Lu Ming

There are 5 land deeds for Sanri Dao Datian Zhuang (the location is located in the north of Annan) that the Frangji people "Le Shu" gave to the Celestial Dynasty.

After the court gift list, is Cao Zongbing's personal gift list to honor the emperor:

15 taels of silver;

[-] pieces of Francine machine curiosities;

[-] new curiosities released by Cao's Workshop;

Zhongyong Bo filially gave the emperor a hundred loads of daily miscellaneous goods;

There are 5 private Datianzhuang title deeds of three-ripe rice (located in the north of Annan) that the Frangji people "leshu" gave to the emperor of the Chinese dynasty.

that's all.

After the first two parts of the memorial are over, the key third part comes: the master of the General Army Mansion quotes scriptures, from the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty to the Yicile people in the Song Dynasty, and now to the Franji today, all kinds of nonsense, by the way He also criticized Daming's foreign policy, thinking that it is not advisable to shrink back and forth. Now that he has Cao Zhongchen, it is a good time to boldly open the door and do business.

In the end, the memorials were exhausted, and thousands of words were turned into one sentence: reform and opening up, open up a new area outside Guangzhou as a pilot, allow foreign ships to dock, allow foreign merchants to buy properties, and exchange needs between China and foreign countries.

This memorial has a strong warrior style.The content of it can be seen at a glance, the three paragraphs of content are giving face, giving benefits, and making demands, without any concealment, and they are frank as hell.

And the young Emperor Chongzhen carefully read the cabinet draft attached to the memorial at this moment. Although there were words on it, the final conclusion was only one word: "Allowed."

Chapter 564 Receiving

Emperor Chongzhen silently read the proposal posted on the memorial.

Although this memorial was handed over to him just now, everyone already knew the contents.The reason why the decision was made today is because the cabinet ministers need to collect information and even exchange opinions after receiving the memorial, so the "draft draft" representing the collective opinions of the cabinet was delayed until today.

However, the content of the proposal had already been known to the emperor and officials.After all, the cabinet ministers had openly discussed this memorial with their colleagues, disciples and students in the past two days, and then several cabinet elders reached a consensus.During this process, from the emperor to the many officials who are concerned about this matter, they have long known the general decision of the draft.

However, the emperor asked for a draft today, just to finalize the content and go through the legal procedures.The result did not exceed everyone's expectations: the vote was drafted, and the cabinet ministers collectively agreed to the request for the memorial.

Zaifu's ink characters written in lower case are strong and powerful.However, in the eyes of the emperor, the draft is always weak: not because the words are weak, but because the person who wrote the draft is weak.

Those who can stand here today are all the top political figures of the Ming Empire.Since it is the highest level, it must be well aware of the situation in the world.Now that it is clear, it should be known that the imperial court has always had the intention of suppressing the military leaders outside the town.

This thought has nothing to do with personal matters, it is a pure business matter.Although it is inconvenient to say it clearly, as a normal "capital" bureaucrat, it is the most basic political accomplishment to suppress and contain the outer towns and maintain the centralization of power. ?

Sighing lightly, Chongzhen, who was a little disappointed in his heart, raised his head to look around, then shook the memorial in his hand, and asked softly: "Do you have any objections?"

Why did the emperor say this, all the ministers knew it well.However, the emperor's voice fell behind, and the scene was a bit awkwardly quiet, and no courtier stood up to share his worries.Even a few members of the Donglin Party, who should stand out in the eyes of the emperor, held their breath at the same moment, solemnly staring at the white marble floor in front of the hall, with a look of contemplation on their faces.

Chongzhen gasped.

In all fairness, the emperor had no intention of doing anything with this memorial.After all, the imperial court had previously agreed to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to "act cheaply", and Cao Chuan, the general of Zhangchao, was "unrivaled in loyalty and bravery".

The reason why the emperor was unwilling to let go of this memorial was pure inertia: for warlords with natural centrifugal force, one should not take it lightly at any time, and show the court's majesty when there is an opportunity.This is the instinctive operation of the emperor, who ignores this... Didn't Li Longji lose his family and run away? He even strangled his own wife to death.

So when the emperor found out that, even if he made a hint, none of the civil and military men in the hall stood up and boycotted him in a routine/procedural way, the young man's face suddenly became gloomy.Chongzhen is no longer the stunned young man who just came to power, he now knows the most important thing to be an emperor: balance.

Now, the balance is off, and that's a big deal.

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It is true that the emperor is angry, but the courtiers are also very difficult!

