"Very well, if they succeed, they can award them a second-class merit medal." Zhu Yijun heard Cui Min's report, and did not object to the willingness of the Ming shipowners to become One Piece, and even agreed and supported it very much.

The second-class merit award card is already the limit.

Zhu Yijun leaned on the back of his chair, looking at the world in Yanxing Building, he was thinking about a question, why did Da Ming miss the Age of Discovery?

He thought about this question for a long, long time, and finally got only one answer, and that was that it was not worth it.

The Wa Kingdom, which is currently the largest maritime trade trading country in the Ming Dynasty, is entirely because of silver and sulfur, according to the natural development of history, even after 70 years, the silver mountains and sulfur of the Wa Kingdom can only feed family businesses like Zheng Zhilong, and the economic and trade volume of the whole world is far from enough to cause the Ming Dynasty to move from the strategic direction to the ocean.

As the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire at this time, the Eight Desolations are really barren.

Zheng He went to the Western Ocean seven times in total, for nearly 30 years, passing through more than 30 overseas countries along the way, but in the end, the Ming Dynasty's maritime development was stopped, becoming the last swan song of China's sea power.

In these long thirty years, the Ming Dynasty did not find a way to realize the sea power.

Zheng He went out for seven turns, and found that all of them were tribes that were even more backward than the northern captives, and at the same time, there was no benefit, and the actual control cost was too high, but now with the development of the Taixi people on the ocean and the establishment of colonies one by one, Da Ming suddenly found that it could still be realized in this way.

Money is gone, you can make it again, conscience is gone... Earn more!

This is the high moral disadvantage that Li Yashi repeatedly mentioned in the Ming Dynasty, and this disadvantage is also a concrete embodiment of a contradiction.

Daming has its own national conditions, and Li Yashi has lived in Daming for a long time, so he can understand the reason for the formation of Daming's high morality.

This is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and in Li Ya's solid heart, this is also the kingdom of God on earth.

The five-star critic Li Yashi once commented in his travelogue: [The overseas development of the Ming Dynasty is full of contradictions, which confirms the thesis of the philosopher Zhang Juzheng, and contradictions are universal. On the one hand, the Ming court hoped to obtain more benefits, and on the other hand, it did not want to create more killings to show the elegance of the heavenly kingdom, and hoped to obtain benefits through gentle means, which they called kingization. ]

[Under this contradiction, it has led to the current situation in Luzon, in the busy port of Manila, the local people in Luzon actually account for 10% of the industry, it is difficult to understand, but this is the status quo, this contradictory phenomenon, the Luzon Governor's Palace should be difficult to maintain, fortunately, the Ming Navy is strong enough. ]

With the continuous support of the policy of opening up the sea, the first to leave behind the high moral disadvantages are the profit-seeking businessmen.

There is no doubt that Tessie's success in colonization made these shipowners ready to move, and now that the Ming sailors are gradually becoming stronger, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have shown their pioneering and adventurous nature.

Zhu Yijun came to Yanxinglou to take a look at the market on the first day of opening, and there was also a lively scene, which was to catch the spies of the Japanese people.

To be more explicit, Oda Nobunaga of the Wa Kingdom sent four boats with a total of 230 people on board in March last year, trying to go to Daming to collect information, and finally arrived in Daming with only one boat, only 23 people on board, and the rest all starved to death.

These four ships circled the East China Sea for six months, and finally only one ship made it to the end.

These 23 spies landed in the sea near Jiaozhou in Shandong Province in September last year, and now 21 people have been arrested, and the remaining two are in this Yanxing Building.

The Ming Emperor was prejudiced against the luxury households and scholars, and these two Japanese people were able to arrive in Beijing and eat and drink in the Ming Yanxing Building, which aggravated Zhu Yijun's prejudice.

Without the help of the luxury households, it is impossible for these two Japanese people to survive in Daming, the language barrier, two Japanese people who have no road guide, can go all the way to Beijing?

