There are indeed very few emperors who can restrain themselves and not rob the people of money. The important ministers present also sincerely admired that since the emperor ascended the throne, not only has he not snatched money from the people, but he is still gritting his teeth to give the people tax exemption.

However, the problem is that the emperor has already robbed everyone else who can rob him, and eunuchs, vassal kings, nobles, and monks are all the emperor's key robbery targets.

I've robbed everything that should be robbed, and if I am short of money in the future, who will I rob next time?

As if he could see through the ministers' thoughts, Zhu Qiyu took the initiative to explain: "You don't have to be nervous, I will not carry out large-scale land reform, and I have no interest in robbing the interests of the bureaucracy and gentry."

However, I must carry out the reform of the salt industry, open the sea ban, go to the Western Ocean, and then launch foreign wars, obtain wealth from overseas, obtain silver and copper mines from overseas, and then ship them back to mint coins.

If we do a good job in these three aspects of income, it will be enough for the government treasury to be full. ”

When everyone heard this, they shouted in unison.

Anyway, everyone has reached a consensus, and we don't look at the slogan to see the actual effect. It's only two years of Jingtai now, and everyone is completely patient to wait for another three or five years.

When the emperor does it, it means that everyone supports the emperor with a long-term vision and a good eye; If it is messed up, it is not too late to stand up and advise the emperor and redefine the national policy.

In a word, it is to give the emperor a chance to try it first.

Gong let the emperor go from pro-government to abdication, and he tried for eight years, so there is no reason not to try it today.

After watching the minting process, Zhou Chen led everyone into the silver vault to watch. The mountains of silver in it almost blinded everyone's eyes, and Shen Yi, as the head of the household, was the first one to be unbalanced:

"Da Sikong, you are even embarrassed to ask the household department for silver coinage, look at the silver in front of you, it is much richer than our household."

When Zhou Chen heard this, he hurriedly frowned and cried: "Only a small half of this is our money, and most of the silver is handed over to the Ministry of Industry by the dignitaries of the capital."

Among them, there are 1 million taels of the Qi Palace, 200,000 taels each of the British Duke and Dingguo Mansion, 100,000 taels each of the Anguo Duke and Wuding Marquis Mansion, and 2 million taels of merchants. ”

Shen Yi asked curiously, "What merchant will have two million taels of silver?" ”

Zhou Chen replied: "Connecting the Heavenly Tower, Tianxiang Building, Goddess Pavilion, Lingyu Treasure Building, Mingyu Hundred Treasure Pavilion, Suyu Xiuyi Fang......"

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand embarrassedly: "Needless to say, the shops in the capital whose names contain the words 'heaven, incense, jade, and women' are basically opened by my princess." ”

When everyone heard this, they gasped. Good guy, the most profitable shop in the capital turned out to be in the hands of the emperor.

"Hey, no way, you have to be considerate of my difficulties. It takes a lot of money to raise a woman to the point where she will never be bought with money.

I didn't spend the money of the imperial court, and I didn't spend the money of the internal treasury, and if I didn't buy a few shops, when the emperor asked for food everywhere, you would be undignified. ”

As soon as you explain this, the ministers will understand that the emperor's trick is really ruthless, you take 180,000 yuan of silver to buy the imperial concubine, let her poison the emperor, and people don't bother to look at it.

If you take a million taels of silver, maybe people may be tempted. But a woman who has no husband, even if you are honest and trustworthy and really give her a million taels after the deed is completed, she will not be able to keep it.

So the emperor directly stuck the road to death for everyone, and it was useless to use money to buy the favorite concubines.

And in terms of comprehensive status and power, the number one woman in the Ming Dynasty today is Concubine Wu, and after Concubine Wu, she should be the emperor's fifteen favorite concubines tied for second.

The emperor's women are all shrewd and smoking, who would be stupid enough to let the second woman in the world not be, and rush to be a helpless traitor.

The road to assassinate the emperor is currently blocked, and the assassination of Emperor Gongrang is easy, the entire Chonghua Palace, hundreds of palace people and concubines come and go, there are too many loopholes.

Thinking of this, the ministers all understood that the emperor was just talking about his favorite concubine on the surface, but in fact he was hinting that the emperor, the crown prince, and the concubine of Xuanmiao could die at any time, everyone had better be honest with me, don't mess with me.

If you have to force me, I can also give you a possession of the Great Emperor of the Wise Shenwu Xuan Temple. The story of King Han, do you still remember it vividly?

It's hard to be embarrassed by this group of genius jinshi masters who have been killed from thousands of troops, Zhu Qiyu warned in such a roundabout way, and they still understood.

After watching the Baoyuan Bureau, it was still early, and Zhu Qiyu took the ministers to the outer city of Beijing.

The Gunpowder Bureau and Wang Gong Factory, which produced dangerous goods, were placed by Zhu Qiyu in the southeast corner of the outer city of Beijing. When the area was not built, it was covered with a dense water network and rivers, which was naturally suitable for fire prevention.

Zhu Qiyu would definitely not be stupid enough to inspect the Gunpowder Bureau and Wang Gong Factory. The famous apocalypse explosion in later generations was caused by Wang Gongchang.

If the ministers suddenly open their minds and take advantage of their own inspection to have a Jingtai explosion, then the fun will be great.

The reason why these factories are located in the southeast corner of the outer city is because they have little chance to get close to that area.

Not far from the new gunpowder bureau and Wang Gong factory, there are the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Mountains and Rivers. The problem is that I won't go, I want to sacrifice, and let the British Duke do it. Besides, according to the current power of gunpowder, it is difficult to affect the Temple of Heaven if it really explodes.

Zhu Qiyu mainly took the ministers to the six military craftsmen in the outer city to inspect them. These military craftsmen who originally belonged to Jinyiwei were split out by Zhu Qiyu and assigned to the jurisdiction of Tiancewei.

Jin Yiwei was further split and cut, and Zhu Qiyu's plan was to build Jin Yiwei into a tool purely responsible for investigation and torture.

As for defending the emperor and making ordnance, there is no need.

Jiajing persistently believed that Jinyiwei could protect the emperor, and if he did not change his original intention for decades, he would be burned by fire for most of his life. The results of the experiment are already clear, and there is no need to risk your life to lift the bar.

Wang Wen and the others were surprised to find that these military craftsmen were not doing their 'business', but were studying some bows, crossbows, hidden weapons and the like.

Zhu Qiyu saw that everyone was confused, so he explained with a smile: "Annan is not easy to fight, and in the mountains and jungles, firearms are not so easy to use.

First, it rains at every turn in that place, so how can you use your firearms then? It's not as useful as a crossbow.

Second, people will set up all kinds of traps and simple traps in the mountains and jungles. When the time comes, you walk and step into a big pit, and the bottom of the pit is covered with dense spikes, and you fall into it and you become a hedgehog.

Anyway, there are all kinds of strange traps that you can encounter at any time.

Thirdly, when you really get to the flat ground, when the army is in battle, you still have to face the enemy's war elephants. People ride elephants to fight, can you ride a horse and hit people?

The cannon moves and angles very slowly, and you'll end up relying on a strong crossbow.

In short, according to the characteristics of Annan, we must specially build ordnance and arm our expeditionary force in a targeted manner.

The Ming army must not have the humiliating defeat of the Xuande Dynasty again.

If it is defeated again, who else in the vassal states in the south will look down on the Ming Dynasty. ”

Wang Wen hurriedly flattered: "It's still the saint who has a long-term vision, and he has been preparing a foolproof plan to recover Annan for a long time." ”

(End of chapter)