I, Jiajing, Am a Wise King

Jiajing is really difficult to write about. The ability of Machiavellianism to reach the pinnacle of ancient emperors. If the author fails to reach the peak of Machiavellianism in Jiajing, he can only weaken the direction of Machiavellianism and write in favor of social development. In this way, Jiajing's influence in the political direction can be weakened and readers can focus on social development.

None of the auxiliary ministers were worried about the difficulty of the ceiling, and there was a queen mother in the harem. He himself is a vassal king and an emperor. He has no strong teammates and most importantly, no military power. The chief minister and a group of civil servants are fighting for your power, which is very difficult. No one who traveled through the Ming Dynasty became emperor. Every place is different. Do you know the contradictions in every place? Sitting in the Forbidden City every day, not understanding anything about the people's livelihood. Even if the government decrees you issue are good, they will change when you get down to it. Who can tell clearly whether the historical people are humans or ghosts? There are too many people whose history has been whitewashed or who have taken the blame.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, having more sons was the most important thing 😏

Travelers simply cannot afford to play the political games of the Jiajing Dynasty. For decades, the Jiajing Dynasty was basically insulated from travellers. There are countless authors who have beaten the streets. All the dozens of books on my bookshelf are eunuchs. The author of this book must also be a eunuch...

Jiajing was a wise king from the beginning. . . Rely on the great etiquette dispute to directly kill Yang Tinghe and regain the power of the cabinet. . Also Zhang Cong's reform (the whip method originated from here). . But if you win the first half and lose the second half - You work hard in the front court, but others will punish you in the harem. . After Zhengde's mother killed her husband and son, she lived in the harem for another twenty years. . The queen is not of the same mind, even if several queens are abolished. The sons died one by one, leaving only two who were in poor health. . In the end, he could only give in and "the two dragons don't want to see each other" and gave up the right to raise and educate his son, which was equivalent to giving the power of the next emperor to the literati. The harem caught fire again and again and was burned several times. In the end, the palace maid personally strangled her neck and warned her⚠️. She had no choice but to give in. . In the later period, he only stayed in the palace and indulged in foreign affairs. . I lie down and cultivate immortality. What do the Japanese pirates and Tatars outside have to do with me? 🤐🤐🤐

Your writing style, accumulation of information, and good writing are amazing. The historical subject matter is too complicated.

Ming Dynasty novels are now full of civil servant conspiracy theories and eunuch salvation theories. If you have no idea, you can only look for the best works in the late Tang Dynasty. Even the rise of novels in the Southern and Northern Dynasties is also due to this reason.

When writing about Jiajing, you can consider the fantasy of cultivating immortals. It is difficult to write about pure historical intrigue.

It is recommended to read the history of the Ming Dynasty told by Qianhu at Station B, "Specialized in Solving Difficulties and Miscellaneous Diseases of the Ming Dynasty", which is based on the actual records of the Ming Dynasty and is explained in parallel with the national debate.

It was steady at first and the writing was pretty good, but when it came time to make her mother the queen mother, everything went haywire. The country had little money and corrupt officials were rampant. An entire army was mobilized to impose a maritime ban. Within two days, foreign enemies invaded. In a few days, another official and gentry were brought together to receive food. It would be strange if the world were not in chaos

Seeing that the time traveler wants to conquer in person, well, he still wants to hide his name

Jiajing itself is considered a Mingjun (the temple name of Sejong and the posthumous title of Su are both very good)

Zhu Houcong is really fucking awesome🐶"Crossing the river and burning the bridge"

Traveling to Jiajing, first use the great etiquette to get the power of the government, and then find a way to reform the Beijing camp. With military power in hand, it will be easier to handle. Some civil servants who are dissatisfied will be killed, and some clans with a bad reputation will be killed.

