Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 371 Let’s make progress with the times

Facing Zhu Chu's strength, how could the patriarch of a small ethnic group withstand the pressure?

If they really dare to be shameless, I'm afraid their village will be bloodbathed by 'pirates' tonight, right?

So in the end, the old village leader wisely chose to kneel down and surrender.

As for whether he is sincerely convinced and whether he surrenders willingly.

Then the benevolent sees benevolence and the wise see wisdom.

Anyway, Zhu Zhen was very happy.

So in the evening of that day, Zhu Ming couldn't help singing a song: "The mountains are green, the streams are blue. The girls in Alishan are as beautiful as water, and the boys in Alishan are as strong as mountains."

In the end, I don’t know what went wrong. The first sentence was pretty good, but when I waited for the second sentence, ‘The mountains will always be green and the streams will always be blue. The girl and the boy will never be separated. The clear water always surrounds the green mountains. Ah, ah, ah, alas, alas, alas. 'At this time, there was a sense of two-person change coming out of nowhere.

"It's a waste of time to solve the case," Zhu Zhen cursed secretly, almost revealing his past life identity.

In fact, he was a Northeastern man in his previous life, but in this life he was born in Nanjing and became a southerner, a Jiangnan native.

How about he also make a feather fan and imitate Zhou Lang Zhou Gongjin?

"What? Have you fallen in love with a girl from Alishan?" came a cold snort.

Zhu Ming thought he had overturned Xu Meizi's jealousy, but when he turned around, he found that it was Tang Xin who came over with the boss's jealousy.

"I thought it was my girl who was jealous," Zhu Chu said, looking aside.

Of course Xu Miaojin also came over, and curled her lips when she heard this: "When did I become jealous? When we were in the Mongolian grasslands, so many women wanted to get under your bed, did I stop them?"

"Huh?" Tang Xin's eyes widened. Is there such a thing?

"Miaojin, why don't you care? You are the princess," Tang Xin actually started to lecture her.

Xu Miaojin rolled her eyes. If I didn't care, you wouldn't be able to get in.

Zhu Chu walked over, leaned into Xu Miaojin's ear, and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Why did Xin'er become so proactive?"

Xu Miaojin also whispered: "Nonsense, you've kissed her, and all that's left is the final touch. Of course she already regards herself as your wife. And with Xin'er's character, once If you identify something or you as a person, you will never regret it in this life."

Tang Xin was standing behind the two of them, listening to them muttering, feeling angry and funny. Do you want to tell them that she heard them all?

"However, we just rescued those poor girls, and in the next moment we have to hold their heads and surrender. Isn't it a bit unethical?" Tang Xin said suddenly.

It turns out that he wasn't here specifically to be jealous, he just felt that it was a bit bad for Zhu Ming to do this.

It's so unreasonable. I thought I saved someone, but I didn't expect it to be no different from what those pirates did?

Zhu Zhen smiled and looked at Tang Xin, thinking that she was indeed a girl and was so kind-hearted.

"If I were more ruthless and ruthless, if I were less honest, I wouldn't need them to surrender. They are just members of the same village. They have almost no power to fight back. So what if I am destroyed?" Zhu Ming is no longer at the young age. He can also say cruel words easily and in a casual tone.

For his own lofty ideals, he can kill innocent people, but they are not my people anyway. Since they are not people of the Ming Dynasty, they naturally have to make room for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Today, the total population of this island is only tens of thousands.

Killing them is almost effortless.

So Zhu Ming said: "I am kind enough. As long as they are willing to surrender loyally and become my subjects of the Ming Dynasty, I will not only not harm them, but also help them cultivate fertile fields, teach them technology, provide them with more advanced food seeds, and help To give them a better life and protect them from pirates and pirates."

"Rather, what's wrong with this? What's the difference between their current life and that of primitive people and savages? They even retain the tribal system of primitive society, slash-and-burn farming. Is this good? If they don't follow me, what will happen to them? You will never evolve in your lifetime.”

The history of Taiwan can even be recorded from the time it was conquered by the Dutch, and then returned to the mainland of China after it was recovered by Zheng Chenggong.

How sad?

"I don't want to enslave them, but I want to lead them to a better life. So I don't have any psychological burden," Zhu Ming said, turned around, and shouted into the distance: "Chuan Xie Yu .”

