Chapter 183 Records of Emperor Shengzong of the Ming Dynasty

The tenth day of the first month of the twentieth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Emperor Zhang Xian was loyal to Chengdu, and the rest of his corpse was revealed, and his party Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu all surrendered.

Twenty-eighth.

The army of the king of Yanping entered Chengdu.

Zhang Wei's henchman Sun Kewang ran from Liangshan to Xuanhan to the north to enter Hanzhong, and was punished by Ma Weixing, who surrendered with his troops.

Shuping.

On the same day, Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Fujian and Guangdong, reported that the Dutch had withdrawn from Taiwan.

The Taiwan government was established to belong to the Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

February 15.

The emperor led a large army out of Xuzhou.

First, Wang Lang Tusi Sha Dingzhou took advantage of the court's troubles and had no time to take care of it, married the famous widow Wan Shi, and took the Lin'an Shengren Tang guest (Wan's brother-in-law) as the mastermind, and broke through Kunming to chase the Guizhou Duke Mu Tianbo, Mu Tianbo fled to Chuxiong, Sha Dingzhou stole Kunming, so that he sent troops to refuse the holy drive, the battle of Zhaotong, Sha Dingzhou was punished by heaven, the rebel army was afraid of the Holy Wei Xi surrendered, the emperor entered Kunming, Mu Tianbo came to the dynasty from Chuxiong, the emperor thought that Mu Tianbo could not defend the land responsibility, abolished his position and cut the knight for the Marquis of Huaiyuan.

Dianping.

May 7.

The emperor went out of Kunming.

Twenty-seventh.

Emperor to Guiyang, summoned all over the land, Han officials, to extravagant worship the Ming precepts, and asked the ancestor to give the land melon, corn and other seeds, all the Tusi are afraid of the Xian call Shengming, the emperor Yuezhi, then issued an order since then there is no distinction between the Tu and Han, the local people are the emperor's people, the officials around the country are not forbidden to live in the mountains, there are those who want to settle in the plains according to the Han people's rules to divide their imperial fields, if the fields in Guizhou are insufficient, they can be moved to Huguang, Sichuan, and even the Central Plains, all over the Tusi have knights, so the local people are weeping to praise the grace of the saint.

August 10.

The emperor came out of Guiyang.

September 10th.

Emperor to Guilin.

King Gui and Guangxi Tu, Han officials greeted Guilin, on the same day, Guangling King Wu Sangui to Kexi Juanjie, the puppet emperor Li Guo hanged himself, Liu Zongmin was killed by his generals, and the rest of the people surrendered.

Guanzhong Xiping.

The emperor rewarded the merit of Pingguanzhong and the king of Guangling on the pillar country, sealed the Taishi, increased its fief of 10,000 acres, and took the prince of Guangling Wu Yingxiong Shang Jianning princess, Princess Jianning, the adopted daughter of the emperor, and made the thief in Guanzhong for the longest time, the people were hungry, and ordered to exempt Guanzhong from paying taxes for three years.

October 5th.

The emperor should return to the sky.

October 6th.

Shangzhu State, Taishi, Guangling King Wu Sangui Yike Taiyuan Songjie, Jiang Huang brothers were all killed by the generals.

Shanxi Ping.

The emperor increased the fiefdom of the king of Guangling with the merit of Pingshanxi 10,000 acres, and the following people of Jin merchant Fan Yongdou, since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he was not only a member of the Jiannu party, disregarding the law and discipline of the imperial court, betraying the country for profit, but also for Dolgon to make Jiang Hao and others surrender to Jiannu, and lead Jiannu into the customs, and then attached to the rebellion to resist the king's master, so he punished the Fan family and other eight families. And ordered to set up a separate traitor record to record Kong Yanzhi, Feng Quan, Chen Mingxia, Fan Yongdou and other people to warn future generations, and set up a second minister record to record Qian Qianyi, Xiong Wenju and other people to police as disloyal people, and ordered to cast a statue of Hou Sui's father and son in the copper tile box to punish the traitor.

The fifth day of the first month of the twenty-first year of Chongzhen.

The emperor decreed that the military system should be changed.

