Chapter 14 Recruiting Warriors to Sail the World ()

On the ninth day of the second month of the first year of Chongzhen.

Taihe Gate. Morning Court.

Before the morning court began, the ministers first sang poems together, with the title of Wen Tianxiang's "Song of Righteousness", and then they started the morning court. This time the poems were much more neat and more imposing than the previous time. I guess they had been rehearsed in private. Nonsense, who wouldn't want to express it well in front of the emperor.

Yang's inspiration actually came from pyramid schemes. Lies and lies were told a thousand times or ten thousand times, and his head was washed away. Therefore, there was the fact that the ministers "sang poems" when they went to court. The purpose was to "brainwash" the ministers.

Then we start discussing things.

Yang Jie sat on the "dragon chaise" in a daze. Underground was a group of courtiers discussing matters. They were quarreling endlessly about whether to increase the salary. Yang Jie saw a group of bbs who were flooding the water party. Posting and speaking were meaningless, and his voice was also regarded as the "noise" sound when the house next door was decorating, and it was blocked directly.

After Yang Jie visited the new army yesterday, he suddenly had a lot of insights. The first is that military must be strictly controlled. To put it bluntly, it is to train the new army and deepen loyal education. Second, the money must be done in a hurry, otherwise even his own Enko Wu Juren will be his own gravedigger in the future.

It is easy to catch military affairs. As long as you have money, you can train as many new troops as you want. You don’t need to report to anyone, you don’t need to obtain anyone’s consent. You can buy as many muskets as you want, buy as many cannons as you want, and build as many battleships as you want. You don’t need to look at anyone’s face. This is the benefit of being an emperor.

As long as those ministers give them money, or don’t ask them for money, they won’t care about you, no matter what you do, whether you are a carpenter or a Taoist priest at home.

Yang Jie thought boredly, and suddenly realized that the entire hall was quiet, without any sound, and all the ministers were looking at him.

Yang Jing asked, "Hey! Why are you all looking at me? I have no dreams on my face. Haha, what are you talking about?"

The ministers were so angry that they thought to themselves that you, the emperor, were really interesting. We spit down for a long time and spent a long time trying to do so. You are so happy that we sat on the top and stared in a daze for a long time. We had been spitting out the saliva for the past half day. If we had known this, we wouldn't have had such a hard work.

An old minister reported: "I report to the emperor, and I and others to discuss the issue of Jia Liao's salary. They have different opinions and cannot be unified. Please ask the emperor to sage!"

"Saint Prison? Increase the salary? Didn't I allocate two million taels of silver from the treasury a few days ago? Why, it's almost gone?"

"Report to the emperor, the 2 million taels of silver allocated by the emperor's treasury are being allocated. We discuss adding Liao pay only to meet the needs in the future. We cannot always let the emperor use the treasury to support it!" The old minister said justice. This Liao pay was definitely not something that Chongzhen could pay now.

For example, a soldier costs one tael of silver (grain, salary) a month, which is twelve taels a year, and a hundred thousand soldiers is 1.2 million taels a year. It is not counted as equipment, training, as well as burning, pension, rewards, officers, military charity construction, etc. If there is no two or three million taels a year, you can't fill the pit of 100,000 soldiers. What's more, there are more than 100,000 soldiers inside and outside the pass, and there are troops in other directions? Chongzhen's treasury cannot withstand it. Of course, if it is only maintained, one and two million taels of 100,000 soldiers will be enough.

"Well, I understand what I said, but I understand what the salary is going on. I believe everyone understands where the salary will be added in the end. I won't say much. Please think of other ways." Yang Jing rejected the matter of increasing the salary. The salary increase was actually added to those poor and poor families. The scholar-official and landlord class had nothing to do with this matter. This was to force those people to rebel! By then, the war outside the pass would be in chaos. So Yang Jing wisely rejected the matter.

The hall was silent! All the ministers were silent. The emperor said nothing wrong. Everyone knew where the salary was added. So don’t talk about it anymore. Let’s talk about other things. It seems that the emperor is also a clever person, so it’s not easy to fool!

Yang Jie suddenly said, "I see that all my dear friends are tired. Today I will talk to you about other things and relax... I watched the "Kunyu All Nations Map" yesterday and occasionally thought about it. Just imagine if the earth is really round, how could that person stand on it? Or, starting from a certain harbor in the Ming Dynasty and driving in one direction for many years, will it not be that you will return to your original place?"

Xiami? Is the earth round? All the ministers on the earth were dumbfounded. The scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty could not understand. We elites always only talked about the Four Books and Five Classics, poetry, songs, etc. As for the earth round? Does it have anything to do with us? The boat sails to a place and will return to the original place. This question seems too, too much? It's too far away! In addition to my thinking, we only thought about collecting a few more buckets of land rent, raising two concubines, drinking a glass of wine, raising a few children, and beating the children when they are idle on rainy days. As for how round the land is and how wide the sea is, it is not something we consider.

"Above the picture." Yang Jingwei said.

The little eunuch below ran out quickly. Standing in front of the ministers, he unfolded huge maps. This is the famous "Kunyu Wanguo Map", which is original and genuine. It is basically close to the modern map. It can be calculated as a relatively complete and credible map. From here, it can be seen that there is a gap between Western technology and Eastern technology on some issues. Western technology has begun to catch up with the East at this time and has technologies that surpass the East.

