Zheng Chenggong severely damaged the Vietnamese Navy in July.
The follow-up pursuit and annihilation of the remaining enemies and the launch of ground attacks can only be described in a few words, but in fact, the dispatch of the army could not end so quickly. The fight lasted until the end of the sixth year of Xiaokang, before killing Zheng Zha and the so-called
Lord of the Li Dynasty.
The subsequent large-scale rebel resistance will have to continue for several more months, so until the spring of the seventh year of Xiaokang, these troubles will not stop.
It's just that after the overall situation is settled, those physical tasks are not the emperor's need to worry about. The frontline generals can handle it by themselves. The rear only needs to ensure the continuous supply of money, food and ammunition.
Zhu Ciyu spent a peaceful New Year in Guangzhou. This was the first time since he was born that he spent the New Year outside Nanjing, and it was inevitable that he would have a good tour around Guangdong.
After the Lantern Festival, I even made an impromptu decision to take a fleet out to sea for a while and go to Danzhou, Hainan to enjoy the tropical seascape for half a month.
Although Zhu Ciyu took the sea route during his southern tour last year, he had never visited a tropical island before, and the sea at the Pearl River Estuary was always turbid. Considering that he would never visit Guangdong and Guangxi again in this life, Zhu Ciyu certainly wanted to seize it.
It was an opportunity to see the blue and clear sea. Under the guise of "going to the sea to patrol and deter Burma and Vietnam, and to show Ming Dynasty's control of the maritime rights in the South China Sea."
Fortunately, Zhu Ciyu still had a biological father to take care of him. He did not dare to be too arrogant and indulge in fun, so he finally hurried back to Guangzhou City in early February without giving the accompanying officials a chance to go back and complain to the regent.
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After returning to Guangzhou, Gu Yanwu advised, saying that since the status of Burma and Vietnam had been finalized, the land that should be ceded, and the scope of naturalization had been clarified, His Majesty should return the north to Beijing, ending this nearly one-month round.
It’s my southern tour this year.
Zhu Ciyu was still a little reluctant to leave. He felt that it was rare for the weather to be cool in early spring, and he wanted to stay in Lingnan for a while. But he also knew very well that even if he stayed, it would only be for a month or two at most, and he would not delay it longer.
Because last year he had experienced the heat of summer in Guangdong and Guangxi, so once summer comes, he will definitely have to return north. There is no need to be in a hurry on the way back this time. He can completely take the land route instead. This way, he can travel all the way back to Huguang and Jiangxi, and the road will be slow.
Just leave for a few months and return to Nanjing in autumn.
Because of this little thought, Zhu Ciyu inevitably discussed the matter of revenge against the Spaniards with Gu Yan:
"Mr. Gu Ge, although Vietnam has surrendered, there were rumors in Guangzhou last year that the Folangji people massacred our Han people in Luzon. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I cannot sit back and watch the Han people being slaughtered by barbarians in vain. It is better to let Zheng Guogong hunt rabbits.
, let’s also kill the Franconian colonial fleet in Luzon.”
Gu Yanwu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It is better to condemn this matter first, or to give Zheng Guogong time to repair it. He has repeatedly attacked Burma and Vietnam by sea, and has experienced countless battles. His soldiers are tired and his ships are broken. How can he start another side provocation immediately?
The Falangji people's country is fifty thousand miles away from the South Sea. Even if we, the Ming Dynasty, condemn it, they won't be able to get new reinforcements within a year and a half. So what's the rush?
Retaliation must be retaliated, otherwise it will damage our great power, but for the specific method of retaliation, we should discuss it with the regent after returning to Beijing. Besides, your Majesty was asked to visit Guangzhou in the south because it is close to Myanmar and Vietnam.
The capital of the country is in the southwest of our Ming Dynasty. In order to negotiate as quickly as possible, we mediate and divide the enemy.
