MTL - Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao-Chapter 366 Being instigated, backstabbing the Minister of Science!
Chapter 366 Instigated rebellion, backstabbed the Minister of Science!
Apocalypse has not been in court for several months, and this is also something that many ministers who observe rituals are very critical of.
Because they don't want the emperor to hide behind the scenes and lend the imperial power to others, which is not conducive to them knowing the emperor in the first place, and then knowing how to use the emperor.
As soon as they heard that the emperor was going to hold a court meeting, many ministers, no matter how tired or indulged in the pillow tenderness of their wives and concubines, did not dare to procrastinate, and they all came to the court room to wait for the leak.
Not long after, after the officials arrived at the court hall and stood up, and Tian Qi also took his seat, Zhang Gui suddenly came out and said:
"Your Majesty, Mao Yuanyi, the former deputy commander of the Guangdong Navy and the current head of Zanhua of the Puppet Ministry of War, is willing to abandon the dark and turn to the Ming, and submit to the imperial court. I ask your majesty to allow him to submit and grant him an official position, so as to show that the subjects of the world will change from evil to righteousness."
Mao Yuanyi?
The courtiers were taken aback.
None of these people expected that such a heavyweight puppet court official would suddenly want to belong to the court!
You know, it has always been the officials of the imperial court who surrendered to the puppet court because they were dissatisfied with the reform.
But now there are officials of the puppet dynasty who are willing to join the court, and the key is a former deputy commander of the Guangdong Navy.
Tian Qi didn't expect Zhang Gui to mention Mao Yunyi, so he was quite cooperative and said: "Zun Zou, it should be used by Si Quanxu."
"Your Majesty, Mao Yuanyi is waiting for an imperial edict outside the palace. May I invite him to thank you?"
"In addition, he has important matters to report to His Majesty. He wants to expose the mastermind behind the instigation of Ge Yingdou and Wei Boxiang to leak the secrets of the Industrial Division and sell the Industrial Division's steel materials!"
"Xuan!"
As soon as Zhang Gui finished speaking, Tian Qi shouted impatiently.
At this moment, a civil official in the court heard this, and his expression tensed up.
Mao Yuanyi walked into the hall not long after.
He was also dissatisfied with people like Tianqi and Zhang Gui who changed the imperial examination system.
Although he himself is quite accomplished in military affairs and equipment, as a son of a bureaucratic family, he is more willing to safeguard the interests of gentry and landlords. Honestly be a cow and a horse, and you should not turn evil against foreigners just to prevent the common people from being a cow and a horse.
After all, what if doing so intensifies the conflict between the barbarians and the Chinese and intensifies the border troubles?
So, wouldn’t it be difficult to enjoy peace forever?
This is actually a typical thinking of feudal landlords in an agricultural society. They are afraid of conflicts, and they just want the years to be peaceful and harmonious with each other.
But biologically speaking, interspecies struggle is inevitable.
It is human nature to be afraid of power and not to admire virtue, and it is the same with foreigners. People will not respect you because of your high morals, and will not conflict with you.
Therefore, Mao Yuanyi's landlord thinking can only be said to be wishful thinking, and it can also be regarded as a manifestation of cowardice.
Of course, for landlords, this is the most cost-effective way of diplomacy. After all, they have no shortage of money or land, but they only have one life.
It’s just this kind of thinking, which Su Xun’s "Six Kingdoms" has already criticized.
Therefore, it cannot be said that the ancient Chinese people all had this kind of thinking, and there were also scholar-bureaucrats who had a strategic plan. This is one of the reasons why the Chinese civilization lasts forever.
Turning back, Mao Yuanyi supported the puppet government because of his landlord thinking, and was willing to work with Wang Wenkui.
Of course, in his heart, he also hopes to become a civil servant, just like many military officers who have made good achievements in skills in the Ming Dynasty are converted to civil servants.
This can be regarded as a little selfish desire of his.
Mao Yuanyi, who was born as an official for generations, has a deep civil servant plot, and is ashamed to enter the official career only as a military minister, but he is not good at contemporary literature, so he has always been a military officer.
