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Chapter 184 Zhang Zhiwei
Zhang had a daughter, named "Zhiwei", which means "only the calmest people in the world can see the subtle and know the obvious".
Although Zhang Lin himself had finally been promoted to the deputy commander of the Five Cities Military Division and the North City Military Division, he was only a minor official of the seventh rank.
But because his wife, Mrs. Tong, was so strong-willed, he had high hopes for his children, at least in terms of their names.
The eldest son is Zhang Chang, the second son is Zhang Xu, and the third son is Zhang Sheng.
Now that my youngest daughter is named 'Zhiwei', I hope she can become a great talent.
Because of Empress Ma, women in the Ming Dynasty were now equally valued. Whether they married into a high-ranking official family or were elected to enter the palace as a female official, it was a decent way out.
Watch less, listen more, do more, see the big picture from the small, draw inferences from one instance... these are his expectations for this baby in swaddling clothes.
After all, he doesn't have that ability.
Now that he can become the deputy commander of the Military Department, it is inseparable from the support of the Tong family.
Influenced by the "Nine-Tailed Sutra", Zhang Lin had a picture of a grown man sitting next to a baby with big watery eyes, talking to himself non-stop about his family's background.
The Tong family (Tong) is one of the top five merchant families in Henan, Shanxi and Huguang.
Because of some small connection with Shanxi Salt Lake, his family is wealthy.
But merchants are merchants after all, and the young girls in their families either become concubines or run the risk of being abandoned after their work has been done.
Or she could be a wife of a lowly official, which refers to someone like him, a handsome but poor official from a humble family.
He completely relied on his wife's care. Although his official position was not high and his salary was small, his life was no worse than that of high-ranking officials in the court.
He just doesn't show off his wealth and keeps a low profile. He sometimes treats his colleagues or superiors to a few drinks, but his wealth is hidden in his inner clothes.
Ah~ the lining made of Shu brocade is really soft.
"..."
Zhang Zhiwei took a deep breath and dismissed Zhang Lin, who started to talk about his wife, children and a warm bed.
There are reasons why some people cannot become high-ranking officials. If Zhang Lin were to rely on himself...
Forget it, don’t do what he wants.
His dishes have their own benefits.
With Zhang Lin's "confession" and the history books she had briefly read, she had a clearer plan and understanding of the current situation and development goals for the next few years.
There was basically no need for much modification, as Zhang Lin's confession confirmed her speculation about the situation.
In terms of identity, the Zhang family is weak, which is a weakness in the battle for succession among the Nine Dragons, but it is a strength in a world where the Five Dragons rule the country.
Zhu Yuanzhang's legitimate sons all married the daughters of meritorious officials and legitimate daughters of high-ranking families.
But the grandchildren suddenly fell behind.
Even Zhu Yunwen, whom Zhu Yuanzhang held in his hands after Zhu Biao's death, married his Crown Princess, the daughter of a fifth-rank official in the Dali Temple.
According to records, this Shaoqing now serves as the head of a high-ranking government office and is still working hard in the workplace.
If the crown prince acts like this, the other grandsons must be even more cautious.
So that's how Zhang is, neither too hot nor too cold is fine.
The Wucheng Bingmasi was responsible for managing the public security in Nanjing City and was a civil servant rather than a military officer.
His status and work are similar to those of a county magistrate, but are more trivial.
This kind of place is full of good and bad people, and is the best choice for gathering intelligence.
Therefore, under Tong's guidance, Zhang Lin just had to slowly build up his network and persona.
If you want to make a living, there are naturally many ways. Isn't Tong's family background as a merchant great?
Although Tong was a businessman, he had a good family education and did not have much of a patriarchal mentality.
After all, if a businessman wants to succeed, he really has to rely on his daughter in a sense.
The Tong family's educational philosophy was very good, so it was inevitable that they cultivated a mathematician who became famous during the reign of Emperor Yingzong.
The trade routes can be taken slowly. Now the Ming Dynasty has Nanjing as its capital, focusing on the economic development of the south, and most of the officials in the court are from the south.
Although this ecology is distorted, the south of the Yangtze River has been prosperous since ancient times, and it is time for the Tong family's industry to move south.
It is difficult to open up trade routes.
The king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with.
And the Five Cities Army... just happens to be the little devil.
He did not want to be a royal merchant, but just wanted to make a small profit. He opened up a trade route from the Jiangnan area, along Nanjing, Henan, through Shanxi, and finally to Peking.
The first beneficiary is that there will be a complete supply line during the Jingnan Campaign.
Attack first, then go to that place, and then see what will appear in that place.
It is entirely possible to provide food and fodder for a few years in advance.
The second is the home advantage of the capital after the capital was moved to Beiping.
However, there will definitely be more and more opponents along the way.
We cannot seek monopoly, but only stability and peace, and we can proceed step by step.
If you are greedy, you will be eaten by hyenas.
Fortunately, Zhang was born on February 14th in the spring of the 13th year of Hongwu.
Just control this family and make preparations slowly.
The manipulation of "Nine-tailed Scripture" is not like a puppet, it is a subtle influence. Even if there are immortal cultivators in the foundation-building stage, as long as their spiritual awareness is not twice as strong as hers, they will not be able to detect the white mist hovering in the mortal's brain.
Zhang Chang is twelve years old this year, Zhang Xu is ten years old, and Zhang Sheng is five years old.
This is the age when you should study hard.
What's the point of studying hard for the imperial examination just to take care of your sister?
