Everyone in the empire thinks that they are so strong that they can withstand small mistakes and problems.

Are the people of the Ming Empire clearly aware that the Ming Empire is about to fall? It's not clear.

Even when Li Zicheng started the Northern Expedition in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he didn't know that he was going to destroy the Ming Dynasty, and even planned that if the war didn't go well, the court was willing to crown the king and recruit An, and he could temporarily agree to come down and make a plot again.

For the civil unrest that spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, for the emperor and ministers of Gyeonggi, it was a counterinsurgency war that took place far away in the sky, even if the Ming Dynasty was defeated for a short time, it would definitely win back, because in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had just beheaded the first generation of King Gao Yingxiang in Beijing.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng announced himself as emperor in Xi'an, the people in Beijing were indifferent to the counterinsurgency in the northwest, and were still complaining about the bad weather as always.

Hardly anyone could sense that the end was coming.

In the eyes of the emperor and the ministers of the Jingtang, what exactly is the poor coolie? They are not specific people, they are just cold statistics, empathizing with statistics is a very scarce ability, and when they do not come to their specific side, they will not have that sense of urgent crisis.

Even in the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng has established a set of political correctness in the court to save the head of the Qian, but this is just a narrative style, everyone continues to play the game of power under this established framework, such as the woolen official factory in the summer, three people died of heat, and the officials are taking the opportunity to overthrow the king, instead of thinking about improving the environment of the factory, so that this kind of tragedy will not happen again, let alone more concerned about the life and death of the people.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun never thought that the Tomb Sect that hindered progress was stupid, in terms of performance, they were retro, pedantic, stubborn, and refused to progress, but in fact, these people were all calculating and knew very well how to protect their vested interests.

On the surface, the competition is whether the government and factories should accumulate profits or whether to support the New Deal, but in fact, the competition is just about the official hat on the head, the patch on the chest, and the silver in the pocket.

Counting on meat eaters to work for the sake of the vast number of poor people is itself a recipe for fish.

And the reason why Zhu Yijun has always supported Zhang Juzheng's new policy, and even intensified, is because he really knows that the Ming Dynasty will die, and it will die in the Wanli period, so he will definitely be more radical than Zhang Juzheng.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng have different political views, Zhang Juzheng has only been in power for five years, and the Ming Dynasty has already had the intention of being excited, which can easily create an illusion, that is, as long as the emperor or the first assistant of the country is willing, it is a very common thing to be excited, if there is really anything in danger, only need to find another Zhang Juzheng.

But there was no Zheng He after Zheng He, and after Zhang Juzheng, there was no Zhang Juzheng.

During the Chongzhen period, it was not that no one wanted to pick up Zhang Juzheng's new policy again, and take the test into the law, Qingzhang, return to the field, Haicao, six volumes and one account, strengthen the army, give the military generals the right to do things, rectify the study and politics, and the degree bypass, etc., but by that time, it was completely impossible to pick it up.

The social contradictions of the Ming Dynasty have intensified to the point of complete irreconcilability.

This is the reason why Zhu Yijun made the courtiers feel sincerely terrifying, not that the emperor was murderous and indiscriminately killed innocents, in five years, the emperor even beat the court staff only once, and the biggest case was only to kill more than 700 people, which is nothing new in the long history of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why the courtiers felt terrified was that the emperor was both loving and ruthless.

This great love is the great love of statistics, and this ruthlessness is the ruthlessness of specific people, and His Majesty is full of love for those whom he has never seen, but he has no mercy for specific people.

Wu Qingbo Li Wei, the emperor's grandfather, was almost shot to death by an arrow because of intercession with Zhang Siwei, Xu Congcheng, the uncle of the Captain of the Horse, was directly committed suicide, and more than 700 heads of the Northwest Ethnic Party were taken.

This is why Zhu Yijun compiled this myth of the wealth of worsted wool, as long as the poor coolies will not be affected by this incident, then Zhu Yijun will not stop, and will continue to continue.

"Sir, they have exchanged all the silver for cloth, when they have no money, will they bring their relatives and friends into the game, this is a rare opportunity to make a fortune after all." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng in front of him and asked, and he was bound to react to the right.

He will not immediately take the poor coolies to get rich together, but when the money in his hand runs out, he will inevitably tell all his relatives and friends about this opportunity to make a fortune through a huge network of relationships, and everyone will participate in this gambling game together.

The current social environment of the Ming Dynasty is different from that of later generations.

