If we look at it from the perspective of class theory, we will know very clearly and clearly why the imperial power, and even the imperial court, spared no effort to deal with such big families as Yanzhou Confucius, Songjiang Xu, Xindu Yang, Pucheng Zhang, etc., because they have become a class that transcends famous families and has threatened the hereditary and official class of the ruling layer.

The population, acres of land, and workshops controlled by these luxury households completely exceed the red line that can be accommodated by the current political and social environment of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the Yanzhou Confucian Mansion and its lackeys controlled more than half of Shandong's acres of land, more than 500,000 hectares, and the Qianguo Gong Hum Hum worked in Yunnan for 200 years, counting the official fields registered in the Qianguo Mansion to prevent the Tusi from asking for money, it was only 40,000 hectares.

For example, Sichuan, the country of abundance, fertile thousands of miles, in the seventh year of Wanli Qingzhang, Sichuan Governor Wang Tingzhan's recital, the total number of acres of land is only 140,000 hectares, and what hinders the imperial court is the tacit cooperation of local famous families and Tusi, and the existence of the new capital Yang has reached the point where the emperor can no longer bear it.

Sichuan is a province, 140,000 hectares, 14 million acres of land, fools are not so fooled!

In contrast, Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu are drier and always in a semi-drought state, with 650,000 hectares of cultivated land in Qingzhang last year, 1.14 million hectares in Henan, 1.89 million hectares in Nanya, and only 140,000 hectares in Sichuan.

The imperial power and the court have only two choices, either pretend to be stupid, turn a blind eye, immerse themselves in the dream of imperial power woven by etiquette and law, and watch them silently as they continue to eat away at the foundation of the Ming Dynasty; Either reform the old and make the new, uproot it, and devote itself to promoting the Ming New Deal and adjusting the contradictions between various classes.

There is no doubt that the imperial court chose the latter, and this is what Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng, as well as the imperial court they lead, have been doing.

The reason is very simple: my money!

Wang Qian immediately prepared to set off, Wang Qian, who loves to be in the limelight, there are more than 100 cars alone, and Wang Qian brings so many cars, not that he wants to make a conspicuous bag, if you really open it, it is full of firearms, he is not only to investigate the case, but also to escort the firearms sent to Sichuan, these firearms are to prevent the death of Mang Yinglong, there are changes in the southwest, and the imperial court sent the magic weapons in the hands of Liu Xian, the chief soldier of Sichuan.

A group of people rushed to Sichuan, this went to Sichuan, Wang Qian was not alone, Wang Chonggu wrote several letters, to the Jin Party's subordinates, carefully explained and cared for one or two.

At the beginning of July of the eighth year of Wanli, the Spanish galleon arrived at Songjiang Prefecture for the seventh time, this time, as many as seven five-masted ships arrived, carrying envoys from Spain, Portugal, France, and England, and the captain of the team had been changed from Marcus to Paulino, Paulino Franco, the second mate of the Portuguese king Antonio.

Paulino looked at the new port of Songjiang Mansion with a serious face, his face was extremely solemn, when he first arrived at the new port, it was the second year of Wanli, it was just a fishing village, scattered trestle bridges, just like that, it was simply extended to the sea, there were only a dozen small fishing boats in the port, at that time, with the staffing of the galleon, it was easy to capture the new port.

Francisco, the governor of Luzon at the time, shouted all day long that 2,000 Tessie Heavenly Soldiers could destroy the Ming Dynasty, and later this number continued to grow to 20,000, 40,000, and 50,000, but now, the size of the Ming Naval Division has surpassed Felipe's Invincible Armada.

Songjiang New Port, the most dazzling pearl of the entire Maritime Silk Road, is not one of them.

Natural deep-water port, waterways through the nine provinces, not so greedy officials, countless workshops, industrious civilians have created a miracle in front of them, cargo ships, passenger ships are like dragons winding in the rippling sea, sails cover the sky, become a nest for birds, on the dock that can not be seen at a glance, countless people shuttle in it, busy loading and unloading goods, the busyness here represents the prosperity of Daming sea trade.

