I'm really not doing business

Chapter 443 The Architect of the New Ming Order

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun has been trying to avoid a situation, that is, fighting against the enemy and comrades-in-arms who were once comrades, companions and shared joy. Zhu Yijun is a sentimental person. He does not like the comrades-in-arms who worked closely with him in the past to become Enemy, he has been trying his best to avoid this situation. Zhu Yijun is really easy to talk to many times.

As long as it does not harm the collective interests of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun can even tolerate the crime of transgression, but when it harms the collective interests of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun will take action.

During the time when the special envoys of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jiugao and Liu Ji, left Songjiang Prefecture and came to Tianjin Wei, the capital was as busy as ever, and the poor coolies were waking up from Fuguo Cao Market, where some of them were busy selling various goods. After entering the capital, some began to work as cows and horses in the city. The crowding at the capital's city gates in the morning and evening had attracted the attention of Shuntian Prefecture, and the expansion of the city gates and roads in the city had been put on the agenda.

Extremely radical people believe that the city walls and moats should be directly demolished. The cities in the north all have city walls, but only 40% of the cities in the hinterland south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains have walls. This was built in the face of the Japanese invasion in the southeast. The existence of the city walls will It is inevitable to affect traffic.

In the end, the conservatives won. The capital was the political center of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the military center. If another strong man emerged from the Northern Qi and Dongyi, the city wall was the last barrier to protect the capital. Even the conservatives kept shouting that the mountains and rivers are solid in virtue. There is no danger, but the reality is that in October of the 14th year of Zhengtong, I invaded the invaders first, and in the 29th year of Jiajing, I retreated after seeing the high walls of the capital city.

Shaanxi chief envoy Wang Yu, Zuo Erguan Xue Lun, Shanxi inspector Qiao Bixing, Yangcheng Baishi Bai Zhili and others were escorted to Beijing on May 12th. Shaanxi and Shanxi are the traditional territories of the Jin Party. This time The crime was the result of Wang Chonggu's vigorous purge of the party, which was unprecedentedly powerful.

The problems between Wang Yu and Xue Lun were not serious. They mainly demanded bribes and allowed rape. However, the problems between Qiao Bixing and Bai Zhili were extremely serious. They were collaborating with the enemy.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, headed by Hai Rui, led the three judicial departments, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple to conduct a joint review of these cases. The results obtained were completely consistent with the conclusions of Shaanxi Governor Shi Maohua and Jin Party leader Wang Chonggu. The facts were clear and the evidence was conclusive.

This is a major earthquake in the northwest officialdom. Its impact is far-reaching. Many people are running around in fear, hoping to get clear information and confirm whether they have been implicated by Guaman. After several days of intensive investigation, Hai Rui led I intend to proceed with the trial as quickly as possible to prevent further panic.

This is how the Jin Party, where Qiao Bixing belongs, came from. Therefore, the Jin Party does not feel that there is anything wrong with appeasing and shielding nepotism.

Zhu Yijun then met with Qiao Bixing, Shanxi's governor. Qiao Bixing was a direct descendant of the Jin party. He was still young and had a bright future. He only needed to wait for a chance to be promoted to chief envoy. After three years, he would be promoted to chief envoy. You can go further to Beijing and become a minister.

I can't carry it, I can't carry it at all.

silence.

The downfall of a local official can easily spread to the entire place. The fastest trial means less involvement, minimizing the impact and preventing it from affecting the frontline war. This is a common practice during wartime. Just like in a war, the military The 'waste' caused by soldiers should not be compensated for. If you can't fight a war, don't fight. Being a soldier in arrears is not suitable for the Ming Dynasty.

In the Fusi prison in Beizhen, all the superiors were stunned. They wanted to persuade, but they didn't know where to start. There was no problem with this logic. In Qiao Bixing's opinion, interoperability was not a big mistake, so Qiao Bixing Bixing's family members were sent to Bansheng and Beilu. As for their treatment, you can imagine.

"I have an idea."

As the chief minister of the cabinet, Gao Gong made great plans for all officials in the world, and cooperated with Yang Bo, the minister of the Ministry of official affairs. There was no Jin person in all the deposed lists, which completely led to the expansion of the Jin party.

