Chapter 13 (Part 1) Proposal

In the February of the 12th year of Hongwu, Wuxu, the Marquis of Pangliao Wu'anguo, Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jinghai, and Guo Pu, the governor of Peking, jointly wrote a letter to advise Zhu Yuanzhang to select strong men from the Northern Expedition Army and form an invincible army equipped with fine armor, muskets and cannons. Customs and guards were established in coastal ports, tariffs were collected to enrich the national treasury, and naval troops were trained to prevent Japanese pirates. "Select and refine elite troops, restore all the hometowns of China, expel Japanese pirates, and promote the prestige of China." The memorial also mentioned the method of enriching the country and strengthening the army, namely, agriculture, industry, merchants, and Yu.

The first time the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty who were familiar with the classics and history heard this kind of equality of the four people, especially the proposal of mercantilism, was discussed. From the degree of attention of the emperor's recent title of Wu'an Kingdom as the Marquis of Ping Liao and the geography of Liaodong, we can infer that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use troops to Liaodong. Last year, the shock caused by Xu Da's great defeat of Mongolia and Yan Wang Xian's "painted as a map of the country" has not passed. If he opposes the dispatch of troops at this time, he will definitely be angry with the public, and no one will be so stupid that he will be so ugly. The Japanese pirates bully people too much, and they should indeed be attacked. However, the suggestion of collecting tariffs at the construction of sea and land passes is too fresh. Although the Ming Dynasty's treasury is currently empty, it will not harm anyone. However, doing this obviously puts business in an important position, which is something they cannot accept. As for the equality of the four people, it is contrary to the thousands of years of Confucian experience in governing the country, and it is absolutely impossible to agree.

"Long live, the ancients said, gold, silver, pearls and jade, hunger, cannot be eaten, and thirsty, it is worse than grain, silk and hemp. Long live, like the style of opening the Shang Dynasty, the people must value profit and neglect righteousness, which is the way to cause disaster." After a while of discussion, the Censor Chen Ning came out of the squad and knelt down and started a loud voice. "In the past, Guan Zhong governed Qi, opened a girl's village, and communicated with merchants. Qi's country was richest in the world and was extremely powerful. However, after Guan Zhong, Qi's country was born and the Duke Huan was also destroyed by the rioters. This was all the disaster of Shang. Merchants must first talk about profit in everything, and

When the people follow business, it is easy to fight, which is the beginning of disaster. Therefore, the reason why the ancient sage kings guided the people was to first work on farmers; the farmers were not good for the land, but they value their ambition. When the people were simple, they were simple, and they were easy to use. When the people were easy to use, the border was safe and the main position was respected. When the people were farmers, they were more important, and if the people were more important, they were less private righteousness. When the people were less private righteousness, they were established and made a public law. When the people were only one after another, they were only one after another. When the people were born, they were moved after giving birth. When the people were moved after giving birth, they were moved after giving birth, and when the people died, they had no two concerns about the situation..." He was proficient in classics and history, and this principle was originally the consensus of Confucian scholars in ancient and modern times, so it was very clear.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang hummed softly in his nose. If it were the past, he would have listened to these words. After the founding of the country, under the name of restoring the Tang system, he listened to the suggestions of Confucian scholars to formulate a series of national policies. These policies to emphasize agriculture slowly restored the country that had experienced disasters. In the early Ming Dynasty, the population was only more than 60 million, with a large land and sparse population. Agriculture was indeed a good recipe for the country to quickly restore vitality. But now what he needs is no longer recovery, but development. The picturesque country told by Wu'anguo was deeply imprinted in his mind.

.Being an emperor with a wider land than Genghis Khan of Mongolia has become his long wish. Moreover, he found that under the goal of a strong country, it is easier for the monarch and ministers to work together. Yesterday, he basically agreed with Guo Pu and others about how to enrich the country and strengthen their troops to compete for the world. Today he was taken to the court just to strengthen his confidence. So he disagreed with Chen Ning's words and asked in a low voice, "In your opinion, how can we afford to pay enough food and salary, restore the hometown of Liaodong, and prevent the Japanese pirates from causing trouble."

