@@因开矿和卖矿在朝中掀起的滔天巨浪, it's over for now.

Tang Yin is still in charge of coal mining in Xishan, and the use of private capital has shifted from the open to the dark, in any case, the private businessmen understand that the imperial court wants to make some changes in mining, but not many people are afraid of being overtaxed, all because Zhu Hao's method of proposing a new mining tax is very "ingenious".

If you don't buy the mines of the imperial court, there is no problem of taxation, and now the efficiency of the imperial court mining is not known, and others are more likely to regard the Hui merchants who invested in the purchase of the imperial court mines as fools.

When you first opened a mine, you dared to buy it for tens of thousands of taels of silver, and you really had money to burn.

After this incident.

Yang Tinghe's reputation in the court was seriously damaged, Zhu Si came out of the haze, and the monarch and ministers entered a period of relative harmony, and it was also because Zhu Hao warned Zhu Si not to fight with Yang Tinghe for the time being, even if he wanted to be a Ming monarch, he had to wait for Yang Tinghe to retreat.

Zhu Si heard this in his heart.

The court was threatened by Yang Tinghe, leaving a huge psychological shadow on Zhu Si, even if he didn't say it to outsiders, but in fact, he was afraid in his heart that he had made too many changes, which would annoy the civil officials, in case the civil officials really united to depose his throne, or find a way to kill him, it would be worth the loss.

Now that both sides have stepped down, it is better to live a stable life first, as long as they don't provoke Yang Tinghe, it is expected that Yang Tinghe will not come to infringe on his emperor's prestige.

It's March.

For Jiangnan, March is already a green willow embankment, fireworks everywhere, but in Beijing, March is still a little cold, but it is also warm and cold, the temperature in the morning is just over freezing, at noon can reach more than ten degrees, and in the evening can go back to below zero, occasionally there is a sleet.

Zhu Hao works in the Hanlin Academy, but he is also idle, but he is indeed busier after the year than before the year.

The main problems that Zhu Si has been worried about recently are: first, the northwest border pass, the Tatars are still constantly attacking and harassing, but fortunately, Dayan Khan is dead, and the grassland forces themselves are no longer a climate, so there will be no large-scale wars, which is good news for the Ming court.

Then there is the issue of coastal defense in the southeast.

The imperial court wanted to send troops to suppress it, but it suffered from the laxity of coastal defense in the southeast, and the soldiers were tired and could not cope with the battle......

In the past few decades, although the problem of coastal defense in the southeast has always existed, it was also during the Zhengde period that the Franco-Rang and the Japanese began to gradually attack and harass, which formed a major hidden safety hazard, and before that, because there was nothing to do in the coastal defense, some guard posts in the southeast had long had the problem of lack of troops and food, and it was difficult for the soldiers to raise even basic armaments, and the high-level officials of the central guard post wantonly embezzled land and exploited it too much, and the situation of military households fleeing became more and more serious.

Suddenly, the coastal defense was tightened, and the guards could not draw troops and horses to level the bandits, and even if they gathered the strength of several guards, they did not have the ability to fight the robbers because of the lax training of the soldiers and the incomplete armament.

What's more, because the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, there is basically no such thing as warships in the guards, even if the land combat officers and soldiers can rely on the numerical advantage to defeat the bandits, but as long as the people retreat to the sea and return to the island directly by boat, the officers and soldiers will have nothing to do with them.

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On this day, Zhu Si was very troubled in the court because of the southeast coastal defense problem.

Coastal defense has not been properly resolved, and when Yang Tinghe prevented Zhu Si from opening mines, he took out money, food, and ordnance equivalent to 50,000 taels of silver from the household department and transferred it to the southeast coastal guard.

But it's obviously a drop in the bucket.

It's not bad just to maintain the normal operation of the guards, but if you want to use this to rectify the armament, and even the results of the battle, it is estimated that even Yang Tinghe himself is not confident.

In the past few decades, the Ming Dynasty's strategy for the Japanese pirates was more similar to "razing and razing", which probably meant strengthening the coastal guards and the city defense of the county, so that the pirates could fight each other for territory.

So this time Yang Tinghe adopted this strategy.

In order to ensure the stability of the defense post and ensure that the interests of the military and the people are not harmed, the southeast coastal defense must come up with at least 200,000 taels worth of silver

Money, food, and ordnance are now only 50,000 taels, which will not help the overall situation.

Zhu Si was a more serious person, and in this matter, Zhu Si even asked the officials of the household department and the governor Kuraba to find a way to raise it.

"Zhu Hao, don't you know, they can gag, the official words at the court meeting are one after another, I asked them what they could do, and they said as much as possible, saying that they would wait for the salt class and summer grain to be collected, and what did they say that they had ordered the southern household department to withdraw money and grain...... Isn't that? It's clearly sloppy for me."

When the emperor's, including Zhu Youji, who is praised by the world, such as Emperor Hongzhi, faces the chaos of the imperial court, many times he also turns a blind eye.