Later generations can owe huge debts by solving banks, and share the risks equally to the whole society by relying on the basic logic of the big and infallible, and by the thieves, when the debts are huge to a certain scale, they can only fill the hole by over-issuing money, and the evil result of over-issuing money is inflation, and it is the whole society that bears the cost.

At present, there is no such thing as a bank, and the currency of the Ming Dynasty is not a banknote law, but a money law, gold, silver and copper are precious metals in the Ming Dynasty, they have use value, and also have exchange value, the scarcity of gold, silver and copper is caused, borrowing money and borrowing are real money and silver, and the one who bears the price is only the powerful right.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng let out a turbid breath, he asked for an audience this time, in order to persuade the little emperor to be benevolent, and he is bound to be Haoyou's people, why does His Majesty treat his own people like this?

Even if everyone knows that this is a bubble that bursts at the first poke, they will continue to pull people in and participate in this bubble, so as to maintain this bubble.

"When the relatives and friends are finished, they should borrow money everywhere, this bubble must continue to be propagated, otherwise the moment this bubble is burst, how many families will be ruined, do you think they will borrow money everywhere?" Zhu Yijun continued to ask calmly.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again and replied, a stone that rolled off the cliff, no one could stop him, but it would roll faster and faster, because there were too many people pushing him behind, even if he was in debt, he would continue to push it, because only in this way would his own and his family's wealth not come to naught.

But whether this stone that rolled off the cliff would kill Daming was something Zhang Juzheng had to consider.

Zhang Juzheng himself created the political correctness of the bitter power hao to save the head of Qian, resulting in His Majesty only seeing the negative role of the powerful and powerful, but not the positive role of the powerful right.

Of course, in the current social environment, there is no other, and there is no other, talking about the positive role of Quanhao, it is also extremely ridiculous, even if Songjiang Sun Keyi Sun is a little deferential, because he has earned too much, he continues to donate money to promote the development of the Ming Dynasty, but there is only one Sun.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to speak for the Ming Quanhao, but he couldn't find any good reason, even if these businessmen could make it into a woolen factory, Zhang Juzheng could also say that the powerful people played an active role in solving the landless tenants, but the woolen factory was in full swing to this point, and the powerful still couldn't do it.

Faced with the cumbersome workshop, the powerful chose to fry worsted wool, which itself conflicted with the imperial court's resettlement of landless tenants and displaced people.

At present, there is still no private businessman who can make a woolen business, in fact, it is because of the cost.

The main profit of the woolen official factory is in the woolen woollen wool, because most of the worsted woolen wool is sent to the palace, and the price of woolen woolen wool needs to be tried to reduce the cost, and when the Yongding woolen factory is still expanding, it is almost impossible to continue to squeeze the cost downward.

Zhang Juzheng didn't advise anymore, otherwise he would be as boring as a nonsense official.

The powerful rightists are too lazy, and Zhang Juzheng can only let go of the plot of helping others and respect the fate of others.

Yes, the powerful people are lazy, not stupid, not incompetent, just lazy, can lie down to make money, they will never run a workshop, because it is very hard to run a manual workshop, to solve a lot of problems, and to make small profits, how can there be a lot of coaxing the price to make a lot of money?

Lying down to collect rent and cut leeks is indeed easier than running a factory.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and chose to compromise, and continued: "Sir, in this trade, people's greed is displayed at a glance, but at the same time, they will slowly find out that their real money is exchanged for cloth and silk, and then in order to continue to play this game, they will definitely get rid of Yanxing Building and build a trading place by themselves." ”

"This is something that the imperial court needs to pay attention to."

"Commandment." Zhang Juzheng bowed to the leader's order.

Zhu Yijun arranged a combination of fists to dig out the humanoid silver mine of the great Ming Dynasty and squeeze out all their silver value.

"Your Majesty, the queen of Shaanzhou is still waiting for Your Majesty?" Zhang Juzheng finished talking about the woolen bubble, and asked about Wang Yaozhuo's arrangements.

The last time Zhang Juzheng saw Wang Yaozhuo, when he was taking inventory, Wang Yaozhuo was holding an abacus, and he didn't know if this was His Majesty's mind.

"It's good that you're still waiting by my side." Zhu Yijun didn't understand why Zhang Juzheng asked about Wang Yaozhuo at first.

"Yesterday, the Empress Dowager Rensheng and the Empress Dowager Cisheng chose to marry and select a show girl." Only then did Zhang Juzheng explain the second thing he had seen, and the Queen Mother ordered the Ministry of Rites to choose a marriage.

