Zhu Yijun is willing to talk to Cai Jixun so much because Cai Jixun is not a cheap Confucian in the full sense of the word, and his political ideas, in many cases, are too idealistic and divorced from practice.

The practice is that even if the Ming Emperor does not control the means of production, he cannot control the relations of production, and he cannot adjust the deep-rooted contradictions between the various classes of the Ming Dynasty.

If you don't have rice in your hand, you shouldn't call it a chicken.

After Zhu Yijun and Cai Jixun checked the accounts, Cai Jixun was already ashamed.

"Cai Shaoqing, do you know how much it cost to build our Daming Songjiang Mansion Shipyard?" In addition to the overall, Zhu Yijun began to ask about the specifics, the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue and expenditure under the accumulation of prosperity, and finally gradually balanced, from the general to the specific, Zhu Yijun is to persuade Cai Jixun, because he is the person who carries the flag against the accumulation of Xingli this time, and convincing Cai Jixun is equivalent to suppressing this wind public opinion.

The problems he raised still existed, but many times, many of them were in such a dilemma, and they could only be reluctantly embarrassed, which was already the best way that the imperial court could come up with.

"I don't know." Cai Jixun felt that he knew a lot, he already knew a lot more than ordinary Confucianism, after all, he was engaged in translation in the Siyi Pavilion and the Royal Gewu Academy, and Cai Jixun was also one of the general affairs of the books that Taixi came, but after playing it right, Cai Jixun knew that he had made a mistake, and this mistake was to peep at the leopard in the tube and sit in the well and watch the sky.

"Five hundred and twenty thousand silver." Zhu Yijun paused and continued: "The imperial tomb of an emperor is only 500,000 silver. ”

"Cai Shaoqing knows that the construction of the two weaving official factories in Tianfu and Songjiang Mansion will cost me?"

Zhu Yijun asked again, Cai Jixun was already sweating on his forehead, because he only knew that the three weaving bureaus of Yingtian, Songjiang, and Suzhou were the money-making machines of the Ming Dynasty and the internal treasury, but Cai Jixun really didn't know anything about how much these three money-making machines had invested.

"Three hundred and twenty thousand silver." Zhu Yijun told Cai Jixun the answer, he looked at Cai Jixun and said: "To do things, you need money." ”

"Obey the holy commandments." After thinking about it, Cai Jixun chose to admit it, His Majesty did not avoid the question, but chose to respond positively, and made the reason very clear and clear, without collecting taxes, what will the court use to perform its functions?

Zhu Yijun chatted with Cai Jixun for a while, this time it was the daily life of coastal defense inspection, this time, Cai Jixun was silent for a longer time, there was nothing for no reason, the southeast of the Ming Dynasty was peaceful, because of the day and night patrols of coastal defense inspection, and coastal defense inspection was quite expensive, and it also needed a function that had a direct interest relationship with the imperial court, and tax auditing became logical.

Cai Jixun finally left.

Zhu Yijun looked at Cai Jixun's back and said to Zhang Juzheng: "I have already answered him personally, if he is still obsessed, or simply does not dare to violate the private door and continue to wave the flag and shout, then I can't be blamed." ”

Zhu Yijun never trusted Wenchen, no matter how perfect this Wenchen set his character, Zhu Yijun always had the most basic vigilance against literati, because he himself was a literati.

"Your Majesty, what Cai Shaoqing does on weekdays should not be repeated." Zhang Juzheng said two good words for Cai Jixun, not every reader is a cheap Confucian, Cai Jixun has very little participation in all kinds of vassal and elegant poetry meetings, word meetings, and garden tours, and the most important thing is that in the examination school of the Siyi Pavilion, Cai Jixun has been on the top for three years, and he is a typical follower.

"I hope so." Zhu Yijun nodded, he looked at Feng Bao, and said, "Special envoy of Xuanmeng Wu'er State, Shah Mamaiti will meet you." ”

Feng Bao took a step forward, shook off the dust, and shouted loudly: "Xuan, the special envoy of the Mughal Kingdom Shah has come to see you." ”

Zhu Yijun met Shahmamat in the Wenhua Palace, not the Huangji Palace, which is where the imperial court will be located, this is an early and small-scale communication, and the conditions of each other are made clear, if the conditions are not good, they will be directly taken to the court meeting, and each other will be embarrassed.