Xie Yu rushed over quickly.

At this time, Zhu Ming had already led people away from the Cao tribe's tribal village. After all, he had just forced his head to kneel down and surrender, which didn't feel good.

So they temporarily camped outside the village and found a place to rest.

Zhu Ming called Xie Yu over and asked face to face: "Xie Yu, I plan to leave you on the island, are you willing?"

Xie Yu was stunned, thought for a while, and said: "Do you want to set up a guard station on the island? But Your Highness, although you are an imperial envoy, after all, you cannot make the decision on such important court matters privately. What's more, there is a sea ban imposed by His Majesty. The decree is that even the Penghu Inspection Department has been abolished. This is against the laws of the imperial court."

"What a mess," Zhu Zhen said, dumbfounded: "Of course I know this. I want to leave you three thousand troops, and let you give me all the population and ethnic groups on the island before the end of the year. Register and make a list. At the same time, I want you to spread the word and let everyone know that this island is now the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and they are also my subjects of the Ming Dynasty."

It turned out to be a census of the population and at the same time promoting the issue of sovereignty.

Xie Yu nodded.

But before Zhu Ming finished speaking, he continued with a serious expression: "But giving you so many people is not just for a thorough census of the population. If someone resists tenaciously, you know what to do without me telling you, right?"

Xie Yu was shocked and raised his head to look at Zhu Ming.

Zhu Zhen was also looking at him, expressionless.

Xie Yu nodded and said: "General, I understand. Before the end of the year, no one on the island will dare to disobey."

Only then did Zhu Ming smile with satisfaction and said: "Don't worry about the food and grass issue. You can use the previous mountain stronghold as a camp. When we return, I will also inform your brother. I can turn a blind eye to his smuggling." Close one eye, but your Xie family will also make some contributions to our Ming Dynasty. Leave the problem of grain and grass transportation to them."

The grain stored in the village had been used as compensation for the tragic experience of the Cao people, those girls from Alishan, and Zhu Zhen would not want to come back.

Anyway, the sea ban will continue for a while, and the Xie family will continue to smuggle, so let's just let the Xie family use part of it as 'protection fee'.

Otherwise, Zhu Zhen really had a reason to chop them off.

"Xie Yu, work hard. This island is of great use to me. There is also your Xie family's shipyard. Once I build a navy in the future, this place will become an outpost. Do you just want to be a mere commander of the district guard? Leader Five thousand people? Look at Wang Fu and Niu Sheng. Now they are all commanders. If the king hadn't been reluctant to release them, they could have become governors of the same region." Zhu Ming gave Niu Sheng and Wang Fu as examples.

The guard commander can only command more than 5,000 troops in a guard station, and he only has the power to command troops, not to deploy them.

Let's take Qu Neng as an example. As the commander of the Sichuan capital at the time, Qu Neng could privately lead 50,000 people to the aid of Heqing County.

This is a huge gap.

Xie Yu was shocked. Although this was a blank check, there was always some hope, right?

This greatly increased Xie Yu's enthusiasm, and he secretly vowed to do his best to complete His Highness's mission.

"Wang Fu, Niu Sheng, Li Gui."

"The end will be here."

"It's almost time for us to go back."

Zhu Zhen had no intention of disturbing the Cao people any more and let them think about it themselves. They would not suffer any loss by following him and Daming.

But it would be embarrassing if they insisted on resisting to the end. Although Xie Yu only had three thousand troops, Xie Yu represented the Ming Dynasty.

Once Xie Yu is frustrated here, an even larger army will come next time.

The Ming Dynasty did not take action to deal with Japanese pirates and pirates because they came and went without a trace and were difficult to target.

But you are different. If you can escape, a monk cannot escape from the temple.

Want to go against a powerful empire? You also have to think about whether you have the ability.

So Zhu Zhen stopped thinking about these things and led his troops back to the place where they landed on the seaside before afternoon.

At this time, even the four ships of Wang Fu and others came over, sharing a lot of pressure and placing a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in batches.

Zhu Ming boarded the ship directly, turned around and said a few words to Xie Yu and others who stayed on the shore, then let the ship set off and embarked on the return journey.

