This guy!

Chongzhen put down the curtain and began to look for the next candidate.

However, I didn't find a suitable one, not to mention the officials of the DPRK and China, even among the more than 6,000 Qinwang scholars, there was no suitable candidate, and I couldn't do this job without a certain engineering literacy.

Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing are suitable, but the two of them have to build a steam engine.

Compared with the god artillery, for the current Ming Dynasty, it is obviously the steam engine that is more important.

At the moment, Chongzhen searched for candidates in the "original memory", and after thinking about it carefully for a long time, he really thought of a candidate, that is, the author of the weapon diagram, the former right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, Bi Maokang.

In this memory, Chongzhen remembered that Bi Maokang's weapon diagram contained a self-generated firecracker.

This self-generated fire gun is actually a flintlock pistol, but there is only a very simple full picture, and even the ignition mechanism is not clear in the picture, and the text description is only a hundred words.

It's no wonder that Chongzhen didn't think of him before.

At that moment, Chongzhen said to Gao Qiqian outside the car window: "Gao Companion, immediately send someone to She County to recall Bi Maokang, the former right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department." ”

……

At the same time, at the end of Wuyi Alley, the Li house.

Li Xiangjun looked lazy and was grooming in the mirror.

Li Zhenli quietly came in with a pot of fruit, and stopped talking.

"Mom." Li Xiangjun saw it in the mirror and said, "Do you have something to tell me?" ”

"Girl, what's the matter with you and the saint today?" Li Zhenli asked in a low voice, "He didn't say that he would let you enter the palace and give you a name?" ”

"Mom, it's that I don't want to enter the palace." Li Xiangjun said.

"What?" Li Zhenli hurriedly said, "Are you stupid girl?" Why not? ”

After a pause, Li Zhenli said again: "Our woman's youth is only a short ten years, don't think that you are tender now, and the saint is rare for you, but when you are over thirty, the person is old and yellow, and the saint will not even look at you more, at this time, if you have the status of a concubine, you can still have no worries about food and clothing......

"Mom, my daughter is not here." Li Xiangjun interrupted.

"What?" Li Zhenli was stunned for a moment, and said in amazement, "Then what are your current ambitions?" ”

"It's better for my daughter to be a second wife." Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes swept a strange look, and said, "Open up territory for my Ming Dynasty and go down in history as a military general." ”

"This ......" Li Zhenli suddenly found that she couldn't understand Li Xiangjun.

What kind of military general do you say you are a girl from, and what kind of history will you go down in?

While the saint is still rare now, hurry into the palace to ask for a name, isn't it?

After thinking about it, Li Zhenli still decided to persuade Li Xiangjun again: "Girl, even if you don't plan for yourself, you have to plan for your future child, if you don't enter the palace, your child will not be famous." ”

Li Xiangjun's moth eyebrows frowned, it would be really tricky to have a child.

But soon Li Xiangjun was relieved again, and the future will be talked about later.

If she is really pregnant with the holy dragon seed, it will not be too late to enter the palace again.

[If you don't like Li Xiangjun, you can leave, please don't abuse]

……

When Chongzhen was busy ordering the technology tree before, there was a big quarrel in the cabinet.

In the past few months, Chongzhen has really fulfilled his promise, and there has been no interference in the affairs of the cabinet, and major and minor matters are decided by the three cabinet assistants, without the approval of the celebrant and supervisor.

This included the handling of the Wuding Tusi Wubikui rebellion.

In mid-September, Wuding Tusi Wubikui in Yunnan Province rebelled, and in less than half a month, he successively captured the cities of Dayao, Yao'an and Dingyuan, with more than 50,000 people!

Fortunately, Mu Tianbo reacted quickly, and soon gathered all kinds of toasts to quell Wubikui's rebellion in one fell swoop.

After the suppression of Wu Bikui, how to deal with the Wuding Tusi has become a difficult problem, according to the Qianguo Gong Mu Tianbo's recital, that is, the Wuding Tusi will be changed to the soil and returned to the stream.

However, the Tang Fantai of the Yunnan Political Envoy also played a secret performance, saying that Mu Tianbo was close to the villain and alienated from the gentleman, which had made Yunnan angry and resentful, and if the Wuding Tusi returned to the stream at this time, it would undoubtedly make the other Tusi lose their lips and teeth, and if there were any more careerists fanning from it, Yunnan would be in chaos.

The judgment of this Tang Fantai is undoubtedly very accurate.

Because the subsequent Shadingzhou Rebellion confirmed his judgment.

It's a pity that Shi Kefa and Xie Xuelong didn't think so, but approved Mu Tianbo's request and changed the Wuding Tusi to be governed by Liuguan.

There was no quarrel in the cabinet over this major event.

It was another thing that led to a quarrel in the cabinet.

