Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1395 Constructive comments

Adjusting the policy is not a dinner party. You must not make a hasty decision before you understand the cause and effect and the specific situation. This principle is highly pragmatic and you will understand it in your previous life. Therefore, whether you should support the Satsuma clan, and if you support it, how to cut in and other issues , he has not made any decisions yet.

Before that, he decided to meet Zhu Yingzhen first.

Cheng Guogong Zhu Yingzhen is of course the top nobleman of Ming Dynasty, but time has passed, and the top honorable Zhu Yingzhen has no choice in the face of high-level "invitations".Even though he had just dragged his exhausted body back to his own mansion from the princess mansion, and he didn't even have time to pick up a few bites of dinner, he could only wipe his mouth immediately, changed his clothes quickly and went to see Gao Situ.

Fortunately, Gao is practical and meticulous. When Zhu Yingzhen came, he found that Gao Situ had exquisite refreshments in front of him, which seemed to be specially prepared for him.

Zhu Yingzhen sat down politely with Gao Yushi, and ate a piece of Longxu Cake, but he didn't seem to like sweets very much, so he drank another sip of tea immediately.

Gao Wushi smiled, and said: "The renovation of the Princess's Mansion is hard work, and there is a Lord Lao."

"Hey, to be honest, you're out of touch with me, what kind of friendship do we have, and why are we talking about whether it's hard or not?" Zhu Yingzhen waved his hands with a haha, "But, thanks to the people from Jinghua Infrastructure for doing this. With experience, because of the relationship between the Yongding River, the ground of the capital is really easy to dig out bitter water. Today, it was dug so that it seeped water. Then, for waterproofing, several master craftsmen discussed for a long time before finalizing the construction plan, and finally decided ..."

"Okay, alright, stop the Duke." Gao Wushi hurriedly stopped him, and said with a smile, "You tell me about this, but I don't understand, but I don't worry about what the Duke is doing. You just do it. Don't worry about money, it's all mine."

Zhu Yingzhen didn't mind being interrupted, so he just smiled and said: "That's, that's, if it's anything else, I don't even bother to talk to you about this little money, I can put it in for you, but since it's the eldest princess's mansion... ah , I will not take this fun."

In fact, Zhu Yingzhen didn't know the situation between Gao Yushi and Princess Yongning, but because of this project, he was called to the palace by the emperor and told him privately, from which he learned a little trick.

Of course, it is easier to be distorted when looking at the mystery from Zhu Yingzhen's perspective. The conclusion he draws is as follows:
His Royal Highness Princess Yongning had a crush on Gao Yushi a few years ago. This is what he knows. He knows the real reason why Gao Yushi was demoted to a foreign post in the eighth year of Wanli, and this is the major premise of subsequent inferences.

On this basis, the Empress Dowager Cisheng is mainly responsible for the reason why Princess Yongning is now a widow, and the emperor is probably also very guilty, feeling that his own brother has not been a good brother, so he intends to compensate his sister.

However, this compensation is very difficult, because the princess of Daming wants to lead by example, and there is no such thing as remarriage.This is different from the imperial court changing the ancestral system in government affairs. The reason why the ancestral system in government affairs can sometimes be changed is because a large number of important courtiers promote it, and behind this driving force are the interests of many people, huge interests.

Is the princess's remarriage related to a group of important courtiers and the huge interests behind them?Obviously not, so it is impossible to modify the ancestral system for this reason, even if you are the emperor, the emperor would not dare to bring it up.

Therefore, even if the emperor wanted compensation, he had to find a cover. First, he excused His Royal Highness the princess to live outside the palace on the excuse of "kissing", and then found a way to let someone outside the palace enter. This is the best choice.As for who a certain person is, there is no need to say. Her Royal Highness is so old that she does not know how many men she has met. Except for Gao Situ, whom she has long been interested in, Zhu Yingzhen does not believe that there are other candidates.

Moreover, Zhu Yingzhen also felt that the reason why the emperor was willing to do this was most likely because "this person" was highly pragmatic, he was his classmate, and his pillar.If it were someone else, it is estimated that even if the emperor wanted to compensate, he would at most just give some farmland to His Royal Highness the eldest princess.

So Zhu Yingzhen was very happy. The emperor was willing to entrust him with such an important matter. Is there any other explanation besides trust?It should be gone, or add one more at most: The emperor also knows that Zhu Yingzhen and Gao Yushi have an unusual friendship.

Wonderful!In the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty, with the trust of the emperor and the care of Gao Situ, isn't Zhu Yingzhen as stable as Mount Tai?Maybe in the future, the Cheng Guogong series can even overtake the British public series!

After hearing Zhu Yingzhen's obvious hint, Gao Wushi just smiled lightly, and instead of taking up the quarrel, he changed the topic and said, "The reason for inviting the Duke to come here today is actually for another matter."