After Shahmamaiti entered the palace, he bowed his head and bowed three times to meet him, and bowed his head and said: "Meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Four Directions, the Lord of All Nations, and the Supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I have brought greetings from afar, from my king Akbar the Great, he expressed his sincere thanks to His Majesty, and sent a national gift, these four carefully selected war horses, can only express one-ten-thousandth of my king's sincere gratitude." ”

"The envoy is exempt." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "The Shah's envoy doesn't need to be so polite, I have already received a letter from the monarch of the Mughal Kingdom. ”

The content of Akbar the Great's letter is a long expression of gratitude, and the emotion is very sincere.

In the port of Surat last year, the naval battle of the Mughal Kingdom was completely defeated by the Red Hair Fan of Taixi, which led to a bad consequence, that is, the sea ships of the Mughal Kingdom, if they want to go abroad, they must buy a pass from Barreto, the governor of Diu appointed by the Red Maofan, and now there is no need at all, the five-masted ship is the toughest pass!

In addition to gratitude, Akbar hoped to obtain the permission of the Ming Dynasty to allow merchant ships to regularly rush to the Ming Dynasty and Ming-controlled Luzon to trade back and forth, of course, Akbar promised in his letter that he would urge all merchant ships to pay taxes legally, and if they did not pay taxes, the Ming could dispose of them themselves.

Akbar praised the extremely low taxes of the Ming Dynasty, and also expressed his doubts about why the tariffs of the Ming Dynasty were too low.

The tariff of Barreto, the governor of Red Hair Sect, in the port of Surat is 30%, which is only a tax on the surface, and as for the difficulties of the tax officials in the port, it is not among them, and there is no guarantee that the fleet of Red Hair Fan will not disturb the merchant ships.

Even if they bought expensive permits, even if they paid expensive taxes, the ships of the Mughal Kingdom still could not go to sea and trade smoothly, they would be harassed and robbed, all of which originated from the spices, countless precious stones, and endless grains that the Mughal Kingdom coveted.

And all this humiliation has become a thing of the past with the arrival of the five-masted ship of the Ming Dynasty.

"What the lord of your country invites, and what I wish, may the friendship between you and me last forever." Zhu Yijun agreed to the request for trade, and the merchant ships came and went.

"My monarch also brought a batch of congratulatory gifts, and asked Your Majesty to smile." Shah Mamat bowed his head again, and then two teams of beauties, with a layer of tulle, slowly appeared on the Wenhua Palace.

There are a total of seventy-two beauties, in a variety of postures.

Regardless of whether the Ming Emperor allowed trade or not, Akbar's congratulatory gift list this time still has seventy-two beauties, which is also a national gift, and at the same time, I hope to obtain a long-term friendship with the Ming Dynasty and prosper each other.

Taichang Siqing saw the seventy-two beauties, different from the traditional sense of poison and Indians, in the impression of the Ming Dynasty, Indians are short, dark-skinned, long faces, curly hair and other characteristics, but this group of beauties broke the stereotype of the Ming Dynasty for Indians, this group of beauties, all from Brahmins and Kshatriyas, they are Aryans.

They are all carefully selected beauties, and between their gestures, they are all amorous.

It can be seen that Akbar is really grateful to the Ming Emperor for his generosity.

"The lord of your country is really polite, this is a deal in itself, and Shah Gui has made each ship pay an extra 50,000 silver." Zhu Yijun was also full of smiles, this Shah's envoy came as soon as he came, and he brought so many things, it was really too polite.

Zhang Hong brought these seventy-two beauties down, and how to place them became a problem, and the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu made it clear that he was not interested in the beauties of all countries, and he soaked in the Gewu Academy all day as the dean.

Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, he found that Zhu Yiyi, the king of Lu, looked at these beauties, salivating, and the harazi was about to flow to the ground.

"Your Majesty, money seems to be omnipotent, but money is sometimes powerless, and it is our luck that Daming Ken sold us such a powerful warship." Shahmatat bowed his head again and said.

Zhu Yijun sat upright and said very seriously: "Special envoy Shah, I need war horses now, just as your country needs war ships. ”

"There is an ancient saying in the Ming Dynasty called reciprocating the peach, we also have a proverb, if you don't entertain close friends with wine, you may make each other enemies, the generous Ming Emperor has helped us a lot, and we naturally have to reciprocate, I don't know how many war horses Your Majesty needs?" Shahmat did not hesitate and asked His Majesty how much he needed.

"About 20,000 horses are needed this year." Zhu Yijun bit the war horse very hard.

Shahmamat pondered for a moment and said, "I can make a promise on behalf of my king, but it is true that it will take many, many ships to transport it. ”

"Daming has its own way, as long as the Daming ship arrives in Hong Kong, your lord is willing to sell it." Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

Daming has a special ship to transport horses, when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the tributary rare birds and beasts of various countries are transported by horse ships, and Daming has a very rich experience in transporting living creatures by sea, each three-masted plywood ship, after improvement, can accommodate five hundred war horses, so Daming has such a capacity, go to the Mughal country to transport the horses back.

