Wang Xiangu made a unified crowd and took blood from 49 pregnant women, which is really shocking, so Zhu Yijun would rather be scolded for not being open and tolerant enough, and refuse to let the missionaries preach, which the courtiers generally agree with His Majesty's point of view.

The already complex contradictions between man and land, the contradictions between the central and local governments, the vassal kings, and so on, plus a religion, come together, I don't know what to do, whether to scold the emperor for being stupid, or scold myself for not being able to carry it clearly?

And Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng not to worry about the affairs of the clan, this is to give Zhang Juzheng a reassurance, as long as the emperor clearly states that he will not pursue it, this matter will really end here, and few people will even study the fact that the number of registered clans has been sharply reduced from 100,000 to 60,000.

In the mainstream scholars' remarks, the Ming clan is the villain, that is, the moth of the court, the huge clan has emptied the court and the place, and the extravagant clan has destroyed the simple values of the Ming Dynasty, and it is bound to compete for luxury and luxury, and it is a place to hide filth and dirt to shield and harbor suspects, etc., all the faults are the fault of the vassal king!

Zhang Juzheng's discussion of current politics and politics is also to identify the huge expenditure of the clan as the first of the five diseases of the Ming Dynasty.

But after a detailed inspection, Zhang Juzheng found that the clan was not huge, and there were only more than 60,000 people on the register. Only 20,000 of them received it.

Zhang Juzheng thanked the emperor again, His Majesty kept his promise, since he clearly said to all the courtiers at this time that he would not be held accountable, it is really not time to turn over old accounts.

Zhu Yijun leaned back in his chair and said happily: "Sir, I heard an interesting story, saying that there are a total of 120 people in the fifteen departments of the Imperial Inspectorate, and Suiyuan and the Liaoning Imperial Historian Department are already selecting. ”

"A few days ago, the water porter sent sweet water into the yamen of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and as a result, Liu Kongyuan, who supervised the imperial history, didn't know where he got angry, and when he saw the water porter, he was furious and said: Pickled slut Yan Deng's elegant hall?!"

"This waterman is a small citizen, how dare he talk back to the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he can only leave in shame."

"As soon as this water carrier heard that this water porter was scolded by Yushi, he immediately drove this water porter out of the water nest."

"The minister has never heard of this, and the water porter is also a poor coolie, so why should he be so embarrassed?" Zhang Juzheng's brows were twisted into pimples, and he thought of a poem, Bai Juyi's "Charcoal Seller".

On this poem, Tang Xianzong was nailed to the pillar of shame in history, because Bai Juyi personally made a note on this poem: Kugong City.

The palace is the palace, the city is the market, the palace is the palace to buy, the eunuchs used half a horse of red yarn and a zhang of silk, and bought a cart of 1,000 catties of charcoal from the charcoal seller.

The water porter is called the water San'er, and the well that carries the water is called the water nest, the water nest generally has a master, the owner is the owner of the well, a sweet water well, there are twenty or thirty water porters, specializing in walking the streets and alleys, selling sweet water, there are not many sweet water wells in the Ming Dynasty, and the bitter water well drinks too much and loses hair, and it is easy to be bald.

And what Zhu Yijun said about this matter is that a water san'er sent sweet water to the old men of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was angrily reprimanded by a supervising imperial historian for being a pickled slut and ascending to the elegant hall.

Liu Kongyuan didn't know where he got angry, in fact, he was on the recital of state affairs, and was scolded by the emperor for Zhu's bloody head, Liu Kongyuan felt that he had extraordinary knowledge, but in fact, they were all clichés, and the emperor told him to watch and study hard, and not to talk nonsense about things that he didn't understand.

Liu Kongyuan sprinkled his anger on the water porter.

Zhu Yijun continued: "This matter is interesting here, this reprimanded water porter can't even carry water, and there is no water porter in the water wo who is willing to send water to the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he would rather not make this money, but he can't earn it anyway, if he is evil to supervise the imperial history, it is asking for trouble, and the 119 supervising imperial historians will have no water to drink, and then they began to scold Liu Kongyuan angrily, and they scolded Liu Kongyuan with shame and indignation, and they wanted to be angry. ”

"Huh? Running out of water to drink? Zhang Juzheng looked shocked, he blinked and said, "It seems that there is really no way to solve it." ”

If the water nest doesn't send water, the inspectors won't drink water!

