Jinling City has come to the end of midsummer May, the scorching sun hangs high in the sky, the clouds and water vapor are scorched without a trace, just like the alchemy furnace on the bank of the Yangtze River, the bottom is dry wood fire, and the sky is thin green smoke.

Jingshi is an alchemy furnace, but the person in charge of Jingshi is not a master of the Tao who has become an immortal on Wudang Mountain, he is just a panacea to cure the suffering of Li Min.

The ministers in the Wenhua Hall were working hard, even if they were sweating profusely, they didn't dare to rest for a moment, Zhu Di sat on the chair on the side of the hall, correcting the backlog of documents on the desk.

"Tell Tobe Shangshu Xia Yuanji to get over!"

Zhu Di corrected the folds, and his face darkened when he approved it, and he endured the anger in his heart and snorted.

Xia Laoshangshu, who was working in the palace, was called over by the great eunuch Tang Cheng and saluted His Majesty the Emperor: "Your Majesty, what do you command?" ”

He didn't get instructions from His Majesty the Emperor, but crackled and smashed into pieces, Xia Yuanji didn't dare to dodge, and his forehead was bruised.

"See for yourself, what have you done this year!"

Zhu Di pointed to Lao Shangshu's nose and scolded, "The construction of the Shuntian Emperor's Palace is coming to an end, and seeing that the final project is about to be built, it is just a little bit of silver. ”

Xia Yuanji replied bluntly: "No money!" ”

"Okay, then I'll ask you again." Zhu Di asked, "I said this year that I would allocate some silver to add two pairs of stone statues to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, and sacrifice to the ancestors to give shade to future generations, how much silver did it cost, how did your household department reply?" ”

Xia Yuanji is still upright: "No money!" ”

"Why don't you fucking die without money!"

Zhu Di felt that his blood pressure was soaring, "There is no money here, there is no money, why don't you take all the officials of the household department to Jinling City to beg for fate, Lao Tzu has specially hacked you bastard!" ”

"Even if you hack me, the household department has no money."

Xia Yuanji spread his hands and said helplessly, "Your Majesty, the household department is really out of money, how much money did Xiu Shuntian's palace invest in the early stage?" You have to pay for reopening the canal, you have to pay for transporting grain to the north, and you have to pay for engineering materials, right? This is just the money to repair the palace, we still have to immigrate to Shuntianfu, if you emigrate, the imperial court must not support the policy, yes, in this way, the population problem of Shuntianfu has been solved, and this is all saved by tightening the belt of the household! ”

"Let's just say that in the eleventh year of Yongle, you went north to warat, and our household department tried to raise money and food for you, you fought in front, and our hair was bald in the back!"

"Now that you don't fight, King Qi is going to fight again, it is true that King Qi does not spend much money on sending troops, and sometimes he will even feed back to the court, but you have to see how diligent he fights!"

"While cultivating Shuntian and fighting wars, Yongle seven years, Yongle eight years, Yongle nine years, Yongle ten years to conquer the southwest, Yongle eleven years to conquer Wara, Yongle twelve years to conquer Jianzhou, Yongle thirteen years to conquer Korea, Yongle fourteen years to conquer the Japanese state, really not stop for a year?"

Xia Yuanji was in tears at the end, he was as old and tired as a dog, wiping Yongle Chao's buttocks, is it easy for him!

Yongle once had a martial style, yes, Your Majesty the Emperor is majestic outside, I really can't see that the household is about to be hanged!

Zhu Di was speechless for a while, and defended himself: "Is it for my own prestige that I fought with King Qi?" The conquest of the southwest, the conquest of Jianzhou, and the conquest of North Korea expanded the territory of the three provinces for the Ming Dynasty! Do the math yourself, how much money did we spend on these three battles? King Qi has always led his troops to fight quickly, and it didn't cost much at all, so he got the territory of the three provinces and the taxes of the three provinces in exchange for such a small amount of money! Lao Xia, you are the money bag of the Ming Dynasty, don't you understand this account yourself, which is more profitable, the bill of a temporary deficit or the tax of thousands of generations? ”

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

Xia Yuanji said tiredly, "I have nothing to say about the three battles fought by King Qi, so let's talk about the battle of your northern expedition to Wara, you can point me out, there is a Mao tax in that place in Mobei?" After that battle, we earned something, did we earn a whole car of cactus! ”

Xia Laoshangshu was speechless for Zhu Di.

Looking at the important ministers of the court, Xia Yuanji had the courage to speak to His Majesty the Emperor like this.

didn't do anything, this matter is Zhu Di's loss, finance is the life and death line of the Ming Dynasty, and this life and death line has always been Xia Yuanji's life. The household department headed by him, the heavens and the earth are not convinced, the emperor Lao Tzu is not convinced, no one is a bird, there is no way, who makes the family have the ability.

Xia Yuan Ji Zhen did his best to escort Daming's finances, who dares to say that it is not?

Are you on your way?

The two of them fell into a strange silence, Zhu Di felt that he was reasonable, and Xia Yuanji also felt that he was reasonable, both of them felt that the other party was at fault, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

At the time of the stalemate, the arrival of a messenger sent by King Qi on the front line alleviated this embarrassment.

"Long live the lord, our army has won a great victory in the Japanese country!"

