The Nameless of the Common Clans

"You just said there were two things. What's the other thing?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"Ziyi is gone." Dian Wei sighed and said, "The prince asked me to come and ask Your Majesty who is suitable to take over Ziyi's position?"

Chen Mo's hand holding the file trembled, and he took a deep breath and closed his eyes and said, "Let him decide. I have already said that the affairs of the court are decided by him."

Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo, hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I want to move in with Your Majesty."

"Why don't you enjoy the rich and noble life and come to this poor and remote place?" Chen Mo glanced at him and said, "You have been fighting all your life, and you are getting worse and worse when you get old. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

"What a joke, Your Majesty is here, if they want to laugh, they should laugh at Your Majesty first, and then I will kill them one by one..." Dian Wei suddenly stopped here.

"Okay, you can live here if you want. Although it is not as prosperous as Luoyang, there are many empty rooms. I will teach these boys how to hunt in the future." Chen Mo nodded.

"Yes!" Dian Wei said after hearing this.

"When will Ziyi be buried?" Chen Mo suddenly asked.

"July 9th, Your Majesty, are you going?" Dian Wei said.

"Of course I will go. Ziyi and I met when we were young. At that time, Ziyi... He was really more annoying than you, arrogant. He used to contradict his superiors. Others were getting better and better, but he had a lot of skills, but he was getting worse and worse. In the end, he offended someone and ran to Liaodong to avoid disaster. He didn't come back until I became the governor of Hedong. Now think about it, many years have passed... Alas~" Chen Mo sighed leisurely. The biggest thing he learned in the past few years was to accept the departure of relatives and friends one by one, teacher, mother, Jia Xu, Lu Bu, Taishi Ci, now think about it, these generals who fought with him, now only Gao Shun, Cui Geng, Yu Sheng and Dian Wei are left.

"Your Majesty, don't be sad. What are you saying? People will die anyway." Dian Wei scratched his head, trying to change the subject. He looked at the things Chen Mo was fiddling with and asked curiously, "My lord, what are these?"

"Gunpowder and steam engine." Chen Mo put down a piece of iron plate that was polished quite flat, put it into the finished mold, and then began to pour the rule, connected the things with copper liquid, and started to make the mechanism.

"What is it for?" Dian Wei asked puzzled.

"It's not available now, but it will be useful in the future." Chen Mo smiled and said, "As long as someone keeps doing this, it will be almost ready in three to five hundred years." Chen Mo smiled.

"Three...three to five hundred years!?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo in astonishment.

"On the bright side, someone has to keep studying this. If it stops now, it may not be possible to make it even after a thousand years. Gunpowder is not difficult, but the steam engine..." Chen Mo shook his head. He can now polish a steam engine through precision work, but if he wants to understand it thoroughly and use it, someone has to keep working in this direction. If it is interrupted in the middle, he thinks it will take a thousand years to pick it up again. He is preparing a book like this to pass on to future generations, hoping to leave more things for future generations.

"Your Majesty, why are you doing this? Let people do it three or five hundred years later. Why do we have to do it?" Dian Wei was puzzled.

"I'm afraid they are busy fighting for power and are unwilling to study these things." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed: "Come Liu Yi and Ma Jun tomorrow and let them leave one to study with me. This thing, even if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, it will not die."

"Your Majesty, don't say discouraging words. The Ming Dynasty must be passed down for thousands of generations." Dian Wei said hurriedly.

"If it can be passed down for thirty generations, I will be satisfied." Chen Mo looked at Dian Wei with a smile. It is unrealistic to say that it will last for thousands of generations, unless the next entity belonging to the East can be gradually found at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and productivity can achieve a rapid breakthrough, that is, every generation after Chen Mo will spend a lot of energy to promote the development of industry. In that case, three hundred years later, China may be able to enter the technological age a thousand years ahead of the West. Only then will there be a chance to say that it will last for thousands of generations. In Chen Mo's opinion, the current political system will last for three hundred years. It will be chaotic after three hundred years. Even if the emperor is wise at that time, it cannot change this fact. At that time, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have a bloated political system and the population will reach a limit.

Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo blankly, with a confused face. How can he say that about his own dynasty?

"Forget it, you don't understand." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed, and continued to do his own thing.

In the next few days, Dian Wei moved to Chen Mo's place to live. He played and frolicked with a group of grandchildren every day. Chen Mo took his grandchildren to farm. In order to avoid suspicion, Dian Wei went hunting or farmed with Chen Mo. He listened to Chen Mo's lectures to the children at night, which was quite comfortable. It was better to do something than nothing.

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Chen Mo took Dian Wei to preside over the funeral of Taishi Ci. Although it was not long, after experiencing the departure of so many old friends, Chen Mo also looked down on life and death. After encouraging Taishi Ci's descendants, he took Dian Wei back to Beimang Mountain to farm, read and study.

The three years of mourning passed quietly until the third year, when Chen Jin personally took the ministers to Beimang Mountain to ask Chen Mo to come down the mountain and take charge of the government again.

In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the marks left by the previous dynasty were basically erased. The plague that had been raging in the world for decades also disappeared with the end of the war and the vigorous governance of the court. People's livelihood gradually recovered in these five years.

After Chen Mo returned to the court, he regained power and did not feel unfamiliar with the government. However, after he came to the court, he did not mess with the national policies set by Chen Jin. He only issued an order to encourage merchants to do business overseas and help Ming Dynasty paintings go overseas. picture.

