"A chance to make a fortune?"

The eyes of the apocalypse shone brightly.

He likes to get rich the most.

After all, having money can really solve a lot of problems.

Zhang Gui nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty!" These scholars from Xilin Academy and the people of Jiangnan obviously disliked the slow pace of our reform and couldn't wait, so they were in a hurry to directly implement the new policy with violence. But in doing so, they are bound to use the assets they have obtained from the liquidation of the Jiangnan gentry to buy the firearms of the Xishan Industrial Division, so that the Xishan Industrial Division will be able to make more profits, and His Majesty will not be rich because he has the largest stake in the Industrial Division? ”

After hearing this, Tianqi suddenly realized: "It's too!" In this case, it is equivalent to helping me rob the money of the Jiangnan gentry. ”

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"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zhang Gui replied.

Apocalypse stood up and said, "In this case, they can't be characterized as a rebel. ”

"They weren't a rebel in the first place!"

Zhang Gui replied, and said: "They are people from Chenxi Factory in the name of the minister, and they are hoeing rape by order!" ”

"Donglin Academy colluded with the Japanese to plot misdeeds, so they naturally wanted to wash Donglin Academy in blood; The other Jiangnan gentry colluded with foreign officials to conspire against each other, and they naturally had the power to liquidate. As for Juntian Junji, it was just a spontaneous act of the people, and it had nothing to do with the West Factory. ”

Apocalypse nodded, and said, "But the big families in Jiangnan will not sit still. The court says that they are not a disorderly party, and they may not necessarily listen to the court and think that they are not a disorderly party. ”

Zhang Guidao: "What Your Majesty said is that at least the imperial court can't stand on the side of the big families in Jiangnan to stop the spontaneous changes of the people!" ”

"First of all, it's not good for the imperial court."

"Secondly, Your Majesty, if the imperial court does not secretly support these people's spontaneous changes, it will affect the overall situation of the entire Ming Empire."

After Zhang Gui said this, Tianqi asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Zhang Gui therefore replied: "Your Majesty, in fact, the Industrial Department of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Military Metropolitan Government has serious overcapacity!" Overly advanced smelting and forging technology, and hundreds of thousands of craftsmen, allowed ordnance and other industrial products to be continuously manufactured at a rapid speed, and the proximity to the guards and the newly established Tiger Ben Army was not enough to consume so many ordnance. ”

"The point is that the Department of Industry has to continue to expand in order to feed more displaced people, after all, the displaced people who have come here from all over the country are also His Majesty's people, and His Majesty cannot care about their lives and deaths. Therefore, even if it is necessary to solve these surplus ordnance and let more displaced people survive, His Majesty has to support the people of Jiangnan to wage a war against the gentry! “

Apocalypse fell silent after hearing this.

Influenced by Zhang Gui, he now knows the concept of overcapacity and unsalable.

It's just that he didn't expect that one day, when he supported Zhang Gui's industrialization, he would need to wage war to solve the problem of overcapacity after industrialization.

Zhang Gui continued at this time: "Your Majesty, the minister still has something to report to you, since February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, a major drought has begun in Guanzhong, and the number of local displaced people has increased greatly. Therefore, even if the Industrial Division has overcapacity, I am afraid that it will have to continue to expand the scale, otherwise there are so many displaced people, what will they do? The drought continued, and it was impossible for them to resume farming and engineering in a short period of time. ”

"I actually already know about the drought in Guanzhong, and Wei Zhongxian has reported it to me."

Saying that, Tianqi sighed and said, "God really bless me Daming!" The original internal and external troubles have not been resolved, and new internal troubles have arisen. Now it seems that we can only suffer the Jiangnan gentry and let the local people use the firearms we provide to liquidate them! ”

Then, Tianqi smiled at Zhang Gui again: "Speaking of which, this matter has developed so far, you, the uncle of the country, can't escape the relationship." If you hadn't gone to open a Xilin Academy next to Donglin Academy, and taught many radical ideas to the scholars of the poor family, so that they could contact the people and explore the way to save the common people in a realistic way, they would not have directly instigated the people to engage in violent reform! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister originally just wanted to guide them and prevent them from blaming His Majesty for the injustice. There are many scholars in the world now, and many of them are poor scholars. Because the imperial examination was secretly manipulated and controlled by the big scholars, they had no way to advance, and they were very angry! After all, they also want to seek wealth and prosperity through reading and become masters, but the reality is that the official positions and fame that the imperial court can provide are monopolized by the powerful bureaucrats. And the imperial examination has also lost its value in stabilizing the hearts and minds of the people in the world. Therefore, the ministers thought of running a Xilin Academy to guide them, instead of letting the Donglin Academy guide these scholars only thinking that the evils of the world were related to the king's immorality, and did not know that the original reason for their unsatisfactory life was that the gap between the rich and the poor was too large, there were many people and little land, and the land annexation was serious! Let them know who their real enemy is! ”