In fact, it's not that everyone doesn't know the rules, but there are some things, once someone pinches the balls, it's hard to say it.

The courtiers present today, except for a few soy sauce lone wolves, are roughly divided into three factions.

First of all, it is naturally the "Cao Party" led by Wen Tiren, a bachelor and minister of rites.

Of course, the so-called Cao Party has always been an obscure alliance and has not been recognized by public opinion.Because a certain force has a strong force and abundant resources in the capital, most of the things can be solved at the Beijing station, and there is no trouble for Master Cao's important allies in the court.

This model is naturally excellent for people like Wen Tiren: there is no need to defend allies in everything, so that political opponents will catch the braid of "forming a party for personal gain".We must know that the reason why Lao Wen came to power was precisely because of the "lonely minister" personality created in Chongzhen's mind.

That's why the University scholar Wen Tiren, the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, old Wen's new ally, Minister of Rites Min Hongxue, and even the old Wen's superior have colluded with Tang Shiji, the left servant of the Ministry of War, Zhang Jie, the censor Gao Jie, Shi Fan and other de facto "Cao Party" lineages, of course, all can't speak.

Next is the Xungui Group.

Since Queen Qin last year, Cao Chuan of Yizhou was canonized as the genuine Zhongyong Bo.From that moment on, whether he wanted to or not, Cao Zongbing actually squeezed into the honorable group in the capital.

Of course, even though the nobles of Ming Dynasty were declining day by day, no one looked down on the country bumpkin surnamed Cao at first.

However, when the truckloads of industrial products were transported from Tianjin to Beijing, nobles flocked to the city. Uncle Zhongyong’s mansion was overwhelmed by the daily banquet threshold. "Old brother" and "brother", everyone has become their own family.

……if not?The nobles who were suppressed by civil servants and their political rights were shrinking day by day, just like those Kaifeng generals in the Song Dynasty, they degenerated into commercial groups, and only the yellow and white things were left in their eyes.

So the Xungui Group will not speak out today.Even if someone jumps out and dares to talk nonsense against "Brother Cao", the old brothers will help resist one or two - if Brother Chongzhen has the Shang Dynasty APP, he can actually easily summarize a phenomenon through big data: In the court meeting in the past year, whenever there was an issue about Cao, the Xungui Group always had the most people.

In the end, it was naturally the key figures in today's mystery case: several members of the Donglin Party.

It is said that since Chongzhen came to power, the Donglin Party still had a short period of time.However, ever since the Manchus entered the Pass and surrounded the capital, they discovered that Chongzhen, who had been swayed by the Donglin Party, made a move the next day, and began to deal with these bastards.

After that, Chongzhen first killed Yuan Chonghuan, a military figure of the Donglin Party, and then exiled Qian Longxi, a civil official of the Donglin Party.

With the fall of the cabinet represented by Qian Longxi, and the promotion of Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who were at odds with the Donglin Party, to the first and second assistants respectively, the Donglin Party immediately entered a period of decline in the pre-Chongzhen era: a large number of party members were cleared out of the capital In the officialdom, many bigwigs of the Donglin Party went back to their hometowns one after another, "teaching and educating people" for the future.

So for more than a year, the Donglin Party has been in great trouble in the political situation in the capital, and its right to speak has been reduced to a minimum.

Fortunately, Chongzhen will be the emperor now, so he didn't drive out the Donglin Party, but kept a few to maintain the balance of the court.As a result, today's release made Chongzhen unable to understand: What is the balancing role that you should play?

It's a pity that the emperor hasn't learned mind reading skills yet.If Chongzhen at this moment could hear the voices of these silent people, then he would probably not have any doubts.

Because of the existence of intruders in this plane, specifically, the existence of intruders with great skills and sufficient resources, the original landlord class of Ming Dynasty finally met a person who did not start with Completely eradicate the wealthy regime that they are responsible for.

As early as a year ago, Cao Zongbing not only made friends with nobles in the capital, he also made a public promise in the Golden Luan Hall: to sell the whole land in Yizhou.

Now, a year has passed, and the class of big landlords who spent a large sum of money to buy fields to eat crabs in this matter have already tasted the sweetness.

Yizhou's large-scale farms with endless stretches of land and criss-cross canals have already harvested two seasons of produce.

After these two seasons are harvested, they will be purchased and shipped by the government without stopping, and sent to Fujian and Guangdong across the strait for sale.The landowners received the grain money allocated by the Chikan District Government without even showing their faces.Then these grains are purchased by the housekeeper on the spot and turned into industrial products, which are shipped back to their hometown for sale.

