Man is man, I am me, man is a natural being, not a servant of God, let alone a vassal of anyone, this is the most basic humanistic thought.

"Yi Preface Hexagram" says: There is heaven and earth and then there are all things. There is everything, and then there are men and women. There are men and women and then there are couples. There are couples and then there are fathers and sons.

"Zhuangzi Zhibei Tour" said: "The life of people is also the gathering of qi." Gathering is life, and scattering is death.

People are born by their parents and exist naturally, not God who has given them a mission to come to the world to suffer.

The Ming Dynasty and the Beiyu in the mouth of the god and the immortal heaven, are invisible, existing in everything, time and space of the rules, this is nature, and the power of nature, greater than the individual, people through hard work, exploration, and the way of survival of nature, is to follow the sky, so there is the pipe put forward the law of the sky, the law of the earth, the law of the four times, and Xunzi Fuguo said: all things in the same universe and different bodies, inappropriate and useful for people, number also.

On the one hand, the hundred schools of thought advocated that the great power of nature is irresistible, and on the other hand, they were pursuing the spirit of 'controlling the mandate of heaven and using the "Xunzi Heavenly Treatise", "man is stronger than heaven, and man is determined to win the heaven" and "Book of Zhou", which seems to be indeed a contradictory concept, but Zhu Yijun, who is familiar with the theory of contradiction, can clearly understand the basic fact that contradictions are universal.

Zhu Yijun opened the sea and built a grain import industry chain, which is also based on the idea that man will win the day.

Man is an independent individual, Zhu Yijun is the Son of Heaven, the spokesperson of the great power of Heaven, God, Immortal Heaven, and Nature, but he knows very well that he is not omnipotent, he always respects the fate of everyone in the Ming Dynasty relatively equally, and it takes all people to go against the sky.

The cavalry battalion, a place to fight for their lives, the few elite cavalry soldiers, will definitely appear where the empire needs it most, dangerous, just like boarding the army first during the siege of the city, in the fierce military conflict, someone will definitely die, and the mortality rate of the cavalry battalion will inevitably be greater than that of the infantry battalion.

It is precisely because of the danger that Zhu Yijun fully followed the principle of voluntariness when selecting the cavalry camp.

Not to Zhu Yijun's expectations, there were too many people who signed up for the cavalry camp, so many that Li Rusong, Yang Wen and others, the deputy chief soldiers in charge of the cavalry camp, could not be selected.

In the Wuying Building, Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong walked in front, and they wanted to introduce the configuration of the cavalry camp for His Majesty.

"This should be the first all-firearms cavalry ever." Qi Jiguang stood in front of the three pairs of armor and said with some emotion: "The three cavalry battalions, with a total of 10,500 people, have a total of 35,000 flintlock firearms, 56,000 flintlock handguns, 524 side-box chariots, 27 nine-pound artillery, and 1,200 sub-mother cannons. ”

Qi Jiguang had to sigh that the all-firearms cavalry was completely His Majesty's idea, at the beginning of the idea, everyone thought it was too bold, and even Qi Jiguang was more opposed, but as time went by, Qi Jiguang realized that His Majesty's idea was by no means a flash in the pan, and it was moving towards reality step by step.

The birth of these three cavalry battalions is completely based on His Majesty's ability to make money, for the sake of these 10,000 people, His Majesty personally agreed with the Supreme of the World and Shah Maimai, and diplomatically established diplomatic relations with the Mughal Kingdom of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

The 100,000 soldiers of the Ming Jing camp are only 2 million silver a year, and the cavalry camp of 10,000 troops goes out with 3 million silver a year, which is equal to the cost of the mausoleums of the six emperors.

The flint fire gun, a seventeen silver, ginseng iron from Benxi in Liaodong and Huanghuali wood from Qiongzhou, the ginseng iron production in Liaodong is very small, almost all the output is sent to the War Bureau, His Majesty is still thrifty, even the palace does not use Huanghuali wood to make pillars and furniture, all are used on the butt of the gun, the most important spring steel in the flint structure, from the Xishan Coal Bureau, and the gun oil for the maintenance of firearms comes from Ryukyu and Luzon.

