Chapter 46: The Morning Meeting Before the Spring Festival 2
"Yes, Your Majesty, since September this year, my country has continued to increase the trade volume with Liao, Xixia, Tubo, Dali, Jiaozhi and other countries and regions, China's import and export tariffs have risen sharply compared with before, only three months from October to Layue, China's import and export trade tariffs are convenient for the tariff income of the first half of the year to be flat, and the emperor is wise, the establishment of the Royal Commercial Bank and the Royal Post Station Transportation, only these three months, China's import and export trade and domestic trade, out of cost, The net money is 67,890,000 and 7,740,000 and the total number of horses and horses in our country has risen to 100,000 due to the increase in trade with other countries, even so, the Liao, Xixia, Tubo and Dali are still asking our country to increase the export of their porcelain, silk, tea, clothing, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and handicrafts, and even the newly established Jin State is constantly using a large number of furs, mountain ginseng, deer antlers, tendons, horns, bone glue and other materials to carry out a large amount of grain trade with our country. At the same time, China's large amount of grain exports to Fuso also caused a large amount of gold and silver from Fuso to flow to China. ”
"Then tell me how about Chu Luli's two machines," I continued to ask Liu Shihai
"Back to the emperor, the two kinds of farm tools invented by Lord Chu, the foot cultivator has tried, it is extremely convenient and labor-saving to use, because the foot cultivator can plough two long at the same time, Lord Chu fixed the double cocoon car in the back of the cultivator, in this way, the cultivated land sowing can be done in one go, once again improve the efficiency of cultivated land sowing, and liberate a part of the farmers who are bound to the land, as for the rice transplanter, I am afraid that only when the rice planting season next year can be tried"
"Well, that's good, Chu Aiqing"
"Chen, continue to work hard, for the benefit of the people of my Great Song Dynasty, to create more suitable for the use of the people of my Great Song Dynasty, if there is any mechanical problem that I don't understand, just go to the Ordnance Department to find the public to naturally ask for advice"
"Yes, please rest assured, the minister must do his best for the people of the Great Song Dynasty and for the emperor, and he will die" Then Chu Luli and Liu Shihai both bowed and returned to their positions
"He Wenbao of Tai Hospital"
"Minister, how was the stethoscope used last time?"
"Back to the emperor, the stethoscope is very effective, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are also very fine, the ministers and colleagues in the hospital are very satisfied with the stethoscope after trying it, and thanks to the tool invented by the emperor, the ministers and others have found some hidden diseases of many adults."
"Oh, yes, by the way, tell me about the results of your physical examination this time, and this year's new science and technology scholars are also undergoing physical examinations?"
"Yes, the emperor, they have all been examined for them, and the adults have no major problems, some minor conditions, the ministers and colleagues have also grabbed medicine for the adults in time, but only the three prime ministers have a slightly larger condition" He Wenbao said that he was comprehensive, and the performance was also very talented, I followed He Wenbao's words and asked with great concern
"What's wrong with the health of the three prime ministers?"
"Your Majesty, the three prime ministers have been working hard for the country all these years, it can be said that they have become ill from hard work, their bodies have to be slowly recuperated, they can't be so tired, otherwise their bodies will have to collapse" He Wenbao's income is called a tear, it is really sad for the listeners, and the tears for the hearers, if I don't cooperate with him, it is really too much for the three prime ministers, although the director of this scene is me himself
"Alas, the three prime ministers have worked hard for the country and the people for so many years, and they have indeed worked hard, seeing the three Aiqing so tired, so that their bodies have become ill, and my heart hurts, I have passed the decree, and the three Aiqing are specially promoted to the left pillar country, and they are crowned Taishi Taifu, and they are allowed to say goodbye to their old age, return to their hometowns to recuperate, and arrange a special car for the three adults to return to their hometowns, and all the expenses for food and accommodation on the way are paid by the imperial court."
"Emperor Xie Longen" The old men all saw that I was cutting their power, but they were completely helpless, they wanted to pull up a group of ministers to resist, but they dared, other ministers didn't dare, so they couldn't scream alone
"Ladies and gentlemen, starting from the eighth year of the Heavenly Blessing next year, the early dynasty will be postponed by one hour from the first moment of the hour to the first hour of the hour, and second, the household department will begin to store military rations, which will be enough to deal with the two hundred thousand troops for two years, and the ordnance department will store weapons and armor, and artillery and crossbows must also be equipped with a large number of troops. The soldiers in the army must all be proficient in their use, operation, maintenance and other specific skills, the next year I once declared war on the Western Xia, I don't want any link except for the mistakes, third, is to cancel the prime minister system from next year, the three provinces are combined into the cabinet, set up the cabinet university scholar, the six Shangshu are directly responsible to the emperor, the palace in the Huagai Palace, the Jinshen Palace, the Yingwu Palace, the Wenyuan Pavilion, the East Pavilion is set up as the cabinet office, the five palaces are set up with a cabinet scholar, a number of cabinet bachelors, and the university scholar Cui Wenbo worships as a scholar of the Huagai Palace, Su Shi worshiped as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and all the bachelors and officials were assigned to the five palaces of the cabinet to serve as cabinet scholars, and the cabinet scholars and cabinet scholars were all advisors to the emperor. If you have anything else to do, please report it quickly."
The Manchu Dynasty civil and military once again did not let me be dazzled by this set of lost boxing, dizzy, and finally reacted, and then the heads of the departments began to report to me in turn that they received a lot of the following reports from the report, as well as the problems that happened in their headquarters, Nongsang River, industry, commerce, trade, military, and a lot of mess, not to mention, the more this came to the New Year, the more busy the imperial court became, and when all the things were dealt with, it was already about one o'clock in the afternoon, and the hall could constantly hear the gurgling stomach scream, It seems that everyone is hungry too
"Okay, things are almost the same, let's retreat from the dynasty, everyone don't forget to have a night tomorrow" In ancient times in our country, all dynasties, or the night of the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve or the 29th of the lunar month were all enjoyed by the monarchs and subjects, I don't like to accompany others to keep vigil in the Chinese New Year's Eve, I think these ministers of mine will not like it either, so I set to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with the ministers on the evening of the 29th of the lunar month
"Retreat from the Dynasty ~~~"
"Congratulations to the Emperor"
When the ministers saw that I, the emperor, were gone, they all patted their butts and got up, exchanging today's frightening experiences with each other
"Hey, I said Master Cui, you said that we bachelors, are we promoted or demoted?" a passer-by, who had just become a cabinet bachelor, asked Minister A, a newly promoted cabinet scholar, Cui Wenbo
"Hmph, you descendants, read more useful books in the future, don't play the landlord and mahjong all day long, in the past, our so-called bachelors and scholars were idle, and now the emperor has withdrawn the three provinces, but put this cabinet, Su Shi served as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and there is an East Pavilion behind, and Su Shi is the dean of the Hanlin Academy, the chief editor of the "Chinese Encyclopedia", so I think, this Wenyuan Pavilion and the East Pavilion, the emperor should be used to do literature in the future, and the Huagai Palace, the Jinshen Palace, and the Yingwu Palace The emperor will definitely have other arrangements, What exactly do you want us to consult, that's the emperor's business."
"So we're promoted," said the cabinet bachelor of the passer-by A, happily
"It's not that we've been promoted, but that the emperor won't let us be so idle in the future"
"Ao, Ao, sir, slow down, this step is slippery, and the lower official will help you"
At the same time, similar words were said one after another in this group of ministers, and no one paid attention to our three former prime ministers, and they deeply felt the sadness of people leaving the tea