Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 449

"Wo country?"

Qin Shao has been focusing on rectifying internal problems for several years, although many problems have not been completely resolved in all aspects.

But at least it's a lot better.

At least in the Nine Borders area, the issue of field annexation has now been resolved.

The resistance in the south is indeed not small, Zhang Cong directly sent Gui E to lead people to preside over the overall situation.

I heard Gui E received a threatening letter at night!
When Qin Shao heard this, his face was a little cold.

"I'm not afraid that those people don't make a move, just wait for their big move! Tell Gui E to just do it, if someone makes a move, we will make a big move!"

He spoke to Zhang Cong directly, and Zhang Cong quickly understood.

"Yes, Your Majesty, they have arrived in Ningbo Mansion, and the local Maritime Commissioner has arranged to stay. They know that His Majesty has recently ascended the throne, and they want to come to worship His Majesty. Their speed is fast. If they want to go by water, it will not take long!"

Yan Song explained.

After listening to Yan Song's explanation, Qin Shao understood what was going on.

Because of Zhu Houzhao's sudden death earlier, Yang Ting and they directly sealed off the shipping departments in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong for safety, and cut off contact with the outside world.

Now that the Shibo Division has resumed operations, the Ouchi family, the Japanese envoy, sent two ships to the port of Ningbo.

Qin Shao remembered that in his previous life, he watched the drama about Daming. Although he didn’t like Zhu Houcong’s too many praise filters in that drama, but because there were many things about Japanese pirates in that drama, he watched About Japanese pirates. aspect information.

Contacting the current situation suddenly reminds me of the current situation in Wa country.

After the Yingren Rebellion of the Wa Kingdom, it has begun to enter a period of chaos and turmoil, which is the so-called Warring States Period.

The Muromachi shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiki originally wanted to crusade against the Hosokawa clan, the samurai clan with increasing power in the Japanese country, but he was too powerful, but the Hosokawa clan instigated the strength of Kyoto, directly abolished Ashikaga Yoshiki, and then What came down was the Great Kanto Rebellion.

But another samurai clan, the Ouchi clan, did support General Ashikaga Yoshiki, and from time to time he brought his own people to fight with the Hosokawa clan. become a tool in it.

The struggle between the two samurai clans is not only manifested in political struggle, but also extends to economic and trade competition.

Whether in the previous life or now, Qin Shao feels that the Daxia people are the most intelligent and hard-working people in the world, but this people also has many shortcomings, such as being clever and unsteady in doing things; !
Especially the latter point, it can be described as incisively and vividly in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to show the prosperity and strength of the Ming Empire, although many historians beautify it, saying that Ming Dynasty, such as Zheng He's voyages to the West, promoted the culture and influence of Ming Dynasty, etc., anyway, there are many beneficial aspects.

But it made the biggest mistake of a country, that is, it was obviously a trade, but it turned out to be a feigned thing.

The surrounding people came to pay tribute and only paid a small amount of import duties, and many of these taxes fell into the pockets of some local officials.

When they came to pay tribute, Da Ming, in order to show his prosperity and benefit the world, gave them many gifts and things, and made them earn a lot of money. No fool would come to such a thing!
Therefore, after the switch of the Ming Dynasty, the surrounding countries soon began to come in to worship. The Ouchi family heard about this situation and directly led the fleet to Daming.

As far as Qin Shao knew, after the Ouchi clan came, the Hosokawa clan followed suit, not to be outdone.

There are two imperial court caravans in a country. They both say that they represent the Wa country, so naturally they will inevitably fight.

According to history, a ridiculous and humiliating thing happened in Daming.

That is, after the Ouchi family came, the Hosokawa family followed closely. Because the Hosokawa family did not bring their credentials and could not enter the territory of Ming Dynasty, they bribed the officials of the Shipping Department of Ningbo City at that time and entered the territory of Ningbo.

When two tigers meet, there is bound to be a struggle.

The Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan went to war in Daming territory. Not only did they suffer casualties from each other, many officials and people in Daming territory were also killed because of this war, which is simply absurd.

The emperor Zhu Houcong at that time didn't know much about this aspect at all. He was a local vassal who didn't understand the outside world at all before, and suddenly became emperor, so he was even more incompetent in handling such things.

As for the officials represented by Yang Tinghe, they only think about their own interests and that more things are worse than less things. They don't want to strengthen themselves. Instead, they directly ordered the closure of Ningbo and Fujian's shipping departments, leaving only one in Guangdong.

Because of this closure, it led to the rampant smuggling trade in the Ming Dynasty, which in turn aggravated the Japanese pirates' rebellion in the future.

