"Smash!"

Peng——

On the same day, when Zhu Youzhen knew that he had been deceived, with a shout, dozens of strong men swung hammers and smashed them on a wooden stake.

The wooden stake was smashed into the recess, and the mechanism was triggered in an instant, and dozens of iron gate knives weighing 100 catties flew out, cutting through rows of ropes in an instant.

With the disconnection of the last rope, a sudden "boom" sound.

Fourteen large boats were unfettered and slid down the slipway, plunging headlong into the river.

The splash of the warships planted in the river was shocking, and then everyone in the dock applauded when they saw that the fourteen ships were firmly parked in the middle of the river.

"Let people go up and control these big ships, go to the dock of the three guards of the navy, and show the soldiers of the three guards of the navy!"

A familiar voice sounded, it was Zhu Youzheng who gave the order, and the dockyard craftsmen boarded fourteen cargo ships of various sizes one after another according to his words.

However, although it is a cargo ship, if you look closely, you can see that there are a small number of gun emplacements and batteries on the left and right sides of the deck.

After all, it was the beginning of the seventeenth century, and there were quite a few pirates at sea, and although they were merchant ships, it was necessary to maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

However, since it was the day of launch, there was nothing equipped.

As time passed, fourteen merchant ships of various sizes began to sail out of the river and headed for the camp of the three guards of the navy ten miles away.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao also asked Wei Zhongxian to prepare a carriage, and then under the escort of a thousand dragon and tiger guard cavalry, he rushed to the camp of the three guards of the navy army in the south.

When they arrived at the camp of the three guards of the navy, they were let go by the commander of the three guards who had known for a long time, and the soldiers of the three guards of the navy were already near the military port, and the water around the wharf was impassable.

They looked out to sea, and in the distance came fourteen merchant ships of various sizes.

Zhu Youxiao got out of the carriage, and the commander of the three guards immediately came to salute, but he waved his hand and signaled that he didn't need to.

"It's so cold......"

Holding the hand warmer in his hand, Zhu Youxiao felt that his nose was a little uncomfortable, but when he saw the fourteen merchant ships getting closer and closer, he also felt a sense of pride in his heart.

"Kebaba! You see, this is my design...... Ahem! A big ship designed by my brother and me! ”

Zhu Youxiao next to him had just gotten off the carriage, and the Hakka who came over with Wei Zhongxian was talking proudly, like a child who wanted his parents to praise him.

"Hehe......" Ke Shi smiled, although he was very uncomfortable with coming to the beach to blow the cold wind in winter, he still complimented Zhu Youxiao:

"Long live the craftsmanship, this ship is naturally not bad."

"Haha!" Hearing this compliment, Zhu Youxiao smiled and crossed his hands on his hips and quietly watched the dozen or so merchant ships enter the port that had been prepared for them early.

After stopping, Zhu Youxiao asked the ship ladder to be lowered, and he boarded the largest merchant ship of 3,000 materials (925 tons), and while walking on the deck, the head of the dockyard also stepped forward and said to him:

"Hooray, this ship has four masts, two masts in the front and a spinnaker in the back. The ship was eighteen zhang long and six zhang wide, with several decks, seven gun emplacements on the left and right, and one gun emplacement on the front, carrying 7,000 stones. ”

Speaking of this, the head of the charge smiled embarrassedly: "But His Royal Highness the King of Qi said that the artillery used in merchant ships and future warships must be from the Yanshan Ordnance Institute, so they are not ......equipped yet."

"However, His Royal Highness King Qi said that these fifteen gun emplacements will be equipped with twenty catties of cannons and ten catties of cannons."

Speaking of which, the head of the department also explained the artillery system set by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything about this, just smiled and nodded, and then said to the other boats: "What about those small boats?" ”

"Long live the ......" the head of the department glanced at the other merchant ships Zhu Youxiao pointed out and introduced them one by one.

The length of the three merchant ships of 2,000 materials is 16 zhang long, 5 zhang and 3 feet wide, with four six-pound cannons and eight four-catty cannons, and a load of 5,000 stones.

A merchant ship of 1,000 materials is 10 zhang long, 3 zhang and 3 feet wide, with four six-pound cannons and six four-catty cannons, and a load of 2,500 stones.

In other words, the current fourteen armed merchant ships can carry 47,000 stones.

