Zhu Youzhu listened to his son's words, was slightly stunned, and then said with a dark face: "Speak well!" ”

Glancing at his father quite resentfully, Zhu Houzhao said: "Erchen studied the history books before and found a very interesting thing, that is, every time there is a change of dynasty, it seems that the same problem will occur, such as major natural disasters, such as serious land annexation, such as displaced people, basically every dynasty will have it. ”

Listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Zhu Youzhu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, it was really like this, and he had found it before, but he hadn't thought about it carefully.

"But why is that?" Zhu Houzhao asked his own question, but did not answer.

"Who can say the matter of natural disasters, land annexation, all dynasties and dynasties are a big problem, but there has been no good solution!" Zhu Youzhu said helplessly, he also knew this, and he had studied it, but there has been no good solution to land annexation, even if the legislation is strict and the management is strict, it still cannot be stopped.

Zhu Houzhao asked again: "But there were natural disasters when the country was not destroyed, and there were bigger ones, why?" In addition, why is it that a dynasty has only two or three hundred years of national ancestry? ”

"Prosperity must decline, the monarch is mediocre, these are superficial reasons, in the eyes of the sons, in fact, the answer is very simple, that is, the people can't live." Zhu Hou said as a matter of course.

Hearing his son's words, Zhu Youjiao's beard almost ran out of breath, and he wanted to reach out and slap his son, but he was reluctant, so he still didn't do it: "Just say it, don't go around the bend!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Houzhao agreed, and then said: "The emperor is mediocre, what kind of emperor is mediocre?" Spend money on palaces? Fighting abroad? Or looting women? Let's talk about building palaces first, if the country has money, what's wrong with building several palaces? If the palace is built instead of levying people's husbands, but giving wages, the people will not welcome it. ”

Zhu Youzhu glanced at Zhu Houzhao, what did his son think, but why did he feel as if he was right?

"Foreign wars, so what? The court has money and soldiers, what's wrong with beating him? Poor soldiers, no money can be said to speak, I have money, I can fight as much as I want, as for women, let alone the emperor, the Ye family has more than 300 women in a garden, not to mention the emperor, it is not considered to have 3,000 people, right? Having said that, can there really be so many? ”

Looking at his son with black lines on his face, Zhu Youzhu glared and said, "This is what you realized from reading the history books?" ”

"Father, the focus is not here, the focus is on money, it stands to reason that the world is recuperating and the population is increasing, but why are the people having a hard time? Because land is limited, and the number of people who can be supported by a piece of land is also limited, when there are more people, the land is still those, so how can it be enough to feed the people? ”

"Coupled with land annexation, the people will not have a way to live, once there is a natural disaster, it will be a disaster in the world."

"The court has no money and no food for disaster relief, but it won't be able to live, the world is in chaos, the princes are fighting, it is going to die, and when the death is almost over, the world is unified, and the vacated land is enough to feed these people, that is, a new dynasty is established, and then it continues to multiply, until the population is large enough, and the land is not enough, and the world is slumped again."

"This process is about two hundred years and three hundred years, which is why the world has changed about this year."

"The land is not enough to feed the people, where does the court get the money? At that time, there will be no money for disaster relief, as long as there is a slight natural disaster or people and goods, it will be the world! Zhu Houzhao sighed softly as he spoke: "Now that the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than a hundred years, this situation has begun to appear, the land annexation is serious, the imperial court taxes have been reduced, and the income is beyond its means. ”

Zhu Youzhu looked at his son, a little at a loss, although a voice scolded his son in his head, telling himself that his son was a fallacy. But another, more determined voice also told himself, what his son said was right, why is this?

"So what do you say you should do?" Zhu Youzhu looked at Zhu Houzhao, and asked in a low voice: "Could it be that the Ming Dynasty also wants to follow in the footsteps of other dynasties?" ”

"No!" Zhu Houzhao shook his head directly: "As long as I am here, I won't, in fact, the solution to this problem is very simple, since the land is not enough, then go and look for land, the world is so big, with a knife, you can always find more and more suitable land." At that time, whether it was the Qin Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, all of them conquered the land of Baiyue in the south. ”

"There was a miasma all over the place, but now? Who would dare to say that there is a miasma everywhere? ”

Zhu Youzhang, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, of course knew where the land of Baiyue was, and Zhu Houzhao also knew that from the southern part of Jiangsu along the southeast coast of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and northern Vietnam, which was seven or eight thousand miles long, it was the most concentrated distribution area of the ancient Yue people, and the local scattered distribution also included Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui.

According to this distribution, there is no need to be in later generations, even in the Ming Dynasty, there are many good places here, which are all expanded and operated from generation to generation.

