Chapter 35: Zid's Transformation

Zhu Yunwen was not wrong in judging Qi De.

Zid still has options.

It's just that Qi De didn't approve of his own method, and even felt ashamed, he said, "The minister is ashamed, and now there can only be one way. That's the default situation. Keep the peace at sea with the Northern Thieves."

When Zhu Yunwen heard Qi De's words, he was immediately furious and said, "This is the reason why the Fujian Navy Division has not attacked during this period of time, if I don't ask, will you never be ready to say it. I don't think it's the Fujian sailors who are cowardly, but you who are cowardly."

Zhu Yunwen had already made mental preparations, but he never expected that the people below would actually do this.

Yes, Zhu Yunwen understands when he thinks about it.

Although this strategy was not told to him, it was already being implemented. After all, in the past month or two, there has not been any major war at sea.

Zhu Yunwen thought that the people below were accumulating strength, after all, they had lost the first two times. He never thought that the people below were not ready to fight. What's even more unexpected is that this thing is likely to be the last thing he knew.

How did this not make Zhu Yunwen angry.

Zhu Yunwen thought that the situation in the world was passive enough. Now he found out that something was wrong, and in fact the situation was even worse than he imagined.

Qi De said, "Your Majesty, the minister will never dare to deceive Your Majesty, in fact, the minister is ready to fight for the third time. But there is a lot of resistance on all fronts. There are some things that the minister is also considering, even if His Majesty doesn't ask, the minister has to report it. It's just that there's a lot going on now. Your Majesty has not yet seen the minister's recital."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Qi De and secretly exhaled.

I only feel that this world seems to be a big net, he seems to be in the middle to grasp this big net, but he doesn't know if he is mastered by this big net.

Zhu Yunwen understands more and more that many things are involuntary.

It's easy for him to lose his temper with Zid, it's easy to change it, and it's not difficult to kill it, but is it easy to change it? Qi De is a minister who came up in the late Hongwu period, and even Zhu Yuanzhang has a good evaluation of Qi De.

It can be regarded as a minister who has made military achievements among the civilian officials.

Such ministers are rare.

Zhu Yunwen secretly said in his heart: "Don't be hasty and be patient. No haste, be patient." He suppressed the anger in his heart, and he didn't believe a word of Zid's explanation. But he just had to use Zid.

Zhu Yunwen said, "I will give you a chance to explain your reasons."

Zid said, "There are many people who come to persuade the minister not to say that things are done too much. There are a lot of people who have to be considered, and these people are all in the maritime business. If the fighting between the two sides escalates, the sea trade routes will be cut off."

Zhu Yunwen sneered and said, "That's it? Lord Qi has also joined these people."

These people Zhu Yunwen knew in his heart that they were a powerful force, but Zhu Yunwen didn't think that this was the reason for Qi De to back down, after all, Qi De was not a weak person, nor was he a person who could be bought.

Zid couldn't be in his current position if he was so weak.

Qi De is essentially a member of the hardliners of civilian officials against military generals, but in the current situation, Qi De does not dare to say something out of place. But he's doing it.

In Qi De's view, the martial forces must be under the management of the imperial court, and the so-called imperial court is the civil official group. And the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies does not seem to be the yamen of the imperial court.

What kind of situation will this face, it is not surprising that Qi De will be killed one day. Zide still did not change his original intention.

How can you give in so easily?

Zide said, "Your Majesty knows the minister, but does Your Majesty know the importance of customs taxes in the current household expenses?"

Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment and said, "How important?"

Zide said, "The household must not be without the customs silver."

"The ministers don't know the specific expenses of the household department, but the ministers know that this year's fierce battle, the household department is very difficult, and the customs tax is nearly 10 million taels, which is one of the pillars of the imperial court. Once the war starts, the customs tax will be much less, or almost none."

"This is the imperial court

Acceptable."

"Ministers can only focus on the overall situation."

Zhu Yunwen was silent for a while, and said secretly in his heart, "Is it so difficult for the household?"

It's not that Zhu Yunwen doesn't know that the household is difficult.

