I am the king of the dead

"Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce Ye Zhongxing is in charge of overseas Chinese affairs. Some time ago, Tang Bao reported about the Luzon incident. Even if the local natives are willing to surrender, they will be castrated as slaves."

"They don't even spare their children."

Why did Cao Bin go to the south of the Yangtze River to be included in the history books?It is because such things are rare.

War is full of cruelty and blood, and colonization is the same.

When Zhu Qiyu heard what Yu Qian said, he was stunned for a while, remembering a memorial approved yesterday and said: "Today, the Ministry of Rites, King Said of Luzon, and King Muromachi Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa of Japan have sent envoys to ask me to severely punish lawbreakers. Sadist."

"I am also very embarrassed. I have already collected immigration tax. These overseas people are no longer Ming people. They should be regarded as pirates and thieves. I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. I can't control it even if I want to. I am powerless. Too late."

"I asked Ma Huan, Minister of Honglu Temple, to tell their envoys that if they wish, I can send the Daming Navy to garrison the army, as long as they provide the expenses for the military brigade and repair the port. However, they refused, thinking that we With the sailors around, they can hardly sleep."

"It's difficult for them, and it's difficult for me, everyone, let's make it difficult."

Zhu Qiyu was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty first, and then the majesty of the unification of the world. As for the title similar to Tian Khan, he didn't care much. Now the king of Luzon and the king of Japan, who are suffering from pirates, asked the Ming court for help Suppressing bandits, neither paying money nor allowing Daming to garrison troops, isn't this licking his face to understand whoring?

Then Zhu Qiyu had no choice.

As for whether what Yu Qian said will happen?Will.

Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian stopped playing duets, because the cries in the city had suppressed their conversation.

The two prison families of Daming are driving away the reluctant crowd, while the school captains put the exiled prison students on the prison car. More than 2000 school captains are holding hooks and sickles to maintain order. The family members of these prison students, I can only cry and howl.

Some superintendents just got married, and the newlyweds cried with pear blossoms and choked up with rain;

Some superintendents are new fathers, and the cries of the babies in their infancy make people scratch their heads;

The parents of some supervising students have gray temples, and the white-haired ones send the black-haired ones to cry sadly;

Zhu Qiyu looked at all this indifferently, and watched the prison car escorting the prison students drift away. The officials of the Imperial Academy and the Metropolitan Procuratorate scolded a lot, but one thing was true, Zhu Qiyu was indeed a thin A cold and benevolent person.

He didn't have the slightest sympathy or pity for these sorrows, only four words, that is what he deserved.

It wasn't until the crowd slowly dispersed that Zhu Qiyu tightened his cloak, went down Wufeng Tower, and headed for Desheng Gate.

Only then did Yu Qian know that there were other arrangements for today.

As the elephant breeder of Daming, Marquis Shi Heng of Wuqing had been ostentatiously passing through the market after begging for a few iron horses from His Majesty, pulling the roaring iron horses to show off in the streets of the capital when he had nothing to do.

As the commander-in-chief of the Daming Beijing Camp and the elephant breeder of His Majesty, Marquis Wu Qing specially built a horse farm outside Desheng Gate. This horse farm covers an area of ​​more than [-] mu, and there are all kinds of equipment in it.

Zhu Qiyu's car drove to the gate of the racecourse, and Shi Heng had been waiting here for a long time.

Marquis Wu Qing arranged a big show today, the horse race.

The iron horse and the fine horse of the imperial horse supervisor compete to pull the cart.

The width between the two rails of the pulling rut is four feet three inches. This size is the width between the two ruts of Zhu Qiyu's rut ​​cart that goes out on weekdays, and it can fit two good horses to pull the cart.

If the built roads are not even able to drive your majesty's chariot, then why do they need to be built?

Zhu Qiyu's big driver Yuren is an instrument car, and the distance between the two ruts is nearly ten feet wide, so he can't run fast at all.

The weight of the trucks is three thousand catties, about one and a half tons, and the vehicles are filled with steel and fire feathers that have been called long ago. These are all armaments.

A total of twelve iron horses and twelve fine horses participated in the competition.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty safe?" Shi Heng ran over quickly after seeing the emperor's big jade car stopped, and took the alighting stool from Xing'an's hand and put it away.

"See Your Majesty, Your Majesty's holy bow." Everyone behind Shi Heng saluted.

