"If the gentry and big families are like this, how can Denglai see the drought under his rule?" Sun Yuanhua sighed, however, it can be seen from his expression.

He did not want to offend the local landlords and literati too much, and it was obvious that his future results would not be too satisfactory.

However, Shandong was used by Zhu Zilong as the rear in the future, and there could be no loss.

For this reason, the landlords were disobedient, and he decided to let the cooperative merchants give some blood.

As a result, all kinds of invitations were sent from the Hou Mansion to the hands of many Shandong merchants.

Now these merchants in Dengzhou and Yantai are staring at Zhu Zilong for dinner. Thanks to their efforts, Zhu Zilong's American goods have been sold to several surrounding provinces, and as far away as Guangdong, Shaanxi, and Sichuan. It can be seen that the ability of these businessmen is strong!

Therefore, for Zhu Zilong's invitation, they didn't dare not come.

According to some scholars' estimates, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was about 150 million to 200 million, and even if one-twentieth or one-tenth of the population was rich, there were as many as 20 million rich people in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zilong's goods are basically sold mainly in the market of the wealthy, and the prospects of this market are still very broad.

In Zhu's mansion, a group of businessmen waited for half an hour, and Zhu Zilong was late.

Seeing Zhu Zilong's arrival, many people saluted, and some businessmen who had no merit had to kneel down and salute.

"Local sages, ...... today," Zhu Zilong began his speech.

Probably speaking, on behalf of the imperial court, there is a drought now, and everyone is a local, for the good of the local people, please come, all of them mean something. The government is allocating a little money and food to tide over the difficulties together.

Otherwise, the subtext is, it is difficult for Benhou to be an official, this official is difficult to do, and it is difficult to do American goods, isn't it?

"When the place is in trouble, Zhang is duty-bound and pledges 500 quintals of grain and 3,000 taels of silver." Soon, Zhu Zilong's pre-arranged merchant spoke up.

"I am willing to follow Uncle Zhang's tail and pledge 500 quintals of grain and 3,000 taels of silver." The merchant entrusted No. 2 and was also in a hurry to follow up.

Seeing this, the other businessmen all had a head start, and they followed suit to donate according to this standard. After a while, as long as there is business with Zhu Zilong's firm, it will be slightly adjusted on the basis of this number.

Obviously, Zhu Zilong's call worked.

Hundreds of cooperative businessmen each lost such a fortune, calculate it. There is only a few hundred thousand stones of grain and nearly one million of silver.

A load of grain is basically about a stone weight, according to the "Chinese Grain Yield Research on the Past Dynasties" to give this Ming Dynasty a stone of rice weighs about 153.5 catties. This catty is not 500 grams of catties now, but 594.6 grams of catties in the Ming Dynasty.

That is to say, a load of about 200 catties of grain, hundreds of thousands of stone grain, that is, tens of millions of kilograms of grain, plus nearly a million taels of silver, you can definitely buy so much grain from other places.

Therefore, Zhu Zilong privately donated to himself this time, and basically got nearly 50 million catties of food for free at once.

The power of a marquis is more than the grain donated to Sun Yuanhua by all the landlords in a province, and it is not disposed of by the government. You can dispose of it yourself!

What NB!

Of course, these businessmen who donate can't, there is a reason, after all, if they don't donate, they may not be able to get modern goods from Zhu Zilong. Besides, their grain could not be delivered at once, but in batches. It is equivalent to the same contract binding, depending on the long-term cooperation between the two parties and the time is fixed!

As long as everyone cooperates for a long time, they only regard this as a part of the rebate for Zhu Zilong!

Some people never thought that Zhu Zilong would give food to the refugees, they thought that Zhu Zilong was just to train elite soldiers and find a reason to legally embezzle.

It's just that they will definitely be surprised in the future, because Zhu Zilong really wants to help the disaster.

After sending away the merchants who cooperated with him, and waiting for them to send the grain and silver in batches in the future, Zhu Zilong returned to the room, preparing to possess the body and go to the palace to deal with state affairs.

