Qi Changguo replied: "I went to Jiangzuo Temple." ”

"What are you going to do?"

Qi Jiguang asked.

Qi Changguo hesitated for a moment, and then replied truthfully:

"Find Zhao Houhu to talk about the steam engine, because the Son of Heaven said that there will be such a machine, and the son also wants to build him for the benefit of the country."

Qi Jiguang furrowed his eyebrows after hearing this.

"Father's anger!"

Qi Changguo saw him twisting his eyebrows, so he hurriedly said something.

Qi Jiguang didn't have a seizure, but only waved his hand and said:

"That's it! Since it is of divine will, let it be as you please. ”

"It's just that Your Majesty decreed today that the country's highest technical achievement award system should be established, limited to three per year, and a generous reward of silver should be given, as well as an increase in official ranks."

"Your Majesty has built a four-wheeled carriage because of you, and you are among the three, and your brother is also on the list for making batteries with salt water."

After speaking, Qi Jiguang said: "Because of this, two people in my Qi family should be knighted by this, and I don't know if there will be any Confucian scholars who think that it is my Qi family that makes His Majesty good at strange skills, and thinks that my Qi family is a courtier." ”

"Then father, is the child going to go to the book to excuse himself?"

Qi Changguo replied.

"What to do! We are loyal to Your Majesty, not the people of the world, no matter what the people of the world think! ”

Qi Jiguang replied angrily and went to the back room.

Qi Changguo said yes, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has requested His Royal Highness King Zheng and Qi Xingguo, the commander of the horses, to be the secretary of justice, and the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, Qi Changguo, to be the secretary of justice, and His Royal Highness King Zheng and Qi Duwei of the horses to be knighted one level higher because of the emperor's relatives and relatives."

On this day, Shen Shen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has always presented to Zhu Yijun about the knighthood of those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of science and technology in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Very good!" However, in the future, those who have made great contributions to the learning and craftsmanship of hundreds of schools of thought will be given another lord, and the treatment will also be determined according to the grade. ”

"In addition, there will be academicians of the Chongli Academy and the Chongli Academy."

"For the first time, King Zheng, Qi Juma and Qi Shilang, who were knighted for their great achievements in learning and skills, are all academicians of the Chongli Academy, and those who have made great contributions to the selection of hundreds of schools of learning and skills will be recommended by the three of them to report to me, and will no longer be pushed by the Ministry of Rites officials, so as not to guide the layman to guide the insider, and will be pushed once a year, which must be determined before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year."

After Zhu Yijun gave this order, Shen always said yes, and said:

"Your Majesty! That's great! ”

Zhu Yijun smiled slightly, and then asked Wang Xuan, the head of the household:

"Now that the year has come to an end, what is the scale of the expected increase in the annual revenue of state funds this year, and in addition, the number of people in this year's census."

"Your Majesty!"

"At present, since the peace of Burma and the recovery of Haojing, due to the great increase in the trade volume of Burma, Siam, Goa, etc., the tariff on the South China Sea has increased to more than 6.2 million taels of silver dollars per year;"

"In China, because of the exemption from forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi, the exemption of horse price silver, forage silver, and the issuance of subscription coupons to benefit the people, the people have become very rich, and after commerce has become more and more prosperous, the commercial tax has also increased by more than 5.7 million taels of silver dollars;"

"Coupled with the internal and external investment, mining and practical dividends, the income increased by more than 7.9 million taels of silver dollars;"

"The total annual income has increased by 20 million taels of silver dollars, and the annual income has reached more than 50 million taels of silver dollars."

Wang Xun stepped forward at this time and replied.

"It has reached the scale of more than 50 million, so in this way, the previous restructuring and the implementation of the new ceremony are really correct."

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

"Your Majesty said yes!"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, because of Your Majesty's good governance, the country is far richer today than in previous generations."

At this time, Shen Shixing got up and replied.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "All the kings have made great contributions!" ”

Immediately, Wang Xuan, the head of the household department, said: "As for the population, after being reported by the various political secretaries and the capital divisions, the total number of people in this dynasty has been 20,000 and 80 million. ”

"The income of the national treasury far exceeds the target set by the former master."