"Your Majesty, what Yuan Fu said is reasonable. The guilty minister ended up like this today. Is it not because the guilty minister refused to cling to Wang Cifu and could not get Wang Cifu's condolences and protection that he fell to this point?" Qiao Bixing looked at Wang Chonggu and asked, Isn't there some hatred because he was the former party leader Ge Shouli's man, and he didn't deal with Wang Chonggu, so he was killed to scare the monkeys?

Sometimes, I think that no one knows about the bad things I have done, but in fact, everyone knows it clearly.

"So, you never know where you are wrong. Your family is family, and other people's family is not family. The Bai family, and people like you who are familiar with it, will have an impact on the war situation. The wives, children, and children of the Ming Dynasty's border soldiers may become You won't feel any guilt for being Beilu's plaything, but you can't accept it when your family becomes a plaything." After Zhu Yijun said this, he left Beizhen Fusi's prison.

"Early years ago, my husband told me that the bad thing about the Ming Dynasty was the tolerance of nepotism. Should we punish corruption first or treat it first and tolerate it? My husband and Gao Gong have different opinions. Today, it seems that you are sincere and not deceiving me." Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with Qiao Bixing's attitude. This is what a cheap scholar should look like. Even when he was about to die, he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, but that he was just unlucky.

Qiao Bixing was stunned for a moment, and then said with a very fierce expression: "You have done nothing for a month, even if you send me a message! Is this what you do as a party leader?"

Party formation and personal gain are used together. As long as there is a party, this will inevitably happen. Zhang Juzheng is not a god, and his Zhang Party is not clean. It also needs to be cleaned up regularly to maintain the health of the organization. Zhang Juzheng can always It is difficult for the Jin Party to eliminate the evil, because the Jin Party is a national party and a regional township party. It started out as a nepotism and patronage.

Since you feel that there is no guilt in interrogation, then do interrogation physically. This is reciprocity, and it is counter-sitting.

Qiao Bixing didn't feel that he was guilty. He had the same idea in front of the emperor. He didn't feel that what he did was wrong. Wang Chonggu wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, and he just happened to run into it.

An organization that cannot metabolize itself will inevitably lead to ultimate destruction, whether it is as small as a household, a handicraft workshop, a business gang, or a trading firm, or as large as a court or a dynasty.

"The guilty minister pays homage to your majesty, long live your majesty, long live your majesty." Qiao Bixing, wearing shackles and shackles, saluted.

Wang Chonggu looked at Qiao Bixing blankly, what should he do? Tell Qiao Bixing that His Majesty already knows, or protect Qiao Bixing and protect him? What can he do? This world belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and this Shanxi is the Shanxi of the Ming Dynasty, not his Wang Chonggu’s Shanxi! He couldn't protect Qiao Bixing. Even if he was reminded this time, what about next time?
Is it possible to let the Jin Party produce another Zhang Siwei and let His Majesty completely destroy the Jin Party before giving up?
Now you blame him as the party leader for his inaction. You have been bullied. He, the party leader, can help you get some justice. You have made a huge mistake. What can he, the party leader, do to help you? Not to mention him, even Empress Dowager Li's father Wu Qingbo Li Wei had to be punished if something went wrong in supplying cotton clothes to the old camp.

"I bid farewell to Your Majesty, the sinner." Wang Yu and Xue Lun breathed a sigh of relief with mixed feelings. After bowing five times and kowtowing three times, they left Beizhen Fusi. They were not sentenced to exile or prison, they only had themselves. Denial of one's past.

It is absolutely impossible to have no money, but not everything is a business.

"Since you feel that you are just unlucky, let's be unlucky to the end. Just send all Qiao Jiancha's family members to Bansheng." Zhu Yijun stood up, looked at Qiao Bixing, and said calmly: "Since you think Tongfan is nothing Big mistake, then do what you want.”

Zhang Juzheng said quite calmly: "Luo Yao, the governor of Sichuan, corrupted 340,000 silver. Gao Qiyu's "Shun also ordered Yu". You Jin people are not worried, and I am not worried either. It's the same."

