Chapter 65                                                             �

Since Zhang Juzheng retired in the 11th year of Wanli, the position of chief minister was unexpectedly won by Shen Shixing. Guo Pu, who was qualified to win the chief minister, had no choice but to go out and serve as the governor of the Western Regions.

This incident surprised everyone in the world, but it was not surprising immediately.

Many people didn't understand at that time. But later they all knew that it was because Emperor Wanli intervened.

This made the government and the public feel very familiar.

Oh, the emperor has taken power.

Yin Zhengmao, with his contribution to destroying Myanmar, entered Beijing and became one of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and was in charge of the Ministry of War. He soon became the Minister of War.

In the 12th year of Wanli, the Japanese war broke out. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he had not yet waited to go south to regain Kyushu. The court was ready to take the initiative. Duke Toyotomi Li Ru took charge again and led hundreds of thousands of troops. After several years, he finally destroyed Japan. After Li Ru's battle, he officially withdrew from politics.

And this is not an end, but a beginning.

In the 16th year of Wanli, the battle in the Western Regions was launched because the railway between Beijing and Beijing passed through Datong, Shuofang, Ningxia, Lanzhou, and Jiayuguan was built. Even simple railways were built in the desert, which greatly facilitated transportation, so the battle in the Western Regions began.

If the Battle of Japan was a preemptive move, then the Battle of the Western Regions followed the Tang Dynasty, recruited many Long March athletes, and established prefectures and counties in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions became one of the destinations for immigration.

However, the real war was in the 20th year of Wanli. He restored the country for the King of Malacca and formally intervened in Nanyang. After ten years of war, Nanyang had divided several governor's offices.

There is a Governor's Office in Jiulongjiang, and the so-called Kowloon River is the Mekong River. It is only when the Mekong River goes out to sea, it divides several rivers, and it is said that Kowloon has this name. Moreover, Kowloon River is more in line with the title of the Han people.

This is also the order given by Emperor Wanli.

All newly obtained places must be named Chinese.

In the Governor's Office of Lingyamen in Malacca, Lingyamen is the ancient name of Singapore.

In short, the Ming Dynasty's control over the South China Sea reached a new level, even if the generals of the Westerners were driven out of the South China Sea, even the Ming Dynasty's Atlantic Province, that is, Myanmar Province, sent troops to India, occupying a lot of territory.

At the same time, large immigrants to foreign countries.

From the tenth year of Wanli to the thirty year of Wanli, in the twenty years, the number of immigrants outside was around 20 million. This is still official statistics. However, many data are not able to be counted by the government.

This is the reason why the Ming Dynasty occupied the foothold in Nanyang.

However, although there have been almost no war since Emperor Wanli took over power, the people of Ming Dynasty generally did not feel anything.

The reason for this is that these wars are not large in scale. Yes, although each strategic direction has used an army of 200,000 to 300,000 troops, the burden is not too heavy for the Ming Dynasty.

After two generations of reforms by Zhou Mengchen and Zhang Juzheng, and the popularization of steam engines, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is now at the top of the feudal society. It is like in the early Tang Dynasty, there were many big battles, but I didn’t feel anything.

As for the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the military expenditure of the annual war, even if it can be covered by normal military expenditure, there is no need to add additional taxes. The war brings more opportunities. Especially the Japanese war not only brought a lot of gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the influx of gold and silver in Japan gave the Ming Dynasty a shot in the financial sector. The increase in gold and silver coins is directly reflected in finance. The Ming Dynasty and the people are becoming richer.

This is not a complete illusion. After all, the productivity progress brought about by the Industrial Revolution has allowed social wealth to continue to expand and grow. Even the limitation of gold and silver coins once became a problem that restricted the development of productivity.

Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty fought against foreign countries and built overseas territories, which brought a lot of demand and made all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty extremely prosperous.

Some even praised the prosperous era of Wanli, which is not as follows: Zhenguan. What makes people feel even more different from the Jiajing period is that it has the status of civil and military affairs, and the views of the people in the Shilin people on war.

Before, Zhou Mengchen had always wanted to maintain the balance between civil and military affairs.

But now, without the need for the court to do anything, the status of military generals will naturally rise.

