Xie Jin hesitated and said nothing.
Zhu Yunxi smiled and took the initiative to say, "Since the gentleman won't talk about it now, I will tell you what I think after returning to Beijing."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Jie Jin's face vaguely.
Xie Jin nodded: "I am all ears."
"Now there are clan kings guarding the nine sides. The former vitality has been exhausted. It is impossible to go south again for more than ten years."
Using the Nine Sides as the topic, this is to comment on the current situation of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji immediately adjusted their sitting postures and sat upright, listening to orders.
Zhu Yunxi continued: "It has been three years since the Japanese army went to Japan. The mining and smelting of Iwami silver mines has become increasingly mature and the output is stable. The gold and silver mines of Sado Island have also begun to be excavated and smelted. In the territory of Japan, the northern and southern dynasties now occasionally go to war. With the With Tie Xuan's operation, it is absolutely impossible for the two dynasties to unify, and everything is under our control."
"With the conquest and establishment of the Jiaozhi Road, the vast and fertile land in the south has become the fruit that the Ming Dynasty can pick. The food, stone, timber, minerals, spices, gems and other products in the south are as abundant as those in the Central Plains place."
"Similarly, due to the new conquest of the Jiaozhi Road and the layout of the Japanese country, the Japanese plague that has plagued our southeastern coast all year round has rarely been reported."
Xia Yuanji cupped his hands and raised his hips slightly, nodded and bowed his head with great respect: "Your majesty is wise, your prince is wise, and your highness is brave. It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty was prosperous. These are all the merits of my Ming Dynasty monarch. Only then can we have the current situation where the government is harmonious and the people of the world are peaceful."
Zhu Yunxi shook his head and looked at Xia Yuanji.
This guy is becoming more and more reasonable now.
He shook his head silently and said: "There is still a lot to do in the world, and we still need to work hard and work hard together."
Jie Jin, who had been silent all this time, immediately straightened up his waist and said, "Your Highness is on a trip to Jiaozhi Road, but you have some insights and want to implement them in the court?"
Something is wrong with Mr. Xie!
Something is very wrong!
Zhu Yunxi looked at Jie Jin with swishing eyes, then turned to look at Xia Yuanji silently aside.
Xia Yuanji sighed: "Brother Da Shen feels that he can't find a clue now."
"Can't find a clue?"
Zhu Yunxi murmured in confusion and turned to look at Jie Jin, who was blushing after his good brother revealed his thoughts in public.
After two glances, Zhu Yunxi chuckled.
At first, I had a sudden idea to let Xie Jin, Xia Yuanji, and Tie Xuan serve in the Wenhua Hall and participate in political affairs.
But the actual duties of the three of them have not been adjusted or changed.
Xia Yuanji is still doing his old job in the Ministry of Finance, and now, when Yu Xin keeps a low profile and ignores the affairs of the Ministry, he has a vague intention of taking over the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance. Business matters are enough to make him scream every day. I am too busy.
Not to mention Tie Xuan, who went directly to the Ministry of War from his original appointment with the Ministry of Rites, and then went to the Japanese country with Li Jinglong with the Japanese army. Nowadays, the imperial court's financial resources of millions of gold and silver every year are all obtained by Tie Xuan.
Not to mention, every year, along with the shiploads of gold and silver, countless Japanese people who could no longer survive in the Japanese country were sent to Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places on Ming Dynasty ships to welcome the beauty that embraced them. , Ming Dynasty life. ….
Only Jie Jin.
He was the only one who had never moved from his position in the Hanlin Academy. Except for a book and newspaper bureau established in the 25th year of Hongwu's reign, he experienced a period of turmoil and twists and turns in the first year of junior high school.
Today's book and newspaper bureau has completely become the birthplace and dissemination place of Ming Dynasty's philosophy of mind.
There are countless supporters.
The newspaper, which was originally published every ten days, has now been published every seven days. The number of pages in each issue has also changed from a few thin ones at the beginning to a thick one now.
Xie Jin wants to do something.
This is the reason why he is acting like this today.
Zhu Yunxi silently looked at Xie Jin, who had been exposed to his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, after returning to Beijing this time, there are a few things that need to be taken care of by the gentleman."
One listen
I finally have something to do.
Xie Jin immediately became energetic and straightened up his waist and chest just like Xia Yuanji beside him: "When I receive orders, I must do my best and dare not slack off."
Zhu Yunxi couldn't help laughing.
"Brother Gentleman, I haven't said yet what you want to do."
Jie Jin looked up at Zhu Yunxi, blinked, and expressed his thoughts clearly without opening his mouth.
You just give orders, and we, Lao Jie, just take orders and do things.