This is only the cargo capacity, in fact, if according to their artillery configuration, it is not inferior to the training ships of the current Navy Sanwei.

Because of this, the three guards of the navy who looked at the fourteen armed merchant ships thought that this was their warship, and they didn't know that this thing was engaged in logistics.

Zhu Youxiao, who knew the role of these boats, patted the fence, and then said to the master:

"I think this ship is doing well, if there is no problem in testing the water for three months, then you will continue to build ships, and the next batch ......"

Zhu Youxiao touched his chin, he didn't know how much Daming needed this ship, and he didn't know that this thing was prepared by Zhu Youzhen for immigrating to Daliuqiu, and he thought that this thing was for transporting grain and troops to Liaodong.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao thought about it and opened his mouth, if he said too little, he was afraid that he would be laughed at, so he raised his chin and said:

"Twenty ships of 3,000 materials, ten ships of 4,000 materials, and four ships of 5,000 materials, and the silver will be allocated by the internal funds!"

"As for the timber, I will order to come to the shipyard and transport the dry timber north to you!"

With a wave of his hand, Zhu Youxiao directly ordered people to expand the 3,000-material ship to 20, and the 4,000-material and 5,000-material ships that may not be able to be built are also built without blinking.

The tonnage of this second batch of shipbuilding reached a staggering 120,000 tons, close to the 49,000 tons in the West at the same time.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know at all that if according to the standards of the British Royal Navy a hundred years later, this would be twenty fifth-class sail cruisers and fifteen third-class sail battleships......

If this group of uncles is really brought out, then Spain in Luzon and the Netherlands in Nanyang are estimated to get married overnight.

But this thing...... It's a baggage ship.

"Hooray......

At this time, Wei Zhongxian suddenly spoke: "The affairs of the shipyard, should His Royal Highness King Qi take care of it himself?" ”

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao frowned and said: "My brother wrote to me before, if the shipbuilding is successful, you can continue to build larger cargo ships, and when you accumulate experience, you can use teak to build warships next year." ”

"I'll be in charge of this matter for my younger brother, the silver is allocated from the internal treasury, anyway, it's only tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it's a big deal to deduct it from the kitchen."

"Uh......" Hearing that Zhu Youxiao was going to withhold the silver from the place where the foreign court ministers ate, Wei Zhongxian honestly retreated.

When he retreated, Cao Huachun, who looked confused, also came to the third guard of the navy.

He was sent by Zhu Youzhen, thinking that no one was in charge of the launching of the merchant ship, but he didn't expect that the emperor was not sick, and he actually sneaked to Tianjin.

For a moment, he thought of His Royal Highness's deflated expression.

"Hooray......

Cao Huachun came from the rear, and Zhu Youxiao smiled when he saw it: "Huachun, how about you look at these ships?" ”

"It's mighty." Cao Huachun responded with compliments, and when Zhu Youxiao saw this, he told Cao Huachun about his request to build a ship, and finally asked, "How did my brother explain to you?" ”

Faced with the emperor's inquiry, Cao Huachun responded:

"Your Highness said, if there is no problem with a merchant ship of 3,000 materials, then build 30 merchant ships that will be used first, and then develop merchant ships of 4,000 materials, 5,000 materials, or even 6,000 materials."

"Haha! Sure enough, my brother thought more than I thought. Zhu Youxiao smiled and said to Wei Zhongxian:

"See, I'm still thinking stingy." After that, he looked at the dock master and said:

"According to my brother's words, build 3,000 ships and 30 ships, and 10 ships for 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000."

"The subordinate obeys the order......" The person in charge responded when he heard the words, and Zhu Youxiao saw that he should go down, and also looked at the nearly 20,000 soldiers and auxiliaries of the three guards of the navy standing neatly on the harbor below the deck.

When Cao Huachun saw this scene, he knew that the emperor was observing the army, so he walked behind the emperor and said to all the commanders on the military port:

"So people, stand!"

As soon as he said this, the officers of the three guards of the Navy Guard, Henghaiwei and Longjiangwei picked up the wooden whistle hanging around their necks and blew it vigorously.

"Beep!"

Two hurried wooden whistles sounded, and the sound spread, and immediately all the regular soldiers stood up.

Those who were far away didn't hear it, but when they saw the comrades beside them, they also stood up one by one.

Although it looks a little messy, in this era, it can be regarded as a team that does not move like a mountain.

At this time, it reflects the importance of running and drilling.

