Chapter 92: The Origin of National Pride
"How fortunate to be born in the Ming Dynasty, I will not regret entering China in this life."
Xu Qin began his most formal flickering in the Ming Dynasty. He didn't look down on those successful masters in later generations.
It's a pity that the greatest achievement of those masters is to fool people, and they have never succeeded at all. Because successful people who have the kung fu to fool people.
Only when it doesn't work out is it to talk about it. The secret of real success has been told to his son? What to share with you?
But it is undeniable that these success masters are indeed big fools. It's very emotional.
"Why is it that since the Han Dynasty, no matter which dynasty, our people in the Central Plains call themselves Han Chinese?
That is, the Han Dynasty gave all Han people the proudest and proudest ambition, and when facing any country and nation, they will be in awe and even grovel when they say I am a Han Chinese.
You don't see it, the end of the Han army, the weak crown is a captive, please be long.
You don't see it, Ban Dingyuan is far away, and the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds.
Even though the Central Plains Dynasty is weak, the glory of the ancestors will still make these people remember and make us think about restoring the glory of the Han Dynasty. Let 'I am Han' shine in the world again.
Han Wuxiongtu, Tang Zong Yuanzhi, is it just the emperor's own history book, no, it is the pride of an era. The backbone and blood of a nation, these emperors made his people feel proud, born in the Han and Tang Dynasties, extremely proud.
But since the Tang Dynasty, when Taizu restored my China, have the Han people ever been proud? Five chaotic Chinese tragedy, weak Song romance is just a closed door for self-appreciation. After all, there is a little less backbone.
Chen's grandfather and Taizu held long tassels and expelled the Tatars to restore China. What their generation is supposed to do is done. The family is left, what should we do? Lying on the merits of the ancestors and gnawing on the old?
Or a hundred years later, let the people be proud to say, I am Han, I am Tang, and I am Ming. When he died, he could say a word, how fortunate he was to be born in Daming.
I just want future generations to be able to say when they evaluate: Under the Han and Tang Dynasties, only I am bright. ”
Xu Qin drank wine while cutting meat. Before you know it, there are too many, and you can't control it verbally and emotionally.
Start drawing a map on the ground with a knife, where is the Ming Dynasty, where is Japan, where is Korea, where is Southeast Asia.
Also, how big the whole world is. What are the many continents to the west.
"Why is Da Ming so big?" Zhu Zhanji asked dimly.
"The world is too big, and we are too small. The eldest nephew tested you, what do you say is the biggest danger to the future of Daming? ”
Xu Qin put the knife in the crook of his arm and rubbed it, then cut a piece of meat and handed it to Zhu Zhanji and asked.
This topic aroused the thinking of Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi, which is a question that the emperor should think about.
Xu Qin took a sip of wine, then continued to cut the meat, and gave each of the three emperors a piece, so that the three generations of them could think slowly.
"Warat and Tatar?" Zhu Zhanji asked.
"The disease of scabies, your imperial grandfather swept them away. No matter how hard you try, the Mongols won't have anything to do. Xu Qin said indifferently.
"What about me, I'll eat and wait for death together, right?" Prince Zhu Gaochi was reluctant.
Xu Qinxin said I'm afraid it's really nothing wrong with you, and you haven't been there for long.
"Isn't it good? If you have a good father and a good son, you will win when you lie down, and you will win by lying down. Xu Qin said enviously.
"You just lie down to win, do you mean I can't do it, or I can't do it. You cut me the tail of the sheep. Zhu Gaochi has been greedy for the fat sheep's tail for a long time.
"Is that a Japanese harassing the coast?" Zhu Zhanji asked.
"What kind of thing is that, you don't need your imperial grandfather to do this, your father and I will do it." Xu Qin brought the crown prince this time.
"Oh, what's my business this time?" Zhu Gaochi took the sheep's tail and asked beautifully.
As a result, when he saw Zhu Di's eyes, he obediently handed it over.
"If you don't want to worry about it, just leave it to me, I'll let those little devils not survive, and they can't die. Kneeling and calling you dad every day. ”
Xu Qin cut another fat part for the prince, and the prince became happy.
"Is that a rebellion? Or is it the emperor's grandfather's rampant extortion? "Zhu Zhanji seems to have drunk too much, he really dares to say it.
Zhu Di slapped him on the head angrily.
"Nonsense, when did grandpa go on a rampage." Zhu Di pretended to be angry.
"Talking and playing, talking and playing." Zhu Zhanji hurriedly said.
"Forget it, you little head can't think of it, it's up to you, it's land and population." Xu Qin started the second flicker mode.
Zhu Di was thoughtful, and Zhu Gaochi shook his head.
"The Taizu Dynasty has been in the past few decades now, and it is generally quite peaceful. Except for the few sheep herders in the north, which are not very stopping, it may always be peaceful in the future. This is too peaceful, and the common people will not only live a long life, but also give birth to children. ”
Xu Qin cut a piece of sheep's neck for himself and said.
"In the past, there were three births in a family, now there are four births in a family, and then there may be five or six births. From the Hongwu Dynasty, those three have already given birth to four, and these twelve are ready to give birth to five or six each. Do you calculate how many will you give birth in another twenty years? ”
Xu Qin asked.
"Isn't it a good thing to have a lot of people?" Zhu Gaochi asked suddenly.
