Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, did have an accident, and it was a big incident.

can make a dignified book, this kind of central top boss be sent to prison, of course, things are not simple.

The ins and outs of the whole thing were explained to Jiang Xinghuo in detail by Xia Yuanji, and the intricate entanglements of interests made Jiang Xinghuo a little sideways, and the most important thing is that this matter is actually inseparable from Jiang Xinghuo.

Li Zhigang was still very beautiful in the first half of this year, because as mentioned before, he took over a big job - to handle the death of Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the most important temple event in the first year of Yongle, and there is no one.

If Li Zhigang went to do this with peace of mind, no one would dare to touch him, but everyone knew that Li Shangshu was a person who could not be idle, and he would have to express some opinions on other things, even if it had nothing to do with his own work.

The big guy is also a person, to put it in layman's terms, Li Shangshu prefers to show himself by rubbing the heat.

Obviously, Li Shangshu did not learn the lessons of the two prisons of the Hongwu Dynasty and the Jianwen Dynasty, and after tasting the sweetness of proposing to change the Beiping Mansion to the Shuntian Mansion in Beijing, he began to speculate again.

And the cause of this incident is Jiang Xinghuo's follow-up to the "Three Strategies of Public Opinion and War", that is, Emperor Yongle tried to use imperial history to suppress the way of speech and create a good public opinion environment for the reform of the law.

There is an eagle and a dog under the seat of Emperor Yongle, and the "eagle" in it, that is, Chen Ying, the left deputy of the Imperial Palace, is naturally the best tool to do this.

Chen Ying just mentioned the left deputy capital of the imperial history, the lack of soldiers and major generals, just recently after the national teacher prayed for rain, the public opinion in the Guozi Prison was divided into several different factions, and the quarrel was quite fierce, so he asked Emperor Yongle for his life, and selected some people from the Guozi Prison to be the imperial history and act as a pawn.

For this kind of thing, Emperor Yongle has nothing to do.

Chen Ying selected eight people, including Kong Fu, Yang Yu, Zhang Wenming, Li Shixiu, Jiang Yanlu, Ou Yangui, He Qi, and Liu Xian, and directly promoted them to supervise the imperial history, and then made up the original eight imperial histories, and made up enough manpower for the two capitals and fourteen political envoys (the Huanghuai political envoys were added to the Huanghuai political envoys in the fourth year of Jianwen), and ordered the supervising imperial historians under his command to go to inspect and focus on monitoring public opinion.

Emperor Yongle attaches great importance to this matter, because since he found a bunch of Confucians to repair the "Yongle Canon" / "Daming Encyclopedia", there are obviously fewer people who scold him, so in line with the idea of making all trolls shut up, Zhu Di personally met with these imperial historians who were about to be sent out to monitor public opinion.

When His Majesty resigned, Zhu Di said very sincerely: "I am the monarch's father, the people are all naked, parents are naked, the clothes prepared for the cold first, the food prepared for the hungry first, suitable for their food and clothing, avoid the temperature and deal with it, do everything with their hearts, the people are the people, and the parents are of course." I live in the deep palace, a drink and a meal do not think of the army and the people, but in the next feelings, can not be known, you are the eyes and ears of the court, its intentions to visit, but there are those who do not speak, all have to play, between the army and the people, what is the benefit of the prosperity, what the disadvantages of the reform, also to hear. ”

So far, the matter has not gotten out of control, at most, the inmates of Guozijian, seeing that Chen Ying's promotion is all classmates who support the change, they are a little angry in their hearts, and they just say some strange things, but it's nothing. It's normal to be jealous of the rise of others, especially since everyone is a classmate, why do you soar into the sky and go directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an official, and from then on, you will be a beautiful wife and concubine at home, and you will be a guard of honor when you go out on patrol?

But at this time, Li Shangshu couldn't sit still.

He was busy until midnight every day, and he still didn't forget to drink some wine one night, and then splashed ink at night and wrote a small essay of 255 words to gain popularity.

