Zhu Wenqi wanted to marry a daughter-in-law with Zhu Yunwen's permission to intervene, and the follow-up development was naturally smooth and tight, and after the eunuch of the Imperial Front Division led the team to carry the dowry to Lu Ying's door, the marriage was decided.

It must be decided, but the day of marriage is a little late.

After all, Zhu Wenqi still has to go back to Quanzhou to continue working, how can he stay in Nanjing and wait for the candles in the cave room.

As for the list of cases involved in Quanzhou from Chen Tianzheng downwards, the cabinet also gave an idea.

"Anyone suspected of making profits from the smuggling process of more than 10 times his annual salary shall be sentenced to death."

This can be regarded as a relaxation of a lot of restrictions on the basis of extrajudicial benevolence, especially for an official like Chen Tianzheng, who was involved in smuggling but did not make the slightest profit, was only sentenced to 20 years of labor and sent to Shaanxi and Gansu to participate in the large-scale construction of the northwest.

But it is not very friendly to those merchants who do not have the taste of the imperial court, because they are not convicted of accepting bribes, but organizing and participating in smuggling and tax evasion.

The standard of sentencing may be set according to the amount of smuggling and the amount of tax evasion.

Smuggled 130 million taels and evaded taxes 28 million taels!

There is no doubt that starting from Ma Chi downwards, the entire Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce has almost been wiped out.

"For fines of more than five times, 31 million taels of dirty interest on stolen money should be recovered, 140 million taels of fines should be collected, and 171 million taels should be combined."

As soon as the seal of the Ministry of Taxation was stamped, the entire Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce was almost confiscated by the imperial court.

And the real punishment is not the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The punishment of the Quanzhou branch of the emperor is even more terrifying!

Compared with the size of the imperial merchants, the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce is completely insignificant.

In recent years, the large-value raw materials of overseas economic strategy are all made by imperial merchants, and the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce smuggles some low-value products such as grains, spices, and fruits.

Ore!

Among these mineral resources, rare minerals, gold and silver ores, jade and jade are the majority.

The tax evasion of an imperial merchant broke more than three of the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce.

"Nearly 90 million tax evasion, and nearly 600 million fines, the imperial businessman can't come up with so much money."

Zhu Zhi ran into the palace late at night to plead with Zhu Yunwen, but was kicked out by the latter without leaving any face, and he didn't even see him.

If you don't clean up the whole house, you can fold as much silver as you can.

In fact, how could the imperial merchant not be able to take it out.

After the split, it may be difficult for the imperial merchants to take out a single area, but everyone can still pay enough to pay together.

But who wants to?

Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen took out their savings over the years for the first time and paid them all.

"The first evil should be investigated, and the generation of children and grandchildren should change their lives and survive."

In the face of Zhu Di's plea, Zhu Yunwen still raised his hand.

Zhu Zhan, the king of Qing, who was the most involved in the case, folded in, and there were several county kings who did not escape from the national law.

Zhu Yunwen's hands were once again inevitably stained with the blood of Taizu's relatives and grandchildren.

In fact, this is already Zhu Yunwen's opening up on the Internet in Zhu Di's face.

is also Zhu Yunwen's age now, and the proportion of emotion has begun to faintly compete with reason.

In other words, more than 10 years ago, Zhu Yunwen would definitely be able to kill a river of blood, instead of the big smuggling case in Quanzhou, where only a few hundred people were killed and 2,400 people were sentenced to labor camps ranging from five years to life as they are today.

However, the impact of the Quanzhou case is by no means just how many people have been punished, more than 2,000 people have not yet reached the point where Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet have paid attention.

The current Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty when the empty seal case was more than 30 years ago, and there are many officials who have been killed, and they are afraid that there will be a disconnection in local government affairs, even if Quanzhou is killed, it will not take a month to replenish the order, and they are all officials with governing experience.

The central government is airborne, the provinces are transferred at the same level, and then the deputy position of the original post is replaced, and the next level is to line up to the top.

To put it mildly, in a radish and a pit, I don't know how many provincial officials still wish that Quanzhou would be killed by Zhu Yunwen.

If the people in front don't give way, how can the officials below be promoted?

The real impact of the Quanzhou case on Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet is a kind of thinking.

"Quanzhou has the lowest civilian crime rate, but it has the highest corruption rate."

Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate made a summary of the notes, with detailed data to corroborate.

In recent years, although Guangzhou's development has not been slow, Guangzhou's corruption rate is less than that of Quanzhou, which is also different from the culture of Cantonese and Fujian merchants.

The cabinet's opinion is to build a few more economic open governments similar to Quanzhou, which can not only promote economic prosperity, but also weaken Quanzhou's leading economic position in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xia Yuanji's suggestion was affirmed by Zhu Yunwen, and then the monarchs and ministers began to discuss around the Ming Dynasty's Kanyu map.

It's time for Zhu Yunwen's favorite circle again.

"We can open one in Nanzhili."

Zhu Yunwen pointed to the border between Suzhou and Songjiang Mansion: "Jiading County, Chongming County, Qingpu County, Huating County and Shanghai County were merged, and a new mansion was built around the mouth of the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River, which is called Shanghai."

