Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty - Chapter 1700

Life hung like this. One of the resolutions that supported Zhu Qiyu’s persistence was that he wanted to see how the Yang Department treated Nanming. Does Nanming have the strength to fight back and beat out the Yang family, and finally the two sides become neighbors. Their descendants of the Zhu family can also keep the Daming River and mountains.

After people have hope in their hearts, life will be more tenacious. After thousands of hopes, the news finally came. The result was unexpected. The Yang Department took the whole Nanming with such ease, and the Daming River and mountain lost half of the wall. The worst result was that Zhu Qiyu couldn’t hold on, spit out blood and couldn’t get up from illness.

Whether Zhu Qiyu or Zhu Qizhen, they are qualified emperors. Compared with many Zhu emperors in history, they are diligent in administration, love the people, are willing to set an example, do not waste, but hope that this country can become stronger in their hands.

It’s just a pity that they met Yang Chendong, a “monster” who had to dump them in countless streets in terms of spirit, thought and action, which meant that their results were sad. It has been a great thing to persist until now.

Zhu Qiyu fell ill again, and her persistence and hope were slowly reduced. If the Southern Ming Dynasty is still ruled by Zhuqi Town, perhaps one day, the northern Ming Dynasty still has the hope of unifying the whole country and restoring the original glory of the great Ming Dynasty.

But now, Nanming has become a member of the Yang family. It is unrealistic to want to unify Daming. When the hope in her heart was completely destroyed, Zhu Qiyu entered the time when the oil ran out and the lamp dried up.

When Zhu Qiyu fell ill, the power of Nanming fell on crown prince Zhu Jianshen.

At this time, Zhu Jianshen was already 20 years old. He had been the crown prince for a long time. In fact, it was not easy these years. He had to face a lot of knowledge infusion and learning every day, which made him bored for a long time.

The emergence of Yang Chendong has changed a lot of history. Zhu Jianshen, a child who should have died at the age of seven, miraculously lived to adulthood. Maybe there is no record of him in history, maybe he is not a talent of emperor at all. Since he was 12 years old, he has begun to constantly resist imperial power. In his heart, he hopes to be a free child, who can act as a spoiled child in his parents’ arms, run crazy outside like other children one day, and enjoy the happiness of his child’s childhood.

His birth meant that he had nothing to do with all this. The indoctrination of Confucius and Mencius every day and the teaching of those who know it make him lose his young mind early, forcing him to grow slowly.

Now the father emperor fell ill again. Zhu Jianshen didn’t mean to take over the power. Instead, he regarded him as a filial son. He poured medicine in front of Zhu Qiyu’s ward every day. He had a completely laissez faire attitude towards government affairs. When asked by other ministers, he would reply, “if there’s anything to do with my teacher, he’ll deal with it.”

Who is Zhu Jianshen’s teacher?

Xu Youzhen, the crown prince’s young Fu and Minister of punishment, is also.

So I want to see what kind of problems and circumstances Nanming will face. After Xu Youzhen and his entourage were embedded in the city, Yang Chendong met him personally. He had a certain understanding of the next description and development, and now he is in power again. Of course, I know what to do next.

So, on the surface, Nanming is Nanming and Beiming is Beiming. But in fact, after Nanming became a member of the Yang family, Nanming was also affected by it and slowly changed towards the result of peaceful acceptance.

The North Ming Dynasty, which had laid the foundation for a long time, was falling from Xu Youzhen’s hands to the Yang system. When the above strategies changed, the officialdom of the northern Ming Dynasty had already become a mess. Since Xu Youzhen proposed and Zhu Qiyu agreed, the buy official system, the buy crime system and the establishment of the Zhu Bank were implemented. The officialdom and atmosphere of the Southern Ming Dynasty at the middle and upper levels have long been in a mess.

Seventy percent of the salaries are withheld in the Zhujia bank, and 50% of the profits of businessmen must also be stored in the Zhujia bank. It is called that everyone has made a contribution to better improve the strength of Nanming for the centralization and financial unity of Nanming. It can be said that the slogan is loud. In fact, in the early stage, Zhu Bank also had a lot of wealth, and the emperor also had available money in his hands. But all this came at the expense of the interests of ministers and some tyrants and gentry.

Such a practice has directly led to the rising opposition of the middle and upper classes. If Zhu Qiyu had not been cruel enough and concentrated enough power, and there was a giant outside, Yang was eyeing it. I’m afraid someone would have rebelled against it.

