A hundred years later, the island country in the west has put the entire Chinese nation in a century of decline through the shameless opium trade.

He even used this as an excuse to fight. The key is that he was shamelessly proud of it, saying that he would help you open the country and enter a new era. You have to thank him for his humiliation to you.

So much so that many Chinese people later took pride in being colonized and invaded. Whether this idea is extreme and ignorant, it has to be admitted that the spiritual disaster brought to China by opium is no less than the literary inquisitions of the Qing Dynasty.

Now, a hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty wanted to let the island countries in the west taste the pleasure of being poisoned by opium. Perhaps that island country should also thank the Ming Dynasty, thanks to the Ming Dynasty for promoting your change and progress.

Although the Ming Dynasty's ocean trade has retreated to within the Strait of Malacca, and even the control of the offshore areas is in the hands of major pirates, who can confirm that the Ming Empire, which organized Zheng He to voyage to the West for seven years, did not come to the sea to show its might again?

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao now knows that the Jinyiwei and the East Factory have already crossed the ocean by infiltrating pirates or foreign ships, and even to America and Europe.

Even at the end of last year, Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Jinyiwei, reported a news from Western Europe.

The content of the news is the "Thirty Years' War" between the German Catholic Church and the Protestant Civil War, which also involved Denmark.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao directly asked Xu Xianchun to publish this foreign news in the Daming Daily, and wrote the ins and outs of the war in detail in the Daming Daily, which was also considered to be a way to open the horizons of the people and let the Ming people know that there were many emerging events on the distant Atlantic Ocean, and many of them were potential threats to the future Ming Dynasty.

Most citizens do not understand why the long-form and long-formed Daming Daily is less than a small country that has been announced by the Ming Dynasty.

However, many citizens still showed strong interest in this war. Some scholars directly left messages on it to mock the monarchy of these barbaric countries, which made the church have such great power. If this continues, how could the dynasty rule the world? Even the Fushe scholars who were dissatisfied with the current Ming Dynasty could not help but sigh that there was a worse country than the Ming Dynasty.

This is the different national strength determines the different feelings of the people after understanding the external world.

A hundred years later, after people learned about the West, they were more worshiping and admiring, and even once suspected that their civilization and writing were the root of backwardness. They advocated the ban on Chinese characters and directly used English as their mother tongue. However, in the Ming Dynasty a hundred years ago, people were more contempt and confident about these Western countries. They found that the Ming Dynasty was so good compared to these countries.

Although blind self-confidence will make a person or nation lose its confidence in progress, it will also make more people support the emperor for the sake of current stability and happiness.

Among the first-term officer graduates, officers who were interested in naval warfare or were good at mastering marine knowledge also rushed to Nanjing City. The most dazzling one was Chen Zilong, who had organized people to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Taihu Lake and later died in the country after dying for the country.

Chen Zilong is the highest-educated military officer of this period. He was a student of Songjiang Prefecture as early as the sixth year of Tianqi, and he was only twenty-one years old at this time, and he was less than a year old.

But just when he was newlywed, he resolutely gave up the qualification for the provincial examination that had passed the imperial examination because of the enrollment information of the Royal Military Academy in the Daming Daily. He ran away from home alone despite his family's opposition and came to the capital to apply for the Royal Military Academy.

It has been six months since the first phase ended. Due to the strict confidentiality measures of the Royal Military Academy, his family still do not know his whereabouts and information.

Qin Botong was officially appointed as the admiral of the Ming Imperial Guard Navy. Based on the two battalions of the Imperial Guards brought this time and the original screened Caojiang Navy, Qin Botong was officially trained as the first navy in the Ming Dynasty, and was directly included in the Imperial Guard system. The full name is the Royal Imperial Guard Navy, which is usually referred to as the Imperial Guard Navy.

The temporary soldiers of the Imperial Guard Navy are 10,000. This number can be compared with the number of Imperial Guards at the beginning, but the requirements for the training and screening are no less than the original Imperial Guard selection.

The two battalions that Qin Botong brought were originally the elite battalions with the most brave and the proportion of veteran soldiers among the Imperial Guards stationed in Xuzhou.

Secondly, although the training method and military equipment of the Caojiang Navy were behind, it did not directly become ordinary people like the Guards. After all, Nanjing is guarding here, and there is no situation where the navy army can't even know how to handle the rudder or swim. After the water and underwater assessment and the physical fitness assessment of the sixth place, those who can stay can fight against ordinary pirates even if they are pulled on the battlefield now.

More than 10,000 soldiers were divided into five battalions, each with more than 2,000 people, of which one battalion was left to form the 6th Navy battalion.

