Zhang Juzheng still cares about his image in Zhu Yijun's heart.
This is related to the fact that Zhu Yijun is both his monarch and his student.
Of course, the bigger reason is that Zhang Juzheng no longer dares to look down on his own student, and has to consider the feelings of the emperor's student.
"One more thing."
Because of this, Zhang Juzheng also told Zhang Jingxiu: "Pass my message to Wang Zhuan, the censor of the city patrol, and ask him to select a group of strong sergeants in the Military and Horse Division to maintain order in the densely populated areas outside Zhengyang Gate every day, avoiding Trample, just report the needed increase in salary."
Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and said yes.
Forbidden City.
After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he first went to see the empress dowagers of the two palaces. After saying hello and chatting with the empress dowagers of the two palaces for a while, he returned to his Qianqing Palace.
After Zhu Yijun came back, he happened to see the annotations of the Four Books of the Song Dynasty sent by Li Rusong. He smiled faintly and said to himself: "You want to test me, how can I let you test me so easily!"
After Zhu Yijun cursed a few times, he ordered someone to take down a treasure bow given by Li Rusong that was said to be the treasure of Li Chengliang from the partition and take it in his hand.
Zhu Yijun tried to pull the bow, and then found that the heavy bow was really difficult, so much so that he gritted his teeth and could not pull it back, and there was no sound of strings even making a flick of cotton.
Zhu Yijun could only give up and keep it as a decoration in the bedroom, waiting to try again in the future when he is stronger.
At this time, Zhang Jing came up and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Jingxiu came to report that Mr. Yuanfu Mr. Zhang returned the two Hu Ji that General Qi gave him, and said that it was an old slave and not Feng Bao. Tell your Majesty."
Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this.
In fact, Zhu Yijun never thought about asking Zhang Juzheng to become a saint, especially a perfect moral saint.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun will not be like Wanli in history, who collapsed because he learned that the man he always thought was honest and impartial was also a greedy and lustful person, and even found a way to build a luxurious mansion for his son.
Zhu Yijun only wanted Zhang Juzheng to take the blame for him, to train a team of people who dared to reform in the early stage, and to pave a way for him on the road of reform. As for Zhang Juzheng, he was very beautiful and extravagant, including Wang Shizhen, who said that he It’s not like you won’t care too much if you have a famous dog.
But Zhang Juzheng wanted to maintain an image in front of him, and he would not stop him.
In Zhu Yijun's view, this is also a good thing.
At least in the future, when the bureaucracy counterattacks Zhang Juzheng because of his monopolization of power and restructuring, he, as the emperor, will have greater confidence to protect him.
After all, Confucian society does take morality very seriously.
Especially in history, when the Donglin Party emerged in the late Ming Dynasty, the moral requirements of the Donglin faction reached its peak.
And this also leads to more hypocrites.
Of course, this is related to the social conflicts that will arise in the Ming Dynasty after the agricultural society is impacted by the commodity economy.
On the one hand, the worship of money has intensified, leading to a decline in social norms; on the other hand, because most of the people with the ability to worship money are bureaucrats and gentry, many scholar-bureaucrats hope to strengthen the moral construction of the emperor and bureaucrats, but society should be politically and economically The deep-seated changes taking place in the country are turning a blind eye.
There is no other reason. The latter is equivalent to cutting one's own flesh, and the former is naturally easier.
So if you crazily promote moral construction to solve social problems, you can get more support from more people.
"Let him be."
Zhu Yijun knew that Zhang Juzheng, as a Confucian scholar-official, still had moral baggage. Even though he knew that he could no longer be a moral model, he still wanted to pretend to be in front of the emperor.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun didn't say much, and just asked next: "Is there anything else?"
Zhang Jing replied: "Mr. Zhang Jingxiu, the Fu of Yuan Dynasty, told Zhang Jingxiu that he had had an affair with Da Sikong and intended to petition the court to further open up the sea and abolish the craftsman household system."
"This is business!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun asked: "The last time Feng Bao's property was copied, how much was the Xu family's calculation of Haili in the year that Feng Bao was given?"
"Go back to your Majesty, there are more than 1.2 million taels."
Zhang Jing replied.
Zhu Yijun said: "I remember that Liu Yaohai, the governor of Fujian, reported that last year's tax revenue from Kaihai Port was more than 11,000 taels, right?"