Elsewhere, Zhao Mengyou didn't dare to pack the ticket, saying that he would definitely be able to investigate clearly, after all, the case was more complicated, but when the two widows arrived at Shuntian Mansion, this completely entered the emperor's home advantage, and Zhao Mengyou quickly found out who was in Tongyu.

The remnants of Yanzhou Confucius Mansion lived in Jiaohai near Zhangjialou, three brothers, Zhang Jiamo, Zhang Jiazhi and Zhang Jiayou of Jiaohai.

During the Jiajing period, the Shuangyu private market opened the wolf smoke of the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, in that era, the private market was a very common phenomenon, and the private market in Mizhou was the main one on the ground in Shandong, until the establishment of the Bosi Division in Mizhou City, the good life of the three brothers of the Zhang family came to an end.

Tiqi spent nearly half a month, the ancestors of the old Zhang family eighteen generations to find out clearly, Jiaohai Zhang since the Northern Song Dynasty Yuanyou seven years, has been nearly 600 years, a total of 11 generations, since the Ming Dynasty opened, a total of 14 people, a Jinshi, in the Zhengde years, abandon Confucianism to engage in business, back and forth between Shandong Mizhou and the Wa Kingdom.

In Zhao Mengyou's words, it is the soot blowing method used by the Japanese to refine silver, which was brought to the Japanese by Zhang from the Ming Dynasty, and later, the red hair fan also brought the amalgam method to the past, and the amalgamation method of the Japanese silver smelting method has gradually replaced the soot blowing method, and then the miners were extremely seriously injured and injured, and even had various strange diseases, becoming the demons and monsters in the anecdotes.

Under the protection of the three Zhang brothers, these two would-be robbers successfully arrived in Daming.

Zhao Mengyou looked at the two widows and the three brothers of the Zhang family, and reported in a low voice: "They came to Yanxinglou this time to seek help from the luxury households in Xitu City, but there was no progress. ”

"Is this a change of sex?" Zhu Yijun was surprised, could it be that the tacit understanding of the luxury households in Xitu City had become a loyal monarchy?

Zhao Mengyou said in a low voice: "At first, the minister thought that this Xu Jie's bad luck was unlucky, and the luxury households in Xitu City were frightened, killing chickens and monkeys, this monkey was naturally honest for a few days, but the minister probed carefully, only to find that it was not entirely the case. ”

"The younger generation of luxury households in Xitucheng is now Yao Guangming as the leader, and he is the younger brother of Yao Guangqi, a staff member under the Ling Butang tent and the official of Mizhou City."

Zhao Mengyou said with a very strange face: "Now the luxury households in Xitu City secretly read the contradiction. ”

"Damn, let them find their way to life!" Zhu Yijun slapped the table when he heard this, and finally knew what the problem was!

Yao Guangming just became strange after reading the contradiction, when communicating with Xu Heng, Sun Xuan and others, he understood with one mouth, blocking Xu Heng and Sun Xuan, nothing was done, every sentence was a crit, and now these luxury households in Xitu City have all read the book.

Not to mention anything else, these luxury tenants can grasp the main contradiction when they think about the problem, and they can clearly understand the main and secondary points, and it will be difficult for Zhu Yijun to raid his house to get some pocket money.

The biggest demand of luxury households is the continuation and profit of the family, and then pass on the accumulated wealth, which is the foundation of the family's survival.

For the business of copying the family and destroying the door, it is a fool who does not read the contradictions, and will do it.

The Japanese are actually very recognizable, they look too private Marseille (sorry).

The Wa country is very poor and very poor, and the poor have nothing else but silver, because there are many mountains and very little cultivated land, which leads to an extreme lack of food in the Wa country, and the Wa people are generally malnourished and skinny, and in this era, the Japanese people who are one meter and a half are already an excellent source of soldiers.

Even the samurai, who existed as a low-level nobleman, only had one meal of rice a day, and only three taels.

Although these two Japanese have been carefully selected, they are still very short in height, and a strong man like Li Rusong has been on the battlefield, coupled with the advantage of equipment, he can indeed be unparalleled.

Therefore, these two widows, sitting there, looked the same height as the turtle who solicited customers in the private kiln, and they were hunched over, sitting in Yanxing Tower, and they were even more panicked.