But to fight?

It's normal to be a little tougher.

Even just looking at the Ming Dynasty taxes, the total amount of the 28th year of Hongwu and the first year of Jianwen has increased, especially this year, the tax in Nanjing can even reach the amount of the Hongwu period. That's pretty remarkable.

After all, compared with the Hongwu period, there is less tax in Hebei, Liaodong and other places.

In Zhu Yunwen's view, it is already very impressive.

Isn't it enough to fight a war?

It's just this question, Zhu Yunwen is not ready to ask Qi De.

After all, Zid doesn't care about this.

He was ready to ask Fang Xiaoru.

Zhu Yunwen asked, "Do you have to maintain the current situation?"

Zide said, "Naturally not, the minister is going to build a shipyard in Guangdong, build large ships and build an iron factory. After the future ship is strong, the situation will be saved. The current situation is not enough to save the situation. Please take a closer look at it."

Zid said a word, and he thought about it for a long time.

As I said before, there are many people among the civil officials who are not so disgusted with He Xi's theory.

Zid is one of them.

Zid is ambivalent about He Xi's doctrine.

Qi De is an official and a follower, although he was born in Confucianism, he cannot be regarded as a Confucian minister. It is a typical pragmatist, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were actually a lot of this. They don't talk about Taoism or scriptures, they just see if they can do things well.

The theoretical method that can do things well is a good method, a good theory.

Of course, for some of the attacks of heaven and man in He Xi's doctrine. Cancel the preferential treatment of the doctor or something. Zid was just uncomfortable, too. If it worked, Zid didn't mind putting it into practice.

Essentially, Zid's background is that of a bureaucrat, not a scholar.

He wasn't exactly on the side of the doctor, he just hated changes that weren't within his control.

Now, Qi De is directly facing the pressure of the Northern Army's naval division, and the only way he can think of is to copy some of Beijing's policies one-to-one. He set everything up in Guangdong. Also well thought out. On the one hand, it was placed on the southeast coast, and he was worried about the attack of the naval division of the Northern Army.

He understands very well that it is not that the Northern Army cannot hit the coast, but that it does not want to fight.

It's just that the situation can change at any time.

On the other hand, Foshan, Guangdong Province itself is based on iron smelting. In his opinion, it is available.

Import iron ore and timber from Guangxi, smelt in Foshan, only Foshan's advantage, and at the same time can also transport Guangxi timber out by water transport, the southeast coastal area, is indeed a lack of qualified timber, but it does not mean that there is only a big wood in the northeast.

The southwestern wood is also famous, but it is not easy to transport.

The golden silk nanmu in the southwest was transported from the southwest, and it was simply transported with human life. But Guangxi is different. The Guangdong water system is a pattern of three rivers returning to the sea, and it is not difficult for Guangxi Damu to be transported from Guangxi to Guangdong.

In Qi De's view, these favorable conditions were enough for him to establish a situation inferior to Liaodong in Guangdong.

It's just a pity that Zid still doesn't understand the advantages of coal over wood. It is not impossible to use wood instead of coal in large quantities. It's just that the cost will be too high. Officials aren't too cost-sensitive, though.

However, the most important sentence in Qi De's remarks is still the admiration of He Xi's theory.

Zid's words were a big risk.

On the one hand, Qi Dezhi found it difficult to deal with Beijing without studying He Xi's doctrine. The battlefield is the fairest arena, what you can do is what you can, what you can't do is not okay, and it's impossible to cheat.

On the other hand, the path of public opinion replacing the will of heaven is silently agreed with by Zide in his heart.

After all, he Ben

Qualitatively, he doesn't care too much about the induction of heaven and man. It's just that this is a tradition, used to check and balance the emperor and unite the people. Since He Xi has an alternative plan here, it seems that he can look forward to it.

And Qi De's sentence also had a great impact on Zhu Yunwen.

Like Qi De, Zhu Yunwen is not a believer in that doctrine. Even Qi De's words reminded Zhu Yunwen a lot. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's confession back then.