I saw Chapter 29, the action was too violent😮, I can't bear to watch it

Bore blasting was a global problem at the time, especially in Europe, where the metallurgical industry was immature. The gun blasting rate was actually very high, and it also caused serious accidents. In 1574, the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands ordered 300 cast iron cannons from the Liege Cannon Foundry. However, due to the lack of casting iron technical support, although these iron cannons were delivered on time, after testing, all of them exploded and no one was spared. Wathier Godefrin, the director of the cannon foundry and the cannon caster, was also arrested and imprisoned because of the failure of the cannon casting. Source Colin J. M. Martin—"Full fathom five wrecks of the Spanish Armada" The cast iron cannon artifacts from three periods, including the Inmarill Rose that sank in 1545; Gustav's leather cannon, and the Batavia that sank in the Netherlands in 1629, all have obvious traces of splicing. Most of the extant European wrought iron cannons from the late Ming Dynasty have barrels that are level with the barrel, and traces of gaps in the iron bars are clearly visible. This is irrefutable evidence that can be found online. European wrought iron cannons even mentioned in their own documents that they could not be loaded with high-pressure granular gunpowder, and they often exploded and the real King of Scotland was killed on the spot. The ratio of saltpetre to carbon to sulfur was 7.5:1.5:1 In the nineteenth century and 5:1:1 in the sixteenth century. Additionally, powder made in France and Italy at least up to the end of the sixteenth century was not grained.'' Morin "Morphology" Powdered gunpowder burns slowly and produces a lower chamber pressure. The energy of granular gunpowder is 1.5 Times that of powdered gunpowder, and the burning rate is 3 times that of powdered gunpowder. , As a result, Western European wrought iron cannons only used low chamber pressure powder gunpowder, and the chambers repeatedly exploded. It was still possible to replace them with granular gunpowder. During the British expedition to Cadiz in Spain in November 1625, due to the greed and embezzlement of military contractors, and the lack of management experience of state officials, who knew nothing about military logistics support, the British expedition not only lacked food and clothing, but also used shabby weapons. There were even many matchlocks that did not even have fire holes, so they could not be fired at all. The country invested a lot of money, but there were too many moths, which ultimately led to the failure of the war. During the Battle of Oudenaarde on July 31, 1667, 600 French heavy matchlock guns exploded on the battlefield in one day (Source: "Un probl ème opé rationnel du "the prac tife of a rtillerie" In 1621, Spain cast 150 new bronze cannons within two years. Due to the poor skill of the gunsmiths, these cannons were not cast well. Among them, 20 of 36 cannons were damaged when they were tested for the first shot. Although the British cast iron cannons in the 17th century had a temporary monopoly in Europe, unfortunately it was only in the early 17th century that there were records of the British adding limestone to blast furnace smelting, and it was not until the fall of the Ming Dynasty that they began to use coke for smelting. Fortunately, the British's high-quality low-sulfur and low-phosphorus iron ore helped them a lot. Otherwise, with their metallurgical technology, the iron cannons cast would not be much better than those of Spain. European science and technology has also developed step by step. Some people think that Europe has been advanced for three to five hundred years or even more because of its advanced technology in modern times. How is it possible? Real life is not like a video game where clicking "upgrade" instantly improves across the ages.