Yes, not anymore.

Because the supervising imperial history is an official of the imperial court, a nobleman, and a nobleman does not perform on the ground, it is really insulting to carry water, and the long robe and wide sleeves cannot carry water, and he wears an official uniform to carry water on the street, which is not a joke that is poked in the backbone.

The rigidity and bloated of the yamen are vividly reflected at this moment.

There are so many people in the yamen, although they don't do anything, they just drink tea and read miscellaneous newspapers all day long, but they can't arrange to do the matter of carrying water, everyone has their own business, which is not within the scope of their own rights and responsibilities, and if they want to burden others, they must have a reason, and they must be justified, otherwise this matter is a bow, kicked around, and it will definitely not be properly resolved;

If you want to add another person, it will be even more troublesome, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will have to go to the Ministry of Officials.

The supervising imperial historians are not willing to deal with the officials led by Zhang Juzheng at all, and they want to add someone to carry water, for fear that the water porter will not be found, and they will be scolded first.

The supervising imperial history can actually ask Shui Wozi to send them water, but Shui Wozi is under the jurisdiction of the Shuntian Mansion Ya, and he really went to Shuntian Mansion Cheng Shen to solve it, and it made a bigger fuss.

So in the end, when the Imperial Court supervised the imperial history and had no water to drink tea, the crowd was angry, and angrily scolded Liu Kongyuan for having nothing to do.

Hai Rui and Li Youzi didn't bother to care about these royal histories, they were busy fighting corruption all day long, how could they care if they had water to drink, and they tossed up the drama by themselves, and cleaned it up by themselves.

"A funny and ridiculous scene." Zhu Yijun was happy after speaking, Zhu Yijun was happy, Zhang Juzheng also followed suit, shaking his head while laughing, it is indeed funny and absurd, it can only be said that people who do not produce are like this, the imperial historians who supervise the imperial history are not from bad backgrounds, they have never suffered anything in their lives, they do not divide the grains, and they generally have no sympathy for the poor coolies.

Zhu Yijun held back a smile and continued: "Accustomed to them! I gave Shen Cheng an order yesterday that all the water nests in Shuntian Mansion were not allowed to send water to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they had to carry the water themselves! Hai Zongxian finally couldn't stand their nonsense, and ordered every four people to take turns to carry water every day, and Liu Kongyuan, who was scolded, was responsible for supervising the matter. ”

"Huh? Really, it's good to do some work. Zhang Juzheng was a little confused and then suddenly realized, this Hai Rui is not a good person!

Let Liu Kongyuan supervise, just to make all the supervisors uncomfortable, Liu Kongyuan will continue to be scolded, as long as this matter of taking turns to carry water still exists for a day, Liu Kongyuan is the initiator, and Liu Kongyuan is scolded, he must be embarrassed by the person who scolds him! It is the norm in officialdom to repay the eyes, because everyone is staring at it, and Liu Kongyuan cannot show favoritism, but is more just.

Therefore, Hai Jui is not a good person, and he puts things in a clever balance, and everyone suffers together because of the moth thing he has made.

Hai Rui doesn't care about these bad things, where the cheap Confucians gather, all Hai Rui can do is to scold a few words, he takes the loyal monarch and the country's ministers to fight corruption every day, how can he have the kung fu to help these people and stop this ridiculous lawsuit?

The poor coolies have proved more than once that the poor coolies can live very well without the powerful and powerful and virtuous gentry who are powerful and blessed on their heads, but the old men who are powerful and blessed have not once proved that they can live well without the poor coolies.

It's incredibly difficult to even drink water.

"How do you think this matter will end in the end, sir?" Zhu Yijun was curious about what the old master thought of this.

Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said, "This Liu Kongyuan estimates that he has to pay for two people to carry water, which is probably the best way." ”

"Mr. is right, I will go to the Shuntian Mansion, and I can't send water to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so I can only let the Imperial Court supervise the Imperial History to get water by myself!" When Zhu Yijun heard this, he immediately slapped the table and said, "Can't let them take advantage of this loophole, absolutely not!" ”

Zhang Juzheng just laughed, His Majesty really likes to watch the excitement, it is conceivable that the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate go to the street to fetch water, how rare it is, and the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty have to be pointed at.

"In fact, there is a solution, let Liu Kongyuan go to the scolded water porter, bow his head and admit his mistake, and this matter will be over." Zhu Yijun talked about another possibility.

Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said, "He won't go, I'd rather take off that court uniform than go." ”

"Sir can see it." Zhu Yijun thought about it, it seems that this is indeed the case, Liu Kongyuan is willing to apologize, that is the same as the sun coming out in the west.

"This winter, the Salary Saving Division will not send coal to the Metropolitan Inspection Institute, nor will it send stoves, let them go to the Salary Saving Division to move it by themselves, so it was decided." Zhu Yijun thought of a fun thing again, sending coal in winter, the Salary Department is specially to send firewood to various government offices, once Zhu Yijun ordered it to stop, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can only work by himself.

If Yushi impeached Shen Cheng and provoked Shen Yiyi's trouble, Shen Yi only needed three words to block people speechless, and there was a will.

With just these three words, Yushi can only be angry with this.

Zhu Yijun just said this matter to Zhang Juzheng as a joke, Zhang Juzheng didn't plan to interfere after listening to it, the three words "will" also worked for Zhang Juzheng, the streets and alleys of Daming must be all discussions, who knows what this kind of thing will be arranged.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng communicated in depth about some details of this extermination of the feudal domain, which was to destroy the feudal domain, not to cut the feudal domain, but to move the palaces of the feudal domains back to Beijing, and bind them in the Ten Kings City like the high wall of Fengyang.

Returning the field is a big trouble, several times more troublesome than Qingzhang, Zhang Juzheng didn't want to do it at the beginning, but the matter has come to this, and he has no need to object.

Zhang Juzheng judged that there would be no rebellion of the vassal king.

The main reason is that His Majesty has no uncle, not one, the eighth son of the Taoist master, just a Yuwangfu survived to the end, not a personal uncle, the vassal king hit the banner on the side of the Qing monarch, then there is no power at all.

Hai Rui returned to the dynasty and denied that Xu Jie's work from the dragon, that is, from the fact that only the first emperor was left in the eight sons of the Daoye, how could there be any merit from the dragon, and the Dao Ye was just one under his knees, and if he did not pass the throne to King Yu, who would pass the throne to? King Jing has been married for many years, and none of them have been born.

The fierceness of the political struggle in the middle and late Jiajing period can be seen.

King Yan and King Han are all uncles who rebelled, this is because their uncles are elders, and they are also the first generation of princes, and they have a certain foundation for rebellion in terms of financial resources and force.

Another basis for Zhang Juzheng's judgment is that the vassal king has no money to rebel.

Rebellion is not a playhouse, then casually turn over, it is a big sum of silver, rebellion is a death of the nine clans pinned to the belt of the trousers, this has to be rewarded to have a brave man, and the strong army of the imperial court has just returned from the crusade against Bansheng, the Beijing camp is extremely strong, and the Ming Dynasty has also canonized the first first-class prince since Tianshun, this reward has to be heavier, in order to get a brave man.

During the Jiajing period, because of the danger of the soldiers, the court suffered a big loss of money, and several times in a row, the Taoist successively stopped the county king's subordinate to the Lu, built the palace, repaired the palace silver, and married the silver at the wedding, and the palace of King Zheng collapsed seven or eight times out of ten, and he had not seen the repair, and the vassal kings were powerless to rebel.

And no one, the Ming Dynasty's pig raising policy of more than 170 years, people with lofty ideals, will not follow the vassal king for a lifetime to eat and wait for death, the long history is that the people who can't pass the Jinshi exam, will seek the job, most of the vassal kings are around wine bags and rice bags, no wise men followed, and the vassal kings themselves can't even write the text of rebellion.

