Nanning wears Cantonese embroidery, Yanjing wears mink brocade, and the capital of Ming Dynasty is shrouded in snow.
Zhu Yijun just ordered the Supervisor of Ceremonies to give the assistant ministers and Japanese officials bacon, walnuts, dates, persimmons, chestnuts, dried water chestnuts and other items for making porridge during the Laba Festival. After returning to the West Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, he had not had time to sit down. Next, Chen Ju followed him, holding a memorial in his hand, and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have a secret memorial from Guangxi Gao Zhizhi."
"Secret music?" Zhu Yijun was slightly startled, then immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it here."
Chen Ju hurriedly handed over the secret report, and Zhu Yijun took it over. While inspecting the paint, he asked: "Last time I heard Huang Mengyu say that he pragmatically transferred thousands of servants to Qinzhou. Is that place so badly disturbed by Japanese pirates? Build a port Do you need so many people to guard two factories?"
Chen Ju said: "I heard that it was badly ruined. It was said that there was no human trace for twenty miles along the coast of the port."
"Oh, it seems that the pragmatic investment is not small." Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "I don't know if he can build Qinzhou Port with his little money. If it can be done, Guangxi will have an extra income. This saves me from having to reduce my taxes every year...I remember that this year they only had a total of more than 158,000 taels in actual income, but later the cabinet calculated and reduced them another 17,000 taels. Isn't that the case? ?”
"Yes, yes. Your Majesty has a very good memory." Chen Ju replied with a smile.
"That's good, so someone told me that I always remember money in my heart." Zhu Yijun snorted and said angrily.
"Hahaha, why should the emperor pay attention to these gossips? Didn't Gao Wenzhenggong say it at the beginning? Hong Fan's eight policies, the first are all foodies; Yu Mo's three things, finally prosperous. It shows that the ancient sages are extremely eloquent; later generations are pedantic and have a good reputation. People advocate the theory of not talking about benefits, which makes the vulgar and Confucian people who do not understand the state system turn to pass on the customs, and they are very wrong about state affairs, so that they are not able to manage the country's finances."
"Mr. Gao can say this, but you should say less." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "Mr. Gao, no matter how pragmatic, they will not be scolded for saying this, but if you say this 'vulgar' 'Two words...hey, if the outer court finds out, tomorrow there will be a pile of papers taller than yours in the General Affairs Department asking me to chop off your head, do you believe it or not?"
"Of course I believe it, so I only dare to quote Mr. Gao's original words." Chen Ju looked frightened, making Zhu Yijun laugh.
After opening Gao Pragmatic's Secret Music, Zhu Yijun was smiling at first, but as he watched, his face turned serious.
Chen Ju naturally did not dare to take the initiative to ask, but not long after, Zhu Yijun spoke to him and said: "Pragmatic was assassinated in Guangxi."
Chen Ju was shocked: "Assassinated?" His face turned pale with fright.
Zhu Yijun frowned and waved his hand: "I didn't make it clear. He was assassinated, but he is fine... maybe he was a little frightened."
Chen Ju breathed a sigh of relief and asked with some fear: "Who is so bold as to dare to attack Gao Zhizhi?"
"That's the strange thing." Zhu Yijun thought thoughtfully: "He said it was done by Mo Maoqia's people in Annan, and not only did they attack him, but there were a lot of toasts around him at the time. Mo Maoqia's people actually wanted to kill him. They caught them all in one fell swoop, not only using poisonous fire hand cannons, but also using poisonous poison."
"Mo Maoqia?" Chen Ju said dumbfounded: "Is this guy crazy?"
"Crazy? You're not crazy. You're very sober." Zhu Yijun snorted and said: "Pragmatically speaking, since Mo Maoqia took office, the military power and political power have been in the hands of his two uncles. One is named Mo Maoqia.
Jingdian, one is named Mo Dunrang. Not long ago, Mo Jingdian, who was in charge of the military, died, and the Annan South Dynasty was about to move towards the Li Dynasty. Mo Maoqia was worried that the Ming Dynasty would take the opportunity to take his North Annan, so he came up with this plan to take the water of Guangxi.
