East Factory Governor

Chapter 793 Chongzhen's Wisdom

Seeing Chongzhen's longing expression, Qin Shuhuai was also moved.

I'm about to leave here, so it's good to go out with Chongzhen to have a good time, I'm afraid I won't have this chance in the future.

In addition, during the trip, you can also find an opportunity to chat with Chongzhen about the governance philosophy of later generations, and influence him as much as you can.

So he said, "Well, since the emperor wants to pay a private visit to observe the people's sentiments, I will definitely escort you around. But as far as I know, Miss Liu Yan seems to have met a talented scholar. The two of them are in love with each other. The scholar He redeemed her with money, and then left with him."

Chongzhen patted his thigh unwillingly, "Hey, when will it happen, I have always wanted to see her! Brother Qin, why didn't you tell me sooner!"

Qin Shuhuai chuckled, "In the past two years, the Ming Dynasty has been waiting for prosperity, and all the subjects have worked hard to become stronger. The emperor is taking care of everything. If I tell you that this matter distracts you, wouldn't I be a sycophant who induced the emperor's absurdity? Mr. Sun Ge knows, why doesn’t he beat the minister with a walking stick? Besides, the minister still wants to be a loyal minister and live forever.”

Chongzhen smiled and said, "You are Mr. Sun's proudest work. He is more proud than me, the emperor's disciple, so he is reluctant to beat you! Go and listen to the storytellers in the teahouse. "The Biography of Anguo Gong", Chapter 1 The first episode was "Old Sun Ge met a young man by chance, and the three troubles were said to make friends forever". In it, how Teacher Sun met you, and how he invited you to Liushi Academy, you said it was not Teacher Sun. How could it spread if I told others about it myself?"

Chongzhen did not wrong Sun Chengzong in this matter.

In the past two years, the country is prosperous and the people are peaceful, and Sun Chengzong has more time to give lectures at Liu Shi Academy.In their spare time, those students love to ask questions about the Duke.

Speaking of which, Qin Shuhuai was recommended by Sun Chengzong to the imperial court, so every time he mentioned the Duke, Sun Chengzong would be very pleased, and then he would make a pot of good tea and tell his students about it.

Among them, his friendship with Qin Shuhuai is the highlight, can he not explain it in detail?

That's why storytellers have so much material that they can fully use the length of a chapter to tell about their encounter.

Speaking of this "An Guogong Biography", Qin Shuhuai also smiled wryly.

I don't know who made it up, but this book directly portrays him as an omnipotent god who went up to heaven and earth, who summoned fire from Hengling and burned [-] Tartar soldiers.In Luowenyu, the god general possessed himself and led Meng Hu, Meng Wei, and Li Jingting to kill tens of thousands of Tartars.

Fortunately, Chongzhen is also depicted in this book as another star descending from the sky, who is equally wise and powerful. Otherwise, Chongzhen could not be restrained in this book, and Qin Shuhuai wanted to be restrained too.

Can't help saying, "Does the emperor also listen to these storytelling nonsense?"

"Why is it nonsense? I think this book can let the people of Ming Dynasty know how hard it is to have a good life today, and let them know that the current emperor and ministers are virtuous, and they can live their small lives with peace of mind. Isn’t it wonderful? Hehe, I’ll listen to it when I’m free!”

Qin Shuhuai thought to himself, you didn't make up this book secretly, did you?
If you think about it carefully, this probability is indeed very high.

why?

Originally, Qin Shuhuai's reputation had already reached an incomparable level. Even without this "An Guo Gong Biography", the folks still regarded him as a figure who descended from the gods and saved the common people.

But Chongzhen was different. Before this "Biography of Anguo Gong", most of the people just thought that Chongzhen was a kind and good emperor, and the peace of the world was all due to An Guogong.

In "An Guogong Biography", there are a lot of bridges about how Chongzhen formulated the anti-gold strategy wisely, how he steadfastly shouted "the emperor guards the gate of the country, and the gentleman dies in the country", and how wise he did not listen to slander Reuse Qin Shuhuai, even treat Qin Shuhuai as a brother.

Emmm, in this way, the image of Chongzhen is very positive and three-dimensional.

The people's admiration and gratitude for the emperor is one step closer.

Thinking about it this way, if Chongzhen hadn't instructed someone to write this book, I really can't think of a second possibility!
But Qin Shuhuai was very happy. Chongzhen knew how to use the tools of public opinion to build momentum for himself. Obviously, he borrowed from his previous method of compiling "Wenjian Biography" when he was fighting Donglin, which shows that his political wisdom is increasing day by day.

The two chatted for a long time, and Qin Shuhuai managed to eat the imperial meal again, and then went home cheerfully.

Chongzhen made an agreement with him that after the important matters at hand were dealt with, the two of them would go to "observe the feelings of the people" sometime this year.

