Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 261 An edict ordering vassals from all over the world to come to Beijing to participate in the sacrifice
A hundred years later, the island country in the west plunged the entire Chinese nation into a century of sinking through the shameless opium trade.

He even used this as an excuse to launch a war, and the key point is to be shamelessly proud of it, saying that it opened the country for you and brought you into a new era, and you have to thank him for humiliating you.

So much so that later many people in the country also took pride in being colonized and invaded. Regardless of whether this kind of thinking is extreme or ignorant, it has to be admitted that the spiritual disaster brought by opium to China is no less than the literary inquisition of the Qing Dynasty.

Now, a hundred years ago, Daming wanted to let the island country in the west also taste the pleasure of being poisoned by opium. Perhaps that island country should also thank Daming, thanking Daming for promoting your change and progress.

Although the ocean trade of Ming Dynasty has retreated to within the Strait of Malacca, and even the control of the offshore area is in the hands of the major pirates, who can be sure that the Ming Empire that organized Zheng He's seven voyages to the West will not come again after a few years. Moment of power at sea.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao only now knows that people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang have traveled across the oceans by sneaking into pirates or foreign ships, even to America and Europe.

Even at the end of last year, Xu Xianchun, the commander of Jinyiwei, reported a piece of news from Western Europe.

The content of the news was the "30 Years' War" between the German Catholic Church and the Protestant Civil War, which involved Denmark.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao directly asked Xu Xianchun to publish this foreign news on the Daming Daily, and also wrote the ins and outs of the war in the Daming Daily in detail. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, there are also many new things happening, and many of them are even potential threats to Ming Dynasty in the future.

Most citizens don't understand why the Daming Daily has such a long article about a small country that is less than a small country that the Ming Dynasty has declared to be a political envoy.

But for this war, many citizens still showed strong interest. Some scholars directly left messages on it to ridicule the monarchy of these barbarian countries, which made the church have such great power. If this continues, how will the dynasty rule the world? Even the Fushe scholars who are dissatisfied with the current Daming can't help but sigh that there is a country worse than Daming.

This is the difference in national strength determines the different feelings of citizens after understanding the outside world.

A hundred years later, after people understand the West, they worship and admire more, and even once suspected that their own civilization and writing are the root of backwardness, and advocated the banning of Chinese characters and using English as their mother tongue directly. What's more is the contempt and self-confidence towards these western countries. They found that compared with these countries, Daming is so good.

Although blind self-confidence will make a person or a nation lose the confidence to make progress, it will also make more people support the emperor for today's stability and happiness.

Among the first batch of officer graduates, those who were interested in naval warfare or who were good at mastering marine knowledge also rushed to Nanjing City. Chen Zilong who died for the country.

Chen Zilong is the most educated officer student in this period. He has been a student of Songjiang Prefecture as early as the sixth year of Tianqi. He is only 21 years old at this time, and he has been married for less than a year.

But when he was newly married to Yaner, he resolutely gave up the qualifications for the provincial examination that he had already passed the scientific examination because of the admission information of the Royal Military Academy in the Daming Daily. Royal Military Academy.

It has been a full six months since the end of the first phase of the first phase. Due to the strict confidentiality measures of the Royal Military Academy, his family still does not know his whereabouts and news.

Qin Botong was officially appointed as the admiral of the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty. Based on the two battalions of the Imperial Guards he brought this time and the Caojiang Navy after the original selection, he was formally trained as the first navy of the Ming Dynasty and directly included in the Imperial Guards. The guard system, the full name of which is the Imperial Guard Navy of the Ming Dynasty, is usually referred to simply as the Imperial Guard Navy.

The Imperial Guard Navy temporarily has 1 soldiers, which is already comparable to the number of the Imperial Guard when it was first established, but the requirements for training and screening are no less than the original selection of the Imperial Guard.

First of all, the two battalions that Qin Botong brought were the most valiant elite battalions with the highest proportion of veterans in the Imperial Guards stationed in Xuzhou.

Secondly, although the training methods and armaments of the Caojiang navy are backward, they have not been directly reduced to ordinary people like the Weisuo army. After all, what is guarding here is Nanjing. After going through the water and underwater assessment and land physical fitness assessment, those who can stay can fight ordinary pirates even if they go to the battlefield now.

More than 1 soldiers were divided into five battalions, with more than [-] people in each battalion, and one battalion was left alone as a marine battalion.

