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Chapter 492 The Battle of Burma - Part [-]

(The order of the chapters was sent in the wrong order, so I had to replace the content, but the chapter name cannot be changed, this chapter is actually chapter 402)
Zhu Shuren accidentally got the allegiance of a free Newton, of course he is very proud.

However, the current Newton is not in a perfect state after all.

Historically, he graduated at the age of 22 and stayed at home for two and a half years to the age of 25, after initially inventing calculus.After returning to Cambridge, I worked with other colleagues and spent two years perfecting it.

Finally, at the age of 27, he came up with enough calculus to be called the "first-generation complete body", and then with this achievement, he sat on the seat of "Lucas Professor of Mathematics"-don't underestimate this seat, then However, the only supreme scholar in Cambridge can enjoy an extra 100 pounds of King's Charter allowance every year, which is the only one.

Now that Newton has a better research environment, Zhu Shuren can also occasionally give him directions (only limited to directions), or put forward needs, and it is estimated that Newton's research progress will also be accelerated.But in any case, it will take another year and a half to produce the final result, that is for sure, it will only be slow but not fast.

Calculated in this way, Newton would have to work at least until the middle of the six-year well-off period before he could free up his hands to deal with other things.For example, Zhu Shuren mentioned "preparing to build a modern university focusing on natural science for the Ming Dynasty".

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren asked Newton to write a letter back to Britain to shake people. This matter will also take at least a year and a half. Today's Daming four-masted high-speed sailing ship takes nine months to go to England one way, and the fastest round trip is one and a half years. .

It is also necessary to ensure that the ships that set sail in November must arrive in Malacca before the New Year, so as to ensure that when the monsoon changes direction at the turn of winter and spring, they will sail through the southernmost section of the Indochina Peninsula and make full use of the southerly wind after the beginning of spring. .

And if the use of the monsoon is not enough to catch up, or there will be delays in importing and exporting goods and negotiations, it is expected that the enemy will be lenient for two years and there will be no problem.

If all goes well, it will not be too late to start the construction of a substantive university of science and engineering in two years.

After sorting out these contexts, Zhu Shuren also knew that there was no rush for this unexpected gain. For the time being, let Newton be stocked, and the term of office would grow naturally.

Just provide sufficient resources and a good living environment, and then let him be completely free to do whatever he wants.

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The words are divided into two parts.

With Zhu Shuren temporarily stocking Newton, one or two months passed quickly, and the wheel of history entered the five years of Xiaokang.

And this year's top priority is naturally the little emperor Zhu Ciyu, who is finally going to formally take charge of the government.

Zhu Shuren didn't want to make any extra fuss about this matter. He needed to maintain the legitimacy and authority of his own son, and ensure that all plans were implemented smoothly and orders were prohibited.

So during the Chinese New Year, several grand celebrations were held in the city of Nanjing, and the imperial court also announced some amnesty orders——

However, before the amnesty, those criminals who cheated on loans from the previous year were either beheaded or sent to overseas exile, so the amnesty has nothing to do with those people, and there is no need to worry that the amnesty will undermine the imperial court's reform of the fiscal and taxation system.

Zhu Shuren also saw this point, and chose to close the net in the early autumn of the fourth year of Xiaokang, because he had foreseen the amnesty timetable in advance, and he had to get stuck and kill the people who should be killed first.

This can also be regarded as a kind of prestige, letting the people of the world know that everything is in the imperial court's plan and which red lines cannot be touched.

After the celebration and amnesty, on the day of the Lantern Festival, Zhu Ciyu went to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and the tomb of the late Emperor Longwu to offer sacrifices.

After all the procedures were completed, Zhu Ciyu was inevitably a little high-spirited. After all, he was just 20 years old, and he was finally able to take charge of the government. Who wouldn't want to do something big?
People who have been living in the shadow of their grandfather and father before always want to prove themselves.

Especially when Zhu Ciyu was born, his biological father has not yet been chosen, and compared with the birth methods of other Ming emperors, he is even more unable to "establish the virtuous"——

Most of the Ming emperors in the previous dynasties had their own fathers who were also emperors. Although there was a method of establishing the ancestors, if the eldest son was too unworthy, he might be abolished.

Only Zhu Ciyu became the emperor himself, but his biological father was not the emperor, so his biological father's other sons could not threaten him at all because they had not gone through the procedure of succeeding as the emperor's grandson.

But according to the common sense of biology, when there are multiple children, the eldest son is often not the one with the highest IQ. According to the academic explanation of later generations, it is generally believed that when the eldest son is born, he lacks other sons to compete with him for fatherly love and motherly love. Because of the unique grace, the speed at which intelligence is forced to develop will be slower.

When the second son and the third son were born, there were already other elder brothers, and they had to compete for favor, which "rolled" a trend of early intellectual development.