"Captain Paulino, though this may be a bit reckless, as an experienced emissary, can you tell us that this has always been the case here? My God, this incredible prosperity, is this the work of God? A young woman, looking at the scene in front of her in surprise, exclaimed.

At this time, there was no city with more than one million people, although it is said that the ancient city of Rome, the capital of ancient Rome, had a population of more than one million, but... It's just rumors.

The sea breeze blew across her cheeks, sending the huge Matsue Mansion, this miracle of the world, to her eyes.

Cindy Celia, a musician, in addition to music, she is also a saint of the Holy See, she is from Rome, she has red hair, beautiful as fire, a pair of big eyes, the eyes are incredible, the tight top outlines the delicate curves, like a fragile flower blooming in the night.

Cindy is the messenger of Felipe II, she is a devout believer, swearing to use her life's innocence, to serve the god she believes in, this time to Daming, she naturally came with some tasks, this task, called Innocence martyrdom, Cindy is a gift from Felipe II to the Ming Emperor.

Felipe sometimes can't figure out what this eighteen-year-old Emperor Ming is thinking, with the terrible army in the hands of the Ming Emperor, there is no need to care about the restraints of those who can only shake their lips and tongues, as the supreme existence, the Ming Emperor's harem is actually only three people.

Felipe II, after thinking about it, sent a great beauty, a man of power, who always wanted to tear up some beauty and break some taboos, which is the beauty of power itself.

Felipe II is like this, as the overlord of Tessie, he treats people with himself, thinking that the women he sent before have no distinctive characteristics, in order to last forever between the Ming and the overlord of Tessie, Felipe II chose Cindy Celia.

This move seems to be a bit flattering, and yes, it's not a suspicion.

Felipe II didn't want to make the relationship so stiff, especially Antonio was canonized by the Ming Dynasty, as the overlord of Tessie, he naturally would never allow it, he had been plotting against Portugal for more than twenty years, and obtaining Portuguese ports, and then supporting the Netherlands more quickly, this was what Felipe II had to do.

And the elimination of Antonio will inevitably offend the Ming Emperor, and some mending opportunities will be needed.

"It's not the work of God, it's the will of His Majesty, I know Felipe II's bastard ideas, but it's already a gift for you to meet Your Majesty, and you don't have to beg for more mercy." Captain Paulino could naturally understand the shock.

One million people live in a city, and there are endless houses outside the city, such a huge city, so real in front of the face, well-managed, this Cindy, in the eyes of the Tessie people, is a miracle, but this is not a masterpiece of God, is the embodiment of the will of the Ming Emperor.

"Are there many such masterpieces in this ancient eastern country?" Cindy asked, confused.

"Miracles are not the same as miracles, just as people don't step into the same river, and the miracles of these miracles are different." Paulino thought for a while and answered this question, the miracles he had seen were Beiya, Nanya, Ningbo, and Songjiang Mansion, which were the four cities with a population of more than one million that he had seen with his own eyes.

Seven five-masted ships were towed by barges to the long-term berths, and all the Tessians were taken into a circular city.

This is the city of all nations that each city has, the city of all nations lives in Fanyi, here, not allowed to enter and exit at will, and trade takes place in the city of all nations, the Ming Dynasty is an extremely conservative dynasty, this strict management, is to prevent the rebellion of Fanyi, the original Japanese envoys fought for tribute, so that the Ming Emperor and the court were disgraced, and the Yisi Ba Xi military rebellion, was the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Persian armed turmoil that occurred in Quanzhou.

To prevent this violence, the City of Nations appeared.

When he came to Songjiang Mansion, Paulino's tense nerves immediately relaxed, he looked at the nervous people behind him, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry that our ships will be taken away by Daming, our goods will not have any problems, we will get a list of goods issued by the City Shipping Division, yes, it's so magical, a list, you can prove our goods." ”

"Can the list be faked?" A first-time sailor seems to have spotted a huge business opportunity.

