Chapter 704: Different statements

Taking off the traditional literati and Confucian robe and wearing simple and casual clothes, Chen Zilong felt a sense of transformation. After leaving his residence, Chen Zilong also devoted himself to this investigation. The Ming Dynasty had too many practical problems. It is better to devote himself to real work, changing the country bit by bit, just by bit.

The quarrel between the imperial court over Nanzhili and Huguang was finally over. After many meetings, the Ming Dynasty cabinet reached an agreement and reported it to the emperor for approval. Because without the Sili Supervisory, the power of the Ming Dynasty cabinet increased greatly, but such military and national affairs still had to be approved by the emperor. The rights of civil officials seemed to be becoming more and more powerful under the new system. In fact, because the reform of the army was underway, the management rights of the military troops were stripped away bit by bit.

At this time, a memorial from Jiangnan once again triggered disputes between the government and the public. Chen Xie, one of the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty, submitted a memorial to Zhu Cilang to clarify his views. The past household registration system has been continued to this day and has no longer kept up with the pace of the development of the Ming Dynasty and has become a resistance to development. Therefore, he asked Your Majesty to convene a meeting in the imperial front to discuss the abolition of low-class and craftsmanship. He also said, "This move is imminent about the future of the Ming Dynasty! Therefore, please ask Your Majesty and your colleagues to handle it quickly as soon as possible."

After receiving this memorial, Zhu Cilang's reaction was not strong, and the cabinet's reaction seemed to be like a volcano erupting. Zhou Yanru directly reached out to rub his eyebrows, Jiang V≧ Fengyuan pressed his chest, Hong Chengchou slapped the table and jumped his feet, and the others were dull, but their expressions showed anger. This was all caused by Chen Xie. This is the ancestral system, and it would be impossible to change it, but you should discuss with everyone first. Look at the wording in this memorial, discussing "abolition". It is not discussing "whether to abolish".

It seems to be a tepid memorial, but in fact there is a strong desire between the lines. Discuss quickly and abolish them quickly. Don’t let me worry too much. I don’t have time to grind my teeth with you. Do you still have Your Majesty in your eyes? Do you still have a cabinet?

The capital was in a quarrel, but Chen Xie was doing another thing. After a fleet arrived in Huating, it began to load arms on the ship. After working for three days, it was only after loading the arms purchased by the Dutch. There were a total of 600 cannons, 20,000 rifles, and several corresponding ammunition. It was equipped with a total of five ships, and they were all merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty. The destination of these merchant ships was not India, but Europe. This was the first time the Ming Dynasty sent a fleet to Europe.

Following this fleet, a fleet of twenty warships escorted by the fleet. This time, we will take the sea route through Natuna, turn to Temasek, and go through the strait to India, where there is an escort fleet of twenty warships, and an infantry division carried by thirty merchant ships waiting to get on the road together.

On the eve of his departure, the commander of the Expeditionary Force met Chen Xie in Songjiang Prefecture and listened to the instructions. For this voyage, Chen Xie's request was not to attack Europe, because it was too unrealistic.

Pointing to the huge world map. Chen Xie first pointed to Dar es Salaam: "This is a long voyage. Your mission is not to conquer Europe and show off your military power. The first task is to build a supply point and a base, and there is a need to garrison it. Cape Town, this is the territory of the Dutch, and we have reached a consensus. We allow us to build our own supply point and base here. The secondary task is to control Arabia and the Red Sea, use India as a springboard. After entering the Red Sea, this place is called Jeddah. Build a supply point and a military base here. The ultimate goal is still this, Suez. Tell the Japanese Kaihua soldiers that he

We will stay at these two bases for five years, then rotate and send various supplies from India. I hope that in the next ten years, the imperial team will be able to control the entire Egypt. Then, in another ten years, dig a canal to penetrate the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. In this way, the route to Europe will be greatly shortened, and the entire Western Asia and the eastern coast of Africa will be within the control of the Ming Empire's navy." There is another sentence, Chen Xie did not say to this soldier, that is, "There is really the day when I leave the Ming Dynasty. I hope to see the true rise of the Ming Empire, rather than the cancer patients in the prosperous Qing Dynasty that seemed to be back."

This navigation operation was said in the official records of the Ming Dynasty, "This is another great voyage after Zheng He's voyage to the West during the Chengzu period, and it is also a great voyage that brings peace, development, co-existence to the people of the world. It is known in history that the new voyage is built." This official statement has been widely recognized by the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America. At least this is what their textbooks are written, and some Western Asian and African countries even wrote directly in the textbooks, "The ocean exploration behavior of the Ming Empire objectively brought civilization and progress to the people of West Asian and African."

The caliber of the Ming folk historians is relatively close to the records in the European and American historical circles. They all called this voyage the "Kanxin Expedition". They believed that this was a military action of the rise of the sea power consciousness of the Ming Empire, which objectively promoted the prosperity of the Ming Empire for five hundred years and the status of the world hegemony.

