Another day.

Wang Yuan left the Hanlin Courtyard in the middle of the morning, went out to eat with Li Tingxiang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and called Yu Ben, the current science detective, to accompany him.

After eating and drinking enough to return to the office, a eunuch had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Wang Yuan, he said anxiously: "Master Wang, you are back, the emperor urgently summons you!" ”

Wang Yuan immediately set off for the leopard room, thinking that something big had happened.

Zhu Houzhao was scratching his ears and cheeks, so angry that he dropped his pen. As soon as Wang Yuan appeared, he grabbed Wang Yuan's clothes and asked, "Erlang, tell me quickly, how to prove this question." ”

"Your Majesty is for this?" Wang Yuan couldn't laugh or cry.

Zhu Houzhao said depressedly: "What else can I do?" From last night until now, I haven't been able to solve the problem, and the more I think about it, the more messy my brain becomes! ”

Wang Yuan smiled and picked up the wooden ruler, drew an auxiliary line, and explained: "Extend the Jiading line to the point of E, so that Jiading = Ding, and then connect the Bing line." Among △A, B, D, and △PENTAPROPYL, ......"

"Wait," Zhu Houzhao had a flash of inspiration and quickly interrupted, "Don't say it, I probably know how to do it." Alas, why didn't I think of making auxiliary lines from here! ”

Wang Yuan stepped aside and silently watched Zhu Houzhao solve the problem.

This emperor is fresh in everything, he is tired of playing military chess before, and now he is obsessed with understanding geometry problems.

After a while, it was done, Zhu Houzhao only felt refreshed, and the sense of accomplishment of solving the problem ran through his whole body, and he laughed and said: "There are happy things in the world, but that's it, Wang Erlang's good question!" ”

Wang Yuan hurriedly patted his ass: "Your Majesty is talented and intelligent, and he has made rapid progress in geometry. ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed, he admired Wang Yuan more and more, not only being able to lead troops to fight, but also being able to come up with military chess and geometry, which made him feel fresh every day.

The emperor is happy, so he naturally wants to be rewarded.

Wang Yuan was rewarded with an ivory cup, which he didn't take seriously, but found a few Latin letters at the bottom of the cup. Wang Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, is this thing from overseas?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Two years ago, the Guangdong town guard presented it was rumored to be from Siamese maritime merchants. ”

The shitty Siamese maritime merchant must be a European merchant!

After careful inquiry, Wang Yuan finally knew that the sea ban had been abolished during the Zhengde period, and the customs duties had begun to be collected.

"Drawing points" is the taxation method of the Ming Dynasty government, Zhu Yuanzhang began to draw points for seafood at that time, but often higher than the market price to give full silver taels, which made Fanbang enthusiastically come to pay tribute.

By the time of the Hongzhi period, the imperial court planned to divide the original premium and turn it into a real tax. And it directly takes half of it, that is, the tariff is as high as 50%, but in order to show the demeanor of a great country, the tribute and incidental private goods of various countries are exempt from taxes, which is also equivalent to no tax.

But Emperor Zhengde didn't care so much, since the third year of Zhengde, he was collecting tariffs, and he just started to take 50% according to his father's regulations.

It's one thing to ban, it's another thing to actually do it.

In the fourth year of Zhengde, a sea ship was caught in a storm and drifted to Guangdong, which was logically forbidden to carry out trade activities. However, the governor of Canton allowed him to trade, and took 50% of the tariff for military supplies, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites affirmed this practice.

It was also in this year that Chen Jincoo, the imperial historian of the capital, asked for a reduction in tariffs, and obtained the approval of the imperial court. In this regard, the tariff was reduced from 50 percent to 30 percent, and special instructions were also made: Expensive and fine, rough and heavy sales, and military salaries were retained.

If the imperial court did not taste the sweetness of collecting sea taxes, how could it take the initiative to reduce tariffs?

Since then, there have been more and more merchant ships "in distress", and this abnormal trade is not under the control of the city governor, but the local governor, the town guard, and the officials of the three divisions.

It's a pity that the central government still hasn't generated revenue, and the sea taxes are left to the local government, and only expensive things are offered to the emperor for fun.

Understanding this, Wang Yuan asked: "Why doesn't Your Majesty set up a special agency in the City Shipping Division and transfer all the income from the sea goods to the central government. Some remain local, incentivizing them to expand trade; A part of it was collected into the national treasury to relieve the embarrassment of the household department. ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't take this to heart at all, and asked with a smile: "How many taels of silver can you collect from Haimao?" Why bother with the local government for this small profit. ”

Wang Yuan reminded: "The third of the ten expeditions, there are still many sea ships floating here, and you can imagine the huge benefits. ”

"Don't mention this matter, Erlang, you give me another debut question, the more difficult the better, not too simple." Zhu Houzhao is still too lazy to care about maritime trade.