Confusing it, wait until they win a battle against Li Chao and stabilize the situation."
Chen Ju still looked puzzled and said in surprise: "But we don't want to attack Annan, do we? I remember that no one in the court even mentioned Annan recently." He is also one of the officials of the Chief of Ceremonies, so of course he knows the trends in the court.
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"We don't have it, but we speculate that Mo Maoqia must have misjudged the situation." Zhu Yijun was also a little speechless. He rolled his eyes in a very un-emperor manner and said: "After arriving in Guangxi, he successively pacified Simingzhou and
There was civil strife in Sicheng Prefecture, and its prestige was at its peak. It happened that he wanted to open a port and build a factory in Qinzhou, so he transferred thousands of servants there. In addition, he needed to transport various materials by sea. Now he is over at Zhuchi (Beibu Gulf)
Thousands of sails are competing against each other, and hundreds of armies are vying for victory. In Mo Maoqia's view, this is the so-called gathering of land and water armies, and it seems that we want to use troops against him, so that's why he did such a stupid thing."
Chen Ju couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "Hey, I really don't know if Mo Maoqia is timid or bold. Let's call him bold. This is just Gao Zhizhi pointing out that some of his servants were transferred, and he actually scared him like this; but
Call him coward, but he dared to assassinate a provincial patrol! If he committed such a serious crime, wouldn't he be forced to send troops to beat him? "
Zhu Yijun narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "That's the truth, but pragmatism advises me not to send out a large army. He has a better way."
Chen Ju was stunned: "What's a better way? Could it be that Gao wants to imitate Zhang Yue's story?"
The so-called Zhang Yue story in his mouth goes like this: When Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, the political situation in Annan was turbulent, and no one came to congratulate him. The Ming Dynasty issued an edict to the border, but no one responded. Because Annan did not come to pay tribute for a long time, no envoys could do it.
When the imperial edict was issued to Annan, Emperor Jiajing decided to raise an army to question Annan about the crime of not paying tribute.
In the fifteenth year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty sent Tao Fengyi and others from Qianhu to investigate the reason why Annan had not paid tribute for a long time. At the beginning of the sixteenth year, the Ming Dynasty pointed the target of conquering Annan at the usurper Mo Dengyong, and ordered Qiu Luan and Mao Bowen as commanders to concentrate their troops.
To Guangdong and Guangxi, Yunnan and China-Vietnam border.
However, at that time, most local officials in Guangdong and Guangxi did not advocate the use of troops against Annan, so in May of the 16th year, Pan Dan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi who opposed the use of troops, was transferred and replaced by Cai Jing, the former governor of Shandong.
After Cai Jing took office, Zhang Yue, the magistrate of Lianzhou, again opposed the use of troops. Cai Jing asked Zhang Yue: "With empty words to stop the troops, there is no way to prove the imperial edict. How can I guarantee that I will surrender without using troops?"
Zhang Yue replied: "If you want to surrender, you must make him accept the land, demote his title, and make him prostrate himself in the palace, present the country's books, and listen to the punishment. The body of the country must not be disrespected." He also called this "a call to action."
The strength is enough."
Afterwards, Mao Bowen met Zhang Yue. Yue "spoke in Japanese" and stated that "the plan is to complete the plan without conquest". Bowen and Cai Jing were persuaded by him and both recognized Zhang Yue's plan. So, Mo Dengyong and Zhang Yue
When communicating with envoys in private, "Yue used the preface to the scriptures and asked for it", Dengyong "was still stubborn at the beginning", Yue "was afraid of disaster, and ordered him to plan his own plan early, so Dengyong followed his orders".
In February of the 18th year of Jiajing's reign, Mo Fangying's letter of surrender did not put forward the above conditions. The Ming Dynasty court meeting and Emperor Jiajing's own opinions requested the local governor and military leaders to investigate the actual situation in Annan. If Mo Fangying
If a clan member "has a hidden plot, then he will march into the army to correct the imperial court's law"; if "he is restrained and waiting for orders, but if he has no other intentions", then "the imperial court will wait for him to survive".