Zhu Yingzhen's heart moved, and he immediately stopped joking, looked at him seriously, and asked, "What about the Japanese?"

It seems that even though the Japanese pirates have been rampant for so many years, they are not a big enemy in the eyes of Daming, so when Zhu Yingzhen mentioned it, he also used the term "Japanese", which has a derogatory meaning.

Gao Wushi nodded slightly: "I heard that people from the Shimadzu family contacted the Duke and said they wanted to buy some firearms?"

Afraid of Gao Wushi's misunderstanding, Zhu Yingzhen first explained with embarrassment: "These Japanese people are so ignorant that they think that I am a prince and someone who can take care of things. This... I am also quite surprised."

Gao Pragmatism doesn’t take it seriously, the Duke of the State, the highest title in the Ming Dynasty, the Shimadzu family may think he is Guan Bai or General Zhengyi, it’s normal to have a little misunderstanding.

"It doesn't matter, the Duke is also a permanent director of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and the Shimadzu family is not asking the wrong person." Gao Wushi smiled slightly: "But I don't know what the Duke thinks about this?"

"Ah, well, what's your opinion..." Zhu Yingzhen glanced at Gao Yushi quietly, but didn't see any tricks, so he said, "I heard that the Shimadzu family has only ten thousand soldiers in total. I thought about selling some muskets to them." Nothing should happen to them."

Gao Wushi reminded: "After the recent defeat of the Shimadzu family, the governor was changed. The new governor, Shimadzu Yoshihiro, once led troops to defeat an enemy army ten times stronger. What does the Duke think of this?"

"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Yingzhen apparently just found out about this situation, and said with some surprise: "Unexpectedly, there are also generals who are good at fighting among the Japanese."

Then he paused, and said with joy on his face: "Then he is the head of the family, and he probably wants to focus on fighting... This is a good thing. Doesn't he need weapons when he fights? Jinghua's muskets work Excellent, our Daming’s own ordnance bureau can’t be imitated, let alone the Japanese, does that mean that he will continue to buy it in the future? Good thing, good thing!”

Gao Wushi had a smile on his face, but he almost couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said to himself: Didn't I ask you to analyze the business prospects!

But he changed his mind and asked Zhu Yingzhen to analyze how much impact this incident would have on the situation in Japan... This question is probably beyond the outline.

He thought about it, and decided to ask another way: "How much does the Duke know about the Shimadzu family's situation?"

"Uh... all I know is that this is a poor vassal, even in the country of Wa, he is regarded as a country bumpkin, and he was recently taught a lesson by the regent of the court of the country of Wa."

The "regent king" in Zhu Yingzhen's mouth obviously refers to the regent Guanbai Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It is estimated that the Duke of the State is not very clear about what Guanbai is. In fact, even if forced to translate, the regent Guanbai or "regent" should be equivalent to "Prime Minister Regent"-probably similar to that of Cao Cao.

Gao Wushi didn't bother to explain these things to him, and instead said: "The Shimadzu family originally had a stone height of more than 77 shi, but after a beating, it was reduced to just over 60 shi. Does the Duke know about this?"

Zhu Yingzhen obviously didn't know, and asked with a confused face: "What is Shi Gao?"

Gao Wushi had no choice but to explain Japan's Shigao system to him. This system was a system during the Warring States period in Japan, which expressed or calculated the area of ​​fief or allotment land not by area but by the legal standard harvest.

Like ancient China, "stone" in Japan is also a unit of volume, 1 stone = 10 buckets = 100 liters = 1000 go, and one stone is equivalent to about 30 kilograms of rice; "high" here does not refer to height or degree, but to quantity.

(Note: Please refer to Baidu for the details of the Japanese Shigao system. However, please note that the Shigao of the major forces often changed during this period, and there is a gap between Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Taiko inspectorate and the later Qingchang Township Account data. Historiography The industry generally believes that the data of the Taiko inspection area is not accurate, and there may be human factors that have made the data lower or lower.)
After listening to Gao Pragmatism's explanation, Zhu Yingzhen suddenly said: "It turns out that Japan is not too bad. It can produce almost 2000 or [-] million shi of grain a year?" After a pause, he asked again: "To be honest, are you Da Si Nong, I wonder how much grain we can produce in a year?"

Good question, but the Ministry of Household Affairs does not actually have this data, because Daming did not conduct statistics according to this system.But facing the curious baby Zhu Yingzhen, Gao Wushi had no choice but to give him a very rough estimate temporarily.

"About 20 million and 3000 million." Gao Wushi replied.

