I am the king of the dead

"The last general obeys the order!" The official school received the fire card, took the order without stopping for a moment, and went south.

Tang Xing said to Kuai Lin again: "Don't worry, I don't plan to continue exploring westward for the time being. The Atlantic Ocean is high and the waves are rough, and the sailor needs to observe the hydrology. I will stay here for at least half a year, waiting for the support of the Ming Dynasty's armed merchant ships. "

Kuai Lin's fingers kept counting quickly, and then he said: "Should we let the captive Pedra communicate with the King of Portugal with our goodwill?"

"Goodwill?" Tang Xing said with some doubts: "We conquered Liberty City, an overseas colony of Portugal, where did we get goodwill?"

Kuai Lin nodded and said: "It is our goodwill to send back the captive Pedra, and bring some [-] exquisite silver coins, saying that we have come from a long distance and lack a place to stay. To gain time."

"Commander Tang knows that the court has never been monolithic, so is the Kingdom of Portugal monolithic? We can send some smart people to lobby. Of course, we will never leave empty-handed and bring some Gifts show sincerity."

Tang Xing looked at Kuai Lin, and said with a complicated expression: "Picking up inside out, is this the beginning?"

"Military affairs are entrusted to the Sergeants of the Ming Dynasty. We scholars are better at these political and diplomatic matters." Kuai Lin nodded and admitted that he had already begun to pick and choose.

Chapter 962 Liberty City and Liberty Corner, the Promised Land of Ming Dynasty

"You are a bunch of liars! Damn liars! You are definitely not Romans, Roman nobles, you would not do such a thing!" The captive Pedra Sinde roared angrily.

Kuai Lin was sitting on the bench, huh-lah-la-la eating noodles, this is a Thai-Western style, called spaghetti, in Kuai Lin's view, this thing should be called noodles, he took out the square noodles in his pocket Wiping her mouth with a towel, she handed it to the Taixi maid standing in front of her, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry."

The Taixi maid accepted the square scarf flattered. This oriental nobleman is so kind, even if he broke the bowl, he would never beat or scold him. But no one would think that this oriental nobleman has no temper, because everyone has seen it with his own eyes. Nobles can use magic.

A Portuguese guard wanted to assassinate Kuai Lin, but Kuai Lin took out a pistol and hit him in the forehead.

In the eyes of the servants serving Kuai Lin, this means that the nobleman took out his wand. After the loud noise, the assassin fell to the ground, and his death was extremely miserable.

This is the legendary magician!

"Yes, we are Ming people from the East, where the silk and porcelain sought after by Rome come from." Kuai Lin admitted his identity, and his smile still made people feel like spring breeze.

Kuai Lin is good at reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and he is also a top student in Haishitang, so Latin is naturally not a problem.

"You!" The captive Pedra was very annoyed, annoyed that he shouldn't trust the seemingly kind Tang Xing, he shook his head vigorously and said, "I want to see your commander, that nobleman from that day."

"Unfortunately, he went to sea. He is a dissolute man who loves freedom. Frankly speaking, there is almost nothing that can restrain him, except the emperor's will and the interests of the Ming Dynasty."

"Now it should be in the Cape Verde Islands, which is the promised land you said?" Kuai Lin is a scholar, and the translation is naturally Yaxinda. The twelve largest islands in the Cape Verde Islands are named after the twelve disciples of God. Kuai Lin A more precise translation is the Promised Land of God.

Of course, now that Tang Xing has gone, whose Promised Land is it will be known only after he has fought.

"Bandits! You are a group of robbers!" The captive Pedra was furious. He kept pointing at Kuai Lin, angrily denouncing his banditry. With the strength of the Daming Navy, what else could they do in the Promised Land?

Of course it is occupied!

Kuai Lin spread his hands and said with surprise: "Aren't you also a group of robbers? Your business group is a slave hunting group. You trade the aborigines as slaves. You cultivate crops in fertile land, but countless slaves starve to death. All the products were brought back to your hometown by you."

