The overlord of Tessy, Felipe II, after seeing the terrible power or dominance of the Ming Emperor, began his own path to the emperor, he purged the opposition, and in a cruel and bloody way, he killed the nobles who opposed him during the grand ceremony, the sheep festival.

The cruel and bloody methods even shocked Xu Fan, and soon, Xu Fan became relieved, because in the last Spanish-Portuguese War, Spain failed to achieve the goal of the war, breaking Lisbon and annexing Portugal, so the defeated Felipe either cut the flesh to shut up the opposition, or shut up the opposition physically.

Felipe chose the latter, he wanted to refer to the political system of the Ming Dynasty and let his power exceed the limits of the feudal system of Ctesi.

But Xu Fan knew very clearly that Felipe's imperial road was bound to fail, and becoming an emperor was as simple as killing people.

Whether Felipe can achieve his goal, Xu Fan doesn't care, he warmly entertained General Álvaro, this Lisbon peace talks, no result was negotiated, Felipe will not give up his plot against Portugal, Antonio cannot give up the Portuguese throne, this is a fundamental contradiction, this battle, there is still to be fought, it depends on how much Felipe is willing to pay for it.

Fortunately for Antonio, Xu Fan and others, Felipe II's eyes are in Spain and will not see Portugal for the time being.

The exploration fleet of the Ming Dynasty was heading towards France and England, and it was the task of the exploration fleet to open up sea routes.

On December 24, the eighth year of Wanli, the Ming court began to rest, the daily court began to become brief, the Ming began to prepare for the New Year, and the busy Ming Emperor summoned the people, squires, and wang clans at the Huangji Gate to meet with nearly 1,000 people, understand the issues that everyone is most concerned about, went to the major official factories to visit the craftsmen, and went to Nanhaizi in Daxing County to visit the family of the Marquis of Duntai.

In December, Zhu Yijun also went to Juyongguan to inspect the construction of Jingxuanchi Road, and then went to Jimen to inspect the progress of Chongguchi Road.

Chonggu Chi Road, repair faster, this road is extremely wide, Wang Chonggu has invested a lot, and personally supervised, has been repaired to Jizhou, and the other side is from Shanhaiguan to start construction.

This is what Zhu Yijun has to do every year, this year is still no exception, the capital is full of the emperor's figure, the hundred officials and people of the Ming Jingtang have gradually become accustomed to such an active Emperor His Majesty, compared to Emperor Jiajing who lived in Xiyuan for 25 years, Emperor Longqing did not say a word, and His Majesty was a little too active.

The Ming Dynasty is more than 200 years old, and it has developed to the present, in fact, the Ming Dynasty from top to bottom does not like such an active emperor, Xingwen Kuangwu has weakened the authority of hereditary officials, including the emperor, and the continuous development of the system, the Ming cabinet, the six ministries, and the Kedao Yanguan have already formed a multi-headed regime.

The activity of the emperor means that the power of the monarch is strengthened, and it also means that the power of the subjects is greatly weakened in the process.

Xu Fan is right, the scholars in Jiangnan are overly greedy, they try to control the official class in their own hands, and then realize the class jump, from a noble family to a family.

Some people are happy and some are worried, some people don't like the active emperor, and some people like to see it, such as the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, when they were active in the emperor, they finally received a full salary, such as the people of the Ming Dynasty, with the conversation after tea and dinner, whether it is the three ladies, or Zhou Defei, or Liu Qiniang who is placed in the Yongsheng woolen factory, countless interesting stories can be derived.

Zhu Yijun gradually replaced Zhang Juzheng and became the focus of Daming, even the scandal.

There are also some famous families who have earned enough dividends in the New Deal, and they are gradually becoming one of the emperor's supporters, and the feeling of lying down to make money is really great.

In the second half of this year, the biggest focus of Nanya's attention was the Yuanxu Islands.