Paulino laughed directly, looked at the walls of the City of Nations and said, "Do you see those hanging dry bones?" If you break the law of the Ming Dynasty, you will be cut in the artery, hung on it, and bleed to death, your idea is good, if you do that, we will be able to see you on the city wall tomorrow. ”

"I have to remind you that the Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette and civilization, but the Ming Dynasty's definition of people is relatively narrow, Fanyi is not a person in their place, and any behavior that violates the law of the Ming Dynasty will be punished that you never want to experience, and it is already good luck to hang here."

Cindy asked in surprise, "Is it already good luck to hang here?" ”

Paulino warned with a serious face: "Yes, there is a hell on earth in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which seriously violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty, such as some pirates and pirates who have the blood of the Ming people on their hands will be sent to hell, believe me, it is really a hell on earth, even the Ming people will be sent to it if they anger Your Majesty." ”

Cindy's face immediately turned pale, she had read Lygasit's travelogue, and in Lygasit's description, she had always believed that being able to effectively rule such a huge land was something that only God's human messengers could do, and the existence of hell on earth made her realize that things were not so simple.

She muttered, "I always thought that the emperor of such a civilized country would be a benevolent person. ”

"Your feeling is very correct, Your Majesty is a gentle and benevolent person, just like your lord, who has given light and benevolence to everyone in the Ming Dynasty, and in the same way, he is also a demon lord, which sounds a bit conflicting, but if you have read the contradiction of the Ming Dynasty, you can understand it, but unfortunately, for you, the contradiction is too difficult to understand." Paulino's face was rather complicated, he had read some translations of contradictory theories, and he could only understand the state of the emperor slightly.

"Alright, let's get ready to go down to Beijing." Paulino showed a reassuring smile and said, "As long as we don't violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty, here, as long as we walk in the light, we will only see the light." ”

On the port of Xingang, the cargo in the cabin of the galleon is constantly moved, and all the rats and fleas on the ship will be eliminated and cleaned up, which is after-sales and is money-based, and the repair cost of some watertight cabins of the ship is also very expensive.

Everyone knows that the price of a five-masted ship that has been dismantled into parts is much higher than that of a whole five-masted ship.

This is the way of making money in the Ming Dynasty, the five-masted ship itself is enough to make huge profits, and the after-sales service is even more profitable! Let the eyes of the luxury households in Nanya be green, Emperor Daming is really good at making money!

This phenomenon is generally accepted, because the unit price of buying another one is much higher than the cost of repair, and some ships that have no repair value will be dismantled and repaired, and the usable part will be sold to shipowners with less abundant assets.

This is also one of the important reasons why some luxury households are willing to surrender to the Ming Emperor, and they are afraid of change, because the new track means unknown risks, as long as you follow Your Majesty, there is really meat to eat, and the huge dividends of opening the sea do not need to take more risks, and you can also eat hard, why not.

Wang Daokun, Shen Shixing, and Sun Kehong walked down from the tide tower and came to the port.

"This business is not less scolded." Shen Shixing looked at the Tessie women who were pulled out with a strange face, and said with a little emotion, these Tessie women will be sent to the painting boat, or sent to the major green buildings to spend their miserable lives.

In one cabin, there were more than 200 Taixi women, and the entire fleet of women who arrived in Daming exceeded 1,000.

If their stories were to be written in a script, they would be exciting, but no one would pay attention to their fate.

To be able to reach Daming smoothly, in fact, they have already arrived on the other side, and for these Taixi women, if they were not bought by galleons in the Free City, their fate would only be more miserable.

