Yang Junmin left, Shen Shixing and others stood in Ciqing Palace.

And Zhu Changluo no longer wanted them to sit down again.

Now Zhu Changluo has become a domineering dictator.

"Shangshu Yang is gone, but the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue cannot be left behind. I decided that Mr. Shen will temporarily take charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and Liu Pinru assists in the management. All the affairs of the issuance of treasury bonds will be reported to the Ciqing Palace for the ruling."

After hearing Zhu Changluo's orders, Shen Shixing immediately replied: "I will receive the order."

Zhu Changluo continued: "Snap speed and come up with a practical plan. Gu hopes that the next plan will be reasonable and practical. Don't just talk to Gu Lai as soon as you come up. Gu Lai handles Xishan Huangzhuang's affairs for many years. Some things are not said, but it does not mean that Gu Lai doesn't understand."

Shen Shixing couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. He was really panicked.

It turned out that he thought that although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was extremely intelligent, he was just a teenager after all.

However, the reaction Zhu Changluo gave him today is no longer comparable to that of a "teenager".

Zhu Changluo obviously has more knowledge of some things than the few people on the site.

Therefore, if you still try to fool it with the original one, you have to consider the consequences of doing so.

"I will definitely do this."

Shen Shixing immediately made a promise.

Zhu Changluo said: "I believe in Mr. Shen."

Then Zhu Changluo continued, "Okay, nothing is wrong, three gentlemen will go down first."

"I'm leaving."

After Shen Shixing and others left Ciqing Palace, the three of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Your Highness is a great man."

Wang Xijue sighed.

Shen Shixing and Wang Jiaping looked at Wang Xijue, and they couldn't help but nodded slightly, expressing their agreement.

Today's experience really gave the three of them a vivid lesson.

The Shangshu-level official said it, and he was still decisive and as anxious as a sudden rain, without any unnecessary reconciliation in this matter.

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The self-ringing bell sent by Matteo Ricci suddenly rang. Wei Zhongxian and others were startled and quickly found the sound, for fear that an assassin would break into Ciqing Palace.

Zhu Changluo turned his head to look at the two self-ringing bells. The hour hand on the self-ringing bells at this moment was exactly pointing to the Roman numeral ix. Seeing this number, Zhu Changluo knew that it was nine o'clock now.

It feels so good to see the exact time again. Although these two self-tone clocks only have hour and minute hands, in this era, it is undoubtedly the representative of the highest mechanical technology.

Zhu Changluo said to Wei Zhongxian, who was still looking at the self-sounding bell with caution: "Don't be nervous, this is the self-sounding bell being called. It's nine o'clock in the morning."

Wei Zhongxian looked at the ringing bell incredibly, and he couldn't figure out why the square box made his own sound.

However, when he heard Zhu Changluo's words, he was even more surprised. Obviously, he did not expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would be so familiar with this thing.

Wei Zhongxian asked, "Master, what is nine o'clock?"

Zhu Changluo said: "Gu is referring to the counting time of Taixi. The Ming Dynasty divided the day into twelve time periods and called it the hour, while Taixi divided the time of the day into twenty-four time periods. This is equivalent to one hour in the Ming Dynasty, which is equal to two Taixi time. In this way, Gu is called the hour, which means the hour."

"The shortest pointer on this self-sounding bell is the hour hand, and the longest one is the minute hand. The minute hand circles around the dial, and the hour hand goes one square. The number pointed to by the hour hand is the Thai number, which is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty number ‘nine’, and this time is the beginning of Si time in the twelve hours."

After listening to Zhu Changluo's words, Wei Zhongxian was unaware of the truth. He thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the kind of saint who was born to know. Otherwise, how could he know so much?

Unable to help, Wei Zhongxian's awe of Zhu Changluo became even more pious.

Then Zhu Changluo said: "Send these two self-ringing bells to Xishan Institute of Technology and Xishan Institute of Physics, and ask them to copy them in the shortest time. Which side will copy them first, I will reward an additional 5,000 taels of funds in the college budget for the next year."

Wei Zhongxian said: "Yes."

Then Wei Zhongxian looked at several other tributes sent by Matteo Ricci and asked, "Master, how to deal with the remaining tributes?"

Zhu Changluo said: "Yaqin stayed, and copied a number of the maps of the nations, and then handed them over to Chen Zhenlong, so that Chen Zhenlong could check for the omissions and make up for the shortcomings of this picture, and strive to draw the map of the nations belonging to our Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. As for the three oil paintings, the Sutra of God and the Pearl Cross, please put them in the inner warehouse for collection."

After arranging these things, Zhu Changluo began to think about how to plan his next move.

Although the issue of treasury bond issuance has a rough outline in his mind, there are still many details and steps to consider when it comes to implementation.

Otherwise, it would be a loss if you accidentally make a move.

Zhu Changluo is extremely looking forward to the success of the treasury bonds.

In his eyes, the success or failure of the national debt is directly related to whether he can win the huge class of scholar-official and landlords.

In this feudal society dominated by the literati and the landlord class, although imperial power was supreme, it was not the case in many places.