The 6th Battle Battalion was mainly veterans brought by Qin Botong from Xuzhou. Liang Zhaoyang, a former commander of the baggage battalion and a former military officer of the Royal Military Academy, was appointed as the commander of the 6th Battle Battalion.

The other four battalions were organized based on four ship formations with No. 1 Fu Ship as the core after being repaired by the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau.

The first battalion was commanded by Chen Zilong, and it is the main battalion of the four battalions, with the most advanced equipment. Its No. 1 Fu Ship is equipped with the latest foot-type mechanical human propeller developed by Mao Yuanyi, the father of the Ming Dynasty steam power. Its sailing rate is much faster than the original Fu Ship. Even other ships such as eagle ships, net boats, and serial boats are more complicated than the other four battalions. They are even equipped with hot air machines, which can monitor hydrology and climate and environment, so that the enemy can be first.

But it also consumed a lot. The equipment of the first battalion, plus the latest artillery, various firearms and mines, cost tens of millions of silver dollars. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can only equip one battalion now.

The other three battalions were at least slightly worse than the first battalion in terms of power and firepower, but the fleet equipped was already considered relatively advanced at the time, at least the quality was guaranteed.

For water training, Qin Botong, who came from the Duke of Wei, Xu Hongji, once served as the commander of the Caojiang Naval Army for several years. Later, he went to the Beijing Camp because he wanted to curry favor with the civil service system and wanted to be promoted to the general. Now he is familiar with continuing to come back to practice the naval army. He then compiled a set of naval water training plans within a few days based on the previous training methods of the Royal Military Academy and the Imperial Guard.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied and relieved after watching it. Although he was a little confused about water training, he could also tell whether Qin Botong was the material.

The military camp camp site after funding was allocated to be rebuilt on the original basis of the Caojiang Navy has also been built. Like the imperial guard training ground in the capital, it has also been built into a closed place integrating life, training and learning supporting facilities.

But the current Imperial Guards did not immediately carry out basic queues and physical training. On the contrary, they are all arranged to study in the classroom hall. Yes, it is learning.

Water combat tests wisdom and knowledge more than 6-level combat. In addition to basic military literacy, at least you must have a systematic understanding of various climate and hydrology knowledge, and even have to know some common physiology knowledge, such as what sepsis is.

Although many officers and soldiers in the newly-edition Imperial Guard Navy also know how to adjust their navigation and courses, and even many experts who can get involved in the deep sea, they are more just the experience accumulated in the water environment over the years without a systematic understanding.

Nowadays, the first thing the officers of the Royal Military Academy have to do is to let their soldiers learn to recognize words and learn how to analyze weather.

Zhu Youxiao would often come here to explain the situation of various countries in the ocean to these naval soldiers, which can be regarded as enriching their experiences.

In addition, Zhang Dai, the chief editor of Daming Daily, was arranged by Zhu Youxiao to go to the Imperial Guard Naval Camp every three days to explain the facts of the Japanese riots and the harm caused to the people of the Ming Dynasty after the rampant pirates are rampant.

"When today, the son has more than a hundred families and divided them into ten thousand families, it is not the tyranny of the emperor, but the good prescription for severe medicine to treat severe diseases!"

In addition to Zhang Dai, as a loyal believer of Zhu Youxiao, Chen Zilong also analyzed the current affairs and politics of his life to them when he popularized knowledge for the soldiers of the imperial guards.

For example, Chen Zilong made a unique analysis of the recent Huangzhuang distributing the land obtained from the house search to the people, and thus achieved the affirmation and support of Zi Zhu Youxiao today. His strict logic and sensational rhetoric also made the guard naval soldiers, whose ideological field was blank, have to believe in his ideas.

In a pepper room full of vines in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Wei Min'er, the deputy director of the Daming Daily, was pronounced thousands of Chinese characters on the blackboard in Fengyang Mandarin.

Every time Wei Min'er pronounces a Chinese character, Zhu Youxiao had to pronounce these Chinese characters.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao thought this was just a simple task, but in this era when there was no Mandarin, due to the differences in dialects, the phonetic syllables that are generally applicable to Mandarin sometimes cannot accurately pronounce some of the words in Fengyang official.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao had to let Wei Min'er move into the Forbidden City, and he would come to help him pronunciate every now and then, but after a long time, he felt extremely boring, and Wei Min'er was very happy about it.

For thousands of years, the pronunciation of sentences has been passed down by the teacher orally, but different teachers have different accents, so it is difficult for each Chinese character to have standard pronunciation over time. But now Wei Min'er has seen that these strange characters can actually help Chinese characters get rid of the pronunciation differences caused by the word-of-mouth transmission.

