The second year of Jiajing.

A year has passed, and the first year of Jiajing is indescribable for the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

In the seventh year of Zhengde, the unreliable emperor ran away, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who had been disappointed in Zhu Houzhao, raised Emperor Jiajing to the throne with a heart of expecting Mingjun.

However, who would have thought that after ascending the throne, Emperor Jiajing was a little too much, not simply out of the control of the ministers, but personally rolled up his sleeves and went down, and then subdued the entire court.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were stubborn, but the officials in the middle were not as shameless as the civil ministers in the late Ming Dynasty, but the idea of balancing the monarchy with the power of the ministers has not changed from beginning to end.

They take pride in accusing the king of his mistakes, and even go so far as to pick bones in the eggs, as long as there is an excuse to spray the emperor, then the officials of the six branches and thirteen realms will definitely charge into battle with all their strength.

It's not a matter of offending the emperor, it's a glory to be beaten with a court staff, and it's okay to be kicked out of the court, because of offending the emperor and going into the wilderness, you will only win a good reputation as a loyal minister, and then win huge prestige among the people, accumulate strong political capital, and sooner or later one day can make a comeback.

But the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the officials of the Six Departments and the Thirteen Dao, did not expect that they would usher in such a lord.

This is a person who has an extremely strong desire to control power, so strong that any courtier who dares to challenge the monarchy will be suppressed by him.

But at the same time, he knows how to delegate power, such as the current cabinet.

But what Emperor Jiajing is really powerful is the means, the means are ruthless, and the experienced ones don't look like young men in their twenties at all.

He can shamelessly deceive the vassal kings of the whole world for the sake of silver, and he can also sell the palace that costs only a few thousand taels for hundreds of thousands of taels!

For the sake of silver, he cut off the heads of dozens of officials, copied the property of several big salt merchants, and then firmly held the silver of the salt administration in his own hands.

He can also levy mining taxes for the sake of silver, at the expense of touching the interests of the nobles, and at the expense of offending the gentry all over the world to levy commercial taxes.

For the sake of silver, he opened a bank, did all kinds of business, and even summoned copper-smelling merchants twice in places like the imperial study.

In order to put an end to corruption, he set up the Eye of Heaven, known as the ubiquitous Eye of the Son of Heaven, and directly targeted officials all over the world.

In the face of the protest of the officials, Emperor Jiajing and you reasoned with the facts, and the officials who were already in the wrong had no way to refute it.

In the face of the saliva of the speaker, he sat high in the dragon court, did not reprimand, did not scum, said whatever you wanted, and had no intention of suppressing the speaker, but he did his own thing, and regarded the speaker's advice as a fart, making the speaker's fist seem to hit the cotton, which was uncomfortable.

The emperor is rich, which is not a bad thing for the imperial court, you must know that the finances of the Ming Dynasty have never been rich, and the royal family has never been rich.

The royal family is not rich, the emperor will reach out to the household to ask for silver, for example, when Yongwang is in the domain, Emperor Zhengde will reach out to the household to ask for 500,000, that is to say, Yongwang will be in the domain of 500,000 taels are all given by the household, Emperor Zhengde did not give a penny of silver, the minister protested and played a scoundrel, to put it bluntly, there is no money.

King Yong's front foot just left, Emperor Zhengde asked the household department to give 500,000 taels of silver to repair the palace, and finally quarreled for half a year, the household department picked out 250,000 taels, and then there was a leopard room.

Now Emperor Jiajing is not short of money, not only allocating 5 million taels of silver obtained from the salt administration to the household department every year, but also bearing the military expenditure of more than 2 million taels per year, as well as commercial taxes......

The commercial tax touches the interests of the gentry, and the interests of the gentry are, to put it bluntly, the interests of the officials themselves, so the officials must not agree, but there is little weight among the officials who disagree......

Influential bigwigs, such as Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing, the head of the household department, and so on, are mixed into their positions, and the level of issues to be considered is much deeper than that of ordinary officials.

If during the period of his own rule, the Ming Dynasty's finances were unprecedentedly good, the people were rich, and the country was strong, then there is no doubt that these important ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty were the ministers of the Ming Dynasty in the history books, and they would inevitably go down in history!

Compared with these, a slight loss of interests has not touched the foundation of Confucianism, and the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will naturally not be too desperate to fight against Emperor Jiajing, not to mention that they may not be able to do it.

It can be said that Emperor Jiajing completely reversed the financial crisis with his own efforts, making the poor Ming into a rich Ming.

Such a king naturally deserves the assistance of important ministers in the court.

Of course, this is also the reason of the times, if Zhu Houwei died unnaturally at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But then again, didn't Zhu Houwei know that as soon as he ascended the throne, he was eager to reform and would inevitably touch the interests of many people?

He knew, and he also knew the strength of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, such as why Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi burped when they fell into the water, such as why did the palace maid strangle Jiajing? For example, why did Emperor Taichang die so strangely in the Red Pill case.

Zhu Houwei is definitely not a conspiracy theorist, nor does he have to throw dirty water on the head of Confucianism, but he speculates on the truth of the matter with a questioning attitude, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

So Zhu Houwei has always been on guard against Confucian dogs jumping off the wall, if you want to say that no one in the palace is bought by the outside court, even if this kind of thing is told to the ghosts, the ghosts may not believe it.

Now it has not really touched the core of interests, and the foreign dynasty is not desperate, but it is necessary to be careful to make the ship of ten thousand years, and it is necessary to be guarded against.

For example, the middle and high-ranking generals of the palace guards are all old men who are loyal to him in the Yongwang Guard, such as the inner court, the people he trusts and tries his best to cultivate trustworthy people.

There is no reason to prevent thieves in this world, but there is no way, at least before the outer court is cleaned up and obeyed, it is necessary to prevent trouble before it happens.

If the officials of the foreign court knew that the emperor had guarded against them to such a point, they would probably be heartbroken, and then took off their hats on the main hall one by one......

However, there are also a lot of slanders in the foreign court, and the emperor is desperately trying to make money, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like a benevolent monarch, but it turns out that they are wrong, because although the emperor is riveting enough to make money, and spending money is simply appalling.

The world has developed schools, made steel, built shipyards, and started to increase the income of officials by two to three times this year, and allocated funds for research in the Tongzhou Industrial Park every year, as well as the money from the inner treasury to raise the army.

The money is like flowing water, and the outer Chaoguang feels trembling when he thinks about it.

But if you want to say that the emperor is a loser, that is also nonsense, the emperor's life is very frugal, and there are only five or six dishes per daily meal, which is quite a legacy of Taizu.

As for the palace, there are also many palaces that are in disrepair, but the emperor has never considered repairing the palace.

The emperor was young, full of blood, and it was when he was most interested in women, and then there were only a few women in his harem.

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