The painting boat is a high-end business, the consumption is expensive, the sanitary conditions are far better than those stone towns in the New World castle cramped, damp, and can not see a ray of sunshine, if it is a small illness such as occasional wind and cold, it will not be directly abandoned, you can get some medicinal stones, and work on the painting boat, and wait for leisure, the guests will not be cruel, these Fanyi women are the private property of the Sun family, and the damage must be compensated according to the price.

Some diligent women, if they can learn Chinese within three months, can communicate simply, learn to weave, or they can go to the weaving bureau to be a weaver and get rid of their lowly status.

Worry is like a fish jumping into the dragon gate, breaking the cocoon and turning into a butterfly like regeneration.

Sun Kehong looked at those women and said with a smile: "You have to give the court some opportunities to do it, don't you?" ”

"That's right." Shen Shixing nodded, Sun Kehong was telling the truth, the painting boat, the wandering girl of the Japanese Kingdom, the Korean Goryeo Ji, the servant of Luzon, the mussel picker girl of Annam, the Persian beauty, etc., the profits from the trade of these Fanyi women, Sun Kehong actually donated them to the Songjiang Maritime Academy.

The profit of Songjiang Ocean Trading Company is much higher than that of the painting boat business, and its importance is also much higher than that of the painting boat business.

Huge amounts of silver poured into Songjiang Prefecture, and this silver was sent along the Yangtze River to the nine provinces along the Yangtze River.

Paulino, Cindy and other four messengers, boarded a painting boat, headed for Tianjin Wei, hydrofoil, that is a ship that only warriors can challenge, Paulino tried, experienced sailors, can not withstand such a bump.

This painting boat will sail directly into the Ming Jingshi, that's right, this is a gift from Sun Kehong to His Majesty, Your Majesty does not learn foreign languages, this painting boat full of beauties from all over the world is one of the gifts to His Royal Highness King Lu.

Sun Kehong is currying favor with King Lu, and after King Lu is sealed in the future, it is very likely that he will be Sun Kehong's top boss, and the development of the Yuanxu Islands is in full swing, which is Sun Kehong's fish leaping dragon gate, he wants to receive the pioneer reward, become an overseas hereditary official, and get rid of the fate of Sun's death.

The social resources that Sun now has at his disposal are already very dangerous, he is obedient and obedient, but the imperial court cannot sit idly by and watch his expansion and expansion, once his influence may threaten the stability of the ruling layer, he has only a dead end.

On the same day, Zhu Yijun ran over to watch, and Zhu Yijun, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, promised to behave well, and in the future, this painting boat would be given to him at the time of the wedding.

Zhu Yijun is a spoiled child, Empress Dowager Li is spoiled, and Zhu Yijun is not far behind.

These beauties who have been carefully cultivated, and their kung fu to serve people is not inferior to that of Yangzhou thin horses, and they have also realized their own leaping dragon gate, from prostitutes to musicians in Luwangfu, and they have also gotten rid of their lowly status, and their lives are extremely rich.

In the imperial study room of the palace, there are a bunch of notes on the imperial case, and the Ming Emperor holds the class theory written by Zhang Juzheng in his hand.

Zhang Juzheng gave a lot of examples, and the bloody world told the Ming Emperor the essence of class.

The essence of class is peeling, class is skin, and peeling is bone.

The superficially hierarchical class is actually a bloody knife scraping bones.

"The upper and lower levies, the public and private are stripped, the stolen officials are greedy and do not ask, the good people are miserable and ignorant, and after a long time, it is difficult to believe the external agreement, the heart is full of Qi, the people hate the marrow, and the people's grievances accumulate deeply." Zhu Yijun finished reading one of them, the harm of cruelty and peeling.

Zhang Juzheng has never been alarmist, he likes to give examples, in those short words, to tell His Majesty how difficult the people's livelihood is, and peeling is the exploitation of using a knife to peel off the flesh from the bones, and then knock the bones and suck the marrow.

