Chapter 487 The Cannon Emperor
Guangzhou.
The Imperial Palace Chengtian Gate...
Newly created.
However, compared to the obviously perfunctory one before, the new Chengtian Gate is much more formal and looks more like the one in the capital.
It's just a little smaller.
But it is still enough to highlight the emperor's majesty.
After experiencing the previous cannon battle, the emperor really had enough imperial majesty.
The gentry of Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces all knelt down at his feet in fear. If he wanted to divide the land, he would quickly divide the land. If he wanted to collect taxes, he would quickly pay taxes. Especially after Yang Feng started to do artillery punishment in the north, these gentry had no distractions. After all, no matter what, His Majesty the Emperor was not Yang Feng, and he would not be so solemn to play with the cleaning style of artillery punishment!
If the gentry had seen Yang Feng look handsome because of the emperor's cannon, now, with Yang Feng's cannon in a more unrestrained way, he looks ferocious again.
The emperor began to look handsome.
After all, they are very pitiful, and they actually need to make choices among monsters and tyrants.
The Nanyang Company almost became his shares, and then became his money printing machine. The silver from overseas trade continued to pour into his hands, and then maintained his military and political system. The corresponding one was that farmers' taxes were getting lower and lower, and they had even begun to learn from Yang Feng's popularization of compulsory education. The confiscated gentry industry and commercial industries were also sold to the generals at a low price.
Therefore, the army was loyal to him.
Chen Lin was kicked out of the army by him.
However, it was a normal retirement method and he did not settle his previous problems, so that all the generals of the army were grateful for the emperor's kindness.
After all, the emperor was generous to them.
Wu Guang, who returned from the north, was appointed as the new left governor, Liu Zhaosun was promoted to the right governor, and then the emperor was still the Grand governor, and the army was firmly in control, and all the lack of Wu Guang's subordinates was also filled. The imperial camp still maintained the organization of 180,000 people in the six armies, and the personal army still maintained 200,000 troops, among which the personal army even began to turn into a flintlock rifle.
The new naval admiral Xu Xinsu was also loyal to him.
Although Li Dan was not kicked out of Nanyang Company, he was demoted to deputy chief manager by the emperor, and the chief promoted Ou Huayu. As for Zhang Jingquan, he was also promoted to deputy chief manager. All of Li Dan's sons were favored by His Majesty the Emperor and were personally taught and studied by His Majesty the Emperor. His son Li Guozhu was still a child at this time. In fact, he was not only Li Dan's son, Ou Huayu, Zhang Jingquan, and even the sons of those general managers of Nanyang Company were also forcibly summoned to the palace to educate himself.
Of course, it's only one sentence to beheading.
But no matter what, Nanyang Company is now truly under his control.
Not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the maritime leaders in Nanyang also had to give him his son to educate him.
For example, Huang Minggang.
It is definitely not possible if you don't give it away.
After all, Xu Xinsu's fleet can be wiped out at any time.
Even if Huang Minggang is not good in Batavia, the Dutch East India Company cannot defeat the Imperial Navy.
However, in order to ensure the interests of local merchants, Nanyang Company's sugarcane industry in Bengang was stopped...
The property there had been taken away by His Majesty the Emperor. Then, because of the care of the local people during his imprisonment in Penghu, they specially changed Penghu to Fengsheng and established Fengsheng Mansion. Then they directly divided a certain island into two, and all the south were included in Fengsheng Mansion.
In the north, Tamsui is the two places, Jilong has become Taipei Prefecture, and a prefecture is built in the Tamsui area.
Later, the settlement rights of Fengsheng and Taipei were all taken over to His Majesty the Emperor.
Sugar cane vegetation was stopped, and sugar industry production was stopped to avoid the leakage of sugar technology. In fact, the leakage of sugar technology in history started from the Dutch hiring Ming craftsmen to make sugar, and then spread to Java Island. As for the fields that have been reclaimed were distributed to those employed farmers to continue growing rice.
And use the rice there as the emperor's tribute rice.
Sugarcane cultivation has turned to Guangxi, and His Majesty the Emperor will develop Guangxi on a large scale.
In fact, His Majesty the Emperor is very concerned about the industrial advantages of the Ming Dynasty. Not only is the production of sugar not allowed to be leaked outside the local area, but any external leak is strictly prohibited. Porcelain production, tea, textiles, and any technical leak will bring danger to the whole family. Similarly, the Ming people dare to establish these industries overseas, such as making sugar cane in Southeast Asia, which will also face the destruction of the navy, and all letters and exchanges between Matteo Ricci and others are subject to strict scrutiny...
To be precise, it is prohibited to use non-Chinese characters to send letters to the Ming Dynasty, and some people who were involved in them killed the whole family.
Even if they send letters to the Vatican, they must use Chinese characters.
No, no.
Who knows if these guys used words that the Ming Dynasty didn't understand to reveal some confidential things to Europe?
As for whether it is reasonable or not, it is not related to His Majesty’s business.
He is the emperor.
He has to do what others say.
It is reasonable and it is necessary to do as it is unreasonable. This is imperial power.
Don't listen...
The cannon was placed on Chengtian Gate!
