After Chongzhen received the news that Chen Ye was coming, he arranged for Zhu Cixiang to read the memorial, then got up and asked the palace maid to prepare tea.
"Remember to pour tea for the shopkeeper later."
"Father, don't worry."
After Zhu Cixiang waited for Chen Ye to come over, he carefully watched the tea and water being poured, and then poured the tea and water for Chen Ye before leaving.
"Lao Zhu, have Ezhe finished his investigation of Shanxi merchants?"
"I received a call back from him yesterday evening. At present, the Jiannu nobles and Han generals who know about the matter have completed all the evidence links.
Today, Ezhe is backing up the data to prevent accidental loss. He will take the opportunity to send it over in the afternoon. I have arranged for Li Ruolian to prepare to lead the team. At the same time, I have issued the next order to the Royal Army. As soon as the data arrives, we will start arresting them according to crime.
Catching order.”
"Well, it's only been three days, and the gates are all closed. They can't receive any news, but they don't have to worry too much about someone slipping through the network."
Chen Ye looked at the map and saw that Ezhe did not conceal the purpose of calling the people who were dealing with Shanxi merchants, and the purpose was clearly stated, so there must be someone who wants to pass the news to Shanxi merchants.
There are two main ways of transmitting messages in the Ming Dynasty: human power and animal power.
Carrier pigeons are not of much use in the grassland, mainly because there are too many raptors in the grassland. Raising carrier pigeons is equivalent to delivering meals, not to mention that Huang Taiji's carrier pigeon team has been almost exhausted.
As for sending people to deliver the message, not to mention that all the prefectures in Liaodong have already implemented military control. If you want to leave, you must have a valid reason, and all prefectures along the way must also check the road signs.
Even if they pass through the grasslands that are not yet under actual control, the desperate one thousand kilometers alone would require the messenger to run for five to ten days.
"Shop owner, after the Shanxi merchant issue is resolved, the Ming Dynasty's American detachment can start setting off. I can't be too slower than Brother Xuande."
"Lao Liu, I will be preparing to lead a flight in ten days. During this period, it is just right for the pilots of Ming Dynasty to start learning helicopters. When the time comes, we will start working directly."
"I can also select people who will go to the American continent during this time."
Chongzhen nodded. Although he had the intention to open up the American continent, there was still a big problem with the candidates. This group of people also shouldered the important task of recovering the various tribes in the Americas.
However, compared to the Three Kingdoms period, Chongzhen will be much better because there are already people in Chongzhen who can skillfully use various electrical appliances.
"The Indians you showed me, shopkeeper, I feel are very similar to the Mongols. It just so happens that there are many Mongolians in the Royal Army training in Liaodong.
Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui have quite a lot of Mongolian troops, so I plan to send them over as the first batch of road-opening troops, what do you think?"
"Well, it's a good idea to separate those Mongolians. Their appearance is naturally very similar to that of Indians.
If we communicate well with the tribal leaders and show the power of the cannonballs, they will welcome Master Wang in a sensible manner, and if we really can’t do it, we’ll kill them again.”
Chen Ye felt that Chongzhen's idea was very good. If he wanted to assimilate the Indians and let them work for him with peace of mind, he must first let them get close to him in terms of humanities and race.
In this way, there will be no Thanksgiving Day in the Ming Dynasty in the future. Instead, the Indians may always remember the day when the Ming Dynasty landed in America and brought them the spirit and civilization of their ancestors.
"However, officials still have to send serious Han people, and intermarriage with Indians is a top priority.
The Royal Army had better ensure that each man is given an Indian wife, the localization is completed quickly, and then the whole family is moved back to complete the integration of the two continents."
"Hey, Indian woman, I am also very interested in this picture. How about you, the shop owner?"
"Hey, you understand."
Chongzhen and Chen Ye looked at the pictures of mixed-race Indians with the same obscene smiles on their faces. At this time, there were probably mixed-race people on the east coast.
Chongzhen's harem has not welcomed new members for a long time. If you say you don't want to try new things, you must be lying. As an emperor, how can three wives and four concubines be too many?