"The flint hair is long and short, with a yin and yang spiral inside, a long gun with three coins of gunpowder, sixty steps to break armor, a short gun with two coins and three points of gunpowder, and a thirty steps to break armor, all of which are customized for paper shell gunpowder." Qi Jiguang picked up a firearm and handed it to His Majesty, His Majesty comes to Beijing every day, and he is very familiar with riding guns.

Paper shell gunpowder ordering, it is simple to say, it seems that as long as the paper is wrapped in a certain amount of gunpowder, but this is based on precision manufacturing, the caliber of the gun chamber, the size of the lead has extremely high requirements, neither can be exploded, nor can the power is insufficient, the technical difficulty of this, from the leveling of the gun has the idea of ordering, it took a full seven years for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to initially improve the process.

Partial carriage chariots, nine-pound artillery, sub-mother cannons, flowering shells, wooden time-delay fuses, these are old faces, partial carriages are horse-drawn carriages, the assembly of nine-pound artillery, Li Rusong and Qi Jiguang have also had fierce disputes, Li Rusong feels that the cavalry who is good at mobility, with this kind of three-thousand-pound heavy artillery, is really a bit sacrificing, and Qi Jiguang believes that the necessary heavy firepower can effectively penetrate the defense, which is conducive to the realization of tactics.

In the end, Qi Jiguang won, this is not a problem with Li Rusong's understanding, but Qi Jiguang's playing style, which makes Li Rusong a little confused.

The most important role of the 3,000-pound heavy artillery is to raid thousands of miles, the surprise attack of thousands of miles on a rapid march, and the attack on key targets, all need to use heavy firearms.

The enemy's food and grass were stored in the cities, and even Altan Khan built two cities in naturalization.

"Iron armor is completely different from what ordinary people think, compared to other armors, the weight of iron armor is less than thirty catties, and while meeting the needs of defense, the weight is lower." Qi Jiguang pointed to the iron armor on the shelf and knocked it.

The iron armor, or plate armor, is actually very flexible, the iron armor used by Zhu Yijun and Zhu Yiyi, the iron armor that is integrated, and even the cage hand, singing, dancing and bowing, is not a problem.

But when it is installed on a large scale, the problems that must be faced arise, the high cost of iron armor, the number of steel is not enough to carry more than 10,000 people, and the weight of standard iron armor exceeds 35 catties, which is a great burden, for cavalry who run long distances, the excessive quality of armor means greater consumption.

Zhu Yijun and Zhu Yijun can use special iron armor, but their horses are specially selected war horses, but when they are assembled on a large scale, they can only choose to reduce the allocation.

Three-quarters of the armor, helmet, neck guards, cuirass are complete, the armor covers the entire upper body and the front half of the legs, up to the knees, this design ensures the safety of the cavalry to the greatest extent, and the weight reduction can reduce the pressure on logistics and expand the combat radius.

What is more interesting is that there is only one glove, because the right hand needs to be filled with gunpowder, whether it is made of cotton and linen, leather or steel, it is very affected by the filling of gunpowder.

According to Zhu Yijun's previous plan, each cavalry should bring a war hammer, which is specially used to open cans, that is, to destroy the opponent's heavy cavalry, the war hammer is three feet long, with hook ropes, and the hammer head is a pointed hammer, with Zhu Yijun's strength, only one hammer is needed on the hood, which is completely enough to break the defense.

Even the holster of the war hammer was ready, but it was abandoned by the soldiers, who preferred to use it to hang knives, which was determined by the battlefield environment.

The war hammer has no use environment, armor piercing, and guns are better than hammers, and the enemies of the Ming Dynasty do not have so much heavy armor, and their armor is no different from paper in front of firearms.

The three-foot-three-inch knight's sword is completely sufficient, if it really encounters the heavy cavalry, tens of thousands of firearms have not been able to destroy the opponent's heavy cavalry, then with a hammer, it is better to retreat, replenish a round of gunpowder, and continue to be reliable against the enemy.

Zhu Yijun has always admitted that his military talent is not high, the army of the Ming Dynasty fights in large-scale clusters, not stragglers, and the war hammer is indeed easy to use, but it is not suitable for the current Ming battlefield.

After introducing the armament, Zhu Yijun led the ministers to the outside of Wuying Building.