"On the Tao of the state, must seek talents, promote the benefit and eliminate the harm, will open the way of speech, the former high emperor made great efforts, listened to everything, thirty years, the beauty of the customs, since the emperor ascended the throne, all abide by the constitution, open the way of speech, learn from the group, where it is feasible, all listen to it.

However, ignorant villains often use this as a name, or search for details, clamp down on the judges, or coerce for personal examples, frame the good, or falsely claim to complain, evade the errands, or gallop small talents, hoping to use, or even nonsense, blaspheming the holy virtues, although it is called to promote profit and eliminate harm, in fact, it is fake public and private.

If officials and other officials are corrupt, upside down, cruel and good, and marriage, land, military service, etc., they will be ordered to report from the bottom up. ”

- It's broken! The crowd is furious!

Li Shangshu originally wanted to rub off on the heat, but he rushed too hard in the group and trapped himself, and when he looked back, none of his teammates dared to follow.

is a cool figure like Chen Ying who is like Zhang Tang and the master father, but he doesn't dare to openly say that he wants to punish people who "fake public and private advice"!

This is the customary rules of the game in the ancient eunuchs, because there is no clear boundary between "advice for the country and the people" and "false public and private advice", Li Zhigang thought very well when he was drunk, but in fact it is simply impossible, it is easy to lead to once there is a political dispute, then everyone will be labeled as "fake public and private advice".

In this way, who would dare to admonish? If you don't let officials admonish, you will deprive officials of their right to speak!

And thinking of the current wave of fierce changes made by Jiang Xinghuo in Jiangnan, combined with Emperor Yongle's move of sending the imperial history to inspect the four political envoys of the two capitals, the officials will naturally consider, is this the Yongle Emperor instructing Li Zhigang to write a book? Does it mean that we can't even express any opinions normally in the future?

Li Zhigang's drunken letter was undoubtedly a reckless move to break the rules of the temple game, and it immediately brought about an extremely bad impact, both for him and for the change of the law.

The conservatives' counterattack was not long in coming.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is not the world of Chen Ying, the left deputy capital imperial history, on the contrary, in the metropolitan inspection court, there is another force that is enough to compete with him, and the leader is the right deputy capital imperial history Huang Xin of the metropolitan inspection court.

Huang Xin, a native of Pengze, Jiangxi, was appointed as the imperial history by the Tai students of the Hongwu Dynasty, and then worked hard for many years in the system of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the Jianwen Dynasty was promoted to the right deputy capital of the imperial history, if Chen Ying did not parachute, I think it was Huang Xin who was promoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history.

In fact, if you look at your resume, you know that Jiangxi people, the right deputy is the imperial history, and Chen Ying does not deal with it, and opposes the change of law.

This is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the ten words "Hanlin Duoji Water, Chaoshi Banjiangxi" are all rotten.

When these elements are put together, it is clear what class he represents to speak. Naturally, after the Jiangnan gentry were severely hit by Jiang Xinghuo, immediately after the scale of the reform expanded, they would face a backlash from the Jiangxi landlord class whose interests were damaged, as well as most of the Jiangnan gentry.

Of course, Huang Xin is not a fool, since he thinks that it is possible that Emperor Yongle instructed Li Zhigang to do this, then he must not be able to directly write to spray, it is equivalent to slashing Zhu Di by the neck, and he still has to pay attention to some struggle strategies.

So, Huang Xin asked his subordinate Henan Yushi to mention a trivial matter, the tomb and ancestral hall of Yin Shang Taishi Bigan located in Henan Buzheng Envoy Department collapsed partially, but the local government has not repaired it for a long time, please urge the imperial court, let them pay some money to hire someone to repair it in accordance with the provisions of 'apportionment into the mu'.

If you can't solve the difficulties, you can ask someone to find a relationship, and ask the villagers in Beijing to help you speak out so that the court will pay attention to and supervise it, this kind of thing is very, very common in the temples of the Ming Dynasty, and no one will care at all.

And if you think about it a little differently, there is a reason why the local government does not repair, as I said before, the hinterland of the Central Plains has just suffered the devastation of the four-year Jingyan War, and now it is busy rebuilding, and the places where the living live cannot be repaired, how can there be manpower and material resources to repair the tomb and ancestral hall of the Bigan Taishi who has died for thousands of years?