"That couldn't be better." Shahmat does not think that 20,000 war horses have any pressure, on the contrary, Shahmat believes that for the huge Ming Empire, 20,000 horses is too little.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is that there is no shortage of horses, what is lacking is war horses, and raising war horses requires vast grasslands.

"Your Majesty, I have some doubts, why is Your Majesty willing to seek the near and far? Why not build a pasture in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, but buy it from afar? In this way, it must be much more expensive. Shahmat suspects that the cost of shipping each horse far exceeds the value of the horses themselves.

Daming did this, it was to seek the near and far, directly enclose the land to build grassland, and raising war horses was not a better solution?

Zhu Yijun thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can only say that the Ming Dynasty has its own national conditions. ”

The Mughal Kingdom can play like this, staking land, building pastures to obtain a large number of war horses, but the Ming Dynasty cannot, because the people of the Ming Dynasty will rise up, all the way to the Beijing Division, smashing the throne of the Ming Emperor, during the Apocalypse Chongzhen, because of the great loss of the country's finances, in order to level Liao, the three salaries were levied, and the death knell of the Ming Empire was sounded.

And the poor coolies of the Mughal country will not resist, and the poor coolies of the Mughal country, the biggest motivation in their lives is to be reincarnated as a human being, not to resist.

This is the difference in culture, this is the difference in national conditions.

The Mongols' four-class system was not perfectly applicable in the Central Plains, but after Timur's descendants invaded India, Timur's descendants were surprised to find that their four-class system could be perfectly integrated with the local religion.

Zhu Yijun did not discuss this issue excessively with Shahmat, and the Ming Dynasty now has no direct conflict of interest with the Mughal Kingdom, and it is fundamental for everyone to put aside the dispute and do business well.

"Your Majesty, my sovereign wants to get more five-masted ships, of course, none of this is free, for each five-masted ship, we can increase the price by fifty thousand silver to get the qualification to get the ship in advance." Shahmatat got down to business, the reason why he came to Daming again in such a hurry this time was naturally to buy a ship, and the number of five-masted ships directly determined the face of Akbar the Great.

"How much do you need?" Zhu Yijun looked at Shah Maimai and asked.

Shahmat said quite sincerely: "Twenty ships, if Your Majesty can agree, these 20,000 war horses will be regarded as a congratulatory gift from us to Your Majesty, but Your Majesty needs to send a fleet to pick up the goods by yourself." ”

"Twenty?!" Zhu Yijun coughed slightly, one ship is two hundred and fifty thousand silver, and twenty ships are five million silver!

This Shah Mamaiti is really magnanimous, and one mouth is a big deal of five million silver! This is five million silver, ten tombs of the first emperors.

Shahmat said with great confidence: "Not this year, next year, or the year after tomorrow, we need ships, just like Your Majesty needs war horses." ”

"This year, you can only ask your envoy to take five ships." Zhu Yijun pinched his fingers and calculated, now there are a total of five ships in the Songjiang Fu Shipyard, which was originally to be delivered to Taixi, but now it seems that it was given to the first place by Shahmaimai.

People are willing to pay an extra 50,000 silver for each ship to pick up the ship! This is smashing money, this is open to business, there is absolutely no reason to push the money out, Felipe II of Ctesi can only wait a little longer, unless Felipe II also adds money.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness and generosity!" As soon as Shahmamaiti heard that there were five ships that could be mentioned, he directly threw himself on the ground and bowed down to thank the emperor.

The Mughal kingdom also has its own national conditions, and the silver is not enough, so it can be paid for with other goods, and it is a big deal to squeeze it downward, but it has no face, and it can even threaten Akbar's rule, which the Mughal kingdom never wants to see.

Zhu Yijun chatted with Shahmat for a long time, and then ended the meeting.

This meeting with Shah Mamat can be regarded as a solution to an urgent need, the source of war horses.

"In comparison, the Mughal Kingdom is closer to the Ming Dynasty, and I am worried that after the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian Kingdom have a conflict of interests in the Western Ocean, these five-masted ships will become a threat to the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun said with a little worry at Zhang Juzheng.

Zhu Yijun is also worried about the accurate and ruthless boomerang, now selling so many five-masted battleships to the Mughal Kingdom, and the two sides will have a conflict in the Indian Ocean in the future, Zhu Yijun will eat this boomerang.

