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DAY 266 The prelude to the fierce battle in the capital

Bai Minghe wiped the sweat from his forehead, and he was really nervous just now. ()

Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty laughed heartily: "Bai Minghe, tell me. Your biggest expenses are just to chat, and whether the specific discussion will be allowed to be made by the current dynasty."

"Long live, the first huge expenditure is that I want to build a steel workshop in Tangshan, with the goal of producing one million stones of fine steel per year. The second is to expand the navy. At present, the navy's ships are not enough. Several navy admirals all believed that expanding the army could barely deal with it once, but in my opinion, ten times more ships may not be enough. In the last large expenditure, I dared to popularize education for all, and hope that everyone in the Ming Dynasty can read and write and calculate."

Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction. Bai Minghe was nervous, but he was really doing big things.

With the power of the navy, Baiminghe can bring back so much gold and silver. Even if half of it owes the merchants, it can be considered to have added 20 million taels of treasury income to the Ming Dynasty a year. Zhu Qiyu has already recognized the development of the navy. No one has the deep understanding of Baiminghe.

Steel is a good thing, and Zhu Qiyu also recognizes it, but it needs to be discussed in detail.

"Since I have been afraid that the royal family will ask for additional supplies, right?" Zhu Qiyu brought the topic back to the royal family.

"Long live the wisdom!"

"Tell me about your third strategy. If it is really good for the Ming Dynasty, I don't care about being cruel once!" Zhu Qiyu also made up his mind.

Bai Minghe nodded solemnly: "Long live, this last strategy is also the most suitable strategy in my heart. It is to let the royal family come out to do things and earn money for themselves, rather than relying solely on the treasury supply. But if the royal family is doing business, the power of the royal family will inevitably affect the business environment of the entire Ming Dynasty, which is definitely a mistake."

"Then what you call doing?"

"Long live, those who have paid for the Ming Dynasty are qualified to become nobles. This is for nobles. As descendants of the Ming Dynasty's royal family, are they just living and waiting for death at home? Let them come out to work, work hard and exchange income. But they cannot intervene in the current military, civil affairs, provincial government, and business. The idea of ​​the minister is to let them contract territory!"

Bai Minghe also considered it. Whether countless royal families are in the military or in politics is terrible.

However, they can do interesting things, both at home and abroad.

"Long live, for example, at present, King Kang of Chu, the family has a population of 197. If you add princesses, princesses, county lords, etc., and concubines, you can't figure it out. You just know that King Kang of Chu, the family needs nearly 2 million stones of rice every year, with a banknote of over 100 million, a silver 100,000, and cloth..." Before Bai Minghe finished speaking, Zhu Qiyu refused to let him say it.

Just a prince consumed such a huge national strength, which made Zhu Qiyu feel uncomfortable.

"Then I will say that the fief of the King of Chu is very poor. Half of the treasury income is not enough to be given to the King of Chu. I have been in the clan's house for a few days and checked the files. Among them, the King of Chu wrote a letter to ask for his supply to be filled."

Zhu Qiyu is really laughing.

Your white-name crane is really not a fuel-efficient lamp. You have only been in the clan’s mansion for a few days and have checked so many times. I’m afraid that I’ve had these thoughts at that time.

Bai Minghe also smiled awkwardly: "I plan to recommend reducing the fief of King Chu. First, reduce the 99% of the land. Leave some to let the King of Chu plant these fruits and vegetables. Then, I have a business that can be given to the King of Chu, which is the contract. The King of Chu will pay a certain amount of silver every year for this business. The rest belongs to him. All the goods cannot be sold privately and must be purchased by the royal family."

"You said, how much is appropriate to hand in?" Zhu Qiyu asked half-jokingly.

"I think it is at least 10 million taels. Of course, I can't tell the King of Chu how much to hand over. Anyway, I will accept it on behalf of Long Live, and then return it to him two or three million taels of silver. The King of Chu should be very happy."

"Okay, this time I support you. Today I am issuing an order to ask the foreign kings from all over the country to enter Beijing."

"Long live, can you put it in Nanjing? Long live, and go to Jiangnan to relax. I dare not hide it. I have a plan in Jiangnan. Mr. Hu has already scolded me for this matter, so I should leave it to Long live." Bai Minghe immediately took out a memorial about the raw silk on the island.

After reading it, Zhu Qiyu felt even more satisfied: "Okay, I will follow you. Next May, Nanjing will add Enke once, and let each of the kings come to Nanjing once. This time, Enke, the concubine's son of the king is allowed to enter the exam, but he cannot be an official in the court. As for how to use it, it is your white-name crane."

After saying that, Zhu Qiyu stood up: "Bai Minghe, I am very satisfied with what you have done, please listen to the title!"

Bai Minghe quickly knelt down and took a look at his bag again, and some of the memorials were not handed over.