"At any rate, we still treat eunuchs as property, and we will still give them a share of food. If they starve to death, they will be arrested. If there is trouble, they will have to be castrated. Oh, you will not be castrated, and even the mistress of your manor owner will talk to the natives. Giving birth to black children, wow, when I saw those Thais and natives, I couldn't imagine that you nobles didn't care about it at all, and thought that there was no need to capture slaves."

"What a bad Tessian."

"In this way, we are not robbers, we are clearly the messengers of the gods in the world, saving the natives from the fire and water."

Pedra was stunned, but the gentle man in front of him was so eloquent, and Pedra couldn't find any room to refute his words. Of course, this had something to do with the full-armored knight standing beside him.

Nonsense, a knight in full armor would have cut his tongue with his saber.

"So, let's stop blaming each other morally, how about we talk about business?" Kuai Lin said with a smile: "As far as I know, your family is in your kingdom, and the situation doesn't seem to be very good, otherwise the slave hunting How can nobles easily get involved in such lowly things?"

"Come on, let's talk about our possible cooperation, you help me, I help you, we are best friends!"

"I will help you stabilize your family's status in Portugal, and you can even go one step further; you help me stabilize the alliance in Portugal that opposes going to sea. I know, I know, your ability is not enough to complete all this, so I will help you .”

"For example, I am now announcing that the Haley Alliance has been established today, so as a distinguished nobleman, can Pedra Sinde recommend some partners who share common interests with us?"

Pedra stepped back again and again, looked at Kuai Lin who was full of smiles, and said in horror: "You are a devil, really a devil!"

Pedra thought for a long time and asked: "What is your name? I need to know your name, otherwise how can we cooperate?"

Kuai Lin smiled and said, "My name is Li Binyan."

Things will be much easier if there is an inner ghost leading the way.

If you do something bad, you can’t report your name. Put on a vest. If someone scolds you in the future, it has nothing to do with Kuai Lin. Li Binyan, the governor of Daming Songjiang, is just right. Anyway, if there are too many lice, it doesn’t itch. Li Binyan has already carried so much notoriety. Not bad.

A chair goes to sea, doesn’t it go to sea?

What is Tang Xing doing?In suppressing bandits.

The Daming Navy seems to regard suppressing bandits as an instinct. The pirates entrenched in the Cape Verde Islands or the Cape Liberty Islands, more precisely, the Portuguese privateers and the Portuguese navy, were wiped out by the Daming Navy as pirates. up.

In the blue sky and clear water, Tang Xing once again incarnated freedom itself, galloping and conquering on the sea.

Of course, the Portuguese navy and privateers were unwilling to sit idly by and watch their own interests be damaged. The Ming navy had strong ships and powerful guns, and the Portuguese navy took advantage of the right time, place and people.

This war on the coast of West Africa, known as the Battle of Freedom, has nothing to do with the local indigenous people. This Battle of Freedom finally ended with the complete victory of Daming, because Daming received reinforcements from the Daming Ocean Fleet support.

The ship Tang Xing sent to ask for help was led by the captain Yang Cheng. Fortunately, Yang Cheng found the flagship unit of the Daming Navy in Malin. Then Liu Yongcheng dispatched troops and generals with his flagship Haining as the leader. Nearly 5000 sergeants with a total of [-] people and nearly [-] armed merchant ships came to support.

The reason why the armed merchant ships came was because Yang Cheng told them that the ocean-going fleet commanded by Tang had found a place full of gold.

To be precise, Yang Cheng did not deceive the armed merchant ships of Daming Shiyaohaoyou. Liberty City does have gold, and the amount is huge, but when Daming Shiyaoyou arrived, he lost interest in gold. The fertile black soil along the Juanma River (now the Congo River) is more interesting.

Because plantations can be opened here to grow sugar cane from India, sugar cane can boil sugar, and sugar is a hard currency that exceeds cloth, silk and grain in addition to gold and silver.

