"Your Majesty, Zhao Shizhen, the nephew of General Zhao Gong, presented the blueprint of a large wind-chasing gun. I heard from him that this weapon does not need a fire door or a fire-stopping powder line. It can shoot hundreds of steps away. It can be said to be fast and far! Therefore, I am reporting Since Your Majesty knows about it, please appoint him as an official so that he can make this fire blunderbuss, and maybe he can learn my Chinese skills!"
The next day.
In the Shiyu Si Zheng Shi Hall, the first thing Zhu Yijun heard from Shen Shixing was not about the education of Japan that he had mentioned yesterday, but the matter of recommending Zhao Shizhen as an official.
After Zhu Yijun heard this, he immediately stood up and took the drawing from Shen Shixing. After looking at it for a while, he said:
"This is an improvement on the eagle-billed gun made by Qi Changguo. He is a knowledgeable expert!"
"It's hard for him, a son of an official, to have access to firearms."
"Those who are afraid of China have firearms!"
"As suggested by Qing Qing, he was appointed as the director of the General Temple, with the rank of six, to assist the General Zuo Qing Qi Changguo to manage the General Temple and to be in charge of the weapons bureau; in addition, if the firearms he presented were tested well, he would be Take it to Yunnan and let Liu Wei and others send troops to try it out. If he is good, he will be promoted to general and temple minister, to the fifth rank!"
In order to develop the military industry, Zhu Yijun specially moved the function of researching and developing new ordnance of the Arms Bureau to Jiangzuo Temple, and divided professional government offices such as the Manufacturing Bureau and the Pharmaceutical Bureau under Jiangzuo Temple, so that the Ming Dynasty's military industry could fully blossom; and the military The Firearms Bureau is only responsible for the mass production of mature firearms and the improvement of mass production processes, while focusing on the production quality of mature firearms.
but.
Zhu Yijun directly awarded Zhao Shizhen the rank of sixth-rank chief officer because of firearms, which made Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers more and more certain that the current emperor really valued skills.
Qi Jiguang felt more and more that his sons who ordered the wrong skills were not really a bad thing.
"Your Majesty, the military department was concerned about Zhang Dingsi's impeachment of Marquis Ningyuan, who had not yet received the order issued by the Privy Council. He organized the captured Yiding into a new battalion and sent them to Yunnan. It is possible that they escaped deliberately to feed the bandits! They also keep brave men as domestic slaves, secretly harboring different ambitions."
At this time, Shen Shixing said something else.
Marquis Ningyuan is Li Chengliang.
Zhu Yijun has been promoted to the rank of marquis due to the great victory in Liaodong and the great victory in Gulezhai.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "This Zhang Dingsi has ulterior motives! Even if all the two thousand Yiding captives are taken in or released by Li Chengliang, how big of a bandit can An An help him raise and how ambitious can he be?"
"Send him to the imperial court!"
Then, Zhu Yijun gave another order.
Zhang Jing said yes and left the Shiyusi first.
At this time, Qi Jiguang was afraid that many civil servants among the ruling officials were discriminating against military generals and did not know the emperor's intentions. They thought that Zhang Dingsi's speech seemed reasonable and even admirable. After all, they dared to impeach the general of Bianzhen. , he stood up and asked:
"Your Majesty is worried that Zhang Ding Siming intends to impeach the Marquis of Ningyuan for raising the bandits, but in fact he wants to ruin the dynasty's plan to use foreign troops. He impeaches the Marquis of Ningyuan first, which will put all the generals in Liao Town in danger and have to really support the bandits;"
"In addition, the Jurchen Mongolians and others may not really want to be sent to the south by the imperial court, so they hit it off with the generals of Liao Town and acted together. They would either massacre the captured Yiding and intensify the hatred, or let all the Yiding go. And strengthening the barbarians means raising the bandits, and ultimately destroys our strategy of using the barbarians to destroy Burma?"
After Qi Jiguang asked, Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, Yu Youding, Wang Xijue, Xu Xuemo and other civil servants all looked at Qi Jiguang, thought about it deeply, and then most of them nodded, as if they were suddenly enlightened.
