Holding the little princess whose vernix had not faded and whose little face was still wrinkled, Chongzhen clearly felt the magical feeling of first-class blood connection. This was completely different from the feelings given to him by the three brothers Zhu Cixiang, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhen.
Yes, it seemed that only at this moment did he truly feel what it was like to be a father.
Ran Sanniang was originally very disappointed. She hoped to give birth to a sixth prince.
But seeing the unconcealable ecstasy in Chongzhen's eyes, Ran Sanniang still felt quite relieved. A princess would be a princess, at least it meant that she had established a firm foothold in the Ming Dynasty's harem.
"Concubine Ran, thank you for your hard work." Chongzhen did not forget to thank Ran Sanniang.
"My concubine failed to give birth to a prince, it would be great if the Lord doesn't blame me."
Ran Sanniang didn't know whether she was happy or aggrieved, she pouted her mouth and started sobbing.
"Hey, why are you crying on this big day?" Chongzhen held his daughter's swaddling clothes in one hand, freed up his right hand to wipe away Ran Sanniang's tears, and said with a smile, "Look how handsome our daughter looks.
She must be a one-in-a-million beauty, and I don’t know whose kid will get the advantage in the end.”
At this time, Chongzhen looked like an old father.
Ran Sanniang was immediately amused. Her daughter had just been born, so she thought so far.
But Ran Sanniang clearly felt Chongzhen's preference for his daughter.
Ran Sanniang held back her laughter and asked: "Long live Lord, what should you name your daughter?"
"I have to think about this carefully." Chongzhen turned his eyes to the window and looked at the lush and towering trees on Qingliang Mountain. He immediately thought of the beautiful rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty and said immediately, "Zhu Jinxiu is called Zhu Jinxiu."
"Zhu Jinxiu?" Ran Sanniang murmured a few times, feeling that this name was quite good.
Chongzhen added: "As for the title, let's just say Jiang Ning."
Jiangning is Nanjing, and the title Princess Jiangning is just right.
And it is an exaggeration to give a princess the title right after birth.
"Wang Daban, convey my will." Chongzhen felt that it was not enough. He placed the infant Princess Jiangning next to Ran Sanniang's pillow, stood up and said loudly, "Concubine Ran gave birth to Princess Jiangning for the Ming Dynasty. I want to amnesty the world, including
The heinous death row prisoners and the rebel soldiers who were used as laborers, all of them committed crimes..."
Amnesty for the world? Wang Chengen and the other eunuchs were a little confused.
Don't you hate these pomps the most? There was no amnesty for the birth of the emperor's eldest grandson.
After a short meal, Chongzhen said again: "Everyone who commits a crime... will be rewarded with a delicious meal."
A meal? Long live the Lord, it turns out that the Amnesty in your mouth is this Amnesty in the world.
"All our farmers in the Ming Dynasty will be exempted from grain tax for one year this year, and those who are already exempt from tax will be exempted for one more year."
"As well as all the workshops in eight prefectures and one prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, all workers have to take a day off and their wages must be paid."
Gao Qiqi and several others are even more confused. If amnesty is not enough, why should we take a break? And a paid break? Long live my Lord, you are too partial to Princess Jiangning, right?
"Oh, and all the officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will receive an extra month's salary in June, and all the chamberlains will also receive an extra month's salary! As for you big officials..."
After saying this, Chongzhen said again: "Gao Banban and Lu Banban will each be rewarded with a thousand yuan!"
"Old slave, thank you for the generous reward." Lu Jiude was overjoyed and hurriedly knelt down to thank him.
Compared with the previous reward of five yuan and ten yuan, the long live master rewarded one thousand yuan this time, which is really a huge sum of money.
Chongzhen finally said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, you have taken good care of Concubine Ran for more than half a year, and I appreciate your kindness for the smooth birth of Princess Jiangning."
"Long live my Lord, I really broke this old slave." Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down.
"Get up quickly." Chongzhen's novice helped Wang Chengen and said with a smile, "I will now make you the Duke of Wu!"
"Wu Guogong!" Gao Qiqian couldn't help but exclaimed. What happened? Old Wang was promoted to the title of Duke of the State. Duke of the State? At this moment, Gao Qiqian was so jealous that he almost went crazy. The first eunuch of the Ming Dynasty was the Duke of the State.
ah.
Lao Gao and I are still just a marquis, Lao Wang, why did you become a duke?
Long live my lord, don't do this. You promised to make me the eunuch king.
Wang Chengen was also startled and quickly declined: "Long live Lord, how can this be done?"
"If I tell you to do it, I will do it." Chongzhen did not allow Wang Chengen to refuse. The main reason why he named Wang Chengen as the Duke of the country was to set a benchmark for the eunuchs. As long as you are honest, diligent, and do not take things too seriously.
If you don't cause trouble and are always loyal to me, you will be able to become a Duke like Wang Cheng'en.
Chongzhen said this, so Wang Chengen had no choice but to be granted the title.
After thanking him for his kindness, Wang Chengen arranged for a young eunuch to deliver a decree for amnesty to the world.
Soon another young eunuch reported: "Long live the Lord, uncle Kang Guo and Zhang Yuanwai Lang have come to see you."
"Kang Baiwan?" Chongzhen was in a very good mood at the moment and said with a smile, "Take them to the flower hall to wait."
