Emperor Wanli nodded in agreement, and then said, "Since you have cleaned up the Jinyi Guard this time, then take good control of it for me!" Don't be in the same situation again! ”

Liu Haojia immediately bowed down and said, "Long live the lord, rest assured, the minister has already formulated a plan to change guards, and he will not let the Jinyi Guard officer stay in one place for too long." Just changing the place every few years is enough to dispel this situation! ”

Emperor Wanli said with satisfaction: "That's good! And I guess your second gain is probably to open the sea, right? Come, tell me how much silver can I add to my inner treasury? ”

Liu Haojia said with a smile: "Long live what you said makes sense, this is indeed a big harvest!" The reopening of the sea in Nanjing and Quanzhou will indeed bring a lot of income! It's just that it's hard to estimate now, and if you do a preliminary calculation, it is very possible to collect more than two million taels of taxes a year! However, I am afraid that it will be difficult for His Majesty to get this money completely, and maybe the cabinet people will come and grab it! ”

When Emperor Wanli heard this, he slapped the table, narrowed his eyes and was about to say something. But then he froze, and then he was deflated again, sat down in his chair and said, "Forget it! The treasury also needs silver! If they really want it, give them a portion! ”

Liu Haojia said with a smile: "Long live Lord, I'm afraid it's not a part, but a majority!" But the minister thought about it here for a while, and felt that the big head should be given to them! Anyway, the royal fleet is about to go to sea, and it will be able to increase its income a lot this year! ”

As soon as Emperor Wanli heard that a large sum of silver was about to fly away, he was naturally heartbroken! It would be fine if he didn't know that he had such a large amount of income, but now that he knows, he can't get his hands on it, so he is naturally very uncomfortable!

However, he still beat his spirit and said: "Forget it, forget it!" Don't talk about that! What else is good? ”

Liu Haojia said: "The biggest good thing is that after the opening of the sea, the ministers have divided the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River!" In the future, Long Live Lord will no longer have to worry about being isolated! There are more and more officials in charge at the local level! ”

As soon as he heard this, Emperor Wanli was much happier! He has been suppressed by civilian officials for so many years, and he has been trying to find a way to divide civilian officials! Even if he and Liu Haojia worked hard to train some civil officials, they were either assimilated by other civil officials, or they were always of low grade and useless!

But if, as Liu Haojia said, the gentry in Jiangnan are divided, it will be of great significance! Because many officials in the court are representatives of the Jiangnan gentry! If the Jiangnan gentry are divided, it means that the civil officials in the court are also divided! They can choose one faction and support another!

So when Emperor Wanli heard this, he slapped the table and applauded, and then said: "Why don't you say such a big thing in the notebook?" Let me know sooner and I can be happy sooner! ”

Liu Haojia said: "Long live the lord, it's not that the minister won't tell you, but the minister was still uncertain when he just found out that they had signs of splitting, and he needed to observe for a long time." Now there are some appearances just now, and some of them dare to say it when they grasp it! ”

Emperor Wanli hurriedly said: "Then tell me how you did it?" ”

Liu Haojia told Emperor Wanli about the difference between the traditional gentry and the new gentry, and finally said: "Those new gentry have larger industries such as workshops and tea gardens, which require more workers and raw materials, so they are different from the traditional gentry." The traditional gentry wanted to confine the peasants to their land and grow food only for them. The new gentry, on the other hand, wanted the peasants to work for them in the workshops, so they had a very different way of thinking about the population! At the very least, the new gentry will not hide the population!

And they also have different needs for fields! The new gentry preferred to grow cash crops in their fields, such as tea, mulberry trees, fruit trees, etc., in order to provide raw materials for their workshops, which was different from the traditional gentry, which only valued food. Therefore, the minister felt that he should determine which officials in the court would become the spokesmen of the new gentry, and then Banzai Ye began to support these people to fight with others, so that Banzai Ye could calmly dispatch in it! ”

Emperor Wanli nodded again and again when he heard this: "This is good, this is good, just work hard in this direction!" You Jinyi Guards need to collect more information on this for me! ”

As soon as I said this, a eunuch outside came to report that Shoufu Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue asked to meet! Liu Haojia immediately smiled and said, "Long live the lord, I'm afraid it's the account!" ”

Emperor Wanli immediately said with a bitter face: "That's it, that's it!" I can't keep the money, so I'll give them some more." ”

As far as Emperor Wanli himself is concerned, he still likes money! This is probably the instinct passed down from the ancestors of the old Zhu family! However, Emperor Wanli still has a clear understanding of money, not blind greed for money!

In the original Wanli Dynasty, he sent many eunuchs to collect taxes in various places. Excluding the part that was deducted by the palace, about seventy or eighty percent of the silver handed over went into the treasury, and only a small part went into the treasury to maintain the royal expenses.

But the civil officials at that time didn't care about this, and when they squandered the silver that Emperor Wanli had obtained with great difficulty, they also threw the black cauldron that competed with the people on his head! If it weren't for the fact that there are a lot of literary and historical materials that have been circulated in later generations, he would have really betrayed this black cauldron!

After a while, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue walked in together. After entering the imperial study, the two of them first paid homage to Emperor Wanli before standing up. During the whole process, he turned a blind eye to Liu Haojia who was sitting on the side! And Liu Haojia also put on a look of not seeing the civil official, looking up at the roof!

Emperor Wanli was very relieved to see their appearance, and said directly: "How can the two Aiqing have time to come to me?" But it's also a coincidence, Marquis Wu Ning has just come back from Jiangnan, and I am asking him to tell some interesting things about Jiangnan, so the two Aiqing might as well listen to it together! ”

At this time, I only heard Shen Shixing say: "Your Majesty, the minister is here today to impeach the Marquis of Wu Ning!" ”

Although Emperor Wanli already had a clear understanding of the routines of civil officials, he couldn't help but rub his temples and said, "I don't know where Marquis Wu Ning offended you?" If you say it, I will punish him! ”

Shen Shixing said: "Your Majesty, the minister's impeachment of Marquis Wuning is for the sake of national affairs, and it is not a personal grudge, so it is not easy to mix it up!" ”

Emperor Wanli glanced at Liu Haojia, who was motionless, and said, "I know! Then what are you impeaching him for, talk about it now, I listen! ”