The responsibility of a general is to win battles. If he wins too many battles, who dares to underestimate it?

Moreover, for the expansion to the outside world, it may not necessarily make more money for the court. After all, most of the land captured by the court needs to be built. However, the problem is very profitable for the powerful people in the Ming Dynasty. The Xu family, Tang family, Zhou family, Lu family and other pioneers made a lot of money.

They naturally want to follow it.

This became the driving force for the Ming Dynasty to launch a war on the outside.

Although the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was based on the victory of foreign wars again and again, no one would think too much at this moment and enjoy the hard-won event of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this is not the most important thing in the 32nd year of Wanli. It is the southern tour of Emperor Wanli.

His Majesty's southern tour is no longer as powerful as the emperor before. Because there is a railway, it is very convenient to come and go. Just hang an imperial car on the railway. Of course, the emperor's treatment is still different.

Once you meet the emperor's southern tour, the entire railway line will stop. All the troops along the way must guard the railway, almost step by step, and only after the emperor's train has passed will it be over.

But even so, it is much better than the previous emperor's tour and mobilizing troops.

It is said that this time the emperor was going to come to Wuchang to meet Duke Zhao. He celebrated his 80th birthday for Duke Zhao. However, for some reason, he stopped going there. The imperial guard stopped in Nanjing and prepared to wait for a while before heading north.

At this time, Duke Zhao was preparing for his 80th birthday.

Although Duke Zhao did not want to do it in large quantities and felt that there was nothing easy to do. It was the local government in Wuchang, and it was necessary to do it no matter what.

Zhou Mengchen had no choice.

He just let it go, but Zhou Mengchen also said that what they were willing to do was their business. He was only willing to attend the birthday party and ignored the rest.

Say so.

Many old friends are here.

Zhou Mengchen must not disappear.

The first one to come was Zhang Juzheng.

Zhou Mengchen was in good health, but Zhang Juzheng was in bad health. Wanli gave Zhang Juzheng a sudden attack, disrupting Zhang Juzheng's deployment, and immediately made Zhang Juzheng die in anger, but fortunately he was half-dead.

Li Shizhen returned to his heart with a clever hand and rescued Zhang Juzheng.

After Zhang Juzheng returned to Jingzhou, he not long after he took up a position in Huanghelou Academy. He often traveled between Jingzhou and Wuchang.

As for Huanghelou Academy, it was founded by Zhou Mengchen.

During Zhou Mengchen's mourning period, some students came to ask for teaching. Zhou Mengchen naturally would not ignore his guidance. However, after the news came out, some students lined up to ask for advice every day.

On the one hand, Zhou Mengchen's knowledge is indeed profound. Even Confucianism has been tempered for many years, and few people can surpass him in this world. After all, Wang Ji and others have all passed away.

Of course, a new generation has changed to an old one.

On the other hand, it is naturally because of Zhou Mengchen's status and status that being able to win Zhou Mengchen's eye is naturally a shortcut to Zhongnan.

After a long time, Zhou Mengchen decided to build a college on Snake Mountain.

The choice of this academy is actually the location of the Yellow Crane Tower in later generations. When the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was built later, the original Yellow Crane Tower occupied, and the Yellow Crane Tower in later generations was moved to the Snake Mountain.

Now this position has been occupied by Zhou Mengchen first.

After Zhou Mengchen opened the academy, many disciples naturally came to join. Within a few years, Huanghelou Academy had a great feeling of coming from behind, surpassing Datong Academy, Hukou Academy, Liuyi Academy, and other academies to become the best in the world.

Almost occupied the entire Snake Mountain. Zhang Juzheng also named Huanghelou Academy.

This time, even if my children and grandchildren are pushing a wheelchair, I will come here.

Why didn’t Zhou Mengchen see this for the old brother?

There is no need to say anything about a greeting.

Zhang Juzheng changed his voice and said, "I saw you today and I am ready to leave."

Zhou Mengchen said, "You can leave no matter how you say it. Don't talk about your body. Just talk about you and me at this age, you will have less time when you meet and don't leave much."

Zhang Juzheng said, "I don't want to see someone. I heard that he has come secretly."
Chapter completed!