This simple little triangular trade has brought huge income to the landowners.

The most important thing is that Mr. Cao fulfilled his original promise: the Chikan District Government did not collect agricultural tax on the sold land.In addition to the necessary service fees such as pesticides, fertilizers and water diversion, the government did not pay an extra penny for field taxes.

Landlords in this era don’t have the concept of industrial and agricultural scissors, so they don’t know that their own family has been secretly sucked by industrial products. Instead, they feel that the current cooperation model is very high: don’t worry about anything, everything is done by Chikan The government, the "big tenant", operates from digging to sowing to selling a full range of services. In the end, the landlords can count the money in their hometown.

In this way, the Donglin Party, which represents the big landlord class in the south of the Yangtze River, unknowingly changed from a state of tension with Cao Zongbing to a peaceful and drizzle.

Today, the generals of Donglin in front of the Golden Luan Hall also know the inside story.They even knew some other "secret high-end news": the Annan Farm mentioned in the memorial, that is really fertile soil, much more fertile than the land in Yizhou!Moreover, the land deeds Cao Zongbing "wrought" from Frangji were far more than the ones on the surface.

In other words, this time the money that everyone buried in the cellar has been spent again.

So, in the end, after carefully considering the meaning behind Cao's memorial, an important minister of Donglin walked out of the queue with square steps, and said the following words under the emperor's gloomy gaze: "Mr. Servant Shaoqing Hou Xun impeached the general Cao Chuan and had no courtesies, making the king and father unrighteous!"

Chongzhen was a little strange after hearing this, this crime is not common: "Oh? What does this mean?"

"Nowadays, the state affairs are difficult and there are wars in the northwest, and the warehouses of the household department are empty. It is time to urgently wait for replenishment."

"Oh... Hou Qing continued."

"When Cao Chuan is so sloppy, he dares to ignore the rules of the court and openly offer bribes to his superiors. He really is a courtier!"

"what!?"

"Since ancient times, Ming and virtuous kings have always taken the well-being of the people of the world as their own responsibility. According to the wishes of the ministers, why not return the land deeds and property used by the commander-in-chief Cao Chuan to the Ministry of Households, so as to rein in the precipice and show the imperial court's love for the border generals. Hmm , By the way, the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers will be fulfilled, so that the monarch’s father will not be embarrassed, and the general will not be stumbled, this is a perfect strategy.”

……

After the court meeting ended, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the inner palace and did not speak for a long time.

Finally, when it was time for dinner, the emperor issued an order: "Come here, tell the prince of the East Palace to read and see me."

"Here!"

Soon after: "Your Majesty, I will see you on duty for the prince of the East Palace to give lectures."

"Pass! The rest of the people will go down."

"Here!"

"Chen Bu Daxing sees my emperor's long live."

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Bu Daxing, tell me about the disaster of machines in the south."

"As ordered."

Volume VI North and South

Chapter 565 The South Fleet

The young emperor who sat high on the throne once again refreshed the existing knowledge of the shameless lower limit of his courtiers.

This time the program is "Outsmarting the Birthday Outline".

The gang of bastards under the throne not only beat them up repeatedly, but avoided the emperor's targeting of a certain military officer with a flamboyant charge; they also robbed the emperor's personal property from the south and moved half of it into the household department .

In fact, if Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch on duty, hadn't jumped out to argue for reason, the civil official group, which was crowded with people, would have originally planned to "confuse" the emperor's share... After all, "the emperor has no selfish wealth", besides These are all obtained from bribery, and the origin is not right, so it is justified and well-founded to confiscate them according to the law!

As for whether the property can be used for the people, state affairs, national defense, and state affairs after entering the bottomless Daming national reserve warehouse-the large warehouse of the Ministry of Households, that is a mystery.This can refer to the military expenditure that Daming spends on the Guanning Group every year: after several million taels of silver were allocated, more than half of them just settled quietly in the capital, and never left the city gate from the beginning to the end.

The young emperor, who was put together by his courtiers, was naturally very angry/incompetent and furious when he returned to the palace that day.So I had no choice but to summon Comrade Bu Daxing, the dark son/anti-Cao vanguard I had secretly planted before: The emperor needs to re-evaluate the degree of penetration and threat of the Southern General Army to the imperial court and society, so as to plan for the future.

