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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 340: Loyal or Traitor

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.    Cooperation in many aspects is better than working alone.

    Ding Yunyi is always fighting and cooperating with others.  He has cooperated with Kentang Cheung, Zheng Zhilong, and the Thai people But these people are all his enemies

    In Ding Yunyi¡¯s view, as long as it can bring benefits to himself, he can cooperate with anyone no matter what kind of person he is.

    "Sir" At this time Yuemei came out and saluted Ding Yunyi: "Yuemei traveled a long distance and was slightly unwell. She fell asleep just now. Please forgive me."

    "Please sit down, you don't have to be so polite." Ding Yunyi asked Yue Mei to sit down: "There are not so many rules here, such as adults and villains Yuemei, I want to discuss something with you.  "

    As he spoke, he expressed his desire to become brothers and sisters with Yue Mei, but Yue Mei seemed a little hesitant: "My lord, it's not that Yue Mei is ungrateful. But my lord is a high official in the imperial court, and Yue Mei is just from a humble background.  Dare to compete with adults? If you spread the word, it will only make people laugh and insult your reputation. "

    Ding Yunyi disagreed: "My adopted sister Xiaotu was not as good as you back then. She was a disaster victim and almost starved to death. I also became brothers with her"

    "Sir, Xiaotu and I are different." Yuemei smiled slightly and said: "Although she is a disaster victim, she has a pure background. As your adopted sister, of course no one will say anything, but I am different. I  She was a singing and dancing girl from Prince Fu's palace, and she was treated as a commodity by Prince Fu. She was very dirty. I thought I would be able to settle down, but I didn't want my husband and the people in Changping Village to die, and it was unknown.  A dirty and unknown person like me cannot stay here. If you feel sorry for me, just give me a small room."

    Ding Yunyi and his women looked at each other with admiration in their hearts.  Although Yuemei was born in a pitiful life, she was unwilling to compromise for wealth.

    "That's it." Ding Yunyi sighed: "Lianyu. Tomorrow you will find a room for Yuemei in person and settle her down."

    "Yes, husband." Deng Lianyu responded respectfully.

    Li Xiangjun can be compared with Yue Mei along the way.  At this time, I couldn't help but said: "Sir, you are Uncle Wu Lie, have you seen the Jin Yiwei being so arrogant and domineering? King Fu killed innocent people indiscriminately. The Jin Yiwei massacred the village, sir, why don't you directly write to the court and read a book about King Fu and Jin Yiwei?  , also to eliminate harm to the world?"

    "Me? Going to visit King Fu and Jin Yiwei?" Ding Yunyi only thought it was funny. Although Li Xiangjun was chivalrous and courageous, he really didn't know what was going on in the court: "Who is King Fu? He was the man who almost became the emperor. The current emperor also responds to his requests.  . Someone once participated in King Fu, but what was the result? The one who lost his official position and the one who was beheaded was beheaded. Don¡¯t even think about it. The emperor¡¯s eyes and arms are like that. Could it be that the emperor is disabled?  alone?"

    Li Xiangjun was a little unconvinced: "Civil officials will die to remonstrate. Military generals will fight to the death. Are you afraid of losing your official position and beheading yourself?"

    "I'm scared, and I'm scared to death." Ding Yunyi's answer was unexpected: "There is only one Wu Liebo, and there is only one Fujian General Soldier. It would not be fun if he died. Let me tell you the truth. I have done the same in recent years.  I have done a lot of shameless things, but I have saved hundreds of thousands of people. If I really die like you said, what will happen to my subordinates? What will happen to so many people in Taiwan except me?  Who else can govern Taiwan like this?¡±

    Although these words were a bit arrogant, the women listened very carefully. Ding Yunyi sneered:

    "I have to live well. I only have one life. If you lose it, you can never get it back. I can't govern my two places, Taiwan and Penghu, if I leave them to Zhang Kentang, and I can't manage them if I leave them to Zheng Zhilong. My tiger guards only listen to  My, Taiwan only listens to me, even the pirates in the world only listen to me. Taiwan can be without anyone, but it can¡¯t be without me, Ding Yunyi! It sounds arrogant, right? Yes, I think so too, but  I am telling the truth. Countless victims will come to Taiwan in the future, and Taiwan will become stronger, so I have to live well. My life is very precious!"

