Ming Dynasty: Domination of the World from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 222: Who can comment on the merits and demerits of the ages?
Qi Quan, Tian Jing and others knew that Wei Heng was just speaking in anger.

I didn't take it to heart.

Qi Quan said: "It is meaningless to complain now. The situation is under control. If it continues, I am afraid that the chiefs of the various provincial governments in Jiangnan will report the true situation in Jiangnan. When His Majesty sends people to investigate thoroughly, there is no guarantee that we will not be implicated."

"Zhou Dexing, Wang Bi and others have meritorious service after all, so why would Your Majesty accuse them of this?"

"In the end, it's still us who have to bear all the responsibilities."

Tian Jing closed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice: "I don't think so. I think we should report the truth to the court and conceal what happened in Jiangnan. It seems good, but once something goes wrong or someone secretly reports it, we can't afford it at all."

"I said that before."

"Things in Jiangnan belong to Jiangnan."

"It has nothing to do with us."

"Indeed."

"We have provided the blueprints for the steam engine, but when will we allow them to build it all at once? It is because of their greed that they want to share in the salt market. Jiangnan is already full of powerful forces, so how could Your Majesty not know this?"

"And regarding the suggestions we have given, whether it is Zhou Dexing's son or the officials of the local governor's office, who will listen to them?"

"The advice Xia Zhibai gave before was good enough."

"The results of it?"

“Not at all.”

"The local governor does not want the population to leave, while other local officials and gentry are only concerned about making money. Neither side wants to back down. Now that they have told us these things, they probably want us to think of a proper way to keep these stove owners quiet and maintain the status quo."

"is it possible?"

Tian Jing snorted coldly and said indifferently: "These local officials are not afraid of the kitchen owner."

"They are afraid of your Majesty!"

"I am afraid that the news of the kitchen riot will reach His Majesty's ears."

"Therefore, we cannot solve these problems. The person who tied the bell must be the one who untied it. If we do not report this matter to Your Majesty, the local governors and other officials will only think that the matter has been suppressed and continue to do their original work. Either these stove owners are completely solved, or they will wait for local unrest."

"But if that time comes."

“They may not consider us.”

"They might even blame us for the problem, saying they had already reported it to the court, but we suppressed it because they couldn't take any other actions without the court's order, which led to the situation getting out of control."

"Then all the problems will be ours."

Hear the words.

Wei Heng and Qi Quan's faces changed.

What Tian Jing said makes sense.

They did have some friendship with the local governor, but it was by no means that kind of friendship. Given the greed of the gentry in Jiangnan, I'm afraid they would never think of restraining themselves and would just suppress it all at once, causing murders one after another and eventually forcing the local people to rebel.

They are too familiar with this style of behavior.

Wei Heng said in a deep voice: "What do you want to do?"

Tian Jing laughed and said in a cold voice: "We have already discussed it with Xia Zhibai before. Now we just need to do it and take some of the credit for it."

Wei Heng frowned.

He didn't quite understand.

Wei Heng asked, "What do you mean by that? Why are you taking the credit for us?"

Tian Jing smiled and said, "Before, we didn't want to make things worse and offend Xia Zhibai, so we were passive. But now something happened in Jiangnan, and they are asking us to do things, so we are proactive."

"This is different."

"Those were discussed privately before."

"Now you can write it directly in the memorial. This is the solution we have come up with."

"Your Majesty has a strong obsession with bridging the north and south. The court has relocated populations several times in the past, but the results were not good."

"But we submitted a petition at this time, reporting that there was unrest in Jiangnan because of the salt administration, and the cooks had no jobs. We suggested to the court that these cooks be relocated to the north to enrich the northern population. This not only solved the unrest in Jiangnan, but also relocated tens of thousands of people to the north."

"Isn't this a great achievement?"

Hear the words.

Wei Heng and others' eyes lit up.

Tian Jing added: "Didn't Xia Zhibai say before that he had a new steam engine? Then let Xia Zhibai send the blueprint of the new steam engine to appease the officials in Jiangnan region. At the same time, report to the court and ask the court to order the merger of local salt enterprises, so that Jiangnan region can fight among themselves."

"Taking advantage of this turmoil, I also petitioned the court to abolish the household registration of 'stove households'."

"The stove households are no longer of much use, and the court is unwilling to spend so much money and grain every year to support them. Zhejiang is just one step ahead of the court, so the court can take advantage of the riots in Jiangnan to abolish the stove households. In this way, abolishing the 'stove households' will save the court millions of money and grain, and it will be our credit."

"It also gives the kitchen owner a chance to find another way to make a living."

"Isn't this a great achievement?"

"even"

Tian Jing closed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and slowly said: "We can also petition the court to grant some amnesty and take all those offending cooks or people who want to go north to the north. Anyway, the situation in Jiangnan is like this, and it will not end well for them to stay there, so we will send them all to the north."

