The Spring Festival of the thirteenth year of Wanli is more prosperous than in previous years, the city is full of the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, and the golden flowers keep blooming.

Everyone looked up at the carmine sky with a smile and chattered something.

Hai Rui also looked at the gold plaque in the main hall with a smile for a while, then looked north and knocked, and suddenly choked up.

"What's the matter, sir?"

Lu, the wife who was straightened by Hai Rui, hugged Hai Rui's son and came over at this time and asked Hai Rui.

Hai Rui wiped the corners of his eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, and said:

"The Emperor's grace is mighty! Your Majesty knew that I Hai Rui had not bought the subscription coupons, so he gave me some so that I could use them to show my favor to the people of the tribe, so that I could make family affairs harmonious, and avoid not being able to get close to the people because of seeking the country, which is really a silent moisturizer!"

After hearing this, Lu Shi also laughed and said, "What the master said is extremely true! Now Your Majesty is really good! In this way, at least the tombs of the grandfather and the old lady will not have to worry about being ignored by the clansmen."

Hai Rui smiled and bowed his head, then took his child and instructed Lu, "Call all the family members,"

Lu shook his head and retreated.

And Hai Rui himself held his child in the courtyard, and also took out the fireworks he bought to play with him.

Not long after, the clansmen living in Hai Rui's official residence all came.

Hai Rui handed over the subscription voucher and instructed one of the nephews who had been the longest in the year, "Ming'er, you can divide it, one for each room, and use it as the public money of each room."

"Hey!"

Hai Rui's nephew smiled and agreed.

The rest of the clan laughed too, and the atmosphere was much better than before.

In short, because the profits from foreign mining began to be divided, many people enjoyed the benefits of making the cake bigger, especially the figures in the political upper echelons of the empire and their relatives.

Wang Xijue added the monthly money of the servants and maids in the family after the mining profits were divided, so that the servants and maids who could not bully others because they were restrained reduced their grievances a lot, and they all dispelled the idea of wanting to redeem themselves and leave the house.

And Yu Shenxing also began to be pushed by his family to actively strive for the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, strive to enter the ruling level, participate in the restructuring, and strive to participate in more foreign benefits.

But a few families are happy and a few are sad, Chen Jingbang's family is not in the mood for the New Year now, and they all have some complaints about Chen Jingbang, although they dare not show it openly, but they still can't help but complain a few words behind their backs, and even when participating in the affairs of the clan, they also deliberately don't pay so much attention to Chen Jingbang's instructions.

Zhao Nanxing's servants and maids were also in a bad mood, especially after it turned out that the subscription coupons were indeed a cash cow that could give birth to many silver dollars at any time, they all complained about his refusal to let his family servants and maids buy subscription coupons in the past, complaining that Zhao Nanxing was short-sighted.

This hit Chen Jingbang and Zhao Nanxing, officials who did not eat the first batch of subscription coupons.

"I really didn't expect that he, Xu Zhenming and the others were really serious about opening mines, and His Majesty and Shenwu County and others really wanted to share the benefits of the people; Instead of just talking about it, it is actually about collecting money from the people, after all, where is it easy to directly collect money from the people when mining is outside the plug? Especially when His Majesty already has six guards in the army."

Therefore, Chen Jingbang still asked Zhao Nanxing to come out to drink flower wine, but he was unwilling to stay at home, seeing the disappointment and mockery in his family's eyes, and when he was drinking with Zhao Nanxing, he expressed his inner feelings.

"It's unexpected!"

"But what makes me even more angry is that there are so many hypocritical women who are cunning!"

"Yu Dong'a and Shi Dongming actually bought so many subscription coupons behind our backs, don't they also advocate restoring the old system and governing the country with virtue, so as not to affect the world by making the common people too rich and making troubles?"

"Didn't they also advocate lightly leviing the meager levy, reducing redundant troops, and then using the Son of Heaven's internal funds to be responsible for disaster relief and reducing the world's conscription, while Taicang and other countries kept the silver for raising troops?"

"Why, they bought the subscription ticket too?!"

Zhao Nanxing slapped the table when he said this, then stood up and looked at Chen Jingbang drunkenly.

