Can you live forever

Chapter 408 Buying a country is free, and it is a grand ceremony

Yizhou, Nangang.

Ibrahim, who was fully armed, waited for the ship to dock, and after explaining to his subordinates, he took two personal guards to the Nangang County Government Office, found Wang Zhi who was reading in the study room, bowed respectfully, knelt down on one knee, and his nails collided with each other. The voice indicated that he had used considerable strength to kneel down.

"Master."

Although he is called the master, in fact, Ibrahim has always treated Wang Zhi as the master for his life-saving grace, but Wang Zhi doesn't like the title of master.

He once said: "Being a boss and finding a livelihood for everyone is exhausting. I can't afford to be responsible for your life as a boss. Please learn to be self-reliant and take responsibility for your own life."

The business philosophy of the Wang family has always been righteousness, so the Wang family does its best to train all employees. Not only is it not afraid of them changing jobs, but it encourages them to change jobs and start a business.

Sometimes the more this is the case, the more no one leaves the Wang family.

Even those who come out of the Wang family maintain close ties with the Wang family, cooperating with each other in business and helping each other strategically.

exactly.

The foundation of the Wang family can be said to be deeply rooted in the local area, and the talents they cultivate enter all walks of life, even if it is just a small shop, it is also part of the tentacles.

After Ibrahim joined the royal family, he realized that there are such masters in the world, no, the master.

But it was also because of this that he understood how profound the royal family's heritage was, and also realized that whether they were the Ottomans or the countries in Xiluozhou, the so-called kings and emperors were nothing but duckweeds without roots.

The only thing they depend on for survival is power.

"Pasha, how many days have you joined the Wang family?"

"November and three days, sir."

Ibrahim Pasha, he still has a longer name, but in Daming, this is his full name, he knows what his family in Ottoman will face, but he dare not think about it, he just wants to forget the past, I would like to repay my boss for saving my life.

But the question Wang asked directly made him stunned.

"Pasha, do you want to go home?"

"go home……"

Ibrahim was in a trance. After a long time, he lowered his head and said with a gloomy face, "I don't have a home anymore, sir."

Wang Zhi put down his book, got up, walked to Ibrahim, pressed his shoulder, and said, "No, you have a home, and the ghosts of your wife and children are still wandering in your hometown, waiting for you to pick them up and lure them to sleep." .”

"With the blood of the enemy, pay homage to the souls of the dead, so that they can rest in peace."

Ibrahim trembled all over. He was looking forward to it, but he couldn't believe it. He said tremblingly, "Whether it's Suleiman or Selim, they are emperors."

"Even if Ottoman is not as good as Daming, it is still an empire."

"They have a population of 2000 million and a vast territory."

"And the Wang family is still at war, and wants to attack such a huge country..."

Ibrahim said a lot, he wanted revenge, he wanted to die, but he couldn't make his boss injustice for his own selfishness, he was trying his best to persuade Wang Zhi to temporarily give up the idea of ​​attacking Ottoman.

Wang Zhi didn't let him go on, he pressed Ibrahim's shoulders tightly and stared into Ibrahim's eyes.

After a long time, Ibrahim stopped talking before he said, "Do you know Annan?"

Ibrahim was stunned for a moment. Of course he knew about Annan. The Ming Dynasty conquered this territory only last year. Not only Annan, but also almost the entire peninsula. The influence has been extended to Manchuria...

"The imperial court also plans to go west?"

"But even so..."

He hadn't grasped the point yet, and wanted to say something, but Wang Zhi interrupted: "Without the Western Expedition, the imperial court will not send troops for it. All we can give you is an advisory group of [-] people."

"You recruit people yourself, and find those who understand that the rise and fall of Ming Dynasty is the rise and fall of the whole world."

"It doesn't matter if you are from Annan, from Champa, from Borneo, or even from Fusang. Find those people to carry out a great cause and promote the commonality of the world."

"Back to Egypt."

"Go to your troops, don't need the generals of the past, ignore the officers, go directly to the soldiers, tell them what they deserved, what they should fight for."

"Take them to Constantinople and bring down the tyrant from the throne."

"To achieve a fair and democratic new system that brings equality and happiness to people."

Ibrahim understood that Ming Dynasty did want to march westward, but not with troops, but with ideas...

He subconsciously clenched his fists, and his eyes gradually brightened.

He raised his head sharply, looked at Wang Zhi and said firmly, "Sir, I need ships, muskets, cannons, and at least 1 million yuan in banknotes."

One hundred million, that is, 10 taels.

For war, not so much.