"Your Majesty, since our country was established, the four barbarians surrendered, and Mongolia came to the court. According to my views, I sent good generals to the outside world to strictly guard the four realms, and cultivated benevolence and virtue in the internal world, and could not fight and surrender the soldiers. When Shun was at that time, Miao was not convinced, and Yu was about to attack him. Shun said, "No. The superior virtue was not strong and the martial arts were not good, which was not Tao." So after practicing for three years, he held the Gan Qiwu, and Miao was submissive. The sage and the people admired him, and the world returned to his heart. Liaodong is a barbaric land, and the people paid the military pay. It is better to cultivate virtue and politics to make it return to his heart. The people's hearts are facing me, and the lord will not be able to defend it. The Japanese pirates plundered my coastal coastal areas and seek wealth and goods. I think that if there is no wealth and goods to lure them, the Japanese will go away. Your Majesty and he built Haiwei, it is better to move the people along the coast to the mainland, and to make no people in the coastal areas ten miles away, and without the orders of the court, and the Japanese will not be able to enter the sea. The Japanese have no money and food, and they will disperse themselves over time."

"Shameless", Wu Anguo cursed secretly. He was not good at this sophistry of looking after the facts, and was thinking about how to refute Chen Ning. The Xiping Hou Muying could not hold back and stood up. He knelt down and said, "Long live, what Duke Chen said, I dare not agree with it. The Mongolian surrendered, and the military force was forced. Goryeo dared to occupy Liaodong, and it was also a military force. Cultivating benevolence and virtue to return to his hometown in Liaodong is tantamount to plot against tigers. Without fighting, he resigned the soldiers of the people, and the military preparations are not benevolence and virtue. If Miao cultivates benevolence and virtue, would Shun return to it?"

Just after he finished speaking, the veteran general Tang He stood up again and started to say, "When the Japanese Sea comes, you should be detained by the sea. Moving people to avoid it will actually damage my great power. If you want to eliminate the Japanese disaster, you should set up a garrison, gather infantry on land, and warships on water, then the Japanese will not be able to enter, and you will not be able to enter the shore. The Japanese bully the good and fear evil. If you blindly avoid it, they will be very eager to deceive me, not only the coast, but also the inland. If you want to pacify the Japanese, even though I am old, I would like to join Your Majesty." After speaking, he stared at Chen Ning, and his white beard trembled slightly.

Prime Minister Hu Weiyong saw that Chen Ning could no longer look up under Tang He's tiger eyes. When he thought, he went out to kneel down and suggested, "Your Majesty, according to my opinion, what Muying said in Xiping said was very reasonable." He was good at understanding the saint's intentions and knew Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts. But as a leader of a civil minister, he must adhere to the basics of Confucianism at this moment. "Your Majesty wants to capture Liaodong and drive away pirates, which is a wise view and a blessing for all generations. However, the country cannot easily talk about business. Those who are businessmen are wise. Now our Ming Dynasty is rich in all the world, and there is no scarce thing in the world. How can we do business for me? We only help the enemy?" Hu Weiyong first patted Zhu Yuanzhang a comfortable flattery, and then began to refute the suggestions of Wu'anguo and others. "I think it is necessary to build a Haiwei, but the customs do not have to do it, so that our Central Plains' wealth will not flow out, and hiding wealth and the people are the best strategy. To promote customs,

In order to tell the country of the world that can be traded with me, and the country of the world is equal to me, which will damage my superior face and lose the big picture because of small losses. Moreover, the king enriches the people, the overlords, and the only remaining country rich and the rich doctors, the country rich and the baskets are destroyed, and the baskets are rich and the baskets are rich, and the people are poor. This is what is called overflowing and leaking. Those who promote merchants must compete with the people for profit and shake the root of the country. Just like this, the Marquis of Pacifying Liao is a military general, and they do not understand literature and writing, so they have this discussion. I think that Your Majesty can praise his country's intention and not listen to his words." As the prime minister, he is the head of civil officials and he is in charge of administrative power in the Secretariat. Generally no one dares to refute him. These words lead the contradiction to the division between civil officials and military generals. Several civil officials who want to agree with Wu'anguo's suggestion did not dare to speak again. The Chief Secretary Tu Jie, the Minister of the Secretariat, and the Minister Xia Yu and others nodded repeatedly and agreed in a low voice.

"Otherwise, your Majesty, I think the words of the Prime Minister Hu are wrong." Guo Pu heard Hu Weiyong belittle Wu'anguo so much, and stood up at the end of the civil service team. "The prosperity of the Yin and Zhou dynasties, poetry and books, should be used to calm the people and teach them. The sages govern the world, and the first priority is to enrich the people. The Book of Changes says: "The great virtues of heaven and earth are called life, and the great treasures of the sage are called position; how to maintain the position is called benevolence, and how to gather people are called wealth." Wealth is why the emperor gathers people to maintain the position, cultivates people, obeys the virtues of heaven, and governs the country and the people. Shang is to communicate with the existence and whether it can increase the flow of wealth. Agriculture, industry, commerce, and Yu are all the policies that enrich the people. Provincial taxes are used to enrich farmers; light taxes are used to benefit farmers.... People who are not satisfied with the land must have a way out, and those who are prosperous and taxes must have a way out. The taxes of the country must be prosperous and taxes must be a way out.