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The biggest difference between "Five Dragons" and "Nine Dragons Fighting for Succession" is that it is basically played with open hands.
At least that's what Zhang Zhiwei felt after observing her.
First of all, Zhu Biao, the strongest crown prince, was unsurprisingly abandoned by everyone.
Zhang Zhiwei didn't know the real reason why the other taskers abandoned him, but Zhang Zhiwei had two reasons.
First of all, it is too troublesome to revive the person, and it is easy to die.
Here I would like to mention the conclusions drawn from the analysis during those years when I used my spiritual sense to devour books at the speed of light to absorb knowledge.
The Zhu family all have genetic diseases.
This disease can lead to physical weakness, which in turn can cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and this disease is the cause of sudden death or premature death.
Xiaoba, Zhu Yuanzhang, was the longest-lived at the age of seventy-one.
Looking through the remaining imperial physician records, the cause of his death can be attributed to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease caused by long-term fatigue.
In other words, if Xiao Ba had relaxed a little, he might have been able to survive.
The combination of Xiao Ba's genes and Empress Ma produced Zhu Biao and Zhu Di.
Zhu Biao's physical weakness was a hidden disease. In the 23rd year of Hongwu, he developed a carbuncle on his back. The infection from the abscess destroyed his immune system and he became increasingly weak. In the 24th year of Hongwu, he fell ill with a cold and high fever. He sought help from many famous doctors but his condition did not improve. In the 25th year of Hongwu, he died due to ineffective treatment.
Zhu Di fell ill and died suddenly within three days. It is speculated that he died of high fever due to combat fatigue and decreased resistance, which then induced a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage.
Simply put, it's still a weak heart pulse.
Otherwise, Judy, like Xiaoba, is a healthy type who can continue to live.
The same symptoms of high fever and cold, the fact that he could not get up despite seeking help from famous doctors, as well as various pulse conditions showed that Zhu Biao was actually a forward-looking version of Zhu Di.
It’s just that Zhu Di has a good physique, and the armor he protects on horseback is tougher than that of the crown prince.
Zhu Gaochi’s excessive obesity is first and foremost a disease, and obesity will inevitably lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The way he died was the same as Zhu Di's, so it must have been a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage.
The same was true for Zhu Zhanji. He would not die immediately from the cerebral hemorrhage, but he would not survive for more than a year.
The same was true for Zhu Qizhen, except that he had the possibility of beriberi, which might have been transmitted from the Oirat Mongols.
After the Oirat students came to study abroad, the death-threatening problems caused by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the Ming Dynasty came to an end.
This may prove that Zhu Qizhen's pig brain blood is strong, and it also explains why the Ming Dynasty fell into decline.
Kidding.
After looking around for a long time, Zhang Zhiwei felt that "Resurrection! My Zhu Biao!" was too troublesome.
The heart meridian is weak, so you have to be very careful when injecting spiritual power. If you are not careful, the spiritual power will be insufficient to replenish it, and it is very likely that the already diseased heart meridian will suddenly burst.
Then, after all this effort, what Zhang Zhiwei saved was a prince who held great power, had the final say, and had political differences with her.
In the future, we will rebel against such an emperor.
What is she planning?
This leads to the second point: political differences.
Zhu Biao was a benevolent monarch. It is said that if he were still alive, he would not have the good reputation that Zhu Gaochi had.
Then he's even more dead!
Being judged as a benevolent monarch means valuing Confucianism, and valuing Confucianism means employing civil servants.
Now that the world has just achieved peace, those who are qualified to be civil servants all come from the wealthy Jiangnan or further south.
Is China, such a big country, only composed of the south?
Today, officials in the South have set up their own factions and even call themselves "orthodox Han people", calling the Han people in the North "Hu Han people".
To take it to a more extreme level, some southern nobles at this time believed that the Han people in the north were all hybrids and that the place where they were born was also a barbarian land, which had nothing to do with China.
At the same time, in order to strengthen control over the border, Zhu Yuanzhang set up many garrisons in Kaiping, Inner Mongolia and Daning in Northeast China.
However, due to the bitter cold on the border and the constant wars, the northern soldiers were basically unable to be self-sufficient and could only rely on the south for food and support.
So in the eyes of the Southerners, the North is a burden, a leech lying on them, the Southerners.
The two sides have been in opposition for hundreds of years, and now they want independence and division.
This... seems crazy to Zhang Zhiwei!
How can this simply be a step backward in history?
The concept of a unified Chinese nation that was jointly created by the Han people from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the Qin Emperor, to Emperor Wu of Han, and through Emperor Taizong of Tang has all been lost, and the concept of the Han nationality is on the verge of crumbling.
This is crazy!
This is not Zhang Zhiwei's personal "speculation", but a conclusion based on historical evidence.
In order to get rid of these burdens, southern officials, led by Huang, began to instigate Zhu Yunwen to reduce the power of the princes, dismantle the garrisons, encroach on the imperial examination quotas of northern students, and increase taxes on the northern people.
All these laws were enacted.
Later, when Zhu Di wanted to move the capital to Beiping, he repeatedly opposed it. After Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he fully supported him in moving back to Nanjing.
Fortunately, Zhu Di was autocratic, fortunately Zhu Gaochi died early, and fortunately Zhu Zhanji did not listen.
Otherwise, the best outcome for the East Asian continent would be what is now Eastern Europe, where the Russian people, who share the same language and culture, would be split into several ethnic groups, divided into pieces, and constantly fighting each other.