"Only this population has not reached 30,000,000, and now that the people are rich and the country is rich, then the next step is to encourage more childbearing, and the more people of the Han family in the country, the more conducive to foreign education."

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

Shoufu Shen Shixing said yes at this time.

Then, Shen Shixing also followed: "Your Majesty, since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the world has been governed, not only the people are rich and the country is rich, and the martial arts are prominent, but also the prosperity of civil governance. ”

That's it.

Zhu Yijun bowed his head: "Very good, the canon has been completed, then the next step is to compile and revise the history of the country, and the Qing remembers that the court will discuss this matter; In addition, the official language pinyin must be compiled as soon as possible, and the printing project and continuation of the "Yongle Canon" must also be carried out as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!"

At present, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is thriving, and it has not taken a sharp turn after ten years of Wanli as in the original history, and is even expanding outward, the national income is also increasing, and the population is increasing.

Zhu Yijun was very pleased with this.

And because of this, his prestige as an emperor is gradually rising.

Whether it is the ruling class or the ruled class, many people have begun to have a deeper and deeper impression of Zhu Yijun, the emperor, and have begun to accept more and more the concept of divine will, that is, the will of heaven, because the country's economy is getting richer and richer.

That is, he is willing to deify Zhu Yijun and compare Zhu Yijun to the reincarnation of Yao Shun, and to the saint who is rare to see and even omniscient.

This is not something that Zhu Yijun can stop himself, it is many people who take the initiative to choose this.

One is because people are inert, unwilling to think, and more willing to admit that a person is particularly smart and powerful, and then rely on a person, so that they can live with peace of mind.

Therefore, people always like to make heroes, especially heroes who can do anything.

This matter is the same as Zhu Yijun, after the government and the people are living more and more affluent, they are more willing to take the initiative to create Zhu Yijun into a generation of holy masters, and then give themselves more reasons to enjoy a comfortable life, not to think about danger, and to believe that the great holy lord will make them all right.

The second is that people with ulterior motives are willing to consolidate the hierarchical system of the entire society by deifying and infinitely elevating Zhu Yijun's status, and then consolidate their own interests, after all, if the emperor is the most holy lord, since he represents the will of heaven, then as the emperor's henchman, doesn't he also represent the will of heaven?

Therefore, Rao is Zhu Yijun asked the people of the world to do things from reality in the name of Zhang Juzheng, and it is still inevitable that the people of the world will do things according to his will means that it means correct, and what is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is "the will of heaven", rather than "seeking truth from facts".

Of course.

Zhu Yijun knew that this was inevitable, and he could not expect to make the people's wisdom open to the point of absolutely not believing in authority in just a dozen years.

He knew it was going to take a process and he needed to slowly correct it in the future.

There may be more than one generation, and some lessons may even be needed.

But in any case, the problems caused by this phenomenon are not prominent, but it is more conducive to him to make the current Ming Dynasty more prosperous.

Otherwise, pinyin also has vernacular writing, as well as not only respecting Confucianism, and not degrading science and technology to strange skills and tricks, but giving knighthood and honor to those who have made great achievements in science and technology, etc., will only encounter greater obstacles, and can still be implemented now, because he is the emperor with great prestige, and many people have actively or passively accepted the concept of divine will, that is, the will of heaven, without raising many objections.

However, it is not without dissenters and opponents.

There were still many people from the landlord class who were unwilling to accept the new gifts.

Because the new rites treat their people as human beings!

After all, Xinli is in the name of Confucian sages advocating "people-oriented", treating the common people and scholars as children with the same dignity, and overemphasizing the difference between Huayi and Yi, which makes many landlords who are accustomed to the traditional landlord society unable to be slave owners who enslave the Han people, or as Lu Xun said, they cannot eat the Han people wantonly by lying down and just reciting a few words of benevolence and morality in their mouths.

And even if the traditional landlords wanted to be superior, they had to pay a greater price, either spending more money or leaving their homeland to colonize outside.

Therefore, there are still landlords who are rebelling against Xinli.

However, this time it was not the bureaucrats and doctors who rebelled, nor the vassal kings, but the Tusi Yang Yinglong.

"Yang Yinglong is reversed?"

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun had just passed a good year, and the eunuch Sun Xin informed him of the situation.

Sorry for the delay today, only updated now

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