At this time, His Majesty the Emperor was beside his cannon, looking majesticly below, and there were groups of white-haired old men kneeling outside Chengtian Gate...
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please save the northern subjects!"
"Your Majesty, just show your mercy!"
...
They were wailing sadly.
The leader was the king of the Shandong Council.
Well, these are the old ministers from Shandong and some of the northern Zhili. They were thousands of miles away, braved the sea storm and waves to go south to Guangzhou, and came to ask His Majesty the Emperor for help, asking His Majesty the Emperor to be pitiful to those subjects in dire straits in the north, and to issue an order to Yang Feng to take over his supernatural powers! Although they did betray the emperor in the past, they were also forced, and they had already admitted their mistakes and begged for mercy. What else do they want to do? What else do they want to do if they admit their mistakes?
"Did you ever think of me when you were abducted by the rebellion?"
His Majesty the Emperor shouted.
Wang Zhiyuan and others looked at each other...
"Your Majesty, I am all forced. Those scholars have burned the Xing family. If the old ministers refuse to abdicate, they will be beaten to death by those scholars."
Wang Zhiyuan said crying.
The other old ministers nodded, saying that everything was the fault of those scholars.
"Who is Yang Feng's cannon now?"
Wanli shouted.
"Well?"
The old ministers shut up one after another.
"I won't say anything anymore, then I'll tell you for you. It was the traitors who were killing Yang Feng!
You are even claiming to be loyal ministers, which is simply shameless!
When I was in the capital, I was in a state of great trouble, deceiving my superiors and concealing my subordinates, forming cliques for personal gain, and treating me as deaf and blind fooling me, embezzling and bribery for officials, gathering excessively in the country, and the country was poor and poor. Only I was rich and hungry and killed all over the world. Only I was full of energy. The soldiers guarding the border were still hungry and cold. I was useless to be fed to the country, but I was fed with wealth. The bandits rose up and the barbarians invaded the crusade. But I took the opportunity to fill my personal pockets. Then the three thousand mutinies in Shimen Village caused the world to collapse.
You can't wait to kick me away one by one and create a new king in an attempt to continue your good life.
It took me nearly nine years to barely maintain this country and country. At this time, you are optimistic that life will not be able to survive. Yang Feng's knife was raised to his head, and he remembered me again at this time?
Pooh!
brazen!
It's simply shameless!
Yang Feng wants to kill you?
Good gunshot!
Not only will he kill you, but I will kill you too!
I will take down all these rebels who have been delivered to me and I will kill them all!"
His Majesty the Emperor shouted.
He is not stupid. He lives a good life now. Although he only has five provinces, at least in these five provinces, he truly feels the fun of the emperor. He really kills and kills and takes whatever he wants. The civil servants shivered in front of him, and they have to shout about the Holy Lord and the wise king. The gentry was trembling and offered whatever he wanted. The army was strong in combat. These days, they had even begun to clean up the chieftains in Guangxi and forced the chieftains to pay taxes. The latter was completely beaten and bowed down, crying and shouting that they would pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor.
Let him disturb Yang Feng’s good mood at this time?
When Yang Feng turned around and dealt with him, he was disturbed not just in a good mood.
So now we are using these guys who come to our door to provide legitimacy to Yang Feng's gun decisions, and then exchange them for Yang Feng's good mood.
In this way, he can continue to maintain his current good mood.
Cannon kill!
By the way, he wanted to kill these guys!
I couldn't reach it from a distance before, but I didn't expect it to be delivered to my door by myself.
However, Wang Zhiyuan was stunned. They were obviously here to ask the emperor for help? How could this be killed by the emperor? Is this still the familiar emperor they are familiar with? Isn’t he easy to talk to? Isn’t he easy to control? Wasn’t he forced by his ministers to not even go to court? Didn’t he bear it even after being scolded? They have been with the emperor for more than 20 years. Is the one they know fake?
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what is the crime of the old minister?"
An old guy who had obviously not escaped from his past impression of Wanli shouted instinctively to His Majesty the Emperor.
"Crime? I am the emperor. I say you should die. If you should die, you should die. If you say you should die, you should die. If you should die, you should die. You should die. You will die. You will die. You will be declared to the world with my will. The Liaodong princes are in the northern expedition to the Central Plains and the enemy party. I am very relieved. I will increase the fief of the Liaodong princes for tens of millions of acres. I will be ordered to continue to work hard, but if you capture the enemy party, you will die. In addition, I will be ordered to Humen and the enemy party will be punished. If you have the enemy party on the spot, you will not need to send it to me!"
The emperor shouted.
The soldiers of the Imperial Camp who were like wolves and tigers in front of Chengtian Gate quickly stepped forward, pressed Wang Zhiyuan and others one by one, dragged them into Chengtian Gate, and then dragged them to the city wall.
His Majesty the Emperor sat down directly between the two special mortars on the left and right sides.
Then the soldiers began to stuff Wang Zhiyuan and another old minister into the muzzle, and then the sound of cannons rang out, and Wang Zhiyuan and the others flew into the sky in the flames and smoke...
"continue!"
His Majesty the Emperor, who was sitting in the middle, watched their broken corpses fall on the Imperial Street.
Then the other two old ministers were quickly stuffed into the cannon...
Chapter completed!