"But who would have thought that the minister's guidance, although many poor scholars woke up, knowing that it was not the court that was unscrupulous and the king was immoral, but when there was a serious inequality between the rich and the poor in the world, but this also made them have excessive behavior, and they began to take the initiative to coerce the people to liquidate the gentry! Unlike in the past, even if he was dissatisfied with the court and His Majesty, he did not dare to come nonsense because of the restrictions of Confucianism and national law. But now it is different, in order to realize their ambitions, and for their own wealth and power, they directly coerce the people to realize their ideals. ”

Zhang Gui analyzed it carefully.

After hearing this, Tianqi said: "It's naturally right for you to do this, otherwise, these advanced and unqualified poor scholars will only blame me!" But what I don't know is whether it is a good thing for them to coerce the people like this and force the court to reform. ”

Saying that, Tianqi laughed: "The people copy Donglin, the people copy the gentry, this is even more shocking than the people copying Dong Eun back then!" ”

Zhang Gui thought for a while and said, "It's nothing more than going with the flow." Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much. At least now His Majesty and the Imperial Court need them to do so even more. But they can't be allowed to violate the laws of the imperial government. Individual acts of excesses may be punished. But for most people, it's assumed that they're raping. Now, His Majesty and the imperial court are more concerned about the reduction of agricultural production caused by a large number of natural disasters and the new problem of overcapacity caused by industrialization. ”

Apocalypse nodded, silent for a long time.

Then, Tianqi suddenly asked Zhang Gui: "Do you say that I really shouldn't delve into strange tricks?" ”

"Why does Your Majesty say that? Didn't the minister and His Majesty have reached a consensus, the skills of a hundred crafts, the study of things is the practical learning of benefiting the people and strengthening the country, not a strange skill! ”

Zhang Gui asked with some surprise.

Apocalypse said: "You want to! I haven't built the steam engine you mentioned yet, but I just built a spinning machine and a hydraulic forging machine that you mentioned, which caused the overcapacity of Daming industry. Wouldn't it be even more surplus, if we could continue to build the steam engine, and the new things you mentioned, and continue to provide a large amount of production capacity? ”

Tianqi said again: "Maybe Mr. Sun and their Confucian ministers are not wrong, the skills of the hundred crafts are indeed strange and ingenious, and they will cause new problems." After all, who makes the Ming people more, once they learn from the improvement of skills, it will lead to a more serious surplus, and waste money and food. ”

"Your Majesty! Don't think so, if you think so, then the Ming Dynasty will really be unable to escape the law that the dynasty cannot have three hundred years of national fortune! If you don't improve your own skills, then the Ming Dynasty won't be able to use inferior technical products to earn food from other countries! Your Majesty, because of the impact of the climate, the Ming Dynasty is now due to natural disasters, and the shortage of food is serious, and it is very necessary to exchange industrial products such as ordnance and firearms for food, but if Your Majesty does not let the ordnance used by Daming himself be more advanced, these industrial products will not dare to sell it. ”

Zhang Gui said.

After hearing this, Tianqi suddenly realized: "You are right! That's the truth! In this way, not only can we not suppress the improvement of skills, but we must carry them forward? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. For more advanced technology and knowledge, we can do without, but we can't do without. ”

"For example, this time the people in Jiangnan spontaneously carried out violent changes, the ministers have always provided them with turtledoves, not the flintlock newly made by Bi Shilang, because in the future, if this change is really uncontrollable, the imperial court can completely rely on the flintlock gun to suppress it! In the future, it will be the same for Waiyi, we will sell them inferior firearms, let them give up their own ideas, and always remain one step behind us, so that there is no need to worry that they will suppress my Daming in turn! ”

Zhang Gui said.

Apocalypse nodded: "You can also control the military readiness of other countries from this!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Apocalypse laughed.

After all, Zhang Gui enlightened him so much that he found that he didn't have to suppress his hobby of scientific research, but was still very useful to his rule, so he said:

"Alright! I'm no problem here, even if Jiangnan is upside down, I don't care! Leave it to you West Factory to take care of! Now it's up to you to convince the courtiers. In addition, you and Wei Zhongxian don't bother me again for a while, I want to do an experiment with Tang Wang on magnetism and electricity, and I don't want to do government affairs! ”