NovelsAlex Chapter 2642 Burning the bridge across the river
Chapter 2642 Burning the bridge across the river
Chapter 2642 Burning the bridge across the river
And now, Emperor Jiajing has succeeded in cultivating immortality.
He began to pay less attention to political tactics and started to arrange ministers, princes, and gentry at will.
However, he forgot that this would backfire.
Now he remembered.
He began to compromise with those ministers.
Unable to directly compromise, he reverted to being the Riddler.
And the ministers began to compromise with him.
After all, if this continues, everyone will suffer great losses.
Then the villagers began to know:
"The emperor is not dead. It was just a rumor before. Now it is still Jiajing."
After this incident, Jiajing discovered his own weakness:
The people are not directly in control of themselves.
He knew this before, so he had to use political tactics to deal with those people.
Now he decided to take a more direct approach.
Use magic to solve problems.
Thus began a new round of exploitation of the people.
But he spared the aristocratic families and those high-ranking officials.
But this day.
Wen Rensheng and the other four have decided to show their true colors.
They could not tolerate Jiajing's continued chaos.
A typical feudal emperor, domineering at home.
Weak externally.
It seemed that a group of Japanese pirates were defeated, but everyone knew the true nature of the Japanese pirates: a small number of hired tools, controlled by the big pirates, with local forces as their background.
However, they were defeated again and again when facing their real enemy, the northern grasslands.
Until Qi Jiguang grew up.
"It's easy to kill Jiajing, but difficult to pacify the world, so we have to kill him and then impersonate him, so as to cause as little turmoil as possible." Wen Rensheng said.
The other three nodded.
Then they began to devise a methodology.
If you want to kill someone, you must lure him out.
How to lure?
"This is easy. He needs resources for cultivation. Just make one up for him."
"What if he doesn't come out?"
"If he doesn't come out, it will be the same as long as the people around him come out." Wen Rensheng said with a smile.
soon.
The news that a thousand-year-old elixir had appeared on a mountain in the western suburbs of the capital spread.
When Jiajing heard this, he immediately laughed.
"What a ridiculous rumor. The elixir that can last for thousands of years didn't even exist ten years ago."
But the next piece of news moved him.
"The elixir of life is fake. It is said that the imperial seal has been unveiled, and it can symbolize all the people."
Jiajing had to take it seriously.
Because the whereabouts of the jade disk with the inscription "Given the Mandate from Heaven, May Long Live and Prosper" has been unknown since the Han Dynasty.
From then on, everything is rebuilt from scratch.
The piece from the Ming Dynasty was snatched from the Yuan Dynasty.
But those from the Yuan Dynasty cannot be considered authentic.
So Jiajing immediately sent someone to look for him.
Of course he also knew that this was most likely a trap.
So he sent a lot of people to design a trap for counterattack.
However, he found that all the people he sent had no news.
And the jade seal seemed to have really come out.
Because he found that his luck was slipping away.
It's obviously going to be lost to another person.
This won’t work, this is a big problem.
He immediately sent out his most trusted eunuch, whose cultivation level was only half of his own.
He is in the foundation-building stage.
The eunuch has already reached the sixth level of Qi Refining.
Then there is no more then.
The chief eunuch was also destroyed.
"Damn it, who is it?"
Then he panicked.
Because he suddenly realized that the power around him to defend himself was being taken away bit by bit by others.
He didn't take the bait.
But as a veteran, without his chariots, horses, cannons, soldiers and elephants, doesn't that mean he's dead anyway?
Then, in fear of Emperor Jiajing, the four rushed into the palace.
All the masters in the palace were captured.
Emperor Jiajing wanted to escape, but the martial arts he practiced was based on luck.
Leaving the palace and leaving the capital city means you have no luck.
It’s like an emperor who leaves the capital, it’s easy to lose his throne.
Baozong is one of the most typical examples, and there are many others.
If you abandon the capital, you will lose the hearts of most officials and citizens.
The possibility of them recognizing another emperor greatly increased.
So Emperor Jiajing had no choice but to hold on.
"This guy is still a bit difficult to deal with!" said the novice man seriously.
"He won't be able to hold out for long. This guy has never fought a real monk battle and has always been on top."
"Yeah, he actually ran away out of fear of pain?"
"It's ridiculous to insist."