(Note: If a modern family has no conditions to have more children, according to relevant research, before giving birth to the first child, raise a cat and a dog at home, share a little parental love, and let the child realize that there are multiple objects in the birth. Pets can make children's intelligence develop early. In the final analysis, human evolution and progress are forced by the environment, and the King of Rolls is everywhere.)
Although Zhu Shuren had always asked Fang Ziling to give his son the best education, it was only an improvement in knowledge and insight.Zhu Ciyu has always had some shortcomings in terms of personality development and soundness. For example, in terms of resistance to stress and setbacks, he is definitely weaker than young people who grew up in a normal environment.

Fortunately, his father never expected any more talents from his generation.In this life, Zhu Ciyu only needs to reverse the orthodoxy of "Yi Shen Yi Zhu" and stand firm, similar to other "Emperor Taizong Wen" in history.

Anyway, Zhu Shuren can take good care of himself and strive to live longer.In the future, if one thinks that there will be a talented and general emperor with all-round development in Ming Dynasty, one can only hope for a "good grandson".

Under normal circumstances, Daming would of course want to establish a heir and an elder.But the overcorrection must be overcorrected. Zhu Ciyu's generation has suffered some personality shortcomings due to special circumstances, and it must be reversed in his son's generation in the future.

Zhu Shuren has already made a decision in his heart. In the future, for his grandson's generation, there must be a special case. Let a group of grandsons get a good one. Stop being crazy.

There is no problem with the roll, but it can’t be done like Kangxi’s roll until the death of the old emperor.

And it is necessary to set the law of the ancestors, only this time, not an example, everything must be done before Zhu Shusheng, and the brakes must be stepped on.

What's more, since he has thought about this from the beginning, Zhu Shuren will definitely keep an institutional backup.For example, he could have deliberately designed "Li Li" and "Li Chang" to be naturally opposed at the beginning of the design stage.

The easiest way is to use Daming's increasingly advanced biochemical technology and medical level, combined with the medical skills of traditional imperial physicians, to intervene forcefully when choosing a queen for his son in the future.

Collect all the girls who are candidates for the queen for a physical examination, and specially select a woman who has a high probability of not being able to give birth, and make her the queen of her son.In this way, you can ensure that your son will not have a "first son" of the first natural blood in the future.

Then, find some talented and moral women as concubines for the son, so that they can develop naturally.When the time comes, let's see who among the bunch of bastards is the most suitable for being an emperor in terms of personality and intelligence.
Then, in the name of having no descendants, the original infertile queen was abolished, and the mother of the child who was to be crowned prince was promoted to be a queen. That is the "dizi" created after the fact, even if other children are older than this dizi. No bird.

In this way, not only the ancestral law was ensured, but also an overcorrection of the constitution was realized, which brought the quality of the Ming emperor back on track.

This trick is difficult to use if the emperor is in full power in person, because the emperor's decision-making is easily influenced by his own feelings. Who he appoints as the queen and passes on to whom is easy because he prefers which concubine And swing.

But who made Daming now a special period, with the emperor's biological father and mother still alive and the opportunity to hold real power.For them, changing to a genuine daughter-in-law means that they don't have to worry about whether the relationship between the daughter-in-law and their son is good or not, as long as the grandson is good.

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It's a little long-term, and all this is not yet urgent.However, the reasoning is the same, that is, due to various reasons, Zhu Ciyu has a strong desire to prove himself, and it is easy to rejoice at a young age.

So after taking office, he really wanted to do something big, and even just two or three days after the ceremony of "returning the great government", he hurriedly took advantage of the opportunity to greet his parents, and mentioned to Zhu Shuren the use of troops against Burma and Vietnam this year. matter.

Although Zhu Shuren returned the regency power, he has accumulated power for a long time after all.His treatment in terms of daily etiquette is absolutely impossible to be as weak as Zaifeng's meeting with Puyi in later generations. In comparison, it is even more favorable than Dorgon's treatment when he is in a blessing.

Even if Zhu Ciyu is in charge, he still comes to pay his respects in the morning and evening every day, and privately calls Zhu Shuren "Father King" (whether it is a king or not an emperor, this is the bottom line).

However, Zhu Shuren still calls himself "Gu", and Zhu Ciyu still calls himself "Zhen". All of this is unprecedented. , will definitely feel weird.

After the father and son narrated the rites, Zhu Ciyu begged if he could arrange for foreign military use earlier.

"Father, it's still the first month of the month, and the winter has just passed, can you arrange to find out the old accounts of Burmese and Yue's wooing chieftains and taking in the remnants of the Ming rebels in the past few years, and take advantage of the weather? Use troops against Burma?"

Concerned about his son's urgency, Zhu Shuren decided to step on the brakes: "It's not impossible to think about it at first. The court has already made a plan, and the army will be mobilized in five years of Xiaokang. But right now, there are two minor incidents, so let's delay it for another half a year." .”

