Chapter 772: Guns used as scrap copper

After the Lunar New Year in 1507, Ma Lin paid tribute to the 40 Ming Franco cannons and 500 matchlocks of the Ming Dynasty. However, this thing was put on hold and caused controversy between the government and the opposition.

Why? As a tribute to the vassal state, these Franco cannons and matchlock guns were first transported to the courtroom responsible for the tribute. But, at this time, Li Cheng, the book of ceremonies, was a conservative. Mao Shangshu, who has read poems and books, does not think that firearms are useful, but thinks that as long as the saints are promoted, Hu Yi can be influenced and "all nations can come". Therefore, Mao Dashang's opinion is that it is a good thing for the little barbarous country called Beihai Kingdom to come, but it has to go through the process. In addition, these guns ... weigh a lot, according to the weight of copper and iron, calculate how many pounds of copper and iron the Beihai tribute ...

If Marin knows that Mao Dashangshu treats the guns he paid tribute to Daming as waste copper and iron, it is estimated that Mao Cheng will be bitterly angry ...

In fact, many ministers of the DPRK and China are very dissatisfied with Mao Cheng's so rash action. For example, Cabinet Minister Wang Sheng, was very dissatisfied with Mao Cheng's move.

Wang Sheng is a military literati who once dismissed the "Eight Things to Discuss" during the period of Hongzhi and proposed his own eight strategies for governing the border-deciding temple calculations, emphasizing the generals, strict laws and regulations, compassionate people, wide recruitment, use of space, and division of troops , Surprising ... And more adopted ...

The so-called Dingmiao calculation means that everyone discusses the strategic guidelines in the Chaotang; and the main leader is to address the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty to defend the martial arts. The literati supervised the army, and tended to use the soldiers' fingers to make the master dance with shackles, very passive. However, Wang Sheng's good strategy was only adopted for a while. Later, it was overthrown by the Civil Service Group. After all, "serving as an official and overthrowing his predecessor" is the tradition of China's officialdom ...

Strategies such as strict laws, compassionate borders, recruitment, use of labor, division of troops, and surprises are also very visionary strategies. Of course, it is still the same problem-"Serve as an official and overthrow the predecessor" ... Good policies have no coherence, and no matter how good they are ...

However, although Wang Sheng is now one of the three auxiliary ministers in the cabinet, he is considered a gangster, but he is the lowest among the three gangsters. He has little say ...

Why? Because a big event happened in the Ming Dynasty dynasty-Liu Jian and Xie Qian resigned ...

Liu Jian was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and Xie Qian was also one of the cabinet ministers. In the late Hongzhi Dynasty, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian formed the "iron triangle" of the Hongzhi Dynasty-Li (Dongyang) Gong Gong, Liu (Jiang) arbitration, Xie (Qian) Gong You Kankan ...

What this means is that Li Dongyang is good at plotting, Liu Jian is at his own discretion, Xie Qian ...

Xie Qian's mouth is not important, Li Gongmou and Liu Gongjuan are more important. This is somewhat similar to Tang Taizong's Li Shimin's Fangmou demise in the Zhenguan Dynasty. With such a cabinet minister, and the emperor Hongzhi being more adept at accepting the minister's suggestions, the Hongzhi dynasty is naturally better.

In fact, the natural disasters and human disasters of the Hongzhi dynasty are also constant. Although they are not as severe as the natural disasters of the Chongzhen dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, because the emperor Hongzhi knows how to use people well, and has the help of good ministers such as Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and Xie Qian, plus he is more After accepting the Minister's opinion, I finally survived, and I made a "Hongzhi ZTE". And Chongzhen, although not a bad person, has too much ability. First of all, blind ... he reused the Donglin Party at first, and was applauded by others ... the late discovery of the Donglin Party's pit attributes, but it was too late ...

Because he was blind and did not choose the right minister, when Chongzhen committed suicide in the end, only Wang Cheng'en, an eunuch, accompanied him to death. As for the Manchu Civil War he chose, Quan Te surrendered ...

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Of course, the above are all digressions. The autumn of 1506 AD is the first year of Zhengde. Cabinet Chief Liu Jian led the other two cabinet ministers Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, because they could n’t get used to the **** Liu Jin and other people who fled the emperor ’s play and slacked in the government, and kept asking for the removal of Liu Jin, Ma Yongcheng, Gu Dayong, Wei Eight recent ministers (Zhengde Eight Tigers) including Bin, Zhang Yong, Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and Luo Xiang.