And from another small thing can also be seen the financial tension of the Henan political envoy department, before Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb, Zhu Di talked to the king of Zhou, in fact, it has been reflected, even if the king of Zhou reverted to the country and repaired the palace in Kaifeng again, the emperor still has to ask in person, Henan political envoy can pick out 20,000 stone for additional subsidies, what is the concept of 20,000 stone? At the beginning, Jiang Xinghuo pretended to be a grain merchant in Changzhou to make an unannounced visit, and the inventory of a rice mouse rice shop was more than 20,000 stones!

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the money bag of the current Henan political envoy is already stretched.

Yang Shiqi, Huang Huai and others in the cabinet didn't notice anything abnormal, and the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi didn't notice anything abnormal when he reviewed it, and when he arrived at Emperor Yongle, Zhu Di naturally glanced at it.

"It's a big deal, don't waste my time, and hand it over to the Henan Political Envoy to find someone to fix it casually." Zhu Di probably thought so at the time.

At this point, Huang Xin's entire process of arranging for this Henan imperial historian to go has been completed, and the next thing is to wait for the result.

Soon the results came out, and the Henan political envoy was crying poor and couldn't repair it.

In non-principled trivial matters, the political envoys in the Ming Dynasty are not what the imperial court asks them to do, on the contrary, it is the norm to kick and bow to each other. Of course, if Emperor Long Yan was angry, he would definitely have to do it obediently.

But the emperor is not so easy to get angry, and most things are not that the emperor has to be a political envoy, the emperor just assumes the role of transit, and conveys the requests of other ministries or places to the political envoys through holy decrees and other forms, and the matter often has nothing to do with the emperor.

At first glance, this kind of thing was not ordered by the emperor, and the officials of the Henan Political Envoy Department could certainly push it.

But the moment the news came back to Nanjing, it meant that the time had come for Huang Xin's general attack.

This is a standard borrowing of the topic, dozens of imperial history and six departments to the matter of the sparse, like a snowflake flooded the cabinet, and this cabinet move is also quite interesting Xie Jin, Hu Guang, Yang Shiqi, Hu Yan, and even including Jin Youzi, these five Jiangxi people did not say a word, directly handed over the sparse to Emperor Yongle, but Emperor Yongle did not see it in time.

This time, Huang Xin showed unprecedented aggression with his determination to die, and his recital reads.

"A gentleman is not for the country, not for himself, so he will die and not avoid it.

The villain is not for the country, but he is a slanderer, and he is rich and noble.

Ming Jun is happy to admonish the pure and the country is prosperous, and the faint monarch is happy to be Tao and the country is dead.

Kill the dragon, every time you do it, the effect is there.

And the masters of the later generations, such as the end of the Qin and Sui dynasties, will not be imprisoned, and the country will not die?

Your Majesty should take it as a warning, and the ministers should encourage themselves with the way of a gentleman, and protect the Hongye of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Subsequently, Chen Ying and the imperial historians he had just promoted were also impeached in the name of "harassing the locality".

At this point, the picture is poor.

The tomb of Bi Gan is fake, and they use "Bi Gan", the earliest famous minister in history, to refute Li Zhigang's recital, and attacking is their ultimate goal.

This is where the temple bosses are clever in their methods, the whole offensive hides murderous intentions, but they can't see the poor dagger, they can't see any clues, and when the blade flashes, it's too late to stop it.

And yet you think that's all they have to fight back? Wrong, the most exciting serial plan has not yet arrived, it can only be said that Li Zhigang did not complain when he was in prison.

It just so happened that Zhu Di went to the Fengyang Left-behind Division in Jiangbei to inspect military affairs in the past few days, but it was not a coincidence at all, and people came at this opportunity.

After all, Chen Ying, who was impeached, was suddenly elevated, and she was ruthless enough, but unfortunately she still lacked experience, and she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

The more anxious you are, the easier it is to make mistakes, Chen Ying has no friends, and at this time, the only one who can come to discuss things is a discipline.

What good ideas can the spy boss give him? That, of course, is to shut up directly from the physical level.