The ministers discussed the following, and Yang Jing said: "My dear friends, although I claim to be the emperor, I didn't expect that the world is so great. Even if I am the emperor, I claim to be the lord of the world and are rich in all directions, I can only get 10% of them. It's a pity that the name of the emperor is so ridiculous and ignorant..."

"I'm waiting for thousands of deaths..." The ground knelt on the ground again. The emperor actually said that his title of Emperor is just a name, how could the ministers feel!

"Oh, what I am not thinking about is not true to the name of the emperor. I am thinking that there are so many lands in the world, why not immigrate our Celestial people to the past, to alleviate the suffering of land shortage in our dynasty, and to create territory. What do you think? In the future, the territory will be opened, and all the good friends will also be famous in history! How about it?" Yang Jing only tested the civil servant's reaction and had no hope for immigration and development of Xinjiang. It can be seen that the civil servant group burned Zheng He's voyage to the West.

"Your Majesty, that overseas land is a barbarian land, with plague and miasma everywhere. How can I immigrate? I am afraid it will be a life-threatening death if I go there! Why should Your Majesty make things difficult for those poor families?"

"The emperor cannot. At present, the military expenditure is still insufficient to make ends meet. How can I afford the silver required for immigration?" Another minister hurriedly stopped him. It was probably from the Ministry of Revenue and was more sensitive to money.

"Your Majesty, my country is a country of etiquette. Why do you start a war for a mere piece of land and cause the suffering of life? What about destroying others' food?" I guess this person is a confused person, a typical rude guy with internal silence and his family is almost starving to death, and he is also considering whether other people's family will have food to eat. If the United States in the 21st century had such sentiments, Saddam would cry and say that I really don't have "weapons of mass destruction". Are there anything else between countries besides interests?

"Your Majesty, no..."

"Your Majesty, no!..."

As Yang Jing imagined, opposition was one-sided. Yang Jing couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the pressure was too great! Even the emperor had no choice but to face so many oppositions! There was no way, his back was not strong enough! If he was Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, he would probably not have such troubles. He could create a few more Zheng He fleets to visit the Indians in North America.

Yang Jie spoke again and pretended to laugh, "I know this is not possible, so I don't plan to do it yet. However, I heard that if there are high-yield crops overseas, it would be a merit if they can get back to our Ming Dynasty. They can survive countless lives. They are really a living Bodhisattva offered by everyone in the world."

"Your Majesty, is your Majesty talking about sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn from overseas?" A minister came out and reported.

"Well, that's right, my dear, you know these things?" Yang Jing's voice was filled with joy. He finally met a "good person". He was really a good person! Isn't he just doing these things? With these things, in the bad weather in the late Ming Dynasty, he could live more people and create fewer rebels.

"Your Majesty, I don't know. I just heard that Xu Zixian and Xu Shaobao said that he had never seen it with his own eyes. However, although I had never seen it with my own eyes, I knew that Xu Shaobao had grown sweet potatoes on the spot." The minister reported this way.

"Xu Guangqi?" Yang Jing understood that the Xu Shaobao he mentioned was Xu Guangqi, who had recently recalled the court, and he also added the title of Shaobao. This was a bit different from history. Shaobao was added after his death. However, there was another difference. Since the cabinet and ministers such as the ministers of various ministries were not very mobile, Yang Jing did not make any major moves, and the Wei case was not decided, Yang Jing was not ready to start a massacre, so many of them were retained and continued to be officials. Therefore, Xu Guangqi was originally supposed to be the Minister of Rites, but he did not do it. So Yang Jing gave the title of Shaobao, which was considered compensation.

"I know this, Xu Shaobao has planted sweet potatoes myself, and I know that you all must learn more from Xu Shaobao! However, I have also heard that there are other high-yield crops overseas. I am going to send warriors to follow the old path that the eunuchs of the Three Treasures, and move forward again in one direction. First, to verify the theory that the earth is a circle, and second, to record local products, especially crops, and select excellent seeds to bring them back to our dynasty and alleviate the food tension in our dynasty.

On the other hand, I really want to experience the exotic style, but I can't leave this Forbidden City. Even if I can leave the Forbidden City, I can't leave this capital. Therefore, I can only recruit warriors to walk for me, record the scenery and favors along the way, and relieve my desire. Of course, this matter can be regarded as my private matter, and it will not make you embarrassed, nor will I ask for money from the Ministry of Revenue. I am going to pay money from the treasury, recruit some warriors, and build a few big ships..."

Moving forward again along the old road of the Three Treasures eunuch, proving that the world is a ball. This surprised the ministers and thought that the emperor was really full and full, but it had nothing to do with us. Just do it. At least you don’t want to send someone out to find the gods and we can’t control it. However, when you hear about the search for seeds of high-yield and drought-resistant crops, everyone thinks that although this emperor is a nonsense, he has done a good thing, at least better than the carpenter. The most important thing is not to pay the money from the Ministry of Revenue, that’s fine. What do you do? You are the emperor and no one cares about you, so let it go.

Therefore, all the ministers called it "good". Yang Jing recruited warriors and built large ships to sea. Of course, the money had to be paid by himself, which was considered the emperor's private affairs.

So, the emperor ordered the recruitment of skilled craftsmen from all over the world to build large ships in Tianjin and recruiting warriors from all over the world to explore for the emperor. Another stone was thrown into the stagnant water of the Ming Dynasty, causing several small waves.
Chapter completed!