"You're right, these two

The most shameless of all!"

Chen Jingbang echoed, and said: "If you want to say that this mineral profit dividend, the biggest beneficiary is the Son of Heaven, the people did not dare to buy subscription coupons, even Shenwu County and others did not dare to buy large, only the Son of Heaven thought that as soon as possible to raise enough silver dollars, the subscription coupons that were not sold in time were bought with internal funds, and this caused His Majesty's internal funds to be more abundant now, so that the Son of Heaven is not only strong and strong, but also has sufficient money and food, do you say this is terrible?"

"It's scary!"

Chen Jingbang asked himself and answered, and said, "It is completely difficult for the scholar to curb the monarchy!"

"What the public says is that this is why I do not support the blackmailing of the people to take advantage of foreign countries, because if this continues, everyone will be rich, and then the dignity and inferiority will be disordered, and then the king will have nothing to fear!"

Zhao Nanxing echoed.

"Recently, I heard that Your Majesty has issued an order to give Wu Qingbo five thousand taels of silver, and another two thousand taels of subscription coupons."

"There is also Princess Ruichang's selection of horses soon, Your Majesty has issued an order to allocate 100,000 taels of internal funds to build the princess's mansion and buy Dongzhu and so on."

"Although this is internal money, it is to alleviate the dissatisfaction of the emperor's relatives with the new policy, but you can't be so indiscriminate, and you don't know how to use internal money to do light things."

Chen Jingbang said.

"Admonish!"

"How can Your Majesty's wealth, and the wealth of the world, be so extravagant and not frugal?"

Zhao Nanxingli replied very passionately.

During this period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a faction of self-proclaimed decent civil officials, who advocated light taxation, demanded that the royal family be frugal in spending, and used the income of the royal family to support the world's military expenses.

This faction of civil officials gradually became known as the Donglin Party because most of them lectured in Donglin Academy in history.

Therefore, in history, when the Donglin Party took control of the government during the Taichang period and the early years of the Emperor's reign, the main reform was to allocate the emperor's internal funds to solve the problems of arrears and disaster relief of the world's military and the problem of heavy taxes.

And there was nothing wrong with this proposition, the royal family was frugal in spending, and it was understandable to spend more money to solve internal and external troubles, after all, the country belonged to the emperor.

However, the mistake of the Donglin Party was that while spending a lot of the emperor's money, the gentry and wealthy business groups represented by it were reluctant to let profits to solve the financial problems, and in the name of "the government and the people", "the poor do not accumulate the rich" and "the light and the meager endowment", cut the non-agricultural taxes such as the silk weaving industry to one-third of the original, and also expanded the preferential exemption quota to the gentry below 10,000 mu of land are exempted from forced labor, and even their own reformers who advocate equal service for the gentry and the people were also squeezed out, and finally made the Donglin Party when it was in power. The empire's tax revenue dropped from more than 6 million taels to more than 5 million taels, but more than 4 million taels of it were still agricultural taxes.

In the end, it was not lightly endowed to the peasants, and it was lonely, which laid the foundation for the large-scale peasant uprising that followed.

The key is to offend the emperor, after all, the emperor's money has been spent, and the emperor has not seen the problem of external troubles solved, let alone the reduction of displaced people.

Therefore, the emperors of the Apocalypse in history would rather use a eunuch than a Donglin official in private and public.

Zhao Nanxing also wanted to use the emperor's money to "lightly pay off the gentry and landlords", so when he heard that Zhu Yijun spent his money on his relatives and relatives, he was quite excited, as if his wealth had been robbed.

Zhao Nanxing just complained behind his back, in fact, Zhu Yijun's spending money to show the emperor's relatives and relatives had begun to be discouraged by foreign ministers and civil officials.

Shuntianfu sentenced Zhou Honglun because the emperor made the most money this time, but he only used it to reward his own relatives and relatives, not to reward the ministers, except for Hai Rui, he first played a song to accuse the emperor of rewarding too much, not knowing how to be thrifty, and not knowing how to give money to the people.

"Do I need your permission to spend my money as I want?!"

Zhu Yijun was also a little angry after seeing this note, so he slapped the table in front of the ministers and ministers.