On the school field in front of Wuying Building, three cavalry battalions totaling 10,000 people stood on the school ground, orderly training and well-armored cavalry, standing in front of a tall horse, holding a horse with one hand, holding a helmet with the other, and all the armaments were placed on the horses.

More than 10,000 people stood on the school grounds, but they were so quiet, silent and solemn.

Sitting on both sides of the Wuying Building is the left and right martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, and the hundred officials of the Ming Dynasty went to the Ming North Camp today to witness the review of the cavalry.

The Daming cavalry camp stood there quietly, and there was no more movement, but some Wenchen, restless, with nails under their cheeks, made them extremely anxious, and many people, looking at the slaughtering cavalry camp, were already sweating.

The May day hasn't been that hot yet.

I knew that there was today, and I should have stopped His Majesty from practicing martial arts in the first place!

After the assassination of the king, the emperor even coaxed and deceived Zhu Xixiao to force Zhu Xixiao to become the emperor's martial arts teacher, at that time, everyone did not take it seriously, and they all felt that the young majesty was because after the assassination, he was frightened, and his heart was not in decline, so he chose to practice martial arts, and he was more to envelop Ti Shuai.

At that time, no one would have thought that His Majesty was not doing his job properly, he was playing really, practicing martial arts was extremely hard, he didn't want to live, and when he didn't have any talent, he needed great perseverance to succeed in martial arts, and the emperor, who was born a nobleman, would have this kind of perseverance?

Da Ming has experience, the last time the lord Shaoguo was suspicious, the ancestors of the military horses every day were still there, but the young Ming Yingzong, let alone practicing martial arts, was not going to the military horses, and the reason was sufficient, and the child was still young.

After the restoration, Ming Yingzong simply disbanded the Beijing camp, and it was not until the Chenghua period that it was reorganized.

The dark clouds of assassination and killing of the king will not end until Zhang Siwei enters the Liberation Courtyard, no one wants to be the first bird, to oppose His Majesty's martial arts, nothing to provoke, waiting for His Majesty to give up.

His Majesty did not give up, Zhenwu intensified, and today finally blossomed and bore fruit.

Cavalry camp, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu, Yongle galloped outside the two sharp weapons, Hongwu years have 500,000 horses, to Yongle years of the five expeditions to Mobei, the Ming Dynasty has 720,000 horses, cavalry has always been the Ming Dynasty to conquer the outside of the winning army, since the change of the civil fort, the Ming Dynasty has no more cavalry.

Three cavalry battalions, 10,000 people, compared with the beginning of the country, can be said to be seriously reduced, but no one will question the strong combat power of this 10,000 army.

Zhu Yijun walked on the stage, the slightly hot wind in summer blew the flag hunting, the sound of horns and drums, as the emperor took the stage became quiet again, Zhu Yijun, who has become an adult, is majestic, tough and soft, masculine and elegant contradictory temperament is extremely harmonious in the emperor's body, as well as the calmness that is a little embarrassing and not in line with his age.

This calmness does not belong to this age.

Shoulders against the anti-Japanese month, had to be.

Zhu Yijun slowly stretched out his right hand and said calmly: "The Ming Army, mighty."

"Your Majesty is mighty! Your Majesty is mighty! Your Majesty is mighty! ”

"The Ming Army is mighty!"

"Report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of Qian! Report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of Qian! ”

The soldiers shouted in unison, the sound shook the mountains and rivers, and went straight to the sky, and the Ming army showed its might.

Zhu Yijun looked at the cavalry and showed a smile, Zhu Xixiao and Zhu Xizhong always talked about the Ming Army's glory and might, and today, their expectations have finally come true.

Wang Chonggu leaned on the Taishi chair, looking at this scene, with a smile on his face, he is a courtier and a hypocrite, and he will always be a hypocrite for the rest of his life, and he can be regarded as a gentleman if he is a hypocrite for a lifetime, right?

The guns and guns of the Daming cavalry camp and the gun body of the artillery are all produced by the Xishan Coal Bureau, and the formation of the Daming cavalry camp is completed by His Majesty's edict, Zhang Juzheng led the order, and the six departments worked together to complete it.

Wang Chonggu was happy and decided to give Wang Qian a little more pocket money, one thousand taels more per month.

