Wanli Xinming

Chapter 394

When Zhang Siwei was escorted by Zhongshu into the large meeting room of the Hall of Martial Arts, all the cabinet ministers, court ministers, ministers of various ministries, etc. were already sitting on chairs or pier under the throne. Seeing him coming in, they stood up one after another. He bowed his hands and said, "I have seen the Prime Minister."

After the reform, the Ming Dynasty greatly changed the ancestral system in all aspects of politics and economy, but partially restored the ancestral system in the etiquette system: that is, the "officials and the people bowed to salute".The so-called "surrender" means bowing hands as a salute. "Worship", that is, bowing down, there are Jishou, Dunshou, Kongshou, and vibration. There are nine types in total, which are used in different occasions.

The etiquette of the courtiers seeing the emperor has not changed much. The "Da Ming Hui Dian" stipulates: "Ji Shou bows five times, and it is the ceremony for the ministers to see the emperor. All officials kneel when they play something, and they will rise as soon as there is an order" and so on. It is very detailed, but All the ministers gradually got used to Zhu Yijun giving him a seat or exempting him from kneeling.

The biggest change is between the officials and the people. The "officials and the people salute" implemented in the early Ming Dynasty was established by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the main purpose was to abolish the "Hu Li" in the Yuan Dynasty.People in the Yuan Dynasty mostly used bowing, but Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to maintain the morale of the people, stipulated that officials could bow their hands within four levels of difference.The people see that officials are not allowed to bow down in the inner room, but only in the courtroom.

However, with the passage of time, this kind of "government and civilian worship" has gradually become less popular.Similar to the effect of "bad money drives out good money", there is no shortage of weak-kneed people around prominent figures—whether in officialdom or in the private sector.

Of course, there are also hard bones.Hai Rui got the nickname "Hai Bijia" because he obeyed the ancestral system.

In recent years, the imperial court issued repeated orders and caught some typical examples of non-compliance with the etiquette system. Only then did officials and the people salute again, especially in the Forbidden City, where all officials respected each other.

When Zhang Siwei saw all the ministers bowing their hands to salute, they also bowed their hands tremblingly to return the salute.Wang Guoguang, who was standing opposite him, saw him wheezing and wheezing, and smiled secretly in his heart: "If you are still in love like this, this thief is really a good one."

Zhang Siwei sat at the head closest to the throne, and opposite was the court minister, the British Duke Zhang Yuangong. The emperor did not enter the palace.This is also the proper meaning, the emperor cannot be made to wait for the ministers.

After sitting down, the whip sounded three times, all the ministers stopped whispering, and all sat upright, looking ahead.There was only a sound of footsteps, and an inner warden said loudly: "Your Majesty is here!"

So everyone left their seats, knelt down behind the chairs on both sides, and shouted long live.Zhu Yijun walked to the throne and looked down at the ministers, then raised his hand.

The inner eunuch then shouted: "Pingshen, give me a seat!" So Zhang Siwei, Zhang Yuangong and below all returned to their seats with thanks, and Zhu Yijun also sat on the throne.

Immediately he said: "Yifu." Luo Wanhua was taken aback, stood up quickly and bowed: "The minister is here."

Luo Wanhua looks handsome and is 55 years old. For a politician, he is in his prime.Hearing that the emperor rarely called him "Yifu" instead of "Mr. Kangzhou", his heart was beating wildly.

Zhu Yijun asked: "Yifu has been in Myanmar for many years and has had many contacts with the Spaniards. How do you think they will react after the Manila battle?"

Luo Wanhua pondered for a while, and echoed loudly: "After Spain annexed Portugal, Felipe II was complacent. He thought that his martial arts was the best in the world, and he couldn't accept defeat. Now that Manila has fallen into the hands of the court, its people There were so many casualties, I thought he had no choice but to respond with battle."

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun was silent for a while, and asked, "How should the court deal with it?" After hearing this, all the officials looked at Wang Guoguang, Pan Sheng and others in surprise—the emperor should have accepted this question. Luo Wanhua speaks in the Huangji Hall.

Luo Wanhua had already had a plan in mind, and immediately responded: "Although Xiao Xie and Xie took Manila for no purpose, since it has already been done, there is no reason for the imperial court to return it to Spain. I suggest five strategies to respond to it."

"One, urgently send a large army to help, stabilize the situation in Luzon, uproot the Spanish forces in Cebu and other places, and take the victory into their pockets." Zhu Yijun nodded when he heard this, and all the ministers also felt that since the fight had already started, this one belonged to the due meaning.