It was also because of the fight in Daming this time, those Japanese people saw the emptiness of Daming, and the dignified Ningbo Mansion could not send a capable army to stop them, and those so-called officials ran away in fright. Chaos.

Because of the understanding of the situation, the Japanese people began to despise Daming, and realized that the Daming that they had always regarded as a powerful country turned out to be an embroidered pillow. A few years later, the Japanese pirates directly began to attack Daming directly, and began to invade and rob.

Today, the staff of the Shibo Department are all new officials from the new school, as well as elites selected from the local area.

The new officials took office, and the court also trained them, so they are serious about things now.

Because of Hong Fu's knowledge, after he went to the south this time, Qin Shao also arranged a position for him to assist the southern local guards to start military training and train sea troops.

After Da Nei exchanged some things at the border, he thought that seeing the new His Majesty of Ming Ming would bring him many benefits as before.

Now according to the news sent by Yan Song, the Ouchi family has already arrived, and if nothing unexpected, the Hosokawa family will also come soon.

According to the cockiness of the Japanese people, if you let them in directly, maybe they will do it again!
You want to fight whatever you want, but you can't do it in Daming territory!

"Weizhong, quickly spread the news to Ningbo Mansion that Da Nei's ships can trade freely with Daming Ming. All future trades will be exchanged for goods, and normal transactions will be fine. The trading time is three days. If it exceeds three days, all will leave. Great Ming Realm!"

"Yes!"

"Also, if the Hosokawa family applies to enter the customs, the conditions and treatment will be the same, but both parties cannot enter the customs together!"

"Yes!"

Seven days later, news came from Ningbo Mansion.

The Hosokawa Clan and the Ouchi Clan, who had finished trading in Daming, fought fiercely outside the border of Daming, and both sides suffered a lot of casualties.

……

Monday morning.

Qin Shao listened to the report of the group of officials below.

The situation reported by Zhang Cong is the situation of releasing the internal customs to the outside, that is, the issue of putting the Beijing officials in places to exercise.

In particular, speech officials must have local work experience, and they cannot be ignorant of everything, only boasting and strange talk, and they must be a tool for political attacks.

Because a lot of Beijing officials had been released, many positions in the capital had been vacated, and many local officials with outstanding performance were transferred. Many of the people who were transferred had local experience, and they had reasons to talk about the problems.

Not only the officials of the court, but also Qin Shao learned a lot of unknown aspects of Ming Dynasty from the explanations of these officials.

This kind of transfer not only promoted the flow of central and local officials, but also avoided the rigidity of officials, which really activated the blood for the court.

Coupled with the fact that today's officials are much younger, Qin Shao thinks that going to court is also a lot more interesting. After all, the ideas of young people in any era are still ahead of their time.

Of course, there are also heated discussions, and sometimes even red-faced arguments can be made when the discussions are heated.

Zhang Cong's previous suggestion that capable Juren could be an official according to his ability broke the rules, which caused a lot of disputes.

Many people in the court expressed their objection, thinking that it took them more than ten years or even decades of hardships to obtain Jinshi and have the right to be an official. Why can those who fail to pass the Jinshi examination be officials?
Of course, there are also those who are in favor, and they are generally the same as Zhang Cong after years of scientific examinations.

With the same experience, they can better understand that although the Jinshi exam is fair, there are some people who only know how to take the exam, and many of the previous exams focused on book knowledge, and because some officials liked a certain item, many people got it by following suit High scores are not actual abilities.

A person can pass the Jinshi examination, which proves that he is not bad in reading, and it should be possible to be an official.

Zhang Cong felt that he had passed the Jinshi examination, and later it was estimated that he voted for the preferences of those examiners. Even if he passed the Jinshi examination, he could do a lot of things well.

In short, the public says that the public is right, and the woman says that the woman is right.

In the end, only Qin Shao could decide.

Qin Shao had heard many discussions about this kind of thing in his previous life.

In their time, it was often discussed whether students from key universities must be more capable than college students from ordinary colleges.

This kind of thing is actually a matter of probability.

It is undeniable that there are many students in ordinary universities who are capable of shocking, and some students in key universities can only study and take exams, but they are not very capable in social work.

But it is impossible to be truly fair at any time, at least from the servant's point of view, there are so many key university students to choose from, there is no need to spend so much energy and cost to choose the best from ordinary college students.

In many cases, a person's true ability cannot be shown in a short while, and Bole will not be blind forever, so there is no need to be too serious about this kind of thing.

What's more, in the previous life, the population base was large and there were too many talents, so it was natural to choose from key colleges and universities first.

The situation in Daming is the same today!
Although the admission rate of Jinshi is not high every year, the number of people in this era is still relatively small in general, and in many cases not so many positions are needed.