The above are all relatively polite statements. A European named Marx mentioned in his book that Chen Xie, who is known as the most outstanding military strategist, politician, thinker, and musician in the Ming Empire in the past century, is essentially a nationalist and imperialist. He is a representative of the world bourgeoisie, with his hands covered with the blood of the people of the world. The navigation expedition took place in the fifth year of the founding of the Ming Empire, which started the plundering of the Ming Empire worldwide. The former Asian empire was no longer satisfied with plundering in Asia, and instigated this large-scale military operation, and in the next forty years, it will continue to increase its military investment in Africa and West Asia. This operation, along with its subsequent expedition across the Pacific, was essentially for world colonization and was a product driven by capital interests.

The expedition involved forty warships, sixty-three merchant ships and supply ships, carrying one infantry division and several Marines. After the fleet arrived in Cape Town, it escorted ten merchant ships to continue sailing to Europe, and planned to arrive in the Dutch port city of Amsterdam in the spring of the following year.

The quarrels in the capital were not dry, and Chen Xie's memorial on the abolition of the corresponding household registration system was still smoothly placed on the round table of the imperial meeting. The reason is simple. Zhu Cixuan needs a strong external force to balance the entire political pattern that seems to be too strong in the civil service group.

However, at this imperial meeting, the first issue was not household registration, but a proposal proposed by Li Yuzhi, Minister of Personnel, to abolish the governors of the world, on the grounds that "no external troubles, and only hurt national treasury." During the internal strife in the Ming Dynasty, many governors were established to unify the battles of each army. There are only three governors who are still retained, one is the governor of Ji Liao, one is the governor of the trilateral border, and the other is Chen Xie's three provinces and overseas prime ministers.

The reason is very strong. The Ming Dynasty has no external troubles. Nowadays, all Mongolian Tartars are raising sheep and cattle for the Ming Dynasty in exchange for food and daily necessities. Don’t worry about them jumping. There are garrisons from Korqin to Chahar, Chifeng, Chengde, Ulanqab, Baotou and other places. Even Kulun in the depths of the desert have a Ming cavalry stationed. These troops are stationed in these places, explicitly saying that they are protecting commercial routes and attacking horse bandits. In fact, they are occupying the mountains and becoming kings and playing a surveillance role. If there is any movement on the grassland, you must first pass this level.

As for the men in Mongolians, they were not interested in fighting with the Ming Dynasty. They were all enjoying the huge benefits of the wool trade. As long as they raised more sheep, they had food, clothing, and luxury goods. Fight? Fight and raise sheep for me. These people have learned not to raise goats, but to raise sheep from Taixi. This kind of sheep produces a lot of wool, and they don’t even eat grass roots.

The most important thing is the relative fairness of trade. When the Ming merchants came in the past, they were so unscrupulous. Now, although the Ming merchants are still unscrupulous, they dare not be too unscrupulous. Once the garrisons in various places receive reports from Mongolian tribes, they will take action against the unscrupulous merchants. The arrest and fines are light. Some unscrupulous people will be blackened and even the silver they have given to you. The grassland is too big, and you don’t know where the death is.

Back to the topic! After Li Yuzhi's proposal was put forward, the atmosphere of the imperial meeting was wrong. After the cancellation of the governors from all over the country, Chen Xie could not take into account the affairs of the three provinces. In fact, Chen Xie had not made much sense to hold this title. Shandong had basically given up. Jiangnan was mainly concentrated in Songjiang Prefecture. The only real sense that Chen Xie was in the territory of the territory was nothing more than Liaodong.

The biggest function of this proposal is actually not a real territory, but to make all Chen Xie's actions in Jiangnan become unreasonable. In this way, Chen Xie's identity is embarrassing. If you are a cabinet minister, you don't stay in the capital, what's the matter if you stay in Jiangnan for a long time? Also, you will be able to squeeze the emperor and make him embarrassed, and then break up the invisible alliance between Zhu Cixuan and Chen Xie.

This was also a powerful counterattack against Chen Xie, but as the emperor, Zhu Cilang was relatively calm at this time. After seeing through the intentions of the civil servant group, Zhu Cilang did not angry but laughed. He thought this person was so stupid. After so many years, he was still working on that trick. He first used a title of great power to make a fuss, then slander and then slander, and finally the general attacker.

In response to this, Zhu Cixuan decided to throw the problem back and nodded simply: "I think it is feasible! I will nominate Chen Xie as the next chief minister, please discuss it at the imperial front meeting." Zhu Cixuan was considered to have been a bad person for Chen Xie, and his words were half-literate and half-civilized.

At this time, the cabinet wanted to come. Damn, summer is here, and it is not far from the autumn cabinet. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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