The ruthless emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning Chapter 283 The Richest Man in Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanyuan
Chapter 283 The Richest Man in Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanyuan
Chapter 283 Chen Yuanyuan, the richest man in Ming Dynasty
It can be said that among the eight departments of the Nanjing Cabinet today, except for the Ministry of War, the other seven departments are all departments with real power, and none of them is a job-winner.
In the seven southern provinces, each provincial government office and state capital has seven departments directly affiliated with the yamen. In addition, the rapid delivery of official documents to and from the postal supervisor, the supervision of the Dongchang branch in various places, and the newspapers promoting the supervision, let
The entire southern administrative system has reached an unprecedented height.
Government orders were smooth, officials governed clearly, commerce and trade were prosperous, prices were stable, bandits and bandits disappeared, and beggars and refugees disappeared. Such a prosperous era far exceeded the peaceful and prosperous eras of all dynasties in ancient and modern times.
The most amazing thing is that such a glorious and prosperous age was actually brought about by the emperor acting as a hands-on shopkeeper and asking his aunt to help oversee the creation.
Although everyone knows that the prosperity of the seven southern provinces today is inseparable from Emperor Xiao Zhu's wisdom and prowess, the role of the Queen Mother cannot be ignored.
Obviously, the Queen Mother Yi'an is more suitable to protect the country than the second-generation monarchs in the past dynasties. This made everyone even have the idea that the emperor should never come to the south of the Yangtze River. It would be better to die in the north and let the Queen Mother remain.
Just be a nameless empress in Nanjing.
It’s no wonder that the literati in the seven southern provinces would have such thoughts. In fact, today’s South is too close to the world of great unity that all literati have been pursuing. No one wants to see such a beautiful picture of country and country destroyed.
Because everyone knew that once Emperor Xiao Zhu came to Nanjing again, he would definitely implement more extreme land commercial policies, which would very likely make this peaceful and prosperous age no longer exist.
Especially the gentry, landlords and merchants in the Jiangnan area have become accustomed to the current comfortable life. They also have to accept the need to pay land tax and commercial tax every year.
In the past, no matter how peaceful and prosperous the times were, no matter how well the Qingming Dynasty was governed by officials, there would always be some gentry and landlords whose families were destroyed every year by those powerful families or corrupt officials. As for other human tragedies, there were countless other tragedies among ordinary people.
But in the past two years, not a single landowner or gentry has lost his or her family, and no one dares to bully others and bully men and women.
Whether they are ordinary people, gentry, or businessmen, they all have a sense of security in their hearts.
Ordinary people don't have to worry. If they accidentally offend the gentry and landlords, their families will be destroyed.
Gentlemen and businessmen do not have to worry about accidentally attracting the covetous attention of high-ranking officials and powerful people, resulting in being suppressed and exploited, or even having their homes confiscated and exterminated.
Because everyone knows that there is a compassionate Queen Mother in Nanjing. Once any injustice is exposed, even in a small county town in the corner, the Jin Yiwei will eventually report it to her, and then wait for Dong
The factory and the Ministry of Justice came to investigate thoroughly.
This kind of thing has happened countless times in the past two years, which undoubtedly created a kind of fear in everyone's heart. Those powerful and powerful people no longer dare to do evil blatantly, and their children are also strictly restrained, just for fear of notoriety.
The news reached Zhang Yan's ears and attracted her attention.
There is no way, Jinyiwei's spies are really all-pervasive, and they can't hide anything from the Propaganda Inspector. Maybe one day some scandalous things they did will be published in the royal newspapers and everyone will know about it.
It can be said that compared to Jinyiwei's spies, propaganda supervisors are more fearful and disgusting. After all, Jinyiwei only pays attention to some major events, while propaganda supervisors do not distinguish between big and small, ugly and good things, and sometimes they even exaggerate.
This caused Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan, who were in charge of the Propaganda Supervision Bureau, to change from famous brothel prostitutes who were sought after by Jiangnan literati to today's street rats. Everyone yelled and hated them, even more than the Red Lady.
But they didn't know that the real culprits were not the two of them, but Chen Yuanyuan and her Feng Yuesi, because most of the propaganda materials were provided by Feng Yuesi.
And the brothels under Feng Yuesi's name are now all over the south. There are brothels run by Feng Yuesi in slightly larger cities. The scale is so large that it is rare in the world.
Many things were unknowingly revealed to the prostitutes by the literati and merchants. Once the prostitutes were interested, they would dig deeper and finally compile them into materials and send them to the publicity supervisor in exchange for money.
It can be said that due to the relationship between Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun, the Fengyue Department and the Propaganda Supervisor have almost become strategic partner departments.
The two departments benefited from each other. The Fengyue Division provided news materials for the Propaganda Supervisor. The Propaganda Supervisor used the huge reputation of the royal newspaper to promote the famous prostitutes with both talents and beauty. From time to time, they published a piece of their poetry or compiled a piece of talent.
The story of a beautiful woman.
To this end, the Propaganda Supervisor also added a page of romantic stories to each issue of the newspaper. They are said to be romantic stories, but in fact they are euphemistic and poignant love stories. In addition, there are some poems that fit the scene from time to time in the stories, which attract people.
It's not that powerful.
Especially those purdah ladies who stay close to home. Nowadays, almost every issue of the royal newspaper must be bought. Naturally, these ladies sell newspapers not to care about military affairs, but to read those love stories. Many of them even give
Publicity Supervisor Submission.
It can be said that a newspaper produced by the Propaganda Bureau has made the Jiangnan literary world, which was previously lifeless, now very active.
The main reason for this is that basically no one is in charge of the Propaganda Supervisor and Fengyue Department. The inner court offices in Beijing are too far away to take care of it. Zhang Yan has no time to take care of it, and she doesn't want to take care of it. At most, she can let the Propaganda Supervisor do some publicity when something happens.
As for Fengyue Si, he doesn't want to get involved.
Originally, Princess Kunxing and Chen Yuanyuan were very close. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were best friends. She was also very fond of Fengyue Si and regarded it as her own property. However, after being beaten and warned by Zhang Yan, she had to distance herself from Chen Yuanyuan.
Intervene in Feng Yuesi's affairs again.
Chen Yuanyuan's reputation as vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry has also become nameless, and he was squeezed out by businessmen in Jiangnan, so he focused his energy back on developing Fengyue Division.
In addition, Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, and Dong Xiaowan had unclear connections with the emperor. No matter how much the dignitaries in Jiangnan hated the three women, no one would dare to touch them.
This allowed the three women to completely let themselves go and run the Fengyue Department and the Propaganda Supervisor completely according to their own wishes, because it was not that the three women did not want to ask for instructions, on the contrary, the three women wanted to ask for instructions on everything. However, the Queen Mother never saw them, and the princess also began to
He is alienated, and His Majesty is far away in the capital. Even if he wants to ask for instructions, he doesn't know who to turn to.
At first, the three girls were very hesitant, especially Chen Yuanyuan, because Fengyue Si only had a name in the inner court and it was not made public at all. Everyone did not know that there was such a yamen in the inner court, and Chen Yuanyuan was now Jiangnan, or even the entire
She was actually the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, so she was always on tenterhooks. Fortunately, Zhu Cihong made a promise to her, so she had some spiritual support and worked hard to develop Fengyuesi.