But what Mao Yuanyi didn't expect was that after he supported Wang Wenkui to set up another imperial court, even though Wang Wenkui made him a civil servant, he discriminated against him for not being a Jinshi, and for only supervising the manufacture of equipment, but not enough in Neo Confucianism. I don't pay much attention to him.
In addition, Mao Yuanyi feels that the firearms of the Ming court are advanced and the technology is updated very quickly. According to the actual situation, he suggested that Wang Wenkui should pay attention to the research and development of skills and improve the status of craftsmen. Granting official status is some honorary title anyway, and it does not affect the power structure.
But Mao Yuanyi discovered that Wang Wenkui was a traditional conservative bureaucrat who only talked about his family background. He despised even a military official from an official family like him, let alone a craftsman who was not respected in this era!
Therefore, not only did Wang Wenkui not adopt his suggestion, but he also abolished the class craftsman silver system implemented during Zhang Juzheng's period, requiring craftsmen to serve for free, saying that it was to restore the ancestral system, which in turn caused a large number of craftsmen in Guangdong to passively slow down or escape into the gates of wealthy families to become house slaves .
In addition, the puppet dynasty did not intend to invest money in Mao Yuanyi to organize craftsmen for the industrial department set up by the imperial court. He was only keen to make rifled guns by imitating the technical information of the rifled guns stolen from the imperial court. Mao Yuanyi responded to this helpless.
It's just that he didn't expect that the research and development silver of the imitation rifled gun would also be lost! Once it was in his hands, there wasn't much left.
The key point is that the censor of the puppet dynasty will ask him for bribes, and if he does not give the money, he will be impeached for private embezzlement or he will not allow the court to allocate the money.
Mao Yuanyi deeply felt that it was too difficult to do things in the puppet dynasty, and key official positions were not promoted. Some censor officials even suggested that the Industrial Division be abolished because of his non-bribing, saying that this was not in line with the purpose of restoring the ancestral system. The implication was that If he is to be dismissed, there is also a censor saying that it is better to strengthen moral education than focusing on strange skills and prostitution, and invite more Confucian officials to serve the puppet emperor. As for guns, they are just last-minute skills, bought or hired from foreigners It can be built by foreign barbarians, so why bother the people.
Mao Yuanyi did not expect that the pseudo-dynasty, which aimed to restore the ancestral system and only respected Confucianism, would become like this. The increase in taxes caused the people to live in dire straits. The key to the increase in taxes was the financial strain. Many craftsmen did not pay their wages all year round, and their official salaries were uneven However, the government is becoming more and more corrupt. Guangdong is not cold at first, but they want to respect it!
The most important thing is that there are many puppet court ministers, but none of them are in charge!
The ministers of the cabinet are only concerned with making money, and the censors are also only concerned with beeping, the key is also beeping for money, and turn a deaf ear to the phenomenon of people starving to death in the city of Guangzhou.
So, under the instigation of Xichang, Mao Yuanyi decided to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, even if it was for the increasing sorrow and starvation in Guangdong, he would return to the imperial court, even if he might be punished by the imperial court.
Because of this, Zhang Guizao asked Xichang's secret agent in Guangdong to help Mao Yuanyi return to the capital, and became his guest, and now he also appeared in the court because of him.
"The guilty minister has seen His Majesty!"
Mao Yuanyi piously knelt down in front of Tianqi to plead guilty. Although he once felt that the emperor in front of him was not doing his job properly, he had to admit that at least this emperor did not make Daming worse and worse, at least he was leaving the puppet dynasty. After ruling the area, he didn't see the starving people all over the city anymore, so now he really feels guilty about his behavior of surrendering to the puppet dynasty in the past, and feels that he is sorry for the people of the puppet dynasty, and he is also sorry for the emperor in front of him.
Tian Qi didn't bother to pay attention to Mao Yuanyi's personal affairs, so he asked eagerly: "Uncle Zhang Guo said you know who is helping the Puppet Dynasty to steal the skills of the Industrial Division, and who it is, tell me immediately!"
"Report Your Majesty, yes."
Mao Yuanyi hasn't finished yet.
At this time, Zhang Sizhi, the head of the Imperial Academy, had already shouted: "Mao Shimin, why did you do this?! Are you worthy of Confucianism?!"
(end of this chapter)
