From Chief to Ball

He also never imagined that a military weapon is not as good as a comet.The benefits of muskets are not as good as astronomical warnings.There are countless books written by myself, not as good as a book written by eunuchs.The frontier defense that I am worried about is not as good as the pile of old papers from Hongwu's 11 years.I tried every means to get people to pay attention to muskets, but the result was that they paid attention to messengers and comets...

In this case, Zhao Shizhen completely collapsed, and finally the belief that supported him to survive completely dissipated.

He couldn't figure out what was the purpose of his previous passion?Why are rumors spreading in exchange for my own heart for the country?The firearms that I valued, the messengers thought that the only way to open a breakthrough from here, why not compare to a comet that has proved that the cycle is the same as that of a solar eclipse?

What have you been doing for the past 20 years?What is pictured?What is it protecting?What is it?

20 years, 20 years!When I was a child, I saw Japanese pirates rampant in my hometown, from studying firearms with General Qi's generals, from writing letters countless times to offending various officials... In the end, what is it for?

He couldn't find an answer to all this.It seems that the answer has been found.

Another sleepless night passed, and the sun rose as usual. Zhao Shizhen looked at the sealed room, at the artifact manuals he wrote with painstaking efforts, and at the two muskets that weighed as much as a thousand pounds but were no match for a prophecy.

Suddenly he became mad and laughed out loud.

Gathered together the books such as "The Spectrum of Divine Instruments" written by himself, kicked and smashed the oil lamp sent by the messenger, poured kerosene on the books, struck a match, and burned the 20 years of hard work.

Looking at the raging flames, the laughter continued, the fire light was so pure, and there was no such venomous face of Jiao Shengguang in it...

Hold up the short gun, load the gunpowder and lead bullets, and install the flint as demonstrated in the map.

He stuffed the black muzzle of the gun into his mouth, held a pen in his left hand, and wrote eight characters on the paper that had been left for a month without a trace of ink.

……

In July of the 36th year of Wanli, Zhao Shizhen, a scholar in the Wuying Hall, swallowed a short gun and died, and his life's hard work was burned.

Blood was all over the floor, and brains were all over the case.

There is a blank paper on the case table, with eight words written on it.

What does the rise and fall of the world have to do with me?

Chapter 68 Resistance

Zhao Shizhen's death did not cause any waves in Beijing.

Just as he thought after despair, what he got in exchange for dying at this time was that everyone believed that he was killed by Jiao Shengguang.

For Chen Jian, even though he had done a lot of foreshadowing before, the evaluation of the team of more than a dozen people was only: Although it is not a tribute to barbarians, it is not a reverse species.

In fact, these eight words are quite rare, but it is also difficult for these dozen or so people to achieve their goals.

It seems that if there is no song, it has become a blockbuster. It has caused a lot of sensation in the first month of arriving in the capital, but this kind of sensation may not be a good thing.

These people are envoys, no matter what they are under the control of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple.If you want to be taken seriously and cause a sensation, you must make the noise bigger, otherwise the two departments probably don't have the heart to make a big deal of it.

Li Chao and Joseon were just as the new king ascended the throne, just in time for the dozen or so people to go to Beijing.Normally, the Ministry of Rites is more focused on North Korea. North Korea's affairs are not only a problem of North Korea, but also a problem of the entire Celestial Dynasty system.

The Ming Dynasty was also fighting for the foundation of the country. Li Hun was not the eldest son. If the officials of the Ministry of Rites agreed that Li Hun was the king of Joseon, then there would be another reason for the dispute between King Fu and the crown prince in the country.Even if Li Hun's elder brother was a prisoner, he might not be unable to ascend the throne if he was a prisoner. This court has its own rules to follow, and there is no way to make a fuss about it.

It can be said that the Ministry of Rites is basically thinking about this at this time. If it weren't for the comet and disaster relief, it would be difficult to be taken seriously.

Now that Li Chao and North Korea's little limelight has been taken away, he has become the focus of attention, and problems have also emerged.

Many people were keenly aware that Chen Jian and his group had started to build relationships with Gao Cai and others in Fujian, and that the matter about Comet was also sent to the capital by Gao through his own channels, and this matter became troublesome.

Really believe that the comet is a warning from the heavens. In fact, few people just use this opportunity to achieve their goals.

Although they don't believe it, it doesn't mean they can't think that the recall of internal officials after the comet in Jiajing 18 years can't be used at this time.

Things like tax supervision are by no means a good phenomenon, they can only be said to be helpless, and the damage caused to the local area is indeed huge, but they can indeed get money.But if it's just for getting money, what's the use of thousands of years of culture and system accumulation?The Mongolian Yuan’s tax package system can also bring in money, but the damage to society may not be small at all.

