It wasn't until the end of Chongzhen's three-year Zhengdan Dynasty that Emperor Chongzhen really ushered in his good time for the New Year's holiday.

Although there are still a group of envoys from Outer Mongolia and distant states waiting for the Ming Emperor to receive him, after the end of the imperial meeting, no matter how much the Ministry of Rites or the Imperial Court has to do, they will not arrange any official activities for the emperor or the ministers of the court at this juncture.

After all, it is the second day of the first month of the new year.

Even ordinary people's families do nothing at this time, and the family and Hemei get together to eat, drink, play and have fun, not to mention the heavenly family.

After Empress Zhou confirmed her pregnancy, Emperor Chongzhen rewarded the palace maids and eunuchs serving in the palace, and the palace people in Kunning Palace were all happy.

Now that it's time for the New Year, Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Chongzhen are rewarding them in turn, and everyone in the entire harem is beaming with joy.

For Emperor Chongzhen, when he went to Juyong Pass, he was not very worried that Juyong Pass would be lost or that Jianyu would pour into Gyeonggi, but what he was most worried about was that after this big battle, whether it was a miserable victory, a small victory or a big victory, he had to be prepared to reward the soldiers of the towns who participated in the war.

Those who die in battle shall be given a bereavement pension; Those who have made meritorious service should be rewarded; And everyone who participates in the war must be rewarded.

It's conventional.

Especially at the end of the year, when the end of the year is approaching, if you can't come up with money and can't give generous pensions, rewards and rewards, then the ironclad victory may also turn into defeat, and then a small defeat may cause collapse.

Such lessons abound in the history of the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

One of the most fundamental reasons is that the imperial court is short of food and salary, and cannot get the rewards it deserves.

Therefore, one of the things that Emperor Chongzhen pondered repeatedly in Juyong Pass was how to get a large sum of money and solve the problem that he had to face as soon as the war ended.

Originally, he was ready to accumulate the gold and silver wealth of the Jin merchant family by copying melons and vines, and then use this gold and silver wealth reward to reward the whole army.

But to his surprise, the things that Huang Taiji had worked so hard to grab after entering the customs with the army of Jianlu and Beiyu did not have time to transport it away, and actually fell into the hands of the pursuing armies of the Ming Dynasty.

And this time, none of the pursuing armies of the Ming Dynasty dared to conceal their seizures and privately covet these huge amounts of wealth.

It was a bit of a surprise to him.

This also shows that although the selfishness and greed of human nature are innate and must be manifested at every opportunity, they can be used for their own purposes through appropriate institutional arrangements.

If there was no supervision of the military history, if there was no check and balance between the civil and military generals, if there were no protégés of the Son of Heaven who graduated from the martial arts hall and served in the army, if there were no former imperial attendants and military attaches who were sent out from their side one by one, so they were branded with the emperor's personal brand, such a situation may not be possible now.

But in any case, after the capture of the Jin State's Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji entered the customs this time, it was a waste of work, in addition to the gold, silver, grain and grass obtained by Mang Gurtai in the last killing Hukou and looting, the gold and silver wealth and other materials collected in the Xuanda place before have now all become the money and food used by Emperor Chongzhen to reward the whole army.

Emperor Chongzhen was also left with a large amount of scheduled expenditures.

Therefore, when the year came to pass, he had the capital to change his previous careful approach and be generous again in the palace.

Not only did the concubines' monthly food and clothing increase by 30%, but even the ordinary palace maids and eunuchs around the emperor and in the Forbidden City naturally increased their monthly money.

Although the food and clothing of these palace personnel are customized and paid by the palace budget, these personnel also need to be paid monthly money, which is their salary income.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty in the past may not care about the existence of these people and the hard work they have paid, and at the same time, they may also think that the emperor is the identity of the Son of Heaven, and all things and subjects in the whole world belong to the emperor, including these ordinary people.

The fact that the daughters or children of these common people's families can enter the palace to serve the emperor's family is not only the obligation of the subjects and the common people, but also the blessing they have cultivated for several generations.

But now this Emperor Chongzhen doesn't see it that way.

Of course, he is not brain-dead enough to talk about human rights or equality in this day and age, but he is convinced that the service provided out of profit will be many times better than the service provided out of fear.