This time Chongzhen's appetite has grown. He wants to go down the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal until Hangzhou to experience the legendary beauty of the south of the Yangtze River.

When he said this, Chongzhen's eyes were shining brightly.

Let's talk about the Dongfan. After Zheng Zhilong captured the Dongfan, except for 4000 infantry, ten battleships, and [-] small fast boats left there, the rest of the warships and troops rested for a few days before setting off again. To the golden waterway in Java, take it easy.

On the route, any ship that encountered the Dutch was either seized or sunk.

Whenever you encounter a Dutch port, you will capture it without saying a word.

The main force of the Dutch had already finished their work in Dongfan, and now there are scattered warships, unable to launch a counterattack at all, and can only watch one port after another being occupied by the navy of the Ming army.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Nanyang Navy is now the Armada of the Far East.

It is said that the Gansu soldiers are blessed. After occupying the port, the navy cannot stay for a long time. In the end, it is not their army who will be the big boss there?
There are at most hundreds of troops stationed in a port, and many of them are promoted immediately.

For example, Hoi An Port (Da Nang) in Annan is a large port where merchants gather. After the Nanyang Navy snatched it from the Dutch, it sent two battleships and 500 troops to garrison.

These 500 troops suddenly became the masters of this port and the city of Hoi An, which was born from this port.

The trade here is developed, the materials are abundant, and merchants gather here, and there is almost gold everywhere.

Although the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time did not know what "colonization" was, would merchant ships dock to collect taxes?Will you come to resupply and collect money?Will it be possible to collect money for opening restaurants, inns, brothels, gambling stalls, etc. with the port?

It's soft to collect money!
According to Qin Shuhuai's instructions, brothers stationed in overseas ports can deduct [-]% of their total income as a subsidy.

Obediently, [-]%! What kind of concept is this?
Take Angang as an example, with such a large port plus a city, the annual net income is at least 50 taels!

In other words, there are more than 500 of them, and they can distribute 15 taels a year!
An average of 300 taels of silver per person per year!
What is this concept?The magistrate of the county is only more than 100 taels of silver a year, and their annual income of a big soldier is much higher than that of the county magistrate!
As long as they work here for a full year, they will go home and buy a two-entry and two-exit mansion, plus the money to marry a beautiful wife will come out!
Of course, this was Qin Shuhuai's intention. He just wanted to make these soldiers passionate about carrying out overseas missions.

Of course, this is also the market price.

The Westerners colonized and gave their own soldiers extremely high treatment.

However, Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette. Of course, it cannot be said that colonization is so ugly. At best, it is to develop together with the local aborigines!

In order to support the grand voyage plan, under Qin Shuhuai's suggestion, Daming's shipyards and weapons institutes are still building warships and cannons on a large scale.

In addition to the Nanyang Navy, Daming also wanted to form a Beiyang Navy.

The configuration of this Beiyang navy will not be lower than that of the Nanyang navy. The preliminary plan is [-] battleships, [-] junk ships, and [-] small fast boats of various types.

The Beiyang Navy was not only used to defend Bohai Bay, the gateway to Gyeonggi, but also to control the upper half of the route from East Asia to South Asia, allowing Ming to fully dominate the Far East.

Calculated in this way, excluding the cost of building warships, it is estimated that Daming would spend 400 million taels a year just on the salaries of naval personnel, maintenance of warships, and loss of shells.

Probably the tax revenue of the previous half year of Ming Dynasty.

But Qin Shuhuai felt that even if it doubled again, it would be worth it.

In the future, the benefits Daming will gain from the sea will be more than 400 million taels?

And the ancient empire defended by a powerful navy is not only measurable by money?

With money, technology, shipbuilding industry, and the powerful Zheng Zhilong family, Daming's hegemony in the Far East is getting stronger day by day.

And the national military equipment, under the rectification of the Devil's Cult and the Jianghe Gang, reversed its previous decline and began to flourish.

Now Ming's soldiers are not short of pay, weapons, and systematic training.

In particular, what is not lacking is the invincible faith!

For the guards in various places, it used to be normal for soldiers to be rotten and everyone to be rotten. It was normal for soldiers to wear tattered clothes and go out dejectedly.

With such a bird's virtue, who still trains well?

But now the trend of public opinion is different. As a soldier, you have to stand upright and upright. If you are downcast and tattered, you are a beggar!

Now that they have a benchmark, you have to train soldiers like the ones under the Duke.

These days, if any of the guards is still acting like a fool, you can’t even line up when you go out, and you can’t even set up a formation after practice, not only will the warlords everywhere want to punish you, but even women and children will dare to laugh at you.

Ethos, what is ethos?This is the atmosphere.

The wind of military training was blowing like this, and there were waves of military training climaxes in the guards all over the country.

(End of this chapter)