Zhu Cixiang, a rebellious son who could be educated, finally left Wansheng Palace with a lot of worries... And Zhu Youjian, who watched him leave, was certainly in a good mood!
But this comfort does not all come from the education of the traitor, but also from the traitor's money! He knew that he finally no longer had to worry about lack of money.
He really has a hard life with five elements but no money! Let’s not talk about the previous life... He will always be rich in this life, right? The fiscal revenue has reached more than 60 million yuan!
But who knows that even if you spend more, you will still be short of money. In two lifetimes combined, I have been short of money for more than a hundred years. This is really bullying. But now it's better, the traitor has a way to make money, the traitor's greatest skill is to make money! Zhu Youjian knew this very well, because Zhu Youjian had learned all the other skills of Nizi in his previous life, and he was still better than his master. However, Zhu Youjian had only scratched the surface of Nizi's ability to make money.
Zhu Youjian's methods of making money are nothing more than two, one is to confiscate homes; the other is to collect taxes. Therefore, under his leadership, Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue stopped at the order of 60 million.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian never knew what "loss-making" was, so the imperial concubine Wanhu Orduo he created all lost money, and the Ming Dynasty military household Qianhu Office he established basically also lost money, and those he sealed Most of Xunzhuang is also operating poorly.
Those projects that were losing money required full subsidies from the Ming court. However, Xunzhuang and Qianhusuo, which make money, will not pay a penny of profits to the court...
Therefore, the greater Chongzhen's colonial expansion, the greater the financial problems. If Zhu Cixiang hadn't been there to back him up, sooner or later he would have followed the old path of Renxuan's rule.
Isn't his life's work the territory he conquered? If he gave up at the last piece, wouldn't he be so angry that he vomited blood?
Now that the money problem was finally solved and the territory was secured, he was naturally in a good mood.
At this moment, Wang Chengen, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, walked in hurriedly and saluted: "Long live Lord, His Royal Highness Prince Ning is here."
Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong has been busy relocating the town during this period, which is to move his feudal households from Xuanzhuang outside the border wall of Xuanfu and Yanshan Mountain to North Korea.
Zhu Youjian had already forced the North Korean king to "donate" a large area of land in the southern coastal areas of Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province to Zhu Cijiong as Xunzhuang. Zhu Youjian was still reasonable, saying that Zhu Cijiong would guard the border for North Korea. Moreover, the "sovereignty" of these lands still belongs to North Korea, but was only granted to Zhu Cijiong.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian also promised the King of Korea that once the Japanese problem was resolved, Zhu Cijiong would move away from southern Korea and the land he occupied would be returned to the Kingdom of Korea.
Under Emperor Chongzhen's repeated assurances, the King of Korea finally reluctantly agreed.
Of course, it doesn't make any difference whether he agrees or not.
Because these lands were originally in the hands of the Korean aid army commanded by Li Xin...
However, although the land was in the hands of the Ming army, it was still very difficult to move all Zhu Cijiong's eighteen thousand households.
The biggest difficulty is not spending money, but the reluctance of those settled military households to leave!
If the famine in Chongzhen seventeen years ago had not been so severe, these people would still be working for the landlords in their hometowns in Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi!
Now that they finally have enough to eat, they are asked to go to the Korean Peninsula to become "samurai"... Isn't this a torment?
Fortunately, these people are all military households, and it is not governed by civil law, but by military law! Moreover, there were pressure from officials at all levels (all Zhu Cijiong's retainers) who could force them to leave Xunzhuang and move to the distant Korean Peninsula.
However, Zhu Youjian was still worried that trouble would occur to King Ning's 18,000 households during the relocation process, so he ordered Zhu Cijiong to personally lead troops to "escort" them.
Of course, it is impossible to visit all 18,000 households at one time, but there are nearly 100,000 people! After walking all at once, there was no ship to transport it to Tianjin!
