I became a mysterious person in textbooks after being pushed by the emperors

Chapter 99 Overseas is a good place

Zhu Youjian went to the cabinet ministers to discuss it, and it was just a discussion. He had no intention of actually letting the ministers participate in this matter. After all, this was a matter of his old Zhu family, and it was not good for the ministers to participate.

He only needs to tell the cabinet ministers about this matter and get their no objection.

As for the others.

Of course he had to do it himself.

In later generations, I don’t know when it started, rumors circulated in street stall historians that Zhu Youjian abolished Dongchang and Jinyiwei, or that Dongchang and Jinyiwei did not play a role in the Chongzhen period. In fact, this statement is completely wrong.

After Zhu Youjian came to the throne, he indeed withdrew the eunuchs from various places, but this was not a case of Zhengying in the court. Everyone knows that Chongzhen withdrew the eunuchs on the fifth day of November in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Where did the Zhengying come from at this time? In the dynasty, from the cabinet bachelors to the six ministers, most of them were still the same people as before Xizong's death. Dongchang was even controlled by Wei Zhongxian's best friend Wang Tiqian, and Tian Ergeng had just been deposed.
Zhu Youjian's dismissal of the garrison ministers was macroscopically in line with the logic of the operation of imperial power, that is, the withdrawal of Wei Zhongxian and those appointed by the late emperor. This was not limited to eunuchs outside, but also within the country.

In fact, factory guards still existed during the Chongzhen period and were still under Zhu Youjian's control, and this was the only power Zhu Youjian could use.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, because Xuanda was invaded, Zhu Youjian sent the Dongchang flag lieutenant to investigate there.

Jin Yiwei is the key to taking down Wei Zhongxian.

Now that it is only the beginning of Chongzhen's second year, the strength of Chongzhen's men is not weak at all.

in the library.

Waiting for everyone to leave.

Soon a towering man's figure walked in with long strides.

"His Majesty!"

When Wu Mengming saw Zhu Youjian, he knelt down on one knee and bowed.

"No need to be polite, I'm calling you here this time because I have something for you to do!"

Zhu Youjian waved his hand.

Then a young eunuch handed a memorial to Wu Mengming.

"This is?"

Wu Mengming was a little confused and subconsciously took the memorial and opened it.

But after just a glance, Wu Mengming's pupils couldn't help but shrink, and his eyes instantly looked at Zhu Youjian.

"His Majesty!"

Subconsciously speaking, Wu Mengming spoke with a shocked expression.

"Don't ask too much."

"According to the things in this memorial, I need three months to spread its contents to the world. Can I do it?"

Zhu Youjian spoke calmly, without explanation or explanation, just simple words.

"promise!"

Although Wu Mengming was shocked, he did not hesitate at this moment and responded directly.

"Go down and do it immediately!"

"There must be no mistakes!"

Zhu Youjian waved his hand, he still trusted his ability as a royal guard to guide history.

Wu Mengming bowed and retreated.

"I wonder if your method is really effective!"

The soft voice spoke, and Chongzhen whispered, even he was not sure. Jiang Chen's method seemed to be perfect, but Zhu Youjian knew better than anyone what the vassal king was like.

The first generation of vassal kings may have been brave, but after 200 years, everyone has been exhausted. Will they really have the courage to go out and conquer the world?

But he really had no choice.

Jiang Chen was right about one thing, that is, this was his only chance to get a lot of money.

With his thoughts flowing, Zhu Youjian began to wait with anxiety and expectation.

And time also passed slowly in this slowness.In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

This month, I don’t know when a piece of news swept through the entire capital like a whirlwind, and began to appear in places where there were many vassal kings throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The news started out as just rumors.

The content is also very simple.

It is to depict the wealth overseas.

For example, silk and tea from the Ming Dynasty are worth gold when they arrive overseas.

Then there is food. For example, there is so much food in Nanyang that it almost stinks, and the local people don't know how to plant it. They only need to scatter the seeds on the ground, and they can produce five to six hundred kilograms per mu in the next year, and there are three crops a year.

On the new continent called America, there is a thousand kilograms of grain produced per acre.

Then there is the question of how weak the countries in Nanyang are. The Frangi and Hongyi Fanzi can often destroy countless countries in Nanyang and America with just a few people.

It has even occupied many countries and begun to call the shots.

When the news first came out, it was just a topic for everyone to talk about after dinner, and no one even paid attention to it.

After all, this news is false at first glance.

The saying that an acre produces a thousand kilograms of grain, and the saying that Nanyang produces three crops a day are all fake no matter how you look at it.

Silk and porcelain are more expensive than gold. What a joke.

However, as time goes by.

The situation is different.

Because these contents do not seem to be false.

Because every one of them seems to be verifiable.

Now that the Age of Discovery has reached its peak, it is not a big deal to want to verify.

This is especially true for those who are thoughtful.

Even the so-called grains that can produce a thousand kilograms per mu have been found in the Ming Dynasty. Although it is not that exaggerated, it seems that the grain can really produce more than seven or eight hundred kilograms per mu.

As for silk, the price of porcelain compared to gold may be exaggerated.

But it seems to be worth at least ten times more when sold to the Frangi people and the Red Yi people.

Obviously, it is impossible for the Frangi and Hongyi people not to make money. Maybe they will be priceless when they reach overseas.

This suddenly made countless people unable to sit still.

Of course, the ministers were the most restless.

Especially where the Donglin Party is.

The Donglin Party began when Donglin was giving lectures. People in Donglin satirized the government and commented on officials. They demanded integrity and justice, revitalized government, opened up channels of speech, eradicated the accumulated abuses of the government and the public, and opposed corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful.These opinions that were critical of current affairs received widespread sympathy and support from the society at that time, and were also fiercely opposed by the eunuchs and their dependent forces.The political differences between the two developed and evolved into a fierce party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty.The opposition collectively refers to Donglin Academy lectures and the government and opposition figures who are related to it or support sympathetic lectures as the "Donglim Party".

But in the later stage, the Donglin Party may be better described as a bureaucratic class political group dominated by Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats.

And they are undoubtedly a community of maritime trade interests.

The moment the news spread, they smelled a dangerous smell.

As an interest group, their original intentions are no longer important at this moment. The only important thing is to protect their own interests.

As for the others, they can be discarded directly in the face of interests.

Loyalty, country, moral character, personality.

There is nothing that cannot be discarded. If there is, there is only one possibility: the benefits are not enough.

At this moment, it was undoubtedly the time to be touched.

(End of this chapter)