchange for the Rakshasa people not to support Galdan, and now Zhu Shuren doesn't want to let this benefit.

For this reason, while his son was spending a lot of time drinking outside, he didn't lose his hair. In the end, it was decided to do it.

"That's it, you have to believe in the speed of the follow-up construction and development of the Ming Dynasty, anyway, there are still five or six years before the imaginary Galdan is dealt with, and there are still more than ten years to deal with the Rakshasas.

Even if the progress of dealing with Galdan is delayed in the end, I believe that ten years later, the Ming Dynasty should have the strength to win against Galdan and the Rakshasa people at the same time! ”

With this awareness, Zhu Shuren finally decided to let Zheng Chenggong slowly repair for the rest of the year. When autumn and winter come again, it is time to hammer and knock on the Spaniards in Luzon, and not be ambiguous.

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After readjusting the rhythm of the national policy according to the changes in the situation, Zhu Shuren's remaining energy this year will naturally be invested in the farming and climbing technology of the "Second Seven-Year Plan of the Ming Dynasty".

So far, the first seven-year plan has been perfect. In the process of implementing the policies of "abolishing the separation of household registrations" and separating workers and peasants, and limiting the number of acres of farmland under peasant nationality, not many people dared to resist them.

Moreover, with the victories of foreign wars against Burma and Vietnam, the treasury has not been emptied, and these military exploits have proved the correctness of the change.

Since ancient times, the military exploits of opening up the territory and expanding the territory are the best support for the reform of internal affairs, finance, and taxation. When the military prestige comes up, the people below who speak the opposite tone will be weak and frightened, and their voices will become smaller.

Therefore, in the second seven-year plan, the above-mentioned reforms can be continued, as long as the pace is slightly adjusted and gradually extended to the north.

Generally speaking, according to the rhythm of law reform and reform, after the completion of the part of the money reform, the obstruction force that is most likely to jump out and oppose it will be annihilated. Then you can take advantage of the trend to further re-elect officials and officials, just like the relationship between Zhang Juzheng's whip law and the examination law.

Under this line of thought, Zhu Shuren's next goal is about to come out:

At the level of law change, he hopes to optimize the selection and evaluation system of Daming.

At the level of farming and climbing technology, the previous seven years of Daming focused on biochemical ring materials, and picked a considerable part of the "low-hanging fruits" that were easy to pick, heavy experiments, trial and error, and vigorously produced miracles.

In the following years, it is natural to pay attention to theoretical construction, and then combine theory with practice, and use physical and mathematical thinking to guide and plan scientific and technological progress, and can no longer just bury one's head in experiments.

Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem now - as early as the winter of the fourth year of Xiaokang, Newton, who had just invented the prototype of calculus, came to Daming to study and travel.

At that time, Zhu Shuren pointed out that his mathematical tools were not perfect enough, there was no double integration and triple integration, and it was not easy to solve the problems of real-world physical calculations and mechanical design, so he continued to retreat and study on his own. He also asked him to write a bunch of letters and give them to the Ming merchant fleet that went to England to sell plague drugs and disinfectants, and brought them over with high salaries and gifts.

Now, two and a half years have passed, and the time has come to the beginning of the seventh year of the well-off.

After the first year and a half of retreat, Newton had already thoroughly figured out the perfection of calculus, adding mathematical tools such as double and triple integrals, and also delving into other details of binomial development, and finally mastered high mathematics.

After the miraculous achievement of mathematical tools, from the spring of the sixth year of the well-off to the spring of the seventh year of the well-off, Newton devoted his energy to proving the "Fang Ziling's three conjectures", using mathematical methods and supplementary experiments to complete all the places that were not rigorous enough in the previous theory.

At this point, the "three conjectures" that Zhu Shuren first proposed, Fang Ziling helped sort out, and Newton completed and thoroughly proved can be regarded as the "three laws" that have completely become a complete body.

Of course, because in this life, the proposer of the conjecture and the prover of mathematics are done by different people, and the naming of the final law can no longer be called "Newton's three laws", but the surnames of all contributors must be appended.

This is actually normal in the scientific community, for example, in junior high school physics textbooks, the "Bio Savar's Law" of electromagnetic induction was proposed by Bio and Savar, and the "Yang Mills Equation" was proposed by Yang Zhenning and Mills.

The scientific community rarely lists both surnames and first names, and in this case, Zhu Shuren and Fang Ziling only need to list the "Zhu-Fang-Newton Three Laws".

Now, it is the historical moment when the Three Laws have completely ended the retreat and are about to go out and kill all sides. And the people who Zhu Shuren had asked Newton to write letters to recruit also came to Daming one after another.

On the occasion of such a scientific event, Zhu Shuren felt that it was really a golden opportunity to improve the education system of the Ming Dynasty and increase the subjects of the Ming Imperial Examination.

Therefore, the second seven-year plan for scientific research, farming, personnel, and education reform can be completely integrated into one, and each other can be promoted together.

A new curtain is rising.

(End of chapter)