Daming Military Empire

Chapter 363 Business Empire
In the early morning, the rising sun was far above the sky, and the Forbidden City was bathed in golden sunlight, with dazzling lights everywhere. At this time, the front of the Huangji Hall was full of civil and military officials. Zhu Cijiong sat on the steps and listened carefully. From time to time, officials issued one or two oracles in their reports, with majestic and magnetic voices.

He can be regarded as the most diligent group among all the emperors in the past dynasties. Since the first year of Chongzheng, the morning court has never been interrupted. As long as he is in the capital, he will go to court almost every day. There is no need to go to court during the festival, heavy rain, and heavy snow.

Since he left the capital for a long time this morning, he had a lot of reports this morning. When he finished processing them one by one, the hour was almost over. I have to say that this is a good way to exercise. He sat on the dragon chair After sitting for three or four hours, I felt a little pain in my buttocks. The officials below were standing, so the physical exertion can be imagined.

However, after all the officials reported, Zhu Cijiong did not immediately announce his resignation, but said majesticly: "Yesterday I looked at the memorials of the past two months, and many provincial and state governments asked the court to allocate funds to build official roads." , This idea is very good, the road traffic is convenient, the circulation of goods is convenient, and the common people will become more and more prosperous. I am very pleased that everyone can think of the common people, Cheng Guoxiang."

Cheng Guoxiang, Minister of the Household Department, heard the emperor's sudden announcement of his name, and hurried out of the train, knelt in front of the imperial driver, and said respectfully: "My minister is here."

Zhu Cijiong asked directly: "How much is the tax balance from last year?"

Cheng Guoxiang immediately replied: "Back to the emperor, last year's taxes and taxes totaled more than [-] million taels. After deducting the officials' salaries and other expenses, there is a balance of more than [-] million taels."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, waved his hand to signal him to stand up and return to the queue, and then said majestically: "Building roads is a good thing. If it is going to be built, then the whole of Ming Dynasty will build it. I will order the relevant officials of the two capitals, two prefectures and sixteen provinces to do it immediately." Start planning from the beginning, and within a five-year period, the roads in the jurisdiction will be repaired to extend in all directions. In the first year, the quota for each province is 100 million taels, and it will be adjusted year by year according to the situation. In addition, after the planning of each province is completed, it needs to be handed over to the household department Joint review with the Ministry of Industry, if there is no problem, immediately allocate funds, well, retreat from the court.”

At this time, in the study room of Qianqing Palace, Zheng Chenggong, Luo Yangxing and others were sitting on both sides of the conference table and discussing softly. The emperor has been up for a long time this morning. They have been waiting for more than an hour.

Finally, the eunuch's communication voice came from outside: "The emperor is here."

Several people in the study jumped up from their chairs and stood there respectfully, waiting for the emperor to drive.

Soon, Zhu Cijiong walked in with a smile on his face. Seeing everyone like this, he immediately raised his hand and said kindly: "Everyone sit down, don't be so cautious."

Everyone cupped their hands and said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty." Then they sat down respectfully.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, then turned to Cao Huachun at the door and said, "Go and ask Uncle Wu to come over."

After finishing speaking, he came to the conference table again, patted Zheng Chenggong who was sitting on the left, and said with a smile: "Chenggong, you sit in the back, and let Uncle Wu take this seat."

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong stood up quickly and was about to walk to the rear on the left. Xu Erjue, who was sitting under him, quickly got up and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness, please sit here."

After all, he automatically moved down a seat, Zheng Chenggong did not give in, moved to the side, and sat down.

At this moment, the Fifth Uncle Zhu Youjian was lying on the heated kang in the Imperial Study Room humming. After standing for two hours, his legs were about to cramp. It had been a long time since he had stood like this. He was really tired. He was enjoying it The palace maid pinched and hummed comfortably, feeling very comfortable.

At this moment, Cao Huachun's voice came from outside: "My lord, the emperor invites you to visit his study."

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to reluctantly get up from the heated kang, and while walking out, he complained to Cao Huachun who was waiting at the door: "Why doesn't the emperor take a rest, he was busy with this and that when he just came back. Can't we deal with it in a few days?"

How dare Cao Huachun answer this, he pretended he didn't hear it, and directly bowed in a gesture of invitation, and said respectfully: "My lord, please."

Zhu Youjian shook his head, dragged his tired legs, and followed up unsteadily.

The emperor's Fifth Uncle came over, and everyone naturally got up to greet him again. Zhu Cijiong pointed to the lower left seat and said, "Fifth Uncle, come and sit down."

Zhu Youjian bowed his hands and sat down inexplicably. He was a little confused now, who are these people in the study.

Zhennan Prince Zheng Chenggong;

Luo Yangxing, the former commander of Jinyiwei;
Qin Weiming, the emperor's brother-in-law;
Xu Erjue, the eldest grandson of Xu Guangqi, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Grand Master Zhu Guogong;

Sun Zhihang, the eldest grandson of Sun Chengzong, Duke of Taifu Township.

The status of these few is not low, but it seems that none of them are actually serving in the court. Why did the emperor ask him to come here?

These people are indeed not court officials, but their influence is no less than that of the high officials in the court, because they all control part of the property of the Ming royal family. If you want to talk about the property of the Ming royal family, it is really huge and terrifying.

For example, the branch offices of the Royal Xinglong Company of the Ming Dynasty have already spread all over the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and various countries in East Asia, and are rapidly expanding to Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Europe. Another example is the Royal Nikko Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which has controlled the currencies of many countries, and the Imperial Machinery of the Ming Dynasty The profit of the group and the Daming Royal Western Trading is quite astonishing, and a huge business group is slowly showing its glory.

Zhu Cijiong summoned them this time to knead all the royal family's industries together to form a real business empire.

After everyone was seated, Zhu Cijiong immediately praised: "The royal family's industrial reorganization has been going on for more than a year. Everyone has done a good job. All firms, banks, and companies are on the right track, and their profits are increasing. I am very happy. .”

Everyone heard the words, showing proud expressions on their faces, not because they were arrogant, the royal family property they controlled was astonishingly huge, and the profits they gained were also quite astonishing. Anyone who can earn so much money will have Great sense of accomplishment.

Zhu Cijiong made them proud for a while, and then continued: "However, there is one thing that everyone has not done well enough, that is, there is too little communication with each other, each doing their own things, and not being twisted together. Of course, this It’s also my fault that I don’t have time to take care of business matters. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to set up a board of directors of the Daming Royal Commercial Group to manage all the firms, banks and companies of the royal family. I will personally be the chairman, and each of you will elect one. Director, from now on, the board of directors will hold a regular meeting every six months, report to me the performance of the past six months and discuss the future development direction, what do you think?"

Everyone was scared by him but almost didn't pee, but after listening to the emperor's words, they didn't mean to blame them, they just want to set up a board of directors, what opinions can they have, everything is not up to the emperor, everyone nodded in agreement , only Zhu Youjian sat there with a dull face, not knowing what to say.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Zhu Cijiong raised his hand to silence everyone's flattery, and continued: "Today is considered to be the first regular meeting. I have notified you to prepare the report before I went to Nanyang. You should be ready by now." .So, let’s start the first item now, reporting performance.”

(End of this chapter)