Zhu Yunxi smiled and took the initiative to say: "Since the gentleman won't talk about it now, I will tell you what I think after returning to Beijing."
After he finished speaking, his eyes swept over Jie Jin's face.
Xie Jin nodded: "I am all ears."
"Now that the nine sides are guarded by the clan kings, the former vitality has been exhausted, and it will be impossible to go south again for more than ten years."
Starting from the nine sides, this is to comment on the current situation of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji immediately adjusted their sitting postures and sat upright, listening to orders.
Zhu Yunxi continued: "The army to suppress Japan has been in Japan for three years. The mining and smelting of Iwami silver mine has become increasingly mature and the output is stable. The gold and silver mine of Sado Island has also begun to be excavated and smelted. In the territory of Japan, the northern and southern dynasties now occasionally go to war. With the
Due to Tie Xuan's operation, it is absolutely impossible for the two dynasties to unify, and everything is under our control."
"With the conquest and establishment of the Jiaozhi Road, the vast and fertile land in the south has become the fruit that the Ming Dynasty can pick. The food, stone, wood, minerals, spices, gems and other products in the south are as abundant as those in the Central Plains.
Land."
"Similarly, due to the new conquest of the Jiaozhi Road and the layout of the Japanese kingdom, the Japanese plague that has plagued the southeastern coast of our country for many years has been rarely reported."
Xia Yuanji cupped his hands and raised his hips slightly, nodded and bowed his head with great respect: "Your majesty is wise, your prince is wise, and your highness is brave. It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty was prosperous. These are all the merits of my Ming Dynasty monarch. Only then can we have the current situation where the government is harmonious and the people of the world are peaceful." p>
Zhu Yunxi shook his head and looked at Xia Yuanji.
This guy has become more and more reasonable now.
He shook his head silently and said: "There are still many things to do in the world. We still need to work hard and work hard together."
Jie Jin, who had been silent for the whole time, immediately straightened up his waist and said, "Your Highness is on a trip to Jiaozhi Road, but you have some insights and want to implement them in the court?"
Something is wrong with Mr. Xie!
Something is wrong!
Zhu Yunxi looked at Jie Jin with swishing eyes, then turned to look at Xia Yuanji silently aside.
Xia Yuanji sighed: "Brother Da Shen feels that he can't find a clue now."
"Can't find a clue?"
Zhu Yunxi murmured in confusion and turned to look at Xie Jin, who was blushing after his good brother revealed his thoughts in public.
After looking at it twice, Zhu Yunxi chuckled.
At first, I had a sudden idea to let Xie Jin, Xia Yuanji, and Tie Xuan serve in Wenhua Hall to participate in political affairs.
However, the actual duties of the three of them have not been adjusted or changed.
Xia Yuanji is still doing his old job in the Ministry of Finance. Now, when Yu Xin keeps a low profile and ignores the affairs of the Ministry, he has a vague intention of taking the lead in the Ministry of Finance. The business affairs are enough to make him scream every day.
I am too busy.
Not to mention Tie Xuan, from his original job with the Ministry of Rites, he went directly to the Ministry of War, and then he and Li Jinglong led the Japanese army to the Japanese country. Nowadays, Tie Xuan is responsible for the royal court's financial resources of millions of gold and silver every year.
Got it.
Not to mention, every year, along with the shiploads of gold and silver, countless Japanese people who could no longer survive in the Japanese country were sent to Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places on Ming Dynasty ships to welcome the beauty that embraced them.
,Da Ming Life....
Only Jie Jin.
He is the only one who has never moved from his position in the Hanlin Academy. Except for a book and newspaper bureau established in the 25th year of Hongwu's reign, he experienced a period of turmoil and twists and turns in the first year of junior high school.
Today's book and newspaper bureau has completely become the birthplace and dissemination place of Ming Dynasty's spiritual philosophy.
There are countless supporters.
The newspaper that was originally published every ten days has now become one every seven days. The number of pages has also changed from a few thin sheets at the beginning to a thick one now.
Xie Jin wants to do something.
This is why he acted like this today.
Zhu Yunxi silently looked at Xie Jin, who had been exposed to his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, after returning to Beijing this time, there are a few things that need to be taken care of by the gentleman."
Listen
I finally have something to do.
Xie Jin immediately became energetic and straightened up his waist and chest like Xia Yuanji beside him: "When I receive orders, I must do my best and dare not slack off."
Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but laugh again and again.
"Brother Gentleman, I haven't said yet what you want to do."
Jie Jin looked up at Zhu Yunxi, blinked, and expressed his thoughts clearly without opening his mouth.
You just give orders, and we, Laojie, just take orders and do things.
