. Cooperation in many aspects is better than working alone.
Ding Yunyi has always been fighting and cooperating with others. He has cooperated with Kentang Zhang, Zheng Zhilong, and the Thai people...but these people are all his enemies.
.....
In Ding Yunyi's view, as long as it can bring benefits to himself, he can cooperate with anyone no matter what kind of person he is.
"Sir..." Yuemei came out at this time and saluted Ding Yunyi: "Yuemei traveled a long distance and was slightly unwell. She just fell asleep. Please forgive me."
"Please sit down, you don't have to be so polite." Ding Yunyi asked Yue Mei to sit down: "There are not so many rules here, such as adults and villains... Yuemei, I want to discuss something with you.
..."
As he spoke, he expressed his desire to become brothers and sisters with Yue Mei, but Yue Mei seemed a little hesitant: "Sir, it's not that Yue Mei is ungrateful. But I am a high official in the imperial court, and Yue Mei is just from a humble background.
Dare you compete with the adults? If it spreads, it will only make people laugh and insult the reputation of the adults."
Ding Yunyi disagreed: "My adopted sister Xiaotu was not as good as you at that time. She was a disaster victim and almost starved to death. I also became brothers with her..."
"Sir, Xiaotu and I are different." Yuemei smiled slightly and said: "Although she is a disaster victim, she has a pure background. As your adopted sister, of course no one will say anything, but I am different. I
She was a singing and dancing girl from Prince Fu's Mansion, and she was treated as a commodity by Prince Fu. She was very dirty. I arrived at Changping Village. I thought I could settle down, but I didn't want my husband and the people in Changping Village to die, and it was unknown.
A dirty and unknown person like me cannot stay here. If you see me as pitiful, you only need to give me a small room."
Ding Yunyi and his women looked at each other with admiration in their hearts. Although Yuemei was born in a pitiful life, she was not willing to compromise for wealth.
"That's all." Ding Yunyi sighed: "Lianyu, tomorrow you will find a room for Yuemei in person and settle her down."
"Yes, husband." Deng Lianyu responded respectfully.
Li Xiangjun was able to compare with Yue Mei on this journey. At this time, he couldn't help but said: "Sir, you are Lord Wu Lie, can you see the Jin Yiwei being so arrogant and domineering? King Fu killed innocent people indiscriminately. The Jin Yiwei slaughtered the village and wreaked havoc.
Sir, why don't you just write to the imperial court and read a copy of King Fu and Jin Yiwei to eliminate harm to the world?"
"Me? Going to visit King Fu and the Imperial Guards?" Ding Yunyi only thought it was funny. Although Li Xiangjun was chivalrous and courageous, he really didn't know what was going on in the court: "Who is King Fu? He was the man who almost became the emperor. The current emperor also responds to his requests.
.There have been people who participated in King Fu, but what was the result? Those who lost their official positions lost their official positions, and those who were decapitated were beheaded. What about the Jin Yiwei? That is even more unthinkable. The Jin Yiwei is like the eyes and arms of the emperor. Could it be that the emperor himself became disabled?
alone?"
Li Xiangjun was a little unconvinced: "Civil officials will die to remonstrate and military generals will fight to the death. Are you afraid of losing your official position and beheading yourself?"
"I'm scared, and I'm scared to death." Ding Yunyi's answer was unexpected: "There is only one Wu Liebo, and there is only one Fujian General Soldier. It would not be fun if he died. Let me tell you the truth. I have done the same in recent years.
I have done a lot of shameful things, but I have survived hundreds of thousands of people. If I really refuse to remonstrate as you said, what will my subordinates do? What will happen to so many people in Taiwan? Except for me, there is no one in the world
Who else can govern Taiwan like this?"
Although these words were somewhat arrogant, the women listened very carefully. Ding Yunyi sneered:
"I have to live well. I only have one life. If you lose it, you can never get it back. I can't govern Taiwan and Penghu if I leave it to Zhang Kentang, and I can't govern it to Zheng Zhilong. My tiger guards only listen.
My, Taiwan only listens to me, even the pirates in the world only listen to me. Taiwan can be without anyone, but it can’t be without me, Ding Yunyi! Sounds arrogant and arrogant, right? Yes, I think so too, but
I am telling the truth. Countless victims will come to Taiwan in the future, and Taiwan will become stronger, so I have to live well. My life is very precious!"
This is the first time even Han Xiaoxiao and the others have heard these words...