Qi Jiguang pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, no matter how good the ordnance is, it is for people to use it, and the minister does not think that the sailors of the Mughal Kingdom can pose a threat to the Daming sailors, and even if there is, defeat them." ”

Ordnance is used by soldiers, Qi Jiguang doesn't know about the Mughal people, but he still knows about the red hair, the combat power of the red hair fan, that is, it is equivalent to the Japanese Kou, the red hair fan in the Ming Dynasty does not take a little advantage, but the red hair fan can do whatever he wants in the Mughal country, this is the difference, not to get sophisticated ordnance, the army's combat effectiveness can grow rapidly.

"What Qi Shuai said is reasonable." Zhu Yijun thought about it for a while, and this is indeed the truth, no matter how good the ordnance is, there is no sophisticated military to use it, it is also blind, the existence of the five-masted ship can only allow Akbar not to be exported by people without any backhand power, if you want to threaten the Ming Dynasty, what you need is to report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of the Qian, you need to select people who are loyal to the monarch and the country from a good family, you need a lot of boring and hard training, and you need an iron will and military soul.

In short, to have a strong sailor, you need a great country.

"Today, the Gewu Yuan said that I would like to move to the Royal Gewu Academy to have a look, everyone, follow me to have a look?" Zhu Yijun didn't know what new tricks the Royal Academy had tossed, and the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu invited the Ming Emperor to go, and there was auspicious dedication.

There is no need to worry about the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu ambushing five hundred axes, just waiting for the emperor to go, throwing the cup as a number, asking for Zhu Yijun's life, and ascending to the throne, because the Royal Gewu Academy is wholly owned by the emperor from beginning to end, and the Gewu Academy has always been the emperor's back garden.

And Zhu Zaiyu was not interested in power, he had a very unpleasant quarrel with the imperial court and even refused to become the prince of King Zheng, Zhu Yijun deceived Zhu Zaiyu to Beijing, and used a little trick to deceive people with a sextant.

Zhu Yijun's car came to the Gewu Academy again, and in front of the Gewu Academy, the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu took nearly 100 Gewu doctors to greet him.

"Your Majesty has arrived!" Feng Bao shook off the dust, shouted loudly, and put the horse stool under the big driver's seat.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." The ministers saluted.

Zhu Yijun inspected and saw Zhu Zaiyu, and also saw Dr. Gewu Geng Xiangxiang, Jiao Hong, Gao Qiyu, Zhang Siwen, Huang Zifu, etc., Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "No courtesy." ”

On the lying stone in front of the Royal Gewu Academy, the line of words is still as new as ever, and the one who does it is just faithful - Zhu Zhongxing.

"What good things did Uncle Huang toss this time?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

"Your Majesty, this time it was not made by the minister, but by Huang Zifu." Zhu Zaiyu is not greedy for merit, this time the new auspicious rui is really not something he made up, it is Huang Zifu of the mechanical group.

Huang Zifu is a Yanshi, that is, a puppet master, or a puppet show of the hundred arts artist, his exclusive invention is the tea beauty, he is very proficient in machinery.

"Oh? Dr. Huang stepped forward and talked about it. Zhu Yijun asked with a smile.

"The minister greets His Majesty, Your Majesty bows to peace, the minister is afraid, please go with your Majesty." Huang Zifu led the way in front, and everyone walked into the Gewu Courtyard, bypassing the library pavilion, and came to an open open-air square, which was paved with railroad tracks, and a few horses were running quickly pulling vehicles.

Horse-drawn rail cars, in the Ming Dynasty used a lot, the track as early as the pre-Qin gallop has been used, and now the Xishan Coal Bureau has also used a large number of rail cars, in order to transport coal.

"Your Majesty, the horse-drawn rail car can only take the straight road, and it can't turn a corner, and it will overturn when it turns a corner." Huang Zifu first introduced why he brought the emperor here, and the problem he wanted to solve was the problem of turning horse-drawn railroad vehicles.

"Is it solved?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

"Solved." Huang Zifu brought a pair of wheels and said, "The mystery is on this wheel." ”

Zhu Yijun looked at the wheel, this wheel is obviously a well-made model, the wheel is different from other wheels, there is a small bevel, Zhu Yijun took the wheel, put it on the reduced track, and gently pushed, the wheel actually traveled along the winding track without derailment.

There is no steering mechanism, but it can be steered, which surprised Zhu Yijun.

"Interesting." Zhu Yijun tried a few times before he suddenly realized: "Dr. Huang is really a strange person!" ”

"The minister is terrified." Huang Zifu seems to be modest, but he is actually very proud, because of the existence of the inclined plane, when turning, the outer stroke increases, and the inner wheel stroke decreases, which then produces the steering, and does not require an overly complex mechanism, coupled with the design of the track inclination at the turn, etc., the horse can run fast, and the vehicle will never derail, which is the domineering of this invention.