The drill of the cavalry camp was outside Beitu City, Zhu Yijun came to the gate tower of Beitu City, watched the whole exercise, the horses brought up a huge amount of dust, dust and gunpowder smoke filled the entire hunting ground, the sound of firearms bursts, slightly blocking some of the sight, but Zhu Yijun was still very, very satisfied.

One by one, the targets were knocked down, and the flying birds, without exception, were all shot down by the Ming cavalry, and the sound of horses' hooves was bursting, like a sea of mountains, gunpowder smoke rolling, and the sound of artillery was like thunder!

"Good! Enjoy! Five silver per person in the riding camp! Reward the three armies today. With a wave of Zhu Yijun's big hand, more than 70,000 taels of silver went out, and the cavalry camp was a reward of 50,000 taels of silver, and it would take more than 20,000 taels of silver to reward the three armies at a time.

stingy and generous, both Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun looked at the hundred officials on the viewing platform, his eyes were a little playful, he hoped that these hundred officials could give him a little surprise, the Ming Dynasty opened the sea and gradually deepened, the sea trade was really moving, Daming City's ban on the division of the company, Daming's ban made it impossible for the luxury households to make money unscrupulously, Zhu Yijun hoped that the mouthpieces of these luxury households could jump out.

To make an example of chickens and monkeys, you need to continue to kill those who dare to take the lead, in order to deter the ambition of covering up luxury households.

But Zhu Yijun found more and more that the hundred officials in Jingtang are as shrewd as the fish in the Taiye Pond, on the one hand, the emperor never relents when it is time to act, on the other hand, Hai Rui and Li Youzi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are anti-corruption and greedy, and they take one by one, which makes the hundred officials in Jingtang more careful.

Hai Rui is not a cool official, but what he does is completely a cool official, how can there be anti-corruption and corruption, in the middle of the night, pull Shao Zhan Shi and Shaoqing out of the bed? The doctor's face was thrown to the ground by Hai Rui, and he rubbed hard and spat a few times.

But accusing Hai Rui, a moral model and a moral saint, there is really no way to say it, Hai Rui is ruthless, this magic blade, even dares to aim directly at the emperor, Zhang Juzheng knows that it is a detour.

The last time he was rewarded, Hai Rui went to the Huangji Gate, persuaded the official of Kedaoyan to leave, and asked the emperor to take back his fate.

Zhu Yijun looked at Wu Xun, and he was also a little angry, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty were somewhat lazy, a little indifferent to the formation of the cavalry camp, and even not eager, most of the martial arts heirs of the Ming Dynasty could not even pass the examination of the martial arts school, and could only lead an idle errand who did not look at things, and told the glory of the ancestors over and over again.

Under the viewing platform, there was also a group of officials who were not qualified to sit in the fifth grade and below, and there were some Fanyi envoys, and the three ladies who entered Beijing to send wool were also among them, and the expression was very complicated, worried and fearful, and there was some relief.

At the end of the riding camp inspection, Zhu Yijun looked at Beidaying with a little reluctance and got into the car.

Xiao Huangmen had already inspected the horse-drawn carriage many times, and Feng Bao went around twice before he shook off the dust and shouted loudly: "Drive out of the palace." ”

The horse-drawn carriage began to move forward, entering from the Desheng Gate, and entering the capital along the military road, and suddenly the horse-drawn carriage slowly stopped, because the horse-drawn carriage who checked the track along the way heard that there was a situation in front of him, and the big chariot was quickly jacked up, and the larger wheels were mounted on the axle, and it took less than three minutes for the car to turn to another road and gallop towards the palace!

Zhu Yijun asked about the situation quite excitedly, he also thought that someone had buried gunpowder in the track, and when his car drove by, he arranged a huge assassination.

Zhu Yijun is wearing armor, and he can fight with a buckle.

After Yu Dayou passed away, Zhu Yijun became more and more cautious, he rarely rode horses outside the Beijing camp school field now, people have misses, horses have stumbled, in order to prevent accidents, can only be cautious.

For the gunpowder explosion of the car, and then the assassins poured out of the streets and alleys to assassinate, this play, Ti Qi has done several rehearsals, the Ming Emperor's big chakra, there is a layer of a finger thick steel plate underneath!