Should he be Yue Fei or Qi Jiguang? In this choice, Ding Yunyi chose the latter without hesitation.
He can be said to be the number one loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. He conquered pirates, took over Taiwan, fought against the Jin captives, and defeated the bandits. Everything he did was upright, but he was also the number one treacherous minister of the Ming Dynasty.
He can deceive the emperor and cheat, but as long as he thinks it is beneficial to him, he will not care about anything. His only purpose is: how to survive for himself and Taiwan!
Loyalty or traitor, it doesn't really matter...
Gu Hengbo's eyes showed admiration: "Sir, I have never heard anyone say these words before. After hearing them today, I finally know that many things are actually completely different from what we little girls think. Your thoughts are also completely incomprehensible to us.
Sir, may I ask what the future holds for Ming Dynasty?"
"The Ming Dynasty is very dangerous." Ding Yunyi opened his mouth and shocked everyone: "The Ming Dynasty will cause disasters... When natural disasters come, they are the likes of which you have never seen. Just talk about a drought. You know how droughts can happen.
How miserable is it? Once a drought occurs, there will be thousands of miles of bare land without any grass growing. And the drought will inevitably cause a plague of locusts. The disaster will then expand to areas beyond the drought, causing the green wheat crops thousands of miles away to be eaten up within a few days. I have seen that
Ma Maocai wrote a memorial to the emperor during the incident, describing the terrible scene of the drought: "I am from Ansai County, Shaanxi Province. In the reports of local officials, it is often said that fathers abandoned their sons, husbands betrayed their wives, or dug up grass roots to devour them, or
Digging white rocks to satisfy hunger. However, the reality is more terrifying than described. From last year to this year, my hometown, Yan'an Prefecture, had no rain for a year, and the grass and trees were withered. During the month, the villagers competed to eat the fluffy grass in the mountains, although they barely managed to eat it.
Counted as grain, it is actually the same as chaff, with a bitter taste, and eating it can only avoid death. In October, the grass is eaten out, and the only way to eat is to peel off the bark of the tree. Among all the barks, the bark of the elm tree is the best. But it still needs to be eaten.
Eating it mixed with the bark of other trees can only delay death slightly. At the end of the year, the bark is eaten again, and you can only eat stones dug from the mountains. The stones are cold and hard, and their smell is fishy. Just a little bit is enough to satisfy your appetite.
.But a few days later, due to indigestion, the abdomen became distended. He could not go to the toilet, and his stomach sagged and he died. Some villagers who did not want to die by eating stones had to gather together to become robbers. Others who had a little savings
Families were robbed and turned into hungry masses. They knew that being a robber was against the law and they had to die, but instead of sitting and waiting to die, they would rather be robbers and break the law and be executed. Even if they were to be ghosts, they would rather be a dead ghost.
The most pitiful thing is that in the area west of Ansai City, one or two babies or young children will be abandoned there every day, wailing for their parents. When they are exhausted and hungry, they will eat feces on the ground. By tomorrow, all of them will be
Starved to death. What's even more terrifying is that young people or people traveling alone disappeared as soon as they left the city. Later, when I saw the poor people outside the city using human bones as firewood and cooking human flesh, I realized that the missing people were all eaten by the hungry people.
.But people who cannibalize human flesh cannot survive. In a few days, their heads will swell and their bodies will become hot and die...'"
Gu Hengbo, Liu Rushi and other women who were new to Taiwan almost fainted after hearing this. They never dreamed that there could be such terrible things in the world.
Han Xiaoxiao sighed: "I didn't believe it in the past. Taiwan also experienced three years of drought, but it survived. Now that I think about it, it's all because of my husband. I remember that time when my husband brought a large number of disaster victims to Taiwan, we several
We took food to look at the victims. They grabbed it and stuffed it into their mouths. They choked and rolled their eyes. They refused to listen to our advice to eat slower... I asked them why, and they said,
It’s exactly the same as what my husband said... Just imagine, a person who hasn’t seen a grain of rice for several months will see real food. It’s completely beyond words to describe.”
"It's not a natural disaster, but what's even more terrifying is." Ding Yunyi's eyes were deep: "Those court officials did not think about how to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, but they were constantly fighting for power and profit. Wei Zhongxian did this, the Donglin Party did this, Wen Tiren did this, and Zhou Yan
The same is true for Confucianism... Everyone focuses on how to fight for power, and completely forgets the obligations of a minister. Such a court means that no matter how hard the emperor tries to govern, there is nothing he can do."