"Welcome to the Son of Heaven!"

Cao Huachun shouted loudly, and the nearest generals shouted one after another.

At this moment, some people lead other people, and although they have not experienced training, when everyone starts shouting, there is a sense of rhythm.

For a while, the voice of long live was endless, and Zhu Youxiao also nodded with satisfaction.

He likes to watch this kind of picture, compared to the intrigue and intrigue in the court, the atmosphere in the army is what he likes.

In other words, what he likes is a modern army trained by his younger brother.

"Turning Chun ......"

Zhu Youxiao felt everything, and then shouted Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun also stepped forward to respond.

"How much grain has been raised now? Is it enough for the Imperial Horse Prison Flower? ”

"Long live it, it's enough, when all of them are sold, and then buy grain from Huguang and Sichuan and send it to Beizhili, there should be a surplus of several million taels." Cao Huachun replied respectfully, and Zhu Youxiao turned his head when he heard the words:

"A few million taels?"

"Yes, long live...... Cao Huachun responded with a smile: "Your Highness said, after the sale is finished, transfer three million taels to the interior." ”

"Forehead......" Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt a little dry.

He originally thought that his younger brother should have no silver, so he wanted to take advantage of the world's taxes to allocate money to his younger brother.

As a result, it is better now, but the other party will transfer three million taels of silver to himself.

You must know that this year's internal income is only about 4.24 million taels, which is equivalent to the Imperial Horse Supervisor directly allocating most of the internal income to himself.

"Ahem...... Since it's my brother's intention, then I'll accept it. ”

Zhu Youxiao said bluffingly, and then felt a little unbearable in his conscience, so he said:

"Does my brother lack something? Or is there a shortage of imperial horse supervisors? ”

"This ......" Cao Huachun thought for a while, and then said embarrassedly: "It doesn't seem to be missing anything." ”

De, Cao Huachun's words made Zhu Youxiao completely helpless, so he could only say:

"In that case, then you can go back to the capital to help me thank my brother."

"Slave and maid back?" Cao Huachun was stunned, and then said, "Long live, won't you go back?" ”

"No, no, I still want to read the army again in Tianjin, so I will ...... it temporarily" Zhu Youxiao wanted to say that he would go back tomorrow, but the last time he thought about the annoying things in the capital, he gritted his teeth and said directly:

"I'll go back on the thirtieth day."

"The slave maid received the order...... "Hearing that the emperor would not go back until four days later, Cao Huachun had no choice but to respond, and then left the three guards of the navy and led people back to the capital.

It was Zhu Youxiao, after he left, he wandered around Beitang in Tianjin quite leisurely and elegantly.

He was having a lot of fun, but Zhu Youzhen was ......

"These guys don't know how to open up sources and reduce expenditures! Open source and reduce expenditure! Open source and reduce expenditure?!

”

The sound of filial piety came from inside the Qinqin Palace, and Lu Wenzhao, who was standing at the door, shrunk his neck and looked at Lu Jianxing next to him, and Lu Jianxing also shrugged his shoulders.

Obviously, His Royal Highness was not lightly angered by this group of ministers in the capital.

However, they still underestimated the extent of cerebral palsy of Da Ming Wenchen.

Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting behind the desk, was piled up with more than 300 pieces in front of him.

These notes have already been processed as a result of more than two hundred copies, and the root cause of all of them has been accumulated since Zhu Youxiao ten days ago.

In order to be comfortable after coming back, Zhu Youxiao put his younger brother to death.

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen is like an old scalper who is working hard, while being angry, scolding the street, and having to deal with the slack.

"Prison Country? the fart! ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was in the position, exploded a foul language, and Wang Tiqian next to him also looked helpless.

However, speaking of which, His Royal Highness the King of Qi is still relatively fast in dealing with the music.

However, in two and a half hours, two hundred and twenty-three copies of the note had been processed, and the average time for half a pillar of incense was processed one.

Dealing with so many notes in such a short period of time, it's no wonder that he will be angry and burst into foul language.

He was involved in the 10-day cerebral palsy recital, and the worst thing is that 154 of them were impeached against him.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

This wave of effects is directly full, and it is estimated that even the impeachment of his officials, imperial historians, civil ministers, and military generals did not expect that his impeachment would be seen and dealt with by the impeachment target.