There is no need to worry about the food rations of Xie Yu and others. Zhu and the others brought a lot of food and grass when they came, and most of them were left, leaving Xie Yu with a month's food rations.

You don’t have to wait until you finish eating, I believe Xie’s next batch of merchant ships will deliver the food.

On the way back, because there were too many people waiting on the boat, Zhu Zhen really had no chance to go further with Tang Xin.

However, Zhu Chu did not miss the opportunity, but struck while the iron was hot, and solidified his relationship with Tang Xin. As Xu Miaojin said, once Tang Xin identifies something or someone, he will never regret it for the rest of his life, and now he is devoted to Zhu Ming.

He even took the initiative to explain to Zhu Chu who the main people and areas were when Tang He came here to train troops. If Zhu Chu really wants to develop a navy in the future, these people can be used.

Moreover, in areas such as Shaoxing Prefecture to Ningbo Prefecture, there is not much influence from aristocratic families, which can ensure that Zhu Zhen has no worries.

Zhu Ming sighed that having a good father-in-law really helped a lot, while testing Tang Xin's bottom line.

I found that as long as no one is watching, cuddling is no longer a problem.

What else could Tang Xin say: "I have been kissed by you, and based on our relationship, besides you, can I marry someone else?"

"That's not possible, I know how to kill people," Zhu Ming said domineeringly.

"Then it's over? I'm already and can only be yours. I just hope you won't let me down," Tang Xin said resentfully.

Because Lao Zhu's family is really not kind to Lao Tang's family, even if it is said to be unkind, it is not an exaggeration.

"Have I ever bullied you?" Zhu Zhen asked.

Tang Xin was silent.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who had a conflict with Tang He, and it was Zhu Chu's tenth brother Zhu Tan who killed her two sisters.

But what does all this have to do with Zhu Shiba?

Zhu Chu also cured Tang He's illness, which was equivalent to saving Tang He's life.

Such great kindness and great virtue, even if it is promised with one's body, it is not an exaggeration.

So Tang Xin gritted his teeth and murmured in a low voice: "After we get ashore, I can practice dual cultivation with you. But you can't go too far, and you can't let Miao Jin find out. You drive her out."

"Hey, you want to rebel now?" Xu Miaojin is so angry that I am superfluous, right?

But Xu Miaojin was also very happy that Tang Xin could open her heart.

Not for anything else, even if it was just for her brother's (man's) dominance, she would join Tang Xin's idea.

So Xu Miaojin could only sigh: "I just hope that my brother will not have new people and forget the old ones."

Zhu Ming said flatly: "Of course not. I think it's better to be together. Otherwise, none of you will be an opponent, and I will only be the one who feels uncomfortable in the end."

Thinking of his monster-like physical strength, Xu Miaojin couldn't help but look at Tang Xin worriedly, "Xin'er, you really don't know how much suffering you will suffer."

Let’s put these aside for now.

Just three days before the end of the month, and also the seventh day after Zhu Chu went to sea, several ships finally returned to the port of Taizhou Prefecture.

Before they even docked, Xie Chun, who received the news, had already led people to wait on the shore in advance and greeted them with great fanfare.

Zhu Chu looked far away and could even see a banner?

It bears the banner 'Welcome the King of Dian to return home in triumph at a thousand years old'.

Good guy, how about you give me a warm welcome?

For those who don’t know, you might think that a certain leader is going to the countryside to offer condolences. What kind of nonsense is this?

Zhu Zhen was secretly amused.

But suddenly, the system issued a prompt, "Taizhou Prefecture has been included in the sphere of influence, please check carefully."

Zhu Ming was stunned and quickly called out the system. He found out that a total of 780,000 people in Taizhou Prefecture were included in his system territory, as well as 5.3 million acres of farmland.

At the same time, part of Ningbo Prefecture began to be included in Zhu Chu's sphere of influence. At first, only Dinghai County and Ningbo City were included, and then Cixi County was gradually included.

Although it does not reach the entire territory of Ningbo Prefecture, within the scale of Ningbo City and two counties, more than two-thirds of the population and land are included in Zhu Chu's sphere of influence.

It has a population of 480,000.

Zhu Xi was still wondering, what was going on?