The two of them looked at the American continent on the satellite map and made a preliminary landing, as well as subsequent livestock and farming plans.
"Later on, breeding and farming will require corresponding feed factories, fertilizer factories, and pesticide factories. These factories and technologies must be in your hands.
In this case, even if you only have one percent of your land, you can still control the world's food supply firmly in the palm of your hand."
"Well, these factories are indeed very important, and I will not hand them over to other groups easily."
Chongzhen stopped Chen Ye's explanation of grain fertilizers and finally understood why future generations could have high grain yields.
"Also, there are about 10 million Indians in the Americas now, and there are great differences between the various tribes. It won't be smooth sailing for us once we get there.
So when the time comes, try to recruit aborigines as the vanguard army, and make sure that the hands of the Royal Army are not stained with too much blood."
"I understand that if I use barbarians to control barbarians, I can also use Indians to kill all the English people."
Chongzhen nodded and said, he is not a real philanthropist. He has ordered many people to be killed. How could he be so gentle just because he looks like a Han or even a Mongolian? That is stupid.
"Okay, I should go back and learn the Indian language. There are seventy or eighty languages. The Indians are too complicated."
"Shopkeeper, it suddenly occurred to me that since the west coast of America is connected with the land of China, and they all have the same story about Dayu's flood control, then their language must be the same as the Chinese language, right?"
"Are you thinking too much? There are different villages within ten miles, different temples within a hundred miles, not to mention thousands of years apart. If you are thrown into the Three Kingdoms, they may not understand what you say. You have forgotten the relationship you had with Liu Bei in the first place.
Is there a communication barrier?”
Chen Ye rolled his eyes at Chongzhen. If only it was as simple as he thought. He was a little confused when he heard the elegant language of the Three Kingdoms, let alone the language that was two or three thousand years earlier than the Three Kingdoms.
"No, shopkeeper, what I mean is that you can look for those small coastal villages from the Three Kingdoms period. The population flow before the Han Dynasty was very small."
"Um?"
Chen Ye looked at Chongzhen. He didn't understand it at first, but then he looked at Chongzhen with bright eyes.
"You mean, during the Three Kingdoms period, we were looking for those small villages that were left behind in the world?
The people in the Japanese Kingdom, or the current Savage Jurchen region further north, have always used the same language, and it must have been passed down from the Xia Dynasty."
"He who knows me is the shop owner."
Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction, he felt so good about his idea.
"Okay, I haven't noticed this before. People in remote areas have little mobility, and a village can be passed down for thousands of years.
However, the chance seems to be very small. From the Xia Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, there have been many changes of rulers in different regions, and the language has long been messed up.
And judging from the situation of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was able to fight all the way from Beizhili to Yizhou. This shows that in the Three Kingdoms, at least in the Han Dynasty, a large flow of personnel had already been formed.
The Xia Dynasty is more than two thousand years away from the Han Dynasty. Well, I feel like there is not much hope. Besides, it is useless to just learn one. There are at least dozens of languages in the entire Indian language."
"Oh, I'm just giving you an idea. If you think it's reliable, shopkeeper, just ignore it. If it's not, just ignore it."
When Chongzhen heard Chen Ye's words, he immediately lost interest. There are dozens of languages. How many professional translators are needed? It's better to kill them directly.
"I'll go back and check the information. I thought of something by the way. I'm going to go to the Three Kingdoms to find the only surviving copy of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to see what the original version contains.
I always feel that a lot of things recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are not quite right."
"Something's wrong? What do you mean? And why do you want to go to the Three Kingdoms to look for it? There's it in the Ming Dynasty."
When Chongzhen heard Chen Ye's words, a thread-bound Book of Mountains and Seas appeared in his hand.
"The one you have in your hand should be of eighteen volumes, right?"
"Huh? Yes, it has always been eighteen volumes."
Chongzhen looked at Chen Ye with some confusion.
"At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Wang Mang was rising, there was a writer, Liu Xin, who was like an orphan.
