"The steam engine has brought disaster to the country and the people, and the imperial court cannot use it!"

"The harm of strange skills and tricks is not shallow, and the imperial court should stop promoting the steam engine!"

"You Qi can't turn your back on Confucianism like this, do things to accumulate wealth, and damage your own merits!"

……

Capital.

Outside the compound of the official residence where the ruling ministers lived, there were also many scholars and citizens demonstrating, shouting some slogans, and directly attacking the steam engine for causing disaster to the country and the people was a very harmful trick, and also demanded that the Qi family run a family in accordance with Confucian teachings.

Of course, there are also those who directly scold the Qi family.

For a while, Qi Jiguang and Qi Changguo became the target of everyone.

Qi Jiguang was in charge of affairs in the prelude to the emperor when there were people demonstrating.

However, even so, because Jin Yiwei notified the situation in time.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang still knew about it.

Zhu Yijun naturally also knew, and opened his mouth first:

"It is inevitable that the steam engine will cause some public resentment because it is not a spontaneous demand in the private market."

"After all, the people of the world are not all rational people, but they have wronged Yuanfu and his family, and they can't directly scold this monarch, so they can only criticize you."

"The minister understands, and the minister also believes that the people will gradually understand the minister in the future."

Qi Jiguang replied with a smile.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "That's right, now those who are dissatisfied will gradually understand the imperial court." ”

Zhu Yijun said again: "Although they don't understand it now, the imperial court still has to care about their life and death, and has the policy been implemented?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it is already being implemented, but the effect may not be so fast, and there will still be some troubles or slander against the court."

Qi Jiguang replied.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun only instructed Tian Yi: "Mobilize more here in Dongchang, and let the celebrities in the market who do things for Dongchang guide public opinion more, but if you can't guide it, let's muddy the water first, so that the people don't fall into the public opinion formed by a voice, so that they can start thinking for themselves." ”

Tian Yi said yes.

In fact, when Zhu Yijun was so instructed, Dongchang was already starting to do this.

And.

The officials of the East Factory, who are experienced in guiding public opinion, have begun to deliberately muddy public opinion.

"Ma Xianggong, we should directly raise troops and make a damn rebellion, making it clear that the court doesn't plan to let us live, then we won't let the court live!"

Guo Ji, the head of Dongchang, deliberately proposed this to Ma Zhen when he followed Ma Zhen and You Bin to find a demonstration in Jiangzuo Temple that day.

However, there were also a few fierce people who were not afraid of big things to respond.

Syllable!

But Ma Zhen was not so irrational, so he directly slapped Guo Ji: "Bastard thing!" What is hateful is the traitor Qi Jiguang and his son, what kind of rebellion! What a thief! Is it because you can't afford to eat or you have no clothes to wear, and you think the days of peace and prosperity are too long? The demonstration is a big deal, what a rebellion! ”

"The surname is Ma, why did you beat my brother!"

"The big guy is not fighting for your Ma family, do you really think that we have no other way to live? To tell you the truth, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu signed up to move to Dongying and Luzon to live! ”

"My brother just said that, if you want to persuade him, why do you teach him so much, what kind of prestige?!"

So, as soon as Qi San, a worker who was good with Guo Ji, shouted first.

"That's it! Ma Xianggong is too much, Brother Guo is not your minion! ”

Subsequently, Fan Ruixiang, who is also a son of Dongchang like Guo Ji, also echoed a sentence.

"I don't dare to think, Ma Xianggong dares to beat Brother Guo today, will even we dare to fight tomorrow?"

"So, big guy, why should we bother with him, it's just that he doesn't have this job, and he can't really live!"

And after Fan Ruixiang said it, he was still provocative, and for a while, many people began to shift their goals and criticize Ma Zhenlai.

"Me!"

Ma Zhen didn't know what to say for a while.

And at this time, another Dongchang secretly Ge Zhaohe also directly encouraged the people at this time and said: "That's right, let's go, we don't have to be here with a shy face to hold grievances for his Ma family, I heard that the imperial court is now recruiting reserve soldiers, and they get two taels of silver dollars a month, so they can still live without the work of this Ma family yarn mill, besides, it is not a shame to be a soldier now, and those who can be real soldiers are all expensive military households in the eyes of the imperial court, and they are military masters who don't have to raise their wives and children themselves, and they can't be spanked if they commit crimes!" ”

"Really?"

"The imperial court is recruiting troops again, and the salary of two taels of silver dollars will be paid?"

Many people who came to demonstrate immediately asked Ge Zhaohe curiously.

Ge Zhaohe said: "Naturally it's true, when did my old Ge deceive someone?" If you want to sign up, follow me! ”

With that, Ge Zhaohe pushed away the crowd and walked out.

For a while, many of the demonstrators followed.

Ma Zhen was quite stunned when he saw this, he didn't expect public opinion to develop like this, and couldn't help but say: "Wait, aren't we here to demonstrate to the Qi family?" ”

While the people of the East Factory were secretly interfering with this kind of public opinion and dismantling all kinds of demonstrations, the imperial government was also solving the problem of a large number of workers losing their jobs and the bankruptcy of ordinary merchants caused by the application of the steam spinning wheel.