The mathematical basis of external ballistics is Newton's three laws and the law of universal gravitation, first published in 1687. Otherwise, there is no way to calculate ammunition at all. In other words, before Newton's three laws, only empirical formulas could be used for gunfire. The "New Science" published by Tartaglia in 1537 was actually Tartaglia's public advertisement for job hunting. However, his work was kicked out of the textbook in 1590 because it was not accurate enough. ("New Science" laid the foundation of modern ballistics, but the book "New Science" believed that the cannonballs would fall vertically at the highest point. It made me laugh to death😃😃😃hahaha) Tartalia claimed that he had never fired a cannon. The book "New Science" had nothing to do with artillery at the beginning, but it was later practiced by Spanish people in large numbers In fact, it was written by Western ballistics has always been relatively slow to respond to mathematics and physics research. Artillery production and use systems are often inconsistent (for example, the British artillery during the Peninsular War once pulled out a bunch of Spanish Harborg-era cannons for supplementary purposes). The projectiles of muzzle-loading guns often use shrinking bullets, and the people who teach mathematics may not know how to shoot artillery. European artillery-related mathematics education can only cultivate intuition to a large extent (this was even the case in the 20th century. The preface to the US military-related textbooks in the 20th century also emphasized that practitioners who introduced the use of artillery were more capable of training and practicing artillery officers than mathematics professors. Benefits), many of those equipment are simply money-making gadgets - Galileo started to engage in ballistics back then just to promote his own equipment, but if you really plan to use these things that may even be based on Aristotelian mechanics to defeat the enemy, then you can only say good luck. The accurate hit range of traditional general artillery and Western artillery in the Ming Dynasty was actually the same "two hundred steps", and the Ming army had better conditions to spend money on target training. At the same time, those European mercenaries even skipped musket shooting because the economy and wages could not support it: (frontier fortress in the Jiajing period) and could see beyond the trenches. The terrain is vast. If you encounter a large enemy approaching the border and the officers and soldiers unexpectedly fire their weapons and crossbows from far and near, you should consider placing them outside the wall of the enemy's tower. This method is suitable and a mound of six to seven feet should be erected about two hundred paces above the suspected thief. If the thieves come to this pile, use the extremely distant divine cannon to attack. Invincible gunslinger. Use the cannon tip to point out the machine and other weapons to attack it. It's about a hundred and fifty steps up. Another mound of soil five or six feet tall was erected. Like thieves here. Then use weapons such as the Sub-far Divine Spear, the Erlang Machine Seven-Eyed Gun, etc. To attack them. About a hundred steps further. Then set up a mound four to five feet tall. Like thieves here. Then use the long-range arm, crossbow, arrow, rocket, three-eyed gun, Fran machine and other weapons to attack them at the same time. Then every shot will hit the target. No one is safe from harm. You will see thieves running and hiding. Don't dare to spy on my frontier. The 1849 "Supplementary Readings and Records" believes that the range of the open artillery and the foreign artillery in the Opium War are the same, two hundred paces: there is also a test target, the close one can only be one hundred lunges, counting fifty feet; the far one is two hundred lunges, counting one hundred feet; further away, it is vague and subtle, and the inspection is unreal. This is consistent with what Chen said, exactly. The most effective way to use early artillery is to put it close and aim directly😄

The purpose of the so-called "sea ban" in ancient times was to restrict and eliminate rebel forces, combat piracy and smuggling, and ensure social stability. The "sea ban" was promulgated only when there were Japanese pirates😳 Instead of "sea ban" first before the Japanese pirates appeared. Don't reverse the cause and effect relationship😠Sea ban and seclusion are two different things😒The direct cause of the Japanese rebellion was the civil strife in Japan. In order to make a living and seek wealth, the feudal lords, samurai and ronin who failed in the war organized into armed gangs and went to China's coastal areas with pirate merchants to carry out armed smuggling and robbery and other criminal acts Ming Dynasty literature is actually quite strict about nouns. Pirates, sea pirates, Japanese pirates and Japanese slaves all refer to completely different groups. Japanese pirates are divided into slave thieves and sub-thieves. The Ming Dynasty called these people differently. If they were pirate merchants, they were called pirates. If they are Japanese, they are called Japanese pirates. There is a clear distinction. For example, the Ming Dynasty court and the local chronicles of Zhejiang Province distinguished between Japanese pirates and pirate merchants who colluded with Japanese pirates. Wang Zhi was the largest pirate merchant on the southeast coast at that time. He raised a large number of Japanese pirates to cause trouble, but the record about him clearly stated that he was a pirate merchant, while the Japanese he raised were recorded as Japanese pirates. They have never been mixed together The Japanese can be divided into two types. One is the pirate group headed by Wang Zhi who has inextricable interests with the Japanese pirates. The other is the pirate group whose wives and children were held hostage by the Japanese pirates and forced to attack the town The Japanese pirates are the Japanese pirates as described in Jixiao's new book Military Training Records. The Japanese pirates are Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates were forced to be classified as the rescued people, while the pirate groups were classified as rebels. They were not confused with each other The main force, logistics, bases, and stolen goods sales channels of the Japanese pirates were all provided by Japan. And the disappearance of the coastal Japanese pirates had a great relationship with the changes in Japan. Since the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, the Warring States Period in Japan ended, and vassal states from all over the country gathered troops into the treasury. Ma Fang Nanshan Soon after, the Tokugawa shogunate issued a lock-down order. Japanese citizens were not allowed to run around. They stayed at home, men farmed and women weaved, and the economy was restored. Then look at historical data. Starting from 1603, the Japanese rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty began to slowly decrease. The last Japanese pirates seen in history books invaded the coast of Fujian in July of the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624). From 1633 to 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate issued five consecutive lock-down orders. The Japanese pirates are completely extinct The direct cause of the Japanese pirate rebellion is the civil strife in Japan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Japan split into the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and wars between the two sides continued. In order to make a living and seek wealth, the feudal lords, samurai and ronin who failed in the war organized into armed gangs 🙄 and went to the coastal areas of China with pirate merchants to carry out armed smuggling and robbery and other criminal acts. Because the main force came from Japan, This was called Japanese pirates at that time Japanese ancient name) Japanese pirates (bandits or foreign invaders) Japanese pirates refer to Japanese people. Chinese people who want to be Japanese pirates must have Japanese household registration. The Japanese pirates were composed of Japanese warriors, Japanese pirates, and Japanese merchants😣 Sea ban began in the Song Dynasty😲 The "Benji of Taizong" in "Song History" records that in September of the second year of Yongxi (985), Zhao Guangyi "banned sea merchants". According to the "History of the Song Dynasty·Shi Huo Zhi", Zhao Guangyi was in the early years of Taiping and Xingguo (985). 76 Years) stipulates that those who trade privately with overseas countries will be sentenced to a crime of more than 100 yuan, and those who have more than 15 coins will have their faces tattooed and be exiled to an island. This means that Zhao Guangyi not only completely banned overseas trade, but also completely banned land trade with foreign countries. He did not do it on a whim, but implemented it as a long-term national policy. In the fifth year of Chunhua (994), the ban was specifically reiterated, and the punishment laws were also very harsh. It was a crime to have more than 100 guan, and if the amount exceeded 15 guan, one would be tattooed on the face and sent to an island. Later, it was stipulated that those with more than 4 guan would be sentenced to one year in prison, and 20 guan would be sentenced to local service with tattoos on the face. The "History of Song Dynasty: The Benji of Emperor Gaozong" records that in the seventh month of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), he "banned shipping merchants from Fujian, Guangzhou, Huaihe and Zhejiang to Shandong, and was considered to be the guide of Jinren Township". Not only that, he also issued an edict in August of the second year of Shaoxing (1132) to confiscate the ships of the coastal people and replace them every year to guard the dangerous sea lanes. In essence, it was not much different from the sea ban. According to the "History of the Song Dynasty·Shi Huo Zhi", Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty established a market in the twelfth year of Shaoxing (1142), so he took wax tea as the basis of the market. All the crotch, cut, piece and collar, regardless of how high or low they were, were scrutinized by the officials, and smuggling into the sea was strictly prohibited." That is to say, the overseas trade of wax tea was prohibited.

