That's why.

Today, the Northern Expedition is no longer a political demand and a national emotional demand.

It has also begun to become the interest demand of the entire Southern Group of the Ming Dynasty.

This is something that the civil bureaucracy, represented by the traditional gentry, cannot resist, and they themselves are often helpless to get involved in such a torrent.

In the face of huge business profits, they can no longer invest their money in land.

The best-selling publication of Seeking Knowledge magazine, founded by Liu Ru, is now an analysis of the commercial interests of the North after the Northern Expedition.

The abundance of coal mines in Shanxi, the abundance of iron ore in eastern Liaoning, and the cheap population in the north were all cited as reasons to increase commercial profits.

All of this is masterminded by Zhu Youzhen behind the scenes.

Ruan Dayue naturally doesn't understand economic stimulus, he is just more obedient.

Zhu Youzhen told him that to be a household secretary is to dare to spend money.

Therefore, Ruan Dayue only knew how to invest money everywhere, invested almost all the savings of the treasury, and even opened a precedent for the Ministry of Accounts to borrow from the central bank, so that the Ming Dynasty once again ran a deficit.

Zhu Youzhen, on the other hand, took advantage of the central bank's stimulus to the economy and desperately increased the fiscal revenue of the household department.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also asked Ruan Dayue to ask the household department to issue "Northern Expedition Coupons".

Raising funds from the society on the basis of the credit of the household, while his imperial village and other royal capital enterprises preemptively purchased the "Northern Expedition vouchers", enabled the household to quickly raise a large amount of money before the tax revenue was collected into the national treasury to continue to maintain domestic political rule and economic investment.

And because the country is developing benignly, the scale of commerce is constantly expanding, and the tax revenue of the household department is continuing to increase, so the profits of the national debt, that is, the "Northern Expedition", are increasing.

In addition, the issuance of "Northern Expedition Vouchers" is limited, but more and more people are buying them, so that more and more private capital buys "Northern Expedition Vouchers".

The ability of the household department to raise funds is also increasing.

It also means that the Ming economy began to appear the financial phenomenon of treasury bonds, and the Ming Dynasty has begun to derive financial markets because of the prosperity of economic activities, which not only means that the emergence of paper money has become possible, but also the emergence of securities will also become possible.

The central government began to develop its finances, and was no longer unable to cope with major natural disasters and military changes because of the lack of tax revenue, and the central financial system of the empire became more flexible.

Of course, Huangzhuang and other royal capital enterprises also made huge profits because of the preemptive purchase of the "Northern Expedition Tickets".

As long as the Ming Empire can continue to maintain healthy development, continue to expand externally, and increase the financial income of the empire, the treasury bonds issued such as the "Northern Expedition" will become more and more valuable, and the capital can continue to develop upward.

And once the empire stagnated and began to decline, it was the capitalists who bought the national debt who suffered huge losses, so the Ming Empire has quietly changed into an imperialist country.

No matter who is in power, if you want to protect the interests of the majority of the people in the country, you can only keep expanding externally and increasing the central government's fiscal revenue, otherwise you can only make the entire empire collapse, and no one can run away at that time.

And the capitalists can no longer hope that the country will become poor, otherwise they will suffer the most.

During this time, Zhu Youzhen also began to pay attention to the development of the empire's industry.

The Northern Expedition was no longer just a war to regain the northern capital, but a means of expansion of the southern merchant groups of the empire.

And the biggest representative of this group is Zhu Youzhen's royal capital.

His royal capital controlled the largest army, the largest amount of land and minerals, and the most productive forces.

But Zhu Youzhen knows that in order to let Royal Capital maintain its advantages first, the most important thing is to maintain the most advanced level of science and technology.

As long as there is the most advanced level of technology, the most advanced productive forces can be controlled, so as to control the maximum profits, and the largest army can be controlled to occupy more land and minerals.

……

No further ado.

Time returned to the day after Zhu Youzhen clearly issued the will of the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Youzhen's decision to go on the Northern Expedition was in the interests of the majority of the people in the Southern Bloc, and thus succeeded in defusing the popular protests that he had initiated on his own initiative.

And he himself has gained great psychological satisfaction, and this is the first time that he has counterattacked the civilian officials through the control of public opinion.

This feeling made him feel good.

Especially after Gao Hongtu's dejected and frightened look, he was even more proud in his heart.

He knew that Gao Hongtu and other civil officials could only obediently listen to him in the future, and in order to make meritorious contributions, they could only work hard to fulfill the obligations of the first assistant of the cabinet according to their own emperor's will.

Zhu Youzhen was in a good mood.

After the end of the day, he came to the queen's Kunning Palace as promised, and was accompanied by the queen Zhou for dinner.

Queen Zhou also thought a lot, and was a lot more docile: "If you talk about it, the emperors are indeed more sensible now that they are older, and they are more filial than in the past, I heard that Your Majesty is sick, and they are all vying to come to the palace to ask the concubines to take them to see Your Majesty, it can be seen that Your Majesty, although you are usually more strict with them, they still have your father in their eyes." ”

Hearing what Empress Zhou said, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think of the fact that after Empress Zhou left, Zhu Cihong, the king of Hui, and Zhu Cihuan, the king of Ding, shirked the responsibility for breaking into the palace to his mother Zhou.

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't break it, he only smiled and said: "I hope so, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, we don't have to talk about others tonight, let's talk about Fengyue, they have all been new chicks recently, and they are very shy and clumsy between the beds, not as mature and tasteful as the queen." ”

"It's not serious, but there are still people."

"What are you afraid of, this is my harem, even the Shi family doesn't dare to say anything, if you don't call Concubine Yuan to come along, you can't say that I forget the old one if I have a new one, and it just so happens that she is also out of the moon."

……

Today's Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen often exercises diligently, and his physical quality is much better after his mood is not as depressed as before.

And what it tastes like in the meantime is only known by Zhu Youzhen himself, so there is no need to say much here.

On this day, just half a month after the 22nd year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen received Fang Yizhi's note, saying that the practical steam engine had been developed and had begun to be used in the function of pumping water.

This can make Zhu Youzhen happy.

He has always paid attention to the development of science and technology, so he hurriedly left the palace again and rushed to the Daming Military Industrial Base.

From the 17th year of Chongzhen to the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen paid close attention to the development progress of this industrial product almost all the time.

Because every progress of this mechanical product means a great progress in the field of science and technology of Daming, and now if the steam engine can really come out, it means that the industrial level of Daming has entered a new era!

This is not why Zhu Youzhen is not excited.

The twenty-second year of Chongzhen is just a very ordinary year for many people in the Ming Dynasty at this moment, and the biggest significance is that the Northern Expedition will start this year.

But only Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, knows that from this year onwards, it will mark the arrival of the era of the Ming Industrial Revolution!

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