But Zhu Si is an emperor with ideals and ambitions, and he wants to make achievements, coupled with Zhu Hao's ears and eyes around him, so he has another sense of responsibility to lead the Ming Dynasty to prosperity and strength, so he can't listen to those official clichés, he wants those officials to make achievements, but officials are all engaged in politics, and it is good to be able to do something at ordinary times, and bureaucrats are never born to solve problems.

Zhu Hao said: "It is their duty to deal with things, or to deal with Your Majesty, what achievements can Your Majesty expect them to make?"

Zhu Si asked puzzledly, "Shouldn't they do their best for Da Ming?"

"Huh."

Zhu Hao smiled, "That's what I said, but Your Majesty puts yourself in your shoes, if the imperial court treasury really can't take out so much silver, what will you do if Your Majesty is urged from above?"

Zhu Si said angrily: "You can't think of a way, and just think about how to deal with it, right?"

Zhu Hao nodded with a narrow smile on his face.

"How so?"

Zhu Si still didn't understand.

Young people have a pure ideal, and always feel that everything should be solved in the most correct way, instead of thinking about perfunctory and prevarication.

Zhu Hao said: "The problem arises locally, and the local officials themselves can't think of a way to deal with it, so they throw the problem to the imperial court, and it goes to Your Majesty...... In fact, these ministers are often the ones who care least about the success or failure of things."

"What's the explanation?"

Zhu Si asked.

Zhu Hao sighed: "The people below, if something happens in the place, it will directly threaten their vital interests, so they will do their best to solve it but there is no way. His Majesty will also set out to solve the problem for the sake of the stability of the country...... There are only those officials who are not up or down, and it is not in their interest whether the problem is solved or not......

"People are selfish, and if all the ministers of the DPRK and China had their own fields on the southeast coast, then they would be much more efficient than they are now...... It's just that when things don't happen, they think about how to deal with things hastily."

Zhu Si was given another lesson alive.

Zhang Zuo leaned over and asked, "Then Mr. Zhu, can't you solve it?"

Zhu Hao said: "In a year or two, it is difficult to make progress, and in order to ensure the stability of the imperial court, Yang Ge Lao can even directly veto it when we raise more than 100,000 taels of silver, which is enough to show that Wenchen does not care about solving the problem, but to maintain the so-called balance. Under this premise, it would be good to be able to ensure that there will be no major incidents in the southeast coastal defense......

"Alas!"

Zhu Si sighed, "That means that the surname Yang is one day, so I don't want to do something, right?"

Zhu Hao smiled: "Your Majesty, don't worry, it's good to be able to maintain the stability of the court, think about it from another angle...... In this way, His Majesty is more worry-free and effort-saving. In fact, we have been able to raise some money and food for this mine, but we can't get it on the surface...... My idea is to increase the number of mines, especially iron mines, and to build shipyards in the natural harbors along the Bohai coast, so as to build warships that can strengthen coastal defense."

"That...... It's expensive, isn't it?" Zhu Sidao.

"Hmm."

Zhu Hao nodded, "I have calculated, the shipyard will be repaired, and the initial investment will exceed 100,000 taels, and every qualified warship built in the future will require about 1,000 taels of silver. Building small ships simply can't cope with big naval battles...... Anyway, it's going to take time."

Zhu Si's eyes were firm: "Then hurry up, if you wait for the future to rebuild, or."

It will take the same amount of time, and from now on, it is not necessary to say that the warships will all be sailing at sea by then. This thing...... Is it still Mr. Tang in charge?"

"Yes."

Zhu Hao is very direct.

This matter belongs to Tang Yin, and Tang Yin does not need to go in person, but Tang Yin has to be responsible for the coordination of all things, and Tang Yin is equivalent to the deputy commander of this matter.

After all, Tang Yin received permission from the imperial court to be in charge of mining affairs as a member of the Ministry of Works, which was equivalent to dispatching in the form of an order.

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Hallym Courtyard.

On this day, Yang Shen came to find Zhu Hao, this is the only time in more than a month that Yang Shen has talked to Zhu Hao about business, obviously because of the mining before, Yang Ting and father and son have a problem with Zhu Hao, even if they are not directly angry, they will snub him for a while.

This is exactly what Zhu Hao wants.

As long as others are still in the capital, it is not a bad thing to be able to go a little further away with the Yang father and son.

「…… Originally, the head of the household department responsible for the operation of the official land was supposed to be abolished, but it was later discussed in the court that it should be retained. My father asked him who was suitable for this errand, and I recommended you to him, but I wonder what you think?"

After Tang Yin stepped down as the head of the household management Huangzhuang at the beginning of the year, this position has been vacant.

Yang Tinghe originally wanted to cut this position directly, and then sell the Huangzhuang, or divide it out.

But with the mediation of Empress Dowager Zhang, Yang Tinghe did not want to clash with the emperor again, and the matter remained unresolved for the next month.

But with the end of spring ploughing, there will be more than a month and less than two months, and it will be the summer grain harvest season, and Yang Tinghe wants to completely control this position under the civil official system.

Zhu Hao was a little surprised, and then said, "I have no opinion. It's okay if you don't go, it's okay if you go, anyway...... I don't have a choice, do I?"

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