When he said this, he drank all the wine in the cup: "Fengyang is the land of Longxing. It has enjoyed many benefits for a long time. The taxes and levies are lighter than other areas. During the reign of Taizu, they were even exempted from taxes and levies. This is the ancestral home of the emperor.
, the situation should always be better. However, the situation becomes more and more bad as time goes by, and various additional levies must still be borne. At the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qian Shisheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, paid a memorial ceremony to Fengyang Mausoleum, and he was quite concerned about the dilapidated situation of the local area.
Feeling sad, he wrote a letter saying, "The land in Fengyang is desolate, the huts are in ruins, the hills and hills are wild, and the sight is desolate... He takes his wife and burden and begs for living. The household registration in the four directions has been exiled, and the wealth has accumulated over the years. There is a secretary.
Because of the fear of being punished, he had to pay the current tax with a small amount of grain from a poor household, so the compensation became more and more heavy, and the current person turned to him... Qian Shisheng's words said this
The essence of the problem.
The additional levies forced the people to flee everywhere. In order to collect enough taxes, local officials had no choice but to transfer the taxes from the fleeing households to the households that had not fled. The fleeing households were overwhelmed and had to flee. Large areas of land were abandoned, and naturally they looked desolate.
If the emperor's ancestral home is so obscured and withered, one can only imagine the dilapidation of other areas."
Ding Yunyi smiled bitterly when he said this: "I passed by Jiangbei when I was on the expedition. There was not a single person plowing the fields in the Jiangbei area for thousands of miles, and May is the busy season for farming. How can the world not be in a state of poverty?
?This is obviously not caused by a natural disaster, but the result of a large number of farmers evading taxes and being displaced...Also, I have never seen the government organize farmers to build water conservancy projects. If water conservancy projects are not repaired, small disasters will turn into big ones.
, and the imperial court is still levying various additional taxes. The people are in dire straits and are unable to afford the various additional levies. Under the order of additional levies, local officials do not dare to neglect, and they all use urging to impose taxes.
.Whoever can pay the additional levy in full on time is a capable official. Some officials who are more sympathetic to the suffering of the people cannot bear to take advantage of them in every possible way and fail to pay in full as scheduled. Instead, they are convicted and even punished for this.
.....So my Ming Dynasty has three points of natural disasters and seven points of that..."
The words he heard today were unheard of in the ears of these women. Gu Hengbo couldn't help but ask: "What should Master Yi think?"
"Build water conservancy and rectify agriculture." Ding Yunyi said these words, and even he felt a little funny: "This is easy to say, but difficult to do. These things all need money to support, but where can the court find money?
Going to the land of Liaodong requires money, and the Central Plains also needs silver, but what the imperial court lacks most is money. Only when Liaodong and the Central Plains are completely settled can we turn our attention to these aspects, but now, it is difficult and rare. "
Liu Rushi also said at the same time: "In the past, I was used to hearing about romance and seeing people living in luxury and wealth. There were also some famous people who often told us some strategies for governing the country that they thought were great. I used to think it made sense, but since I met the adults, I have
They know that these are just children's games. They cannot see the essence of things in the world."
"Those so-called celebrities only talk empty talk and harm the country." Ding Yunyi said disdainfully: "They shut themselves up at home, read a few books, and find some 'like-minded' people to talk empty talk, thinking that their civility, Taoism, and military skills are useless.
They couldn't help it, and wished they could hand over the power of the court to them now, but if they really did so, they would see that the world's affairs were completely different from what they thought, so they would become stupid and stunned, and they would do even more ridiculous things.
When something happened, the world became even more chaotic."
The more he spoke, the more indifferent he became: "The only ones who really know what is going on in the world are us generals who have been fighting on the battlefield all year round. Unfortunately, the court wants to use us and even more to guard against us. The soldiers cannot use all their energy on the battlefield.
But I have to be on guard every day for fear of offending the imperial court, and my combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly reduced. In this sense, I prefer to be a traitor in the eyes of others, so that I can devote all my energy to my Taiwan."
"Sir, traitors like you are the real pillars of our Ming Dynasty." Gu Hengbo raised his wine glass and said, "I would like to toast you!"
Ding Yunyi drank a full cup, put down the cup, and suddenly became proud:
"Now I am a treacherous minister in the eyes of some people, but when our country is in real danger, we will know who is loyal and who is traitor. The rogue bandits cannot take away our country, nor can the golden robbers take away our land.
There are many good men who are willing to shed their blood!" (This site...your support is my biggest motivation.)