As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Yingtianfu has always been the most prosperous place in the entire Ming Dynasty. The people here are outstanding, guarding the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and the taxes of the entire Jiangnan are constantly nourishing here.

Whether it is the north-south tax adjustment, or the carriage and horses, including some jokes made by envoys from all over the world. These are all topics of interest to the people of this metropolis with a population of more than 1.5 million.

Recently, Yingtianfu has become a lot more lively, and the descendants of the vassal kings from all over the Ming Dynasty, like those envoys who have not seen the world, have also made a lot of funny things.

For example, Zhu Zhixuan, the son of King Qing, grew up in the desolate Weizhou since he was a child, and after coming to Beijing, he fell in love with the amorous beauties of the Qinhuai River and lingered in the land of fireworks. Although he was young and handsome, he was kicked out of the Qinglou by the old bustard because he couldn't afford to sleep.

Zhu Youstew, the son of King Zhou, was sought after by the land of fireworks because of his outstanding screenwriting talent, although he was nearly forty years old, there were countless beautiful Jiao'e who were willing to recommend themselves to the pillow.

Ning Wang's son, Zhu Panshi, wanted to enter the young army with a dead face, and was willing to call himself a small soldier and train with the young army, but within three days, he couldn't endure the hardships and quit in embarrassment.

Zhu Jiyan, the ten-year-old son of King Shen, became obsessed with going to the zoo to see those animals after coming to Beijing, and he would cry if he didn't go for a day, which made a group of followers distressed.

There is also Zhu Huixuan, the son of King Min, because his father has been imprisoned repeatedly, and now there are only 300 followers in King Min's mansion, living in Wugang Prefecture. This Zhu Huiyu only had six followers who came to Beijing from Wugang Prefecture, and because of his vulgar clothing, he was almost arrested by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division as a pretend.

The common people in the capital think that they are well-informed at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and they have always had an inexplicable sense of superiority. From the perspective of small people, he also likes to spread those bad things about the big people.

Although Zhu Zhanji is busy with affairs, he has not paid attention to them for a while, but he has not paid attention to them.

However, it's just a matter of attention.

As the grandson, he doesn't need to maintain a relationship with anyone, and he doesn't have much hope for the Zhu clan raised like a pig.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's sons do have a few outstanding generations, after two or three generations, almost all of them have died.

What's more, the Zhu family is too big, and now the third and fourth generations, there are already dozens of palaces above the county king, and he can't take care of them even if he wants to.

Only a few palaces that were a little closer, he let people take care of them a little more.

On 16 October, after more than a month of training, more than 2,000 trained elites of the era will go to various places to prepare for the establishment of banks.

Zhu Zhanji ordered that the "shopkeeper" of the same place who was assigned must accompany him.

The relationship between the Household Development Bank and the Internal Supervision Commercial Bank is in competition with each other. Therefore, during the training period, the people of the two banks also did not interact with each other, and even became full of hostility.

The people of the household department looked down on the people in the inner prison, and the people in the inner prison were not convinced by the superiority of the people in the household department.

Zhu Zhanji really wants them to compete with each other, but he wants to control this competition within a certain range.

Moreover, when the bank was first established, the business scope of the two companies was not the same, and he hoped that the two could communicate with each other and avoid some detours. Therefore, they are required to be assigned to the treasurer of the same county in other provinces, and they must go together and exchange experiences with each other.

Whether it is recruiting tellers or conducting business at the grassroots level, the two banks can actually learn from each other.

As for what it will be, Zhu Zhanji can't care too much.

In fact, the ministers of the DPRK and China also complained about Zhu Zhanji's opening of two banks at once.

They strongly supported the establishment of banks by the Ministry of Households, and both military generals and civil servants saw the important role of banks in the country's economic activities.

First of all, the salaries of officials and soldiers are distributed by the bank, and each official will open an account in the development bank, and the monthly salary will be directly distributed.

Everyone must go to the bank in person to collect it before they can get it, which puts an end to the practice of generals deducting money from the source.

