Although the Ming Dynasty no longer determines military merit according to head level, it is to prevent killing good people and taking merit.
But during this expedition to Luzon, the emperor had a special request, which was to bring these heads back to Beijing to build a temple to offer sacrifices to Huangshan and other soldiers and civilians who were massacred.
Because the Western barbarians' crimes in the Huangshan Incident were publicized to the extent that the whole people knew about it, as the emperor, he had to make some remarks, otherwise it would be enough to satisfy public opinion.
Therefore, the expeditionary Ming army transported the heads back box by box.
As more and more heads were exposed to the sun, almost covering the entire port, many of the soldiers and people present became more and more excited, as if they had seen many big fish caught ashore.
But some people's expressions gradually became more and more gloomy.
Gu Xiancheng suddenly fell to the ground.
Gu Yuncheng opened his mouth and said, "Brother, it seems that we really won!"
"It should be said that it is true!"
"Brother, you should become a monk. Your ambitions and ambitions are destined to be unrealized. It is better to be born in the world and only study the world from now on."
Gu Yuncheng continued talking at this time.
After talking, Gu Yuncheng discovered that Gu Xiancheng had fainted on the ground, and hurriedly asked people to help him out of here.
The news that Master Wang had indeed returned victoriously spread like wildfire.
Many powerful officials of the old party who were unwilling to admit had to admit the facts and had to buy subscription tickets with tears in their eyes.
boom!
"How could the army be so cruel and kill so many Westerners? Is this so rare and benevolent?!"
"Although Xiyi slaughtered the Chinese who stayed in Luzon, they cannot be unkind, and we are also unkind. The people of Shenwu County and Qi Penglai are extremely hypocritical and extremely hypocritical!"
Li Fei, a wealthy Penghu businessman who participated in the burning of 300,000 shi of military rations, was so angry that he smashed many porcelains in his home, and then blamed the Ming army for conquering Luzon, and even Shen Shixing, the ruler of the country. , Qi Jiguang also cursed.
only because.
Li Fei now had to face the reality that the route from Luzon to Daming was controlled by the Ming court, and then the trade transshipment from Luzon to Daming was no longer controlled by Xiyi but by Ming.
Once the trade routes are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty's own powerful bureaucrats do not see the interests of these two traders and only need to sell goods to traders in the country, there are many ordinary merchants in the Ming Dynasty who are willing to be traders.
Therefore, now, the wealthy businessman Li Fei, who originally monopolized the business of transporting goods to Luzon for trade because of his good relationship with the Western Yi, had to face the reality that other Ming merchants were coming to snatch this business.
Li Fei was very angry, and he could only vent that it was unkind to kill Xiyi.
Li Fei was so angry that he had to tell his son Li Hai: "Sell all the land!"
Li Hai couldn't help but ask: "Why sell the land?"
"Sea trade is completely controlled by the imperial court, which naturally makes it easier for more ordinary people to go to sea for trade. Naturally, more people will be willing to go to sea for trade. So, how many are still willing to rent land?"
"Unless the tenancy rent continues to be reduced, and it can continue to be reduced, then what's the point of collecting land rent? It's better to invest in subscription tickets!"
Li Fei said impatiently: "Go and do it quickly!"
"yes!"
Luzon's military victory caused a surge in subscription coupons, and many landowners were forced to transform and sell their land to raise funds to buy subscription coupons.
The reason is also very simple.
The military victory over Luzon meant that the cake got bigger, and the landowners were vying to get more of the new cake, and had to abandon the original cake that was already tasteless.
This greatly improved the situation of land annexation.
The number of farmers increased significantly.
The benefit brought about by the large number of homesteaders is a large increase in taxes.
anyway.
It is still much easier to collect taxes from the farmers than from the powerful officials and gentry, because the powerful officials and gentry always have their own ways to avoid taxes.
At the same time, the large number of homesteaders has also increased the mobility of food and the scale of consumption.
After all, ordinary homesteaders do not have the ability to hoard large amounts of grain. After all, the management cost of hoarding grain is very high. They can only sell a large amount of uneaten grain and exchange it for silver coins as soon as the harvest is harvested. Then, with more silver coins, they will be more bold in consumption.