With the Dangkou Army as the Ming Army, and according to the system of the six armies of the Son of Heaven, the Ming Army was set up to six armies, each army had four infantry towns, each town had four infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade and one artillery brigade, and the army set up heavy artillery brigades, engineer brigades, and heavy cavalry brigades totaling 100,000 officers and soldiers. In addition, the Ming Navy was set up, divided into the North and South Ocean Fleets and the Coastal Defense Town, with Jiangning Marquis Zhang Mingzhen as the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, Zheng Hongkui as the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, and set up the Nanyang Propaganda Envoy Yu Yazhou, with Zheng Hongkui and the Nanyang Propaganda Envoy, led Zheng He and other 20 warships to the Nanyang to comfort the countries.

Destroy the other armies.

The Northwest Economic Strategy was initially established.

With Xuanda Governor Huai'an Hou blocking Yinxi as the Northwest Economic Envoy, stationed in Lanzhou, banning the Western Domain Xie Religion, those who have faith Yi Jiu, and the First Army of the Army belongs to the Northwest Economic Strategy.

Set up the Northeast Economic Strategy.

With Kaiping Marquis Chen Zhong as the Northeast Economic Envoy, stationed in Liaoyang, the Second Army of the Army was the Northeast Economic Envoy, in order to pursue and suppress the remnants of Jiannu and pacify the Mongolian and Sauron departments.

Set up a southwest economic envoy.

With Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, as the southwest economic envoy and stationed in Kunming, the Third Army of the Army was the southwest economic envoy to crusade against Burma and recover the Tusi land in northern Burma.

And set up the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyu Mission.

With Chongming Bo Shen Tingyang as the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyus Propaganda Envoy, stationed in the town of Dongfu, both the original Wa people called Tanegashima, Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu all belong to it, and the Wa people called Hokkaido is not its old land, but the Mao people live, together with the imperial court, the establishment of Anyuan Zhili Prefecture, the Wa Satsuma Domain Lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa refused to admit guilt, Zhao Wa and the Ryukyu Consolation Envoy continued the crusade, and added a town of marines stationed in the town of Dongfu to take charge of its affairs.

October 1, 21st year of Chongzhen.

The Northeast Economic Strategy made Kaiping Marquis Chen Zhong to report to the puppet Qing Xingjing, the puppet emperor Haoge hanged himself, captured 60,000 men and women of the Eight Banners, and built the state of Ping, but there are still remnants of the stolen from all over Korea.

Edict it to pursue, and eliminate the evil.

And the king of Korea contained the rebel party, and did not enter the court for a long time, the king of Joseon confessed, and the emperor pardoned him, but he had no way to govern the country, transferred the king of Runan County, and gave the prince the crown, and received the Korean land with the Han River as the boundary, and divided Le Lang Cheng to announce the political envoy and Yong Soon Cheng to announce the political envoy.

The Korean rebels did not want to be attached, so they robbed the king of Runan in Seoul, and divided his troops to defend various places to resist the king's division.

Zhaojiang Ninghou asked for it with the navy.

November 4th.

The Marquis of Jiangning led the second town of the Marine Corps to land at Incheon, and on the 5th broke through Seoul, captured the rebels and rescued the king of Runan.

North Korean Pyong.

September 6, 22nd year of Chongzhen.

The northwest meridian slightly made the plug Yin tin to report to Ningxia and the Hexi Corridor all over Xiping, please go out of the Yumen Pass to pass through the Tianshan Mountain.

Exactly.

Eight days.

Nanyang consolation envoy Zheng Hongkui reported that he would build a city at Longya Gate to town Nanyang.

Exactly.

Twelveth.

The Japanese and Ryukyu proclamations made Shen Tingyang report Kagoshima, Shimazu Mitsuhisa seppuku, and the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Wakoku Tokugawa Shogunate Tokugawa Iemitsu was afraid of the power of the heavens, sent an envoy to sue for peace, and paid tribute. The edict took Tokugawa Iemitsu as the king of the Japanese Dynasty, allowed him to sue for peace, and ordered him to open the ports to the ships of the Celestial Empire, pay an annual tribute of 200,000 taels of silver, and merge Kagoshima and Shimazu Mitsuhisa into the Zhendong Prefecture.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the twenty-third year of Chongzhen.

The Ministry of Industry reported that the steel output of the Ming Dynasty in the 22nd year of Chongzhen exceeded 30,000 catties, and the emperor was very happy, and the statue of the iron and steel craftsman was erected in front of the imperial tomb.