"Take someone." Zhu Yijun looked at it for a long time, the three brothers of the Zhang family and the two widows, did not wait for the person they wanted to wait.

After the three brothers of the Zhang family and the widows came out of Yanxing Tower, they were soon put in sacks by the riders, clean and neat, and the riders once again showed their professionalism during the arrest process, and in the blink of an eye, the five big living people disappeared on the corner of the street, and even the beggars squatting in the corner did not bother.

Zhu Yijun returned to the palace and waited for nearly an hour, and then received the interrogation file.

These two Japanese people, one is called Hirano Kojiro, and the other is called Suzuki Kawata, what makes Zhu Yijun more interested is that these two Japanese people are literate, and they read Sinology, and their Chinese language is not fluent.

Because of the hostile relationship, Oda Nobunaga had no way to send envoys from regular channels, but because of the existence of the Nagasaki Governor's Palace, Oda Nobunaga had an urgent need for information about the Ming Dynasty, so sending spies became almost the only way for Oda Nobunaga to collect information about the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, the trade between the Japanese ships and the Ming Dynasty required the Kanhe of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, and if there was no Kanhe of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, the Japanese ships would be treated as Japanese Invaders.

Oda Nobunaga gave these Japanese people several tasks, the most important of which was to find Ashikaga Yoshiaki and seek an opportunity to assassinate Ashikaga Yoshiaki, in the eyes of Oda Nobunaga, Ashikaga Yoshiaki this waste, brought him great trouble, and exiled him at the beginning, it was a helpless move, and now Daming has brought the famous righteousness from Ashikaga Yoshiaki!

This made Oda Nobunaga, the people of the world, somewhat powerless, and the Muromachi shogunate ruled as the de facto king for two hundred years from the Yongle period.

The second is to collect the number and deployment of the Ming five-masted ship, if you can get the design drawings and so on, it would be better, this kind of big ship, so that Oda Nobunaga is very vigilant, as the proposer of the world's Buwu, Oda Nobunaga's military talent is undoubtedly extremely outstanding, the Ming Dynasty to Nagasaki Governor's Mansion as a springboard, can land on the Wa Kingdom from anywhere on the coastline, what the Wako can do, the Ming can be copied.

Even Oda Nobunaga got the design drawings and other related technologies, but in fact, he couldn't build them, and the long industrial chain, countless mature shipwrights, gunners who needed a certain cultural foundation, etc., were all insurmountable moats for Oda Nobunaga.

Finally, it is to seek contact with Tachibana Chiyo to understand the preferences of the Ming Emperor, and if he can do what he likes, get tribute, Kanhe, or even canonization, it would be great for Oda Nobunaga.

Oda Nobunaga didn't know that Tachibana Chiyo was also a maid in the Ming Imperial Palace, and the Ming Emperor did not live in the palace and lived in the palace, and Tachibana Chiyo never even met the emperor himself once, let alone the emperor's preferences.

"Send the two widows to the Punishment Courtyard, and the three Zhang brothers will give it to the Criminal Department." Zhu Yijun Zhu approved the dossier, stretched his waist, according to the core point of view of Huayi's discernment, Yidi can not be counted as a person, as a spy is caught, the moment he is caught, the emperor can bypass the criminal department driving post mechanism, to dispose of it at will, this is also the most conventional way for the Ming Dynasty to catch the Japanese Kou, send it to the Jie Yuan to make a specimen to promote medical progress.

And the three brothers of the Zhang family have to go through the procedure of beheading three repeats, Zhu Yijun has always been a good emperor of the Ming Dynasty who acts according to the rules and obeys the law, in the eyes of the courtiers, this is a fortunate thing.

Kojiro Hirano, Suzuki Kawata, the reason why these two Japanese people have names is that they brought a small story to Zhu Yijun in their confession like bamboo tubes and beans.

The reason why these two people were selected by Oda Nobunaga as spies to disperse into the Ming Dynasty was actually their father, who had once landed on the territory of the Ming Dynasty to burn and loot the Japanese invaders in the southeast.

