Chapter 374
Now Emperor Zhu Zailei completely believed in radio communication technology and took the initiative to ask for a radio room to be built in the Ganqing Palace.
Radio stations have also been established in Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuchang, Haojing and other places.
Whether it is the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao or the officials below who have important matters, they can directly contact Emperor Zhu Zailei in a short period of time.
The Ming Dynasty began to enter a new era of information exchange.
This means that new changes will occur in the Ming Dynasty society and may even affect the entire world.
But some people will realize this at the moment.
Military wars between the vassal states and indigenous countries abroad frequently occur.
England destroyed Scotland and Ireland and established a powerful British Empire. The monarch Zhu Zai-gun continued to implement a monarchical dictatorship. Without parliamentary restrictions, he began to accept the advice of Confucian ministers, rest with the people, and even began to export food to the Ming Dynasty.
However, England and King Zhu Zai-chan defeated France and evenly divided France's territory.
The two descendants of the Ming Dynasty royal family, Zhu Zai and Zhu Zai, do not seem to have the intention to vigorously develop the commodity economy at present, suppress the bourgeoisie internally, develop agriculture, monopolize trade externally, export food to the Ming Dynasty, and even use surplus labor and surplus wealth to open up the territory.
The source of weapons was the Royal Industrial Company controlled by several major consortiums behind the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the biggest boss behind these consortiums is Zhu Houzhao.
In order to compete for the occupation of territory, the British King and the Western King even fought a battle with each other. Under the control of the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty, the two won and lost each other. However, they finally agreed to draw a line with the Loire-Danube-Carpathian Mountains, and the north of the line will return to the King of England and the south of the line will return to the King of West.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao forbids them from expanding east of the Black Sea.
However, the agreement that Zhu Houzhao asked them to reach also made them abide by and began to establish an empire one north and the other south.
The expansion of King Zhu Zaiyuan of the British King was obviously a little more difficult, compared with King Zhu Zaiyuan of the Western King.
Because the Western King Zhu Zai-chan took the initiative to join the Catholic Church and took advantage of the contradictions of religious belief to easily unite the principalities to defeat the Ottoman Empire. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's governor in Ceuta also united the Western King in order to open up the Suez Canal and prevent the Ottoman Empire from moving south.
But these are not something worthy of attention for the country.
During Zhu Houzhao's trip to England, the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty also made the Chinese realize that it is difficult for overseas vassal states to fight against the Ming court now. Even if the court wants them to offer taxes now, they dare not violate it anymore.
Domestic politicians are still paying attention to how they can get more benefits and become more luxurious in this peaceful and prosperous era.
The day after Zhu Zailii returned from Zhu Houzhao, the censor He Weibai submitted a memorial to impeach Qi Jiguang's crimes of killing ministers and being domineering, and demanded to submit them to the Ministry of Justice for justice, but he was beaten back to the left censor Yang Lin.
The reason why the left censor Yang Lin fought back was that Qi Jiguang was not considered arbitrary, because Qi Jiguang followed the military law. Zhao Wenhua was also killed because he participated in military affairs at this time, so he should go to the military law system. As long as the Privy Councillor of the Guards and the General Military Law Department had no objection, the Censorate had no right to interfere.
"The Supreme Emperor's move was really cruel back then. He let the general take charge of the Censorate and the civil servant serve as the Censor of the Censorate. This is equivalent to letting the military officer control our civil servants alive. Now the impeachment memorial of the Censor He Weibai cannot reach the attention of God, so he can only pinch his nose and admit that this is a loss!"
Xu Jie had no choice but to know.
Zhu Houzhao saw that the civil servants have not caused much storm now, and he also knew that it was the reason why he asked the Zuodu Censor to be the military minister.
After all, officials like Yang Lin, who were senior generals of the Guards, knew military law and dared to oppose the entire civil service group.
Zhu Houzhao did not kill all the gentry of the Ming Dynasty like in England. Therefore, with the help of open trade and industrial development, the influence of domestic gentry is still very large. To be precise, they are the middle class of the empire, the Ming Dynasty is the most developed country in the world, and naturally the largest number of middle class.
Therefore, there were still many gentry in the Ming Dynasty, but now they have to pay taxes and are subject to more fair legal restrictions.
The Ming Dynasty's maritime trade, large-scale mining, manufacturing and financial industries were controlled by the Ming Dynasty royal family and several major chaebols controlled by the royal family. In other words, the most profitable business in the Ming Dynasty was basically controlled by the royal family and several major chaebols. These middle-level gentry had to leap into wealthier chaebols, and they could only deprive the lower-level Han people.