It is the year of the world's great determination, the measurement and distribution of fields in various places is completed, the immortal seeds are all over the prefectures and counties, the emperors and the emperor are also established, the four seas are leveled, the price of rice is to 200 Wen, and the people are prosperous.

Prince Li.

The eighth son of the emperor, Zhu Ciye, was appointed as the crown prince.

And set up the prince's biological mother Xiufei as the queen, with Concubine Jing as the imperial concubine, abolished the prince as the king of Han and took the domain, and took Hancheng as the fief of the king of Han.

June 7.

Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, captured his king Ping Dali with Kedong.

Burmese Ping.

The king of Siam also entered the court to thank the grace of God, and the emperor first knew about the crime of the Taungoo troubles the nations, so he decreed that before the king of Siam and the kings of the lands, Pingdari Shi Ling Chi would be executed to calm the hearts of the nations.

October 20th.

At the request of Mo Jingyao, the emperor of Annan, he issued an order to crusade against Annan, and with Li Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of the eleventh town of the army, he was crowned the commander of Nan Nan and promoted to the command of the fifth army of the army, and was the strategic envoy of Annan.

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February 8, the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen.

The Dutch captured the southern part of the town.

First of all, Nanyang Xuanfu made An Pingbo Zheng Hongkui build the south city of Zhenzhen in Longya Gate, his city controlled the strait, and Huayi merchants relied on it, all of which did not go to the Dutch Malacca City, so the Dutch were sick and shelled it with warships, repelled by the defenders, and sank three of their ships.

The emperor was furious when he heard this, and issued an order to crusade.

An Pingbo Zheng Hongkui went south with 50 warships, the fleet of the Dutch East India Company fought against the island of Ambuna, defeated, sank 26 of its warships, the Dutch fled to Java, An Pingbo pursued to Batavia, destroyed its city with naval artillery, because the natives helped the Dutch because the emperor forbade his teaching, An Pingbo failed to land. The emperor then ordered the Nanyang Economic Strategy to be set up in Zhennan, and Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, as the strategic envoy, with the four towns of the Marine Corps all belonging, and conquered Siam, Cambodia, Burma and other vassal soldiers, and the garrisons of Zhao'an and Champa provinces as their backup, and made a large-scale crusade against the Nanyang Islands.

English emissaries pay tribute.

The English envoy said that his country and the Netherlands were at war at Tessie, and asked for warships to help the war.

Emperor Jiazhi gave him the king's seal.

In the same year, the construction of the Beijing-Shanhaiguan railway began, and the trial production of steam locomotives was completed.

Wang Qiuxian, a professor at Suncheon University, has a new method of casting cannons, which can cast cannons with iron and make rifling in the bore, so that the range of cannonballs is twice that of the old copper cannons.

Emperor Yue, give the baron.

And set up the Daming Academy of Sciences, with academicians as the positive five products, so that the trend of opening up the people to offer new technologies, in the past few years, those who are proficient in science have made progress with new inventions, and the people are also proud of their strange skills, and the patents are the way to wealth and nobility, such as steam engine ships, converter steelmaking, steam lathes, etc.

In the same year, the Golden State Company collected 115 catties of dog's head gold in the Golden State Colony.

Emperor Yuezhi, under the decree to cast the Ming ingots gold coin weighs one or two, so that the Ming coin gold, silver and copper parallel, and to the holy decree customized, with a large Ming ingot gold coin worth fifteen Ming heavy treasure silver coin worth one hundred and fifty Ming Tongbao copper coins, a large Ming heavy treasure silver coin as a treasure banknote consistently, a large Ming Tongbao copper coin as a treasure banknote one yuan, under which there is another corner of the treasure banknote, but a yuan copper coin weighs half a catty, the folk are inconvenient, the actual throughput is dedicated to the circulation of treasure money, through the above treasure banknote also occupies the mainstream, and even in the Fanbang, the four Yi are proud of holding the treasure banknote,.

In the same year, the emperor banned private banks and allowed merchants to open banks in subject countries to facilitate the exchange of treasure money among the people of the subject countries.

Only the People's Bank of China has the right to issue notes.