These people have all undergone arduous training by Wen Rensheng.
And it takes a long time.
They also know how terrible the Lord God is.
Although the third main god is relatively merciful, the future war will be cruel.
They are modern people after all, and they are eliminated.
So after paying the price of several arms, they captured Jiajing.
Then it was turned into a puppet.
"This way, we can realize our plan."
"That's right, a qualified emperor should be a puppet."
“You don’t need to change the emperor, you can change the cabinet, but you can’t change the cabinet too often.”
"And if the emperor doesn't understand, don't interfere too much. Just look at the results."
Just like Chongzhen, he changed things over and over again but could never grasp the essence.
The most powerful savior was not used.
That is Sun Chuanting. Because this is a loyal minister who is likely to become a powerful warlord.
Because he was able to organize the occupied land and get military pay and food from it.
Unfortunately, Chongzhen could not withstand the pressure from these gentry's appeals, forcing him to fight a quick decisive battle.
Just ridiculous.
This is why you miss the fundamental point.
Was that the time to take care of the feelings of the local gentry?
Not at all.
We should give up a province and let Sun take action.
Chongzhen was a person who lacked confidence and patience.
To put it bluntly, I have never done anything from beginning to end and I lack patience.
This is how Chongzhen failed.
A complete failure.
In comparison, Jiajing was very patient.
It’s a pity that he met a super group.
Wen Rensheng's wisdom completely crushed him.
In this way, the four successfully captured Jiajing.
"What are you going to do? I am the emperor, the Son of Heaven, and the destiny of the Immortal Dynasty!"
"Don't make any mistakes!"
"Beware of divine punishment!"
However, the four turned a deaf ear.
They don't care about the emperor.
They directly replaced Jiajing, and then changed Jiajing's previous measures and cleaned up from scratch.
The entire Ming Dynasty is still in a good overall momentum.
Because the bottom ones can still survive.
At least 9% of people can survive.
They first dealt with the performance evaluation system.
In fact, Jiajing had already developed a simple performance evaluation system.
But he was not in the mood to go deeper. He still spent most of his time on cultivation.
Every three years, he would simply select a group of people who were loyal to him to serve as examination officials and conduct inspections in Beijing.
This kind of test result has great authority, and it is equivalent to urging yourself to get up early.
The difficulty can be imagined.
Wen Rensheng relied on his golden finger ability and his own skills.
Then large-scale training began.
Academic and industrialized training.
Trained a large number of students.
Then take advantage of the convenience of cultivating immortals and build a network of immortal arts.
Use the information network to build a new Ming Dynasty.
In other words, although the productivity of the Ming Dynasty was still that of an ancient society on the surface, in terms of information exchange, it had already entered the modern information age.
Under this powerful information exchange environment, the economy and various creative aspects have developed rapidly.
Just like in the Jiangnan area, people mainly pursue exotic things.
The more peculiar it is, the more eye-catching it is.
Men wore all kinds of strange clothes and liked all kinds of new things. Western things were especially fashionable. This was reflected in people like Xu Guangqi who specialized in translating Western books. Many terms were defined at that time.
The nouns in Geometry's Elements are still used today.
It can be said that these talents are the first group to open their eyes, and the gap is very small at this time.
Some systems are easy to introduce.
Unfortunately, these systems are not strong enough to replace the original Ming Dynasty or fight against the barbaric forces.
Wen Rensheng understood this aspect very clearly.
And now, Wen Rensheng has solved this problem with a better system.
Rapid exchange of information allows businessmen to quickly capture business opportunities.
Then sell large quantities of supplies to places in urgent need.
This is a very convenient place.
It can quickly stabilize prices.
The next step is to greatly improve transportation.
After improving information and transportation, the next step was to work on food production.
Jiajing did relatively well before.
He found many kinds of high-yield crops directly from overseas, including sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, high-yield rice...
These crops later played a huge role.
Energy is conserved.
In fact, the starch yield of these so-called high-yield crops is not much higher than that of wheat and rice. The most important thing is that they are relatively high-yield.
They can be grown in poor, fragmented plots and are drought and barren tolerant.
For example, sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn can be planted in fields and dry land.
It requires much less water than wheat.
Even in a bad year, there will still be a harvest.
This greatly reduces the possibility of famine.
In fact, after the promotion of these crops, the population increased directly to twice its original size.
