"Your Majesty, now we have recruited a total of more than 30,000 young and strong people, and nearly half of the main body of the altar has been completed......"

I saw Zhu Houzhao, who was dressed in regular clothes, slowly turned around, his eyes fell on Chen Ding, and said slowly: "Chen Aiqing, I just want to know how long it will take for the altar to be completed!" ”

Chen Ding coughed for a while, and an official on the side hurriedly supported Chen Ding, who was swaying, and could see that Chen Ding's physical condition was not good.

From the early years of Zhengde to the present, if you consider the period of filial piety, Chen Ding has been sitting in the position of the head of the household for more than 20 years.

Being able to sit in a seat for one or two decades is very rare, and it is very rare to look at the government and the opposition, with Chen Ding's temperament, it is obvious that he is doing his best in this position, and of course his body has been affected to a certain extent.

Looking at Chen Ding's weak appearance, Zhu Houzhao sighed lightly and said to Chen Ding: "Aiqing, sit down and rest, didn't I send the imperial doctor to regulate your body?" ”

After breathing a sigh of relief, Chen Ding, who sat down, shook his head towards Zhu Houzhao and said: "Thank you for your care, how is your body, the old minister is very clear in his heart, the imperial doctor just asked the old minister to put down everything to regulate his body, but this is such a big project, if the minister doesn't stare at it, the minister will not be stable even if he sleeps!" ”

With Chen Ding's temperament, as he said, such a big project, if Chen Ding didn't stare at it, he would definitely be unable to sleep peacefully.

Zhu Hou looked at Chen Ding and said, "Aiqing's body is more important, I will send others to supervise this project......"

Although Zhu Houzhao doesn't like Chen Ding's temperament too much, there is one thing that Zhu Houzhao is very clear, that is, he is looking for the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, but no one is more suitable to sit in the seat of the household secretary than Chen Ding.

Who can sit in such an important position as Chen Ding in the household department for more than ten or twenty years, and he is not greedy for ink at all.

You must know that in the treasury today, not to mention the rest, there are no less than hundreds of millions of taels of gold and silver that can be mobilized.

If Chen Ding, who is the head of the household, is willing, he is afraid that he can lose countless family properties with a little bit of manipulation, but everyone knows that in addition to the wealth rewarded by the Son of Heaven, Chen Ding's family only has a meager fortune.

Whether it is Jinyiwei or Dongchang, or Xichang, other officials probably don't need Jinyiwei and Dongchang to fabricate any evidence of corruption, and they can find out most of the problems by randomly picking out a few officials, but Chen Ding is innocent, with clean sleeves, and he can really be said to be honest and honest.

Therefore, although the Son of Heaven does not like Chen Ding, he respects him from the bottom of his heart, after all, an official like Chen Ding can really never find a second one among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

However, before the Son of Heaven finished speaking, he saw Chen Ding, who was sitting there, suddenly stood up as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and only startled a few people, and heard Chen Ding say to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, you have promised the ministers to let the ministers supervise the repair of the Temple of Heaven for Your Majesty before the ministers give office!" ”

Zhu Houzhao frowned, looked at Chen Ding and couldn't help but hesitate: "But Aiqing, your body is ......."

Chen Ding couldn't help but stretch out his hand and patted his chest, and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the minister can still bear it, besides, although the minister doesn't know what the use of His Majesty repairing this altar is, but the minister knows that this altar must be very important to His Majesty. ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes narrowed, looking at Chen Ding who was bowing, to be honest, if this matter was really handed over to someone else to handle, even if it was stared at by the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Zhu Houzhao was not too relieved.

After all, if the officials below want to be corrupt and take bribes, even if there are Dongchang and Jinyiwei staring at it, I am afraid that they will not be able to avoid people with intentions.

But Chen Ding is different, with Chen Ding's decades of experience in the household department, I am afraid that if anyone wants to do anything on the construction of the altar, they will definitely not be able to escape Chen Ding's eyes.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Houzhao couldn't resist Chen Ding's request, coupled with the importance of the altar, Zhu Houzhao nodded to Chen Ding and said: "I can promise Aiqing and still let Aiqing be in charge of the altar, but Aiqing also has to agree to a request." ”

Chen Ding nodded and said, "If Your Majesty has any requirements, the ministers should obey them." ”

Zhu Houzhao said slowly: "I don't have any other requirements, but Aiqing must agree to me, and I must follow the advice of the imperial doctor and rest as much as possible."

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao said to Wang Zheng beside him: "Eunuch Wang, you write it down, and then remember to pass on my dictation to the imperial doctor, and let him send the best imperial doctor to take care of Chen Aiqing." ”

When Chen Ding heard this, he couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Your Majesty, the ministers ......"