Luzon is located southeast of the Ming Dynasty, more than a thousand miles east of Guangzhou, and directly south of Fujian. Even if troops are to be used in the future, they should be sent from Fujian. Your Majesty will just go back to Nanjing to hear the news. These Francois are
The king of our country is tens of thousands of miles away, and there is no way to negotiate with them, so we can only use force."
Gu Yanwu was very principled. He insisted that the legal requirement for the emperor's southern tour was because the emperor represented the country and could help the country quickly handle the conditions for diplomatic negotiations and make a timely decision.
If there is no need for diplomacy, only the need for national defense, then the emperor should not personally intervene. Wasn't the lesson learned by the Mingbao Sect profound enough? The emperor is responsible for using his mouth, not the knife. In the future, as long as he keeps his mouth shut,
The emperor does not need to deploy forward.
How could Zhu Ciyu be more reasonable than Gu Yanwu? In the end, he had to negotiate and offered a compromise. He would play outside for another two months and then slowly return north. Zheng Chenggong also asked him to rest and repair as soon as possible to regain his fighting strength. As for
In the end, whether or not to attack the Spaniards in Luzon, and how to attack them, the regent decided after returning to Beijing.
Seeing that the emperor was still listening to the advice, Gu Yanwu took a step back. Then he would not push the other party, so he would turn a blind eye and let the emperor play outside for two more months.
Zhu Ciyu finally delayed his journey until the middle of March before setting off from Guangzhou to the north. At the end of the month, he crossed Shaoguan and entered Hunan. Then he passed through Nanyue Hengshan and spent half a month wandering around the mountains and rivers.
Before the emperor arrived, he issued an order for corvee recruitment two months in advance, and asked workers to build a road with blue stone steps to climb Hengshan Mountain. Finally, he had eight sedans carrying the emperor up the mountain, and performed some ceremonial activities to offer sacrifices to the mountains -
Under normal circumstances, it would not be enough for the emperor to sit on a chariot and be carried by eight people. However, in the mountainous and rugged area, for the sake of safety, the standards were lowered in a hurry, and this rule will be followed in the future.
After offering sacrifices to Hengshan, Zhu Ciyu returned to Hengyang City and inquired privately where Zhang Xianzhong had killed King Gui and his family twenty-six years ago.
There were Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang's old troops in the army, and they were a little ashamed when they heard this. After all, they were all "Western thieves" under Zhang Xianzhong back then, so someone identified the location of the ancient battlefield.
Zhu Ciyu also pretended to offer sacrifices, showing off the emperor's philanthropic gesture. But what he was thinking in his heart was obviously: Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong killed the whole family of King Gui, otherwise the emperor's grandfather might not have been supported by his father according to the patriarchal order.
emperor……
At the beginning, the bloodlines of the King Fu clan and the King Gui clan were far closer than that of King Lu. The King Fu clan was just guilty of intervening in politics in advance, and had a deep hatred for Donglin, so it was impossible for him to ascend to the throne.
But King Gui had no sins and no old grudges. Historically, Shi Kefa tended to use King Gui to suppress King Fu's moral order. Historically, it was Shi Kefa's indecisiveness that could not let go of this distant blood relationship. In the end, civil strife in the Southern Ming Dynasty ruined the court.
Although Zhu Ciyu didn't know about these changes, he knew in his heart that King Gui's extermination of his family contributed to the preservation of the Ming Dynasty.
After mourning Queen Gui, Zhu Ciyu continued north to Changsha at the end of April, but did not stop much. He went to Yueyang in early May and Wuchang at the end of the month, spending more than ten days visiting each place to pay his respects.
In Changsha, we climbed Orange Island, Yueyang, Yueyang Tower, Wuchang, Yellow Crane Tower to overlook Parrot Island, and also visited Daye Arsenal and Steel Plant for a few days.
Those were the places where his father had fought and established his business. It was considered a patriotic education for Zhu Ciyu, letting him know how difficult it was for his father to go from being a prison student and starting a business for more than 20 years to having such a world.