Zhu Yijun said at this time: "We must not be careless in dealing with border affairs! Although the temple has advocated the use of foreign troops, there are many treacherous people in the world who would rather destroy the Great Wall and make foreign barbarians bigger than strengthen the imperial army. "
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
…
"Summoned by His Majesty?"
Zhang Dingsi, who was in the military department, was surprised and asked Tian Yi, the eunuch who came to tell him about it.
Tian Yi nodded.
Zhang Dingsi had no choice but to follow Tian Yi and asked with a smile: "My father-in-law, do you know why your majesty summoned me?"
"It's better not to ask for advice."
Tian Yi replied.
Zhang Dingsi smiled and began to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Soon, Zhang Dingsi arrived in front of the emperor.
As soon as he arrived in front of the emperor.
After Zhang Dingsi saw Qi Jiguang, he suddenly understood something, his eyes showed a cold look, and then he bowed in front of Zhu Yijun: "I have met your Majesty."
"You don't have to be angry with Duke Ji. It was you who underestimated me! It was not Duke Ji who reminded me."
Zhu Yijun said calmly at this time.
Zhang Ding thought: "Your Majesty, I just heard what I said. After all, Marquis Ningyuan has not sent out the Yi Ding for a long time. I only spoke frankly for the sake of the court!"
"Why not ask the Privy Council first to confirm the reason?!"
Zhu Yijun suddenly asked Zhang Dingsi in a deep voice, and then said: "You are in the military department, so don't you have the right to ask the Privy Council about the completion of military affairs?"
"My lord, my lord."
Zhang Dingsi stuttered.
Zhu Yijun laughed: "You want to see my joke, right?"
"Your Majesty! I know that I am guilty, but I dare not be so imprudent as to impeach a minister from a border town without asking the Privy Council first! I have never thought about the harm of raising suspicions at home and abroad, which may lead to a delay in military and state affairs."
Zhang Dingsi hurriedly kowtowed to the ground and made a report with sweat on his head.
"No one ordered you?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Zhang Dingsi started to turn around in confusion.
"That's all! Who could be as stupid as you and almost have the word 'deceiving the king' written on their face?"
Zhu Yijun said: "Drag him out and abandon the market!"
Zhang Dingsi's eyes suddenly widened.
Not long after, Jin Yiwei walked in and dragged Zhang Dingsi out.
Zhang Dingsi hurriedly shouted to Shen Shixing and others: "Please intercede for me!"
However, Shen Shixing and others did not reply and ignored Zhang Dingsi.
It's noon this day.
Zhang Dingsi was taken to the Xishi Archway.
"The time is up, kill!"
Suddenly, when the time came, the supervisor dropped the token, and his head was also pressed down.
Zhang Dingsi just smiled bitterly and murmured: "I only impeached Li Chengliang and did not express my opposition to the military expansion, but it was still seen through!"
Uh-huh!
As the knife fell.
Zhang Dingsi was divided into two halves.
The bloody head rolled to the side.
…
"I would rather assert the right path than allow careless or evil-intentioned officials to ruin my affairs!"
"I am issuing an edict to warn the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be cautious about impeachment of border ministers. Otherwise, if border affairs get worse and the country is destroyed, I will not be responsible, but me!"
"As for if the border town really rebels or treasons, and because I am not allowed to impeach at will, I miss the opportunity to suppress the rebellion, and the country is destroyed as a result, it doesn't matter, I am responsible anyway! The new dynasty can blame me for being stupid. , and they can continue to be ministers of the new dynasty anyway, and they can also use me as an example to remind the king of the new dynasty."
Go back to the past, that is, before Zhang Dingsi was executed, when he was taken away from the Imperial Si Zhengshi Hall by the Jin Yiwei.
After Zhang Dingsi was taken down by the Jin Yiwei, Zhu Yijun issued a new order to the ruling ministers.
"Your Majesty is a wise king, so he will not be deceived by treacherous ministers!"
"The cabinet is also responsible for this. To choose someone like Zhang Dingsi to give advice is really unworthy of His Majesty's trust."
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Shen Shixing immediately took the initiative to plead guilty.
"You are not roundworms in their stomachs. You don't know exactly what they are thinking. After all, if I am not careful, I will be deceived by them."
"So, it's difficult to be a minister in power, but it's even harder to be a king!"
Zhu Yijun sighed.
