Jingming

Chapter 129 The Usefulness of Tool Man
Pi Laizi was still hesitating, Zhu Houcong waved his hand: "Since I heard that I was able to ask this sentence, your hesitation has already explained two points. First, what I said is correct. Second, you still didn't Find out who you are as a war criminal and a prisoner. Lu Song, take him down and put him in your Jinyiwei prison first."

Try to use words that the Portuguese can understand.He has stayed in Beijing, so he should have heard of the power of Fusi Prison in Jinyiwei North Town, right?

Zhu Houcong's purpose of bringing him here has been achieved, at least today's purpose.

Sure enough, Pi Laizi understood. He didn't care about the pride of a diplomat. He remembered that Master Jiang Bin boasted that there is no important minister of the empire who is not afraid of the famous biogas prison. Isn't it a thousand times more terrifying than the prison in Guangzhou city? times, called hell?

"Your Majesty, the task of opening up the territory has nothing to do with me. For God's sake, I..."

Pi Laizi knelt on the minefield, and Zhu Houcong, who heard the key answer, just said in a deep voice, "Take it down."

Pi Laizi, a tool man who thought he would have a chance to have an interview with the Eastern Emperor, was taken away like this. There was silence in the hall, and Nie Shiping and Du Haiqi were at a loss.

Zhu Houcong stood up: "Go to the imperial study."

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It was the first time for Cui Yuan to sit in this chair, and it was also the first time to see the emperor's handling style when dealing with political affairs.

Now looking at Zhu Houcong who just sat on the throne, Cui Yuan only felt that His Majesty's purpose in the questioning in the main hall of Qianqing Palace just now seemed very clear.The point today is not to interrogate the envoys from Franz, but to the ministers who participated in the national policy meeting.

Yang Ting and the others thought so too.

Although it hasn't been announced yet, the ministers at the national policy meeting are on the same frequency for the first time from the depth of understanding.

"Cui Yuan, you first read the report on the details of the Tuen Mun naval battle."

Huang Jin took several copies of the memorials from Guangdong that had been submitted to Beijing for him, and Zhu Houcong continued to speak: "There are a lot of scruples in the general affairs. Since this Pilaizi knows my Ming language, why don't I use them to understand it myself?" Many of the words are their customary names, but the ministers are confused. But after a try, it is like the secret report of Jin Yiwei."

Everyone was shocked, everyone answered professionally in this situation, even Cui Yuan was in tune: "Your Majesty listens to the world, and the temple is exhaustive, and I admire you so much."

"Not to mention the completeness of the temple." Zhu Houcong said calmly, "Liang Chu returned to his hometown, and my treasure seal was collected and borrowed again. This is Liang Chu's contribution to his majesty when he resigned. Liang Chu lived in Guangdong for generations, and when he resigned from his majesty, he fully stated that the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi was critical, so I was worried about the war, and secretly ordered the Jin Yiwei to go south to spy on the enemy. First there was a defeat, and recently it was reported, so I know that the situation in Nanyang is far beyond Liang Chu’s previous knowledge."

This can be regarded as an explanation of how a large number of Jinyiwei appeared in Guangdong, and how the Jinyiwei walked to Lingnan without anyone noticing.

Yang Tinghe and others remembered the phrase "Have you debated enough?" that day.

It turned out that His Majesty was worried about the frontline war situation at that time, but the court was only wrestling for the chief of the imperial study, and it was not as good as Liang Chu's "knowledge of the general situation" and resigned from His Majesty to present the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi.

"Your Majesty." Yang Tinghe spoke in a very solemn tone this time, suppressing contempt, "Is this Frangji man actually called Pu Taoyaren by another name? How much does his country compare with that troupe's Yabingjia? The ambition to carve up the world? When I saw him begging for mercy in a hurry, he called God, could this frantic machine be in the West?"

Zhu Houcong was a little surprised by his questions this time, nodded and said: "That's right. Portugal and Spain are both on a peninsula on the southwest side of the Western Europa State. Indeed, as the ministers said before, it was originally a small country. But now, its country is considered the most advanced in sea-going ships, voyages, guns, etc., so it is ambitious and tries to carve up the continents of the world. When I first heard the secret report, I wanted to laugh, but then I remembered the fall of Manlajia and Tuen Mun After the first battle, I couldn’t laugh anymore. Do you know how many generals and soldiers the Portuguese captured when they captured Manga?”

The ministers knew that they might hear an outrageous number, but the emperor's calm voice still made them feel a sudden jump in their hearts.