"Crooked ......"

opened a note, Zhu Youzhen saw another person scolding him, and looked at it, yo, he was still an old acquaintance Yao Zongwen.

"Throw away the Earth Burning Dragon!"

Zhu Youzhen threw the music to the side, and he didn't bother to look at Yao Zongwen, a keyboard warrior.

"Your Highness, why don't you take a break, it's time for lunch."

Wang Tiqian picked up the song from the ground and comforted him carefully, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"Let the imperial dining room make me a pepper and vinegar shrimp, a leg of lamb with fire, goose meat, plus a bowl of tofu soup and a bowl of rice."

"I'm just here to eat and process." Zhu Youzhen said, then picked up the next note and continued to read it.

He had a general direction in his mind to deal with it, the Ministry of Industry, and the local officials who wanted to use the official money to build water conservancy and repair the city walls and roads.

The Ministry of Rites wanted to put up a lantern and make a note, but they rejected all of them, and wrote down the approximate specific use, indicating that they could not use so much silver.

Zhu Youjian directly approved the salaries, ordnance and weapons, horse price silver, etc., but added at the end that the ordnance built by the Yanshan Ordnance Institute was issued.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't trust the craftsmanship of the Ministry of Industry, and the border armament must be built by the armor factory and the Yanshan Ordnance Institute, so as not to take kickbacks from the Ministry of Industry.

As for the officials' request for the money, Zhu Youzhen did not prevaricate because he did not deal with the civil officials, but agreed to distribute the money of the past year and the current year, a total of more than 1,764,000 taels in two years.

As for the performance of the Criminal Department, Zhu Youzhen basically demarcated the places of exile for prisoners who needed to be exiled according to the region.

The prisoners in Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, Huguang and other places were all assigned to Yongchang Mansion in Yunnan, that is, the Dehong and Baoshan generations of later generations.

The prisoners in the Central Plains and the northwest were all sent to Gansu by him, and the prisoners in the southeast, Shanxi, and Zhili in the north were all assigned to Daning.

The total number of more than 26,000 prisoners can be regarded as a contribution to the development of the Ming Dynasty.

As for dealing with them, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to deal with the performance of the officials and the household department.

There is nothing to do with the officials, mainly because of personnel promotions, and Zhu Youzhen is quite interested in dealing with this.

He looked at the performance of the officials, and tried his best to agree with those who were not familiar with him.

During this period, he was also subjected to several familiar names.

"Taichang Temple Shaoqing Dong Yingju, this guy is good, it's a pity to be the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, go to Shanxi to be the prefect."

Thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen waved his pen and directly transferred him to the prefect of Datong and concurrently served as the military commander of Baoanzhou.

"Zhang Chun, the minister of Shandong, this person is not bad, he should have recovered Yongping in his own changes, and he can be transferred to Gansu to accompany Mei Zhihuan."

Zhu Youzhen waved his pen again, and in this way, Zhang Chun, the secretary of Shandong, was transferred to Xining to serve as a military garrison.

After these two, Zhu Youzhen also saw a lot of familiar people, including some people that Chongzhen was sorry for, such as Chen Xinjia.

Zhu Youzhen basically arranged for these people to be in the right positions.

When he finished arranging these people, the chef of the East Palace also brought stacks of dishes to the table.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen got up and grabbed five or six books, walked to the dining table in the main hall, and sat down to eat while dealing with the music.

Surprisingly, the recital of the Ministry of Officials has been dealt with, and the rest is for the Ministry of Household and local officials.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen opened the first note, he saw that this was the year-end note sent by Wang Yingjiao, the secretary of the household department.

[It is a number of households in the world and 9,835,426 households, 51,655,459 households......]

Looking at the population report that has not changed for 10,000 years, or even decreases more and more, Zhu You glanced at it, lowered his head and buried a mouthful of food, and continued to look down.

[The total amount of land owned by the government and the people is 7,439,319 acres and 83 acres...... Rice 21,493,563 stones...... Wheat 4,382 stones, the Imperial Horse Supervisor owes 2,286,700 stones and seven buckets of rice and wheat】

Looking at Tian Fu of Daming, Zhu Youzhen nodded with satisfaction, but he only smiled at the arrears of the imperial horse supervisor at the end.

"Nearly 26 million stone rice and wheat this year, how many of them have been transported to Jingtong No. 2 Warehouse now?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Tiqian, and the other party also responded:

"Back to Your Highness, two capitals and thirteen provinces, two capitals and seven provinces have arrived in Jingtong Ercang, and the remaining six provinces are Huguang, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi."

