"Zhu Qing also holds this opinion?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun looked at Li Chengliang, Xiao Daheng and other Privy Council officials.

Li Chengliang replied at this time: "Your Majesty, it is a righteous move to destroy the Japanese for the people, not to mention, the Japanese do not know etiquette, even if it is a righteous etiquette, it should be destroyed, so the ministers agree to destroy the Japanese!" ”

"The minister also agrees, if God does not take it, he will be blamed, and the appearance of the steam engine shows that it is the will of heaven to destroy the Japanese, and presumably the holy will has the same intention."

Xiao Daheng followed and replied.

"The minister agrees."

"The minister agrees."

……

For a while, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and the secretary of the ministry all agreed, and Qi Jiguang also followed: "Your Majesty, the cabinet ministers also agree. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Since the time has come, let's make a plan to exterminate the Japanese to benefit the people, since the Tokugawa clan has established its own shogunate, it will directly issue an order to solicit it, and there is no need to wait for its reply!" ”

"Yes!"

And so it goes.

The Ming Dynasty officially determined that it would destroy the Japanese fruit.

However, the extermination of the Japanese is only one goal, and there are many steps to accomplish this goal.

These steps involve material preparation, troop mobilization, intelligence gathering, and so on.

In any case, once the Ming Dynasty really decides to exterminate the Japanese, it means that the war machine is about to be launched, which means that there will be a great demand for manpower and material resources.

In this way, once the steam engine began to be used on a large scale, the large number of unemployed people would be arranged by the imperial court to serve in the war effort.

However, these things are done by officials such as the Cabinet and the Privy Council.

Zhu Yijun didn't have to participate in person, he just listened to the resolution every day and made a decision.

Not long after the matter of exterminating the Japanese was decided, Zhu Yijun also received a chapter from Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Ieyasu through the secret music on the brocade guard.

Tokugawa Ieyasuaki sent a chapter that he was reluctant to go to the shogunate, and listed various reasons why he could not go to the shogunate by himself.

Tokugawa Iekanto's secret music on the Nishiki guard pushed the responsibility for his reluctance to go to the position of shogun to the daimyo who supported him under him.

"Regardless of whether this Tokugawa Ieyasu is sincere or false, since he is unwilling to go to the shogunate on his face, it is just the right reason to destroy the Japanese."

Zhu Yijun said this, and instructed Qi Jiguang: "Let them plan to ask for the edict of the Japanese state and issue it to the world." ”

Qi Jiguang said yes.

It is now the twenty-first year of Wanli, and the hibiscus flowers are full of flowers.

Zhu Yijun looked out the window after talking to Qi Jiguang, and at this time, the hibiscus flowers outside the window were already blooming.

And just when this hibiscus opened, the edict of the Ming Dynasty to levy the Japanese again was officially issued.

Soon, the news spread and became known to the world.

"The imperial court is going to levy the Japanese again, and sure enough, Your Majesty will do it!"

"I'm afraid that since the re-establishment of the Jiangzuo Temple, Your Majesty has realized his ambition to expand the territory in order to be able to use such a miraculous skill as the steam engine today."

After Luo Wanhua learned the news, he said to Yu Shenxing, who went south and returned to his hometown with him.

Yu Shenxing smiled slightly and said, "This has nothing to do with us. ”

Luo Wanhua said at this time: "It still matters, we can return to our hometown, it is the emperor's grace, although we don't have to participate in the big politics now, we should also follow the holy will and do something for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Yu Shenxing asked.

Luo Wanhua said: "The contemptible people plan to persuade the clansmen to borrow a sum of money from the Daming Bank in the name of the clan and buy a steam spinning wheel from the imperial court to return to their hometown to spin. ”

"Originally, once the steam spinning wheel was promoted, the government would take advantage of the people, so how could the public follow and seize the people's benefits?"

Yu Shenxing looked up at Luo Wanhua sharply.

Luo Wanhua replied: "This is wrong! Now we are old and the people! At this time, we bought a steam spinning wheel precisely to prevent the people's interests from being taken away by the government and businessmen in the future, so that the world's commerce is not all bureaucratic controlled commerce. ”

"No!"

"How can your mansion be compared with the imperial court, the imperial court has talents who are familiar with steam engines, and the public only buys the machine back, which is useless, but it is just a waste of consumables."

"Besides, by doing this, the public is obviously helping more unemployed and bankrupt people in this world!"

Yu Shenxing said.

Luo Wanhua said: "I can't learn, it just so happens that many people in the clan don't like to read, so they will become idle, and when the time comes, let them learn this way, which can be regarded as having a skill." ”

"As for helping to increase the number of unemployed and bankrupt people in the world, the imperial court has already had a countermeasure, and Your Majesty is willing to let more people devote themselves to the matter of opening up the territory, so it is not a sin, but it is acting according to the will of the saint and is a loyal act."