Zhu Yijun came to Beizhen Fusi again. The sun was still shining brightly, and the windows were still bright and clean. The torture instruments here had long been locked in the warehouse because of the emperor's frequent visits, and were rarely used again. The legendary torture of five poisons , Zhu Yijun has never seen it in a senior official.

"Damn it!" Wang Chonggu shook his sleeves vigorously. Seeing Qiao Bixing helpless and depressed, he rubbed his face vigorously. This was a bit rude, but he couldn't care less about the profanity. He really couldn't lead him. The Shanxi merchants on the front line were giving Qi Jiguang a knife, and the Shanxi party's direct lineage Tongfan was holding him back in the rear. He, the party leader, was really tired.

Wang Chonggu glanced at Zhang Juzheng with envy. Look at the people under Zhang Juzheng. Qi Jiguang, Liang Menglong, Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Pan Jixun, and Shen Shixing. Who is not the person who is in charge of a party, holding great power, and doing things with all his heart?
This is related to the different selection mechanisms of the two parties. Zhang Dang is a candidate who has passed the examination, while Jin Dang is a nepotist.

With so many cases, Zhu Yijun actually discovered very early on that people are weaker than imagined. When they sit on the regret chair, 95% of people will confess honestly. But sometimes, people's will is stronger than steel. In the raging fire, it can still stand firm.

"In the end, you still lived the way you hated the most when you were young." Zhu Yijun waved his hand. The two of them embezzled a total of 70,000 taels of silver. In the end, they just deprived themselves of their fame and official status and went home. This was after Zhang Juzheng's increased punishment. the result of.

A doctor cannot be punished.

Qiao Bixing knelt on the ground, but still said angrily: "The guilty minister knows his guilt, but the guilty minister is just the chicken that Wang Cifu killed to scare the monkeys. He was not the guilty minister, but someone else, who just happened to be the guilty minister."

For what Qiao Bixing did, how could he, Wang Chonggu, protect him?

"Are you worthy of being Ge Gong's disciple? Then Wang Jiaping is now the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Fan Yingqi even went to Huguang to be governor. When did I treat you badly just because you are Ge Gong's disciple? I know that you seized Baijiatong saltpeter. I've been waiting for you for a whole month! One month!" Wang Chonggu slapped the table. During this time, he was really stressed.

"Do you know your guilt?" Zhu Yijun said seriously.

He stood in the courtyard of Fusi, Beizhen, looking at the scorching sun in the sky. Zhang Juzheng was behind the emperor. He bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, there may be something wrong with this move."

Qiao Bixing was only two steps away from Ming Gong. Both Wang Chonggu and Zhu Yijun waited for a month, but failed to wait until Qiao Bixing truthfully reported the evidence of Bai's Tongfan crime, which was investigated and dealt with by Qiao Bixing himself.

Zhu Yijun first met with Wang Yu and Xue Lun. The two men kowtowed and cried again and again. Their story was not complicated, but once their greed started, they were like falling rocks rolling down a mountain, rolling down, and even... Neither Wang Yu nor Xue Lun could tell clearly when they became like this. Maybe it was a poetry meeting, maybe a banquet, or maybe it was envy of a luxurious life.

"You fart!" Wang Chonggu couldn't bear it anymore. He slammed the table and said dirty words in front of the emperor, and he was so loud.

"Tsk, tsk, once it involves yourself, do you admit your guilt?" Zhu Yijun knows very well how to let a lowly scholar like Qiao Bixing break his guard. What such a selfish person fears most is that his own real interests will be damaged, and his children will be harmed. He will become the slave of Beilu, and his wives and concubines will become the playthings of Beilu.

Qiao Bixing refused to plead guilty. He felt that he was just unlucky. Although he kowtowed and kowtowed loudly in front of the emperor, it was all to beg for mercy to survive, rather than really feeling that he had done something wrong.

You big shots are quarreling and quarreling, gods are fighting, and mortals are suffering.

"Your Majesty, I am guilty of the crime. Your Majesty, I deserve to die for my crime, but the harm to my family is not harmed. Your Majesty, I am guilty of the death penalty." Qiao Bixing immediately panicked, kowtowed, and added shackles and shackles to his body. He really gave in. .