Naturally, they will be selected from Jinshi first.

As for those who really have practical talents, Qin Shao suggested that if there are talents or even talents who can make outstanding achievements in the local area and help the development of the local area, they can also be recruited exceptionally, but the conditions are more stringent.

When Xinhuang said this, he was actually putting forward a compromise opinion. Both parties felt that it was acceptable, so they settled on it.

The question raised by Zhang Cong has been discussed before. He just reported the current situation. The general situation is not bad, and no one has much objection.

It's just that Peng Ze from the Ministry of War and Wang Qiong from the Ministry of Households pinched each other.

In the final analysis, Peng Ze felt that many places in the border area would soon enter winter, and many leaders proposed that the imperial court should provide some funds for making cotton coats for border officers and soldiers.

Nowadays, the land in many places on the Nine Borders has returned to the hands of those military households. The sweet potatoes promoted by the imperial court have begun to be planted on a large scale in those places, and the harvest is not bad. On the one hand, I have had a full meal, and I am full of energy now.

Only the problem of food has been solved. Because of years of unpaid wages, the winter clothes worn by military households are already in tatters, so the leaders of Jiubian want to apply to make cotton clothes for the soldiers.

Qin Shao also understands this situation.

Those military households were used to living a hard life without a meal, and they probably feel that the life is not bad now, even if it is cold, they will not think about the problem of buying clothes.

It should be those newly appointed generals. The new officials took office three fires. They wanted to establish prestige in the army and let the soldiers listen to them, so they applied.

Not to mention Datong, Jizhou and other places, Liaodong is cold. Qin Shao went there in his previous life, and he can't even think about the days without heating. How did people survive? There should be earth kangs to burn, but there is no Thick clothes, life is really hard.

Qin Shao also wanted to provide cotton-padded clothes to the border guards, but there were so many people, how much would it cost?Can the court afford it?All these need to be calculated and considered by the Ministry of Finance.

If you are not in charge, you don't know the price of oil and salt!

Qin Shao now finally understands that it is really not so easy to be a good king!

Of course, it's easy to be a king who only knows how to enjoy himself, but it's also easy to destroy the country, and even lose your own life!
All he can do now is look at Wang Qiong, his own Hubu Shangshu.

This guy has been in the household department for many years, and he can roughly estimate the food and grass for soldiers on the nine sides, how many people there are, and how much money they need!
Therefore, Qin Shao is not very worried about how the money will come from him!

"Peng Shangshu is not in charge of the family. Do you know how many people there are? If everyone wears cotton clothes, how much money will the court pay? The land tax reform has not yet been completed, and the tax money collected from the local area is getting less and less. The Ministry of Households has to pay so much to the border customs every year, do you think the money is there? Do you think that the money is as much as you want?"

As the household department, that is, the financial department, I have a tight grasp on money, and there is not much fault.

And as long as all the expenses are paid from the Ministry of Households, Wang Qiong will fight hard according to reason, and don't pay if he can't get out, save as much as he can save for the court, and try his best to save resources and open up the flow!
When meeting his old rival Peng Ze, Wang Qiong was no exception, and his words became sharper.

"How does Wang Shangshu know that I have never been a family? I am the family of the Ministry of War. I only know that our soldiers sacrificed their lives at the border to protect our Daming country. They brought their wives, children and parents to survive in the border. If You can’t even guarantee the clothes on your body, and you will freeze to death in the cold weather! What is Wang Shangshu’s intention?”

"I heard that your favorite concubine is the most afraid of the cold. I'm afraid she has already started a charcoal fire at home and is wearing a thick brocade cotton padded jacket. Wang Shangshu loves the fragrance and cherishes the jade. The concubine should use pure white and soft cotton instead of the border The thick and hard kapok used! Why can’t you empathize with me? Unless Wang Shangshu told me that your concubine is not willing to use it in order to save money, and needs you to help warm her chest and jade feet under the quilt at night..."

Peng Ze usually doesn't talk much, but he is also aggressive and sharp when he speaks.

Soon some people couldn't help laughing, they all knew that Wang Qiong's old wife was gone, and he took in a beautiful concubine, Yangzhou thin horse, gentle and lovely, Wang Shangshu loved him very much.

It's just that when the southerners came to the capital, and their bodies were delicate, they couldn't help being afraid of the cold.

It was once rumored that Wang Qiong took pity on the fragrance and cherished the jade, and warmed the concubine's feet with her chest!
"puff!"

Qin Shao listened to the lively noise below, watched the excitement above for a long time, and was a little thirsty, Zhang Zuogang handed him tea to moisten his throat.

He had just taken a sip before he could swallow it, but he spit it out after hearing the horror gossip!

(End of this chapter)