"In the fifth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong, a thief, fled north to the Japanese island, where civil strife broke out frequently and the people were in dire straits... In October of the same year, the Korean traitor Li Zicheng led a million-strong army to attack the Japanese! Wherever they passed, not a blade of grass was left behind, and no trace of any beast was left... The soldiers arrived
Because of the corrupt folk customs in Izumo, thieves and thieves abounded in Izumo. The army of Li thieves lost several stones of military supplies every day, which made them angry. So they surrounded Izumo and marched to suppress it the next day. All four sides went to the center to search and kill, like a dragon in an enclosure! And because of its location
The miasma spread all over the land, and I was worried about it. So I set fire to the forest to avoid future troubles. However, the wind direction of the Japanese island suddenly changed and the forest fires spread to Beichu, which lasted for three months..." In the Nanjing Hanlin Academy, Kong Yanzhi looked at the uneasy guy and said
: "Weidou, don't you think the old house is too quaint and want to find someone to help you tear it down and rebuild it for free?"
"Why did Yan Shenggong say this?" Yang Tingshu, who had just ranked first in the provincial examination in the third year of Chongzhen, was sent to the Hanlin Academy to compile history books by Chongzhen when he heard this and broke out in a cold sweat.
In order to make this official record of the Ming Dynasty about the Japanese war meet the emperor's requirements, Yang Tingshu had been in trouble several times. At first he recorded it completely according to the facts, but in the end he was found guilty of an unfounded crime and was fined half a year's salary. You must know this Hanlin
The hospital is a Qingshui yamen, and his large family is still relying on a meager salary to live, and they are deducted for half a year? How can this not let people live? Fortunately, since the fourth year of Chongzhen, there have been many traitors in the imperial party.
He was eligible to enjoy the interest-free loan provided by the court, and he could barely renew it as long as he wrote an IOU. He stayed up all night to finish the revision, but the second time he submitted it, the emperor didn't say a word after reading it, and kicked him directly.
After leaving the main hall, I knelt on the bluestone for a whole day. The third time...
Now it is the eighth time. Yang Tingshu, who was hit hard, wrote down all the natural disasters after learning from previous experiences and lessons. Zheng Zhilong and Li Zicheng were also blamed for the fact that General Zhenguo appeared on the Japanese island.
He didn't mention it. He thought that even if his literary talents were not outstanding, he would at best be put on the shelf and it should not cause him any trouble!
"Although your record this time has made great progress compared with the previous one, it still has flaws! According to you, the Japanese pirates were fighting a just war against aggression and colonization? Li Zicheng did so many unscrupulous things
The general of the Zhenguo dared to surrender to him for his evil deeds. Then my Ming Dynasty..." Kong Yanzhi was too embarrassed to continue, so he had to take out another manuscript with flying dragons and phoenixes and said: "Look, this is something written before Qitai
It’s driven by time.”
"This..." Yang Tingshu felt a huge threat after reading the entire manuscript, and also understood why Sun Qifeng often used the words of saints to refute him completely. Look at what he wrote, although it is only about the war on Jiuzhou Island
Fragment, but not only did they pick out the Zhenguo generals, they didn't even mention Zheng Zhilong. All of this was because the Lord of Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Tadashi, believed in a cult, which resulted in the anger of the gods and disasters, leading to the rampant plague on Kyushu Island.
The monsters were raging and the people suffered heavy casualties... The Emperor of Heaven, who was thousands of miles away, shed tears when he heard about it. In the end, the kind-hearted Chongzhen put aside the barriers between races. He forgot all the evil deeds committed by the Japanese pirates and waited for the altar sacrifice in person.
Only then did God leave the last seeds for the Japanese pirates...
Such gorgeous rhetoric, such rich imagination, and its content is even more bizarre than the story described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The man who was jumping up and down trying to resign from the Imperial College to attend the ceremony ran to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will be formally established after the spring, to grab it
Sun Qifeng, who has a job, can he really be sure that he is writing a history book?
"Weidou, why don't you think again and don't report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where Xiong Wencan is in charge? Wouldn't it be better to go teach and educate people with me and become a great Confucian who can be admired by people all over the world?" Kong Yanzhi tried every means to persuade Yang Tingshu.
A stumbling block. He comes here and there to undermine other people's confidence. Of course he doesn't have nothing to do. After all, as an elderly person, the preparation work of the Ministry of Education has already made him a little unable to do what he wants. Since Sun Qifeng is determined to
Go, he must try to get as many helpers as possible within the scope of regulations before opening. You must know that several other departments are robbing people worse than him.