Zhu Ciyu was a little reconciled, and humbly asked for advice: "I don't know what happened? My knowledge is shallow, please tell me clearly."

Zhu Shuren stretched out a few fingers, broke them one by one and said: "First of all, in the early winter of last year, Gu temporarily decided to use the rodenticide, disinfectant and other strategic materials produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and developed by the Institute of Biochemistry to fight England has done overseas trade.

Now Kyushu Island is still working overtime urgently to restore inventory.This change will delay production for at least half a year and three months. Now the risk of using troops is too great, and the medicine reserves are insufficient. Li Dingguo's troops are likely to suffer unnecessary additional non-combat attrition.

Secondly, since the decision was made in the early winter of last year, we did not conduct diplomatic warm-up in advance.It should be noted that when using foreign troops, although the emphasis is on the speed of the military and the surprise, it cannot be completely learned from the unknown.

The morale of the people inside must also be warmed up and mobilized in advance, so that the soldiers will share the same hatred.If the unprepared troops are suddenly pulled out to invade others, the soldiers will be confused.

That being the case, why not let the emperor personally preside over the work of diplomatic negotiations.It can be delayed until this summer, when Li Dingguo escorts the envoys of the Ministry of Rites to condemn the other party's crimes and listen to the other party's reply.

Because midsummer was the time when they were most unable to use troops against the Nanman, Myanmar and Vietnam would definitely not give in immediately. Instead, there was a high probability that they would choose to form groups with each other and collude to see if there was a chance to fight against Ming.

Even if they want to give up in the end, they can wait until winter is approaching, and then give in, hoping to use our prosperous atmosphere of love of face in the upper kingdom of heaven and love of all nations to come and submit to court, and run on my Ming Dynasty's desire to use troops.

And as long as we are fully prepared, we can use troops in advance by surprise when there is still a long time difference before winter comes, which can get twice the result with half the effort. "

Zhu Ciyu was stunned by his father, and had to admit that he was still too young. Although he was forced to read a lot of books by his adoptive mother, what he learned was dignified knowledge and common sense of natural science in science and engineering.

After all, Zhu Ciyu's life experience is still a blank slate, just like college students with no social experience in later generations, when they first set foot in the workplace, even though they have a lot of knowledge in their stomachs, they can't use it directly.

Zhu Ciyu humbly admitted: "I know I was wrong, and I really shouldn't worry about it. Then wait another three months or half a year. In summer, when the enemy is the most lax, let the Ministry of Rites condemn. Then in autumn, such as early autumn, finally When the heat has passed, use troops immediately! This way, we can extend our victories against the south throughout the winter and early spring!

But in this way, this spring, what should I do and what should I focus on?Wouldn't it be necessary to act resolutely, continue to increase the intensity of inspections in the reform of the abolition of Ding Ding and separation of nationality, and deter opponents? "

Zhu Shuren shook his head: "This matter is indeed to be done, but there is no need to do it specially, just let nature take its course. Since ancient times, the success of the reform depends on whether the foreign army is successful. As long as you have martial arts abroad, you can prove it from the side. Internal reforms have enhanced national strength, and the arrogance of opponents will naturally be suppressed.

This spring, if you feel too free, finish your wedding first, and let your mother choose a queen for you.Now that you have reached the crown, I don't care how you favored the concubines and maids in the harem before. The candidate for the queen must listen to his parents.After marrying back, if you don't favor the queen, that's your business, it doesn't matter if you are alone or your mother's queen! "

Anyway, Zhu Shuren doesn't care how his son plays with women. The queen just needs to be a fake one. I hope that the queen will not be favored.

After Zhu Ciyu heard it, he was also slightly shocked. He knew that everything was decided by his father, and he should listen to these far-sighted matters.

Ever since, in the spring of the fifth year of a well-off society, Zhu Ciyu didn't do anything about the new monarch's personal administration. After handing over some ritual work, he focused his energy on marrying a wife.

In the end, his queen chose a slender and frail woman who looked beautiful and was indeed learned and virtuous.Roughly speaking, it is equivalent to a Lin Daiyu-type character, but with a better temper than Lin Daiyu.

In other words, it is equivalent to Lin Daiyu's body, Xue Baochai's character, knowledge and knowledge, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are basically the same, even if they are in between.

Judging from Zhu Shuren and Zhu Yuchan's picks for the daughter-in-law here, it is estimated that even if no one does anything in the future, the natural life span may not be beyond 40 years old. They just specially picked a poor health and short-lived to be the queen.

And Zhu Ciyu felt that at least the queen's appearance was fine, and it didn't matter if her body was a bit poor. Anyway, when they were young couples, they could still love each other.In ten or eight years, with the fullness of the emperor's harem, who cares whether the real empress will be sick and unable to fulfill her duties as a wife.

All progress and rhythm are within Zhu Shuren's plan.

(End of this chapter)