Fortunately, Yunxi didn't like to ask the maids who served them what they usually said, and the maids chosen by Xiyao to serve them were all strict-mouthed. Otherwise, Yunxi might have really turned her on after knowing what they said.
The two of them had a good fight.
On the morning of the next day, Yunxi also attended. When Lao Zhu circulated Yunxi's memorial to the ministers, the traditional Confucian disciples headed by Zheng Yi, the Minister of Rites, really objected. Of course they knew that if Lao Zhu approved the memorial,
It is useless for them to object if you ask them to do so, and they may even be denounced. However, it has to be said that although the literati and officials at this time sometimes insisted on mistakes, they still had character, unlike those from the late Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.
Most scholar-bureaucrats are weaklings.
The reason why the literati and officials at this time had character was because the rule of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties played a certain role. During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, it was of little significance for the Han people to take the imperial examination. Not only was it the most difficult test in the past, but it was also not like the Manchu and Qing Dynasty.
You can be a high official, so there are few scholars, and even fewer are willing to read Confucian classics in depth. In this context, those who are willing to study Confucian classics really agree with Confucianism, rather than those who later only regard it as a stepping stone. So
At this time, the Confucian disciples had character.
As the Minister of Rites, Zheng Yi of course could not say too much. At this time, Fang Xiaoru, a fellow villager in Bashu who was still serving as the disciple of the Prince of Shu, and the current editor of the Hanlin Academy, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Fang is thinking of your peace today.
Your Majesty has always made a living with the people, so why do you need businessmen? Businessmen are one of the five beetles who do not engage in production but only make profits through reselling. It is inconvenient for the people in the countryside to go to the city. They businessmen only do some small business in the countryside. How can you give them such a profit-making thing?
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"Moreover, our Ming Dynasty is rich all over the world, so why do we need to exchange supplies with foreign countries? If you want something small, just promise to pay tribute. What do you think, Your Highness?" Yuanzhi finally looked at Yunxi.
Just as Yunxi was about to speak, someone suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I thought it was time to start shipping to the sea."
Lao Zhu, Yunxi and most of the officials present looked at this man. 'It's Yang Yi. Isn't he a member of Li Jinglong? Why did Li Jinglong approve of opening up the sea for trade?' Yunxi thought.
Yunxi became nervous. If Li Jinglong had any ulterior thoughts, Lao Zhu would probably no longer support Kaihai. This is not okay!
Who would have thought that Yang Yi said: "Your Majesty, I thought that a few businessmen, just making a few bucks, could endanger the local government? But the original editor, I just saw that you didn't even glance at His Highness's memorial.
, I guess I didn’t even see what His Highness wrote and spoke in a hurry. Isn’t this disrespectful?”
Yunxi suddenly had a question mark on his forehead? Yang Yi's words did not sound like he was refuting Yuan Zhi's views, but attacking Yuan Zhi's character. Is this because he didn't think of the words at the moment or something?
However, Lao Zhu and other ministers who had been in the court for a long time knew why. Yang Yi did not support the opening of the sea at all, but simply opposed it for the sake of opposing the original essence. This has to be said in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
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In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, 60% of the officials above the fifth rank in the capital, whether civil or military, were from Huaixi, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. The second largest faction was the East Zhejiang Group headed by Liu Ji. With Lao Zhu's connivance, the two factions
They often fought against each other, and later the leading figures of both factions were killed.
As a native of Dingyuan, Yang Yi was also a member of the Huaixi Group, and Yuanzhi was Song Lian's apprentice and a native of eastern Zhejiang. Yang Yi took up the post very early. He went to the court as an official in the early years of Hongwu, and was sent to Hongwu more than ten years later.
He went to the local area as a commander and only recently returned to the capital, so his most recent memory of the previous dynasty was when the two factions were at odds with each other. Today, when he saw Yuan Zhi Jinyan and Lao Zhu seemed to agree with the opening of the sea, he came up unconsciously.
To refute the words of Prakriti.
But after Yang Yi finished speaking, he knew that he shouldn't speak. The current situation in the court is very different from that of twenty years ago, and there are no such clear factions. It is really inappropriate for him to speak rashly. Just at this moment, Lao Zhu said
: "Yang Yi, you've been here for a long time and don't know what's going on in the capital. It's inevitable that you'll have some unclear knowledge. It's better to step back."
Yang Yi hurriedly retreated. He was still afraid that Lao Zhu would deal with him later. However, Lao Zhu would not touch his nobles easily now, and Lao Zhu knew Yang Yi and would not deal with him.
Yunxi stepped forward and said the reason he had come up with yesterday to "let more people from foreign countries benefit from our Ming civilization", which immediately made it impossible for these Confucian disciples to express the rebuttal reasons they had prepared.
At this time, Huang Kui, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came out and said: "Your Majesty, I think your Highness's suggestions are very good. In order to allow more people from other countries to benefit from the civilization of the Ming Dynasty, I think we should open the sea."
Others thought Huang Kui really thought so, but Lao Zhu, who was sitting on the throne, sneered: Although Huang Kui himself is from Haimen County, Zhili, he has a distant relative who is from Shanghu County, and Huang Kui's family
He was poor, and his education was funded by his relatives, so of course he would support the opening of sea trade here.
However, because Lao Zhu also wanted to open the sea, he did not tell the truth. But Lao Zhu has decided that in the future, special records should be kept for those whose place of origin or relatives are in the county where the shipping company is located, so that we must know who can speak for the merchants.