Officials and gentry who could not and did not dare to oppose soon thought of other ways to solve the problem. For example, squeezing people to supplement their lack of property; Buy tax officials to reduce their tax payment amount, etc.

That’s the sentence. There are countermeasures at the top and policies at the bottom. In this way, it is the people who suffer in the end. The money of the Zhujia bank has also become the hard work of the people.

There are also the buying official system of the Ministry of officials and the buying crime system of the Ministry of punishment. So that as long as you have money, you can be an official, and only if you have money, you will have nothing to do if you commit a crime. As a result, the problem of social security is worrying. The rich are more and more lawless, and the suffering is still ordinary people.

In such an environment, the chaos of the northern Ming Dynasty was caused by a little external force, and there was a possibility of collapse at any time. If the Yang faction gave a heavy blow at this time, the speed of the collapse of the power would only be faster than that of Nanming, not slower than that of Nanming.

Prince piansheng didn’t want to solve this problem, but handed everything to Xu Youzhen. You can imagine what will happen next.

Xu Youzhen, who was in power, immediately set about working according to Yang Chendong’s instructions.

Military power, financial power and personnel appointment power are all in hand, developing in the direction of being conducive to the Yang system. Xu Youzhen has long been promised by Yang Chendong that there will be a place for him in the ninth cabinet of Yang Department. Compared with the powerful and vast Yang family, Nanming really didn’t put this power in his eyes.

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The kingdom of Spain.

This was originally one of the largest countries in China and the West in the 15th century. At this time, it is far from as arrogant as in history. On the contrary, the domestic momentum is bleak and heavy. Everything is because their neighbor Portugal is about to be pointed out by the military front of the Yang system in the eastern continent.

Navy generals Miguel and Cruz were captured by the Yang family and businessman Anthony was captured. When the news came back to Toledo, the capital of the country, King Enrique IV shouted that he must avenge blood hatred and let the ignorant Oriental yellow monkeys know the end of angering their great Spanish kingdom.

But it’s just slogans. King Enrique, who was jokingly called the incompetent in history, is more interested in countless gold, silver and beautiful women. Compared with the Oriental Yang system, which is far away, it is just a place that can’t be hit by eight poles. We are people of two worlds. Why bother to make trouble?

In Enrique’s eyes, the place more worthy of his knife is Portugal as a neighbor. How to occupy here is the problem he needs to consider.

Spain, which has been accumulating strength, was eyeing its neighbors, and Spain was indeed a very powerful country at that time. Especially after businessman Garcia got the information of railcars from the Yang family, they took a big step in industrial development. With a strong industrial foundation, it is more conducive to increase their country’s strength, so as to lay the fact of becoming a big western country and make various preparations for dominating Europe in the future.

At this time, the Navy came the news that the Yang Navy had already crossed the Cape of Haiwang and targeted Lisbon, the coastal port city of Portugal. According to the Navy’s reconnaissance, the more than 500 warships of the Yang navy are less than five miles away from Lisbon.

Over the years, the Yang Department has never stopped building the Navy and is willing to spend money. After the attack of the Golden Horde and the Principality of Ross, most of the plundered gold and silver were invested in the construction of the Navy.

According to incomplete statistics, in less than three years from 1463 to 1465, Yang’s department invested more than 500 million liang of silver in the Navy, most of which were plundered by the army.

They say ten years of army and one hundred years of navy. With the great financial investment of the Yang family, the intelligence and wisdom of the Han people played a role under the fact that Yang Chendong took out a lot of materials beyond this era. A large number of warships were built in the dock, and the first batch of more than 500 warships were only created in advance. Behind them, a larger fleet followed, including some newly built super large warships, also known as class VII warships by the Yang family.

The approach of more than 500 Yang warships poured in, frightening the Portuguese Kingdom near the sea. Although they once thought they were one of the sea overlords, because the territory was still too small, the number of warships in the country was only a thousand, and most of them could not be called warships at all. They were small in size and small in displacement, and there were even many ships without even the most basic guns.

After learning that almost every warship of the Yang navy was equipped with more than ten guns, the Portuguese kingdom was afraid. They quickly asked neighboring Spain for assistance. Although they had long seen the ambitions of the neighboring country towards them, this was not the time to care about these things.

Enrique IV was naturally happy about the bow of the Portuguese kingdom. He knew it was a good opportunity to enter the Portuguese kingdom. But he knew more clearly that if he wanted to annex this long coveted neighbor, the first thing he had to do was to fight out the Yang Navy. Only by restoring the peace of the European region, could he do what he wanted to do.