There should be no such emperor in the world, especially in the position of Wanli, because he was not the first emperor, nor did he launch a coup d'état to unify the world again like Emperor Chengzu.

An emperor who grew up in the deep palace should not know how to do it himself, or he should not be a dictator.

Dictator is not a pejorative term here.

Because of the normal development of the Ming Dynasty, there will be no emperor who tries to block the power, even in the Ming Dynasty in history, there are only about three, in fact, there are four people, but the last two are only half.

Ming Taizu, Ming Chengzu, Ming Wuzong and Ming Sizong.

The first two are because they dominate the world and do everything themselves; Wu Zong is active and playful by nature, while Sizong is extremely frightened, suspicious, and helpless.

If you want to monopolize power, you can't rely on the identity of the emperor alone, only one identity has no ability even if you have the heart to seize power, this is to be authoritative, but Emperor Wanli has this authority.

Who let him drive a small car named Huo De Xingjun in the palace and turn around again and again, and won the Second War of Mingxi?

The best officers and rising stars in the world were his protégés, and the empire prospered and strengthened in his hands.

It seems that all the old diseases have been solved in the process of Emperor Wanli adding coal to Huode Xingjun again and again.

He has no prestige, who has?

Zhang Juzheng? Of course, Zhang Juzheng has prestige, but Mr. Zhang's reputation stinks after he wins love.

What's more, the prestige of a minister is not the same as that of an emperor.

In the seventh year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor also made a great attempt.

Another imperial humerus is about to fall, the veteran Ma Fang, who has guarded Xuanda for many years, resigned, the root of the early years of the war made him unable to put on the horse anymore, and a few days after the emperor sent him to the Beiyang Medical Academy for treatment, an edict made the Ming Empire add another earl - Krupp Ma Fang.

The Ming Empire is extremely cautious about the knighthood, and the biggest problem lies in the clan Lumi, but this year, when the Wanli Emperor mentioned the title and was stopped by the courtiers on the issue of Lumi, the emperor had a countermeasure: less sloppy to me, more than 600 clans have been transferred out, and more will be transferred out next year.

Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Wu Dui, Wang Chonggu, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Chen Lan and others agreed.

Zhang Juzheng thought about it and liked it.

However, for Wang Zongyi, the head of the household department, the restart of the empire is insignificant, as long as the corruption of the warehouse like a rat's den can be managed well, the emperor can seal hundreds of earls, and the change in the income composition of the empire is what he is most concerned about.

There are more and more income-generating projects in the Ministry of Industry.

In this year, Zhang Juzheng led the completion of the telegraph network in conjunction with the north-south direct subordination, and 270 telegraph rooms were put into use on the way, of which 130 were for the military, and civilian purposes.

In the process of gradually building the telegraph, which lasted several years, the wealthy merchants had long been accustomed to these novelties, and the telegraph route between the north and the south of the country was more than 2,000 miles long, so that people could receive a reply within seven days.

However, there was no shortage of wealthy people at either end of this telegraph route.

Even if there are one or two crosses, there is still no shortage of people who write thousands of long letters and telegrams to the north and south of Beijing.

In a year, the maintenance of various places was removed, and there was still a balance of more than 100,000 taels on the books of the Ministry of Industry.

This is only one of them, and the second is in the Steam Bureau, which is more of the income than the telegraph, selling more than 40 units of the first type a year to earn hundreds of thousands of taels, and there are more small and medium-sized as foils.

Wang Zongyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was arguing with the Ministry of Industry as he approached the end of the year, trying to put the money under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry argued on the basis of reason, preferring to let the Nanyang Military Government hand over the science and technology incentives to the Ministry of Industry year by year in the Chen Mu era to the Ministry of Households, rather than hand over the money he earned.

The Ministry of Industry has tasted the sweetness.

It's not the silver taels themselves, but that they have gone through a virtuous circle with the financial supply of the Nanyang Military Government.

Funds were used to develop steam engines, steam engines were put into use, a large number of them were produced for counterpart sales, and after making a profit, they were reinvested in research and development, and more gold and silver were invested in research and development after successful development.

Mechanics, materials, mechanics, and electricity have all progressed as a result of this cycle.

As long as any important minister of the court sits in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Works, it is impossible for him to let go.

How terrible is the power of capital? Yin Zhengmao is no longer embezzling public funds - where is the corruption that he is doing now to make money quickly? The same is 300,000 taels of military spending, and if he is greedy, he can really only 300,000 taels, but he wants to use these 300,000 taels to obediently arm the troops of the Western Military Government, and if the big war ships and large artillery are loaded, at most 30,000 taels in a Chinese New Year's Eve can become 3 million taels.

Even if he takes more than half from the middle, there is still 1.5 million taels left to hand over to the imperial court; In fact, he really takes more than half every time, and he will only pay one million taels to the court after three million taels.

Either he said that the performance of the Western military government was poor, but in fact, money was meaningless to him, where was there a place to spend it? None of the countries in the West sent it to him if he didn't want anything, but he couldn't help it, he just liked shiny things.

Anyway, no matter how bad the performance is, Chen Mu's Oriental Military Mansion is at the bottom.

Chen Mu's Oriental Military Government is indeed the one with the largest annual investment and support from the imperial court among the three overseas military governments, but it has the least profit.

The Nanyang Military Government has hardware, rice, grain, market, and population, and has been in operation for many years, with the strongest profitability; As for the Western military government, there are hardware, timber, goods, population, and market, if it is not for Yin Zhengmao's greed, it is not possible for the Western military government to surpass the Nanyang military government.

The territory of the Oriental Military Government is also very large, and there are many goods, although there is less gold and silver, but every year from Spain can be picked up 670,000 taels, the difference is in goods.

The Toyo Military Government produces the most good timber because it is not on the coast, so it can't be transported at all!

However, in this uneventful year, the little emperor who sat firmly in the Forbidden City felt his heart surging - the northern riders braved the bitter cold to bring him back from Wangxia Prefecture the news that the Oriental military government was preparing for war: the Oriental military government had reached an actual occupation of the whole of New Spain, and in order to establish the influence of the Ming Empire in Europa, and to better assist the King of Ellan in the restoration war, the Oriental military government planned to intervene in the French War.

When I read this letter, Emperor Wanli's desk still had the reply of the secretary of the military department and Dai Cai, the governor of the Shaanxi trilateral army, to the transfer of trilateral ordnance.

The letter said that in the past seven years of Wanli, the three major ordnance bureaus of Beixuanfu, Nanyangwei, and Beiyang built a total of 7,440 field guns, city guns, and naval guns of various types in the fourth year of Wanli, and 31,272 bird guns in the sixth year of Wanli.

So far, the guards of Jiubian and Liangguang, Shandong, and Fujian provinces have completed the replacement of new-style bird guns and artillery, and the Jizhen border army has completed the arming of bird guns, tiger squat artillery, artillery, and chariots, which means that ...... The 300,000 Beijing troops stationed in Beizhili can be appropriately dismantled, selected, and reorganized.

"Quick, Teng Xiang Erwei, contact Beiyang and tell Ye Mengxiong that next year's Beiyang Army, Teng Xiang Erwei will also go to Asia, and now he can catch up with the big war the year after tomorrow...... I can practice four more guards! Well, practice four more guards. ”