open sea

Chapter 1118
Heaven is constant, it does not exist for Yao, nor does it perish for Jie.

Naturally, he will not wait for anyone.

As scheduled, the ninth year of Wanli rolls forward. On this day, the emperor announced by telegram that the imperial plan has become a routine. There is no doubt that this is an excellent means to increase the emperor's prestige.

This year, the emperor still started with "I am Yijun", announcing to the world that the king of Shanxi's San Francisco County entered India, and made it a national policy to repair the road from Tianjin to Qingshankou, and allowed all provinces to issue symbolic mining rights for merchants, soldiers and civilians. 5.00% more iron tickets were issued, [-] iron ships were transported along the coast, and iron ingots from various provinces were purchased at a price [-]% higher than the market price and sent to Beiyang.

At the beginning of the year, Mr. Zhang Ge once again hoped to return the power to the emperor. Unfortunately, in the emperor's eager desire, this request was once again vetoed by the Queen Mother Li.

But the Queen Mother soon reaped the consequences of her own life—she believed in Buddhism and wanted to use her private wealth to build a temple in the Forbidden City to worship Buddha statues, but was refuted by Mr. Zhang Ge and took the money away.

Shuntian Mansion has benefited from the addition of two Empress Dowager Bridges, and three prefectures in Shanxi will add three Empress Dowager Roads in remote places in this year's examination.

In the end, there were 300 taels left, which were sent by Feng Bao, a middle-ranking official, to Guangzhou Mansion to buy arrows, armor, canned grain and grass, and sent to Bengal by boat in the name of the Queen Mother.

Needless to say, the emperor was very happy with this result. According to the palace officials who inspected the Qianqing Palace at night in the Forbidden City, they could always see candlelight in the shadows of the doors and windows at night.

Of course, children are always with their mothers, and the Emperor Wanli couldn't stand his mother being wronged. After entering the Kunning Palace and having a chat with the Queen Mother, in the first month of the ninth year of Wanli, the Emperor decided to use the name of the Queen Mother to visit the Queen Mother in Bangladesh and Burma. Siam each invested in three temples, assigned monks from Shaolin Temple to be abbots to manage them, and asked to send [-]% of the income back to Kunning Palace every year.

The emperor said: "Don't worry, queen mother, when this investment is enough to build temples in the palace, the baby will already be in power. At that time, I must build a beautiful big Buddhist temple in Kunning Palace, and let Feng Daban stay in it." Chanting scriptures to you every day, he is good at this."

The Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory also faced new challenges. The kiln factory known as the Hongwu Official Kiln Factory always faced new challenges.

It was difficult for Chengzu Jing to ascend the throne. They wanted to make bright red and sweet white dragon-pattern porcelain according to the story of the emperor's red war robe. Official kiln porcelain is exquisite and beautiful; Emperor Chenghua liked art, which also directly affected the production of imperial kilns, and produced bucket colors that combined high-temperature underglaze colors and low-temperature overglaze colors.

In the Wanli year, what the emperor wanted was quantity with both quality and an extremely large quantity to ensure the supply of increasingly prosperous overseas trade.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the Royal Kiln Factory introduced twelve sets of A-type Huode Xingjun, which changed the manufacture of porcelain, the grinding of clay, and the production of pottery blanks, all of which were handed over to machines, which completely changed the law of incompatibility between quality and quantity. Change.

In fact, the discovery of Europe was a very scary thing for Ming Dynasty. It was not the discovery of a few missionaries who came here to brag about their hometown 'there has been no war in 800 years, and every house is open at night'. It was the discovery of the Eastern Military Government The Ming army and merchants really landed in Europe during the Wanli period, what they discovered.

All kinds of gossip and gossip spread following the return of wounded veterans and merchants in the Atlantic Ocean. Ou Luoyi didn't know what toothpaste and toothbrush were, and every poor family didn't even have the habit of eating on separate plates. Old vegetable soup in a pot Cook for half a month; the English call it rain when it rains, and call it 'rain, dog, cat' when it rains heavily, because the roofs of poor houses are covered with grass, and bedbugs, mice, cats and dogs all run on the houses, and it rains grass Slip and fall.

Couldn't stop the roof from getting rats and bedbugs, so there were canopy beds, the kind of bed with a side post on top of a sheet.

How scary?
These half-knowledgeable news brought back by veterans and sailors are combined with unparalleled prejudice into the general understanding of Europa by Ming people.

Merchants and veterans brought back legends about longing for wealth and honor, but the recruitment of Beiyang military government in the ninth year of Wanli did not go smoothly, especially in Shanxi. , Only 27 people were recruited, and [-] of them were veterans who escaped from the guard.

For no other reason, there is only one prince left in the San Francisco of Shanxi, and all the farmland has been taken back to the imperial court. The number of acres is still determined by Jin Yiwei and the local government. From last autumn to this spring, there is still no clear result, but only reported to the Judging from the progress of the imperial court, Jinyiwei has cleared 24 hectares of arable land.

According to Wang Chao, the Jinyi commander in charge of this matter, this increase of one-thirtieth of the empire's arable land is only half of their Qing Zhang's work... maybe even less than half.

This means that there are 400 million mu of land waiting to be cultivated in Shanxi Province. The important task entrusted by the cabinet this year to the Chief Secretary of Shanxi and the local prefects is to distribute these good fields from Wangzhuang to the people. Zhang Juzheng has strict rules. The propertyless households are only allowed to share hundreds of acres. Just finding 24 propertyless households is enough to cause headaches. The emperor also appointed Jinyi to command the dynasty to supervise—that is the head of the country, especially when his son-in-law is the emperor who is in charge of military power At that time, he was not afraid of anyone.

Prefects from all over the country can’t speak. One rider ran a hundred miles to the north in the dynasty, and the land of a house was controlled by the military. The Beiyang army armed to the teeth with two guards is overkill to suppress the place, no matter what class it is. Deterrence.

The failure of the Beiyang Army to recruit soldiers in Shanxi also proves from the side that the officials in Shanxi have done a good job in this matter.

When the line of sight crosses the ocean and turns to Colombia on the southeastern border of the empire?
The situation is not easy.

Although Lautaro has been in the army for more than a year, his troops still do not have the ability to go head-to-head with the Spanish mixed-blood garrison. The Spanish-Peru Governorate still rules this land in name, but under the guerrilla warfare, the front has indeed been expanded.

At the beginning of the year, 460 aboriginal leaders from various villages under Lautaro rushed to the Golden Valley to receive matchlock guns, lead blocks, tin turtles, Supported by gunpowder and various agricultural tools, they also received the calendar of the ninth year of Wanli and the latest instructions from the Eastern Military Government to the Lautaro Rebel Army.

This instruction is related to the established law, covering everything from farming, weaving, weaving, mining, registration and other village government affairs to the military goal of further driving Spain to Peru.

The way to achieve this goal is to implement only one vicious order to the heads of villages in Colombia: kill one enemy soldier every month.

　Good morning!

　　
　
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