The Marine Battalion is mainly composed of veterans brought by Qin Botong from Xuzhou. Liang Zhaoyang, the former commander of the Supply Battalion and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, was appointed as the Commander of the Marine Battalion.

The remaining four battalions were organized based on the four ship formations repaired by the Daming Ship Administration Bureau with the No. [-] Fuchuan as the core.

The first battalion is commanded by Chen Zilong, and it is the main battalion of the four battalions. The speed is much faster than the original Fuchuan, and even the types of other ships such as eagle boats, net boats, and chain boats are more complicated than the other four battalions. They are even equipped with heat engines to monitor hydrology and climate The environment, so that the enemy can be expected first.

But it also cost a lot. The equipment of the first battalion plus the latest artillery, various firearms and mines cost tens of millions of silver dollars. Therefore, Daming can only equip one battalion now.

The other three battalions were at least inferior to the first battalion in terms of power and firepower equipment, but the equipped fleet was considered relatively advanced at that time, at least the quality was guaranteed.

For water training, Qin Botong, who came from Wei Guogong Xu Hongji's family, had served as a commander in the Caojiang Navy for several years. Later, he went to the Beijing camp because he wanted to curry favor with the civil service system and wanted to be promoted to the commander-in-chief. Now he continues to come back to practice water. The army is also very familiar with it, and referring to the previous training methods of the Royal Military Academy and the Guards, within a few days, a set of naval water training programs was sorted out.

After seeing it, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied and relieved. Although he was not familiar with water training, he could tell whether this Qin Botong was the material.

On the basis of the original foundation of the Caojiang Water Army, the construction of the military barracks and school grounds has also been completed. Like the Imperial Guard training ground in the capital, it has also been built into a closed environment that integrates living, training and learning facilities. place.

But the current Imperial Guard Navy did not start the basic queue and physical training immediately. On the contrary, they are all arranged to study in the classroom hall now, yes, it is study.

Water warfare tests wisdom and knowledge more than land warfare. In addition to basic military literacy, at least one must have a systematic understanding of various climate and hydrological knowledge, and even a little knowledge of physiology, such as what is sepsis.

Although many officers and soldiers in the new Imperial Guard Navy know how to adjust the speed and course of the ship, and even some of them are masters who can venture into the deep sea, they only have the experience accumulated in the water environment over the years, and they do not have a systematic understanding.

Today, the first thing officers of the Royal Military Academy have to do is to teach their soldiers to read and learn how to analyze the weather.

And Zhu Youxiao would come here from time to time to explain the situation of the maritime countries to these naval soldiers, which can be regarded as enriching their knowledge.

In addition, Zhang Dai, the chief writer of Daming Daily, was arranged by Zhu Youxiao to go to the Imperial Guards' camp every three days to explain the situation of the year because he had done a survey of the Japanese pirates' rebellion and the coastal pirates for Daming Daily. The facts of the Japanese invasion and the harm caused to the people of Ming Dynasty after the pirates are rampant today.

"Nowadays, there are hundreds of families and the land is divided into ten thousand families. It is not the tyranny of the emperor, but a good prescription for serious diseases!"

In addition to Zhang Dai, Chen Zilong, as a loyal believer of Zhu Youxiao, also analyzed current events and politics for the Imperial Guard Navy soldiers when he popularized knowledge for them.

For example, Chen Zilong made a unique analysis of the recent distribution of the land obtained from the ransacked houses to the people in Huangzhuang, and used this to affirm and support the current emperor Zhu Youxiao. The sensational rhetoric also made the guard navy soldiers who had a blank ideological field have to be convinced by his ideas.

In a pepper house full of vines in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Wei Miner, the deputy editor of Daming Daily, was reading thousands of Chinese characters on the blackboard in Fengyang Mandarin.

Every time Wei Min'er read a Chinese character, Zhu Youxiao had to annotate the Chinese characters.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao thought it was just a simple task. Unexpectedly, in this era when there was no Mandarin, due to the differences in dialects, sometimes the phonetic syllables generally applicable to Mandarin could not accurately translate some characters in Fengyang official. Phonetic notation of words.

Because of this, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to let Wei Miner live in the Forbidden City, and he would come over every now and then to help her phonetic notation, but after a long time, he felt extremely boring, and Wei Miner enjoyed it very much.

For thousands of years, the pronunciation of sentences has been passed down by teachers orally, but different teachers have different accents, so that it is difficult to have a standardized pronunciation for each Chinese character after a long time, but now Wei Miner finds that this strange character can make people Chinese characters get rid of the pronunciation differences brought about by word of mouth.