A strong man who has no righteous reputation, not enough silver, not enough manpower, and no advice is the grass platform team.

Will you continue to eat in Beijing and wait for death, or will you continue to be precarious in the local area? Or is it unveiled? This in itself is not difficult to choose.

"Mr. didn't include Fa Zongfeng in the examination, did he think of this day?" The more Zhu Yijun listened, the more strange he felt, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed to be intentional! It was a deliberate reduction of the feudal domain, cutting the strength of the feudal king to the extreme, and preparing for the destruction of the feudal domain and the elimination of the country.

Migrating the vassal king into Beijing is to destroy the vassal and eliminate the country, although it sounds good, it is to move the vassal domain, but move back to the capital of the country, what is it not to destroy?

It's too smooth and silky, and it looks like it's been planned for a long time.

Zhang Juzheng thought for a long time, and said with a sigh: "Before the minister, I didn't dare to think so far. ”

A city of ten kings is an investment of 3 million silver, and the relocation of the feudal domain is a huge financial expenditure, and raising the vassal king in Beijing, and making a fortune is a huge expenditure, how dare Zhang Juzheng think about this? When the first emperor died, he arranged the silver in the yamen of the capital master, including the internal money, a total of 390,000 silver.

Being able to get silver was the top priority in the first ten years of Wanli.

Zhang Juzheng's analysis is very reasonable, because from the letters of many princes in Henan, the Ten Kings City was built, and the princes' words changed, from criticizing Zhang Juzheng to praising Zhang Juzheng, and I can't wait to elevate Zhang Juzheng to the point where Mr. is eternal, worthy of enjoying the Taimiao!

When you arrive in Beijing, you will be able to receive Yulu.

George, the envoy of England, finally bought 500,000 pieces of cotton cloth from the Ming Dynasty, and he came with a million taels of silver this time, originally wanting to buy some silk and follow the example of Felipe II to resell silk to make money.

And the Portuguese envoy Marcus bought a lot of silk, for cotton, Marcus is not afraid, Portugal has reached the point of national ruin, how can there be any worry about the impact of the handicraft industry, Felipe II really used cotton to deal with Portugal, King Antonio also thanked Felipe II, gave the Portuguese a dress to wear.

The envoy of the Shinra just joined in the fun, and the cardinal came for nothing.

France's mad envoy also failed to marry the Ming Emperor as she wished, and she didn't even have silver to buy cotton cloth.

"Your Majesty, that envoy of the Goa Governor's Palace, Rui De, committed suicide." After Feng Bao and Xiao Huangmen whispered a few times, they hurriedly reported the results.

Rui De is a staunch believer, even if he is hungry and his heart is close to his back, he still does not betray his faith, Zhu Yijun's deepest impression of Rui De is Rui Roaring Wenhua Palace.

Suicide is blasphemy in any doctrine and leads to hell after death, and Rui de committed suicide out of despair.

The Tang newspaper in the Strait of Malacca reached the Beijing Division, which immediately caused an uproar, and even the excitement of the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate carrying water was covered.

The city of Malacca fell, a fortress that had been in operation for sixty years, after the last infighting in the Goa Governor's Palace, all the fortresses on the periphery were uprooted, and a lonely city hung there, and after the Ming thirty pounds of artillery were in place, they blasted open the walls of the Malacca castle and shattered all the morale.

The Ming Dynasty completely penetrated the Strait of Malacca, and the vast world of the Western Ocean opened its doors to the Ming Dynasty again.

Rui De, on the other hand, believed that he was slow to move and did not give his comrades in the Goa Governor's Palace the last chance to survive, and died with the city of Malacca.

"Let's bury it." When Zhu Yijun heard the news, he said to Feng Bao: "From beginning to end, Lu Yi is a somewhat stupid and firm believer, fighting for the interests of his country, and he is a warrior. ”

Rui is a red-haired fan, a Portuguese, fighting for the interests of his country, and finally seeing that there is no room for things to turn around, he chose to end his life, which is unwise and not worth advocating, but Zhu Yijun still respects the dignified fall of a soldier.