Zhu Gaochi on the side looked at Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji curiously. In the 25th year of Hongwu, he followed his father back to Beijing, and then stayed in Yingtian to study, and was later tricked into going to Jiaozhi Road.
He did not have much interaction with officials in the capital. Even Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji, who were close friends of Brother Xie, did not have much understanding or interaction.
At this time, Zhu Gaochi was a little surprised that Jian Jin took the initiative to ask for something.
Do officials really take the initiative to ask for things to be done?
Do more and you will make more mistakes, do less and you will make fewer mistakes, and do nothing and you will make no mistakes.
This is the true meaning of establishing oneself in officialdom.
Zhu Yunxi gave Xie Jin a calm look, and then said slowly: "This time when I returned to Beijing, I stopped at Hangzhou Mansion for supplies. News came from the capital that the craftsman Zhang who will be the supervisor is almost dying.
I have completed a task I assigned before I left Beijing and went south. Now, the follow-up of this matter can be left to the gentleman."
Xie Jin raised his eyebrows: "May I ask, Your Highness, what is it?"
After asking, Xie Jin had endless reverie in his heart.
Tie Xuan is now doing something worth millions of taels of gold and silver every day.
Xia Yuanji is also doing something related to the land taxation of the world.
Zhu Yunxi, on the other hand, said: "After I have taken care of everything in the capital in the past few days, I will go and see with my own eyes where we are now, and then I can make a decision."
Seeing that Jin was already anxious, Zhu Yunxi immediately raised his hand to stop him.
"Brother Gentleman, please be patient. As long as you handle this matter well, it will benefit the country and the people, and the merits will last forever. The Ming Dynasty will leave it to you."
Is it up to the Ming Dynasty to choose anyone?
This naturally does not mean to give up the throne of the old Zhu family to Xie Jin, but this sentence truly shows that as long as Xie Jin can do this well, he can become the leading official with great power in the Ming Dynasty.
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Zhu Yunxi did not give details of the reason, but he gave such high expectations, which instantly aroused the curiosity of the three people in the small study room, including Zhu Gaochi...
But he smiled and said nothing.
Cement.
After Zhang, the supervisor, made a bet with himself about a thousand new looms in Zhejiang Province, he became the first person in the Ming Dynasty to turn from a craftsman to an official.
Although he is only a minor official from the eighth rank, it is enough to make Craftsman Zhang grateful and give craftsmen in the world a wish far greater than letting his own family live a good life.
After that, Zhu Yunxi handed over the cement manufacturing process to Craftsman Zhang.
Now, two years are enough for him to turn the craft record on a piece of paper into a real product.
As Zhu Yunxi himself wants to communicate with the world for freight transportation and promote the circulation of Ming Dynasty wealth, instead of being stagnant in one place and being hidden at home by local nobles, the roads must be improved.
If you want to get rich, build roads first.
This is the standard that Zhu Yunxi has deeply engraved in his mind since he was very young.
Moreover, this is also his personal experience.
When a dirt road that is full of dust and turns into mud when it rains is paved with stones of different sizes, the villages with mud walls and thatched roofs become new villages with brick walls and tile roofs.
When the stone road that could scratch the bottom of a car turned into a flat concrete road that was not afraid of wind and rain, the village was filled with two-story red brick buildings.
The villagers saw more and more unfamiliar faces, and the small red brick buildings grew taller and taller.
The house, from the initial place of living, has become higher, better and more beautiful.
Exhibition.
Finally, large bins for recycling garbage appeared on both sides of the road. The dry toilets on the roadside were also transformed into brand-new public toilets with no peculiar smell.
The village guard became the health and safety officer of the village.
The change of a road allows ambitious people in the world to get out of the mud, and it also allows businessmen who can explore all values to find places of wealth that have never been discovered in the past.
And when the roads are built well enough, they will automatically become something that can provide assistance to the country's politics, economy, and even the military.
A smooth road of eight feet can fly into the sky.
Ming Dynasty needs flatter roads, trucks with greater carrying capacity, and materials from all over the world to where they need to go.
It is also necessary to transport millions of troops to the designated place at the designated time.
Underneath the specific matter of road construction, there is a deeper influence hidden.
The imperial power that lasted thousands of years did not go to the countryside.
When the Ming Dynasty's central court in Beijing is able to issue decrees to the most marginal and grassroots villages in a shorter time, imperial power will replace the power of the gentry.
Making the people of Ming Dynasty rich is Zhu Yunxi's most fundamental pursuit after returning to Beijing this time.
But he also would never allow the fruits of victory to be stolen by the gentry who were far away from the court and had unparalleled power to speak and rule over the villagers.