For the sake of fame and fortune, I tampered with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, added this eighteenth volume, and many of the previous contents were all changed by the orphan."
"What? Liu Xin actually tampered with it?"
Chongzhen was a little shocked, why didn't he know about this?
Oh, he is the emperor, there is no need to understand the daily life of an unimportant civil servant under Wang Mang, not to mention that The Book of Mountains and Seas is just a miscellaneous book and cannot be put on the table.
However, it was not surprising that Chongzhen knew Liu Xin. Although Liu Xin did not do any earth-shattering events, nor was he famous for leading troops in wars, his contribution to literature was very huge.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xin compiled hundreds of classics. The Classic of Mountains and Seas was also favored by the upper class due to Liu Xin's tampering and additions, and has been handed down ever since. In a sense, his contribution was very great.
"In order to cater to the upper class, he added some stories circulated by the upper class, so many people felt that the Classic of Mountains and Seas was true.
Now, Old Liu and the others have only passed a hundred years since Liu Xin's time, so maybe some aristocratic family has the original version circulating."
"Well, shopkeeper, when you find something, remember to record a copy for me. I want to take a look at it too."
"no problem."
Chen Ye agreed generously, mainly because the original version of Shan Hai Jing must be short sentences in classical Chinese. After all, it was carved from bamboo slips and needed to save space.
Bringing it to Chongzhen is equivalent to having an extra translator. Chongzhen can also use his ancient and modern thoughts to conduct dialectics. How nice.
Chongzhen, who didn't know that he was about to become a translator, was still happily waiting to see what the original version of Shan Hai Jing looked like.
After Chen Ye left, Chongzhen went to Wenyuan Pavilion to review the memorials. However, there were no memorials from Shanxi, Henan, and Zhili. They were all memorials transported along the canal from other provinces.
The three provinces under his direct control no longer need complicated memorials. If there are any problems, they will be reported directly through the Royal Army.
Personnel appointments are also telegraphed by the Royal Army. Unless they are particularly important, a written imperial edict is still required.
Today's telegrams are subject to technology and no one can crack them. Therefore, telegram information is more useful than secret letters and imperial edicts, because the telegrams were sent out for personal inspection by Chongzhen and could not be faked.
"Sigh, this speed is not good. Shandong is only less than a thousand miles apart, and a memorial actually takes two full days to be delivered to the capital. This is because Zhili Station started to deliver it by motorcycle. At this speed, how can we expect it?
What are they doing?"
"Your Majesty, this speed has doubled. A year ago, it took at least four days for Shandong's memorial to reach the capital, which is very fast."
The memorial in Chongzhen's hand was a bandit suppression report handed over by Wang Gongbi, the then governor of Shandong.
After Chen Ye's last parachute exchange, he organized the officers and soldiers to start cleaning up the water transport thieves. That is, ten days ago, he recruited the water transport interception rebels led by Li Qingshan.
This Li Qingshan has been imitating the Water Margin since the beginning of his work, and many of his actions are also imitating Song Jiang. They robbed canal ships, but they also kept one and released nine, in order not to do too much and wait for the court to recruit them.
In the original history, Li Qingshan's return was due to the bureaucrats who were corrupted, but it is different in this world.
With Chen Ye arriving with Chongzhen's imperial edict, Wang Gongbi had greater power to deal with the situation, so he directly recruited Li Qingshan and gave him a position of one thousand households.
This made Li Qingshan extremely happy. He couldn't believe it at the time. It was out of his trust in Wang Gongbi that he agreed to go to the agreed place and extend credit to each other.
Li Qingshan received the reward, and his subordinates also received corresponding benefits. Naturally, the rest of the peasant army was recruited, sheltered, and repatriated.
"Your Majesty, Li Qingshan is a thief leader after all, so he took it back rashly for fear of being deceitful."
"Ruyu, of course I have thought of this. They were still fighting against the imperial court before, and now they have become officers and soldiers, so I am not at ease.
So after they accepted the recruitment, they would have no money in the first half of the year, only food. This had been made clear to Li Qingshan, and the personnel had also been split.
