My life skills in Daming Liver

The explosion of the entire Wanggong Factory caused huge losses to the capital. Zhang Juzheng, the Prime Minister of Zhongshu, personally dispatched soldiers from the Beijing camp into the city to rescue the people near Wanggong Factory.

But the explosion was so violent that not only the entire Wanggong Factory was wiped out, but the surrounding residential buildings were also severely damaged.

However, gunpowder has become the most important military material of the Ming court. This explosion once again cast a shadow on the already precarious finances of the Ming court.

However, Jiubian's army was about to leave. If they could not get supplies of gunpowder, the troops entering North Korea trained by Zhang Juzheng would not even be able to fire muskets, and would have to use their muskets as rolling pins to hit people.

Therefore, after Zhang Juzheng went through five days of disaster relief, his first order was to rebuild the gunpowder workshop outside the city.

However, in the explosion at the Wanggong Factory, all management and technical staff of the Wanggong Factory, including Mr. Feng from the general office, died in the explosion. The road to rebuilding the gunpowder workshop was stumbling.

Relieving the surrounding victims also costs money.

Zhang Juzheng was so distressed that suddenly Feng Bao, the chief eunuch in charge of rituals, came to the Prime Minister Zhongshu's house and invited Zhang Juzheng to enter the palace to discuss matters.

Zhang Juzheng was a little confused. Since the death of the late emperor, although the queen mothers of the two palaces had nominal power, they basically did not interfere much in the government affairs.

All of this was a tacit political understanding that Zhang Juzhang had not easily reached.

Zhang Juzheng immediately cheered up. He guessed that the imperial power wanted to use the Wang Gongchang incident to launch an attack.

After entering the palace, Zhang Juzheng came to Cining Palace where Empress Dowager Li lived.

The curtains were lowered in Cining Palace, and Queen Mother Li's voice came from behind the curtains:

"Zhang Xiangguo, how is the situation in Wang Gongchang?"

Zhang Juzheng knew that he could not give the royal family a chance to intervene, so he said: "Please rest assured, Queen Mother, I have already arranged for Shuntian Mansion to provide disaster relief."

Empress Dowager Li added: "The Ai family heard that a section of the west city wall was collapsed by the earthquake. Prime Minister, it is related to the safety of the capital, so it must be repaired as soon as possible."

Zhang Juzheng finally understood why Empress Dowager Li summoned him.

She is indeed an ignorant woman. In this era, no matter how tall the city wall is, what's the use? I heard that the city walls in Nanjing are being demolished in the southeast.

With the power of firearms, a city wall as strong as Jiujiang can be conquered, let alone the city wall of the capital.

Moreover, if a city like the capital was to fall, it would definitely be someone from within who dedicated the city, and the fortresses were all breached from the inside.

However, Zhang Juzheng's ruling legitimacy came from imperial power, so he had to cheer up and said: "I will repair the city wall as soon as possible."

Empress Dowager Li said anxiously: "Xiangguo, this matter is related to the safety of the capital, but we must find some capable people to do it."

Zhang Juzheng was a little wary, and sure enough, Empress Dowager Li said: "Don't avoid relatives when promoting good people. My father and brother are very reliable in their work, and they have also done some construction work at home. Can we let the Ministry of Industry outsource it to them?"

Zhang Juzheng was a little annoyed. The late Emperor was poisoned to death by the red pills presented by these two guys! It had only been quiet for a few days, but Queen Mother Li wanted to use her natal family again!

It must be that after the explosion of Wang Gong Factory, the Li family and his son entered the palace again to bewitch the Queen Mother.

Zhang Juzheng hated the father and son, but the current situation was not good for him.

After the explosion of Wang Gong Factory, it was unknown how many courtiers wanted to attack him.

At this time, the royal family must not be pushed to the opposite side.

Zhang Juzheng still agreed to Empress Dowager Li's request and handed over the task of rebuilding the city wall to the Li family and his son.

Just when the Ming court was in chaos, Annan's situation also changed.

After Qi Jiguang occupied most of the land in Mo Dynasty, he stopped marching and began to secure the newly occupied land.

Gu Xiancheng led a group of officials selected from Guangxi to northern Annan and began to build the most basic political power.

Annan's political system was basically copied from the Central Plains, while the Mo Dynasty experienced several defeats and internal fighting in the palace, and the grassroots had long lost its ability to govern.

The officials led by Gu Xiancheng quickly established a system, suppressed the local powerful, and won the support of the people in northern Annan.

Moreover, northern Annan had a lot of exchanges with the Central Plains, and most people spoke Chinese, so they did not encounter much resistance.

The royal family of Bei Mo saw that the situation was over, and Bei Mo and Hou Li were at odds with each other. After weighing the pros and cons, the monarchs and ministers of Bei Mo finally chose to go west to Luchuan and defect to the separatist regime of Burma.

Beimo is easy to naturalize. In fact, throughout the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court has been fighting for control of northern Annan.

Whenever the Ming Dynasty became strong, it would influence or even control northern Annan, so there was not much local resistance to the southeast.

For example, twenty years ago, during the 19th year of Jiajing.

At the suggestion of Wang Wensheng, the governor of Yunnan at the time, Mu Chaofu, the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, led the Yunnan army. In addition, the Ming court recruited more than 125,000 officers and soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Huguang, and set up three outposts. , advancing from Pingxiang, Longdong and Silingzhou to Annan.

