I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 945: Dare to Change the Sun and Moon

Zhu Yijun raised his head and tapped lightly on the cover of the document with his knuckles.

“You guys did a great job! You did your job.

Continue, continue to interrogate those who need to be interrogated, and continue to hunt down those who have escaped the net. The case file is here, I will take a look first. "

"I will obey the imperial edict."

After Song Gongliang and other three were taken away from the cabin, Zhu Yijun leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest.

"Qi Yan."

"The servant is here."

"Please invite Yang Jinshui here."

"According to the order."

Two minutes later, Yang Jinshui hurried in, holding up his lapel, following Qi Yan.

Seeing Zhu Yijun's gloomy face and his eyes slightly closed, not knowing what he was thinking, his heart skipped a beat. He took a step forward and bowed with his hands folded.

"My servant pays homage to the Emperor."

"Jinshui, sit down. Qi Yan, show him the file."

"Yes."

Yang Jinshui leaned sideways, sat down one-third of his buttocks, took the file handed over by Qi Yan with both hands, and flipped through it slowly with suspicion.

As he read on, beads of sweat kept oozing from his forehead. At last, he saw that the muskets were lost in the warehouse of the Coastal Defense Corps in Dongning County (Kaohsiung), Liuqiu County, Donghai Province, and were finally sold to the Shushan Lake rebels who intended to assassinate the emperor.

Five thunder strikes!

Yang Jinshui's legs went limp, and he fell to his knees, kowtowed repeatedly.

"I am guilty of death. I didn't take good care of these bastards, so I committed this heinous crime. I deserve death, please punish me, Your Majesty."

Zhu Yijun's face was full of fatigue. He didn't open his eyes and just waved his hands.

"Qi Yan, help Jin Shui up."

Qi Yan helped up the trembling Yang Jinshui. His forehead was scratched and covered in blood.

Helping Yang Jinshui sit down, Qi Yan quickly took a cotton towel, dipped it in water, wiped Yang Jinshui's forehead clean, wiped the blood on the deck, and then stood aside with his hands hanging down.

"Jinshui, these people are bastards, it's none of your business. They are the ones who are inflated, pretentious, and secretly want more.

"People are greedy, and you can't control them, and neither can I."

Zhu Yijun slowly opened his eyes, which were bloodshot.

"Let's talk, three of us, behind closed doors, in private."

"I am all ears."

"Since the 41st year of the Jiajing reign, I have been involved in military and state affairs under the guidance of my grandfather. Until the Wanli New Deal, the so-called reforms were all about overthrowing a group of vested interests.

How many jobs were destroyed, how many people were killed, how many families were wiped out, what a deep blood feud.

How many people hate me to the core.

If I had not seized the military power long ago and let you, Yang Jinshui, take control of the financial power, I would have fallen into the water and died from taking the red pill.

Or there will be a second Tumu Incident, and I will become the second joke since the founding of our dynasty."

Zhu Yijun spoke slowly, and Yang Jinshui and Qi Yan listened respectfully.

My back was covered in sweat, and I felt surprised and happy.

What is shocking is what the emperor is thinking. Is it possible for me to hear it?
What makes me happy is that the emperor told me these true words. This shows his trust in me!

"Investigate the Gengxu Incident, the Confucius Mansion case, and the three major cases in Jiangnan.

I have eliminated most of the powerful families in Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and Jiangnan.

Then the Huguang Autumn Examination case, the Sichuan case of stealing and selling contraband to chieftains, the Shaanxi case of sabotage of water conservancy projects, and the Lingnan case of smuggling were nothing.

How many people did the old forces kill? I don't remember. I don't remember how many people Qiu Jue killed, 150,000 or 200,000. I can't remember.

The train of history roars forward, crushing countless flowers, plants and ants along the way. This is normal.

The pain of reform.

But after the old one was killed, the new one had only been on the table for a few days, and he felt that the whole table of food should belong to him.

Why doesn't he ask himself who let him sit at the dining table?
Even if you sit at the table, how can you think of yourself as the one eating, rather than the food on the table?"

Zhu Yijun stood up, walked to the boat window, pushed open the glass window, and a bright moon shone on the lake.

The waves are sparkling and boundless.

The world is cold and clear, with only the bright moon.

Zhu Yijun held onto the window frame and looked up for a while.

"I can understand that the traitors headed by Kong Xiuwen in Shushan Lake are supported by the remnants of the old forces in Shandong. I can also understand that they are supported by the remnants of the old forces in Henan, Shanxi and even Jiangnan.

Kong Xiuwen's father was a great scholar from Shandong, and had close contacts with famous scholars from all over the country. His family's friends and relatives were just like those of other famous scholars, as complicated as a spider web.

But I can’t understand why those people would secretly support Kong Xiuwen?
How did they know Kong Xiuwen?

Could it be that they are secretly joining forces with the remnants of the old party in Jiangnan?

Or maybe these people are ambitious and secretly recruited those stray dogs, recruited them as claws and teeth, and woven them into wings, in order to accomplish something great under my nose?"

Yang Jinshui thought for a moment, then said with his hands down, "Your Majesty, how about letting me go to the southeast first, under the pretext of leading the emperor's inspection, to gather people from all sides, and then gather them in Shanghai to show them a warning."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand. "What kind of tigers are they? At most, they are just some greedy snakes."

"Your Majesty, how about letting me alert the enemy and trick them?" Zhu Yijun did not answer, but just stood in front of the window and thought for a while, then said.

"Qi Yan, remember this."

Qi Yan quickly took out a notebook with thick cardboard and a pencil from his waist pocket, unfolded the paper, held the pen, and got ready.