"Yes."
Zhang Jing replied.
Zhu Yijun was silent after hearing this.
He did not expect that the tax revenue brought to the country by the opening of the sea during the Longqing period was less than one hundredth of the annual Haili profit of a local tycoon.
Originally it was all my money, but in the end I could only get one hundredth of it.
This actually made Zhu Yijun feel uncomfortable.
Then consider that in history, Zheng Zhilong could earn more than 20 million taels of silver a year by relying on sea trade.
During the Qianlong period, when the Manchu and Qing dynasties were so closed, the tariff amounted to more than six million taels.
Zhu Yijun suddenly felt that the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were pitifully low, and the policy of opening up the sea that boldly broke the constraints of the ancestral system only enriched the local wealthy people.
"And I remember that during the late emperor's time, when Haiyue Port was first opened, the annual income was only more than two thousand taels, right?"
Zhu Yijun asked again.
Zhang Jing replied again: "Yes."
Zhu Yijun said no more words.
But he had to admit in his heart that there were indeed benefits to opening up the sea. It was just that the civil servants and bureaucrats responsible for formulating taxes set taxes very low in the name of not taking away money and benefiting the people, but the country did not get the benefits of opening up the sea. The profits are far less than those of local officials and gentry.
"It seems that no matter what, opening up the sea can indeed increase national wealth."
Zhu Yijun said accordingly, and asked Zhang Jing: "Do you think sir, they can successfully continue to open the sea?"
Zhang Jing said at this time: "Since the emperor asked, I dare to speak out. I'm afraid it will be difficult!"
"Tell me your reasons."
Zhu Yijun could not learn some truths from the mouths of scholar-bureaucrats, but could only learn some from the mouths of domestic slaves.
This can be considered as listening to both.
"yes!"
"Your Majesty, in fact, apart from the fact that Fujian and Zhejiang are more mountainous and have less land, there will be civil unrest if the people are not allowed to go to sea. The big households in other places that rely on sea profits do not want the imperial court to open the sea."
"The reason why Yuegang was able to be opened was really because they were frightened by the Japanese rebellion. In addition, Gaoxin Zheng was deeply trusted by the late emperor at that time. He dared to do things, so he was able to overcome all opinions and open it with the support of a group of Fujian and Zhejiang officials. Haiyue Port was just wrested from Hailili in the world, and now tens of thousands of taels are used as military pay for the imperial court every year."
"Further opening of the sea means further strengthening the navy to ensure that the sea is safe and that ordinary people dare to go to sea. In this case, the court will also have to increase tax revenue. At the same time, more ordinary people will go to sea;"
"And if the sea is not opened, Haili can only be monopolized by the wealthy gentry. They can cooperate with the pirates or raise armed servants themselves without worrying about the lack of strength of the imperial navy and the rampant pirates on the sea. They may even work part-time. Pirates, plundering the people on land."
"So, if we open the sea again now, we will take away ten thousand or even tens of thousands of taels of silver every year from the wealthy gentry from all over the country and give it to the court. We will also allow the common people to have the opportunity to directly go to sea and take away the wealth of the wealthy gentry. Haili also prevents the big families from colluding with pirates to plunder the wealthy people on land, so this may make the big gentry very dissatisfied."
"Originally, giving tens of thousands of taels of silver to the imperial court in Yuegang is considered to be taking advantage of the people!"
Zhang Jing replied.
Regarding the tens of thousands taels of sea tax revenue from Yuegang, Zhu Yijun originally felt that he had received less!
As a result, according to Zhang Jing’s intention, in fact, they thought it was too much!
It would be best not to give a penny to the court and not let the people earn a penny.
And the people can only work hard on the land and be lambs to be slaughtered.
"The Xu family can earn millions of dollars a year, but I can only get more than 10,000 taels. People like Gao Gong fought hard to get it, and they don't even want to give me 10,000 taels."
"Is this Ming Dynasty still my Ming Dynasty?!"
Zhu Yijun asked as he spoke.
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Fortunately, Mr. Yuanfu Zhang and Da Sikong are still ministers who are keen on innovation and loyal to the country, so they are willing to use this method to increase the national wealth without imposing taxes on the common people but only offending the big households."
Zhang Jing hurriedly knelt down and replied.
"You're right, I'm lucky. Get up."
Zhu Yijun said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