"There are more than 13 million stones of rice and wheat in the second warehouse of Jingtong, but after counting, 2.34 million stones have to be escorted to Liaodong Town and 6.25 million stones to the four towns in the northwest."

"So, there's not much left...... Zhu Youzhen pouted, lowered his head and continued to look.

All kinds of banknotes, yarn, salt transportation, etc., are fascinating, but Zhu Youzhen quickly added them together, and finally got an accurate data.

The income of the six ministries and five temples, as well as the internal funds, received a total of 7,549,742 taels this year.

These, together with the additional silver, amounted to more than 12 million taels of silver.

"Not bad......

Looking at this tax, Zhu Youzhen is very satisfied, no matter what, with this tax, it is estimated that there will be no arrears in the second year of the Apocalypse.

"How many taels of silver and rice and wheat did I just approve for going out?" Zhu Youzhen looked sideways at Wang Tiqian, and Wang Tiqian responded in embarrassment:

"Four million two hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred taels of silver, eight million six hundred thousand stone of rice and wheat were granted......

"......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't hold back, and it was very cool to approve the approval he had just made, and as a result, he had already spent seventy-seven eighty-eight on Daming's taxes this year.

"Ahem...... In a few days, I will ask Cheng En to send three million taels of internal money. In an embarrassed response, Zhu Youzhen continued to bow his head and deal with the music.

After dealing with it, he went through the situation of Da Ming in his mind.

Judging from the current situation, he has approved the military salaries of the four towns in the northwest for next year, the grain for the four towns plus Liaodong Town, and the arrears of Wenchen for two years.

What is still lacking is the military salary of Beijing next year, plus the military salary of Liaodong Town next year, Jinyiwei's salary next year, and Wenchen's salary next year.

How much does it all add up?

Zhu Youzhen's heart suddenly became weak, and after going through it in his mind, he roughly calculated a amount.

3,460,000 taels, 7,260,000 stone of grain......

"Isn't it time to abolish the Beijing camp......

As soon as the amount of expenditure to be spent was calculated, the idea of honoring the nobles was immediately raised.

But after thinking about it, he still thought it was over.

It is still a relatively cost-effective expenditure to use the Beijing camp with an annual expenditure of more than 700,000 taels to temporarily stabilize Xungui.

At present, he has offended Wenchen more ruthlessly, and the financial problems are also improving little by little, and offending Xungui to death is a bit more than worth the loss.

When the matter of the nine sides is over, it will be much easier to do it to Jingying and Tianxiawei.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen, who had finished eating, put down his music and pinched his eyebrows, only feeling a little dizzy.

Counting the Imperial Horse Supervisor, this year's Tian Fu of the Ming Dynasty should be 41 million stones, plus 10,250,000 taels of silver.

If you want to compare, if you want to compare, the Tian Fu should be converted into 500 wen and one stone of grain in Beizhili, and the total should be 30.75 million taels, which is equivalent to the tax paid in the 24th year of Kangxi.

As far as the population of Kangxi in the twenty-fourth year is concerned, counting the hidden households, it will not exceed 100 million, but it has reached more than 30 million taels of taxes.

The current population of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of normal taxation, should fluctuate between 35 million and 45 million taels.

The reason why the tax revenue of 30 million taels of silver has now reached is that the 25 million mu of military tun fields harvested in the autumn of this year are in accordance with the collection law of Sanqi.

If these military tun fields were to be taxed according to the agricultural tax of 30 to one, the income would only be more than 1 million taels of silver.

The Qing Dynasty's tax collection method is not advisable, and it is really according to that kind of collection, and the photos of the people in the late Qing Dynasty are what the people of the Ming Dynasty will look like in the future.

However, the agricultural harvest is too large, and the burden on the people is too heavy.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen was ready to make the Ming Dynasty's state-run salt, iron, tea and wine, and even the future trade east of Malacca, all of which would be state-owned in the Ming Dynasty.

Private trade can be done, buy goods from Malacca at a price 20% lower than people from other countries, and then go out to sea and run slowly west of Malacca.

Anyway, as long as these things are state-run, even if the people will be embarrassed by the state-run surcharges on various commodities in the future, they will not starve to death.

What to do in the future to improve the lives and spirits of the people still has to wait until that step......