Recently, he has possessed the Emperor's clone less times than before, mainly because there are too many things on the ontology's side and a lot of energy has been wasted.

However, he didn't worry about anything about the emperor.

Because the Ming Dynasty was a very special era, the emperor was too capable, which was actually not a good thing.

Why?

For example, the laziest emperor of the Ming Dynasty should be Emperor Wanli.

He has not been in court for 30 years, which is really a unique scenery in history. If you know that this incident happened in the context of a violent conflict between the imperial power and the civil system, and the imperial power was suppressed, not going to the court was a passive confrontation of the Wanli Emperor. How would you feel?

How is it possible that the imperial power is suppressed? Doesn't it mean that the dynasty is very dark and ****? Yes, it has been **** to the point that the imperial power has been suppressed! Is it incredible? Truly.

When the imperial power was suppressed, Emperor Wanli did not kill a single person because his ministers opposed him. If you don't go to court, it doesn't mean that you don't work, and many major and minor affairs during the Wanli period were handled by Emperor Wanli. For example, the three major campaigns of Wanli (total victory), especially the Ming Dynasty's war to aid the dynasty and expel the Japanese, have always been carried out under the care and support of Wanli.

Small ones, such as Matteo Ricci's missionary work in Beijing and the establishment of churches, were all carried out smoothly under the guidance of Wanli. Eastern and Western civilizations were able to communicate, and the Wanli Emperor was behind and played a considerable role.

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty was limited, and the cabinet was very mature.

Many major state affairs are handled by the Cabinet. The head of the cabinet is called the first assistant, similar to the current prime minister or prime minister. Most of these cabinet members are well-educated, respected, and brilliant (and sometimes bastard). The efforts of these people have become the lazy capital of the Ming Emperor. This is the reason why some emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not diligent in their administration, but their institutions were able to operate normally.

By the way: Lin Zexu is "the first person to open his eyes to see the world", which is actually a joke. Because except for the Qing Dynasty, all Chinese dynasties were open, how could the real first person go to the Qing Dynasty? Lin Zexu was just the first person in the Qing Dynasty to see the world.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not very careful, only the general direction, and as a result, the country continued to operate as usual.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty had to take care of everything, but what was the result?

Playing a fine flower for foreign armies, losing land and losing hundreds of millions of silver, hehe, hehe, hehehe!

The civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty called themselves slaves, called themselves masters, and closed their mouths to the emperor and sage. No one dares to compete with the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, can the emperor be holy? The Qing Dynasty only needs slaves, not talents. So, modern China is over!

The Ming Dynasty was only bad for some people, but overall it was good. As long as Zhu Zilong pulls the general direction right, it is a matter of time before he enters the constitution of the monarchy and imperial power, a semi-capitalist country.

The general direction of Zhu Zilong's work is to prevent foreign forces from breaking the natural disaster period before the Ming Dynasty's reform, and to eliminate corrupt officials.

Of course, in addition to the general direction, there are also details issues.

How to guide some good people in the Ming Dynasty to follow the path they want them to take. This topic is very big, and Zhu Zilong can't think about it clearly for the time being, so he can only slowly explore and guide slowly.

In the palace late at night.

Zhu Zilong opened a notebook and stunned the beginning on the spot.

It turned out that this recital was written by Yuan Chonghuan, and he proposed it in it, hoping that Zhu Zilong would let him be the leader of the border pass, and then with his ability, coupled with the overall plan, he could "return to Liao in five years"!

I'm going?

Zhu Zilong thought to himself: Lao Tzu has suppressed you for more than a year, and you still "five years of recovering Liao"?

At that moment, Zhu Zilong's emperor clone rolled his eyes and directly threw Yuan Chonghuan's book into the trash.

"Five years of recovering Liao", whoever believes in it is stupid, don't tease me!

As a traverser, I'm not sure, what kind of door are you looking for? -

(To be continued.) )