Zhu Youxiao could see that Wei Min'er was very interested in these Latin letters.

Outside the palace wall is the morning exercise shouts of the imperial guards and navy, which are majestic and passionate; inside the wall is the gentle and elegant Miner-reading voice.

Zhu Youxiao enjoyed his current state very much, and the Ming Dynasty was steadily developing under its own manipulation.

From scientific research to military, and then to economy, our own reforms are quietly underway. Although there are fierce conflicts, they have not caused major changes. On the contrary, according to the Yang Shouchun report of the Royal Bank, although the Imperial Guards are expanding their enrollment, major projects are underway, and agricultural taxes are being reduced again and again, they still make great profits in the first half of this year.

The reason is that the income from the house search can be spent as high as ten years.

Not only that, the newly collected taxes in Fengyang, Shandong and Shaanxi have increased several times compared to last year due to the three reforms.

Especially the commercial tax collection in Fengyang area. Although Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying is now scolded by many businesses as a financial scammer, the commercial tax he paid to the central court within half a year was as high as more than 5 million silver dollars!

It is hard for Zhu Youxiao to imagine what the concept of his fiscal revenue would be if the thirteenth governor and magistrates of the Ming Dynasty and the Thirteenth Capitals were allowed to collect commercial taxes. Perhaps he could generously exempt all farmers from taxes in the world, which would probably completely change the historical development pattern.

Just imagine, after taxes and labor service are exempted, who is willing to give up the land to the gentry's house as a slave or servant?

Less gossip, as September approaches, the ceremony of worshiping Xiaoling Mausoleum is gradually being put on the agenda.

Zhu Youxiao's personal sacrifice to Xiaoling Mausoleum was a challenge to the civil servants in the eighth year of Tianqi. Since he had military power and had factory guards in his hands, he did not cause much trouble. However, Zhu Youxiao did not want to end his competition with the civil servants group in the ritual power.

He took the initiative to leave the capital and came to worship Zhu Yuanzhang in person. It was just a beginning. From the sacrifice to Xiaoling, he wanted everyone in the world to know the legitimacy and authority of Zhu Youxiao in charge of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Mingrui, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites who has been promoted to the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall, was the host of the sacrifice of Xiaoling Mausoleum. That night, when he reported on the progress of the renovation of Xiaoling Mausoleum and the arrangement of the entire etiquette process, Zhu Youxiao suddenly said: "Sacrificing Xiaoling Mausoleum is not my own business, but also a matter of the descendants of the entire Zhu royal family. He ordered the vassal kings from all over the country to immediately arrive in Nanjing three days before the sacrifice of the imperial mausoleum and join me in the sacrifice of Xiaoling Mausoleum."

Li Mingrui was stunned and immediately understood Zhu Youxiao’s thoughts.

As a close minister of the emperor and for many years, he naturally knew that it was not only the officials and gentry who did not pay imperial grain and national taxes in various places, but also the royal relatives who were parasitic in various places who were absorbing people's wealth and ointment in various places of the Ming Dynasty.

Now it can be seen that the Majesty, who is determined to be the center of the Ming Dynasty, is going to attack these vassal kings. The reason why he suddenly issued an edict to enter the capital was to deliberately make the vassal kings late or miss the sacrifice time in order to find the purpose of depriving these royal relatives of the salary.

"Your Majesty, can you delay the edict of the vassal kings in various places for a few more days? Although there is an example of the descendants worshiping ancestors in ancient rituals, it has not been followed for thousands of years. How about the etiquette and schedule again when the ministers go down and then ask His Majesty for the edict?"

Logically, Zhu Youxiao's words became an unchangeable imperial edict as soon as they were spoken. However, Li Mingrui was a cabinet minister who joined the Xihun Pavilion and had a certain right to refute him. He retorted Zhu Youxiao's words and made suggestions again. Zhu Youxiao naturally understood it, and he also understood that Li Mingrui was cooperating with him to give the vassal kings in various places less time to respond.

"It cannot be done in three days, otherwise it will delay the major sacrificial affairs, and I will spare you." Zhu Youxiao said that, and then stood up and returned to the inner palace.

However, Li Mingrui was secretly happy, thinking that he had guessed what His Majesty meant. How to explain that sacrificing Xiaoling Mausoleum must be brought to Nanjing by vassal kings from all over the country is what they should do. It is not difficult for a minister like Li Mingrui who is familiar with Confucian etiquette.
Chapter completed!