His Majesty is already fifteen years old, and His Majesty should get married in the sixth year of Wanli, so the first month of the fifth year of Wanli will start to draft girls into the palace.

Yes, in order not to let the little emperor and the queen be a superficial husband and wife, in order to let the queen be a mother of the world, it is necessary to select in advance, and only hold a big wedding after entering the palace and cultivating for half a year.

This time it's just a marriage election.

A total of three people were selected.

If Wang Yaozhuo is still satisfied, then it is enough to choose two more.

"Is this too early?" When Zhu Yijun heard this, he blinked and said, "What is Mr. doing at my age?" ”

"When the minister was fifteen years old, it should have been the year of the middle lift, the order of his parents, the words of the matchmaker, and the marriage date." Zhang Juzheng recalled that he seemed to have been lifted, and then he was very busy, he had to go around to study and study, and he had to take the Jinshi examination, so he had no time to take care of the marriage matching.

"How old is Sir?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously when he heard this.

"Jiajing is twenty-five years old, and the minister was already twenty years old at that time." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.

The reason why he got married so late was because of his grandfather's funeral, and the marriage was postponed for three years, so he was married at the age of twenty.

In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, he was named on the gold list, and before he had time to send good news to his wife, the news of the death of his wife Gu Shi reached Jingshi.

Zhang Juzheng's life is magnificent, it seems that his life is only government affairs, is a ruthless person, but Mr. Zhang is a flesh-and-blood living person, in the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng died a year after the death of his wife, wrote a poem to mourn, and then not long after, wrote another poem.

These are also the two poems that show emotion in Zhang Juzheng's life, and most of the time, Zhang Juzheng is like an indifferent and ruthless political machine.

"I heard that this draft girl, but I want to set an example of the eight provinces of the North Ya, the three provinces of the South Ya, Henan, and Shandong, so that they will send a division to select and test, and those who can be tested will bring their parents into Beijing to see, it will really disturb the people, I think it is better to wait." Zhu Yijun wanted to drag it out on the grounds of disturbing the people.

"Your Majesty was sixteen years old for his childhood, Emperor Yingzong ascended to the pole at the age of nine, and he was married in the first month of the seventh year of orthodoxy; Emperor Wuzong ascended to the pole at the age of fifteen and married in August of the following year; Emperor Sejong ascended to the pole at the age of fifteen and got married in September of the first year of Jiajing; are all at the age of sixteen, the ancestors can not be disobeyed, the ministers are ignorant, do not believe in the choice of yin and yang, your majesty has any actions, only according to the reason. Zhang Juzheng's words have been said very clearly.

The reason why the emperor wanted to marry so early was entirely for the sake of future generations.

Descendants are the biggest thing, Song Renzong just wants to implement the new policy again, he has no heirs to succeed him, he just can't implement the new policy.

Therefore, the biggest thing for the emperor is to get married and have children.

Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng's expression and knew that this matter could not be contested, and in this matter, Zhang Juzheng was very resolute, just three words, and he couldn't delay it.

In fact, Zhu Yijun also expected this result, from the Empress Dowager Chen and Empress Dowager Li directly issued an edict to the Ministry of Rites, they knew that this matter was the top priority of the imperial court.

The life of the parents, the words of the matchmaker.

Zhu Yijun agreed to the matter of choosing a draft girl for marriage, and also emphasized that it is not too much to disturb the people.

"Disturbing the people, it was like in the orthodox years, draft girls, one selection, hundreds of light, thousands of heavy, widows are scared to get married, for fear of being elected to the palace as palace maids, just choose two, there is no need to make a big move." Zhu Yijun further made a clear instruction that whether it disturbs the people too much depends on the quantity.

In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, Emperor Yingzong drafted 400 women directly into the palace, 400 people seem to be not much, but you must know that these themselves have gone through many rounds of selection, and you know how much turmoil has been caused in the local and civil areas, and even widows are scared to marry.

The absolute number is only two, and it will not be so troublesome to select, and the main palace is already in front of the emperor, so it will not disturb the public.

"Yin Butang said that there are also beauties in Luzon who sent them for selection." Zhang Juzheng said with a complicated complexion, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for this matter, Yin Zhengmao also asked about Emperor Zhang Juzheng's wedding last time he returned to Beijing, and Yin Zhengmao said that he would send a beauty to Beijing.

What if the emperor loves to learn foreign languages?

"Tessie?" Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, and asked with a frown.