"I'm just scaring him. There's nothing wrong with this. I can't do it at all. How will the people of the world view me if I act like this? I just wanted to let him die in fear. That's why I said this deliberately." Zhu Yijun looked at He looked at Hai Rui and said with a smile: "Hai Zongxian will not agree."

"I do object," Hai Rui said very calmly.

Giving up one's own people to the enemy for fun is just an act to punish villains and a loss of faith for the country. Honest ministers like Hai Rui will definitely oppose it. This does not mean that Hai Rui is shielding a lowly scholar like Qiao Bixing. But to maintain order.

Your Majesty is the architect of the new order of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is undergoing great changes. During the changes, the writing of order is completed by the people of the world.

This behavior was the behavior of the Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty. After the restoration, the Baozong Zhu Qizhen killed Yu Qian, Wang Wen, and Fan Guang.

Fan Guang was the commander of the Liaodong capital during the Tumubao Incident on August 15, the 14th year of Zhengtong. He was proficient in riding and shooting, and was extremely brave. He was recommended by Yu Qian to the capital and became the deputy commander-in-chief, and was Shi Heng's second officer. . Wala Ye first led the foreign student Zhu Qizhen to invade the capital. Fan Guang dismounted from his horse and fought to the death outside Desheng Gate. On the battlefield, once he dismounted to fight, it meant that he did not intend to retreat. He wanted to live or die with the front. Fan Guang led A group of militiamen who had just been recruited won the battle, and the pursuit did not stop until they reached Zijing Pass.

When Zhu Qizhen was restored, he beheaded Fan Guang in public for the crime of being attached to Qian, and then gave Fan Guang's wife and children to the Northern captives.

Qiao Bixing's crime was naturally punished by the Ming Dynasty Law. The conclusion reached by the three-level interrogation was beheading and his family members were exiled to Luzon. This punishment was enough. Zhu Yijun's words were just to punish Qiao Bixing before his death. Suffering from inner suffering and torture.

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng and his ministers shouted that Your Majesty can carry Qing Qing, and there is no need to lose his reputation for the sake of Qiao Bixing.

"Your Majesty, the special envoy to the West, Xu Jiugao, and the deputy envoy Liu Ji have arrived in Tongzhou. Do you want to arrange an audience with them?" Wan Shihe said about Xu Jiugao's itinerary.

"As soon as possible." Zhu Yijun knew that the interview process with the Ministry of Rites was cumbersome, and his meaning was very clear. It was time for Xu Jiugao, Liu Ji and others to take a break. They had to complete the process quickly and have a good rest after returning to life.

Wan Shihe was a courtier. His Majesty said that as soon as possible, the Ministry of Rites completed all the procedures the next day. This efficiency was really high. You must know that Shah Maimaiti had a complete process from entering the Jiayuguan Pass to paying an audience. for a year.

In the afternoon of the next day, Zhu Yijun met the special envoys Xu Jiugao and Liu Ji who had returned from afar.

The Ming Dynasty's first special envoys to the West were Xu Fan and Gao Qiyu, and the second ones were Xu Jiugao and Liu Ji. The difference was that the first time they went there was on someone else's ship, and the second time they were on their own ship.

"My ministers, Xu Jiugao and Liu Ji, pay homage to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty. In March last year, I was ordered by the emperor to explore the western part of the country. Fortunately, I did not disgrace my order. I will return to you today." Xu Jiugao and Liu Ji paid a courtesy visit.

"I am very pleased that my hard work has paid off on this mission. You two dear friends will be excused from the ceremony." Zhu Yijun motioned to Xu Jiugao and others to stand up and speak.

Rewards based on merit, promotion of official positions, and nobility are inevitable, and there are also regulations. There was a precedent for Zheng He's voyages to the West. This is an ancestral law, and even the humble Confucians can't object.

Zhu Yijun chatted with Xu Jiugao for a while, asking about the situation of Antonio, the Portuguese king whom he canonized.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Santa Cruz started negotiations with His Highness Antonio in Lisbon. The negotiations had no substantive results, but Antonio still leased a port in the north to Spain at an extremely high price." Xu Jiugao said The final result of the negotiation between the Marquis and Antonio.