From ancient times to the present, it has been a practice that has been repeatedly banned by the imperial courts of all dynasties, and no one can change it.

However, after the appearance of the bank, a person will have an account, and only he and a designated relative can receive it, and no one can claim it.

Even if the person dies in battle, his designated relatives can receive the funds in his account.

Of course, their relatives cannot receive it from other banks, and can only collect it at the opening bank. If you want to collect it across banks, you must change the account funds into gold and silver bills at the opening bank, and indicate where to exchange them, and then issue gold and silver bills and take them to the designated branch to collect them.

Such a somewhat rigid financial policy allows the household department to grasp the flow of funds throughout the country and allocate the flow of state funds at the macro level.

Of course, the generals are not without rights, at least the funds for army construction are still distributed by the military themselves, but compared with before, they cannot control the soldiers' salaries, and the funds they can control are much less.

And the ministers have mastered the money bags of the generals, so they are not afraid of the generals rebelling at all.

Therefore, there was no resistance from the beginning when the Ministry of Household opened the bank, and the ministers were very active in promoting the process of establishing the bank.

From this point of view, the commercial banks of the internal supervision were successfully created because of this shareholder trend, otherwise, the internal supervision would not have been so smooth if they wanted to open a bank.

Among the generals, of course, there are a large number of people who oppose this policy, but now Zhu Di's control over the army is still relatively strict, and the army is not corrupt, so some of the military generals who eat empty salaries are no longer willing, but they have no right to oppose it in the government and can only accept it.

Another important reason why the ministers did not resolutely oppose the establishment of banks by internal supervisors was that at the same time as the establishment of commercial banks, the transactions of large amounts of cash would be gradually restricted.

Restricting the merchants' large amounts of cash is to a certain extent, which is equivalent to controlling the hands and feet of the merchants.

Since the Song Dynasty, the rise of science and religion has greatly increased the power of the scholars. However, the status of the merchants became lower and lower, and the merchants also became the money bags of the civil servants.

Although the merchants could not resist, they also fought for greater power and status for themselves, and even installed many of their own spokesmen because of this.

If the flow of funds of the businessmen is controlled, it is equivalent to pinching the throat of the businessmen. They need to go through banks to do business, even if they exchange gold and silver bills.

How much money each household has, even if it can be concealed for a while, it cannot be concealed for a long time, after all, it is impossible for each family's money to be out of circulation all the time.

The imperial court now controls the circulation of silver money, which can only be circulated through banks, and is not afraid that those merchants will turn the sky upside down.

Therefore, before the bank was formally established, some ministers proposed to give the Inspection Department, the Household Department Guangying Treasury, and the Ministry of Rites the main and guest departments more power to set up checkpoints to prevent the circulation of large amounts of cash.

However, this proposal was a little too early, and Zhu Di directly rejected it.

Before the normal operation of the bank, before all the gold and silver in circulation in the Ming Dynasty were exchanged for gold and silver coins, the circulation of gold and silver is now strictly controlled, which will directly affect the country's economic development.

Although Zhu Di refuted it, everyone also knew the development trend of Daming in the future. Within a few years, the circulation of gold and silver throughout the country would be restricted.

The die-casting of gold and silver coins was firmly controlled by the imperial court, the banks were controlled by the state, and the circulation of gold and silver was controlled again, so the economy of the whole country was firmly controlled by the household department and the internal supervision.

Chen Xuan has become a celebrity in the capital recently, as long as anyone with a discerning eye can see that Daming Bank will become the most important power department of Daming in the future, and the power of this department will be much greater than that of many yamen.

First of all, Daming Bank has the right to supervise and investigate the two commercial banks.

Second, Daming Bank controlled the circulation of gold and silver throughout the country.

The most important thing is that although Daming Bank is nominally under the joint supervision of multiple departments, it is only responsible to the emperor.

At the beginning, the Ministry of Household and the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Internal Prison, and the Jinyi Wei only arranged some marginal characters into the Daming Bank, which was equivalent to distribution.

But now, after many people see the importance of Daming Bank, they can't wait to arrange their children and grandchildren into it.