"Shame, shame, honor and disgrace, self-esteem, self-respect and self-love, can be free." Zhu Yijun finally commented on Rui's life.

Rui's funeral was very simple, except for the people of the Ming Dynasty, no one came to see him off, because Antonio, as the king of Portugal, had returned the governance of the Strait of Malacca to the Ming Dynasty, and Marcus had no reason to see him off, and the resistance of the Goa Governor's Mansion was not to follow the king's orders, and the others were too lazy to pay attention.

A lonely tomb with an inscription on it, and Da Ming didn't know much about Rui De, so he engraved the story of his two missions on the tombstone.

"Take it for tea." Shah Maimai proposed to appear in front of the gate of Tonghe Palace, he threw the silver bag in his hand high, fell into the hands of the Han general, and then walked into the Tonghe Palace.

Ti Cai and the Han generals can accept this silver bag, which is a special order from His Majesty to respect the culture and elegance of the Shah's envoys.

"Greetings to Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty." Shah Mamaiti saluted.

"No excuses, sit down and talk." Zhu Yijun tried to imitate the action of Shahmat throwing the silver bag a few times, but it was always a little unnatural, not that silky, which may be related to Zhu Yijun's own stinginess.

Shah Mamaiti sat very upright, and said: "Your Majesty, it is good news that the Strait of Malacca is completely connected, so the vast Mughal Congress will provide the Ming with plenty of cotton, as well as salty sand, oh no, it should be called saltpeter now." ”

He didn't do any serious errands when he came to Daming, mainly listening to the commentary in the Qianmen Building, and occasionally being responsible for receiving the Persian beauties sent by Akbar the Great, which was regarded as maintaining a relationship with the Ming Emperor.

"The Shah's envoy may have to go back to the Mughal Kingdom to ascertain the details of these trades, and it is clear that there is a need for enough cotton to weave." Zhu Yijun answered this question seriously.

Shah asked curiously, "I don't know how much cotton Daming needs in a year?" ”

Zhu Yijun said with great conviction: "How many you want, Songjiang Mansion can weave 15 million pieces of cloth a year, Daming can weave nearly 300 million pieces of cloth a year, and about 300 million pieces of cotton are needed, so there is as much as you want." ”

"Da Ming's appetite is really too big, and it is impossible for us to satisfy Da Ming's appetite." When Shahmamat heard this, people immediately fainted!

A standard cloth needs four catties of cotton, a small cloth needs three catties of cotton, 300 million pieces of cotton even if it is a small cloth, it also needs 900 million catties of cotton, even if it is intensively cultivated in the Ming Dynasty, an acre of real estate cotton is only 100 catties to 150 catties, it needs 9 million mu of land to cultivate, plus rotation farming, is 18 million mu of land to cultivate cotton.

The cotton spinning center of Daming is in Songjiang, and the planting center is in Shandong, because the habit of cotton is long sunshine, during the growth of cotton, rainfall is not conducive to cotton growth, the root system of cotton is generally not more than three feet, if the soil is too wet, it will cause cotton to not be able to take root, Songjiang Mansion is a place that loves rain.

Zhu Yijun is the real owner of Baoqisi, he knows the habits of cotton very well, the cotton from the north goes south, and the cotton from Shandong is sent to Songjiang Mansion for manufacturing.

"Your Majesty can afford our Mughal Kingdom too much..."Shahmamat waved his hand again and again and said: "Your Majesty, we don't even know how many acres of land we have, so we can only say that we can provide it as much as we can." ”

"The more the merrier." Zhu Yijun did not ask for as much cotton as possible in the early stage of trade.

In fact, Zhu Yijun has been worried that the vibrant traditional cotton manufacturing industry in the Ming Dynasty has made mechanized manufacturing more difficult, that is, the cost of machinery is much higher than manpower, resulting in the owners of handicraft workshops more inclined to use manpower rather than machinery.

Millions of farmers produce cotton for their own use or the nearby market, and merchants do not have to go to great lengths to carry out large-scale manufacturing, and it is enough to buy the farmers' own production directly.