"Two, with the fall of Manila, merchants from the western barbarians will not move forward, and Chinese maritime merchants may not dare to trade in Managa and Goa. The Goa-Managa-Manila triangle trade will inevitably come to a halt. The imperial court should order Linhai The provinces are on guard, first to prevent pirates from harassing, and second, to take the initiative to stop trade and prevent maritime merchants from never returning. The third."

After pondering for a while, Luo Wanhua said: "Send someone to Managa in a hurry, and find a way to send a message to the Europa mission to prepare them, or suggest that Sir Xu go to England to seek refuge."

After he finished the first three items, all the officials in the palace nodded involuntarily, thinking that he was comprehensive and worthy of being a cabinet minister in charge of foreign affairs.Wait quietly for him to say the last two.

Luo Wanhua coughed lightly, and his voice became low, and then played: "I think that after taking the whole territory of Luzon, we should immediately send out the navy to take Manga and Goa—since we and Spain must If we start a war, it is better to take all the colonies in Central Asia."

"Finally, we should expand our navy and prepare to compete with Spain for the colonies of Hezhou—until Yang Fan is off the coast of Europa." As soon as these words came out, needles were heard in the Hall of Martial Heroes.

Since Jinshang ascended the throne, he has made great efforts to govern for 15 years, and the national strength has been flourishing.But there were only two wars that really cost money: one was the Northeast War in the second year of Wanli. At that time, the treasury was empty. Zhang Juzheng worked hard to ensure the logistics, and the hole was filled before and after the reform of the salt administration.

Starting from the invasion of Japan, the war has entered a benign development track.Ling Yunyi attacked Japan, because the temple was considered unparalleled, and only fought a battle in Tachibana Mountain City to settle the overall situation. Later, he made some money by supporting the king's policy of stopping troops and stopping fighting.

When fighting Burma and Annan, the official reforms had already begun, and the clan reforms had also started at the same time. Although the expedition of the new army was expensive, the southwestern provinces had many years of hostility with Burma, so they were well prepared in terms of food and grass. In addition to spending a lot of money to transport the new The army participated in the war in the past, and the money spent elsewhere is not too much.

And after taking down Burma and Annan, through the auction of mineral land, Ming almost always made money in the war.Especially in Myanmar, Gong Xian and Deng Zilong fought through supporting agents and reselling military funds wantonly. The entire trading chain made a lot of money, which almost emptied Myanmar and laid the foundation for the subsequent reform of the country.

The second costly war was the Western Expedition plus the Northern Expedition.Although the vast land under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Dudufu has a lot of output, the land transportation route is long, and the transportation of horse breeds and jade to the Central Plains is already sky-high—the market audience is small, and the income is a drop in the bucket for the huge logistics.

But at that time, the major reforms had already begun, and the imperial court had the ability to support the Western Expedition.Prince Ma also lived up to Zhu Yijun's expectations, restored the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and painted the emperor's indomitable golden body with a layer of never-fading gold powder.

After the Western Expedition ended, the Raiders of Luo Wilderness also started immediately. The logistical support of this ongoing war was also costly. In order to encourage the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, the imperial court did not take any money from the Raiders, and all the massive logistical support was provided by the imperial court.

As a result, despite the huge military expenditures of the imperial court, there has been a "land-sea dispute" in the direction of expenditures-although the navy spends more than the northern expedition, but because of the boom in sea trade, the income is much higher than the expenditure. The "returnees" represented by Luo Wanhua, Ling Yunyi and others tend to transfer more resources to the navy.

The "Nine Sides faction" headed by Zhang Siwei, Liang Menglong and others, together with the representatives of the military landlords, made a lot of money from the trade between Mongolia and Han and the Western Regions. From the initial resistance to the Northern Expedition to their full support later, they naturally formed the " Confrontation and even conflict with the "Returnees"—this kind of faction division is independent of people's will, and is an inevitable political phenomenon.

As the emperor, Zhu Yijun is of course well aware of this.However, his "sea and land" policy is not obviously biased, and he likes to see the state of both sides playing dog brains for military expenditure.

Now, Luo Wanhua has used Xiao and Xie's good news in Manila to propose a comprehensive seaward strategy in the last two of the five strategies. If he wants to tie Da Ming to the navy's aggressively expanding chariot, he will naturally invade the "native faction" Benefits——When his voice fell, all the ministers knew clearly that a big tear would be staged immediately.

(End of this chapter)