So the two pondered for a while, trying to use the old method of intimidating these good ministers in Jiangnan last year, and directly arrested the leader, and the rest naturally didn't dare to squeak. This method has fully demonstrated its power when dealing with Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others last year, and it is path dependent.

Of course, they are not so stupid, and the excuses they make are still very reliable, and they still use to investigate whether they are involved in Jianwen's remnants.

But this time Ji Gang and Chen Ying miscalculated, because Huang Xin had already predicted their prediction.

Huang Xin not only sat in the mansion and generously waited for Ji Gang to come to arrest people, but also prepared his "incriminating evidence" himself.

Huang Xin's corruption and bribery involved a small case, and it involved many brokers in Nanjing who wandered among officials and nobles.

Among them, there is Li Zhigang's father-in-law.

Yes, Li Zhigang's father-in-law is not clean, this is not news. He started from the Hongwu Dynasty, and of course there is the shadow of Li Zhigang behind him, which is an open "secret" that many people in Nanjing know.

When Zhu Di came back and realized that his eagle dog had done something stupid, the wood was already in the boat, and the entire court knew about it, and it was too late.

The criminal department gave Zhou and others iron evidence in their hands, and wrote to impeach Li Zhigang for not disciplining his family strictly, and suspected of using public weapons for private purposes, Zhu Di had no choice but to put Li Zhigang in prison and let Ji Gang suspend him from work.

Ironically, Li Zhigang and Huang Xin are opposite the door, and they live in the cells of Jiang Xinghuo and Zhuo Jing.

When things got here, the counterattack of Huang Xin and others could be described as a complete victory.

As a heavyweight supporter of the reform in the court, well, Li Zhigang supported the reform, of course, not because he agreed with Jiang Xinghuo's ideas, but because he could get power from it and get closer to Emperor Yongle.

But in any case, Li Zhigang was imprisoned, and when the conflict between the reform of the law and the old way in Beijing became more and more intense, it obviously had the effect of stirring up a thousand waves with one stone.

In order to protect their own interests from the impact of the change, the old-fashioned faction who shouted that "the law of the ancestors is immutable" took advantage of the upcoming death of Emperor Gao, and planned a larger-scale counterattack, and Yao Guangxiao, Zhuo Jing and others also have their own difficulties.

The entire city of Nanjing is full of buildings with mountain rain coming, and even ordinary people in the market have smelled this dangerous signal.

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After listening to Xia Yuanji's narration, Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a few breaths and said affirmatively.

"Li Zhigang is not their ultimate goal, they are here to change the law, or rather, to me Jiang Xinghuo."

Jiang Xinghuo's face was as solemn as the sky before a storm, and it could be seen that his heart was ready to deal with the wind and waves that followed in the temple.

Xia Yuanji said helplessly: "Li Zhigang is a speculator, this is actually a catastrophe that he will experience sooner or later." ”

"I know."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said: "But we have no choice, the power of the law change is too weak, and the vast majority of supporters as long as he is on the side of the law change, no matter what his character is or what purpose he has, we can't refuse." ”

"Master Jiang, you can't change the law without you. The affairs of Jiangnan, Ling has already made a good start, I can continue to do it with Xiao Guicao, as long as you explain these things to me in detail later. But this storm in Beijing is really so dangerous that Huang Xin, who will be crushed if he is not careful, must be instructed by someone behind it. ”

Xia Yuanji's brows were not so tight, but his tone still revealed strong worry.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't answer, just raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.

His sun-burned face, which was now filled with deep exhaustion and pain, showed that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

"I know...... The lower the pressure, the sharper the blade will bounce, and the easier it will be to cut people into blood, or even die. After a long time, he muttered under his breath.

When Xia Yuanji heard this, he sighed and asked again: "Then do you still insist on changing the law?" Or is it like the Qingli New Deal to give up halfway? Maybe we can handle it this time, but what about next time? What about next time? The crisis will only get bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more people who will be offended by changing the law. ”

Jiang Xinghuo was silent again, his eyes flashing with a complex and inexplicable light, making it impossible to understand his true thoughts.

