Chapter 397 Dongdu going to Daming to study medicine can save Daying
Autumn of the fourth year of well-off life.
It has been three years and four months since the regent Zhu Shuren launched a pilot reform plan for the new monarch.
From the deregistration of Yingtian Prefecture in the first year of Xiaokang, to the Jiangnan part of Nanzhili and individual prefectures in Jiangxi and Zhejiang in the second year, to the whole of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang in the third year, and finally the new developments this year
Huguang, Fujian.
It is expected that within one year, this new policy will be promoted in all provinces in the Yangtze River Basin and south.
During the whole process, the people who openly resisted were mainly large landowners and gentry who felt that paying for labor service was an insult to civility. However, these resistances were resolved by the court's grace and force.
Those whose reputations should be expelled were expelled, and those whose property should be confiscated were confiscated. The court also acted with reason and evidence, and the evidence for convictions and punishments was solid. Basically, it tried not to expand the scope of the attack, and it would not wantonly infringe on the legitimate property of wealthy households, so as not to cause any serious consequences.
Indiscriminate panic in society.
Of course, if the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and if there are too many eucalyptus cases, there will definitely be unjust, false, and mistakes. But as long as the error correction mechanism is well done and mistakes are acknowledged, there will be cases where the magistrate, the county, and the magistrate are destroyed in the process of handling the case.
, those who frame and seize other people's property, as long as it is verified, the relevant reform officials will also be removed from the reform team, and they will be punished as they should be, so as to calm the people's anger and calm people's hearts.
Isn't that how cool officials like Yao Qisheng, Chao Cuo, and Zhang Tang were used? The same reason Zhou Xing came to Junchen.
However, Zhu Shuren still used the cruel officials who brought hatred relatively sparingly, unlike Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty who took the blame and killed the common people in just one year.
Zhu Shuren still allows Yao Qisheng to live well. He has also been firmly appointed as the doctor of the Ministry of Hubu, and he is still among the top echelons of doctors in the Ministry of Hubu.
When a minister is promoted from among doctors, he is likely to be among the first to be replaced."
The cruel officials who were pushed out to be executed and took the blame were often at a lower level. Why did Yao Qisheng have to use his residual energy to wait until the reform was completely completed before he could die? Otherwise, who else would help Zhu Shuren do the dirty work?
Compared with the successful promotion of the "abolition of Ding registration", the pilot project of government-run loans for poor peasants to merge their fields has been promoted much slower. So far, it is still only piloted in Hangzhou Prefecture and the neighboring Shaoxing Prefecture, and only in Hangzhou Prefecture.
The network will be closed soon.
When the time comes to close the net, all the bad debts of those who used to cheat on loans and want to be old people will eventually be exposed.
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However, even though these reforms and construction are in full swing, the biggest focus of the government and the public is still not on these.
Because in the eyes of many people, there is another major national event that deserves more attention this year, which is far more important than the "minor" economic and fiscal reform work.
That is, as time passes from four years of moderate prosperity to five years of moderate prosperity, the timetable for the new emperor Zhu Ciyu to take charge has become increasingly imminent.
When the late emperor passed away, he left behind an imperial edict, asking Zhu Shuren, the king of Hubei, to serve as regent for a period of four years until the new king was crowned weak.
In the second half of this year, the little emperor will officially be twenty years old, so in theory, in a few months, after the end of this year passes, the regent Zhu Shuren will return the throne to the little emperor in the new year.
Otherwise, even if Zhu Shuren is confident that he can continue to exercise full authority as the emperor, it will be very ugly. After all, this is a violation of the oath made by the late emperor before his death.
In addition, according to the original timetable, the late emperor also said that before the young emperor took charge, he would not use weapons against his neighbors. Therefore, from the first year of Xiaokang to the fourth year of Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had been resolutely implementing the national policy of peaceful farming and recuperation.
According to the timetable of the first seven-year plan set by Zhu Shuren, starting next year, the investigation of Burma's previous crimes can be officially put on the agenda.
Therefore, in the past year or so, those who have gradually accumulated conflicts and resentment against the reform have not been eager to jump out to resist. In other words, only 40% to 50% of the original 10% resistance and resentment actually broke out.
Fifty to sixty percent of them are temporarily forbearing because of this consideration, not wanting to cause trouble in the court.
The mentality of those ninjas is nothing more than this: if certain contradictions and voices opposing reforms must break out at the end of three or four years of being well-off,
So once Zhu Shuren catches the excuse that he wants to "finish the implementation of the decree that has not yet been implemented," then the timetable for his return to power as the little emperor may be reasonably extended.
Now only if Zhu Shuren does not oppose him on any specific administrative measures and says "Ah, yes, yes, yes" to whatever he says, can he be allowed to get off work on time.
Even if we really have to oppose the abolition of Ding registration and land purchase loans for poor farmers in the end, or oppose other government decrees,
Wouldn't it be nice to wait until the little emperor successfully takes over the throne, and then use the little emperor's rebellious psychology and want the new emperor to take over the throne?
Although under normal circumstances, it is a bit unlikely to expect the young emperor to oppose the policies of his biological father.