In the late Hongwu period, except for a few large-scale military commanders such as Jin, Yan, and Shu who maintained 10,000 shi, the rest of the Qi vassalage reduced it to 1,000 shi, and the Suqing Dynasty and Liao Dynasty reduced it to 500 shi. For example, the princes and princes were reduced by half. Later, it was often changed according to the actual situation 🙂🙂🙂 The royal family salary in the Ming Dynasty was cut many times. In the 14th year of Hongzhi: "Below the prince, the lumi is worth half and half of the rice, and the princess is paying 4 cents of the original lumi and 6 cents of the money." During the Jiajing period, after realizing the problem of the clan, the "Zongfan Regulations" were promulgated. The introduction of this regulation can be said to make the treatment of the clan population look good on the surface, but in fact it is the opposite: The whole order was lost, which was less than half of the rice. How could it be that all the officials, salaries, and military salaries were not included in it? ... The lower authorities reviewed it, and in the 44th year of the reign of Emperor Zongzong, the regulations of Zonghuan were established. The banknotes were divided into eight points, and the principals of counties, counties, townships, and guests of honor were reduced to eight points. Many of them were cut off, so the kings also reported their annual salary, ranging from 500 dan to 2,000 dan. The annual income was slightly relieved. " Most public accounts will say that the royal salary of the Ming Dynasty was not enough to use the "food from two provinces", but they all directly ignored the following records, whether intentionally or unintentionally. The record is very clear. The regulations of the vassal stipulates that "the king and generals will get a seven-cent discount, the lieutenant will get a six-cent discount, and the county lord, the county and township monarch, and the honored guest will get an eight-cent discount." In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), a system was established. The age of royal family members was raised from ten to fifteen years old, and the prince's annual salary was reduced by 500-2,000 stone. Moreover, the royal family's treatment was sharply reduced, "three points of true value, seven points of discount." Therefore, when it was reduced to the prince's treatment, he could only receive 300 stone, which was actually a reduction of 70%. According to the records of "Xu Guangji - Disposal of Zonglu Check and Border Rates", in the early years of Longqing (1568), the total number of vassal people was 28,000. After deducting the prince, the payable salary was 8.32 Million shi, so the per capita salary was 297 shi, which is equivalent to the level of the county king, that is, 300 shi/person. Note that there is no word "ten thousand" after it. According to the vassal regulations of the 44th year of Jiajing, the county king Lumi actually received 20.24%, And the actual amount of Lumi was 832 × 20.24% = 1.6876 Million shi. Including the prince Lumi, the total was 1.8508 Million shi. 1.85 Million shi, equivalent to 7% of the Ming Dynasty's 26.608 Million shi rice and wheat income. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the salary of the vassal princes was delayed again and again. The saying that a province's finances could not support one family refers to the salary that should be paid. However, the actual salary was never paid, and it was taken out of context. Officials are one word, and local officials like to bully the clan most, so that the clan is more like Zhu Jincong begging to survive. Even after the Wanli crisis, when the Zonglu crisis was most serious, the Zonglu issued could only reach 6% to 8% of the annual income at most, and the Wanli Tianqi began to distribute fixed amounts. In contrast, in the late Qing Dynasty, the expenses of the Eight Banners and clan clans exceeded 20% of the annual income. This was not the case. Counting the money spent by Lafayette to build the garden😰😰 I don't know where the rumors came from, saying that the Ming Dynasty was ruined by the clan😢If he really had such good treatment, he wouldn't be like Zhu Zhicong on the streets begging, and the clan would seek refuge with Li Zicheng😜