But the royal family and the chaebols who controlled the Ming Dynasty were naturally unwilling to let these gentry exploit the lower Han people too ruthlessly, so Hai Rui, who represented the interests of the court, naturally would not be too polite to these gentry after arriving in Yingtian Prefecture.
As soon as Hai Rui arrived in Yingtian Prefecture, he strengthened the management of Yingtian Prefecture. The gentry also knew that Hai Rui's temper was much more restrained than usual. The merchants no longer gave gifts to officials, and the officials did not dare to take any more food to avoid being caught by Hai Rui and being cured.
Although these gentry were very careful, some common people still filed complaints in front of Hai Rui and directly complained to the cabinet chief Xu Jie invading the land of the people.
Zhu Houzhao has changed everything in the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and even the imperial examinations have evolved into only the national higher education enrollment examinations and official examinations hosted by various provinces, but there has been no land reform, and no land private ownership has been turned into public land.
Therefore, there are still land annexation phenomena, and naturally there will still be conflicts between people and land.
It’s just that Zhu Houzhao turned the landless people into urban workers through the development of industry.
It is not surprising that the great gentry like the Xu Jie family will still occupy the land in this world. Many times, the people can only accept the fact that their land was occupied. They only survived by working in the city, so they did not rebel because they did not cause any uprising.
Of course, the people of the Ming Dynasty could not be willing to be encroached on land. Moreover, after the popularization of education, they would use the law to actively fight for and protect their rights and interests.
Now that Hai Rui has come to Ying Tian as the governor, these people naturally have more confidence and immediately filed a lawsuit with Hai Rui.
Although the Ming Dynasty today has a successful examination and a harsh anti-corruption law, and the officials' income and treatment are much richer, the administration of the government is not really very clear. After all, as long as they are people, they will have selfish desires. Even though many officials in the Ming Dynasty are from the Loyal Monarch Society, those who can be officials are shrewd people. How can they brainwash with one or two sets of theories? They are even the ones who oppose the theory the most.
As soon as possible, the administration cannot be as clear as water, and as there is no absolute fairness in this world, but the rights of ordinary people have increased greatly now. They are no longer as cheap as grass, and they are even more unlikely to become slaves unless they are really too lazy to sell their dignity and live in this world.
Therefore, these gentry and officials did not dare to bully the people too harshly.
Now that the literacy rate increases, there are not many fools in the people, and the people are becoming more and more independent. The emergence of officials like Hai Rui naturally gives the people a better opportunity to protect their rights and interests.
Hai Rui was naturally not afraid of power. He found out the truth and forced the Xu family to spit out all the embezzled land. He also reported the Xu family's affairs that violated the laws to the court.
Emperor Zhu Zailei saw all the illegal memorials about Hai Rui's sons and did not allow Xu Jie to arrest his son, and suppressed the matter.
The reason is very simple. Emperor Zhu Zailei doesn't want this to be too big.
Zhu Houzhao put Hai Rui on Yingtian as the governor to teach Xu Jie a lesson. Now, he naturally would not care whether Emperor Zhu Zailei would deal with Xu Jie's son according to the law. He believed that the people would ask him to take care of him.
Because today's Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty that ruled the world before. The people gradually regarded themselves as the master of this empire and gradually began to ask the rulings of the empire to do things according to their will.
Hai Rui exposed the incident of Xu Jie's son embezzling hundreds of thousands of acres of civilian land to Yingtianfu local newspapers. Now, as soon as the radio is used, the Huangming Pao immediately reported the incident. Therefore, everyone in the world soon knew that Xu Jie's two sons were ineffective.
Yang Jisheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, submitted a memorial to ask His Majesty the Emperor to deal with Xu Jie's son according to the law. After all, the evidence provided by Hai Rui was conclusive, and the Censorate had also approved it, so he waited for the emperor to give it to him and then took the person.
Emperor Zhu Zailei was not easy to cover up for Xu Jie, so he had to agree to the law of Yingtian and local people to deal with Xu Jie's son.
Xu Jie was helpless about this. He knew that even if he met a serious official like Hai Rui, he would be useless even if he had a high position and power. Even if the emperor was willing to help him, he believed that Hai Rui was definitely not something he didn't want to see in Yingtian Mansion.
Of course, the only one who can help Xu Jie is the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao.