This little story impressed Zhu Yijun very deeply.

Hirano's father and Suzuki's father, both samurai, took the Japanese Kou, the outlaws of the Ming Dynasty, the red-haired fan and even the black fan, and established a stronghold somewhere in Zhejiang.

Suzuki's father was captured by Daming in a battle.

Hirano's father learned from the villagers about the location of Suzuki's father's detention, but he chose not to save him, not because Hirano's father was indifferent and ruthless, but because the samurai was captured and did not commit suicide, which was regarded as an act of not following bushido.

It is better to be captured by the Ming than to be rescued.

In bushido, the specific saying is "War Training": Don't be humiliated as a captive, and don't die and leave a stigma as a sinner.

Suzuki's father was rescued after a tortuous and complicated experience, and then Hirano's father became the wrong person, monitored Suzuki's suicide, and after Suzuki's father stabbed the dagger into the abdomen, Hirano's father, as the wrong person, cut off the head of the wrongdoer.

It stands to reason that Kojiro Hirano is Suzuki Kawata's father-killing enemy, but the two are still very good.

When Suzuki Kawata confessed, he raised questions: After his father was captured by the Ming Dynasty, he was still bandaged, but after his father was rescued, he was honorably righteous in the name of the samurai flower, there should be some problems here, but he didn't know what the problem was.

After the suicide of Zhu Su in Zhejiang, the Ming Dynasty will definitely capture the prisoners and send them to the Beijing Division, if they do not catch the prisoners, they generally do not report their military merits, until now, it is still the case, Chen Xuan still carefully follows this rule, and after the captured Japanese captives pass through the hall, they are all thrown by Zhu Yijun to the Liberation Courtyard.

"It has only been six years since the first year of Wanli, when the plague was completely quelled." Zhu Yijun closed the file.

On the fifth day of the second month of the eighth year of Wanli, when the Beijing division was preparing for the imperial examination, a holy decree suddenly reached the cabinet, and this holy decree passed through the cabinet, and was refuted by Zhang Juzheng, Wang Guoguang, and Ma Ziqiang with the power of the cabinet ministers, and returned to the celebrant supervisor.

The next day, the celebrant sent the decree to the cabinet intact.

Zhang Juzheng and the others had no choice but to go to the palace to meet them, and after a fierce quarrel, they still did not reach a consensus.

This is the first time in the Ming Dynasty that the emperor and the cabinet headed by Zhang Juzheng have a huge disagreement on the decree, and even to the point of refutation.

Such a fierce confrontation between monarchs and ministers made everyone tremble, but the information was not transparent, and even the courtiers didn't know what was going on.

On the seventh day of the second month, the court discussed this holy decree, which was another conflict between imperial power and vassal power.

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty was extremely unreasonable, and the Holy Decree began to be distributed to the six ministries without passing the court meeting.

In the six branches of the palace corridor and the six branches of the palace were the first to react, and began to admonish, the words were extremely intense, and even Zhang Juzheng was attacked, as the first assistant Taifu Yicheng Bo, he couldn't even refute such a ridiculous holy decree, what is the use of asking you Zhang Juzheng! With such a big world ticket, don't you lose your heart!

The officials of the Dao Dao began to act one after another, and the Huangji Gate was subdued, and the big drama that had not been seen for five years opened again.

Hai Rui persuaded all the officials to leave, went to the palace alone, knelt down in front of the palace gate, Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun out of the imperial study, helped Hai Rui up, introduced into the imperial study, and Hai Rui talked for a long time, still did not reach an agreement.

Hai Rui is a divine sword, which can kill corrupt officials and hurt the emperor.

Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Longqing both knew that Hai Rui was easy to use, and they didn't dare to use it, and this is the reason, Hai Rui blamed Chen Shan and didn't give the emperor a little face.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Zhu Yijun slapped the table three times in a row, looked at several important ministers, and said loudly: "Are you here to force the palace!" It just doesn't make sense! Deceive God! ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers are indeed here to force the palace." Zhang Juzheng didn't say those high-sounding, they came to force the emperor to take back his fate.