Zhu Yijun obtained a book of navigation notes written by a missionary named Yasser, which Sun Kehong's ocean-going caravan had found in the Yuanxu Islands.

This nautical journal is full of confessional texts, but the content is so cruel.

During the Jiajing period, Hongmaofan discovered a small island in the Yuanxu Islands, the country of a thousand islands, and the missionary Yaser, named it Gegetia Island.

The sea and sky of Gegetia Island are as clear as sapphires, and on the central mountain range of Gegetia Island, white clouds float on the top of the mountain all year round, and halfway up the mountain is a patchwork of fields, and at the foot of the mountain, where the island is connected to the sea, there is a shallow beach like a skirt, and there is a small river on the island that can supply fresh water.

In the thirty-second year of Jiajing, the fleet of missionary Yasser was found here.

There are about 3,600 natives on the island, who lived in isolation before the Tessians invaded the island, using stone tools, fishing, bone needles, etc., and these natives liked to wipe mud on their bodies, dry them on the beach, and then jump into the sea to wash off the mud.

The Tessians opened up a settlement here, and about one hundred and twenty-seven Tessians lived, and in the beginning, there was a good time between the colonists and the natives, and the missionary Yaserl tried to preach among the natives, but unfortunately, because of the language problem, and the natives were also very bold, they took off the colonists' clothes to see if their skin was also white.

The time of happiness and harmony did not last long, and in the winter of the thirty-second year of Jiajing, the killing began.

First of all, a very good-looking female aborigine handed over the pearl found from the shallow water beach to a colonist, hoping that the colonist could tell the story outside, but the colonist played with the native, and then let other colonists play with him.

This is a very common thing, these days, the people who go to the sea, are not good people, Da Ming and Taixi are like this, a considerable part of them are fugitives, they have done a lot of evil, and there are few women on the ship, and the long voyage makes these colonists crazy when they see the ewes, let alone a beautiful woman.

The war began.

In order to take revenge, the natives began to fight, and the colonists began to shoot the natives for no reason, and the old, weak, women and children, without exception, were not spared.

This war was one-sided from beginning to end, the natives didn't even have bows and arrows, and the firearms, bows, and armor in the hands of the colonists were all incomparable to the natives, and even in the eyes of the natives, they were like magic and miracles.

The missionary Yasser was in a paradoxical state, on the one hand, he desperately repented in his nautical journal and begged for forgiveness from his lord, while on the other hand, Yaserl was actively involved, enjoying the killing, and even hunting natives as entertainment.

Jaserl himself counted the sins he had committed, and broke the man's leg and made him crawl; The purpose of completely smashing the head of the injured person is to test the strength of the head; Throw the baby into the brazier and see if it burns; The bayonet was thrust into the trembling heart and watched the blood splash; The natives gathered around the campfire and watched their friends and relatives slaughtered like livestock, and the missionary Yasser had the greatest pleasure in basking in this fearful gaze.

Whenever a group of natives were killed, Yasser would lead the colonists to pray, repent of their sins, and thank the Lord for the gifts they had given them, whether it was food or women.

The number of natives began to decline sharply, and the power of firearms was so great that some of them preferred to jump into the sea rather than become enemies.

The missionary Yasser felt that this could not be done, and if this continued, the natives would be killed, and the killing would be too heavy, and it would be difficult for him to go to heaven, so he began to order that each native, five silver coins for adults, and two silver coins for children.

In the journal, a very strange and reasonable logic, the missionary Yasser believed that capturing alive could reduce killing, wash away sin, redeem oneself and the natives, but in fact it was for slaves.

In the forty-second year of Jiajing, the missionary Yasser began to expand his territory, and his territory expanded from one island to dozens of islands, and the same hunt and killing order has been in effect.

In the eighth month of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty began to explore the Yuanxu Islands, there were only forty-two indigenous people left on these dozens of islands.

I still remember that in the first 32 years of Jiajing, there were more than 3,600 natives on Gegetia Island alone, but in the 42nd year of Jiajing, there were only 42 natives on the dozens of islands controlled by the missionary Yasser.