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand to Chen Ding and said, "If Aiqing still wants to be in charge of the altar, then listen to my arrangement, otherwise, Aiqing will unload the burden first and take care of her body." ”

Under Zhu Houzhao's threat, even though Chen Ding was unwilling in his heart, he had to accept it.

With a slight bow, Zhu Hou looked at Chen Ding and said, "Chen Aiqing, according to your estimates, if you want to repair this altar, how much time will it take?" ”

Chen Ding raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and groaned, it could be seen that Chen Ding should be estimating the time in his heart, and when Chen Ding raised his head, the eyes of several people naturally fell on Chen Ding.

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the minister's estimate, if you want the altar to be completely completed, I'm afraid it will take more than half a year."

If it took time, it would have taken almost a year to complete the altar.

In a year, tens of thousands of young and strong laborers were used to repair an altar, and you can imagine how majestic this altar must be.

Just looking at it right now, although the altar dozens of feet high does not dare to say that it is towering into the sky, it is also extremely eye-catching, and many people rush here every day to watch from afar.

It was also thanks to the imperial court that in order to prevent any trouble, it specially dispatched a guard and horses to sit in the town, and under the blockade of all sides, it was barely able to stop some of the people who tried to approach the altar, otherwise, I don't know how many people would run to the towering altar to watch.

Zhu Houzhao bowed slightly, for the time it would take, to be honest, Zhu Houzhao didn't think it was too long, a year, he could afford to wait, and he still needed to wait for the news of the fleets that were going out.

With the help of that small altar of luck, Zhu Houzhao could detect the changes in the luck he had gathered at any time.

With Zhu Houzhao's intelligence, he can naturally deduce the fastest way to gather luck.

Dividing the kings overseas and destroying countless kingdoms, each of these actions brought him a huge amount of luck, and the number was constantly increasing.

In order to gather a large amount of luck that is enough to achieve its goal, even if the altar is really repaired successfully, but if the amount of luck is not reached, Zhu Houzhao will not act rashly.

In this case, Zhu Houzhao is actually not too anxious about the speed of the repair of the altar, if you really want to talk about it, Zhu Houzhao is not most concerned about the speed of the altar, but the speed of the external expansion of Yu Dayou, Xu Tianzuo and others who are abroad.

Just as Zhu Houzhao was talking in the pavilion with several important ministers, a fast horse galloped over, and he saw a messenger hurrying over.

"Your Majesty, the sailor is urgent!"

Wang Zheng stepped forward, took the urgent report from the messenger's hand, and then carefully handed it to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao's gaze swept over, and his face showed a bit of curiosity, because this letter was jointly signed by Yu Dayou, Qi Jingtong, Yue Buqun and others.

For Yu Dayou, Qi Jingtong, Yue Buqun and others, Zhu Houzhao was naturally impressed, no matter which of these people can be said to have been excavated by Chu Yi, with a deep imprint of Chu Yi.

If it weren't for that, Zhu Houzhao would not have paid so much attention to Yu Dayou and Yue Buqun.

With the reform of the military system, although there are not many generals with great talents in the army, there are many of them, even if they are generals who are stronger than Qi Jingtong in commanding troops, Zhu Houzhao doesn't care too much.

After all, there are too many generals in the army, but there are not many who can really enter Zhu Houzhao's sight, obviously Qi Jingtong, Yu Dayou and others have Chu Yi's imprint, so Zhu Houzhao looks at these people differently.

For a long time, the news of Yu Dayou's fleet has been intermittent, and the intermittent news has made the Manchu civil and military forces can't help but worry about whether one day, this fleet will be no longer news.

When he opened the letter, Zhu Houzhao swept the contents of the letter at a glance, and his expression couldn't help but change greatly, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

With Zhu Houzhao's determination, it is difficult to move him even if it is a big thing, but now that Zhu Houzhao is so out of shape, it naturally provokes Wang Yangming and several other important ministers on the side.

Everyone's eyes naturally fell on that letter, and the fool knew that the Son of Heaven was so out of shape, it must be because of the content of the letter.

I don't know what the content is that makes Zhu Houzhao so out of shape.

Slowly handed the letter to Wang Yangming, who was full of curiosity, Wang Yangming just glanced at it and couldn't help but exclaim: "Okay, good, it's really good." ”

The content of the letter is the good news reported by Yu Dayou, Qi Jingtong and others.