Zhu Gaochi on the side looked at Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji curiously. In the 25th year of Hongwu, he followed his father back to the capital, and then stayed in Yingtian to study, and was later tricked into going to Jiaozhi Road.
He did not have much interaction with officials in the capital. Even Xie Jin and Xia Yuanji, who were close friends of Brother Xiu, did not have much understanding or interaction.
At this time, Zhu Gaochi was a little surprised that Jin Jin actually asked for something.
Do officials really take the initiative to ask for things to be done?
If you do more, you will make more mistakes. If you do less, you will make fewer mistakes. If you do less, there will be no mistakes.
This is the true meaning of establishing oneself in officialdom.
Zhu Yunxi gave Xie Jin a calm look, and then slowly said: "This time when I returned to Beijing, I stopped at Hangzhou Mansion for supplies. News came from the capital that the craftsman Zhang who will be the supervisor is almost dying. Complete a matter I assigned before I left the capital and went south. Now, the follow-up of this matter can be left to the gentleman."
Jie Jin raised his eyebrows: "May I ask, Your Highness, what's going on?"
After asking, Xie Jin had endless reverie in his heart.
Tie Xuan is now doing things worth millions of taels of gold and silver every day.
Xia Yuanji is also doing something related to the land taxation of the world.
Zhu Yunxi, on the other hand, said, "After I have taken care of everything in the capital in the past few days, I will go and see with my own eyes where we are now, and then we can make a decision."
Seeing that Jin was already anxious, Zhu Yunxi immediately raised his hand to stop him.
"Brother Gentleman, please be patient. As long as you handle this matter well, it will benefit the country and the people, and the merits will last forever. The Ming Dynasty will leave it to you."
Is the Ming Dynasty going to take it as it pleases?
This naturally does not mean to give up the throne of the old Zhu family to Xie Jin, but this sentence truly shows that as long as Xie Jin can do this well, he can become the leading official with great power in the Ming Dynasty. .
Zhu Yunxi didn't give detailed reasons, but he gave such high expectations, which instantly aroused the curiosity of the three people in the small study, including Zhu Gaochi. ….
But he smiled and said nothing.
cement.
After Zhang, the supervisor, made a bet with himself about a thousand new looms in Zhejiang Province, he became the first person in the Ming Dynasty to turn from a craftsman to an official.
Although he is only a minor official from the eighth rank, it is enough to make Craftsman Zhang grateful and give craftsmen in the world a wish far greater than letting his own family live a good life.
After that, Zhu Yunxi handed over the cement manufacturing process to Craftsman Zhang.
Now, two years are enough for him to turn the craft record on a piece of paper into a real product.
And as Zhu Yunxi himself wanted to communicate with the world's freight and promote the circulation of Ming Dynasty's wealth, instead of being stagnant in one place and being hidden at home by local nobles, the roads must be improved.
If you want to get rich, build roads first.
This is the standard that Zhu Yunxi has deeply engraved in his mind since he was very young.
Moreover, this is also his personal experience.
When a dirt road full of dust, which turns into mud when it rains, is paved with stones of varying sizes, the villages with mud walls and thatched roofs become new villages with brick walls and tile roofs.
When the stone road that could scratch the bottom of a car turned into a flat concrete road that was not afraid of wind and rain, the village was filled with two-story red brick buildings.
The villagers saw more and more unfamiliar faces, and the red brick buildings grew taller and taller.
The house, from the initial place of residence, has become a higher, better and more beautiful place.
exhibition.
Finally, large bins for recycling garbage appeared on both sides of the road. The dry toilets on the roadside have also been transformed into brand-new public toilets with no peculiar smell.
The village guards became the health and safety officers of the village.
The change of a road allows aspiring people in the world to get out of the mud, and it also allows businessmen who can explore all values to find places of wealth that have never been discovered in the past.
And when roads are built well enough, they will automatically become something that can provide assistance to the country's politics, economy, and even the military.
Eight feet of smooth road can fly into the sky.
Ming Dynasty needed flatter roads, trucks with greater carrying capacity, and materials from all over the world to where they needed to go.
It is also necessary to transport millions of troops to the designated place at the designated time.
Underneath the specific matter of road construction, there is a deeper influence hidden.
The imperial power that lasted thousands of years did not go to the countryside.
When the Ming Dynasty's central court in Beijing can issue political orders to the most marginal and grassroots villages in a shorter time, imperial power will replace the power of the gentry.
Making the people of Ming Dynasty rich is Zhu Yunxi's most fundamental pursuit after returning to Beijing this time.
But he also would never allow the fruits of victory to be stolen by the gentry who were far away from the court and had unparalleled power to speak and rule over the villagers.