After a while, Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han were led by the chamberlain into the flower hall of the palace. Not long after waiting, Chongzhen also walked in wearing a uniform, and they quickly knelt down to congratulate Chongzhen.
Chongzhen waved his hand and asked with a smile: "You must have something else to do, right?"
"Your Majesty, Shengming." Kang Wanwan said, "It's like this. In the past half month, the prices of slave goods flowing into our Ming Dynasty through Shandong and Henan, such as Dongzhu, ginseng, furs, horses and camels, etc. have all increased in price."
"Have the prices increased?" Chongzhen's eyes lit up because this was a signal.
There were wars between the Ming Dynasty and the Jiannu, but private trade never stopped.
There is no need to go through pseudo-shipping, but transactions are conducted directly in Shandong and Henan.
On the Jiannu side, trade was basically controlled by the eight major Shanxi merchants, but on the Ming side, the merchants involved in the trade were more complicated at the beginning, so it was difficult to obtain bargaining power.
At that stage, the eight major Shanxi merchants of Jiannu clearly took the initiative and could buy cotton, silk, salt, tea and grain from Jiangnan at low prices, while Jiannu's Dongzhu, ginseng, fur, etc. could be sold at high prices.
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Chongzhen quickly completed the control of Jiangnan industry and commerce through the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. A few months later, he established the Ming Dynasty General Chamber of Commerce, and then integrated the Ming Dynasty industry and commerce through the General Chamber of Commerce. Since then, the eight major Shanxi merchants who established slaves
It lost its bargaining power against Daming and became a weak party.
However, Ming Dynasty did not take the opportunity to drive up prices.
It even reduced the prices of cotton cloth, iron materials, salt, oil and other goods.
Of course, Chongzhen had no good intentions. This was to complete the economic control of the Jiannu, or in other words, economic colonization, which meant that the Jiannu became an economic colony of the Ming Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty has this ability.
Because the Ming Dynasty's industry and commerce have completed large-scale development.
The biggest advantage of scale is lower costs.
Even without steam power and still in the stage of handicraft industry, large-scale handicraft industry still has an overwhelming advantage over family-style handicraft industry.
Therefore, Jiannu's family workshop had no way to compete with the Ming Dynasty.
Up to now, Jiannu's cotton spinning, iron smelting, salt, porcelain, oil and other industries have been basically destroyed, and they are all maintained by trade with the Ming Dynasty.
However, the trade between the two parties is fairly fair.
It is very unusual for the eight major Shanxi merchants who built slaves to suddenly increase their prices.
Chongzhen asked again: "Have you ever calculated how much money has flowed from Jiannu into Ming Dynasty in recent years?"
Zhang Han replied: "The exact number cannot be calculated, but the approximate number is clear. In recent years, the amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty from Jiannu through various channels has been around 30 million."
"30 million?" Chongzhen frowned, "That's not right. The treasury of Jiannu has not bottomed out yet."
As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew the family fortune of the slaves. The wealth accumulated before entering the customs plus the money stolen from Beijing and the Dashun army after entering the customs must have been at least 70 million taels.
Now 30 million have flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and the Jiannu treasury still has at least 20 million.
As for the remaining 20 million taels, they must have been scattered among the slave-building elites.
With a clan with thousands of slaves and more than 300,000 bannermen, the family must have 20 million taels of silver in savings.
Kang Wanwan said: "Even if the Jiannu treasury has not yet reached its bottom, there is still very little left. Cutting off the trade routes at this time, even if the Jiannu cannot break out into civil strife, will at least be enough to keep them busy for a while."
Zhang Han continued: "The key point is that most of the slaves have noticed that something is wrong."
"Yes, what Zhang Qing said is correct." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Jiannu has probably noticed something is wrong, so this is the last window of time. If you miss this time, it will be difficult for Jiannu to cause turmoil again."
Chongzhen was also ruthless and used all possible means to attack the slave establishment.
In addition to Dagukou, the continuous consumption of Gaizhou Guards also led to an economic war.
What's even more ruthless is that as early as three years ago, Chongzhen was already planning for this economic war in advance.
At that moment, Chongzhen said: "Let's get started. From today on, not a single trace will flow into Jiannu! Anyone who dares to violate the orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and still secretly communicate with Jiannu will be kicked out of the Ming Dynasty General Chamber of Commerce immediately. From now on, all Ming Dynasty generals will
Members of the Chamber of Commerce are not allowed to do business with him, and yes, there is a certain product that can still be sold to the slaves."
"What kind of goods is it?" Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han couldn't help being stunned when they heard this.
Chongzhen smiled and said: "It's Huzhou gauze soaked in alkaline water."
"We can provide as much of this lake yarn as Jiannu wants."
"Of course, the price must be the old price, a piece of Hu yarn is 100 yuan."
Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han also laughed when they heard this. Jiannu must have been tricked this time.
He spent 1 million taels of silver to buy 10,000 pieces of gauze soaked in alkaline water from Huzhou.
There was nothing unusual about these lake yarns just after being soaked in alkaline water, so the merchants who founded the slaves couldn't tell the difference at all. However, after being left for a few months, they would deteriorate and become brittle.
[Note: The internal affairs are almost explained]
[The next step is the decisive battle with Jiannu]