And the labor force does not need to spend a lot of time on conquest, laborious deception, and the natives here are very useful. They don’t know what resistance is. People like to bully a lot, and those who flick the whip are naturally wandering people from Ming Dynasty.

Everything is so logical.

The reason why Ming opened the sea and opened up new overseas colonies so smoothly is entirely because His Majesty has devoted himself to opening the sea since he took the throne in August 14th year of Zhengtong. It took 14 years to lay a solid foundation. Today All this is the result, and it is a brand new beginning.

In the vast and fertile land, a large number of eunuchs can be obtained with a small amount of money. With the flick of the whip, wealth is rolling in.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty fulfilled his promise, but His Majesty just didn't let the influential people bully the people of Ming Dynasty and other people outside.

Praise Your Majesty!

This is the promised land given by His Majesty!

Your Majesty once said: I asked you to leave your hometown, your clan, and Daming, and go to the place I instructed. I have bestowed on you and your descendants, fertile land, continuous labor, and a land of wealth that cannot be replaced by inheritance. .

Standing in the harbor of Liberty City, Tang Xing said his final farewell to Kuai Lin.

After this trip, the two may never see each other again. Kuai Lin will stay in Liberty City to safeguard Daming's interests in West Africa. It is unknown when he will return to Daming, and Tang Xing will be the freest warrior of Daming. To challenge the Atlantic Ocean whose waves exceed three feet.

A free man will not be bound by anything, not in today's games, not in children, not even in the storms of the Atlantic Ocean.

How can the wind and waves be strong against him?

And all of this, Zhu Qiyu who was sitting in the Imperial Study Room of Juxian Pavilion in the Lecture Hall of the North Yamen in Shuntian Mansion did not know about it. There was a Tang newspaper in front of him, the Liaodong Tang newspaper.

Uncle Ning Yuan, Commander of Liaodong Capital Division, and Fan Guang, Liaodong Commander-in-Chief, rushed to play through the pigeon road, and Liaodong Jiannu raised the flag to rebel.

"Fan Guang said he wanted an army of 50, what does Duke Zhong think?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Shi Heng and asked.

"I'm not in Liaodong, I don't know, but I think it should be, because Fan Guang mentioned more than once in the lecture book of the martial arts hall that 50 people are needed to stabilize Liaodong." Although Shi Heng did not express his position clearly , but still make clear their own attitude.

Yu Qian thought for a while and said: "22 out of 12 people in the Beijing camp, the Zhili, Shandong, and Liaodong guards add up to a total of 11, plus the recruitment of civilians from Zhili, Shandong, and Liaodong should be enough. Your Majesty, Liaodong There is black land to cultivate, and it should not be so idle."

"Yeah." Zhu Qiyu looked at Xing'an and said, "Xing'an, you take the book that Fan Guang did in the martial arts hall back then. "The Slave Rebellion" is on the leftmost row in the second row on the Jiazi shelf." (Chapter 165)

Xing'an was taken aback for a moment, His Majesty actually remembered it so clearly.

Yu Qian noticed that the corners of the paper that Fan Guang made back then had been curled up, which proved that someone flipped them from time to time. This is the Imperial Study Room, who else would flip it except Your Majesty?

Zhu Qiyu took the title book and read it again, handed it to Yu Qian and said: "Jiannu doesn't know what is good or bad, I thought they would restrain themselves as the Ming Dynasty became stronger, but it turned out to be good, Xia Zhiyi begged me to reopen the Western Regions, Da Ming’s Nan Ya is very powerful, and he also sincerely welcomes me to go to Nan Ya for inspection. I haven’t done these things yet, and Jian Nu is rushing to die.”

"Liaodong is good. There is black soil in Liaodong, and the land is fertile and abundant in rainfall. Doesn't that mean raising 500 million more people?"

Yu Qian shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is conservative."

Shi Heng frowned and said: "Your Majesty, do you want [-] more?"

The figure of 50 is really ominous. In the past, King Jili was in charge, and he led a total of 50 soldiers and civilians. They died of freezing, starving, and fighting.