That is 20.3 billion stones. This data may not be accurate, because the highly pragmatic and rough calculation method is as follows: the total amount of cultivated land in China during the Wanli period was about 11 billion mu, and the yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty was about 174 kilograms. Then the total grain output of the Ming Dynasty It is 1914 billion kilograms, equivalent to 20.3 billion stones. (Again, this figure is only a rough estimate.)
When Gao Wushi said this, Zhu Yingzhen felt relieved, and laughed: "Sure enough, it's a small country, but I'm one of the best in Ming Dynasty."

Who knew that Gao Wushi shook his head and said seriously: "Master Guo, this account cannot be settled like this."

Zhu Yingzhen asked in surprise, "Why?"

Gao Wushi sighed, and asked, "Your Majesty is the governor of the five prefectures, how much do you know that I have soldiers in the Ming Dynasty?"

"Millions of Heavenly Soldiers!" Zhu Yingzhen said with his head held high.

Gao Wushi nodded: "Sounds like a lot, but do the math, our 20 'Shigao' soldiers are only a million. If they were to go to Japan, how many soldiers should they have?"

This question is not difficult, one hundred and one is enough.Zhu Yingzhen smiled and said, "Isn't that one... er, ten thousand?" He also widened his eyes as he spoke.

Gao Wushi smiled slightly: "Now the Lord knows that this account cannot be settled like this?"

Yes, Zhu Yingzhen knew it, but he was still shocked: "But they only have so little food in total, how can they raise so many troops? If I remember correctly, this time the Japanese regent sent troops to attack the Shimadzu family , dispatched a hundred thousand troops!"

Gao Wushi nodded and sighed: "This is a problem with the system. In addition... Japan's search for ordinary people is at least ten times that of Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yingzhen was stunned for a while, then jumped up and said, "This fucking Japanese is too ruthless! I'm puzzled, the search is so ruthless, and the Japanese people don't rebel?"

This question is very pragmatic and too lazy to answer, because what to say is too far away, so he shook his head lightly: "The regent in Japan requires Shi Gao to send 250 troops for every [-] shi... I would like to add, this number It should be the result of full calculations, which the Japanese can afford."

Although Zhu Yingzhen was skeptical about this, he didn't dare to question Gao Yushi, so he had to change his mind and pondered: "Ah...then they have 2000 and 50 million stone heights, so they can have a total of...more than [-] troops? "

As Zhu Yingzhen said, he startled himself, widened his eyes and said, "This damn thing is enough for half of our Ming Dynasty's troops!"

Gao Wushi nodded: "Normally, it's 55 standing troops."

Zhu Yingzhen gulped, coughed dryly, and was about to speak when he suddenly remembered a problem, and hurriedly said: "That's not right, according to Qiuzhen what you just said, the Shimadzu family used to have a stone height of 77 shi. There should be a standing force... er, how many people are there?"

Gao Wushi replied: "More than [-], nearly [-]."

"Go! But as far as I know, the Shimadzu family only has more than [-] troops."

Gao Wushi smiled: "It's just because his family is very poor and has been suffering from disasters in recent years. Therefore, although he has such a high Shi Gao, he usually refuses to raise so many soldiers, and deliberately shrunk down a bit."

"Oh..." Zhu Yingzhen suddenly realized.

But Gao Wushi went on to say: "However, because of poverty, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi took back some of the territories that his family seized in the early years, they reduced it from 77 shi to 60 shi. It's getting worse."

"That's terrible." Zhu Yingzhen said in astonishment: "The Shimadzu family was already poor, but now that they've been tricked, wouldn't they be even poorer? Then what do they use to buy firearms?"

Speaking of this, Cheng Guogong was immediately angry: "Don't these Japanese people still want to beat my country... our autumn wind!"

In Cheng Guogong's eyes, it doesn't matter to him that the Shimadzu family is poor, but if you want to beat his Qiufeng, you must not, and you should be killed if you dare to have such thoughts.

However, Gao Wushi looked quite calm, and said with a slight smile, "It's an exaggeration to say that the autumn wind is blowing. I don't think the Shimadzu family should have such guts... I guess Yoshihiro Shimadzu wants to pay on credit."

Zhu Yingzhen's eyes widened: "On credit? Why?"

"Naturally because he thinks that if he takes our firearms, he can snatch them back from others." Gao Wushi laughed.

"This..." Zhu Yingzhen thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't think this is very reliable. Although the first Wanli and second Wanli styles are powerful, their military strength is too small. I still think they can't beat that one .

To be honest, I don't think they can be credited for this account. If they lose the battle and the regent immediately withdraws the domain in a fit of anger, who do we ask for the account? "

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "It makes sense, so I think the Duke of the State can give them some more constructive suggestions."

"What's your opinion?" Zhu Yingzhen was taken aback.

"Let them carry out the reform of the vassal regime first and consolidate their financial resources."
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