"Good, good!" Zhu Youzhu stretched out his hand and patted his son's shoulder, and then said with a smile: "Very ambitious, then tell me what you are going to do!" ”

Although Zhu Houzhao said a lot, Zhu Youzhu is still willing to believe in his son, of course, this is not because of the relationship between father and son, but because Zhu Houzhao did the matter of salt administration. The affairs of Yanzheng are complicated, and everyone in the court knows that it is a big trouble, but his son has solved it beautifully.

A few days ago, the two Huai salt farms have come to the book, this month the two Huai salt farms have adopted a new salt drying method, and at the same time there is a production team system of His Royal Highness the Prince, the salt output of the two Huai salt farms is more than twice as much as before, so that the Manchu civil officials were amazed. Because of this incident, the opposition of the DPRK and China to the reform of the salt administration system has become much smaller.

With the matter of the salt farm, Zhu Youzhu naturally has a little more confidence in his son, and he wants to know what his son wants to do.

"The problem of the southeast must be solved!" Zhu Houzhao said without thinking about it: "Those coastal smugglers must not let these people go down, changing rice to mulberry will make the already insufficient land even more insufficient, and make the already scarce grain even more scarce, until a solution to this problem is found, we must not let them do this." ”

Zhu Youzhu also nodded, and then said with a bit of playfulness: "But you also said it, this is not easy to change!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "There is nothing difficult to change, it's just to crack down on smuggling, what do they rely on for smuggling?" It's not by boat, sea ships come from the sea, as long as the sea route is blocked, then how can they smuggle? Erchen is going to build a sailor, a sailor who can fight at sea, and Erchen calls it a navy. ”

Now Zhu Youzhu understands why his son is looking for the old file of the Three Treasures Eunuch Zheng He to go to the South Seas: "You want to build a treasure fleet?" ”

The first thing that Zhu Youzhu thought of was money, it was a treasure fleet, it was nothing else, the treasure fleet was not something that could be afforded casually, not to mention the current imperial court, even if it was abolished at the beginning of the founding of the country. Zhu Youzhu didn't know where his son got the confidence to build a treasure fleet, it was all money.

"Isn't the money that Erchen brought back from Yangzhou enough this time?" Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate to expose his father.

Let's not talk about the profits of the salt farm restructuring, that is the follow-up income, the first auction of salt access qualifications will have to wait until March next year, and the income is not visible, but this time Zhu Houzhao came back with money from Yangzhou and Lianghuai, and a rough estimate is made, whether there is more, there are still seven or eight million.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Youzhu looked at his son vigilantly: "The money has a source, and it can't be used for you." ”

Zhu Houzhao was speechless for a moment, but he still said: "The minister wants to ask, what did you do with all that money?" ”

"The imperial court has not had enough daily needs in recent years, and it needs to make up military salaries and official services, as well as purchase armaments, which are all urgent matters." Zhu Youzhu opened his mouth to explain to his son, but Zhu Youzhu was also a little weak-hearted, even a little embarrassed, and finally a little annoyed and angry: "What do you care about so much, in short, it is very useful, and I can't use it to build a ship for you." ”

Looking at his father, it has been so long, Zhu Houzhao has seen his father for the first time, this feeling of being a scoundrel makes Zhu Houzhao feel very warm, this is no longer the emperor who is high, but a father who plays scoundrel with his son.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao also knew why his father was like this, because that money was an unexpected income, and he made it himself, could it be that without this money, these things in the court would not be done? It's just that this money really can't be used to build a ship for itself, and the lack of money in the imperial court is an objective fact that exists, and now with this money, it can indeed greatly alleviate the financial pressure of the imperial court.

If this money is used to build a ship by himself, not to mention others, only those who are owed military salaries and salaries, then it will not be overturned!

"It's okay, Erchen went to get the money himself, isn't it just a fleet? What a deal! Zhu Houzhao said nonchalantly.

When Lao Tzu's fleet came out, he directly took a trip to the southeast and swept away the smuggling ships, and when the time came, all the stolen back was his own. Not only did those smuggling ships, but also the big smugglers along the southeast coast all raid their homes, and when the time came, it was estimated that they would have to build some large transport ships, otherwise they would not be able to bring them back.

"Don't mess around!" Zhu Youzhu looked at his son vigilantly and reminded that Zhu Youzhu knew that his son had a lot of ghost ideas and was bold, and he was afraid that his son would do something.

"Father, don't worry!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said: "Erchen is just doing some things from the Eighth Bureau, you wait and see, you will definitely make a lot of money, but you lend Yang Peng to Erchen's envoy." ”

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