The power of the literati and the landlords is still very large. They directly control the grassroots and control the vast majority of the land and farmers.

If they fight against them, although Zhu Changluo might have the advantage at the beginning, he will kill all directions and kill many feudal landlords.

However, during the slaughtering process, when the remaining landlords found that the land wealth after being slaughtered was not circulated to them, they would involuntarily resist.

When their resistance becomes stronger and more intense, Zhu Changluo's fate will be very miserable, and it is definitely not the kind of wrong plot in online novels.

After all, in the feudal era for thousands of years, they no longer knew how many dynasties they had overturned.

Unless there is a force that can replace them, these literati and landlords will never be killed.

If the new dynasty does not cooperate with these scholars, officials and landlords, then the new dynasty will be destined to be a short-lived dynasty.

And this force that can replace them is the power of industry and capital.

In the original historical time and space, the capital class dominated by industry began to rise due to the Renaissance and the rise of the Enlightenment.

These people are also extremely cruel in the process of their rise.

Charles I of Britain and Louis XVI of France were pushed to the guillotine one after another, and the intensity of the revolution was no less than any rise and fall of the court that changed the world.

Therefore, if Zhu Changluo wants to succeed, he must also rely on this power, and the cultivation of this power must also be centered on him. Otherwise, the scholar-official landlords may not have died yet, and he will be regarded as the largest feudal landlord and sent to the guillotine by the emerging class. Then this joke is a big deal.

However, before this, Zhu Changluo still had to stabilize the situation and slowly tighten the noose by boiling the frog in warm water.

Otherwise, if these scholars, officials and landlords reacted, the one who was miserable would be Zhu Changluo.

The interests of these people have penetrated into their souls. If their interests are shaken, the power they unite can definitely overturn the world.

After all, the number of illiterates in this era is almost as high as 99%!

And these poor illiterate people are the most easily incited and driven.

The illiterate at the bottom has no sense of family and country, and only simple and simple eating plots.

Whoever can give them food will be their vassal.

The political situation in the late Ming Dynasty was dim, and various natural disasters brought about by the Little Ice Age kept torturing these people at the bottom.

At this time, whoever can give them a little favor in a short time will be grateful and obedient to the rule of the new master. Not to mention shaving your head and being easy, it is OK to let them change their original living habits...

This is also the reason why they were able to quickly occupy the whole country after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass. Because their arrival invisibly gave these people at the bottom a chance to breathe.

Moreover, more importantly, there are too few knowledgeable people who would rather sacrifice their heads than defend their country.

Their vigorous death among the people at the bottom will not cause any waves, because, in the eyes of those people at the bottom, these people are no different from the upcoming Qing people, and they are all top-notch masters.

The fight between the top-class gods is the same for the people at the bottom.

As long as they instinctively obey and plant the land and live, that is the happiest thing.

Therefore, in this era where illiteracy is everywhere, I really am so crazy about learning to make a cry by Lu Xun.

Because the illiterate people at the bottom don’t understand at all. They just want to eat something that can make them live. As for who the emperor is, it doesn’t make sense to them at all.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo's top priority now is to work hard to improve the literacy rate and to cultivate a new class that can replace the old landlords.

Otherwise, the world would be destined to fall into endless reincarnation, just like the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Although they were called differently, their essence was the same.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo was also extremely concerned about the way to use the government debt this time.

In his plan, the money raised from the government bonds cannot be handed over directly to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works. Instead, a special tender and procurement agency should be established.

Put this money into the market to activate the production potential of the market, and then cultivate a group of interest groups that make a living by industry.

Of course, this money will not be given in vain. Zhu Changluo will try every means to collect taxes from these emerging industries.

After all, he traveled to this era not to make money by doing a solo business.

Although money is good, in the sense that one's status is extremely significant and one does not have to worry about food and clothing, the attractiveness of making money has greatly decreased.

What he thought more was that if he could illuminate a beam of light in this decadent world with his ability to foresight, guide the invincible giant wheel of the Ming Dynasty and continue to ride the wind and waves!

Therefore, a long time ago, Zhu Changluo did not take the glass formula for himself because of his own selfishness. Not only did he make this formula public, he also gained huge benefits, and at the same time increased the production of glass and the production of water. This wave of operations can be more profitable than selling glass with hiding it.

There are also later cement formulas, which Zhu Changluo also made public.

Because Zhu Changluo knew that no matter how big the Xishan Imperial Village was and how much money it made, it could not form a community of interests or a huge industrial chain.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo disclosed the cement formula, allowing more people to participate, thus creating more jobs and achieving more industrial taxes.

It is also these tax collections and huge cement output that supported Zhu Changluo's construction of the cement channel from the capital to Ningxia this time.

Now, more than half of the road has been built, and the transport caravans have quickly connected Ningxia and the capital. Ningxia's minerals and resources have been continuously reached the capital through this cement road, and the wealth and talents in the capital have also been constantly exchanged in the originally deserted hinterland of Ningxia.

These huge changes also made the influence of the Han people further affect the Western Regions and other places after hundreds of years.
To be continued...