But Zhu Qiyu said, "Bai Minghe, I have appointed you as the first-class founding Kaiyuan Bo. To be honest, I am afraid that I will not be able to give you any title in the future, so I originally planned to directly enthrone the title. However, I will also give you the title of the commander of the Light Che, and give you a title of the child who has not been born. The man is the Lieutenant Fengtian and the woman is the Yibin. The two princesses will be given a reward, and your parents will also be given a reward. Your official position will be promoted to the sixth-rank cabinet, the governor of the Dongchang, the general of Wude, and the general of the Ming Dynasty. The leader..."

Zhu Qiyu said a lot.

Not to mention the head record, even if you give Bai Minghe a book, Bai Minghe didn't know what official position he was, what title, what rank, and what title he was.

It seems that my official position is title, Wusan rank (reputation rank), Wensan rank, and part-time jobs in any department, etc.

After sealing the White-Minister He, Zhu Qiyu asked a question, and the White-Minister He was sweating coldly.

"White-name He, I ask you. All the people who have transferred the Salt Envoy and the Salt Envoy Division, how many people may be imprisoned."

The white-famous He really trembled, thinking that this kind of thing should be done by Hu Yi or Qing Liu, or the madmen of the Yashishi, it was related to their own affairs.

But the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had to answer questions.

He gritted his teeth: "Long live, you may have killed them all, maybe a few of them are wronged. If you stand in a row and kill one empty, you will probably not die. There will definitely be fewer people who are wronged than killing them all."

"The market value of more than 100 million taels of silver is less than one percent paid to the treasury. Salt tax is a heavy tax for the country, and they are really greedy!"

After the Ming Emperor Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, he shaking the bell to signal that people outside could come in.

"According to my decree, I will give Bai Minghe a reward tomorrow morning. Then I will notify all officials to meet for three consecutive days. I will order the Five Army Governor's Office to transfer 20,000 people to assist Bai Minghe from Tianjin Wei to the capital to transfer animal resources. Bai Minghe will take charge of the warehouse needs. Go and do it."

The eunuch in charge went to do business.

The Baiminghe was finally able to go home, and all those unused memorials were asked to stay.

Bai Minghe left Nan Study Room, Zhu Qiyu sat on a chair and flipped over Bai Minghe's song book, and Jin Ying walked out after the screen.

"You said, should I issue an order to let Bai Minghe offer the set of books he wrote?"

"Long live to ask, what kind of minister Bai Minghe is!" Jin Ying walked to Zhu Qiyu and responded softly.

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly.

"Long live, what I want to say is that Fang Xiaoru is a loyal minister, because he is a loyal minister as a minister, and he is a loyal minister. There are only three or two such loyal ministers in each dynasty, and if there are too many, it will harm you. For those of you like Bai Minghe, Lao Nu thinks that he is truly loyal to the Han people."

Jin Ying couldn't speak Chinese civilization, or anything else, he represented Chinese civilization by the Han people.

Zhu Qiyu gently closed the memorial: "What do you mean is that he is not loyal to me, the emperor?"

"Long live, the old slave will be arrogant. Bai Minghe, whoever sits on the throne, will be loyal to the emperor after being loyal to the Han people. A hundred years ago, when the Yuan Dynasty, whoever dares to rebel and restore the Han people's territory will be loyal to whom? But he will not be loyal to the Yuan emperor!" Jin Ying was so old that he dared not say anything.

Zhu Qiyu exclaimed, curious: "A hundred years ago, did the Bai Minghe dare not become king?"

"He doesn't, because his personality is too casual. The old slave dares to bet on life and long live. When the great cause is about to be accomplished, Bai Minghe will definitely retreat. Of course, he will also bring his confidant!"

After hearing what Jin Ying said, Zhu Qiyu laughed out loud: "What a good sentence, a close friend!"

"I have a few words. It is enough for me to have one of the ministers like Baiminghe in three dynasties. A genius is a talented person once in a hundred years. If there is a dynasty in every dynasty, it will be unstable. Baiminghe is a loyal minister, but such loyal ministers are powerless when facing some problems."

"For example?" Zhu Qiyu seemed to realize what Jin Ying was saying.

"Long live, I dare not say this!" Although Jin Ying was not concerned, he still didn't dare to say some of them.

Zhu Qiyu smiled coldly: "Bai Minghe is a loyal minister, but when he meets two dragons competing for the pearl, his intelligence and wisdom will probably retire early. On the contrary, if I don't trust him, I will retire with the talent of Bai Minghe. Be a rich man and take his confidant with him!"

Zhu Qiyu also said a close friend.

Jin Ying bowed and bowed: "Long live a wise and wise master, only with a wise ruler can there be famous ministers. This is the unchanging truth for the ages."

Zhu Qiyu lowered his head and thought for a long time, slowly raised his head: "You go and do something for me. Apart from you and Xing'an, don't let people know about this matter anymore. You must keep the secrets strictly."

Jin Ying approached a little at Zhu Qiyu's instructions, and after hearing Zhu Qiyu's words, his face changed drastically.

But after this expression changed a few times, Jin Ying knelt down: "I think there is one more person in this matter?"

"who?"

"Princess Huaqing!" Jin Ying also gave the answer after deep thought.

"It seems that your suggestions are reasonable, as you said. But do you think I am playing with fire?" Zhu Qiyu asked nervously.
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