"Do you also hold this opinion?"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun looked at Li Chengliang, Xiao Daheng and other Privy Council officials.
Li Chengliang replied at this time: "Your Majesty, destroying the Japanese pirates for the people is a just act. What's more, the Japanese pirates do not know etiquette. Even if they are righteous, they should be destroyed to shock the barbarians. Therefore, I agree to destroy them." Japanese!"
"I also agree that if God doesn't take it, he will be blamed. The appearance of the steam engine shows that it is God's will to destroy the Japanese. I think the Holy Will has already shared this intention."
Xiao Daheng replied.
"I also agree."
"I agree."
…
For a moment, the deputy envoys of the Privy Council, the ministers of the ministry, and the censor all agreed. Qi Jiguang also said: "Your Majesty, all the ministers in the cabinet also agree."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Now that the time has come, let's make a plan to destroy the Japanese for the benefit of the people. Since the Tokugawa clan has established its own shogunate, they can directly issue an order to conquer them without waiting for their reply!"
"According to the order!"
This way.
The Ming Dynasty officially determined to destroy the Japanese.
However, eradicating the Japanese is only one goal, and there are many steps to be taken to achieve this goal.
These steps involve material preparation, troop mobilization, intelligence collection, etc.
In any case, once the Ming Dynasty really decided to destroy the Japanese, it meant that the war machine was about to be launched, which also meant that there would be a huge demand for manpower and material resources.
In this way, once steam engines began to be used on a large scale, a large number of unemployed people would be arranged by the court to serve in the war.
However, these matters are all done by government agencies such as the Cabinet and Privy Council.
Zhu Yijun does not have to personally participate, he just listens to the resolutions every day and makes the final decision.
Not long after the annihilation of the Japanese was settled, Zhu Yijun also received a chapter memorial from Tokugawa Ieyasu and a secret memorial from Tokugawa Ieyasu through the Imperial Guard.
The memorial sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu was unwilling to go to the shogunate on his own, and listed various reasons why he could not be shogunate on his own.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's secret message was to pass the responsibility for his unwillingness to take up the position of shogun on the daimyo who supported him.
"Whether this Tokugawa Ieyasu is sincere or fake, since he openly refuses to serve as shogun, that is the reason for me to destroy the Japanese."
Zhu Yijun started talking about this and told Qi Jiguang: "Let them draft an imperial edict to conquer Japan and issue it to the world."
Qi Jiguang raised his hand and said yes.
It is now the 21st year of Wanli calendar and the garden is full of hibiscus flowers.
After Zhu Yijun finished talking to Qi Jiguang, he looked out the window. At this time, the hibiscus flowers outside the window were in full bloom.
And just when the hibiscus was blooming, the Ming Dynasty's imperial edict to conquer Japan again was officially issued.
Soon, the news spread like wildfire and became known to the world.
"The imperial court is going to conquer the Japanese again. Sure enough, Your Majesty will do this!"
"I'm afraid that from the time he rebuilt Shosakuji Temple, His Majesty wanted to be able to use marvelous technologies like steam engines to realize his ambition of opening up new territories."
After Luo Wanhua also learned the news, he told Yu Shenxing, who was returning south with him to his hometown.
Yu Shenxing smiled slightly and said, "This has nothing to do with us."
Luo Wanhua said at this time: "It still matters. We can return home because of the emperor's grace. Although we don't need to participate in big politics now, we should follow the holy will and do something that benefits the country and the people, even if it is just a little. Following these miraculous and obscene waters, we should also act in accordance with the holy will and show our loyalty."
"What do you plan to do?"
Yu Shenxing asked.
Luo Wanhua said: "I plan to persuade the clan members to borrow a sum of money from the Ming Dynasty Bank in the name of the clan, buy a steam spinning wheel from the court, and return to my hometown to spin yarn."
"Originally, once the steam spinning wheel was promoted, the government would take away the people's benefits. Why did the public follow suit and take away the people's benefits?"
Yu Shenxing suddenly raised his head and looked at Luo Wanhua and replied.
Luo Wanhua replied: "What you said is wrong! Now we are old and we are also citizens! At this time, we buy steam spinning wheels to prevent the people's interests from being taken away by officials and businessmen in the future, so that the world's commerce is not entirely controlled by bureaucrats. Business."
"inappropriate!"
"How can your government compare with the imperial court? The imperial court has talented people who are familiar with steam engines. I just bought the machine and it was useless. It was just a waste of consumables."
"Besides, doing this openly is obviously helping to make more unemployed and bankrupt people in the world!"
Yu Shenxing said.
Luo Wanhua said: "You can learn it if you don't know how. It just so happens that many people in the clan don't like to study, so they become idle. When the time comes, let them learn this way, and they will have a skill."
