Chapter 624: The Possibility of Assassinating the Grandson of Ming Dynasty
Things like the mythological system are actually very chaotic and fragmented in today's Ming Dynasty.
Whether it's Pangu creating heaven, Nuwa creating man, Sanqing Taoism, or descendants shooting the sun, Buddhism, Buddhism, Taoism, Taoism, etc., they all exist independently and are not connected stories.
The same is true of Pangu's opening of the sky: the king of Pangu has the head of a dragon and the body of a snake. His hush is the wind and rain, blowing is thunder and lightning, opening his eyes is day, closing his eyes is night. After death, his joints are mountains and forests, his body is rivers and seas, his blood is Huaidu, and his hair is
vegetation,
The earliest record comes from the nine-line "Five Luck Calendar Years" in the "Guang Bo Wu Zhi" volume.
It has nothing to do with Buddhism or Taoism.
The myth about Pangu was first widely circulated among the ethnic minorities in the south during the late Central Plains Dynasty.
The Miao and Yao people have always worshiped Pangu and regarded Pangu as their ancestor.
The Zhuang, Dong, Malao and other ethnic groups also have widespread rumors about Pangu, who regard Pangu as the founder of the world.
However, this has nothing to do with the Han people. Pangu at this time does not exist in the Han people's myths and stories, it can be regarded as something like Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
Descendants shooting the sun comes from the "Songs of Chu·Tian Wen" in the pre-Qin literature. There are related records in the ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". The first volume of the Song Dynasty's similar book "The Valley of Splendid Ten Thousand Flowers" quotes the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as saying: "Yao's Tenth Day appeared together.
, Yao sent Yi to shoot for ten days, and it fell into Wojiao.
The Journey to the West known to later generations, such as Tang Monk, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, were only published in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The current Journey to the West is not difficult.
It is still more than a hundred years before the release of Fengshen Yanyi. The current Ming Dynasty only has the Pinghua version of "King Wu Conquers Zhou", which was published during the Song Dynasty.
The Romance of the Gods, which appeared later, was created based on "King Wu Conquers Zhou".
Witchcraft is considered a profession nowadays. Witches mostly perform tasks such as seducing gods, prophesying, praying for rain, healing diseases, etc. There is no concept of witch clan.
For a moment, Zhu Ying's mind suddenly thought of the ancient mythological system that could only be found in later novels.
The prehistoric mythology system connects a large number of mythological stories to form a huge worldview system.
Buddhism, Taoism, and even Confucianism are all integrated into it.
Taking Pangu's creation of the sky as a guide, the timelines of all mythological stories are integrated to form a strict mythological system.
The more hierarchical and rigorously constructed the mythological system is, the easier it is to form beliefs.
The Bible has such a great influence on the West, in fact, it is also from mythology to philosophy, and then to the establishment of three views.
It can be said that the prehistoric mythological system is beyond the cognition and imagination of this era. The strict and close-knit mythological characters and lifelike mythological stories are beyond the power of myths recognized today.
It may sound ridiculous, but in fact it will have a huge impact on the entire society.
The key is that because these are all produced by the government and endorsed by the court, people will subconsciously choose to believe them.
The most important thing is that in Zhu Ying's hands, he holds the right to speak for the entire era: the Ming Dynasty Capital Newspaper.
The Ming Dynasty Capital's Residence Newspaper is a must-read that overseas nobles are fighting for.
With the prosperity of maritime trade, the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty continued to flourish under Zhu Ying's control.
Don't underestimate the profit this newspaper brought to Ming Dynasty. It cost only a few cents, and its selling price overseas started at a few taels of silver. The further away it was, the higher the price.
In terms of internal funds, there are millions of taels of silver input every year, and the actual turnover generated is more than ten times, but the consumption of transportation is also included in this, which is already hundreds of millions.
Taking the Capital Dibao as an example, the entire world's silver and gold were flowing into the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.
Correspondingly, the huge circulation made Chinese characters spread rapidly throughout the world.
Without Zhu Ying even knowing about it, the earliest publication of the Capital City Newspaper has now spread to Western Europe, Egypt and other places.
Let the kings of distant countries understand how powerful the Ming Dynasty is in this land in the east.
It also made a large number of nobles and businessmen full of admiration and yearning for the Ming Dynasty.