These forty-two natives were encircled by the missionary Yasser, and each of them had a name, Saar, Suk, Betty, Zug, etc., and the missionaries kept them in captivity, taught them to read and write, and the purpose was to make them religious, to achieve the original purpose of the missionaries, to preach.

The Ming Songjiang Ocean Trading Company breached the missionary's castle and failed to save the natives, as thirty-one of them contracted pneumonia, including the missionary Yasser, and in the end, only eleven natives survived.

In the eighth year of Wanli, only four of the eleven natives survived, and the long-term imprisonment life has made these natives completely crazy, the moment the shackles were opened, four people threw themselves against the wall, intending to kill themselves, and three people bit themselves all over the blood, and finally the outlaws of the Ming Dynasty could only end the lives of the natives, end their miserable lives, for them, death is a relief.

Only four strong-willed people, one man and three women, survived, and they were captured for a short time, only half a year.

The missionary Yasser poured mercury through the separated skin, trying to prove in this way that God really exists, and as long as he survives, it is a gift from God, pricking it with needles to stimulate the absorption of mercury under the skin.

Missionary Yasser eventually came to the conclusion that the natives were just an ape, otherwise why would the natives not respond to their staunch belief in the Lord? Otherwise, why would the Lord refuse to favor these natives?

So the indigenous are just an ape.

In this way, when Yaser's death, he can go to heaven and hunt only apes, not people.

"This thing, I look dizzy, take it, take it, send it to Mr., I can't be disgusted alone." Zhu Yijun threw the note aside.

At this time, His Majesty the Great Emperor regretted a little, regretting that he should not have learned Latin, and if he didn't learn Latin, he wouldn't be able to read the notes, and the officials of the Ming Rites Department would intimately delete those crazy contents, so as not to let the emperor witness these crimes.

After reading this kind of original, Zhu Yijun only felt abstract.

"Your Majesty, Sir has never studied Latin, so I can't read it." Feng Bao carefully reminded His Majesty that Mr. is not omnipotent, Mr. is very busy, and he has no time to learn Latin, and he can't understand the madness and abstraction in it, and he can't be disgusted by Mr.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "Li Yashi, a missionary who likes secular life, likes plumpness, and doesn't like children, seems to be an outlier in Taixi. ”

After the woman left, there were several more red-haired and golden-haired fans in Li Yashi's house, all of which were plump types of gourd-shaped figures, and this aesthetic was quite close to the emperor's aesthetics.

"The envoy said that Yasser was just a lost lamb." Feng Bao was a little helpless, this notebook, Li Yashi's facial features were screwed together after reading it, and Li Yashi, as one of the five-star critics, could only prevaricate after being silent for a long time.

Feng Bao continued: "Special Envoy Li Yashi also said: He has always emphasized the high moral disadvantages of Daming, not talking nonsense, although many people scolded him, Yaser is a believer and is still so crazy, those sailors like fugitives, the sins are heavy, and this sin, only a coup can be redeemed? In comparison, is it really a big deal to get people to give a dog a funeral? ”

Feng Bao is not nonsense, he handed Li Yashi's latest travelogue to His Majesty and asked His Majesty to review it, this is really Li Yashi's evaluation, and it is not even flattering.

Zhu Yijun did the most outrageous thing, not Xu Jie, but the dog decided Kong Yinlin, Chen Dazhuang killed the Zhang family's dog, the Zhang family forced Chen Dazhuang's father to send the dog to the funeral, after Lingyunyi returned to Shandong, Chen Dazhuang took Kong Yinlin into Beijing, chose to believe in the emperor, and the emperor decided Kong Yinlin.

This is Zhu Yijun's most unscrupulous thing.

But the funeral for the dog, compared with the mad codex of the missionary Yasser, is a bit trivial, it is all the sins and cruelty of the world, and the sins of the colonists are really Satan's eyes, and they are also very headaches.