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "Taixi people." ”

"Send it, send it to Uncle Huang." Zhu Yijun chose a compromise method, the emperor's concubines involved the change of the throne, when the change of the throne was not completely determined, he would not accept foreign women into the palace, which was easy to cause all kinds of chaos, but Yin Zhengmao, as the surname of the country, cooperated with the imperial decree, and the little emperor was not very easy to refuse directly.

Give it to the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu to enjoy.

"Obey." Zhang Juzheng bowed to the leader's order, with a smile on his face, Yin Zhengmao must express his deferential heart and friendship, after all, it is the country's surname Zhengmao, and the little emperor also wants to express Jian Zai's heart and the holy family Zhenglong, these foreign women can naturally enter Beijing, but after entering Beijing, they are all given to the emperor's uncle, and they are all happy.

The little emperor always has a variety of ways to make everyone very decent.

Zhang Juzheng left to draft the yellow list of draft girls, while Zhu Yijun took out "Metamorphosis" to continue to study Taixi's culture.

There are fifteen volumes of Metamorphosis, 250 myths and stories of ancient Greece and Rome, and this book in Zhu Yijun's hand has been processed countless times, and this book in Zhu Yijun's hand has not been translated, his foreign language is already excellent, and he doesn't need to continue to learn foreign languages with a concubine.

Pygmalion, a king of Cyprus and a sculptor, was determined not to marry out of his disgust with women's depravity and bohemianism, he carved a woman out of ivory, prayed to Eros to give life to the statue, and Pygmalion satisfied Pygmalion and finally lived happily ever after.

This story is a mythical story, after the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu knew, he must have something to say, not everything can be remembered and must have repercussions, such as the little emperor's artistic cell, edified for a few years, the emperor still does not have any interest in studying music theory.

George Bernard Shaw, a 20th-century Irish writer, wrote a satirical play called The Flower Seller based on this myth.

The story told by the flower girl is that the top of the class, a professor with the honor of a duke, and a colonel made a bet to use the street flower girl Eliza as an experiment, and in six months, the flower girl was trained to become a young lady from a famous noble.

The professor succeeded in shaping the flower seller into a striking and shining woman, but the professor pursued celibacy and did not intend to marry the flower seller, who could neither become a noble duchess nor return to the vegetable market to sell flowers.

Wang Yaozhuo seems to be very consistent with this story, a poor, precarious, and bloody woman, because the emperor wants to see foreign officials, county officials, the elderly, and the common people, from Shaanzhou, Henan Province to the Beijing Division, Shaanzhou Lu was confiscated by the emperor, Wang Yaozhuo took revenge, studied in the inner study, was liked by the Queen Mother, and followed the prince of Zheng to study music and arithmetic.

If Zhu Yijun doesn't like it, Wang Yaozhuo will neither be able to become a queen, nor will she be able to return to a poor situation again, and she seems to be unable to settle herself.

But Zhu Yijun knows that this is not the case, Wang Yaozhuo's arithmetic has entered the room, and he can participate in the inventory of the inner study, and Wang Yaozhuo has been in the inventory of all accounts, even if the emperor doesn't like her, she can also be a palace maid next to the queen mother, help the queen mother sort out the palace account books, even if no one dares to ask her to be a mother-in-law when she leaves the palace, she can also settle herself well.

Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of the Honglu Temple Qing Chen Society, who has been attacked by civil officials recently, the outer room, illegitimate children, these things are nothing at all in Taixi, Spain likes marriage to open up the territory, marriage to open the territory does not mean that only marriage is enough, marriage is to gain claim.

Under the huge profits, some businessmen began to tentatively build woolen factories again, because the sales of Huangzhuang's official factory chronicles increased again, and this time the merchants were not as reckless as the last time, and they wanted to eat a big fat man in one bite.

Some merchants chose to merge some small handicraft factories around the Yongding woolen factory, which were mainly responsible for supplying the official factories, such as cleaning wool; Some merchants aimed at the purchasing, primary processing and transportation of wool, while others looked at the distribution of woolen wool, which were profitable.

This time, the powerful rightists are finally willing to choose to be down-to-earth and choose to take it step by step.

Zhu Yijun actually hopes that the powerful men of the Ming Dynasty can show their active role, the expansion of the official factory is subject to the influence of the wind and rigidity of the imperial court, and the speed is not very fast.

However, soon, Zhu Yijun discovered that new problems had emerged.

These powerful and right-wing businessmen began to deduct the wages of the poor coolies for the sake of profit.

This is a kind of path dependence, the tenants who have lost their land, the idle wanderers in the city, and the military households who have fled the place, in these years, are almost equivalent to slaves, and some of the wanderers who can't survive have struck the bell themselves, and there are not a few who are eunuchs.