After Zhu Yijun learned about this, he was also very happy and became more diligent because of it.
Human nature is like this. Only when the feedback on what you do becomes more and more positive, will you become more and more motivated to continue working hard.
If you work hard and don't get the things you want by the time limit, they will naturally be left in ruins or even overturn the table.
"Old General Deng originally asked to resign and return home. It should be because he was too seriously injured, and he just wanted to go back to his hometown to see his family and return to his roots. This is human nature. It is naturally appropriate that the vote allows him to return home without coming to Beijing. of."
"Since General Deng doesn't know how long he will have, let's break the rules for him and make him Dinghaibo, hereditary and irreplaceable, so that he can know that he has not fought for the country in vain while he is still alive!"
"In addition, because of his injury, we specially ordered Fujian to build sixteen palanquin bearers and select sixteen Taoist palanquin bearers. Once they reach Yuegang, they will carry them back to Beijing to be rewarded! All the government offices along the way are responsible for clearing the streets and dredging traffic. Prepare good medicine for the doctors! To ensure that the old general returns to his hometown in Nanchang, and to ask the Jiangxi governor to immediately repair the mansion according to the count's specifications!"
Therefore, Zhu Yijun even personally asked about things like showing kindness to Deng Zilong.
The privy envoy Qi Jiguang said yes, and after he retired from the court, he smiled at Shen Shixing who was traveling with him and said, "If your minister is unfaithful, how can you be merciful?"
"Now that we have won a great victory in the conquest of Luzon, thanks to the service of loyal ministers, Your Majesty has become more benevolent and saintly than Yao and Shun! I am afraid that in the future, it is not only Old General Deng who will dare to be the pillar of the Ming Dynasty again!"
"Yes! I hope General Deng can persist until the emperor's grace comes."
Shen Shixing replied with a smile.
"Will do!"
"Not only can he wait until his personal imperial favor is announced, I believe he can also wait until the imperial favor to the people of the world is announced after Luzon is recovered. After all, how dare the king of hell let the old general know about the emperor's favor during his lifetime, unless he is not afraid that your majesty will order the old general in the future. Quantai will send one hundred thousand troops to kill him!"
Qi Jiguang said solemnly.
Shen Shixing nodded and smiled: "The Prime Minister is absolutely right!"
…
After Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Fujian, received the order to prepare the walking carriage, he immediately selected carpenters to build the walking carriage and asked his subordinates to recruit good bearers immediately.
When Ye Mengxiong saw that his officials had not done this for a long time, he couldn't help but question his official Zuo Buzheng Wang Panlai:
"What's going on? Is it because there are no carpenters in Fujian? Why haven't you done this for so long?"
Wang Panze said: "The Fu Yuan is very generous, not because the Chief Secretary is not doing well, but because there are too many people applying for carpenters and bearers, and it is difficult to select at the moment."
After hearing this, Ye Mengxiong rushed to the Chief Secretary's Yamen.
Then, he saw many people gathered here, many of them carrying poles and ropes for carrying sedans, ink buckets and trays for making walking carriages, and even scholars and monks.
"Master! We have carried the sedan chair for Nan Sima Wu Gong for thirty years. Even though we are old now, we can carry people across the mountains without shaking the sedan chair at all, so let us carry the old general back to his hometown!"
"Sir, let us carry it. I am very strong. I used to carry Zheng Wenwen back to his hometown by water, and the sedan chair I was carrying would not shake even if the boat shook him!"
"Master, let us carry him, we are younger and stronger!"
…
It turned out that under the influence of the propaganda of these new rituals, many scholars and people began to worship national heroes. After hearing that veteran generals like Deng Zilong who had made great contributions to the country were ordered by the emperor to return to their hometowns in sixteen-man carriages and to recruit bearers. Later, many people rushed to apply, and begged the government for a chance to carry the hero back to his hometown.
Ye Mengxiong's eyes turned red when he saw this.
Today is very busy on Friday, so I won’t update three times. Let’s try to update three times tomorrow.
(End of chapter)