In the same year, the Ming Navy Beiyang Fleet battleship Dingyuan and Zhenyuan returned from Yinzhou, the fleet commander Qiu Hui was awarded the baron with merit, according to his words, the people of Yinzhou were born, forgot the Chinese etiquette, did not know the text, did not know the books, slaughtered like livestock for the people of Taixi, and killed tens of millions. The emperor was very merciful, and thought that he was a descendant of the Yin people, the remnants of China, and a lonely foreign land, and the court could not sit idly by, so he ordered to set up the Yinzhou Propaganda Envoy and build a city in its place to protect it, with its chief as an official, and sent a full school of Confucianism to educate it.

July 5, 28th year of Chongzhen.

King of Yanping played Java.

Zhao Yanping Wang returned to Beijing, and Chen Yonghua was sent to Zhaonan to make the islands of Zhaonan through Zhaonan, and those who did not respect the Heavenly Dynasty were all discussed, and did not hide the residual poison of Xie Sect.

Later, the Dutch sent tribute to sue for peace.

The emperor approved it and compensated him with 10 million yuan for military expenses.

In the same year, a trial production of a steamship was completed.

This ship uses both sails, two wheels side by side, with a steam engine to drive the two wheels to rotate, dial the water forward, even if there is no wind can also sail, the emperor is very pleased, and ordered to build this ship.

April 5, 30th year of Chongzhen.

The emperor killed the Ming merchants with the Luzon Spaniards and issued a crusade.

October 4th.

The king of Yanping played the city of Kemanila, which was in service, and the steam paddle wheel battleship Zhuyuan sank four enemy ships with a new 50-pound rifled cannon, and the enemy exclaimed that the Ming Dynasty was invincible, so that he was afraid to fight again.

Zhaojin Wang Qiu Viscount.

November 10, 34th year of Chongzhen.

The Shanhaiguan Railway was opened to traffic.

The emperor boarded the train at the Zhengyangmen Railway Station, and in the afternoon he arrived at Shanhaiguan and climbed the Chenghai Tower to watch the sea, and Zhang Mingzhen, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, lined up with 30 warships to be paraded at sea, and saluted with a salvo of 100 new 50-pound rifled naval guns.

When the snow was at the beginning, the emperor made Qinyuan spring words.

And said that when the city of Beijing was broken, the soul had returned to the heavenly realm, Taizu asked Fu Shaozi to calculate, knowing that then Wu Sangui, the king of Guangling, was angry at the rebellion and forced the holy car to death, and he was eager for revenge, and did not hesitate to borrow the slave soldiers to enter the customs, resulting in the fall of the Central Plains, and Huaxia was trampled by the Tartars again, so he played the emperor of tomorrow, in order to protect the orthodoxy of Yan Huang, and specially sent the soul back to life, and gave divine power to save the country. Today's decision has been made, the four Yi are subdued, the land of the Ming Dynasty is north and the North Pole, the south and the South Pole, from Yinzhou in the east, to the river in the west, even if the Han and Tang dynasties are not as good as this, although there are Taixi countries and Ottomans, Mughal and other countries have not yet been served, but this is the responsibility of future generations!

And Taizu has already called, he should not be moved to the world, and when the imperial tomb is completed, he will return to the heavenly realm one day.

When all the ministers heard this, they all wept bitterly.

The first day of the first month of the thirty-fifth year of Chongzhen.

The imperial biography is located in the crown prince.

The emperor changed the yuan to the successive monarchs who ascended the throne, making the chronological records cumbersome, so he ordered that the era of the Yellow Emperor be used as the criterion, and the written official documents should be based on the era of the Yellow Emperor first, and the monarch's era name in the back.

As a result, the emperor was called the Emperor Taishang, and he was responsible for supervising the construction of the imperial mausoleum.

October 1.

Imperial Tomb Cheng.

Emperor Taishang burned incense and bathed, resigned the emperor and the clan, civil and military officials, and sent off more than 4 million people to enter the mausoleum alone, and cut off the door of the underground palace.

An hour later, the sky and the earth change color, there is no cloud and see countless electric light like a dragon, gathered in the mausoleum, the thunder around the strange sound continues, the ground is moving, everyone is shocked and worshipped, suddenly the fairy land appears in the clear sky, it can be seen that the fairy palace is brilliant, standing like a forest, in the meantime there are immortals riding strange beasts and walking, the gate of heaven is opened in an instant, the shape is like a whirlpool of light, a golden light shoots out of the top of the mausoleum and haunts the gate of heaven, everyone knows that the emperor has left the world, all cry bitterly and even stiffen on the ground.

The end of the Ming Dynasty.