The status of Chinese translation has skyrocketed overseas.
You must know that although there is no concept of information being blocked, even in the Middle East and neighboring countries, there are barriers to communication.
There are no channels for information dissemination, it's more like doing your own business behind closed doors.
The magical thing about the Capital Dibao is that the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a world trumpet in its hands, and it could introduce its own situation to all countries in the world.
In the overseas edition of Di Bao, Zhu Ying would often mention how vast the territory of the Ming Dynasty was and how powerful the Ming Dynasty's military force was.
Just one sentence in the Di newspaper, that the Ming Dynasty had more than two million soldiers, was enough to frighten most countries.
What is the concept of two million?
The fourteenth century was a century of population decline. At this time, the entire world's population did not experience an explosion.
The Little Ice Age caused constant disasters all over the world, such as the Black Death that had just ended in Europe.
The original population of 780 million in Europe has been reduced by nearly half.
Most countries, let alone millions of soldiers, have a population of only hundreds of thousands to less than a million.
In comparison, the Ming Dynasty's two million troops were completely at the pinnacle of the entire world.
With a population of more than 60 million, every noble had to confirm the specific number again and again after getting an accurate translation. After getting an affirmative answer, they almost suffocated.
This is already beyond their imagination.
Especially when I heard that Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was home to nearly three million people, my heart almost felt paralyzed.
A city with three million people living in it must be such a huge and prosperous city.
Countless people who read the contents of the capital's newspaper will yearn for and admire the Ming Dynasty in the East.
Naturally, nobles in many countries think this is a lie and cannot be believed.
But after some businessmen who had been to the capital of the Ming Dynasty told the real situation, they discovered that the contents in the Di newspaper were all true.
The name of Emperor Hongwu is now so popular all over the world that even Zhu Yuanzhang himself does not know that for some small countries and people, he himself has become a mythical figure, like a god walking on earth and the master of the world.
It seems that only such an identity can be worthy of the title of Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
The impact has been extremely far-reaching, such as Sultana.
If there was no capital newspaper, Sultana would naturally not learn Chinese characters, let alone go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to meet Zhu Ying by chance.
Situations like Sultana's are not an exception, but the norm in the entire world.
There are too many restrictions on land trade, and sea trade is the mainstream of current trade.
It is impossible to reach Daming by land from the Middle East, but it becomes easier by sea.
Merchants from all over the world felt honored to come to the Ming Dynasty to trade, and they purchased the goods in the Ming Dynasty.
Especially the three trump cards, porcelain, tea and silk.
These are the main products that have allowed the Central Plains dynasty to earn almost 80% of the world's silver throughout the ages, and are now being sold crazily all over the world.
As long as foreign businessmen purchase a batch and bring them back, they can make huge profits dozens of times if they resell them.
Ever since the Ming Dynasty treasure ship entered Champa, maritime merchants all over the world have been shocked. The treasure ship as big as the city is just like the Japanese nobles thinking it is a sign of the gods, which is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Only the Ming Dynasty, who is as powerful as the gods, can build such a large ship.
In this context, Zhu Ying's status in the Japanese country naturally became very high.
The moment Zhu Ying arrived in Japan, it meant that everything had stabilized.
The peace covenant that was originally important to both countries has now become a matter of Zhu Ying's words.
For this reason, the Japanese country specially prepared a grand hunting event for Zhu Ying to provide Zhu Ying with entertainment.
"Lord Ashikaga, are we really just at the mercy of the Ming Dynasty? The Japanese country has now become a slave of the Ming Dynasty, and we have lost all power."
"The great grandson of the Ming Dynasty wanted to take away such a huge territory like Kyushu Island without even saying a word. He didn't take us seriously at all."
"This hunting is a good opportunity. I will lead the most skilled warriors and take this opportunity to take away the life of the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty."
In a back room, Si Boyi said with determination in his voice.
Yoshitsho Shiba is the head of the Shiba clan in Japan and the most loyal subordinate of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
In response to the Ming Dynasty's continuous oppression of the Japanese country, General Si Boyi, who was already irritable, wanted to assassinate the Ming Dynasty's grandson.
In fact, not only Shiba Yishou had this idea, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also thought about it in his mind, and even sketched out the specific details in his mind.