"Li Yashi, this old thing, talking nonsense all day long, actually dares to arrange me, don't let people find a chance, otherwise he will have to knock his front teeth." Zhu Yijun finished reading Li Yashi's travelogue and said with a smile.

In Li Yashi's travelogue, many fragments of the life of the Ming Dynasty are recorded, and from the perspective of the Taixi people, it can be regarded as a unique perspective to look at the society of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, Liu Xian, the chief soldier of Sichuan and Jiang Anbo, has entered Beijing, and the Ministry of War asks if Your Majesty wants to summon you." Feng Bao sent a notebook, which was written by Tan Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, the general Qi Jiguang, and the deputy general Ma Fang.

Jiang Anbo Liu Xian returned to Beijing, and after staying at the Huitong Pavilion for three days, he moved into Jiang Anbo's Mansion, which was not very far from Qi Jiguang's General's Mansion.

Jiang Anbo's Mansion, but Zhu Yijun's specially built Earl's Mansion, is quite atmospheric and very livable, and Zhu Yijun has never been stingy in rewarding martial arts.

"Have the great doctors seen it?" Zhu Yijun asked with a solemn face.

Liu Xian fought all the year round, and his health deteriorated, so Zhu Yijun transferred Liu Xian from Sichuan to Beijing, so that Liu Xian could live for a long time.

Fighting a war is a very tiring and tiring thing, the soldiers are tired, the generals are also tired, you must always keep your spirits, sometimes you don't sleep for a few nights or even a dozen nights, it's not that you don't want to sleep, but you can't sleep, you can only take a nap between the war, especially when you are fighting continuously, the war situation is changing rapidly, and the enemy will break into the vicinity of the Chinese army camp at the next moment, you never know what will happen in the next moment, always nervous, thinking about how to command, how to transfer troops, but also to transfer positions, inspect and even flee these things.

Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang, Li Chengliang, and Liu Xian, these generals, are individuals, not iron men, and their perennial career as horses and perennial overload have made their vitality almost completely squeezed.

Liu Xian, the general of the Ming Dynasty, went out of Sichuan to pacify the troubles, almost filled the field, and then returned to Sichuan to command tens of thousands of people, pacifying the rebellion of Jiusi (all in charge of the barbarians), he has been fighting all his life, and his body has long been overwhelmed.

The crockpot is difficult to break from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle.

Taiping was originally determined by the general, and the general was not allowed to see the peace.

"The chief doctor has seen it, and the situation may not be very good, and it is estimated that it will be a matter of the past two years." Feng Bao said in a low voice.

He knew what kind of answer the emperor wanted, but he couldn't bully the king, the great medical officials had seen it, and in terms of eating, Liu Xian's meal was about the same as Zhu Yiyi's.

Liu Xian is a general, and Zhu Yiyi is a child.

Liu Xian has stomach disease, this is the root of the old disease, when he fights, he is hungry and full, there is basically no hot food for meals, and he loves to drink, this stomach disease is the most boiling, pain is one thing, when he gets sick, he can't eat and drink well, which makes the burden on the body even heavier.

Zhang Hong added next to him: "The chief medical officer Li Shizhen boiled a medicine, which was quite effective, but General Liu refused to drink it. ”

"Tomorrow I will see the chief doctor and Jiang Ningbo." Zhu Yijun immediately said when he heard it, the chief medical officer of the Liberation Institute always makes some inexplicable medicines, Liu Xian is old, and he has been born and died on the battlefield all the year round, and he has a relatively light view of life and death, and he does not follow the doctor's instructions, Tan Lun also had a period of rebellion.

Zhu Yijun frowned and asked, "What's the matter with that medicine?" ”

"The medicine boiled by the big cockroaches, the big cockroaches were dried and concocted with wine, Jiang Ningbo was originally very cooperative, but when he heard that he wanted to drink the juice squeezed by the cockroaches, he was immediately unhappy and refused to live or die." Zhang Hong hurriedly said: "The big cockroaches are all raised with millet, and they have to be washed and dried after they are raised, and the wine is also a strong wine, which tastes a little salty, but it does work." ”

"People raise it, it's really not dirty."