"I'm safe." Zhu Qiyu looked at Shi Heng and said with a smile.

Since Shi Heng got the iron horse, he has become more courteous, somewhat disregarding his status as Marquis of Wu Qing as a hereditary martial artist.

Shi Heng also had something to say.

When King Jili was in power, he was a domineering bully outside the Great Wall. Together with Sai Yin Buhua, they were called the Shuangsha of the Grassland. Even the village women on the grassland saw it and found a hole to go in. Yu Qian was the governor of Shanxi. , must be impeached consecutively.

Now that he is a noble and hereditary martial artist of the Ming Dynasty, where and which family is so powerful that he will not politely bow down and call him Lord Marquis?How dare you be disrespectful?

Moreover, His Majesty really wants him to lead the Ming army, a gold-armed iron horse, swallow thousands of miles like a tiger, and be famous before and after, which one is not given by His Majesty today?

Be courteous, what's the matter!

Na Saiyin Buhua took refuge in Wala, and either drank northwest wind or ate sand outside the Great Wall, what kind of life did he live?

How is Shi Heng, Marquis of Wuqing, living now?

"What's the program today? Marquis Wu Qing, introduce me?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Shi Heng flicked his sleeves, took out a map and said: "Your Majesty, please take a look, start from Deshengmen, go to Shijingchang official factory to unload, then pick up armaments at Shijingchang, and take them back to Beitu outside Deshengmen. city."

"Passing through three rivers along the way, climbing four slopes and descending four slopes, the total length of the journey is [-] miles. The rules are also very simple. The one who returns more wins. If the number is the same, the one who returns quickly wins."

After reading the map, Zhu Qiyu didn't have any opinion on the schedule, but was quite surprised by the rules of the game, and said full of doubts: "The one who comes back the most wins? Why not the one who wins quickly?"

"It's all about armaments, mainly for security." Shi Heng said quite seriously.

After the Ming Dynasty's Chi Road is built, if there is a military operation, there will be limited guarantees for armaments, and the biggest problem with the transportation of armaments is actually preservation, not speed.

If a horse runs fast, it is easy to stumble; if a car drives fast, it is easy to overturn.

And Shi Heng held this jockey meeting not to show how fast the iron horse is, but the stability of the iron horse.

Zhu Qiyu nodded in agreement, then changed the topic and said: "We have heard that some people say that it is nothing more than building official roads and post roads, but we also need to build chi roads. In the end, those rebellious people will smash them to pieces along the chi roads." Our brains."

Back then, the Qin Dynasty built the Chi Dao and destroyed the Qin Dynasty. Today, Daming is now repairing the Chi Dao, and it seems that the country will also perish!

"Who! I'll smash his head first!" Shi Heng glared with anger and said loudly. As the chief military officer of the capital, Shi Heng immediately flew into a rage when he heard such words.

Whether it is the Qin Chi Road or the Sui Canal, when it was built, it was all about recruiting civilians, and it was fine if they didn't pay.

The Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money to build official roads and post roads, and dredged waterways, which cost nearly [-] million silver coins, which frightened the ministers of the household department, Jin Lian, Zhang Feng, and Shen Yi, to sleep with silver coins in their beds.

Even Xu Youzhen, a quasi-rebel, has 2 engineers!

Even Shi Heng knows that His Majesty's practice is to use work for relief, which is not a great achievement!Your Majesty is cultivating industrial craftsmen, not exhausting the people's strength!

Shi Heng understands the truth, how can these scholars not know?

"It doesn't matter if you don't mention it." Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, but didn't go into it too much.

Shi Heng still gritted his teeth and said: "These scholars are really vicious when they scold others."

"Otherwise, are they reading all these books for nothing?" Yu Qian continued, he is now a hereditary martial artist, and he is no longer the same as the elected officials.

"Today's horse race, is there anyone else besides Wu Xun?" Zhu Qiyu and Shi Heng were talking, looking back, it was very lively.

Shi Heng said cheerfully: "Isn't it because His Majesty is coming that I dare to invite you?"

As the commander-in-chief of the capital, Shi Heng holds a high position, but it is also a very dangerous position. If His Majesty has any distrust of him, he will be the commander-in-chief.

If Zhu Qiyu hadn't agreed to come and gave Shi Heng ten courages, he wouldn't have dared to invite so many people.

