"Your Excellency, are you looking for the blueprint of the treasure ship?" A weak voice came from the crowd. Governor Tao, who had excellent hearing, spent a long time to find the speaker. The young man who was just called Er Shao stared at Governor Tao closely.
It seems that he is afraid that he will do something wrong to this person. It seems that this must be his father who is paralyzed in bed.
Governor Tao excitedly grabbed this last life-saving straw and nodded hurriedly in response: "Yes! Yes! Old man, do you know the whereabouts of the drawings?"
"No more!" Er Sha dad said two words out of his mouth through gritted teeth.
"No?" Governor Tao was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning. I don't want you to play with people like this! When people die, the pictures are gone. Could it be that you really let me dig out all the rags buried in the ground here?
Transported to Lingshanwei?
"It's gone, it's all gone..." Er Sha Dad closed his eyes and began to recall the painful past.
If you want to ask who was the biggest prodigal in the Ming Dynasty, the first one would undoubtedly be Liu Daxia, who was both an upright and a faint-hearted official. To say that he was an upright official was truly worthy of his name. He had been an official for more than 40 years, did not own property, did not compete with others, and allowed others to erode his ancestral heritage.
Land property, is such an incompetent person? Even if he is a weak official, he should not be wronged. Xianzong wanted to imitate Chengzu and restart his plan to sail to the West, but this guy didn't know where he got the information in advance and actually exceeded his authority and deceived his immediate superior.
Xiang Zhong said that the picture was gone, and he even dared to say confidently, "Although the old case exists, it should be destroyed."!
However, Xianzong is not a fuel-efficient lamp. You just don’t give me the blueprints to build a treasure ship. Then I can find a way to find someone to repair the old ship and build it into a copycat headquarters? It is also a coincidence that at this time, Annan Wang Lihao invaded Laos.
After the failure, Wang Zhi, who was so happy about his success, encouraged the emperor to take the opportunity to send troops to regain his homeland. As a result, he provoked Liu Daxia, who had been promoted to the head of the Staff Department of the Ministry of War. This time, he insisted on opposing the enemy to the end in the spirit of insisting that he would not
He handed over the military records and navigation maps of the Annan expedition during the Yongle period, and finally deceived his new boss Yu Zijun, the Minister of War, saying that this was to save tens of millions of people in the world. Xianzong did not dare to send ships to sea without the charts.
Otherwise, if everything goes smoothly, we still don’t know where to go with the fleet. Xianzong, who couldn’t even find an excuse to repair the ship, completely gave up the idea of rebuilding the Ming Dynasty Navy and returned to the palace to cure his stuttering problem.
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Now the scholars and pirates who had been silently watching all this were happy. If the emperor doesn't want to play with us, let's play with it. Without the navy of the Ming Dynasty to disturb the waters around the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't our world be ours? Hurry up and get a discount.
We will continue to ban the sea, and those who should go north to do business will go south to plunder. And in order to prevent the successor emperor from suddenly thinking of restoring glory again, we might as well work together to find a way to stop the shipyard and destroy the navy. This way
First of all, the new emperor wants to rectify him, so we have time to slowly grind with him, right? Of course, the scholars still have a conscience. After receiving the benefits, they did not forget Liu Daxia, who was charging at the front. He is an upright official and a good person. Giving him money would be too insulting.
point, so after all, I rewarded this "Three Gentlemen of Hongzhi" to this wonderful person who harmed the country and did not benefit himself, so as to encourage future generations to follow suit.
Governor Tao had a sad look on his face, and was already thinking about how he could dig three feet of ground here without disturbing the surrounding officials. He asked without any hope: "Then where can you find anything related to the treasure ship here?
object?"
"Does something engraved with the appearance of a treasure ship count?" God finally opened his eyes, and this time someone really came out to rescue the miserable Governor Tao.
"Forget it! Forget it! Of course! If you can come up with it, I will give you one thousand taels of silver each!" Governor Tao was in a hurry and sought medical treatment. At this time, even if someone found a broken nail and said it was from the treasure ship,
It's very likely that he spent a lot of money to buy it.
"What kind of silver do you need? Sir, it's on the blue brick where you were sitting just now!" The old man who led the way who had been waiting on the side just now obviously didn't know what he had missed, and reminded him kindly.
"What?" Governor Tao pushed aside everyone and rushed to the seat where he was just now. He held the big blue brick in his arms as if he had found a treasure, and kept saying to the old man: "Thank you! Thank you, old man! I keep my word.
, I will definitely give you one thousand taels when the silver arrives!"
"There is no need for a reward of silver. If you are free, sir, please pay us first..." The temptation of one thousand taels is great, but no one here believes that Governor Tao will really honor it. For them, they have received their own money.
Those who deserve it are already satisfied.
"Fat! I will definitely pay! Not only will I pay you the salary I owe you, but I will also give you the reward!" With a good start, the shrewd Governor Tao has already made the idea of buying the bones for a thousand gold. With these years,
It is better for the people living here to help with the search than to search aimlessly with others. "How about I pay you here, and you all go help me first..."
"Okay! The old man will stay here with you. You guys will go and do some work for you first!" It seems that the old man who just led the way is here to take care of things. With his voice, he led the people who were surrounding here to disperse.
The second fool who didn't understand anything and his father who couldn't move were left behind.
"Old...old man, are you right?" Now that the business has grown, Governor Tao has hundreds of thousands or even millions of accounts on hand every day. It took him less than a stick of incense to first sell the one in front of him.