When Qiu Luan marched south, he brought millions of taels with him.

but.

Times have changed. The Ming Dynasty abandoned silver and issued precious banknotes on the gold standard. The world suddenly entered a state of deflation, lacking liquidity, and precious banknotes appreciated instantly.

The increase in purchasing power caused by the appreciation of the currency made it easy for Daming to harvest the world.

Other countries can't resist, and can only desperately exchange the treasure...

If you have gold, you can exchange it for gold, and if you don’t have gold, you can exchange it for resources. After losing the precious metal, you can only use the treasure banknote as an anchor to issue the national currency, almost directly handing over the economic lifeline to Daming...

Ibrahim did not understand these things, or in other words, almost none of the overseas countries understood them.

If Martin Luther hadn't been blessed by the black dragon, he wouldn't have understood this at all, but even if he understood, it would be useless unless he gave up the trade with Daming...

Ibrahim didn't understand, but he was able to understand the value of the banknote very straightforwardly.

One hundred million treasure notes will far exceed its own value.

Because the treasure banknotes represent the goods of Ming Dynasty, this is the real hard currency. When Ibrahim returns to Egypt, he can't just rely on his mouth to win over his original subordinates.

If you don't give benefits, how can you let people work for you?

This is not to say that if you are doing things for the public, you can not give benefits...

"How can 100 million be enough? I'll give you [-] billion."

Wang Zhi chuckled and directly doubled the funds, which shocked Ibrahim speechless.He couldn't imagine what a huge sum of money it was.

But Wang Zhi just smiled without saying a word.

The property of the Wang family has indeed been redeemed. The price is 20 trillion yuan, and the payment is divided into 1 years. It is said that it is a redemption, which is equivalent to a free gift. The current assets of the Wang family are just some original cash, which is only a few billion.

Now the Wang family can't come up with 100 billion, but the court can.

That's great.

It's just banknotes, just print them as much as you want, anyway, they are sent overseas, so you don't have to worry about the expansion of circulation...

And this amount of money is really not much. In the past, it was only 1000 million taels.

Wang Zhi wanted to use the 1000 million taels to buy a country.

Is it expensive?

With a bang, Ibrahim also knelt down on the other knee and slammed his head on the ground. He was not moved by the wealth, but by the support Wang Zhi gave him. He must have dedicated himself to death.

"Go."

"Go to your teammates, I will arrange a caravan, and then you will follow the caravan to Egypt."

"Commodities and treasures will be prepared for you."

"The people of Ottoman are waiting for you to rescue them, don't fail."

……

February [-]th, Chun Wei.

This year's Chunwei is very different from previous years. Jiajing did not make major changes to the form of the imperial examination, but just opened up another way of science and technology in foreign mathematics. Well, although this is more painful, it makes the imperial examination lose its monopoly.

Another one, this year's imperial examination starts from Qiuwei, and the direction of the topic content is different from previous years.

Now that I will take the test, the topic is even more different.

In the past, we had to test the Four Books and Five Classics first, then the "Lun", "Decree Table", "Judgment", and finally the policy question.

The first two tests are all basic skills, and those who can win the exam are almost the same. The key question is the key question.

Although policy questions are mostly related to current affairs.

Or ask how to govern the country.

After all, there are still some points, but this year's topic... "On the Overseas Application of Precious Banknotes and the Construction of a New Tributary System".

Yes.

This year's topic focuses not on the country, but overseas. Jiajing wants to tell those scholars that the structure of Ming Dynasty should be the whole world! !
There are some "special moves" in this year's imperial examination.

Jiajing put the talents he learned from Zhang Zhixiang, basically those who could be used at any age, even Zhang Juzheng, who was only 12 years old, into his pocket.

A group of people were gathered early and conducted assault training for more than half a year.

Test-taking skills are greatly enhanced.

He didn't need to say hello to Qiu Wei, he just told him "no need to investigate", and the Xuezheng of Shuntian Mansion understood that even if they were young, as long as they were not too bad, they would give it to them, and those excellent ones were not stingy Give solution.

The most brilliant one is naturally Zhang Juzheng.

In history, he was admitted as a scholar at the age of 12. He was supposed to win the exam at the age of 16, but was deposed by the governor of Huguang, Gu Lin, on the grounds of "survey". Otherwise, he could win the exam at the age of 16.Later, at the age of 21, he took the exam again, won the exam, and was admitted as a Jinshi, all in one go.

Now Zhang Juzheng has been studying at Beijing Normal University for more than half a year.