"Thousands of people." Zhu Houcong said, "Not only has Mangaka been captured, but it has also been governed steadily until now, so that in recent years, there have been more and more Western and Nanyang merchant ships traveling along the coast, and more and more seaports."

Thousands of people destroyed the country, and then it became more and more prosperous.

In the past, how many troops were used in the Southern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty?Then why did you give up?Governance is difficult.

"For many years, Jin Yiwei's spies have been sneaking into the northern desert and southern oceans, and many people have died in the country." Zhu Houcong stood up again, "Even if the emperor ordered Jin Yiwei to provide excellent care, it will be true, if there is no such thing as sacrificing his life to die Soldiers, how can I know so much that the Portuguese is speechless? Thinking of the fact that the bones of so many soldiers will not return, my heart aches."

Cui Yuan had just finished reading the report, and looked at the other 17 people standing up and bowing their heads in awe with some doubts, but he immediately stood up and followed suit.

This is mourning, right?

After standing like this for a while, Zhu Houcong sat down first.

Although it is in the capacity of the emperor to express his grief for the victims of the people, it will gradually be effective to set an example as an emperor.

What follows is today's focus.

"Thousands of people destroy the country, so they have the benefits of guns and warships. Westerners forget death when they see the benefits. It is not without me that the businessmen who dared to ban the sea in the Ming Dynasty helped the tyrants and abused them. They wanted to use the so-called merits of the dragon!" Zhu Houcong's eyes were sharp, "As for the war in Guangdong, there were small families but no country in Guangdong and Guangxi, fear of defeat and fear of war, and selfish desires but forgetting the origin! This can be generalized as the word "non-official administration". Selfishly divide the melons and everyone gets their own benefits! The people of Dongguan still know that they will sacrifice their lives to guard the land and fight in defeat, but most of our officials in Ming Dynasty have families and forget the country, and they don’t guard the land if they are not private!"

These words carry too much weight.

No need for Cui Yuan to observe what others would do, he left his seat almost simultaneously and knelt on the ground with them: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Are national policy meetings always this exciting?
But it feels like Yang Ting and them are used to it again.

Cui Yuan suddenly felt that his morality was not enough, and it would be better to prepare a few more pills for the court in the future.

"Sit all."

What Zhu Houcong said is true.

If there hadn't been a century of bloodshed that began more than 300 years later, the concept of a country would not have been deeply rooted in everyone's mind.

At this time, the meritorious service of the dragon, and then the distribution of land, power and profits is the background for these civil servants and generals to do basically everything with the emperor as their respect.

As for the governance of the vast territory, it is nothing more than to maintain this distribution method, and then internal struggles to fine-tune it.

Therefore, reform is difficult, so it becomes more and more difficult to fight in the later stage. It is a stock game.

As for the increase, it will cost money and kill people, and the place you get is not a good place to look at, and you are unwilling to divide it, so it is difficult to manage.

Zhu Houcong waited for them to sit down before asking Wang Shouren: "Bo'an knows the soldiers. Take the swiftness, agility, and firmness of the Portuguese warships played by Wang Hung, the range, speed, and accuracy of the guns on them, and the novelty of the shells. The damage is so strong, how can we win this battle? After this battle, my generation occupied Manlajia as a fortress, and took the lands in the southern part of Tianzhu and the Nanyang Islands that they had already captured as the rear. Thousands of sea ships transported them back and forth. , how to hold on and win?"

All these information were newly uttered by the emperor, but with the previous reaction of Napi Laizi in the main hall of Qianqing Palace as evidence, I am afraid that these are all facts.

Cui Yuan thought back to the centipede ships mentioned in the Guangdong Memorial, those giant ships that were slower but stronger, with dozens of cannons on a ship, and the farther, more accurate, capable of blasting from their cannons. The shells fired, he was silent.

"I said at the time that I know the soldiers but not the enemy, so I can't speak nonsense." Wang Shouren said this first, and then replied solemnly, "Now that I know the enemy's situation a little bit, this battle is at home to defend against the enemy. We only attack one outpost, and we can't win. Difficult. Your Majesty's question after the battle is very precise. From my point of view, this generation of naval warfare is quite similar to the barbarian cavalry of the Northern Desert. They come and go like the wind, and it is hard to beat the enemy at the beginning. If they only intend to plunder , I have a great Ming Dynasty with thousands of miles of sea and land, and the rich and prosperous coastal areas will be impossible to defend against."

Zhu Houcong nodded.