Therefore, the Beiyang Navy of the Royal Navy formulated a plan for Zhu Cijiong to relocate in nine phases, with 2,000 households relocated each time. Because he had to stop by Shuntian Prefecture on his way to move, Zhu Cijiong would go home every time he passed by Beijing. During this time, he went back to Beijing to stay for a while because he passed by Shuntian Mansion on his way back from North Korea.
He does not have a special palace in Beijing, but lives outside Dong'anmen, in the Ten Prince's Palace in Jinyu Hutong (named Ten Prince's Palace), and lives with a group of princes over ten years old who can serve in the Youth Guard Corps - Zhu You There are many sons in the inspection, but the salary is not high and they have to receive an almost harsh education. Except for Zhu Cixiang, the other princes can no longer live in the palace when they reach the age of ten, and have to move to the Tenth Prince's Mansion. They will also join the Young Guards Corps and receive rigorous military training. Compared with them, Zhu Cixiang's teenage years, accompanied by the Twelve Golden Hairpins, were simply blissful to the point of decay.
And Zhu Cijiong, the future emperor, lived in the Ten Princes' Palace for four full years. He lived a frugal, strict, and intense study life every day. He didn't even know what luxury was? What is showing off wealth?
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"Showing off wealth means deliberately showing others extravagance... It means deliberately spending money to make others think you are rich! Third child, do you understand? You are a prince, so you have spent money lavishly, right?"
In the Wansheng Palace, Zhu Youjian, the irresponsible father, is teaching his son how to show off his wealth - it's not possible without teaching, this boy doesn't know how! Being born in an imperial family, you don’t know how to show off your wealth or spend money frivolously. It’s so miserable!
However, Zhu Cijiong did not study hard, and with an innocent expression on his face, he said to his father who was teaching him earnestly: "What? I spend money lavishly? How is this possible? Father, you are talking about the boss, right? He has a lot of money. I have no money...and even if I have a little money, I have to save some money!"
"Why don't you have any money?" Zhu Youjian frowned, "I remembered to give you pocket money! I have one month..."
"There are only ten taels of silver!" Zhu Cijiong stretched out his two palms and shook them in front of Zhu Youjian, pouting, "I don't even dare to spend them. Once they are spent, they will be gone."
"Ten taels of silver... is not a lot!" Zhu Youjian said, "The boss only had this amount before he moved to Duanben Palace. He has never cried about poverty with me. Even if he moved in Duan Bengong didn’t get much money.”
"Father!" Zhu Cijiong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "The boss has a soft life. Eleven of his twelve golden hairpins are very rich, so the boss has never been short of money since he was a child!"
"Really?" Zhu Youjian thought for a while and then said, "The second brother has never cried about being poor... He doesn't have a soft meal, does he?"
Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, the second brother is not short of money. His mother will give him money. The eldest concubine is rich! Much richer than my mother..."
What? Is Concubine Wu Liangha very rich? Zhu Youjian said: Why didn't I know? Every time she sees me, she cries...
Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "Don't mention me, now I'm teaching you to spend money randomly... You must learn it. Only after you learn it can you go to Japan to show off your wealth! You have to let your emperor's wife and Even the poor samurai in Japan think you have plenty of money!"
"But how do you learn this?" Zhu Cijiong looked at his father in confusion, and then asked with a smile: "Father, do you want to give me a large sum of money so that I can spend it randomly? Although this matter is a bit difficult , but I will definitely work hard and I promise to learn!"
What a studious child!
"This..." Zhu Youjian was stumped by Prince Zhu's question. He thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "I will not give you money to spend randomly!"
Zhu Cijiong spread his hands: "Father, I won't show off my wealth anymore. None of my sons have ever been rich!"
That’s right, you have to practice showing off your wealth! You've never been rich, so how can you show off?
Zhu Youjian thought for a while and felt that his son's words made sense, so he said: "Then I will give you an edict. You quickly go to Duanben Palace to find the boss and ask him to teach you how to show off your wealth. He is the best at showing off your wealth." ...I will give you a month, and you must learn to show off your wealth no matter what!"
Zhu Youjian is such a good father, he even thought of Zhu Cihong about this matter.
(End of chapter)
