The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1857

[1857. Chapter 1767 Secret Purpose]

Fang Jifan nodded with satisfaction.

He walked down leisurely, and then came to a group of navy students.

The students stood upright with solemn faces, but none of them could hide their excitement as they looked at Fang Jifan.

This is easy to understand. After all… this is the first time that the Grand Master has visited the Naval Academy in person. What does this mean?

And on weekdays, before morning classes every day, they need to worship the portrait of the great master.

I look at the portrait every day, and now I finally see the real person, lively and blinking, so I feel really excited!

Fang Jifan walked up to a student and asked, “What is your name?”

The student said, “Student Li Yue.”

Fang Jifan nodded: “Yes, I can be a general in the future.”

Li Yue immediately said, “Master, student How dare you…”

Fang Jifan said with a serious face: “You don’t even have the ambition to be a general, but you are worthy of joining my sect?”

After hearing this, Li Yue trembled and immediately said: “Yes, the student wants to be a general. Fang

Jifan scolded him again: “You bastard, you said you can be a general, so you have to be a general. You are so ambitious!”

Li Yue suddenly looked frightened and at a loss.

Fang Jifan walked away with his hands behind his back.

Xu Jing hurriedly caught up and said: “Teacher…”

Fang Jifan said lightly: “What do you want to say?”

Xu Jing: “…”

Fang Jifan said with a smile: “You must be thinking that my teacher is so close. Favor, right? Hey, you don’t understand. Being a teacher has its own reasons. Do you think I just like to call people bastards and bastards?”

Xu Jing remained silent. It wasn’t

until Fang Jifan glared at him that he hurriedly said: “Yes, yes, what my teacher said makes sense.”

Then Fang Jifan said with emotion: “I work so hard as a teacher, for the country and the people, and to eradicate evil, isn’t it just to be able to do whatever I want? To curse people. What’s wrong?”

This is the truth that Fang Jifan learned when he came to this world.

Being a man of two generations, he himself is already an alien. His advanced thinking and his perspective from standing on the shoulders of giants. In a conservative era, of course, here, it is not like in France, where you need to be roasted on the stake. But it will never be tolerated by the world.

So Fang Jifan finally figured it out.

He is a man with upright views. Since he is determined to do a good deed, he will simply do it to the end. As for the means he uses, it is secondary.

People always try to persuade each other with reason, and people of later generations even take it for granted that they can convince the ancients by finding some ideas from later generations and reasoning with them. But in fact…

this is all bullshit. The ancients have studied Confucian classics for thousands of years. Whether it is cultural level, thinking logic, or thoughts evolved from generation to generation, a logical closed loop has been formed. You Reasoning with him, any scholar can push you to the ground and rub you until your flesh and blood are bloody. A spitting breath can nail you to the ground and make you unable to get up for the rest of your life.

Therefore, Fang Jifan is determined not to be unreasonable and to be a good person and do good deeds. Why must he be reasonable? Just hit him with a fist as big as a casserole. If it is not enough, then send him to Huanghuangzhou.

What he needs is to make people fear him, and then obediently obey under fear, and wait for them to act obediently according to Fang Jifan’s instructions. In the process of doing things, they discovered that Fang Jifan’s method was indeed effective. At this time, they will reflect, continue to think, and then make inferences, and finally slowly explore Fang Jifan’s theory.

Only by getting rid of the people who are unwilling to solve the problem can the problem be solved. This is an eternal truth.

Fang Jifan sighed quietly. Sure enough, people with a high level of ideological realm are lonely!

Immediately, he inspected the steam ironclad.

There are now eleven steam ironclads.

Among them, there are three first-generation ships, five second-generation ships, and three third-generation ironclad ships that were recently launched.

At the same time, there are two more ships under construction and scheduled to be launched within this year.

The first two generations of ironclad ships had frequent problems, and the design in many places was not ideal. There was even one ship that came to port for repairs almost every three days. It is still lying in the dock and can only be used as a training ship.

Fang Jifan was very interested and probably asked about the battle plan of the ironclad ship.

In fact, Sihai Commercial Bank and Ningbo Navy had already done preliminary work before this.

They conducted surveys on the main shipping lanes to ensure that the main shipping lanes could ensure passage of deeper water routes.

Not only that, from Tianjin Wei to Ningbo, then to Quanzhou and Jiaozhi, and even to Malacca, and then the Cape of Good Hope, along the way, the Ningbo Navy occupied these strategic locations and built ports.

These were originally used for trade and supply to the Golden Continent. Of course, the Sihai Trading Company also continued to transport coal and a large amount of materials to this port like a string of pearls, which would be used to supply ironclad ships in the future.

It can almost be said… Although Fang Jifan didn’t pay much attention.

But as Ningbo Navy and Sihai Trading Company gradually formed a system, they also had the ability to make independent plans, and the senior figures also became forward-looking.

Therefore… as long as it is within the Ming Dynasty’s sphere of influence, the ironclad ship can dock at any time for replenishment, add coal, gunpowder, fresh water, medicine, and perform simple maintenance.