"Changing the law means contradictions, confrontations, and ......sacrifices," Xia Yuanji continued.

"I understand." Jiang Xinghuo bowed his head slightly.

Of course, he understands and knows very well what the cost of such a decision will be for the leader of the law change.

Nothing is without a price, from the perspective of direct cause and effect, it is precisely because Jiang Xinghuo made a drastic change in Jiangnan and knocked out the white gloves of the White Lotus Sect, the gentry of Jiangnan, and greatly damaged the interests of the Jiangnan gentry on a series of issues such as grain requisition, land withdrawal, and control of tenant interest, which not only attracted the disgust and backlash of the Jiangnan gentry class, but also attracted the vigilance of the relevant forces in the surrounding areas of Jiangnan, that is, the target area of the next law change.

However, in this world, every road is lonely.

If you want to go long-term, you must pay the corresponding price, if you don't even have the spirit of "although tens of millions of people go to me", even if you are lucky to reach the peak, you will eventually be unable to escape the fate of being eliminated by the wheel of history.

The tide of the times is like a burning hot hammer, smashed down with a hammer, who can withstand it, who survives.

The so-called change itself is a path poured out of blood, a grinding disc of flesh and blood piled up from the corpses of countless victims, and if you are not careful, you will never recover.

But he still chose to change the law.

"Over the years, I have seen too many tragedies and too many pains......"

Jiang Xinghuo exhaled slowly, he had just spoken too much, his voice was a little hoarse, and he said slowly and clearly in a hoarse voice: "I don't want these tragedies to happen in my hands, and I don't want to see the world repeat the mistakes of the past, so I want to launch a change, even if it is a complete death from my body to my reputation, it is worth it." ”

His tone was soft, his expression calm and serene, as casual as if he were talking about what to eat tonight, but the meaning of his words was incomparably resolute and indisobedient.

Xia Yuanji's expression did not wave, but he confirmed again.

"Master Jiang, have you figured it out?"

This time, his tone was more serious than before.

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, and stated in a slow voice: "This world can't stay in the past forever. ”

Xia Yuanji took a deep breath, his chest straight, his fists clenched, and his eyes bloomed with brilliance, as if they were about to burst into flames of blazing magma.

Xia Yuanji quietly looked at the young man in front of him, and after half a sound, he slowly spit out four words.

"I've got your back."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, and there was no exciting scene, everything was in plain sight.

In other words, when the "Mr. Qiu" in the edict was awakened by him, what is meant by "taking from the people and using it for the people", they are already fellow travelers.

"Yao Guangxiao and Zhuo Jing are also waiting for you to go back."

"When you go back, you have to fight back."

Jiang Xinghuo said simply: "Has the old monk figured out who is behind the trouble?" ”

"It's still investigating, what they did was very hidden, and this time Jiang Shi's trip to Jiangnan, he did it vigorously and resolutely, so that those people couldn't sit still, and they were afraid that if they didn't join forces to fight back, the next step would be extended to Zhejiang and Jiangxi in breadth, and then further in depth, then their interests would be greatly damaged."

"The matter of pushing Xunzi back to the position of a saint has caused a great backlash, Jiang Shi, you should know that this is a scholar of poetry and books, and all you have mastered is the set of Zhu Zi's interpretation of the four books, and the root is from Confucius and Mencius, which is thousands of miles different from Xunzi."

"Still." Xia Yuanji said affirmatively: "Who is the person behind the scenes, it must be found out soon." ”

Jiang Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief: "Thinking about it from a different angle, it's also a good opportunity, this time to fight, lest you have to face their obstruction when the breadth of the law change is expanded." ”

Xia Yuanji nodded, mentioned another thing, and said: "The treasury bonds have been issued for six issues, and within several prefectures around Nanjing, the currency value and credit of the Daming treasure banknotes have been basically stabilized. ”

This means that there is a high probability of failure in such a thing as monetary reform, and it stands to reason that maintaining the status quo is the best choice, but in fact, in Jiang Xinghuo's plan, monetary reform is one of the most important steps in the next step of reform.