It was only after Chen Xuan was sought after by the ministers of civil and military affairs, including the noble class, that he truly understood the importance of his position from his master's analysis.

In addition to the minting power without internal supervision, there is no audit power of the household department, which is equivalent to the bank controlling the entire country's economy.

This is not what he thought at first, just to be a big operation officer.

In the past, he served as the governor of Caoyun, and he transported grain, but now, he transports the gold and silver of the entire Ming Dynasty. It also has the right to manage the nation's cash circulation, which is greater than the actual power of the household department.

At this time, he no longer regretted coming to serve as the governor of this bank.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji also knew that the power of the governor of the bank was a little too great. It's just that now that banks are start-ups, they have to be given so much power.

Only when the banking business is normal, and the country's economy is normalized under control, can power be decentralized.

Otherwise, the role of banks will not be reflected at all if all parties are constrained now.

In late October, Zhu Zhanji became busier and busier, but he was busy socializing every day.

Now dozens of county kings and princes have come to the capital, whether they are peers or elders, Zhu Zhanji must be in place in terms of face and etiquette.

Have a meeting with relatives from all walks of life, and each family must also explain to them the purpose of going to sea, and some disobedient people must also be beaten.

Of course, he has also received a lot of "gifts" in recent times, and these gifts are not gold and silver treasures, but some cultural relics, antiques and women.

The whole Ming knew that Zhu Zhanji was rich, and Zhu Zhanji was not luxurious in addition to maintaining basic pomp. No one has as much gold and silver treasures as him, and he doesn't like gold and silver, so he can only send some ink, calligraphy and paintings and women.

Zhu Zhanji did not refuse to come, but these writings, inks, calligraphy and paintings were all included in the palace, and most of the women were assigned by him to unmarried generals as wives and concubines.

Most of these women are good-looking, and they have become the object of competition among the unmarried generals of the navy, and they have also made him have another wave of goodwill among the admirals of the navy.

In early November, Zhu Zhanji visited the 1st Fleet Battalion at the mouth of the Xinjiang River Estuary and inspected the 22,000-strong Young Army Shenji Battalion of various naval units that had been trained.

The title of Young Army was officially given by Zhu Di at the end of October.

In the past two years, the Shenji Battalion has expanded from an army of less than 20,000 to 60,000.

Since the Northern Expedition, after the Shenji Battalion was prestigious, the status of firearms in the Ming army has been rising.

Especially during the Eastern Crusade, more than 1,000 Yulinwei musketeers defeated tens of thousands of murderous Japanese pirates. Later, less than 30,000 Shenji battalions directly captured the palace of the king of Wa, which made the musket even more famous.

The problem of the production of muskets was solved, and the number of musketeers in the various guards of the Ming Dynasty also increased rapidly.

The Shenji battalion was split into three divisions in October, the artillery battalion and the musket battalion were officially separated, and the musket battalion was divided into two.

The first part was still under the control of Liu Sheng, under the orders of Zhu Di, and took over the responsibility of training musketeers.

The second part has a total of four guards, three guards are musket guards, and one guard is an artillery battalion, a total of 22,000 people were given the name of the young army, which belonged to the leadership of Zhu Zhanji.

The governor of the young army was also served by Xue Lu, who had already defected to Zhu Zhanji, and the control of this young army of 22,000 people also made Xue Lu extremely satisfied.

The young army that was originally located in Xiamaqiao was assigned to Yulinwei because the number was too small. However, in the form of a military academy, it became a training school for Zhu Zhanji's personal guards.

Today's Zhu Zhanji's personal guards have four guards, with a total number of 14,000 people, which is incomparable to the major princes of the Ming Dynasty, including the crown prince.

For example, Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, was severely reprimanded by Zhu Di for making up three guards, and was summoned to the capital and imprisoned.

Even if it is a prince, without the permission of the emperor, he can only have one guard and three thousand people, and with the emperor's permission, there are two guards, or three guards.

Today's Daming, there is only Zhu Zhanji, the grandson, who has four guards.

