The concubine and the prince were executed for illegally amassing money. Once the news came out, it shocked the entire Ming Empire.
Unlike crimes committed by people outside the royal family, royal matters were the private affairs of the emperor, and it was inconvenient to make the execution of concubines public.
Even so, when the prince was executed, all the officials from the Military Aircraft Department were invited to supervise the execution.
These loyal ministers had previously requested Emperor Haojing to withdraw the order, at least consider the love between husband and wife and father and son, and spare his life.
But Zhu Cixiang had no such intention at all, and he dared to take risks when he was around him, which showed that he would be more courageous in the future.
Even participating in the rebellion is possible. In this case, let's nip the danger in the bud...
Some people are content with what they have, while others are greedy.
After entering the palace, every beautiful woman can enjoy the treatment of 10,000 silver coins per person per year.
In addition, food, clothing, housing and transportation are free of charge, and you can get many free gifts during holidays.
The share of the prince and his grandson is calculated separately, and they are not required to bear the living expenses of the younger generation.
As long as you stay in the residence for one more year, your annual salary will increase.
Even if it only increases by 500 silver coins a year, it will still be a very scary amount over time.
For example, the first batch of newly admitted concubines were admitted in the 23rd year of Haojing (1666). Now their annual salary has increased to nearly 40,000 silver coins, with an average daily salary of more than 100 silver coins.
As long as you save a little on a regular basis, you can save a lot of money every year.
Saving 10,000 silver coins in one year will amount to 500,000 silver coins in 50 years.
Putting it outside can definitely make the whole family have food and clothing without worries.
The annual salary and gifts are just a small part of it, the real big part is the elixir.
This is something that outsiders can only encounter but cannot ask for. Even if you spend one million silver coins, you may not be able to buy one.
Since Zhu Cixiang only produced one tube of elixir every day, his annual output was only 365 tubes.
Being able to drink half a tube of elixir in a year is an extremely extraordinary thing, enough to make outsiders envious.
As for elixirs sold externally, they are all exchanged based on trade volume.
Every ten million silver coins in trade volume can be exchanged for a tube of elixir.
For countries with less than 10 million silver coins, the head of state can accumulate trade volume and exchange for 10 million silver coins.
The concubines were of course very happy to drink the priceless elixir every year.
There are also those who are not satisfied, such as the group of fools who were executed for making too much money.
In the future, I will no longer be able to drink the elixir, and my life will be lost. It can be said that the gain outweighs the loss.
A total of 165 people were recruited in the three batches of Houdi, a total of 32 people were eliminated, 21 were executed, and 112 people were left.
Zhu Cixiang did not plan to continue recruiting. One more wife would be an additional burden.
But Minjian didn't think so. Everyone thought Emperor Haojing was nearly a hundred years old.
I guess you wouldn’t mind a beautiful woman in her thirties or forties with a graceful figure...xqqxs8.
The emperor did not recruit beauties for a long time. As time went by, the public resentment boiled over.
The reason is that many women who meet the requirements for beauty pageants are not allowed to get married by their parents, hoping that their daughter will make the family prosperous.
This directly leads to the fact that many women are not married even when they are forty years old, and even more so, they are extremely well-preserved pieces of jade.
After the factory guard's report, Zhu Cixiang couldn't help but be shocked.
The emperor's beauty pageant will lead to boiling public dissatisfaction. The emperor's absence from the beauty pageant will also lead to boiling public dissatisfaction.
How come public resentment boils over so easily? ? ?
It seems that public dissatisfaction is very willful!
For ordinary people, there is nothing they can do about it.
After the prefects in various places learned that there was a graceful young woman on their territory, they ordered them to be strictly protected.
Even if you work hard all your life, you won't get as much benefit as a woman from your land becoming the emperor's concubine.
Some people accuse this of being a way of making money, but officials are happy with it.
A woman who fits the emperor's taste is really only one in ten thousand, or even one in one hundred thousand.
If it can appear on your own territory, of course you have to offer it as a treasure.
As long as the emperor orders a beauty pageant, wouldn't it be the best gift to present this treasure yourself?
Therefore, even if the prefect uses his own money to support the family, he cannot let the woman get married easily...
Not only that, teachers were also hired to teach women how to read and write, especially how to speak Beidu Mandarin.
Be sure not to speak in dialect when you open your mouth, otherwise you will be at a disadvantage in the competition.
Many prefects invest more than one hundred silver coins in such women every year.
But compared to the generous returns, this initial investment is nothing.
For example, Qinzhou (Tianshui) in Gongchang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, is the only place in the Ming Dynasty where beauties have successfully entered the queen's residence in three beauty pageants.
Therefore, Xu Jiufu, who was the governor of Shaanxi at the time, paid special attention to the development of Qinzhou after its first success and gave considerable support.
As a result, Qinzhou received much more tax exemptions and investments than Longxi, the seat of Gongchang Prefecture.