In addition to the Sichuan Zhutou case, Zhang Juzheng cited a major case that occurred in Shaanxi during the Longqing period, at that time, Shaanxi Governor Shi Maohua had not yet gone to Shaanxi, and there was a mutiny in the local military garrison, and the border army garrison was guarded according to the ancestral system of the Jingtai Dynasty, and each border army was given 20 acres of land by each sergeant, and 12 stones of grain were paid every year, and the rest were self-sufficient.

Time flies, and for various reasons, the escape center, the loss of land, and the annexation have long been less than 20 acres, but the grain is still 12 stones, which makes the escape even more serious.

And in the three years of Longqing, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division commanded the envoy to levy 12 stone surplus grain, so that the contradiction was completely intensified, the corrupt officials of the Yamen of the Ming Dynasty sat back and ignored this kind of thing, the border soldiers were already miserable, and after a long time, the soldiers on the border did not have any trust in the promise of the general, and this resentment accumulated over time, and finally broke out in the camp mutiny, and finally made a chicken feather.

Zhang Juzheng discussed the nature of class and the dangers of cruel stripping.

Zhu Yijun handed over the annotated class theory in his hand to Feng Bao, and asked Feng Bao to send it to the Ministry of Rites, and the Guozijian and Gongyuan wanted to print this annotation on the Di Bao.

"Wang Cifu is afraid that he can't sleep at night." Feng Bao is the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and the ceremonial supervisor participates in politics, after this batch of notes is printed, Wang Chonggu will definitely sweat, no matter how you look at it, this class theory is aimed at Wang Chonggu.

"It's okay, didn't Wang Cifu just win Mr.? Luo Yao, the former governor of Sichuan, a descendant of Zhang Dang, has just been put in prison. Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

"That's not Mr. to clean up the portal, so he gave Wang Cifu a chance, on the surface, Wang Cifu did win, but in fact, Mr. won." Feng Bao was clear about this matter, and he used a knife to kill people, and Wang Cifu did win some bargaining chips in the party struggle, but as soon as the class theory came out, Wang Cifu seemed to lose more.

Wang Chonggu seems to have become a sinner who endangered the safety of the society and took advantage of the imperial court ship to make a U-turn, relying on the privileged economy to make a lot of money, and then threatening the ruler.

At their status, the gains and losses of one city and one place have long been unimportant.

"Felipe II, still don't give me a little face, and want to do something to Antonio, and even the gift of atonement has been sent." Zhu Yijun sat up straight, his eyes were dark, Felipe hit Antonio? It was the face of the Ming Emperor.

Antonio was crowned as a king in the palace in a five-chapter gown, and that five-chapter gown was incompatible with the royal palace of Sintra in Portugal, Antonio was not a good king, but he had been in and out of the Ming Dynasty for several years and knew that he had taken refuge in a good big brother.

Daming is a country with a good face, and Antonio is right about this.

"He also repaid my loan, and he didn't give me face." Zhu Yijun's fingers kept tapping on the table, he was thinking.

Felipe II's gift was insincere, and the presence of this woman named Cindy Celia as a saint could indeed provide some forbidden pleasures, and this emotional value was indeed very rare, and indeed only Felipe, the guardian of the Holy See, could provide.

But what about the benefits? Felipe II did not pay any substantial compensation, and he refused to pay even more interest on the loan.

This made Zhu Yijun very unhappy, and if he was unhappy, it meant that Daming was unhappy.

"Felipe's wishful thinking is good, judging from the national credentials, after eliminating Antonio, he will bear Antonio's loans, so that I don't have to worry about the huge investment grains and no income, what he said is really good." Zhu Yijun stopped the knocking in his hand.

"The next chapter of the Ministry of Rites, arrange for Cindy to enter the palace, and I accepted this gift. Inform Tessie's envoy that if King Antonio dies, the son he sent will be well cultivated and there is no need to worry. If Spain insists on annexing Portugal despite my warnings, the Ming will impose punitive tariffs, from 6% to 50%, so that he is optimistic about his Viceroyalty of Mindanao and Peru! Zhu Yijun gave specific instructions.

