The emperor became a capitalist, and many problems were solved. In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, state-owned capital continued to digest the northern market, and now the northern provinces have been included in the scope of reform, not to mention the commercial interests of state-owned capital, that is, the government's financial and tax revenues are frantically rising.

Although the northern market is not as prosperous as the southern market, after these years of development, and economic stimulus and other means, the northern market is now more prosperous than the southern market, and the more developed the business, the higher the tax.

Under such reforms, the imperial court's finances have become more and more abundant, and Zhu Youxiao has also saved money in recent years, and the financial deficit of the imperial court has been completely eliminated, and there is still a surplus every year.

"Your Majesty, the money from the treasury has not been spent this year." Queen Zhang Yan has been a little worried recently, and she doesn't know where to spend her money.

Now the phone bill in the palace, Zhu Youxiao is handed over to the queen to take care of, and he doesn't know much about how much money he has, so he asked: "How much money is left in the inner money that hasn't been spent?" ”

"Last year, there were more than one million left, and at the end of last year, the bank divided another five million." Zhang Yan said helplessly: "So much money can be spent!" There is not so much money in the palace, and there is not so much money for disaster relief donations from all over the world. ”

"The dividends are a bit much, since you can't spend them all, then take some money out to build a library, a museum or something." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said that after the nationalization of the royal consortium, the royal family still had 5% of the shares, and last year's profit actually reached about 20 million yuan, but 15 million of them continued to be used for consortium investment, and only 5 million yuan in dividends.

This is Zhu Youxiao's private money. How to spend depends on your preference.

"Library? Museum? The queen asked strangely, "Is the library a library building?" ”

"Yes. It's the library building. However, this library can be opened to the outside world, as long as the people of the Ming Dynasty can go in to read books for free, and they can also apply for a library card and take the books back to read. The most important thing is that now we in the Ming Dynasty also need to build a relatively large library, and make several copies of various unique books and other books, so as not to lose some ancient books. Zhu You explained to the queen, "The other museum is a collection of various cultural relics and antiques. People are allowed to buy tickets to enter the tour. ”

"If the money can't be spent, then you can build another royal theater, or invest the money in Royal Roads University to build education." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The concubine understands." Zhang Yan was greatly inspired and immediately knew how to spend the money.

In terms of spending money, Zhu Youxiao is still very cautious, and things for personal enjoyment cannot be extravagant, as long as they are not shabby.

Endless money is spent on libraries and museums, as well as theaters and schools.

You must not learn from Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty. Building a cemetery for his Lao Tzu cost half of the country's financial revenue, and he indulged in personal enjoyment all day long. What kind of pear orchard, although it is the development of art, but also the development of too much. As a result, An Lushan came out, and the whole country was directly finished.

Now that the state finances of the Ming Dynasty and the personal expenses of the monarch have been completely separated, it is no longer a confused account that will not be clear when he first ascended the throne.

The revenue of the state is taken from the people for the people, and the royal family can no longer touch a penny of the state treasury.

Of course, the emperor still has to have an income, otherwise it would be too shabby to donate money if there is a disaster.

The dividends of 5% of the shares of the state-owned capital consortium are already very terrifying, and the capital of the consortium has developed rapidly in the past two years, and the income has been increasing, so that at this time, Zhu Youxiao's internal money is so much that he doesn't know how to spend it.

Soon after, the construction of the Royal Library and the Royal Museum was decided, funded by the royal family, and 3 million yuan was invested in the first year.

The construction projects of the Royal Library and the Royal Museum were supported by the courtiers, who were very active, and donated books and cultural relics.

The folk book collection atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty is very strong, and there are library buildings everywhere, but because they are privately owned, they are not completely open to the public.

In fact, this is the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, those literate groups have tasted the sweetness, fully aware of the importance of culture, and naturally pay great attention to cultural heritage and education. But one problem has also emerged, that is, the cultural monopoly is relatively serious.

Especially in Chinese culture and elite culture, the education received by ordinary poor children cannot be compared with that of rich children. The imbalance of resources makes it difficult for children from poor families to get ahead, unless they work hard and have a certain talent.