Felipe II is determined to be evil, and Antonio is not so easy to control with the support of the Ming Dynasty. Both sides will suffer if they fight, and no one will accept it if they don't fight. However, Felipe II also has important things to do, and that is the Netherlands. , the Netherlands resisted for more than ten years and finally became independent.

So there was temporary peace between the two teeth, and Felipe II leased a Portuguese port.

"After Felipe borrowed the port of Porto, he began to mobilize the Invincible Fleet to the Netherlands and sent an expeditionary force of 1,300 people to fight in Ireland. The Queen was extremely worried about this, but there was no good solution. ." Xu Jiugao told His Majesty what he had learned about the West.

Mainly due to the changes in the Netherlands, the Northern Alliance and the Southern Alliance in the Netherlands officially passed the Act of Absolute Absoluteness, declaring their official separation from Spain and becoming independent countries.

William, Prince of Orange, became the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was not the king but the chief executive. Because the Republic of the Netherlands is a representative system, that is, members are formed into a parliament, and the parliament has the highest decision-making power. The chief executive is just The titular head of state.

The members of Parliament of the Netherlands mainly come from the Southern League and the Northern League.

The Yugoslav League is the League of Arras (Belgium), an alliance established by nobles and churches. They went to Spain in the first year of Wanli and swore allegiance to Felipe II.

The Northern League was the Utrecht League (Netherlands), mainly composed of farmers, craftsmen, workshop owners, bourgeoisie and Protestants.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was loyal to Felipe II, but due to Spain's brutal plunder, it finally became intolerable and joined forces with the northern resistance forces to complete the merger. They jointly formulated the "Avowal Act" and officially declared independence.

The inducement for the cooperation between the Southern Confederacy and the Northern Confederacy was that the Spanish governor of the Netherlands, Rexen, dug up sea walls and used water instead of troops to brutally suppress the resisters. This method of suppression caused a stronger backlash. More intense resistance.

Felipe II was willing to put down the war with Antonio because the independence of the Netherlands made Felipe II intolerable. Moreover, Felipe II offered a reward of 2.5 gold coins to William the Silent, Prince of Orange. head.

When Xu Jiugao left, there had been three large-scale assassinations. It was very simple to assassinate William. Faced with high rewards, assassins emerged one after another, but William still traveled and participated in activities as usual, which gave the assassins great opportunities to take advantage of. This is stupid, but William has to do this. If he dies in the assassination, there will be a successor. If he compromises with Felipe II, more than ten years of resistance will be meaningless.

In fact, as Xu Jiugao expected, William died at the hands of the assassin.

Gérard, the assassin who sneaked into William's house, fired three shots at William who had just come downstairs at the stairs of William's house. One of the shots hit William's heart and William fell in a pool of blood. But this kind of assassination, On the contrary, the will of resistance in the Netherlands was twisted into a rope, and even the Yugoslavia, composed of more conservative nobles, had to resist more resolutely.

William died, but he lived on as the founding father of the Netherlands.

Zhu Yijun didn't let Sanniang assassinate Anda Khan for this reason. It would be easy to kill, but wouldn't Anda Khan directly transform into a stubborn totem? Everyone fought on the frontal battlefield, and victory or defeat was the result. Felipe II killed William the Silent, but the Netherlands still became independent.

The Queen of England has made up her mind to cooperate with the Netherlands to fight against Spain, the overlord of the West. This is out of security considerations, but also out of interests. Maritime trade is lucrative and everyone is jealous.

"Representative system." Zhu Yijun kept tapping his hands on the table.

There are two main types of representative systems, one is the monarchy-parliamentary system and the other is the head-of-state parliamentary system. The difference is that one retains the king and the other does not retain the king. The head of state is the king or the chief executive. In these two representative systems, the fundamental power is actually held by In the hands of Congress, because the decision-making power belongs to Congress.