It is the time for young people to accept new knowledge and new concepts. Since he entered school, without Jiajing saying anything, Qian Heng has already loved this student very much. As the principal, he often teaches him personally.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng not only passed the provincial examination, but also gained understanding.

Now that he will take the test, he only glances at the topic, and writes like a god. For him, the learning of concepts and knowledge in the past six months is tantamount to "opening up the world". He absorbs and studies like a sponge, almost Mesmerized.

According to Zhang Zhixiang's "civilization awareness" framework, he has seen the high mountain, and he is struggling to climb it.

From the point of view, it is quite different from before.

The operating principle of the social economy, the role of finance, the influence of currency, what Ming should do in the world, and how to move forward with civilization...

He didn't talk about gullies in his heart, at least he already had a direction.

Therefore, he wrote: "The financial hegemony brought by the currency can leverage the power of Daming Overseas by ten times, dozens of times, and the trade organization established by the tributary system inflates the unquantifiable power of politics. The two complement each other. ..."

Economics, politics, sway.

Tributary systems of different levels, clamping and controlling of different means of military, diplomacy, and trade, raw materials and markets, input and return, geostrategic design, acquisition of overseas enclaves, how to control the waterway, how to clamp Xiluozhou, how to ensure that Shangzhou does not betray……

Swaying and swaying, I worked hard day and night, writing hundreds of thousands of words.

If it was the scientific examination in previous years, one would fail based on the word count, but this year is different, it only depends on the content, not on the form.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng came out on top.

Jieyuan and Huiyuan have won two yuan in a row.

Apart from Zhang Juzheng, Hu Zongxian and Hai Rui are also outstanding.

Hu Zongxian's "Jinghai Policy" elaborated that the premise of guaranteeing the overseas influence of treasure banknotes is to stabilize the southeast and curb smuggling. The silver currency system in the south of the Yangtze River under the guise of Fusang must be defeated. The premise of the establishment of the tributary system is to complete the national unification.

From the vertical and horizontal maneuvers of local governance to the military response.

Eloquent and eloquent tens of thousands of words, without the slightest bit of scholarly spirit, talking on paper, it can be said that he has begun to show his prowess, and has a unique attitude.

Hai Rui was different from the two of them.

Hai Rui came back from Annan. He experienced the Annan revolution first-hand, and his understanding of monetary and financial hegemony is more down-to-earth. He is even more unique in establishing the overseas tribute system.

Hai Rui believes that the old form of tribute is completely outdated. With the tribute system in the new era, Ming has the obligation to help the vassal state to carry out the revolution.

Ming should build a fair world without oppression and exploitation.

From peasant work to the establishment of the army to the dissemination of ideas, he wrote practically and effectively, summarizing it like an executive manual, and almost came up with a template for a standard process.

In addition to the three of them, there are naturally many talents in this subject. When the imperial court wants to manage the world, the outstanding ones are naturally the people who handle the world.

Although I won't go into details one by one, the influence of this subject in Daming is destined to be extraordinary.

Therefore, since Chunwei Houdian examination.

Zhang Juzheng won the first prize, Hu Zongxian won the second place, and Hai Rui won the first prize.

Zhang Juzheng is the leader of the servants, and he is the third rank.

Hu Zongxian led the right servant of the military department, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and was the third rank.

Hai Rui served as the right deputy capital censor, with the title of third rank.

Not only the top three in the first class, but also the top three in the second class, also have their own appointments, which is much higher than the previous promotions, so that there are still discussions in the current imperial court, saying that His Majesty has broken the rules.

Needless to say, Nanjing.

For example, the words "children are in power" are very popular, but they don't mention the matter of Gan Luo worshiping the prime minister. What's more, they bluntly say that the imperial examinations are unfair, and the emperor vented the questions for the sake of monopolizing power.

In the past, it was natural to make the examination papers public and clear the suspects.

But Jiajing didn't mean that at all. He just copied a section from everyone's answer sheet for publicity, and if he had any questions, he ignored them. As for the north and south rankings?
It's just that there were too many people in Nanbang in the past.

During the Hongwu period, you were able to cause all the northerners to lose their ranks, but now that the court has a [-]-[-] split, you can't stand it?

Jiajing didn't care about "losing popular support" because of this.

He even deliberately promoted it. When Nanjing has an independent imperial examination, he will see if Xu Jie dares to take this step, because if this step is taken out, all fools will understand that Jiangnan has reversed.

If Xu Jie didn't fight back, he would only suffer in terms of reputation in the future.

The number of places in Jiangnan's imperial examinations will decrease year by year...

(End of this chapter)