Mao Bowen and others who led the troops on the front line commanded the army to gather at the border with "a great show of authority"; at the same time they sent Wang Liangfu and others to warn Mo Dengyong: "Please do not ask for a title or a tribute, please restrain yourself, return to the land to accept the seal, and go to the king."
If the number is "Feng Zhengshuo", the army can be stopped, and "Deng Yong" can survive." He also expressed his sincerity in making him believe in the Ming Dynasty with a handwritten letter.
Later, Mo Dengyongna sent a letter and went to Nanguan to plead guilty. In the "Book of Annan Elders" submitted by Mo, he wrote, "Although it is a heavy crime to miss Mo, it is actually a result of barbarian sentiment... I look forward to your Majesty's sincerity.
He took pity on the creatures in distant places, obeyed the customs of foreigners, gave him new life, and studied the stories of past dynasties. He was either the general manager or the protector, so that he could manage the affairs of the country and be called a vassal from generation to generation."
As Zhang Yue suggested, he made a request to demote his title. Qiu Luan, Mao Bowen suggested when he reported this matter, "If you are embarrassed, you may not use the name of the Protector General, etc., as in the stories of the Han and Tang Dynasties, this is the so-called "Yi Yi"
He who governs barbarians is also a person."
Finally, Emperor Jiajing ordered the Annan Kingdom to be the commander-in-chief of the Annan capital, and appointed Mo Dengyong as the commander-in-chief of the Annan capital. He also pointed out that "for the sake of making friends with Yongtu, the king's title is removed, so that the common people can avoid the rebels and rebels."
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The Mo family was guilty of usurping the throne and not paying tribute. The Ming Dynasty should have sent troops to conquer, but out of pity for the distant creatures, they lowered their titles as punishment.
The surrender of Annan this time was due to Zhang Yue's plan. In the end, he only used a large army to suppress Annan without attacking. Even though the court was able to overwhelm Annan, it did not waste military, material or financial resources. This shows its success. Chen Ju brought up Zhang Yue's story because he thought
Gao Pragmatic also plans to do the same.
After all, in Chen Ju's eyes, Gao Pragmatic's "persuasion" ability is also very strong.
But surprisingly, Zhu Yijun burst out laughing and then said: "Zhang Yue did a good job back then, but, pragmatism has a better appetite than him - pragmatism has to be fought, but he doesn't intend to cost me anything."
Chen Ju was stunned for a moment, wondering what he meant by not letting the emperor spend money?
Zhu Yijun said proudly: "Pragmatically, let me settle the accounts. Take last year's pacification of the Bazhai Rebellion as an example. Ignore all other human and material resources. Just financial resources. Do you know how much the court spent? It's equivalent to 570,000.
Two more taels of silver! There are only so many Yao people in Bazhai, and we have spent so much money. If we go to fight Annan, which is more than ten times stronger than Bazhai, how much money will the court spend?"
Zhu Yijun sighed: "In the Yongle Dynasty, the imperial treasury was rich, and it was necessary to go to Annan repeatedly and spend an unknown amount of money. Therefore, Xuan Temple later decided not to use this poor place. If we go there again now,
Not to mention anything else, the Ministry of Revenue has to start a fight with me.
So Pragmatic came up with an idea. Since Mo Maoqia not only attacked him this time, but also attacked a large number of chieftains in western and southern Guangxi, then let the chieftains send troops to teach Mo Maoqia a lesson.
!Pragmatic himself couldn't swallow this breath, so he planned to send some of Qinzhou's servants to follow him, and at the same time support some money and supplies to the chieftains... In this way, I don't have to spend any money."
Chen Ju was a little stunned and said hesitantly: "Gao Zhizhi's idea is good, but there are two things I didn't understand."
"Oh?" Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows: "What didn't you understand?"
Chen Ju said: "First, if the imperial court does not send troops, will the chieftains obey Gao Zhizhi's arrangement and send troops south? Even if they obey, will they be able to defeat Annan? Second, Gao Zhi pointed out that although Qian's contribution was due to Mo Maoqiu
He was angered, but in this case, wouldn’t he have suffered a great loss?”
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