As long as they settle down, they will be normal military households. Why did the leader of the thieves say anything? As for his original subordinates, Governor Wang also made arrangements.
All their subordinates will be reorganized and distributed, and the food and grass will be supplied by the county. In the future, I will send people to personally supervise the money and food, so there is no need to worry about them pretending to surrender."
"It turns out that Your Majesty has already made long-term plans, and I am relieved."
Ni Yuanlu saw that Chongzhen had also noticed this, so she said nothing more and continued to look through the next memorial, marking some exaggerated ones and summarizing some completely meaningless work report memorials.
These meaningless work summaries are actually not meaningless. Often, there are hidden things in the reports of local government-level officials.
For example, when he brags about how good his political achievements are, you have to consider how good he is exaggerating. When he greets Chongzhen and cares about his body, he is just to see if Chongzhen pays attention to him and whether there are any changes in the capital.
Or he said something happened to his people, what treasures or crops were dug up, in short, it seems irrelevant, but he can analyze a lot of things.
The palace was bustling with activity, and the Capital Airport on the other side was not idle either.
Several JJ-6 aircraft landed on the three runways one after another. The ground staff rode motorcycles and quickly rushed towards the aircraft with the wheeled ramp behind them.
After the aircraft is stable, fix the tires of the aircraft, then install the ramp and wait for the pilot to come down.
The runway on the far left is the plane Ezhe is riding on. The ground crew who greeted him had already known the news through the airborne radio, so in addition to pulling the gangway, the ground crew also brought an extra bucket.
After the pilot got off the plane, Ezhe did not move for a long time. The ground crew below could not see clearly due to the height of the fuselage, so they could only look at the pilot in confusion.
"Prince Chahar, did you faint again?"
"No, Prince Chahar is very strange today. Not only is he not dizzy, he is also very energetic. His eyes are very wide."
"What? He passed out last time. Did he vomit?"
"No, it's really amazing. It's the first time I've seen someone with such control..."
"yue..."
Holding the hat in both hands, he stretched out from the driver's seat, and then a head stretched out, yueing towards the hat in his hand.
"Okay, it seems I overestimated."
"Tsk tsk tsk, he's very particular. His hat is made of sheepskin, right? Such a good thing, it's a pity."
"What a pity? Then exchange your nighttime cotton hat with him."
"No, I don't want to wear that smelly hat. Although it's a little warmer, it's not necessary. It's not winter yet."
The ground crew chatted with the pilot and gave Ezhe above him some time to breathe and recover. Ezhe above felt that his bile was beating out, his stomach was churning, and he felt as dizzy and heavy as if he had water.
.
After finally regaining his composure, Ezhe finally prepared to get off the plane in a daze. The ground staff below quickly stepped forward to take his hat in disgust.
"No need, brother, this hat can still be used."
"Prince! Stop!!"
"don't want!!"
Bang!!!
yue…yue…yue
Facing a big face full of filth, the ground crew could not hold back at first, and then the pilot below had a few drops of the dirty object splashed on his face.
In the end, he came back to his senses, but the nausea was not over yet, and Ezhe was stimulated and gushed again.
In an instant, the runway became a smelly runway. Ezhe finally climbed down the gangway by himself. He almost fell down and sat on the ground, taking off his clothes and wiping his face and head.
"Prince, it's not bathing time yet, and the cooks can't boil water. We'd better send you to the river to wash yourself first."
"Thank you, brothers. I'm sorry. I'm going to buy you a drink. This is five thousand yuan. You must accept it. I'm really sorry."
Ezhe endured the embarrassment and took out five new military coupon silver coins with a face value of one thousand from his pocket. This was a good thing that he kept and was ready to bribe at any time.
The pilot and the ground crew looked at each other and instantly turned from anger to joy.
"Oh, thank you so much, brother."
"Come on, Your Majesty, we will take you to the logistics office to get some clothes first. Given your official position, it is very simple to get some clothes if you get airsick during official duties."