The West Flower Hall in the Imperial Study Room of the Imperial Palace is completely different from the Wenhua Palace, the biggest difference is that there is no platform, Zhu Yijun is sitting in a position that is not even a foot away from Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang, a long table, a few Taishi chairs, no correction officials, only Zhao Mengyou and two Tiqi.

Zhang Juzheng is on the left, Qi Jiguang is on the right, and then Wang Chonggu, Tan Lun, Wang Guoguang, Hai Rui, and Wan Shihe.

"Your Majesty, we have money now, if Your Majesty is really short of money to spend, there is still 1.3 million silver in the treasury of the national treasury, and Your Majesty will use it first." Wang Guoguang looked at the emperor's angry appearance and said in a low voice: "Why don't you add more gold and silver?" Add ten... 200,000 silver, 1,400,000 silver as the norm. ”

Wang Guoguang was even willing to take the initiative to add money to the emperor.

"You have money in the country, but don't you have money in the country? Do I lack this bit of silver? Zhu Yijun was furious, and he didn't know how Wang Guoguang understood his holy decree as a lack of money.

Cui Min, the eunuch of the inner house, said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, in addition to the investment in the sea, the inner palace also has 2.4 million silver, which is enough, and there is also a piece of ambergris sent by Yin Butang, more than 300 catties, which can be sold for at least 100,000 silver." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is usually known for being aggressive, but compared with Your Majesty, it is really a small thing, dwarfed, Your Majesty wants to stop slowing down, wait?" Tan Lun said tentatively, he has always been known as the first radical in the Ming Dynasty, but in front of His Majesty, he is completely a stubborn conservative!

"Wan Shihe! Is it possible to oppose it too? Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe again, this soft wall grass, now full of bones and righteousness, actually ran to the imperial study to refute the emperor's holy decree!

"Your Majesty, the minister just came to see the excitement, and to see the excitement." Wan Shihe waved his hand again and again, seemingly not expressing his position, but for him, being able to sit here has already expressed his position.

"Your Majesty, the minister is clearly opposed, and he said it when he entered the palace yesterday." Hai Jui's attitude is very resolute, he has always been such a person.

"I can tell you that you all have special skills! Run to my land to make trouble! Zhu Yijun leaned back in the chair, a little angry, these Ming men were indeed a little unable to accept their ideas.

"Your Majesty, the minister is really here to make up the numbers." Wan Shihe hurriedly said.

As soon as Wan Shihe's words came out, he almost made Zhu Yijun laugh angrily, this small thing is a meeting, a big thing is a small meeting, and a big thing is a closed-door meeting, and the depressed atmosphere of Zhu Yijun's closed-door meeting was interrupted by Wan Shihe twice and three times, and there was a lot less slaughter.

The imperial court really needs such a panacea.

"Your Majesty, the minister came here to say: Where Your Majesty's sword is pointed, it is the place where the Ming army has set foot on the level! His Majesty's will, the minister is supportive, His Majesty feels that it is necessary, that is, it is necessary, even if it is a crime in the world, it is a crime in all directions. Qi Jiguang's attitude is completely different from that of the ministers, he is here to express his supportive position.

Your Majesty just poked a hole in the sky, and it was also the heavens' fault.

Who's at fault? Your Majesty is not wrong anyway.

Disloyal! Honest!

"Really?" Zhu Yijun frowned.

Qi Jiguang nodded and said, "Your Majesty, give an order." ”

Zhu Yijun slapped the table and said loudly: "Look at Qi Shuai, look at you again!" I can't wait to arrest you all and put them in the prison of Fusi in Beizhen! ”

"Qi Shuai, the mastermind, blames Chen Shan for being loyal." Hai Rui frowned and looked at Qi Jiguang, he thought that Qi Jiguang was here to persuade His Majesty together, but it turned out to be an arch fire! Knowing that the emperor is doing something wrong, he still wants to support it, this is foolish loyalty!

"Military orders are like mountains." Qi Jiguang shook his head and said no more, reporting to the Son of Heaven and saving the head of Qiantou is Qi Jiguang's belief that will never change color in this life, and it is also his invincible faith.