The Royal Library is a library open to the outside world, and as long as the people of the Ming Dynasty can enter it to read books. First of all, the place should be big, Zhu Youxiao directly built the library and museum in Wang Gongchang, where the site is large enough, and it just so happens that these projects have also completed the post-disaster reconstruction.

The Royal Library is very large and has a huge collection of books, which are organized and stored in all kinds of books. Literature, agriculture, military, novels, four books and five classics, and hundreds of classics are all available, and many unique books have been printed, and the collection of books will continue to be carried out.

Books published on the market should be collected as long as they are valuable.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao ordered the compilation of the 'Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse' to classify and summarize everything, which will be a relatively huge project.

But who made the emperor rich, and there are still people.

As for museums, there's a lot to put on them. In the Ming Dynasty in this year, there was no outflow of cultural relics, and there were too many cultural relics in the country.

What can enter the Royal Museum is either an antique that represents the appearance of a certain era, or a cultural relic with high artistic value, and a lot of top-level cultural relics have been obtained just by copying the house, not to mention that there are many cultural relics in the palace.

In addition to the emperor sending cultural relics to the museum, the courtiers, as well as the red-roofed businessmen of the state-owned capital consortium, are donating cultural relics to the museum.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the establishment of the Royal Library and the Royal Museum was of great significance to the Ming Dynasty, and the Royal Library became an official collection of books and a place to ensure cultural inheritance. As long as it is a unique book and some ancient books, it will be backed up. so as not to be destroyed by war and fire.

At the same time, many books have been organized. Revision of the Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse. It is also a big project, and tens of thousands of literati have participated in it one after another.

This series of policies is to sort out and develop cultural resources.

The museum has become a place to record the development of civilization and history, but Zhu Youxiao will not display cultural relics from other countries in the museum, which is a kind of show-off behavior.

This world is a world of yin and yang. It is inevitable that someone has done good things, and there must have been people who have done bad things. But this world is 'yang and yin', if a person does bad things and is afraid of being known, then the nature is not too bad, if a person is upright and does bad things, the nature is very bad.

It's like corruption, secretly greedy for some money, and can be greedy to calculate skills. But if you are openly corrupt, then it is very bad.

Robbed other people's artifacts. It is very immoral to openly display and exhibit it. The Ming Dynasty as a civilized country. Sometimes bad things can be done, but not above board.

Soon after, a Royal Theatre was established. This theater has its own strengths, both local and Western. Many of the musical instruments sold by the Portuguese to the Ming Dynasty soon appeared at the Royal Theatre. The Royal Theatre didn't cost much, but the building cost a little money. At the same time, it cost some money to raise people, but the royal family also raised some artists with special skills in musical instruments.

All kinds of opera and other artists all look at the market.

Since the establishment of the Royal Theater, it has taken a semi-market-oriented model, which can attract the audience to buy tickets to watch the artists to stay, and the artists who can't get along with it give way, and there is no public iron rice bowl for them to eat. Usually the artists who can enter the Royal Theater have made some reputations.

As soon as the Royal Theatre was established, it became popular under such a business philosophy. The facilities at the Royal Theatre are the most imposing and artistic. Moreover, famous artists from various provinces were invited to perform, and there were various musical performances, which soon turned the Royal Theater into a palace representing the pinnacle of Ming art.

To have such an effect, it is nothing more than the integration of excellent resources. And those famous artists also like to go to the Royal Theatre to perform. Not only does the Theatre Royal pay well, but it represents a form of official recognition. I have been on the stage of the Royal Theatre, which is equivalent to performing for the emperor.

Although Zhu Youxiao only occasionally took the queen and concubines out of the palace to watch performances, he didn't go every day. But it doesn't matter, as long as they are on this stage, the appearance price of those artists will rise immediately.

So much so that many artists from various provinces who received invitations rushed to the capital to perform at the Royal Theater.

Many artists have taken root in the capital after coming to the capital, and it is not an exaggeration to call the capital full of gold at this time. It is not only the political center of the Ming Dynasty, but also the base camp of the current state-owned capital consortium, and also plays the role of an economic center.

Although the products of the north are not as abundant as those of the south, with the continuous expansion of foreign countries and overseas colonial activities, the products brought back are also extremely rich.

There are powerful people everywhere here, and rich businessmen are everywhere. And this is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and no powerful person dares to mess around here. Especially after some reforms, the administration here is efficient and more humane.