It was not until June when it was still too hot to stay in Wuchang that Zhu Ciyu went down the river again, passing through Jiujiang, watching Poyang Lake, and crossing the river to Mount Lu to escape the summer heat. He also visited Xianglufeng Waterfall to cool off. During this period, he had to recruit corvees in advance to build a route to climb Mount Lu.
A mountain path with bluestone steps.
At the end of July, when the weather gradually turned cooler, he went down to Mount Lu and returned to Nanjing in a hurry to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with his father and queen. Zhu Ciyu knew very well that if he delayed it any longer and missed the Mid-Autumn Festival, his father would definitely not be able to celebrate it.
It will make him look good.
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The words are divided into two parts.
Zhu Ciyu was out touring the mountains and rivers. When he was returning from his southern tour, the hard-working Zhu Shuren had to continue handling government affairs in Nanjing.
In the past year or so, there is not much difference between the son taking charge and not taking charge. He is still needed as the regent to take charge of the government. The only change is that the diplomatic work and part of the military work have been transferred out and are handled by the mobile imperial camp. The remaining
The government affairs of the next four ministries still report to Nanjing.
During the entire six years of being a well-off society, Zhu Shuren had no energy to do anything else. He could not be more quiet than to move. After entering the first half of the seven years of being a well-off society, because he knew that Vietnam had been solved, and the follow-up work was just to divide and deal with the aftermath, he began to think about other grand strategies.
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Gu Yanwu reported that "people in both Guangdong and Guangxi had heard about the massacre of Han Chinese in Nanyang by the Folangji in Luzon." Zhu Shuren was of course the first to know about it, and he was less surprised than his son.
When he was reading history books in his previous life, he clearly recorded the three largest massacres of Han Chinese by the Spaniards in the Philippines.
Now it seems that things still happened, but they were done more low-key and secretly, and the Spaniards tolerated it for a few more years.
This kind of thing must be retaliated for. But unfortunately, Ming Dynasty already has enough enemies.
Zhu Shuren originally had a timetable for the Ming Dynasty's "Three Seven-Year Plans". Now was supposed to be the time when the first seven-year plan was successfully completed, the land tax and head tax reforms were successfully advanced, and Burma and Vietnam were eliminated.
Spain has emerged again. If we really want to take action, it will probably delay the Ming Dynasty's national strength for two more years. This will take up the cycle of the second seven-year plan, and money and food will also be tilted in these directions.
This means that Zhu Shuren decided to use the second seven-year plan to completely conquer the Northwest and Junggar Mongolia and other tribes, and the third seven-year plan to conquer the Rakshasa people in Yaksa, this timetable will be disrupted.
If there is not enough time to accumulate power in farming, we may end up facing the same dilemma as the Qing Dynasty in history. Galdan and Rakshasa people invaded the Ming Dynasty in the northwest and northeast at the same time. Then we will have to face a choice, whether we can handle both at the same time.
enemies, or at least during the most difficult year or two, facing two enemies at the same time.
Kangxi in parallel time and space chose to withhold some benefits from Nerchinsk in exchange for the Rakshasa people not supporting Galdan. Now the Zhu Shu people don't want to let this advantage go.
Because of this, while his son was having fun and drinking outside, his hair kept falling out. He finally decided to do it.
"That's all, if you believe in the speed of Ming Dynasty's subsequent construction and development, it's still five or six years before we can deal with Galdan, and it's still more than ten years before we can deal with the Rakshasa people.
Even if the final progress against Galdan is delayed, I believe that the Ming Dynasty ten years from now should have the strength to defeat Galdan and the Rakshasa people at the same time!"
After having this realization, Zhu Shuren finally decided to let Zheng Chenggong spend the rest of this year slowly repairing it. When autumn and winter come again, it is time to beat the Spaniards in Luzon and not hold the lake.
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After re-adjusting the pace of national policy according to the changing situation, Zhu Shuren's remaining energy this year will naturally be devoted to farming and technological advancement in the "Ming Dynasty's Second Seven-Year Plan".