Xie Jin was keenly aware of the slight change in the emperor's grandson's mood.
Immediately he changed his tone and said in a low voice: "The Books and Newspapers Bureau has made great achievements recently. I wonder if we can set up additional branches in various places in the world and send personnel from the Books and Newspapers Bureau in Beijing to preside over the distribution of local newspapers and periodicals and collect local events."
Zhu Yunxi left the matter aside for the time being, but asked: "How is the current situation of the book and newspaper bureau? When I returned to Beijing this time, I heard that many people are already publishing books and newspapers."….
Xie Jinti opened local branches not just because the book and newspaper bureau's business volume is growing day by day.
Jie Jin was stunned for a moment, and whispered: "There is still only one book and newspaper bureau in Zhili. But Jiangxi Road and Huguang Road alone, there are now more than a dozen publishing books and newspapers in the other roads... Some people are doing it.”
Zhu Yunxi smiled: "They must be those Neo-Confucian people."
Xie Jin raised his head and gave a rare explanation: "It is true, but they have not caused trouble again. They have just been inviting Confucian scholars from all over the world to write articles and explain the classics of the sages."
Wen Dou.
In psychology and Neo-Confucianism, each school promotes each school's ideas and promotes each school's doctrines and concepts.
This is the current situation of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "There is no reason why the imperial court should not ask people to speak. Since it is just writing articles, the book and newspaper bureau should write better articles. Let's arrange the establishment of additional branch bureaus."
Xie Jin nodded and accepted the order. Nowadays, due to the circulation and reading volume, the book and newspaper bureau has long begun to undertake the business of advertising from local merchants. Although it is not completely self-sufficient, it is within its capabilities to add branches in various provinces. within.
In addition, there are several synopses left by Taisun, and the Book and Newspaper Bureau has been serializing several story books at the same time in the past two years.
In order to open up the source, Xie Jin has begun to plan to take out the remaining storybook outlines separately and print and sell them separately.
Moreover, because the book and newspaper bureau continues to expand its printing capabilities, it can also undertake book printing business.
Expanding influence while meeting self-sufficiency is Xie Jin’s minimum requirement for today’s books and newspapers bureau.
What about becoming a spiritual saint?
Xie Jin rationally believed that he was not old enough to become a saint at the age of twenty-four.
After settling the affairs of the Books and Newspaper Bureau.
Xie Jin then said, "Enke has already started this year."
Zhu Yunxi was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Another year of Enke's arrival..."
Xin Xue spreads among the people, but in the court, Xin Xue bigwigs also need to hold power.
This is the consensus of those present.
However, the official position of the imperial court and even the important weapon of the country cannot be clearly stated.
Zhu Yunxi turned to look at Xia Yuanji: "I heard that Brother Wei Zhe is dealing with those Yi merchants now?"
As soon as his grandson mentioned the Yi merchants in Yingtian City, Xia Yuanji suddenly felt helpless.
Xia Yuanji cupped his hands and began to tell his grandson about his troubles in the past two years: "Your Highness, you don't know something. Those barbarians are all greedy people. Even if I look at the merchants of our dynasty, I have never seen them." There have been people like this before.”
"Oh?" Zhu Yunxi looked suspicious and asked curiously: "What did they do?"
Xia Yuanji smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Last winter, a group of Franconian businessmen landed in Guangzhou and lobbied the local government. They wanted to buy land in Guangzhou as a place to stay when they came to Ming Dynasty in the future. They also wanted to buy land in Guangzhou. Build houses and storehouses on the land you find, leaving manpower behind to manage it.”
Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but frown, and there was an uncontrollable haze in his heart.
Xia Yuanji saw the change in his grandson's face and immediately said in a deep voice: "At this time, I reported it to the General Affairs Department. I made an agreement with Zhan Shangshu and others and ordered Guangzhou Prefecture and other places to never sell land to those barbarian merchants. ”….
There was a bang.
In the small study room, Zhu Yunxi slammed his fist on the tea table in front of him.
The sudden change caused the three people present to frown and look at him.
Among the three people's doubts.
Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy and he said in a deep voice: "Every land we have in the Ming Dynasty is the foundation of our ancestors and is the land of the people of the world. There is absolutely no chance that it can be given to the hands of outsiders!"
Zhu Gaochi blinked and poured a cup of tea into the empty teacup in front of Zhu Yunxi.
Xia Yuanji nodded and said: "I accept the order and will discuss with the six ministries today and report the matter to the court, and then send it to the local government for notification."
Just inform the various officials in advance that there is no possibility of selling or transferring the land of the Ming Dynasty to outsiders.