"That's right, a lot of people is a good thing. But the prerequisite is that there is enough land. Your Majesty's generation is fine, the crown prince's generation is fine, what about Junji's generation, and what about three generations later? And that's not even counting land annexations. ”
Xu Qin said.
"There is a contradiction between man and earth, if God is added to the king's excess, I am afraid that the officials will force the people to rebel." Zhu Di stroked his beard and said.
"Sunny with umbrellas and full of food. I think that while we are all here, we must save more money for our children and grandchildren, even if they lose, they can survive for two more years, in case they boil out a master of Zhongxing, and continue their lives for hundreds of years. ”
Xu Qin made a concluding statement, as if this ruling the world was no different from living a life.
Wang Zhong broke out in a cold sweat, little grandfather, you are not too happy to play with knives in front of the emperor, how dare you secretly poke and poke the luck of the dynasty.
"You're a good person, is the country a good place?" Zhu Di stroked his beard and asked.
He felt that all this Xu Qin said had a lot to do with his attitude towards the Japanese Kingdom.
"Count the good places, the silver, the gold, the sulfur, the saltpeter, the copper and iron, and even the population. These are all things that I desperately need. The minister improved the gunpowder, and with this gunpowder it was a bottomless pit. Saltpeter sulfur may need to be stocked up. ”
Xu Qin said.
"You are a robber idea, other people's things are good, we are going to rob them?" Zhu Gaochi said.
"Or else? Didn't our ancestors do that? Prince, don't listen to those scholars, you must be three emperors and five emperors, Yao Shunyu soup. It's all Confucius who deceives people. How big is the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, how many people are there in the Yao Shunyu Tang era?
The Zhou Dynasty was so good, why did it perish? Confucius is a saint, so forget about governing the country. And his disciples are all crooked-mouthed monks, what good scriptures can they recite, I don't understand that their ancestors didn't understand how to govern the country, they figured it out themselves? ”
Xu Qin still respects Confucius, but for his disciples who are not old-fashioned, forget it.
"Nonsense, how can you understand the way of a saint who doesn't learn or know anything, don't take the child badly." Zhu Di reprimanded Xu Qin.
"Your Majesty, to tell you the truth, I only know one thing. I'm glad that others learn self-denial because I can bully them with impunity. Xu Qin said.
"If you don't learn, no one will force you, but don't attack the sage's learning." Zhu Di warned him.
"What other good places are there?" Zhu Gaochi asked.
"It's too much. Not to mention Japan, a place across the sea, that is, to the south, the toe is a good place to set up the political envoys, that piece of grain is two to three crops, if you cultivate well, how many people can be fed?
That kind of place is well run, no worse than the two lakes. Therefore, His Majesty's fight against Annan is far-sighted and truly for the sake of future generations.
You can set up a Confucian academy there, and those scholars don't talk about the world every day, let them go there to teach, and then open the imperial examination, and let the students of the toe political envoy come and take the examination to become officials. I think Wang Zhang is good. ”
Xu Qin directly entrained the private goods, and took revenge by the way.
"You still have the face to say that your slave throws shit at people's doors every day, and Wang Zhang has sued Yingtianfu. You can do something about it. Also, Wang Zhang has already gone to Japan, so don't worry about it. ”
Zhu Di said angrily.
"Oh, thank you, Your Majesty. Who's scolding me lately? Xu Qin thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was no more.
Zhu Gaochi almost didn't squirt out a sip of wine, is your personal vendetta so obvious?
"You're going too far." Zhu Gaochi said.
"Well, it's kind of huh. Your Majesty, if this scholar breaks the law in the future, let's not kill him. He was sent directly to the Cochin Political Envoy Division, where he reformed the alien race and established a school.
It is necessary to give the officials of Annamite to give them hope, especially the local families, so that they will not rebel. Three or two generations later, they themselves thought they were Mingren. ”
Xu Qin began to come up with bad ideas for cultural invasion.
"Father, that's a good idea." Zhu Gaochi nodded and said.
Zhu Di suddenly thought of Jianwen Dynasty, those thorns. Not only Annan, but also all the envoys and ministers can do it.
"We can also pay for the local students to come to Guozijian to study, and all the outstanding local talents will be drawn, and there will be no one to lead the rebellion."
Xu Qin said sinisterly.
"What do you want to do to keep the Dai family?" Zhu Di finally asked this question.
"Back to Your Majesty, the Dai family is a widow, and that Dai Demin has already explained. The Dai family colluded with the robbers along the coast.
Provide information for these Japanese robbers, and even sell the stolen goods, they have the blood of the Ming people on their hands. It's not much to kill them a hundred times. However, their main purpose was to support the southern Ming of the Wakuni kingdom against the Ashikaga shogunate. ”
Xu Qin said slowly.
"So you want to take advantage of this and create civil strife in the Wa Kingdom?" Zhu Gaochi felt that his head was a little numb.
This kid is doing the business of the country.
"Japan is too far away, we have to fight for the people and money, not to mention that the people in the north are not quiet. It's better to support agents. Let them fight us with weapons. We will help whoever is weak. Then transport their resources to Daming. ”
Xu Qin said.
After Zhu Gaochi heard this, he almost covered Zhu Zhanji's ears. This is too insidious and not a normal way of governing the country.
"You can take care of Japan's affairs in the future. I can trust you. Zhu Di's triangular eyes flashed with cold light.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not so simple on the Dai family's side, and it's not useful for the ministers to dare to touch them, but another thing."
Xu Qin said.