Great Ming National Teacher

Chapter 29

In the second year of Chongzhen, which was the year of Jingcha, the chief assistant Wen Tiren took this opportunity to attack dissidents, and took advantage of this opportunity to find reasons to get rid of all officials who might threaten him.

In mid-April, Ma Maocai handed over the memorial to Zhu Youjian. At the beginning, Li Yunya gave Zhu Youjian three prophecies. The first one was the death of Emperor Tianqi, and the second was the drought in Shaanxi. Zhu Youjian was very concerned about it. There was indeed a disaster, so he specially sent Ma Maocai to Shaanxi for inspection. Ma Maocai came back and told Zhu Youjian: "There was no rain throughout the year last year, and the grass and trees were scorched. If the tree bark is exhausted, they will dig up rocks in the mountains and eat them, and within a few days they will bloat and fall to death.”

He also said, "Hungry people gather together to be robbers. Rather than waiting to starve to death, it is better to die for robbers. Burn human bones as salary, boil human flesh for food, and those who cannibal will die of redness and swelling in the face within a few days. So death pillows, The stench was so bad that several pits were dug outside the city of Ansai County. Each pit could accommodate hundreds of people, but I don’t know how many people are left behind. If it’s like this in a small county, you’ll know it in a big county.

It was written so vividly that Zhu Youjian's nose became sore when he saw it, and he ordered the Ministry of Households to distribute money for disaster relief. Two months later, the Daming Hou newspaper reported that the disaster money was embezzled by officials. Li Yunya knew how much money the emperor allocated. Before leaving the capital, he was cut in half by officials big and small. When he went to the province, a layer was peeled off, a layer was peeled off in the state capital, and another layer was peeled off in the county. In the end, there was not much left of several 10 taels of silver. The county distributed it to the local gentry and asked them to distribute it to the victims on their behalf. The final result can be imagined.

After reading it, Zhu Youjian was so angry that he kicked the Long Shuan: "You should be killed! You should be killed! Everyone should be killed!" Gritting his teeth, he smashed the window lattice with his fist, scaring a little eunuch to pee on the spot.

Zhu Youjian asked the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the matter. Because of the previous experience, he did not trust the Ministry of Criminal Justice very much, so he sent Jin Yiwei to Shaanxi, with two lines, one bright and one dark. , but the result is quite interesting. The Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple said that the officials in the capital city were not corrupt, and that when the money arrived in the local area, part of it was embezzled, and more than a dozen small government officials were arrested as scapegoats.The result of Jin Yiwei's investigation is that all the money obtained by the lower levels was distributed to the victims, but the upper levels did not get that much money at all, and they also evaded that a large part of it was robbed by the bandits who made trouble last year.

Looking at the two results, Zhu Youjian felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness, which proved that not only the officials in the capital colluded with each other, but Jin Yiwei was also bribed by the people below when he arrived.

In February of this year, the household department wrote to Liu Mao in the matter to abolish redundant postmen, saying that there would be several 10 taels of silver left over each year. Zhu Youjian agreed because the treasury was empty and the money was not enough. The hungry people on the run, as well as the fugitive soldiers revolted one after another. Shaanxi is already corrupted, but last year the ministers resigned one after another, the court was short of talents, and the government affairs were messed up.

After hearing the news that the postmen were going to be abolished, Li Yunya went to the palace to see Zhu Youjian and pointed out the consequences of doing that. Returned to order by inspection.

Zhu Youjian felt that he was a bit alarmist, so he only asked him to take care of the Academia Sinica and the military academy, and solve the affairs in the court by himself.

Unexpectedly, all the predictions made by Li Yunya today have come true. The severe drought in Shaanxi is a natural disaster, and the abolition of postmen is a man-made disaster.

Back in the harem, Empress Zhou also advised him: "The ministers and concubines don't know how to govern the country, but thinking about it, so many ministers who have poor experience and brilliant heads study the teachings of sages, they will never be inferior to an outsider..."

Zhu Youjian immediately lowered his face: "Did the empress forget that the harem is not allowed to engage in politics! What about the ministers of the previous dynasty, so what about me, don't bother the empress!" After speaking, he turned around and left. It was the first time he blushed since he married Queen Zhou.

Zhu Youjian was restless, his hair was almost grey, and he didn't even have time to watch his newborn baby son. Killed Mao Wenlong on Phi Island!

The Phi Island where Mao Wenlong is located is close to North Korea, on the other side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Whenever Huang Taiji sent troops to fight Jinzhou, Mao Wenlong led his troops ashore and thrust into Manqing's weakness, which made Manqing very uncomfortable and dared not attack with all his strength. Daming, we must leave someone behind to watch the house.

The most important thing is that Mao Wenlong is the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, the governor of the left, and the Shangfang sword bestowed by the former emperor at the time of the apocalypse, which is equivalent to the commander of the military region. For such a big official, Yuan Chonghuan said he would be beheaded. He is a condemned death row prisoner, and he has to be personally approved by the emperor before he can be executed.