"Then let's get ready and start." Zhu Qiyu flicked his sleeves and walked into the racecourse.

Chapter 814 Technology is not neutral, let alone universal

Zhu Qiyu came to the racecourse. Representatives of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the race meeting include Qin Tianjian, Shishi Calendar Bureau, Shijing Factory and other official factory craftsmen. Make out-of-the-box tricks;

And the entire [-]-mile-long road is jointly guarded by His Majesty's imperial guards, Tiqi and Jingying, to prevent people from maliciously destroying the road and the competition, and is also responsible for delivering news in real time;

And Shang Ren led a group of Hanlin from the Hanlin Academy, the censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and supervisors from the Imperial Academy to sit on the viewing platform, whispering to each other, while two scholars in Confucian robes were communicating with the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor;

Not far away are a group of envoys from the Fan Kingdom of the Siyi Pavilion, standing on an arc-shaped platform and looking around. According to the Ming Dynasty ritual system, they still have no seats. Hino Tomiko and Hosokawa Katsumoto from the Wa Kingdom Jiang Mengqing and Jin He, as well as Ivan III from the Principality of Moscow and envoys from various Southeast Asian countries.

Zhu Qiyu also saw envoys from the Kingdom of Kang and the Kingdom of Timur, which surprised him a little. What surprised him even more was that the Roman envoy and the last governor, Nikolaoz, who had already perished, and the Minister of Rites, Xiao Xuan and Yao Kui, Liu Ji, and Ma Huan sat together.

"Is there any problem with the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites?" Zhu Qiyu asked Yu Qian sideways, about why Nikolaoz was in the position of the Ministry of Rites instead of the Fanyi envoy.

Yu Qian frowned and said: "Nikolauz is the head teacher of the Maritime Hall, and he is also the general officer of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. It is normal for a Tartar official who receives the salary of the Ming Dynasty to be in the Ministry of Rites."

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "Ivan III is also the general officer of Honglu Temple, and he also translated Roman documents together. Ivan was on the side of the envoy. When there were any activities in the past, Nikolaoz insisted that he was not the Roman envoy. Ken is on the side of the Ministry of Rites."

Of course, Zhu Qiyu knew that Nikolaoz was the Tartar official of Ming Dynasty. After all, when Nikolaoz came, he brought with him three hundred hungry and emaciated Roman soldiers. This was the only remaining armed force in Rome. Before this time, Nikolaos never regarded himself as a Ming official, just like Ivan.

Today is a little different.

"Send someone to ask." Xing'an said in a low voice, and sent a small yellow door to hear the news, and got a reply soon.

"Your Majesty, it's because the Fifth Prince was born." Xiao Huangmen said very respectfully: "Young Master Hu reminded Nikolaoz that if Nikolaoz still regarded himself as a Roman, it might bring some trouble to the Fifth Prince."

Zhu Qiyu understood, it turned out to be the case.

Nikolaoz is not stupid, pedantic, or ignorant. This is a result that both parties are happy to see.

After Zhu Qiyu took his seat, he looked in the direction of the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College. These people are the other side of today's competition.

"Does Yu Shaobao still remember the iron lock Hengjiang in Hukou County?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly talked about the past to Yu Qian. Encountered Iron Lock Hengjiang.

"Of course I remember." Yu Qian said without knowing why.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian's puzzled expression and explained: "It was right at the time. I discussed the five arts of weak people with Yu Shaobao, and Yu Shaobao sneered at it."

"In summary, the five arts of weak people are actually better than no development, and stability is more important than everything else."

Yu Qian recalled the content of the Five Arts for the Weak People a little bit, nodded and said, "That's true."

"In the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, riots broke out in the capital of Rome, and Emperor Nero committed suicide. Since then, the heads of the Roman armies began to fight for multiple emperors. In the end, a man named Vespasian [xiāng] became the Roman emperor."

"This emperor who rebuilt the order of the Roman Empire, was good at managing the treasury, and was known as greedy and gluttonous just like me, is a chaotic monarch."

"One day, Weipasian accepted a gift from a craftsman and got a water-drawing dragon tail cart, which could save manpower. Weipasian was overjoyed and rewarded the craftsman, but he didn't let the craftsman continue to make waterwheels. .”

After the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, a chicken-eating contest was launched on the vast land of Rome, and Vespasian succeeded in eating chicken and became the emperor of Rome.