This is because currency reform is a necessary condition for the formation of a unified commodity market, and of course, other conditions include the uniform abolition or reduction of commercial taxes such as customs duties/cents, the lifting of restrictions on the personal freedom of the working population, and the construction of a complete waterway transportation network.

The latter few things are things that Jiang Xinghuo has begun to implement in Jiangnan.

With the advancement of the process of organizing cash-for-work water control, a new waterway transportation network with the Taihu Lake Circle as the core, diverting from different rivers to the sea, is about to be completed.

In addition to farmland irrigation, the greater significance is that elements such as people and commodities can circulate unhindered in the south of the Yangtze River.

The significance of the extermination of the White Lotus rebels and the construction of large-scale handicraft workshops lies in the lifting of the restrictions on the personal freedom of the working population by the Jiangnan gentry.

In fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the reason why the textile industry in Jiangnan developed greatly, and then sprouted, the main reason is that Zhang Juzheng changed the law of a whip, which led to the expropriation of physical goods to the expropriation of currency, which greatly promoted the development of the commodity economy in Jiangnan.

"The monetary reform should be pushed, and the time node will be at the same time as the conquest of Annam."

Jiang Xinghuo gave Xia Yuanji a positive answer, and at the same time said: "I'll hand over to you what I've done recently, the Jiangnan reform will still be implemented non-stop, and I can trust you to preside over these things." ”

Jiang Xinghuo and Xia Yuanji walked back to the courtyard, at this time, the scholars also had the ability to see, and knew that something was probably going on, and what they wanted to say to Jiang Xinghuo on behalf of the local people was also suspended, and there were only a few people left in the courtyard.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't grind, and made a long story short.

"The first thing is water conservancy, Song Shilang also understands water conservancy, and the main person in charge of the specific water control project is Sun Kunsun of the River Defense Department of the Ministry of Industry."

Song Li and Sun Kun are both Beijing officials, so they naturally knew Xia Yuanji, the god of wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and they came over to pay their respects at this time.

"This is Ye Zongxing, the word knows the action."

Jiang Xinghuo took Ye Xiucai's hand and introduced Xia Yuanji: "He is a rare water conservancy talent, he recently learned blasting with me, and he is very familiar with local hydrology and geography. ”

"The student has seen Xia Shangshu." Ye Zongxing hurriedly moved.

Xia Yuanji bowed slightly, and returned the salute: "The talent that Master Jiang can look at, I think there are really two brushes. Do things well. ”

In the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, Xia Yuanji was the person in charge of this far-reaching water control operation, so Jiang Xinghuo did not worry that the other party had done things badly, he had already made a good start, and the water control would only get better and better.

Therefore, he simply explained to Xia Yuanji, and Song Li would naturally tell him the rest of the things.

"The core of water control in the south of the Yangtze River lies in three points, one is to open the river, that is, to dig or dredge the Huangpu River, Fanjiabin, Liujiagang and other tributaries; The second is the polder, because the silt soil is fertile, the gentry will build dams and build polders along the river or even on the river to reclaim the fertile land, which is why the opposition is so loud now, and the removal of the polder is really moving people's money, but in any case, they have to persevere; The third is the sea pond, the sea pond must be repaired, not the sea pond, our dredging river, in the end in the estuary will still be silted up and scrapped as before, with the stone hoarding wooden cabinet method to build the earth and stone pond, the river estuary must be repaired, and every year to clear the pond, this is a hundred years of plan. ”

Xia Yuanji silently wrote it down and nodded.

"I see, what else?"

"The second thing is to set up a field, Huangpu New Town, where I have established a large number of cotton textile industry handicraft workshops, for the production of cotton textiles hydraulic spinning wheels, craftsmen are manufacturing in batches, now a lot has been built, Huangpu River supporting water conservancy projects, this period of time has been basically completed. The factory area is full of women and children, including the people of the White Lotus Sect, as well as women and children who come to work in Songjiang Prefecture, and there are many contradictions and problems that may occur here, so you have to be careful. ”

Jiang Xinghuo earnestly instructed: "Women and children are naturally disadvantaged, local green-skinned scoundrels, and even soldiers of the army, it is possible to cause chaos. In addition, women and children themselves are not necessarily at ease, after all, it is a new way of manufacturing, and not everyone can get used to this kind of collective work and regular life. ”

"Then there is that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, especially those engaged in the textile industry, as well as individual textile households, will be affected by the Huangpu New Town handicraft workshop, which is inevitable, once someone wants to attack the new manufacturing method, we must not only understand the difficulties of some people who have been impacted, but also resolutely maintain and preserve the most important results of this change, can you understand what I mean?"

