Xie Jin didn't speak.

Zhu Yunxi smiled and took the initiative to speak: "Since the eldest gentleman brother doesn't say it now, then I'll tell you what you think after returning to Beijing this time."

After finishing speaking, his gaze swept over Xie Jin's face.

Xie Jin nodded: "The ministers are listening."

"Now that there are clan kings guarding the nine sides, the previous vitality has been exhausted, and it is impossible to go south again in the next ten years."

With nine sides, this is to comment on the current situation of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji immediately adjusted their sitting postures, sat upright, and listened to orders with their ears attached.

Zhu Yunxi continued: "The army of Zhenwei has been in the country for three years, and the mining and smelting of Iwami silver ore is becoming more and more mature, and the output is stable. The gold and silver mines on Sado Island also began to be excavated and smelted. Within the territory of the Wa Kingdom, the two dynasties of the north and the south are now occasionally at war, and with the operation of Tie Xuan, it is absolutely impossible for the two dynasties to be unified, and everything is under the control of our dynasty."

"With the conquest and establishment of the Cochin Road, the vast fertile land in the south has become a fruit that can be picked by the Ming Dynasty. The grain, stone, timber, minerals, spices, precious stones, and other products of the south are no less abundant than those of the Central Plains."

"In the same way, because of the new expedition of the Cochin Road and the layout of the Wa Kingdom, the perennial troubles of the southeast coastal land have rarely been heard."

Xia Yuanji raised his hips slightly, bowed his head, and respectfully: "Your Majesty Shengming, the prince is virtuous, His Royal Highness is brave, and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty can be seen, this is the merit of my Ming monarch, so that there is a situation where the government is harmonious and the people of the world are peaceful."

Zhu Yunxi shook his head and looked at Xia Yuanji.

It's becoming more and more sensible now.

He shook his head silently and said, "There are still many things to do in the world, and we still need to work hard and work together."

Xie Jin, who had not spoken, immediately straightened his waist: "Your Highness has made this trip, but you already have a sense of it, and you want to implement it in the court?"

Something is wrong with the big gentry!

Something is wrong!

Zhu Yunxi looked at Xie Jin, whose eyes were swishing, and turned his head to look at Xia Yuanji silently on the side.

Xia Yuanji sighed: "Brother Squire feels that he can't find a clue now."

"Can't find a clue?"

Zhu Yunxi muttered suspiciously, and turned his head to look at Xie Jin, who was blushing because of his good brother's thoughts in public.

After two glances, Zhu Yunxi chuckled.

At the beginning, he had a whimsical idea to let Xie Jin, Xia Yuanji, and Tie Xuan serve as the Wenhua Hall to walk and participate in political affairs.

But the actual positions of the three of them have not been adjusted or changed.

Xia Yuanji is still doing his old job in the household department, and now in the case of Yu Xin's low-key ignorance of the ministry, there is a faint meaning that the household department is the handle, and the transactional things are enough to make him shout that he is too busy every day.

Not to mention Tie Xuan, from the original Ministry of Rites, he went directly to the Ministry of War, and then went to the Japanese country with Li Jinglong with the army of Zhenyu. Now the imperial court's millions of gold and silver resources per year are all obtained by Tie Xuan.

Not to mention, every year, accompanied by a boatload of gold and silver, there are countless Japanese people who have been unable to survive in the country of the Ming Dynasty, and are sent to Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places on the sea ships of the Ming Dynasty to welcome and embrace their 'beautiful, Ming life. ….

Only Xie Jin.

Only he has always been in the position of the Hanlin Academy, except for a book and newspaper bureau set up in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, after a period of turmoil and twists and turns at the beginning of the first year.

Today's book and newspaper bureau has completely become the birthplace and dissemination place of Daming psychology.

There are countless adherents.

What started to be a ten-year newspaper has now become a seven-day issue. The number of pages has also changed from a few thin sheets at the beginning to a thick one for each issue today.

Xie Jin wants to do things.

That's why he's acting like this today.

Zhu Yunxi silently looked at Xie Jin, who was being picked out, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, after returning to Beijing this time, there are a few things that still need to be handled by the eldest gentleman."

Listen to it

I can finally have a job to do.

Xie Jin immediately came to his senses, and straightened his waist and chest like Xia Yuanji beside him: "When the minister receives the order, he must do his best and dare not slack off."

Zhu Yunxi couldn't help laughing again and again.

"Brother Squire, I haven't said what I'm going to do yet."

Xie Jin looked up at Zhu Yunxi, blinked, and didn't need to open his mouth to express his thoughts clearly.

You just have to give orders, and our old man only has to take orders and do things.