After agreeing on the deployment, Mu Chaofu stationed in Nanning and sent a message to the people of Mo Dynasty, declaring the crimes of Mo Dengyong and his son, the Supreme Emperor of Mo Dynasty, and urging them to surrender.

Mo Dengyong was so frightened that he personally went to Mu Chao's auxiliary army via Zhennanguan to ask for surrender.

Mu Chaofu promised to collect Mo Chao's map and household registration, and Feizhang reported the matter. Jiajing was overjoyed and changed the Annan Kingdom (Mo Dynasty) into the Annan Capital Commandery Division.

But later, Mu Chaofu died early, Jiajing was addicted to Taoism, and the Ming Dynasty also began to enter the Yan Song era of rule, and the border situation further deteriorated.

The Mo Dynasty once again broke away from the control of the Central Plains and became a separatist regime again.

So now that the southeast controls Mo Chao, it is nothing but a normal thing for the locals.

But the situation on Houli's side is different.

The territory occupied by Houli was the Jiaozhi area set up by the Central Plains in history, but this area had been separated from the Central Plains for a long time since the Song Dynasty.

Relying on the northern barrier, the central and southern areas of Annan have not been attacked by force from the Central Plains dynasty for a long time, and have begun to form their own national consciousness.

The biggest feature is that the people near Thang Long Province basically use the Vietnamese Kinh dialect, and the Ho Le official also supports the Chinese character variant Nom as a text, trying to replace the influence of Chinese characters in Annam.

This de-sinicization began in the Hu Dynasty in the early 15th century and has affected central and southern Annam for more than a hundred years.

Therefore, when facing Hou Li, Shen Yiguan wrote to Su Ze, suggesting using a different strategy from the one in the north.

The Nguyen family of Thanh Hoa had considerable influence in Hou Li, and Shen Guangyuan suggested that the southeast support the Nguyen family and build a team to oppose Zheng Jian, the powerful minister of Hou Li.

Relying on the reputation of the Ruan family, Shen Guanyi made use of his "connections" in Annan.

The climate in southern Annam is hotter, and because of the sugar trade with the southeast, a new class of landowners called "sugar planters" has emerged.

These sugar plantation owners are economically dependent on trade with the southeast. Almost all the sugar they produce is exported, so they have close relationships with merchants in the southeast.

But today, the southeast also has its own sugar industry practitioners. Many pioneers from Fujian and Guangdong crossed the sea to Danyuan Island or Qiongzhou Island to open up land and establish plantations. There are even some more pioneering businessmen. Go south to Nanyang to establish plantations.

As the saying goes, there is only naked hatred between peers.

The sugar cane planters in the southeast hate the sugar cane planters in Annan the most, because their share of the sugar trade is what the sugar planters in the southeast covet the most.

Therefore, before the Annan War, some constitutional representatives in the southeast proposed to increase the commercial tax on Annan cane sugar and even restrict the import of Annan cane sugar.

The sugar plantation owners in Annan also know very well that once they are levied a high commercial tax, the quality of their sugar will not be as good as the self-produced sugar in the southeast.

Annan plantation owners also know that in fact, the climate in Qiongzhou and Dayuan is also very suitable for growing sugar cane.

Nowadays, Annan is able to compete with the sugarcane plantation owners in the southeast mainly because of two advantages.

One is that sugar cane is still being introduced in Dayuan and Qiongzhou, and a large number of plantations are still being cultivated. However, for ordinary people, Dayuan and Qiongzhou are relatively barren and dangerous places, so the progress of development has not been fast and has not yet formed. Industrial scale.

Another reason is that Annan has a "moral advantage."

The need for slaves was prohibited in the Southeast, and even life-long tenant farmers were not allowed.

Even the southeastern people who went to Qiongzhou Island and Dayuan Island to explore had to register with the government. The plantation owners were not only responsible for the food, clothing, housing, transportation and safety of their employees, but also had to bear the high labor costs.

But Annan does not have these problems.

Annan was still in war, and some of the defeated were turned into slaves, bought by these plantation owners, and sent to work day and night in the sugar cane fields.

Such plantation owners would also hire some Annan warriors to use whips to urge the slaves to work on the plantation.

In addition to slaves, Annan also had a large number of bankrupt farmers. These farmers also signed lifetime employment contracts similar to sales contracts and worked in sugar cane fields all day long.

After Shen Yiguan negotiated with these business representatives, they decided to support the Thanh Hoa Nguyen family represented by Nguyen Huang and help him resist Zheng Jian.

In return, the Southeast Association established the "Annan Protectorate" throughout Annan after Hou Li was overthrown.

The Annan Protectorate can enjoy the current low-tariff policy, and Annan's cane sugar can flow freely into the southeast.

These southern sugarcane plantation owners supported Ruan Huang, and Ruan Huang immediately had money in his hands.

With this money, Ruan Huang purchased a large number of southeastern weapons from Shen Guanyi, and recruited a group of soldiers in the name of Qinghua's Ruan family.

In this way, Ruan Huang mobilized a force in an instant and started a tug of war with the Houli regime represented by Zheng Jian.

After talking about these things, Shen Yiguan took Chi Hongmo further south to Champa, further south of Annan.