But unfortunately, it was only a loose rail connection, and in order to prevent accidents, the activation plan was chosen.

"Intensifying the contradiction is also a way to adjust the contradiction, what disappoints me is that the courage of the luxury household is as narrow as their vision, and they don't even dare to assassinate the king and kill the driver, what should be the luxury household!" Zhu Yijun returned to the palace and said with some dissatisfaction to Feng Baoluo.

People who like to watch the excitement even hope that they will become lively, but unfortunately, their hopes have been disappointed.

Feng Bao put the sorted out notes in front of the emperor, and said with a smile: "Isn't that referring to Your Majesty's dividends?" Xitucheng covers the luxury households and Jin merchants, but they bet most of their net worth in the Yanxinglou ship ticket trading house, and they are more afraid of His Majesty's accident than the ministers. ”

Zhang Hong made tea for His Majesty, and said happily: "Your Majesty is now their food and clothing parents, and they are now very opposed to Your Majesty going to Beitucheng to parade military horses, and it is also said that if Your Majesty really likes it, it doesn't hurt to go and see it, don't go down to the school field, just go for a walk, the Son of Heaven has a golden body, this sword has no eyes, what if it hurts?" ”

"I'm a golden man now?" Zhu Yijun sneered.

According to the original rules, Wanli eight years ago, no longer monthly dividends, but changed to the whole year, has tasted the sweetness of the luxury households, as if they have been completely opposed and resisted from the past, to support.

"A bunch of guys who see money!" Zhu Yijun picked up a notebook, and after reading it, he was also stunned for a moment.

Song Shu was written by Wang Daokun, the governor of Songjiang, and Song Shuli is some changes in the Minxin Bureau, in the early years of Yongle, the merchants of the Ningbo Gang created a for-profit organization similar to the Daming Kowloon Post Station under the background of the continuous relocation and resettlement of the Ming Dynasty.

In Wang Daokun's recital, the Minxin Bureau added a kind of exchange business from the two simple functions of sending letters and articles, similar to the money quotation certificate of the Daming Bao Banknote Bureau, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty could deposit and withdraw silver taels in these Minxin Bureaus.

Sun Kehong has a sum of silver to pull to Jingshi, he doesn't need to pull the cash directly to Beiya, but to save it to the Songjiang Prefecture Civil Information Bureau, and then take it out from the Jingshi Civil Information Bureau.

This kind of business has a professional term, called a ticket number, a bill of exchange or a foreign exchange bank.

The exchange business has appeared as early as the Hongzhi period in the prosperous Nanyashi Fourteen Prefectures, but the large-scale development has been extended to Beiya, Datong, and even Liaoyang, which was last year.

The reason why Wang Daokun wrote so much was because the businessmen of the Ningbo Gang controlled the Minxin Bureau and ruthlessly pit Sun Kehong, Sun Kehong had a sum of 30,000 taels of silver, which disappeared inexplicably, and the bill of exchange stubs for handling exchange were lost by the Songjiang Minxin Bureau, and the reason for the loss was also very simple, these bill of exchange stubs entered Beijing from the waterway, and the civilian ship that sent the bill of exchange stubs capsized.

Sun Kehong's family has a big business, and he doesn't feel sorry for the 30,000 taels of silver, he went to the yamen to complain, just to have an explanation! Is it the businessmen of the Ningbo Gang who are targeting! The money handled by other families is fine, the stubs are lost, and there are local stubs, why can't he just take them out.

Wang Daokun went to this trick in the hope of establishing a set of ticket numbers that belonged to the official post of the Ming Dynasty.

Daming official post can not make ends meet, years of losses, although after the mountain people are not allowed to risk the official body of the cleanup, Daming post is no longer the past serious loss of the state, but the loss is a loss, under the actuarial atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, this official post is afraid that sooner or later will be actuarial, then to find a new profit point, to support a huge post man, it has become a very necessary thing.

"In the next chapter, the cabinet, the household department, and the military department, draw up a charter, set a limit of seven days, and make a draft discussion, according to Governor Wang's statement, you can first build three places in Songjiang, Beiya, and Nanya, expand the scale little by little, and run fast in small steps." Zhu Yijun Zhu criticized Wang Daokun's recital.