"I also think that 51 is appropriate." Yu Qian understood Shi Heng's meaning and agreed with Shi Heng's opinion. Ten thousand more or ten thousand less is fine, but it cannot be 50.

Zi didn't speak strangely, but inside and outside the Great Ming Dynasty Hall, when he first heard that 50 troops were sent out, I'm afraid he would immediately think of the year, and his heart would tremble. It doesn't matter how much, but it can't be 50.

"Okay." Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "Then take it to the temple of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies first, and then take it to the Wenhua Palace."

Liaodong was in a hurry. It was Fan Guang who realized that Jiannu's rebellion had been decided. He notified the court that the court had to make a response and send troops. It would take at least half a year to prepare.

The plan can't keep up with the changes, so the southern tour will be postponed, and the resumption of the Western Regions expedition will also be postponed. Those who refused to accept Ming Dynasty in North Korea can continue only after they are all physically eliminated.

"If I were Dong Shan and Li Manzhu, I would put away my wolfish ambition and endure it. The Ming Dynasty is at the height of the sun. Now that the power is strong, I will go into hibernation until I die, and wait for the ministers in the court to die. Now, when Daming starts to develop culture and martial arts, and then stir up troubles, the officials of the Ming Dynasty will understand this method very well." Zhu Qiyu looked at the pond newspaper and said with emotion.

Why do you have to touch him at this time?

The Beijing officials of the Ming Dynasty have now resorted to their last resort, and Zhu Qiyu has nothing to do with them.

The Beijing official also said that the hook on the forehead has been dangling for 14 years. Has it caught any fish? !No!

Then what are you fishing for!

In fact, the Beijing officials have also grasped the emperor's veins. It's not that His Majesty forbids getting rich, nor does it allow unfair phenomena. His Majesty's rebellion is very obvious.

One is soldiers and their families, one is craftsmen of Daming, and the other is the largest number of common people in Daming, or peasants. As long as you don’t touch these fields that can’t be mentioned, and don’t make trouble in these places, Your Majesty is very good at talking, you If you want titles, give them titles, if you want support, if you want support, if you want form and form, you are simply a model of a benevolent monarch!

If you don't make profits from the workers, peasants and soldiers, where can you make profits?

His Majesty also pointed out the way, the sky is big and the earth is big, heaven and earth are boundless, you can fish and do whatever you want.

Daming is a country in the center, and it is indeed rich, but there are too many pigs eating in one pot, so there are so many rice pots in the world, right?

Yu Qian said very confidently: "Dong Shan and Li Manzhu, they can't do anything about it. The Ming Dynasty is powerful and there are more and more people. In the ten years of Jingtai, Dingkou has exceeded [-] million, and more and more people have spontaneously moved to Liaodong. If there is an incident, there will be no incident, and the people of Liaodong will eat them alive."

"The cannibal and the eaten must maintain a certain ratio. If there are too few cannibals and too many are eaten, it will be a loss of justice."

Yu Qian was naturally talking about Liaodong, and he was also talking about Daming.

Therefore, Yu Qian has always firmly supported His Majesty's approach of reducing power and power. This is because the power and power in His Majesty's eyes are people with a high concentration of social resources. Get rid of them and eat people. On the contrary, there will be more people, and when their huge bodies fall, more people will eat them, and the number of meat eaters can be maintained.

Zhu Qiyu turned the globe on the table and said: "I don't know where the third prince and his grandfather are. I hope that when I visit Songjiang Mansion in the south, he can come back."

"Daming's productivity can't meet the population growth of Daming. I hope Commander Tang and boat master Peng Sui can bring me some crops to support people so that I can raise more people."

Chapter 963 Pure Mathematics and Natural Mechanism

Inside and outside the court hall, discussions on the use of troops in Liaodong were launched. This kind of discussion, from the people to the court hall, everyone was expressing their own opinions, and the six departments formed a memorial of these opinions through the ministerial discussion, and sent them to the In Wenyuan Pavilion, the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion made comments and sent them to the Supervisor of Rites.