Yu Shenxing sighed after hearing this, and then said to Luo Wanhua: "As a Confucian person, how can you do such a profiteer's thing, and do not hesitate to cooperate with the imperial court to let more small people die, if the public insists on doing so, we will not interact with each other in the future!" ”

Yu Shenxing said to Luo Wanhua and said, "Farewell!" ”

Then, Yu Shenxing left Luo Wanhua.

"Why should the public be so stubborn, I am just following the will of the saint."

Seeing this, Luo Wanhua couldn't help but shout.

Yu Shenxing didn't pay attention to Luo Wanhua, but only walked away and returned to his hometown in Shandong.

And Luo Wanhua also continued to travel south, met Shen Shixing in Suzhou, and expressed his thoughts to Shen Shixing, who supported him.

So, after Luo Wanhua returned to his hometown of Zhejiang Huiji, he really convened a meeting of his clansmen, and decided to take out a loan to buy a steam engine from the imperial court, and also prepared to send his children to Beijing to take the examination of the Daming Industrial School under the temple, so that the family's spinning workshop was transformed.

However, it still takes courage to buy a steam engine to transform your own industry, and not all families dare to do so.

So, there aren't many people like Luo Wanhua who do this.

Zhu Yijun did not stop Luo Wanhua from doing this through Jinyiwei, he encouraged these gentry to be active and enterprising in industry and commerce, as long as it was legal, he didn't mind that these gentry relied on industry and commerce to become bigger.

In Zhu Yijun's view, this is also conducive to making officials and businessmen feel some competitive pressure, and to avoid excessive monopoly of an industry by officials and businessmen, causing the bureaucrats who manage officials and businessmen to no longer do their work seriously.

In the spring of the twenty-second year of Wanli.

As a yarn factory under the name of Daming Central Commercial Bank officially began to spin yarn with a steam engine, the price of cotton yarn, along with the price of cotton cloth, did continue to fall unconsciously.

In the beginning.

Businessmen who follow the industry thought it was just an ordinary price fluctuation, so they did not cause alarm.

Even though the news of the invention of the steam spinning wheel has been spreading everywhere, some people have begun to raise voices against the emergence of the steam spinning wheel.

However, many people are still not so vigilant about the changes brought about by the technological revolution, and are still dominated by inertia, or are unwilling to think about it, which makes many businessmen who pay attention to the industry still do not feel too much that this phenomenon is abnormal, and only follow the price reduction to fight the price war.

However, as the government-made cotton yarn and cotton cloth continued to decline for a month, many people felt that something was wrong.

Only then did many cotton merchants realize that their profits were shrinking sharply, and even had a tendency to lose money.

As a result, more people began to be dissatisfied with the imperial court, and began to know that the imperial court was competing with the people, and they were even more disgusted with the appearance of the steam engine, and even hated the person who invented the steam engine.

"This Qi father and son are the two great evildoers who have brought disaster to the country and the people, and they use strange tricks to get the wealth of the poor people!"

At this time, the scholar Ma Zhen criticized Qi Jiguang and Qi Changguo in his own yarn mill, and then cried:

"It is precisely because of these two people that now our Ma family's cotton yarn cannot be sold, so we have to dismiss you, if you are not willing to lose this job, you should go to the secret and sue these two people!"

As for why Ma Zhen did not directly criticize the imperial court or Zhu Yijun, but only scolded Qi Jiguang and Qi Changguo, naturally because of the law of etiquette and national law, he did not dare to directly denounce the fault of the monarch's father, nor did he dare to directly deny the imperial court.

"The steam engine built by the Qi family has caused us to have no income, we have to go to the Qi family to settle accounts, and they are not allowed to use the steam spinning wheel again!"

At this time, the foreman of the Ma family's call for Youbin followed and shouted.

"That's right, go settle accounts with them!"

Many workers echoed.

Not only did one of the Ma family's yarn mills threaten to settle accounts with the Qi family, but in many parts of the country, many businessmen gathered together to demonstrate against the government and the officials, businessmen and businessmen who used steam engines, and some even directly smashed and looted and burned them.

Although Luo Wanhua served as the secretary of the ministry, he can only watch the people rush into his family's yarn mill, chop and smash the steam spinning wheel he bought with an axe and a weighing stone on the steam spinning wheel he bought with a family loan, and he was so anxious that he knocked the ground with a cane outside: "Stop!" Stop, all of you! If you are dissatisfied, why don't you go to the government and report to the court, why do you come to smash my family's workshop! ”

(End of chapter)