Daming Military Empire

Chapter 40 Helpless Compromise
Huang Daozhou was indeed worthy of being a great Confucian in the world. As soon as the remonstrance came out, there were many responders. In less than two days, Zhu Cijiong received nearly [-] impeachment memorials.What kind of concept is this? You must know that the total number of officials in Beijing is just over a thousand, which means that nearly half of the officials oppose the promotion of Western learning!

The attitude of the other officials is still unknown, either they are wise and safe, or because of the face of Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang and others, they are too embarrassed to go to the memorial to impeach them.

Zhu Cijiong was a little scared, he finally realized the helplessness of Wanli and Tianqi.Emperor Wanli was not a fool, and Emperor Tianqi was not a fool either. Why were the officials under him afraid to go to court?There is a saying that public anger is hard to offend. In layman's terms, it is a collective strike. No matter whether you are an emperor or a boss, if they quit, what can you do with them?
Companies can still close their doors and go bankrupt, but can countries close their doors and go bankrupt?That's subjugation!

Zhu Cijiong knew that they couldn't let the impeachment go on like this, and if they didn't deal with it, something big would happen.However, how to deal with it, he has no good solution, he can only invite a group of cronies to discuss.

Looking at the two or three kittens under his command, and thinking about the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty, Zhu Cijiong felt a desire for power in his heart. If all the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty listened to him, why should he be so aggrieved.

How can the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty listen to him?Do you reuse eunuchs like Emperor Tianqi?Wei Zhongxian cleaned up the Donglin Party, and no one in the entire court dared to resist him, but those officials were not afraid of Emperor Tianqi, but Wei Zhongxian. Do you want to cultivate a nine-thousand-year-old?forget it.

Zhu Cijiong still prefers to slowly train his cronies to take power. Although this takes time, at least there will be no situation where one family dominates and monopolizes power.

Of course, these are all things to say, and the top priority now is to quell the impeachment storm.

Now there are Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Cao Huachun and other cronies in the imperial study room. Everyone stands there with worried faces, frowning and thinking. There is no other sound in the whole study room except the sound of deep breathing, and the scene is extremely depressing.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, and seeing that everyone was silent, he could only point to the stacks of memorials on the desk, and said helplessly, "What should we do, let's talk about it."

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, they are speechless, they can only shake their heads and sigh.This time the matter was too big, almost half of the imperial court jumped out to oppose it, and everyone really couldn't think of any perfect solution.

Finally Xu Guangqi sighed, and said tragically: "Their target is me, the emperor can only dismiss me and investigate and deal with it."

Zhu Cijiong was taken aback when he heard the words, what a joke, Xu Guangqi is his number one general, wouldn't it be a self-defeating martial arts if he was executed.He shook his head and said: "This is my idea, you can't blame your teacher, besides, their target is not you, but you."

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong had a flash of inspiration in his head, clapped his hands and said: "That's right, their goal is to prevent the promotion of Western learning, if we don't promote it for the time being, we will be fine!"

When Xu Guangqi heard this, there was a light of hope in his eyes, but he thought for a while and shook his head sadly: "What if the military factory does not promote Western learning? Who will make the flintlock guns? We can make a few of them in a day." , it's useless at all!"

Zhu Cijiong didn't answer, he pondered for a while, and then asked: "How many students have you recruited now?"

Xu Guangqi sighed: "We only recruited a thousand people in total, and they are all the children of artisans under the Ministry of Industry. They make such a fuss, who dares to sign up!"

There were only a thousand people, which seemed a little small, so he asked Bi Maokang again: "Meng Hou, isn't there more than 1 artisan households under the Ministry of Industry, why do so few people sign up?"

Bi Maokang replied in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, there are also divisions of labor in this craftsman household. There are masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and stonemasons. The only ones who can be trained to make flintlock parts in a short period of time are carpenters and blacksmiths. They all have a craft, no one wants to change their careers to learn this, only those whose families are more prosperous will send one or two juniors to try their luck."

Zhu Cijiong was stunned when he heard the words, and he took it for granted. Forget it, one thousand is one thousand. We must make a decision early, otherwise something big will happen sooner or later if we go on like this.He gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "That's how it is. All these 1000 people will be recruited to Wang Gong's factory, and they don't need to shift shifts. Let them work with you during the day, give on-site guidance, and teach them how to recognize pictures at night. Let the four schools go to Huang Daozhou and the others, and let them spread the sage's articles, so the head office will do it. Also, if you want to wrong your teacher, you will be fined for one year, what do you think?"

Xu Guangqi was already planning to lose his official position, so what is the fine for a year, he said indifferently: "I still have a small family property, so a year of fine is nothing, as long as it can suppress the matter. "

Of course, Zhu Cijiong didn't really want to fine him. He immediately explained: "This fine for a year is just to silence them. How can I let my mentor suffer? Eunuch Cao went to the internal treasury to get 5000 taels of silver to give it to him." Master."

Xu Guangqi was moved to tears when he heard the words, he hurriedly stopped and said: "Your Majesty, you can't do it, you can't do it,"

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were very low, and his monthly salary for a first-rank official was only more than 100 taels. This 5000 taels was enough for his salary for several years, so he naturally declined repeatedly.

Zhu Cijiong didn't care about the money, so he forced it into his hands, sent them away, and then ordered Cao Huachun to draft an order and read it out in public tomorrow morning.

It probably means that the promotion of Western learning was due to Emperor Chongzheng's inconsideration. He decided to humbly accept everyone's suggestions and stop promoting Western learning.Although Xu Guangqi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, did not bear the main responsibility, he was the emperor's teacher, and he was not effective in teaching, so he was punished with a special salary of one year as punishment.

As soon as the imperial decree was read out the next day, Huang Daozhou was naturally satisfied. He not only dissuaded the emperor, but also rectified the emperor's teacher, earning enough face.As a learned Confucian, he naturally understands the principle of courtesy and reciprocity. With his own face, he naturally cannot let the emperor lose face too much, so he immediately changed his face and praised the emperor for being wise and promising at a young age.

However, Qian Qianyi was very depressed. He did this twice, and each time he missed the passenger car. He didn't achieve his goal at all. He was a villain twice, but he didn't get any benefits.

Zhu Cijiong was also very depressed. This matter was resolved, but the production of flintlock guns had also dropped severely. With only a thousand people, it would be good to be able to produce [-] guns a year. After a few years of delay, this group of Donglin Party really killed people.

Of course he would not let this group of people go, after he came down to court, he immediately called Cao Huachun to him, gritted his teeth and confessed: "Send me a few talented writers to infiltrate them, I want to see Let's see who keeps getting in trouble with me."

He was so angry that I even forgot to mention it, and directly used me. Cao Huachun knew that he was angry, so he didn't point it out, and just went to make arrangements silently.

(End of this chapter)