Of course, if it is just the news of the victory, Zhu Houzhao, Wang Yangming and others will not be able to react like this, after all, there are several fleets in the Ming Dynasty, and they dare not say that there are good news every day, at least every month.

In this case, just the good news of winning the battle is not enough to attract the attention of the imperial court, as for the Son of Heaven and Wang Yangming, it is obviously impossible to be moved by this.

What really shocked them, needless to say, was naturally the massive wealth that Yu Dayou had looted after they broke the Spanish Kingdom.

Even if the Son of Heaven and Wang Yangming were determined, they couldn't help but be moved when they saw the gold and silver property mentioned in the letter, which amounted to more than 300 million taels.

Wang Yangming was the most cautious, and when he looked at the content of the letter, he couldn't help but say to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, this is ...... Isn't this a bit too exaggerated, will Yu Dayou and them falsely report their military exploits? ”

It was really out of caution that Wang Yangming would have such suspicions. As the secretary of the Ministry of War, Wang Yangming admires Yu Dayou and Qi Jingtong a lot, the more so, the more Wang Yangming doesn't want Yu Dayou and a few people to have an accident, so when he saw the scary number, Wang Yangming took the initiative to clarify his suspicions, which seemed to be targeting a few people, but in fact he was protecting a few people.

Zhu Houzhao was actually a little skeptical, but after listening to Wang Yangming's words, Zhu Houzhao slowly shook his head and said, "I believe in Yu Dayou and Qi Jingtong!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao said: "The letter has already mentioned that the spoils they have captured and the king of Spain has been on board, since this letter has arrived in Beijing, even if the fleet escorting the booty back is slower, I think it will be time to arrive after a while." ”

After reading the letter, Wang Yangming transferred the letter to Chen Ding on the side.

Chen Ding is old, but his eyes are bright, when he saw the letter, Chen Ding's hand couldn't help shaking, and said in a trembling voice: "How is this possible, more than 300 million taels of gold and silver property, Yu Dayou, have they dug up a gold mine?" ”

Chen Ding's hands trembled, and he couldn't help crying when he looked at the letter.

Seeing Chen Ding crying, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say: "Why is Aiqing like this? ”

While shedding tears, Chen Ding said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the minister is excited, if you can get these hundreds of millions of gold and silver, then the increasingly serious silver shortage in my Ming Dynasty will be greatly alleviated." ”

Daming is vast, the population is large, the more prosperous the business, the more the market needs a large amount of gold and silver currency circulation, otherwise once the gold and silver in circulation in the market is not enough, it will inevitably greatly affect the normal and stable development of the Ming economy.

The Ming Dynasty lacks gold and silver, especially silver as a circulating currency, which is really extremely rare, which other officials may not feel, but Chen Ding, who is the head of the household department, feels it the most.

Therefore, Chen Ding saw that the letter mentioned that hundreds of millions of silver and gold would be brought back to Daming, how could Chen Ding not be happy.

With a slight bow, Zhu Houzhao nodded at Chen Ding, and there was a little expectation in his heart.

Half a month later, a huge fleet appeared in the port of Tianjin, needless to say that this fleet was the same fleet that had returned from the Kingdom of Spain and had been floating on the sea for half a year, escorting the booty.

Most of the hundreds of ships were actually in the style of the Xiyi people, needless to say that these ships were the ships that Yu Dayou and they looted after they occupied Spain.

Don't look at Yu Dayou, they have hundreds of ships under their command, but if the warships are removed, there will be hundreds of ships in the logistics fleet as auxiliaries.

But if you really want to transport so much loot back to the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that you will have to send all the hundreds of ships responsible for logistics and supply.

If you really want to do this, I'm afraid that Yu Dayou will not be able to pass that level first, without the assistance of the logistics fleet, don't look at the Ming fleet alone There are hundreds of warships, but the fleet without logistics is simply a moving target, and it is not good when to meet a fleet casually and the whole army will be wiped out.

But this is not difficult for Yu Dayou, don't forget, the Kingdom of Spain is a maritime power, Yu Dayou and they scavenged not only those gold, silver, jade and jewelry, but also ships.

Not to mention the hundreds of merchant ships captured in the ports of the Strait of Gibraltar, there were thousands of ships scraped out of the hands of the aristocracy.

It's also a shame that there are such a batch of captured ships, otherwise, if they really have to transport so much gold and silver property back to Daming, Yu Dayou and they will really have to use all the logistics fleet.

The Ming Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, who had received the news in advance, attached great importance to the fleet coming from overseas, so Zhu Houzhao sent Wang Yangming, who was known as the second assistant of the Ming Dynasty, to Tianjin Wei to welcome the return of the fleet. 2k reading web