Later he finally figured it out.

The first is Ningbo Mansion, because Zhu Zhen happened to encounter Japanese pirates before, and with only more than a hundred people, he easily wiped out more than a thousand Japanese pirates.

In particular, Dinghai County and Cixi County were the places where the Japanese pirates were most severely harmed every time. The people wanted to eat the Japanese pirates alive.

As a result, Zhu Chu's prestige there began to rise rapidly. Coupled with the deliberate management of the Ningbo prefect, Zhu Chu's reputation reached an unprecedented level.

As for the Taizhou Prefecture, it was even more because Zhu Chen had mastered the ironclad evidence of the Taizhou Prefecture in one fell swoop and punished him severely with thunderous means.

Coupled with Xie's secret and intentional actions, it was rumored that Zhu Ming chose to turn a blind eye to the local people's private business trips to the sea and had no intention of pursuing them.

Moreover, Zhu Ji personally led his troops to suppress the bandits.

In both public and private matters, Zhu Ming should be supported and loved by the people of Taizhou.

Especially under the propaganda of the Xie family, the people all knew about the suppression of bandits, and they believed that Zhu Zhen was returning in triumph.

Therefore, his fame conquered the people of Taizhou Prefecture and added a total of 780,000 people.

Zhu Zhen couldn't help but sigh to himself, the common people are the easiest to fool, as long as you treat them well, they will repay you.

But the people are also the easiest to fool, because the policy of obscuring the people makes it difficult for them to distinguish what is good and what is bad.

In fact, even if there is no policy of obscuring the people, wouldn’t it still be the same?

Even in modern times, even if the cultural penetration rate is so high, even if network information is so developed.

But many netizens, many self-righteous smart people, are inevitably used as targets.

Before you investigate and find out the truth, never choose to take sides or speak rashly, because you don’t know whether you are speaking out for justice or causing harm through cyber violence.

Therefore, sometimes even if it is not a policy of obscuring the people, it is difficult to avoid the existence of idiots, because if it is not stupid, it is bad.

Zhu Zhen fell into deep thought, because he planned to enlighten the people's wisdom and break the status quo of the aristocratic family's monopoly on culture and resources, and he once boasted about Haikou in front of others.

He has always felt that the policy of obscuring the people is really stupid.

Does the development and progress of the times really depend on his own efforts? Does every key need to be cheated by the system?

Even if China does not have a population of 40 million today, there are definitely many geniuses in China.

To put it bluntly, Western physics originated from modern science represented by Galileo and Newton. During this period, ideas emerged and flourished.

In the "Pictures of Newly Made Various Equipment" compiled by Wang Zheng, detailed records of water power, wind power and load-bearing machinery he developed were recorded.

Later, in the "Illustrated Notes on Strange Weapons of the Far West" compiled together with Swiss missionary Deng Yuhan, it even included the geocentric theory, the center of gravity and its solution, finding the volume of water, the volume of floating bodies, specific gravity, simple machines and their combined use.

In other words, Wang Zheng may have published the theory of gravity and the view that the bottom ball is round sixty years before Newton.

Not to mention many famous ancient physicists.

For example, Mozi during the Warring States Period, Shen Kuo during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Heng who invented the seismograph, not to mention Zu Chongzhi who proposed the famous "Zu Chong's Law", also known as "Zu Chong's Pythagorean Theorem".

You must know that this great master achieved the accuracy of calculating pi to the seventh decimal place. This value was the most accurate in the world at the time, several centuries ahead of his colleagues in other countries.

The record was not even broken until a thousand years after Zu Chongzhi's death.

Why does Zhu Zhen hate the Eight-Parted Essay so much? Absolutely disgusting.

It is because of the preference for eight-part essays in imperial examinations that more and more people only focus on eight-part essays just for the sake of court elections, but ignore the knowledge itself.

Especially with the suppression of those "strange and obscene skills" by Zhu Chengxue's Neo-Confucianism, Confucianism's dominance reached its peak.

Again, while the Chinese are playing with fireworks, foreigners are still playing with mud.

But in the end, it was the West that invented more advanced muskets and cannons and came in, which I have to say is sad.

So Zhu Ming made the final conclusion: "I want the entire era to progress together."

(End of this chapter)