If the increase is made, the national strength will also be helped. A bad horse is also a horse. If it is tamed properly, it can be used as other people. Generally speaking, those who can be inferior horses will have stronger strength than those of middle and lower horses. If it is called properly, it will turn harm into profit. If human power flows, the power of the patriarchal power will inevitably be reduced, and national stability will inevitably be strengthened. Since ancient times, many events have arisen in the wild, the second one has been official, and the second one has started from education, but no one has started from Shang. Because the merchants and farmers have no risk of survival, they act with profit and not weight, and because they are good at planning, they are not foolish. Therefore, the imperial examinations are the flow of officials, and the merchants are the flow of people." Guo Pu's Confucian attainments were not inferior to Song Lian, so he would never be vague when he dropped his schoolbag. After a while, he was circling around, which made Hu Weiyong and others want to refute, but they didn't know how to start for a while.

Seeing that the two sides were quarreling, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his attention to the Grand Tutor Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang was under Zhu Yuanzhang for many years and once offered his view of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king". It was precisely with his principled suggestions that Zhu Yuanzhang won the world. He was originally the prime minister, but because he was unwilling to intervene in the struggle between the ministers, he retired to the position of Grand Tutor since the fourth year of Hongwu. He did not express any opinions easily. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang looking at him, he went out to work and said, "I think that what the Marquis of Ping Liao said was domineering, and what the Duke Chen said was kingly, and Your Majesty could pass the times and accept it."

"Nonsense, old fox" Zhu Yuanzhang cursed in his heart when he saw Li Shanchang kicking the ball back. He asked tightly: "The Grand Master thinks what the situation is going on at this time."

Seeing that Li Shanchang was shirked, he replied with a stern voice: "It is imperative to conquer Liaodong and pacify pirates. However, my dynasty conquers Mongolia last year, and the soldiers are tired. You should not be in a hurry. Your Majesty can be polite first and then soldiers...". His words of the wise zombie made Wu Anguo confused. After thinking carefully, he realized that his suggestion was to give Goryeo and Japan an ultimatum first. If the other party knew each other, it would be better. If they didn't know each other, they would meet each other. "This is not much like the Americans." Wu Anguo smiled and thought, "It seems that this Taishi who seems to be unable to wake up every day is not as simple as it seems. The battle between countries has no morality at all, but this old man actually made the coercion and temptation justified, which is really fucking high."

After listening, Wu Anguo admired Li Shanchang even more. The old fox's suggestion was: It is possible to build Haiwei and develop customs, and it is also a good way to build customs on land. The Ming Dynasty had sufficient goods, and the customs could be used to allow the export of relevant goods to be restricted. The four peoples of agriculture, industry, commerce, and Yu were equal. However, the Ming Dynasty had never said that the four people were inequality, so there was no need to argue again about the inequality. As for Wu Anguo and others, it was better to use the specific methods to promote industry and commerce and achieve the equality of the four peoples, it was better to use Yan in Beiping first.

Under the rule of the king, we will try it first and see how the effect will be determined. However, the military expenditure of the northern expedition to Liaodong was borne by these "test fields" alone, and the court did not pay it. The same is true for the Trip Guard, and the Trip Guard costs were allocated from the customs income. Analyzing not only took care of the feelings of Hu Weiyong and others, but also partially supported the Wu'anguo plan in disguise. At the same time, the method of opening a "special zone" and gradually experimented to avoid the risks brought by the new policy. It just fits Zhu Yuanzhang's mentality that he wanted to taste the sweet and sour fruits but was unwilling to take risks.

"Ginger is still the hottest thing"! Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly on the dragon throne, "Old guy, it seems that you will never tell the truth if you don't force you." Li Shanchang's suggestions can be said to have made him 100% satisfied, and it seems that all officials are impeccable. He glanced at the ministers and loudly announced the results of the court meeting.

The imperial edict could be said to have been beyond everyone's expectations. Since Xu Da had already trained, the governor's office of the Five Army of Peking was changed to the governor's office of the Beiping from now on. Except for Shanhaiwei, the other areas in the jurisdiction remained unchanged. Yongchang Hou Lanyu, Heqing Bo Zhang Yi, Longjiang Bo Chen Heng and other young generals who had emerged in the wars in recent years were all sent to the King of Yan to be responsible for the defense of various places. Wu'an also received the third commendation within one month. "The Marquis of Ping Liao, Wu'an, Wu'an, was well-thought and made great contributions to the country, and was promoted to the left governor of the governor's office of the Beiping, and assisted the King of Yan to form the army of the Northern Expedition to act cheaply." Such an imperial edict was equivalent to completely handing over the troops to form the Northern Expedition to Liaodong to Zhu Di and Wu'an, and the court no longer cared about it.