As Xu Jing’s plan began to be implemented, the preliminary work and the voyage plan were even more accelerated.

When Fang Jifan realized that his disciple Xu Jing could completely stand alone, Fang Jifan naturally decided to become a hands-off shopkeeper, and slipped back to the capital overnight and lay down again.

A letter of memorial was delivered to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, was most interested in memorials on war preparations!

He even directly hung a giant sea map on the floor-to-ceiling glass wall of Fengtian Hall.

So much so that when going to court, all the officials would look at this chart and have a feeling of who am I, where am I, why am I here, this is the center or the navy’s water fortress.

Those who were indignant wanted to throw their hats off.

Of course, these thoughts were just calculated in my mind countless times. After all, everyone has to eat. Now the official salary is not low, and it is no longer like before. The so-called official salary is to give you rice, oil and salt, but now it is treasure The banknotes can be exchanged for real gold and silver at Xishan Bank.

When Zhu Houzhao was reviewing the memorial, he stared at the map and asked the crown prince Zhu Zaimo to sit on one side and read the memorial.

He sometimes said with emotion to Zhu Zaimo: “My father’s fat has become more and more, and it will never be the same again! Alas… Time flies like an arrow, like a white horse passing by. It’s a pity that I only have a son like you. Why? It’s really strange that there is only one. It would be great if the Zhu family had more men.”

Zhu Zaimo raised his head and stared at his father, silent.

The father and son looked at each other for a moment, and Zhu Houzhao was very happy: “Haha, I was just joking. I am satisfied to have a son like you. What’s the benefit of having a boy? If you have too many children, it is inevitable that the family will be uneasy, Zai Mo.” “Come here, rub my feet. I haven’t been riding and shooting these days, so my legs and feet are a little sore.”

Zhu Zaimo stood up, saluted first, then bent forward and gently rubbed Zhu Houzhao’s calves.

Zhu Houzhao sighed again: “Zaimo, what would happen if you were the emperor?”

Zhu Zaimo said: “The emperor cut off the thorns and eliminated the internal troubles. And if the father wants to be the emperor on horseback, he must eliminate the external troubles. To my son At that time, the world was at peace, and what I have to do is to make repairs on the basis of my father and ancestors.”

This seemed to be in line with Zhu Houzhao’s thoughts, so Zhu Houzhao happily said: “I will read the history books. , It is said that the prince of the Holy Emperor is the most difficult to achieve. As a wise prince like me, I am afraid that it will be difficult for you to achieve anything in the future! But it doesn’t matter, it is also good to be the Emperor of Taiping.

” Mo: “…”

What can he say?

These days, Zhu Houzhao is actually counting the days every day.

The end of the year is finally here.

At this time… the two new ships have been launched and returned from sea trials. The results are not surprising. After several generations of improvements, the new ships have become increasingly mature. Not only their performance is excellent, but their stability is excellent.

Fang Jifan was relieved to receive the report, but in the middle of the night, he suddenly heard that His Majesty had an order.

Fang Jifan was woken up in the middle of the night and was still a little confused, so he had to get up and go to the hall to prepare for the order.

It was an eunuch who came, and the eunuch said: “Your Majesty, please invite the Duke of Zhen to enter the palace overnight. Your Majesty is seriously ill…”

Fang Jifan suddenly woke up and was shocked.

It was fine and lively the day before yesterday. Why did something happen today?

Without hesitation, he immediately left the house. The carriages and horses had already been parked outside, and a group of guards were waiting here like mourners.

Fang Jifan said with a sullen face: “How come your Majesty is so ill?”

“While playing in the back garden, he fell into the water. He became ill when he came ashore. The fever has not gone away to this day.”

Fang Jifan took a breath and suddenly felt something on his nose. Unable to live up to expectations, he immediately roared: “Why don’t you call the imperial doctor? You bitch, I think it’s just a cold. Come on…I want to enter the palace.”

Fang Jifan quickly got on the carriage.

As soon as I sat down, my eyes felt a little sore and my tears hadn’t fallen yet, but I heard the click of a lock coming from outside the car door.

Fang Jifan: “…”

He was excited, and then he knocked on the door: “Why is it still locked? Why is it still locked?”

The old eunuch was outside and said in a frightened voice: “Prince Zhen Guo, please calm down… This is His Majesty’s decree, slave. “Wait, we are following the order.”

Fang Jifan: “…”

At this time, under the night, I heard the old eunuch shouting: “Quick, quick, send him away quickly. Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time. If so, If we miss the deadline, we will definitely die.”

So under the bright moonlight, the carriage rolled away.

Dozens of imperial guards stood guard in front, and under the cover of night, an unknown number of soldiers and horses surged out to follow behind.

Based on Fang Jifan’s years of experience of stuffing people into carriages and then locking them, he suddenly realized… that he seemed to be being plotted against.

Your uncle’s!

(End of chapter)