    This is the first time even Han Xiaoxiao and the others have heard these words

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? off out  Among such choices, Ding Yunyi chose the latter without hesitation.

    He can be said to be the number one loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. He controlled pirates, took over Taiwan, fought against the golden captives, and defeated the rogue bandits. Everything he did was upright and upright, but he was also the number one treacherous minister of the Ming Dynasty.

    He can deceive the emperor and cheat, but as long as he thinks it is beneficial to him, he will not care about anything.  His only purpose is: how to survive for himself and Taiwan!

    It doesn¡¯t matter whether you are loyal or traitorous

    ? ?Hengbo's eyes showed admiration: "Sir, I have never heard anyone say these words before. After hearing them today, I finally know that many things are actually completely different from what we little girls thought. Your thoughts are also completely incomprehensible to us.  "My lord, what is the future of Ming Dynasty?"

    "The Ming Dynasty is very dangerous." Ding Yunyi opened his mouth and shocked everyone: "The Ming Dynasty will cause disasters When natural disasters come, they are the likes of which you have never seen. Just talk about a drought. You know how droughts can happen.  How miserable is it? Once a drought occurs, there will be no grass growing on the ground for thousands of miles. And the drought will inevitably cause a locust plague, and the disaster will spread to areas beyond the drought, and the green wheat crops thousands of miles away will be eaten up in a few days.  Ma Maocai wrote a memorial to the emperor during the incident, describing the terrible scene of the drought: "I am from Ansai County, Shaanxi Province. In the reports of local officials, it is often said that fathers abandoned their sons, husbands betrayed their wives, or dug up grass roots to devour them, or  Digging white rocks to satisfy hunger. However, the reality is more terrifying than what is described. From last year to this year, there has been no rain in my hometown, and the grass and trees are withered.  Counted as grain, it actually tastes like chaff, and eating it can only prevent death. In October, when the grass is gone, the bark can only be eaten. Among all the bark, the bark of the elm tree is the best.  Eating it mixed with other tree barks only slightly delays death. At the end of the year, the bark is eaten again, and the only way to eat is to dig up rocks from the mountains. The rocks are cold and hard, and they have a fishy taste. Only a little bit is enough.  . But after a few days, the stomach became bloated due to inability to go to the toilet, and some villagers who did not want to die by eating stones had to gather together to become robbers.  Their families were robbed, and they became hungry people. They knew that being a robber was illegal and they had to die, but instead of sitting and waiting to die, they would rather be a robber and be executed for breaking the law. Even if they were to be ghosts, they would rather die.  The most pitiful thing is that in the area west of Ansai City, one or two babies or young children will be abandoned there every day, crying for their parents and eating the feces on the ground until tomorrow.  Starved to death. What's even more terrifying is that young people or people traveling alone disappeared as soon as they left the city. Later, when they saw the poor people outside the city using human bones as firewood, they found out that the missing people were eaten by the hungry people.  . But people who eat human flesh cannot survive. In a few days, their heads will swell and their bodies will become hot and die'"

    Gu Hengbo, Liu Rushi and other women who were new to Taiwan almost fainted after hearing this.  They never dreamed of it.  There are such terrible things in the world.

    Han Xiaoxiao sighed: "I didn't believe it in the past. Taiwan also suffered from three years of drought, but it survived. Now that I think about it, it's all because of my husband. I remember that time when my husband brought a large number of disaster victims to Taiwan, we several  We took food to see the victims. They grabbed it and stuffed it into their mouths. They choked and rolled their eyes. They refused to listen to our advice to eat slower I asked them why, and they said,  It¡¯s exactly the same as what my husband said Just imagine, a person who hasn¡¯t seen a grain of rice for several months will see real food. It¡¯s completely beyond words.¡±

    "It's not a natural disaster, but what's even more terrifying is." Ding Yunyi's eyes were deep: "Those court officials are not thinking about how to revitalize our Ming Dynasty, but they are constantly fighting for power and profit. Wei Zhongxian is like this, the Donglin Party is like this, Wen Tiren is like this, Zhou Yan is like this  The same is true for Confucianism Everyone focuses on how to fight for power and completely forgets the obligations of a minister. In such a court, no matter how hard the emperor tries to govern, there is nothing he can do. "