Since Zhang Hong mentioned this matter, it is naturally not untargeted, this kind of big cockroach is not the cockroach of the Ming Dynasty, it is a big cockroach from the new world on the ship, and it is the largest cockroach in the world that can be found at present.

"Trauma, sores, ulcers, stomach bleeding, and intestinal bleeding are all supreme medicines, and they are really easy to use. Feng Bao was extremely concerned about this medicine, and the soldiers of the Ming Jing Battalion and the Sailor Division had stomach problems to a greater or lesser extent, so they naturally had to be cautious and cautious.

Zhu Yijun got the medical report, this notebook has a total of more than 30 pages, not only the production process, but also more than 100 cases, judging from the data and double-blind experiments, it is indeed effective.

Zhu Yijun rolled his eyes and said: "Then lie to the old general, saying that it is made of a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, which is extremely precious, and a pair will cost more than a dozen taels of silver. ”

"The matter is urgent, the treatment is important, the old general will understand my good intentions."

Daming has begun to prepare for the New Year, the yamen have begun to take turns off, this year's fireman in the capital is not enough, the fireman in the city is fine, but there are more and more houses in the city, there are not enough firemen.

There are too many fireworks and firecrackers for the New Year, so the soldiers in Beijing took over a job this year and temporarily acted as firemen.

There is an additional subsidy for doing this work, only one or two or five dollars of silver, and there are not a few people who sign up, on the one hand, this is to fulfill the promise of reporting to the Son of Heaven and saving the head of Qian, on the other hand, His Majesty gives a lot of money, half a month's attendance is one or two and a half dollars of silver, which is about three times the salary of the weekday.

You have enough food, what work can't you do? Your Majesty, you can say that you can rebel in the morning.

The Ming Duke of the imperial court felt that it was simply forbidden to light fireworks, which were not allowed outside the city, and in the era of wooden buildings, fireworks were equivalent to arson, especially in these years, when the number of people in Beijing and Guo was increasing, and on the other hand, they thought that there were no fireworks in the New Year, or the New Year?

This discussion is still inconclusive, but there is one point, the Ming Palace and Tonghe Palace, as well as the East and West Cities, have completely banned fireworks, mainly for safety.

Liu Xian came to Tonghe Palace, stood in front of the gate of Tonghe Palace, looked at the couplet in front of the door, and the upper couplet was: The emperor's order is in Jiuwei, it is only difficult, but Fu respect; The next link is: Tianxin blesses the husband with a virtue, always says to protect it, and seeks to be peaceful; The horizontal batch is built to the pole.

Jianji Suiyou, from "Shangshu Hongfan", means that the Son of Heaven bears the responsibility of the emperor and the common people, and it is necessary to establish rules for the heavens, but also to appease the people and conform to the avenue.

On the shadow wall stone that enters the palace and enters the door, it is written: The first person who does is faithful, and the payment is Zhu Zhongxing.

Liu Xian only thought it was interesting, he hadn't seen His Majesty yet, but he already knew a lot about His Majesty, he walked into the Dragon Pond, came to the front of the imperial study, passed the long corridor, and walked into the imperial study.

"Greetings to Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Liu Xian flicked his sleeves and bowed five times and bowed three times to make a big salute.

Zhu Yijun stood in front of the imperial case and waited for Liu Xian to salute, then helped Liu Xian up and said: "No courtesy, no need to be polite in the future, General Xu, don't kneel in the face of the saint." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long." Liu Xian and Qi Jiguang inquired about His Majesty's rules, for some ministers who relied on him, playing the opposite side in private is an important means for His Majesty to encircle the ministers.