However, Zhu Yunxi felt that this was not enough.
Then he continued in a deep voice: "The land cannot be given away and the people cannot be lost. This is an eternal rule."
The weight of these words is a bit heavy.
It's just that Zhu Yunxi's current status as the emperor's grandson in charge of the country is somewhat inappropriate.
Xia Yuanji and the others looked at Zhu Yunxi silently, not knowing why he had such a big reaction because of a matter that had already been dealt with.
Zhu Yunxi, however, changed his mind and said, "Whether the collection of foreign business taxes is carried out in accordance with past discussions."
Xia Yuanji immediately replied: "Back to Your Highness, since Your Highness left Beijing, when merchants from the Yi tribe came to the court to do business, the Ministry of Household Affairs levied a commercial tax of 50%, and there has been no change."
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "I have informed the people below, don't lower the prices of the goods of the Yi merchants just because they took the Yi people's few taels of silver. As long as they can collect 50% and settle the accounts every year, the court will take care of it." Based on this calculation, there will be another reward."
Xia Yuanji's frown gradually relaxed.
Needless to say, His Highness just doesn't like those barbarians.
Anyway, now the Yi merchants come to the Ming Dynasty just to spend money to buy things. There are not many things for sale. They are asking for the situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxi thought the same way. Today's Ming Dynasty is a place with countless good things for the Yi merchants from Europe. When they come to Daming, buying things is far more important than selling things.
Only by bringing back Ming Dynasty's things can they really get rich.
Daming still looked down upon the things they brought.
Of course, if there are more advanced navigation technologies, industrial technologies, etc., Zhu Yunxi will naturally treat them differently.
Then, he asked: "What else do those barbarians want?"
Xia Yuanji thought for a while and then said: "After many Yi people entered the capital, they secretly and openly hoped that the imperial court would allow them to go deep into the interior to do business on their own."
Zhu Yunxi didn't even think about it and said directly: "We are not allowed to do so at this time. Things brought by the Yi people and things they want can only be transferred through the Ministry of Household Affairs."
This grandson himself has not yet figured out the affairs of the world, how can he let these white-skinned ghosts figure out the situation at home first.
There can't be a day when my grandson has to take the map drawn by the white-skinned ghost and travel on his own land!
After thinking about it, Zhu Yunxi took out a stack of papers wrapped under a cowhide tarpaulin from his arms and placed it in front of Xia Yuanji.
When Zhu Yunxi took out the folded paper from his arms, Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting next to him, immediately raised his buttocks. ….
He could clearly see that these papers were drawn by Brother Xi while hiding in the cabin alone on the ship back to Beijing, and they were also filled with various descriptions.
It's just that he always wanted to find out, but he never succeeded.
At this time, Xia Yuanji watched his grandson bring the stack of paper in front of him, took the paper, casually flipped through the colored graphics and text on several pieces of paper, and said doubtfully: "What your Highness painted, I I have never seen anything before, so I wonder what your Highness wants me to do?"
Zhu Yunxi stretched out his hand and pointed at the stack of papers: "There is a reward for anyone who finds one thing on these papers and brings it to me, and I will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold. If you find all three of them, I will be crowned a duke!"
A thousand taels of gold!
Not a thousand pieces of gold, but gold.
This is the real thing, not real gold and silver replaced by copper!
Xia Yuanji quickly exchanged the thousand taels of gold into silver, then into Hongwu Tongbao, and finally into treasure notes in his mind.
Then he opened his mouth wide.
That's a huge number.
It is enough to make a humble citizen become a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty. If the descendants are respectful, they can be rich for several generations.
Not to mention, as long as three things are found, the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will personally invite a duke for this person.
Xia Yuanji recalled it carefully.
Among the princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty today, there is no doubt that any one of them did not rush into battle and kill thousands of enemies when the Ming Dynasty was founded, or they were the result of the founding of the auxiliary country.
Now if you find the three things on these papers, you can get a prince's family.
This is a huge reward.
Taisun is crazy!
Zhu Gaochi on the side also felt that Brother Xi was crazy.
Unable to bear it any longer, he snatched the drawing from Xia Yuanji's hand.
Then he frowned and flipped through each page.
"Potato?"
"Sweet potato?"
"corn?"
"chili?"
"..."
"What are these? Are they all food?"
Looking at the unfamiliar images on the drawings and the descriptions next to them, Zhu Gaochi became increasingly puzzled.
"Yes!" Zhu Yunxi said with expectation and smile on his face: "These are the things. As long as you can find these things, you will be worth ten thousand taels of gold. I am willing to reward them!"
"As long as we have these things, our Ming Dynasty will truly coexist with the sun and the moon!"
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