At this time, Zhu Youjian remembered what Li Yunya said, that Yuan Chonghuan was not handsome, and if he did not get along with the general, it would cause disaster for a long time, and now it finally broke out!

Needless to say, he was angry with Yuan Chonghuan, but he still issued an order to commend Yuan Chonghuan, saying that Mao Wenlong was domineering and had no military law. Liaodong, these things can be ignored, even if he can't solve Jiannu, as long as he can keep Liaodong, he can not deal with him for the time being!

Zhu Youjian clenched his fists secretly, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart.

Li Yunya knew that in the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji entered the customs once, but he couldn't tell Zhu Youjian about this, otherwise, it would be miserable if Huang Taiji didn't come. No longer trusted by Zhu Youjian, the great cause of the future will not be able to continue, but he still told Zhu Youjian that he should be transferred to the general army of Zunhua to guard Da'ankou and Longjingguan in the north of the capital to prevent Jiannu came here to kill him.

Man Gui is also a general at the border, and his qualifications are older than Yuan Chonghuan. He had a quarrel with Yuan Chonghuan, and the two brought the lawsuit to the imperial court.

Zhu Youjian has never been self-willed when it comes to military matters. He believes in professionalism, so he told the court that he was also sincere and wanted to change Li Yunya's image in court, so he said that this is Li Yunya As a result, the ministers immediately reacted collectively, and even Wen Tiren began to express their opposition.

After a year of operation last year, Wen Tiren successfully entered the cabinet, and this year he used the Beijing Police to suppress dissidents, causing a lot of trouble. He didn't expect to face Li Yunya so early, but he knew that Li Yunya was a strong opponent for him. Now that Li Yunya handed over the handle himself, he just happened to push the boat along with the current and use his strength to fight.

So the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said that it was impossible for Jiannu to come from Da'ankou and Longjingguan, because Jiannu would have to bypass the Ningjin line of defense, or even go around Mongolia, and this road is mostly mountainous, which is very difficult to walk. Some officials from the Ministry of War even said that if Jiannu dared to come in this way, he would take the back road, close the door and beat dogs, and wipe out all Jiannu in one battle.

After Zhu Youjian heard about it, he was relieved: "Yunya is also concerned about the country and the people. He wants to plan ahead. Since it is not appropriate, it is fine. There is no need to mention this matter again!" If you attack Li Yunya later, you will not let everyone Moreover.

After Li Yunya found out about this, he sighed and continued to do his own thing. The training in the military academy was going on step by step. He kept pulling out a small number of people to do other things, and then transferred people from the Beijing camp. To make up for it, it has always been kept at less than 6000 people.

After a year, the quality of the muskets and cannons produced in the arsenal has improved again. Sun Yuanhua is indeed an expert, and with the help of Xu Guangqi, they can understand some modern principles that Li Yunya said, and then apply them in practice.

Li Yunya is a man with high eyes and low hands. He knows many theories, but he can't implement them at this time. Those craftsmen have low eyes and high hands. Although their craftsmanship is excellent, they can only work. The fault in the middle can even draw inferences from one instance, and use many "earth methods" that Li Yunya could not imagine to replace the methods of later generations to solve problems. The quality of guns has been greatly improved. Mortar.

Li Yunya did not go to high school, and he does not understand parabolas and trigonometric functions. He only knows the general principles of ballistics. In the past, he often discussed with people on the Internet whether it is possible for Chinese ballistic missiles to hit American aircraft carriers. These things are related to The craftsmen said they couldn't explain it clearly. When they got the Academia Sinica to talk about it, they immediately got the attention of the three academicians. In addition to Song Yingxing who continued to study the new seeds brought by Li Yunya and the application of fertilizers, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua both came to study ballistics. After working hard for half a year, after several improvements, the first batch of mortars was finally built, and two semi-circular crossed scales were added to the top, so that the artillery could measure the time and shadow of the sun, plus the downward-hanging scales. The hammer calculates the best elevation angle.

The civil industry has also been greatly developed. The original industry is getting better and better. Li Yunya built a textile factory. Song Yingxing led his assistants to design large-scale textile machines, including cotton, hemp, and animal hair products, without seeking quality. , just ask for quantity, the speed is extremely fast, and the cost is also low. In addition, a large amount of porcelain, agricultural tools, papermaking, printing, glass products, etc. are put into the market, and the sprouts of capitalism are thriving!

Of course, it costs a lot of money, but Li Yunya's industry also has a lot of money-makers. Just one stove alone earned tons of silver in winter. Since last autumn, he has trained a large number of craftsmen. At the customer's home, help to install the stove. The stove tube was successfully erected, and coal or wood was added, and it burned loudly, and the whole room was hot. Almost every house in the capital had several sets installed. Li Yunya They also asked the stove factory to make special molds to draw the characters such as Four Happiness, Auspiciousness, etc. on the stove, and even higher-level ones would make images such as tiger face and crane head. The stove can be sold for 100 taels of silver!