In Guangdong, Zhaoqing County in Guangzhou Prefecture was separated from Xin'an County and merged to set up Shenzhen Prefecture, including Vinh Phuc (Macau) and Nanwan (Hong Kong), two desert islands, to dredge sea canals and develop ports. ”

Several members of the cabinet stared at the newly drawn circle on the map for a long time, but Yang Shiqi laughed first: "In this way, Guangdong's future economic status will rise, after all, geographically, Guangdong is closer to India and South China, and it is more convenient to expand the sea in this area, and Guangdong will be able to eat the first bite of the sea trade with Arabia in the future." ”

Of the two newly demarcated new prefectures, there is no doubt that Shenzhen, located in Guangdong, is definitely superior to Shanghai, because what is adjacent to Shanghai?

North Korea no longer exists, and Japan's demise is destined to be overnight, and no one believes that Dongying can withstand the super firepower of the Ming Navy.

"That's decades away, it's too early to worry about it."

Zhu Yunwen was not very concerned about the development of Shanghai Prefecture, after all, the construction productivity at this time was placed here, and it was unrealistic to let Shenzhen and Shanghai reach the size of Quanzhou in terms of construction, relocation and trade.

The purpose of the establishment of these two new prefectures is only to share the economic dividends of Quanzhou.

"Hurry up the implementation, notify the Ministry of Industry, and let them come up with a plan for merging and building as soon as possible."

Zhu Yunwen explained again, and as soon as he mentioned the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Gaochi patted his head and remembered something.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry put forward an idea a few days ago, planning to demolish Nanjing City."

Demolished the city of Nanjing?

Zhu Yunwen and Yang Shiqi were stunned.

"The Ministry of Works' brain let the donkey kick?"

Yang Shiqi suddenly laughed: "Good and dignified, what are you doing to demolish Nanjing City, after the demolition, where are we going to work." ”

Seeing that Yang Shiqi misunderstood his meaning, Zhu Gaochi also smiled bitterly, and accused again and again: "I made a mistake, the Ministry of Industry meant to demolish the city wall of Nanjing." ”

Founded in the year of the dragon and phoenix, completed in the eleventh year of Hongwu, the Nanjing city wall, which lasted more than ten years, is no longer the guardian of the central Ming Dynasty, but the obstacle that restricts the development of Nanjing.

"There is a city wall, there is no transportation network extending in all directions, this proposal was put forward by Wang Yusen to the Ministry of Industry, Wang Yusen thinks, with my Ming Dynasty today, Nanjing has no city wall, it doesn't matter."

It doesn't matter if Nanjing has a city wall or not!

Those who are qualified to be the enemies of the Ming Dynasty are in addition to the chaos within the Ming Dynasty.

"Semi-mechanical firing arquebuses began to be mass-produced last year, and the Firearms Department of the Academy of Sciences is developing newer, purely mechanical muskets, and improved gunpowder is also developing at a high speed, and the power is changing with each passing day, and the sheltering power of the city wall is declining."

The purely mechanical musket mentioned here is the flintlock pistol, and the so-called improved gunpowder is the explosive.

In this area of research and development, the speed of Daming is obviously far greater than that of the West of the original time and space.

It took thirty years for the West to achieve arquebuses to flintlock guns, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty's volume and resources, ten years was enough.

As for the improvement of gunpowder, although there has been considerable progress at present, it is far from being applied to the field of actual combat of cannons, and even the experimental stage has not yet arrived.

But this visible progress is a reminder to the Cabinet and the General Staff.

For thousands of years, China's city walls, made of bluestone strips and timbers that sheltered its own safety, have lost their central role and are time to retire from the stage of history.

"Tear it down, just tear it down."

Compared with the hesitation of the cabinet, Zhu Yunwen is very chic: "When, if my athletes rely on firearms and heavy artillery, they can be defeated by the enemy in the military field outside Nanjing, so that the enemy can kill the city of Nanjing with traditional weapons such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc., then it means that the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the bones and deserves to die in the country." ”

Although it is said that in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the local standard army in Guangxi once set a brilliant record of defeating the French army with bird guns and machetes, but what can that represent.

Does the Qing army have the strength to fight to Paris and London?

By the same token, assuming that Timur's army was able to hold back the Ma army in Samarkand and achieve one or two partial victories, this is not enough to mean that the camel soldiers were able to drive thousands of miles to Nanjing.

This situation can only show that the Ming officers and soldiers along the way and the local people have lost their trust in the Nanjing court, and they did not resist or even defected to help Timur.

At that time, it will be a dead country.

Once the improved steam engine was shipped, the Ming Dynasty's military and technological superiority over the Middle East and the West was like the Opium War in the 19th century.

What's the matter, Timur still wants to rely on a few Damascus steel knives, more than ten miles away, to smash the dreadnought-class battleship with one sword?

"This Wang Yusen is bold."

Zhu Yunwen laughed and looked at Xu Buji: "No wonder the two of you were able to get together in Changshu back then." ”

In the hall, several monarchs and ministers laughed.