Wang Yuan is no longer entangled, he can't get out of the Hanlin Academy for three years, and he will have the opportunity to do it himself in the future.

During the Zhengde period, it was the best period to open the sea ban, and it was a blatant violation of the sea ban ancestral system, and it was still possible to obtain the official permission of the Ministry of Rites, which shows that the sea ban has been torn apart.

Historically, in the second year of Jiajing, because of the "battle for tribute", the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade policy was reversed by a hundred years, and smuggling became rampant, and the Japanese invaders also flourished. In the last years of Jiajing, in fact, it was relaxed again, and it became more open during the Longqing period, that is, the so-called "Longqing switch".

However, the Ming Dynasty of the Longqing Dynasty has gone downhill and missed the golden period of developing maritime trade. Moreover, the accumulation of disadvantages was too deep to obtain sufficient benefits from the maritime trade, and most of the profits were embezzled by officials, eunuchs and maritime groups.

Glancing at Zhu Houzhao, who was doing the question, Wang Yuan had already made up his mind. In the future, how can you ask for the release of the political envoy from Guangdong, who happens to have the right to manage the merchant ships that are "floating in distress", and when the time comes, the huge profits will be put in front of the emperor, and Zhu Houzhao's character will inevitably spare no effort to support the switch.

It's a real switch, not a fake one.

Zhu Houzhao happily practiced geometry problems, while Wang Yuan continued to write the manuscript next to him. Some formulas and theorems have been forgotten by him, and he still needs to recall them slowly, and if he can't remember, he simply derives the proof himself.

I don't know how long later, the eunuch Zhang Yong suddenly came to the audience: "Your Majesty, the ministers are ordered to select the officers and soldiers of the regiment and battalion, and get 123,740 strange soldiers, please select 6,000 of them as regular soldiers, and 3,000 from each battalion as strange soldiers, a total of 42,000 people will be trained to deal with internal and external military affairs!" ”

The regimental camp is today's 12 Beijing battalions, which were founded by Qian, but there are some differences, and the old battalion is usually counted among them.

Anyway, Zhang Yong cleared out more than 120,000 registered officers and soldiers from the Beijing Division, but they were all the kind of wrecks who couldn't fight. Now ask for 6,000 selected for hard training, and the other 36,000 can be practiced casually.

Who made the continuous astrological signs abnormal, and Venus was a harbinger of military disaster. There are anti-thieves in all parts of the country, and recently the northwest has been hit by a small number of Koubian, and the imperial court must increase its standing military strength.

Such a militaristic event, Zhu Hou did not raise his head, and continued to do the question: "Accurate! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Yong kowtowed and thanked him, with a smile on his face.

A while ago, Gu Da was used to show off, and now Zhang Yong can finally be in charge of the army, and he is still thinking about how to train troops to quell the rebellion and make military achievements.

At the moment when Zhang Yongling retreated, Zhu Houzhao, who was not doing his job, spoke out again: "Wang Erlang! ”

"The minister is here." Wang Yuan got up and gave up his hand.

Zhu Houzhao gave me an errand inexplicably: "You also go and pick 6,000 people and train me well, I hope you can train an elite division for me." ”

Training a ghost, these regimental and battalion officers and soldiers are all waste, what kind of training method is the sneaky and slippery Jing Youzi?

Wang Yuan immediately bargained: "Your Majesty, it's okay to let the minister train the Beijing camp, but the minister has two requirements." ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "In the future." ”

Wang Yuan said: "First, the military salary needs to be sufficient, and it must not be deducted; Second, please give the minister a quota for killing. ”

Zhu Houzhao said strangely: "Those who don't obey the order can be beheaded, what do you want to kill?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "The number of murder places that the ministers want is a bit too much. ”

Zhu Houzhao asked, "How many?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "I have the right to kill half of the officers and soldiers of the 6,000 regiments and battalions. Moreover, all the families of the deceased have been put into the ranks! ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Houzhao and Zhang Yong's eyes widened at the same time, and they looked at Wang Yuan in great surprise.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to kill 3,000 people, and if he didn't kill him, he even wanted to beat his family members into lowly status.

It's too ruthless, Zhang Yong thinks he's ruthless, but he didn't expect this champion to be more ruthless than him.

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "What are you doing to kill so many people?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "It's not enough to establish authority without killing, but it is difficult to establish authority even if you kill, so it must be supplemented by cheap punishment." Of course, the minister hopes that no one will be killed, as long as they are obedient. ”

Zhu Houzhao was silent, and seemed to reacquaint himself with Wang Yuan.

But if you think about it carefully, this favorite minister is a battlefield killer, and there are countless thieves who have died in his hands, and his hands have long been stained with blood.

"Accurate!"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly smiled and said: "Don't worry about going to train soldiers, whoever is disobedient will be killed, even those sons and daughters of the lords can be killed!" ”