Regarding Haiwei and Customs, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to appoint the Crown Prince Zhu Biao to govern the affairs of Hailu and Land. Duke of Xinguo, Cao Zhen, the son of Jinghai, and Fang Mingqian, assisted him. More than 50 Haiwei stations in large and large areas were set up along the coast, and the guards in Shanhai, Weihai, Songjiang, Quanzhou and other important places were changed to the commander command office to control all coastal guards. Customs were set up at all ports and land ports, and good families were selected as ambassadors and deputy envoys. Officials at all levels were recommended from various places, and the Crown Prince Zhu Biao was hired.

"Go down, draw a memorial and write a memorial to answer the important memorials. Don't be too anxious. You are young after all." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at the young men who were receiving the imperial edict at the steps. He remembered the words of Empress Ma again, "Long live, the King of Yan has left Your Majesty for several months, which is impressive. The other princes, I think they need to know the policy as soon as possible. The prince is kind, and Your Majesty should entrust him with great responsibility earlier. Otherwise, all the kings will make achievements and where will your Majesty be appointed in the future? It is better to assist him with loyal and upright ministers." Zhu Yuanzhang deeply agreed with this view. Let Wu Anguo and Cao Zhen assist one of my sons. He thought to himself, you are all heroes, and I am not relieved after staying together for a long time.

This chapter and the next chapter are mostly disputes between the court, so there is a lot of classical Chinese. The content is not lively, so readers who like to watch war scenes can not read these two chapters. By the time of the fourteenth chapter, the first part has been basically completed. From Chapter 15, the main thing is to turn to war, but writing about war is not the director of the drunkard.

Some people say that drunkards seem to hate the Mongols very much, which is actually a misunderstanding. If it were in the Ming Dynasty, no one would have had much favoritism for the Mongols, because the war between the Mongols caused at least half of the population to be lost in the Central Plains. However, drunkards believe that what the Mongols did at that time did not require the Mongols to bear the responsibility for it. History is history, and it happened, as long as it can be recorded, there is no love or hatred, and don’t let history bear too many functions it shouldn’t have.

Regarding warships, please quote a discussion on a web page. Let's take a look, but don't say I'm plagiarizing. "Before the Age of Discovery, the main battlefield of naval battles was in the Mediterranean, which was in the form of catching the sidelines, jumping the gang, and using infantry to fight to determine the outcome. Although the artillery was installed on warships, it did not play its main role. Until the discovery of the new route, the trade of the ocean brought huge profits to various maritime powers, and at the same time intensified the struggle on the ocean. Control of the ocean is the control of wealth. Conducting the ocean in the ocean

The three-masted sailboats in the Mediterranean were too poorly navigable to play a role in the ocean because of their poor navigability. On the Atlantic Ocean, the old Carrak sailboats and other ships at that time were too high to attract wind, making the ship difficult to operate when facing wind. Sir John Hawkins of the Elizabethan saw this. He lowered the height of the bow and stern, especially the forecastle, and used a square stern instead of the original round stern. Such a new design was relatively narrow and long, with a speed.

Faster, excellent manipulation in the wind. The majestic Carrak sailboat of the Spanish Empire's Invincible Armada was also defeated by the British fleet in the July 1588 naval battle in July 1588. This naval battle marked the decline of Spanish maritime hegemony and the rise of the British Empire. The great success of the Galleon ship made it last until the end of the sailing era.

It is the design standard for warships, including battleships. Among them, the requirements for navigation and firepower are overwhelming conditions, so as to grab favorable positions during battles and exert advantageous firepower. In the 17th century, the main sailing ships in the British-Dutch war were all of the same low-side, cross-sailed sails, and the two sides were equipped with cannon artillery. Many such ships were lined up in a long row to exert the firepower advantage of both sides. This was also the first time the name "line of the battleship" was used.

The Ming Navy did not allow the treasure ship to be adopted because the treasure ship is not suitable for artillery battles, but the content of Chapter 15 will allow everyone to see the war scenes of the treasure ship. As for Zheng He, he is only seven or eight years old in history, so he cannot appear.

Many of the characters in this book are real people in history. Drunkards outline their own images for them according to their own understanding, so they are pure game works. Please do not compare the characters and history in the novel.
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