"As for helping to increase the number of unemployed and bankrupt people in the world, the imperial court has already had countermeasures, and His Majesty is also willing to let more people devote themselves to the matter of opening up new territories. Therefore, it is not considered a sin. On the contrary, it is a crime. Following the will of the Holy Spirit is an act of loyalty.”
Yu Shenxing sighed after hearing this, and then said to Luo Wanhua: "As a Confucian, how can you do such a treacherous businessman thing and not hesitate to cooperate with the court to let more common people die? If you insist on doing this, Let’s stop interacting with each other from now on!”
As Yu Shenxing spoke, he cupped his hands to Luo Wanhua and said, "Farewell!"
Then, Yu Shenxing left Luo Wanhua.
"Why are you so stubborn, sir? I'm just following the Holy Will."
Seeing this, Luo Wanhua couldn't help but shout.
Yu Shenxing ignored Luo Wanhua and walked away, returning to his hometown in Shandong.
Luo Wanhua also continued to go south by boat, met Shen Shixing in Suzhou, and expressed his thoughts to Shen Shixing, but Shen Shixing supported him.
Therefore, after Luo Wanhua returned to his hometown in Kuaiji, Zhejiang, he actually convened a meeting with his tribe and decided to borrow money from the court to buy a steam engine. He also planned to send his children to Beijing to take the exam at the Daming Industrial School under the General Temple. Transformation of spinning workshops.
However, buying a steam engine to transform one's own industry still requires courage, and not all families dare to do so.
Therefore, there are not many people like Luo Wanhua who do this.
After Zhu Yijun learned that Luo Wanhua was doing this through Jin Yiwei, he did not stop him. He encouraged these gentry to be proactive in industry and commerce. As long as it was legal, he did not mind that these gentry became big through industry and commerce.
In Zhu Yijun's view, this will also help officials and businessmen feel some competitive pressure, and prevent them from overly monopolizing an industry, causing the bureaucrats who manage them to no longer take their work seriously.
In the spring of the twenty-second year of Wanli.
As a yarn mill under the name of the Ming Dynasty Central Commercial Bank officially began to use steam engines to spin yarn, the price of cotton yarn, and also the price of cotton cloth, continued to fall unconsciously.
At first.
Businessmen who were paying attention to the industry thought it was just an ordinary price fluctuation and did not raise alarm.
Even though the news of the invention of the steam spinning wheel had spread everywhere, some people began to raise objections to the emergence of the steam spinning wheel.
However, many people are still not so alert to the changes brought about by the technological revolution, and are still dominated by inertia, or are unwilling to think too much about it. This makes many business people who pay attention to the industry not yet feel too much about this. This phenomenon is abnormal, and they only follow the price reduction to engage in a price war.
However, as prices of government-made cotton yarn and cotton cloth continued to fall for a month, many people felt something was wrong.
Only then did many cotton merchants realize that their profits were shrinking significantly, and they were even on the verge of losing money.
As a result, more people began to be dissatisfied with the imperial court, and began to realize that the imperial court was competing for profits from the people. They became even more disgusted with the emergence of the steam engine, and even hated the person who invented the steam engine.
"These Qi father and son are the two most evil villains who have brought disaster to the country and the people. They use strange tricks to enrich the people!"
At this time, the scholar Ma Zhen criticized Qi Jiguang and Qi Changguo in his yarn mill, and then cried out:
"Because of these two people, our Ma family's cotton yarn cannot be sold now, so we have to fire you. If you don't want to lose this job, you should go to the whistleblower and sue these two people!"
As for why Ma Zhen did not criticize the imperial court or Zhu Yijun directly, but only scolded Qi Jiguang and Qi Changguo, it was naturally due to the etiquette and national laws that he did not dare to directly accuse the emperor and his father of his faults, nor did he dare to directly deny the imperial court.
"The steam engine built by the Qi family has caused us no income. We have to go to the Qi family to settle the score and not allow them to use the steam spinning wheel again!"
At this time, the Ma family's foreman named Youbin started shouting.
"That's right, go and settle the score with them!"
Many workers responded.
Not only did a yarn shop in the Ma family threaten to go to the Qi family to settle accounts, many businessmen and people gathered in many places across the country to demonstrate against government offices and government and businessmen who used steam engines, and even directly smashed, smashed, and looted. Burnt.
Although Luo Wanhua had served as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he could only watch helplessly as a group of fierce people from Kuaiji rushed into his family's yarn mill, chopped up the steam spinning wheel that his family bought with a loan, and smashed it with axes and weights. He knocked on the ground with his crutch outside: "Stop! Stop it, all of you! If you are dissatisfied, why don't you go to the government or report it to the court? Why are you destroying my workshop!"
(End of chapter)