Only Zhu Houzhao can still forcibly trample on the law now, because Zhu Houzhao still holds military power and has a lofty status.
But Zhu Houzhao naturally would not help Xu Jie, after all, all this was arranged by him.
Zhu Houzhao would not trample on the laws of the Ming Dynasty for Xu Jie. It is true that he is a person who truly holds supreme power in the Ming Dynasty, but he is unwilling to act against the situation and let the people of the Ming Dynasty continue to be slaves to the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao is now considering how the Ming Dynasty will go after a hundred years. If Emperor Zhu Zailei takes over his military power, what he can guess is that Emperor Zhu Zailei will become the next dictator and will have the most wealth and the most powerful army of the empire.
But what if the emperor after Emperor Zhu Zailei becomes a foolish monarch who only cares about his own interests or an emperor with poor ability? Zhu Houzhao feels that he cannot rely on the peaceful and prosperous life of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty on the subjective cognition that future emperors will be wise.
Moreover, Zhu Houzhao believes that as the people become richer and their requirements for dignity become higher and higher, they will become less and less willing to be trampled on by the emperor at will, unless the emperor can give them more benefits, so much that they do not care about dignity. However, once the emperor cannot give it to them, they will definitely oppose the emperor or even overthrow the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao discovered that if the Ming Dynasty continued to develop like this, as people became more and more noble, the emperor would sooner or later be pulled down from the altar or become a symbol of etiquette.
"Forget it, go with the flow. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Don't blame me if you are pushed to the guillotine in the future. If you want to blame, blame yourself as a loser." Zhu Houzhao said to himself as the electric lamp, which has been widely used in the daily lives of officials and citizens.
Perhaps because of his age, Zhu Houzhao began to become lazy and could not think of a good idea for the moment, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Instead, he still held military power, intending to hand over the power to Emperor Zhu Zailei when he really left this world. As for how Emperor Zhu Zailei would use this power, and whether he would be pushed to the guillotine because of excessive use, he didn't want to worry about it.
Zhu Houzhao found that even though he was a time traveler and even with the highest power in his hand, he could not directly control the future historical trends. This made him feel powerless and began to feel that it was not interesting to control power. For a moment, he also felt enlightened.
But Japan is still going to be destroyed. Zhu Houzhao can no longer predict and control the development direction of the Ming Empire. However, in terms of specificity, for example, whether Japan should be destroyed, he can still be sure. After all, history has proved that if the Japanese civilization is not eliminated in advance, he will dare to annex China when he has a little strength. If his strength is stronger, he will dare to annex the world.
Qi Jiguang's army had left Ryukyu, and more than 100,000 troops had begun to advance to Japan as scheduled.
At this time, Japan also learned about the Ming army's attack.
At this time, the actual warlord who controlled the Japanese shogunate regime was Oda Nobunaga, a famous military general who was very famous in Japanese history.
But now Oda Nobunaga has just controlled the Muromachi Shogunate.
Other Japanese daimyos were not convinced by Oda Nobunaga and formed an encirclement of Oda Nobunaga.
In general, Japan was still in a split state as reported by the Jinyiwei at this time.
However, after learning that the Ming army was going to conquer Wa Kingdom, Oda Nobunaga knew the seriousness of the matter and began to voluntarily compromise and sent envoys to contact Daming who opposed him, in an attempt to unite these Daming to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
However, although Oda Nobunaga controlled the Muromachi Shogunate, he was not a shogun and could only be considered a powerful minister. Therefore, even if these daimyos were willing to unite against the Ming Dynasty, they would not be willing to focus on Oda Nobunaga.
The Ming Dynasty had sent envoys to contact some Daming in advance, saying that the Ming Dynasty's expedition of Japanese was not to destroy Japanese but to attack Wudao. The so-called attack of Wudao means to punish Oda Nobunaga, an unfaithful and unrighteous person who usurped power.
The Ming Dynasty was the sect leader, so there was no sense of inconsistency in proposing such a reason for combat. Many Daming, who had conflicts with Nobunaga Oda, really believed in the words of the Ming Dynasty and were unwilling to fight against the Ming Dynasty with Nobunaga Oda, but instead became more determined to eliminate Nobunaga Oda's heart.
On this day, Lu Tong led the navy to Nagasaki Port, Japan under the order of Qi Jiguang, and did not encounter Japanese resistance. He was also welcomed by the local daimyo.
Chapter completed!