This suddenly appeared a giant, and so many rich people were born at once, which could not help but have a huge repercussion among the people, and at the same time alarmed the imperial court.

The ministers were not just sour, they were gradually feeling an unprecedented crisis.

Although Guo Dan did not have an impact on the power of their officials, they were also big landlords, and the landlords were traditional Chinese aristocrats, the owners of wealth, and the grassroots of the ruling class.

A new force has been born in the capital.

It's not okay to go on like this!

The ministers immediately went to the East Cabinet to discuss the matter with the Cabinet.

"A printing shop is worth 500,000 taels, and the tax revenue in Gyeonggi may not be so much, I think those merchants are really crazy."

The university scholar Wei Xiudao shook his head angrily, he couldn't wait to shout the slogan of Sage Kong, and the etiquette collapsed.

"I sometimes really wonder if Guo Dan knows what evil arts, no matter what he says, people will believe him."

"I also suspect that Guo Dan is a goblin."

.....

These ministers don't understand business, and they don't understand what shares they have, so they can't figure it out, so the more they talk, the more evil it becomes.

Song Qi, the head of the household, couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "I don't dare to say whether the five guns are worth 500,000 taels, but have you noticed that now in the entire capital, except for some newspapers of the imperial court, there are no more manuscripts, all the books, albums, newspapers and periodicals are all printed, and all of them are from the five guns." ”

The printed publications of the Ming Dynasty are not yet widely popularized, and the manuscripts still account for a large proportion, and the appearance of the five guns is a complete burial of the manuscripts.

"Song Shangshu is reasonable."

I saw Li Zhi walking in with a bunch of books and newspapers, put them in the middle, and said: "Everyone, please see, this is the Di newspaper issued by the imperial court recently, as well as some books, without exception, all of them are printed with five guns, and in the past six months, the five guns have earned as much as 1,000 taels from the imperial court alone." ”

Everyone got up and took the books and newspapers and read them.

Shen Shixing, Wang Jiaping and others couldn't help but look at each other.

If it weren't for the true face of the five guns, they wouldn't have noticed much.

Yu Youding asked, "Doesn't the imperial court have its own printing workshop?" Why look for a five-gun print? ”

Li Zhi sighed: "I went to the General Administration Department to inquire, and according to the officials of the General Administration Department, in fact, they didn't want to find five guns to print the newspaper, they were forced to have no choice." ”

The Department of General Administration is the department of the imperial court that specializes in the issuance of newspapers.

Shen Shixing said curiously: "There is no way to be forced?" What do you mean by that? ”

Li Zhi replied: "This is because the imperial court printed newspaper cannot be compared with the five guns, whether it is beautiful, or the handwriting is clear, or even the paper. After the appearance of Guo Dan's horse newspaper, the imperial court issued to the people's mansion newspaper was often ridiculed as a toilet paper newspaper, and the general administration department really had no choice, so people went to find five guns and asked them to help the imperial court print and distribute the newspaper to the people. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed heavily again and said, "And... Moreover, they also told me that the newspapers issued by the officials are still manuscripts, and they may be the only manuscripts in the capital at present. ”

“.....！”

The hall was silent.

There was embarrassment on every minister's face.

If we want to say that weapons are not as good as those produced by the people, then that's it, after all, it's not that we can't do it well, it's just that there is no need for that, if the materials are full, then what will our officials make money, besides, fighting a war is a matter for military generals.

But this text .......!

I can't bear this!

"How did it come to be?" Yang Mingshen, who had just recovered from his injury, was so angry that he only slapped the table.

He felt that Guo Dan was already standing on their heads and peeing.

Li Zhi said: "If it goes on like this, it won't be long before the official documents and notices of the imperial court will have to ask for five guns to print, if they don't agree, we won't even be able to send official documents." ”

This is an exaggeration, there are not many official documents, and the manuscript is still better than the printed one.

Yang Mingshen suddenly understood Li Zhide's intentions, and immediately said to Shen Shixing: "Lord Shoufu, Li Yushi, it is not possible to go on like this, today's five guns can spread their printed publications all over the entire Gyeonggi region overnight, and Guo Dan's heart is not right, in case he spreads some harmful thoughts, this may cause a big disaster!" The lower officials thought that the imperial court should control the five guns in time. ”

"How can this work?"