With the popularity of keel boats among the people, merchants traveling by sea have begun to appear in the Ming Dynasty. The furthest went to Fusang, and Fusang also sent people over to learn, but Chen Mo refused, but he was willing to trade with Fusang. Fusang's products , you can enter the Ming Dynasty through maritime trade.

But if you want to learn something, ideas such as Confucianism and Taoism can be taught, but the folk technologies of the Ming Dynasty, such as textiles, pottery and other folk handicrafts, are prohibited from being taught to foreigners. This is something written in the Ming law.

Chen Mo encouraged sea trade and left it alone. Merchants would naturally figure out how to use the court's policies to plunder a large amount of wealth from overseas, such as pottery and silk from the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, not all of them were expensive according to their grades. , but overseas, a piece of pottery with poor craftsmanship can be sold for a sky-high price in exchange for gold, silver or rare minerals. Chen Mo also asked people to pay attention to high-yielding crops overseas. As long as they are found and brought back, the court will reward them heavily.

It is precisely because of Chen Mo's words that the Ming Dynasty's Age of Navigation began. As for how it will develop in the future, Chen Mo has no control over it. He is just starting to get results. He will see it in his lifetime, in the fifth year of Kaiyuan. Chen Mo was so busy. The main purpose of this busy time was to test whether Chen Jin, the prince, was qualified to accept important tasks due to his political achievements during his reign. The result was still satisfactory to Chen Mo. He felt that it was time for him to let go and take over the world. This burden was handed over to Chen Jin.

In March of the sixth year of Kaiyuan, in the imperial palace and the imperial study, Chen Mo told Chen Jin what he meant.

"Father, I have no intention of tampering with you. Please tell me from my father." After Chen Jin heard what Chen Mo meant, his heart trembled. There was no surprise, only fright. He knelt down directly on the ground and said to Chen Mo.

"I know, how do you behave when you get up!?" Chen Mo waved his hand, signaling Chen Jin to get up.

"Father... son." Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo and frowned: "But someone is slandering?"

"No, I came to this world. You want to take it from me, but you are not enough." Chen Mo shook his head and said: "As for the throne of the throne now, it is also my intention. You all can come here."

Chen Zheng and Chen Rui were also a little confused at the moment.

"Father, you are at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, why do you have this thought?" Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo in confusion.

"The most energetic time in a person's life is between thirty and fifty." Chen Mo said: "Jin'er is now over 10 years old, and you have experienced what you should have experienced. With your level, it is enough to govern the country, but If I don't die for a long time, if I live for another twenty years, Jin'er will be over fifty by then, and the best years of his life will be spent on intrigues. If I leave in a hurry, you won't be able to rise to power. If I am in a hurry, it is better for me to step down early and enjoy a few years of peace and quiet, while also avoiding unnecessary internal friction. "

The three brothers Chen Jin did not dare to speak.

"Do you know what I am most afraid of in this life?" Chen Mo looked at the three brothers and said in a deep voice.

"This... child doesn't know?" Chen and Jin looked at each other. Their father had been fighting all his life. It was said that he killed people among the chaos when he was less than ten years old. He entered Luoyang at the age of thirteen, led an army on an expedition at the age of fourteen, and beheaded generals in front of the battle. Later, all the heroes competed with each other, and from a small prince, he gradually conquered the world. He really couldn't think of such a person, what else could he be afraid of?

"I have fought in the world all my life. When I get on my horse, I can kill the enemy with my sword, and when I get off my horse, I can use my pen to decide the country. But I am still a human being and a father. I am not afraid of chaos in the world. At worst, I have to start all over again. What I fear most is that you brothers will kill each other!" Chen Mo patted Chen Jin and Chen Rui's shoulders and said leisurely: "The royal family is the largest family in the world, but it is also the smallest. Look at the Han Dynasty, how many descendants of the Han Dynasty are there? Liu Neng alone has more than three hundred But in the end it died. Looking at the history of the Han Dynasty, you will find that there were still some outstanding people in the early days, but then there were fewer and fewer outstanding people. Why? I dare not take the lead, but ordinary families are different. As long as there are outstanding children in the family, they will try their best to cultivate them. In this way, the royal family may not necessarily be wise in every generation, but the gentry has heroes in every generation. This is why the Han Dynasty has fallen to this point. because."

Chen Jin Mo Ran, the most ruthless emperor, now he somewhat understands the reason why Chen Mo abdicated early.

"Right is a good thing, but if you can't restrain your desire to control it, you will eventually perish. I will start the Ming Dynasty. With me here, you can take over the throne with confidence. After a hundred years, if you can still lose If you take this throne, I can only say that you are inferior to others. I just want your three brothers to stop fighting each other. Let my royal family have some heroes who can intimidate the ministers. Jin'er, the threat to the royal family has never been other royal children. But the ministers! I hope you can understand, as for the rules, I will not establish them. The eternal thing in this world is change. I can restrain three generations, but after three generations, they will not be under my control. , I hope you can carry this country! I also hope that my family, Chen, will last forever!"

"My son, I obey!" Chen Jin quickly bowed down and kowtowed to Chen Mo.

"Go and get ready. The first day of the next month is an auspicious day. My message is for you!"

"Here!"