Of course, Jiang Xinghuo was not untargeted, Xia Yuanji heard his voice.

Next, Daming's army is going to expedition to Annam, and Jiang Xinghuo's model of "changing the manufacturing method - opening up overseas commodity markets - dumping the goods produced by the new manufacturing method - Daming to obtain benefits and continue the next cycle" can be carried out smoothly, which directly determines the Yongle Emperor's support for the change.

Zhu Di has never unconditionally supported the change, he is the emperor, he is the embodiment of the imperial power in the world, if the change cannot help him achieve his goal of "governing the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Han and Tang dynasties", or for a long period of time, the benefits brought by the change are less than the risks and actual damage caused to the temple, then Zhu Di's attitude is likely to change.

Tear apart all the warmth and affection, this is the cold truth.

"I understand." Natsuhara Yoshiying said.

"Oh yes."

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly paused and beckoned to the tree.

A shadow came out of the canopy and jumped down, and it was Zhao Haichuan, who was on guard, that the knife wound in his abdomen had healed.

However, he was very angry when he met Cao Song's enemy, but he really couldn't pee in a pot, so he just took this opportunity to separate the two of them.

"If it's the second thing, there is really a trouble that can't be solved, let Zhao Haichuan help you solve it."

Jiang Xinghuo advised: "The problem of women and children, if there is civil strife, let Zhao Haichuan find a woman named Tang Yin, she is the little head of the textile workers; Local problems, someone is making trouble outside, then you ask Zhao Haichuan to find a person called Niu Zhen, he has a group of thugs who do dirty work, the scale is not large, but to deal with some things that are inconvenient for you to let the army and the government and the Jinyi guard dispatch, maybe there will be a miracle effect These two people are people who have no way out, and it is convenient to use. ”

"Other things such as mining mining, curbing tenant interest, thoroughly investigating the 'new type of forced labor', and elevating the status of Xunzi are all trivial."

Jiang Xinghuo breathed a long sigh of relief: "All in all, one is to control the water, the other is to run the field, these two things are done well, our law change is no longer a rootless ping, a tree without roots, but a down-to-earth land, can produce cheap cotton textiles on a large scale, and then transport them out at a low cost, along the sea, so that Daming's goods can be transported to every corner of the world." ”

Xia Yuanji said solemnly: "Master Jiang, don't worry about Jiangnan's change in manufacturing power, leave it to me." The change of law in Beijing still requires you to preside over the overall situation, and you must be cautious when going to the turmoil. ”

"I'll go back with Master, with me here, no one can hurt Master."

Zhu Gaoxu, who had been silently listening to Jiang Xinghuo talk about the "unity of knowledge and action" just now, seemed to have figured out something at this time, stood firmly behind Jiang Xinghuo, and said in a loud voice.

Temple attack, Confucian reform, scientific enlightenment, ideological dissolution, monetary reform, school establishment.

"There's a lot to do."

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"It's okay today, Sing to the music."

In Kyoto, Japan, Li Jinglong is shaking a folding fan, Shi Shiran is sitting in a color town, listening to the kabuki playing Yagaku.

Agaku is a general term for ancient Japanese song and dance music, which was first derived from the Tang music brought back from the Tang Dynasty by the Tang Dynasty envoys, and later some unique styles of Goryeo music were also incorporated into it.

Of course, there is no separation between singing and dancing, and the Gagaku package also includes traditional songs and dances from ancient Japan, such as Journey to the East, Hinzaga Dance, Kume Dance, Gokyo Dance, and so on.

As for Semachi, it is naturally the land of wind and moon in Chinese, and in a few hundred years, it will evolve into a "verandah" protected by the shogunate, and after the Meiji Restoration in Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, it will become a famous custom street.