Wang Jiaping said: "Now that the five guns have not committed any mistakes, how is the court different from robbers?" ”

Li Zhi immediately said: "The five guns of Weihui Mansion printed a large number of Spring Palace pictures, is this considered a fault?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a yin and yang strange voice outside, "Oops! If it is the fault of printing the spring palace map, then what is the usual prostitution of adults? ”

I saw Zhang Cheng walk in.

There was murder in his eyes.

Damn, our family finally ate the crabs back, and you want to take them back into the country, so our family will have to fight with you.

He directly said that the minister was recruiting prostitutes.

You can see how angry he is.

There's no way he's going to get a prostitute anyway.

Yang Mingshen didn't dare to provoke Zhang Cheng, and said: "Prime minister, we are only doing this for the sake of social stability, and we want those five guns to do something." ”

"You can't grab it either!"

Zhang Cheng sat on the side of Shen Shixing, stared at him, and snorted: "If you have the ability, the imperial court will print better than five guns, and if you can't compare to others, you will rob it, what kind of saying is this, our family wants to ask you for advice." ”

If you can't bully a novice person, you can bully my five guns, the only gun on my body has been taken away, and I finally got a fifth of the shares of five guns, which is also a gun, and you have to snatch it again.

Of course, Shen Shixing knew that Guan Xiaojie was one of the shareholders of Wutiao Gun, and nodded: "The Prime Minister is reasonable, I also think that this problem is not in Wutiao Gun, but in the imperial court, in the past, the printing technology of the imperial court was the best in the world, how did it suddenly become like this." ”

Zhang Cheng nodded and said, "Shen Shoufu is right." ”

At this time, an official about fifty years old next to Song Qi said: "In fact, there are many printers in the five guns, who originally worked in the imperial court. ”

This person is Shi Xing, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Li Zhi immediately asked, "Shi Shangshu, since you know about it, why don't you stop it?" ”

Shi Xing immediately said: "I can't stop it, because the salary given by the five guns is ten times that of the imperial court, or even twenty times, and anyone will go to the five guns." Since that's the case, I'll say one more thing.

Since Guo Dan won the order for firearms in the imperial court, dozens of craftsmen from the firearms manufacturing bureaus in various places immediately went to Weihui Mansion to help Guo Dan work. ”

Speaking of this, I really want to thank Zhang Juzheng very much, in the past, many craftsmen helped the imperial court to do things, that was service, it was an obligation, not a job, it was Zhang Juzheng's unified service, and the craftsman could not go if he paid the money.

Five guns are paid such a high salary, and that little bit of tax is really not taken into account.

Some craftsmen could not leave, and they did not hesitate to use their savings to bribe officials just to get out.

They all think that the craftsmen of the five guns are so rubbish, they can take so much money, and my craftsmanship is much better than theirs, why only take a tenth of their money.

Song Qi said: "The account office of our household department has also gone some. ”

Wang Jiaping frowned and said: "I vaguely remember that some time ago, when Guo Dan was building a private academy in Kaifeng Mansion, it seemed that the Ministry of Rites also left a few officials. ”

Everyone began to look at each other.

What's the situation?

Is this to hollow out the imperial court?

Shen Shixing was surprised: "Why haven't I heard you mention it before?" ”

Shi Xing said: "Have you forgotten that Lord Shoufu once mentioned this matter in a concerto, but he didn't get a reply. ”

The ministers were immediately petrified.

Shen Shixing really didn't remember such a concerto, but he also knew that Shi Xing was not a liar.

Shi Xing continued: "This is the problem, the imperial court has never paid attention to these craftsmen, resulting in many excellent craftsmen leaving the imperial court and going to the people to help the merchants. ”

Yang Mingshen immediately retorted: "Our officials only have a little bit of money every year, how can the imperial court pay attention to craftsmen?" Isn't it enough to be a merchant and let those craftsmen be above us? ”

Shi Xing just glanced at Yang Mingshen, and then stopped making a sound.

Because he knows that it is useless.

These officials are still underfed, and the craftsmen are still the objects of their exploitation, so how can they feed the craftsmen.

At this time, a minister suddenly said: "Why not cancel the unification of enlistment." ”

Yang Mingshen's eyes lit up, this is feasible.

If one whip is abolished, then the craftsmen will have to serve again, and the craftsmen with five guns can come and go when they are called.

Shen Shixing glared at the official angrily: "You are simply talking nonsense, for the sake of a newspaper, you want to abolish the country's most important enslavement system." ”

Li Zhi said: "Lord Shoufu's words are wrong, and there are many drawbacks ....... unification of enlistment!" ”

Without waiting for him to finish, Shen Shixing said: "That's another matter, if you want to talk about it, you can talk about it another day, how can it be compared with this matter, I really don't know the importance." ”

Zhang Cheng chuckled: "It seems that you really hate Guo Dan to the core, and you don't hesitate to use the national policy to deal with Guo Dan." ”

Li Zhi listened, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

Besides, this hat of public use for personal gain has been buttoned up.