Huang Zifu also made a lot of interesting things, such as a one-person rail rolling car, a person only needs to roll a lever up and down, and can travel quickly on the track.

"This car has 400 catties, a total of four people can be used alternately, two before and after, one hour, can run 80 miles, can transport 400 catties of goods, from the Xishan Coal Bureau to wash coal to the Beijing Division, it only takes one hour." Huang Zifu introduced the codex car in front of him, the structure is not complicated, it doesn't look good, only a flat plate, plus a lever, but it is indeed an extremely useful piece in the invention of the Gewuyuan.

It can transport coal from the Xishan Coal Bureau to the Xizhimen Coal Market, one person, two people, four people can use it, the speed of transporting goods is extremely fast, an hour is 80 miles, the efficiency has been greatly improved, because of the laying of sleepers, gravel, rails, etc., can also ignore the rain and snow, to prevent the price of coal in Jingshi from skyrocketing due to the impact of rain and snow, affecting the lives of the people of Gyeonggi.

"I'll try." Zhu Yijun was very curious about this thing.

Zhu Zaiyu immediately bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, this has just been invented, let Tiqi try it." ”

Zhu Yijun is the emperor, Zhu Zaiyu doesn't dare to let the emperor do something in the Gewu Courtyard, otherwise this codex board car, if it is not used, will be recognized as an ominous weapon, then the Gewu Yuan is not a white invention?

Zhu Yijun thought for a moment, feeling a little pity.

It's such a fun thing, I can't try it myself.

Soon the field was vacated, and the four lanes of rails, including the uphill and downhill and sharp turns, were vacated, and the four Ti Riders understood how to use it, put on the inner lining, put on the iron armor, and began the test drive.

The riders pressed the levers, the flatbed began to start slowly, and then slowly began to accelerate, several riders' hands pressed faster and faster, the flatbed began to gallop on the tracks, the friction between the wheels and the rails, slightly harsh, after a quarter of an hour of testing, the riders slowly stopped.

The horsemen were very powerful, pressed very frequently, and the speed was much faster than designed, and in a quarter of an hour they ran thirty laps of the tracks, and they could run at least one hundred and twenty miles in an hour.

"Good stuff!" Zhu Yijun looked at this thing, patted the flatbed truck with great conviction, and affirmed the work of the Gewu Academy, don't look at him as small, but it is very useful, at least it is very convenient for freight transportation and maintenance.

"How much does it cost?" Zhu Yijun asked about the price of the codex.

The Codex car is not cheap, one costs seven to eight silver, and the railroad tracks required for the Codex car are even more expensive, requiring nearly ten thousand taels of silver for one mile.

"There's also a car, it's not very useful." Huang Zifu touched his head slightly embarrassed this time, and brought up a new car, this car is a wooden shell added to the flatbed car, the shape of the wooden shell is extremely weird streamlined, and extremely low, a total of two doors, there are two seats inside.

Zhu Yijun surrounded the strange-shaped car, turned left three times, turned right three times, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"Pedaling the car, people sit in it, because the center of gravity is lower, so the speed is faster, an hour can run a hundred and twenty miles, but it is useless, this thing needs a track." Huang Zifu said helplessly, this thing runs faster, but it can't carry goods, it can only be used to deliver letters, and the reason why it is useless is because it can only be used on track.

Where there is a track in Daming, only the Xishan Coal Bureau to the mouth of the coal market, such a distance to transmit some news, with a flat rolling car, is completely sufficient.

"Shop one from the West Garden to the Wenhua Palace, I use this to participate in the court meeting!" Zhu Yijun immediately thought of the use, from the West Garden to the Wenhua Palace, about four miles, commuting every day is a trouble, Zhu Yijun immediately thought of its role, Zhu Yijun himself used to commute, and similarly, the eunuchs of the celebrant can move the music around in a timely and fast manner.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, "What does Mr. think?" ”

"No problem, the Ministry of Engineering can supervise it!" Zhang Juzheng agreed quickly, and without hesitation, he even said the words of the Ministry of Industry, which was obviously a strong support.

In Zhang Juzheng's opinion, he persuaded thrift and cultivation every day, which caused His Majesty's life to be too boring, and His Majesty finally had a liking thing, so naturally it had to be done, and it had to be done quickly, and His Majesty could not be brought back to his senses.

Even Shahmat was surprised that the life of the Ming Emperor was comparable to that of an ascetic, and for the sake of the face of the Ming Dynasty, he must do it quickly and quickly!

Ask for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!!!!!!

(End of chapter)