This is completely different from the system of the Ming Dynasty. Even though Emperor Jiajing lived in Xiyuan, Emperor Longqing was in hiding, and Emperor Wanli was in charge of Shaoguoyin in the first ten years, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng always handled state affairs. , which looks a bit like a constitutional monarchy.

As the supreme leader of the dynasty, the monarch is sacred and inviolable, but he does not deal with state affairs. Even the internal funds and national funds of the Ming Dynasty were completely separated during the Jiajing period. For forty-one years, the Ming emperor lived in seclusion, and the Ming Dynasty seemed I only know the chief assistant, not the emperor.

But it was not a representative system because the final decision-making power never left the emperor.

The Ming Dynasty was in an era of great changes. Zhu Yijun thought about the pros and cons of the representative system, and finally chose to shake his head. There was nothing worth learning from, because the Ming Dynasty had its own national conditions. The Ming Dynasty was too big, with too many people, and the administrative costs of the representative system. It is not something that the current Ming court can afford.

"I would like to offer you my auspicious blessings." Xu Jiugao bowed his head and said immediately after seeing His Majesty finish his thinking.

Xu Jiugao pulled open the first piece of red silk cloth. It was not the oval-shaped twelve-pound pearl that had been polished, but a box of grass with thick stems, lush branches and leaves, and a crisp texture. Xu Jiugao solemnly said: "Your Majesty , this is the seed I bought in Sun City, Mexico, called bluegrass.”

“It’s a high-quality forage.”

Zhu Yijun immediately became interested. Looking at the forage that Xu Jiugao introduced solemnly, he began to ask for details about this grass. Annual plants, like leeks, can be cut 7 to 9 times a year. Each acre of grassland can produce yuan per year. The forage, which weighs about a kilogram, is acid-resistant and slightly salt-alkali resistant, water-fertilizer-resistant, and heat-resistant. It can be silaged or dried for long-term storage.

"This is also a kind of pasture, called yellow bamboo grass. It is different from green orchid. It is a perennial plant. It can be cut 10 to 20 times per acre. The annual output exceeds 4 kilograms. One acre of land can feed 20 cows or 200 sheep or rabbits are resistant to barrenness, humidity and cold." Xu Jiugao introduced the second type of grass, which is more suitable for large-scale planting.

The nutritional value of green orchid is richer and can even be used to raise horses, but the yield is slightly insufficient. However, yellow bamboo grass does not have this shortcoming. One planting can be harvested for several years, and the management is more extensive and does not require intensive farming.

Green orchid raises horses, yellow bamboo raises sheep.

"Okay, okay!" Zhu Yijun was quite satisfied with these two kinds of high-quality forage. He nodded repeatedly and said: "Send it to Baoqisi so that Xu Zhenming can take good care of it. This is a good thing."

I gave him a pillow when I fell asleep. The Ming Dynasty was marching to the north of Wanghua. Wanghua needed to be managed. Due to insufficient rainfall and barren land, the yield of the grassland land was limited. These two kinds of forage came at the right time.

Green orchid was purchased by Xu Jiugao in Sun City, Mexico, and yellow bamboo grass was discovered by Xu Jiugao himself. The Viceroyalty of Peru cut these grasses to raise sheep, and intensively cultivated this high-level farming technology. The Peruvian herdsmen did not point it out. The locals regarded it as a gift from God, and Xu Jiugao immediately sensed its significance.

His Majesty is engaged in mulberry farming. Although the symbolic meaning is greater than the practical significance, His Majesty is really concerned about mulberry farming. What is good for the superiors will be affected by the inferiors. Therefore, Xu Jiugao has been paying attention to various crops in the places he visited. .

Xu Jiugao found many, many forages, and these two kinds of forage were what Xu Jiugao valued most.

Obviously, flattering is by no means a simple matter. Xu Jiugao has read the agricultural books, which were annotated by His Majesty himself.

"My second piece of auspiciousness is the biggest gain from this voyage. The star map, needle map, and the navigation notes written by me and Deputy Ambassador Liu along the way." Xu Jiugao felt that these could be called auspiciousness.

In the eyes of Ming scholars, the most precious thing is knowledge.

Zhu Yijun thinks so too.

(End of this chapter)