The first is the recruitment and immigration of military personnel and the expansion of government and commercial workers and students of government schools.

The conditions are very good.

For an unemployed worker, no matter how different his gender or age is, or how different his thoughts are, there are corresponding career change channels that he can choose.

Most of the young men chose to become soldiers, or they took subsidies to move overseas, got a share of the land, and then became homesteaders.

The majority of the women went to government-run businesses and new girls' normal schools.

Secondly, the imperial court also asked the Daming Bank to reduce the loan interest rate, encourage private businessmen to continue to take out loans, buy steam spinning wheels, and also carry out transformation.

In the end, the imperial court also opened many new infrastructure projects, allowing private businessmen to transform into contracting these projects, and also allowing people who were neither willing to be soldiers, nor immigrate, nor want to study in government-run firms and schools, but also wanted to get a job to earn a living.

And in this way.

The number of troublemakers was greatly reduced.

Even if there are still many voices dissatisfied with the appearance of the steam spinning wheel, and the voices that rebuke the construction of the steam spinning wheel as a great skill, it can no longer set off any waves.

In addition, while the government used various methods to absorb the unemployed and bankrupt, it also used force to arrest many individual extremists and severely dealt with them, so that the situation was still strongly controlled.

What's more, in today's Ming Dynasty, the people have not reached the time of hunger and cold, so they can't resist the court to the end for this.

So, within a month, the world became calm.

The Luo Wanhua family and other merchants who were robbed for using a steam spinning wheel were also given pension money by the imperial court to compensate for their losses, lest they lose the confidence to follow the imperial court to transform from handicraft to industry.

Although the unemployed and bankrupt population in China were absorbed by the imperial court in various ways to expand troops and recruits, and even the new merchants who were affected by the turmoil were also comforted by the imperial court, the imperial court itself still lost money after the promotion of the steam engine, and it was still in the stage of taking a lot of money out of the state treasury.

Therefore, next, the court has to earn back what is taken out.

How to earn?

Naturally, it was through the war and the privileges of foreign development that were acquired after the war.

"Your Majesty's edict asks Fuyuan to immediately seek an opportunity to seize Yamaguchi Castle on the grounds that there is a battalion of soldiers missing and need to enter Yamaguchi Castle to search, as the next place for the army to land in Honshu!"

Toei Nagasaki.

Governor Yang Hao received a holy decree from Zhu Yijun, and therefore looked at Shen Bingyi, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei who came to deliver the holy decree, in amazement: "Your Majesty will also personally command such a trivial matter?" ”

Shen Bingyi said: "Why Your Majesty wants to be like this, I don't know, but this is not only a holy will, but also issued by the Privy Council, why should the Fu Yuan hesitate." ”

"I didn't hesitate, I just sighed at Your Majesty's means."

Yang Hao sighed when he said this, and said, "Gao Ming! ”

Then, Yang Hao really explained to Qi Jin, the minister of Dongying Town: "Do what you want!" ”

Qi Jin said yes.

Yamaguchi Castle was the domain of the Choshu Domain, and the lord of the Choshu Domain was the Mori clan, which belonged to the Daimyo of the Mori clan.

The so-called daimyo are daimyo who are not the Tokugawa clan's own people, and most of them were forced to submit to the Tokugawa clan because of defeat.

The Choshu Domain originally belonged to the Great Domain, and before it was surrendered to the Tokugawa clan, it was a daimyo who owned the territory of the ten countries of Japan and China, and had an annual salary of 1.2 million stone grains, and its strength was very strong, but now it has been reduced by the Tokugawa clan, and only has two countries, which is about 200,000 stone per year.

However, Rao is cut, and the Maori clan is still not a small name.

This shows how rich agriculture is in Japan.

You must know that the rich Nanzhili of the Ming Dynasty handed over 1.8 million stone of grain a year, and the annual income of the former Changzhou Domain was two-thirds of the grain handed over by the Nanzhili of the Ming Dynasty!

This is also why, in history, Japan in the Age of Discovery, along with the Ming Dynasty and India, was the world's main trade market, and why the Netherlands and Portugal were keen to transport Chinese goods to Japan to sell, and then bring back silver from Japan.

Obviously, in addition to silver, Japan also produced good grain, so it also fed many landlords and formed a large consumer market.

In other words, if the Ming Dynasty won the Changzhou Domain before it was cut, at least the grain income could increase by more than one million stones, and if the more advanced farming technology of the Ming Dynasty was promoted, the increase in grain income might be even more.

Of course.

Even if the Ming Dynasty only destroyed the current Changzhou Domain and only got two or three hundred thousand stone of grain, it was not a small number, and it was much greater than the benefit of going to the northern desert to destroy a Mongolian tribe.

What's more, there is also commercial value in this.

The conversation turned back.

When the daimyo of the Choshu Domain, Mori Terumoto, heard that the Ming army was going to enter the city to search for the missing soldiers, he quickly sensed that something was wrong, and said:

"This is an opportunity to provoke, intending to take my Yamaguchi City!" (End of chapter)