Just yesterday, the envoys sent by Li Zicheng finally arrived in Nanjing and offered to trade cattle, sheep and horses for grain.

So after going straight today, Shi Kefa summoned Xie Xuelong and Lu Zhenfei to his straight room to discuss whether to agree to Shun Dynasty's trade request?

As a result, the three of them quarreled as they spoke.

Shi Kefa was not in favor of trade, but Xie Xuelong and Lu Zhenfei were in favor of it.

Xie Xuelong said excitedly: "Shou Kuo, my Ming Dynasty has now lost its horse-producing land, how similar is the situation to the original Southern Song Dynasty?" The defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty was the defeat of the lack of cavalry, and the Ming Dynasty could not repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

Lu Zhenfei frowned and said: "The Southern Song Dynasty may not be defeated by the lack of cavalry, but if I want to form a cavalry, I must get horses from Mongolia. ”

Shi Kefa insisted: "I, Daming, are not in a hurry to launch the Northern Expedition now, so the cavalry is not so important, but the Puppet Shun has already had a famine, and if we agree to the Puppet Shun's request to trade with it, wouldn't this move be an enemy?" Why not take this opportunity to weaken the puppet Shun national power? ”

Shi Kefa's consideration is actually not wrong.

Taking the opportunity to weaken the national strength of the puppet Shun will be beneficial to the Ming Dynasty in the long run.

"Shou Kuo!" Xie Xuelong hurriedly said, "Right now, my Ming and Pseudo-Shun are allies. ”

"Definitely." Shi Kefa said, "I don't have an alliance agreement with the Puppet Shun, it's just that the Holy Lord and the Puppet Shun Emperor have a gentleman's agreement, but this is not an informal covenant. ”

Xie Xuelong clapped his hands and said: "Even if the two families are not allies, if the pseudo-shun causes a great loss of national strength due to famine, and then is destroyed by Jiannu, I am afraid it will not be a good thing for my Ming Dynasty." ”

"It's unfounded." Shi Kefa smiled and said, "With the constraints of my Ming Dynasty, Jiannu categorically did not dare to easily launch a war of annihilation against the Puppet Shun, so even if the Puppet Shun suffered a heavy blow to the national strength, it was enough to protect itself, even so, why did our Ming Dynasty exchange precious grain for cattle, sheep and horses that were not urgently needed?" ”

"How can cattle, sheep and horses not be urgently needed?" Xie Xuelong was already very unhappy at this time.

Anyone who is said by others will not be happy, not to mention that he is still the second assistant.

Xie Xuelong said again: "If I want to form cavalry, I must have a large number of war horses. ”

"But now I'm not in a hurry to form a cavalry." After saying this, Shi Kefa suddenly said again, "Xie Ge Lao, you are so anxious to reach a trade with the pseudo-Shun, could it be because of that batch of Zhancheng rice?" ”

Xie Xuelong's face completely collapsed, because Shi Kefa revealed his subtlety, he really wanted to sell rice.

Because the Xuzhou War in the first half of this year missed the agricultural time, resulting in Xuzhou, Guide, and Kaifeng prefectures could only replant wheat and wheat, so the Xie family judged that there would be a big gap in the grain supply in the north this year.

Although there is a surplus of grain in Jiangnan, it is estimated that it will not be able to fill such a big gap, and Huguang's annual situation this year is not very good, so the Xie family bought a batch of rice from Zhancheng.

But what the Xie family didn't expect was that more than a month ago, the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan suddenly became agitated and proposed to ask the imperial court to lift the sea ban, and the cabinet lifted the sea ban without bearing the pressure.

By the way, the Jiangnan gentry and businessmen proposed to open the sea ban, which has a lot to do with the development of industry and commerce.

Because capital is born to pursue profits, born to hate all constraints, born to pursue a free trade environment, with the vigorous development of industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River, the volume of foreign trade began to surge, only with the port of Yue, Ningbo and Panyu port in Guangzhou, it has been difficult to meet the demand for foreign trade.

So the Chamber of Commerce demanded that the sea ban be lifted.

As a result, as soon as the sea ban was opened, foreign businessmen from all over the world came one after another.

Seagoing vessels engaged in ocean-going trade need ballast stones.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty generally used porcelain as ballast stone, and the merchant ships of Xiyi took rice as ballast stone, and then the price of rice in the Jiangnan market collapsed, and the Xie family was left with only two choices, either let this batch of rice rot in their own warehouse, or sell it at a low price, and then at this time, the pseudo-obedient messenger arrived.

Xie Xuelong immediately saw a business opportunity, if it works well, this time they will not only have to lose money, but may also be able to make a lot of money.

In fact, the three cabinet ministers are well aware of this matter.

But Shi Kefa said it directly, and he fell into Xuelong's face, which was a bit of a slap in the face, and this was over.