"It will be easier for the local governors in Jiangnan to govern in the future, and we can also sell the governors in the north a good deal."

"So it seems."

"It's good for us if there's trouble in the South."

Tian Jing grinned.

The others looked at each other and smiled knowingly. Tian Jing was right. Something happened in the south, which was not a bad thing for them, but a good thing.

And it's a good thing.

Taking what had been discussed before, he offered Xia Zhibai's solution to help His Majesty resolve the situation in the south and took all the credit on himself. Although he might not necessarily be rewarded by His Majesty, at least he would be safe and his official position would be saved.

Why wouldn’t they?
Wei Heng smiled and nodded, "That's right."

He looked at the envelope on the table and said with a smile, "Before, we relied on our relationship with the local governor to ask them to relocate their population. They were very reluctant, but if there is an order from His Majesty, who would dare to disobey? Aren't we letting Xia Zhibai get what he wanted?"

“It can be said that it accomplishes multiple things with one stone.”

"Haha."

Qi Quan and others also burst into laughter.

The gloomy atmosphere in front of him disappeared in an instant.

After a while.

Qi Quan suddenly asked, "Should we tell Xia Zhibai about this in advance? After all, he is now a Hanlin University Scholar and has a certain say in the court. If he is dissatisfied with this, he will report the internal affairs to His Majesty in advance. If we do this, I am afraid that His Majesty will be dissatisfied."

There was a hint of worry in Qi Quan's eyes.

Wei Heng's smile faded.

This is indeed a problem.

He looked around and finally his eyes fell on Tian Jing.

Tian Jing's face turned dark and he cursed in his heart.

Wei Heng ignored all that and nodded, saying, "Deputy Tian Yun, you were the one who proposed this idea, and you and Xia Zhibai discussed it before. You should go this time, and I will speak well of you to His Majesty in the memorial."

Tian Jing had a gloomy face and looked unhappy, but under the gaze of others, he could only bite the bullet and said, "I obey your command."

Wei Heng nodded with satisfaction.

He snorted coldly and said, "Although there is a solution, the local governor has caused such a big mess and wants to throw the shit pot on our heads. I can't swallow this anger. You will write a few letters later and return them, saying that we will report the local affairs to His Majesty truthfully."

"It's time to let them be afraid."

"Otherwise, they would really treat me as their subordinate."

"Fuck you!"

Wei Heng cursed a few words and prepared to write a memorial.

Tian Jing had a gloomy face and looked at his colleagues with annoyance. He felt aggrieved and angry in his heart. Finally, he called the clerk who followed him and asked him to come to his house tonight. He had something to discuss with Xia Zhibai.

And he reminded me repeatedly.

It's a good thing!
Hanlin Academy.

After more than a month of writing.

He prepared corresponding 'outlines' for these five courses.

The original "pinyin" of Chinese was also brought out. Although there were some modifications, it was still recognized by most scholars in the Hanlin Academy as a whole, because spelling according to pinyin can indeed make the pronunciation of the world closer to each other to a great extent.

This is a huge improvement.

However, in terms of "Chinese", Xia Zhibai was mainly responsible for the beginning part, and as for the later content, he threw it all to other scholars. These people knew how to teach better than him and knew more tutorials.

His subsequent works mainly focused on "Miscellaneous Studies", especially "Physics" and "Biology".

In order to write "Physics", he read a lot of ancient books, just to extract some "ancient examples" from them to make these things more convincing, and at the same time "customized" some definitions and understandings, and then barely got some basic physical frameworks done.

But it's very simple and rough.

But at least it's a start.

As for chemistry, he thought about doing some, but the current technology was not capable of it and it could not be observed, even if it was barely close.

If we cannot observe molecules and atoms, then we cannot define "elements". If we cannot define elements, many things cannot be discussed. He can certainly create "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and neon", but these things are too abstract and cannot be understood at all.

The only thing he could do.

It is to provide a research direction.

Let the students who study in the future receive guidance with a certain level of awareness.

Biology relies on medicine.

This part is better than chemistry, because the current level of magnification of objects in the Ming Dynasty, at least on King Zhou's side, has barely touched the cells, so he is relatively bold in biology and has put in a lot of "plausible" and some "personal guesses".

But it is also very superficial.

I only studied high school biology, and I haven't studied anything higher than that.

Now, after a lot of delays, the compilation of these five textbooks is finally on track.

at the same time.

Xia Zhibai was also isolated by other scholars in the Hanlin Academy.

Ended up alone in a room.

Xia Zhibai didn't care much about it and just picked up his pen to write a poem about a great man.

He was born in the sky, Mang Kunlun, read all the spring in the world.

Three million jade dragons flew up, causing the whole sky to become cold.

The summer heat melts away, rivers overflow, and people become fish and turtles.

Who has ever commented on the merits and demerits of the past dynasties?
(End of this chapter)