In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, there were many waves in the Ming Dynasty, but under the strong central control and suppression, the Ming Dynasty was able to support the past stably. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A good news is that the fiscal revenue exceeded 2.5 billion silver dollars this year.

Last year's fiscal revenue was almost 1.2 billion yuan, and this year's fiscal revenue has directly increased by a large margin, more than doubling.

On the one hand, this terrible increase in finances was due to the expansion of the interests of overseas colonization. The gold troops sent by Zhu Youxiao mined about 50 million taels of gold in the 14th year of the Apocalypse, most of which were contributed by the South African colonies.

At the same time, there has been a huge increase in foreign trade, especially the export of goods to India, and a large amount of precious metals has been earned directly from India.

The most terrifying thing is that Jiangnan copied a wave of homes, gold, silver, etc., converted into silver dollars There are also 550 million yuan, which does not include a large number of antiques, jewelry, mansions, shops, grain, goods, land, these assets have also been disposed of, many assets are directly assigned to state-owned enterprises, and there is no money.

"It's fucking profitable." Zhu Youxiao looked excitedly at the account book submitted by the household department, with such a terrifying income, next year's financial budget will be very generous.

However, what made Zhu Youxiao not very happy was that the recital of Shen Yun, the first assistant of the cabinet, to return to his hometown appeared on the desk again.

At the same time, the body of the palm print eunuch Qian Guoxing is also getting worse day by day.

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and the most important thing was to approve Shen Yu to return to his hometown, and crown Shen Yu as the Taifu, ranking as the third duke. At the same time, he was rewarded with colored coins and purple robes, and personally went out of the palace to see Shen Yu off.

Shen Yu just said goodbye to his hometown, although he himself was very low-key, but Zhu Youxiao personally went to see him off, and sent hundreds of brocade guards to escort him along the way.

However, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet is vacant.

Qian Guoxing, the eunuch with the palm print in the palace, also retired, Zhu Youxiao rewarded him with a thousand taels of gold, and rewarded him with a mansion in the capital, so that he could retire with peace of mind.

The palm seal eunuch was succeeded by Li Chaoqing, and Li Chaoqing's Bingbi eunuch was succeeded by Yang Guang.

At this time, Yang Guang is no longer the little eunuch he was at the beginning, he has been by Zhu Youxiao's side for more than ten years, and his ability has also been exercised, and he knows how to do things, and he is also the best candidate.

The changes in the palace did not surprise people. Yang Guang has been serving and running errands with Zhu Youxiao all these years, and his writing is not bad at all, which is just the right eunuch to write. Li Chaoqing went up and officially became the chief manager of the palace.

However, the palm print eunuch and the Bingbi eunuch can't say which has a higher status.

One is in charge of the affairs of the palace and is responsible for supervising the jade seal. One is the document that accompanies the emperor, that is, the emperor's pen.

In terms of power in the palace, the palm print eunuch is greater, but in terms of closeness, it is the eunuch who is closer to the pen.

However, Zhu Youxiao has never relied too much on any eunuch, and Dongchang is still managed by Wei Zhongxian, but the relationship between Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao is not very close.

Jin Yiwei is in charge of Tian Ergeng.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei belong to the role of the royal police, but now they also serve as intelligence agencies inside and outside the country. It is a royal secret service organization that also has the law enforcement power of the police.

However, the candidate for the first assistant of the cabinet has always been impossible to guess who it is.

Who will enter the cabinet has always been speculated, is it Sun Chengzong or Yuan Keli?

A piece of news came that Yuan Keli died of illness in office at the age of 73. Hearing the news, Zhu Youxiao cried loudly in the palace for a while, and hurriedly sent someone to mourn and posthumously named an earl.

The candidate for the first assistant of the cabinet has also been decided, that is, Sun Chengzong. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao appointed one person to enter the cabinet, that is, Jiang Dejing.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Lord Jiang's qualifications are not enough!" Yang Guang reminded. Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "It's okay." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yang Guang immediately drafted the holy decree, and then asked Li Chaoqing to cover the jade seal and send out the new personnel appointments.

Zhu Youxiao let Sun Chengzong enter the cabinet, on the one hand, Sun Chengzong was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and had strong ability. On the other hand, Sun Chengzong is also in relatively good health, and he should be able to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet for a long time. In history, if it weren't for the Qing army's entry into the customs and looting, Sun Chengzong would have lived longer.

As for letting Jiang Dejing enter the cabinet, it is for the next economic construction of the entire Ming Dynasty, among the hundred officials, that is, Jiang Dejing is more professional in the economy.