But in any case, relatively speaking, it was a little more relaxed than the period when Zhu Shuren himself stood at the front desk and exercised imperial power legitimately.
Moreover, many people with dark psychology always firmly believe that "the absolute supreme power can corrode all family ties."
Since Li Shimin had no legitimacy back then, he could have rebelled and ousted his own father. What's more, Zhu Ciyu will soon have legitimacy next year.
For the opposition, it is better to wait than not to wait. One will survive a narrow escape, while the other will survive ten deaths.
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Today, in such a prosperous and turbulent atmosphere, the world is rushing forward and developing. Occasionally small problems have been covered up by this rapid development, and there is a prosperous atmosphere.
It was in this atmosphere that in September of the fourth year of Xiaokang's reign, a Dutch trading fleet sailing from the opposite side of the world arrived in Ming Dynasty as scheduled again.
Although the Dutch were defeated miserably by the Ming Dynasty in Zheng Chenggong's war to regain the great officials fifteen years ago.
But later, as the Ming Dynasty was willing to liberalize all-round trade and no longer impose any maritime embargo, the Dutch handed over Descartes and Jansen-Tasman in exchange for thousands of Dutch military and civilian prisoners. They licked their wounds for a few years and then got back together.
I want to do business with Daming.
There is no way, who made the Ming Dynasty's specialties so rich, silk, tea and porcelain can be sold to Europe for a huge profit, and the Dutch will not have trouble with money. Even if they are defeated in the war, they still have to do business.
After that, the Dutch basically maintained that every one and a half years, a large number of fleets arrived in the Ming Dynasty taking advantage of the monsoon, and the round trip still took about two or three years. But later, as the navigation and shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty improved,
The Dutch and the Ming Dynasty competed with each other, and there were more and more high-speed sailing ships.
In the past seven or eight years, there has actually been a situation where the Dutch asked the Ming Dynasty shipyard to buy merchant ships at high prices.
What’s even more exaggerated is that there is even a partnership with the state-owned shipyards of the Ming Dynasty to open a shipping company to jointly conduct maritime trade between the Ming Dynasty and Europe.
Anyway, they did not have the strength to completely stop the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty replaced a regent who supported navigation and fully assumed the imperial power, the Ming Dynasty could also organize its own fleet to trade in Europe. The Ming Dynasty's artillery and warships were enough to deter all pirates in the oceans.
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It's just that the Ming Dynasty still lacks a reserve of sailing talents across continents and oceans, and if it really relies on naval gun escort, the cost is too high. Therefore, it chose to show its muscles first and then give the Dutch a chance to form a joint venture.
The Dutch accepted it due to their profit-seeking mentality.
After buying a flat-deck high-speed sailing ship built by the Ming Dynasty with the Galen stern removed, the round-trip voyage between Europe and the Ming Dynasty will be several hundred percent faster.
The original sailing time of one year and a little can now be reduced to nine months one way, and it can also catch the monsoon. It saves one quarter of waiting in the middle, and can achieve a round trip of one and a half years.
The fleet that arrived in Daming this time consisted of five flat-deck, four-masted high-speed sailing ships built by Daming. They set sail from Amsterdam last winter. They also picked up some people and goods in Dover on the way and sailed.
After more than nine months, we finally chose to unload the cargo at the port of Hangzhou.
Because of the high speed of the fleet, the warships of European pirates in this era could not even catch up with them. Therefore, the journey was very safe, and no man-made disasters or disasters were encountered. Even if the ship only equipped eight heavy cannons for self-defense,
Completely useless.
As soon as the fleet docks, the merchants naturally go to the Municipal Shipping Department to go through the formalities and prepare to ship and purchase goods. It is more convenient for ordinary guests who do not carry goods. They only need to stay on the ship for just one day to complete all the procedures for disembarkation.
, which is already very fast in this era.
After going through some simple procedures, a middle-aged British captain in his forties or fifties couldn't help but look at the scenery of Sanbao Port in Hangzhou from the side of the deck with a young scholar in his early twenties next to him and give some pointers.
Show off your knowledge.
The British in this era have already gone through religious wars and the decades of changes that led to the guillotining of Charles I, so the status of secular scholars is obviously higher than in the old era.
In the era of Charles I, the status of scholars involved in science and engineering would have been much lower than it is now. At that time, clergy scholars dominated the academic world, and they were ranked based on seniority.
(Note: The year that Charles I was guillotined (1649) was the year after the Thirty Years of Religious War on the European continent (1648), so during that time, the social atmosphere in Europe was undergoing a comprehensive change.
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In the book, Zhu Shuren was able to recruit Descartes because of a historical timing problem. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, just before 1648. After the British Empire was completed and European religions were opened up, scientists would not be so fond of fleeing.)
Nowadays, even young scholars can win respect from society as long as they make some achievements. Although the young man next to the old captain is only in his early twenties, he is after all a top student who graduated from Cambridge University. So much so that the old captain really wants to
Showing off one's knowledge in front of the other party seems to bring glory to one's face if one can get a compliment from a senior intellectual.