Hongwu, 58 people Yongle, 127 people About 2,980 people from Zhengde 45,000 people are registered in Longqing, 28,000 actually exist 100,000 people are registered in Wanli More than three thousand, and the actual existence is more than 62,000 "Ming Shenzong Records" records that there were 157,000 people in 1595, and the actual existence is estimated to be only half, because most of the clans in the Ming Dynasty were so poor that they did not want to be clans at all [Some people who are over thirty are unmarried, exposed for ten years without being buried, begging in the market, working as servants, moving to other places, or dying of hunger on the road. Although they are called clan members, they are very poor people] The actual wealth earned by the clan depends on the local bureaucracy. If the local The bureaucrats said that they had no money (only they themselves know whether they really had it), and the clan's salary would be in arrears The clan could not leave the fiefdom, and the local area had no food surplus or financial difficulties and could only starve The King of Fortune during the Wanli Period? He almost became a prince And even the situation of King Fu Wang Lu, who lived a more luxurious life, is debatable Since Jiajing, the only connection between the so-called imperial village and the royal family is nothing more than paying a sum of silver to the royal family every year without having to pay additional taxes Huang Renyu also said in his research: [The permanent tenants of the imperial village are actually de facto tenants. Landowner] The so-called Wanli gave King Lu 4 million acres and King Fu 2 million acres. The fact is that these lands are not really there, but the corresponding provinces provide a corresponding sum of money every year The number of lands seems to be large, but in fact it represents only more than 40,000 taels, or more than 20,000 taels A medium-sized businessman in the Ming Dynasty made a business of Not only that What's more, King Fu may not be able to get enough money every year. [Every place tries their best to evade] [Obuta's soil exchange is less than 20,000 taels of silver every year] More clans are like Zhu Congjin, crying to the superiors that they are living in poverty, without food for several days, and even have to beg others for alms There are even many clans who want to escape Leave your household registration and make a living on your own Moreover [Zonglu failed to pass the examination, and the reason why the government showed leniency was because the officials paid off the people's debts and paid urgently to the capital, but Zonglu allowed him to return to the ruins] Ming Dynasty bureaucrats: Anyway, your clan's salary is not included in the assessment. Now that the border situation is urgent and the people are in poverty, your clan's money will be used to subsidize the border towns first! [Recently, some officials are eager to pass the exam in Beijing, so they delay the king's grain, or some send the king's grain to Beijing to make up for the exam] Ming Dynasty bureaucrats: Oops, we still have a vacancy in the exam here. What should we do? Why don't you use the money and food from your vassal kings and clans to make up the sum? Compared with other dynasties, what kind of unjust clan...

Improve firearms🙂