After some personnel changes, the internal degree of the central government of the imperial court stabilized.

Sun Chengzong took over Shen Xiao's daily work, and after Jiang Dejing joined the cabinet, he was in charge of economic affairs, and there was a clear division of labor.

Sun Chuanting led the troops in the Western Regions, and Zhu Youxiao was still very relieved.

Beware of the rebellion of military generals is a must, the Tang Dynasty is a typical negative teaching material, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was also a thief, and even the Hu people dared to use it, and as a result, it was repaired by An Lushan.

To solve the problem of the rebellion of military generals, in fact, it is very simple for Zhu Youxiao, as long as he continues to develop weapons and equipment.

The weapons of the army in the era of cold weapons are durable goods! Knives and guns can be sharpened and can continue to be used, and as long as there is food when it is replenished, food is not everywhere. I have never heard of people starving to death, nor have I heard of a large number of soldiers starving to death. Therefore, once the military generals become big in the era of cold weapons, it is easy to rebel, but the era of hot weapons is different.

The army in the era of hot weapons has no bullets, shells or anything, and its combat effectiveness is scum. And the supply is in the hands of the central government, so it is difficult for the army in the era of hot weapons to rebel as long as it chokes the logistics supply.

With the continuous expansion of the enrollment scale of the Royal Academy of Science and Technology, Daming is about to usher in a stage of technological explosion at this time.

Thermal weapon technology, is the focus of the development of the imperial court, to have people, to have money, to have what materials, but also have enough basic theoretical support, precision manufacturing industry after more than ten years of development, there is also a very long progress.

All the conditions for incubation are already in place.

After Jiang Dejing entered the cabinet, he immediately calculated the scale of the financial budget for the second year, and entered the palace to report to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, this year's budget has a surplus of 800 million silver dollars. Next year's imperial court's fiscal revenue will certainly increase greatly with the progress of the Jiangnan reform, so next year's fiscal revenue will be at least more than 2 billion, plus overseas trade, gold mining, next year's fiscal budget can reach at least 3 billion. ”

"It's growing too fast, let's set it at 2.8 billion! The extra ones are kept for later use. Zhu Youxiao said that he was more repulsive about the fiscal deficit.

Once the country's fiscal deficit goes up, it will have to do everything possible to smooth it out, and then it will have to be put on the people's heads. For example, the fiscal deficit of the United States in later generations was very terrifying, and it seemed that the hegemony was invincible, and it could even fail to repay its debts. But the question is, what if the credit goes bankrupt? Once the Ponzi scheme-like economic model of the United States is exposed, will it be able to dominate the world again? Obviously impossible, because the hegemony of the United States is based on the dollar-oil. The monetary system has collapsed, and there is no talk of world hegemony.

It's more reliable to keep some deposits, but you don't need to leave too much.

It just so happens that soldiers may be used everywhere now, so Zhu Youxiao plans to save more money so that he will not have no military funds when he can use soldiers.

Of course, there is still a large amount of capital that can be withdrawn from the state-owned capital consortium, but under normal circumstances, this capital still has to be used to develop state-owned enterprises.

The reform of Jiangnan is still ongoing, and this reform of Jiangnan is not only a change in the officialdom system and the tax system, but also a change in the economic model. In the past, the Ming Dynasty was dominated by private capital, but now state-owned enterprises have appeared, and they are staging a drama of national advancement and retreat.

In the mineral mining industry of the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of private capital is withdrawing from the market at this time. The new regulations of the imperial court also allow some private capital to participate in mineral mining, but only those small minerals that are not large-scale can be mined as a supplement to the mining industry. The major mining companies are operated by state-owned mining companies.

There is also the telecommunications industry, and the telegraph side is also only allowed to operate by the state. In terms of heavy industry, private capital is also allowed to participate in steel smelting, but technically there is no way to compete with the current state-owned smelting enterprises.

In terms of transportation, railways can only be operated by the imperial court, and only the imperial court can do external ocean trade. Civilian-funded ocean-going ships could only go to the colonies of the Ming Dynasty to trade, and could not contact other countries privately.

In some overseas colonies, state-owned capital accounted for a major share of the economy.

However, the imperial court began to pay attention to commercial development, and after Jiang Dejing entered the cabinet, the cabinet promulgated some economic bills one after another.

Time flashed to the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the imperial court successfully reformed the Jiangnan region, and there was no suspense about the reform of the entire Ming Dynasty.

The Donglin Party, supported by the private capital of the Ming Dynasty, has also been uprooted. In the previous struggle between feudal imperial power and capitalism, at this time feudal imperial power won, but capitalism also won.