Xu Jiufu has absolutely no interest in building Longxi.
The focus of Shaanxi's construction is undoubtedly Yanchang, Chang'an, and later Qingyang.
After the Qingyang Oilfield was exploited, Qinzhou's status did not drop much.
The emperor is not elected three times and is done. As long as he reigns for one day, he can be elected at any time.
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It is possible to choose the fourth time.
Local women in Qinzhou will receive a monthly subsidy of ten silver coins if they are found to have abnormal body figures when they were children.
Even if there is no beauty pageant, if you maintain the perfection for one more year, you can receive a subsidy of two hundred silver coins.
Of course, there won’t be many women who meet the beauty pageant standards.
Because the standard itself is very high, no ordinary woman can reach the standard no matter how hard she works.
If they are over forty, women are allowed to get married locally. After all, there are still a lot of younger women as reserves.
These married women are not at a loss. They had subsidies from the government before and the love of wealthy husbands later.
It's just that the depression in my heart is inevitable. After all, I am young and there is no beauty pageant to participate in.
Zhu Cixiang was helpless, but he completely understood the feelings of the little sisters and the big sisters.
Having one more wife means one more burden.
I have more than a hundred wives, so I am like a human centipede...
Without nuclear power, the eldest son Zhu Xiangtang would be sitting on the throne now.
According to the lifespan of the Ming Dynasty emperors, perhaps the eldest son has died, and it is the turn of the grandchildren to inherit the throne.
Without the repeated urging from his beautiful biological mother, Zhu Cixiang would have planned to only marry eight wives in his life.
How light a burden it is!
It's a pity that mom didn't get her wish...xqqxs8.
Finally, the blame-blaming father has finally stopped, and the biological mother has found a group of wives for herself!
After experiencing two different troubles, Zhu Cixiang concluded from this.
The trouble caused by 1 father = the collective nagging of more than 100 wives!
Fortunately, the wife can be fired or even executed, but the biological father cannot do this, otherwise it would be an act of treason.
The dismissed concubines and their children were all placed on Timor Island by Zhu Cixiang.
The island had a better name and was large enough, so Zhu Cixiang spent 50 million silver coins to purchase the island from the imperial court.
Within the area designated for each family, they can do whatever they want, including having sex with each other.
Zhu Cixiang could think of what they might do after landing on the island with his heels.
As long as they don't cause trouble to themselves and the surrounding territories governed by the imperial court, then let them be.
In the future, there may be some sisters who seek death to keep these people company. Everyone will be intrigued by each other and have a lot of fun.
It would be even better if the group could be destroyed on the island...
For those who are disobedient, no matter whether they are men or women, Zhu Cihong will not care about their life or death.
But some people are very concerned about Zhu Cihong's situation, such as Karl XI, William III, Ibrahim and Poirot.
After completing the fourteenth batch (1717-1724) of the shipbuilding plan, Ming Dynasty will deliver two seventh-level battleships each to the Swedish Navy, Dutch Navy, and Ottoman Navy, and one same-type battleship to the Inca Navy.
Delivered one eighth-level battleship and two seventh-level battleships to the French Navy, and at the same time helped Sweden, the Netherlands, the Ottomans, and the Incas build this type of battleships on their own soil.
France's seventh-level battleship construction plan had already been launched. Due to the chaos in the country, it was forced to stop and could only wait until the situation was under control before resuming construction.
With a contract involving hundreds of millions of silver coins, many heads of state were of course concerned about Zhu Cihong's condition, fearing that the emperor would suddenly die and a certain successor would regret it...
Regarding the matter of heirs, Zhu Cixiang believed that it should be interpreted in stages.
Before the 20th century, the first heir to the throne would naturally be the eldest son Zhu Xiangtang.
If he dies, even if Zhu Xiangtang is far away in Australia, he will have to come back and inherit the throne.
If it was after the 20th century, the move would have been completed.
Zhu Xiangtang may not return to the cold Northland, but choose to ascend the throne in the Southland.
The first few heirs to the throne, the eldest son Zhu Xiangtang and the fourth son Zhu Xiangcheng, are in Australia, while the second son Zhu Xiangzhen is in the United States.
The only people living in Beidu are the third son Zhu Xiangzai and the fifth son Zhu Xiangsu. These two hang out with Uncle Wang, a fat man.
Especially the former, who is almost a little fat house, whose style is exactly the same as that of Uncle Wang, a certain fat house.
If he died after the twentieth century, Lao San, Lao Wu and others would probably cut the cake in Beidi.
Fortunately, this cake is big enough, even if multiple sons divide it, it will be enough to eat. The situation in Southland and Eastland is similar.
It was similar in Europe. This was how the grandsons of Charlemagne divided up the Frankish Empire.
Of course, as long as Zhu Cihong died, his huge empire would not be divided up by his sons.