This is a crop that directly increases the population limit.
As you can imagine, their production is quite stable.
Otherwise, the population cannot grow steadily.
In bad years, a good return can be achieved.
This is something that cannot be achieved with staple foods such as wheat and rice.
Wheat and rice require a lot of water and can only be grown on large, flat land.
The fertility requirements are also relatively high.
Of course the reason they have persisted into the modern era, squeezing out other grains, is simple.
Their growth patterns are highly compatible with agricultural machinery.
Their ears are right on their heads, making wheat and rice easy to harvest and easy to plant.
Unlike other crops, corn is not easy to harvest. It is much more troublesome than wheat, and threshing is also troublesome.
Not to mention sweet potatoes and potatoes, which require even more complex agricultural machinery.
But in feudal society, this was not a problem.
And corn is more drought-resistant.
The common people could survive the disaster years by relying on sweet potatoes, potatoes and the like.
In short, the agricultural revolution came first, and then the industrial revolution. If agriculture is not done well, it will be useless no matter how well the industrial revolution is done.
However, textbooks only focus on the Industrial Revolution.
It seems that once industrialization occurs, people will have food to eat.
This is nonsense.
In fact, the premise of the Industrial Revolution is to obtain sufficient food from the colonies, squeeze out the agricultural population and turn them into mobile labor, so that industrialization can be achieved.
Because food has become a bulk commodity that can fully meet the needs, people are no longer self-sufficient and need to sell their labor to become part of industrialized production.
The green revolution in the colonies came from the reclamation of large amounts of land, the use of mules and horses, and modern innovations in fertilizer technology.
In this way, industry and agriculture promote each other and achieve a balance.
If there is no food revolution and we blindly develop industry, we will all starve to death.
Agriculture is always the root of the root.
This point was not deliberately made clear.
Only by solving the food problem can we solve other problems.
Thus, under the arrangement of Wen Rensheng and others, compared with the entire era, the entire Ming Dynasty became very advanced and its economy was very developed.
While other powers were still in famine, the Ming Dynasty had entered the era of obesity.
We have already started promoting healthy living.
Many people dream of living in the Ming Dynasty.
"Being a dog of the Ming Dynasty is better than being a human here." This is what many people think.
After all, dogs in the Ming Dynasty could eat full meals for more than ten years.
Being able to live freely without worrying about starving to death.
But in other places, they may never have enough to eat throughout their lives.
The main task of rebuilding the Ming Dynasty can be said to have been basically successful.
However, what remains is the key issue.
It is actually not difficult to create a prosperous era.
The hard part is keeping it going.
The mission requires it to last for more than 500 years.
There are higher rewards for continuing for 5000 years.
This is a bit difficult.
The first 100 years of prosperity.
Everyone was happy.
Everyone is happy.
Tributes were paid from all directions, and requests were made to join the Ming Dynasty.
Grasslands, plateaus, deserts, and islands all chose to submit.
Then came the second 100 years.
New problems arise.
After eating and drinking their fill, people began to raise new questions.
"Why can't my son cultivate to the foundation-building stage?"
"Yeah, why are there so few cultivation resources distributed?"
"All resources are monopolized by the upper class!"
"We must rebel. For the sake of our descendants, we must take back the resources they have taken away!"
In this way, a massive rebellion movement began.
The participants were mainly old men over 80 years old.
The motivation for the rebellion was for his grandson.
There is a saying that goes, Grandfather loves his grandson the most.
He scolds and beats his son, but he loves his grandson so much.
"For the sake of our grandson, we must take these cultivation resources back."
"We are old and can't do it anymore. We can't let our grandchildren make the same mistakes!"
These old rebels attacked and were invincible all the way.
No one wants to fight them.
After all, there is still a custom there, respect the elderly and love the young.
What's more, the old men are doing this for their grandchildren, which makes the soldiers feel that this is for their own good.
Naturally, everyone is unwilling to put in the effort.
All in all, a group of old men soon began to attack the capital.
When four people saw this scene, three of them were very angry.
Wen Rensheng certainly thought it was normal.
The new guy was angry:
"One hundred years ago, you would have given anything to have enough food to eat."
"Now that you have everything, you still want to rebel?"
"They say the emperor crosses the river and destroys the bridge. You common people do the same after you cross the river!"
(End of this chapter)