The ticket number is the prototype of the bank's external business.

If you want to set up Daming Bank, Daming's coinage should meet the needs of Daming, and it is also necessary to establish a complete external business, only the Baoyuan Bureau and the Baoyuan Bureau are far from enough, Zhu Yijun is happy to see this kind of exploration.

In the same way, Kaihai is giving birth to a new bourgeoisie, and the speed of its birth and development far exceeds Zhu Yijun's expectations.

"Issued an edict to the cabinet and the military department, asking and urging the naval division to expand the army." Zhu Yijun took out the middle purpose again, wrote the content of the inquiry, and asked Feng Bao to do it.

The sailor must accelerate the expansion, although the court has passed, but it will take some time to implement, Zhu Yijun originally planned to expand the army in three years, but now it seems that the pace must be accelerated.

"Call King Lu to me! Where did you run again? Zhu Yijun reviewed a few books, only to find that Zhu Yijun was not in the imperial study.

According to Zhu Yijun's training plan, Zhu Yijun needs to read all the notes that he has reviewed every day, and ask if he doesn't understand, and after dinner every day, Zhu Yijun will ask nine questions about the songs, and he can play them all right, without going to the school to run circles.

The royal gate listened to the government, Zhu Yiyi was reluctant, and he looked at the state affairs, so he was even more uncooperative.

"Your Highness has returned to King Lu's Mansion." Zhang Hong and Feng Bao glanced at each other and whispered.

"What are you doing?"

Feng Bao said helplessly: "It is said that the Persian beauty has arranged a new dance, let His Highness appreciate it, His Highness has already gone!" ”

"Persian beauty?" Zhu Yijun looked at the music in his hand, slapped the table and said loudly: "Call him!" As long as he asks the wrong question today, he will practice with Luo Sigong tomorrow! ”

Zhu Yiyi came with a mask of pain, and today the beauties of all countries are preparing more than a dozen dances, not only Persian beauties! was brutally stirred up by the royal brother!

Obviously, he was really tired from the horsemen today, and he thought that the imperial brother would put the recital until tomorrow, so he happily went to watch the dance, but was pulled in to continue to inquire about state affairs.

When Zhu Yiyi heard that he was going to train with Luo Sigong, the second master of the youth group, he immediately became serious.

Zhu Yiyi replied fluently, and let the imperial brother punch the cotton.

"Tomorrow Luo Sigong will practice with you." Zhu Yijun was very satisfied and chose the reward.

"Huh?!"

"No, brother! It's not that you can't answer, so you're crazy... Does Luo Sigong practice? Zhu Yiyi's eyes widened suddenly, and he said loudly: "The gentleman is quick to speak!" Chrysostom said that he must not go back on his word! ”

Zhu Yijun said in the old god: "I didn't say that I would answer, so I don't need it." ”

"Your Majesty!" Zhu Yiyi jumped up, shook his head again and again, and said, "Mr. said it!" The country has lost great faith, people's hearts are suspicious, the subordinate brother has fallen into His Majesty's injustice, and the subordinate brother deserves death. ”

Zhu Yiyi's sentence, with retreat as advance, moral kidnapping, and going online, I have to say that Zhu Yiyi, a scholar, has not read many books, but he has learned them all.

"Forget it." Zhu Yijun nodded and took back his fate, he is a very reasonable person, just let Xiong Tingbi go up.

"Brother! Clear! Zhu Yiyi was happy, he didn't know that adults were sinister, Luo Sigong was not easy to deal with, and Xiong Tingbi was not easy to deal with.

"Brother, I've always had a question, the Four Books and the Five Classics are all things from the pre-Qin period, at least at least more than 1,500 years, why do we still read such early books? Cheap Confucians always say, today is not as good as the ancient, I am still young and not smart, brother, do you know why? Zhu Yiyi sat on the Taishi's chair and asked his doubts.

The book I read, it's too old.

Zhu Yiyi has been slowly reading "Xunzi" and "Guanzi" recently, which are also annotated by Zhang Juzheng for His Majesty, but these books are too old, if it weren't for the emperor's enough deviance, he wouldn't be able to read anything other than the Four Books and the Five Classics.

"That's a good question." Zhu Yijun closed the note.

(End of chapter)