Shen Shixing answered His Majesty's doubts, Daming cotton cloth has a premonition of large-scale centralized production, only need sufficient raw materials, can promote the further realization of machinery manufacturing, the Ming court should be worried about the weak steam engine production capacity, can not meet the appetite of the Ming Dynasty, and large-scale production to destroy the economy of male farmers and women weaving small farmers, the bad impact, bankrupt farmers are the Ming must consider the problem.

There are 57 large-scale cotton spinning handicraft workshops in Songjiang Prefecture, employing more than 126015 weavers and weavers, plus the official textile manufacturing of the Ming Dynasty, there are about 250,000 practitioners.

Therefore, the current urgency of Daming is the supply of raw materials.

"Can Daming sell a little cotton cloth to our Mughal country cheaply?" Shahmamat asked in a low voice, "The price of a large cloth is as high as two silver, which is too expensive. ”

"Of course, I wonder what the Shah's envoy thinks is the right price?" Zhu Yijun's smile is very sunny, but he doesn't look very happy, the kind of unhappiness that the black-hearted businessman is poked in front of him, and he still has to keep smiling.

"It's better to have a piece of silver per horse, of course it's a big cloth, forty feet of the kind." Shahmamat directly sacrificed the dragon slaying sword and bargained in half.

Zhu Yijun immediately became sunny when he heard this, nodded and said: "Of course, Daming and Mughal are old friends, and at the price of one silver, everyone can guarantee sufficient profits." ”

Of course, Shahmaimaiti bought back cotton cloth, not for the common people, but mainly as a second-hand dealer, and sold it to the Persian countries.

The price of the wholesaler, Zhu Yijun naturally wants to give a little profit space, the two silver is pinched to the arrival of the Sauron ship to follow the monsoon, the time is urgent, of course, you have to have a full meal, but the price profit of one silver is already very rich.

Shah Mamaiti is not willing to bother, if you buy from a businessman who is willing to go through, the price can be lower.

"That's really great!" Shahmat was very happy and said that anyway, with the situation in the Mughal country, if the Shudras and the untouched people planted cotton, there would be no chaos, and the Shudras and the untouchables firmly believed that as long as they were reincarnated, they could become Brahmins.

In this way, the Ming Emperor and the upper buildings of the Mughal Kingdom reached an agreement to ruthlessly peel off the Shudra and the untouchables, planting cotton can not grow food, as for things like starvation, the Mughal Kingdom can deal with it, which seems incredible to the Ming Dynasty, but in that magical land, it is reasonable.

Cooperating with the conquerors and stripping the slaves down is a long-standing survival mode in that land, and whoever conquers it can achieve the same effect.

At the beginning of July in the tenth year of Wanli, Gao Qiyu, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, sent away the envoy who entered Beijing, and the French envoy was still making trouble, so he was directly tied to the boat and sent back to Taixi, not even buying cotton cloth, what kind of envoy!

Emperor Ming rewarded Yin Zhengmao, Marquis of Surabaya, and Zhang Yuanxun, Marquis of Yingyang, along the sea route, to Manila, Zhu Yijun originally planned to seal the duke, but Zhang Juzheng prevented, the Ming Dynasty just pulled out all the strongholds of the Goa Governor's Office in the Strait of Malacca, and the Goa Governor's Mansion still exists with residual forces, so it is not appropriate to seal the duke, that is the reward and punishment are unknown, then everything will not work.

Zhu Yijun did not have a holy will this time, but thought that what Zhang Juzheng said was reasonable, but the reward was extraordinarily rich, Zhu Yijun gave a batch of silver, and asked Zhang Yuanxun to build the Yingyang Marquis Mansion in the old port Xuanwei Division, as for the specifications, Zhu Yijun did not determine, anyway, the emperor is far away, as long as the palace is not built, it will be tossed with Zhang Yuanxun.

Shi Maohua, the governor of Shaanxi, said that he would upgrade the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to the Xuanwei Buzheng Division, become a first-class administrative region of the Ming Dynasty, and move the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to the Guanxi Qiwei.

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