Imagawa Ryotoshi, who was sitting across from Lee Kyung-ryu, an old man full of charm, smiled and beckoned a geisha who made tea soup for him to say a few words.

Immediately, outside the separate private room separated by a screen, the exaggerated shouts of the old bustard came.

"Today's consumption is all taken care of by Imagawa-sama!"

The men's shouts of surprise and compliments to Imagawa poured in.

Li Jinglong took a sip of matcha and said, "Brother Imagawa, you look in a good mood." ”

"Your Excellency the General is about to return to China, and I should celebrate this little time."

Imagawa stoshi clapped his hands, and the kabuki who were playing Yagaku bowed down and stepped back one after another, but they didn't make the slightest movement.

After retiring from the idle people, Imagawa Letoshi leaned over and whispered to Li Jinglong, "I heard a piece of news from the Flower Palace. ”

"Oh?"

Li Jinglong silently blocked the lower part of their faces with a folding fan.

Obviously, this is because Jinyiwei recognized his mouth and was afraid.

"There are several samurai involved in the small-scale rebellion initiated by the White Lotus Sect in the south of the Ming Kingdom, and behind these samurai are the daimyo on the southwest coast who support the pirates, and the Flower Imperial Palace feels that this matter is very sensitive, and forced them to hand over some pirate leaders, intending to cook in front of you before you leave to return home, so as not to give the Ming Kingdom an excuse for war."

Imagawa looked at Li Jinglong with fiery eyes, and asked tentatively, "Your Excellency, General, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"I don't think it's anything important."

Li Jinglong lightly revealed the matter, of course he knew the intentions of Imagawa Ryōtoshi, the former "King of Kyushu", the opposition forces within Japan, I wish the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty were at odds with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty would send troops to fight with the shogunate, and only when there was chaos would there be a chance to reshuffle and distribute the power.

As for the fate of Japan, I'm sorry, but there is no concept of nation-state in Japan right now, and in a place as big as Japan, there can be a Northern and Southern Dynasties and dozens of vassal states, what kind of sense of unity do you think they have?

Of course, Li Jinglong will not disappoint Imagawa Ryitonjun, after all, the other party is not only one of the most important opponents of the shogunate, but will also represent the Japanese Emperor Komatsu to send an envoy to Daming and return with him.

"Ah Fu."

Li Jinglong clapped his hands with a folding fan, and Cao Afu ran in.

"The head of the house, you command."

"Bring me what Mr. Jiang sent me before."

Cao Afu quickly took out a piece of cotton cloth. It's obviously the kind that was cut off.

"Guess how much this thing costs?"

Imagawa looked at the cotton cloth in front of him, which was of quite good quality, and after thinking for a moment, he replied unconvincedly, "Maybe 2-3 pieces of silver?" ”

Japan has a high latitude and is very cold in winter, and they also have to wear cotton fabrics, but because Japan's cotton textile technology is more crotch-pulling, their manufacturing costs are not comparable to Daming, so a piece of cloth is usually more than 3 yuan silver (0.3 taels), Imagawa Rytoshi is one of the few Japanese high-level who understands Daming, and he knows that the price of Daming's goods will be lower, so he gave a relatively reasonable guess.

In fact, even in the former Songjiang Prefecture, the price of a piece of cotton cloth was basically between 1.5 and 1.6 yuan of silver per horse, and the price of even the most exquisite cotton cloth was only between 1.7 and 2 yuan per horse.

However, Imagawa was wrong.

The answer given by Li Jinglong was far beyond his expectations.

"One penny."

"How is that possible?!"

Imagawa Ryatoshi spoke out in surprise.

"Why can't it?"

Li Jinglong put down the cotton cloth in his hand and said with a smile: "This is the magic of the national teacher I mentioned to you, Jiang Xinghuo. ”

"Let's do a business, shall we?"

The two whispered, and after a while, Imagawa Ryotoshi patted his chest and said.

"Your Excellency General, the matter of the national teacher is my business, you can rest assured that it will be left to me, and it will be done before you leave Japan!"

(End of chapter)