At present, the Ming Empire is still in the climbing stage and is far from reaching its peak position.
The territory of the Ming Empire (including the Zheng family in South Africa) has reached more than 70 million square kilometers, and there is basically no need to expand.
The next step is to reproduce offspring. It is estimated that by Haojing 156 (1800), the total population of the empire will reach 700 to 800 million.
Hao Jing could exceed 1.5 billion before 256 (1900).
In the twenty-first century, the population of the Ming Empire may reach 35 to 4 billion.
If we have more children, it is not impossible for the total population to reach 5 billion.
With food and no shortage of money in hand, the court certainly encouraged the people to have more children.
The more the population, the more taxes and fees collected
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The higher the number, this is eating the demographic dividend.
If the territory is large enough, the demographic dividend will be enough to sustain the imperial court for four to five hundred years!
Zhu Cixiang believes that in the future, half of the world's population will be Ming people, and this will be considered basically qualified.
If 70% of the world's total population is intelligent, that would be considered an outstanding performance.
Of course, achieving this small goal is more difficult.
After all, the Middle East is the territory of the Ottomans, half of South America belongs to the Inca Empire, and the rabble in Europe.
Central Africa was the main source of slaves, and the populations in these territories would continue to exist in the future.
Zhu Cixiang's mission is to let the people give birth to children as hard as possible on a land of more than 70 million square kilometers...
In order to encourage childbirth, the imperial court has promulgated relevant rules, commonly known as the "disguised poll tax"!
Women can enjoy full tax exemption regardless of whether their children survive or not.
The child is fully tax-free until he or she reaches the age of five.
If it is a premature death, the tax will be offset based on the time of premature death, which is at least one year.
Children aged 5 to 10 can enjoy 50% tax exemption.
Although this is not a tax exemption for the whole family, it is great news for ordinary people to be able to exempt a labor force from all or part of the taxes.
Those people who have moved to overseas territories and already enjoy tax-free treatment can still enjoy tax-free treatment for their children after the land tax holiday expires.
This rule can also, to a certain extent, alleviate the embarrassing situation of increasing amounts of food in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Thousands of things to do
If the Ming Dynasty was not involved in large-scale wars or had local changes, it would not need so much food every year.
Part of the monthly salary of officials and the army can be paid with food, but only part of it can be absorbed.
Some areas have completely switched to producing other crops. For example, tobacco is grown in Yunnan, peppers are grown in Guizhou, and tea is grown in Zhejiang. Qiongzhou, Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Dongpan all plant sugar cane, lychees, pineapples, and other fruits and vegetables in areas that are not prime farmland.
On the one hand, the imperial court encouraged the people to eat three meals a day and eat staple foods. It also took the initiative to make space for food stall owners so that the people could enjoy the food.
On the other hand, they vigorously support the cultivation of various non-staple foods and other specialties. Only betel nut and millet are not allowed to be grown, while small hemp is grown under management, and violators are severely punished.
There are few people growing food in the Kifu area, and farmers have basically switched to producing fruits and vegetables, especially fruits, such as watermelons, grapes and other seasonal fruits, which are very popular.
Grapes, in particular, have become the preferred planting target for farmers because they can not only be eaten raw but can also make wine. In addition, Emperor Haojing's praise makes them drinkable by both men and women, old and young.
Today, the Ming Dynasty has become the world's largest wine consumption market, with annual sales calculated in millions of barrels.
The garrisons and people in severely cold areas, such as the Northland and the northern part of the Eastland, are still willing to drink liquor that can relax their muscles and activate blood circulation, so as to withstand the severe cold of 20 to 30 degrees below zero.
When there was enough food to eat, Zhu Cixi also allowed various places to use food to make wine, but he really had no interest in spicy liquor.
Drink cold beer in the summer and red wine in the winter to stay tipsy and avoid vomiting.
This is just right, otherwise you will give yourself a headache and feel nauseous...
After acquiring the East Indies, Ming Dynasty had no shortage of spices.
Emperor Haojing was not Emperor Yongle, who used spices to pay his ministers' salaries.
With the availability of spices, people were encouraged to raise poultry and purchase large quantities of cattle and sheep from outside the customs.
Most of the time, restaurants and restaurants all over the pass are packed with customers.
The bumper grain harvest directly promoted the high production of liquor and stimulated catering consumption in disguise.
It is not impossible for some idiots to lose their moral character after drinking, according to the "New Ming Dynasty Law".
Regardless of whether the woman is married or not, she can get a certain amount of property from the other party, starting with one thousand silver coins.
The first time was one thousand silver coins, the second time was two thousand silver coins, and the third time was five thousand silver coins.
If someone is unkind to the same woman multiple times, it is equivalent to losing nearly half of the family's wealth.
If you don’t have money, that’s easy, all the proceeds from mining belong to the woman.
When you have collected enough compensation, when can you come out!
Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^
