Yang Xin sat in his glass warm pavilion and leisurely looked at the shocked guests.

Glass only.

The Ming Dynasty has been building it for more than 200 years.

Yan Shenzhen, or the Boshan Sun family, has been making glass for the court for generations.

However, the development of glass in the Ming Dynasty has taken a fork in the road, not to develop transparent glass, but to take a special art route, not only do not like to make transparent, but also deliberately add materials to it, in order to keep the glass turbid and various colors, so that it is more to the development of jade.

It's not that it can't be transparent.

The base material of Yan Shenzhen's glass handicrafts is transparent, but they deliberately add a mess to this transparent bottom material.

In the early days, flat glass was expensive just because it could not be cast, so the flat plate was blown into a pipe and cut while it was hot, so it was difficult to ensure the uniformity of the glass, and it was almost impossible to make it bigger. But it was also in this century that the French developed the technology of glass casting, and from then on, flat glass and mirrors were cheapened.

He is cast.

It is as simple as pouring it on an iron plate, and the so-called invention of the French is to pour it on an iron table.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

He said, holding his teacup.

Guests who were admiring out-of-season vegetables turned their eyes to him.

The people who are invited by Yang Dudu today are definitely not ordinary people, but in fact, they can be called the heroes of the Ming Dynasty in the next twenty years......

Of course, this also includes rape.

"Yang Dudu, this warm pavilion is priceless!"

Hong Chengchou, the director of the Criminal Department, said with a smile.

Even he didn't know why he was invited.

"Dozens of pieces of glass like this are made in the factory over there!"

Yang Xin pointed to a large chimney more than ten meters high in the distance and said.

Hong Chengchou gasped.

"Wouldn't it be possible to make a diorama?"

He was stunned.

"Soon it will be available!"

Yang Xin said.

"Then Yang Dudu will have a lot of money!"

Chen Qiyu said with a smile.

He already considered himself a close confidant of Yang Dudu.

After Hui Shiyang was promoted to the middle of the matter, he was directly promoted to the left of the middle of the matter across the process.

"I don't really care about getting rich or something, and you know that I don't really lack money, and my money can't be spent."

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Dudu is honest."

Zhang Guowei said with disdain.

Next to him, a man with a pen and paper was drawing, drawing a picture of the fortress on his own.

This is Mao Yuanyi, the author of "Wu Beizhi", also a family of people, his family is one of the few book collectors in the south of the Yangtze River, originally this subject was not examined, and there was no afterward, but this time because of the arithmetic assessment first has actually been included in the top three, he and Song Yingxing are the main surprises of this subject, and Song Yingxing originally fell in this subject.

It can be seen that the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was still very fair.

These people who like miscellaneous studies and are distracted by miscellaneous studies really can't delve into the Bagu Wen.

"I know you hate me, and I'm really sad about that."

Yang Xin said.

Sun Chuanting, who was admiring a small gherkin, couldn't help but smile.

"Brother Boya, do you have any opinions?"

Yang Xin said.

Sun Chuanting hurriedly motioned for him to continue performing.

"I did do a lot of things that made you dissatisfied before, such as I like to raid my house, I like to frame people, I like to bombard scholars with cannons, and even like to extort money, in short, sometimes I am shocked when I think about this, it turns out that I have been so bad that I am completely heinous!"

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Dudu is really self-aware."

Huang Daozhou said.

"Since today is a feast, why should we dwell on these past events."

Yang Sichang, the head of the household department, said with a smile.

Like Hong Chengchou, he is also very inexplicable about his invitation, but he is a neutral faction in the imperial court, although he is also dissatisfied with Yang Xin because of the Six Arts Assessment, but because of his close relationship with the Hubu Shangshu Poetry Sect, he will not stand on the opposite side of Yang Xin.

After all, Yang Xin has never harmed Huguang.

His father, Yang He, was also a neutral faction in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Yang Xin waved his hand.

Yang Sichang had no choice but to shut up with a little embarrassment.

"But if I had to do it all over again, I'd still make myself heinous like this."

Yang Xin said.

"Because of my heinousness, in exchange for the peace of the country.

I do like to raid my house, but the money I steal has become the military expenditure of Liaodong, so that the 200,000 troops of the imperial court can have enough to eat, and I can protect the peace of the people of the Ming Dynasty for the imperial court to protect Liaodong. I do like extortion, but I extort the money of those wealthy families, so that Your Majesty is exempted from salary, and the common people can eat a few more full meals. Of course, I did make some of my own money, but I used silver to attract the shantytowns in Jiangxi to live and work in peace and contentment, and Jiangxi no longer had to worry about the shantytowns.

I also used this silver to turn this barren land into fertile land.

At least 500,000 acres.

It can supply at least one million stone meters to the capital every year.

Jiangnan can send one million less stone grain to the north.

You see, everything I do is for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

He continued.

"What about Li Sancai, who died in vain?"

Zhang Guowei said.