Just listen to the old captain's instructions:
"The development of the Ming Dynasty is really changing with each passing day. When I came here seven years ago, Hangzhou had not yet opened a shipping department. At that time, only Suzhou, Taicang and Ningbo had shipping companies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Further south, Xiamen and Guangzhou had a shipping department.
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Now I didn’t expect that our European ships would be accepted everywhere to handle customs duties. I heard that the old Ming emperor had passed away, and now his son-in-law directly became the regent and took charge of the government. This openness and reform efforts are really determined.”
After hearing this, the young Cambridge University graduate was very humble and asked several questions. Then he said curiously: "Mr. Laixing Morton, you said that the last time you came to Ming Dynasty was seven years ago. Why did you go there?"
Why didn't you travel this trade route repeatedly in the past seven years? Ordinarily, as long as you navigators have figured out a route, you should make full use of the accumulated experience."
Captain Lysin Sussex Morton sighed: "Mr. Newton, things are not as simple as you think. After all, most of the shipping routes to the Far East are monopolized by the Dutch. Seven years ago, we were able to come here because we were protecting our country.
When my father-in-law was in power, the relationship between the British and the Dutch was pretty good.
However, after the death of the Lord Protector seven years ago and the restoration of the royal power, the relationship between the Dutch and us was once in vain. If I had not made up my mind this time and surrendered directly to the enemy when Charles II restarted the Anglo-Dutch war, I would not have been able to do it again.
Gain the trust of the Dutch."
When Captain Raisin Morton mentioned the word "surrender to the enemy", he did not have any shameful expression or tone at all, and seemed to be very honorable. However, this was normal in Britain in the 1660s, because some people used it to oppose the king.
The party is proud of it.
After Cromwell's death seven years ago, Charles II was restored, and many people who didn't like the royal family turned outside. In fact, decades later, when William III, who was of Dutch descent, was invited back to England to become the new queen, those in the middle
All the people who committed suicide in the past ten years have been cleared.
It is now 1666, and in Europe, two major events happened just a year ago in 1665. The first was that Charles II launched the second Anglo-Dutch War, and the second was the outbreak of the famous war in history.
"The Great Plague of London".
Later generations also believed that the Great Plague in London was a subsidiary product of the Anglo-Dutch War, and that the massacre of the war gave rise to the outbreak of the plague - because both this war and the plague happened to last about two and a half years, starting in the spring of 1665, and finally
Autumn 1667.
Obviously, the Captain Lysing Sussex Morton in front of him surrendered to the enemy because of the first of these two major changes, the Anglo-Dutch War, and once again embarked on the Far East trade road.
The 22-year-old Cambridge graduate next to Isaac Newton temporarily fled the UK because of the last of the two major events, the Great Plague in London, and planned to travel and study abroad for a few years.
And because I heard that Ming Dynasty had led the world in chemical research in recent years, and was very researched on various deworming, disinfection and plague prevention, Newton wanted to see if there were any good ways for Asians to prevent the plague (the Great Plague of London in 1665).
It’s a plague).
Perhaps at this moment, Isaac Newton's mentality is similar to that of Mr. Lu Xun, who traveled east to study in another time and space in the early 20th century, trying to learn medicine to save the country. The young Newton must have felt that "Coming to the Ming Dynasty to study medicine can save Britain."
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So when Newton heard that Captain Merton had voted because he was dissatisfied with Charles II, he didn't think there was anything wrong. If it hadn't been for this choice, he wouldn't have been able to return to Dover to meet old friends when setting sail.
If we run together, Newton will not be able to catch this ship by accident.
The two watched for a while and soon entered Hangzhou City.
Although Captain Morton had been to Daming seven years ago, after all, his last trip was to Suzhou and Nanjing, and he was new to Hangzhou, so he found it novel.
Newton had never been seen anywhere. He looked like a country man coming to the city.
After the two entered the city, they naturally went straight to the busiest city center. However, before they could see the true prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, they saw a large number of people watching the execution as soon as they arrived at the entrance of Guanxiang.
"Isn't it said that Ming Dynasty is a country of civility and etiquette? It seems that when it comes to executions, just like Europe, they like to show it to the public. And these instruments of torture look so terrible. Captain Morton, you know Chinese, can you ask what these people have committed?
Is it a sin?"
Morton had been to the Ming Dynasty several times and had already learned the language to a rudimentary level. He even gestured and talked. He asked a scholar wearing a scarf next to him about the situation, and turned to Newton to show off:
"I heard that these people were guilty of abetting and defrauding farmers' loans issued by the Ming Dynasty. The amount was extremely large, and they were the organizers, so they were sentenced to be cut in half. Others, who were lighter, had ordinary beheadings. As for those who were instigated, specific executions were carried out.
The farmers who cheated on their loans were all exiled to Australia, Borneo, Kyushu, and Heilongjiang."
When Newton heard this, he suddenly realized: "This is just like our British indentured debt slaves, right? If you don't pay back the money, you will be exiled to Virginia?"
Come to Xin Morton: "Almost, but after all, we still have the volition to go. Forty years ago, when my father was young, he sailed a three-masted Galen ship, the Mayflower, and sent hundreds of
Here comes a free man who volunteers to go to America. My family is a sailing family from Plymouth!"