Eunuchs are much more ruthless than they are.

Yang Ming said deeply: "Then you can't let this situation continue to develop!" ”

Song Jingsheng said: "Now Guo Dan is saying everywhere outside that the imperial court has to rely on five guns to print the newspaper, so as to publicize his five guns, otherwise, how can five guns be worth so much money, this matter is true." ”

Shen Shixing frowned and said, "In this way, for the time being, the ministries are temporarily forbidden to interact with the five guns." ”

Li Zhidao: "Don't you send someone to investigate?" At the very least, they had to be forbidden to print the Spring Palace paintings. ”

Shen Shixing glanced at Zhang Cheng slightly, and said, "I haven't asked about the situation for the time being, so let's talk about it later." ”

Guan Xiaojie is the head of the five guns in Weihui Mansion, if you go to check the painting of the Spring Palace, you will eventually find out Zhang Cheng's head, how could Zhang Cheng agree.

They discussed for a long time, and the result of the discussion was to restrict the imperial court from having any transactions with the five guns, preferring to use manuscripts.

We have to have backbone.

As long as they don't use their power to deal with the five guns, then they are basically helpless, because the current mainstream values, craftsmen are lowly households, in fact, their status is far inferior to that of merchants, and under this kind of value, craftsmen cannot be valued by the imperial court.

I don't give the horses grazing, and I want the horses to run.

It's impossible.

In fact, at the beginning, Guo Dan didn't dare to dig into the corners of the imperial court, but now he is not afraid at all, the volume of the tooth line is there, there is no way to cover it, more than five guns, less five guns, everyone will not make any difference between envy and hatred of them.

And he and the minister are already incompatible.

He's still afraid of a ball!

Lao Tzu is going to dig up, except for you literati, everyone else will be dug up.

Guo Dan didn't care about the opinion of the imperial court, he was busy sorting out the accounts of Yinuoya and Wutiao Gun, because in the case of a joint-stock system, the accounts must be announced to the shareholders.

But today an uninvited guest came and seriously interfered with his work.

"Alas......!"

"Alas......!"

"Alas......!"

"Little prince, what are you doing?" Guo Dan looked at Zhu Yihua with a depressed face, and said: "If you have anything, just say it, what is our relationship, you sigh here, I'm really restless!" ”

Zhu Yihua lamented again: "What are you restless, you are all rich, how can you care about my feelings as a poor person." ”

Are you poor? You are poor, you have not collected the people's fat and people's ointment all these years.

Guo Dan scolded secretly, stood up, walked to the sofa and sat down, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, don't worry!" Don't talk about five guns, even five guns plus our one tooth line is not worth your wealth! If I were you, where would I be able to see the small workshop of five guns, devote myself to the Qinglou industry, and have fun while I am young. ”

Zhu Yihua was confused when he heard it: "What are you talking about?" How can this king have so much money? ”

He wasn't poor, but he really didn't have that much money.

Wanli's inner government doesn't have so much money.

"You've got it."

Guo Dan smiled and groaned: "Could it be that the prince has forgotten Tianjin Wei?" ”

"Tianjin Wei?"

Zhu Yihua blinked, and suddenly turned into joy and said, "Yes!" How did this king forget Tianjin Wei. ”

Guo Dan nodded and said: "As long as Tianjin Weigang is completed, we will control the entire overseas trade, and a large amount of silver will fall into our hands, as long as the prince is happy, he can take the gold and silver to make the toilet." ”

Zhu Yihua said excitedly: "Then I don't know when Tianjin Weigang will be built?" ”

Guo said lightly: "I don't know about this yet, but sooner or later it will be built, Lord Wang, you are so young, what are you afraid of, when that time comes, of course, Your Majesty is the richest man, Lord Wang, you must be the second." ”

Zhu Yihua laughed so hard that his eyes were gone, and he reciprocated: "You are third." ”

Guo Danzhi shook his head and said: "I'll be exempt, I just like the process of making money, I don't care how much pocket money I have in this pocket." ”

"Faint!"

Zhu Yihua snorted, sat beside Guo Dan, and put one hand on Guo Dan's shoulder, "Based on this, you brother, this king has recognized it." ”