    When he said this, he drank all the wine in the cup: "Fengyang is the land of Longxing. It has enjoyed many benefits for a long time. The taxes and levies are lighter than other areas. During the reign of Taizu, they were even exempted from taxes and levies. This is the ancestral home of the emperor.  , the situation should be better, but the situation became worse as time went by, and various additional levies had to be borne. At the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qian Shisheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, paid tribute to Fengyang Mausoleum and was quite concerned about the dilapidated situation of the place.  Feeling sad, he wrote a letter saying, "The land in Fengyang is desolate, the huts are in ruins, the hills and hills are wild, and the scenery is desolate I have taken my wife and burden and begged for a living. The household registration has been exiled, and the wealth has been accumulated over the years."  Because of the fear of being punished, he had to pay the current tax with a small amount of grain from a poor household, so the compensation became more and more heavy, and the current person turned to him Qian Shisheng's words illustrate this.  The essence of the problem.

    With repeated levies, the people were forced to flee everywhere.  In order to collect enough taxes, local officials had no choice but to transfer the taxes from the fleeing households to the non-fleeing households. The fleeing households were overwhelmed and had to flee.  Large tracts of land were abandoned, and naturally it looked desolate.  With the emperor's ancestral home still in such obscurity and decay, one can only imagine the dilapidation of other areas.  "

    Ding Yunyi smiled bitterly when he said this: "I passed by Jiangbei when I was on the expedition. There was not a single person plowing the fields in the Jiangbei area for thousands of miles, and May is the busy season for farming. How can the world not be in a state of poverty?  ? This is obviously not caused by a natural disaster, but the result of a large number of farmers evading taxes and being displacedAlso, I have never seenThrough the government, farmers were organized to build water conservancy projects.  If water conservancy is not repaired, small disasters will turn into big ones, and the court will continue to impose various taxes.  The people are in dire straits and are unable to afford various additional taxes.  Under the order of additional levies, local officials did not dare to neglect, and they all used to urge the subjects.  Anyone who can pay the additional levy in full in time is a capable official.  Some officials who are more sympathetic to the suffering of the people cannot bear to take every possible means and fail to pay the full amount as scheduled. Instead, they are convicted and even punished for it So my Ming Dynasty is divided into three parts of natural disasters and seven parts of that  "

    The words he heard today were unheard of in the ears of these women. Gu Hengbo couldn't help but ask: "What should Master Yi think?"

    "Build water conservancy and rectify agriculture." Ding Yunyi said these words, and even he felt a little funny: "This is easy to say, but it is difficult to do. These things all need money to support, but where can the court find money?  Go? The land of Liaodong needs money, and the Central Plains also needs money, but what the court lacks most is money. Only when Liaodong and the Central Plains are completely settled can we turn our attention to these aspects, but now, it is very difficult and rare. "

    Liu Rushi also said at the same time: "In the past, I was used to hearing about romance and seeing people living in luxury and wealth. There were also some famous people who often told us some strategies for governing the country that they thought were great. I used to think it made sense, but since I met the adults, I have  They know that these are just children's games, and they cannot see the essence of things in the world."

    "Those so-called celebrities only talk empty talk and harm the country." Ding Yunyi said disdainfully: "They shut themselves up at home, read a few books, and find some 'like-minded' people to talk empty talk, thinking that their civility, Taoism, and military prowess are useless.  They couldn't, and wished they could hand over the power of the imperial court to them now, but if they really did so, they would see that the world's affairs were completely different from what they thought, so they would become stupid and stunned, and they would do even more ridiculous things.  When things happen, the world becomes even more chaotic."

    The more he spoke, the more indifferent he became: "The only ones who really know what is going on in the world are us generals who have been fighting on the battlefield all year round. Unfortunately, the court wants to use us, and it must guard against us. The soldiers cannot use all their energy on the battlefield.  But I have to worry about offending the imperial court every day, and my combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly reduced. In this sense, I prefer to be a traitor in the eyes of others so that I can devote all my energy to my Taiwan. "

    "Sir, traitors like you are the real pillars of our Ming Dynasty." Gu Hengbo raised his glass and said, "I'd like to toast the traitors!"

    Ding Yunyi drank a full cup, put down the cup, and suddenly became proud:

    "Now I am a treacherous minister in the eyes of some people, but when our country is in real danger, we will know who is loyal and who is traitor. The rogue bandits cannot take away our country, nor can the golden robbers take away our land.  There are many good men who are willing to shed blood!" (This websiteyour support is my biggest motivation.)
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