Zhu Youxiao could tell that Wei Min'er was very interested in these Latin letters.

Outside the palace wall is the morning training shout of the imperial guards, forceful and passionate; inside the wall is the gentle and elegant sound of Min'er reading.

Zhu Youxiao enjoyed the current state very much, and the Ming Dynasty was developing steadily under his control.

From scientific research to the military, and then to the economy, my own reforms are being carried out quietly. Although there have been fierce conflicts, they have not led to major changes. The project is in progress, and the agricultural tax has been dropped again and again, but the first half of this year is still very profitable.

The reason is that the high amount of money spent for ten years can be spent on the proceeds from the house raids alone.

Not only that, the new taxes collected in Fengyang, Shandong, and Shaanxi due to the three reforms have increased several times compared to last year.

Especially the commercial tax collection in the Fengyang area. Although Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, has been scolded by many businessmen as a governor of wealth, he paid more than 500 million silver dollars in commercial taxes to the central court within half a year!

It is hard for Zhu Youxiao to imagine what kind of concept his financial income will be if the two capitals and thirteen chief envoys of the Ming Dynasty are allowed to levy commercial taxes. Maybe then he can generously exempt farmers from all over the world from taxes. It is estimated that it will completely change the development pattern of history.

Just imagine, after tax and corvee are exempted, who would still be willing to donate the land to the gentry's family as a slave.

Gossip less, seeing that September is approaching, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the Xiaoling Mausoleum is gradually on the agenda.

Zhu Youxiao's personal sacrifice to Xiaoling Mausoleum was a challenge Zhu Youxiao made to the civil servants in terms of etiquette discourse power in the eighth year of the apocalypse. Since he had the military power and factory guards in his hands, it did not cause too much trouble. , but Zhu Youxiao did not want to end his competition with the civil servants for the right to speak in etiquette.

It was only the beginning that he left Beijing on his own initiative and came to worship Zhu Yuanzhang in person. Starting from the sacrifice to Xiaoling, he wanted to let the whole world know the legitimacy and authority of Zhu Youxiao in charge of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Mingrui, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites who has been promoted to the Grand Master of Zhongji Hall, is the host of the sacrifice to Xiaoling. That night, when he reported the progress of Xiaoling's renovation and the arrangement of the entire ritual process, Zhu Youxiao suddenly said: "Sacrifice to Xiaoling The mausoleum is not the business of me alone, but also the business of the descendants of the entire Zhu family, so I ordered the vassal princes from all over the country to rush to Nanjing immediately three days before offering sacrifices to the imperial mausoleum, and accompany me to worship the Xiao Mausoleum."

Li Mingrui was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood Zhu Youxiao's thoughts.

As a close minister of the emperor, and having been an official in the capital for many years, he naturally knew that it was not only the officials and gentry who did not pay the imperial grain and national taxes, but also the relatives of the emperor who were parasitic in various parts of the Ming Dynasty and absorbed the people's admiration.

Now it can be seen that His Majesty, who is interested in the center of Ming Dynasty, is going to attack these vassals, and the reason why he suddenly issued an edict ordering the vassals from all over the country to enter the capital is to deliberately make the vassals from all over the place late or miss the sacrifice time, so as to find The purpose of depriving these royal family salaries.

"Your Majesty, can you delay the edict for the vassal princes of various places for a few more days? Although there is a case in ancient rituals where descendants and grandchildren worship ancestors together, it has not been followed for thousands of years. Wait for the minister to go down and reorganize the etiquette itinerary before requesting your Majesty's order." how?"

It stands to reason that once Zhu Youxiao's words came out, it became an unchangeable imperial decree, but after all, Li Mingrui is a cabinet scholar who joined the Xinuang Pavilion, and he also has a certain right to refute. Suggestion, Zhu Youxiao naturally understands, and he also understands that Li Mingrui is cooperating with him to give the princes of various places less reaction time.

"It must not exceed three days, otherwise the sacrifice will be delayed, and I will definitely spare you," Zhu Youxiao said, then got up and went back to the inner palace.

But Li Mingrui was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that he had guessed what His Majesty meant, and how to explain how to explain the sacrifice of Xiaoling Mausoleum must come to Nanjing from all over the world. This is what ministers like them should do. The rhetoric is not difficult for a minister like Li Mingrui who is familiar with Confucian etiquette.

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