Xie Jin was keenly aware of the slight change in the emperor's grandson's mood.
Immediately he changed his tone and said in a low voice: "The Bureau of Books and Newspapers has made great achievements recently. I wonder if it is possible to set up additional branches in various places in the world and send personnel from the Books and Newspapers Bureau in Beijing to preside over the distribution of local newspapers and periodicals and collect local events." p>
Zhu Yunxi did not talk about the matter for the time being, but asked: "How is the current situation of the book and newspaper bureau? When I returned to Beijing this time, I heard that many people are already publishing books and newspapers."…
Xie Jinti opened local branches not just because the book and newspaper bureau's business volume is becoming increasingly large.
Xie Jin was stunned for a moment, and whispered: "There is still only one book and newspaper bureau in Zhili. But in Jiangxi Road and Huguang Road, there are now more than ten companies publishing books and newspapers in Jiangxi Road and Huguang Road... and in other roads, there are also
Some people are doing it."
Zhu Yunxi smiled: "They are those Neo-Confucian people, right?"
Xie Jin raised his head and gave a rare explanation: "It is true, but they have not caused trouble again. They have just been inviting great Confucian scholars from all over the world to write articles and explain the classics of the sages."
Wen Dou.
In psychology and Neo-Confucianism, each school promotes its thoughts and promotes its doctrines and concepts.
This is the current situation of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "There is no reason why the imperial court should not ask people to speak. Since it is just writing articles, the book and newspaper bureau should write better articles. Let's arrange the establishment of additional branch bureaus."
Xie Jin nodded and accepted the order. Nowadays, due to the circulation and reading volume, the book and newspaper bureau has long begun to undertake the business of advertising from local merchants. Although it is not completely self-sufficient, it is within its capabilities to add branches in various provinces.
Within.
In addition to the several synopses left by Taisun, the Book and Newspaper Bureau has been serializing several story books at the same time in the past two years.
In order to open up the source, Xie Jin has begun to plan to take out the remaining synopsis of the script and print and sell them separately.
Moreover, because the book and newspaper bureau continues to expand its printing capabilities, it can also undertake book printing business.
Expanding influence while meeting self-sufficiency is Xie Jin’s minimum requirement for today’s books and newspapers bureau.
What does it take to become a spiritual saint?
Xie Jin rationally believed that he was not old enough to become a saint at the age of twenty-four.
After settling the affairs of the Books and Newspaper Bureau.
Xie Jin then changed his words and said: "This year Enke has already started."
Zhu Yunxi was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Another year of Enke..."
Xin Xue spreads among the people, but in the court, Xin Xue bosses also need to have power.
This is the consensus of everyone present.
However, the official position of the imperial court and even the important weapon of the country cannot be clearly stated.
Zhu Yunxi turned to look at Xia Yuanji: "I heard that Brother Wei Zhe is dealing with those Yi merchants now?"
As soon as his grandson mentioned the Yi merchants in Yingtian City, Xia Yuanji suddenly felt helpless.
Xia Yuanji cupped his hands and began to tell his grandson about his troubles in the household department in the past two years: "Your Highness, you don't know something. Those barbarians are all greedy people. Even if I look at the merchants of our dynasty, I have never seen them.
There have never been people like this before."
"Oh?" Zhu Yunxi looked suspicious and asked curiously: "What did they do?"
Xia Yuanji smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Last winter, a group of Franconian businessmen landed in Guangzhou and lobbied the local government. They wanted to buy land in Guangzhou as a place to stay when they came to Ming Dynasty in the future. They also wanted to buy land in Guangzhou.
Buildings and warehouses were built on the land, leaving manpower behind to manage it."
Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but frown, and there was an uncontrollable haze in his heart.
Xia Yuanji witnessed the change in his grandson's expression and immediately said in a deep voice: "At this time, I reported it to the General Affairs Department. I then made an agreement with Zhan Shangshu and others and ordered Guangzhou Prefecture and other places to never sell land to those barbarian merchants.
”….
A bang.
In the small study room, Zhu Yunxi slammed his fist on the tea table in front of him.
The sudden change caused the three people present to frown and look at him.
Amidst the doubts of the three people.
Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "Every land we have in the Ming Dynasty is the foundation of our ancestors, and it is the land of the people of the world. There is absolutely no chance that it can be given to the hands of outsiders!"
Zhu Gaochi blinked and poured a cup of tea into the empty teacup in front of Zhu Yunxi.
Xia Yuanji nodded and said: "I accept the order and will discuss with the six ministries today and report the matter to the court, and then send it to the local government for notification."
We just need to inform all the officials in advance that there is no possibility of selling or transferring the land of the Ming Dynasty to outsiders.