Then, after the emperor approved one by one, he returned to the six ministries to continue the ministries' discussions, and finally got the Jiuqing Yuanshen and Wenhua Hall's long table court meeting to vote.

This is the current decision-making process of the Ming Dynasty Hall. Compared with the previous one, there is one more step to return to the six ministries according to the emperor's reply and the comments of the Wenyuange University Scholars, and then get it to the long table of the Wenhua Palace. This is one more step. There is a rigidity, but also a rationality.

In the end, Xing'an, as Da Dang, read the resolution in the Fengtian Temple in the form of an imperial decree.

The imperial system is a system in which the upper limit is very low and the upper limit is not very high, exercising the highest power.

In the thousands of years of ups and downs of the Central Plains dynasty, the mediocre, incompetent, lazy, unenterprising, unmotivated, and kings who have no positive significance to the world or even the dynasty itself accounted for the vast majority.

The lower limit of the imperial system, the lowest is King Jili, and the highest is Qin Huang Han Wu, Tang Zong Song Zu, Ming Tai Zu Gao Emperor, Wen Emperor and other pioneering monarchs. However, there are so many emperors, only a few can do it. , There are very few wise and skilled warriors.

And with the addition of this link of re-discussion based on the opinions of the emperor and the Wenyuan Pavilion scholar, the lower limit can be raised.

At least the outrageous thing like King Jili's decree to personally conquer and march out in five days will not happen again, because after this round of resolutions, it will take at least ten days, at least for the backbone of Daming to think of a way to correct Even if the emperor made a wrong decision, even if he couldn't correct it, he would have five more days to prepare, and he would have one more chance of winning.

Among the six departments that have the right to seal and refute matters, it was established by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, which also increased the lower limit of the imperial system.

This seemingly insignificant change represents an increase in the power of the six ministries to discuss politics.

When Daming was preparing for the Liaodong War in full swing, Wu Jing, a Jinshi in the second year of Jingtai of the Ming Dynasty, Jijiu of Guozijian, Hubu doctor, and mathematician of Ming Dynasty, was holding a written book in his hand. After a little hesitation, he still copied it. After reading the book, he went to the Juxian Pavilion of the Daming Lecture Hall, and after the report, he entered the Imperial Study Room.

Wu Jing respectfully saluted and said: "See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty safe?"

"An, sit down." Zhu Qiyu signaled Wu Jing to sit down, and then took out a test book and said: "I have seen the math scores of the students reported by the Imperial College this month, and they are better than previous years. The difficulty is the same as in previous years, Wu Langzhong, do you think our questions are easier?"

Zhu Qiyu had to read the Guozijian's math scores every month, and he also had to read the Guozijian's math test papers, and Zhu Qiyu would only start the exam at the Guozijian after Zhu approved it.

The students of the Guozijian mourned for this. The emperor personally checked, the emperor selected the math questions from the compilation, and the emperor also checked the test papers. For the students of the Guozijian, this is like a knife hanging on the forehead. Do not study arithmetic well.

The students of the Guozijian during the Jingtai period were the exact disciples of the emperor, because the emperor really paid attention to their studies, even if it was only mathematics, it was only mathematics.

Over the years, the Imperial College has trained Daming mathematics talents for the Ministry of Finance, and the Maritime Hall also relies on mathematics.

Mathematics has become more and more important in Ming Dynasty, and it will be more important.

"Is it still easy?" Wu Jing bowed his head after thinking for a while and said, "Your Majesty, it can't be more difficult, it's already very difficult."

People are really anxious when they are pushed, but mathematics is like this, if you don’t know it, you won’t know it.

The emperor wants to increase the difficulty?Wu Jing had to help the children, it really couldn't increase the difficulty.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a moment and said: "How about this, the Guozijian's assessment is divided into three levels, the most basic arithmetic is elementary, how about nine chapters of arithmetic and geometry divided into intermediate? Confucius also said that students are taught according to their aptitude."