Daming One Piece

Chapter 175 (First update, please subscribe)
In the capital, it was getting more and more chaotic.

In fact, it is not only the capital that is in chaos, but even the locality is extremely chaotic. The Tiqi of Jinyiwei, the fans of Dongchang, and the troops of the brigade went out of the capital to the localities, arresting the criminals involved in the case everywhere, from Jiangnan to Beizhili , from Shandong to Gansu, not to mention local officials, even officials who were exiled, there are many people involved in the case.

On June [-]th, when Tiqi was out of the capital in the capital, Shi Yiwen and his party left the capital on horseback in the early morning of this day. He left the capital after careful consideration. After all, for him, no matter what the situation in Daming was, it had nothing to do with him. up.

The most important thing now is to do a good job of "Western Farming", to receive the exiled prisoners who happen to be coming, and to settle them down. This is the most important thing.

At the moment of leaving the gate of the capital, a group of Tiqi happened to pass by, looking at the group of Jinyiwei, Shi Yiwen asked casually.

"Where is this team going?"

"Looking at the direction, it should be heading east."

The Wang Zheng who answered was the assistant officer assigned to Shi Yiwen by the Ministry of Officials. This assistant officer was not to be sent by the Ministry of Officials, because according to the old rules, the Beigang Propaganda Department was similar to the Guizhou Propaganda Department and the Southwest Propaganda Department. Controlling the land, barbarians became vassals, father and son succession, brother and "toast hereditary system, of course, the imperial court also sent officials to the southwest region to assist the chieftain in governing related areas, further stabilizing the governance of the southwest region.This is also the reason why Daming finally accepted Guizhou as a province.

But on the Beigang side, the imperial court didn't have the energy to care about overseas affairs at all. Instead, at Shi Yiwen's initiative request, they sent more than a dozen officials to assist in farming matters.In fact, to put it bluntly, he just wanted to take the opportunity to recruit some talents.

And Wang Zheng was one of them. It was a coincidence that he met this master of science and technology in the late Ming Dynasty.Wang Zheng is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. He was elected in the 22nd year of Wanli, but he did not become a top three Jinshi until the second year of Tianqi. He was 52 years old.

It is reasonable to say that after decades of hard work and becoming a Jinshi, this person is finally lucky, but this person's luck is by no means good.In June of the second year of Apocalypse, Wang Zhengzhi lost his wife first, and then his stepmother passed away after being promoted to Guangping Mansion in Zhili.Ding You had no choice but to return home before he could make a big splash.

It's not just that Wang Zheng, who just finished his life, has been renting a private house and waiting for a vacancy after returning to the capital. This wait lasted for several months. "Living in Chang'an is not easy." Life is difficult, but what is even more difficult is that there is no money at hand.

However, during Hou Que's time, Wang Zheng was not idle. He had been assisting Jin Nige and other missionaries in translating the books they brought. Buying various books at high prices still decided to sell the first draft of "Qi Qi Tu Shuo" to this person.

And who is buying the book at a high price?

It was when Shi Yiwen, Wei Zhongxian and others used the "reverse case" to suppress dissidents, he was not idle, and kept wandering around in various bookstores in the capital, buying various books. Books in this era are not cheap. A set of "Journey to the West" "A novel like that costs several taels of silver.But books like Jingshiziji are not expensive, but his interest is not in ordinary novels or popular goods like Jingshiziji, but other "heresy" books, although there is no encyclopedia like "Tiangong Kaiwu" in this era The whole book, but there are many similar professional works on agriculture, handicrafts, mining, metallurgy, etc. In fact, even Song Yingxing "copied" many miscellaneous books together.

Because the publishing industry in the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, it was so developed that the booksellers had no books to publish, so that all books were published and printed. No one had read the popular classics and history collections for a long time, but novels were read. Of course, professional books can also attract people, even translating European books can also attract the attention of many people.Even in remote places like Yunnan and Guizhou, you can buy European scientific works, which shows the prosperity of the publishing industry in the Ming Dynasty.

In the capital, as long as you have money, you can buy any books you want, which is also convenient for Shi Yiwen.However, in just a few days, he actually bought 10,000+ books. For a while, there were rumors in the capital that he spent a lot of money to buy a large number of books.

With a good reputation, some booksellers even come to sell books on their own initiative. Not only booksellers come to the door, but even book authors come to the door.Wang Zheng is one of them. After capturing this scientist and mechanical expert who was known as the "King of South Xu and North" with Xu Guangqi in the late Ming Dynasty, Shi Yiwen would let him go. Immediately moved his mind.

Just find someone to say hello, so Wang Zheng became an official in the "Western Farm Mission". When he received this appointment, Wang Zheng was also dumbfounded. This...is equivalent to exile.

However, he simply ran up to Shi Yiwen and asked what the "Western Farm Envoy" does. This is Shi Yiwen's other official status.

Of course, it is dedicated to "Western farming affairs".After learning that the land-lost refugees in the mainland were specially resettled, Wang Zheng didn't believe it at first, and even went to Zhangjiawan to see it. When he saw that thousands of refugees had gathered in Zhangjiawan, waiting to sail away with the ship , he immediately let go of the idea of ​​dismissing him from office, and willingly went overseas with Shi Yiwen.

Beigang...that's also overseas.

Even for people like Wang Zheng who have translated hundreds of Western books, overseas...that is a barbaric place far inferior to Ming Dynasty.

But in his view, this is also a good thing for the benefit of the people.After all, the people have land to plant and a way to live there.

"My lord, after my lord returns to Beigang, how should the inland refugees go to Beigang?"

After arriving in Zhangjiawan, Wang Zheng asked curiously when he saw the refugees boarding the boat in an orderly manner.

"In addition to a large area of ​​unclaimed land in Beigang, there are also a large number of merchant ships. In the future, various goods will be transported along the Yellow River and the Yangtze River into the mainland. Immigrants can board the ships nearby. Moreover, the imperial court has a decree to order the governments of various places to cooperate with the resettlement of refugees. .”

Shi Yiwen's answer made Wang Zheng sigh.

"Whether or not the local government obeys the will of the imperial court depends entirely on the local government. If they don't obey it, who will care about the life and death of the refugees from other places?"

"Hey, when the time comes, I can only do my best and obey the destiny. When the time comes, I will let the fellows on the ship put up notices everywhere."

Even though he said so, in fact Shi Yiwen wasn't worried at all, why, because there was no need to worry!
He didn't mean at all that the government would take the initiative to do things on his own. After all, everyone knows what kind of virtue the government is in these years.

What he wants is actually a name!
(End of this chapter)