Zhu Gaochi on the side looked at Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji curiously, since the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, he followed his father back to Beijing, and then stayed in Yingtian to study, and then was deceived into going to Jiaozhi Road.

He didn't have much communication with the officials in Beijing, and even Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji, who belonged to Brother Xi'er's confidants, didn't have much understanding and interaction.

At this time, this person took the initiative to ask for things, which surprised Zhu Gaochi.

Do people who are officials really take the initiative to ask for things to be done?

Do more wrong, do less wrong, and don't do nothing.

This is the true meaning of standing up in officialdom.

Zhu Yunxi gave Xie Jin a reassuring look, and then said slowly: "This time I returned to Beijing and stopped at Hangzhou Mansion to replenish supplies, and there was news in Beijing that the craftsman Zhang who would be the prisoner was about to complete a matter I had explained before I left Beijing and went south. Now, the follow-up of this matter can be handed over to the eldest gentleman."

Xie Jin raised his eyebrows: "Dare to ask Your Highness, what is the matter?"

After asking, Xie Jin's heart has already given birth to infinite reverie.

Tie Hyun is now doing millions of taels of gold and silver every day.

Xia Yuanji is also doing things related to the taxation of acres of land related to the world's social crops.

Zhu Yunxi sold Guanzi: "Wait for me to take care of everything in Beijing in the next few days, and go and see with my own eyes where I have come now, and then make a decision."

Jian Jin had already shown his anxiety, and Zhu Yunxi immediately raised his hand to stop the other party.

"Brother Gentry, don't be impatient, as long as you do this well, it will be a matter of benefiting the country and the people, and it will be a matter for the future. The Ming Dynasty is free to take it."

The Ming Dynasty is at will?

This naturally does not mean to give up the throne of the old Zhu family to Xie Jin, but this sentence really shows that as long as Xie Jin can do this well, he can become the leading official in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yunxi didn't say the details of the reason, but he gave such high expectations, and instantly mobilized the curiosity of the three people in the small study, including Zhu Gaochi. ….

And he laughed and didn't say anything.

Cement.

At the beginning, after the Zhang craftsman who was the supervisor completed the bet on 1,000 new looms in Zhejiang Road, he became the first person in the Ming Dynasty to become an official from a craftsman.

Although it is only a petty official from the eighth grade, it is enough to make Zhang Craftsman grateful to Dade, and it also makes the craftsmen in the world have a far greater desire than letting their own family live a good life.

After that, Zhu Yunxi handed over the cement manufacturing process to the hands of Zhang craftsmen.

Now, two years is enough time for him to turn a piece of paper into a real product.

And as Zhu Yunxi himself wants to communicate with the world's freight and promote the circulation of Ming wealth, instead of stagnation and being hidden at home by local scholars, the road will inevitably need to be improved.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

This is the standard that Zhu Yunxi deeply engraved in his mind when he was very young.

And, this is also his own experience.

When a dirt road covered with dust that turns into mud on rainy days is paved with stones of various sizes, the village with thatched walls and thatched roofs becomes a new village with brick walls and tiled roofs.

When the stone road that can be cut through the bottom of the car becomes a smooth concrete road that is not afraid of wind and rain, the village is full of two-story red brick buildings.

The villagers saw more and more unfamiliar faces, and the small red brick buildings were built higher and higher.

The house, from the very beginning of living, has changed to a higher, better, more beautiful hair

Unfold.

Eventually, large bins of garbage recycled appeared on both sides of the road. The aqua toilets on the side of the road have also been transformed into brand new public toilets with no peculiar smell.

The village keeper became the village's health safety officer.

The change of a road allows people with lofty ideals in the world to get out of the mud, and also allows businessmen who can discover all values to find a place of wealth that has not been found in the past.

And when the road is well repaired enough, it will automatically become something that can provide assistance for the country's politics, economy, and even the military.

Eight zhang smooth road can fly to the sky.

Daming needed flatter roads, trucks with greater carrying capacity, and supplies from all over the world to where they needed to go.

It is also necessary to transport the million heroes to the designated place at the specified time.

And beneath the specific matter of road construction, there is a deeper layer of influence hidden.

The imperial power of thousands of years of eternity did not go to the countryside.

When the central court of the Ming Dynasty was able to reach the most marginal and low-level villages in a shorter period of time, the imperial power would replace the power of the gentry.

Making the people of Daming rich is Zhu Yunxi's most fundamental pursuit after returning to Beijing this time.

But he also would not allow the fruits of his victory to be stolen by the gentry who were far away from the court and had an unrivalled right to speak and rule over the villagers.

Xie Jin was keenly aware of the slightest change in the mood of the imperial grandson.