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In the turbulent capital city, even the ants at the base of the wall have a sense of politics.There are always various intrigues and exchanges going on there, never stopping.But in southern China, which is far away from the capital, there are not so many calculations. Here, the principle of barbarism is followed. Whoever has the biggest fist has the final say.

On June 1631, 6, the weather was fine and the wind was south-east.

Because there was a big storm just the day before yesterday, the clouds and blue waves in the South China Sea at this moment are not peaceful, and there are thick negative oxygen ions floating in the air. It is the most beautiful time of the year to swim.

A fleet of sails is sailing on the ocean.

The unique smooth line of the hull and the faint smoke that comes out from time to time have clearly indicated the ownership of the fleet.

The fleet consisted of 7 combat ships.

Among them, the main force is two 500-ton "Youguang-class" destroyers equipped with 10 artillery pieces.The remaining five are Yishui's 5-ton "Taijiang-class" high-speed frigates.

At this moment, the fleet is taking advantage of the monsoon wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean, constantly changing the angle of the sails, and pulling out a "zigzag" sailing track on the ocean.

The position of the fleet at this time is at the entrance of the Qiongzhou Strait.To be precise, it is in the northeast of Hainan Island in later generations, off the coast of the current Qiongzhou Fucheng.

"Old Shao, what's the matter, can you still hold on?"

Sha Zhengming, who is tall and strong, wearing a blue training uniform, put down the binoculars in his hand, turned his head and asked the people on the side.

Sha Zhengming is the commander of this fleet.

Beside him is Shao Qiang.The chubby Shao Qiang was enduring the ups and downs of the warship at the moment, his body was swaying, and his face was ugly.

……

In other words, since the crossing crowd smashed the Portuguese-held city of Macau two months ago, the bosses sitting in the new area looked around, and there was no longer any force to fight outside the glass window.

As for those bandits, sea bandits, and even weak officers and soldiers, these have actually been classified by the cabinet into the "comprehensive social transformation" project, which belongs to civilian work, and it takes time to slowly digest and improve internally.

And the sights of the senior management of the Transit Group, and even the military, have turned to a farther region: Southeast Asia, which can bring food, rubber, petroleum, nickel and chromium raw materials to the disaster-stricken Daming.

Prior to this, a series of actions, including the establishment of a pioneering army, have actually clearly and unmistakably indicated the direction of resource investment for the traversing forces in the next step.Now, with the opening of Macau, the army has officially taken action by pulling out the traversers who were nailed to their homes.

The southward squadron headed by Sha Zhengming was quietly formed on the 10th day after the opening of Macau.Today, Sha Zhengming led the team to Qiongzhou, which is the first official mission since the establishment of the fleet: receiving the home port.

Open the map and you can see at a glance that if you want to use Guangdong as your base to attack Nanyang, Qiongzhou Prefecture, located at the northern end of Hainan Island and later called Haikou, is a natural base for advancing.

The reason is simple: geographical advantage.

First of all, Qiongzhou Prefecture is 500 kilometers away from Guangzhou by sea.In terms of the current shipping, maintenance and logistics capabilities of the Transtrade Group, it is still very important to shorten the 500 kilometers.

After all, at present, whether it is a merchant ship or a warship, they are still old-fashioned sailing ships, and the fleet is slow and self-sustaining.

Then based on Qiongzhou Prefecture, the fleet can greatly shorten the voyage, increase the attack distance, and reduce the logistical pressure.

In addition, the city of Qiongzhou guards the entrance of the Qiongzhou Strait where Nanyang enters Fujian and Guangdong, so its geographical location is very important.Departing from Qiongzhou Prefecture, the fleet can attack the entire Beibu Gulf and radiate the Indochina Peninsula under the roughly equal route. It is an ideal bridgehead in the eyes of the navy.

So there was the scene at the beginning of today: the southward squadron led by Guangzhou Coast Defense Admiral Sha Zhengming went to Qiongzhou Prefecture to receive the naval base.

As a genuine general, Sha Zhengming naturally has a reputation.

This gentleman followed "Cao Haishang" into Xiong Wencan's mansion at night, and everyone conspired together to intercept Zheng Zhilong's fleet.Afterwards, as the right-hand man on the bright side, Sha Zhengming has always been the specific person in charge of the Cao family's fleet in the eyes of the government, so he was appointed by the court as a sea defense officer very early.

It was Shao Qiang who accompanied General Sha Shen and led the team to the south.

According to the current rudimentary system of the crossing crowd, the Southward Pioneering Team is equipped with one piece of paper and one weapon.Since Sha Zhengming is Wu, then Shao Qiang is Wen.