At this time, the capital had an economic foundation for the development of art. There is a large enough consumer group, and life is better than natural to enjoy, and can afford to support these artists from all over the world.

Especially in places where there are many powerful people, many people live idlely! There is a lot of time to go to the theater and listen to music, and in some places where people are very wealthy but people are busy, the soil for these artists to survive is not so vigorous.

Most of the Yangzhou artists who sang for those salt merchants before came to the capital at this time. The salt merchants in Yangzhou have declined, there is no economic foundation, and there are not so many idlers to support their field. However, Zhu You is not very obsessed with opera, and he usually watches some of it, but prefers to listen to pure music.

With the efforts of the musicians, a variety of local, Western and ethnic instruments are combined, and many tricks have been played, and a piece of music is played with different instruments, which has a lot of novelty.

The entire capital was under the governance of Zhu Youxiao, and at this time it was already a scene of singing and dancing, and the shadow of war had receded in the north.

As long as the south does not reform, it is obvious that there will be no war, and if there is a war in the south, it will definitely be because of reform.

On the contrary, it is more likely that a war will break out in the southwest, after all, there are not so many Han people in the southwest in this era. Because they did not experience the turbulent times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, not so many Han people ran to the southwest because of the war.

There are too many Tusi in the southwest, the number of Han people is not enough, and it is not so easy to change the land and return to the river in the southwest, and now the conditions for the Ming Dynasty to change the land and return to the river in the southwest region are not at all the same as in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, there is no rebellion in the southwest for the time being, although there are still natural disasters, and the world is generally peaceful.

At the end of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, a merchant fleet set sail in Jiaozhou Bay, and this fleet sailed eastward to Honolulu and the west coast of America. This fleet had more than 30 merchant ships, full of people and cargo, and a month later, more than 50 merchant ships set sail for the Americas, and these merchant ships continued to sail to the Americas, opening the prelude to the development of the Americas, and officially opening the American trade routes.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty already had more than 4,000 ocean-going merchant ships, which brought back a lot of wealth and resources for the Ming Dynasty.

But for Da Ming at this time, there are still too few ships.

In the process of foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, it is not to completely pursue more precious metals for the essential purpose, plundering the world's precious metals is necessary to continue, but the Ming Dynasty needs more resources, such as grain and various industrial raw materials and other bulk commodities, with the continuous deepening of overseas development, in order to transport these bulk commodities, the need for more and more merchant ships.

Most of the merchant ships actually ran in Northeast Asia, Indochina Peninsula, the South Seas, Australia, and the Ming Dynasty, transporting more and more bulk commodities.

At this time, the imperial court no longer used forced labor to transport grain in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the rice needed by the northern provinces was directly transported from Taiwan, the Indochina Peninsula and the South Seas to the northern ports, which was efficient and the cost was reduced many times.

At the end of the year, after a comprehensive count of the imperial court's annual financial revenue, it reached an astonishing 620 million yuan.

The pattern of the two kings of the Ming Dynasty is about to be decided.

Those Jiangnan capitals that stretched out their tentacles to politics could not compare with the growth rate of the imperial court's finances and the growth of state-owned capital.

Under the multi-faceted siege of the imperial court, the big capital merchant forces of the Ming Dynasty have been curbed of the growth space of capital, while the state-owned capital is growing rapidly.

The biggest secret of such rapid economic development in the north is the issuance of paper money to avoid the phenomenon of monetary tightening. It is often not inflation that stifles production, but deflation, and the sharp rise in food prices during natural disasters often causes serious deflation in the affected areas, and after the natural disasters, everyone has no money, and the profiteers do not spend the money, which in turn produces a large number of unemployment, followed by a surging land annexation, directly falling into a vicious circle. In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the northern market produced a slight inflation under the large issuance of paper money, which was very good for the economy.

The increase in the scale of commodity production has led to an increase in the amount of money, and money is still valuable. The amount of money is larger, and the tax revenue is naturally growing rapidly.

In fact, the rapid rise in fiscal revenues was driven by reform. With the northern provinces fully included in the reforms, the pace of tax revenue growth will slow down in the coming years. (To be continued.) )