At that moment, he immediately changed his mouth and whispered: "The book and newspaper bureau has achieved remarkable results recently, and the minister thinks that it is possible to set up additional sub-bureaus in all provinces of the world, and send personnel from the Beijing Book and Newspaper Bureau to preside over the distribution of local literature and periodicals and collect local events."

Zhu Yunxi didn't talk about this matter for the time being, but asked, "How is the book and newspaper bureau doing? When I returned to Beijing this time, I heard that many people were already publishing books and newspapers." ….

Xie Jinti opened local sub-bureaus not only because the business volume of the book and newspaper bureau is becoming more and more large.

Xie Jin was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Zhili still only has one book and newspaper bureau now. However, Jiangxi Province and Huguang Road, just these two provinces, now have more than a dozen publishing books and newspapers...... There are also people in the other ways who are doing it."

Zhu Yunxi smiled: "It's those physicists."

Xie Jin raised his head and gave a rare explanation: "It is true, but they have not caused trouble again, but they have been inviting the great Confucians of science in the world to write articles and expound the classics of the sages."

Wendou.

Psychology and science, each school propagates the ideas of each school, and promotes the doctrines and concepts of each school.

This is the situation of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty today.

Zhu Yunxi nodded: "There is no reason for the imperial court not to let people speak, since it is just writing articles, the book and newspaper bureau should write better articles." Let's arrange for the addition of sub-bureaus."

Xie Jin nodded and took the order, and now the book and newspaper bureau has long begun to undertake the business of local merchants to advertise because of the circulation and reading, although it is not completely self-sufficient, but it is also within the scope of its ability to set up branches in various provinces.

In addition, there are several outlines left by the grandson at the beginning, and the book and newspaper bureau has been serializing several books at the same time in the past two years.

In order to open source, Xie Jin has already begun to plan to take out the rest of the outline separately and print it separately.

In addition, because the book and newspaper bureau continues to expand its printing capacity, it can also undertake the business of printing books.

Expanding its influence while satisfying self-sufficiency is the minimum requirement for Xie Jin's book and newspaper bureau today.

What is it about becoming a saint of the mind?

Xie Jin is very rational to think that he is not old enough to become a saint at the age of twenty.

After deciding the matter of the book and newspaper bureau.

Xie Jin then changed his words and said, "This year, Enke has already begun."

Zhu Yunxi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "It's another year for Enke to ......."

The spread of psychology is among the people, but the court also needs to have a mind-learning boss to hold power.

This is the consensus of those present.

It's just that the official position of the court and even the important weapon of the country cannot be clearly stated.

Zhu Yunxi turned his head to look at Xia Yuanji: "I heard that Brother Wei Zhe is dealing with those Yiren merchants now?"

As soon as he heard Taisun mention the Yiren merchants who were now in Yingtian City, Xia Yuanji was suddenly full of helplessness.

Xia Yuanji arched his hand and began to instill his household troubles in the past two years to his grandson: "Your Highness, do you know something, those people are all insatiable, even if they are ministers who have watched all over our court, they have never seen such people."

"Oh?" Zhu Yunxi's face was suspicious, and he said curiously, "What did they do?"

Xia Yuanji shook his head with a wry smile: "Last winter, a group of Franco-machine merchants landed in Guangzhou Mansion and lobbied the local government, they wanted to buy land in Guangzhou Mansion as a place to settle in the Ming Dynasty in the future, and they also wanted to build houses and warehouses on the purchased land, leaving people to manage them."

Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi's brows couldn't help but froze, and there was an uncontrollable haze in his heart.

Xia Yuanji witnessed the change in the face of the crown grandson, and immediately said in a deep voice: "At this time, I reported to the General Administration Department, and the minister agreed with Zhan Shangshu and others at that time to order Guangzhou Mansion and other places, and it is absolutely impossible to sell land to those Yiren merchants." ….

Bang.

In the small study, Zhu Yunxi slammed his fist on the tea table in front of him.

The sudden change made the three people present frown and look at him.

In the confusion of the three.

Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "All the places where I am bright are the foundation of my ancestors, and they are the land of the people of the world, and there is no possibility of giving up half an inch to the hands of outsiders!"

Zhu Gaochi blinked and poured a cup of tea for the vacant teacup in front of Zhu Yunxi.

Xia Yuanji nodded and said, "The minister has an order, and today he will discuss with the six ministries to report this matter to the court, and then send it to the local government to know."

It is just necessary to inform the provincial government in advance that there is no possibility that the land of the Ming Dynasty will be sold or transferred to outsiders.

However, Zhu Yunxi felt that this was not enough.