Whether it is a eunuch or a palace maid in the palace, they are not alone, they all have families to support, and behind them are poor or miserable families.

In addition to the customized supply of food, clothing, and lodging in the palace, the irregular rewards were changed to a fixed monthly amount of silver, and at the same time, while the civil and military officials were raised, their monthly money was also increased, which may not be able to reap their gratitude, but it must be able to reduce the resentment in the hearts of some of them.

In the court of the Ming Dynasty, there was an incident of a palace maid murdering the emperor.

No matter how many tragic stories are hidden in those desperate palace maids, this incident itself shows that the court of the Ming Dynasty is not a peaceful place.

Whether it is those eunuchs or palace maids, not all of them have a heart of loyal service to the royal family.

In this case, we must be on guard.

And providing better remuneration for these low-level personnel serving in the palace can be regarded as one of the things that Emperor Chongzhen can do for the safety of himself and his concubines.

Fortunately, the palace is not too short of money now.

Because whether it is Emperor Chongzhen's own internal money, or the empress and the concubines jointly control the palace, every year when the New Year is approaching, they can get a lot of money from Baohe Company and many royal and non-royal restaurants, shops, trading houses, industrial and mining companies under the control of Baohe Company.

Many new factories, mines, and companies and firms have sprung up in Gyeonggi, including gun factories, ammunition factories, cement factories, and iron-smelting factories under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and the Armament Yuan, all of which have royal shares.

Some are directly invested by internal funds, and some are invested by Baohe Company.

When the New Year is approaching, no matter how much or less the profit is, no one dares to postpone or postpone the dividends to the emperor himself and the concubines of the harem.

These affairs do not need to be asked by the emperor or the empress in person, and they have already been coordinated by the Dongchang Governor Fang Zhenghua and the Gong Zhengsi in the Forbidden City.

The royal family did this, and no one could find anything that was not.

The resident directors or supervisors sent by Baohe Company to various shareholding industrial and mining companies are not those mine supervisors and tax officials sent by Emperor Wanli from Beijing to various places back then.

What's more, the registration and licensing system now implemented in Gyeonggi has also allowed the local government offices to gain a lot of benefits from the large-scale industrial and mining companies.

The royal family is not a clever robbery, but a shareholding, and getting back its dividends.

Such a thing, even in the eyes of those who only stress righteousness and reason and do not pay attention to interests, is a matter of course.

In this way, at the end of the second year of Chongzhen, just the company of Rodriguez-Gotinho United Glass Products Factory, which was opened in Hexi, sent dividends to the palace, reached 140,000 Chongzhen silver yuan.

As for the Hongji Commercial Bank, which has spread all over the north and south of the river through the large-scale expansion of the East Factory, it specializes in all kinds of government seizure items and materials seized by the official army on the battlefield, which is also a profitable business, and when the New Year is approaching, the cost of operation is removed, and several profits have been handed over to the palace Zhengsi in charge of the queen, totaling more than one million Chongzhen silver yuan.

With the transportation of this silver into the inner palace, several concubines of Emperor Chongzhen also got their own part of the dividends of dry shares before the year, and everyone's net worth and wealth naturally followed.

It stands to reason that as the emperor's concubines, they don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they don't need any money at all.

But in fact, wealth is extremely important for anyone, even if the queen who returns to the lord of the harem, if she doesn't have silver in her hand, she will have no sense of security, and once she has silver, many things that seem to be unsolvable will be solved.

Including the common dumping and fighting between the concubines in the palace, after their monetary interests were firmly tied together, they soon became a mess of harmony.

Now, in the case of the same interests, whether it is the queen or Concubine Tian, the eyes of these concubines who have had open and secret battles have turned to supervise the Gong Zhengsi, and through the Foreign Affairs Department of the Gong Zhengsi, they supervise the Baohe Company and its major industries controlled by Fangzhenghua.

Invisibly, it has reduced a lot of mutual suspicion and calculation.

In the few days of the Happy New Year, Emperor Chongzhen spent more time in the Chuxiu Palace while accompanying the empress.

First, he prefers to be unrestrained by Concubine Lan's side, and secondly, the concubine Ulan Tuya, who lives in Chuxiu Palace, is almost time to give birth.