No matter how the emperor fools around, no matter how the eunuchs are beaten, the inner palace will naturally have its own solution.
If the unknown Yizhou is still a fool, then the Ming Dynasty Royal Donghai Company is completely ruined.
Why?
Nearly sixty years later, the tragic deaths of King Wang Zhiwang and Lord Hu Zongxian can illustrate this problem.
Who is Wang Zhi?
He is the legendary Captain Wufeng, a powerful figure who dominates the sky in Japan. Several so-called Warring States heroes in Kyushu were taught by him like Sun Tzu. They occupied Hirado Island and colluded with domestic officials and businessmen to run the smuggling business.
It was in full swing. Later, it was forced by the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban, and he directly became a local king off the coast of Zhejiang and went against the Ming Dynasty.
Even for such a heroic figure, because he wanted to imitate Song Jiang and recruit soldiers, he ended up with his body and head missing.
Logically speaking, it is a good thing that he was recruited, so why was he killed?
A certain great man once said: The best part of the book "Water Margin" lies in the word "recruitment".
The great man summed it up quite rightly. If Wang Zhi was recruited, then he was a capitulator and had betrayed his former revolutionary allies. He would be crucified and burned to death.
So who are his revolutionary allies?
Looking through the history books, it is not difficult to find that except for Zhu Chongba who used high pressure to enforce the so-called maritime ban in the Ming Dynasty, the other emperors turned a blind eye.
Why? It's actually very simple, because everyone can see that there is countless wealth in the ocean.
Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent Zheng He on seven voyages to the West. Many people say that this was to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, which resulted in loss of life and property.
In fact, this view was imposed on Zhu Di by the Manchu and Qing emperors through history books.
Because as long as you carefully calculate the tax revenue of the Yongle Dynasty over the years, you will understand that to support the seven voyages to the West, let alone the national tax of the Ming Dynasty at that time, even if these figures were tripled, I am afraid it would not be enough.
What's more, if we look closely at the major events of the Yongle Dynasty: the attack on Annan, the construction of the Imperial Palace in Beijing, the construction of the Wudang Mountain Taoist Temple, and so on, which one of them is not a major event that shocked the whole country? Isn't it a bottomless pit that requires huge amounts of money?
For example, the smallest Taoist temple in Wudang Mountain was in the 10th year of Yongle (1412). Chengzu ordered 300,000 people to station in Wudang Mountain and carry out large-scale construction. In 13 years, he built the Jinle Temple in Junxian County (now Danjiangkou City).
Along the roadside that stretches for 70 kilometers from the palace to the Golden Summit of Tianzhu Peak, a complete set of connected and majestic buildings such as nine temples, nine palaces, twelve pavilions, thirty-six nunneries, thirty-nine bridges, and seventy-two rock temples have been built.
group, consuming the tax revenue of the five southern provinces.
Let me ask, after doing all these big things, how can Brother Zhu Di still have money?
As for the cost of seven voyages to the West, everyone knows by imagination that it is a huge astronomical figure, so it is not a joke to rely solely on domestic taxes to finance it.
Hence Liu Daxia’s words: “Thousands of dollars were spent on the three-guarantee voyage to the West, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died. What’s the benefit of getting the treasure? Even if the old files are there, they should be destroyed. Why are we still asking?”
This is simply nonsense without conscience!
Why is Liu Daxia talking nonsense? This has to go back to Wang Zhi’s revolutionary allies.
After reading the example of Zheng He's voyages to the West, we all understand that there is huge wealth in the ocean.
Even guys with low political IQs like us know this truth. How can Ming Dynasty’s civil and military officials, wealthy businessmen and landowners not know this?
This huge wealth has always been at sea. Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent Zheng He to get a large amount back. The harvest results of seven voyages to the West told the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty: There is a lot of money here and the people are stupid. Come quickly!
So as soon as Chengzu left, the officials and merchants along the coast of the East China Sea colluded together and rushed to the sea first to harvest these wealth.
But the imperial court is under a sea ban, and only the Zhu family can grab the big prize, while the others can only drink the leftover soup...
This isn't fair!
Officials and businessmen began to unite and put an end to Lao Zhu's family's plan to make money from the sea, and Zheng He became the last song in the history of Chinese navigation.
Lao Zhu's family was trapped on land, and the officials and businessmen along the coast began a crazy era of nationwide smuggling.
After reading this, everyone should understand who Wang Zhi’s revolutionary allies are?
So what is the relationship between Liu Daxia and these people?
Let’s start with the resume method and study political figures, especially dead politicians. Looking at resumes is more effective than any gossip.
In Liu Daxia's career resume, there are two records that are worth pondering: 1. "In the imperial examination in the early years of Emperor Xianzong's Chenghua reign, Daxia could have stayed as a Hanlin official, but he asked for a change of ministry and was appointed as a minister.
In charge, he was promoted to doctor of the Chariot and Driving Department of the Ministry of War." 2, "In the second year of Emperor Xiaozhi's reign (1489), he served as the chief envoy of Guangdong, in charge of the administrative and financial affairs of Guangdong."
Liu Daxia collected or burned (there is no way to verify this) the files of his voyages to the West while he was serving as a driver for the Ministry of War. A few years later, he jumped to Guangdong, the largest concentration of smugglers.
If you want to say there's nothing fishy in it, I don't believe it anyway. As for whether you believe it or not, that's another matter.
To be honest, Liu Daxia was not a treacherous minister, and his reputation in history was still very good, but the group he belonged to decided that he had to throw dirty water on Zheng He.
This is the sad thing about politicians.
