Zhu Youxiao stopped after saying these words, and looked at the vassal kings present, but these people looked at him blankly one by one, and they didn't want to speak at all, Zhu Youxiao sighed in his heart, it seems that these vassal kings seem to have let the system of the Yongle Emperor be raised into pigs, and no one dares to consider and discuss national affairs. Zhu Youxiao was a little disappointed in his heart, if he wanted this group of people to help him govern the country, it seemed that there was no hope, so let their sons come.

Zhu Youxiao looked around again, and saw that Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, owed his ass, so he opened his mouth and said: "Uncle Shu, if you have something to say, please speak, you don't have to worry about anything, you don't have to stand up, just say it directly." ”

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, still stood up: "Your Majesty, brothers, this king is Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, the rebellion that occurred in Sichuan and Guizhou last year was in my fiefdom, if you want to say that you are not afraid of it, it is false, I am afraid to death, there are less than 20,000 defenders in the city, but there are more than 100,000 rebels attacking the city." I obeyed His Majesty's will, took out a large amount of food and silver from my family, and gave it to the soldiers and civilians who defended the city, and rewarded the meritorious personnel. Your Majesty is right, I am the richest man in the whole city of Chengdu, and I am also the biggest beneficiary of Chengdu City. If Chengdu is breached by the city, I am the one who suffers the most losses, and the first one the rebels want to kill is also me, once the person is dead, no matter how much money is left, it is someone else's, I might as well give him to the soldiers and civilians who protect me, if I hold the city, the gold and silver property will be accumulated back. What's more, Your Majesty also promised that once you hold the city, you will make up for all my losses. In accordance with His Majesty's will, Sun Chengzong compensated me for my losses from the seized property after the counterinsurgency was over. But I deeply feel the great virtue of Your Majesty, I also want to open it these days, anyway, these things are not brought in life, and I don't bring them in death, what do I want so much money for. Listening to Lord Sun Chengzong, the emperor thought of raising funds everywhere for the construction of rural primary schools, and as soon as I gritted my teeth, I donated all of them to the construction of primary schools in Chengdu in the name of the emperor's reward. Seeing me do this, the soldiers and civilians of Chengdu also donated almost all of my original rewards, and many landlords and squires also felt that the emperor was wise, and they also donated money and materials. Originally, the war was followed by a scene of depression, but now the whole of Sichuan and Guizhou is a prosperous scene, and the common people have also swept away the sorrow of the past, are full of excitement, and take out full enthusiasm to cultivate the allocated land. I, Zhu Zhishu, have not seen this kind of prosperity in the past few decades, and I have never heard of the so-called peaceful and prosperous times that I know. ”

Zhu Zhishu said so much at once, his heart trembled a little with excitement, and the vassal kings everywhere were also shocked by what the King of Shu said, they didn't expect that the King of Shu, a distant royal family, would be so wise at a critical moment, and they didn't expect that Zhu Youxiao would promise to be compensated if the King of Shu suffered losses. What I didn't expect in particular was that after the end of the Sichuan-Guizhou War, not only did it not become depressed, but it became more prosperous.

Zhu Youxiao stood up and bowed deeply to Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, so frightened that the king of Shu hurriedly dodged, and said again and again that he didn't dare, didn't dare.

Zhu Youxiao then said: "Thank you Uncle Huang for his deep understanding of righteousness and saving the people of Chengdu City, and I thank Uncle Huang for the people of the world." In fact, there are still things that you don't know, and Uncle Shu didn't tell you, now I'll talk about it for Uncle Huang. After the king of Shu put down the rebellion, he decided to provide each of his tenants with one acre of land per person, and also exempted this year's rent, and in the future, anyone who rents his land only needs to pay 20% of the harvest, and will be rent-free in disaster years.

"Under the demonstration and leadership of the King of Shu, now the land rent of the entire Sichuan is all reduced to 20%, which shows how much credit the King of Shu has, if the landlords and squires in the world can be as enlightened as the King of Shu, then there will be displaced people in the world? If there are no displaced people, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, will there be any turmoil in the world? I hope that you can take the King of Shu as an example and make your own contributions to the inheritance of our Zhu family for thousands of generations. ”

Zhu Youxiao's words stopped here to see what these vassal kings were doing. These vassal kings will be a little bolder, and they will begin to have some discussions, some say that the emperor is poor and want to make a fortune with us, some say that we should also learn from the king of Shu to build some schools, and some say that we should also reduce the land rent to 20%, and some sit in a daze and listen to the big guy's discussions. Anyway, the atmosphere is much better now than it was at the beginning. Zhu Youxiao also began to have a good impression of these people, and it seems that when it comes to vital interests, these people will still consider some simple issues.

Zhu Youxiao and others discussed for a while, and then began to speak: "Uncles and brothers, since I ascended the throne, I have been thinking about a question, that is, the Ming Dynasty has been in existence for more than 250 years since its founding, and it has been about the same time as other dynasties in history. Judging by the situation two years ago, it is very likely. On the one hand, natural disasters continue, floods and droughts occur everywhere in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the result is that the displaced people are everywhere, and the people are not able to make a living; On the other hand, our army was almost defeated in the Battle of Salhu in Liaodong, and compared with the Jurchen cavalry, we had almost no combat ability; There is also the rampant corruption of corrupt officials inside and outside the court, no officials are not greedy, no officials are not traitorous, extortion, and oppression of good people are continuous. This is the precursor to the demise of a dynasty, and we all have it.

"Fortunately, last year and this year, we finally basically stabilized the situation, and the Liaodong side, under the command of Sun Chengzong and Xiong Tingbi, defeated the Jurchen attack with sharp artillery, muskets and good strategy and tactics. In Shandong officialdom, we have implemented a new type of official management method, and we have achieved good results. However, these successful cases are based on countless silver and have a good plan to complete, which requires us to have a good economic foundation and excellent talent management in order to ensure the future of our Ming Dynasty.

"I'm going to tell you what I mean, and I hope you can understand and implement it. First, I intend to reunite the economic power of our royal family. Based on my inner treasury and the money of the princes, establish a 'Ming Royal Bank', explain, the bank is the advanced form of the bank, it will be more advanced and profitable than all the current money, it will use the advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty, the new factory as the investment object, to create more convenient and practical civilian goods, will also make more sharp artillery, muskets, let us Ming Dynasty produce the most advanced ships. At the beginning, the 'Daming Royal Bank' will only set up branches in each province, and in the future, it will set up branches in every state, prefecture and county to support industrial construction. Secondly, our bank is the public property of everyone, every vassal king is a shareholder of the bank, the power organ of the bank is called the shareholders' meeting, and the person in charge of the shareholders' meeting is called the chairman, which is elected by all the shareholders of our capital, we are not responsible for specific business activities, we will hire the most capable money bankers in the country to take care of our business for us, we just tell them our purpose, let them be responsible for the actual bank operation, we only supervise the operation. In addition, we have to build various factories and excavate mines. Everyone knows about gold, silver, copper, iron, these common things, in fact, according to Western missionaries, if you subdivide the composition of the mine, there are many more things in it. For example, a kind of black ore that we found in Jiangxi, Lord Song Yingxing used it to refine a kind of steel, which has a particularly hard property, and it can be used to drill holes in fine iron, and the steel knife made from it can cut other knives and guns without curling the blade. In short, it is not clear to say a sentence now, and there are many good things that we don't know that need to be discovered and used. ”