Antonio is indeed not smart enough, he even has some heads and two ends, and has thought about betting on both ends, which is normal, but he sent a son to Daming to cultivate, which is another choice.

Zhu Yijun's instructions were not improvised, Daming Temple calculated Felipe's determination to plot against Portugal, and carried out court discussions, economic sanctions, and it was extremely high 50%, and militarily, Mindanao must no longer be kept, and the entire diocese in the Far East was all disinfected, in addition, the Peruvian Viceroyalty was also within the scope of the threat.

Now, Da Ming really can't beat it, but what about the future? Felipe is not ignorant of the Ming Dynasty, the galleons have arrived in the port eight times, the Fanyi envoys have entered the palace several times to face the saints, the determination of the Ming Dynasty to open the sea, the growth of the strength of the sailors, Felipe knows very well that the five-masted ships sold to Tessie have exceeded forty.

Daming canonized the King of Portugal, and Felipe didn't give him any face, so he couldn't blame Zhu Yijun for turning his face and not recognizing people.

"Your Majesty, great victory, great victory! Ying Chang is a great victory! A small yellow door crawled into the palace, knelt on the ground silkily, and said loudly: "Yingchang general soldier Wang Rulong led 1,200 troops, broke through Kaipingwei, expanded 200 miles, 32,000 hectares of grassland, beheaded 424 levels, broke the fried flower departments, and shot the chieftain quickly!" ”

"Huh?"

Zhu Yijun looked at the small yellow gate sluggishly, Kaiping Wei was called Yuan Shangdu in the Yuan Dynasty, in June of the second year of Hongwu, Chang Yuchun conquered the Yuan Shangdu, changed it to Kaiping Mansion, and in July of the third year of Hongwu, Kaiping Mansion was reduced to Wei and Kaiping Wei was established.

On July 7 of the second year of Hongwu, Chang Yuchun, who had just taken Kaiping Mansion, died young, only forty years old, died of illness in Liuhechuan, Zhu Yuanzhang was grieved and mourned, and was buried in Zhongshan, with the filial piety mausoleum, personally laid the foundation, posthumously sealed the king of Kaiping, called Zhongwu, and worthy of enjoying the Taimiao.

The king of Kaiping, who often meets spring, is Kaipingwei, that is, Kaiping Mansion, which is extremely important here, and is a place where soldiers have always fought for outside the Saiwai.

(Schematic map of northern towns)

"Ah this..."Zhu Yijun took the good news, and read it for a long time, Kaipingwei was abandoned together with Xinghe in the sixth year of Xuande, and was moved to Dushi Fort, the reason for the migration was that the supply of food and salary was huge, it was difficult to support the needs of the families of the defenders, and the land was far away and lonely.

The process of the battle, is completely one-sided, to blame this quick to blame, in the spring of the eighth year of Wanli, provoked Wang Rulong, Wang Rulong repelled this fang, began to prepare for the attack, the original intention was to retaliate, but never expected, so without fighting, captured Kaiping Wei, expanded the soil for 200 miles, and completely included the grassland in Yingchangzhi.

"Good, good! The Ming Army is mighty! Zhu Yijun said three times in a row and said: "The next chapter of the military department, with a third-class meritorious service reward, Feng Banban, told Cui Min that Ying Chang participated in the border army to give an extra ten silver to each person to reward his bravery, and quickly escorted a total of 326 prisoners to his wife and children and subordinates into Beijing, and ordered the criminal department to investigate clearly. ”

"Good!"

Qi Jiguang originally planned to let Li Rusong take the cavalry camp, but this autumn, when the rainy season on the grassland had passed and the cold was not born, he attacked Kaipingwei, but Wang Rulong gave him the first step.

Wang Rulong, as the general soldier of Yingchang, was beaten, and the reciprocal retaliation was sent back, and he had already heard of the imperial court, and the other party's will to resist was really unexpectedly sluggish.

(End of chapter)