The rich man opened the way, and instantly the two sergeants became reasonable and began to help Ezhe cook within the limits allowed by the rules.
"Okay, okay, but the information and the guards who followed me must always follow me.
Those documents are very important. If one is lost, a thief who is an enemy of Your Majesty may be let go."
"Don't worry, Prince. In our Royal Army camp, no one dares to touch what His Majesty wants without having a good eye. But you are right. You really need to look better, so we will wait for a while."
As the guards moved down the information box from the back seat, they came to Ezhe, and then Ezhe took them to the camp logistics office to apply for the items.
Chongzhen's special order was really fast. After learning that Ezhe had become airsick and soiled himself after working for Chongzhen, the Logistics Department immediately approved the application.
Three small bars of temporary soap, six bags of shampoo, and a clean set of ordinary soldier uniforms were given to Ezhe. The remaining ground crew and pilots chose not to have new clothes because their clothes were not dirty.
With these things in hand, Ezhe was pulled to the river by the ground crew and the pilot and started washing them.
Ezhe hadn't taken a bath by himself for a long time. Normally, a servant would do it for him. Suddenly, he was taking a cold bath with two big men and no one was waiting on him. He was not used to it and had a strange feeling.
After taking a shower, Ezhe changed into the clothes of the Royal Army, took the guards and information, and headed to the palace to prepare to meet Chongzhen.
At this time, Chongzhen was also summoning Li Ruolian.
Li Ruolian, who had not been seen for a long time, had almost disappeared from the circle of the capital during this period. The frightening daily impeachments of the Jinyiwei had become a thing of the past because of Chongzhen's dwindling government affairs.
"Your Majesty, I have completed the investigation of several Shanxi merchant branches in the capital. A total of 124 people have been arrested. Royal Army troops are currently guarding all intersections in the capital to ensure that no one can escape."
"Well, there are only two days left before the general operation. It doesn't matter if you run away. I want you and Ezhe to go to Shanxi to lead the team in person.
I will ask the shopkeeper to fly a helicopter and send you directly to Datong. We will start arresting people from Datong. Remember, it is better to arrest first and then interrogate, than to let go of people who should not be let go, but you must not torture them directly.
By the way, you have to mobilize more than twenty members of the propaganda team to do a good job in public opinion work. I want to attack the Kong family, they have gone too far."
"I obey the decree."
"What? Your Majesty wants to take action against the Kong family? Your Majesty, please wait a moment!"
After Chongzhen's order came, Li Ruolian accepted the order directly without any words. As this period of time developed, he had clearly seen Chongzhen's ability and current strength, so he knew that if Chongzhen wanted to touch the Kong family, then the Kong family would be a
Ant.
But Ni Yuanlu, who was handling the memorial, was different. What was the Kong family? Although the Kong family in Shanxi was just a branch of the Kong family, touching the Kong family would also challenge the world's scholars.
"Ruyu, why are you so excited? I just want to take action against the traitors of the Kong family, not to overthrow Kong Sheng.
People like them, who betray the country for profit, disregard the life and death of the people in the world, and lead wolves into the house, have already violated the saint's loyalty and patriotism, shouldn't they be killed?"
"Your Majesty, the Confucius family in Shanxi is a descendant of Confucius Sheng. They possess orthodox Confucian thought and the Analects. If we rashly attack the Confucius family, I am afraid it will cause a strong reaction from scholars all over the world.
Everything your Majesty does on a daily basis, I think is reasonable, so I support it. But in this matter, I think your Majesty has acted too hastily.
It should be noted that although the Kong family is not a big deal in the officialdom, there is too much support behind the Kong family. The Kong family is like a scholar. If you attack them, the consequences will be disastrous.
I beg your Majesty to take back your order."
Ni Yuanlu said sincerely that he was indeed not begging for mercy for the Kong family, he just felt that Chongzhen had not truly stabilized the world.
Taking action against the Confucian family at this time would offend scholars all over the world, thinking that Chongzhen was going to sweep them all into the garbage heap, and that Chongzhen was opposed to the sages' books they had learned.