Because of the Ming Dynasty, it should be called the victory of 'imperial capitalism', because the Ming Dynasty, which ruled the country, had also developed capitalism controlled by the imperial court.

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao felt much more relaxed.

The Northeast region has stabilized, and after all these years of continuous migration, the scale of resource development in the Northeast has become larger and larger, and the most important thing is that the Northeast has become a big granary.

Although the temperature has dropped, many of the land in the Northeast can only be planted with soybeans, but the area is large enough! There is also more arable land per capita.

The most important thing is that the railway has been built, and now the grain from the northeast has begun to be transported into Shanhaiguan in large quantities by railway, and a large number of soybeans are being transported to the south by sea and land.

The northeast has stabilized, and there is still a large amount of grain imported into the pipe, and the northern provinces have also stabilized. Although the northern provinces are still plagued by natural disasters, they are not starving to death.

After these years of continuous efforts, any area that has completed the reform in the Ming Dynasty is now full of grain reserve warehouses.

As long as a natural disaster occurs, the imperial court directly allocates food for disaster relief, and at the same time carries out a large number of immigrants, and now the imperial court is constantly immigrating to the Western Regions.

The imperial court's railroad has been built to the Western Regions, and the efficiency of this immigration is faster.

The railways also greatly increased the imperial court's ability to control the frontiers, and the northern provinces have been reformed to completely outlaw the old model of local self-government, and now there are township governments everywhere.

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court was still frantically building railways, water conservancy, and schools. The railway network in the north has been gradually improved, and the railway to Mobei has also been built.

After the reform of the Gangnam region, the construction of railways also began.

Now, no matter how natural disasters are caused in the northern region, it is impossible to cause chaos, and the administration of officials is extremely strict, and the phenomenon of corruption has been completely eradicated on the surface, and local officials do not care about the open and honest oppression of the common people, and any act of corruption is cautious, but the corruption in the secret cannot shake the foundation. Especially those corrupt officials, even if they are greedy for money, they dare not use it blatantly, and they can't consume any people's power at all.

Zhu Youxiao is also completely relaxed, and now the situation is very good!

However, there are some voices within the imperial court that oppose the use of troops everywhere, especially Sun Chengzong, who is also opposing the use of troops everywhere in the imperial court.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, warlike will die, since my Ming Dynasty has swept away the external troubles, and the internal worries have basically calmed down, we should suspend the use of force against the surrounding areas, and overseas expansion should also be stopped." Sun Chengzong said to Zhu Youxiao.

"What Aiqing said is very true, the scale of overseas troops can indeed be reduced, and then the golden desire has not been eliminated, and the deep revenge in the sea of blood has not been avenged, and I can be said to be unable to sleep and eat." Zhu Youxiao also knew that he had always had a style of plundering foreign affairs, and he was not very recognized by these ministers.

Eastern civilization has always emphasized righteousness over profit, and has paid attention to the importance of intercourse and thinness, which is completely opposite to Western civilization. However, Zhu Youxiao did the opposite, and started the Westerners' set of colonial methods, although these colonial methods have been greatly improved. But Zhu Youxiao's idea is that if he pays too much attention to external morality, he can only sacrifice internal interests. But in the past, the Ming Dynasty was in danger, and Zhu Youxiao was in charge of what kind of thick and thin and moral clouds.

Now that the situation in the Ming Dynasty has stabilized a lot, Zhu Youxiao can not be so ruthlessly pressed from the outside, but he is still unwilling to give up the interests of overseas colonization.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao's overseas colonial model cannot plunder too much wealth, because the Ming Dynasty is a big country, and overseas is a group of barbarians, what kind of labor products can be plundered?

What Zhu Youxiao is actually doing is to immigrate and expand the land, turning the overseas land into the land of the Ming Dynasty, so that the people who do not have land in the Ming Dynasty can also obtain a piece of paradise overseas, so that those desperately poor people can also allocate rich resources, so that they can have the opportunity to live a rich life.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's overseas expansion is actually a robbery of natural resources. As for the exploitation of the wealth of the barbarians, there are actually not many products that can be squeezed. In this regard, it doesn't matter if you give up a little. After all, with such a little benefit, for a big country like Daming, if you make salt but not salty and vinegar is not sour, you can really not be so ugly.

At the same time, belligerence is bound to die, which is indeed an iron law, and Zhu Youxiao really wants to slow down first.

"Your Majesty is wise." Sun Chengzong saw that Zhu Youxiao only half agreed and half did not agree, but it was really rare, this was the first time Zhu Youxiao let go.