Zhu Di is now numb from the financial deficit problem of the household department, even if the news of the victory on the front line comes back, he is not in a good mood, and beckons to Tang Cheng: "Read." ”

Tang Cheng unwrapped the fire paint on the military newspaper and said loudly: "In February, after our army's victory in Korea, we thought about the soldiers and pursued them quickly, divided our troops into the north and south, launched an offensive against the Japanese in the same month, occupied Tsushima Island in the same month, and approached the southern island belt of the Japanese Kingdom. ”

"In March, our army landed in the northern part of the Wa Kingdom, launched a rapid offensive against the enemy's rear, drove straight in, and surrounded the Kyoto Prefecture of the Wa Kingdom. The next day, our army annihilated tens of thousands of enemy troops on Kyushu Island in the south of the Japanese Kingdom, and marched to Honshu Island with Liu Rongbu, the general soldier of Liaodong, as the main force, and joined forces with Zheng He's troops in the north to lock up Kyoto! ”

"The Wa Kingdom is powerless to resist and surrender to my Ming Dynasty! Subsequently, the unification of the Wa State, changed to the Ming Dynasty 'Yingzhou Province', abolished the original system of the Wa State, turned it into Han, and naturalized the system, the details of which will be reported separately after returning to China. ”

"Our army has discovered a large number of silver mines in the Wa country, the output is amazing, and its 'Iwami Silver Mountain' is particularly shocking, we have tried our best to develop mineral projects in the Wa country, and the results are very good, and it is predicted that after the project is fully implemented, the annual output will be about millions of taels!"

"The first batch of silver ore mined has been refined and transported to Beijing by the boat, and the amount is equivalent to about 50,000 taels."

"The son-in-law Zhu Gaoxian sued."

Zhu Di sat up suddenly, and thought he had heard it wrong: "What did King Qi say in the military newspaper?!" ”

Tang Cheng repeated: "King Qi said in the military newspaper that the Wa Kingdom has been subordinated to Yingzhou Province, and there is a lot of silver here, with an annual output of millions of taels, and King Qi has now transported the first batch of 50,000 cash silver back to Beijing. Your Majesty, this is a joyous event for the whole country to celebrate! ”

"An annual output of millions of taels of silver, millions of taels?"

Zhu Di's mouth was a little incredulous, "Are you sure this is a military report sent back by King Qi?" Did you send it correctly? ”

Tang Cheng said with a smile: "Where do you dare to fool Your Majesty, this is a letter from King Qi, sent to return to China with the boat master, and sent it directly to Your Majesty without passing through the post station, and it is estimated that the current batch of cash silver should soon be sent to Jinling City." ”

Zhu Di looked at Xia Yuanji in a trance: "Old thing, what did you say just now, are you talking about fighting a war and burning money, the treasury can't make ends meet, Lao Tzu can't hear it clearly, you repeat it again!" ”

Xia Yuanji's hands were trembling at the moment, he couldn't help his excited heart, he didn't care what the emperor was talking about, and muttered to himself: "Millions of taels a year, tens of millions of taels in ten years, this and this...... If you fuck fight down a few more Wa countries, why are you crying poor, and you will directly incarnate as a local tyrant and throw money......"

"Hit! Must fight! How can you fight one battle a year, if you want to fight, you have to fight ten battles a year! King Qi fights, the household pays for it, who said that the truce will be fought by my Lao Xia and him! ”

Xia Yuanji, who has always hated war, has a red neck like an angry youth at the moment, and he can't wait to take a boat to the Wa Kingdom to follow King Qi to kill the enemy on the battlefield now!

Where is this going to war, this is clearly going to pick up money!

King Qi is simply the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty!

Xia Yuan Jidu is happy and crazy, where is there any complaint.

Zhu Di waved his hand and said heroically: "King Qi has a great victory in Yingzhou, spread my will, reward the ministers, and all the officials on duty in the Wenhua Hall will rest for half a day." ”

This is a great grace, working under the hands of the old Zhu family, it is really a desperate effort. At the end of the year, he took three days off, and now he can take a half-day off, and he gave the ministers in the Wenhua Hall an excited handful of snot and tears, and immediately bowed his head to His Majesty the Emperor to thank him, and his voice was like a torrent and tsunami.

"His Royal Highness King Qi, Wanfu Jin'an!"

"My emperor is wise, long live long live!"

……

After the ministers in the Wenhua Hall left, Zhu Di sat on the Jinluan chair, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest, not knowing what he was thinking.

He hesitated for a long time, and then slowly spoke: "Tang Cheng, go and call King Gan and the prince of Gan, I want to see them." ”

The crown prince Zhu Gaochi asked for three resignations in the Fengtian Palace, and in exchange for resigning the position of the prince, Zhu Zhanji was kept and was cut to the king of Jiangxi.

Although Zhu Zhanji, the emperor's grandson, was not deposed as a concubine after the rebellion, he was also reduced to the son of King Gan.

The emperor did not have a clear will to imprison the father and son, but they still had points in their hearts, and they closed their doors and refused guests, as if they had disappeared from this world.

Now Zhu Di wants to summon them, and the meaning is self-evident.

Tang Cheng didn't dare to think about it, and bowed his head respectfully and said: "The slave obeys the order, so I will go and invite the prince of Gan and the prince to come to the audience." ”

"Hmm."

The complex emotions in Zhu Di's eyes were intertwined, and after being woven together, they became tenacious and persistent.

In his life, he has been bumpy and displaced, from a Yan King who has everything but the throne to an emperor who has nothing but the throne now.

He used his own switch to get to where he is now, and he had no choice but to go down!

For the sake of this vast Ming Empire, Zhu Di can give everything!