"Shenggong Jiaoyan is disappointed, student..." As the so-called literati look down on each other, Yang Tingshu kept talking a lot just because he wanted to tell Kong Yanzhi that although the Ministry of Education was very tempting, he was never willing to run away without a fight.
It is even more impossible to be at a disadvantage forever and let the shameless Sun Qifeng show off in front of him.
"Hey..." Kong Yanzhi shook his head in disappointment. It seems that this job of robbing people is really not suitable for him. He has to take some time to put in two bottles of good wine and go to Gao Yingxiang for advice. But he doesn't want to do that.
He left without shame, and made a last effort to take out another memorial and said: "This is the memorial sent to the imperial court by Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian. I saw that the emperor was very happy to read it, so I copied a copy. You can look at it again, maybe
You will find that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a bunch of scum, which is really not suitable for us, upright and upright righteous people!"
"Shameless! This guy is simply a beast in disguise!" Just when Kong Yanzhi thought that the conspiracy had succeeded, Yang Tingshu suddenly burst into laughter and said with admiration: "Master Xiong has followed the general for many years, and his knowledge has long been integrated with Chinese and Western knowledge. He can only see the subtle works. In fact, he is my Ming Dynasty.
There is no second choice for the first Minister of Foreign Affairs! If students can follow him and listen to his teachings, this life will be enough!"
"Ah?" Kong Yanzhi couldn't bear to slap Yang Tingshu in such a big mouth. Is anyone so teasing? Of course he knew what was written in that memorial, although all the traitors in the imperial party, including himself, admitted that Xiong Wencan framed her to marry him.
Huo's abilities are getting bigger and bigger, and he is indeed the most suitable candidate for diplomatic work, but the current results are not what he wants.
Xiong Wencan's memorial was very long and very formal. Although he also started from religious issues, he did not make up random things like Sun Qifeng did to write history into science fiction. Instead, he used historical basis and facts as the criterion.
The materialist dialectics fully explains the contingency and inevitability of the Japanese island civil strife. Well, yes, Xiong Wencan characterized the Japanese island incident as civil strife!
In this memorial, Xiong Wencan did not deliberately use the Chunqiu style of writing to conceal anything. The Zheng family pirate group still retreated to defend the Japanese island due to the failure of the attack on Dongfan Island, and General Zhenguo still accepted the entrustment of the Western allies and accepted the maritime affairs of various countries.
Shang's bloody and tearful accusations led him to go out to eliminate the pirates who were destroying world peace. The difference was that these two guys were relatively unlucky. As soon as they arrived on Kyushu Island, they ran into a religious war that killed millions of people. The kind-hearted general Zhenguo
Regardless of their own safety, they led a few righteous men and tried their best to use their kind hearts to influence the red-eyed Japanese pirates, and finally persuaded the two sides in the fierce battle to decide to sit down and talk.
The Zheng family pirates who were able to get out of trouble showed remorse. After admitting the crimes they had committed, they decided to abandon evil and do good, and accepted the sanctions of the Ming court. The magnanimous General Zhenguo did not make it too difficult for them, and only sentenced them to three years.
Hundreds of years of labor education. I hope these pirates can purify their souls with their hard work and sweat.
However, the ability of the general Zhenguo was also limited. Facing the even more chaotic situation on the Japanese island, he had no choice but to report to the court truthfully. So the gentle and thrifty Emperor Chongzhen took action. He sent the largest overseas legion in the Ming Empire to carry out the task.
Then that side appeared on the island. But they were not going to fight, but to maintain peace. Their mission was to persuade the two parties at war to put down their butcher knives, sit down at the negotiating table, and have a good talk.
But who knew that even with the efforts of Li Zicheng and others, the Japanese pirates still refused to give face, and actually went their own way and fought under the watchful eyes of the overseas legions. In the end, it led to the anger of the people and frequent disasters. In the face of the disaster caused by the rare meteor shower,
During the forest fires, the aggrieved overseas legions did not stand idly by, but actively participated in disaster relief. Even when their own lives and property were threatened, they still maintained great restraint and even spent manpower and material resources to rebuild the destroyed buildings.
The war-torn city of Kyoto...