The emperor re-established the order in Rome, but he did not let the artisans order the manufacture of dragon tail carts.

Yu Qian nodded and said: "This is the same as the Five Arts of the Weak People. It is better not to develop than to develop. The pursuit of stability comes first."

Zhu Qiyu mentioned Wei Paxiang, but he is the epitome of meat eaters. These meat eaters are not stupid. Technological progress can bring wealth, but technological progress will definitely bring about changes, and changes will definitely touch the interests of some people.

For example, Mobutu, one of the five tyrants in Africa, saw that Burundi was ousted by the uprising, so he wrote to Burundi and said: [I told you not to build roads, and now they are driving against you on the road you built. . 】

Zhu Qiyu added: "Actually, not only the carnivores are afraid of change, but even the common people are afraid. When the eighty spinning wheels came out, they were directly smashed to pieces."

"In fact, technological progress is not neutral, nor universal. Technological progress is often highly bound to meat eaters, and technology is also part of the rule of meat eaters."

"So the common people are also afraid of technological progress, because technological progress may bring various new means of exploitation."

Yu Qian said convincingly: "Your Majesty really is, his eyes are like a torch, and his eyes are like a fire."

Yu Qian understood the meaning of His Majesty's words. Starting from the five skills of the weak people, he said that meat eaters hate technological progress, and then extended to the common people who also hate technological progress, because the so-called technological progress cannot enjoy the dividends, but all kinds of The new method of exfoliation is painful.

Take Xiu Chidao as an example, that is, Zhu Qiyu used his work as a substitute for relief. Not only would he not starve to death as an industrial craftsman, but he could also receive generous rewards. What if he changed to the later Daqing?

The Daqing only recruited civilians, and if they refused to recruit, they killed them. In the end, the railway was repaired, and the railway was given to foreigners with a contract.

This is what Zhu Qiyu said that technology is never neutral, let alone universal good, but highly tied to the interests of meat eaters.

For the sake of their dominance, the Qing Dynasty sent the railroad full of flesh and blood, and a treaty to foreigners, which even some Manchus with vested interests could not accept at all.

"Actually, a bachelor of commerce is quite unlucky. Look at his distraught appearance." Looking at Shang Ren's expression on sitting wax, Zhu Qiyu knew that he didn't want to come at all, but as a scholar of the Imperial Academy, he had to come.

Shang Ren Sanyuan Jidi, he is good at reading and academics, but he is not very good at dogfighting between courts and Chinese. He just wants to study history in a safe and stable manner, and finish the "Records of King Jili" that His Majesty confessed.

The result was first the Renhe Xia family's imperial examination fraud case, and then the North and South Yongjian Shengsheng case, which made Shang Ren exhausted and his expression full of lovelessness.

Today, Shang Ren has to represent the decadent and pedantic Confucian scholars to participate in this horse race. In this horse race, Shang Ren stretched out his face and was slapped from the left to the right.

So what if the good horse of the Yumajian wins?

The Confucian scholar lost at the beginning of this game, because the game was played on the Chidao!

Even if the Confucian scholars had placed high hopes on the horse to win and landed in a grand manner, wouldn't His Majesty's goal be achieved?

Even if the iron horse lost, wouldn't the military battle bureau not use the steam engine to stamp silver coins?Doesn't Shijing Factory use steam engines to pump water?Doesn't the Weaving Bureau use steam engines to spin and weave?

In the end, it is His Majesty who wins.

The general trend has been achieved, no matter how hard you struggle, it will be futile, but the appearance of struggling is to make a fool of yourself. The more intense the struggle, the happier His Majesty will be.

Figure what.

"When today's matter is over, let the business scholars move their nests. Even the ancient and modern Tongji Library is better than the Hanlin Academy." Zhu Qiyu still planned to let Shang Ren go. Since he is good at literature and history, he is good at literature and history. It's the same as before.

"What does Yu Shaobao think is the right place?" Zhu Qiyu asked suddenly.

Yu Qian thought for a while and said, "Then go to the Gujin Tongji Library to see the library."

How could Yu Qian, the biggest fish in the court, want such a hook even if His Majesty still wanted to fish with his skills?Yu Qian was fishing, not being caught.

The appointment and removal of officials in the capital is decided by His Majesty. After the battle of the capital, to this day, Yu Qian only makes suggestions on the appointment and removal of personnel.