Since Wang Gongchang returned to Beijing after the explosion, Zhu Youxiao has been living a very comfortable life at this time, and with the progress of external expansion, all kinds of curiosities are constantly being sent to the capital.

There are a lot of tiger skins, ivory, gemstones, jadeite, spices, and a lot of other things, and there are more delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Zhu Youxiao and the queen can't use up these things, so they are basically sent everywhere, and those ladies in the harem, as well as the ministers in the court, often get Zhu Youxiao's rewards.

Expansion has allowed officials to acquire a lot of overseas luxury goods, which were not so many in the past and were relatively expensive. Now that these are in the hands of the government, there is naturally no pressure to reward them.

For officials who are willing to do things, Zhu Youxiao has never been stingy with rewards, but he didn't have so many resources before, so he mainly rewarded money. Now it's different, there are a lot of luxuries, and the style of reward is much higher.

Zhu Youxiao has more money in his hands at this time, especially after the issuance of paper money, this thing can avoid deflation in the market, and of course he can't issue money indiscriminately, so now he rewards those ministers or something, and the rewards in money have been reduced. The money has to be used in the right place through the construction project and then distributed to the people.

After the banknote is issued, it is also necessary to ensure the value of the banknote. This requires not only silver as a support, but also gold reserves. Although Daming is currently a country that exports more than imports, precious metals basically rarely flow out, of which silver flows in large quantities. So gold reserves, although not too rushed to prepare. But in general, be prepared.

If there is enough gold. It is completely possible to use silver as currency, after all, a large amount of silver is in the hands of Europeans, and they can mine a large amount of silver from the Americas, and this kind of trade is not of much benefit to the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the reports of the gold troops dispatched to various places, the scale of gold mining in the six years of the Apocalypse should reach 800,000 taels, that is, 28.8 tons.

This is not a lot of gold mining, but the scale of gold mining can be rapidly expanded next year, because of the Outer Northeast and Australia. and Alaska have discovered gold, and next year's mining will be enough to expand several times.

The advantage of official gold mining is that it does not allow individual private groups to get rich quickly, leading to a gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore, gold must be mined by the government, and those small gold mines that are more difficult to mine can be handed over to private capital to mine. But the gold mines, which are relatively easy to mine, must definitely be mined by the authorities.

Gold will be something that can be used as currency for the next three to four hundred years, and even if it has no monetary value, it will still be a precious metal, and it is still very beneficial to store this thing.

Zhu Youxiao was reading a book in the Palace of Raising the Heart, and the cabinet sent a letter.

Generally, ordinary recitals will not be sent to Zhu Youxiao. Queens, they can dispose of it.

This letter was reported by Gao Bangzuo, the new governor of Shandong, and said that Shandong had completed the reform of officialdom. Township-level governments have been formed in most areas, and Shandong has been asked to carry out comprehensive reforms. Shen Yun, the first assistant of the cabinet, wrote on it the approval of the handling opinion, and waited for the emperor's approval to approve it.

"Since the reform of Shandong officialdom has been completed, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive reform." Zhu Youxiao thought in his heart that Shandong's economic development potential is greater than that of Beizhili, and in later generations, Shandong is the strongest economy among the northern provinces, and it is the main province of heavy industries such as machinery manufacturing.

The reason why Shandong's economic potential is strong is that the geographical environment of Shandong is relatively superior, and the Shandong Peninsula has many outlets to the sea, and it is more convenient to develop maritime trade than Beizhili. In addition, Shandong has a large population, and there are local habits of diligence and thrift.

If Shandong completes the reform, the potential for developing heavy industry is very huge.

Immediately, Zhu Youxiao passed Gao Bangzuo's request and asked the cabinet to implement it. In order to ensure the smooth progress of Shandong's reform, Zhu Youxiao also sent two infantry divisions to Shandong to deal with possible turmoil at any time.

It is those who have vested interests who will stand in the way of reform. And ordinary people are looking forward to reform every day! Shandong is next to the North Zhili, the people of Shandong have a great understanding of the changes in the North Zhili over the years, basically all the ordinary people are envious of the new policy system adopted by the North Zhili today, with the comprehensive reform of Shandong, the attitude of the people of Shandong is obviously supportive.

At this time, Shandong's administrative reform had been completed, the number of local civil servants had greatly increased, and at the same time, township-level governments had been added, and the central government's control over the localities had been greatly enhanced, and there were already sufficient conditions for reform.

In the autumn harvest season of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court officially announced the news that Shandong had entered a comprehensive reform, which suddenly caused a certain commotion in the provinces of the Ming Dynasty like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.

Shandong's comprehensive reform and integration into the New Deal region shows a very serious problem, that is, the scale of reform is constantly expanding. For those with vested interests, this means that in the future they will not be able to enjoy the system of tax exemption, the agriculture of the noble people will not be exempt from the tax, and the business of merchants will not be exempt from the tax, which has shaken their interests.

This is different from Zhu Youxiao's previous performance, only the inclusion of Beizhili in the new policy, and the reform of the new deal in Xinzeng Province, it turns out that the previous attitude is just a delaying tactic, and now the emperor finally shows the fox's tail, and Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by.

In the previous Ming Dynasty, the emperor was more like a banner, and when the productive forces were not developed enough, the rulers of various places held high the banner of the emperor in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of their own ruling interests. In the course of the emperor's reign, the resources obtained by the imperial court were pitiful, and more of the country's wealth was actually seized by the nobles, merchants, and magnates.

Now that the emperor has suddenly changed his face, and is about to start flipping the table and come up with a new deal that harms the interests of the ruling class, those nobles and businessmen, after seeing that Shandong is included in the new deal area, have begun to separate themselves from the emperor.

It's just that now the emperor is not easy to mess with, he has military power in his hands, and he has eliminated Jiannu and defeated Mongolia. It also extinguished the rebellion of ethnic minorities in the southwest and the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect in Shandong.

No one wants to jump out and be a bird at this time. But they all hope that someone will stand up against the emperor and rebel against the emperor's new policy.

Under the great expectations of vested interest groups, the Shandong Kong family lived up to expectations, and Kong Yinzhi, the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius and the Shenggong of Yan, stood up and secretly got in touch with the Jiangnan scholars, and then under the operation of these scholars, they jointly concocted a joint letter.

Thousands of Jiangnan scholars signed this note and jointly opposed the new policy of the imperial court, which was extremely powerful for a while, and caught Zhu Youxiao off guard.

When Zhu Youxiao saw Kong Yinzhi's joint letter, his whole face turned black on the spot, and the problem in front of Zhu Youxiao was very tricky at this time.

Kong Yinzhi and Jiangnan Shizi jointly signed a letter, if he took Kong Yinzhi under the knife, then the result would be a great social impact.

In these years, Confucianism is still the mainstream of social values, although this kind of values has been taken seriously by many scholars, but if this set of values is really rejected, it will be attacked by scholars all over the world. (To be continued.) )