"Did he die in vain? Did Gao Panlong die in vain? Do you believe that a loan shark will be a righteous man? Which of the ones I killed was clean? Do you want me to tell you about some of these things? We are all understanding people, just like when I dealt with Li Sancai, who of the world's wealthy gentry can withstand such a test? Including you and me, who of you dares to pat your chest and say that you are as clean as a blank piece of paper, I am heinous, and I admit it myself. ”

Yang Xin said.

None of them answered him.

Everyone knows the consequences of taking his words.

Although everyone knows that they are upright and gentlemen, the problem is that they dare not guarantee their relatives at home, nor do they dare to guarantee the servants who do things at home.

"But isn't that okay?"

Hong Chengchou said with a little embarrassment.

"Then please tell me Brother Wen, what would happen to the imperial court without the silver I brought to Your Majesty in the past two years? Can the Liaodong army eat, can His Majesty repair the silver of the Emperor's Pole Hall be offered, and will they have to continue to increase Liao's salary? Will famine in various places cause chaos? ”

Yang Xin said.

Yang Sichang shut up in embarrassment.

"That's all the income of the imperial court, like a temple, send a tax supervisor and you don't agree, what if the silver is not enough? Raise taxes on the common people to their rebellion? It's all about the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect, why does anyone believe Xu Hongru's set of things? Isn't it just that the common people are living too hard and want to find a thought? How many gentry were exterminated in Luxi when Xu Hongru rebelled?

Even Yasheng didn't run away after that!

This will not work, the result of the rebellion of the common people will be scattered in two, and the court can indeed suppress it, but those who died will not come back to life.

We can only raid the house.

The imperial court sent tax supervisors to collect taxes, and you didn't agree.

We dare not continue to raise taxes on the common people and force them to rebel.

What if you don't raid your home?

Unless you can have the best of both worlds, which can ensure the use of the imperial court without raising taxes for the common people? ”

Yang Xin said.

"The clan spends so much every year, why can't it be reduced?"

Zhang Guowei said.

"Yes, for example, the real seal, the fiefs of the kings are assigned to them, and the court will no longer give them a tael of silver from now on, if you play to Your Majesty like this, then I promise to fully support, and even I can let my uncle support it. In short, the kings and their families have a real fiefdom of land, and the population of this fief has become their tenants, and if any of you play, I will definitely raise my hands to support it. ”

Yang Xin said.

"This, this is still a long-term consideration."

Yang Sichang hurriedly said.

Zhang Guowei still wanted to speak, but Hong Chengchou gave him a look.

That's a very exciting question!

And the problem of the clan is still very complicated, far from that simple, the current clan is generally given a sum of silver every year, such as the Jiangxi three feudatories a total of 200,000 outcrops, but often in arrears, the most exaggerated Han Wangfu has actually not been given for six consecutive years, and the arrears are as high as 600,000 taels. However, this situation will give some salt and other compensation, but this thing in front of the crazy private salt of the Ming Dynasty is also to give the vassal king the right to sell illegal salt, and it is said that the Ming Dynasty is seventy percent of the private salt, and there are not many of them.

It's up to you to do this.

The second is to give the field.

This division is self-management and escrow, and self-management is to collect rent, but it must be explained that the land rent that the vassal king gave land to manage himself was not high.

Definitely less than the landlords.

For example, the German Fan has received two or three buckets, and it has been attacked by civil officials, and the emperor has specifically emphasized with a holy decree that it is not allowed to collect more, but the landlord has a conscience to collect fifty percent, but this matter is actually difficult to say, after all, the emperor is what he means, and he can't really send someone to investigate.

The escrow is the magistrate who collects it, and then gives a part of the silver every year.

The third is to expand by itself.

That is, the palace annexed, this situation is indeed very serious, the so-called Shu Wangfu robbed seventy percent of the land in Sichuan. This imperial court is actually not allowed, and it will occasionally be checked, and the Shu Wangfu robbed seventy percent of the land in Sichuan, and it seems that it has not delayed the life of the people of Sichuan, second only to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. So we must understand that the truth of this is that the local gentry and the vassal king colluded to send the land property, that is, it was put under the name of the vassal king and then there was no need to pay taxes.

So if Zhang Guowei is stupid to play Yang Xin's proposal, the gentry of the provinces can turn him into a mistake, and then everyone will send a fart!

Yang Xin was obviously looking for a replacement for the dead ghost.

He wanted to attack the clan, but he couldn't get ahead, so he wanted to find a substitute for the dead ghost to test the emperor's attitude.

"Then Yang Dudu bullies the gentry?"

Zhang Guowei said angrily.

"You're absolutely right."

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"My uncle and I have only one duty, to get enough silver for Your Majesty, but you can't continue to raise taxes on the peasants, and you don't do anything about raising taxes on the gentry, so what else can we do, we have to think of getting the silver that Your Majesty wants, so that I really can't think of anything else except raiding homes and extorting money from time to time."

Yang Xin said.