The old man's salary was calculated. I really didn't expect that this old man was still a Qianhu here.
Lao Qianhu is a real person. Seeing Governor Tao's expression, he quickly pointed to the red scars on the account book and said: "No! No! How dare I fool you, sir? This is a seal stamped by the government..."
"But... do you know how much money the court has owed you in the past twenty years?" Governor Tao really couldn't laugh or cry as he looked at the account book in his hand.
"Well... I'm illiterate, I don't know!" Lao Qianhu also knew that twenty years' salary was a lot, and he thought that Governor Tao had evil intentions to continue to default on the payment because he had to pay too much, so he begged: "Sir, I'm old
We don’t ask the court to make up for it all at once, but can you give us this year’s payment? I’m going to kowtow to you..."
"No! No! You misunderstood!" Governor Tao quickly stopped Lao Qianhu's actions, pointed to the account book and said: "According to the records here, the imperial court has owed you nearly two hundred taels of salary in the past twenty years.
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The old Qianhu hurriedly explained: "The old Qianhu is a Qianhu passed down from our ancestors. The salary is a little more than others, nearly one or two a year..."
Governor Tao didn't rest for a whole day. He didn't even take a sip of the soup that the villagers had made for him by catching fish. As the sun set, he finally sorted out all the accounts. Seeing the final result, he really felt sorry for him.
The master in charge of the household department felt ashamed. He never expected that the officials of the Ming Dynasty would love the people so much that they would have the nerve to default on the payment for twenty years for just a small amount of silver!
"Mr. Tao, I brought the silver here!" Xiao Changzi arranged for someone to guard the silver car, and whispered into Governor Tao's ear: "Have you calculated it? Is one million taels enough?"
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"You can see for yourself!" Governor Tao handed over the account book in his hand, with mixed feelings in his heart.
"What?" Xiao Chang wondered if his eyesight had gotten worse. There were more than 930 craftsmen from 500 households in Longjiang Shipyard. The Ming Dynasty had owed them a total of 150,000 taels of silver in the past twenty years...
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"You arrange for the workers to be paid here while I go out for a walk!" Tao Zhishi was too embarrassed to face these craftsmen. He stood up and said to Xiao Changzi: "One family will be paid three hundred taels, and the old man from a thousand households will be paid five hundred.
Two taels plus the one thousand taels bounty I just promised..."
"Sir, what is the use of the treasure ship blueprint?" At some point, Ersha came to Governor Tao carrying his father on his back.
"To be honest, the general in Luoyang wants to help the emperor rebuild the Ming Dynasty Navy. He specially sent us to find this thing so that we can do some research..." Governor Tao gathered his mood and sighed helplessly: "Look
This time I will disappoint the general!"
"Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty Navy? Does the current emperor really have such ambitions?" Er Sha's eyes flashed with light, as if he had made some decision.
Governor Tao smiled and explained: "I still don't know that the emperor of Ming Dynasty has great trust in General Zhenguo. As long as the decision of the general is made, the emperor will unconditionally support it. Back then, the general said that he would build an invincible army to regain Liaodong. The emperor
I would rather break the ancestral system than eliminate interference for him, so I have the invincible new army of the Ming Dynasty. And now that the general wants to rebuild the navy, the emperor will definitely do his best to help him realize this wish..."
"It's unbelievable, it's unbelievable!" Er Sha Dad shook his head and murmured for a long time, and then said to Governor Tao: "If this is the case, please invite your Excellency to gather in my humble home. I have an object that may be able to relieve your troubles!"
The stupid dad is really not humble. The house built with a few broken wooden boards and surrounded by light is what he calls a humble house. It’s strange that it’s not cold in winter! The most valuable thing is that there is not a single decent thing in it.
The nest with a pile of hay inside was probably where the father and son slept.
"Put down daddy, and you go dig out the buried box for me!" Because there was really no place to sit, the stupid dad didn't have to be polite when he arrived.
Ever since he entered the shack, Governor Tao felt that Er Sha was as stupid as when he was not outside. He pulled away the hay pile for sleeping, picked up a broken wooden board, and began to dig hard at the ground.
"This is..." Governor Tao didn't expect that such a good thing was hidden in this poor house. The father and son, who didn't even have a complete set of clothes, were willing to wrap a box-like object in silk and satin. When the second fool took off the last layer
After removing the greased paper, what surprised him even more was that there was a huge gold-inlaid copper lock on it.
"This is the blueprint of the treasure ship that you are looking for!" Er Sha's father said with a bitter smile: "Back then, my ancestor was a small official in the Ministry of War. Because he couldn't bear to have Eunuch Zheng's hard work ruined, he took this thing away when the Liu thief ordered the destruction of the blueprint.
They got excited. Unfortunately, they offended Wang Zhi and were sent here..."
"I'm about to die, and there's only one thing I can't worry about..." He called Er Sha who was standing next to him and continued to tell Governor Tao: "I have suffered so much for these sixteen years. In order to continue to protect this thing after the old man passes away,
You are just pretending to be stupid, now that the imperial court has this intention, I just want to use this box of things to find a way out for my son, please promise to keep him by your side!"
ps: There is still controversy about whether Liu Daxia hid the pictures or burned them. But the design drawings are not antique calligraphy and paintings, the older they are, the more valuable they are. You can’t let others equip aircraft carriers. You take the blueprint of the treasure ship and say, let’s use this for the troops.
!From this perspective, is there any difference between the two?