Liu Xian is old, a little thin, his cheeks are fleshless, and even his beard is white, but he is in good spirits and his eyes are bright.

Zhu Yijun and Liu Xian talked about the situation in Sichuan, especially about the head case, as well as the worry about the rebellion of the Yang family in Banzhou, and Liu Xian answered them one by one.

"Your Majesty, the minister went to Beidaying, saw that the officers and soldiers of my Ming Army were neat, and I heard that the food and salary of the soldiers in the Beijing camp and other things, this year's military salary has to be tens of millions of silver?" Liu Xian asked with a solemn face, the polite words had been finished, and Liu Xian had his own opinions on state affairs.

"However, in the eighth year of Wanli, both sea and land were spent, and more than 11.2 million silver was spent." Zhu Yijun did not say in detail, but reported a total amount, 11.2 million, which is the total expenditure of military spending last year, and the household department has already completed the audit.

"Isn't this too much, and the minister of the DPRK and China has not stopped it?" Liu Xian's brows were tightened, and the military expenditure was much larger than Liu Xian thought.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Naturally, there is, Da Situ Wang Guoguang, Shao Situ Zhang Xueyan, that is a lot of slapping the table with me, all for the sake of Daming, Zhenwu Zhenwu, Zhenwu Zhenwu, Zhenzhen is real money." ”

"I told Da Situ that this is the last year of Jiajing. During the Longqing period, the actual expenditure of five or six million silver a year, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was only seven million silver, and the proportion of military expenditure was close to ninety, and last year's military expenditure was 11.2 million silver, but the annual income was 23.78 million silver, the proportion was only fifty percent, which is not much. ”

You can't just look at the absolute number, but also look at the proportion, as an imperial feudal country, the proportion of military expenditure is really not high.

During the Shunzhi period of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, the proportion of military expenditure exceeded 100%, in addition to the annual income, it was necessary to rob the internal to maintain the operation of the army, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong three generations hit Geerdan, and the military expenditure exceeded 18 million taels a year, and the Tatar Qing Dynasty only had 30 million silver annuals a year.

The proportion of military expenditure in the Ming Dynasty is really not much in a feudal imperial country.

"Gong Jiangling is still powerful." Liu Xian immediately laughed when he heard it, he was worried that Daming had a reckless posture, but now when he heard it, the proportion has dropped a lot, which can be regarded as reducing the worry in his heart by a few points, the reason why Liu Xian is so worried is that he is also talking about the preparation of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the Ming Dynasty is waiting for the death of the reckless dragon of the Donghu Kingdom, and he will guard against changes in the southwest.

The financial health of the imperial court means that the Ming Dynasty can really move and solve the southwest problem once and for all.

"The mess of Daming is also bothering Mr., in fact, Tian Fu is still not as good as it was in the original Chenghua years, slightly inferior, and the huge profits from opening the sea made the court breathe." Zhu Yijun took out a detailed account of the details that the household department had just audited, in short: Old general, Daming is rich now!

At that time, Liu Xian, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou leveled the silver of the Japanese, in fact, a large part of the source was unknown, and the court had no money, but the Japanese wanted to be peaceful, and the people had already suffered from the Japanese people, and then robbed, the people would really take refuge in the Japanese Invaders.

For example, Qi Jiguang was in Jiajing for 35 years, there were three flagship ships, one Haicang ship, 12 ships, more than 50 grass skimming ships, and a number of boats, eagle boats, and net shuttle ships.

Liu Xian is also poor and afraid, this Ming wants to give the border army full salary, to raise the Beijing camp, to raise the water division, and to prepare for Donghu, how to look at this, the Ming Dynasty's finances are difficult to support, so Liu Xian mentioned this issue to His Majesty.

Looking at His Majesty wearing Tsing Yi, Liu Xian was a little speechless for a while, His Majesty said it soundly, good news is not reported bad, if the finances are really as healthy as Your Majesty said, why does Your Majesty still wear Tsing Yi?

(End of chapter)

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