"Send a secret telegram to the General Office of the Rong Government to immediately execute my secret decree. The commander and chief of staff of the East Sea Patrol Command and the commander and chief of staff of the Yanhai Command are swapped.

The Military Preparedness Commander of Luzhou was swapped with the Military Preparedness Commander of Shanxi, the Military Preparedness Commander of Jiangsu was swapped with the Military Preparedness Commander of Hubei, the Military Preparedness Commander of Zhejiang was swapped with the Military Preparedness Commander of Guangdong, and the Military Preparedness Commander of Yingtianfu was swapped with the Military Preparedness Commander of Luanzhou.

The General Staff held a joint sea and land exercise on Zhoushan Island, led by the Wang and Qiu divisions of the Marine Corps, and jointly with the Qinglong Fleet's rotating advance fleet, conducted a landing operation.

More than 20,000 men from the coastal defense and garrison regiments of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Yingtian Prefecture were mobilized to conduct drills to fight against combat units.

The coastal defense regiment and the garrison regiment were defending Zhoushan Island and the Xiangshan Port area, while Wang's division, Qiu's division and the advance fleet landed and attacked.

Spear and shield, let’s practice well and see if our army can attack.

Let’s also see whether our army can hold out against enemy invasion.

Appoint Xiao Wenkui as the general commander of the exercise, Li Chao and Hu Shouren as deputy commanders, and immediately set up an exercise command office, stationed in Ningbo, and mobilize all exercise troops according to the imperial order. "

At this point, Zhu Yijun turned his head and said to Qi Yan, word by word: "If the drill goes well, I might come to observe it in person."

"According to the order."

"By the way, report this file to Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Xiao Wenkui."

Qi Yan was stunned, but responded subconsciously.

"According to the order."

After Qi Yan left, Zhu Yijun sat down next to Yang Jinshui.

“Jinshui, don’t worry, the sky won’t fall.

There are some people in the southeast who have lofty ambitions, but they are only a small minority. Most people are content to abide by the law.”

When Yang Jinshui heard Zhu Yijun's words of comfort, he understood that this was the emperor setting the "tone" for him, the tone for handling this matter.

It seems that the emperor wants to handle the Shushan Lake treason case in a "low-key" manner. Those involved in the case in the southeast will be quietly dealt with by himself.

As for the high-profile sea and land exercises, they are a preventive measure.

The emperor is worried that certain people in the southeast have infiltrated the garrison, the guards, and even the army and navy over the years, and will do anything desperate if things go wrong, so he is prepared for the worst.

The commander and chief of staff of the Southeast Coast Guard were swapped, and the military commanders of two provinces, one capital and one state were swapped, in order to transfer away the generals who might have connections with those people in the southeast.

The southeastern garrison and coastal defense regiments were mobilized together, with the marines and naval fleet nearby. Even if part of the army was incited to riot, it would be quickly quelled.

"You should go to the southeast first this time to appease the people."

Yang Jinshui said carefully: "Your Majesty, I am worried that being too generous will make some people become arrogant."

Zhu Yijun put his hands in his sleeves and laughed: "What are they proud of? They are just a group of lucky people who were blown to the top by the times. Do they really think it is their ability?

They thought they had mastered the new productive forces. Wrong. It was not them who really mastered the new productive forces. It was the millions of industrial workers in Luanzhou, Huzhou, Northeast China, Tianjin and Taiyuan, and the millions of industrial farmers in the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau and the Construction Corps.

They are just pushed forward by the tide of the times."

Zhu Yijun stood up and paced slowly in the cabin.

“This time I am going south to share power and bring the group that represents the new productive forces into the court, so that they can become a political force that cannot be ignored.

Some people in the southeast, after hearing the news I had spread before, mistakenly thought that they were the only representatives, and became anxious and careless.

There are also some people who think that I am too slow in delegating power and that I have given too little, so they take risks. In their eyes, I have become the chief conservative.

A bunch of arrogant bastards, do they know what the Industrial Revolution is? What are productivity and production relations? What are the irreconcilable contradictions of classes?
After reading a few new books and earning a few days of free trade money, I thought I knew everything. "

Yang Jinshui comforted him: "Your Majesty, there is always a shortage of people like this.

In the past, after reading a few books by sages, I thought I had gained knowledge through the study of things and understood all the principles of the world. I was self-righteous and capable of governing the country.

Little do they know that they are ignorant of practical matters and are of no use at all.

Now that I have read a few new books, I think I am the representative of the new productive forces and that I am standing on the crest of the times. I think everyone else is backward, and I even look down on the emperor.

Little do people know that the most basic principles of these new disciplines were proposed and perfected by you, Your Majesty.

They are just so self-important, just in a different way."

Zhu Yijun laughed: "That's right.

It is easy to defeat a thief in the mountains, but it is difficult to defeat a thief in one’s heart. Many people have read a few new books and are full of new words about productivity, but their minds are still filled with the old Confucian ideas.

Only those who have been educated in dialectical materialism and a scientific world outlook since childhood can be reborn and become the true masters of the new era.

Unfortunately, it takes time. It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to educate a person.

But fortunately, time is on our side, on the side of the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Jinshui said respectfully: "Your Majesty, with your strategic planning and the guidance of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, will surely create a new world and usher in the most glorious era in the history of China."

"Creation of the world? Jinshui, this should be my mission in coming to Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yijun looked at the scenery outside the window.

The clear sky is filled with stars and as vast as smoke.

The bright moon shines in the sky, casting a long line on the lake.

"Who first saw the moon by the river? When did the moon by the river first shine on people? Life has been endless from generation to generation, but the moon by the river looks the same every year.

Now, it is time for this world to have a new sun and moon."

(End of this chapter)