Then he continued to say in a deep voice, "The land shall not be given away, and the people shall not be lost, this is an eternal rule."

The weight of the words is a bit heavy.

It's just that Zhu Yunxi's current status as the grandson of the emperor of the prison country is a little out of place.

Xia Yuanji and the others looked at Zhu Yunxi silently, and they didn't know why they had such a big reaction because of a matter that had already been dealt with.

But Zhu Yunxi changed his words and said: "Whether the collection of Yiren commercial tax is based on what was discussed in the past."

Xia Yuanji immediately replied: "Back to His Highness, since His Highness left Beijing, all Yi merchants entered the court to do business, and the household department levied a commercial tax, which was fifty percent, and there has been no change."

Zhu Yunxi nodded: "I informed the people below, don't reduce the price of the goods of the Yiren merchants just because you took the few taels of silver from the Yi people. As long as they can collect fifty percent of the year, and settle it every year, the court will calculate it accordingly, and give another reward."

Xia Yuanji's frowning brows gradually relaxed.

No need to ask, His Highness just doesn't like those people.

Anyway, now the Yiren businessmen come to Daming just to spend money to buy things, and there are not many things that are really sold, and they are begging for Daming.

Zhu Yunxi also thinks so, today's Daming is a place with countless good things for the Yiren merchants who come from Europa, and when they come to Daming, buying things is far more important than selling things.

Only by bringing back the things of the Ming Dynasty is the thing that makes them really rich.

Da Ming still can't look down on the things they brought.

Of course, if there is more advanced navigation technology, industrial technology, etc., Zhu Yunxi will naturally treat it differently.

Then he asked, "What else do those Yiren want?"

Xia Yuanji thought for a while and said, "After many Yi people entered Beijing, they openly and secretly hoped that the imperial court would allow them to go deep into the interior and do business on their own."

Zhu Yunxi didn't even think about it, and said directly: "At this time, it is not allowed for the time being, what the Yiren bring and what they want can only be carried out through the household department."

Ben Taisun himself has not figured out the affairs of the world, where can he let these white-skinned ghosts find out the situation in their own house first.

There can't be a day when the grandson of Ben will have to take the map drawn by the white-skinned ghost and rush on his own land!

After thinking about it, Zhu Yunxi took out a stack of paper wrapped under a piece of leather tarpaulin from his arms and put it in front of Xia Yuanji's eyes.

When Zhu Yunxi took out the folding paper from his arms, Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting on the side, immediately raised his buttocks. ….

He could see clearly that these papers were drawn by Brother Xi on the ship back to Beijing, hiding alone in the cabin, and they were also full of various descriptions.

It's just that he has always wanted to find out, but he has never succeeded.

At this time, Xia Yuanji watched the grandson send this stack of paper to him, took the paper, and casually flipped through the colored graphics and words on a few pieces of paper, and said suspiciously: "The things painted by His Royal Highness, the minister has never seen or heard, I don't know what His Highness only needs the minister to do?"

Zhu Yunxi stretched out his hand and pointed to the stack of papers: "Open a reward, if you find one of these things on the paper, bring it to Lone, and reward a thousand taels of gold." Find all three things, please be the prince!"

A thousand taels of gold!

Not a daughter, but gold.

This is the real thing, not the real money that is replaced by copper!

Xia Yuanji quickly exchanged a thousand taels of gold into silver in his mind, then into Hongwu Tongbao, and finally into treasure money.

Then he opened his mouth wide.

That's a huge number.

It is enough for a small people to become a wealthy family of the Ming Dynasty, and the descendants can be rich for several generations.

Not to mention, as long as three things are found, the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will personally ask for the title of prince for this person.

Xia Yuanji recalled carefully.

The current princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty, which one was not in exchange for the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, which was not doubtful when the Ming Dynasty was founded, or the establishment of the auxiliary state.

Now if you find these three things on the paper, you can exchange them for a prince's family.

It's a sky-high bounty.

Taisun is crazy!

Zhu Gaochi on the side also felt that Brother Xi was crazy.

I couldn't hold back any longer, and snatched the drawings from Xia Yuanji's hand.

Then frowning and flipping through them one by one.

"Potatoes?"

"Sweet potato?"

"Corn?"

"Chili?"

「……」

"What are these? It's all food?"

Looking at the unfamiliar images on the drawings and the descriptions next to them, Zhu Gaochi became more and more puzzled.

"Yes!" Zhu Yunxi's face was full of expectation and smile: "It's these things, as long as you can find these things, it's ten thousand taels of gold, and Lone is willing to reward it!"

"As long as I have these things, my Ming will truly coexist with the sun and the moon!"

Shredded pork and rice noodles