In the end, Masahito, who believed in Buddhism, and Tokugawa Tadanagi, who believed in Western paganism, were finally moved. They gave up their differences and asked the teacher of benevolence and righteousness from the Ming Dynasty to stay. In order to show their sincerity, and to avoid such irrational destruction from happening again in the future*
In the first incident, the two actual rulers of the Japanese island took the initiative to lease the Japanese island to the Ming Dynasty for management. They shook hands and made peace and returned to the new Kyoto city, hoping to spend their entire lives studying together to integrate the love of the world.
They even thought of a name for the new religion. They just called it Home Sleeping Religion!
As the conclusion of the entire memorial, Xiong Wencan put forward his own opinions. Although he did not explicitly point out that Western missionaries were the source of the chaos in Japan, he insinuated that the Western allies of the Ming Dynasty took the blame. After all, what is happening in Tianzhu now
Doesn't it explain the problem very well, the guy who has the courage to demolish a Buddhist holy place will not instruct people to demolish the temples on the island?
"What the students don't understand is this last comment. Please give me some enlightenment..." Yang Tingshu agreed very much with the nonsense mentioned above. Xiong Wencan not only reasonably explained why the Ming army stayed there, but also defended the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court created an image of glorious justice. With a little rhetoric on this basis, it was a standard history book that people had to believe. Because Mr. Xiong also mentioned by the way that he wanted to confiscate all the Japanese pirates' own books in the name of repairing books.
, destroy all unsuitable items. At that time, the official records of the Ming Dynasty will be the only reference, and later scholars will not be able to find any basis to refute it.
But what Yang Tingshu couldn't figure out was why those Western barbarians were allowed to take the blame. You must know that they are still loyal allies of the Ming Dynasty at least for now. They spend a lot of money every month to pull away truckloads of counterfeit goods from Shanhaiguan and Luoyang.
Counterfeit products have made their own contribution to the development of Ming Dynasty. Isn’t it a bit unethical to pour dirty water behind the scenes?
"It's really hard for me to understand the mystery..." Kong Yanzhi knew the reason, but he couldn't tell it. After all, the religious war planned by Zhu Youcong is still an absolute secret until now. Except for the three members of the Luoyang family, the entire Ming Dynasty
Only the emperor, the ministers of various ministries, the first-rank official Zou Weilian, and the appointed diplomat Zhou Fengxiang knew that what Xiong Wencan did was simply to use the Japanese island incident to lay the groundwork for the war that would disrupt the entire world in the future.
of Western allies, while Ming Dynasty stood on the moral high ground and made a fortune by taking advantage of the fire. "But have you really decided to apply for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"
"Mr. Jiao is disappointed!" Yang Tingshu bowed respectfully and said without concealing the greed deep in his heart: "General Zhenguo once said that history is always written by the victors! As long as our Ming Dynasty remains strong
, then you can write the history of other countries arbitrarily. This may not be important to others. But students have shallow knowledge. If you want to make some achievements in this era of great changes and let the world remember it, joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will serve as the foundation of our Ming Empire.
Providing a reasonable explanation for each expansion is undoubtedly the most convenient way."
"It seems that you have made up your mind!" Kong Yanzhi shook his head helplessly. He couldn't understand. In fact, joining the Ministry of Education to destroy other people's culture was a good choice. Why was it so difficult for him to succeed in deceiving him?
It seems that there is no way to save those two bottles of wine, and I have to go to Gao Yingxiang for advice, so as not to be ruthlessly rejected after finally finding someone next time.
"Since you want to participate in the assessment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs..." Although he failed to win over Yang Tingshu, Kong Yanzhi still maintained the traditional virtue of a gentleman's adult beauty and kindly reminded: "Then you should probably go to Wen Changqing and others who are about to go to Japan for business.
Go ahead, although they were kicked out of the court, their smooth dealing skills and ability to do things both ways are still worth learning from..."
"Thank you, Master, for your guidance!" Yang Tingshu's character is too straight-forward, so he wrote a history book that was rejected eight times in a row. But now he has found his problem. "The student will definitely not live up to the teacher's high expectations, and strive to be shameless."
The skinny Ming diplomat!"
"Go!" Looking back at the Hanlin Academy, which was about to be converted into a nursing home to accommodate those die-hards who were unable to accept new knowledge and refused to put down their pretensions and go out to do business, Kong Yanzhi sighed deeply and said: "Since history has always been
It was written by the winner, so I have to review the teaching materials and do my little bit for the Ming Dynasty to continuously cultivate students who can continue this honor." (To be continued...)