As soon as mining was mentioned, Zhu Qiyu began to dance with his eyebrows. This is really gratifying, just the two mines of Sado and Iwami can dig up hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

This is much easier than raiding the house and destroying the Buddha.

Thinking of destroying the Buddha, Zhu Qiyu asked Zhang Ning again: "Jingzhi, do you say that you should destroy the Buddha in Japan?" Do the local people support me to destroy the Buddha? ”

Among the Wenchen generals who participated in the battle to attack Japan, Zhu Qiyu was more willing to listen to Zhang Ning's opinions. The positions of Jiang Yuan, Yue Zheng, Xu Heng and others are too high, and it is easier for the authorities to be confused.

When it came to destroying the Buddha, Zhang Ning was also energetic: "Weichen thinks that the Buddha must be destroyed, and Buddhism in Japan is fundamentally different from our Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Emperor Taizu had already imposed great restrictions on Buddhism.

In Japan, Buddhism not only interferes in military and political affairs, but even has their shadow in all aspects.

After the abdication of the generals, daimyos, and other powerful people, most of them became monks, and many of them built their own Buddhist temples.

The monks annexed land, lent money to the people, and so on.

It is equivalent to the people being oppressed by the shogunate and Buddhism, if the saint destroys the Buddhism, the people will naturally support it. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, and said secretly in his heart: I think so, dignitaries and nobles like Buddhism, and there are forgivable circumstances. The poor people at the bottom like Buddhism, which is a bit too fraternal.

Monks don't pay taxes, don't submit to forced labor, and don't even have to recite Buddhist scriptures. The people at the bottom are pressed by taxes and forced labor every day, and they even go to empathize with the great monk Shi XX, which is really a very interesting psychological state.

Zhu Qiyu asked again: "Aiqing estimates how much benefit can I make from destroying Buddha in Japan?" ”

Zhang Ning replied: "The minister doesn't dare to say anything, but if it's just gold, silver, and copper coins, if you convert it, it's only twenty or thirty million taels." If there are land, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, then there are more.

In the hands of the monks alone, I am afraid that there will be no less than 100,000 hectares. ”

"They have so much gold, silver, and copper in their hands?"

Zhang Ning replied with great certainty: "The actual amount is only a lot more than Weichen's estimate, you think, the lending industry is almost completely controlled by the monks, of course they have more money." ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were about to be offended.

After a little hesitation, Zhu Qiyu asked one last question: "How is North Korea doing?" ”

This question is much easier, Zhang Ning said with a smile: "North Korea already respects the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the elite of North Korea has been exhausted in the two years of war."

Shengshang also moved many Han, Miao, and Yao people over, and there was no need to worry about the turmoil in North Korea.

On the contrary, Liaodong, the army is empty and the population is insufficient. Moreover, Liaodong's civil ministers, military generals, and eunuchs who guarded many lawlessness needed to be vigorously reformed. ”

Zhu Qiyu accepted Zhang Ning's suggestion, and then only talked about the customs of Korea and Japan, and the banquet lasted for more than an hour before it ended.

The guests and hosts were happy and dispersed.

Zhu Qiyu stopped Huang Qi and stayed to chat alone. Huang Qi, as a prisoner, had to ask him some confidential things.

Ning Xiang stood up and smiled at Xu Yongning: "Little uncle, stay for a while, let's go to the lake together?" ”

Xu Yongning was stunned when he heard this, go for a walk by the lake?

"After chatting for a while, you go directly from the jade embankment of Kunming Lake to the end, go out of the main gate of the palace, and then take the carriage back to the city."

The two walked out of the south hall and walked dozens of steps, Ning Xiang turned back to Zhu Wenfang and asked, "What are you and Ruan Zhu doing behind us?" ”

Zhu Wenfang replied innocently: "I don't want to either, Qing'er wants to ask Xiaoniang to teach her to draw." Then I have to follow you, otherwise if you miss the eyeballs, you will run back to the Lingyu Palace and stick to your father, where will I find you when the time comes. ”

At the mention of painting, Ning Xiangqiao's face turned red and teased: "This kid, sooner or later he will have to change his surname to Xu." It just so happened that we slipped to the lake, and after chatting with the little uncle, we went to the jasper boat to teach Qing'er to draw. ”

"Little lady, why is your face red, is it hot?"

"Hey, after eating two more glasses of wine, it was a little hot when the wind blew it."

A few people chatted as they walked.

After a few words, Ning Xiang gave Xu Yongning credit: "Little uncle, don't you know, among the Jinshi of Enke last year and Zhengke this year, there are only a few people who have not married, and how many powerful people in Jingshi are crazy to compete.

A few of our sisters stubbornly carried it for you. Go back and see for yourself, this year's Tanhualang Qiao Feng is really good.

How many people want to grab it, even our sister Mrs. Dingbei Hou was fooled away by us, so I kept Qiao Feng for you. ”

Although Xu Yongning has been training for several years in the back, he is young in the end, and when he heard this, he was greatly moved: "Sister-in-law is on top, and the younger brother has to give you a knock." ”

Ning Xiang nodded: "Okay, okay, when our sister gets married, you can knock again, I have to bear your head." ”

The two talked and laughed and discussed the details of being a matchmaker. Ning Xiang, the matchmaker, was really responsible, and promised to arrange a blind date for Xu Yongning's sister and Qiao Feng without a trace.

Xu Yongning was satisfied along the jade embankment, went straight out of the main gate of the palace, and got into the carriage and went back to the Dingguo Mansion.

Zhu Wenfang said with a smile: "Xiao Niang is really a good matchmaker. ”

Ning Xiang said with a smile: "The marriage between Xungui and Xinke Jinshi is a special situation. One is that your father is sure to control the situation in the DPRK, and the other is that your father's throne was obtained by chance, and sometimes he can only cede some benefits to the Chinese martial arts of the DPRK.

However, these unmarried new Kejin scholars are too young, and they marry the nobles, and sooner or later they will become important ministers, which can be described as a promising future.

Letting the nobles marry the important ministers is not a long-term solution.

Once you are in power, you have to deliberately restrain it, and don't let this marriage become the norm and the rule. ”

Zhu Wenfang nodded: "I haven't thought about this yet." ”

"Emperor's mental art, there are some things that your master can't teach you, and other Wenchen either don't understand it, or they can't teach you if they understand it. You'll have to learn from your father. ”

Zhu Wenfang deeply agreed with this, the positions of the monarch and the minister are different, and sometimes the ideas are also very different.

On 27 October, dozens of ships of the Shandong Navy Division docked in Tianjin and brought back more than 50,000 taels of gold, 3 million taels of silver, countless taels of copper, and countless other rare treasures.

So much so that the carriage at the front had already entered the imperial city, and the carriage at the back was still waiting to be shipped in Tianjin.

It took five days before the transfer was completed.

The white marble pedestals of the original three halls of the Forbidden City were reused, and a reserve was built on the original site of the Jinshen Palace.

The first batch of more than 50,000 gold, all of which were minted into gold coins, were deposited in the reserve under the joint supervision of the six chief officials of the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Internal Officials Supervisor, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The three household books, Shen Yi, Geng Jiuchou, and Xiao Di, stood in the position of the original canopy hall, looking at the newly built vault with white marble, full of emotion.

(End of chapter)