However, Zhu Yunxi felt that this was not enough.
Then he continued in a deep voice: "The land cannot be given away and the people cannot be lost. This is an eternal rule."
The weight of these words is a bit heavy.
It's just that Zhu Yunxi is speaking out as the grandson of the emperor who oversees the country, but it is a bit inappropriate.
Xia Yuanji and the others looked at Zhu Yunxi silently, not knowing why he had such a big reaction because of a matter that had already been dealt with.
Zhu Yunxi, however, changed his mind and said: "Whether the collection of foreign business taxes is carried out in accordance with past discussions?"
Xia Yuanji immediately replied: "Back to Your Highness, since Your Highness left Beijing, when merchants from the Yi tribe came to the court to do business, the Ministry of Household Affairs levied a commercial tax of 50%, and there has been no change."
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "I've informed the people below, don't lower the prices of the goods of the Yi merchants just because they took the Yi people's few taels of silver. As long as they can collect it at 50% and settle the accounts every year, the court will take care of it."
Based on this calculation, there will be rewards."
Xia Yuanji's frown gradually relaxed.
Needless to say, His Highness just doesn't like those barbarians.
Anyway, now the Yi merchants come to the Ming Dynasty just to spend money to buy things. There are not many things for sale. They are looking for the situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxi also thought so. Today's Daming is a place with countless good things for the Yi merchants from Europe. When they come to Daming, buying things is far more important than selling things.
Only by bringing back Ming Dynasty things can they really get rich.
Daming still looks down upon the things they brought.
Of course, if there is more advanced navigation technology, industrial technology, etc., Zhu Yunxi will naturally treat it differently.
Then, he asked: "What else do those barbarians want?"
Xia Yuanji thought for a while and then said: "After many barbarians entered Beijing, they secretly and openly hoped that the imperial court would allow them to go deep into the interior to do business on their own."
Zhu Yunxi didn't even think about it and said directly: "We are temporarily not allowed to do so. Things brought by the foreigners and things they want can only be processed through the Ministry of Household Affairs."
I haven't figured out what's going on in the world yet, how can I let these white-skinned ghosts figure out the situation at home first?
There can never be a day when this grandson will have to take the map drawn by the white-skinned ghost and travel on his own land!
After thinking about it, Zhu Yunxi took out a stack of paper wrapped under a cowhide tarp from his arms and placed it in front of Xia Yuanji.
When Zhu Yunxi took out the folded paper from his arms, Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting next to him, immediately raised his buttocks...
He could clearly see that these papers were drawn by Brother Xi while hiding in the cabin alone on the ship back to Beijing, and they were also filled with various descriptions.
It's just that he always wanted to find out, but he never succeeded.
At this time, Xia Yuanji watched his grandson bring the stack of paper in front of him, took the paper, casually flipped through the colored graphics and text on several pieces of paper, and said doubtfully: "The things drawn by Your Highness, I
I have never seen anything before, so I wonder what your Highness wants me to do?"
Zhu Yunxi stretched out his hand and pointed at the stack of papers: "There is a reward for anyone who finds one thing on these papers and brings it to me. I will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold. If you find three of them, I will be crowned a duke!"
A thousand taels of gold!
Not a thousand pieces of gold, but gold.
This is the real deal, not real gold and silver replaced by copper!
In his mind, Xia Yuanji quickly exchanged the thousand taels of gold into silver, then into Hongwu Tongbao, and finally into treasure banknotes.
Then he opened his mouth wide.
That's a huge number.
It is enough to make a humble citizen become a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty. If the descendants are respectful, they can be rich for several generations.
Not to mention, as long as three things are found, the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will personally invite the prince for this person.
Xia Yuanji recalled it carefully.
Among the princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty today, none of them had to rush into battle and kill tens of thousands of enemies when the Ming Dynasty was founded, or they had to support the founding of the country in exchange for it.
Now if you find the three things on these papers, you can get a noble family.
This is a huge reward.
Taisun is crazy!
Zhu Gaochi on the side also felt that Brother Xi was crazy.
Unable to bear it any longer, he snatched the drawing from Xia Yuanji's hand.
Then he frowned and flipped through each page.
"Potato?"
"Sweet potato?"
"Corn?"
"Chili?"
"..."
"What are these? Are they all food?"
Looking at the unfamiliar images on the drawings and the descriptions next to them, Zhu Gaochi became increasingly puzzled.
"Yes!" Zhu Yunxi said with expectation and smile on his face: "These are the things. As long as you can find these things, you will be worth ten thousand taels of gold. I am willing to reward them!"
"As long as we have these things, our Ming Dynasty will truly coexist with the sun and the moon!".