So far, the farming reform part of the first seven-year plan has actually been completed very perfectly. In the process of implementation, the head tax reform of "abolition of Ding registration" and the separation of workers and peasants, as well as the lower limit on the number of agricultural land acres, have dared to resist.
There are not many people.
Moreover, with the victory in the foreign wars against Burma and Vietnam, the national treasury was not empty. These military achievements proved the correctness of the reform.
The military achievements of opening up new territories since ancient times are the best support for internal fiscal and taxation reforms. As military prestige rises, those who sing the opposite will feel guilty and timid, and their voices will become smaller.
Therefore, in the second seven-year plan, the above-mentioned reforms can continue to be implemented, as long as the pace is slightly adjusted and gradually promoted to the north.
Generally speaking, according to the pace of reform and reform, after the part of changing money is completed, some of the obstructive forces that are most likely to jump out to oppose will be annihilated. Then, the selection of officials and the administration of officials can be further changed, just like Zhang Juzheng's one-whip method and the examination method.
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With this kind of thinking, Zhu Shuren’s next goal is readily apparent:
At the reform level, he hoped to optimize the Ming Dynasty's official selection and assessment system.
At the level of farming and science and technology, the Ming Dynasty in the previous seven years focused on biochemical environmental materials, picking a considerable number of the "low-hanging fruits" that were easy to pick, relied on trial and error, and worked hard to produce miracles.
There are no enough low-hanging fruits to pick. In the next few years, we must naturally focus on theoretical construction, and then integrate theory with practice, and use physical and mathematical thinking to guide and plan scientific and technological progress. We can no longer just immerse ourselves in experiments.
Fortunately, there is now a solution to this problem - as early as the winter of the fourth year of Xiaokang, Newton, who had just invented the prototype of calculus, came to study and travel in Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Zhu Shuren gave him some advice and pointed out that his mathematical tools were not perfect enough. There were no double integrals and triple integrals, and they were not useful enough to solve real-world physical calculations and mechanical design problems. He was asked to continue his self-research in seclusion. He was also asked to write
I collected a bunch of letters and gave them to the Ming Dynasty merchant fleet that was going to England to sell plague medicine and disinfectants. They also attracted some European science and engineering scientists with high salaries and gifts.
Now, another two and a half years have passed, and the time has come to the beginning of the seventh year of Xiaokang.
After the first year and a half of retreat, Newton had actually completely figured out the perfection of calculus, supplemented the mathematical tools such as double integrals and triple integrals, and also studied in depth other details of the binomial expansion. Finally, he finally
It’s about integrating advanced mathematics.
After the mastery of mathematical tools, from the spring of the sixth year of a well-off society to the spring of the seventh year of a well-off society, Newton devoted his energy to proving "Fang Ziling's three conjectures", using mathematical methods and supplementary experiments to solve the problems in the previous theory that were not rigorous enough.
All localities are completed.
At this point, Zhu Shuren was the first to propose that Fang Ziling helped organize the "three conjectures" that Newton had completely proved before they became the complete "three laws".
Of course, because in this life, the conjecture proposer and the mathematical prover are completed by different people, the final law can no longer be called "Newton's Three Laws", but the last names of all contributors must be added to it.
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This is actually quite normal in the scientific community. For example, the "Bio-Saval's law" about electromagnetic induction in junior high school physics textbooks was proposed by Biot and Savart, and the "Yang-Mills equation" was proposed by Yang Zhenning and Mills.
Proposed.
The scientific community rarely lists both surnames and first names. In this case, Zhu Shuren and Fang Ziling only need to list the "Three Laws of Zhu-Fang-Newton".
Now, it is the historical moment when the Three Laws have completely ended the seclusion and are about to come out to kill everyone. And the people Zhu Shuren asked Newton to write letters to recruit before have also come to the Ming Dynasty one after another.
At such a great scientific moment, Zhu Shuren felt that it was a golden opportunity to improve the education system of the Ming Dynasty and increase the subjects of the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the scientific research and farming and personnel and education reforms of the second seven-year plan can be completely integrated into one, and they can be promoted both internally and externally.