Because the threat posed to him by the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty was too great. How prosperous the Ming Dynasty would be brought to him at such a young age.
He was also ambitious, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was worried that the current Kyushu Island would be like the entire Japanese nation in the future.
If the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty dies, then the Ming Dynasty will have no successors and will decline.
"Spo-kun, but do you know that if the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty dies in the Japanese country, it will bring a terrible disaster to the Japanese country."
"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was originally very cruel. It is said that he killed many people. According to the detailed statistics we arranged in the Ming Dynasty, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty alone, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty killed hundreds of thousands of people."
"These hundreds of thousands of people are all officials and nobles."
Speaking of this, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu couldn't help but sigh, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was really too bloodthirsty, and compared with him, he was really a dwarf.
Then he continued: "If the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty died in the Japanese country, who knows what the old emperor of the Ming Dynasty would do."
General Shiba Yi heard this and gritted his teeth and said: "But Ashikaga-sama, everyone can see the ambition of the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty. He asked the King of Qin to return Yin Yu's country, just because he was afraid that we would mobilize the national troops."
"The Ming Dynasty just wants to delay time. After Kyushu Island is completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely continue to invade Shikoku Island, and then Honshu Island. It will not end until the whole country is brought under the rule of the Ming Dynasty."
"Instead of being slowly swallowed up, it is better for us to take a preemptive strike and kill the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty."
"Lord Ashikaga, this is a rare opportunity. As long as the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty is killed, the Ming Dynasty will become chaotic because of the successor. We, the Japanese country, will have a chance. By that time"
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu raised his hand to interrupt Shiba Yishang's speech, and then said: "There is no such time."
"At that time, there will no longer be a Japanese country. The entire Japanese country will be bloodbathed by the Ming Dynasty because of the death of the Ming Dynasty grandson."
"Jun Sibo, you have no idea how lofty the grandson of Ming Dynasty is in Ming Dynasty. Although he has not succeeded to the throne of Ming Dynasty yet, his actual power and reputation are no less than that of Emperor Ming Dynasty."
"Even the lowest-ranking soldiers in the Ming Dynasty army have a fanatical worship of the Ming Dynasty grandson. If you have noticed those vassal soldiers in recent days, you will know that I am right."
"Those soldiers who are supposed to belong to the Ming Dynasty vassal king, whenever the Ming Dynasty grandson appears, they will show extremely excited expressions, and I can see this on every soldier's face."
"There is an old saying in the Central Plains, you can tell a leopard by looking at a spot, and you can tell autumn by a fallen leaf. These soldiers who have left their hometowns are all like this. How can the soldiers living in the Ming Dynasty be any worse."
"If the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty dies, not only the Ming Emperor, but also the entire Ming Dynasty will be angry."
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu said with a wry smile: "I'll tell you what will happen at that time. The Ming Emperor will issue an edict to kill everyone in the Japanese country."
"Whether it is the royal family, the nobility, or even the common people will be massacred by the Ming Dynasty, the entire Japanese country will become a desolate land, and all the Japanese will become dust in history and disappear."
"You are right. Maybe the Japanese country will be annexed by the Ming Dynasty in the future, but at least the Japanese country still exists."
"The result of assassinating the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty was that the entire Japanese country disappeared in the anger of the Ming Dynasty."
"Even if the Ming Dynasty becomes chaotic due to the relationship between heirs, what does this mean to us?"
"On the contrary, before the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty returns to the capital, we must try our best to protect his safety without disturbing him at all. Any abnormality will be a burden that our Japanese country cannot bear."
Hearing this, Shiba Yishang asked with some disbelief: "Ashikaga-sama, is this grandson of the Ming Dynasty really so terrifying?"
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's mouth was full of bitterness: "You should learn more about Ming Dynasty. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle."
"When you understand what kind of person Ming Taisun is, you will know that what I just said is correct."
"Why would I want the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty to live?"
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is a smart man, and smart people will know the consequences of something very clearly.
Regarding the assassination of the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought of countless ways to deal with it in his mind.
But in the end, it was sadly discovered that no matter what kind of means, it was meaningless. The more I got to know the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty, the more I knew that he was not someone the Japanese country could provoke.
If you can't resist, you can only surrender completely.