Therefore, for businessmen, it is a very reasonable and natural thing to owe wages for the time being, and it is a matter of course that there is nothing to do to give you some work to do, and you still want money?

In the past, craftsmen would at most change owners and continue to work, but now it is different, and the government factory is expanding, and a large number of people are needed.

As a result, factories that were detained for two or three months without wages began to be unavailable, and the labor costs of government factories were further reduced, and the expansion rate was further accelerated.

Screening began, and the business is always so ruthless, any path dependence will become a fatal shortcoming in a new industry, and change requires expensive costs and costs.

Zhu Yijun not only paid attention to the many contradictions and conflicts in the woolen factory, but also looked at the Xishan Coal Bureau.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the Xishan Coal Bureau affiliated to the Ministry of Industry was officially established, which means that the preparatory work has ended, and today Zhu Yijun will personally go to the Xishan Coal Bureau, which is not only to express political support, but also to find an answer in practice.

Cutting down the mountain into a bald mountain, and not using coal, is it because of feng shui, or because of other reasons?

Guo Chaobin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, led His Majesty towards Mentougou, and Zhu Yijun finally saw the mining of the Ming Dynasty.

"This well is forty-five zhang?" Zhu Yijun stood in front of a kiln well, looked at Guo Chaobin and asked in surprise.

Forty-five zhang, one zhang is about the height of one floor, about equal to the height of fifty floors in later generations, the kiln well, is a very deep well.

"There is half a mouthful of porridge at home, and it is not enough to reach Mentougou." Guo Chaobin said very helplessly, the kiln people are poor coolies, relying on their strength to earn money, risking the danger of the world, going down the mine to work, but the coal is lifted up, and they may not be able to receive wages, this is the current situation of the kiln people's life.

"The imperial history of the court said that since there is a lot of coal in Xishan, and most of the coal comes from Mentougou, then set up a drawing bureau at Lugou Bridge, and collect taxes back and forth. Zhu Yijun stood in front of the door of the kiln, and the entrance of the black hole was like a bloody mouth that chose people to devour, devouring the lives of countless people.

This statement of the imperial history of the DPRK is actually a typical thing that more is better than less thing, since the captains of the horses are digging coal in Xishan, then let them open it, as long as the points are drawn, the court will get the tax, why do you have to prepare for it in person, even the emperor's own uncle has taken it in.

When this bottomless pit appeared in front of Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun determined the importance of preparing for the establishment of the Xishan Coal Bureau.

Because the imperial court set up a lottery bureau, the tax collected will definitely be apportioned to the kiln people, and the kiln people are using their lives to earn living needs, and then they are deducted, and the consequences can be imagined.

Zhu Yijun has always known clearly that mining coal in Daming is not as simple as in England, and there is coal all under three feet, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.

Science is ideal, and what is important is possibility; Engineering is reality, and what is important is feasibility.

The current mining of the Xishan Coal Bureau is completely based on the excavation of huge manpower to supply the needs of the Beijing Division, and as for how many poor coolies die every year, it is just a number.

Zhu Yijun looked at this kiln well, did not choose to go in, and everyone who followed him would not allow the little emperor to go down the mine, because it was too dangerous, but Zhu Yijun still walked around near the minerals of the Coal Bureau, and Li He, the commander of the horses, also followed around, and the kiln well that the emperor saw was the Pushuigou kiln.

This kiln well was originally Li He's, and he took out three of the six kiln wells in his family, so that the official factory of the Xishan Coal Bureau of the imperial court was connected into one.

"It takes a long time to pump water, it takes a lot of ventilation to prevent gas (gas) build-up, it takes horsepower to drag coal up from the mine, and in short, it needs power." Zhu Yijun finished reading the Pushuigou kiln and determined what the Xishan Coal Bureau urgently needed at the moment, the steam engine.

There are many deaths and injuries in coal mining without a steam engine, and only the kiln people who can't survive will go down to the kiln, and point out the technology of the steam engine, and a huge amount of resources need to be piled up, burned out, and wasted to give birth.

Without massive resources to invest, technology cannot advance.

Resources lock the tech tree.

Coal in England has been mined since the fifteenth century, and the coal on their side is like this, 1 meter of soil... 10 meters of soil, 10 meters below is all coal, Daming here is 1 meter of soil... 10 meters of soil... Groundwater... Stone... 69m Stone... 151m coal gangue... Coal is extremely difficult to mine, but it is urgently needed. Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!

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