Furthermore, things like mine supervisors are more or less similar to Spain's methods of mining silver in South America.It is also a corvee system, and corvée is collected and issued, but because of the large population, it is not so ruthless that it is not a problem of mining in mines as imagined.

Mining is a technical job, the eunuchs must not have such a level, and there are not so many hired free labor, which is not a form of capitalism, and once there are so many free labor, you have to worry about rebellion, miners are the most prone to problems.

However, the land of the vassals cannot be moved, and the land of the gentry is a national policy. The two dare not move, and they can only ponder some heresy.

Tens of millions of pigs and sheep are raised, and three parties suck blood. Two blood sucking is "legal", and the other blood sucking will also attract opposition. In fact, it is not clean.

If the tax supervisors dared to attack the gentry, they might be called the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't have the guts or the ability, and they were just another parasite that sucked up the flesh and blood.

They are all parasites, so there is no need for anyone to be nobler than the other.

For civil servants, when the emperor was seriously ill six years ago, it was the closest they could get to recalling the mine supervisor and tax supervisor, but the first assistant was persuaded, which led to nothing.

Clique disputes continued, and various strange cases occurred frequently. After waiting for so long, I finally got the opportunity of heavy rain in the capital, earthquake in Xi'an, Fujian, and the coming of a comet. This was the opportunity I had been looking forward to for six years.

But this opportunity was destroyed by this group of people, who gave a completely different answer.In fact, this has crossed the line, and it is inevitable to cause huge backlash and disgust.

There are big problems in the so-called credential that has been handed down, and the concept of Greater Kyushu is also challenging the bottom line of ideology.

If it is handled well, this is at most a little joke about Yelang's arrogance and absurdity.But if it offends someone, it's arrogance to everyone, and it can even be dismissed directly.

Chen Jian is well aware of the impact of writing like this, but he has to write like this.

On the one hand, there is a group of people behind him. If he wrote a tribute letter like Ryukyu Annan Korea, he would be assassinated within minutes after returning home.On the other hand, a serious illness requires strong medicine. He is aware of the stubbornness of the conservative forces, and he is not prepared to take the path of reform at the upper level, but as long as one percent of the conservative class accepts this concept, there will be great things to do.

It's not that there is no chance at all, and the officials have their own opinions on the so-called credential that has been circulated.

After all, Chen Jian was trying to date relatives until the Shang and Zhou dynasties. He could neither tell a lie nor prove it was true. Words such as whether Yin Di'an or not sounded pretty nice.

And this relative has no legal disputes, and he is full of praise for the founder of the country, and he said that the country is right and there is nothing wrong with it, which can be regarded as the approval of relatives.

Moreover, officials are also a group of people who like to talk about nobility and morality. Since they talk about nobility and morality, officials have to accept that Chen Jian and others are doing disaster relief and famine preparations in Quanzhou.

Things on the surface are still passable, so even if there are some inappropriate places in the national letter, it still gets a pretty good evaluation that it is not a tribute to barbarians or a traitor.

North Korea is a filial son, and Japan is a reverse species. Sandwiched between the two, it can be said that there is a lot of room for maneuver.

If you go up, you are distant relatives; if you go down, you are Yidi.

It's just that the evaluation of these eight characters is tilted towards the bad side as a whole, and it is the opposition of many forces, including those who were unlikely to be united in the first place, and they are also united at this time.

Like the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci.

He originally planned to rely on calendar and astronomy to obtain the emperor's approval, so that he could facilitate missionary work.Relying on books such as mathematics and engineering to make friends with scholar-bureaucrats is only the first step towards the ultimate goal, and only in this way can the next few steps be taken.

However, Matteo Ricci himself is not a formal astronomer, and his mathematics level is still far behind that of the genuine astronomy and calendar practitioners sent by Chen Jian to Beijing.

Experts can tell if there is one as soon as they make a move, and the two sides have met several times, and they both know their respective levels, which naturally aroused the panic of the Jesuits.

The astronomical calendar is the only chance for them to open the door. Compared with speculating on the solar eclipse, Matteo Ricci can draw a tie consciously, and cannot occupy an overall advantage.When it comes to calculating the calendar, the level of this group of people is not low, and they also have the mathematical level of measuring latitude and relying on some astronomical records to deduce longitude.

What made Matteo Ricci even more uneasy was a rough map of the Ming Dynasty hand-drawn by Chen Jian. At least the coastal areas such as the Shandong Peninsula were quite standard.The dozen or so people who went to Beijing thought that Chen Jian got it from others, and Matteo Ricci thought that these people painted it themselves, so there was an extremely embarrassing scene.

Embarrassment followed by anger. This group of people held a heliocentric view, and they had quite a rudimentary atheism and pan-theistic views.This is a more terrifying monster than heresy.