Needless to say, what happened to the corruption of the guards along the coast, the investigation report submitted by Guangdong this time is already shocking.

Guangdong Haiphong Road mobilized all the warships on hand, recruited civilian boats, and took the initiative to attack ten to one. It was not a landing to attack the camp, but a pure naval battle, and they all suffered a complete defeat.

Wait for these Westerners with better guns to attack and land ashore?

At this moment, Yang Tinghe finally realized how big a mess he had made by taking the expulsion of Frangji as the starting point, and holding accountable the minister who lost the land at that time, so that His Majesty could see what the situation was like.

Yang Tinghe finally understood the true meaning of the phrase "Yang Tinghe, whose land" that day.

It is the sentence that His Majesty said: If you have a family, you forget the country, and if you have a private land, you don't keep it.

Because the matter of Guangdong has nothing to do with Yang Tinghe, and the lost land in Guangdong is not his own land, Yang Tinghe and the members of Guangdong and Guangxi, so they can turn a blind eye to it for so many years.

At this time, the emperor said: "However, I can't build a new Great Wall on the coast of Daming. Could it be that since then, it has been filled with the flesh and blood of soldiers and common people?"

No one can answer this sentence immediately.

Haiphong wants money.Move the sword, Wuchen Xing.Southern Xinjiang is far away, what should we do if the border towns are separated?
Just as the expulsion of the Franji people involved many things such as internal ministers, military officials, civil servants, taxes, sea bans, court struggles, etc., a more systematic coastal defense system planning is a big topic that will make people bald.

"Bo'an's words won my heart. Not only do the Westerners fight like the Mongolian Oirat cavalry, but the territory actually controlled by the Westerners is so vast that I can no longer underestimate it. Starting from Portugal, sit It takes more than a year and a day and night for the sea boat to reach Maluca, and those people reaped their profits and enslaved the people along the way. There are also Spaniards who took the sea boat to the west and explored a new continent as vast as our Ming Dynasty. Abundant products."

Listening to Zhu Houcong's narration, Yang Ting and the others looked more and more serious.

"Now Spain continues to sail westward from the west coast of the New World, and has also arrived at the Nanyang Islands, the so-called Spice Islands of the generation. Warships gathered here, commanded by Westerners, and Kunlun slaves recorded in the Tang Dynasty as soldiers. The troubles in the north continued, and the troubles in the sea rose again. The Ming Dynasty was attacked by enemies. If the country does not survive, our Chinese people will all be slaves. This Great changes unseen in the millennium, inadvertent response, Shenzhou sinking again. If you have any opinions, please speak freely."

"...Your Majesty, has the crisis come to this?" The pragmatic Wang Qiong was the quickest to enter a state of real concern.

If you don't give some external pressure to get out of your comfort zone, how can your mind be touched?
"There are a lot of barbarian merchants along the coast, and the people from the Siyi Pavilion will know if they ask about it. They were neglected in the past." Zhu Houcong pretended to have a headache: "At the beginning of the imperial era, it was often said that the Ming Dynasty was about to end. The chaos in the thirteen provinces is everywhere. Just now, Yang Yiqing was invited back to rule the three sides again. The troubles of the northern captives relieved the worries. Unexpectedly, the troubles of the Western Seas also unknowingly grew to this point. The participation of the ministers in the national policy is not the only way to solve the worries of the king. It is also a plan for your descendants. According to Guangdong, the Westerners captured our people and sold them as slaves in Europe, and sent them to unknowable lands for pioneering and mining. If we don’t plan as soon as possible, the harm will be far greater than that of the grassland people.”

"Bang!"

The door of Fusi Prison in Beizhen was closed, and Pi Laizi, who had entered a new prison, clapped on the door in fear and screamed hoarsely.

"I implore you, brave warrior! Please tell His Majesty the Great Emperor that I am really here to discuss trade! As long as I get in touch with the governor again, I can get the appointment of our new king!"

"I'm a very good pharmacist, and I'm useful!"

"Help!"

　The previous chapter has been greatly changed, from more than 3200 words to 4000 words, and there is no price increase for subscriptions. Download the chapter again to read it.The main problem, first, is that the logic of the question was not clearly stated, and second, the emperor was not named to communicate in a way that is easier for Westerners to understand, resulting in a very fragmented style of writing.Three times, the ministers responded that the division of chapters was inappropriate, and indeed seemed a bit frivolous, as if the emperor was deliberately showing off.By the way, you guys have a little confidence in me anyway, and made all kinds of heart-rending comments for a while.

　　
　
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