After seeing clearly the nature of Liu Daxia and his group, it is not difficult to understand why Wang Zhi was killed and why Hu Zongxian committed suicide.
Wang Zhi abandoned this group of people, and after recruiting peace, he wanted to contribute his trade routes to the Ming Dynasty. This was cutting off people's wealth, and his hatred was as great as killing his parents.
Therefore, the smugglers along the coast united and mobilized the bureaucrats at all levels they colluded with to easily kill Wang Zhi and Hu Zongxian.
As for the nominal crime?
There were so many talented people in the Ming Dynasty that it was really not difficult to come up with a reliable crime.
Through the lessons of Wang Zhi and Hu Zongxian, we can understand why Zhu Shou's great voyage plan failed because he touched the interests of countless smugglers along the coast.
None of the civil servants and eunuchs who attended the morning court were unaware of the stakes involved. Of course, except for Luo Xiang, who couldn't even add and subtract numbers above ten.
In the court, he and Zhu Shou were probably the only ones who believed that the Age of Discovery was just a matter of lip service.
Li Dongyang was secretly happy when he saw Liu Jin being beaten coldly, but no matter how happy he was, he still had to clean up the mess caused by the emperor's failure.
"Your Majesty, Taizu's ancestral teaching: No piece of wood is allowed to enter the sea," Li Dongyang stood up and talked eloquently, "Besides, the court's taxes are tight and it cannot make ends meet. It cannot afford the Donghai Company and cannot pay the expenses of Yizhou. It is better to send the troops first.
The Ryukyu Propaganda Mission, headed by Eunuch Luo, once again considered the affairs of the East China Sea Company and Yizhou."
The ancestral precepts of Taizu were used to fool ghosts. Even the biological son of Mr. Zhu Chongba did not abide by them. The subsequent emperors naturally followed the same example and used the "Ancestor Precepts of the Emperor Ming" as a stumbling block.
cloth.
Li Dongyang's direction is very clear: first raise a big flag, put on a hat, seal the emperor's mouth, and then send Eunuch Luo to the sea and break Boss Liu's arm. As for the Yizhou and Donghai companies, let them
They disperse.
As soon as these words came out, all the big guys present echoed in unison, and even Liu Jin had to reluctantly agree.
There is no choice, whether to abandon a stupid little brother or offend that powerful smuggling group. Anyone with an IQ of over 80 will know the answer clearly.
When Eunuch Luo saw that Boss Liu had also abandoned him, he spoke weakly like a pitiful puppy: "Your Majesty, I have a plan to set up the Donghai Company without any money from the court."…
Donghai Company is where Eunuch Luo's life lies. Not to mention Boss Liu, not even the Jade Emperor can extinguish Eunuch Luo's enthusiasm.
It can be seen that Eunuch Luo actually has another advantage: he knows how to seize opportunities.
As expected, none of the people who can be ranked among the Eight Tigers, who are powerful in the Ming Dynasty and the eunuchs in the two histories, are good.
"Come quickly!" Zhu Shou, an otaku, said excitedly.
Even if he is an otaku with a political IQ of only 30 points, and even if he does not know who he has offended with his plan to make money on a large voyage, looking at the expressions of the ministers and close eunuchs, classmate Zhu Shou understands that everyone is betraying their relatives.
Of course, from a historical perspective, we can clearly understand the difficulties of the Ming Dynasty's maritime era: the self-restraint of farming civilization, the counterattack of smuggling groups, and the limitations of the ruler's own vision...
There are countless reasons like this. Maybe Zhu Shou, an otaku, could not pry this iron lid even if he spent his whole life. In the end, he could only feel sad and play his own drama of traveling through the palace.
But history always has a little accident: Luo Xiang, who originally had nothing to do with the voyage, stepped forward at this time.
More than ten years later, Eunuch Luo, who was sent to Nanjing by Emperor Jiajing to be exiled, showed his ruthless and ruthless nature and seize the opportunity at this time.
"This old slave often gambles and loses nine times out of ten," Eunuch Luo said sheepishly, "but my brothers are willing to lend me money, and sometimes they don't want me to pay it back. Zhang Yong and Gao Feng can all testify to these things.
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Hearing Eunuch Luo biting himself out, Zhang Yong nodded awkwardly, indicating that this was indeed the case.
Eunuch Luo didn't wait for Admiral Zhang to prove his innocence, and continued: "I didn't understand the truth before, but later I realized that the old slave is the eunuch of the Holy Emperor. When the brothers are useful to the old slave, money is naturally a trivial matter.
One thing. If you think about it more carefully, the old slave is just a dog of the Holy One. Even a dog can borrow money and get credit. Is there anything in this world that cannot be done?"
Eunuch Luo thought he was a dog, but he lowered his attitude to the dust. He immediately blocked the mouths of all the eunuchs. Although the civil servants were snickering, they couldn't open their mouths.
Compared with making money, being a dog is nothing!
Eunuch Luo sneered in his heart and continued: "What the Lord just said is like a beacon on the sea, pointing the old slave in a direction, which is this board of directors. To be disrespectful, we can regard it as a bet. As long as
Anyone who can afford the money can come in and gamble. No matter who it is, Eunuch Liu or Mr. Li, do you think this is true?"
Luo Xiang's words immediately forced Liu Jin and Li Dongyang into a corner.
All the people present were smart people. Halfway through Eunuch Luo's words, everyone understood what he wanted to express.
The only person who didn't understand was the emperor, whose political IQ was only thirty, because he said, "What do you want to say? Why am I getting more and more confused the more I listen to you?"
The otaku Zhu Shou and the naughty boy Zhu Houzhao are really not qualified emperors.