Hai Rui wanted to say something, but Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand to stop Hai Rui, he pinched his eyebrows and said, "Rong Zhen thinks slowly." ”

Qi Jiguang is invincible on the battlefield, but this is the court.

"Your Majesty, our Daming is really rich! You don't have to sell your official beard! Wang Guoguang said with a smile on his face, His Majesty is still thrifty, and even the Aoshan Lantern Festival is seen in the Wenhua Tower with a clairvoyant mirror, and if you want to see it, you don't want to give money, Your Majesty uses silver to give state affairs, from Shanhaiguan to Liaoyang, at most, everyone is leaning on the belt, and it will take a year to save this silver.

There's no need to sell the official beard, it's really not necessary.

The holy decree that caused an uproar was Zhu Yijun who gave the Ming princes a big job!

Even Tan Lun, who is extremely radical, has become a diehard conservative.

Mainly for rewards:

Those who take more than 1,000 hectares of overseas plantations and can operate stably for more than five years, after being able to make public opinion, they will be rewarded with hereditary thousands of households, and they will be able to meet the Ming Dynasty;

Those who have been operating more than 10,000 hectares of overseas plantations for more than five years will be rewarded with hereditary earls after being able to obtain public opinion;

Overseas plantations of more than 100,000 hectares, stable for five years, after the public opinion, the hereditary marquis will be rewarded;

Overseas representatives of the country, the title of hereditary duke.

Zhu Yijun's behavior can be called the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's rotten knights, but it is not a complete rotten lord, because these are all overseas knights, and they have a new name, called the pioneer knights.

Zhang Juzheng made a decision, and Feng Bao, the announcer of the holy decree, shouted smoke in his throat when he broadcast, and he got an earl.

Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Yin Zhengmao, Chen Lan, Zhang Yuanxun, Deng Zilong, a group of military meritorious knights, are really with the country, is a partner of the Ming Dynasty, these pioneer knights, is more like a franchisee.

This is very clear in the Divine Decree.

The Ming Dynasty doesn't care whether these pioneers are rewarded alive or dead, their roots are plantations, plantations are there, their titles are there, not so much that the titles are rewarded to people, but to the land of the plantations.

The biggest problem with Zhu Yijun's holy decree is that in the eyes of the courtiers, the emperor is selling officials in disguise, which is unacceptable to the courtiers no matter what, even if Zhu Yijun killed all the Ming dukes who came to force the palace today, they also have this attitude.

The Ming Dynasty is a very special dynasty, in the last years of Chongzhen, the palace was poor enough to wear plain clothes, and there was still no official beard.

Zhu Yijun's engagement in this set was unacceptable in the eyes of the courtiers.

"Really? If I insist on going my own way, what will you do?! Zhu Yijun looked around and asked calmly.

"Ministers can only obey." Zhang Juzheng said.

Your Majesty is really bent on going his own way, Zhang Juzheng, as a courtier, actually has no choice but to obey the order and handle this matter well, but if you ask him if he agrees, he will never agree.

It is really embarrassing to sell the official mantle, Zhang Juzheng can imagine it, as soon as this holy decree comes out, even the old man under the locust tree at the head of the village, sitting on a big stone and shaking a fan, can scold him Zhang Juzheng for being incompetent, and the face of the heavenly kingdom has been lost to him Zhang Juzheng.

"Then you have to come up with something and let these luxury households go out to open up, right? The privileges of these pioneer rewards are only valid in their jurisdictions, and they do not enjoy any judicial or tax privileges in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yijun said helplessly.

I went out for a big walk today, and I saw a lot of Hanfu ladies, braving the winter wind, showing her long legs to take pictures, and it was more than 8 o'clock when I got home, and the update was a little late. Qi Jiguang, Yue Fei and others' foolish loyalty, but also the reason why they get the support of the imperial court, this kind of foolish loyalty is also a way of survival, but also a kind of husband's insistence on his own heart, if you can't meet a wise king, this loyalty will be let down, sometimes, history is about like this, full of regrets. Ask for a monthly pass, woo!!!!

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