And the young army, although it also has the suffix of guard, actually belongs to the army. Like Yulinwei is a guard battalion, with 3,000 people in one guard. The first guard is 5,500 people, and the two are not the same.

In terms of nature, this young army is equivalent to the elite mobile force of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the same as the border army, border guards, local guards, and guards.

Zhu Zhanji, on the other hand, wanted to train them into marines and train them according to this standard.

One of the artillery battalions, in addition to not being disassembled in terms of organization, was also assigned to various battleships and was familiar with the ship's artillery command system.

Because of the increase in the number of artillery, especially the mass production of stainless steel seamless barrels, the number of artillery in the Ming Dynasty has also increased rapidly.

Strictly speaking, artillery is much easier to manufacture than muskets, because the barrel is too small and not easy to machine, but the same processing procedure. Artillery is a little more difficult to cast, but it is easier to machine.

Now the number of guns has increased, and the number of guns on each battleship has also increased a lot.

In the main camp of the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division, many warships were being refitted, and at least five powerful guns were added to each main battleship.

Before Zhu Zhanji set off, these modifications could basically be completed.

And Zhu Zhanji's departure date was also chosen, set on the twelfth day of the first month of the new year.

If he had his own ideas, it would have been best to leave in December. Because he took advantage of the north wind to go to the South Seas, he could also visit the southeast coast on the way.

But Zhu Di finally chose the twelfth day of the first lunar month, wanting him to spend the New Year at home before leaving.

Now that Zhu Gaochi has gone to Beiping and is not in the capital, Zhu Zhanji also knows that Zhu Di is still looking forward to being lively in his heart, so he has no objection.

With the departure time, Zheng He and the others are more handy in arranging, because the time is set, and all the preparations can be targeted.

For example, all kinds of food for the fleet, such as those dried vegetables for vitamin supplements, cannot be purchased without a fixed time, and now it is enough to distribute the task and prepare it before departure.

Moreover, live pigs, live sheep, and live donkeys purchased from all over the country can also be arranged to be sent to the ship at the right time.

The trip of 100,000 people, whether it is food, clothing, or use, needs to be carefully prepared.

Zheng He and Xue Lu have experienced many expeditions, and the preparations have been carried out smoothly. Zhu Zhanji felt that there was nothing he needed to add, so he boosted his morale, stayed only one night, and prepared to return to the palace early the next morning.

As soon as he returned to the palace, he saw Yang Shiqi, a scholar from Hanlin, waiting at Donghua Gate with a young man.

Zhu Zhanji had no guilt towards Yang Shiqi, but after all, he killed his son, so he still had a knot in his heart, and the two had met a few times in the past, but they didn't talk.

Zhu Zhanji originally thought that he had a grudge in his heart, but he didn't expect that he would take the initiative to come to him this time, and he also arranged for his second son Yang Dao to come to join the young army.

No, now it's no longer called Youjun, but Yulin Weixue.

"The eldest son of the minister is foolish, shoddy, and unworthy of His Highness's teaching. But the second son is a human duty, and he can still endure hardships, and he still hopes that His Royal Highness can ignore his past suspicions and be included in the door. ”

Yang Shiqi is handsome, and his two sons are not bad, Yang Ji's face has a sense of anger, but this Yang Dao has a good eye, and he has a good impression at first sight.

Zhu Zhanji knew that this was Yang Shiqi mending the relationship between the two, and he also had the heart to ease the knot between him and him, after all, this person was a "big man" who left a reputation in history.

After walking into history, those people who were only seen in books became a living person, and Zhu Zhanji knew that anyone who can be remembered by history is not an incompetent person.

No matter how limited they are, or how flawed they are, they are the most successful people in this era.

To be able to reach their current status, each of them has a shining point and an outstanding place that cannot be annihilated.

Zhu Zhanji stared at Yang Dao for a while before he said, "Brother Ru was beheaded by me, do you have resentment?" ”

Yang Dao saw Zhu Zhanji passing his father and asking directly, although he was a little unaccustomed to it, he still bowed down and said: "The junior minister doesn't dare, although Dao feels sorry for the eldest brother, but he violates the military order, and he is to blame." His Highness enforces the law impartially and irreproachably. ”

He was named a general by Zhu Di, although he was only a very small official, but after all, he was also a minister.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know about this section, but when he heard him call himself a minister, he was stunned for a while, and only after listening to Yang Shiqi's explanation did he understand.

