After Sun Chengzong's guidance, Zhu Youxiao can be completely sure that the Emperor of the Apocalypse in history is not a faint monarch, but a bright monarch.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse reigned for seven years, and although there was some turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, it basically subsided, and it was generally stable.

On the contrary, it was Emperor Chongzhen, who immediately activated the Donglin Party after ascending the throne, and as a result, peasant uprisings began to occur that year, and wild boar skins entered the customs and robbed. Then the situation got out of control, and it was obviously crippled by the Donglin Party.

But since the emperors of the Apocalypse in history were in the right direction, why did they fail in the end? The main reason is obviously that the Emperor of the Apocalypse died mysteriously after seven years on the throne.

Today's time-traveler Zhu Youxiao secretly guessed that the Emperor of the Apocalypse in history was very likely to have been poisoned by a chronic poison, even before the attack on the Donglin Party, which led to a complete break between the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the Donglin Party. After persevering for four years, he died.

Even Empress Zhang was poisoned and miscarried when she was pregnant, which may also be the handiwork of the Donglin Party. If Empress Zhang gives birth to a son, it means that even if the Emperor of the Apocalypse is poisoned, Empress Zhang's son will inevitably ascend the throne, and Empress Zhang will not be as easy to handle as Li Xuanshi. If Empress Zhang becomes the empress dowager, it is likely that she will continue the will of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and maybe she will cultivate a second emperor like Wanli.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was the emperor who died in the palace.

This made Zhu Youxiao, who has now crossed over, feel a strong sense of crisis, and his life is not safe! If the Donglin Party can't compete in the court, they are likely to use indiscriminate means to poison the emperor in the palace, and then support a brainwashed royal child to ascend the throne.

Zhu Youxiao decided to forbear, while strengthening his own safety.

The most dangerous thing is those imperial doctors, Zhu Changluo died within a month of ascending the throne, isn't he killed by the doctors. There is a theory about the interplay of traditional Chinese medicine, which is called 'four qi, five flavors, and seven emotions', according to this theory, putting some non-toxic drugs together will form highly toxic, which makes people take precautions.

If you don't want to seek medical attention, you can't touch beauty indiscriminately, and you have to keep exercising.

For the sake of his own life, Zhu Youxiao, who originally wanted to hug left and right in the harem, could only give up this idea for the time being, anyway, his body was only fourteen years old and belonged to the category of minors. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao slept alone in the Heart Nourishing Hall every night. He has not been to the Qianqing Palace recently, and two emperors have died there one after another, and after living for a few days, he feels creepy, so he moved to live in the Yangxin Palace.

At the same time, Li Jinzhong was appointed to supervise the East Factory, but Li Jinzhong lived up to his expectations and quickly cleaned up the East Factory, allowing Zhu Youxiao to take control of this royal secret service.

The eunuch who can be used around him seems to be only Li Jinzhong. Wang An and the wolf of the Donglin Party are in cahoots, and he is a veritable anti-bone boy, who helps the Donglin Party dig up the corners of the country.

Li Jinzhong should still be usable, the reason why history records Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian, and Hakka so badly is basically that the Donglin Party lost in the political struggle, so it poured dirty water on Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian, and the Hakka family. Those businessmen have a lot of money and a lot of people, and they have already controlled the public opinion of the world, and it is too easy to pour dirty water on a person.

Zhu Youxiao originally insisted on going to court every day during this time, but soon found that he had really become a puppet. The government affairs of the DPRK and China are basically controlled by the Donglin Party. Zhu Youxiao, who was completely unable to meddle in the government's politics, simply announced that he had been in the morning court for the last time in seven days, and he was too lazy to get up early every morning to suffer.

Winter is just around the corner, and the temperature is starting to drop. At this time, it was already the period of the Xiaoice River, and the winter in the capital was very cold.

On this day, Zhu Youxiao saw two little eunuchs of the Zhidian Prison (cleaning department) sweeping the floor in the corridor, wearing thin clothes, shivering in the cold wind.

In contrast, the emperor usually hid in the palace, burning charcoal fires, and was very comfortable.

"Li Jinzhong, let people give more clothes to the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and more charcoal to each palace." Zhu Youxiao Li Jinzhong instructed, but Li Jinzhong was embarrassed and said: "Your Majesty, there is not much money left in the house. ”

Zhu Youxiao was stunned, then reacted and sighed. Oh, yes! There is no money, and the palace is short of funds for procurement.

Are you trying to make some money? Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have such thoughts.

Obviously, the Donglin Party will not be able to eradicate it for a while, and before he can guarantee his own safety, fighting against the Donglin Party is looking for death.

So until then, it is completely unrealistic to raise a commercial tax to improve the country's finances.

In such a situation, you can only make money on your own. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty had an imperial village and an imperial shop, and it was normal for the emperor to run his own business. In particular, the Wanli Emperor, in order to maintain the national finances, expanded the scale of the emperor's shop a lot, and also sent eunuchs out of the palace to collect mining taxes.

However, the profitability of the imperial store needs to be accumulated on a certain scale in order to make up for the national finance, and dozens of imperial stores alone will not help.

There are many profiteering industries, such as the monopoly of salt, iron, liquor, and tobacco, and all kinds of monopolistic businesses can be used to make huge profits. At present, Zhu Youxiao is still a puppet emperor, and if the monopoly is implemented, it will touch the interests of the businessmen behind the Donglin Party, so for the time being, far water cannot save the near fire.

Just when Zhu Youxiao was confused, on this day, Zhu Youxiao saw that the guest who served him was combing with a palm-sized glass mirror, Zhu Youxiao looked stunned and asked, "This is?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is a mirror made by the Franc machine." Hakka replied that he didn't feel anything strange about this kind of mirror.

Furlan man? It should be the Portuguese, the Portuguese and the Ming had trade, and the Ming established a city in Macao dedicated to trade. However, it was not a Portuguese concession, and Macao was still under the administration of the imperial court at this time.

"This should not be made by the Franco, but by Italy." Zhu Youxiao made a judgment.

"Italians? What is that. Hakka asked strangely.

"It's a country in Europa." Zhu Youxiao smiled, and then asked, "Didn't we produce this kind of mirror?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be there, this thing is too expensive, such a one will cost hundreds of taels of silver." Hakka said.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, this thing is indeed too expensive, a mirror costs hundreds of taels, which is faster than robbing money! Zhu Youxiao looked at it carefully, it was a very ordinary glass mirror.

"Li Jinzhong, you immediately send someone out to investigate this kind of mirror." Zhu Youxiao immediately realized the business opportunity and immediately ordered Li Jinzhong to investigate the market.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Jinzhong hurriedly received the order.