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Then several more Confucian disciples came out to raise different opinions, and Yunxi refuted them one by one. Seeing that no one among the civil and military officials present raised any objections, he announced: "Then the matter of establishing the Municipal Shipping Department is settled. Just wait.
Follow the example of the previous dynasty and set down the rules before officially issuing a decree to open the sea for trade." This matter passed like this. Even if people who did not go to the dynasty today want to refute, it is useless. Since Lao Zhu has spoken formally, then
It will not be changed again.
Next, Rujun, the Minister of the Ministry of War, took out a memorial and said: "Your Majesty, the memorial to Changxing Marquis in Mian County (now Mian County, Hanzhong City, Sanqin Province) yesterday has arrived. The report has captured the rebel White Lotus Sect demon Tian Jiucheng.
, ask your Majesty how to deal with it."
Lao Zhu said: "Caught Tian Jiucheng? Ordered Geng Bingwen to be executed on the spot. All the captured White Lotus sect demons and their relatives were executed. The people who were bewitched by the White Lotus sect demons were exiled to Liaodong and were not pardoned."
The reason for this is this: In the first month of the 30th year of Hongwu, Gao Fuxing, a believer of the White Lotus sect who was hiding in Mian County and served as a county government official, rebelled with Tian Jiucheng and Wang Jingangnu, and successively captured many county towns, and also bewitched the people of Shaanxi and Shu.
Response. After Lao Zhu learned about it, he ordered Geng Bingwen as the commander-in-chief to send troops to the Three Qin Dynasties and the Bashu army to encircle and suppress them. He also ordered King Shang Bing of Qin to train his soldiers, repair his armor, and patrol at all times to prepare for any eventuality.
Geng Bingwen sent Wu Wang, the commander of the Shaanxi capital, to command the Qianshi, with 15,000 troops, and the Sichuan capital to command the Qianshi, Yu Qi, with 18,000 troops to seize them in different directions. On the first day of September, Fuxing rushed to nowhere and was captured.
Wang Bowei, Chen Miaogui, Yang Wengao, Master Wang, Liu Pucheng, etc. were captured and killed. He stayed in Sichuan and commanded his colleague Zhao Xing to hunt down Tian Jiucheng, Chen Ershe and others.
To be honest, although the White Lotus Rebellion only has about fifty or sixty words in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is much larger than the well-known Tang Sai'er rebellion in the Yongle period, which was written about in history books.
, the Ming Dynasty sent 40,000 to 50,000 troops and alarmed Bashu. The Three Qin Dynasty had more than 100,000 troops, which took nearly a year to pacify. However, Tang Saier's rebellion only sent thousands of troops to defend a few guard posts.
It only took two or three months to settle the matter.
Now Tian Jiucheng and Chen Ershe have also been captured, leaving only Wang Jingangnu still at large. Everyone in the imperial court attaches great importance to the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, and there is no doubt or objection to Lao Zhu's order.
Lao Zhu thought for a while and said: "Let Geng Bingwen return to Beijing and continue to leave Zhao Xing to search for Wang Jingangnu and others in Hanzhong, and check whether there are still demons from the White Lotus Sect who have not been discovered in the local area."
Ru Yu, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Xu Huizu, the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Military Governor's Mansion, responded: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Then Chen Di, the Minister of Rites, wrote to report: "Your Majesty, after receiving the letter from Liaodong, the Korean soldiers crossed the Yalu River again and plundered. The people belonging to my Ming Dynasty Nuer Gandusi were invaded several times."
Sun Ke, the governor of the Zuo Army Governor's Office, came out and said: "Since the 25th year of Hongwu, when your Majesty allowed it to be a vassal state, North Korea has repeatedly provoked quarrels and often crossed the river to intrude. We, the Ming Dynasty, should send troops to defeat them once.
It’s better to know the rules of the vassal country.”
At this time, North Korea was not the well-behaved first vassal state of the Ming Dynasty that it later became, and its army was still capable of fighting. It had repelled several Japanese invasions on its own. And at this time, they still had ideas about the land in Liaodong.
Therefore, there were frequent cross-border intrusions, and the Han people did not dare to move, so they moved the barbarians. Once the barbarians found out that the Ming Dynasty did not protect them, they would throw themselves under the rule of Korea, so that the territory of Korea crossed the Yalu River.
Of course Lao Zhu was not happy that someone dared to provoke such a provocation, but he felt that he had become more and more tired this year and had less energy, so he believed in 'doing more is worse than doing less'. So Lao Zhu said: "No! Back off. "Sun Ke could only retreat.
After that, someone wrote to report other matters, which were all daily trivial matters. After a while, no one said anything, and Lao Zhu announced that he would go to court.
In Zheng County, Henan, at this time, in a restaurant catering to the less wealthy people in the county town, three big men were sitting at a table. The three of them ordered a total of one meat, one vegetarian, two hot dishes and one more.
Cold dishes, sitting on the chair eating with relish.
The waiter who had just served them food said to another waiter: "Wang Er, these three people are so strange. One speaks Henan dialect, which is the accent from Kaifeng; the other seems to speak the dialect here.
, but if you listen carefully, you can see that there is a Sanqin accent from Chang'an, which the locals cannot recognize at all; the other one speaks Huguang dialect, or the dialect from the north of Huguang. Such three people do not seem to be businessmen.