He took their father and son to the Yamen of the Counseling Department in the Donghua Gate and invited them to sit down in the reception room. Zhu Zhanji asked again: "Since the second son of the bachelor came to the capital at the end of September, why did he come to look for me today?" ”

Yang Shiqi sighed: "Because the eldest son is not good, Shiqi regrets it deeply. It was my father's fault that I didn't discipline my eldest son well. So when the second son arrived in the capital, Shiqi personally taught him for a period of time before he dared to let him serve His Highness. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded with satisfaction and said, "The bachelor can think like this, Gu is very happy." I hope that Yang Ji's matter will not affect our relationship. As long as Yang Dao can learn and improve, he will be a good student. ”

With Zhu Zhanji's promise, Yang Shiqi's father and son were obviously relieved and a lot more relaxed.

Compared with Zhu Zhanji, they are more worried about the deterioration of their relationship with Zhu Zhanji. In this day and age, if you don't like the future heirs of the empire, your career is almost hopeless.

Yang Shiqi and his son achieved their goal, so they didn't dare to delay Zhu Zhanji's time any longer, and got up to say goodbye.

Zhu Zhanji was also about to return to the palace after they left, but he ran into Wang Yan's assistant, Huang Siwei, the master of ceremonies and young eunuchs, coming towards him.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji, he shouted with a smile: "Your Highness, the slave is looking for you...... His Majesty ordered His Royal Highness to receive the Zongzheng order to go to the Jin Palace, and arrest Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin. ”

Zhu Zhanji paused for a moment and asked, "Could it be that Liu Jinshan's report is true?" ”

Liu Jinshan is the former chief of the Jin Dynasty, who arrived in Beijing during Zhu Zhanji's Eastern Expedition to report that the current Jin King Zhu Jixi poisoned his biological mother, steamed his father and daughter, and imprisoned his brother and nephew.

Zhu Zhanji also learned about this matter after he came back, and Yang Zhangde also reported to him when they went to Taiyuan. He was still a little unconvinced at the time, and always felt that his words were exaggerated, how could there be such a mad person.

But now Zhu Di ordered the arrest of Zhu Jixi, which shows that even if this matter is not so exaggerated, it is not too far away.

Although he got the four beauties sent by Zhu Jixi, Zhu Zhanji did not take this distant uncle to heart.

Huang Siwei said with a smile: "The Jinyi Wei case-handling personnel are being received by His Majesty, according to their investigation, the King of Jin poisoned his biological mother and steamed the former Jin King's maid Jixiang, including the abuse of Zhu Jixi's father and son. His Majesty was furious and ordered the slaves and maidservants to come to His Highness. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "In this case, go alone, such a wolf-hearted person is not worthy of being a descendant of the Zhu family." ”

Outside the Chengtian Gate, the Zongren Mansion is the first in the east, and it is also in front of the officials.

Today's great sect is Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, but he is only a nominal Zongzheng, because he himself lives in Wuchang Mansion and rarely comes to the capital.

The staff in the entire Zongzheng Mansion are basically the descendants of the Zhu family, but they have no power. The main responsible personnel are all internal supervisors, and the power is firmly controlled by Zhu Di in his own hands.

Zhu Zhanji received the order of Zongzheng, led a team of brocade guards, a team of internal supervisors, plus his own guards, and rode to the Jin Wangfu in Chang'an Fang.

When he entered the Zongren Mansion, the two internal eunuchs had already quickly notified the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and sent troops to firmly surround the Jin Palace.

Zhu Zhanji knows very well that in fact, it is the same whether he can come forward or not, but he let himself come forward in order to stand up in front of these descendants of the Zhu family.

(It's a little late to come back today, it's a little late for the update, I'm sorry, try to be early tomorrow)