Seeing that Xie Xuelong's face was not good-looking, Lu Zhenfei proposed: "Shou Yu, Xie Ge Lao, this matter is very high, otherwise we will ask the Holy Lord, please ask the Holy Lord to decide?" ”

"Not necessarily." Shi Kefa said, "This matter will be decided by the Cabinet Department." ”

Now Lu Zhenfei's face also fell, this is really not giving any face, although you are the first assistant, you can decide at the critical moment, but we are also the second assistant and the third assistant of the cabinet, so we can respect our opinions, right? Is it really good that this doesn't take me and the old man of the Reconciliation Pavilion in the slightest?

……

So, as soon as Chongzhen returned to Guozijian from Wuyi Lane, something happened in the court.

Li Ruolian walked quickly to Chongzhen and said in a low voice: "Holy Lord, the matter of Shi Kefa's edict has been leaked!" Now the imperial historians of the Manchu Dynasty are busy playing a chapter to impeach him. ”

"Shi Kefa's edict?" Chongzhen was startled when he heard this, "What kind of edict is he pretending?" ”

"It was the secret edict that Shi Kefa wrote to Meng Zhaoxiang last time when the Donglin Party was plotting to seize the Shengshang's inner money." Li Ruolian said, "I was suddenly revealed last night. ”

"Hey, that's what you're talking about." Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

He also said: "As long as Meng Zhaoxiang and a few of them don't pick up this matter, Shi Kefa himself doesn't admit it, and no one can find evidence, so let those imperial historians impeach." ”

Li Ruolian sighed and said, "Shi Kefa has already admitted it. ”

"What?" Chongzhen was stunned and said, "Why did he admit it?" ”

Li Ruolian said: "This matter has something to do with the old servant of Shi Kefa's family. ”

It turned out that Shi Kefa's old servant was old and wanted to go back to his hometown to live in his old age, and at the same time recommended his grandson to Shi Kefa as a long-term follower, but Shi Kefa refused.

So the old servant held a grudge.

shook out the matter of Shi Kefa's overbearing edict at the beginning.

The old servant also took out a note with the word Jiao Zhao written on it.

The old servant said that when the Donglin Party conspired to seize the Shengshang's internal money, he went to Jiuqing to ask Shi Kefa for help, but when Shi Kefa had nothing to do, he suddenly found that there was an extra note on the table, which said Edict.

After that, Shi Kefa discussed the details of the edict with Jiuqing.

What the old servant said was the truth, but if it was someone else, he would definitely not admit it to death.

However, Shi Kefa is a gentleman, and in the face of the old servant's testimony and the collective interrogation of the imperial historian, he actually admitted it directly, and it is irretrievable if he wants to recover it.

"This Shi Kefa!" Chongzhen was furious and said, "He is looking for death by himself." ”

Li Ruolian sighed and said: "Jiao Zhao is also one of the top ten unforgivable crimes, since Shi Kefa has admitted it, even the Holy One cannot forgive his crimes, at most the crime is not as good as his family." ”

This kind of thing is not much different from killing the king.

Since Shi Kefa admitted it, it is true that even Chongzhen can't save him.

However, Chongzhen is Chongzhen in the end, and he will not be blinded by appearances.

"Li Ruolian, don't you think this thing is a little weird?" Chongzhen said quietly.

Li Ruolian said: "The minister also thinks this thing is a little strange, Shi Kefa has been dismissing the old servant for a few months, this old servant doesn't report it sooner or later, why did he choose to report it at this time?" ”

Chongzhen asked, "This old servant, have you Jinyiwei investigated?" ”

"We investigated, but we didn't find any useful leads." Li Ruolian said with some shame.

Chongzhen didn't mean to blame, today's Jinyiwei is no longer the original Jinyiwei, the center of gravity of Jinyiwei has always been in the north, in Beijing, the power of the south is very weak.

Because by the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Jinyiwei's funds were pitiful.

With such a pitiful amount of funds, it is impossible to retain real talents.

There are no available talents, Li Ruolian is three heads and six arms, and he can't do anything.

Looking at Li Ruolian, Chongzhen was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to give Jinyiwei another chance?

Chongzhen himself really hated Jinyiwei very much, because Jinyiwei mainly acted as Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and ears from the beginning of its birth, and was specially used to monitor civil and military officials.

It also has functions such as collecting intelligence from the outside world, plotting rebellion, and even assassinating enemy generals, but that is only incidental.

The main duty of the Jinyi Guard was to monitor the civil and military officials of the court and prevent the officials from rebelling.

At the craziest time, Jinyiwei would even monitor the Chinese military officials of the DPRK at 360 degrees without dead ends, and even which minister slept in which concubine's room last night and what he said to the concubine was clear.

This makes people speechless, as for not even having the most basic trust?

If the brocade clothes and guards are retained, the internal functions must be eliminated, and the external functions must be strengthened.