Ke Zhengde always promised every time, but as soon as he turned his head, he did nothing ...

In desperation, the three cabinet ministers threatened to resign and forced the Emperor Zhengde to get rid of the "eight tigers." However, this angered the bear child Zhu Houzhao ...

Zheng Hou, the emperor of Zhengde, is just a 15-year-old boy. If he stays in later generations, it is exactly the age of S2. The second-year teenager is the most rebellious, and spoiled by his parents since childhood. So, Zhu Houzhao, the bear child, made a big jump-do you want to resign? Okay, so ...

Then, the minister was dumbfounded ... I just scared you, did you take it seriously?

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao didn't completely finish the second year. In the end, he allowed Liu Jian and Xie Qian to resign and go home, but Li Dongyang was left ... In this way, Li Dongyang, who was once the Hongzhi Dynasty's "iron triangle", left a bare shot ...

Li Dongyang was left because Li Dongyang was the smoothest of the three. Unlike Liu Jian and Xie Qian, who always accused Zhengde of the fault in public, he persuaded the little emperor on his back and gave it to him. Little emperor face.

For Liu Jian and Xie Qian, the little emperor Zhu Houzhao was full of resentment-I do n’t want to face it? You both face each other face to face, where does my emperor's face go?

Therefore, when the three resigned, Zhu Houzhao left Li Dongyang, who was more face-saving, and moved Liu Jian and Xie back to their hometowns ...

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After Liu Jian and Xie Qian were allowed to "slave the old people back to their hometowns", they vacated the positions of two cabinet graduates. Then, the Korean and Chinese ministers and the **** headed by Liu Jin fought fiercely for these two positions.

Liu Jin wanted to support his political ally Jiao Fang in position, but when he pushed the court (that is, the ministers publicly recommended voting), the ministers of the DPRK and China unanimously recommended Wang Zhi, a direct minister who participated in the "Eight Tigers" of the Shangsong ...

In the end, both Jiao Fang and Wang Sheng entered the cabinet. However, Wang Sheng was not liked by the emperor and the eunuch. Therefore, the three auxiliary ministers in the cabinet, Wang Sheng is the one who has the least say ...

In addition, during this period, although the status of the cabinet of the Ming dynasty has risen a lot, it has not completely surpassed the six, but the status is higher than the six, but it may not be able to command the six.

What's more, the ritual department led by Mao Cheng is the head of the six departments, and he is very confident. Although Wang Sheng was the cabinet minister, he ranked the lowest. Li Dongyang is still a part-time clerk, but still manages the official hats of world officials. However, in addition to the cabinet juniors, Wang Jiao only served as a clerk, left assistant, and faced Mao Cheng, the bureaucrat of Shang Li ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ was very weak.

Therefore, in the face of the doubts of Wang Chang, a military-savvy old man, Mao Chengniao was not a bird. He still regarded Marin's tribute guns as scrap copper and iron, and left them in the treasury's warehouse. As for Marin's request to become a vassal state, because of insufficient materials, it will not be processed ...

Wang Sheng went to the first assistant Li Dongyang, but Li Dongyang was relatively smooth. Moreover, he was not sure whether the guns were really powerful. Therefore, he was not willing to offend the courtier Shang Shu Mao Cheng for this "little thing".

As for the other Pao Jiao Fang, Wang Jian and Wang Sheng will not deal with it. Moreover, there is a problem with Jiao Fang, who hates southern officials. This product is a typical regional black, that is, it is not used to Southern officials. As long as Southern officials think it is good, he will definitely think it is bad. If the Southern officials are out of luck, he will clap his hands and say yes ...

The guns were made by Shen Rui and Liu Meng of the Chief Secretary of Guangdong. Shen Rui is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Liu Meng is from Ganxi, and they are all officials from the south. Therefore, Jiao Fang Jiao Ge was old and stood directly on the opposite side of the two-whenever the southern officials said yes, he must say bad ... that is so wonderful ...

Therefore, no one can stop Mao Cheng Mao Shangshu's retrograde actions. The guns that Marin paid tribute to Daming were temporarily sealed in the storeroom of the Libe and ashed ...